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• The Frank Lloyd Wright Problem

  02-08-2017 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Academicians warned decades ago that "the restrictive control of the master’s archives for a quarter-century after his death in 1959 by his widow, Olgivanna (who died in 1985), would set back Wright studies for a full generation, if not longer. Dissertation advisers prudently steered doctoral candidates away from Wright topics because of the extortionate research and reproduction fees demanded by his foundation, as well as the editorial approval it demanded for publications that used mater
  
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• Divide Between The Arts And Those With Disabilities Is Wide (And Often Inadvertent)

  02-08-2017 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "There is a fine line in promoting artists’ work appropriately. All too often  artists with disabilities are given empathetic reviews replete with that “inspiration porn” trope of heroism overcoming tribulations, but ultimately they are not taken seriously as artists. Aesthetic validation is far more important than sympathy."
  
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• Criticism At A Remove - But Why Does Criticism Have To Stand Apart?

  02-08-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rita Felski asks what might happen if we looked not “behind the text” but “in front of the text, reflecting on what it unfurls, calls forth, makes possible.” In doing so, she seeks to rehabilitate the validity and importance of what we might call “literary desire”: the force that drives you to reread your favorite book yet again; or to finish that work of genre fiction even when you know the ending; or to press a beloved book awkwardly into a distant acquainta
  
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• Sotheby’s second-quarter income down 14%, but revenue is up as auction house invests in digital

  02-08-2017 23:00
  Sothebys made a clear commitment to the increased use of technology and digital marketing in its second quarter results call this morning, but such innovations come at a cost. Tad Smith, the companys chief executive, said that Sothebys has been adding staff who are skilled specialists, experts in needed technologies, strong salespeople, and excellent digital marketers, perhaps reflected in a $12m rise in salaries from the same period last year. But, he added the company will pause and re-examin
  
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• Object lessons: a Tibetan Buddhist relic and boxer made from recycled materials

  02-08-2017 23:00
  Online Saffronart9-10 August: Asian ArtVaishravana, Guardian Deity of the North (16th-17th century)
  Est. $39,000-$55,000
  The Tibetan relic, a highlight of the houses first online sale of Asian works of art, depicts the Buddhist deity Vaishravana, known in Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana branches of the religion as the Guardian of the North and worshipped as a protector and an idol of wealth. The ornately armoured god is shown riding a white snow lion and holding both an emblem for victory and
  
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• Object lessons: a Tibetan Buddhist relic and a boxer made from recycled materials

  02-08-2017 23:00
  Online Saffronart9-10 August: Asian ArtVaishravana, Guardian Deity of the North (16th-17th century)
  Est. $39,000-$55,000
  The Tibetan relic, a highlight of the houses first online sale of Asian works of art, depicts the Buddhist deity Vaishravana, known in Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana branches of the religion as the Guardian of the North and worshipped as a protector and an idol of wealth. The ornately armoured god is shown riding a white snow lion and holding both an emblem for victory and
  
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• Museum patron and photography connoisseur Paul Walter’s collection to be sold

  02-08-2017 23:00
  More than 500 works of art from the collection of the late museum patron and collector Paul F. Walter will be offered at Christies, New York, in two separate live sales (26-27 September) and an online sale (21-28 September). Walter, once the head of the New Jersey-based industrial manufacturer Thermo Electric, which his parents co-founded in the 1940s, was a Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) trustee, and a benefactor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (La
  
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• Bitter Sweet photo memories

  02-08-2017 23:00
  September 2017 will be the 20th anniversary of the release of the Verve's album Urban Hymns, which features songs such as Bitter Sweet Symphony and Lucky Man and remains in the top 20 best-selling albums of all time in the UK. To mark the occasion, the British photographer and Filmmaker Chris Floyd, who shot the British rock band as they rose to fame, will release the memoir The Verve: Photographs by Chris Floyd in September, on Reel Art Press. The majority of Floyd's black and white and colour
  
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• Kienholz at L.A. Louver, Venice, California

  02-08-2017 22:58 via artnews.com
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• Here We Go Loop De Loop: Sheila Hicks ‘Hops, Skips, Jumps, and Flies’ Along the High Line

  02-08-2017 22:46 via artnews.com
  One sweltering afternoon earlier this week, the artist Sheila Hicks was enjoying a blueberry popsicle as she leaned against a railing on the High Line on the far West Side of Manhattan and watched as construction equipment—cranes, elevators, dump trucks—moved … Read More
  
