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• This Year’s ‘Take Home a Nude’ Gala for the New York Academy of Art to Honor John Alexander

  11-07-2017 23:57 via artnews.com
  In October, John Alexander will be honored at the New York Academy of Art’s Take Home a Nude gala—the only benefit that accentuates its silent auction with naked model and stilt walkers. The event, held at Sotheby’s, will feature over 200 works, … Read More
  
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• Arts Council England Delays Implementation Of Quality Metrics Plan

  11-07-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A statement said: "Our focus is on achieving the right result for the sector and Arts Council England, so we are reviewing our approach to ensure that we meet these needs. Once a decision has been made, we will of course make all interested parties aware."
  
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• Benjamin Hirte and Chadwick Rantanen at Museo Pietro Canonica, Rome

  11-07-2017 23:26 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Benjamin Hirte / Chadwick Rantanen” is on view at the Museo Pietro Canonica in Rome through Sunday, July 23. The exhibition presents a collaborative site-specific installation that … Read More
  
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• London Department Store Removes Works by Jared Madere and Architecture Social Club, Citing ‘Technical Issues’

  11-07-2017 23:18 via artnews.com
  A 39-foot-tall Jared Madere installation was removed last week from the atrium of Liberty London, a department store that sells clothing, fabrics, beauty supplies, and home goods in the British capital’s West End neighborhood. The work, titled Unconditional Love (2017), … Read More
  
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• UK Education Minister: Decline In Arts Studies More Than Made Up For In IT Students

  11-07-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The decline in the subjects to which the noble earl refers has been more than made up for in the substantial increase in the number of pupils taking IT and the now almost 70,000 pupils taking computing.”
  
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• The Armory Show moves forward a week, but the ADAA Art Show stays put

  11-07-2017 23:00
  For the first time in several years, the Armory Show and the ADAA Art Show will not open in the same week. The Armory Show has pushed back its dates, opening to VIPS on 7 March. NADA and Independent have followed suit (they open 8 March), but the ADAA Art Show has been unable to change its slot and will open to invited guests a week earlier on 27 February.
   
  The Armory Show informed the ADAA of its scheduling decision around four months ago, but the latter had already rented its
  
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• Images of melting icebergs head to backyard of Trump’s Florida home

  11-07-2017 23:00
  
  A few months after President Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Paris climate accord, the historic agreement signed by 195 countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, an exhibition is due to bring the impact of climate change to his Florida doorstep in September. Earth Works: Mapping the Anthropocene, at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beachjust across the lagoon from Mar-a-Lago, Trumps southern residencefeatures images of melting glaciers by the Brooklyn-based artist Justin Brice Gu
  
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• Images of melting glaciers head to backyard of Trump’s Florida home

  11-07-2017 23:00
  
  A few months after President Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Paris climate accord, the historic agreement signed by 195 countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, an exhibition is due to bring the impact of climate change to his Florida doorstep in September. Earth Works: Mapping the Anthropocene, at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beachjust across the lagoon from Mar-a-Lago, Trumps southern residencefeatures images of melting glaciers by the Brooklyn-based artist Justin Brice Gu
  
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• Damien Hirst banks on Venice show for his renaissance

  11-07-2017 23:00
  
  Damien Hirsts two-venue extravaganza in Venice, Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable (until 3 December), has been widely interpreted as an attempt by the former bad boy of British art, now millionaire celebrity, to revive his market in the wake of weakening sales and critical panning in recent years.Hirst is not the only one hoping for a bounce-back. Indeed, the list is long of investor-collectors holding his work, starting with the New York property developer Aby Rosen, Chicago collect
  
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• Breasts, bears and Barbie: what you might have missed in Hirst's Venice show

  11-07-2017 23:00
  
  Koons Tribute
  If viewers of Andromeda and the Sea Monster (2017) can tear their eyes away from the damsel in distress they might notice, amid the various species of crustacean clinging to the back of the bronze sculpture, an inflatable craba clear nod to Jeff Koonss blow-up lobsters, one of which was recently on display in a show of Hirsts holdings at his Newport Street Gallery Andromeda, menaced by sea monsters and inflatable crabs in south London.Gilded pills
  Hirsts appropriation of an Ife he
  
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• Pop's Attention Economy Is Seriously Distracted

  11-07-2017 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It’s harder to devote the time to finding out about and writing about a new band’s debut or second release. So you have an increasing number of albums that are released and sink without trace because something from one of the more established acts came along, attracted everyone’s attention and few people spent the time required to decipher the new act’s work."
  
