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• The ‘only annual biennial’: La Biennale Paris reveals details of 2017 edition

  26-06-2017 23:00
  
  September marks a new era for La Biennale Paris, the fair formerly known as the Biennale des Antiquaires, founded in 1962 and run by Frances Syndicat National des Antiquaires (SNA, the National Federation of Antiques Dealers). In addition toand in spite ofthe new name La Biennale Paris, announced last November, this is the first edition of the fair to be held as an annual event, with new leadership.Everybody remembers the only annual biennial, jokes Christopher Forbes, the American publishing m
  
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• New museum to open on Canada's prairies puts artists first

  26-06-2017 23:00
  
  An ambitious new Modern and contemporary art museum is growing on the Canadian prairies. Remai Modern, which has been under construction since 2013, is due to open on 21 October in Saskatoon after a years delay. The museum, which is named after its leading patron, the local entrepreneur and philanthropist Ellen Remai, announced details of its opening exhibition today (27 June).
   
  The 11,500 sq. m riverside building, designed by the Canadian architect Bruce Kuwabara, extends over four canti
  
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• New museum to open on Canada's prairie puts artists first

  26-06-2017 23:00
  
  An ambitious new Modern and contemporary art museum is growing on the Canadian prairies. Remai Modern, which has been under construction since 2013, is due to open on 21 October in Saskatoon after a years delay. The museum, which is named after its leading patron, the local entrepreneur and philanthropist Ellen Remai, has announced an opening exhibition featuring more than 400 Picasso linocuts presented alongside a remix of the works by the British artist Ryan Gander.
   
  The 11,500 sq. m ri
  
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• David Bowie’s Tintoretto altarpiece to return to Venice for 2019 Biennale

  26-06-2017 23:00
  
  For 30 years, David Bowie cherished his altarpiece by Jacopo Tintoretto, even naming his record label after the Venetian painter. But little did Bowie know that beneath the layers of oil was an underdrawing that suggests the work was created earlier than previously thought. 
   
  The discovery by the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage in Brussels, whose technical analysis also revealed the work was painted entirely by the Venetian artist and not by his studio, has prompted plans to re
  
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• Constant Displacement: Pierre Huyghe on His Work at Skulptur Projekte Münster

  26-06-2017 22:28 via artnews.com
  About three years ago, discussing what he planned next for his practice, Pierre Huyghe told me that he was on the hunt for a place “to grow the work to the condition I want it to grow,” perhaps a stretch of … Read More
  
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• 'Jane Eyre' May Have Been Written As A Coded, Secret Love Letter

  26-06-2017 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Charlotte Brontë was facing two crises: Her father's health was in trouble, and she had for years been in love with a married, and uninterested, man. "The unstated fantasy driving the writing of Jane Eyre, which she began drafting nine months later, was in all likelihood to create a novel of romantic love that would achieve—through imagination—the fantasy fulfillment of an adulterous passion that was never to be hers. It would be a letter to him. At least in a novel, Brontë
  
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• ‘Generation Loss’ at Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf

  26-06-2017 21:38 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Generation Loss: 10 Years of the Julia Stoschek Collection” is on view at the Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf, Germany, through Sunday, June 10, 2018. The group … Read More
  
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• Will Ottawa's National Arts Centre Renovation Undercut The Complex's 'Brutalist Truth'?

  26-06-2017 21:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Where the brutalist designs of the 1960s meant to give the complex an aura of "high art," the ethos of 2017 means opening up, warming up, inviting people in, including many people who don't have tickets and never will have tickets to events inside. But Alex Bozikovic asks, "What if, 50 years from now, every public building is a glass pavilion with a humming espresso machine and slightly dated modern furniture? What if cloistered, dramatic public spaces are again in vogue"?
  
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• Is Dalí the daddy?

  26-06-2017 20:37
  
  A Spanish court today (26 June) has ordered that Salvador Dals body be exhumed to determine whether he is the biological father of Pilar Abel Martnez. According to the Spanish newspaper El Pas, Abel has been fighting to be acknowledged as Dals daughter since 2007.  Abel claims that her mother had an affair with the artist in 1955 in Port-Lligat, a small coastal village in northern Catalonia where Dal lived and worked. Abel was born the following year in February 1956. Dal was married to Ga
  
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• Arts Criticism Is Not A One-Way Street (Anymore)

  26-06-2017 20:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kris Vire: "What we have in this moment, I believe, is a theater community that feels newly empowered in the wake of last year’s explosive Profiles Theatre saga to root out bad behavior within its ranks, and a new generation of artists in the social-media age who believe criticism should be a back-and-forth conversation with many voices participating." (Not that Hedy Weiss is planning to participate, of course.)
  
