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• Ten Reasons Why Your Kid Should Get A Music Degree Rather Than Something More "Practical"

  06-06-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Gradually I learned the truth about the working world: except in a few narrow areas of expertise, your undergraduate college major has very little influence on your career path — or your success. On the other hand, a kid with the strong muscles every young musician grows will be able to prosper in life. Following the tough road of a music major will make your daughter more sturdy and flexible than kids who drift through "safe" degree programs.
  
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• Make Music New York Issues Plea for Emergency Help

  06-06-2017 23:02 via artnews.com
  Make Music New York, the non-profit behind an expansive one-day music festival that takes over the city on the first day of summer, has issued a plea for emergency financial aid before its forthcoming edition on June 21. In the … Read More
  
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• How Can You Tell The Difference Between A Cult And A Religion?

  06-06-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Cults, generally speaking, are a lot like pornography: you know them when you see them. ... Less easy, though, is identifying why. Knee-jerk reactions make for poor sociology, and ... often (just as with pornography), what we choose to see as a cult tells us as much about ourselves as about what we're looking at." Tara Isabella Burton looks at numerous examples and considers where it's appropriate to draw the line.
  
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• UK election could trigger a cultural bonanza

  06-06-2017 23:00
  
  Museums could well be the winners, whichever party is victorious in the UKs general election tomorrow (8 June). In a surprise move, both the Conservative and Labour parties have made manifesto pledges to create a new funding stream for the arts.
  The Labour partys manifesto, masterminded by its leader, Jeremy Corbyn, says that a Labour government would set up a 1bn cultural capital fund to upgrade our existing cultural and creative infrastructure to be ready for the digital age. The manifesto sa
  
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• The parrot point of view: on Edward Lear's natural history studies

  06-06-2017 23:00
  
  I began to draw, for bread and cheese, about 1827, Edward Lear wrote as an old man. In 1827 he was 15 years old, the 20th of 21 children of a soon to be bankrupt London stockbroker and his understandably exhausted wife. Rejected by his mother, and raised as an only child by his eldest sister, Lear was denied (or, if you like, spared) a traditional education, and had to rely on natural ability to make a living. A precocious draughtsman, he got piece-work where he could, including what he called m
  
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• Queens Museum to build New York’s unrealised urban designs—in miniature

  06-06-2017 23:00
  
  The Queens Museum is bringing some of the citys most ambitiousand unrealisedarchitectural designs to life in the exhibition Never Built New York (opening in September). As part of the show, grand urban plans including Buckminster Fullers Dome Over Manhattan and Frank Lloyd Wrights Key Project for Ellis Island will finally be constructed, at least in miniature, and installed on the museums famous Panorama of the City of New York.  The exhibition is co-organised by the architecture critic Gr
  
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• Object lessons: works of art from niche collections

  06-06-2017 23:00
  
  ChicagoWright8 June: The Design Collection of Dimitri LevasThe Sieves (1971) by Richard Hamilton and Marcel Duchamp (number 30 from an edition of 50)(est. $20,000-$30,000)
  One highlight of this sale of the art director Dimitri Levas's design collection is a work by the British artist Richard Hamilton, who led the rediscovery of Marcel Duchamp in the 1960s through meticulously researching and recreating parts of some of his most famous works says Richard Wright, the director of the auction house
  
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• Andrea Fraser tracks down museum trustees' political donations

  06-06-2017 23:00
  
  The US artist Andrea Fraser is mapping the connections between major US museums and the political elite in an effort to expose institutions ties to the White House. Using information that is publicly available, she is documenting all political donations made in 2016 by museum patrons and trustees, many of whom contributed to Donald Trumps election campaign. These gifts include the $1m donation to the Trump inauguration committee made by the financier Henry Kravis, whose wife serves as president
  
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• An artistic comb-over at Rosemarie Trockel’s Skarstedt show

