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• Mock Trial In Chicago Debates Fate Of Parthenon Marbles

  28-03-2017 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The opposing forces were represented by two powerhouse teams of Chicago attorneys: former U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald, former Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick M. Collins, and Tinos Diamantatos represented the British Museum; former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb, Sam Adam Jr., and Robert A. Clifford argued for Greece. And each side produced an expert witness."
  
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• Britain's Top Ten Cultural Attractions In 2016

  28-03-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The top 10 most-visited attractions in the country were all in the capital. Seven of those saw a fall in numbers, including The Natural History Museum and the V&A, which both suffered a drop of 12%. The overall visitor numbers for London attractions last year were level."
  
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• Visitor figures 2016: Christo helps 1.2 million people to walk on water

  28-03-2017 23:00
  
  Christos triumph in Italy, a ravenous appetite for French art abroad and a shake-up in New York are the big stories of The Art Newspapers 2016 attendance survey.
  Christos Floating Piers (2016) on Lake Iseothe New York-based artists first outdoor installation since 2005was the worlds most-visited work of art last year. Christo erected 3km of fabric-covered pontoons between an island and the shore and invited the public to walk on water. In total, 1.2 million people experienced the site-specific
  
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• Visitor Figures 2016

  28-03-2017 23:00
  The grand totals: exhibition and museum attendance numbers worldwide
  
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• Top ten thematic shows in 2016

  28-03-2017 23:00
  
  The thematic category, which includes shows that span time periods and categories but fall under one theme, always boasts an eclectic mix (as well as a few surprises) and this years survey doesnt disappoint. Topping the list is an exhibition of the artwork (the sketches, models and costumes) used to produce a popular 1990s Brazilian childrens television show about a 300-year-old boya sorcerers apprenticewho lives in a castle in the middle of So Paulo and repeatedly thwarts an evil property spec
  
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• Top ten Post-Impressionist and Modern shows in 2016

  28-03-2017 23:00
  
  Although the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil again gets the top spot, this time with its free Post-Impressionist show in Rio de Janeiro, this category otherwise gives more of an indicator of gallery-goers active choices rather than curious museum wanderings: six of the top ten shows charged individual fees, two shows were included with general museum entry and only two were free. The artists who feature are, perhaps, unsurprising. The Munch and Van Gogh show offered two blockbuster names for th
  
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• Top ten photography shows in 2016

  28-03-2017 23:00
  
  Some 70 years after his birth, the late Robert Mapplethorpe appears in the top ten twice. A paying exhibition at the Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Denmark attracted 2,250 visitors a day, but did not quite reach the heights of the free Getty Center shows 3,364 visitors a day. Indeed, the Getty dominates the category, with three shows in the top 12. But this is one of the most pleasingly diverse lists, where solo and group shows, street and studio photography, Asian and US traditions, and leading art phot
  
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• Top ten Old Masters shows in 2016

  28-03-2017 23:00
  
  This year the crowds went bonkers for Bosch at both the Prado in Madrid and the Noordbrabants Museum in Boschs hometown of Den Bosch. The latter received its highest ever attendance in its 180-year history. Elsewhere, art-historical bye-ways were the name of the day, with the San Benedetto Group at the Pitti, the Fabritiuss goldfinch at the Scottish National Gallery, and the Botticini altarpiece at the National Gallery. It should be noted that the latter two were single-work shows with free ent
  
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• Top ten contemporary shows in 2016

  28-03-2017 23:00
  
  This list is not so much a true indicator of quality as a reflection of the allure of cost-free gallery visits. Where in 2015 the category included only four free shows, six feature here, among them four Saatchi Gallery exhibitions and two of the same artist at different branches of Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, which are open 12 hours a day. Many of the artists are far from stellar names. It is doubtful, for instance, that a show of the relatively obscure Henri Barande would attract even a
  
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• Top 15 Big Ticket shows in 2016

  28-03-2017 23:00
  
  A minor miracle and major logistical undertaking was the art event of 2016, as Christo and 1.2 million people walked on water as part of the Floating Piers installation. This vast work by the New York-based, Bulgarian-born artist Christo and his late wife Jeanne-Claude was conceived more than four decades ago, and consisted of three kilometres of nylon-covered walkways linking islands on Lake Iseo in northern Italy. Young and old alike braved the heat and the throng to be part of the spectacle,
  
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• Tate St Ives offers first glimpse of £20m refurbishment

  28-03-2017 23:00
  
  After an 18-month closure, Tate St Ives is reopening this Friday, 31 March. It will have double the exhibition space and, this autumn, its first ever semi-permanent display dedicated to the Modern artists who flocked to the town in the mid-20th century. Inaugurated in 1993, the museum is located in the south-west corner of England, and most of its visitors are seaside holidaymakers.
  Mark Osterfield, the director of Tate St Ives, says the 20m project will re-present the story about why St Ives i
  
