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• Outside In: Andrea Crespo on Empathy, Avatars, and a Show at MIT

  17-02-2017 23:46 via artnews.com
  Until recently, much of Andrea Crespo’s artwork has involved a pair of conjoined twins named Cynthia and Celinde. Over the past couple years, in videos, drawings, and diagrams, the twins have gained agency. First, these twins, who initially appeared as … Read More
  
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• Desire in Absentia: ‘The Love Object’ Sends Mixed Signals at Team Gallery

  17-02-2017 23:39 via artnews.com
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• From the Archives: Wolfgang Tillmans’s Deceptively Casual Photography

  17-02-2017 22:48 via artnews.com
  He’s taken some of i-D magazine’s most famous photographs, he’s won the Turner Prize, he’s pioneered what some call “abstract photography,” and he’s even designed posters opposing Brexit and directed a Frank Ocean visual album. Now Wolfgang Tillmans has an exhibition at … Read More
  
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• Colby College Museum of Art given 1,000-work collection

  17-02-2017 22:47
  
  The Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine has received a donation worth more than $100m from the art collectors and honorary alumni Peter and Paula Lunder. The gift adds over 1,000 works of art to the museums collection and will fund the launch of the Lunder Institute of American Art, a research centre that aims to advance critical and creative research in American art and related fields.
  The donated works span around 500 years and include paintings, sculptures, photographs, works on
  
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• Transgendered artist reveals impressively enlightened attitude among Donetsk rebels

  17-02-2017 22:39
  
  Grey Violet, a transgender Russian LGBT activist who went missing on 31 January in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine with another activist, was released on Valentines Day. Born Oleg Vasilyev, Grey Violet, part of the Voina art collective that also gave rise to Pussy Riot, told the Russian opposition news site Meduza that they were planning to film an art performance in an industrial zone in the separatist pro-Russian Donetsk Peoples Republic (DNR), which would have involved cutting off the artis
  
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• New-York Historical Society Acquires Personal Effects of Bill Cunningham

  17-02-2017 22:27 via artnews.com
  After decades of whipping through the streets of Manhattan from one society affair to another, Bill Cunningham’s bicycle has found a permanent home at 170 Central Park West.The New-York Historical Society announced today that it would acquire all of the … Read More
  
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• ‘To be a Scotsman receiving a French award in Germany—it keeps people guessing’

  17-02-2017 22:15
  
  At a ceremony held this week at the French Embassy in Berlin, the Scottish artist Douglas Gordon formally accepted Frances highest cultural honour, the Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres. The globetrotting artist also took the opportunity to speak out about his concerns about the political situation in Europe, as well as express his surprise at receiving the title, first given to him in 2012.
  The timing of the ceremony was crucial for Gordon, who wanted to receive the award while the current Fr
  
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• Germany looks back to two early Modernists

  17-02-2017 22:00
  Two largely unknown early Modernist painters are the subjects of career surveys in Frankfurt and Ludwig.
  Richard Gerstl: Retrospective at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt is the first show organised in the country to focus on the work of the Austrian Expressionist. In Austria, Gerstls work is always mentioned together with the great masters like Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka, but it is internationally only recognised by the experts, says Dr. Ingrid Pfeiffer, the curator who or
  
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• ‘Hanne Darboven Charlotte Posenenske’ at Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin

  17-02-2017 20:29 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• ‘Every Painting Is Abstract’: Adrian Ghenie on His Recent Work and Evolving Sense of Self

  17-02-2017 20:05 via artnews.com
  The large and small works in Adrian Ghenie’s “Recent Paintings” show at Pace Gallery in New York—comprising recent paintings, as might be surmised, but also preparatory collages—range from figurative to abstract and back again. The finer points of such distinctions, … Read More
  
