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• Van Cliburn Was The Biggest Music Star In The World. and Then He Wasn't. What Happened?

  23-06-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It seems that what happened was that Cliburn simply stopped growing, as though he was trapped in a creative stasis like a bug in amber. One thinks of James O’Neill, a distinguished actor who was the father of Eugene O’Neill. In later life, he only took on one role—Dumas’s Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo—and eventually played it more than six thousand times around the world. He made a great deal of money, but reproached himself for what he consider
  
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• Jobs Of The Future For Humans Will Require Emotional Intelligence

  23-06-2017 23:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Only a tiny percentage of people in the post-industrial world will ever end up working in software engineering, biotechnology or advanced manufacturing. Just as the behemoth machines of the industrial revolution made physical strength less necessary for humans, the information revolution frees us to complement, rather than compete with, the technical competence of computers. Many of the most important jobs of the future will require soft skills, not advanced algebra."
  
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• Is The Controversy Over Hedy Weiss' Chicago Theatre Review Overblown?

  23-06-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Theater is of course a highly public endeavor, and the world outside is a big bad place, with lions and tigers and critics who have opinions. If its practitioners want safety, they should practice their craft behind closed doors.
  
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• Why Performance Art Has Become A Hot New Thing (Again)

  23-06-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As performance art becomes more popular, it is changing. Many are embracing elements of dance, film, theatre and sculpture, even street theatre and rap music. “Performance art was stuck in the 1970s: protest, people cutting themselves,” RoseLee Goldberg, the founder of Performa, said last year. “Some years ago I wondered: why don’t we have visually dazzling, emotional and intellectually challenging performance? Why does everything have to be a single gesture performed on
  
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• Julia Peyton-Jones to join Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

  23-06-2017 22:00
  
  Julia Peyton-Jones, who stepped down as the director of Londons Serpentine Galleries last year after 25 years in the post, is joining Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Mayfair as senior global director, the gallery announced on Friday.Peyton-Jones studied painting at the Royal College of Art between 1975 and 78 but did not stay long in that field. At the Serpentine, she pioneered the Pavilion program, which invites international architects and artists to build a structure next to the galleries. The fi
  
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• Turning Simon Rattle Into A Digital Abstract

  23-06-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The London Symphony Orchestra teamed with techies from the University of Portsmouth and Vicon Motion Systems, who captured Rattle's movements while conducting, appropriately, Elgar's Enigma Variations. Digital artist Tobias Gremmler was then called in to convert the gestures into animated films."
  
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• Man Brings Ornament To "Antiques Roadshow" And Finds Out He Has A £1 Million Faberge

  23-06-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The expert said it's probably the second time he's ever done that type of valuation. I think he was reluctant to say £1 million and nervous to say it was worth that much. We've had one of the most significant jewellery finds in 40 years of Antiques Roadshow history - but we don't want to spoil the surprise."
  
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• Have Older Women Become The Hot New Things In The Art World?

  23-06-2017 20:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Demand for older, female artists like Herrera, who was famously 89 when she sold her first artwork and is now a ripe 102, has risen sharply in recent years, the result of a perfect art-world storm. As institutions attempt to revise the art-historical canon, passionate dealers and curators see years of promotion come to fruition, and blue-chip galleries search for new artists to represent among those initially overlooked, prices and institutional recognition for artists such as Carol Rama, Irma
  
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• Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay to become one of the world’s largest public art parks

  23-06-2017 20:03
  
  City officials in San Francisco have approved plans for a vast new public art park located on Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island, located in San Francisco bay. The project involves spending at least $50m on works in a variety of media that will be dotted around the 300-acre terrain.
  The redevelopment of the areawhich is led by the non-profit Treasure Island Development Authority and the city agency, San Francisco Arts Commissionis due to last 20 years. The organisers aim to raise $50m throu
  
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• Critic Edit DeAk, 68, Champion Of Outsider Artists

  23-06-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[She] made it her mission in the 1970s and ′80s to cover art and artists overlooked by the mainstream press through the journal Art-Rite, which she helped found, and in the pages of Artforum."
  
