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• Museum of the City of New York Calls for Removal of East Harlem Statue of Doctor Who Experimented on Enslaved Women

  22-08-2017 23:37 via artnews.com
  A statement from the institution says that that "there is a compelling argument to be made for the statue's removal as a symbol of unethical racist medical practice." Read More
  
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• The Engine Behind New Orleans' Jazz Fest That Keeps It Alive

  22-08-2017 23:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In late April and early May, people in bars and restaurants and in the streets wish each other a happy Jazz Fest in the same tones as "Merry Christmas." Nightclubs book special events for the nights after and the days between the two festival weekends; social and professional groups throw their own parties and gatherings. In a city that both defines and supports itself through culture and tourism, it's one of the biggest and most active economic engines for both."
  
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• Here Is the Artist List for the 2017 Moscow Biennale

  22-08-2017 23:03 via artnews.com
  Curated by Yuko Hasegawa, the exhibition opens on September 19. Read More
  
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• Here's What TV Actors In Hollywood Make

  22-08-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Among the winners in the past year on the drama side were Robert De Niro, who is in line to receive an eye-popping $775,00 per episode for the untitled Amazon drama series from director David O. Russell. Other big gainers include “Shameless” stars Emmy Rossum and William H. Macy and the “Ozark” duo of Jason Bateman and Laura Linney.
  
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• William T. Williams on abstraction and having a studio on Broadway for 50 years

  22-08-2017 23:00
  Art is the one thing that allows us to communicate across cultures, says the US artist William T. Williams in A Diamond in A Box. Williams is the focus of this short profile, which take us from his studio on Broadway in New York where he has been for more than 50 years, to his countryside retreat in Connecticut. The film was commissioned by Tate and is directed by Andy Mundy-Castle. Williams features in Tate Moderns current exhibition Soul of Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power (until 22 Octob
  
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• Truncheons, pistols and KKK to feature in ‘socio-political’ show organised by Franko B

  22-08-2017 23:00
  A selection of works commissioned and collected by a/politicala London-based non-profit that collaborates with socio-political artistswill go on show this autumn in an exhibition in Ireland. The exhibition, titled How to Say It the Way It Is!, is due to open at the Rua Red gallery in south Dublin (7 October-2 December). The veteran performance artist Franko B is organising the exhibition, bringing together works by artists such as Petr Davydtchenko, Barbara Kruger and Oleg Kulik. The show i
  
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• Sotheby’s scraps buyer’s premium on online-only auctions

  22-08-2017 23:00
  As online sales emerge as the new auction battleground, Sothebys has scrapped buyers premium on all its online-only auctions.It is a bold statement of intent. The auction house introduced online-only sales just last year, but David Goodman, Sothebys executive vice president of digital development and marketing, says that they are its best tool for attracting first time buyers. In the first half of 2017, 45% of buyers in online-only sales were new to Sothebys and around 20% have gone on to parti
  
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• New Jasper Johns monograph offers a full overview of his 60-year career

  22-08-2017 23:00
  For frugal fans of Jasper Johns unwilling to put down $1,500 for the newly released catalogue rasionn of his paintings and sculptures, there is good news: the first volume of the catalogue has just been published as an affordable standalone volume, priced at $60.
  The book, titled Redo An Eye, by the scholar Roberta Bernstein is a richly illustrated, comprehensive overview of his more than 60-year career and is the first monograph to take into account the full scope of his achievements. It is pu
  
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• London exhibitions: female Surrealists reclaim the body, a peek into Matisse’s studio and an exploration of the artist-sitter dynamic

  22-08-2017 23:00
  Dreamers Awake, White Cube (until 17 September)Surrealism was a movement dominated by men and obsessed with womenespecially their bodies, which the likes of Magritte, Ernst, Bellmer, Dali et al presented as a vessel for every conceivable male fantasy. But despite the female form suffering all manner of abuse at the hands of the surrealists, from the 1930s onwards many women artists were also associated with the movement, attracted by Surrealisms liberation of the subconscious, its emphasis on th
  
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• Otto Berchem and Amalia Pica at Instituto de Visión, Bogotá, Colombia

  22-08-2017 22:54 via artnews.com
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• Finalists Chosen for Artadia’s 2017 San Francisco Awards

  22-08-2017 22:44 via artnews.com
  The artists are Simone Bailey, Sadie Barnette, Sofía Córdoza, Carrie Hott, and Davina Semo. Read More
  
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• Dance Movement Psychotherapy Is A Thing

  22-08-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "DMP recognises body movement as an implicit and expressive instrument of communication and expression. DMP is a relational process in which client and therapist engage in an empathic creative process using body movement and dance to assist integration of emotional, cognitive, physical, social and spiritual aspects of self."
  
