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• Why (Almost) All Of Us Laugh

  03-03-2017 23:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Over a century ago, Henri Bergson, one of the first modern philosophers to think deeply on the subject, pointed out that laughter is an “inherently social” activity, and in recent decades, academics have found data to support this theory."
  
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• Spencer Hays, who donated his collection to the Musée d’Orsay, has died

  03-03-2017 23:15
  
  The Nashville and New York-based American businessman, art collector and philanthropist Spencer Hays died on Thursday, 2 March, aged 80. In October 2016, Hays and his wife Marlene announced a gift of 137 turn-of-the-century works from their collectionwhich is especially strong in Nabi artists including Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard and douard Vuillardto the Muse dOrsay in Paris, where it will be shown in a dedicated space. All 600 works in their collection will eventually be given to the museum
  
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• Google Takes A Plunge As Replacement For TV

  03-03-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just $35 a month gets you six accounts and access to live TV from more than 40 providers including the big broadcast networks, ESPN, regional sports networks and dozens of popular cable networks. Subscriptions include cloud DVR with unlimited storage, AI-powered search and personalization, and access to YouTube Red programming. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki calls it the evolution of television, and a bid to “give the younger generation the content that they love with the flexibility they expe
  
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• Secret Pleasures at the Armory Show: Works That Delight and Surprise

  03-03-2017 22:59 via artnews.com
  Don’t be surprised to be unsurprised at this year’s Armory Show, but you’ll certainly find some unexpected pleasures and revelations, especially on Pier 92.It’s exciting to discover a series of slender 1955 assemblages of Roy Lichtenstein in the booth for … Read More
  
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• The Walled Off hotel by Banksy – in pictures

  03-03-2017 22:53
  
  If you look out of the windows of the Walled Off hotel in Bethlehem you will see the wall that separates the West Bank from Israel. Turn your gaze inside and you are faced with the artworks of graffiti artist Banksy, who has turned hotelier in his latest project Continue reading...
  
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• Reuniting Indigenous 'sticks' with their stories: the museum on a mission to give back

  03-03-2017 22:31
  
  The South Australian Museum wants to take a global lead in connecting its enormous collection with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peopleJohn Carty stands on a platform inside a vast warehouse on Adelaide’s outskirts. On the floor below and behind him are rack after rack of shelves and drawers housing tens of thousands of Australian Indigenous artefacts.There are about 5,000 spears and 3,000 boomerangs here, and hundreds upon hundreds of shields, thousands of pieces of decorative art
  
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• How Julie Kent Is Transforming Washington Ballet

  03-03-2017 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  "One expects change when a new artistic director takes over, as Kent did half a year ago. But in Thursday’s opening-night performance at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater, marking the start of the company’s spring season, it was clear that Kent’s touch is a subtle and sensitive one, apparent in such artistic intangibles as musicality, an apt quality of airiness and an overall attention to detail."
  
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• Art, Politics And The Met Museum

  03-03-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The timing of Tuesday’s announcement felt pointed, landing, as it did, during the kickoff to a week in which no less than a dozen art fairs open in New York City, trailing the power players of the international art world in their wake. (It’s known to insiders as “Armory Week,” not for the A.D.A.A.’s event at the actual Armory but for another fair, held at the western edge of Manhattan, on Piers 92 and 94, and named after the 1913 Armory Show, which famousl
  
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• New York art fairs week

  03-03-2017 22:00
  
  Reporting from the Armory Show, the ADAA's Art Show, Independent, Nada and Volta
  
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• At the Armory, Teresa Margolles Presents a Moving Memorial to a Trans Sex Worker

  03-03-2017 21:42 via artnews.com
  The Focus section of this year’s Armory Show is a tight affair of 12 rather small booths—really just corners—that sits in front of the VIP Lounge.They are hard spaces to install in, running the risk of a display that is too bare, too full, … Read More
  
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• Goof Scootin’ Boogie: Andy Onderdonx Makes His Sculpture Debut at Brooklyn’s Safe Gallery

  03-03-2017 20:29 via artnews.com
  The artist Andy Onderdonx’s debut exhibition, a two-person show with the painter Clayton Schiff at the Brooklyn gallery Safe, showcases playful kinetic sculptures and furniture made with a varied list of materials that includes rubber tubes, children’s bedframes, and, in … Read More
  
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• Serenity Now: James Hoff’s ‘Useless Landscapes’ Bring Zones of Remoteness to the Armory Show

  03-03-2017 20:19 via artnews.com
  Calm amid all the clamor of the Armory Show can be found—in a figurative sense, at least—in a series of “Useless Landscape” paintings by New York artist James Hoff. In the Pier 94 booth of the Lower East Side gallery Callicoon … Read More
  