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• Audiobooks: They're Just As Good As 'Real' Books

  26-06-2017 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Seriously though, think of The Iliad. "Our cultural anxiety about audiobooks may have deeper roots in media and educational history, dating as far back as the beginning of the Enlightenment period, when the West made a general shift towards the privileging of sight over the other senses. After all, oral storytelling predates print and writing by thousands of years."
  
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• Georgia O’Keeffe, health food devotee: the pioneer of modernism’s favourite recipes

  26-06-2017 20:00
  
  The American artist lived until she was 98 – and a new book of her favourite recipes might give some clues as to howGeorgia O’Keeffe was an icon of the American art world: a pioneer of abstract modernism, with boldly innovative paintings of flowers and bleached animal skulls. Lesser known is that her diet, too, was ahead of its time.A new cookbook of O’Keeffe’s personal recipes – Dinner with Georgia O’Keeffe: Recipes, Art and Landscape, by the Australian autho
  
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• Former Paris stock exchange to be reborn as major new art museum

  26-06-2017 19:52
  
  François Pinault, the billionaire luxury brand owner, will convert the 19th century Bourse de commerce into art museum with architect Tadao AndoIt is the latest chapter in the art-world rivalry of two of France’s richest businessmen: a saga of momentous contemporary art collections and a quest by their owners to build Paris museums that would transform the city’s landscape.
  When the French luxury goods tycoon François Pinault – once described as the most powerful
  
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• Before The Internet

  26-06-2017 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "You would lean against the lockers with a faraway expression on your face and let people assume whatever they wanted. Like that you were a girly girl but could also be a tomboy. Or that back in your home town you’d been friends with a bunch of crows. And everyone assumed that if they saw a crow it probably knew you, because you had some kind of understanding with crows owing to undefined telepathic abilities that made you look troubled now and then but also really important. And if anyone
  
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• Palais de Tokyo Taps 13 Artists for Satellite Exhibition at Expo Chicago

  26-06-2017 19:15 via artnews.com
  Palais de Tokyo and Expo Chicago announced today the list of 13 artists who will contribute work to an exhibition that will be held during the sixth edition of this year’s Expo Chicago, taking place September 13–17. The event—held in … Read More
  
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• Shortlist for 2017 Jarman Award Announced

  26-06-2017 19:06 via artnews.com
  The Film London Jarman Award announced the shortlist for its 2017 prize today. The six artists vying for the award, which recognizes a United Kingdom–based artist working with film, will now have a chance at winning £10,000 (about $12,700). A … Read More
  
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• The Village That Used To Crank Out 60 Percent Of The World's Art Output May Be Hitting Reset

  26-06-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In the mid-2000s, Dafen’s copy industry was booming. It was at this point that auxiliary commercial avenues began to take root in the village. Quaint cafes, as well as more accessible 'gallery shops' (predominantly fronts for anonymous art workers and addresses from which to tout for business both wholesale and retail) lent the village lucrative tourist appeal." But things have changed. Can Dafen become a creative hub instead of a copy factory?
  
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• A Year In The Life Of Competitive Pun-Making

  26-06-2017 18:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Joe Berkowitz: "The best pun I heard during the course of writing the book was: 'I went to go shopping for cherries and microphones the other day: bought a bing, bought a boom.'"
  
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• Pinault’s (circular) designs on Paris

  26-06-2017 18:26
  
  The French billionaire Franois Pinault wants to give to the world its first completely circular museum, says his preferred architect, Tadao Ando who has been charged with creating such a space to display Pinaults collection in his home city of Paris. The 108m project is scheduled for completion in late 2018 for an opening planned in early 2019. 
   
