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• Katinka Bock at Mercer Union, Toronto

  12-07-2017 23:55 via artnews.com
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• Okey Dokey, a German Gallery Share Program in the Vein of Condo, to Launch in September

  12-07-2017 23:31 via artnews.com
  With a first edition of Condo New York currently underway in Manhattan, where 16 galleries have turned over part or all of their space to 20 international galleries, Germany will soon get its own co-op program: Okey Dokey. Started by Ginerva Gambino, Jan … Read More
  
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• Letter to the Editor: A Response to Review of ‘Power’ at Sprüth Magers in Los Angeles

  12-07-2017 23:13 via artnews.com
  The following letter was submitted by Andrianna Campbell in response to a review of “Power” at Sprüth Magers in Los Angeles by Catherine G. Wagley, published July 7, 2017, with the title “At Sprüth Magers in Los Angeles, a Necessary—and Immensely Flawed—Exhibition Showcased … Read More
  
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• In the wake of a wave of closures, galleries are adapting to survive

  12-07-2017 23:00
  
  For dealer Anthony Reynolds, the turning point came when the lease on his London gallery ran out and his landlord announced he was tripling the rent. I thought to myself, I can either find another space or I can find a different way to do this, the gallerist says.
  Reynolds chose the alternative route and, after 32 years in three successive premises, closed his permanent venue in 2015. Essentially I abandoned the tyranny of the single space, he explains. You have to keep funding it and filling i
  
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• Forty years of Arab-British cultural diplomacy—through the eyes of the housekeeper

  12-07-2017 23:00
  
  Cultural diplomacy is a tricky business and the same was certainly true in 1977 when the Arab British Centre (ABC) was set up. The aim of the London-based organisation was to improve understanding of the Arab world in the UK through political lobbying and cultural programmes. Now, a film made for the ABC's 40th anniversary has revealed the highs and lows of the centre through the eyes of a woman who worked there for more than 20 yearsMary Pyves, the housekeeper. It was a very optimistic tim
  
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• All the things we cannot know: Kenneth Baker on Sophie Calle in San Francisco

  12-07-2017 23:00
  
  The French artist Sophie Calle's work almost always satisfies my basic requirements: that art has something to look at plus something to think about. She has worked across many media, but image, text and performance, often sub rosa, remain her principal instruments. She shows how dramatically viewer engagement and depth of content may vary when sheor anyonetries to bring those dimensions artfully into tension. In the process, she continually re-weaves thematic threads of attachment, loss and su
  
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• No Joke: Josh Fadem Takes Comedy to the Extreme at Long Island City Space REMAINS

  12-07-2017 21:34 via artnews.com
  The blurring of lines between stand-up comedy and performance art is not a new phenomenon, but over 90 wordless minutes in late June at the outdoor portion of the Long Island City space REMAINS (run by the artist Matthew Barney … Read More
  
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• Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Receives $25,000 Grant, Will Launch Diversity Fellowship Program

  12-07-2017 21:26 via artnews.com
  After receiving a $25,000 grant from the PNC Foundation through its PNC Arts Alive initiative, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis will launch two diversity fellowships. Both fellowships are part of CAM’s Museum Pathways Project, a new education program.One undergraduate … Read More
  
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• The Encounter: Drawings from Leonardo to Rembrandt review – so where are they all then?

  12-07-2017 19:10
  
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  While Holbein’s portraits are electrifying, this show’s title is something of an overstatement. Couldn’t they have managed more than one apiece?The National Portrait Gallery is one of the oddest museums in the world. Its peculiarity is evident in the labels of its sporadically compelling exhibition of Renaissance and Baroque portrait drawings. The name of the sitter – when known – comes first and the artist second. That’s how it is al
  
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• Transformation and Transcendence: Anselm Kiefer Surprises at Gagosian Gallery With Airy, Sensual New Work

  12-07-2017 16:57 via artnews.com
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• Culture Lab Detroit to Present Discussion Series on ‘Post-Truth’ With Hilton Als, Martine Syms, Mel Chin, and More

  12-07-2017 15:15 via artnews.com
  Culture Lab Detroit, a nonprofit that facilitates socially-minded dialogue, has announced its fifth annual discussion series for two sites in the Motor City on October 5-6. This year’s panelists—including the 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Hilton Als as well as artists Martine … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Giant Egg Slicer Edition

  12-07-2017 15:07 via artnews.com
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• Construction Begins On Manchester's New Arts Hub

  12-07-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The cube-shaped building, scheduled to open in 2020, will be the first major UK commission for Rem Koolhaas's OMA architectural practice. The centre for art, theatre, dance and music events" - known as The Factory - "will form part of the new St John's neighbourhood, to be built on the site of the former Granada TV studios in the city centre."
  