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• Gustav Metzger: a true art revolutionary and a wonderful human being

  03-03-2017 20:05
  
  His life and art were one long rallying cry. And the auto-destructive artist was vital and influential until the end. The artistic director of the Serpentine gallery remembers his great friend Gustav MetzgerThe term “artists’ artist” is used a lot. My friend Gustav Metzger was more than that – he was a role model. In 1991, I found myself in the UK, giving a lecture tour for the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust. I’d never given a lecture in my life – at this point,
  
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• Cabinets of Wonder: Spring/Break Offers an Art Menagerie in Former Condé Nast Offices, High Above Times Square

  03-03-2017 19:54 via artnews.com
  “The world is too much with us late and soon,” William Wordsworth wrote in the early 19th century. And so it seemed on the opening day of the Spring/Break Art Show, on Tuesday, which this year seems to focus on … Read More
  
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• Gustav Metzger obituary

  03-03-2017 19:35
  
  Activist and inventor of auto-destructive art in response to the threat of nuclear devastationInvented in 1959 by Gustav Metzger, who has died aged 90, auto-destructive art was about the event rather than the object. It defined the joining of his art and activism, to become a powerful voice in anti-nuclear protest and environmentalism. Its materials, which were often pitted against each other, came from industry as well as the studio.Auto-destructive art rose out of the shadow cast by the droppi
  
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• Fair’s Fare: Highlights from NADA New York

  03-03-2017 19:33 via artnews.com
  NADA New York runs at Skylight Clarkson North in Downtown Manhattan through Sunday, March 5. On opening day, March 2, Anne Doran and Andrew Russeth perused the fair’s aisles, selecting their favorite works. —The EditorsANNE DORANOriginal Pictures artist Paul McMahon’s vintage … Read More
  
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• A Quick Spin Through NADA New York in 12 Photos

  03-03-2017 19:32 via artnews.com
  As the 2017 edition of Armory Week comes to a close, here’s a fast-paced look at 12 notable booths and works of art at this year’s edition of NADA New York. For a detailed look at the art on display, head … Read More
  
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• Bank's Kandinsky painting 'was looted by Nazis' , says family

  03-03-2017 18:43
  
  Bavarian bank claims to own The Colourful Life, which hangs in a German gallery, but Jewish art collector’s heirs say it belongs to themA painting by Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky has become the subject of a legal battle over claims that it was looted by the Nazis during the second world war.The Colourful Life or Das Bunte Leben, which has been described as one of the artist’s most important works, hangs in a gallery in Germany, but the heirs of a Jewish art collector, Emanuel Lew
  
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• Facebook is watching us, but who’s watching Facebook? | Shahidha Bari

  03-03-2017 17:44
  
  The blocking of Women Lovers exposes the censorious nature of the algorithm’s machine gaze: its inspection of our bodies surely warrants a return inspection
  Charles Blackman’s 1980 painting of Women Lovers depicts two women, naked and asleep, serenely sprawled across the canvas. It is Gauguinesque in style, languorous rather than lascivious, more symbolist than sexual. But the mysterious powers-that-be at Facebook this week blocked the image for its “adult content” when i
  
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• Chocolate Sculptures by the Congolese Plantation Workers Art League Enrich the Armory Show

  03-03-2017 17:26 via artnews.com
  Near the back corner of Pier 94 in the Focus section of the Armory Show, there are two near-identical sculptures of bespectacled bald men looking a bit perplexed. Another notable detail: they’re both made out of chocolate—and carry the rich … Read More
  
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• Kamrooz Aram at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium

  03-03-2017 17:20 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Kamrooz Aram: Ornament for Indifferent Architecture” is on view at the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle, Belgium, through Sunday, April 9. The solo exhibition is the Iranian-born, New … Read More
  
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• A Tour of the 2017 Spring/Break Art Show

  03-03-2017 17:20 via artnews.com
  The always freewheeling, raucous party/installation–cum–art fair that is the Spring/Break Art Show opened its sixth edition on Tuesday, February 28, to invited guests and press. The “curator-driven” fair asked artists—and their curators—to respond to the theme of “Black Mirror.” Below, … Read More
  
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• ARTnews’s Complete Armory Week 2017 Coverage

  03-03-2017 17:08 via artnews.com
  Below, a continuously updated list of ARTnews reports from Armory Week 2017, including studio visits with artists who have work at the Independent art fair, slide shows of the fairs, and a definitive ranking of the lounges at the Armory … Read More
  
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• Josh Mannis Picks Up 2017 New York NADA Artadia Award

  03-03-2017 17:01 via artnews.com
  There are hundreds of artists with work on view at the NADA New York fair this week, but only one can be crowned the winner of the New York NADA Artadia Award, which comes with a check for $5,000. That … Read More
  