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• Rijksmuseum’s collection re-imagined in design competition

  28-03-2017 23:00
  
  Looking to impress an art-loving lover or get some stylish shut-eye? Check out the ten shortlisted proposals of the third annual Rijksstudio Award, an international competition hosted by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam that challenges members of the public to plunder the Rijksstudioan online database of 215,000 objects from the museums collection, digitised and freely available for commercial and non-commercial useto create new designs. Give in to temptation safely with the Eden Condoms, rubber wr
  
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• More shows, fewer problems

  28-03-2017 23:00
  
  Does it feel impossible to keep up with all the exhibitions in your city? There is a reason for thatand it is not just your busy schedule. Museums really are presenting more exhibitions than they used to.
  The average number of shows increased by 7.4% between 2007 and 2015 (from an average of 8.8 shows per year to 9.5), according to an analysis of 2,360 exhibitions at 29 US museums conducted by The Art Newspaper. Institutions are also keeping shows running for longer periods of time. We found th
  
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• London calling: fandom at the Showroom’s fundraising artist dinner

  28-03-2017 23:00
  
  There was an abundance of goodies on offer at The Showrooms fundraising Artist Dinner, this year presided over by Sarah Lucas, whose first exhibition had been in a group show at the gallery in 1986. But along with a special Lucas menucooked up on site by Margot Hendersonand an auction of experiences and works of art, the evening offered some particular treats for the Showrooms new chair, the Liverpool Biennial development director Julie Lomax. Among those present were were Outsets Candida
  
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• Egyptian pharaoh rescued from watery Cairo grave—but which one does it depict?

  28-03-2017 23:00
  
  Egypts great pharaohs have been the focus of much media attention in the past few weeks. On 9 March, the countrys antiquities ministry announced that a royal statue had been uncovered in a waterlogged ditch near a marketplace in an old quarter of Cairo. The statue was originally thought to be of Ramses II (1279BC-1213BC) but an inscription now suggests that it could depict Psamtek I, who ruled Egypt between 664BC and 610BC. German and Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed sections of the quart
  
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• 2016's most popular exhibitions by genre and city

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  TOP TEN  LONDON, NEW YORK, PARIS
  In London, the Royal Academy of Arts tops the paying exhibitions list with The Modern Garden, a group exhibition that included Monets 12-metre-wide Agapanthus Triptych, on show in the UK for the first time. The Academys annual open submission Summer Exhibition achieved one of its highest attendances of the decade, with 3,274 visitors a day. The Saatchi Gallery once again dominates the free shows category, taking the top six spots. In New York, the chor
  
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• Who Invented The Telescope? The Answer Is Complicated (And Fascinating)

  28-03-2017 22:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  "For almost any device, claiming one individual as the inventor is problematic to say the least. Conception, demonstration and implementation can be very different things, and the path connecting them is typically not a line but a long, challenging and tortuous route."
  
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• Cheryl Donegan at David Shelton Gallery, Houston

  28-03-2017 22:15 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Study: Low-Quality TV Helps Create Audiences For Populist Politics

  28-03-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Exposure to entertainment television, particularly at a young age, can contribute to making individuals cognitively and culturally shallower, and ultimately more vulnerable to populist rhetoric,” write Ruben Durante of Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Paolo Pinotti of Bocconi University, and Queen Mary University of London’s Andrea Tesei. “By popularizing certain linguistic codes and cultural models, entertainment television may have contributed to creating a fertile ground for
  
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• Dirty Dancing: Amalia Ulman’s Intriguing Show at James Fuentes Rings Hollow

  28-03-2017 21:54 via artnews.com
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• "The Voice" Promises Superstardom And The American Dream. But It Can't Deliver

  28-03-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  "After 11 seasons of fizzle-outs, it doesn’t look like The Voice is in the business of really making superstar dreams come true. But it has perfected the art of selling the glittering El Dorado promise of the American Dream, a myth so enticing that it still draws seekers, though all evidence suggests they probably won’t find what they’re looking for."
  
