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• Outstanding Clarinetist Gervase de Peyer, 89

  16-02-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  He went on to become the outstanding player of his generation, developing a warm, flexible sound that made extensive use of vibrato, particularly in the lower register, and inspired many new compositions.
  
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• Journalists Are Beginning To Use Bots To Write The News

  16-02-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Facebook fired the human editors of its Trending module last year and let an algorithm curate the news, the world soon learned (falsely) that Megyn Kelly had been fired from Fox News. “Will there be controversy when the bot thinks this is important, and humans say this is important, and they’re the exact opposite thing? It’s going to get interesting.”
  
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• Rhizome Names Three Winners of Third Prix Net Art Award

  16-02-2017 22:23 via artnews.com
  Rhizome, the New York–based digital arts organization, has named Porpentine Charity Heartscape, Bogosi Sekhukhuni, and Eva and Franco Mattes as winners of the annual Prix Net Art award. This year, each winner is awarded an unrestricted prize of $5,000, funded by Rhizome’s … Read More
  
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• Ken Weathersby at Minus Space, Brooklyn

  16-02-2017 22:16 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• How Wikipedia Is Enlisting An Army To Fight Fake News

  16-02-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Wikipedia’s role in beating back the post-truth age doesn’t rest with blacklisting certain sources as perpetually unreliable (as the website did with the Daily Mail) or preventing congressional staffers from meddling with their boss’ bios. An elder statesman of the content ecosystem in Internet years, Wikipedia has been combating misinformation by thoughtfully and purposefully iterating on strict guidelines of verifiability that Wikipedians (active editors in the Wikipedia com
  
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• Frieze New York announces artists and historical focus for Frieze Projects

  16-02-2017 22:00
  
  Frieze has announced the participating artists and historical focus of Frieze Projects at the 2017 edition of the Frieze New York art fair, due to be held on Randalls Island from 5-7 May. The programme of exhibitions and events, which includes new commissions, will be organised for the sixth consecutive year by the curator Cecilia Alemani, who is also the commissioner of the Italian pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale and the director of High Line Art in New York. Site-specific works have been
  
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• Cosmic collectors: how the Guggenheim family came into its art

  16-02-2017 22:00
  
  Visitors to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York tend to think more about Frank Lloyd Wright than about the man for whom the institution is named. With Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim, the museum is out to readjust that assumption, to a point.
  On view along the walls of Wrights inescapable sloping ramp (and in some other galleries) are more than 170 objects from the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum in the York and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. The sh
  
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• New York City Proposes A New Cultural Plan. Commence Debate...

  16-02-2017 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The fight continues to be not only about housing and arts and culture, but about what kind of city New York will be. The question I pose is: Can we have both the people and the price of land be part of how this city is defined? How this plan plays out may give us part of the answer."
  
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• Painters In Search Of The Perfect "Red" Formula

  16-02-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "On walls, canvas, wood, or parchment, the música of reds was always more pregnant, more cadenced, and more resonant than others. Moreover, painting treatises and manuals are not mistaken; it is always with regard to red that they are most long-winded and offer the greatest number of recipes. For a long time, it was also the chapter on reds that began the exposition on pigments useful to painters."
  
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• How Do You Edit Animation? The Opposite Of The Way You Do Live-Action

  16-02-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Animated films have editors just like live-action films. But how do you edit an animated film? In live action, you shoot first and edit later. In animation, you edit first and shoot later." Andrew Saladino explains in a video essay.
  
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• Anish Kapoor to Install Dark Watery Void in Brooklyn Bridge Park

  16-02-2017 19:58 via artnews.com
  The Public Art Fund in New York will install Anish Kapoor’s water-based sculpture Descension in Brooklyn Bridge Park this summer, to give pause to the riverfront greenspace’s masses of ambling traffic from May 3 through September 10. It will be the first appearance … Read More
  
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• ‘We Have to Mobilize’: Latinx Art Scholars Talk Representation with the College Art Association

  16-02-2017 19:50 via artnews.com
  Last September, ARTnews reported on the findings of a study, conducted by Rose G. Salseda and Mary Thomas, that showed that Latinx art was underrepresented at the College Art Association’s annual conferences between 2012 and 2016. The study reported that, on average, just … Read More
  
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• Everything Was Supposed To Go Digital. But There's A Growing Backlash In Favor Of Analog

  16-02-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "While Spotify, Netflix and the Kindle fulfil part of that prediction, these and other digital services didn’t run the analogue, tangible objects out of town. On the contrary, the digital age has created a new market for the things we thought we’d consigned to sheds, attics and secondhand markets."
  
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• Immersive Virtual Reality In The Classroom

  16-02-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Emerging evidence suggests that one of VR's biggest strengths is its ability to tap student emotions, notably empathy and the can-do confidence known as self-efficacy." Teachers are using the technology to put students in the shoes of Syrian refugees and police in Flint, Michigan.
  
