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• Watercolour painting with RA president Christopher Le Brun

  29-06-2017 23:00
  Painting is the finest medium to deploy colour that anyone has ever invented, says the artist and president of the Royal Academy of Arts, Christopher Le Brun. In this video the artist speaks about his love of colour and the properties of watercolour paint as he works in his London studio.
  
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• Tate Modern chronicles the rise of Black Power in post-war America

  29-06-2017 23:00
  In 1963, shortly after the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, during which Martin Luther King Jr famously delivered his I Have a Dream speech, a group of black American artists including Romare Bearden and Norman Lewis formed the Spiral collective in New York. Their firstand onlygroup show opened two years later and they disbanded shortly thereafter. But the questions the group raisedamong them, are artists primary responsibilities to themselves, or to their communities?remain open.The fo
  
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• Record for Wolfgang Tillmans as Phillips and Bonhams achieve top results in contemporary sales

  29-06-2017 23:00
  
  Echoing the sentiment at Sothebys this week, Ed Dolman, the chief executive of Phillips, last night (29 June) emphasised the significance of the June season in London after Christies decision to cancel its contemporary sales.For us the June sale season is a really important one, he affirmed. It comes after Venice, Documenta and Basel, and falls squarely in the middle of events in London.It is a strategy that paid off. Phillipss took 20.2m (24.4m with fees) against an estimate of 17.9m to 25.4m,
  
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• Lavish show celebrates 70th anniversary of the fashion house that Christian Dior built

  29-06-2017 23:00
  The luxury brand Dior is celebrating its 70th anniversary with the largest ever exhibition of its haute couture clothes in the Muse des Arts Dcoratifs in Paris.
  It includes more than 400 dresses made between 1947 and 2017 that were designed by the founder of the house, Christian Dior (1905-57), and his successors: Yves Saint Laurent (1936-2008), Marc Bohan (born 1926), Gianfranco Ferr (1944-2007), John Galliano (born 1960), Raf Simons (born 1968) and, most recently, Maria Grazia Chiuri (born 196
  
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• How artists shaped culture in the age of civil rights

  29-06-2017 23:00
  In 1963, shortly after the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, during which Martin Luther King Jr famously delivered his I Have a Dream speech, a group of black American artists including Romare Bearden and Norman Lewis formed the Spiral collective in New York. Their firstand onlygroup show opened two years later and they disbanded shortly thereafter. But the questions the group raisedamong them, are artists primary responsibilities to themselves, or to their communities?remain open.The fo
  
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• Frieze lets the sculptures play outside before the big tents arrive

  29-06-2017 23:00
  The Frieze Sculpture exhibition is coming early to Regents Park. The show, which opens in July this year rather than in October (as it usually does to coincide with Frieze art fair), will include 25 works selected by Clare Lilley, the director of programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. It includes examples by Eduardo Paolozzi, Emily Young, Rasheed Araeen, Ugo Rondinone and Sarah Sze.The selection is made from works proposed by galleries, and there are sculptures that we especially pursue, Lilley
  
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• David Smith’s sculptures get some space to breathe at Storm King

  29-06-2017 23:00
  In 1967, Ralph Ogden, the founder of the Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, New York, bought 13 sculptures by David Smith for the sculpture park. To mark the 50th anniversary of the purchase, Storm King is hosting the first exhibition to focus on Smiths use of the colour white.The artist, who is known for his large steel sculptures, began working with white coral and shells during an eight-month trip to the Virgin Islands in 1932. Later, he painted large metal sculptures white, blurring posi
  
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• ‘Fun and a Bit Removed’: L.A. Gallery Dem Passwords Moves to the Ojai Valley

  29-06-2017 22:44 via artnews.com
  Since its inception in late 2010, the Los Angeles gallery Dem Passwords has run an exciting program connecting the worlds of counterculture and contemporary art. It has also moved locations four times. Its initial West Hollywood space gave way to a … Read More
  
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• Tibebe Terffa at Addis Fine Art, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  29-06-2017 22:36 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Phillips Scores $31.7 M. Contemporary Sale in London, New Wolfgang Tillmans Record

  29-06-2017 22:32 via artnews.com
  The post-Art Basel evening auctions in London wrapped tonight with a £24.4 million ($31.7 million) 20th-century and contemporary art evening sale at Phillips, a slow but steady affair in which only two lots failed to find buyers, resulting in a 94 … Read More
  
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• Manchester international festival launches with parade of locals

  29-06-2017 21:41
  
  Opening ceremony sees local heroes, celebrities and ordinary people from all backgrounds take to catwalk erected in Piccadilly Gardens, under guidance of artist Jeremy Deller
  The owner of a taxi company that offered free rides to those caught up in the bombing at the Arianda Grande concert last month was among the stars of the opening show for the Manchester international festival (MIF) on Thursday night. Sam Arshad, 35, was one of 147 Mancunians chosen to take part in a special catwalk show dev
  
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• Outlook is sunny for museum employees, AAMD survey says

  29-06-2017 21:20
  
  Despite the arts having a reputation for being a difficult field in which to find employment, and recent high-profile staff cuts at major museums including MoMA and the Metropolitan Museum, institutional jobs overall are shown to be stable positions, according to the American Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD)s 2017 Salary Survey, made public today (29 June). Two hundred and ninety-one museums in the US, Canada and Mexico (a 94% response rate) participated in the 2017 Salary Survey, a p
  