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• Jannis Kounellis obituary

  17-02-2017 19:36
  
  Pioneer of the arte povera movement who created spectacular sculptures out of mundane objectsJannis Kounellis, who has died aged 80, made a highly distinctive contribution to one of the most provocative artistic movements in postwar Europe. As a pioneer of arte povera in the late 1960s, he created spectacular sculptures out of “poor”, mundane objects – pieces of wood, coal, sacking, steel and lead, arranged in startling juxtapositions on gallery walls or piled unceremoniously o
  
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• Oscar Season = Piracy Season

  17-02-2017 17:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Screeners are usually identifiable by an intermittent on-screen message reminding viewers the film is not to be copied or shared, and they also usually contain watermarks as a security measure against piracy. But every year they do get leaked online, and 2017 has been no exception, despite earlier reports that fewer leaks were happening this time around."
  
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• The Pioneering Minimalist Composer We've Forgotten About

  17-02-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.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 notably Tony Conrad." Jennifer Lucy Allan fills us in.
  
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• Major retrospective for Marina Abramovic at Moderna Museet

  17-02-2017 16:55
  
  The first major retrospective of Marina Abramovics work in Europe opens this weekend at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, celebrating a decades-long career in performance art (18 February-21 May). At a press conference on 16 February, Daniel Birnbaum, the museums director, said: Twenty-seven years ago, before her international breakthrough at the Venice Biennale, we had the honour of featuring Marina Abramovic in an exhibition at Moderna Museet.Called The Cleaner, the exhibition contains more than 120
  
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• Mat Collishaw will take viewers back to world’s first photography exhibition in 1839

  17-02-2017 16:44
  
  Mat Collishaw, who rose to fame as one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) in the 1990s, is taking on virtual reality (VR) for the first time. In May, the artist will recreate the worlds first exhibition of photography at Somerset House in London. For the show, Collishaw is using VR technology to create a portal back to 1839, when the British scientist William Henry Fox Talbot first presented his photographic prints to the public. Visitors will be able to walk around a digitally reconstruc
  
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• Mat Collishaw to use virtual reality to recreate Nazi’s ‘degenerate art’ show

  17-02-2017 16:44
  
  Mat Collishaw, who rose to fame as one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) in the 1990s, is taking on virtual reality (VR) for the first time. In May, the artist will recreate the worlds first exhibition of photography at Somerset House in London, after which he plans to use the cutting-edge technology to revisit the degenerate art exhibition organised by the Nazis in 1937. [It was] the cream of European art, hung by degenerates, Collishaw says of the exhibition, which featured avant-garde
  
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• Austin Ballet's "Familiarity" Problem And How It Learned To Connect With New Audiences

  17-02-2017 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Encouraging people to attend the ballet more often was less about increasing their familiarity with productions and more about bridging an uncertainty gap. “Familiarity is about information,” notes Martin, “whereas uncertainty about how an experience will feel is much more personal. You can give somebody a lot of information but that’s not necessarily going to reassure them that they’re going to belong in that audience.”
  
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• The Very Messy Story Of The 'Apocalypse Now' Video Game

  17-02-2017 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Three weeks ago, a Kickstarter campaign started for crowdfunding a game version of the Francis Ford Coppola Vietnam epic, blessed by Coppola himself. But the project started about eight years ago at a video game studio called Killspace, which one former employee told reporter Adi Robertson was "the worst-run company you could possibly imagine."
  
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• Jannis Kounellis, Whose Ingenious, Poetic Work Helped Define Arte Povera, Dies at 80

  17-02-2017 16:02 via artnews.com
  Jannis Kounellis, a cornerstone of the Italian Arte Povera movement whose bewitching works incorporate a panoply of unusual ingredients, like jute sacks, coffee beans, a Ping-Pong ball, fire (from propane tanks and candles), musicians (flautists, a violinist), a ballerina, and, … Read More
  
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• Jannis Kounellis, Inventive Italian Artist Who Helped Define Arte Povera, Dies at 80

