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• Literary Places So Famous They Become Real

  07-02-2017 23:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Perhaps the ultimate tribute? Places invented in literature that become so famous that real places name themselves after them. It's a tribute, of course. And there are a lot of them...
  
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• Reflections on Bachelard’s ‘Water and Dreams,’ for Dore Ashton

  07-02-2017 23:16 via artnews.com
  David Levi Strauss presented the following piece at an event in honor of the art historian and critic Dore Ashton at the Cooper Union in New York on December 9, 2015. Ashton died on January 30, at the age of 89. Strauss, who is the … Read More
  
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• The Japanese Wizard Of Concert Hall Acoustics

  07-02-2017 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yasuhisa Toyota’s Nagata Acoustics has just 20 employees globally, but it dominates acoustics work for halls in Japan and is expanding abroad. He’s designed the acoustics for orchestras in Los Angeles, Helsinki, Paris and Shanghai. Another of his projects, the Elbephilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg, opened Jan. 11."
  
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• Vast ancient burial site found in Bordeaux

  07-02-2017 22:00
  An ancient burial site containing more than 40 graves was uncovered in the French city of Bordeaux in December. The archaeologist Xavier Perrot from the Hads centre for archaeological investigationthe group leading the digtold the news agency AFP it is an exceptional site that will become a reference site in France for the scientific community specialised in antiquity. So far, around 600 skeletons, two Merovingian sarcophagi and various other objects have been unearthed. The tombs may date to th
  
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• The Art Newspaper hits the road with Culturunners

  07-02-2017 22:00
  
  On 21 September 2014the United Nations International Day of Peacea group of Middle Eastern artists embarked on an open-ended road trip across the US. Calling themselves Culturunners, they set off in a converted 1999 Gulf Stream RV from the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas, and began crisscrossing the country in search of common concerns between America and the Middle East. Over the following two years, Culturunners traveled over 22,000 miles across 28 States, exploring the country from a unique
  
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• Rare group of Max Ernst bird paintings to go on show in London for first time in 30 years

  07-02-2017 22:00
  
  A group of 11 rare and darkly fantastical paintings of birds by Max Ernst are to go on show at Sothebys in Londonalthough none are for sale. The works have all been loaned by private collectors and have not been shown in London for almost 30 years.The works, created between 1921 and 1928, marked a turning point in Ernsts career. Having founded Dada in Cologne in 1919 (a year after returning traumatised from serving in the German army in the First World War), Ernst exhibited for the first time i
  
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• Lady Liberty heads to the High Line

  07-02-2017 22:00
  
  The Statue of Liberty will soon make an appearance in miniature on New York's High Line in an exhibition of maquettes of the 12 shortlisted proposals for the High Line Plinth, the elevated parks upcoming public art platform. The Alaska-based artist Paola Pivis proposal, Untitled, is a 20-foot high replica of Lady Libertywhose likeness has been popping up on protest posters and in political cartoons in the wake of the president Donald Trumps contested immigration banbut with a timely twist. Pivi
  
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• Israelis and Palestinians in struggle to save last historic Arab village of Lifta

  07-02-2017 22:00
  
  An Israeli plan to build in the last uninhabited pre-war Arab village in the country can now proceed after a court-ordered survey of it was completed. Its redevelopment into a luxury Jewish neighbourhood has been widely opposed by Israelis and Palestinians.
  Nestled in a valley at Jerusalems entrance, Lifta is the only unoccupied Arab hamlet still standing after the 1947-48 war that led to the establishment of the State of Israel and the flight or exile of large portions of the Arab population w
  
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• Gregory Kalliche at Ashes/Ashes, San Francisco

  07-02-2017 21:43 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Preview Mexico City’s 2017 Zona Maco Fair

  07-02-2017 21:27 via artnews.com
  The 14th edition of Zona Maco in Mexico City opens Wednesday, February 8, and runs through Sunday, February 12. The fair, hosted in the city’s Centro Citibanamex convention center, brings together over 140 national and international exhibitors and is divided … Read More
  
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• Venice Biennale’s main exhibition to be ‘by the artists and for the artists’, curator says

  07-02-2017 21:08
  
  One hundred and twenty artists have been invited to participate in the main exhibition of the 57th Venice Biennale, 103 of whom will be participating for the first time. The exhibition Viva Arte Viva (13 May-26 November), to be held in the Central Pavilion in the Giardini and Corderie in the Arsenale, is organised by this years biennial director Christine Macel who says it has been designed with the artists, by the artists and for the artists. Macel, who is the chief curator of contemporary art
  
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• Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms remind us what the US has to lose

  07-02-2017 19:19
  
  News that the painter’s quartet of works celebrating an apple-pie America is to go on tour emphasises what is under threat in the Trump eraDonald Trump’s “America First” presidency is abandoning any claim of a US mission to defend or spread “freedom” around the world. He also seems not to care much about it at home. His quarrels with the media and the judiciary boil down to a claim that his executive power should overrule all constitutional obstacles. For this
  
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• Attendance at major UK museums takes a plunge

  07-02-2017 18:13
  
  Visitor figures fell at several UK national museums last year according to a report published by the UK government Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). The DCMS funds 15 museums13 nationals and two non-national institutionswhich do not charge admission fees.
   
