Arts news

• Jorge Macchi at Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich

  12-04-2017 23:51 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
  Read more

• Meet The Artist Who's Using Art Against The Turkish Erdoğan Regime

  12-04-2017 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Over the course of six months, she has secretly gathered a 330-page internal police log detailing more than 2,000 cases of state-sanctioned violence against Turkish citizens over the last 11 months; she will be exposing every detail in a performance piece at this year’s Venice Biennale. Details are deliberately being kept on a need-to-know basis to avoid the very real threat of shutdown before the launch, but Onat’s headline-grabbing stunt will form part of Objection – the Pavi
  
  Read more

• Remember "THE DRESS" Phenomenon A Few Years Ago When People Couldn't Agree On The Color? (Now We Know Why)

  12-04-2017 23:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The phenomenon continues to be utterly fascinating to vision scientists like me, and for good reason. The very existence of 'the dress' challenged our entire understanding of color vision. Up until early 2015, a close reading of the literature could suggest that the entire field had gone somewhat stale—we thought we basically knew how color vision worked, more or less. The dress upended that idea."
  
  Read more

• 'World's shortest railway' to resume service by this summer

  12-04-2017 23:00
  
  Angels Flight, the worlds shortest railway, which recently featured in the award-winning film La La Land, is due to reopen in downtown Los Angeles this summer following a campaign to preserve the historic funicular that has ferried people between the top and bottom of Bunker Hill for more than a century.
  Concerns over the safety of the 298-foot railroad led to its closure in 2013 after a derailment that year and a collision, which resulted in the death of a passenger, 12 years prior. But in 201
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• What's driving the growing interest in African art?

  12-04-2017 23:00
  
  The Parisian art world will resound to a decidedly African beat when Bernard Arnaults Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, hosts a three-part exhibition devoted to African art: Art/Afrique, le nouvel atelier (26 April-28 August), It will include a show of contemporary South African art from the foundations collection and a selection of works from the collection of Jean Pigozzi. Meanwhile, the Parc de la Villette is hosting the 100% Festival of African art and culture (until 28 May) and the upmarket
  
  Read more

• Three to see: Athens

  12-04-2017 23:00
  
  While Adam Szymczyk was busy preparing Documenta 14 (until 16 July), another star curator, Hans Ulrich Obrist, was working on this parallel show in the Greek capital. Maria Lassnig: The Future Is Invented with Fragments from the Past (until 16 July) at the Municipal Gallery of Athens is the last show that Maria Lassnig (1919-2014) was personally involved in. Given the setting, the exhibition aptly explores the influence of antiquity and Greece on the late Austrian artists work through around 50
  
  Read more

• Prouvé's prefabricated edifices and rock n'roll Leibovitz at Luma Arles

  12-04-2017 23:00
  
  Luma Arles, the 20-acre cultural campus springing up in the southern French town of Arles, is taking shape with its centrepiece structurea 58-metre high, arts resource centre designed by Frank Gehryunder construction. The ambitious cultural project is driven by the Swiss pharmaceutical heiress and contemporary art collector Maja Hoffmann, whose Luma Foundation is providing around 100m in funding for the campus project. The foundation has pulled off a coup with the acquisition of US ph
  
  Read more

• Prouvé's prefabricated edifices & rock n'roll Leibovitz at Luma Arles

  12-04-2017 23:00
  
  Luma Arles, the 20-acre cultural campus springing up in the southern French town of Arles, is taking shape with its centrepiece structurea 58-metre high, arts resource centre designed by Frank Gehryunder construction. The ambitious cultural project is driven by the Swiss pharmaceutical heiress and contemporary art collector Maja Hoffmann, whose Luma Foundation is providing around 100m in funding for the campus project. The foundation has pulled off a coup with the acquisition of US ph
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Museum for pioneer of abstraction Hilma af Klint is stuck in limbo

  12-04-2017 23:00
  
  Plans to establish an exhibition centre dedicated to the Swedish painter and mystic Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) are on hold because of a dispute between the artists descendants and the projects organisers. The institution, in Jrna, south of Stockholm, has estimated building costs of between 6m and 7.5m and would house dozens of works by the long-overlooked artist. The Norwegian architectural firm Snhetta has delivered a rendering of the faade, but the project is now at a standstill.
  The artists
  