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• Artist Joshua Smith Is Coming for Your Guns

  11-07-2017 22:18 via artnews.com
  “Conservative pundits are quick to cite what I think of as a straw man—that there’s some kind of leftist boogeyman coming to take away the Second Amendment, and to my knowledge, there never has actually been one,” the artist Joshua … Read More
  
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• The Shed Appoints Emma Enderby as Curator

  11-07-2017 22:14 via artnews.com
  The Shed in New York announced today that Emma Enderby has joined its staff as a curator. Enderby, together with the center’s artistic founder and CEO Alex Poots and artistic advisor Hans Ulrich Obrist, will help conceive the center’s visual … Read More
  
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• Music Meta-Data - If It's Missing, Does It Exist?

  11-07-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The back of the original CD, and the LP, lists personnel. There is studio information and other details. On other releases there might be liner notes or additional images. This material is what I fed on as a young listener, and I’m still hungry for it today. Much of it disappears when I rip a disc to my hard drive, and online services generally don’t fill the gaps. Sure, background is available to varying degrees in a constellation of mutually supportive and competitive complementar
  
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• Alt-Right Makes Art A Target (Ah, It's A Grand Tradition)

  11-07-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Art, particularly avant-gardist art, has long been the target of conservatives in all countries. Art is part of the great fraud that is being perpetrated on ordinary people: It is an extension of the media and therefore always fake news. The speech is explicit about the role of art in the hoax: “They use their singers and comedy stars and award shows to repeat their narrative over and over again.”
  
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• Tate Modern celebrates work of black artists from civil rights movement

  11-07-2017 21:07
  
  Soul of a Nation says there is no single vision of what constitutes a ‘black aesthetic’ as many works arrive in the UK for the first timeYou hear the exhibition before you see it – the booming voice of Dr Martin Luther King resonating through the Tate Modern galleries.King’s rousing words in Washington in 1963 inspired the black communities of America to protest, march and sing for their rights Now for the first time, the show at the Tate Modern shows how they also drove
  
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• How New Generation Classical Musicians Are Selling Their Art

  11-07-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Nadia Sirota: “When I got to Juilliard in 2000, I encountered a pretty sad, fatalistic attitude: We’re teaching you something we all love and believe in but we don’t know how to get you employed.” She and her friends were energized by that depression, convinced that a) classical music couldn’t possibly be dying since it felt so intense and essential to them, and b) the only way to save it was to sell it to their uninitiated peers.
  
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• Does Opera Need Movie Directors To Save The Art Form?

  11-07-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "With all due respect, opera critics risk missing what the rest of us will see and hear in the new era in which an increasingly significant portion of the audience is at cinema relays: the cross-cutting between scenes, the aesthetic reconstruction of theatre-bound drama through montage and even, sometimes, sophisticated sound design denied to mere opera directors. Just the things, in fact, film directors are good at."
  
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• Hollywood's Problem In 2017 Is, Simply, Bad Movies

  11-07-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The refrain is always the same: Who cares if the fifth Transformers is drawing little enthusiasm in the United States when it's doing well in China? But that defense is becoming more specious, as international audiences are also seemingly growing tired of the endless assembly line of action films, while the biggest box-office story of 2017 is the success of smaller-budgeted original films."
  