  06-06-2017 23:00
  
  These days, the job of a gallery technician is a many and varied one. But the skills of Skarstedt Gallerys team were given a thorough testing when just days before the opening of their Rosemarie Trockel show, a major Greek collection had agreed to loan the artists rarely seen Untitled (1999). This deeply disquieting sculpture consists of a life-sized new-born clinging precariously to a giant ball of shaggy brown wool, which is nearly two metres across.  The architect Tom Croft was on stand
  
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• ‘The Wind, the Rain, the Volcanoes’: Vivian Suter Gives Nature Free Rein in a Seductive Show at the Jewish Museum

  06-06-2017 22:50 via artnews.com
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• Italy - Rich In Great Pipe Organs, Poor In Organists

  06-06-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Italy has an impressive stock of great and historic pipe organs, and many of them are being restored. But there's a problem. There aren't many Italian organists who can play them.
  
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• Organisers of Ghost Ship artist space charged with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter

  06-06-2017 22:08
  
  The two organisers of the Ghost Ship arts space in Oakland, Californiaan illegally converted warehouse where 36 people died last December after the building caught firehave been arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter. Following a six month-long investigation, prosecutors found that Derick Almena, the primary leaseholder, and Max Harris, a tenant of the warehouse, knowingly created a fire trap, with inadequate means of escape They then filled that area with human beings, district att
  
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• The First Woman-Filmmaker (She Started In 1896)

  06-06-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alice Guy-Blaché "should be heralded alongside early filmmakers like Georges Méliès and Auguste and Louis Lumière. She was one of the first filmmakers - some argue the first - to work with fictional narratives, beginning with her 1896 La Fée aux choux in which babies are born from cabbages with the help of a fairy."
  
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• ‘From the Collection | Verlust der Mitte’ at S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium

  06-06-2017 21:34 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• What I Learned About Preparation From My 11-Year Old Son As He Practiced To Get Into Juilliard

  06-06-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "He learned to practice by changing the rhythm of the piece. He learned to play one note at a time with a tuner. He learned to play each measure with a different metronome timing, and then he played the piece so slowly it took 20 minutes instead of just four. During these insane lessons where Amy and my son spent one hour on five notes, the more we worked on the art of practicing the more I saw that practice is a method to do anything ambitious and difficult. He learned to create a system and pr
  
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• The 'So You Think You Can Dance' Effect: How a TV Show Changed The Dance World

  06-06-2017 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "For the generation who grew up watching the show, it proved that dance has a place on television. ... It's undeniable that dance today is part of pop culture in a way that it wasn't a decade and a half ago. This increased exposure hasn't necessarily translated into more ticket sales for live performances, but it has presented an alternative way of experiencing the art form. ... [Yet the show's] biggest impact was setting the standard for dance on the internet with its 'snackable, and eminently
  
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• The Cleveland Orchestra - Manager of Database Marketing & Analytics

  06-06-2017 20:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  As a critical part of the Sales and Marketing team, the Manager of Database Marketing & Analytics is responsible for using patron data to assist in designing more effective marketing campaigns, with the goal of reaching new audience segments and increased ticket sales for Cleveland Orchestra performances at Severance Hall and Blossom Music Center. Using the Tessitura CRM system and other tools, he/she will be the primary resource for the department in the planning and execution of data-drive
  
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• The Cleveland Orchestra - Digital Coordinator

  06-06-2017 20:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Cleveland Orchestra is looking for an exceptional Digital Coordinator to join a growing digital team. In this role, you will be designing, developing, and implementing a variety of digital assets used to grow the Orchestra’s expanding Second Century technological footprint. You will be working alongside an accomplished team of marketers, visionaries, leaders, artists, and sales staff to deliver work at the highest levels. The ideal candidate for this position relishes the details and h
  
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• Gary Ginstling Named Executive Director Of The National Symphony

  06-06-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Ginstling arrives at a time of significant transition for the NSO. He will start his tenure at the same time as Gianandrea Noseda, who will officially be welcomed as the NSO’s music director at a free concert on the Mall on July 29."
  