  Read more

• Kentridge opens Johannesburg space for artists to learn by failing

  12-04-2017 23:00
  
  The South African artist William Kentridge has set up an arts foundation near his studio in Johannesburg, providing a safe space for uncertainty, doubt, stupidity and, at times, failure, he says.
  The artist has called his foundation the Centre for the Less Good Ideaa reference to the process of creation, which often sees artists derailed from exploring their initial idea and focusing on secondary ideas that emerge during the process of making, he says.
  He set up his foundation in the Arts on Ma
  
  Read more

• Going once, going twice: how to become an auctioneer

  12-04-2017 23:00
  Imagine having your pocket picked by a tongue, says Nick Finch, Christies director of bids who is leading a training session in the arts of auctioneering. Thats how one collector described being cajoled into bidding.Several other auctioneering metaphors crop up during the afternoon at King Street. Among them game show host and circus ringmaster. Charisma, salesmanship, humour and humanity are some of the other qualities Finch says Christies looks for in a potential auctioneer. And of cours
  
  Read more

• Germany to investigate mass plunder of works of art by Stasi in Cold War era

  12-04-2017 23:00
  
  Germany has dealt with the long shadow of Nazi-era looting for many years. Now the government is setting aside funding to investigate another dark chapter of the past: the expropriation of works of art by the Stasi, the East German secret police, during the Cold War. The research could open the door to new restitution claims from the families of victims.
  Mass theft
  At the end of 1961, just a few months after the Berlin Wall had been built, the East German minister for state security, Erich Miel
  
  Read more

• Facelift for the Henry Moore Foundation on its 40th anniversary

  12-04-2017 23:00
  
  The Henry Moore Foundation has been given an overhaul for its 40th anniversary, with a new visitor and archive centre due to launch on 14 April. The 7m redevelopment of the Henry Moore Studio & Gardens in Perry Green, Hertfordshire, has been overseen by the London-based Hugh Broughton Architects.The Henry Moore archive, which includes more than 750,000 items, is now under one roof, located in a purpose-built development at Elmwood House, formerly a residential property. The new venue includ
  
  Read more

• Dispatches from our Man at the Antarctic Biennale: an underwater art show

  12-04-2017 23:00
  
  Thursday 23rd March: Actual sunrise on the sunken Alps. For the first time on our journey we are greeted by real sun, walking on deck at 7.30 magnificent, unbelievable snowscape all around with pink lit crests. And thenas if the landscape was not astonishing enough in itselftwo whales emerge with their spray, that baby noise of blubbery lips being blown, a cheery raspberry greeting. HUGE whale head right next to me, completely prehistoric, covered in stuff, turned and gave me a little show, the
  
  Read more

• Renewables roadshow: how Broken Hill went from mining to drag queens and solar farms

  12-04-2017 22:40
  
  The home of BHP and Mad Max can now take credit for kickstarting the large-scale solar industry in AustraliaBroken Hill is the birthplace of modern mining in Australia. It lends its initials “BH” to the mining giant BHP, and in January 2015 in an Australian first, the so-called Silver City was added to the National Heritage listin part due to its mining industry. The city is cut in half by a mine, with a giant pile of waste material rising from its centre. It can be seen from every s
  
  Read more

• Nell Stevens Goes To The End Of The Earth (Literally) To Write A Novel In Isolation (Turns Out Isolation Was Completely Distracting)

  12-04-2017 22:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  " 'Bleaker House' is as formalistically inventive as any postmodern, genre-subverting work of fiction—which made me wonder, as I was reading it, whether in fact it was a postmodern, genre-subverting work of fiction, and not a memoir at all. Had Stevens invented her stay on Bleaker Island? Had she invented the island itself? Or had she invented the premise that she went there to write a conventional novel, and all along intended to write something that subverted the very idea of a novel?"
  
  Read more

• What Do We Mean When We Mean?: Enigmas Are the Lingua Franca of Lawrence Weiner’s Sculptures

  12-04-2017 22:07 via artnews.com
  Through April 22, at Marian Goodman, New York Read More
  
  Read more

• Why It's So Difficult To Tell Stories About Abu Dhabi And Dubai

  12-04-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When people publish stories about the U.A.E., the country is almost always represented entirely by Dubai, which itself is almost always reduced to a glitzy, two-dimensional backdrop: a suitably strange, foreign Elsewhere, chock-full of easy signifiers of the “very old” (dark-skinned men in robes, desert sand) and the “futuristic” (Lamborghinis, postmodern architecture). It appears most commonly in mysteries and thrillers—the perfect dash of exotic spice to liven up
  
  Read more

• Olga Rostropich Carries On The Legacy Of Her Two Famous Musical Parents

  12-04-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Olga "appears to have inherited her father’s dynamism, her mother’s striking looks, and their shared persistence, and for the time being, both institutions continue apace. Like her father, the Rostropovich Festival is likely to be better known outside of Russia. Like her mother, the Vishnevskaya Center occupies a significant role at Russian opera’s heart."
  
