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• Wolfgang Tillmans spreads the love at Tate Modern on Valentine’s Day

  14-02-2017 22:00
  
  Given the copious amount of love in the air at Tate Moderns Wolfgang Tillmans opening yesterday (14 February), it seemed especially appropriate that it was taking place on Valentines Day. Not only were there a number of tenderalbeit sometimes expliciterotic images on show, but the general feeling being voiced by pretty much everyone present was that Tillmanss capacity for empathy as well as observation made this the most humane and engaging of shows. Among the many admirers last night were Lond
  
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• Jake and Dinos Chapman leave White Cube for Blain|Southern

  14-02-2017 22:00
  
  Jake and Dinos Chapman, the bad-boy duo who rose to fame as Young British Artists (YBAs) in the 1990s, have left Londons White Cube gallery after nearly 20 years to join Blain|Southern.
   
  A spokeswoman for White Cube confirms that the gallery is no longer working with the Chapman brothers and says that this was by mutual agreement. We are both proud of the work we have done collectively and wish each other the best for the future, she adds. She says the artists existing relationship with C
  
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• Greeks snub Gucci catwalk show at the Parthenon

  14-02-2017 22:00
  
  In days gone by, the Parthenon has served as a backdrop to photoshoots of Isadora Duncan in Greek drapery and models in 1950s Dior ballgowns, but Guccis request to stage a 15-minute catwalk show on the Athens Acropolis proved a step too far for the Greek authorities this week. According to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, the Florence-based luxury brand offered Greeces Central Archaeological Council (KAS) a cool 56m to film in front of the ancient temple this summer1m for the venue plus 55m
  
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• Artists rally to help fight Parkinson’s disease

  14-02-2017 22:00
  
  More than 50 artists, including Peter Doig, Peter Blake, Sarah Lucas, Damien Hirst, Rose Wylie, Rachel Kneebone, Grayson Perry and Julian Opie, among others have created small-scale, unique works for a big cause. A sale of their works will help fund research into slowing, stopping or reversing the degenerative condition, Parkinsons.
  Each artist is filling a 20-cubic-cm Perspex box, many in their signature style. Susie Allen of Artwise, the curatorial collective that has organised Cure3, compare
  
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• Art Fair Philippines pushes itself onto Pacific radar

  14-02-2017 22:00
  
  As it enters its fifth edition, Art Fair Philippines (AFP), opening tomorrow (16-19 February), has seen its roster expand from an initial 24 participants in 2013 to 46 this year, testifying to rapid growth in the capital citys vibrant art scene.
  Art Fair Philippines was conceptualised to showcase the best of Philippine contemporary art in a centrally located urban settinga car park building called The Link in Makati City, the financial district of the country, says the fair's co-
  
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• America Day by Day: an introduction

  14-02-2017 22:00
  
  As I entered the US in January, about to embark on the third year of Culturunners US Tour, one American road story in particular came to minda book called America Day by Day by Simone De Beauvoir. In January 1947, Simone de Beauvoir landed at La Guardia airport for the first time and began a four-month journey that took her from one coast of the US to the other, and back again. Her intimate diary presented a post-war America, full of optimism and opportunity, but also of racial-tension and self
  
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• Marina Adams at Salon 94, New York

  14-02-2017 21:24 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Christo On Wrapping The Reichstag

  14-02-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "It was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen: 100 rock climbers abseiling down the façade of the Reichstag, slowly unfurling this huge silvery curtain." While Jeanne-Claude is no longer with us to give her testimony, Christo and project manager Wolfgang Volz give their accounts of Christo's most successful project before The Gates.
  
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• Seeing Red: A New Book Charts the History of a Color Through the Ages

  14-02-2017 20:01 via artnews.com
  Love, oh love, oh bloody love! So intense, so beautiful, so treacherous—so red.Making a timely debut for Valentine’s Day, the new book Red: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau (Princeton University Press) considers red in all its manifold … Read More
  
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• Our Human Evolution Has To Be Due To More Than Biology

  14-02-2017 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Daniel Dennett and others argue, genetic evolution is not enough to explain the skills, power and versatility of the human mind. Over the past 10,000 years, human behaviour and our ability to manipulate the planet have changed too quickly for biological evolution to have been the driving force. In Dennett's view, our brains turned into fully fledged modern minds thanks to cultural memes: 'ways of behaving' — pronouncing a word this way, dancing like so — that can be copied, remembere
  
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• In and Around the Fair: A Report from Mexico City’s Zona Maco

  14-02-2017 19:29 via artnews.com
  Last Saturday, for Zona Maco, Mexico City’s premier contemporary art fair, artist Andrew Birk led a walk from the historical center of the city to Anonymous gallery’s booth, which presented a group show featuring FlucT, Peter Sutherland, and Brendan Lynch. … Read More
  
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• How Anna Nicole Smith Went From Sex Symbol To Golddigger To Punchline To Martyr

  14-02-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  "No matter how hard Americans tried to regard Anna Nicole Smith with apathetic dismissal, they couldn't hide their fascination - and still can't. Why? Was she just another model, another B-lister, another early casualty of reality TV? Or did she show us something about ourselves, about our country, that frightened us more deeply than we could ever admit?"
  
