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• Can Protest Art Really Make Any Difference?

  22-05-2017 23:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Protest art is not going to stop a bullet, but it does stir the mind and the heart. Artists want to create something pleasing but that also gets a rise out of people. A still life is not going to make you change your voting pattern." And the artists who create this kind of art often find the ways and the means to keep working, despite the dire circumstances they may find themselves in.
  
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• What Happened When An Artist Asked An AI To Name New Colors Of Paint

  22-05-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The neural net has no concept of color space, and no way to see human-color perception,” she says. Instead, it processed colors by their RGB values: the combination of red, green, and blue that come together in each hue. “It’s really seeing [colors] not as a number at a time, but as a digit at a time. I think that’s why the neural net had a lot of trouble getting the colors right, why it’s naming pinks when there aren’t any pinks, or gray when it’
  
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• Will the Royal Academy give Michelangelo's masterpiece the setting it deserves?

  22-05-2017 23:00
  
  The Royal Academys Michelangelo sculpture, one of the UKs greatest art treasures, is to remain on loan to the National Gallery until the end of the year. The Taddei Tondo, named after the Florentine owner who commissioned it, had been expected to return to the Royal Academy after the National Gallerys current Michelangelo & Sebastiano exhibition closes on 25 June, but the tondo is now scheduled to return home after the completion of the current building work at the academy. (This is on
  
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• This show is the bee’s knees

  22-05-2017 23:00
  
  In 2014, the California-based artist Terry Arena began an on-going series of works based on the worrying phenomenon of colony collapse disorder, when worker bees disappear from a colonya crucial issue, since around one-third of food directly or indirectly depends on bee pollination. This dynamic relationship between insect, economics, and the dinner table is fascinating to me, she says in a statement. The series, called Symbiotic Crisis, includes intricate graphite drawings of bees, plants, frui
  
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• Sex appeal heightens ArteBA’s art-world attractions

  22-05-2017 23:00
  
  Argentinian art is gaining international recognition this year, notably featuring at the Venice Biennale, Documenta in Kassel and Pacific Standard Time LA/LA in southern California. On the commercial front, Argentina was the guest country at the Arco fair in Madrid in February, while Art Basel is partnering with Buenos Aires on its new Art Basel Cities initiative.
  The organisers of the ArteBA fair, founded 26 years ago, hope to build on this newfound visibility on the international circuit. Fai
  
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• Santiago Sierra commemorates the Syrian war dead

  22-05-2017 23:00
  
  The Spanish conceptual artist Santiago Sierra is to stage a major performance that will last nine or ten days, during which the names of people who have died in the Syrian civil war will be read aloud. His new work, The Names of those Killed in the Syrian Conflict between 15th of March 2011 and 31st of December 2016, will take place in four locations. Pairs of Arabic speakers will read out a total of 144,308 names that have been compiled and verified by a team at the University of Buenos Aires
  
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• Rediscovered Rodin sculpture surfaces at auction

  22-05-2017 23:00
  A marble Rodin sculpture, Andromde (1887), owned by the same family since 1888, will be auctioned by Artcurial in Paris on 30 May. The whereabouts of the small-scale sculpture, which has never been exhibited, had been unknown. For Artcurial, the salecoinciding with the centenary of Rodins death and an exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris (till 31 July)represents a rediscovery. Carved in Carrara marble, the piece is estimated at 800,000 to 1.2m.The sensual sculpture of a young, nude woman dra
  
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• Dealer Perry Rubenstein cuts plea bargain, will serve jail time

  22-05-2017 23:00
  
  The art dealer Perry Rubenstein pleaded no contest to two counts of grand theft by embezzlement in a Los Angeles County court on 23 March, a deal that led to the dismissal of other ancillary charges, and his receiving, on 22 May, a sentence of 180 days in a private jail facility, and three years of formal probation. Rubenstein also paid $1,142,500 in restitution to two of his victims, Michael Ovitz and Michael Salke.
  The criminal charges related to Rubenstein's bankruptcy, declared in 2014. Rub
  
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• Chris Killip’s chronicle of de-industrialised Britain

  22-05-2017 23:00
  What I became, by default, was the photographer of the de-Industrial Revolution, says the artist Chris Killip, whose powerful black-and-white images of devastated working-class communities in northern England will be featured in a solo exhibition at the Getty Center in Los Angeles (Now Then: Chris Killip and the Making of In Flagrante, 23 May-13 August). The Getty owns a complete set of the 50 pictures in Killips 1988 book In Flagrante, which will form the core of the exhibition. Pictures from t
  
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• ArteBA hopes to build on growing visibility of Argentinian art

  22-05-2017 23:00
  
  Argentinian art is gaining international recognition this year, notably featuring at the Venice Biennale, Documenta in Kassel and Pacific Standard Time LA/LA in southern California. On the commercial front, Argentina was the guest country at the Arco fair in Madrid in February, while Art Basel is partnering with Buenos Aires on its new Art Basel Cities initiative.
  The organisers of the ArteBA fair, founded 26 years ago, hope to build on this newfound visibility on the international circuit. Fai
  
