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• My War With Language (Why Romanticize It?)

  27-03-2017 23:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Some writers swoon over language: 'It’s my muse, my lover', and so on. Well, it’s my enemy, and I seem to spend all my life arguing and battling with it. Also, sitting down at a desk aggravates my sacroiliac joint, so by the end of a week of solid writing I’m pretty much bed-bound or crawling around on all fours. What else? Writing is static, unsocial, and restricts opportunities for the uptake of vitamin D via dermal synthesis."
  
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• Is This The Worst Piece Of Public Art In The UK?

  27-03-2017 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Clumsy, aggressive, cheap-looking (despite costing £100,000), it’s the very opposite of a raindrop. Like the worst public art, it’s also the very opposite of art — ungenerous, suggestive only of itself. Who to blame? The artists, Solas Creative, for sure. But also the arrogance of the bureaucrats who commissioned it."
  
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• Annika Eriksson at Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden

  27-03-2017 23:08 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Michelangelo on the move

  27-03-2017 23:00
  
  There was much relief when Londons Royal Academy of Arts finally agreed to lend its Michelangelo sculpture to the National Gallery, after lengthy negotiations. Last month, the sculpture of the Virgin and Child with the Infant St John (around 1505) made the half-mile journey to the Michelangelo & Sebastiano show (until 25 June). The tondo is actually returning home, since the Academy was based in the National Gallerys building from 1837 to 1868; the work was displayed in what was then the li
  
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• China show signals Met’s expanding global role

  27-03-2017 23:00
  
  The next director of New Yorks Metropolitan Museum of Art will take over an institution with a greatly expanded global role, perhaps the most significant long-term legacy of its outgoing director, Thomas Campbell, who announced in late February that he would be stepping down in June. I have been trying to develop an agenda that moves away from a Western museum as primarily an accumulator of objects and knowledge to one that positions it as part of a matrix of international peers, Campbell said
  
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• Ai Weiwei bends fences in New York

  27-03-2017 23:00
  
  The fence has always been a tool in the vocabulary of political landscaping and evokes associations with words like border, security, and neighbour, which are connected to the current global political environment, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei says in a statement about his largest ever public art exhibition, Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, to be installed across New York later this year (12 October 2017-11 February 2018) for the 40th anniversary celebrations of the non-profit Public Art Fund. W
  
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• BRIC Announces Free Public Arts Fest in Brooklyn with David Byrne, Historic Video Art and More

  27-03-2017 22:25 via artnews.com
  BRIC, a Brooklyn-based non-profit media and arts organization dedicated to free public programming in New York, announced the lineup today for its first-ever BRIC OPEN Festival, a weekend-long series of public talks and performances to be held at its downtown … Read More
  
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• Old Masters and Impressionist art from the record-setting Stillman Collection to be auctioned at Christie’s

  27-03-2017 21:00
  
  The private collection of the late philanthropist and land conservationist Chauncey Devereaux Stillman (1907-89) made auction history in 1989, when Jacopo da Pontormos Portrait of a Halberdier (1528-30) sold at Christies New York to the J. Paul Getty Museum for $35.2m (over $69m today, adjusted for inflation). That record still holds for an Old Masters sale in the US after nearly 30 years. In the coming months, the auction house will dip into that well again, when it offers a selection of 16 wo
  
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• Koenig & Clinton to Move from Chelsea to Bushwick in Brooklyn

  27-03-2017 19:09 via artnews.com
  Koenig & Clinton will move its operations from West 19th Street in Chelsea to 1329 Willoughby Street in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, the gallery announced in a release. The last show at its Chelsea space will a survey of work by … Read More
  
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• Life’s a Beach: With Her First Show in New York, Agnès Varda Gives Herself the Right to Become an Artist

  27-03-2017 18:56 via artnews.com
  By her own calculation, Agnès Varda has had three lives, each corresponding to different parts of her career. “I have been a photographer, then I turned into a filmmaker, then I turned into a visual artist,” she told me earlier … Read More
  
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• ‘Welcome to the E-Renaissance’: ‘HyperPavilion’ Will Showcase Post-Humanist Art During Venice Biennale

  27-03-2017 18:53 via artnews.com
  At the Venice Biennale this year, there will be the usual festivities—83 pavilions for various countries, from Korea to Kosovo, and a central group show, ambiguously titled “Viva Arte Viva”—as well as Philip Guston and Carol Rama surveys and a … Read More
  
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• Cerith Wyn Evans: Forms in Space … by Light (in Time) review – an optical trapeze act

  27-03-2017 18:29
  
  Tate Britain, London
  The Welsh artist unveils 2km of neon suspended in mid-air – and it’s an adventure playground for the eyesIt all begins with a white neon O, hanging above our heads like the shape the lips make before an exclamation. Or a spyglass aimed at the chaos beyond.Suspended partway down the long Duveen Gallery at London’s Tate Britain, it reminds me most of an acrobat’s ring; the eye swings through it, leaping into a dense tangle of white light that smears the
  
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• Studio Swine joins stable of high-tech art organisation Future\Pace

  27-03-2017 18:15
  
  The UK-based design duo Studio Swine has joined the stable of Future\Pace, the high-tech curatorial organisation founded last year by Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst, the president of Pace London, and Mark Davy, the founder of the London-based culture agency Futurecity. The move heralds the launch of a major new work by Studio Swine in Milan next month.Future\Pace specialises in developing large-scale commissions for artists in the public realm, according to its website. The organisations portfolio ha
  
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• Feminism doesn't need more female statues – it needs political action

  27-03-2017 17:13
  
  Bulgarian artist Erka has rightly protested against Sofia’s total lack of statues of women by erecting her own pop-up versions. But permanent statues don’t advance feminism – they trap people in the pastImages of women recently invaded the streets of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia. Placed there by artist Erka, working with socially engaged art platform Fine Acts, these colourful pop-up busts protest against the total absence of monumental artworks dedicated to women on Sofia&rsqu
  
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• Zurich’s Galerie Eva Presenhuber Will Expand to New York

  27-03-2017 16:07 via artnews.com
  Even as longtime art dealers are closing up shop in New York, London, and elsewhere, some of the industry’s most moneyed galleries are expanding. Zurich powerhouse Galerie Eva Presenhuber announced that it will open a space in New York in … Read More
  
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• New professorial position at UK university dedicated to contemporary art and culture of the Middle East

  27-03-2017 15:39
  
  Anthony Downey, the founding editor of the online publication Ibraaz, has been appointed professor of visual culture in North Africa and the Middle East at Birmingham City University (BCU), the first position of its kind in the UK. Downey was formerly the director of contemporary art at Sothebys Institute of Art in London; his recent publications include Future Imperfect: Contemporary Art Practices and Cultural Institutions in the Middle East.BCU has created the position to address the fact tha
  
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• Morning Links: Obama Portrait Edition

  27-03-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Dana SchutzThe coverage of the protest surrounding Dana Schutz’s painting of the slain Emmett Till continued into the weekend, with news stations investigating the uproar and resulting reaction. [NBC]Adam Shatz has an insightful look at the controversy, concluding that “What is most … Read More
  
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• Meet the entrepreneurs shaking up the art world

  27-03-2017 08:00
  
  SMEs are taking advantage of a flourishing online art market and opening up the industry to a new generation of collectors
  Another year, another record-breaking art auction. Just this month, Klimt’s Bauerngarten sold for £48m, making it the third most expensive painting ever to be sold in Europe. In 2016, a Picasso sold for £43.2m, the highest price ever paid for a Cubist work, and in 2015, Gerhart Richter’s Abstraktes Bild sold for £30.4m, a record for a living art
  
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