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• Tomory Dodge Heads to Ameringer McEnery Yohe

  26-07-2017 23:40 via artnews.com
  The artist was previously represented by CRG Gallery, which closed this past May. Read More
  
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• How Opera America Helped Spark A New Era In American Opera

  26-07-2017 23:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “New music is a culture that tends to romanticize risk, and I think we ought to push back on that romanticizing. For all its aesthetic innovation, new music remains a job for many people.” Perhaps the same could be said of new American opera. Debates over its future highlight a complex web of expectations concerning not only the importance of radical artistic vision but also the commercial realities and conventional operatic norms of larger institutions that cannot afford to fail in
  
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• China Blacks Out Foreign Movies And Sees Home-Grown Movies Top The Box Office

  26-07-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  China's government, intent on building a domestic film industry to rival Hollywood's, typically bans imported releases during peak moviegoing periods, such as national holidays and summer vacations. The blackouts — officially called "domestic film protection periods" — have historically given a summer bump to local films.
  
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• Untitled San Francisco trades venues for second edition

  26-07-2017 23:00
  The Untitled art fair, which launched in Miami in December 2012 and expanded to San Francisco this past January, will move from its inaugural Pier 70 location in the Dogpatch neighbourhood to the Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina for its 12-14 January 2018 edition.
  While the industrial Dogpatch digs sited the fair in a burgeoning arts district that includes many galleries and the exhibition-studio complex Minnesota Street Project, organisers say that the amenities and location of the Palace of
  
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• New art fair for China: Art Chengdu to launch next year in thriving southwestern metropolis

  26-07-2017 23:00
  China is to get another new art fair: the inaugural Art Chengdu International Contemporary Art Fair is due to run in the Sichuan capital from 28 April to 2 May next year, organisers announced earlier this month (the location is to be confirmed). The co-founder Huang Yu, a collector and Sichuan native, announced further details last week at a press conference in Beijing.
   
  Southwestern art has a very special and important place in Chinese art history, with a deep influence on the devel
  
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• New art fair for China: Art Chengdu to launch next year in affluent southwestern metropolis

  26-07-2017 23:00
  China is to get another new art fair: the inaugural Art Chengdu International Contemporary Art Fair is due to run in the Sichuan capital from 28 April 28 to 2 May next year, organisers announced earlier this month (the location is to be confirmed). The co-founder Huang Yu, a collector and Sichuan native, announced further details last week at a press conference in Beijing.
   
  Southwestern art has a very special and important place in Chinese art history, with a deep influence on the develop
  
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• Edinburgh Festival salutes the arts with a giant dragon

  26-07-2017 23:00
  Solo shows for Douglas Gordon, Ed Ruscha and the Brazilian artist Jac Leirner headline this years Edinburgh Art Festival (27 July27 August). The annual event, which this summer is celebrating its 70th year, includes 45 exhibitions spread over more than 35 venues. It also features a commissions programme that marks 100 years since the publication of The Making of the Future, a manifesto on the role of culture in rebuilding post-war society, written by the Scottish town planner and conservat
  
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• American Theatre Enthusiastically Takes On The Made-For-Theatre Trump

  26-07-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "With almost as much gusto as the talkers on cable news channels, the theater world is chewing over the bombastic image and pronouncements of President Trump, albeit with even less concern about the appearance of neutrality. It’s fair to say that among the lively arts, the theater has staked a claim most quickly and aggressively as a conduit for critiques of an administration that the vast majority of artists look upon as a threat."
  
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• Deputy Director of Development

  26-07-2017 22:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Music Hall, a leading performing arts center with two venues in downtown Portsmouth, NH, seeks a senior fundraising professional to serve as Deputy Director of Development. Reporting to the Director of Institutional Advancement, the Deputy Director plays a key role in all fundraising activities with a particular focus on Corporate Sponsorship and oversight of the Major Gifts and Grants programs. Successful candidates will have proven experience in relationship building at all levels; cultiva
  
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• The Most-Popular Playwright In America Is An Unexpected Name

  26-07-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lauren Gunderson recently topped the annual list of American Theatre magazine’s ranking of the country’s most-produced playwrights. (She was second only to August Wilson, who is deceased. Shakespeare receives so many productions every year he is no longer included on the list). Her placement there was remarkable for a number of reasons. She’s one of only a handful of women to make the list, and at 35, she is relatively young to appear there.  But Gunder
  
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• Study: Art Hung Higher Than Eye Level Is Rated Higher Quality

  26-07-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Those who looked up at the work "rated the painting most positively, while participants who looked down gave the lowest aesthetic appraisals," the researchers report. "Eye-level presentations received judgments in between."
  
