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• Tracey Moffatt: 'If it becomes a little terrifying then I’m interested'

  23-03-2017 22:56
  
  The first Indigenous Australian solo artist to exhibit at the Venice Biennale on her fascination with film noir – and why she’s happy to be a ‘meanie’ at work“They weren’t allowed to talk to me, except when we had lunch,” Tracey Moffatt tells the gaggle of surrounding reporters. She is talking about her interns. “I’m real strict when I go to work. When you enter the studio, it’s like a temple and you have to respect my silence. Just bec
  
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• Andrea Büttner at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

  23-03-2017 22:40 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• The persistent disbeliever: on Donald Judd's writings

  23-03-2017 22:00
  Has there been a more rigorous sceptic than Donald Judd? Set aside, for a moment, the philosophers who only think about the world, and picture Judd in Long Island City at the Bernstein Brothers metal shop in 1970 telling labourers how to make his work. Picture him at home in Manhattan at 101 Spring Street, the building he bought in 1968 as a studio, home and space "in which to install work of mine and of others" so he could spend a long time looking to see whether or not something worked. Imagi
  
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• The comprehensive corpus on Peter Paul Rubens

  23-03-2017 22:00
  
  Few would deny that amidst the mass of publications devoted to the history of art during the past century, one undertaking stands out as the most monumental of them all: Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard. With more than 40 books published since the 1970s and another ten or so planned, the enterprise towers over even massive encyclopedias. Nor is the comprehensiveness of the effort inappropriate, for the subject was one of the worlds most prolific artists and also a colossus who has few equals a
  
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• Performance artists living in exile in the UK might be forced to return to Poland

  23-03-2017 22:00
  
  Two Polish performance artists, Wadysaw Kamierczak and his partner Ewa Rybska, who have been living in exile in the UK for nearly a decade, might be forced to return to Poland to settle a legal dispute that the pair say is politically motivated. We want to stay here, Kamierczak said. The UK is a fair country for all residents, even in the face of Brexit. We cant go back to Poland. It would be a huge injustice for us.Kamierczak is the former director of Baltic Gallery for Contemporary Art in Sup
  
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• Oedipal susceptibilities: on rivalry and friendship among artists

  23-03-2017 22:00
  Sebastian Smee, the Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic for the Boston Globe and formerly a reporter for The Art Newspaper, has written a spirited account of four friendships between titans of Modern paintingManet and Degas, Matisse and Picasso, Pollock and De Kooning, Bacon and Freudshowing how an element of competitive tension stimulated the younger of each pair to surpass himself, sometimes in a single decisive breakthrough. The stories are familiar, but considered here together and recounted w
  
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• Marsden Hartley's Maine: what the Modern painter took from his home state—and what he left behind

  23-03-2017 22:00
  This month, the Met Breuer opened Marsden Hartley's Maine (until 18 June), which looks at how the state became the "ur-subject" of the Modern artist's work. In this excerpt from the exhibition catalogue, the show's curators, Donna M. Cassidy, Elizabeth Finch and Randall R. Griffey, outline how it shaped his vision and why he could never, despite his many travels, fully leave it behind.Marsden Hartleys life made a full circle before its close, wrote Elizabeth McCausland in the opening of her sem
  
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• London exhibitions roundup: Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun at the National Portrait Gallery, Russian art at the Royal Academy and more

  23-03-2017 22:00
  
  Behind the Mask, Another Mask: Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun, National Portrait Gallery (until 29 May)Different times, places and circumstances separate Claude Cahunthe androgynous Surrealist who was imprisoned in Nazi-occupied Jersey for her role in the French Resistancefrom the Goldsmiths-educated, Turner Prize-winning Gillian Wearing. Cahun presented herself acting out countless roles in her small, mysterious and intimately uncanny photographs, which lay forgotten until the 1980s. In
  
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• Largest work by an early female artist to be restored?