  Read more

• The Problem With Trying To Tell The History Of Canada (You Inevitably Leave Things Out)

  12-04-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  CBC, Canada's public broadcaster says it never meant to offend “anyone or any group” and did not intend to “diminish the importance” of stories that were left out of Canada: The Story of Us, which was meant as a marquee program to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the country.
  
  Read more

• 'Charging Bull' sculptor calls for New York to remove 'Fearless Girl' statue

  12-04-2017 21:00
  
  Arturo Di Modica claimed installation of little girl statue facing his Wall Street symbol turns the latter’s intended ‘positive, optimistic’ message into a ‘threat’The sculptor behind the “Charging Bull” statue near Wall Street in New York said on Wednesday that the “Fearless Girl” sculpture placed in front of his artwork is a violation of his rights, changing its meaning and context.With his attorney steadying him at the lectern, Italian-bor
  
  Read more

• Why Email Will Never Replace The Handwritten Letter

  12-04-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It can be hard to pin down what makes a personal letter, along with what makes for its individuality and authenticity. Connection is the most basic ‘reassurance that I am not floating out there alone in the universe’, as Nina Sankovitch writes in Signed, Sealed, Delivered. A letter links two particular persons, even when its words are handed round and read to others. And while we’re more connected than ever now, our connections can be less specific – we post a lot of &ls
  
  Read more

• Eataly Helping to Save Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ With ‘Advanced Air Filtration System’

  12-04-2017 20:22 via artnews.com
  Well, isn’t it a pleasure to hear that Eataly, that fine purveyor of Italian cheese, charcuterie, and foodstuffs, is working to save one of the world’s masterpieces of artistic expression.Perhaps you didn’t know, but The Last Supper—Leonardo da Vinci’s 29-foot-by-15-foot depiction … Read More
  
  Read more

• Music Prof: All Music Today Is "Classical" - Music Styles Interact/Blend/Recombine

  12-04-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  From my own teaching of introductory music classes, I can report that today's students still listen to classical music—but they don't single it out as anything special or elite. Armed with laptops, tablets, smartphones, and iPods, and assisted by iTunes, Pandora, Spotify, and other online resources, they consume vast amounts of music on a daily basis. And they have astonishingly cosmopolitan palates, happily taking in reggae, heavy metal, gamelan, hip hop, grunge, salsa, jazz, classical, k
  
  Read more

• How John Coltrane's Music Is An Expression Of Mathematical Principles

  12-04-2017 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Thelonious Monk once said ‘All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.’ Musicians like John Coltrane though have been very much aware of the mathematics of music and consciously applied it to his works.”
  
  Read more

• Euphemisms May Be Useful, But They Can Erode Your Moral Sense

  12-04-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Beating around the bush serves a valuable purpose: Not only can it ease potentially awkward social situations, but it also lets people get away with things they otherwise wouldn't. ... [Yet] indirect speech also serves a more personal purpose, helping people to preserve a positive moral self-image even in the face of wrongdoing - which, in turn, may actually facilitate bad behavior."
  
  Read more

• Artificial Intelligence Will Likely Change How We Think The World Should Work

  12-04-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a world of digital assistants and computer-generated imagery, the expectation is that computers do all kinds of work for humans. The result of which, some have argued, is a dulling of the senses. “The miraculous has become the norm. Such a surfeit of wonders may be de-sensitizing, but it’s also eroding our ability to dream at the movies.”
  
  Read more

• Back in the Saddle: Carriage Trade Gallery Reopens in New York

  12-04-2017 18:17 via artnews.com
  Carriage Trade, one of the more independently minded galleries to grace the New York art scene in recent years, will open a Lower East Side location later this month, about two years after it shuttered its former home in Tribeca. … Read More
  
  Read more

• High-Level Arts Donors In Chicago Can Get Some Pretty Fabulous Perks

  12-04-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Give enough money, and the Goodman Theater will invite you to cast parties (occasionally in London as well as Chicago), the Lincoln Park Zoo might take you to Tanzania, the Adler Planetarium might take you to view a solar eclipse in China, and the Chicago Symphony might take you along on tour.
  