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• Ghost nets: the remote town turning death-trap debris into world-class art

  11-07-2017 20:00
  
  Washed-up fishing nets plague a Cape York community – but locals are winning global acclaim for repurposing themOn the outskirts of the Aboriginal town of Pormpuraaw – beyond the scented frangipani trees, the rows of bungalows, and the lush tropical greenery – is a mountainous rubbish tip. Locals have their own name for it: Bunnings.As if browsing the Australian hardware store it’s named for, they pick through the tip for rubber, rope, bicycle rims. Detritus is then turne
  
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• Old Library Card Catalogs Were Wondrous Things

  11-07-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Waxing nostalgic about card catalogs or being an advocate for the importance of libraries is a mug’s game. You can practically feel people glancing up from their iPhones to smile tolerantly at your eccentricity. My response to this, after an initial burst of profanity, is to explain (again) why libraries are essential to narrowing the inequality gap, and why the Internet is not an adequate substitute for books or libraries."
  
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• America's Original Fourth TV Network, Now Forgotten

  11-07-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Long before FOX was hailed as the true fourth network, there was DuMont, an underfunded and largely forgotten broadcast pioneer whose lost recordings have become the stuff of minor legend. ... Debuting in 1946, the network was actually started as a ploy to sell televisions." (includes video clips)
  
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• There's A World Record For Most Frida Kahlos In One Place? Who Knew?

  11-07-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  More than a thousand men, women, and children alike dressed up as the popular Mexican artist to celebrate her 110th birthday, setting what appears to be a Guinness World Record for the most Fridas in one place.
  
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• The Countertenor Pushing His Fach Into The 21st Century

  11-07-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anthony Roth Costanzo has " pushed beyond the old-music limitations of traditional countertenors, performing new works written for him by composers including Nico Muhly, Jake Heggie, Suzanne Farrin, Steven Mackey and Matthew Aucoin." New music star Claire Chase says, "what Anthony is doing is making that tool [the countertenor voice], with its range and its versatility, viable for composers in the 21st century."
  
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• Christie’s Names New Co-Chairmen of Impressionist and Modern Art Department

  11-07-2017 17:50 via artnews.com
  We have some auction house title shuffling happening on this muggy summer Tuesday. Today, Christie’s announced in a release that the brass have named two new co-chairmen of its impressionist and modern art department: Giovanna Bertazzoni and Adrien Meyer, veterans of … Read More
  
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• Galleries Partner to Present Latin American and Latinx Artists as Part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA

  11-07-2017 17:44 via artnews.com
  As its prime draws closer and closer, anticipation of the upcoming edition of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA continues to mount. With one exhibition already open—to rave reviews in the Los Angeles Times and the New Yorker—and more than 70 exhibitions to follow … Read More
  
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• The Fyre Festival Disaster Has Made It Harder For All Big Festivals

  11-07-2017 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A Fyre-like calamity is the greatest fear of most festival organizers. The majority already seek to protect themselves by obtaining insurance, but it doesn’t come cheap, or easy. Insurers typically begin working with mega-festival organizers well in advance, determining exactly what kind of coverage they need. In some cases, risk and claim specialists will even tour facilities in advance and during the festival in an effort to mitigate any potential issues."
  
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• Here's The Story Behind The Original Ballerina Statuettes That Jeff Koons 'Appropriated'

  11-07-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sophia Kishkovsky looks into the history of Soviet ceramicist Oksana Zhnikrup and the Kiev workshop-factory where she created the figurines - to which, by the way, Koons did, in fact, purchase rights.
  
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• TEFAF Names Nanne Dekking as New Chairman to Succeed Willem van Roijen

  11-07-2017 16:44 via artnews.com
  Nanne Dekking will take over as chairman of TEFAF (The European Fine Art Foundation), succeeding Willem van Roijen. The foundation hosts an annual art fair in Maastricht, Netherlands, and, as of early 2016, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York.Dekking … Read More
  
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• Lack Of Productions By Female Playwrights No Longer An Issue, Says (Male) Manager Of Major Company

  11-07-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Chris Campbell, literary manager of London's Royal Court Theatre: "Diversity [in terms of] men and women has improved so drastically during my time working in theatre it is almost laughable. ... I can't remember the last time we sat down and talked about gender diversity in theatre. And that's quite often because I'm the only man in the room."
  