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• A Crown Prince, A Ballerina, And A Bared Breast - The Latest Battleground In Russia's Culture Wars

  06-06-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The costume drama featuring this moment, a film called Matilda after the dancer, is not due out until October. Yet the release of trailers of that scene, and a few others depicting the torrid affair that follows, was enough to ignite a firestorm." The opposing sides are "an artistic community determined to fend off any hint of Soviet-style censorship" and a religious nationalist faction that sees the film as an insult to Nicholas II (the crown prince in question) - and therefore, since the last
  
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• Richard Cohen: Cultural Appropriation? Absolutely!

  06-06-2017 19:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing less than an intellectual fence: Keep out. If it had been adhered to, then Richard Fariña would not have written “Birmingham Sunday” after the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963 that took the lives of four girls. (The song was recorded by Joan Baez.) Bob Dylan could not have written about Hattie Carroll, the black barmaid who was killed by a drunk white patron in 1963. “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll&
  
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• Monet's London views to go on show in National Gallery exhibition

  06-06-2017 19:34
  
  Show will examine French artist’s relationship with architecture; other upcoming shows focus on Thomas Cole and the Renaissance“Without fog, London would not be beautiful,” said Claude Monet when visiting the city in the late 1800s. So taken was the founder of impressionism with the city’s weather that he painted its bridges, parliament and river shrouded in mist, works which will be displayed next year as part of the first major UK Monet exhibition in almost two decades,
  
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• Monet's London views to be shown in major National Gallery exhibition

  06-06-2017 19:34
  
  The 2018 show will examine the French artist’s relationship with architecture, with other upcoming exhibitions focusing on Thomas Cole and the Renaissance“Without fog, London would not be beautiful,” said Claude Monet when visiting the city in the late 1800s. So taken was the founder of impressionism with the city’s weather that he painted its bridges, parliament and river shrouded in mist, works which will be displayed next year as part of the first major UK Monet exhibi
  
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• The Internet Has Made Us Arrogant (And That's Making Us Stupider)

  06-06-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The defining trait of the age seems to be arrogance — in particular, the kind of arrogance personified by our tweeter in chief; the arrogance of thinking that you know it all and that you don’t need to improve because you are just so great already. But our culture’s infatuation with this kind of arrogance doesn’t come out of the blue."
  
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• The World's Longest String Instrument, Tethered To A Skyscraper In L.A.

  06-06-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Installing and tuning the Earth Harp is a two-day process. On this day, [inventor William] Close is getting ready to drop 42 strings, weighted by water bottles, off the edge of the 700-foot building. His tech, Jonathan Golko, will catch them and attach them to the harp's main resonating chamber. The following day, Close will tune the harp, a process that he's got down to a science. He can vibrate four notes out of each string."
  
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• Trump’s belligerent tweets bring lavender to life

  06-06-2017 18:55
  
  The Austrian-born artist Martin Roth actually likes seeing Donald Trumps tweets stream through on the social media site. The Presidents outspoken posts are powering fluorescent lights that sustain a lavender field grown by Roth in a subterranean gallery at the Austrian Cultural Forum in midtown Manhattan (until 21 June). The lights brighten and dim depending on the popularity of the tweets, which continue to cause controversy worldwide (Trump has, for instance, been in a recent Twitter spat with
  
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• London museums pledge to stay ‘safe, open and welcoming to all’ after terror attack

  06-06-2017 18:55
  
  Londons museum staff defiantly made their way to work on Sunday 4 June to ensure the UK capitals cultural institutions remained open following the London Bridge terror attack in which seven people were killed and dozens more injured. 
  Tate Modern and the Hayward Gallery were among 12 cultural organisations around Bankside, close to where the attacks happened, to jointly issue a statement pledging to keep their venues safe, open and welcoming to all. 
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• Humble Home for a Banana in a Bag: The New Gallery Shimizu Brand Dreams Beyond Queens

  06-06-2017 18:35 via artnews.com
  “We have ended our time in the music business as New York Video Photography Group. We are sorry to have failed to be good at music. But now we are starting an art gallery. Please continue to listen to our … Read More
  
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• The Problem With Experts (And Why We Need Them)

  06-06-2017 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Democracy cannot function when every citizen is an expert. Yes, it is unbridled ego for experts to believe they can run a democracy while ignoring its voters; it is also, however, ignorant narcissism for laypeople to believe that they can maintain a large and advanced nation without listening to the voices of those more educated and experienced than themselves."
  
