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• What Use Are Historical Periods? They Often Confuse Things

  07-04-2017 23:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Labels such as “medieval” and “modern” are highly relative scholarly impositions. What counts as “modern” in philosophy is quite different – in chronology and in style – from modernity in literary studies. While such categories may be convenient for organizing the historiography of philosophy (among other disciplines), no one really thinks they represent precise and absolute distinctions. What, after all, does it mean for a philosophy to be “
  
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• Jamian Juliano-Villani at Massimo De Carlo, Milan

  07-04-2017 23:15 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• At the Dallas Art Fair, Amid Vibrant Sales and Live Mannequins, Gagosian Hides in Plain Sight

  07-04-2017 23:05 via artnews.com
  At Thursday’s preview gala for the Dallas Art Fair, two live human mannequins donning Roberto Cavalli gowns posed in the windows, greeting guests as they entered. It’s an appropriate introduction to an art fair in the retail luxury hub that … Read More
  
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• Israel Museum Loses Its New Director After Only A Few Months

  07-04-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "After his appointment was announced in January, [Eran] Neuman took up the post on a part-time basis Feb. 19. Yet, his discussions with the leadership about his salary and benefits, which are set by Israeli law, continued, according to the museum. Mr. Neuman’s turnaround was a result of “differing perceptions regarding his role and terms of employment,” the museum announced in a cryptic statement this week."
  
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• Clocktower Radio Launches Residency Program at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn

  07-04-2017 22:30 via artnews.com
  Clocktower Radio is launching its first residency program with She Resonates, a self-described gender-justice-driven music education initiative, and YATTA, a New York-based musical performer. Over the course of three months, the residents will produce work for Clocktower’s online airwaves with … Read More
  
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• Tunisia Shuts Nightclub After Call-To-Prayer Was Played As Part Of DJ Mix

  07-04-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A video, widely shared online since Sunday, shows clubbers dancing to music that includes the call to prayer at the club in the north-east town of Nabeul. The footage sparked a storm of debate on social media."
  
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• Reflected Illusions: Gerhard Richter Is Still the Alpha Male of Conceptual, Anti-Ideological Painting

  07-04-2017 19:13 via artnews.com
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• Guggenheim Foundation Announces 2017 Fellows, Including Byron Kim, Kay Rosen, and Leigh Ledare

  07-04-2017 18:48 via artnews.com
  The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation named its 2017 fellows today. Among the 173 scholars, artists, and writers who will be receiving fellowships are artists Byron Kim, Leigh Ledare, and Zinadu Saro-Wiwa.“It’s exciting to name 173 new Guggenheim fellows,” Edward Hirsch, … Read More
  
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• Glenn O’Brien, Writer and ‘TV Party’ Host Who Defined Downtown New York and Style for the Modern Gentleman, Dies at 70

  07-04-2017 18:12 via artnews.com
  Glenn O’Brien, the writer, editor, and aesthete-about-town who shaped the cultural identity of 1980s New York, has died. O’Brien had been combatting a serious illness for years. He was 70.A dapper, instantly recognizable art world fixture with bright white hair and … Read More
  
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• Sensual colour, spooky portraits and cold turkey – the week in art

  07-04-2017 17:07
  
  Anish Kapoor’s latest work goes on show at Lisson Gallery in London, while Rachel Kneebone’s ceramics arrive at the V&A – all in your weekly dispatchAnish Kapoor
  Ecstasies of colour and sensuality from this endlessly creative titan of 21st-century art.
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• A Million Years from Hermosa Beach: Kim Gordon on Raymond Pettibon

  07-04-2017 15:15 via artnews.com
  The New Museum is 3,000 miles away from Hermosa Beach, California, and a million years away from a memory of meeting Raymond Pettibon in the backyard at a house party where Henry Rollins and Black Flag were emotionally abusing an … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Thousands of Colorful Shoelaces Edition

  07-04-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Art-world fable has strangely familiar cast of characters

  07-04-2017 13:54
  
  Laura Gascoignes art-world fable, The Horses Arse, which launched this week in London, includes a cast of strangely familiar characters. The art critic of The Tablet (and The Art Newspaper contributor) has spun a satirical tale, featuring a mega-gallerist who employs goons for his glitzy private views; the politically-savvy director of the State Gallery needing millions to build an extension; and a pound-shop billionaire (deceased) with a vast collection of Cool British Art that his family want
  
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• JMW Turner’s Stonehenge: ancient stones and bloodthirsty skies

  07-04-2017 13:00
  
  An image steeped in Romanticism, this painting was a commercial failure – but it’s now considered a milestone in the great artist’s careerIn his famed image of Stonehenge, Turner’s celebrated skies have turned as bloodthirsty as the pagans supposedly were. Dominating clouds billow fiery amber against a wet, dark blue above the ancient stones, as a bolt of lightning is thrown from the heavens. The little shepherd on the ground is not dreaming of old Albion; he has been str
  
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• Damien Hirst launches shipwreck spectacle in Venice

  07-04-2017 11:27
  
  Let yourself be marvelled. With these words the curator Elena Geuna welcomed the press to Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable (9 April-3 December), a sprawling exhibition of new work by Damien Hirst in Venice, the artists first major show in nearly a decade.
   
  This monumentally ambitious tribute to the sculpture of ancient Greece and Rome, to the Aztecs, to civilisations in China, Africa, India, Bali, and more, shows us Hirsts imagination unleashed on an unprecedented scale.
  
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• What can we learn from naked mole rats and eusocial living? – tech podcast

  07-04-2017 10:40
  
  Julie Freeman is an artist who creates forms, animations, and soundscapes from tracking data. She created a multifaceted installation – A Naked Mole Rat Eutopia – at London’s Somerset House, featuring kinetic sculptures, an animation and a visualisation, all using live data from the naked mole rat communityWhat can we do with data gathered from naked mole rats? Could we gain a new lens on nature, society and ourselves?Continue reading...
  
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• Cerith Wyn Evans and Gillian Ayres: this week’s best exhibitions

  07-04-2017 10:30
  
  From an ambitious commission by the Welsh artist to a timely retrospective of the veteran painter via west Africa and a Cornish beachNew works on paper by the globally renowned west African modern artist, who transforms junk into something beautiful. Salvage and recycling have become central to art in 21st-century Africa, and his ability to give new meaning to found objects has a lot in common with Robert Rauschenberg, Joseph Cornell and Kurt Schwitters. Yet the romanticism and passion for refle
  
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• Word hoards: masterpieces of concrete poetry – in pictures

  07-04-2017 08:00
  
  Poets such as Ian Hamilton Finlay and Augusto de Campos have shaken words out of standard verse structure and rearranged them in striking, enigmatic new forms. Here are some of the teasing, amusing and vivid results Continue reading...
  
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• London's Southbank Hires TV Exec As New CEO

  07-04-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's Elaine Bedell, who was director of entertainment and comedy at ITV. "As well as becoming the organisation’s first woman chief executive in its 66-year history, her appointment alongside Susan Gilchrist as chair and Jude Kelly as artistic director will mean that the arts centre – Europe’s largest – has an all-female leadership team."
  
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