  23-03-2017 22:00
  At seven metres long and two metres high, Plautilla Nelli's 1570s painting of the Last Supper is considered to be the largest work of art by an early female artist and the first depiction of the Biblical theme ever made by a woman. The Advancing Women Artists Foundation in Florence is seeking to raise $65,000 by 16 April to restore the almost life-sized work by the Florentine nun and painter, who is the subject of a major exhibition at the Uffizi galleries (until 4 June). In this video, the foun
  
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• A hidden treasure trove of Outsider art in the Midwest turns 50 this year

  23-03-2017 22:00
  
  In a small city in Americas dairyland, there is an overlooked arts centre that is a treasure trove of vernacular works of art. The John Michael Kohler Arts Centre (JMKAC) in Sheboygan, Wisconsina 100,000 sq. ft non-profit institution that includes 12 galleries, a theatre, studio classrooms and other communal spaces, along with a collection of over 20,000 works of art and artist-built environmentscelebrates its 50th anniversary this year. But it remains a relatively unknown player in the broader
  
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• Albers Foundation celebrates second anniversary of Senegal project

  23-03-2017 20:07
  
  This month, the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and Le Korsa, an offshoot of the foundation that does charity work in Africa, mark the second anniversary of Thread, their joint cultural hub in the village of Sinthian, Senegal.
  The hub, which opened in March 2015, hosts residencies for regional and international artists, a community agricultural programme and dance and music festivals. Construction of the building and the first two years of programming were funded by the sale of a single Homage
  
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• Postmasters Gallery Expands to Rome, Names Kerry Doran Director

  23-03-2017 19:39 via artnews.com
  For the first time in its 32-year history, New York’s Postmasters Gallery will expand to have a second space. In an email with a 25-second audio clip of the David Bowie song “Changes,” the gallery announced that it will open … Read More
  
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• SoHo Arts Network To Present Panel Discussion on ’50s-’60s History and Downtown Culture Walk

  23-03-2017 19:33 via artnews.com
  The SoHo Arts Network, a collective of non-profit institutions and exhibition spaces in a neighborhood at the center of downtown New York lore, will present a free public panel discussion later this month and, in April, a Downtown Culture Walk among some … Read More
  
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• The Power of the Diva: E. Jane Explores a Star Named Lavendra

  23-03-2017 19:01 via artnews.com
  Lavendra, a celestial brown dwarf star stabilized for human interaction by the power of a diva’s voice, serves as a sort of home for an exhibition by the Philadelphia-based artist E. Jane in New York. Opening Friday at American Medium in Bed-Stuy, … Read More
  
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• Leigh Markopoulos obituary

  23-03-2017 18:59
  
  My friend and former colleague Leigh Markopoulos, who has died aged 48 in a traffic accident, was a curator, art writer and leading educator in the field of curatorial studies who organised more than 50 exhibitions throughout her career. Her deep engagement with contemporary art earned her the friendship and admiration of an international network of artists, curators, writers, art historians, gallerists and students.Born in Hanover, Germany, to Anna and Dimitri Markopoulos, Leigh attended school
  
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• Baltimore Museum of Art Acquires Works by Mark Bradford, Paul Chan

  23-03-2017 18:45 via artnews.com
  Ahead of a collaboration with Mark Bradford for the U.S. Pavilion in the upcoming Venice Biennale, the Baltimore Museum of Art has acquired a video and a painting by the Los Angeles–based artist, as well as works by Paul Chan, … Read More
  
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• Centre Pompidou Names Florian Ebner Chief of Photography

  23-03-2017 16:14 via artnews.com
  After a four-year stint at the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, Florian Ebner will be the chief of photography of Paris’s Centre Pompidou. He will begin in his new position on July 1.Ebner has worked at the Museum Folkwang since … Read More
  
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• Didactic but Definitely Not Dull: A Report from Art Basel Hong Kong

  23-03-2017 16:03 via artnews.com
  The great paradox of Hong Kong is that it has no history of contemporary art museums, so much so that some gallerists at Art Basel Hong Kong credit their need for “Please Do Not Touch” signs and stanchions inside their … Read More
  
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• Verdi Opera Cancelled After Star Tenor Arrested For Domestic Violence

  23-03-2017 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  "A performance of Verdi's Ernani at the Capitole de Toulouse was cancelled last Tuesday, because South Korean tenor Alfred Kim, who held the title role, was placed under custody over violence against his girlfriend."
  