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• Screen Memory: Three London Exhibitions Bring the Past into the Present

  22-05-2017 22:04 via artnews.com
  On ‘Screen Memory’ at Simon Lee and Wolfgang Tillmans and Robert Rauschenberg shows at Tate Modern Read More
  
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• Sebastiaan Bremer at Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York

  22-05-2017 22:03 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Columbia University Starts ‘Uptown’ Triennial for Artists Living and Working in Upper Manhattan

  22-05-2017 20:04 via artnews.com
  The Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University in New York will present a new triennial of contemporary art, called “Uptown,” this summer. “Uptown,” which runs from June 2 through August 20, will present the work of 66 artists who live or … Read More
  
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• Hokusai Beyond the Great Wave – review: a genius imprisoned by his greatest hit

  22-05-2017 19:47
  
  The Japanese master’s youthful works are sublime. So why is the British Museum’s show obsessed with his twilight years? There is a moment in this exhibition when, without any fanfare or drama, you see the birth of modern art. It happens as naturally as a sudden gust or a spring shower. Afterwards people go on carrying bundles over bridges or chatting in the pleasure district, but everything has changed. A new kind of beauty is born.Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) was one of the
  
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• An 'impossible dream': Charles I's art collection to be brought back to UK

  22-05-2017 19:04
  
  Most important British regal art collection in history, scattered by Cromwell, to be temporarily reassembled for exhibition Artworks acquired by Charles I which were sold off by Oliver Cromwell’s republican government are to return to the UK for a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of one of the most stupendous art collections ever created.
  The Charles I exhibition, a collaboration between the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) and the Royal Collection Trust, will reunite spectacular works by artists s
  
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• Primary Information Releases Artists’ Postcards for Use in Political Protest

  22-05-2017 17:59 via artnews.com
  Primary Information, the stalwart publisher behind artists’ books in reissued and newly original form (plus musical releases via vinyl or cassette and numerous archival offerings online), has commissioned a line of artist-made postcards for use in mail-abetted protest.“Like many of our … Read More
  
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• 'No grey areas': experts urge Facebook to change moderation policies

  22-05-2017 16:04
  
  Labour’s Yvette Cooper is among those calling for more transparency from the company in wake of Guardian revelationsFacebook flooded with sextortion and revenge pornFacebook’s internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violenceFacebook’s ethical standards should not be decided “behind closed doors”, the former chair of an influential parliamentary committee has said after the Guardian revealed the social media giant’s secret rules for moderating extreme content.Y
  
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• Morning Links: Val Kilmer Edition

  22-05-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  A New Private Museum in L.A.The Marciano Art Foundation had its grand opening for VIPs over the weekend, inviting everyone in to see how collector Maurice Marciano arranged his collection in the former Scottish Rite Masonic Temple near Koreatown in … Read More
  
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• The art Donald Trump saw during his state visit to Saudi Arabia

  22-05-2017 12:54
  
  The Saudi Arabian government presented two exhibitions of contemporary art especially for Donald Trump and his wife Melania during their current official state visit. Both exhibitions coincided with the Arab Islamic American Summit in Riyadh where Trump delivered a speech on Saturday (20 May), which focused on fighting terrorism. The General Entertainment Authority, Saudis government agency responsible for entertainment and leisure activities, is behind both exhibitions.
   
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• Gilbert & George bring battle of cultures to Berlin church

  22-05-2017 12:33
  
  The British art duo Gilbert & George were not initially convinced it was a good idea to show their work in a church. They are generally anti-religion. But, as George points out, faith in the church is out there and to deny its existence would be futile.
   
  What convinced us is that we could cover up the windows with our pictures, says Gilbert. Our pictures are like windows on the soul.
   
  The couples Scapegoating Pictures, produced in 2013, are on display in the darkened nave of the
  
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• Third culture clash: Mehdi Bahmed's identity crisis – in pictures

  22-05-2017 08:00
  
  With troubling, dreamlike compositions, French photographer Mehdi Bahmed conveys the awkwardness of being caught between western and Arab identity Continue reading...
  
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• Stanley Brouwn, Whose Works Examine Measurement and Memory, Dies at 81

  22-05-2017 06:18 via artnews.com
  Stanley Brouwn, the pioneering Conceptual artist who in 1960 began approaching strangers on the street and asking them to draw directions to various locations on papers that he stamped with the words “THIS WAY BROUWN,” died on Thursday, May 18, in Amsterdam. His … Read More
  
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• Ethical art: how online entrepreneurs are selling Indigenous artists to the world

  22-05-2017 03:12
  
  Indigenous Australian artists are frequently exploited and underpaid: now an ethical online gallery is connecting community art centres with collectors For many decades now Indigenous Australian art has adorned boardroom and salon walls from Double Bay to New York City and from Berlin to London. Notwithstanding the commitment of dedicated arts centres, curators and collectors who’ve been determined to forge better deals for often impoverished Indigenous creators, too many Aboriginal artist
  
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