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• Upstairs Art Fair To Hold Inaugural Edition in the Hamptons in July

  14-06-2017 23:49 via artnews.com
  For art-world pilgrims decamping for the summer to Long Island’s East End, Harper Levine, the rare-book dealer with spaces in East Hampton and New York City, and Bill Powers, the founder of Half Gallery, will launch the inaugural edition of … Read More
  
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• Your mind is not a computer: on Ian Cheng at MoMA PS1

  14-06-2017 23:00
  
  Computers cant think; they do not reason on their own. Your mind is not a computer and your computer is not a mind. Engineers of ubiquitous computing platforms are determined to convince us otherwise. For many of them, artificial general intelligencethe point at which computers will exceed the intellectual capacity of humansis just around the corner. A cadre of techno-philic artists follow closely on their heels. But their claims have been greatly oversold. Few of these brave Futurists are able
  
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• Wilhelm Sasnal returns to Basel with fond memories

  14-06-2017 23:00
  
  The Fondation Beyelers room of ten paintings by Wilhelm Sasnal forms a homecoming of sortsa group exhibition at the Kunsthalle Basel in 2002 was the Polish-born and Krakow-based artists first major show. In the same year, the Warsaw-based Foksal Gallery Foundation, which was then co-directed by Adam Szymczyk, Documenta 14s artistic director, brought Sasnals works to the Liste fair. I have a long history with Basel, Sasnal tells us, ahead of a talk he is taking part in tomorrow at the Beyeler.
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• Why artists, even art fair-averse ones, are in Basel this week

  14-06-2017 23:00
  
  It is not just collectors and curators who are doing a grand tour of Europes contemporary art hotspots to visit the mega-exhibitions now on: the Venice Biennale, Documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel, Skulptur Projekte Mnster and the Danish newcomer ARoS Triennial. Leading artists are on the road as well, so there has been a much bigger than usual turnout of them at Art Basel this week.
  Among those who have been spotted in Basel are Mickalene Thomas, Elmgreen & Dragset, Phyllida Barlow, Wolfgan
  
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• The importance of being Ettore Sottsass

  14-06-2017 23:00
  
  The Austrian-born, Italian-based designer Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) was a rebel with a cause. As a counter-force to Modernism, his designs raged against a post-war rationalist approach that largely excluded emotional values by prizing function above form. Instead, Sottsasss primary focus was social, cultural and sensoriala design currency that chimes perfectly with contemporary sensibilities.  Sottsass was a larger-than-life figure with a huge, encompassing vision, says Marc Benda, co-di
  
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• Rare photographs of daily life in North Korea go on show right in the heart of Washington D.C

  14-06-2017 23:00
  
  Rare images of daily life in the secretive state of North Korea are about to go on show at the American University Museum in Washington, DC, just four miles from the White House. As the Trump administration calls on China to curb the countrys nuclear programme, the college museum is preparing to stage States of Mind, an exhibition of 60 prints of scenes from North Korea and Cuba by the Belgian-born Magnum photographer Carl De Keyzer (18 June-13 August). The North Korean series documents the sev
  
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• North Korea gives up its secrets right in the heart of Washington

  14-06-2017 23:00
  
  Rare images of daily life in the secretive state of North Korea are about to go on show at the American University Museum in Washington, DC, just four miles from the White House. As the Trump administration calls on China to curb the countrys nuclear programme, the college museum is preparing to stage States of Mind, an exhibition of 60 prints of scenes from North Korea and Cuba by the Belgian-born Magnum photographer Carl De Keyzer (18 June-13 August). The North Korean series documents the sev
  
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• Mood at Art Basel is upbeat as VIPs spend

  14-06-2017 23:00
  
  By the close of play on Wednesday, dealers were tired but happy, reporting that the first wave of VIP collectorsmany of them fresh off the Venice-Kassel-Mnster circuithad arrived engaged and prepared to spend handsomely. Hauser & Wirth declared Tuesday its most successful first day ever at Art Basel, having placed a 1970 oil by Philip Guston for $15m and an untitled painting by Eva Hesse with a Chinese museum for $2.5m, among a dozen early sales. Acquavella Galleries speedily unloaded a lar
  
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• Interview: Wim Delvoye digests the Tinguely Museum

  14-06-2017 23:00
  
  The Belgian artist Wim Delvoye is showing his inventive, innovative and occasionally controversial works in his first Swiss retrospective at the Museum Tinguely (14 June-1 January 2018). The exhibition, organised in collaboration with the Mudam, Luxembourgs museum of Modern art, highlights how, since the late 1980s, Delvoye has combined the profane with the sublime [In his work] tradition clashes with utopia, and craftsmanship with high-tech, the organisers say. We spoke to him about his enduri
  
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• In pictures: the ideal home, at Design Miami/Basel