  Read more

• Early Henry Moore commission on display as studio revamp opens

  12-04-2017 17:35
  
  Exhibition explores how Moore went from talented schoolboy to one of the most important sculptors in the worldOne of Henry Moore’s first commissions, a first world war roll of honour board that he carved for his school, has gone on display in an exhibition charting the artist’s early years.
  The Henry Moore Foundation will this weekend show off a £7m redevelopment of the artist’s studios and gardens in Hertfordshire by opening an exhibition that explores how Moore went fro
  
  Read more

• Jeffrey Deitch Returns To LA With A Gallery

  12-04-2017 17:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Two years ago he reopened his gallery in SoHo. And now, he’s taken his first step toward a Los Angeles comeback: He has just signed a lease for a 15,000-square-foot warehouse in Hollywood with plans to open a gallery there in the fall. The art dealer’s new space, at 925 North Orange Drive, is a few blocks from the strip of galleries lining Highland Avenue, anchored by Regen Projects and Kohn Gallery.
  
  Read more

• Death, Destruction, And Deity: How Traditional Spanish Religious Art Was Incorporated Into Picasso's 'Guernica'

  12-04-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Experts and lay viewers alike have seen countless images and ingredients in the Picasso masterwork, but scholar Gijs van Hensbergen identifies a key influence little known outside Spain: the loose canvas works known as sargas.
  
  Read more

• Right-Wing Editor-Publisher Decides He Needs Balance, Seeks Out Liberal Authors (But Will They Respond?)

  12-04-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Adam Bellow (yes, Saul's son), after 30 years handling such notorious titles as Charles Murray's The Bell Curve, Dinesh D'Souza's Illiberal Education and David Brock's The Real Anita Hill, left the HarperCollins conservative imprint Broadside to launch All Points Books at St. Martin's Press. However, as Alexandra Alter reports, "Mr. Bellow played a role in widening the ideological divisions he now maintains he wants to bridge ... [and his] reputation might make it hard for him to recruit liberal
  
  Read more

• Shia LaBeouf to spend a month in an isolated Lapland cabin

  12-04-2017 16:24
  
  The Transformers star’s latest art project, in collaboration with Helsinki’s Kiasma museum, will see him communicate solely by text from a remote Finnish cabin Shia LaBeouf is spending a month isolated in a cabin as part of a performance art exhibition.The project, titled #ALONETOGETHER, sees LaBeouf decamp to a cabin in Finland’s Lapland region, with his only communication with the outside world coming via text message to visitors to a Helsinki museum. Related: Shia LaBeouf&rs
  
  Read more

• 'Miami English' - South Florida's Accent Is As Weird As Everything Else There

  12-04-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Miami dialect is not a second-language accent, like you'd hear from a Cuban immigrant whose first language is Spanish. It is an American English dialect ... spoken by native-born Americans. Which doesn't stop the accent from seeming foreign to others: [FIU linguist Phillip] Carter says that his students will sometimes find themselves in a neighboring county, only to be asked what country they're from." Dan Nosowitz looks at the ingredients in this sancocho of speech patterns.
  
  Read more

• The First Time I Ever Acted On Broadway (Was In The Show I Wrote, Which Has Been Running For A Year Already)

  12-04-2017 15:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I felt sick to my stomach from the second I opened my eyes that morning, but it wasn't the familiar queasiness of too little sleep, or too much bourbon the night before." Singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, who wrote the music and lyrics for Waitress, writes about taking over the show's title role - the first time she's performed in musical theater since she got eaten by a plant in Little Shop of Horrors in high school.
  
  Read more

• How Do You Write TV About Politics In The Age Of Trump? Five Showrunners Who Are Doing It Now Tell All

  12-04-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A roundtable with Shonda Rhimes (Scandal), Barbara Hall (Madam Secretary), David Mandel (em>Veep), and Frank Pugliese and Melissa Jane Gibson (House of Cards).
  