  Its visitor figures data for the period April 2015 to March 2016 shows a fall in attendance at the Imperial War Museums which runs five venues; the National Gallery in London; the Natural History Museum; the Royal Armourie
  
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• Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 375,000 Public-Domain Images in Creative Commons

  07-02-2017 17:40 via artnews.com
  As part of a new initiative it’s calling Open Access, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has placed 375,000 images of public-domain works in the Creative Commons. This major, though not unprecedented, move by one of the world’s … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Kara Walker’s Inauguration Day Painting Edition

  07-02-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Cataloguer, Prints Department

  07-02-2017 15:00
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  As one of the worlds most respected auction houses, Sothebys combines proud tradition with a dynamic, 21st century commitment to innovation.
  We now have a great opportunity for somebody with an interest in and knowledge of prints to join us in New Bond Street. Reporting to the Head of Print Department, you will assist with cataloguing sale items including Old Masters and Contemporary prints, under
  
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• Dresden's bitter divide over Aleppo-inspired bus barricade sculpture

  07-02-2017 14:14
  
  Recreating three vertical buses used to stop sniper fire in Syria is ‘an abuse of artistic freedom’ say rightwingers in German city devastated in WWIITo some Dresdeners, the towers of rusty metal are nothing but a distraction from the reconstituted glory of their city centre. To others, they are a thought-provoking reminder that the city was itself a pile of rubble not that long ago.A new installation in the heart of the east German city, unveiled on Tuesday and entitled Monument, re
  
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• Tracey Emin funds scholarship for refugee student

  07-02-2017 12:23
  
  The British artist Tracey Emin is funding a four-year scholarship for a refugee student at Bard College Berlin. She is one of five donors, including the philanthropist Nina Baroness von Maltzahn and three anonymous benefactors, who are helping undergraduates complete a four-year course at the liberal arts university. Three of the five scholarships are specifically intended for students who have fled from Syria.
   
  Each donor has given 80,000, which has been matched by a contribution from Ba
  
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• Vanessa Bell: stepping out of the shadows of the Bloomsbury set

  07-02-2017 12:16
  
  The artist, best known for her tangled love life and being Virginia Woolf’s sister, gets her first major solo showThe first major solo exhibition devoted to the work of Vanessa Bell, the artist who created the country retreat for the Bloomsbury set and in the process almost buried her own reputation, opens this week at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London.“We’re not rescuing her from the Bloomsburies, that would be absurd, they were such an important part of her life – b
  
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• How we made the Wrapped Reichstag

  07-02-2017 09:21
  
  Christo: ‘It took 24 years and we had to negotiate with six different presidents. Then it only stayed up for two weeks’It was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen: 100 rock climbers abseiling down the facade of the Reichstag, slowly unfurling this huge silvery curtain. There were no cranes or machinery, just people descending in a kind of aerial ballet. It was 1995 and huge crowds came to watch. Then, when it was finished, they came up to stroke the fabric.Related: Chris
  
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• Revolution: Russian Art review – from utopia to the gulag, via teacups | Adrian Searle

  07-02-2017 08:00
  
  Royal Academy, London
  It was a new dawn. Tractors caused uproar and muscular workers got to the factory on flying bicycles. Then came the purgesLenin stands before a crimson curtain, his hand resting on some papers. It is 1919. A gap in the curtain reveals a demonstration in the street behind, banners aloft. Here he is again, in Petrograd, seated at a table, pencil poised, paper on his knee and more strewn over the table. And there is Stalin, yet more papers piled beside him. What is this thing
  
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• Guns, gore and ice cream: rap mixtape artwork – in pictures

  07-02-2017 08:00
  
  A new book collects the Photoshopped fantasies of rap mixtape covers – from riffs on Top Gun and Game of Thrones to sadistic violence and political commentary Continue reading...
  
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• We don't pay visual artists properly – that needs to change | Tamara Winikoff

  07-02-2017 05:10
  
  The Fair Pay for Artists campaign is right to push for a fees fund, super changes and an income supplement pensionJane is a fairly typical artist who is trying to build and maintain her career. She has had reasonable success with her art thus far but has needed to subsidise her income by taking on work as a graphic designer. Now she has decided to return to art school in order to get university qualifications and commit fully to her professional artistic practice. To do this as a single parent,
  
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• We the People: Nari Ward to re-create monumental work in New York

  07-02-2017 03:02
  
  The New York-based artist Nari Ward had not intended to make a third version of his monumental work, We the People, an installation of shoelaces spelling out the first line of the preamble to the United States Constitution, which he first made in 2011. But he and his assistants will set up a workshop in the lobby of the New-York Historical Society from 20-24 February to create We the People (N-YHS Version) in front of museum visitors.
  This is not meant to be entertainment, the artist explains, b
  
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• Park Avenue Armory Announces Symposium on Gender, Race, and Politics With Tania Bruguera, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and More

  07-02-2017 00:30 via artnews.com
  The Park Avenue Armory in New York has announced a working list of artists, writers, and civic figures who will participate in “Culture in a Changing America,” a daylong symposium that will mark the first manifestation of an ongoing 2017 series called “Interrogations of … Read More
  
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• Here Is the Artist List for the 2017 Venice Biennale

  07-02-2017 00:03 via artnews.com
  Quietly, with apparently no fanfare, the organizers of the Venice Biennale have released the artist list for this year’s edition, which opens May 13. Titled “Viva Arte Vive” and organized by Christine Macel, it includes deceased heavyweights like Bas Jan Ader and Franz … Read More
  
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