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• Not Funding The Arts Puts A Drag On The Economy

  16-03-2017 23:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The NEA estimates that, on average, its grantees raise $9 for every $1 of federal funding they are awarded. The power of that money, cumulatively, is extraordinary; arts organizations revive the fortunes of inner cities and small rural towns; arts programming improves academic outcomes for children; art therapy treats veterans suffering from PTSD. And those programs are the kinds that NEA grants fund, in addition to the things you might think of when you hear of the arts."
  
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• When will Christo’s 40-year old Mastaba happen?

  16-03-2017 22:00
  
  The artist Christo tells The Art Newspaper at Art Dubai that his long awaited project in the desert, The Mastaba, is still on track. For 40 years, Christo has been planning the structure. Comprising 410,000 multi-coloured aluminium barrels, it would be the largest sculpture in the world, and, unlike many of Christos projects, permanent. My projects are about the real things, says Christo, The real wind. The real wet. The real dry. The real things. Not photographs. I dont know how to use a
  
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• The grandfather of Post-Modernism

  16-03-2017 22:00
  
  The second volume of Francis Picabias detailed catalogue raisonn takes us through the artists Dada period and the spectacular flourishing of his art in the 1920s. When volume I ended, Picabia was a painter of Orphism (a branch of Cubism) and had followed a clear career progression up to that point. Stranded in New York by the outbreak of war, Picabia became part of the anti-war Dada movement in America.
  He drew enigmatic mechanical diagrams with allusive titles. He called these nonsense machine
  
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• The 2017 Sharjah Biennial roots for crops, earth, water and cooking

  16-03-2017 22:00
  
  The Sharjah Biennial is the jewel in the crown of non-commercial contemporary art events from the Maghreb to the Gulf. After editions with curators from Japan and the USA, this, the 13th, has Christine Tohm from Beirut at the helm. She is the widely respected founder of Ashkal Alwan, an art centre that is home from home for artists, a discussion forum, a research and exhibition space. Tohm is an activist who says she spends 50% of her time on visa issues, 50% on finding money and another 5
  
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• Portuguese cities host crossover art and theatre festival

  16-03-2017 22:00
  More than 20 art and theatre institutions in Lisbon and Porto are participating in the inaugural Biennial of Contemporary Arts in Portugal (17 March-30 April). Capitalising on the burgeoning art scenes in the cities, the show promotes a crossover between visual and performing artists. Among the projects is a staging of Samuel Becketts absurdist 1957 play Endgame in a Porto monastery by the Cuban artist Tania Bruguera and a film installation at the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II in Lisbon by th
  
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• Dubai attracts auction players

  16-03-2017 22:00
  
  It is an important week for Christies and Sothebys in Dubai. Sothebys opened a gallery space and office on Tuesday (14 March) in the Dubai International Financial Centre which, says Edward Gibbs, the chairman for the Middle East and India, will bring together the best of our global business in one hub. Crucially, Sothebys could potentially schedule sales in the new venue, he adds.Dubai is an important regional hub and we know that it will continue to be important; its key to our busin
  
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• Did he influence Dürer or Dürer him? On Jacopo de’ Barbari

  16-03-2017 22:00
  
  In his 1547 manuscript account of the most important artists and craftsmen who had worked in Nuremberg over the previous hundred years, Johann Neudrffer briefly mentioned one Jacob, Walch genannt, Maler. He knew little about him: he had only seen two of his pictures, one of which he had forgotten about, the other a portrait; Hans von Kulmbach had been his pupil. A fuller picture only emerged in the 19th and 20th centuries as scholars brought together a series of prints and paintings, some s
  
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• Centre Pompidou broke even on Koons retrospective, Paris court decision reveals

  16-03-2017 22:00
  
  The Centre Pompidous Jeff Koons retrospective in 2014-15 was the most attended exhibition of a living artist in the museums history, bringing in 650,045 visitors, which could have resulted in a significant financial windfall for the museumbut this was not the case. The exhibition did not generate profits for the centre, according to the verdict delivered by the Paris High Court on 9 March, in a plagiarism suit led by the heirs of the photographer Jean-Franois Bauret. The French institution only
  
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• A Bigger Stage

  16-03-2017 22:00
  
  So-called emerging artist Vikram Divecha may no longer be quite so emerging. The past year has seen the Dubai-based Indian artist clinch a gallery representation deal with Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde (IVDE), feature in curator Christine Tohms Sharjah Biennial 13 programme and show up on the roster slated for the UAE National Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale opening in May. Such validating experiences have not only garnered greater visibility for his workswhich have primari
  
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• Guggenheim Foundation Names Wendy Fisher Board President

  16-03-2017 21:29 via artnews.com
  The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s board of trustees has elected Wendy Fisher as president. Fisher succeeds Jennifer Blei Stockman, who stepped down after 12 years as president but will continue to serve as an advisor and emeritus trustee.Fisher first joined the Guggenheim … Read More
  
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• Brooke Davis Anderson Departs Prospect New Orleans for Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

  16-03-2017 20:23 via artnews.com
  After four years as the executive director of the Prospect New Orleans triennial, Brooke Davis Anderson will step down from her position at the end of the month to become director of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Ylva Rouse, … Read More
  
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• Rhizome ‘Seven on Seven’ Lineup Includes Olia Lialina, DIS, Constant Dullaart

  16-03-2017 20:16 via artnews.com
  Rhizome, the digital arts organization affiliated with the New Museum in New York, has announced the list of participants for the ninth edition of its annual Seven on Seven conference, which pairs seven artists with seven tech-world figures for one-on-one collaborations.This … Read More
  
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• In these troubled times, we need to see the Mastry exhibition in the UK | Letter