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• Russia Detains Prominent Theatre Director

  22-08-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The director, Kirill S. Serebrennikov, leads the Gogol Center, one of the most prominent and progressive artistic venues in Moscow. He is accused of working with accomplices to misappropriate 68 million rubles, or $1.1 million at current exchange rates, that had been awarded to Studio Seven, a theater production company he led.
  
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• Edinburgh Fringe Festival Is The Biggest Festival In The World (Is That A Problem?)

  22-08-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some locals worry that the festival is becoming an open-air museum paralyzed by tourists. “There is a debate about whether it’s too big and the city can sustain it,” said Donald Wilson, who is in charge of culture for the City Council. “But it’s not going to become a hollow museum like Venice. It’s too much a part of the city’s soul, and too participatory.”
  
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• Casting Directors Demand Recognition From Broadway League

  22-08-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "As one of the most labor-intensive industries in the city, Broadway production is a union shop for actors, stage hands, musicians, directors and choreographers, authors and others. The casting directors, who are seeking to negotiate a union contract as members of Teamsters Local 817, have had no luck so far getting the League’s labor committee to sit down with them."
  
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• UK Report: Investment In Arts And Economic Benefits For Communities

  22-08-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The findings demonstrate “positive and strong relationships” between investment in culture, sport and heritage and positive economic impacts for local places, although the report notes that the precise mechanisms through which this influence is exerted require further investigation.
  
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• Baltimore Museum of Art Appoints Adam Pendleton to Its Board Along with Six Other New Trustees

  22-08-2017 19:33 via artnews.com
  The appointees include figures prominent in local business, politics, art, and design. Read More
  
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• The Dangerous Mythologies About Utopian Cultures

  22-08-2017 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The idea of a group of people untouched and unblemished by modernity encouraged social scientists to see them as a control group when it came to asking questions about whether humans have an original nature that has been somehow sullied by civilization. Among the most popular questions are ones about the human capacity for violence and war. Are people inherently violent or was the slow march away from hunting and gathering that left us war-mongering and conflict-ridden?"
  
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• AI-Composed Music - Can You Tell It Hasn't Been Written By A Human?

  22-08-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Using AI music creation software by Amper, Southern plugged in various parameters like mood, style, and tempo to auto-compose the underlying chords and instrumentation. The album will even be distributed online through Stem, a platform that allows royalties to be divvied up between various creators. So not only will machines write music in the future, they might even get paid.
  
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• How The 16th Century Created The Template For Classical Music

  22-08-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It would seem rather that the Catholic church has, literally, called the tunes in western music history. Virtually all notated repertories before the Reformation came from Catholic Europe and the church continued to produce many of the great glories of Renaissance music during the first century of reformation. Even William Byrd, arguably the greatest English composer of the age, wrote significant pieces for the Catholic liturgy.
  
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• Sotheby’s Raises Buyer’s Premiums for Live Auctions, Does Away With Buyer’s Premiums for Online Sales

  22-08-2017 18:23 via artnews.com
  The highest fees will now apply to lower-priced works at auction. Read More
  
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• Singapore Art Museum Names June Yap as New Curatorial Director

  22-08-2017 17:56 via artnews.com
  The appointment follows news that the museum will undergo a $90 million revamp.Read More
  
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• Seeds of Inspiration: Operating in an Expanded Field, the 13th Sharjah Biennial Aims to Push Beyond Monocultures

  22-08-2017 17:04 via artnews.com
  Sharjah Art Foundation and other international venues, October 2016–January 2018 Read More
  
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• Univision Communications Gives 57 Works to Frost Art Museum

  22-08-2017 16:54 via artnews.com
  Works by Wifredo Lam and Rafael Soriano are included in the donation. Read More
  
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• Castles for the Afterlife: The Coffins of Paa Joe Make Their Way from Ghana to New York

  22-08-2017 16:47 via artnews.com
  The works, commissioned by Claude Simard, are on view at Jack Shainman Gallery in Manhattan and Kinderhook, New York. Read More
  
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• Morning Links: ‘Deformed Art’ Edition

  22-08-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
  
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• Anohni on Future Feminism: 'Trump is just a distraction from the core issues'

  22-08-2017 14:45
  The transgender musician is bringing her Future Feminism project to Europe, putting feminine values first – and argues that our very ecology depends on themIn February, in her first speech after the inauguration of Trump, Hillary Clinton made the declaration that “despite all the challenges you face, I remain convinced that yes, the future is female”.It was a bittersweet moment for Anohni, the musician and artist who formerly performed as the Mercury prize-winning Antony and th
  
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• Shanghai’s West Bund Cultural Corridor spreads its wings

  22-08-2017 12:25
  The West Bund Cultural Corridor of Shanghais Xuhui district continues to gather steam. While the construction of the Centre Pompidou-affiliated West Bund Art Museum and the collector He Juxings Start Museum are underway, the areas population of commercial galleries is beginning to fill outand internationalise. This autumn, Ota Fine Arts will add to its locations in Tokyo and Singapore a third in the West Bund Culture and Art Pilot Zone, joining projects including ShanghArt, Aike Dellarco and Ne
  