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• What It Was Like At Brooklyn's Women-Only Screening Of 'Wonder Woman'

  06-06-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Alamo Drafthouse chain's plan to offer no-boys-allowed screenings of the new superheroine hit made news when certain men on the Internet flipped right out about them. Cara Buckley, the Times's "Carpetbagger" during awards season, paid a visit to the screening at the Alamo Drafthouse in downtown Brooklyn to check out the (excited) vibe.
  
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• Monet to be star of London’s National Gallery next year

  06-06-2017 17:40
  
  Claude Monet is to be the star of Londons National Gallery next year. Monet & Architecture (9 April-29 July 2018) will provide an unusual perspective on the Impressionists work. This will be Londons first Monet show since 1999.Chris Riopelle, the gallerys 19th century curator, says that although Monet is known for his landscapes, this will be the first time that a show has focussed on his depiction of the built environment. The exhibition curator is Richard Thomson, from the University of E
  
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• Will A Hard Brexit Damage UK Museums?

  06-06-2017 17:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The outgoing director of the Tate, Nicholas Serota, the director of the British Museum, Hartwig Fischer, and the new director of the V&A, Tristram Hunt, a former Labour Party shadow minister, are all concerned that these institutions will find it harder to retain and recruit expert staff from across Europe, potentially damaging their world-class status.
  
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• Auditioning A Whole New Pool Of (Non-Equity) Actors For L.A.'s Smallest Theaters

  06-06-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Now that Los Angeles-area theaters with 99 seats or fewer must pay Equity actors minimum wage - which the tiny-budget theaters insist would bankrupt them - they want to see SoCal's enormous pool of non-Equity talent. Jessica Gelt sat in on open call auditions held by a group of ten small theater companies.
  
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• Art Basel Sues Adidas For Trademark Infringement

  06-06-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Art Basel and its Swiss parent company MCH are suing Adidas over limited-edition trainers that the German sportswear giant designed using the art fair's trademark and distributed during Art Basel Miami Beach last year. It is the first time that Art Basel has filed a lawsuit in the US, according to national records."
  
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• Postcards from the Edge: For 40 Years, Kasper König Has Been Bringing the Avant-Garde to Münster

  06-06-2017 16:08 via artnews.com
  On a frigid March afternoon in New York, German curators Kasper König and Britta Peters charged into the café at the Hotel Americano and sprawled out around a table. König, who is 73 and more than six feet tall, pulled … Read More
  
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• Two Billionaires Battle Over Proposed Performance Space Floating In Hudson River

  06-06-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Barry Diller - backed by pretty much every politician with jurisdiction over the spot - wants to replace, at his own expense, a crumbling pier at 13th St. in Manhattan with "an undulating platform featuring pathways, lush lawns and three venues for dance, theater and musical performances." Real-estate mogul Douglas Durst is leading the (seemingly rather small) opposition to the project.
  
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• Male Dancers Need To Eat A Lot To Get The Energy To Lift Bigger Ballerinas, Says Mariinsky Theater's Director

  06-06-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That would be Valery Gergiev, the general director of the storied St. Petersburg house as well as a compulsively globe-trotting conductor who's found himself caught in controversy before. This time, in addition to opining on male dancers' diets and female dancers' size, Gergiev discussed the preference for small breasts on ballerinas and dissed the Mariinsky's Moscow rival, the Bolshoi.
  
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• Brooklyn's Bargemusic Gets A New York Times Op-Ed

  06-06-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "There is so much new life and affluence crowding the Brooklyn waterfront that traditionalists like Mark Peskanov, the master violinist who runs the Bargemusic concerts of chamber music aboard a handsomely converted coal barge, hard by the Brooklyn Bridge, might be tempted to move. Which he has no intention of doing."
  
