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• Pacific Standard Time LA/LA: five must-see exhibitions

  27-07-2017 23:00
  The second edition of Pacific Standard Time (PST), launching this autumn, includes more than 70 shows and programmes at almost 80 partner institutions across Los Angeles. This year's theme, LA/LA, looks at the culture of Los Angeles and Latin America. Here are our picks of shows not to miss.Golden Kingdoms
  At the Getty Center, the exhibition Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas (16 September-28 January 2018) presents works containing precious metals and gems
  
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• Pacific Standard Time: five must-see exhibitions

  27-07-2017 23:00
  The second edition of Pacific Standard Time (PST), launching this autumn, includes more than 70 shows and programmes at almost 80 partner institutions across Los Angeles. This year's theme, LA/LA, looks at the culture of Los Angeles and Latin America. Here are our picks of shows not to miss.Golden Kingdoms
  At the Getty Center, the exhibition Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas (16 September-28 January 2018) presents works containing precious metals and gems
  
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• Fundraising auction of Haitian art tests the water

  27-07-2017 23:00
  Later this year, Piasa will auction Haitian artworks from the collection of Le Centre dart in Port au Prince to raise funds for the institution, which was destroyed by the earthquake that hit the island in 2010. Art From Haiti (19 October) is the first such sale to be held by the Parisian auctioneer, known for its themed sales experimenting with niche areas of the art and design market. It includes almost 100 works, dating from the 1940s to the present day, collected by the Centre since it was e
  
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• A Service of Lament and Thanksgiving in the shadow of Grenfell Tower

  27-07-2017 23:00
  Family, friends and fellow artists filled St Marys Church in Londons North Kensington yesterday (27 July) afternoon to commemorate and celebrate the young artist Khadija Saye and her mother Mary Mendy, as well as Berkti Haftom, her twelve-year-old son Beruk and five year old Isaac Paulos who, along with numerous others, perished in the Grenfell Tower fire on 14 June.
   
  Just a few weeks before her death, Khadijas tintype photographs had been unveiled to great acclaim at the Diaspora Pavilion
  
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• Sam Durant Wins deCordova Sculpture Park’s $25,000 Rappaport Prize

  27-07-2017 22:37 via artnews.com
  The award goes to an artist with ties to New England. Read More
  
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• Sheikh Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi Joins Board of Trustees at the MCA Chicago

  27-07-2017 21:20 via artnews.com
  Al Qassemi will also serve as a co-chair for the museum's new Global Vision Initiative. Read More
  
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• Former Met Director Thomas Campbell Receives Getty Rothschild Fellowship

  27-07-2017 20:06 via artnews.com
  He will spend eight months researching at the Getty in L.A. and Windsor Manor in England.Read More
  
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• What's inside Ivanka Trump's male-dominated $25m art collection?

  27-07-2017 19:08
  The businesswoman-turned-presidential adviser and her husband have accrued a high-value set of pieces that showcase an unlikely penchant for the rebelShortly after their marriage in 2009, Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, started collecting art, a hobby she later described as “a fun exploration of our personal and collective tastes”. Cut to 2017 and as part of their previously undisclosed assets, it’s been revealed that the power couple’s collection is valued u
  
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• He Launched The Careers Of David Lynch, The Coen Brothers, And John Sayles - And Now (At Last) He's Directed A Movie Himself

  27-07-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "He was sometimes a producer, more often a distributor and exhibitor. He decided to buy Mr. Lynch's Eraserhead (1977) after seeing only half of it and made it a cult hit. Before that, he invented the phenomenon of the midnight movie, with El Topo (1970), selling out the Elgin for six months, followed by Pink Flamingos ... Now, at 82, [Ben] Barenholtz has directed his first dramatic film. 'I'll never be Kubrick,' he said, smiling. 'But I wasn't afraid either.'"
  
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• Should Serious Dancers Really Go To College?

  27-07-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Although schools like Juilliard and Bennington College have made degrees acceptable for modern dancers for decades, the competitive ballet world (which often follows a philosophy of "the younger the better") tends to discourage higher education.
  
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• Not With A Pop, But With A Hiss, The Higher-Education Price Bubble Is Deflating

  27-07-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Derek Thompson: "Altogether, the numbers paint a clear picture: The higher-education market is not bursting, like a popped soap bubble; but it is leaking, like a pierced balloon. What's going on? The explanation is a little bit of weak demand, a little bit of over-supply, a big crackdown on for-profit colleges, and, perhaps, a subtle shift in culture."
  