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• There Have Been Many Literary Hoaxes, But Only One Led To A Duel With Pistols

  23-03-2017 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Eric Grundhauser tells the story of "Cherubina de Gabriak" of St. Petersburg and the two great Russian Symbolist poets who fell in love with her, even though she didn't exist.
  
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• These Two Playwrights Have Been Prominent For Decades - Why Are They Only Now Getting To Broadway? (Is It Because They're Women?)

  23-03-2017 14:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  "They are two of the nation's pre-eminent playwrights. Each has won nearly every award their field has to offer, including the Pulitzer Prize. Each has written works that are staged around the world and have become required reading in college classes. And each has earned an admired position in the academy, teaching aspiring dramatists at Ivy League institutions. One milestone, however, has long eluded Paula Vogel and Lynn Nottage: Broadway." Why is this?
  
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• Emergency repair work to Buckingham Palace’s State Dining Room nears completion

  23-03-2017 14:11
  
  The State Dining Room at Buckingham Palace remains closed, more than 16 months after damage was discovered in a timber beam that helps hold up the ornately gilded ceiling. Initially a palace spokesperson had played down reports that the room would need to be closed for official functions and visitors for up to six months. Subsequent investigations revealed a serious problem, requiring emergency stabilisation and a crash-deck scaffold. The room had been lined with full-length portraits from
  
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• Royal Ballet Choreographer Publicly Insults Dancers Over Bad Reviews

  23-03-2017 14:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  The London critics were not fond of David Dawson's The Human Seasons, onstage at Covent Garden as part of a triple bill. In the comment section for one particularly harsh review, Dawson's assistant choreographer, Tim Couchman, left a rant blaming the poor quality of the performance on the dancers, insulting their professionalism, skill, work ethic, attitude and egos. The Royal Ballet is not happy.
  
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• Morning Links: A Straw Man Is an Easy Foe Edition

  23-03-2017 14:00 via artnews.com
  TimelyHere’s a good primer on why the precise nature of the Emmett Till photograph controversially painted by Dana Schutz in the Whitney Biennial might have made painting it almost exactly the wrongest thing to do. [The New Republic]A Q&A with … Read More
  
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• With Sacramento Ballet In Turmoil, Dancers Look To Unionize

  23-03-2017 13:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  The company's board recently announced that they've asked longtime artistic directors Ron Cunningham and Carinne Binda to step down after next season. The pair don't want to go, and the dancers are fighting for them. Last week, the dancers unanimously petitioned to join AGMA.
  
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• Next On Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth: A Statue Destroyed By ISIS And Dessert-By-Drone

  23-03-2017 13:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  After the sore thumb that's sticking out there now, installed on top of the column in 2018 will be Michael Rakowitz'sThe Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist, followed in 2020 by Heather Phillipson's THE END. And yes, they basically are as described in the headline. Hannah Ellis-Petersen fills us in.
  
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• Shrine At Site Of Jesus's Tomb Reopens After Nine-Month Restoration

  23-03-2017 13:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  The historic structure, known as the Edicule, at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem had fallen into such disrepair that the Israeli government declared it a safety hazard and closed it. Now, after $4 million worth of work, the Edicule is open to pilgrims again - and the cage of iron girders that had surrounded it for 70 years is gone. (includes video)
  
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• Chuck Barris, Creator Of 'The Dating Game', Mastermind And Host Of 'The Gong Show', And (He Says) CIA Assassin, Dead At 87

  23-03-2017 13:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  As he once told an interviewer, "I was never on drugs, but everybody thought I was. When they saw The Gong Show, and I would come out, they all thought I was whacked out of my mind. But I never did drugs. I had a public company."
  