  14-06-2017 23:00
  
  Jean Prouv, 6 x 9 Demountable House (1944)
  Galerie Patrick SeguinThe Paris- and London-based gallerist Patrick Seguin has brought a piece that is both historically important and newly relevant in light of the current refugee crisis. Jean Prouv designed the 6 x 9 Demountable House in 1944 as part of Frances reconstruction effort to resettle villagers in Lorraine whose homes were destroyed by wartime bombing. Prouv was a visionary, humanitarian and philanthropist, Seguin says, and he conceiv
  
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• Images of African community challenge racism in China

  14-06-2017 23:00
  
  Anti-immigrant sentiment in China is on the rise. In recent months there has been a surge in online vitriol towards Muslim refugees, while nationalists with openly racist views have become more vocal. One community under fire is the African immigrant population in Guangzhou, a major port city with around 13 million inhabitants, on the Pearl River, 120km north-west of Hong Kong.In March, at a Communist Party Congress in Beijing, Pan Qinglin, a representative from the northern Chinese municipalit
  
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• Diary: urinary performance, Yves Saint Laurent's X-rated drawings, plus more Basel gossip

  14-06-2017 23:00
  
  Artists standing ovation (and micturation)
  Massage your ego at the Kunsthaus Baselland courtesy of the Basque performance artist Itziar Okariz, whose sound installation Applause invites visitors to activate a crescendo of clapping that endures for a reassuring seven-and-a-half minutes. It also supplies an inadvertent soundtrack to the artists notorious early work next door, To Pee in Public or Private Spaces. Between 2000 and 2004, Okariz filmed herself copiously urinating in public places, inc
  
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• Bricks and mortar galleries: Art Basel holds the line

  14-06-2017 23:00
  
  Art Basel may be on the cusp of constitutional change. At present, galleries must have a permanent physical space in order to apply to show at the art fair, but chinks could begin to appear in the concrete-and-aluminium-clad Messe Basel exhibition halls. Marc Spiegler, the global director of Art Basel, confirms the fairs selection committees have been intermittently considering changing the regulations in response to the fluctuating gallery landscape, which has seen a shift away from brick
  
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• Archive reveals Sewell and MacGregor spat

  14-06-2017 23:00
  
  A spat between the late Brian Sewell and Neil MacGregor is revealed in a letter in the Sewell archive, which has just been acquired by the Paul Mellon Centre in London. Sewell had published a review in Tatler of Bodylinesan exhibition staged at the National Gallery in 1987, when MacGregor was directorcomplaining that the catalogue was ill-written, ungrammatical, ill-considered. He was almost inclined to say that no one should go to the exhibition, for once again the gallery has tossed a grand e
  
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• Diego Bianchi at Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires

  14-06-2017 22:34 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Art for sport’s sake needn’t stand still | Letters

  14-06-2017 21:08
  
  Artists are increasingly using a wide range of media to celebrate or critique sport, says Dr Doug SandleWhile Simon Burnton is critical of sporting statues (Sporting statues too often become a busted flush, Sport, 12 June), artists are increasingly using a wide range of media to celebrate or critique sport.Regarding football, I recommend Jason Minsky’s video piece that begins with a shot of an expansive sea and the occasional cry of a seagull and it then closes in to an assistant refe
  
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• A Piero Manzoni Sells at Hauser & Wirth for Over $11 M., and More Sales from Art Basel’s Second Day

  14-06-2017 21:04 via artnews.com
  Buying at art fairs often drops off by the second day, after the collectors who came in for the VIP preview to shop pack their bags and head out of town. But not so much at Art Basel, where collectors tend to … Read More
  
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• Noguchi Museum Director Jenny Dixon to Retire After 14 Years at Haven in Queens

  14-06-2017 20:43 via artnews.com
  After more than 14 years in her current position, Jenny Dixon, the director of the Noguchi Museum in Queens, New York, will retire. She plans to leave her post at the end of this year, when a new director will … Read More
  
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• Lorde’s Album Art, Jordan Wolfson’s Log Cabin, Kerry James Marshall, and More at Art Basel’s Upstairs Booths

  14-06-2017 20:31 via artnews.com
  After spending much of the opening day haunting the aisles of the first floor of Art Basel—the fair’s prime real estate, reserved for the more senior and established galleries hawking eight-figure Basquiats and the like—I took the afternoon to explore the … Read More
  
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• The Eyes Have It: John Graham’s Modernist Portraits Peer Out from the Parrish Museum

  14-06-2017 19:25 via artnews.com
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• When A Female Critic Published A List Of 'Top 10 Living Women Composers', Here's What Happened

  14-06-2017 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rebecca Lentjes: "You might think I would be getting disgruntled input from women composers who felt they deserved to be placed on the list, but every single negative message I have gotten has been from a man."
  
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• Can Art Turn San Francisco's Treasure Island Into Something Interesting?