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• V&A to recapture glamour and high design of luxury ocean liners

  27-07-2017 17:35
  A piece of the RMS Titanic will next year return to Britain for the first time since it sailed from Southampton on its doomed maiden voyage in 1912. A fragment of the carved wooden overdoors in the first-class loungethe largest surviving relic of the shipwill be the last object on show in a 2018 exhibition at Londons Victoria and Albert Museum, Ocean Liners: Speed and Style (3 February-10 June). The rare loan from the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Canada, comes from where the line
  
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• Arundhati Roy Leads This Year's Booker Man Longlist

  27-07-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On a longlist thronged with literary titans, whose combined trophy cabinet would include the Pulitzer, the Costa, the Baileys, the Folio, the Impac and the Goldsmiths prizes, Roy – the only author to have won the Booker before – is listed for her novel about an Indian transgender woman, which judges called a “rich and vital book”.
  
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• Menil Collection's New Drawing Institute Will Not Be Opening This Fall

  27-07-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The public opening of the MDI, originally scheduled for Oct. 7, has been postponed until sometime next year. Three planned exhibitions for the space are also being shuffled. Menil Collection director Rebecca Rabinow said the organization's earlier move-in plan was 'probably a little too aggressive.'"
  
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• We're Approaching A Major Turning Point In Trump-Era Pop Culture

  27-07-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mark Harris writes about how audiences are finding current-day resonance in properties like The Handmaid's Tale, The Americans, The Big Sick, and Dunkirk that were planned and written well before the 2016 election. However, "this moment is coming into focus just as it's about to end. ... With the advent of autumn we'll move into a period in which most of the resonance will be planned. ... My guess - speaking of questionable forecasting - is that our relationship to Trumpian pop-culture material
  
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• ‘POINT QUARTZ: Flower of Kent’ at Villa Arson, Nice, France

  27-07-2017 16:35 via artnews.com
  See images from one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• What The Hell Does Michael Moore Want Now? To Go On Broadway And Change People's Minds

  27-07-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Now Mr. Moore, this willfully disheveled, 63-year-old hybrid of Noam Chomsky and P. T. Barnum, expects theatergoers to pay Broadway ticket prices to watch him in a one-man show, The Terms of My Surrender. After his previous documentaries, books and television shows, does he have anything left to say, and does he really believe it will make a difference?" Dave Itzkoff goes to a rehearsal to find out.
  
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• Bells and Bears and Beings, Oh My!: Charlemagne Palestine Takes New York

  27-07-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  A carillon performance and an exhibition at the Jewish Museum are among his many offerings. Read More
  
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• Reading remembers Wilde with Pride

  27-07-2017 15:20
  Readings place in the queer history of England doesnt stop at Reading Gaol, where the playwright Oscar Wilde was imprisoned; this miscarriage of justice was commemorated last year by Inside, a remarkable exhibition in the former prison organised by Artangel and featuring work by artists including Ai Weiwei, Marlene Dumas and a reading of Wildes prison ballad by the actor Rupert Everett and Wildes De Profundis by Patti Smith. This autumn, marking the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation
  
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• Auschwitz Artifacts To Go On Tour, Very Carefully

  27-07-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "More than 72 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the first traveling exhibition about the Nazi death camp will begin a journey later this year to 14 cities across Europe and North America, taking heartbreaking artifacts to multitudes who have never seen such horror up close."
  
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• Angry Ex-Wife Destroys $1M Worth Of Violins In Luthier's Workshop

  27-07-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The alleged victim, Daniel Olsen Chen, 62, a Norwegian national living and working in Japan, is a former violinist who maintained a making and repairing workshop in Nagoya. He posted a video of the destruction on his YouTube channel, AV Daniel Violin, and has claimed that in total 54 instruments and 70 bows were damaged, including his own Amati, the value of which he places around 50m yen ($450,000)." (includes video)
  
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• Katherine Brinson Named Daskalopoulos Curator, Contemporary Art at Guggenheim

  27-07-2017 15:01 via artnews.com
  The new position is endowed by Dimitris Daskalopoulos. Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Bacterial Communication in Complex Geometry and Flow Edition

  27-07-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
  
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• June Foray, Voice Of Rocky And Natasha On 'Bullwinkle', Dead At 99

  27-07-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Foray was also the voice behind Looney Tunes' Witch Hazel, Nell from Dudley Do-Right, Granny in the Tweety and Sylvester cartoons and Cindy Lou Who in Chuck Jones' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, among hundreds of others."
  
