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• ‘Subjektiv’ at Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden

  20-07-2017 23:07 via artnews.com
  
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• What would Oscar Wilde have made of the fuss? On Queer British art at Tate Britain

  20-07-2017 23:00
  Perhaps the greatest exhibit at the Tate Britain exhibition Queer British Art, 1861-1967, is the sign on the door to the facilities reading all gender toilets. Next to it is a lustrous array of mythopoeic paintings by Simeon Solomon, who was arrested in a Parisian pissoir for indecent touching. There is a vast disconnect hereas there still is in the greater world, where LGBTQ people are still being prosecuted and, in some countries, executed for the crime of loving differently.
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• Private museum of Arab art in the pipeline for Beirut

  20-07-2017 23:00
  
  Lebanons surprise museum boom shows no signs of losing momentum. Despite political paralysis and a refugee crisis driven by civil war in neighbouring Syria, there are more than half a dozen museum projects in the pipeline for the capital, Beirut. The latest addition to their ranks is the privately funded Beirut Arab Art Museum, which is set to become the citys biggest art museum when it opens downtown in 2020.
  The planned 10,000- to 15,000-sq.-m institution will house the 4,000-strong Modern an
  
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• Hokusai: the influential work of Japanese artist famous for 'the great wave' – in pictures

  20-07-2017 22:00
  
  The work of Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), one of Japan’s most prolific and enduringly popular artists, will come to Australia for the first time in a major exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria. Hokusai produced a body of work comprising some of the most recognisable and reproduced images in the history of Asian art, most notably The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Two prints of this famous image will be on show at NGV alongside over 150 of Hokusai’s artworks, including his
  
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• Wild Things: Carol Rama’s New Museum Survey Is a Disarming Wonder

  20-07-2017 19:47 via artnews.com
  
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• Artist List Revealed for First Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art

  20-07-2017 18:19 via artnews.com
  
  Curated by Michelle Grabner and Jens Hoffmann, the triennial will be titled "An American City: Eleven Cultural Exercises." Read More
  
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• Rafael Moneo steps up for inaugural Soane Annual Lecture

  20-07-2017 17:18
  
  Sir John Soanes Museum in London has announced a new initiative designed to raise the profile of architects, artists and writers whose work has broadened and enriched understandings of architecture and the built environment, according to a museum statement. The inaugural Soane Annual Lecture, to be held at the Royal Institution in Albemarle Street, London, on 1 November, will be given by the Spanish architect Rafael Moneo who designed the Prados new wing (2007). And in a neat nod to history, Mon
  
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• Rising Up Down Under: Sydney Neighborhood Stakes Claim as Australia’s Answer to Chelsea

  20-07-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  
  Galleries, public art, and more have emerged among tree-lined laneways and crumbling Victorian terraces. Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Purloined Lygia Pape Edition

  20-07-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  
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• What Documenta Left Behind In Athens (And What It Didn't)

  20-07-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "'Too bad that it won't be here anymore,' says an older woman wearing a large grey ponytail. She's talking about the free food at the colorful pavilion on Athens's Kotzia Square. The woman probably doesn't know that it's really an art project by Pakistani artist Rasheed Araeen ... 'You have to be pretty brash as a Documenta visitor to sit here and eat the food when there are many who need it more,' comments one German guest."
  
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• The Pompidou Center Shanghai Is Coming

  20-07-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Officials at the Centre Pompidou have confirmed that ... more than 20 exhibitions drawn from the holdings of the Beaubourg Gallery will be shown in the new outpost, called Le Centre Pompidou Shanghai (West Bund), which is based in a wing of the new 25,000 sq. m West Bund Art Museum designed by the UK architect David Chipperfield."
  
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• Remember The 'Who's Who' Directories Of Notable People? (They Really Did Matter Once)

  20-07-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "So what's the deal? Where did this seemingly dumb idea come from and why does it persist? Today's Tedium points out why it was once valuable, and why it no longer is."
  
