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• BienalSur—a biennial without borders—launches this autumn

  25-07-2017 23:02
  The first International Biennial of Contemporary Art of South America (BienalSur) launches this September across 30 cities in South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Anbal Jozami, the director of the biennial, told The Art Newspaper that the inaugural edition aims establish a lasting institution that fosters cultural exchange and integration between countries.The biennials that we are now acquainted with were born at different historical times as a consequence of certain social groups attemptin
  
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• Object lessons: a sculptural horse honouring the Tōhoku disaster by Deborah Butterfield and a still life by E. Charlton Fortune

  25-07-2017 23:00
  SeattleGreg Kucera Gallery3-6 August: Seattle Art Fair
  Hisaiba (2016) by Deborah Butterfield$165,000
  The American artist, who works with found objects and materials such as driftwood and assorted debris to produce sculptures of horses, cast this unique bronze from flotsam and jetsam that was thrust across the Pacific Ocean after the Thoku earthquake and tsunami struck the northern coast of Japan in 2011 (the debris was collected in Alaska, then shipped to Washington). The sculpture was complete
  
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• Museum Alliance and Directors Group Issue Open Letter Criticizing Berkshire Museum’s Deaccession Plan

  25-07-2017 22:38 via artnews.com
  The museum will sell 40 works from its collection at Sotheby's later this year. Read More
  
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• Ismaïl Bahri at Jeu de Paume, Paris

  25-07-2017 20:58 via artnews.com
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• NYFA Distinguished Artist Awards Go to Merion Estes and Mario Martinez

  25-07-2017 19:42 via artnews.com
  The award goes artists over the age of 50. Read More
  
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• Richard Deacon fills the Royal Academy’s ‘sculpture ledge’

  25-07-2017 18:02
  The artist and Royal Academician Richard Deacon has redisplayed the sculpture ledge on the top floor of the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in London in time for the launch of the RAs next blockbuster show in its Sackler Galleries, Matisse in the Studio, which opens to the public next week (5 August-12 November).
   
  The first artist-led redisplay of 21 works by fellow Academicians include Anthony Caros Mouchoir from his Cascade series (1990), which drapes over the plinth on the stone ledge, the R
  
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• Who is the collector behind the Getty’s windfall master drawings acquisition?

  25-07-2017 17:41
  When the Getty secured its great Parmigianino painting Virgin and Child, St John the Baptist and Mary Magdalenevalued at 24.5mfrom the UKs Sudeley Castle last month, many in the field thought this would be the Los Angeles museums last major acquisition for some time. Im sure they are all tapped out for awhile, a source told us. Not quite.Last week, the Getty announced the acquisition of 16 major master drawings and one paintingWatteaus exquisite, recently re-discovered La Surprise (around 1718)
  
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• Gay bars and tarot cards: Liverpool show celebrates LGBT art

  25-07-2017 17:40
  Walker art gallery is putting on UK’s largest exhibition exploring LGBT themes and history through contemporary artPoignant video footage of 170 empty gay bars in 13 UK cities will greet visitors to the UK’s largest exhibition exploring LGBT themes and history through contemporary art.The footage, filmed over nine months by artists Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings, is part of an exhibition opening this week at Liverpool’s Walker art gallery. The exhibition is one of a number o
  
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• Crosby, Stills & Nash singer puts Crumb comics on the block

  25-07-2017 17:25
  The rock n roll legend Graham Nash, singer and songwriter with the 1970s supergroup group Crosby, Stills & Nash, is offering several pieces by Robert Crumb, the countercultural cartoonist, at auction next month. Nash has consigned various Crumb classics to Heritage Auctions Comic Auctions in Dallas (10-12 August) including Zap Comix #1, cover original art dating from 1967 (est $100,000). The cartoonist himself features in The Peoples Comics (1972; best $50,000), depicting his various escapad
  
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• Brooklyn Museum Partners With Equal Justice Initiative to Survey ‘The Legacy of Lynching’

  25-07-2017 17:00 via artnews.com
  An exhibition on racial violence in America opens July 26. Read More
  
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• Consumer Reports: Anthony Atlas

  25-07-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  Anthony Atlas is an artist’s estate manager and apartment impresario based in Brooklyn. He is the proprietor of The Middler, an apartment gallery in Bushwick that has shown work from Soppy Naess, Morgan Ritter, and more.Atlas’s Con Rep happens the week of … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Alice Cooper’s Warhol Edition

  25-07-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  BitcoinPeople are now buying art with Bitcoin, as well as other digital tender, including Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Dash, Litecoin. [BBC]The Big EasyThe Historic New Orleans Collection is gearing up for the city’s tricentennial with a special exhibition, with many works on … Read More
  
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• Edinburgh Art Festival: artists look to Maori traditions, 19th-century botany and jellyfish

  25-07-2017 11:27
  The Edinburgh Art Festival remains a slender operation compared to many art events, with just seven new commissions this year, relying heavily on partner shows. But this summer Edinburgh boasts a new pavilion, thanks to Jupiter Artland, the sculpture park whose co-founder Robert Wilson is also festival chairman. The 2017 festival (28 July-28 August) takes as its theme, The Making of the Future: Now, from the title of a pamphlet by the 19th-century town planner and conservationist Sir Patrick Ged
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.24.17

  25-07-2017 11:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Berkshire Museum Disposables: Bierstadts, Bouguereaus, Calders, Church, Inness, “George Washington”
  The hit list is out. The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, today identified (see the above link) all 40 works that it intends to sell through Sotheby’s to bankroll its $60-million reinvention plan. ... read more
  AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2017-07-24Digging to France
  When I tell a U.S. colleague about several concerts I’m playing in France he says
  
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• Bacteria from 300-year-old Ovid poetry volume inspires 'bio-artist'

  25-07-2017 11:16
  Sarah Craske found the copy of Metamorphoses in a secondhand bookshop and used bacteria within its pages to create art with her own bloodThere was more than poetry trapped between the leather covers of a 300-year-old volume of Ovid’s Metamorphoses: blood, sweat and snot feature in an art installation that displays the bacteria within its pages. The sweat and the droplets from an ancient sneeze that spattered one page were contributed by centuries of previous owners and readers of the book
  
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• Whips so cold: the lowriders that are now museum pieces – in pictures

  25-07-2017 11:00
  The High Art of Riding Low, an exhibition at Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, examines the lowrider as an artistic catalyst and cultural icon. The range of work on display – paintings, photography and vehicles themselves – meld automotive ingenuity and imaginative expression Continue reading...
  
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• Dean of Visual and Performing Arts (July 2017), Citrus College

  25-07-2017 05:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  PLACEMENT/RANGE/PAY RATE:Initial placement on the management salary schedule is 77-1 ($134,131/yr.); however, the Superintendent/President has the authority to place a newly hired manager on the management salary schedule up to 77-3 ($145,080/yr.). The ceiling for this position is capped at 77-8 ($176,509/yr.).
  BENEFITS:The District provides a fully-paid, comprehensive program of fringe benefits including major medical, dental, and vision insurance for full-time employees and eligible dependents
  
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• The New Billion-Dollar Temples Our Tech Giants Are Building

  25-07-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tech giants are now in the same position as great powers in the past – the bankers of the Italian Renaissance, the skyscraper-builders of the 20th century, the Emperor Augustus, Victorian railway companies – whereby, whether they want to or not, their size and wealth find expression in spectacular architecture.
  
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