  In the heart of Paris, between the Louvre and the Centre Pompidou, the site, which was the first circular building built in France ever, wa
  
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• Tate Modern to stage largest UK retrospective of Modigliani's work

  26-06-2017 18:11
  
  Exhibition, which will include the gallery’s first virtual reality experience, will give a nuanced view of the Italian artist’s lifeIt wasn’t the voluptuous curves of the naked woman, stretched out across the window of a small Paris gallery in 1917, which horrified the police commissioner who unfortunately lived directly opposite. It was the shocking fact that the artist Amedeo Modigliani had given her hair – and not just on her head, but pubic and underarm hair as well.T
  
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• From bullets to Botox – watch the 2017 Jarman award shortlist

  26-06-2017 18:11
  
  The shortlist for the experimental film-making award, now in its 10th year, covers global warming, hyperventilation and the way we grieve through social mediaOne artist analysed the sound of bullets used by Israeli soldiers to kill two Palestinian teenagers; another recorded herself hyperventilating until she fainted. An intense engagement with the modern world seems to mark out the 2017 Film London Jarman award shortlist, which celebrates experimental work with moving images. Other artists on t
  
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• Diamond Reynolds: the woman who streamed a police shooting becomes a Renaissance Madonna

  26-06-2017 18:02
  
  She put the shooting of her boyfriend on Facebook live. Now artist Luke Willis Thompson has turned Diamond Reynolds into a different kind of screen star
  Luke Willis Thompson is still shocked. “The timing,” he says, “was a little more powerful than I would have hoped for.” It is the morning after the unveiling of his portrait of Diamond Reynolds, the American whose boyfriend was shot dead by a Minnesota police officer last July – and who achieved a grim celebrity by
  
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• Should Theatre Critics Be Focused On Issues Larger Than The Performance In Front Of Them?

  26-06-2017 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins: "There’s a thing where just because you’re an arts journalist, you’re automatically assumed to be quote ‘woke’. But that’s actually part of what this moment is about, it’s about not being so complacent with your own perceived tolerance."
  
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• Alexander Gray Associates Now Represents Valeska Soares

  26-06-2017 17:43 via artnews.com
  New York’s Alexander Gray Associates has taken on representation of Valeska Soares, a Brazilian artist known for her pioneering work in the field of installation art. Soares will have a solo show with the gallery in October, which will coincide with a mid-career … Read More
  
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• The Writer Who Creates Romances For An American History That Actually Happened

  26-06-2017 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Beverly Jenkins' books teach the history between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement - almost all with romance as the focus. But she's a little tired of the miscategorization of her books. She says, "African-American is not a genre! When they put us on a separate shelf, it cuts down on discoverability for people who may be white and looking for a good book. So when people say, ‘I don’t know if I can relate to that,’ I think, ‘But you re
  
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• The crazy world of US politics—as seen by Martin Parr

  26-06-2017 17:22
  
  The peculiar bonanzas that were the 2016 Republican and Democratic National Conventions were ripe for a photographer like Martin Parr. Who better than the veteran UK photographer to capture the absurdity of a Republican delegate gladly coddling a Donald Trump action figure? Who better to capture the desperation of Democratic delegates with Obama banners, despite the fact that Obama could not run for re-election? "The actual convention is like a cross between a game show and a pantomime," h
  
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• Good News: Google Will Stop Scanning All Of Your Gmail To Help With Ad Targeting

  26-06-2017 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Why? Because they care? Because they're not doing evil? Ha! No: Because, even though the practice is only for personal email and not corporate email, the scanning "has made it difficult for Google to find and retain corporate clients for its cloud services business ... due to general confusion over Google’s business tactics and an overall apprehension to trust the company with sensitive data."
  
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• Will Performers Go On Strike? SAG-AFTRA Membership Has Authorized One

  26-06-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  They say that "the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers has pushed for 'outrageous rollbacks'" during negotiations. The contract covers 160,000 performers in film and TV, so ... that's a lot.
  
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• Court orders Salvador Dalí's remains to be exhumed in paternity suit

  26-06-2017 15:49
  
  Spanish court orders exhumation to obtain samples for ruling on claim by women from Girona to be artist’s daughterA Spanish court has ordered the exhumation of Salvador Dalí’s body in order to obtain samples for a paternity suit brought by a woman claiming to be his daughter.The Madrid court said the exhumation aimed “to get samples of his remains to determine whether he is the biological father of a woman from Girona who filed a claim to be recognised as the daughter of
  
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• So Far, Audiences For Broadway's '1984' Have Fainted, Vomited, And Been Arrested

  26-06-2017 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  So that's going well, then? "'I’m not surprised, since this experience is unique, bold and immersive,' [said star] Olivia Wilde, who broke her tailbone and dislocated her rib during previews."
  
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• Fans May Never Hear All Of The Music In Prince's Vault

  26-06-2017 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The artist's estate is in what the judge overseeing it calls a state of "personal and corporate mayhem."
  