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• Report: Nonprofits Are Stockpiling Huge Amounts Of Cash

  26-07-2017 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Nonprofits with large endowments are collecting more than twice as much money as they are spending on grants, facilities, and administrative and other costs, a new data analysis of 1,600 organizations by The Chronicle shows."
  
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• Is Canada's Access Copyright Law Depriving Artists Of Compensation For Their Work?

  26-07-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The amounts Access Copyright collects have dropped by 80 per cent since 2013 as the universities have used the new law to craft their own definitions of what they can copy for free. Society might be considered to have already paid the tenured scholars whose titles might be registered with Access Copyright, but for independent non-fiction writers who were making their careers producing Canadian material for the educational market or short-story writers whose titles had been placed on course curr
  
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• New EU Regulations On Data Collection Will Impact How Arts Organizations Track Their Audiences

  26-07-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "People will be able to request details of the data held about them at any time, and can require its removal in a wide range of circumstances. This is not only fundraising data but information held about everyone in an arts organisation’s database, from audiences and artists to volunteers."
  
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• AEA Consulting is Hiring

  26-07-2017 19:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  AEA Consulting is recruiting Senior Consultants, Consultants and Research Analysts for its offices in London and Beacon, New York
  We are looking for talented, culturally engaged problem solvers who can complement our team and support our widely regarded, growing international arts consulting business. We seek candidates for Research Analyst, Consultant and Senior Consultant roles in both our New York (Beacon) and London offices. These are full-time, salaried positions with a full package of bene
  
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• Ei Arakawa’s Skulptur Projekte Münster Piece, Partially Stolen, Is Fully Back in Action

  26-07-2017 19:40 via artnews.com
  There is heartening news out of charming Münster, Germany, today: a little more than a month after an LED panel from Ei Arakawa’s installation in a field on the outskirts of town was stolen, the work has been fully repaired … Read More
  
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• Menil Collection Delays Opening of Drawing Institute, Citing ‘Ongoing Construction Work’

  26-07-2017 18:52 via artnews.com
  The institute was expected to open on October 7. Read More
  
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• San Antonio Museum Receives 31 Portraits of Latinx Americans by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

  26-07-2017 18:00 via artnews.com
  A related exhibition will open this fall. Read More
  
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• Former Met Director Philippe de Montebello to Become Director at Acquavella

  26-07-2017 17:47 via artnews.com
  Nearly a decade after he retired as director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philippe de Montebello wants a second act—this time, at a gallery. The New York Times reported this morning that the longest-serving chief of America’s most prominent … Read More
  
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• Kerstin Brätsch at Museum Brandhorst, Munich

  26-07-2017 17:31 via artnews.com
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• Rhiannon Paget Named Curator of Asian Art at Ringling Museum

  26-07-2017 17:02 via artnews.com
  She will take over operation of the museum's Center for Asian Art, which opened in May 2016.Read More
  
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• Expo Chicago Announces Artists for In/Situ Sector

  26-07-2017 16:52 via artnews.com
  The fair's annual showcase for large-scale work will be curated by Florence Derieux. Read More
  
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• Britain’s best-loved artwork is a Banksy. That’s proof of our stupidity | Jonathan Jones

  26-07-2017 16:35
  Banksy’s Girl with Balloon comes top in a popular vote, despite is oversimplification of human emotion. Real art is ambiguous and difficult• Jonathan Jones writes on art for the GuardianPeople are stupid. Wait, hear me out. I didn’t say that – although in a time when Donald Trump can get elected US president and a referendum can doom Britain to inglorious isolation, haven’t you occasionally wondered?I was merely paraphrasing the Victorian art critic John Ruskin, who
  