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• Vox Populi: Jim Roche Takes Political Messaging to Extremes

  14-02-2017 18:40 via artnews.com
  American vernacular utterances have always been at the core of Jim Roche’s artwork: brash, profane pronouncements often barbed with cruel humor and brutal candor—and no small amount of absurdity. The tendency might be to label the 73-year-old North Florida character … Read More
  
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• And Now... An Artist Who Doesn't Understand How The NEA Works Argues Against The NEA... On NPR!

  14-02-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Well, the basic problem with the government supporting the arts in the way that it does - through the NEA and through direct grants to producing organizations - is that it stands in the way of free market competition, which is really the best way for arts organizations to build new audiences..."
  
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• Scenes From The War On Scalpers: West End Edition

  14-02-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hamilton in London and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child are working hard on strategies to combat "the secondary market" and the high prices it charges.
  
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• Frieze New York Announces 2017 Projects Program

  14-02-2017 17:55 via artnews.com
  Frieze New York has announced details for seven commissioned performances, happenings, and installations that will form the 2017 Frieze Projects program, which transpires during the Frieze New York art fair May 5-7 on Randall’s Island. The program is curated for the sixth year … Read More
  
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• After More Than 30 Years At The Helm, Michael Kahn To Step Down From Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre

  14-02-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kahn will leave having made Shakespeare a native language in the nation’s capital, and having done more to reshape and elevate D.C. theater than anyone since the late Arena Stage founder Zelda Fichandler.
  
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• Pride of plaice: Hockney print that hung in Bradford chippy goes up for sale

  14-02-2017 17:06
  
  Lithograph depicting owners of fish and chip shop frequented by teenaged David Hockney was among artist’s first forays into printmakingIt was a print given to the local chippy by an arty, black-haired teenager who lived round the corner and for many years it was proudly displayed in the most obvious place: above the fryers. Related: David Hockney review – 60 years of sex, sun and seismic shocksContinue reading...
  
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• What's So Terrible About Instant Gratification?

  14-02-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  "While all that instant gratification [that the internet and e-commerce provide] may be convenient, we are warned that it's ruining a long-standing human virtue: the ability to wait. Well, it's not waiting itself that's a virtue; the virtue is self-control, and your ability to wait is a sign of just how much self-control you have." Alexandra Samuel explains that it's not really so straightforward.
  
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• Wolfgang Tillmans review – a rollercoaster ride around the world

  14-02-2017 16:35
  
  Tate Modern, LondonCities from the sky, cigarette still lifes and sunset drives … the German’s swirling show has got the lot – even a room to dance in
  Room after room, turn after turn, Wolfgang Tillmans’ Tate Modern exhibition teems with images large and small. Images alone and arrays of larger and smaller photographs, framed and unframed and attached to the wall with bulldog clips, hung high over doorways and shuffled on a table. A young man’s neck, a knee, a hand
  
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• Why Couples Nearly Break Up At Ikea: Psychologists Explain

  14-02-2017 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  You've been through it, or know someone who has. The two of you can't choose from among the zillion end tables, or you can't remember the name of the one you settled on, or you can't make sense of the cartoon instructions ... here's an explanation of where the disagreements come from, and some tips on how to avoid the biggest dangers.
  
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• America's (And Maybe The World's) Oldest Working Conductor

  14-02-2017 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  At 100, Ed Simons is still conducting the Rockland Symphony Orchestra, a group he founded 65 years ago in the northern suburbs of New York City.
  
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• Egypt's Surrealists come out of the shadows

  14-02-2017 15:41
  
  The Egyptian Surrealist group Art et Libert chose the image of Picassos Guernica (1937) to illustrate their first manifesto, Vive lart dgnr (Long live degenerate art), published in 1938. Fittingly, the document is now going on show at the monumental painting's home, Madrid's Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofa, as part of the exhibition Art et Libert: Rupture, War and Surrealism in Egypt (1938-48) (until 28 May).Organised by the independent curators Till Fellrath and Sam Bar
  
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• On the block: love and sex at Sotheby's

  14-02-2017 15:39
  
  Sothebys London are cutting out the romance this Valentines day and getting straight down to business with their auction Erotic: Passion and Desire (16 February). The sale includes over 100 works that look at representations of love and sex from antiquity to the present day. Art has always existed to tell a human story, and sex has always been a part of that storywhether it is there to compel, to shock or to seduce, says Constantine Frangos, a senior director at Sothebys and the head of th
  
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• Kirk Douglas At 100 - He's Still Here

  14-02-2017 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  He may tire quickly and need a live-in nurse, but he's still present and lucid - and how many people have a stroke at 80 and live another 20 years? He's even published a new book, his 12th. Hadley Freeman pays a visit.
  