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• Are Tech Metaphors Getting In The Way Of Our Understanding Of The Brain?

  23-06-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In this technology-ridden world, it’s easy to assume that the seat of human intelligence is similar to our increasingly smart devices. But the reliance on the computer as a metaphor for the brain might be getting in the way of advancing brain research."
  
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• Scientists: Here's How To Have Great Brain Functioning As You Age

  23-06-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital studied 17 'superagers,' people over 65 who have the mental function of those in their 20s. The goal was to find out if there were any observable differences between superager brains and normal brains, and if so, whether the rest of us could use that information to give ourselves better brain function through the years." The Answer? Yes!
  
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• A 'Bechdel Test'-Style Rating To Cover Gender Stereotyping

  23-06-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Founded in 2003, Common Sense Media provides parents with an online rating system that suggests age-appropriate shows for children, highlighting those that underscore admirable character traits like courage, empathy and perseverance. On Tuesday it will introduce a new metric: the portrayal of gender. At its website, a symbol with the phrase 'positive gender representations' will appear with a film or TV show, meaning that reviewers judged it to prompt boys and girls to think beyond traditional
  
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• Shepard Fairey talks street art in Sydney—and reveals which word he would have put on a Hillary poster

  23-06-2017 18:30
  
  Shepard Fairey and his team of three assistants were in central Sydney this month, painting Faireys biggest ever mural on an office block wall, when a passer-by approached the Los Angeles-based artist with a man-to-man warning. The women arent going to like that, the man confided to Fairey, indicating the word obey written in huge letters directly below the murals beautiful face. Fairey scratched his chin, and told the man: Well, maybe shes saying obey to the guys.Satisfied, the man wandered of
  
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• Defining America's Deep Cultural Divide

  23-06-2017 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation survey of nearly 1,700 Americans — including more than 1,000 adults living in rural areas and small towns — finds deep-seated kinship in rural America, coupled with a stark sense of estrangement from people who live in urban areas. Nearly 7 in 10 rural residents say their values differ from those of people who live in big cities, including about 4 in 10 who say their values are “very different.”
  
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• Win McCarthy at Silberkuppe, Berlin

  23-06-2017 18:17 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Art Gallery of Ontario Acquires 522 Diane Arbus Photographs

  23-06-2017 18:16 via artnews.com
  Canada’s Art Gallery of Ontario has acquired 522 photographs by Diane Arbus. The acquisition is a major one—few museums around the world have as many works by Arbus in their collections.Arbus’s works, which were recently the subject of a survey … Read More
  
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• The First Female Photographer - And Her Exquisite Botanical Images

  23-06-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Born in 1799 in Kent, south of London, Anna Atkins "made her most significant contribution across 10 years in the mid-19th century in which she created at least 10,000 images by hand. But it was what she did with those pictures that gave her a place in art history. ... She created the first book to contain photographs."
  
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• From the Archives: A Brief History of Walter Hopps and Edward Kienholz’s Trailblazing Ferus Gallery

  23-06-2017 18:00 via artnews.com
  “These artists may not hit pay dirt, but they are ready to risk embarkation on strange waters,” Jules Langsner wrote in 1958, referring to the artists on the roster of Los Angeles’s Ferus Gallery. Founded by Walter Hopps and artist … Read More
  
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• Julia Peyton-Jones, Longtime Director of Serpentine Galleries, to Join Staff of Galerie Thaddeus Ropac

  23-06-2017 17:50 via artnews.com
  Julia Peyton Jones, the former director of London’s Serpentine Galleries, will join the staff of Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, the blue-chip outfit with spaces in London, Paris, Paris Pantin, and Salzburg, Austria. She will begin there as senior global director in … Read More
  
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• Julia Peyton-Jones, Longtime Director of Serpentine Galleries, to Join Staff of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

  23-06-2017 17:50 via artnews.com
  Julia Peyton-Jones, the former director of London’s Serpentine Galleries, will join the staff of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, the blue-chip outfit with spaces in London, Paris, Paris Pantin, and Salzburg, Austria. She will begin there as senior global director in September.Peyton-Jones … Read More
  
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• Does The Public's "Julius Caesar" Controversy Prove Theatre Still Matters?

