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• Another One Down - Seattle Stranger Staff Art Critic Quits

  09-02-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Jen Graves, who was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for criticism and a nominee for the best art reporting award from the U.S. section of the International Association of Art Critics, was an increasing rare entity: an art critic working full time at a major city newspaper. The number of people in that role has dwindled in recent years as the media business has struggled and publications have cut staff."
  
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• Root of an unfocus: how Merce Cunningham developed common time into an artistic strategy

  09-02-2017 22:00
  
  Merce Cunningham: Common Time, an exhibition opening this month at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (8 February-30 July) and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (11 February-30 April), looks at the seminal choreographer's 70-year career and his collaborations with John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg and Bruce Nauman, among many others. In this edited excerpt from introduction to the exhibition catalogue, the show's lead curator, Fionn Meade, explains the genesis of Cunningham's idea of "co
  
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• It’s good golly, Miss Molly, as ex-fashionista Molly Parkin reveals her rediscovered mojo for art

  09-02-2017 22:00
  
  The incomparable Molly Parkin was in fine and filthy-mouthed form as she celebrated what was astonishingly her 85th birthday at the Stash Gallery this week. The gallery in Londons Whitechapel area is showing an exhibition of her accomplished and multifarious paintings spanning nearly six decades (until 11 March).
  Parkin is best known as an icon of the Swinging Sixties, a legendary fashion editor for Nova magazine and the Sunday Times, who swung higher and harder than most, and went on to become
  
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• Influential then, forgotten since, remembered again: on Nino Costa

  09-02-2017 22:00
  
  Ironically, for a man who threw in his lot with his English artist friends and sold almost exclusively to English patrons, Nino (Giovanni) Costa (1826-1903) is little known and woefully under-represented in English public collections. There are two paintings in the Ashmolean and two in the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath. Obviously he is appreciated by the circle of admirers and collectors of Etruscan landscape painting, the name adopted in 1883 by Costa and the group of English artists who were d
  
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• Curators resist pressure to hold sculpture show in Münster more often

  09-02-2017 22:00
  
  The years Skulptur Projekte Mnster (SPM), the once-a-decade sculpture festival in the German region of North Rhine-Westphalia, will partner with a second city for the first time in its 40-year history. However, a proposal by the city of Mnster to increase the frequency of the event to every five years has been quietly shelved.
  Kasper Knig, Britta Peters and Marianne Wagner, the curators of the fifth edition of the event, which runs from 10 June to 1 October, have been looking at ways to refresh
  
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• Black Panthers meet pink spray paint in New York

  09-02-2017 22:00
  
  A revolutionary chapter in US history is revealed in Do Not Destroy (until 18 February) at New Yorks Baxter Street Gallery. The artist Sadie Barnette used a 500-page FBI surveillance file on her father, Rodney Barnette, a founder of the Black Panther Partys Compton, California, chapter in 1968, for the new work in her solo show. The installation My Fathers FBI File: Part II (2016) shows pages that the artist has altered with pink spray paint, rhinestones and the redacted names of ten informants
  
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• Beautifully and thoughtfully presented: on the Nicolas Poussin catalogue raisonné

  09-02-2017 22:00
  
  Nicolas Poussin: les Tableaux du Louvre is an initial instalment of the long-awaited catalogue raisonn of the paintings of Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) by Pierre Rosenberg. A towering figure in the study of French Old Masters since the 1970s, Rosenberg was the director of the Muse du Louvre between 1994 and 2001, and before that, for many years the chief curator of the Louvres department of painting.
  The catalogue builds on Rosenbergs seminal works from 1994 marking the painters 500th anniversar
  
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• Artists go large on Los Angeles’s billboards

  09-02-2017 22:00
  
  In most American cities, public art still tends to take root in parks or more-or-less green spaces. But in Los Angeles, it is thriving on the side of the road. Over the past decade, in what could be considered an expansion of Los Angeless great muralist tradition, a growing number of public art projects have taken the form of billboardsfrom flashy electronic ones on Sunset Strip to old-fashioned vinyl signage on more humble streets.In December, the non-profit The Billboard Creative planted traf
  