  17-02-2017 16:02 via artnews.com
  Jannis Kounellis, a cornerstone of the Italian Arte Povera movement, whose bewitching works incorporate a panoply of unusual ingredients, like jute sacks, coffee beans, a Ping-Pong ball, fire (from propane tanks and candles), musicians (flautists, a violinist), a ballerina, and, … Read More
  
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• How The Martha Graham Dance Company Revives A Work She Created Decades Before The Current Dancers Were Born

  17-02-2017 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Marina Harss talks with company artistic director Janet Eilber and rehearsal director Denise Vale about recreating the stark 1931 piece Primitive Mysteries - and with PeiJu Chien-Pott, who's dancing Graham's own role and says it's the hardest one she's ever done.
  
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• Preserving Palmyra On The Web, With Centuries-Old Images

  17-02-2017 15:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  With ISIS having retaken the ancient Roman city in Syria and destroyed yet more of its historical sites, the Getty has created an online archive with the oldest-known photos of Palmyra (from 1864) and drawings and etchings made in the mid- and late 1700s.
  
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• 'White Guy For Rent' - Playing Random Foreigners To Help Chinese Developers Sell Condos

  17-02-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  During the big real estate bubble a few years ago that led to China's now-notorious "ghost cities," expats like David Borenstein found work as what Chinese called a "laowai-for-rent" - appearing at real estate sales events pretending to be a foreign businessman or musician or athlete in order to make the development look international and important. Borenstein tells Linda Poon what it was like.
  
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• Morning Links: Best Museum Restaurants Edition

  17-02-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  Jolly Old EnglandRare drawings from Old Masters are coming to the National Portrait Gallery. [The Guardian]Eduardo Paolozzi, the “Godfather of Pop,” has a new show that’s just now open at the Whitechapel Gallery in London. [The Art Newspaper]Treat yourself to … Read More
  
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• Did 'Goodnight Moon' Have A Sequel? Yes, Sort Of

  17-02-2017 15:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 1950, Margaret Wise Brown wrote, and put away, two fragments that Sarah Lyall describes as "part variation on, part expansion of" her 1944 children's book , which later became a worldwide bestseller. Lyall tells how those two fragments were found and combined by an editor and will be published this year.
  
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• Google Has Created A Bot To Play Duets With You

  17-02-2017 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Google's latest artificial intelligence experiment is a music-playing piano bot that digests whatever keyboard melodies you give it and tries to respond in kind." But does it succeed in responding in kind? Nick Statt tries it out. (includes video)
  
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• Genetics, calligraphy and British watercolours – the week in art

  17-02-2017 15:00
  
  A major year-long survey of modern British art comes to Cardiff, while Birmingham hosts a splicing of art and science – all in your weekly art dispatchBacon to Doig
  This ambitious survey of modern British art drawn from a rich private collection ranges from Freud to Perry, Hepworth and Hockney, and should be an exciting view of the art of our place and times.
  • National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 18 February–31 January 2018 Continue reading...
  
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• Stolen 17th-Century Altarpiece Found In Casablanca

  17-02-2017 14:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  "A large Guercino painting that was stolen from a church in Modena in August 2014 has been traced by Italy's Carabinieri art crime squad to Casablanca, Morocco. The Italian government is negotiating to return Madonna with the Saints John the Evangelist and Gregory the Wonderworker (1639) to the Church of San Vincenzo 'as soon as possible'."
  
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• Verona Fires Its Entire Ballet Company

  17-02-2017 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  The hugely popular opera festival at the Arena di Verona is, like almost all Italian opera houses, in deep financial trouble: it nearly went into liquidation last spring, until Rome sent a turnaround specialist to the rescue. Last week, as a cost-cutting measure, the 19 dancers of the festival's ballet company were laid off - despite the fact that their shows regularly sell out. (in Italian; Google Translate version here)
  
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• Anish Kapoor To Put A Deep Black Whirlpool In Brooklyn Bridge Park

  17-02-2017 14:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  New York City's Public Art Fund in New York will install Kapoor's Descension - a funnel of black-colored water that spirals down into the ground - in Brooklyn Bridge Park this summer. (How many think-pieces do you suppose we'll get comparing it to the 9/11 Memorial?)
  