  23-06-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Amid all the dumbed-down outrage, it’s good to be reminded that theater is still a dangerous art form. The reason Plato, the church fathers, generations of Lords Chamberlain and Jesse Helms and his National Endowment for the Arts-axing kind distrusted the stage had little to do with its use as a forum for intellectual debate. Rather, it is the power of spectacle — the symbol made flesh — that has made theatrical performance throughout history so disconcerting to those in autho
  
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• ‘I Will Not Compromise About My Work’: David Goldblatt on Artistic Freedom, Censorship, and Moving His Archive Out of South Africa

  23-06-2017 17:20 via artnews.com
  Until recently, the South African photographer David Goldblatt had arranged for his archive to go to the University of Cape Town upon his death. The university’s library also housed a collection of work produced by Goldblatt over the past 60 years, … Read More
  
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• Is Square Dancing The World's Whitest Dance Form? Actually, No

  23-06-2017 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As early Americans adapted the country dances of Europe, African-Americans (often enslaved, alas) were right there - first as musicians, then as callers. Erin Blakemore gives us the history.
  
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• 'I wanted the building to fly': Renzo Piano's Santander gallery opens

  23-06-2017 16:43
  
  Spain’s €80m levitating Centro Botín showcases nautical flair and offers visitors easy access to waterfront for first time
  Two great hull-like forms stand on the seafront in Santander, northern Spain, clad in thousands of pearlescent discs, like a pair of ships encrusted with exotic barnacles. Jacked up 6 metres (20ft) into the air on slender white pillars, allowing views through to the water, this is the new Centro Botín, an €80m (£70m) art gallery by Renzo P
  
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• Competitive Punning: It's Not Just A Thing, It's An Entire Subculture, And This Guy Went Inside It

  23-06-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Joe Berkowitz: "Picture someone practicing for a pun competition. It's the saddest Rocky training montage of all, isn't it? In my case, the image entails a man firmly in his midthirties, sitting alone in his bedroom with the door shut, making puns about colors. ('Is having the blues what made Matthew Perry wrinkle?') The thought of my dead relatives and pets looking down from another plane of existence as I do this is mortifying."
  
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• Here Is the Exhibitor List for Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2017

  23-06-2017 16:26 via artnews.com
  It may be a swampy, sweaty summer Friday right now, but before we know it, it will be fall again, and time for another edition of Frieze London, that city’s premiere fair. And today we bring you the exhibitor list … Read More
  
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• The First Known Poet In History - Why Have So Few People Heard Of Her? (Yes, Her)

  23-06-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Though hardly anyone knows it, the first person ever to attach their name to a poetic composition is not a mystery. Enheduanna was born more than 4,200 years ago and became the high priestess of a temple in what we now call southern Iraq. She wrote poems, edited hymnals, and may have taught other women at the temple how to write. Archaeologists discovered her in the 1920s and her works were published in English beginning in the 1960s. Yet, rarely if ever does she appear in history textbooks."
  
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• 'Sleeping Beauty' - Why Is Such A Socially Retrograde A Ballet So Perennially Popular? Here's Why

  23-06-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Isn't this the most royalist of all ballets? King Florestan XXIV and his queen have a daughter, you see, and the story hinges on her finding Prince Right. Dynastic succession is the name of the game. ... So why is this classic danced so regularly and well across America? Is royalism merely its surface?" The answer, says Alastair Macaulay, is this: "The fairy godmothers whom the monarchs invite to the heiress Aurora's christening in the Prologue take the drama into a new, larger dimension: pure
  
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• The World's Historic Artworks Are Under Attack - By Monstrous Microorganisms!

