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• Josh Smith No Longer Repped by Luhring Augustine, Sanya Kantarovsky Joins Gallery’s Roster

  17-05-2017 23:48 via artnews.com
  After six solo exhibitions with Luhring Augustine, Josh Smith, the painter known for his brushy images of nature and signs, has left the New York gallery’s roster. His work had been a staple at Luhring Augustine, where he had, over … Read More
  
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• L.A. Dance Project Is Becoming A New Model For What A Dance Company Can Be

  17-05-2017 23:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Benjamin Millepied's "ambitious vision is redefining what an independent dance company can do: grow into an online dance platform and a lifestyle brand, host a building and performance space, and build an international presence."
  
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• Lu Yang at Société, Berlin

  17-05-2017 23:25 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• An Emerging New Model Of Arts Patronage?

  17-05-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Patrons of the 21st century are far less politically motivated than the Medici family and their ilk, and they generally don’t house artists in their lavish estates or command them to paint frescos. But just like the patrons of old, they are giving creators a pathway to success and economic stability, providing living expenses, supplies, pep talks and more."
  
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• Naming names: on the Le Nain mystery at Louvre-Lens

  17-05-2017 23:00
  
  The Le Nain Mystery is a wholly accurate title for this exhibition at Louvre-Lens. There were three Le Nain brothers, all paintersAntoine (around 1600-48), Louis (around 1600-48) and Mathieu (around 1607-67)about whom little is known. Their output amounts to around 75 paintings, of which 16 works are signed "Le Nain", tout court. A large part of their mystery is that it has been difficult, if not impossible, to assign works to individual hands.
  It is known that the three moved to Paris in 1629,
  
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• Mat Collishaw launches his immersive VR portal into the past at Photo London

  17-05-2017 23:00
  
  Both the earliest and the most up-to-date photographic technologies come together to uncanny effect in Mat Collishaws virtual reality magnum opus Thresholds, which had its first unveiling at Photo London this yesterday morning (17 May) and will doubtless generate huge queues throughout the fair. Donning a virtual reality (VR) headset, earphones and backpack, you are miraculously transported back to 1839 and to a long-demolished upstairs room in Birminghams King Edwards School, where British sci
  
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• Christie’s comes out strong with $400m contemporary sale

  17-05-2017 23:00
  
  Amidst fears of a lagging art market, Christies hammered down a solid post-war and contemporary sale Wednesday night that brought in $391,280,000 in hammer value ($448,062,000 with fees) and saw new records for Man Ray, David Salle, Robert Gober, Rudolf Stingel and Mark Grotjahn. If we needed the proof of the strengths of the art market, we have it, said Christie's new CEO Guillaume Cerutti at a press conference after the sale. If we needed the proof of the strength of Christies, we have it. If
  
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• Banking and benevolence: on the Rothschild family

  17-05-2017 23:00
  
  Within two generations during the 19th century, the Rothschild family left behind the restricted life of the Jewish quarter in Frankfurt, to become bankers to the worlda transformation that was swiftly followed by investment in art to demonstrate their arrival as a new European dynasty.
  James de Rothschild (1792-1868), the founder of the French branch of the family, was an energetic and talented man of affairs, closely involved in projects that modernised France, who helped to make Paris the fin
  
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• Have At It: A Post-Trump New York Looks at How Images, Ideas, and Resources Circulate

  17-05-2017 22:58 via artnews.com
  On MoMA’s collection rehang, CAPTC, Mary Beth Edelson, Vikky Alexander, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Graham Anderson, Jason Loebs, Raymond Pettibon, A. K. Burns, and more Read More
  
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• Alternative Theatre Is Thriving In Phoenix. Why Now?

  17-05-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A recent National Endowment for the Arts report claims that nationally, theater ticket sales are 6 percent lower than they were a decade ago. Yet our small, local companies, who routinely bring us work by provocative young playwrights — plays in which naked people appear, in which topical issues are discussed over coffee, and women exchange the occasional tongue kiss — are thriving."
  