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• Loris Gréaud to resurrect defunct Murano glass factory during the Venice Biennale

  03-03-2017 16:37
  
  The French artist Loris Graud will take over an abandoned glass furnace on an island in the Murano district of Venicefamous for producing elaborate glasswareduring the biennale this year (13 May-26 November). Graud plans to show 1,000 glass pieces made from hourglass sand. The exhibition, called The Unplayed Notes Factory, will be organised by Nicolas Bourriaud, the former director of the Ecole Nationale Suprieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.The project will take place on the Campiello della Pesche
  
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• A Tour of Pier 92 at the 2017 Armory Show

  03-03-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  With the 2017 Armory Show now in full swing, here’s a look around Pier 92, the smaller section of the fair. Previously home to the modern section, the Armory Show’s director, Ben Genocchio, nixed the modern-contemporary divide in favor of, from back to front, … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Lorde Cover Art Edition

  03-03-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Armory WeekHere’s what sold at NADA New York, which moved from the East River to West Soho. [ARTnews]And at Independent New York, galleries saw encouraging sales during the second year in Tribeca. [ARTnews]And here’s Jerry Saltz on Independent: “It’s the cool kids,” he said. “So … Read More
  
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• Gender resistance, Italian merchants and Mumbai – the week in art

  03-03-2017 14:00
  
  The National Portrait Gallery in London opens its exhibition setting the work of French surrealist Claude Cahun against English conceptualist Gillian Wearing – plus more in your weekly art dispatchGillian Wearing and Claude Cahun
  The powerful, eerie, gender-resisting surrealist photography of Claude Cahun is juxtaposed with the work of Turner prize winner Gillian Wearing.
  • National Portrait Gallery, London, 9 March-29 May. Continue reading...
  
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• Amelie von Wulffen’s Untitled, 2016: a witty exploration of post-postwar guilt

  03-03-2017 13:00
  
  The German artist’s cutesy image is rife with oblique references to her country’s past and the acts committed by her parents’ generationHello kitty Continue reading...
  
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• Seaside town to be turned into art school for Folkestone Triennial

  03-03-2017 12:03
  
  The UK artist Bob and Roberta Smith is offering the residents of Folkestone, a UK seaside town on the Kent coast, an art school education as part of the next Folkestone Triennial, which opens this autumn (2 September-5 November). The fourth edition will include site-specific, public art commissions by 20 international artists including Lubaina Himid, Michael Craig-Martin, Amalia Pica, David Shrigley and Antony Gormley. Bob and Roberta Smith has recorded a series of 12 pedagogical videos th
  
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• Tony Cragg to Madonnas And Miracles: this week’s best UK exhibitions

  03-03-2017 10:30
  
  The eccentric sculptor’s work goes on display in Yorkshire, and an exhibition sheds light on the purpose of art in Renaissance ItalyThe spinning, tottering eccentricity of this playful British sculptor’s unpredictable abstractions mirrors modern scientific understandings of space and time. Cragg maps out mathematical yet unruly forms that suggest matter collapsing into a black hole or the quirks of the quantum. Just as string theory posits beauty and order underlying the cosmos, Crag
  
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• James Lee Byars Tower, 65 Feet Tall and Golden, Will Grace Venice During the Biennale

  03-03-2017 04:40 via artnews.com
  James Lee Byars, the elusive, enigmatic, and mystically inclined American artist who died in 1997, at the age of 65, once dreamed of installing a 1,000-foot-tall golden sculpture along the Berlin Wall. Sadly, that never came to be. However, Byars did … Read More
  
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• Independent New York Opens Second Edition in Tribeca With Solid Sales, Sun-Drenched Booths

  03-03-2017 01:07 via artnews.com
  It’s only Independent New York’s second year at Spring Studios in Tribeca, but it already feels like its rightful home. Spring Studios—the members-only shared workspace and social club—is ideal for collectors, many of whom were overheard gushing about how they could … Read More
  
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• NADA New York Settles Into Fresh Environs With Ambitious Booths, Scattered Sales

  03-03-2017 00:36 via artnews.com
  A place to shoot hoops, it wasn’t. After years of hosting art fairs at Basketball City—a structure housing a few courts on which to ball, set in the subway-less netherworld near the East River—NADA New York decided to uproot, and snatched up … Read More
  
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• New York Space to Hold Wake for Martin Kippenberger

  03-03-2017 00:04 via artnews.com
  A retrospective of the iconoclastic German artist Martin Kippenberger at the Museum of Modern Art eight years ago proved just how influential his work has been on a younger generation. But now it’s time to really pay our respects. A wake … Read More
  
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