  16-03-2017 19:41
  
  I saw the Mastry exhibition in Chicago last June and have been talking about it ever since (Report, 16 March). It is one of the most moving and politically important exhibitions I have ever seen – his painting School of Beauty, School of Culture, with its reference to Holbein’s The Ambassadors, is a great painting and a strong political statement in itself. The canvasses are huge, bold and insistent of the right of black artists to be shown – particularly relevant in Chicago no
  
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• Sebastiano's debt to Michelangelo made clear in London show

  16-03-2017 19:22
  
  The heart of The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Michelangelo & Sebastiano at the National Gallery, London (until 25 June), is the gallerys own painting, The Raising of Lazarus (1517-19) by Sebastiano. Not only is it the largest work on display (9ft 5in x 12ft 5in / 289.6cm x 38cm), it is also revealed in a magnificent new frame. But size and array are incidental to the reality that this work embodies: without Michelangelo, Sebastiano would have little to recommend him.  The exhibition turns
  
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• Trump's proposal to end arts endowment is latest chapter in a fraught history

  16-03-2017 19:04
  
  The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded more than $4bn to arts initiatives since it was created in 1965, but has faced threats since the Reagan eraThe White House’s proposal to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is the latest in a string of threats against an agency that has sparked furore for sponsoring controversial art. Related: Trump returns to Washington for fights on budget, travel ban and healthcareContinue reading...
  
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• Amie Siegel at South London Gallery

  16-03-2017 18:46 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Amie Siegel: Strata” is on view at the South London Gallery in London through Sunday, March 26. The solo exhibition, the New York–based artist’s first in London, … Read More
  
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• Drugged, kidnapped and cast away: the funny, disturbing obsessions of Rodney Graham

  16-03-2017 18:07
  
  From rotating reading machines to a film noir-style abduction, the Canadian photographer makes ultra-real works that verge on slapstick. As two shows open in the UK, step into his many worlds‘Someone recently likened one of my large-scale photographic works to a mildly humorous father’s day card,” says Rodney Graham, chuckling. “I thought that was the funniest thing.” Many of Graham’s more deadpan photographic works could indeed pass for old-fashioned father&r
  
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• Estate of Betty Parsons, Storied Ab Ex Dealer Who Also Made Art, Goes to Alexander Gray Associates

  16-03-2017 18:00 via artnews.com
  Betty Parsons may be better known for her gallery, which, in the 1950s, was responsible for showing the “Four Horsemen” of Abstract Expressionism (Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still), but before she ever opened that storied space, Parsons … Read More
  
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• Shades of Peculiar: Late-Blooming British Artist Jeremy Moon’s Abstractions Turn Lines into Space

  16-03-2017 17:51 via artnews.com
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• Jennie C. Jones Wins Rose Art Museum’s Perlmutter Award

  16-03-2017 17:09 via artnews.com
  The Rose Art Museum in Waltham, Massachusetts, announced today that Jennie C. Jones has won its Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence Award, which will support a residency for the New York–based artist on Brandeis University’s campus.Jones is known for … Read More
  
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• Trump wants to axe NEA and other culture agencies

  16-03-2017 16:31
  The National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are among the 19 independent agencies President Trump has targeted for the axe as part of his first federal budget proposal, released to the public on Thursday, 16 March. Their combined funding, an estimate $3.1bn, would be redirected towards a $52.3bn increase in defense spending and $2.8bn boost for Homeland Security, which inc
  
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• Danish artists Superflex next for Tate Modern Turbine Hall

  16-03-2017 14:50
  
  Art world waits to see how collective known for highly political work will fill huge exhibition space in LondonA Danish art collective whose work has included creating a huge multicultural park in Copenhagen and flooding a replica McDonald’s to explore climate change and capitalism is to be the next commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.The Hyundai commission, formerly the Unilever commission, is one of the most prestigious in contemporary art. Continue reading...
  
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• When Pollen Becomes Political: Wolfgang Laib in Myanmar

  16-03-2017 14:45 via artnews.com
  The southeast wing of the Secretariat building in Yangon, Myanmar, is both decadent and crumbling. Red brick walls give way to exposed rafters whereupon pigeons and sparrows—the true tenants of this building—roost in the afternoon sun. Shutter-less windows look onto … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: That’s Mr. Hell to You Edition

  16-03-2017 14:00 via artnews.com
  Art HistoryRichard Hell, punk icon and distinguished man of letters, reviewed the exhibition “Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965.” [The New York Review of Books]In the lead-up to St. Patrick’s Day, Irish eyes are smiling on the … Read More
  
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• Danish collective SUPERFLEX will take over Tate Modern's Turbine Hall

  16-03-2017 12:42
  
  The Danish art collective SUPERFLEX will take over the Turbine Hall at Londons Tate Modern this October. The groupfounded in 1993 by the artists Bjrnstjerne Christiansen, Jakob Fenger and Rasmus Nielsenwill unveil their 2017 Hyundai Commission for the vast industrial space on 3 October.
   
  Their work raises timely questions about the role of the artist in contemporary society, exploring how we interpret and engage with the increasingly complex world around us, says the director of Tate Mode
  
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• Partenope review – Handel on a night out with beardy bohemians

  16-03-2017 12:37
  
  Coliseum, LondonDespite the culottes and mustachios, ENO’s revival of its 2008 production retains enough substance to back up its arch stylingThis is a welcome return to English National Opera for its 2008 production of Partenope – a reminder, while the company struggles to define its identity, that it can still be a home of stylish Handel opera.And it is the style that matters in this production. The story itself is slight, and Christopher Alden’s staging doesn’t try to
  
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