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• Salon du Dessin bucks the trend of Paris fairs with a boost in attendance and strong sales

  28-03-2017 21:00
  
  A sluggish economy and fears of terrorist attacks have hurt attendance at Paris art fairs in the past year but the Salon du Dessin, which closed on Monday, bucked that trend. Organisers said that the six-day work on paper fair held at the Palais Brongniart drew 13,000 visitorsa 4% increase from last yearand dealers reported strong sales in the five- to six-figure price range.
  In the Modern art sector, the Paris-based Hlne Bailly Gallery sold a print by Toulouse-Lautrec, Nice Carnival, arrival o
  
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• My Life With Oliver Sacks

  28-03-2017 20:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Not long after I moved to New York, Michael Jackson died. O had no idea who Michael Jackson was. 'What is Michael Jackson?' he asked me the day after the news – not who but what – which seemed both a very odd and a very apt way of putting it, given how much the brilliant singer had transmuted from a human into an alien being. O often said he had no knowledge of popular culture after 1955, and this was not an exaggeration. He did not know popular music, rarely watched anything on TV
  
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• Today's Philanthropies Have Some Issues (And Some Problems)

  28-03-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I think the more people understand how much power the wealthy have through philanthropy, the more they’re likely to see it as part of this larger pattern of the wealthy speaking with a larger and larger voice, even as ordinary people struggle to be heard at all.”
  
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• Thieves Break In To Berlin Museum And Steal Giant 100 KG Gold Coin Worth €3.7 Million

  28-03-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The coin, which police said was protected by bulletproof glass, carries a nominal value of C$1m and was produced by the Royal Canadian Mint in 2007. Known as the “Big Maple Leaf” and made of the purest bullion, only five have so far been produced, according to the mint’s website. One side features a maple leaf, the other a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II."
  
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• Bondage crocodiles and a buttock moon: the world's weirdest claymations

  28-03-2017 19:26
  
  Twisted fairytales, whip-cracking crocodiles, a corncob getting some bump’n’grind – Nathalie Djurberg is taking claymation where it’s never gone beforeWhen the crocodile wearing a bondage collar starts whipping the giant rat riding a motorbike made of wieners, you may find yourself thinking: “Wow, this really can’t get much odder.” But you will, of course, be wrong – even though the crocodile is already in bed with a latex-enrobed octopus and a fox
  
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• 'Old Flo' makes her way back to London from Yorkshire

  28-03-2017 19:13
  
  Henry Moore sculpture that graced Stepney in east London for 35 years before relocating to Wakefield has a new home in Canary WharfAn enormous Henry Moore bronze sculpture gifted at cost price to the east London borough of Tower Hamlets in 1962 is finally coming home – although not quite to a place its maker would have imagined.Draped Seated Woman, affectionately known as “Old Flo”, was for 35 years located on the Stifford estate in Stepney. It has spent the past 20 years on ru
  
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• Oregon's Troubled Eugene Opera Parts Ways With Its General Director

  28-03-2017 18:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  In January the company cancelled the second half of its current season after racking up $200,000 in debt. General director Mark Beudert lives in Indiana and ran Eugene Opera on a part-time basis - a situation about which the board chair said, "We've just reached a stage where that as a model is not going to work for us."
  
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• Ex-NYT Theatre Critic Charles Isherwood Joins Startup Broadway Website

  28-03-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Isherwood will be writing for Broadway News, a new online venture from Broadway Briefing, an aggregator of theater news. Isherwood will be joined in reviewing by Elizabeth Bradley, an arts academic at New York University and former producer, manager and administrator with long ties to Canada’s Stratford Festival and the Sony Centre in Toronto, among others. The new site will launch next week."
  
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• Hollywood Studios Push To Release Movies On Video Sooner After Theatrical Runs

  28-03-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Though details have yet to be finalized, most of the studios agree that they must come up with new ways to shorten the gap between a movie’s theatrical release and its home video debut.
  
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• Julian Stanczak, Central Figure of Op Art Movement, Dies at 88

  28-03-2017 17:00 via artnews.com
  Julian Stanczak, the Op art painter who, despite physical difficulties, managed to create canvases with vibrant geometries and hypnotic motion, died in his home in Seven Hills, Ohio on March 25. He was 88.Stanczak was one of the leaders of … Read More
  
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• An Industrial Hellscape On A Giant, Round Conveyor Belt: 'The Hairy Ape' At The Armory

  28-03-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Erik Piepenburg visits Stewart Laing, designer of the enormous, glaringly colored sets that revolve around the audience in director Richard Jones's revival of the Eugene O'Neill play.
  
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• Matt Packer Named Director of Ireland’s EVA International Biennial

  28-03-2017 15:33 via artnews.com
  Matt Packer will be the new director of EVA International, the Irish biennial that surveys the contemporary art scene. He will begin in his new position in June.Packer comes from the CCA Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry, where he has … Read More
  
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• A New Future from the Passed: Lynn Hershman Leeson Comes into Her Own After 50 Years of Prophetic Work

  28-03-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  In 1965, while pregnant with her daughter, Lynn Hershman Leeson discovered she had cardiomyopathy, a disease that makes it difficult for the heart to pump blood to the rest of the body. A valve in her heart collapsed, and she … Read More
  
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• Why John Leguizamo Writes Scripts For Himself

  28-03-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  "It got so demoralizing. I'd gone to NYU and I'd trained with some of the great acting teachers and I was constantly doing Murderer No. 2 or Janitor No. 3 and it was just like, 'Am I always going to have a number next to my name?'"
  