  Read more

• When Life Imitates Art, And Then Outruns It: 'Veep' In 2017

  12-04-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When season six of the satirical HBO series about a self-defeating female politician was written and shot, pretty much everyone involved assumed that Hillary Clinton would be president when the show aired this spring. This means that everyone involved figured that the new storyline - about the aftermath of former President Selina Meyer's defeat in a very close election - would be a counterfactual. No such luck: as Willa Paskin observes here, "when Veep actively tries to avoid imitating life, lif
  
  Read more

• A Star-Is-Born Moment? Young Conductor Jumps In For Yannick In Philly On Three Hours' Notice

  12-04-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kensho Watanabe, the 29-year-old assistant conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, stepped in at the last minute on Saturday evening for suddenly-ill music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin - and reportedly brought the house down. With a Q&A, David Patrick Stearns introduces readers to Watanabe and gets the story of the fateful night.
  
  Read more

• Morning Links: Removed Chagall Painting Edition

  12-04-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
  
  Read more

• The Next Stage: Wendy Whelan And Virginia Johnson On Life After A Career In Ballet

  12-04-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Former professional ballet dancers Wendy Whelan and Virginia Johnson join us to discuss life after a career in dance. Whelan, who had a 30-year career with the New York City Ballet (NYCB), is the inaugural Lida Orzeck Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at Barnard. Now artistic director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, Johnson was a founding member and principal dancer with the company for more than 20 years." (audio)
  
  Read more

• Linda Hopkins, 92, Gospel Star And Tony-Winning Singer-Actress

  12-04-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After a four-decade gospel career (she was discovered by Mahalia Jackson), she began performing on Broadway in such shows as Purlie, Inner City, Me and Bessie (as in Smith), and Black and Blue.
  
  Read more

• After Smashing Antiquities In Mosul Museum, ISIS Used It As Tax Bureau

  12-04-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Iraqi troops took the museum back last month from the militants, who left its once-famous collection in a sorry state. ... In a basement room under the main exhibition halls, there was a pile of envelopes used to issue orders to pay Islamic tax, one of main sources of funding for the militants. 'The Islamic State ... seeks to levy your duties which were forced by God on the rich people's money.'"
  
  Read more

• 'World's Most Elegant Public Transit Campaign' Stars Ballet Company

  12-04-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) has a new fleet of subway and streetcars, so why not show them off in style? In its latest ad campaign launched late last year, called We Move You, dancers from the National Ballet of Canada run, twirl, and twist their way through empty stations and rail cars with an elegance few riders can match." (includes video)
  
  Read more

• Masterpieces In Russian Regional Museums Literally Left Out In The Cold, Displaced By Patriotic Putin Project

  12-04-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The displays are inspired by an annually updated exhibition called Russia - My History, which was launched in 2013 by Tikhon Shevkunov, a Russian Orthodox bishop who is reportedly close to President Putin. ... The presentation is meant to encourage patriotism by offering positive interpretations of Russian and Soviet history. Ivan the Terrible's bad reputation is presented as a product of Western fake news, for example, and Stalin is credited with restoring the Russian empire."
  
  Read more

• Kate Fryer obituary

  12-04-2017 13:23
  
  The painter, print-maker and teacher Kate Fryer, who has died aged 106, discovered a talent for drawing as soon as she was old enough to hold a pencil. Her work was figurative, generally impressionistic and in the European tradition, her preferred subject matter including figures in a natural setting, made from drawings done on the spot.She was born in Leeds, one of two daughters of John Fryer, a commercial traveller and descendant of Hull clockmakers, and his wife, Sarah (nee King). Kate attend
  
  Read more

• New paintings to be revealed in Jasper Johns’s Royal Academy retrospective

  12-04-2017 13:09
  
  A 1958 Flag work and a painting he finished just before Christmas will bookend Jasper Johnss retrospective opening at the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in London this September. Spanning 60 years, it is the 86-year-old artists first major exhibition in the UK for four decades.The paint was still drying on one new painting we saw at the end of last year, says Edith Devaney, the RAs contemporary curator who is organising the show. But were keeping it under wraps till the opening.Johnss Flag painting
  
  Read more

• Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.11.17

  12-04-2017 11:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Doin’ It: Museums
  In my last couple of posts, I introduced the idea of participatory experiences as being a potentially critical element in the work of arts organizations ... In my next two posts I want to focus on examples of both the practice and practitioners of this type of work. ... read more
  AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2017-04-11Can You Spot the Fake?
  The exhibition that Winterthur recently unveiled, Treasures on Trial: The Art and Science of Detecting Fakes, comes a
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUKnews on Twitter!