  14-06-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The plan would fund projects inspired by the island’s unique features: its name; its “vantage point” amid an iconic bridge and two great cities, surrounded by an inland sea; its history as a site of innovation — a world’s fair, an early nexus of commercial aviation, a military installation; and its environmental and ecological conditions. Projects will be solicited from local, national and international artists."
  
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• Yuja Wang Gets A Mini-Feature In Elle Magazine

  14-06-2017 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hey, she's a notorious famous fashion figure, right? In any case, most of the interview, however brief, is about music and how she performs it, not her outfits.
  
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• More Than Half Massed: Flags Fly in Protest By Way of Creative Time

  14-06-2017 17:50 via artnews.com
  “RESIST.” So reads a flag now fluttering in downtown New York over the offices of Creative Time, an institution devoted to “art in the public realm” with more than four decades of history behind it. Made by Marilyn Minter, with letters … Read More
  
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• All Hail the Oceans: A Symposium Brings Artists and Scientists Together at the Explorers Club

  14-06-2017 17:42 via artnews.com
  Entering the storied New York institution known as the Explorers Club on a grey weekday afternoon, I was first greeted by not just the Upper East Side townhouse’s signature dark wood interior but also the droning noise of what almost sounded like … Read More
  
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• Progressive Rock Was Crazy And Ambitious And Pretentious (And Fans Still Love It)

  14-06-2017 17:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The prog-rock pioneers embraced extravagance: odd instruments and fantastical lyrics, complex compositions and abstruse concept albums, flashy solos and flashier live shows. Concertgoers could savor a new electronic keyboard called a Mellotron, a singer dressed as a batlike alien commander, an allusion to a John Keats poem, and a philosophical allegory about humankind’s demise—all in a single song (“Watcher of the Skies,” by Genesis).
  
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• How Mr. Bean Nailed The Behavior Of American Museum Audiences

  14-06-2017 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "If the movie Bean has taught us anything (and what hasn't it taught us really?), it's that American museums and the museum-going public will line up, go out of its way, to view something spectacular, whether there's much in the way of educational value." Noah Charney (who cops to similar behavior himself) talks with some curators about "what you as a curator do when the material in your collection is more interesting than spectacular."
  
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• Peculiar Things Are Afoot at the Kunsthalle Basel

  14-06-2017 16:41 via artnews.com
  This super show focuses on art that's unformed or in a state of becoming. Read More
  
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• 'Cultural Appropriation' Is A Bogus Concept

  14-06-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kenan Malik (a non-white writer, if you were wondering): "Appropriation suggests theft, and a process analogous to the seizure of land or artifacts. In the case of culture, however, what is called appropriation is not theft but messy interaction. Writers and artists necessarily engage with the experiences of others. Nobody owns a culture, but everyone inhabits one. ... [And] who does the policing?"
  
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• How The Tiger Mother Convinced J.D. Vance To Write 'Hillbilly Elegy'

  14-06-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Not a tiger mother (as his book makes clear, Vance's mother did not qualify), but the Tiger Mother, Amy Chua, who was his law professor at Yale. The two authors talk to Caroline Kitchener about their mentoring relationship and how Chua helped bring Vance's bestseller into being.
  
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• Everything Under the Sun: A Look Around Basel’s Outdoor Parcours Section

  14-06-2017 15:49 via artnews.com
  For-sale works can be viewed on city streets, houses, museums, basketball courts, and parks. Read More
  
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• Everything Under Sun: A Look Around Basel’s Outdoor Parcours Section

  14-06-2017 15:49 via artnews.com
  For-sale works can be viewed on city streets, houses, museums, basketball courts, and parks. Read More
  
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• Philip Gossett, 75, World's Leading Scholar Of Rossini

  14-06-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Gossett was widely respected as an authority on the operas of Gioachino Rossini and Giuseppe Verdi, having served as general editor of the collected Rossini works and coordinating editor of the collected Verdi works." The Rossini edition in particular was crucial to the modern revival of interest in the composer's operas beyond the two or three in the standard repertory.
  
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• 'This Is About The Right-Wing Hate Machine' - Director Oskar Eustis Talks About The Central Park 'Julius Caesar' Controversy

  14-06-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Those thousands of people who are calling our corporate sponsors to complain about this - none of them have seen the show. They're not interested in seeing the show. They haven't read Julius Caesar. They are being manipulated by Fox & Friends and other news sources, which are deliberately, for their own gain, trying to rile people up and turn them against an imagined enemy, which we are not."
  
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• Forget Julius Caesar - There Are Other Shakespeare Characters Much More Like Trump

  14-06-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Michael Billington makes a brief (and not entirely convincing) nod toward Richard III before suggesting a character from All's Well That Ends Well whom he finds to bear a more-than-passing resemblance to the 45th President. (The commenters have plenty of suggestions of their own, of course.)
  