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• Ex-Met Museum Director Philippe De Montebello Goes To Work At A Gallery

  27-07-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[He] doesn't exactly need another job. He is chairman of the Hispanic Society of America; a professor at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts; an honorary trustee of the Prado Museum; and a host of the PBS TV program NYC-ARTS. But now Mr. de Montebello has decided to add yet one more, becoming a director of Acquavella Galleries, effective immediately, where he will focus on the curation of special exhibitions and the development of publications."
  
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• Mandy Patinkin To Star In Broadway Musical For First Time In 17 Years

  27-07-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Patinkin will spend three weeks at the end of the summer as Pierre in Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. "This marks Patinkin's first role in a Broadway musical since 2000's The Wild Party, and his first time on Broadway since his 2011-12 season concert An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin."
  
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• Xander Parish Says The Royal Ballet Doesn't Develop Its Young Talent (Which Is Why He Left For The Mariinsky)

  27-07-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "At the time, it was the case in the Royal Ballet that there was a mindset of leaving dancers to develop, like a good wine or something, to gain strength in their own time. Whereas, in Russia, they have an idea of taking raw talent, maybe not ready for the big roles, and working on it until it's ready to be set before the audience."
  
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• How That Glorious Italian Marble Gets Wrenched From The Earth

  27-07-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The story of Italian marble is the story of difficult motion: violent, geological, haunted by failure and ruin and lost fortunes, marred by severed fingers, crushed dreams, crushed men. Rarely has a material so inclined to stay put been wrenched so insistently out of place and carried so far from its source."
  
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• Colosseum Archaeological Park Approved By Italy's Council Of State

  27-07-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Italy's 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) on 7 June."
  
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• New UK sculpture triennial gains momentum for 2019 opening

  27-07-2017 11:19
  A century after a young Yorkshireman named Henry Moore enrolled at the Leeds College of Art in 1919, the northern English region is to have its first triennial dedicated to sculpture. The Yorkshire Sculpture International, which is expected to launch in summer 2019, is the brainchild of the four institutions that make up the Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle: the Leeds Art Gallery and the Henry Moore Institute next door, the Hepworth Wakefield and Yorkshire Sculpture Park. 
   
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• Screen Goddess Face Off

  27-07-2017 10:33
  Will you choose #HepburnAtChristies or #VivienAtSothebys? This September, Vivien Leigh and Audrey Hepburn go head to head when the actresses personal collections are sold on consecutive days at Sothebys and Christies in London, prime souvenir shopping for screen star relic hunters. On 26 September, Sothebys offer 250 items from Leighs life, a broad mix of paintings, jewellery, couture, books and furniture, from the homes she shared with her husband, Laurence Olivier. Estimates in the 500,00
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.26.17

  27-07-2017 09:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fireflies Are Out …
  “Veselka” cucumber conundrum soup You can tell the temperature by the firefly rate of thorax blinking, which can be hypnotic, like the gleam of this cucumber seed in fluorescent kitchen light. Those seeds, covered in slime, scoot like baby roaches onto counter or floor when you run a spoon down the center of your split green sausage to scoop them out. ... read more
  AJBlog: Out There Published 2017-07-26This is Reading — Artists Mak
  
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• The tongue-sucking genius of Masahisa Fukase – in pictures

  27-07-2017 08:00
  Pierced by pins, tormented by ravens, obscured by bathtub bubbles … the great Japanese photographer created astonishing, disturbing, highly personal images of himself, his family – and his beloved cat Sasuke the Second Continue reading...
  
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• Indigenous Dance Festival That Focuses On Contemporary Indigenous Culture Across The World

  27-07-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The festival will highlight commonalities, as well as differences, across geographically or politically separated Indigenous cultures. National borders are of scant relevance to the peoples whose ancestors inhabited Turtle Island long before Europeans “discovered” North America. Santee Smith emphasizes that today’s Indigenous artists are highly individual. “We’re all rooted in our world views — societal, spiritual, philosophical — and share a belief that
  
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