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• Lessons On Male Insecurity (And Indigestion) From Walt Whitman's Men's-Health Column

  23-03-2017 12:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Oh yes, he did. Starting in 1858, Whitman (under one of his man pseudonyms) wrote an advice column for the New York Atlas titled "Manly Health and Training." Dan Piepenbring suggests that, behind Whitman's vigorous exhortation, his advice betrayed more than a bit of insecurity about masculinity.
  
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• Anselm Kiefer And Mario Vargas Llosa Awarded J. Paul Getty Medals

  23-03-2017 12:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Since it was established in 2013, the J. Paul Getty Trust has only recognized six individuals for their extraordinary contributions to the arts. Past recipients of the award include Harold Williams, Nancy Englander, Jacob Rothschild, Frank Gehry, Yo-Yo Ma, and Ellsworth Kelly."
  
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• Posters to reveal entire text of book about fighting tyranny

  23-03-2017 12:00
  
  Timothy Snyder’s manual for resisting populism, On Tyranny, to be pasted in full on a street in east LondonIn what is believed to be an industry first, the entire text of a book billed as “a practical guide to resisting the rise of totalitarianism” is to be fly-posted along an east London street next week. Related: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder – reviewContinue reading...
  
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• Shia LaBeouf's Trump art project moves to Liverpool as 'America not safe enough'

  23-03-2017 11:59
  
  He Will Not Divide Us now being exhibited at city’s Fact gallery following disruption and violence at previous sites in the USShia LaBeouf’s anti-Trump performance art project He Will Not Divide Us has relocated from the US to Liverpool owing to safety concerns.The project is now being exhibited at the city’s Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (Fact) gallery, as “events have shown that America is simply not safe enough for this artwork to exist”, a statement
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.22.17

  23-03-2017 09:52 via feedproxy.google.com
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  This Arts Advocacy Day, the stakes are much higher. As we work to make the case for the arts, we wonder, is our data keeping pace? We’re using love (or breakup) letters as a creative and fun design research method to get powerful insight into the perceptions of our stakeholders. ... read more
  AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2017-03-22The circle of art and commerce
  Last week, in my Juilliard course on the future of classical music, one of my students asked abou
  
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• The Nepalese women exiled for menstruation – in pictures

  23-03-2017 08:00
  
  Photographer Poulomi Basu travelled to Nepal to document the women exiled to forest shelters during their monthly periods, when they are believed to be possessed by evil spirits Continue reading...
  
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• Film-maker Jonas Mekas to show photographs from his time as a WWII refugee at Documenta 14

  23-03-2017 06:02
  
  The veteran Lithuanian-American avant-garde filmmaker and artist Jonas Mekas, who was captured by Nazis and sent to a forced labour camp in Germany, will show photographs from his time as a refugee after the Second World War 2 at Documenta 14. This years exhibition, is very much focused on the refugee situation, Mekas, 94, said in an interview, so my photographs are connected directly with it, the problem of refugees, whats happening right now in Europe, that we dont talk about here [in the US]
  
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• Artist’s hair-raising motorbike ride along the Silk Road

  23-03-2017 02:12
  
  British artist Abigail Reynolds got into quite a few scrapes on her BMW Art Journey last year, when she visited and chronicled 16 libraries lost over the centuries along the Silk Road. In Egypt, she was arrested by plain clothes police while filming near Tahrir Square in Cairo (Egyptian officials released her after a few hours, but made her open the Bolex camera exposing her film to the light). In Turkey, she came off the bike while negotiating a series of hairpin bends in the mountains above Ep
  
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