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• Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Names 2017 ‘Artist as Activist’ Fellows

  11-07-2017 16:29 via artnews.com
  The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in New York has named the 2017 grantees for its Artist as Activist fellowship, which recognizes individuals and collectives whose work is politically engaged. Grantees will now receive up to $100,000 over a two-year period.This year’s … Read More
  
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• There's Now A Play About DC's Notorious 'Peeping Rabbi' - And His Victims Are Furious

  11-07-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A.J. Campbell wrote and staged Constructive Fictions at the Capital Fringe Festival without actually interviewing either Rabbi Barry Freundel - who was arrested in in 2014 for secretly filming women undressing and preparing for the mikvah at his Georgetown synagogue - or those he spied on. Said one victim, "Our pain is there for public consumption in a way that no one had any say in"; says the playwright, "I would totally love to meet with them. It didn't occur to me."
  
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• Irina Ratushinskaya, Last Of The Imprisoned Soviet Dissident Poets, Dead At 63

  11-07-2017 15:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[She] was among the last political prisoners of the Brezhnev era, and among the first to be released under Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev." (He freed her immediately before the 1986 Reykjavik summit.) "Her three years in [a labor] camp ... nearly killed her, but resulted in an acclaimed memoir, Grey Is the Colour of Hope (1988), and more than 250 poems that bore witness to an undiminished optimism."
  
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• Taking Papyrus Off The Faces Of Mummies: More Concerns About The Hobby Lobby/Museum Of The Bible's Purchase Of Antiquities

  11-07-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last week the company was fined $3 million for having purchased cuneiform tablets and other ancient items (which will be returned) apparently looted from Iraq for the museum's collection. Here, Noah Charney writes about different allegations: that the Green family (Hobby Lobby's owners) acquired papyrus fragments used to bind Egyptian mummies that had been removed from the bodies in order to get at early Scriptural texts written on the fragments.
  
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• Another Replacement In The Met's 'Tosca' - But This One Is James Levine (!)

  11-07-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The new production by director David McVicar, which opens at the Met's New Year's Eve gala, has already lost its original star tenor (Jonas Kaufmann) and soprano (Kristine Opolais). Now its planned conductor, Andris Nelsons (Opolais's husband), has withdrawn as well - and he's being replaced by a maestro who is certainly available and knows his way around the house and the score. (But with Levine's fragile health and this production's bad luck, we can only hope he actually makes it.)
  
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• Morning Links: Escape from New York Edition

  11-07-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Osmo Vänskä Will Stay With Minnesota Orchestra Until At Least 2022

  11-07-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The orchestra announced Monday morning that the longtime music director has signed a new, three-year contract through its 2021-22 season. The extension came early - Vänskä's current contract expires at the end of the 2018-19 season. ... The new contract would extend his total tenure to 19 years, matching the orchestra's two longest-serving music directors, Emil Oberhoffer and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski."
  
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• Author Who Died This Year Wins Library Of Congress's Prize For American Fiction

  11-07-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Denis Johnson, author of the story collection Jesus' Son and the National Book Award-winning novel Tree of Smoke, did live long enough to learn that he won the prize: he was notified in March and passed away in May at age 67.
  
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• Vancouver Opera Asks All Staff And Contractors To Take Pay Cuts

  11-07-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The company is looking for a 2-per-cent rollback [in compensation] across the organization. ... The atmosphere among staff has been described by someone with knowledge of the situation as 'a bit of a revolt.'"
  
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• Unknown Maurice Sendak Discovered (And At The Publisher)

  11-07-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Lynn Caponera, president of the Maurice Sendak Foundation, was going through the late artist's files last year ... when she found a typewritten manuscript titled Presto and Zesto in Limboland, co-authored by Sendak and his frequent collaborator, Arthur Yorinks. ... Not only is the manuscript complete, so, too, are the illustrations."
  
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• $3.9 Million In Gems Stolen From London Art Fair - In Apparent Inside Job

  11-07-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Detectives are hunting two men who calmly walked into the Masterpiece art show last week and unlocked a cabinet before stealing several pieces of diamond jewellery. The men, both white and casually dressed, then locked the cabinet at the stand of Swiss jewellers Boghossian before strolling away."
  