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• Kiev exhibition that questioned the results of Maidan revolution vandalised

  09-02-2017 21:37
  
  Over a dozen masked assailants raided an exhibition at Kievs Visual Culture Research Center on Tuesday, 7 February, and vandalised an exhibition that questioned the achievements of Ukraines 2014 Maidan revolution.
  In the exhibition Lost Opportunity the artist Davyd Chychkan examines how Maidan is a lost opportunity for the Ukrainian society to accomplish a social revolution, which would mean not only to defend dignity, but rather finally gain dignified living conditions, according to the centre
  
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• Christie’s to Open Beverly Hills Flagship in April

  09-02-2017 20:59 via artnews.com
  The ever-expanding Los Angeles art scene now has another anchor for its market. This April, Christie’s will be opening a two-story flagship gallery in the heart of Beverly Hills, where it will host selling exhibitions and facilitate private sales, increasing the auction … Read More
  
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• Lydia Okumura at Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo

  09-02-2017 20:32 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Becoming Mies: Jeff Bridges to portray the Modernist architect

  09-02-2017 19:00
  
  Rumours are rife that the top-notch actor Jeff Bridges will step into the shoes of Mies van der Rohe, playing the famous Modernist architect in a forthcoming film focused on one of his most popular buildings, Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois. Maggie Gyllenhaal will play Edith Farnsworth, the high-profile nephrologist behind the distinctive glass, concrete and steel house. Farnsworth commissioned Der Rohe in 1945; the house, which is owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation,
  
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• Tell ’em What You’re Going to Tell ’em

  09-02-2017 18:57 via artnews.com
  Reviews of shows in New York, by Wade Guyton, Will Sheldon, Anthony Caro, Michelle Grabner, and more Read More
  
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• Art Basel Parent Company MCH Group Acquires Stake in Art Düsseldorf

  09-02-2017 18:02 via artnews.com
  Last September, MCH Group—the Swiss fair conglomerate that counts Art Basel among its holdings—announced that it would begin an ambitious series of fair acquisitions by taking a majority stake in India Art Fair, South Asia’s largest contemporary art bazaar. The … Read More
  
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• Renaissance-influenced artist Joe Ramirez projects 'animated paintings' onto gold

  09-02-2017 16:46
  
  The American artist Joe Ramirez has been working for 12 years in obscurity in his Berlin workshop. Now, his Gold Projections are entering the spotlight with an exhibition at the Gemldegalerie, backed by Wim Wenders and timed to coincide with the Berlin Film Festival.The technique Ramirez has developedand patentedinvolves applying gold leaf to a slightly convex disc made of wood. His silent filmsslow, dreamlike, poetic scenes filled with allusions to art of the Renaissance and Spanish Baroq
  
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• Laurel Ptak Named Executive Director of Art in General

  09-02-2017 16:01 via artnews.com
  Laurel Ptak will be the new executive director of Art in General, starting on February 13. She will replace Anne Barlow, who had been with the New York–based nonprofit since 2007, and who, this past November, revealed that she would … Read More
  
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• Hauser & Wirth Now Represents the Estate of August Sander

  09-02-2017 16:00 via artnews.com
  Hauser & Wirth’s slate tends to favor abstraction and large-scale sculpture, but the gallery, which has spaces in New York, Zurich, London, Somerset, England, and Los Angeles (under the name Hauser Wirth & Schimmel), will soon move further into the photography … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: The Oprah Makes It Rain Edition

  09-02-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Ignore the art market – there is only one Bruegel that matters

  09-02-2017 13:53
  
  Pieter Bruegel the Elder is the only genius in his family – so why is the UK being flooded with the inferior work of his offspring?Why does the British art world persist in pretending there is more than one great artist called Bruegel, or indeed Brueghel? The Holburne Museum’s new exhibition claims to be “the UK’s first exhibition devoted to the Bruegel dynasty,” but this Flemish family get all too much attention, from high-profile sales to campaigns to “save&
  