  23-06-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Notwithstanding our horror-movie headline, this is a serious issue. "These tiny invaders" - bacteria, fungi, even algae - "have wrought catastrophic damage on historic sites like the Lascaux cave paintings in France and the Titanic - [which] is being devoured by a tenacious species of metal-hungry bacteria. That's why scientists and conservators are working to identify what kinds of bacteria are colonizing an artifact, purge them, and make sure they cannot return. Some are even enlisting bacteri
  
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• Alan Gilbert's New Conducting Job Will Be At The World's Hottest New Concert Hall

  23-06-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "He is leaving a fixer-upper on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for a sleek new home in Hamburg, Germany. Alan Gilbert, the departing music director of the New York Philharmonic, announced Friday that he would be the next chief conductor of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, whose striking new $843 million concert hall overlooking Hamburg's harbor opened earlier this year."
  
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• Morning Links: Bad Boy Records Edition

  23-06-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Let’s Get LitigiousMartin Shkreli is a former hedge fund manager who, in 2015, purchased the sole copy of the Wu-Tang Clan album “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” through the online auction outfit Paddle8. But he’s better known as the pharmaceuticals executive … Read More
  
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• Bring me sunshine: the designers being briefed to create a happier planet

  23-06-2017 15:00
  
  From the Guatemalan town painting itself in bright colours to Norway’s 10-year plan to banish belching exhaust fumes, the London Design Biennale is celebrating ideas that put a smile on everyone’s faceThis week saw the publication of the 2017 Global Emotions Report, an ambitious survey of the global mood. To compile it, Gallup conducted in-depth interviews with nearly 150,000 people in 142 countries. The report seeks to measure positive and negative daily experiences by asking people
  
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• 'There Is No Individual Who Has Done More To Change The Way This Country Sees Art' - Nicholas Serota Transformed More Than Just The Tate Galleries

  23-06-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "There is no one in the British cultural world more single-minded, more monkishly devoted to the arts as a civic and public necessity, more able to bend events to his will. ... When he arrived at the Tate in September 1988, it was an affectionately regarded and faintly parochial museum; he left it earlier this month one of the most powerful forces in the international art world." In a Guardian Long Read, Charlotte Higgins looks at Serota's career as he moves on to lead Arts Council England, the
  
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• Bonnie Prince Charlie’s road to Rome

  23-06-2017 14:32
  
  An array of 300 objects from 44 lenders go on show in the exhibition Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites, opening today at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh (23 June-12 November). The Vatican in Rome is among the starry institutions involved with the York Chalice and Paten, a gold communion set inlaid with 130 diamonds, on loan from the Capitolo di San Pietro. The treasure belonged to Charles younger brother Henry Benedict Stuart (Cardinal York) and has not been seen in the UK bef
  
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• 'Indecent' Isn't Closing On Broadway After All

  23-06-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In a rare, almost unheard-of move, the play's producers announced late Thursday that the production - which was set to close on June 25 because of poor ticket sales - would in fact stay open through Aug. 6 at the Cort Theater. The play, which was written by the Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel, won two Tony Awards and was nominated for three."
  
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• Royals hit back at Brexit and a modernist takes to the trenches – the week in art

  23-06-2017 14:20
  
  Three princesses bring enlightenment, Canaletto finds beauty in sweat, and the pumping house that defied Thatcher gets listed – all in your weekly dispatch
  Enlightened Princesses
  Well, here’s a change from Diana’s dresses at Kensington Palace – this ambitious exhibition surveys the intellectual and cultural world of the 18th-century Enlightenment through the lives of Caroline of Ansbach, Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, German princesses who m
  
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• Do Free And Discount Tickets Really Make Opera More Accessible?

  23-06-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some observers question whether free or low-cost opera tickets really are reaching new audiences, as opposed to being giveaways to fans who'd come anyway. Here, the general director of Opera Holland Park in London describes the several different programs of the sort his company offers, explains the philosophy behind the schemes, and describes the experience OHP has had with them.
  
