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• Matt Carey-Williams quits Phillips for Blain Southern

  21-05-2017 23:00
  
  Matt Carey-Williams, who joined Phillips from White Cube in 2015, is going back to the gallery world and will start at Blain Southern in London as a director in September. The move, only two-and-a-half years after Carey-Williams became Phillipss deputy chairman for Europe and Asia, is the auction houses first high-profile departure from London since Edward Dolman joined as chief executive in 2014.
   
  Phillips is and will continue to be a vibrant part of the art world, but for me there is no
  
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• Another barn storm over Schwitters

  21-05-2017 23:00
  
  Kurt Schwitterss Merz Barn in the Lake District of Northern England is under threat of being sold on the open market after Arts Council England (ACE) rejected a funding application for the site for the fourth time.The artists Ian Hunter and Celia Larner, who run and fund the site as the charity the Littoral Arts Trust, feel strongly that it should be maintained and kept open to the public rather than sold.After three rejections by the ACE, Hunter and Larner were formally invited to apply for an
  
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• Life as a refugee: VR experience lined up for Lacma and Prada

  21-05-2017 20:10
  
  A seven-minute virtual reality piece by the Oscar-winning director Alejandro Irritu putting you in the shoes of Mexican refugees will be shown at the Fondazione Prada in Milan and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma). According to the trade magazine Variety, participants edge along the US/Mexico border pursued by border guards and helicopters in the disturbing VR piece, entitled Carne y Arena (Virtually Present, Physically Invisible). The big mistake of VR is that it has been c
  
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• You, Wandering Stranger…

  21-05-2017 17:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Stranger, Sunrise, Pondicherry, OblivionYou; Wandering Stranger
  for Aparna S., whose letter prompted this sequence.
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  These hieroglyphs!How would they make much sense to you?
  Like verses were, would always stayUnknown. Unknown like youto me, like both of usto each unknown. When youmight chance upon these hieroglyphsupon this rock when wandering youlose your way. And thus lostin this old barren vale while youstart losing sense of time and space,
  These hieroglyphs!How would they make much sense t
  
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• How A Seattle Production Of Seagull Turned Into A Troupe Devoted To Chekhov

  21-05-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The artistic director of the group's patron and incubator, ACT: "When they called me in 2011 and said, ‘We want to do the Ring Cycle of Chekhov and take it around the world,' I was terrified, and told them so. ... They loved it. 'That’s the response we want,' they said. Eventually, I fell deeply in love with the author—and the company too."
  
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• The Night Solange Knowles Took Over The Guggenheim (And Got A Young, Racially Diverse Audience Into The Museum)

  21-05-2017 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It was performance art with an extremely cool audience (and an extremely cool performance group): "At times, the event took on a mystical cast, Ms. Knowles and her troupe extending their arms toward the crowd in a kind of benediction. The effect was moving, the show itself museum-worthy. As Nat Trotman, the Guggenheim curator of performance and media, noted, it was part of a tradition that dates from the late 1960s, when Meredith Monk first performed in the rotunda."
  
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• When New Media Goes Wrong, And Thousands Of Second Life Bunnies Starve To Death Online

  21-05-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  These bunnies "kicked off the breedable boom in earnest." (Breedables are digital pets that can, well, interbreed.) But they need to be fed. And the company that runs the databases that provided bunny "food" was served a cease & desist order ...
  
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• At Cannes And Amid Controversy, Netflix Defends Its Strategy

  21-05-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ted Sarandos, Netflix's chief content officer: "Why would we want to hold back a movie for an enormous number of people to enjoy throughout the entire country that a few hundred, maybe a few thousand people could see the film in Paris? ... It seemed to me like the right thing to do was to give the people, our subscribers, who pay to make these movies, access to them immediately all over the world."
  
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• Giacometti review – master of all things thin

  21-05-2017 09:00
  
  Tate Modern, London
  Fight your way through the spindly hordes at this huge, overcrowded Giacometti show and you’ll find a tender, protean artist who is still uniquely strangeThere is a figure no bigger than a pin halfway through this colossal retrospective. It emerges from a plinth the size of a frugal chunk of cheddar. You could pocket the whole object without difficulty; indeed Giacometti (1901-66) once returned from his native Switzerland to Paris with all the sculptures he had made thr
  
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