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• Painting by Canaletto’s nephew to stay in UK after £11.7m appeal

  22-08-2017 12:00
  The Fortress of Königstein from the North by Bernardo Bellotto acquired by National Gallery with donations and Art Fund grant
  A spectacular view of a German fortress by the 18th-century Italian artist Bernardo Bellotto, nephew of the far more famous Canaletto, has been acquired by the National Gallery after an appeal raised almost £12m to save it from export.The government placed a temporary export bar because of the painting’s historical importance and the centuries it had spen
  
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• Hacking Hockney: the Mexican American painter bringing Latino culture into art

  22-08-2017 12:00
  Ramiro Gomez’s work has playfully riffed on Californian classics to bring awareness to the lack of representation for the Chicano community in artIn the 1960s, a young David Hockney, infatuated with the sun and sensuality of the west coast, introduced the world of high art to the markers of Los Angeles domestic bliss. He was dazzled by an array of immaculate modernist houses with backyard swimming pools and lawns equipped with sprinklers, a total novelty to an artist who had grown up with
  
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• Hacking Hockney: the Mexican American painter bringing diversity to the art world

  22-08-2017 12:00
  Ramiro Gomez’s work has playfully riffed on Californian classics to bring awareness to the lack of representation for the Chicano community in artIn the 1960s, a young David Hockney, infatuated with the sun and sensuality of the west coast, introduced the world of high art to the markers of Los Angeles domestic bliss. He was dazzled by an array of immaculate modernist houses with backyard swimming pools and lawns equipped with sprinklers, a total novelty to an artist who had grown up with
  
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• London's National Gallery buys key painting by Bellotto for over £11m

  22-08-2017 11:57
  The National Gallery has bought Bernardo Bellottos The Fortress of Knigstein from the North (1756-58) for 11,670,000. When a UK export licence was deferred on the painting it was valued at 11m. The Art Newspaper can report that the additional 670,000 (6%) paid represents compensation for the fall in the value of the pound after the Brexit referendum.Last year the Bellotto was sold by the 19th Earl of Derby, in whose family it had been for nearly 200 years. It was acquired by a foreign buyer, po
  
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• Man who made £30,000 faking Norman Cornish artwork told to repay £1

  22-08-2017 11:15
  Richard Pearson, jailed in January for selling 14 forged drawings and paintings, to pay only nominal sum due to lack of assetsA con artist who made more than £30,000 selling artworks he claimed were by the renowned “pitman painter” Norman Cornish has been ordered to repay £1.Richard Pearson, 56, from Sunderland, was jailed in January for selling 14 faked drawings and pictures to a gallery in Northumberland. He admitted fraud and forgery charges and was sentenced to three
  
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• Unsung (Asian-American) heroes of Abstract Expressionism

  22-08-2017 08:23
  Once in a while, an exhibition attempts to rewrite art history. Hats off then to curators at the Honolulu Museum of Art who mine new ground in the show, Abstract Expressionism: Looking East from the Far West (7 September-21 January 2018). This refreshing survey looks at mid 20th-century abstraction in a new way, bringing artists of the New York School together with Asian-American artists who studied and worked in New York in the 1940s and 1950s. This narrative has syste
  
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• It's a stitch-up: the embroidered past – in pictures

  22-08-2017 08:00
  Julie Cockburn trawls junk shops and eBay, scooping up captivating old portraits – then gives them a spellbinding new lease of life Continue reading...
  
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• My best summer photograph: sand, scorpions and sausage sarnies

  22-08-2017 07:00
  Phallic corn, the world’s greatest lay-by, an ostrich on the rampage and Iggy Pop in the pit … top photographers, including Wolfgang Tillmans and Chloe Dewe Mathews, pick their great summer shotsThe older girl had terrible burns – caused by a freak caravan fire on a previous holidayThey had a profound fear of black people – yet their relations with them could be affectionate and generousWe put her in a Versace outfit and she just owned itEvery now and then, the tour guid
  
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• Director of Development - Cultural Non-Profit

  22-08-2017 02:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Based in the heart of the Brooklyn Cultural District, the Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) is a cultural institution with a global reach and impact. Founded in 1980, the 18-member dance company tours domestically and internationally with live music, a feature of every performance since 1996 when the MMDG Music Ensemble was formed.
  Known for his humor, wit, creativity, dedication to live music and commitment to meaningful community engagement, Mark Morris opened the Mark Morris Dance Center in 2001
  
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• Study: How Our Creativity Changes As We Get Older

  22-08-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "How does the ability to come up with unusual ideas change as we grow older? Does it begin to flag in adolescence? Before then? To investigate these questions, we and our colleagues recently conducted several experiments, which we relate in a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."
  
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