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• Kenneth Silverman, 81, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographer

  12-07-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Trading bombast for rigorous research, he wrote acclaimed biographies of American innovators as varied as Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Morse, John Cage, Harry Houdini and [Cotton] Mather himself, in a research-intensive process that Dr. Silverman described as 'wrestling with an angel.'"
  
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• The Director Of The Paris Opera Ballet, And The Modern-Dance Choreographer Who Taught Her How To Breathe Again

  12-07-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Aurélie Dupont: "Normally when you're a ballet dancer, you do not ever show the effort when you dance, so you never breathe. Because breathing means that you need air, and if you need air that's not good, and, anyway, you never learn how to breathe in school. Never."Reporter Gia Kourlas talks with Dupont, former étoile and current director at the world's oldest and most august ballet company, and choreographer Saburo Teshigawara.
  
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• Franko B creates sculpture to highlight Syrian refugees’ plight

  12-07-2017 13:47
  
  Move over, Ai Weiwei: an under-the-radar exhibition at the Freud Museum in London (until 16 July) draws attention to the plight of Middle Eastern refugees. The Milan-born conceptual artist Franko B has created a sculpture of a dead child refugee presumed to be from Syria; the arresting piece, titled Sleeping Beauty (2016), is hand-carved in marble, using traditional methods in the style of the Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Everyone is a refugee, including those who are on the frin
  
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• Which Museum Landed The Fabled €500 Million Cerruti Collection Of Artworks?

  12-07-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Turin's Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art has obtained the legendary art collection of Francesco Federico Cerruti. ... The iconic trove features 300 masterpieces from the Middle Ages to the 20th century accumulated by the enigmatic Italian collector. Extraordinary works by Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, and Amedeo Modigliani, as well as Pontormo, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, René Magritte, Andy Warhol, and Guilio Paolini feature in the jaw-dropping collection, alo
  
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• New Mayor Wants To Pull Books Depicting Same-Sex Unions From Verona's Schools And Libraries

  12-07-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Says Federico Sboarina, who was elected in late June, "I am convinced that the family is composed [of a] mother and father, and I will defend this value in the education of children and young people." Other local politicians are joining library and publishing organizations and gay advocates in pushing back against the policy.
  
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• Emotions run high in Emma Hart's Whitechapel Gallery exhibition

  12-07-2017 12:52
  Grief, paranoia and envy are among the emotions running high in Emma Harts new exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, opening to the public today (12 July). Her dramatic ceramics installation, Mamma Mia! (until 3 September), is the culmination of a six-month residency in Italy last year for the latest edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women.
   
  Established in 2005 by the Whitechapel, Max Mara and Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia (where Harts show will travel in the autumn
  
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• Manifesta 12 to provide ‘blueprint’ for development of Sicilian capital

  12-07-2017 12:33
  
  Manifesta, the nomadic European biennial, is taking the long view for its 12th edition in Palermo, Sicily, next year. On 1 July it unveiled the Palermo Atlas, an urban study conducted by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), the research and design studio of Rem Koolhaas, that is billed as a blueprint for the citys long-term future development. The firm, led by its Sicilian-born partner Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, was appointed one of the creative mediators co-organising the 2018 e
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.11.17

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  “I don’t know anyone who ... ”Recently, a colleague presented a workshop on nonprofit financial management to a group of board members of and volunteers for very small grassroots social service organizations. In the course of ... read more
  AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2017-07-11A Bit Of Moscow Music
  Our occasional Rifftides Russian correspondent, Svetlana Ilicheva, writes that one of her favorite listening spots in Moscow is the Zhurfac ca
  
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• Freestyle dog dancing – in pictures

  12-07-2017 08:00
  
  Bliss shimmies to Buffalo Gals while Lyric’s routine is pure Austin Powers … Bego Antón photographs Americans who tango with their pooches in a bonding craze known as ‘musical canine freestyle’ Continue reading...
  
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• Billions And Billions Of Views: For Five Years "Gangnam Style" Has Been The Most-Viewed Youtube Video. Now The Record Has Been Beaten

  12-07-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The surreal "Gangnam Style" video became so popular that it "broke" YouTube's play counter, exceeding the maximum possible number of views (2,147,483,647), and forcing the company to rewrite its code. But the song has now been overtaken by another music video.
  
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