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• Actress Playing 'Malvolia' Hits Back At Telegraph Column Arguing Actresses Should 'Get Their Mitts Off Male Actors' Parts!'

  28-03-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Telegraph critic Dominic Cavendish used the current National Theatre production of Twelfth Night, which features Tamsin Greig as a female Malvolio, as a jumping-off point for a column suggesting that gender-reversed casting is becoming entrenched and that actresses - and theatres - should spend energy finding and developing female equivalents to the roles of, say, Hamlet or Willy Loman. Now Greig has responded, saying not only that Cavendish used "slightly unenlightened vocabulary," but also tha
  
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• Morning Links: Wrongheaded Censorship Edition

  28-03-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• 'Who Owns That?' Roberta Smith On The Kara Schutz-Emmett Till Controversy

  28-03-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  The New York Times's co-chief art critic looks at how the debate over Schutz's Open Casket at the Whitney Biennial has developed, reminds us that African-American opinion on the issue is not monolithic, and suggests that those calling for the painting to be suppressed or destroyed have more in common with, for instance, Rudy Giuliani's crusade against Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary than they might like to admit.
  
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• The Philadelphia Orchestra Is Playing Pat Metheny This Weekend - And It's Not A Pops Concert

  28-03-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  David Patrick Stearns talks with orchestra percussionist Chris Deviney about the concerto he's fashioned out of three cuts from Metheny's album An Imaginary Day.
  
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• Gainsborough painting restored and rehung after 'drill-bit attack'

  28-03-2017 14:20
  
  Mr and Mrs William Hallet (‘The Morning Walk’) returns to usual position in National Gallery in London 10 days after incidentOne of Thomas Gainsborough’s finest portrait paintings has been restored and reinstalled at the National Gallery 10 days after it was allegedly attacked by a man with a drill bit.The much-loved 1785 painting, Mr and Mrs William Hallett (‘The Morning Walk’), received two scratches of about 1-metre and 65cm long in the incident, which happened o
  
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• Rodin's Mistress Steps Out Of His Shadow With A Museum Of Her Own

  28-03-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Better known for her passionate, tragic relationship with Rodin and her 30-year confinement in a psychiatric hospital near Avignon, [Camille] Claudel was largely forgotten as an artist until the late 1970s. The new museum holds most of the sculptures that she did not destroy when her affair with Rodin ended."
  
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• Blues Museum Coming To Chicago's Loop

  28-03-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Chicago Blues Experience, scheduled to open in spring 2019 just a block from Millennium Park, will include three floors and a lounge with music by a house blues band.
  
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• Novelist And Playwright David Storey Dead At 83

  28-03-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Though Mr. Storey struggled for recognition at first, he went on to win Britain's premier fiction award, the Man Booker Prize, in 1976 for his novel Saville, in which a miner's son breaks away from his background. Two of his novels were shortlisted for the award. Three of his works were named best play by the New York Drama Critics' Circle, all within four years in the 1970s. He also earned two Tony nominations."
  
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• 'The First Theatrical Landmark Of The Trump Era'

  28-03-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Michael Schulman offers an essay on Lynn Nottage's Sweat.
  
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• Thieves steal giant gold coin worth €3.7m from Berlin’s Bode Museum

  28-03-2017 11:45
  
  Thieves broke into Berlins Bode Museum yesterday morning (27 March) and stole a 100kg, pure gold Canadian coin worth an estimated 3.7m.The burglary took place between 3.20am and 3.45am, during a three-hour overnight lull in the local rail service, according to the Tagesspiegel newspaper. Police say they were alerted by a security guard at the museum around 4am; a special art unit of the regional force is investigating the theft.A ladder that police discovered on the railway next to the museum s
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.27.17

  28-03-2017 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Max Hollein, Monet And Baseball
  When baseball fans go to a game, they usually come prepared: they know the players, their records and their statistics. They know all about batting order strategy. The same for, say, horse-racing – even more so, because good bettors study the odds. But when people go to art museums, they often know nothing in advance – at least nothing very specific ... read more
  AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2017-03-26Moody: Groovin’ High
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• Blitz spirit: the queer art underground of 1980s London – in pictures

  28-03-2017 08:00
  
  From Derek Jarman and Gilbert and George to Maggi Hambling and Cerith Wyn Evans, David Gwinnutt photographed a generation of young gay artists as they transformed film, fashion and painting Continue reading...
  
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