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• New York City Ballet's Sara Mearns Learns How To Play A Villainess

  14-02-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  In The Sleeping Beauty, Mearns usually dances the Lilac Fairy, Princess Aurora's protector - but she's just performed Carabosse, the evil fairy, for the first time. Mearns talks to Gia Kourlas about how she approached the new role.
  
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• Mezzo Throws Up Onstage, Finishes Concert Nevertheless

  14-02-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Our heroine in the latest episode of "The Show Must Go On" is mezzo Sasha Cooke, who was singing beautifully in Verdi's Requiem in Houston when nausea struck and she didn't quite make it offstage in time. Even so, she came back and finished the job. Steven Brown has the details.
  
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• Morning Links: Postwar German Art–Loving Collectors Edition

  14-02-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
  
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• Alleged Sexual Assault At London's Royal Court Theatre

  14-02-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  The manager of the theatre's bookshop was formally charged in Magistrate's Court with sexual assault on a female.
  
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• Wealthy Collector And Powerful Museum Are About To Go To War Over Old Master Portrait

  14-02-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Tom Hill, the American hedge fund manager who paid over £30m for a Pontormo portrait, is refusing to accept a matching offer from London's National Gallery."
  
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• London Mayor Announces Plan For Massive Creative Hub In Thames Estuary

  14-02-2017 14:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Among the facilities listed in the proposal, for an area that stretches from Greenwich and Canary Wharf in London out to the North Sea coast, are a sculpture foundry, theatre rehearsal studios, a centre for video game development, two film studios, an expanded Turner Contemporary gallery, and Britain's largest 3D-printing facility.
  
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• Librarian Under House Arrest In Moscow Takes Case To Court Of Human Rights

  14-02-2017 14:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Police officers raided the Library of Ukrainian Literature in Moscow in October 2015 and arrested its director, Natalia Sharina, for distributing "extremist" literature and "anti-Russian propaganda." She's been under house arrest ever since and was put on trial last fall. Now Sharina is appealing to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
  
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• Ballet Companies Have To Accept That They're Businesses, Says Major Company Director

  14-02-2017 13:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  David Bintley of Birmingham Royal Ballet: "I have lived, performed and managed dance within a generation that has, to a large extent, accepted arts funding by government as more of a right than a privilege. This financial safety net has been slowly but surely disappearing and the bald fact is: it's not going to come back."
  
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• This Government Program To Help Arts Groups Increase Private Fundraising Actually Worked

  14-02-2017 13:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Arts Council England's Catalyst funding programme has 'paid dividends' in contributing to 'real change' related to fundraising, the final report into the programme has concluded. The three-year, £70m scheme, which ended in 2015, helped arts organisations to increase their fundraising capacity through awards and match funding."
  
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• Gay clubs, weeds and the European Union: politics mixes with the personal in Wolfgang Tillmans's Tate Modern survey

  14-02-2017 13:14
  
  The German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans turns the spotlight once more on social and political concerns, such as fake news and the post-truth era, in a vast survey of his recent works opening this week at Tate Modern in London (Wolfgang Tillmans: 2017; 15 February-11 June). The Turner Prize-winner is developing a new series of pro-EU posters after producing a series of passionate pro-Remain posters before the vote for Brexit in June last year.In France, in Slovenia, and across Europe, I am dev
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.13.17

  14-02-2017 10:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Paint, Hats and Degas–Really?
  Today the Saint Louis Art Museum opened a new exhibition called Degas, Impressionism and the Paris Millinery Trade. On the surface, it sounds like one of those cooked-up theses, a mix of fashion with art, ... A gimmick.Well, probably not. ... read more
  AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2017-02-12Second Inversion
  Or, "The America Chord." ... read moreAJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2017-02-13
  
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• East meets west: Frank Brangwyn and Yoshijiro Urushibara's collaborations – in pictures

  14-02-2017 08:00
  
  Frank Brangwyn was an English former apprentice of William Morris, while Yoshijiro Urushibara was an expert Japanese woodblock artist. In the early part of the 20th century, they made prints together that blended their artistic styles and showed their shared adoration of nature Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Illegal’ immigrant artists take their protest fashions to the streets

  14-02-2017 05:15
  
  An exhibition featuring garments and accessories made exclusively by undocumented immigrants artists opens Tuesday evening with a runway performance at New Yorks White Box gallery that aims to highlight the precarious condition of the estimated 11 million people currently living in the US in fear of deportation. The show Illegal Fashion opens just days after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents launched a series of raids in homes and workplaces across the country following President Tr
  
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• Why The Shift From Owning Music To Streaming It Is Killing Music

  14-02-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The music industry was built on the passions of record collectors. The album wasn’t just a physical object, but a lifestyle accessory, almost a fetish and talisman. People didn’t just listen to their records, they displayed them as quasi-holy relics. The album cover might seem irrelevant — a baby swimming after a dollar bill, a painting of a big banana, or even a blank white slate with only tiny text (The Beatles) emblazoned on it. But to the owners, these served as supercharg
  
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