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• Crisis In Bordeaux: Ballet's Director Is Suspended And Dancers Fight Job Cuts

  17-02-2017 14:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  With a sharp, if veiled, rebuke - "the Opéra has been working for several months to define a new balance between reduced resources and ambitious artistic activity ... [an effort] which assumes commitment, trust, and close collaboration" - the board president of the Opéra national de Bordeaux has suspended Charles Jude, the house's director of ballet. The action follows months of dispute over how to allocate dwindling state funding and whether or not to fill vacant positions in the
  
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• Anne Whiting obituary

  17-02-2017 14:00
  
  My mother, Anne Whiting, who has died aged 97, co-founded with my father, Geoffrey, Avoncroft Pottery at Hampton Lovett, Worcestershire, one of the pioneering studio workshops established after the second world war.Geoffrey, who had returned from army service in India in 1948, started a pottery at Stoke Prior, Bromsgrove, and met Anne when he went to teach at Stoke House, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire. This had been set up by Anne and her parents, Noel and Dorothea Heath, as a residential college r
  
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• Jannis Kounellis, Pioneer Of Italy's Arte Povera Movement, Dead At 80

  17-02-2017 13:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  He was known for using as materials everything from old furniture to coal to jute sacks to live birds; the 1960 show that made him famous involved 12 live horses.
  
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• How an art work could literally save lives in Syria

  17-02-2017 13:13
  
  The Danish art collective SUPERFLEX will unveil today (17 February) a new installation called Hospital Equipment, which consists of functioning surgical equipment that will be shipped to a Syrian hospital once the exhibition is over. The collective describe the work as a ready-made upside down, since we not only take a ready-made object into an art context, but we bring it back into the world again.The surgeons table, surgical tools and mobile lamp that form the work at the Von Bartha gall
  
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• In synch: Donald and Theresa strut their stuff in Lie Lie Land

  17-02-2017 13:02
  
  The graffiti artist Bambi has sprayed a mischievous sketch on a wall in Islington, north London, showing President Donald Trump and the UK Prime Minister Theresa May dancing in the style of the stars of the hit musical film La La Land. The work shows the leaders gazing into each others eyes doing the jive, just like Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in the Oscar-nominated movie. Bambi, who is known for her political pieces, says in a statement: The original film poster for La La Land is pasted everywh
  
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• Michael Andrews’ The Colony Room I: Soho's cultural history frozen in time

  17-02-2017 13:00
  
  The artist captures bohemian heavyweights Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Henrietta Moraes enjoying a well-earned tippleMichael Andrews’s painting of one of 50s and 60s Soho’s most storied drinking dens, the Colony Room, is a who’s who of the art scene. That hot pink collar belongs to Francis Bacon. Artists’ model Henrietta Moraes is centre-stage. A chiselled Lucian Freud looks us straight in the eye. At the bar, Muriel Belcher, the club’s proprietor, strikes a pose
  
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• Richard Mosse calls for humanity and solidarity over refugee crisis

  17-02-2017 12:31
  
  Whether through language or images, studies have shown that the media has played a significant role in dehumanising refugees. The Irish artist Richard Mosse, whose video installation of people fleeing countries including Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan went on show at the Barbican this week, says humanity is in desperate need of being preserved.Mosse describes Incoming, his 52-minute black-and-white video shot on a thermal military camera that picks up the glow of bodies from more than 30km away, a
  
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• Stolen Guercino painting found in Casablanca