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• Actress Elsa Martinelli, 82

  11-07-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In an acting career that shifted between Europe and Hollywood and peaked in the 1960s, Ms. Martinelli won the Silver Bear for best actress at the 1956 Berlin International Film Festival for the Italian comedy Donatella. Directors she worked for included Orson Welles (The Trial), Roger Vadim (Blood and Roses) and Elio Petri (The 10th Victim)." Yet the role for which she's best remembered in the U.S. was as the love interest of Kirk Douglas's character in The Indian Hunter.
  
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• Soul of a Nation review – the sorrowful, shattering art of black power

  11-07-2017 12:07
  
  Tate Modern, LondonSearing artistic responses to the agony of America’s racial struggle sit alongside powerful abstracts by forgotten artists. This compelling show puts the battle for civil rights in a brutal, brilliant new lightSam Gilliam’s 1969 painting April 4 is an epic cascade of purple tears, a huge curtain of sorrow. Agony stains it. Melancholy seeps through its delicate clouds of colour. You don’t need to know what its title means to be moved by it. When you know it wa
  
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• Dusseldorf museum pulls painting from show after Nazi loot claim

  11-07-2017 11:47
  
  The Museum Kunstpalast in Dusseldorf pulled a painting by Andreas Achenbach from an exhibition after an ownership claim filed by the heirs of Max Stern, a Jewish dealer who was forced to liquidate his art gallery in the city before he fled Nazi Germany.The Achenbach exhibition opened on 7 July, featuring works owned by a private collector, Wolfgang Peiffer. He acquired the 1861 painting Sicilian Landscape at a Phillips auction in London in 1990. Though it was pictured in the promotional materia
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.10.17

  11-07-2017 11:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The problem with ranking cities’ cultural vibrancy
  Two recent publications derive indices to rank different cities according to their cultural vibrancy ... The problem is not with the quality of the data. Many of the raw data series will be of interest. The problem is in the very nature of the exercise.  ... read more
  AJBlog: For What It's Worth Published 2017-07-10Shifting Power in American Orchestras
  I have become more worried about what happens when [our st
  
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• The Indigenous community making art from garbage – video

  11-07-2017 09:56
  
  On Pormpuraaw beach on the west coast of Cape York peninsula, plastic fishing nets have been washing up on shore – some kilometres long. Killing hundreds of species of marine life, the ‘ghost nets’ threaten a valuable food source for the local community. So Pormpuraaw artists are fighting back, gathering other refuse from a local tip dubbed ‘Bunnings’ and weaving it through the nets to create stunning large-scale sculptures of ocean-dwelling totems. The art, which c
  
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• The abandoned woman – in pictures

  11-07-2017 08:00
  
  Kourtney Roy makes eerie self-portraits in desolate yet dramatic locations – with wigs and wardrobe straight out of 1950s melodrama. ‘I am drawn to anonymous scenes,’ she says. ‘It’s where the magic happens’Continue reading...
  
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• Dallas Museum of Art Acquires Yayoi Kusama Mirror Room

  11-07-2017 08:00 via artnews.com
  The Dallas Museum of Art has acquired a Yayoi Kusama “Infinity Mirror Room” installation titled All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins (2016). Originally on view last year at Victoria Miro Gallery in London, the work is Kusama’s … Read More
  
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• Armory Week 2018 Fairs to Be Split Between Two Weeks: ADAA Art Show in February, Armory, Independent, NADA in March [Updated]

  11-07-2017 01:02 via artnews.com
  Due to scheduling issues, three of the primary Armory Week fairs will be held during the first full week of March, while the ADAA Art Show will open a week earlier.The shift occurred after the brass behind the Armory Show, the … Read More
  
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• Armory Week 2018 Fairs to Be Split Between Two Weeks: ADAA Art Show in February, Armory, Independent, NADA in March

  11-07-2017 01:02 via artnews.com
  Due to scheduling issues, three of the primary Armory Week fairs will be held during the first full week of March, while the ADAA Art Show will open a week earlier.The shift occurred after the brass behind the Armory Show, the … Read More
  
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