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• Amateur Dutch Musician Uploads His Music To Spotify, It Becomes A Big Hit And Now He's A Star

  17-05-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Joep Beving, who lives in Amsterdam, performed and recorded his “mood music” album, Solipsism, for the enjoyment of his family. Then, partly for fun, he made it available on music-streaming service Spotify. He never imagined that the contemplative, atmospheric piano tunes would draw such a vast audience worldwide. But such was the popularity of Solipsism that four record companies were soon fighting over him, and he has now been signed by Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
  
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• Conservatives will deliver best Brexit deal for the arts, says digital minister

  17-05-2017 21:15
  
  Matt Hancock, the UK minister for digital and culture, has promised that the governments Brexit negotiators will support the interests of the creative industries. Speaking at a pre-election meeting organised by the Creative Industries Federation, he said only the Conservatives could deliver the best possible Brexit deal. Although he personally wanted to remain in the European Union, he believes that the democratic vote expressed in last years referendum must prevail.Talking after the meeting wi
  
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• Preview Works on Offer at the Photo London Fair

  17-05-2017 20:54 via artnews.com
  The third edition of Photo London opens to the public on Thursday, May 18, with a preview day on Wednesday, May 17. The fair brings together close to 100 exhibitors from nearly 20 countries—drawing heavily from London, as well as … Read More
  
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• Sister of the sword: Wu Tsang, the trans artist retelling history with lesbian kung fu

  17-05-2017 19:15
  
  She has made films about a gay club in LA that became a phenomenon and rewritten history as sapphic martial arts. Enters the dazzling world of trans artist Wu Tsang
  By chance, I recently found myself seated beside Wu Tsang at the Venice Biennale. Willowy and gender ambiguous, with a black topknot and in the soft, draped clothing favoured by dancers, she was with her regular collaborator, Boychild, huddled together like two chicks on a branch. The Berlin-based artist met Boychild – muscular
  
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• Career-Spanning Sam Gilliam Show at Mnuchin Gallery in September Will Be Artist’s First New York Gallery Solo Exhibition in 32 Years

  17-05-2017 15:20 via artnews.com
  The most prominently placed artist at this year’s Venice Biennale is Sam Gilliam, whose new drape piece hangs above the entrance to the central pavilion in the Giardini, greeting visitors to Christine Macel’s curated exhibition, “Viva Arte Viva.” In September, … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Wine and Sandwiches Edition

  17-05-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Ingrid Beazley obituary

  17-05-2017 13:57
  
  My friend Ingrid Beazley, who has died of cancer aged 67, was an inspirational teacher and art curator. She will be remembered for the energy and enthusiasm with which she communicated the magic of diverse art forms to people from all walks of life.Born in Guildford, Surrey, to Ian Marrable, a doctor, and his wife, Kari (nee Bonde), Ingrid spent her childhood in Tanzania (then Tanganyika), where her father was a medical officer and where she attended the Lushoto preparatory school. Returning to
  
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• First major contemporary art institution in Bangladesh takes shape

  17-05-2017 12:28
  
  A new art centre and sculpture park aims to draw international visitors to north-eastern Bangladesh, re-drawing the art world map. Srihatta-Samdani Art Centre and Sculpture Park is due to open in the rural tea district of Sylhet, around 150 miles from Dhaka, late next year. Nadia Samdani and her husband RajeebBangladeshs most high profile collecting coupleare behind the vast new arts complex, the first major contemporary art institution in the country. They established the Samdani Art Foun
  
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• From I Love Dick to Louie: can TV shows help people understand art?

  17-05-2017 12:00
  
  I Love Dick doubles as a stealth art history lesson and joins a very select list of TV shows that get close to capturing what art and artists are all aboutThe second episode of Jill Soloway’s latest series, I Love Dick, opens with a clip of protagonist Chris Kraus’s (Kathryn Hahn) art film. It is terrible: cliché chauvinist kink in black and white. “I’m sure there’s an audience for this kind of stuff,” says Dick (Kevin Bacon), a hunky art instructor at
  
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• Writing on the wall: urban political graffiti from Brexit to Trump – in pictures

  17-05-2017 08:15
  
  After Banksy’s Brexit-inspired mural depicting the removal of an EU star recently appeared in Dover, we take a look at the world’s most powerful political street art Continue reading...
  
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• 'Are you FBI?' – how I captured the everyday life of gangland LA

  17-05-2017 07:00
  
  Imperial Courts is a housing project most Americans have only seen from a helicopter camera. But, over the course of two decades, photographer Dana Lixenberg chronicled its characters and everyday lifeWhen Dutch photographer Dana Lixenberg first started her series Imperial Courts in 1993, on the Watts housing estate of the same name, the area was on edge after the Rodney King riots the previous year and the retrial of the officers in the King case was in full swing. “The media focused on t
  
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• Sotheby’s Totals $173.8 M. at Sleepy Imp-Mod Sale, With $21.2 M. Malevich, Without $30 M. Schiele

  17-05-2017 05:09 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s pulled in $173.8 million during a muted Impressionist and modern art evening sale in New York tonight that notched a few artist records but also saw 13 of 50 lots fail to sell, for a middling sell-through rate of 74 percent by lot. … Read More
  
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