  17-02-2017 12:26
  
  A large Guercino painting that was stolen from a church in Modena in August 2014 has been traced by Italys Carabinieri art crime squad to Casablanca, Morocco. The Italian government is negotiating to return Madonna with the Saints John the Evangelist and Gregory the Wonderworker (1639) to the Church of San Vincenzo as soon as possible, the Italian culture minister Dario Franceschini says in a statement.The Baroque altarpiece, which measures ten by six feet, had not been insured and its alarm wa
  
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• Eduardo Paolozzi and Nathan Coley: this week's best UK exhibitions

  17-02-2017 10:30
  
  From the renowned postwar artist to a sculpture depicting the bankside art museum up in flamesIn Britain after the second world war, life was grey and consumer products that were routine in the US looked like science fiction dreams. Paolozzi’s early collages of kitchen gadgets and household modernity were utopian fantasies of tomorrow and founding classics of pop art. He participated in the Whitechapel’s famous exhibition This Is Tomorrow in 1956 and that gallery pays homage now to w
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.16.17

  17-02-2017 09:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Finally, A Botticelli Exhibition in the U.S.
  The Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Va., has pulled off another noteworthy show, again eliciting important loans from Italy that other, larger museums would covet. ... read more
  AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2017-02-16Propwatch: the dummy in The Pitchfork Disney
  Philip Ridley is that rare writer whose work alternately snares decadent adult and innocent child. PG to certificate 18 with nothing in betwee
  
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• Tom Morris: Artistic Leadership Is About Vision And People, Not Buildings 

  17-02-2017 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  As part of our Artistic Leadership Series, Tom Morris responds to Joe Horowitz's Lincoln Center essay: "We live in an era of growing niche audiences for music – institutions cannot address that reality if frozen in fancy yet over-large and rigid concert halls that trap them artistically, financially and organizationally… Could it be that doing less but better is a more promising strategy?"
  
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• La vie en rose: 40 years of Pierre et Gilles – in pictures

  17-02-2017 08:00
  
  From Boy George crossed with Krishna to Serge Gainsbourg as an imprisoned Santa, a new book traces four decades of brilliant images from the photographer and painter couple Pierre and Gilles Continue reading...
  
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• Artistic Leadership Is About People And Vision, Not Buildings

  17-02-2017 04:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  By Thomas W. Morris
  I recall clearly seeing the picture of Bing, Bernstein and Balanchine in 1966, and remember well the promise of creative artistic explosion with the realization of the Lincoln Center dream with leaders, as Joseph Horowitz says, “poised to drive their celebrated companies to great heights, buoying by an unprecedented American cultural complex.“
  We have to remember that at the time, Lincoln Center was the first in new cultural facilities that subsequently engulfed
  
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• Director of Communications, Lincoln Center

  17-02-2017 02:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (“LCPA”) serves three primary roles: it is the world’s leading presenter of superb artistic programming, is a national leader in arts and education and community relations, and functions as the manager of the Lincoln Center campus. LCPA presents over 350 performances annually throughout our different performance series including American Songbook, Great Performers, Live from Lincoln Center, Lincoln Center Festival, Mostly Mozart Festival,
  
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• Arte Povera artist Jannis Kounellis has died, aged 80

  17-02-2017 02:16
  The Greek-Italian artist Jannis Kounellis, one of the leading figures of the Arte Povera movement, died in Romes Villa Mafalda hospital, aged 80.
  Born in Piraeus , Greece in 1936, the artist moved to Rome at the age of 20 to study at the Academy of Fine Arts and considered the Eternal City his adopted home, where he continued to live and work. He had his first solo exhibition in 1960 at La Tartaruga gallery, a regular stomping ground for the citys artists and intellectuals, but perhaps his most
  
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• The Russian Library That Costs £100 A Visit

  17-02-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "To enjoy the library’s collection and atmosphere, you have to pay a ticket of just under £100 for a four-hour reading session – a markedly different experience to the free access readers can enjoy in Russia’s public libraries."
  
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