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• Cookie Mueller and Vittorio Scarpati at Studio Voltaire, London

  07-11-2017 21:53 via artnews.com
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• Exhibition celebrates artistic influence of northern England

  07-11-2017 21:36
  North: Fashioning Identity, on show in central London, explores how life in the north inspired a generation of creativesA new exhibition celebrating the north of England and northerners’ influence on photography, fashion and art will open at Somerset House in London on Wednesday.North: Fashioning Identity features more than 100 photographs, fashion garments and works of art, including photographer Corinne Day’s images of the Stone Roses for the Face magazine and Manchester-born desig
  
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• George Orwell returns to loom over BBC

  07-11-2017 18:53
  A larger-than-life statue of the author and former BBC employee has been unveiled outside Broadcasting House in London On the threshold of the building he once described as a cross between a girl’s boarding school and a lunatic asylum, on an appropriately grey and drizzly day, George Orwell has returned to the BBC, cigarette in hand.On the wall behind him a suitable confrontational quote from Animal Farm has been inscribed: “If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell
  
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• Tate Modern to show Soviet propaganda paintings by Aleksandr Deineka

  07-11-2017 18:25
  The studies for intended murals in the USSR pavilion at the 1937 World Fair in Paris will go on display in the UK for the first timeThree paintings of proud Russians marching with unrestrained joy during what was the height of Stalin’s Purges have travelled to the UK for the first time.The paintings by the leading Soviet realist Aleksandr Deineka have been lent to Tate Modern by Perm state art gallery for a London show exploring the visual history of Russia and the Soviet Union in the firs
  
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• Tate Modern to show Soviet propaganda art by Aleksandr Deineka

  07-11-2017 18:25
  Studies for intended murals in the USSR pavilion at 1937 World Fair in Paris go on display in the UK for the first timeThree paintings of proud Russians marching with unrestrained joy during what was the height of Joseph Stalin’s purges have travelled to the UK for the first time.The paintings by the leading Soviet realist Aleksandr Deineka have been lent to Tate Modern by the state art gallery in Perm, eastern Russia, for a London show exploring the visual history of Russia and the Soviet
  
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• New Foundation Aims to Further Legacy of Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt

  07-11-2017 18:07 via artnews.com
  Based for now in New Mexico, the organization is beginning a foundational planning stage—with Lisa Le Feuvre appointed as executive director. Read More
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• What Is Curatorial Activism?

  07-11-2017 16:04 via artnews.com
  It is a practice that commits itself to counter-hegemonic initiatives that give voice to those who have been historically silenced or omitted altogether. Read More
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• Morning Links: Singing Organists Edition

  07-11-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.06.17

  07-11-2017 09:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Take A Look At Folk Art Masterpiece(s) in We The People
  It is John James Trumbull Arnold’s Portrait of Mary Mattingly (1850). She is, as many people have told me since Saturday, after reading my piece, just adorably cute and well as beautifully executed. ... read more
  AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2017-11-06Ballet Up Close and Personal
  New York Theatre Ballet’s Legends and Visionaries series at Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church. ...&nb
  
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• Robert Mapplethorpe's photos document a vanishing kind of artistic community

  07-11-2017 04:58
  The ways artists connect with each other is changing. Mapplethorpe’s work is a testament to the creative communities of the pastIn the famed summer of 1967, when Jimi Hendrix set fire to his guitar in Monterey and China exploded the H-bomb, Robert Mapplethorpe met Patti Smith at the ornate headquarters of Scribner’s bookstore in midtown Manhattan. Soon they became inseparable and determined to succeed as artists, Mapplethorpe as a photographer and Smith as a Rimbaud-inspired rock&rsq
  
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• Writing Versus The Writer

  07-11-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "What writers don’t realise is that people don’t buy the writing, they buy the writer. Writing is not about finding your voice, but finding your persona. You can’t just cloister yourself away and expect to become famous unless you’ve a backstory of dodgy health and dying relatives as big as Emily Dickinson’s."
  
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