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• Morning Links: Frank Lloyd Wright’s 150th Birthday Edition

  06-06-2017 15:03 via artnews.com
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• For The Sake Of The Planet, Arts Groups Should Stop Accepting Money From The Koch Brothers, Argues Philip Kennicott

  06-06-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, Charles and David Koch "have given hundreds of millions of dollars to institutions such as Lincoln Center and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art," but they've also "used their fortune to sow doubt about climate science and undermine the nation's faith in basic science. ... They have undermined a critical set of our most important human capacities, and some of the same ones that the arts are often thought to enhance. These include things such as critical thinking and deference to reason a
  
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• Chicago's Goodman Theatre Cancels 'Pamplona' After Star Stacy Keach Falls Ill

  06-06-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Goodman Theatre has canceled the entire run of Pamplona, the highly anticipated world premiere of the one-man show about Ernest Hemingway starring Stacy Keach that was to run through June 25 ... Performances were canceled on a day-to-day basis since this past Tuesday when the 76-year-old actor fell ill midway through the opening night performance of the show."
  
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• What The Philadelphia Orchestra Got Up To In Mongolia

  06-06-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Okay, it ended up not being the full orchestra, and "plans changed almost by the hour," as David Patrick Stearns reports. But there was a performance and workshop for kids in the impoverished ger district, a master class for the national military band, an unannounced visit by the entire Mongolian State Philharmonic Orchestra to a rehearsal, a read-through of a Mongolian ballet score, and an outdoor concert by the brass players in (yes) Beatles Square.
  
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• Novelist Neil Gordon Dead At 58

  06-06-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[His] cerebral novels about radical politics, most famously The Company You Keep, challenged readers with biblical parables and ethical dilemmas."
  
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• Guerrilla Artist Called 'Invader' (And His Flamenco Dancer) May Have Invaded The Wrong Spot - A Bishop's Palace

  06-06-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Invader" is the nom de guerre (if you will) of a French artist who sneaks pixel-mosaic works (inspired by, yes, the old video game Space Invaders) onto buildings. A lot of places - for instance, the Standard Hotel (of course) on the Bowery in New York - are happy for the hipster cachet of an "invasion", but the diocese of Málaga in Spain is not one of them, and the city government may well agree.
  
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• Ex-Director Of Ukrainian Library In Moscow Convicted Of Inciting Hatred Of Russians

  06-06-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Natalia Sharina was arrested in 2015 after a search of her Library of Ukrainian Literature found what officials described as anti-Russian propaganda. She denied the charges" and claimed that the books were planted by police. After spending 20 months under house arrest, she was convicted of inciting ethnic hatred and embezzling public funds; she was given a four-year suspended sentence.
  
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• New $100,000 Art Prize In Australia Has Its First Winner

  06-06-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The bi-annual Ramsay Art Prize, worth $100,000 Aus. and based in Adelaide, went to Sydney-based artist Sarah Contos for a giant quilt called The Long Kiss Goodbye. Michael Cogger looks at the new award, its winner, and several of the finalists.
  
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• Damien Hirst gives Dan Colen his first major solo show in London 

  06-06-2017 13:01
  
  Dan Colen, once dubbed the bad boy of post-Pop New York, is to have his first major solo show in London thanks to the enfant terrible of the Young British Artists scene, Damien Hirst. The exhibition of around 20 works, mostly drawn from Hirsts personal collection, includes Colens famous gum paintings: blobs of brightly-coloured bubble gum stuck to canvases in a pointillist style or smeared over the surface in a more gestural manner. The show, which opens at Hirsts Newport Street Galle
  
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• From Russia with mutts – in pictures

  06-06-2017 08:00
  
  From stuffed elephants to picnics under power lines, Leipzig-born photographer Frank Herfort coaxes magical, colour-saturated tableaux from intriguing slices of everyday Russian life Continue reading...
  
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