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• Hornby’s art historical smorgasbord at Glyndebourne

  20-07-2017 11:53
  
  Visitors to the Glyndebourne Festival in Lewes, East Sussex, will find a raft of sculptures that draw on works by Old and Modern masters. UK artist Nick Hornbys new and recent works, on show in the verdant grounds of the opera house, include fragments inspired by historic art, including works by Michelangelo and Matisse, a press statement says (Sculpture 1504-2017, until 27 August). A steel silhouette of a standing manAge of Bronze folded to Bird in Space #1 (2017)looks to Rodin and Brancusi whi
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.19.17

  20-07-2017 09:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  The World Is Your Classroom (Or Gym)
  Naomi Even-Aberle introduces us to her community: her gym. She shares how impactful it can be to take part in the successes, failures, and challenges of her students and peers as well as ... read more
  AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2017-07-19Part of Something Bigger
  Jaclyn Roessel reflects on the first time she felt like a part of a community, when she was 12 years old and had her Kinaaldá ceremony, in which she became a woman and felt the kin
  
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• Personal recordings immerse visitors in lives of Modern British artists

  20-07-2017 09:37
  
  An exhibition at the Lightbox gallery in Woking, Surrey, allows visitors to listen to recordings of artists such as Eduardo Paolozzi, Elisabeth Frink and Lynn Chadwick speaking intimately about their work and personal lives.Eileen Agar's outrageously old-school poshness, William Gear's firm Scottish reasonableness [and] Josef Herman's Polish-Jewish style of storytelling, are just some of the distinctive voices in the exhibition, says the curator Michael Bird. In Their Own Words: Artists' V
  
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• Neil MacGregor extends contract at Berlin's Humboldt Forum

  20-07-2017 09:37
  
  Neil MacGregor, the former director of the British Museum, has extended his contract as the director of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin until its opening in the reconstructed palace in the centre of the city. Envisaged as a centre of education and research on the natural world and world cultures, the Humboldt Forum is scheduled to open in 2019 in what is currently a vast building site opposite the cathedral and Museum Island on the Unter den Linden boulevard.
   
  MacGregor, 71, was appointed in
  
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• Lost Vancouver – in pictures

  20-07-2017 08:00
  
  From squatters to cafe-dwellers, from old wooden houses to neon hotspots, photographer Fred Herzog blazed a trail for colour as he captured half a century of change in the Canadian metropolis Continue reading...
  
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• Executive Director - Weidner Center for the Performing Arts

  20-07-2017 05:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay seeks Executive Director for Weidner Center for the Performing Arts.
  Position Information
  WORKING TITLE: Executive Director - Weidner Center for the Performing Arts
  UW SYSTEM OFFICIAL TITLE: Director, Unspecified (8)
  Essential Job FunctionsThis position reports to the Provost and oversees all of the operations of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts. The Executive Director is responsible for planning, programming, marketing (with assistance from Market
  
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• Archibald prize 2017: Gillian Triggs, Robert Forster and Lisa Wilkinson – in pictures

  20-07-2017 03:31
  
  Anh Do, Tony Albert, actor Dee Smart and an elusive painter by the name of ‘what’ are among the 43 artists vying for this year’s Archibald prize, alongside Albert Namatjira’s great-grandson Vincent and a group of boys from a Sydney primary school. Last year was the first time artist gender parity had been reached in the Archibald’s 95 years but this year it’s a different story: of the 43 artists – chosen by the gallery’s board of trustees – o
  
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• Stirling prize 2017 shortlist: from a cool crowdfunded pier to a giant hole in the ground

  20-07-2017 01:55
  
  The biggest truck-lift in Europe, built by Richard Rogers for the British Museum, is vying with a gloriously ungaudy pier and a Glasgow tower that thinks it’s a town. Read our critic’s take on the full shortlist hereHastings’ revived seaside pier will go head to head with a stealthy addition to the British Museum and a photographer’s concrete studio in west London in the race to win the RIBA Stirling prize for the UK’s best new building. They are joined on a diverse
  
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• The End Of Spain's Traditional 3-Hour Lunch Break?

  20-07-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "This week, change could finally be on the way, as 110 professional bodies in Catalonia have signed up to a plan to change the region’s daily timetable by 2025, shortening the classic three-hour lunch break so that employees can finish work earlier in the evening. Such a change would radically reshape ordinary people’s lives—and controversially, it could drive a wedge between Catalonia and the rest of Spain."
  
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