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• Italian high court gives green light to Colosseum archaeological park

  26-07-2017 16:33
  The Italian government can proceed with a plan to create a new archaeological park around the Colosseum in Rome, the Council of State has ruled. Italys top administrative court has also unblocked the international selection process for a new director to oversee the ancient amphitheatre and its surrounding monuments, including the Roman Forum, Palatine Hill and Domus Aurea. The decisions of 24 July overturn a challenge by the mayor of Rome through the Lazio regional administrative tribunal (TAR)
  
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• Pinault funds restoration of historic drawings of Paris's former stock exchange

  26-07-2017 16:00
  The French billionaire art collector Franois Pinault is helping to fund the restoration of more than 200 architectural sketches that throw light on the design and construction of the Bourse de Commerce building near the Louvre in Paris. In a deal struck with the city last year, Pinault is due to open a new museum in the former stock exchange in early 2019.Tadao Ando, the Japanese architect who designed Pinaults two Venetian galleries, is leading the buildings renovation, alongside the French ar
  
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• François Pinault funds restoration of historic drawings of Paris's former stock exchange

  26-07-2017 16:00
  The French billionaire art collector Franois Pinault is helping to fund the restoration of more than 200 architectural sketches that throw light on the design and construction of the Bourse de Commerce building near the Louvre in Paris. In a deal struck with the city last year, Pinault is due to open a new museum in the former stock exchange in early 2019.Tadao Ando, the Japanese architect who designed Pinaults two Venetian galleries, is leading the buildings renovation, alongside the French ar
  
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• The Beckmann that got away from Serota

  26-07-2017 15:58
  Nicholas Serota went the extra mile, including by Greyhound bus across the Midwest, to borrow ten triptychs by Max Beckmann for an extraordinary loan show at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1980, its former director recalls in a new book about the graphic design of the East End institution. When the Whitechapel and co-organiser, the Stedelijk in Amsterdam, first wrote to the owners, we got nine letters of refusal, Serota told the books author Christopher Wilson. Instead of throwing in the Beckma
  
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• Morning Links: Yo-Yo Ma Edition

  26-07-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Marrie Bot's best photograph: bath-time on an ancient pilgrimage through Andalucía

  26-07-2017 14:34
  ‘We were out on the trail for three days with no shops and nothing to eat. And all I had with me was my camera, 20 rolls of film and a T-shirt’ I’ve been taking photographs on the El Rocío pilgrimage for 40 years, and it’s still just as intense an experience as it was the first time. Each year, more than 100 brotherhoods travel to the hermitage at El Rocío from all over Andalucía. I had heard that the Brotherhood of Triana was famous for its richness
  
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• Refugee film for King’s Cross commuters

  26-07-2017 13:21
  Visitors passing through Kings Cross Station this autumn will see a new, 12-minute film by the artist duo Broomberg & Chanarin. The piece, entitled The Bureaucracy of Angels, focuses on the demolition of 100 boats in Sicily used to transport thousands of refugees fleeing from North Africa. The artists visited Sicily a number of times where they were able to explore the area where migrants arrive from perilous journeys across the Mediterranean, a press statement says. The duo filmed the rescu
  
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• Turin’s new industrial arts complex prepares for "big bang" launch

  26-07-2017 11:18
  After Berlins Hamburger Bahnhof and Londons Tate Modern, the trend for converting industrial buildings into contemporary art spaces looks set to continue in the northern Italian city of Turin. The Officine Grandi Riparazioni (OGR), an H-shaped complex of 19th-century railway repair workshops covering an area of 35,000 sq. m, is due to reopen as a privately funded arts and innovation centre on 30 September with a trio of site-specific artists commissions and two weeks of free concerts.
   
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• The golden age of luggage labels – in pictures

  26-07-2017 07:59
  From the sun-baked beaches of Sri Lanka to the Saigon watering hole adored by Graham Greene, the world’s greatest hotels had to have the world’s greatest luggage labels – and AbeBooks has now brought together the most beautiful examples Continue reading...
  
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