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• Henry Moore modelling Burberry? Luxury fashion brand teams-up with sculptor’s foundation for show

  09-02-2017 13:45
  
  In a surprise move, the Henry Moore Foundation has teamed up with the luxury brand Burberry for a show at Makers House in Soho, London (21-27 February). The exhibition will include more than 40 works by Henry Moore, including Torso with Point (1967), shown alongside Burberrys new fashion collection for men and women, which is inspired by the creative process of the late sculptor.
  Under the new arrangement, the latest Burberry publicity campaign was shot on location at the Henry Moore Studio &am
  
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• Development Director, Classical KING FM 98.1, Seattle

  09-02-2017 06:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  KING FM is looking for a full-time Development Director who will work with the General Manager, Board of Directors, and staff to take KING FM to the next level of engagement in order to fulfill the mission of the station. The Development Director reports to the General Manager.ad listings)Since 1948 when Dorothy Bullitt founded Seattle’s iconic classical music station, Classical KING FM 98.1 has been a major player in the arts and cultural communities of the Pacific Northwest. In 2011, KIN
  
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• Sidney Nolan painting of Ned Kelly to go on sale in Sydney for up to $1.8m

  09-02-2017 06:29
  
  Art dealer Rob Gould is selling Nolan’s 1955 painting, Ned Kelly – Outlaw, along with 15 other works by the renowned artistA Sidney Nolan painting with an estimated worth of up to $1.8m will go on sale in Sydney in March.Melbourne-based art dealer Rob Gould is selling Nolan’s 1955 painting, Ned Kelly – Outlaw, along with 15 other works by the renowned Australian artist. Another Nolan painting, First-Class Marksman, broke the record for the most expensive Australian painti
  
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• Sidney Nolan painting of Ned Kelly to go on sale in Melbourne for up to $1.8m

  09-02-2017 06:29
  
  Art dealer Rob Gould is selling Nolan’s 1955 painting, Ned Kelly – Outlaw, along with 15 other works by the renowned artistA Sidney Nolan painting with an estimated worth of up to $1.8m will go on sale in Melbourne in March.Melbourne art dealer Rob Gould is selling Nolan’s 1955 painting, Ned Kelly – Outlaw, along with 15 other works by the renowned Australian artist. Another Nolan painting, First-Class Marksman, broke the record for the most expensive Australian painting,
  
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• ‘Only ideas can change the world’: an interview with the Zero group’s Heinz Mack

  09-02-2017 06:21
  
  In the breaks between the slalom and the downhill, those traveling to St Moritz for this years FIS Alpine World Ski Championships (until 19 February) can also make time for some quiet reflection, courtesy of the German artist Heinz Mack. On a footpath by the citys lake, framed by evergreen trees, the nearby mountains and with a clear view to the town, stand nine monumental golden columns, each more than seven metres tall and covered in hundreds of thousands of mosaic tiles.The installation, tit
  
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• MoMA Announces Fourth Annual Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

  09-02-2017 05:39 via artnews.com
  For the fourth year in a row, New York’s Museum of Modern Art will host an Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, the goal of which is to create Wikipedia entries for women artists. The event is slated for March 11.This year’s edit-a-thon … Read More
  
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• Surprise: Innovative Chicago Opera Theatre Director Says He'll Move On

  09-02-2017 00:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Under Andreas Mitisek’s artistic leadership, the 43-year-old company moved boldly into more productions of modern and contemporary work.  It also began producing away from its sophisticated but hard-to-fill home base at the Harris Theater.  During the last few years, COT also eliminated its debt, established a cash reserve of more than $850,000 (thanks largely to a MacArthur Foundation grant), and took in its largest gift ever, a $1.5 million donation from Stefan Edlis and Gael
  
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