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• Citing ‘Significant Questions and Concerns,’ Massachusetts Attorney General Asks Court to Stop Berkshire Museum Sale for Further Study

  30-10-2017 22:36 via artnews.com
  An initial hearing in the case will occur on November 1. Read More
  
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• Kim McCarty at Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York

  30-10-2017 21:01 via artnews.com
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• Brooklyn Museum Adds Three to Board of Trustees

  30-10-2017 19:41 via artnews.com
  With the new additions, the museum now has 40 trustees. Read More
  
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• At Dia Art Foundation, Directorship Is Endowed by Nathalie and Charles de Gunzburg

  30-10-2017 17:54 via artnews.com
  Jessica Morgan has served as the institution's director since 2015. Read More
  
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• American Friends of the Israel Museum Appoint Jill Bernstein as Board President

  30-10-2017 17:49 via artnews.com
  Chella Safra and Pam Sanders were also appointed new board members. Read More
  
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• Bridget Finn Joins Michigan’s Reyes Projects as Managing Director

  30-10-2017 17:06 via artnews.com
  The dealer had been with Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York and co-founded Cleopatra's. Read More
  
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• Monochrome review – white stripes, shocking yellow and 500 shades of grey

  30-10-2017 17:00
  National Gallery, LondonThis peculiar exhibition shirks black-and-white certainties in examining monochromatic art and painting, but why is there no room for Yves Klein, Robert Ryman or Chinese mastery?Medieval manuscripts and Malevich’s Black Square; a niggly grey and black Giacometti and Titian’s Portrait of a Lady; Cy Twombly’s scribbled writing and Ingres’s La Grande Odalisque, repainted in shades of grey. Monochrome at the National Gallery is a peculiar visual and ar
  
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• Morning Links: Barbara Kruger MetroCards Edition

  30-10-2017 14:00 via artnews.com
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• From Broke Alt-Rock Guitarist To In-Demand Hollywood Composer

  30-10-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tyler Bates, who has scored both Guardians of the Galaxy movies and a whole lot more, says, "The thing I love about film is — as nerve-racking as it is because it’s not like they give me a locked picture to score — it’s frenetic and a triathlon, but when you work with geniuses and studios that have massive investments in a property, you know what it’s like to be alive. You are running alongside failure, everyday, all the time."
  
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• Police And Prosecutors Seize An Ancient Limestone Relief At The European Fine Art Fair In Park Slope

  30-10-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Friday around 2 p.m., "cursing could be heard coming from a London dealer’s booth, breaking the quiet, reverential atmosphere. To the consternation of several art dealers looking on, the police and prosecutors seized an ancient limestone bas-relief of a Persian soldier with shield and spear, which once adorned a building in the ruins of Persepolis in Iran, according to a search warrant."
  
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• Charges Of Animal Cruelty For An Art Installation With Live Mice

  30-10-2017 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's not just those afraid of mice who are being tortured in this installation, say mouse experts: "There are 70 white mice in individual boxes set like tiles on the floor of a gallery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. In clear plexiglass cages, designed to be stepped upon, they peer up underfoot in an exhibition exploring phobia."
  
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• Linda Nochlin, The Trailblazing Feminist Art Historian Whose 1971 Essay Changed The Discipline, Has Died At 86

  30-10-2017 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The article "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" - which argued quite clearly against the canon as well as against male-dominated notions of greatness - "would have been enough to secure her place as one of art history’s most important writers, but over the course of her six-decade career, she also made formidable contributions to the study of Realism and Gustav Courbet, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and numerous contemporary artists."
  
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• The Next Thing In Public Transit: Retro Metro Cards With Art By Barbara Kruger

  30-10-2017 12:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The themes will be similar to anyone who has followed the artist's work. "'These issues of power and control and physical damage and death and predation are ages old,' Ms. Kruger said in a phone interview from Los Angeles. 'I wish some of these issues would become archaic.'"
  
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• The End Of 'American Idol,' And The Dream Of Unity It Once Represented

  30-10-2017 12:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the context of Kelly Clarkson, the inaugural winner of the show, and her new album - which is both lightly political and aimed at a casual pop listener - we can see the end of whatever unity the country was thought to possess, musically and otherwise, in 2002.
  
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• Brooklyn Has A Newish 'Bone-Breaking Dance Scene' Inspired By Jamaica [VIDEO]

  30-10-2017 12:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "When we're in a dance battle, it's really like a battle - it's a way for people to let their emotions out," says one contestant in the ever-evolving subculture.
  
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• Harvey Weinstein's People Offered Rose McGowan A Million Dollars In Hush Money

  30-10-2017 12:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Scream and Charmed actor, now a multimedia artist with an intense following on Twitter, got the offer to sign a nondisclosure agreement mere days before the New Yorker and New York Times articles about Weinstein's assaults came out. She says she countered with a request for $6 million, partly as "slow torture" for Weinstein, but she quickly withdrew the offer.
  
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• First world war painting expected to reach up to £1m at Sotheby's

  30-10-2017 08:00
  A Dawn by CRW Nevinson draws ‘without pageantry’ on the artist’s experience as a volunteer ambulance driver in FranceWhen A Dawn, a painting by CRW Nevinson of haggard French troops marching to the front in 1914, was last sold in 1964, it fetched £300. Now regarded as one of the English artist’s finest works, and as one of the great paintings of the first world war, it is to be auctioned by Sotheby’s with a guide price of up to £1m.“I hesitate to s
  
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• Open Letter Condemns Sexual Harassment in Art World [Updated]

  30-10-2017 03:48 via artnews.com
  Signed by hundreds, the statement comes after allegations against Artforum publisher Knight Landesman, who resigned last week. Read More
  
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• Open Letter Condemns Sexual Harassment in Art World

  30-10-2017 03:48 via artnews.com
  Signed by hundreds, the statement comes after allegations against Artforum publisher Knight Landesman, who resigned last week. Read More
  
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• We’ll stay silent no more over sexual harassment in the art world | Letters

  30-10-2017 01:01
  We have held our tongues, threatened by power wielded over us and promises of institutional access and career advancementWe are gallerists, artists, writers, editors, curators, directors, arts administrators, assistants, and interns – workers of the art world – and we have been groped, undermined, harassed, infantilised, scorned, threatened, and intimidated by those in positions of power who control access to resources and opportunities. We have held our tongues, threatened by power
  
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• Impressionists in London review – how not to tell the origin story of modern art

  30-10-2017 01:01
  Tate Britain, London
  This pea souper of a show nearly achieves the impossible feat of making Monet seem dull, while illuminating little about British links to impressionismThis exhibition turns art history on its head. For more than a century it has been assumed that modern art began in Paris. We’ve heard so much about how the bohemian atmosphere of the French capital, with its druggy poets and dirty novels, inspired the impressionists.Now Tate Britain shows that it was the smog of Victori
  
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