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• The Writer Who Can Help Make A Show About Eating Disorders Both Good And Right

  26-06-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Marti Noxon won fame on Buffy the Vampire Slaver and Angel. Now she's in the middle of promoting a movie for Netflix, filming a series with HBO, finishing a series with Bravo, and starting the first series of a three-year deal with Skydance Media. "I'm somebody's Joss [Whedon] now!" she says.
  
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• Morning Links: John McEnroe’s Sex Life Edition

  26-06-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Comings and GoingsJulia Joern, who has been a partner at David Zwirner Gallery for a decade, will be departing due to health issues. Joern headed up communications at Zwirner during the period when it expanded globally and transitioned from New … Read More
  
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• New York Says Goodbye To A Lot Of Midsize Galleries

  26-06-2017 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's not a pleasant trend, whether it's in London, New York or Los Angeles. Indeed, as more small and mid-size galleries merge or close, "some see the solidifying of a class society."
  
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• The Last Moments Of A Prima Ballerina's Life With The ABT, In Photo Essay Form

  26-06-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's a ritual: "A ballerina’s farewell — especially at American Ballet Theater — is a time-honored drama. Rose petals fall like rain from the rafters, fellow dancers parade out to deliver bouquets, and audience members crowd the aisles, roaring as if at a rock concert."
  
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• An Artist's Design For An LGBT Memorial In New York Reflects Desire To Bond With The City

  26-06-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Artist Anthony Goicolea: "It feels like there are certain shapes and patterns that are encoded in our DNA as humans that transcend any particular culture and speak to how we are unified in the larger scheme,” he said. “I wanted to create a space that feels familiar, even though it is new."
  
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• The Writer Lidia Yuknavitch, Who Reinvented The Memoir, Says She'll Never Tire Of 'Swimming Within Language'

  26-06-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Her book The Chronology of Water ends with an interview with her editor Rhonda Hughes, and here's why: "What you want is an editor who is dying to go with you into your material, to ride the waves, to dive down or kick up, to swim the waters of your imagination. The interview was a chance to show readers that no book happens without collaboration. All books take many mammals and I count my lucky stars I crossed stardust paths with Rhonda."
  
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• The Huge Price Someone - Maybe All Of Us - Pays For Empathy In 'S-Town'

  26-06-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The podcast, originally a discussion between host Brian Reed and a man in the town he calls "S-Town," is now a genuine phenomenon. But what are the ethics of so many of knowing so much about the life of someone we've never met? "None of this is easy. Or ethically clear. But it is moving in a way that I haven’t felt in a long time. One of the things a large and pluralistic society denies us is proximity. And with that denial, the lives of our fellow citizens are harder to imagine, creating
  
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• The Making Of GLOW, Netflix's New Women Wrestling Comedy

  26-06-2017 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For one thing, all of the actors had to learn how to wrestle. "We knew from the beginning GLOW was a show about bodies and women using their bodies in different ways that they hadn’t used them before, and using bodies in ways that we as an audience haven’t seen before. It felt pretty important that, to honestly tell that story, we should show you the women’s real bodies going through this experience."
  
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• Modigliani’s nudes to be laid bare in Tate Modern show

  26-06-2017 13:02
  
  Ten nudes painted by Modigliani, the largest group ever seen in the UK, will go on show in an exhibition dedicated to the Italian artist due to open at Tate Modern in London later this year (23 November-2 April 2018). These include Seated Nude (1917), on loan from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Recling Nude (1919) from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Female Nude (around 1916) from the Courtauld Gallery in London.
   
  The latter work was included in a 1917 exhibition of t
  
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• Zwirner Partner Julia Joern Departs After a Decade With Gallery

  26-06-2017 13:00 via artnews.com
  Julia Joern, a partner at David Zwirner Gallery and a driving force in the gallery’s communications, marketing, and publishing departments, has resigned from the gallery after a decade there, due to health reasons.Joern was with Zwirner in the years during … Read More
  
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• What Do We Know About Shakespeare's Politics?

  26-06-2017 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Not a lot because, well, he was a playwright. But "some themes recur; and some messages in the action of his plays are too powerful to miss. Such themes are most abundant in the four plays written at the height of Shakespeare’s powers. In Polonius’s classification, they are tragical-comical-historical. They are about the state in moments of stress, and about individual men acting politically. In these four plays, six themes emerge."
  
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