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• ‘Go Look at Art and See What Happens’: ‘Broad City’ Star Abbi Jacobson on Her New MoMA Podcast

  29-06-2017 21:15 via artnews.com
  Abbi Jacobson, a star of the spectacularly absurd TV comedy romp Broad City and the host of a new podcast affiliated with the Museum of Modern Art, knows enough about art to know that she doesn’t know much. She got … Read More
  
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• Chelsea Manning to show exhibit of self-portraits constructed from DNA

  29-06-2017 18:25
  
  The former US soldier, who in 2013 was imprisoned in violation of the Espionage Act, will premiere a collaborative series of 3D portraits in New YorkChelsea Manning is to showcase an exhibition at New York’s Fridman Gallery in collaboration with the artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg.Manning, who was released from prison last month after being sentenced in violation of the Espionage Act for disclosing classified government documents to WikiLeaks in 2013, will share A Becoming Resemblance from 2
  
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• Terra Foundation Gives $2.5 M. to Groups for 2018 Art Design Chicago

  29-06-2017 17:44 via artnews.com
  The Terra Foundation for American Art announced today that it has given grants totaling $2.5 million to 31 cultural organizations developing projects for the upcoming Art Design Chicago 2018, a citywide event focused on the area’s art and design legacy.Fifteen projects … Read More
  
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• For Moogfest, Michael Stipe, Lonnie Holley, and Transhuman Futurists Commune Down South

  29-06-2017 17:13 via artnews.com
  Last month, as bidding was underway at Sotheby’s for what would prove to be a stratospheric Jean-Michel Basquiat sale, Lonnie Holley, a 67-year-old artist who was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and has worked for decades in various folksy and homegrown … Read More
  
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• Art21 Adds Four New Members to Board of Directors

  29-06-2017 16:00 via artnews.com
  Art21, the New York–based nonprofit known for its documentaries about artists, has added four new members to its board of directors. Bloomberg L.P.’s Sarah H. Booth, Google product marketing manager Will Palley, film director and producer Tucker Gates, and One … Read More
  
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• VIA Art Fund Announces Spring 2017 Grant Recipients

  29-06-2017 15:10 via artnews.com
  The VIA Art Fund has announced the recipients of $310,000 worth of grants for the first half of 2017. The Boston-based organization, whose name stands for Visionary Initiatives in Art, will support work by more than 50 artists, writers, and curators, … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Gymnopédies Edition

  29-06-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Pre-juggernaut paradise: True to Life – British Realist Painting in the 1920s and 1930s review

  29-06-2017 13:49
  
  Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
  Realism is often seen as dim, dull and directionless. This enthralling show proves that, between the wars, it was anything but
  This exhibition invites us to look at art that has long been scorned or ignored. British realist painting between the wars is primarily associated with the Royal Academy during that institution’s most retrograde period; when shown in the annual Summer Exhibition, its complete rejection of cubism or any form of frag
  
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• Lens on the Middle East: British Museum acquires photographs by artists documenting refugee crisis and Syrian civil war

  29-06-2017 12:46
  
  The British Museum has acquired photographs by nine Middle Eastern artists tackling topics such as the fallout of the Syrian civil war and the tragic plight of refugees. The UK charity, The Art Fund, supported the acquisitions as part of an ongoing initiative launched in 2009 that facilitates collecting Middle Eastern photography at both the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum. The Syrian artist Jaber Al Azmeh asked Syrian individuals protesting against the civil war, such as
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.28.17

  29-06-2017 09:11 via feedproxy.google.com
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  A former professor of mine used to say that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into kinds of people, and those who don’t. Now, as a professor myself, I would add a third kind: ... read more
  AJBlog: The Artful Manager Published 2017-06-28What A Way To Go! Fantasy Coffins from Africa
  It may be summer, but it’s school days at Jack Shainman Gallery in Kinderhook, and the revelation this year is – fantasy co
  
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• Eco-murderers in go-go dresses – in pictures

  29-06-2017 08:00
  
  The Go-Go Gang are a bunch of dancing militants on a mission to save the planet through kidnappings – and killer moves. Find out more in this taste of Murder a Go-Go, photographer Matt Henry’s fictional mashup of eco-action and 1960s exploitation cinema Continue reading...
  
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• Historic Mexico City swim club gets a second life as art gallery

  29-06-2017 02:19
  
  Artists in Mexico City have taken over a disused historic pool and turned it into a pop-up art gallery, months before the facility is due to be torn down to make way for a new mixed-use development.Formerly known as Club Condesa, the pool opened in 1940 to house Mexico Citys first womens-only swim club and became co-ed in the 1960s, counting an estimated 250 members at its peak. But maintaining the property at Tlaxcala 103 became nearly impossible for its owners as larger fitness centers moved
  
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• Nigel Redden Steps Down From Lincoln Center Festival After 20 Years

  29-06-2017 00:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The director said "he plans to concentrate on his other job, leading the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, S.C." What will happen to the Lincoln Center Festival? That's unclear; "keeping the festival world-class and fresh, year after year, is a challenge, and some critics have warned that Lincoln Center’s was growing stale."
  
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