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• Sherrie Levine Is Now Represented by Xavier Hufkens

  02-08-2017 21:06 via artnews.com
  The Pictures Generation artist's market has grown over the past few years. Read More
  
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• LACMA Art+Film Gala to Honor Mark Bradford, George Lucas

  02-08-2017 18:01 via artnews.com
  Eva Chow and Leonardo DiCaprio will co-chair the event. Read More
  
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• Want to try slow tourism? First give up your guidebook

  02-08-2017 16:03
  Florence’s Uffizi Gallery wants to discourage casual visitors, promoting repeat visits at different times. It’s a noble aim: we should all learn to take our timeSome people go to Florence and check off its sights before heading for a pizzeria in the city that does Italy’s worst pizza (really, try the lethally delicious local delicacy Lardo di Colonnata instead). Others feast so obsessively on art they make themselves sick. Overdoing it on the art of Florence is a
  
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• Morning Links: Aby Warburg Edition

  02-08-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Death of Russia’s 'most popular' artist, a pseudo-dissident, far-Right nationalist

  02-08-2017 14:47
  Ilya Glazunov, who died 9 July, was one of Russias top two regime artists, sharing this pinnacle with Tsurab Tsereteli, creator of the vast Peter the Great monument in the centre of Moscow. Like Tsereteli, he realised that Russians had tired of the relentlessly optimistic, forward-looking tropes of Soviet Realism and tapped into the romantic nationalism of the people and their rulers. He was born in Leningrad in 1930, studied at the Repin Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture
  
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• Igor Golomstock obituary

  02-08-2017 14:46
  Cultural historian who explored the use of similar art to promote differing totalitarian regimesThe art historian Igor Golomstock, who has died aged 88, is best known for his book Totalitarian Art (1990), the first serious study of the similarities between the socialist realist art of Stalinist Russia and the art of Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and Maoist China, an area of debate long considered taboo in Igor’s native country, Russia.Igor argued that totalitarian art was not so much an arti
  
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• Ralph Steadman's critters on the edge of extinction – in pictures

  02-08-2017 13:49
  Animals across the globe are struggling to survive the perils of the Anthropocene era. Writer and environmental campaigner Ceri Levy introduces the much-loved artist’s portraits of these embattled beastsBuy Critical Critters at the Guardian BookshopAn exhibition of Ralph Steadman’s signed prints from the book will run at the Goldmark Gallery from 2 SeptemberRalph Steadman, Ceri Levy and poems about climate change – books podcastContinue reading...
  
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• Budi Tek awarded French government’s highest honour

  02-08-2017 11:23
  The Indonesian-Chinese collector Budi Tek is to be awarded Frances premier award, the Chevalier de lOrdre national de la Lgion dhonneur (Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour) at a ceremony at his Yuz Museum in Shanghai on 13 August.Tek, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer around 18 months ago, has been commended for advancing cultural relations between China and France, as well as his contributions to the development of human society, according to a statement.As early as 2011, the Yuz
  
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• Why I chose the 'spit and scribble' photograph: Olive Cotton judge on the global furore | Shaune Lakin

  02-08-2017 07:24
  Shaune Lakin reflects on his decision to grant the $20,000 prize for photographic portraiture to a work made using Justine Varga’s grandmother’s saliva and scribbles
  Recently I announced Justine Varga’s Maternal Line as the winner of this year’s Olive Cotton award for photographic portraiture.Maternal Line is a beautiful photograph. Its purple and green palette has colours and smoky metallic effects I had never seen in a photograph before. Over this coloured ground is a s
  
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• Justine Varga: taking photos without a camera – in pictures

  02-08-2017 06:56
  The controversial winner of the 2017 Olive Cotton award has produced an extensive body of work using 5 x 4 and 10 x 8 inch negatives. These negatives are exposed and developed using traditional photographic processes but with no physical camera to focus the light or render recognisable imagesJudge Shaune Lakin explains why he chose Maternal Line as the 2017 Olive Cotton award winnerContinue reading...
  
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• Justine Varga: making photos without a camera – in pictures

  02-08-2017 06:56
  The controversial winner of the 2017 Olive Cotton award has produced an extensive body of work using 5 x 4 and 10 x 8 inch negatives. These negatives are exposed and developed using traditional photographic processes but with no physical camera to focus the light or render recognisable imagesJudge Shaune Lakin explains why he chose Maternal Line as the 2017 Olive Cotton award winnerContinue reading...
  
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