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• Rare old master drawings to be shown at National Portrait Gallery

  16-02-2017 18:52
  
  Very light-sensitive, seldom-viewed works by Rembrandt, Leonardo, Dürer, Holbein, Rubens in forthcoming exhibitionMore than 50 rarely seen drawings regarded as some of the finest of any from the Renaissance and Baroque periods are to be exhibited together at a major show in London.The National Portrait Gallery announced on Thursday its first-ever exhibition of old master European portrait drawings, with works from the 15th to the 17th centuries by artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Dü
  
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• Ivory tells the history of the world – it must never be banned

  16-02-2017 17:18
  
  UK legislation to ban ivory products from across history would criminalise some of the greatest art the world has seen. We need reason, not passion, in the fight against poachingThe cover of the Lorsch Gospels is one of the most unexpected beauties in any of our museums. This yellowish-white carving comes from the depths of the dark ages, when Europe was supposedly a primitive and barbaric place – yet it is a delicate and subtle artistic masterpiece. It was made in Aachen, Germany, in abou
  
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• Call to reform UK art export rules after £30m Pontormo bid rejected

  16-02-2017 16:45
  
  Art Fund says refusal of National Gallery’s bid for Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap highlights flaws in export licence systemChanges to the the UK’s art export system have been demanded after the National Gallery raised £30m to purchase a Renaissance masterpiece – only to be turned down by its American owner because of the post-Brexit exchange rate.The gallery confirmed on Thursday that its offer to buy Jacopo Pontormo’s Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap had
  
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• Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo Appoints Anne Hilde Neset Director

  16-02-2017 15:45 via artnews.com
  Kunstnernes Hus, an artist-run organization devoted to contemporary art in an enticing early Modernist building in Oslo, named Anne Hilde Neset as its director, to start in June. Neset is currently artistic director of nyMusikk, an enterprising center for new music and … Read More
  
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• Forever Alive on the Infinite Plain: The Legacy of Tony Conrad Resounds

  16-02-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  The canon of musical minimalism tends to be set in stone, carved like Mount Rushmore: Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, La Monte Young. It’s solid, immovable, but the lineup has long lacked for figures who are under-acknowledged or under-appreciated—most … Read More
  
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• Packard Curator - British Sporting Art

  16-02-2017 15:03
  Packard CuratorBritish Sporting Art
  Full Time5 Year Fixed Term Contract
  Salary35,000 to 40,000 (depending on experience) + Pension
  Based Full-Time in Newmarket (the post holder will be expected, alongside other members of staff, to be an emergency key-holder.
  The Packard Curator will be an integrated member of the curatorial team of the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art (NHC) and will work closely with the BSAT Administrator.  The post-holder will be a member of the
  
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• Morning Links: No Way Out of the Maze Edition

  16-02-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• UK export license denied for Pontormo portrait

  16-02-2017 12:15
  
  The National Gallery today (16 February) confirmed that it raised 30,618,987 to buy a portrait by Pontormo. A spokeswoman says that unfortunately, the owner has decided not to accept the offer, after a UK export licence was deferred to allow a matching offer. Tom Hill, a New York hedge funder, had paid for the Portrait of a Young Man in a Cap (1530) in 2015. Since then the value of the pound against the dollar has plunged, and he says he would lose over $10m (now 8m) by accepting a ma
  
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• UK export licence denied for Pontormo portrait

  16-02-2017 12:15
  
  The National Gallery today (16 February) confirmed that it raised 30,618,987 to buy a portrait by Pontormo. A spokeswoman says that unfortunately, the owner has decided not to accept the offer, after a UK export licence was deferred to allow a matching offer. Tom Hill, a New York hedge funder, had paid for the Portrait of a Young Man in a Cap (1530) in 2015. Since then the value of the pound against the dollar has plunged, and he says he would lose over $10m (now 8m) by accepting a ma
  
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• Art heavyweights back new campaign targeting rise of right-wing populism

  16-02-2017 12:09
  
  More than 200 artists, curators and writersincluding Olafur Eliasson, Isaac Julien, Ed Ruscha and Tacita Deanhave thrown their weight behind a new project aimed at confronting the rise of right-wing populism in the US and Europe, they say. The new global art coalition, called Hands off our Revolution, launches today with an animated web banner created by the UK artist Mark Titchner; other related exhibitions and events are due to be announced next month.The mission statement for the new organis
  
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• Whitechapel Gallery retrospective reveals unfamiliar aspects of Eduardo Paolozzi’s career

  16-02-2017 11:49
  
  Eduardo Paolozzi found fame as the godfather of Pop art, but most Londoners will know the Scottish artist for his mosaics at Tottenham Court Road underground station, which were reinstalled earlier this month after being restored. Now a major retrospective opening at the Whitechapel Gallery today (until 14 May) aims to reveal the manyand often little-known facetsof Paolozzis varied output, which included everything from pottery, tapestries, paintings and sculpture.Paolozzi reinvented himse
  
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• Bern and Bonn schedule first exhibitions of Cornelius Gurlitt’s art for November

  16-02-2017 11:39
  
  Berns Kunstmuseum and Bonns Bundeskunsthalle announced that they will for the first time show a selection of works from Cornelius Gurlitts art collection in two exhibitions opening in November, four years after the secret cache in his Munich apartment first grabbed headlines.The show opening at Berns Kunstmuseum on 2 November (until 4 March 2018) will focus on the degenerate art seized from German museums in an operation masterminded by the Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Corneli
  
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