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• Morning Links: Fruitful Harvest Edition

  14-06-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
  
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• What It's Like Coming Back To The Ailey Company After Half A Dozen Years Away

  14-06-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Marina Harss talks with Clifton Brown, who spent 13 years with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater before leaving to dance with Lar Lubovitch and Jessica Lang and is just now returning to the Ailey fold.
  
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• Tracy K. Smith Is The New Poet Laureate Of The United States

  14-06-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Pulitzer-winning author of poetry and nonfiction who directs the creative writing program at Princeton (and the erstwhile NPR NewsPoet), Smith says, "I think the responsibility really is to just help raise the awareness of poetry and its value in our culture. To me that means talking to people - getting off the usual path of literary festivals and university reading series and talking to people who might not even yet be readers of poetry."
  
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• Sara Mearns Tries Channeling Isadora Duncan

  14-06-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Sara Mearns, wearing rehearsal clothes she wouldn't normally wear - a purple chiffon Grecian dress - turned to Lori Belilove to ask a question she wouldn't normally ask as a principal at New York City Ballet. Her brow narrowed in concentration: 'We decided I would come on like the wind?'"
  
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• Charitable Giving In The U.S. Reached All-Time High In 2016: $390 Billion

  14-06-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The new study from Giving USA reports that much of the increase comes from small donors and that donations to the arts, culture and humanities category grew by 5.1%, behind only environmental and animal-welfare organizations.
  
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• Sydney's Flagship Museum Stuck In The Doldrums - And Behind Its Australian Rivals

  14-06-2017 13:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Years after rival art museums in Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra completed their own expansions and reaped obvious benefits (including higher attendances), the acrimony surrounding the Sydney Modern Project, as the expansion [of the Art Gallery of New South Wales] has been called, reflects - and epitomizes - Sydney's deep ambivalence toward culture."
  
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• Government Finally Comes Through With Funding To Expand Sydney's Flagship Museum

  14-06-2017 13:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just a day after the New York Times told the rest of the world about the troubles at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the arguments over expanding the museum, the NSW state government agreed to fund roughly 70% of a nine-figure expansion project.
  
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• Blockade Of Qatar Is Affecting Cultural Institutions

  14-06-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The diplomatic crisis will affect exhibitions as no art from Qatar can be exhibited in these Gulf countries right now. If anyone bought anything in Qatar—not only art works—it would not be easy to export to these countries either.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.13.17

  14-06-2017 10:33 via feedproxy.google.com
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  Fools rush in ... I may just be a glutton for punishment. However, over the (many) years I taught arts management and the many more in which I have engaged with colleagues ... read more
  AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2017-06-13Dan Weiss Announced As Met’s CEO: Initial Thoughts
  My initial reaction to this morning’s announcement from the Metropolitan Museum – that Daniel H. Weiss is now President and Chief Executive Officer, with the TBD director
  
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• Raft of appointments mark ‘beginning of new era’ for Institute of Contemporary Arts

  14-06-2017 09:59
  
  The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London is swelling its ranks. The German artist Wolfgang Tillmans, the Russian collector Delya Allakhverdova and the Lebanese patron Maria Sukkar have been elected to the ICA council, the institutions main governing body.
   
  The trio join a ten-strong board, currently chaired by Donald A. Moore, the chair of Morgan Stanley Group Europe. Moore was elected last October, taking over from Alison Myners who stepped down after six years of service. 
  
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• Andy Warhol's inaugural 'selfie' expected to fetch £7m at auction

  14-06-2017 01:01
  
  Print from 1963 based on photo-booth image of artist obsessed with cult of celebrity to be sold at auction for first timeHe was the artist embracing selfie culture half a century before the rest of us. And now, the self-portrait that secured Andy Warhol’s move from artist to celebrity – his inaugural “selfie” – is to be sold at auction for the first time. The print from 1963 was created using an image of Warhol taken in a standard New York dime store photo booth, an
  
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• Uproar Over "Julius Caesar" Totally Misinterprets The Play

  14-06-2017 00:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "What makes the ginned-up outrage over the play stupider is that Julius Caesar is hardly an endorsement of political violence. By its conclusion, it is a horror show in which political violence is the Big Bad. The play takes place during the twilight of the Roman Republic, as a representative government is being pulled apart by the twin stars of aristocratic ambition and public gullibility. Shakespeare depicts Caesar’s murder as a great crime that unleashes the very forces the conspirators
  
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• The CIA's Failed Attempts To Shape Intellectual Discourse

  14-06-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Its history suggests that the midcentury intellectuals whose work filled the pages of these journals, brilliant though they were, should not have their status inflated to the point of distortion. Ironically, the same thing that made them important — their ability to participate in a seemingly world-historic conflict of ideas — was what compromised their integrity."
  
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