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• Napoleon III's Historic Theatre Will Have Its Original Stage Machinery Restored

  23-06-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A multi-year restoration of the 1857 theatre at the Château de Fontainebleau, which has already seen the golden jewel-box auditorium refurbished, will focus in its final phase on the original scenic machinery, the upper salons, and "the podium that houses one of France's most important stage sets."
  
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• The Arts' Economic Impact Around The U.S.: Richard Florida Crunches The Numbers

  23-06-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Across the nation, arts and culture industries employed roughly 1 million Americans in 2014. That's less than 1 percent of all workers. ... [Yet] arts and cultural economic activity accounted for 4.2 percent of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP), or $729.6 billion [that year], ... growing by roughly 2 percent annually." With colored maps and charts, Florida shows the impact this activity has in various states and cities. And there are some surprises.
  
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• Bangkok joins the biennial bandwagon

  23-06-2017 13:30
  
  Bangkok will debut a contemporary art biennial next year. Bangkok Art Biennale was set up by Apinan Poshyananda, Thailands former culture minister, and the drinks magnate Thapana Sirivadhanabhakdi. The first edition is set to run from November 2018 to February 2019.Poshyananda, who is also an artist and curator, is the event's artistic director and chief executive. He says that previous attempts to establish a biennial in Bangkok failed due to lack of commitment from government and periods of p
  
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• Creating A True Democracy Of The Arts, Using People's Everyday Creativity

  23-06-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Only 8% of people regularly engage with publicly funded art, but every day people are creating their own versions of culture. Nick Wilson and Jonathan Gross report on research that makes the case for a new approach to cultural policy."
  
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• Cecil Beaton’s Mick Jagger: like a Rolling Stone from the 19th century

  23-06-2017 13:00
  
  This 1967 photograph is one of the first taken of Jagger by royal snapper Cecil Beaton, who later created some of the most famous images of the rock starHere, Mick Jagger’s signature androgynous look recalls 19th-century writers he loved: the dandy Baudelaire, the doe-eyed, open-shirted Romantic Shelley. There’s an echo, too, of 1847’s girlish self-portrait by the pouting, long-haired teenage Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Continue reading...
  
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• Blooming marvellous: the world's first female photographer – and her botanical beauties

  23-06-2017 11:18
  
  Born in 1799, Anna Atkins captured plants, shells and algae in ghostly wisps and ravishing blues. Why isn’t she famous?‘Photography pioneer” conjures up an image of a Victorian gentleman under a drape with an outsize wooden box on a tripod. Yet one of the biggest landmark moments of early photography was down to a woman who didn’t even use a camera, and was born decades before Victoria became queen.Anna Atkins is considered to have been the first female photographer. She
  
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• Royal Academy and Fahrelnissa Zeid: this week’s best UK exhibitions

  23-06-2017 10:30
  
  Tate Modern showcases the work of the late abstract painter from Turkey, while the RA’s summer show celebrates art of all stylesBlack British artists in the 80s defied the Thatcherite age with courageous experimental work that seems increasingly influential in reinventing national identity and the nature of British art itself. Sonia Boyce was portraying herself and her place in history in paintings, drawings and photo-collages. The tensions of the time are captured in Black Audio Film Coll
  
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• Portraying a Nation: Germany 1919-1933 review – art at its most deliberately obscene

  23-06-2017 00:59
  
  Tate Liverpool
  Thought Liza Minnelli in Cabaret was the peak of Weimar decadence? Think again. A pungent new exhibition reveals a world of chaos, corsets and bloodstained crosses that the Nazis were about to sweep awayWhen Hana Koch died in 2006, she left her family a modern German treasure hidden in an old altarpiece in her Bavaria home. Koch had survived the extremes and the violence of Germany in the previous century and through it all kept with her an extraordinary artistic document of innoc
  
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