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• Emily Kame Kngwarreye painting sells for $2.1m in Sydney

  16-11-2017 23:54
  Earth’s Creation 1 breaks its own record for a painting by an Australian woman after it last sold for just over $1m in 2007An artwork by the late Indigenous artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Earth’s Creation 1, has been sold for $2.1m at an auction in Sydney. Created in 1994 and shown in art galleries around the world, the painting was sold to the Australian art gallery owner Tim Olsen on Thursday night at the Cooee Art Gallery in Paddington. Related: Leonardo da Vinci painting sells for
  
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• Kickstarter Launches New Artist Project Subscription Program

  16-11-2017 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Individual artists and collectives, podcasters, and experimental groups create pages on the site, and visitors can subscribe to certain projects, or whatever else the artist decides to make available to them. Artists have the option to create tiers of membership for different kinds of access, and the goal is that these subscriptions will help fund the artist’s future projects, at the same time encouraging the artist to create more content for subscribers.
  
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• The Russian Oligarch And The $450 Million Leonardo Painting

  16-11-2017 23:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One can be forgiven for initially overlooking another elephant in the room — the identity of the seller. When there’s this much money involved, though, it usually pays to follow it, and here the money leads directly back to the Russian billionaire Dmitry E. Rybolovlev.
  
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• North Carolina Museum of Art Director Lawrence J. Wheeler to Step Down in 2018

  16-11-2017 22:59 via artnews.com
  Wheeler will leave the museum following a 24-year tenure as director. Read More
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• London's Old Vic Theatre Reveals 20 Complaints Of Behavior Against Kevin Spacey

  16-11-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Those affected said they "felt unable to raise concerns", and he "operated without sufficient accountability". The London theatre said it "truly apologises" for not creating a culture where people felt able to speak freely.
  
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• Anna Uddenberg at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin

  16-11-2017 22:31 via artnews.com
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• What Happened To The $2 Million Marina Abramovic Raised For Her Institute?

  16-11-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The edgy artist, who became world famous for staring down people in her blockbuster 2010 MOMA show, The Artist is Present, touted her multi-million dollar Marina Abramovic Institute for the Preservation of Performance Art as a place for artists to conduct grand experiments. The Yugoslav-born Abramovic also said it would “change the local economy” in Hudson, NY, in much the same way the Sundance Film Festival transformed Park City, Utah, and the Guggenheim Museum changed the Spanish c
  
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• Can A New "Mayor Of Nightlife" Save New York's Music Scene?

  16-11-2017 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The announcement of New York’s Office of Nightlife comes not long after the release of an influential report, in March, by the city’s Office of Media and Entertainment, which oversees the city’s music industry. It found that more tickets are sold for live performances here than in any other city in the world (5.4 million in 2015) and that New York can still support additional venues — but that the most at-risk sector is the small local venue that supports
  
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• Art As Engagement Or Communicator Of Something More?

  16-11-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "There is an interesting link to be made between art and populism. Populism is not only something that embeds itself into actual politics; it is also a disease affecting the art world. In many institutions the focus on popularizing the programs is so big that one wonders whether the emphasis is still on the art that is being shown, or on the mediation between the art and the audience. There has been a shift from what is being shown to how something is being communicated. Yet this communication i
  
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• Outside the Box: Donald Judd on Yayoi Kusama’s Art, Friendship, and Predilection for Cat Milk

  16-11-2017 21:00 via artnews.com
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• The Midwest As Cultural Anyplace (Comforting But Problematic)

  16-11-2017 20:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "If the Midwest is a particular place that instead thinks of itself as an anyplace or no-place, it is likewise both present and not present in the national conversation. The Midwest is, in fact, fairly frequently written about, but almost always in a way that weirdly disclaims the possibility that it has ever been written or thought about before. The trope of featurelessness is matched by a trope of neglect (for what can one do with what is featureless but neglect it?)."
  
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• How Salvator Mundi became the most expensive painting ever sold at auction

  16-11-2017 20:04
  Was the $400m fetched by Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece due to its exceptional quality – or something more?It was an eye-watering amount that not even the experts had predicted. As the hammer fell at Christie’s New York on Wednesday night, it marked the first time that $400m (£304m) was paid for a single painting at auction. Related: All the Da Vincis in the world: ratedRelated: Splurging £102.6m on Picasso’s Women of Algiers is simply insaneContinue reading.
  
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• The Art Of The Hidden Track, That Surprise On Your CD Or LP

  16-11-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We gained a lot when albums went fully digital, but we also lost a bunch of stuff along the way. Among the things we lost: Record sleeves, media towers, and Tower Records. We have digital equivalents of all these things, so it's not like we necessarily miss them. But perhaps the one thing we lost that we'll never get back is the hidden track. It was one of the few things about an album that couldn't easily be converted to MP3 or Spotify. ... Today's Tedium analyzes the artform of the hidden trac
  
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• Metropolitan Museum of Art Receives $80 M. Gift from Irving Family

  16-11-2017 19:43 via artnews.com
  Their donation will support a new acquisitions endowment fund. Read More
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• Study: Art In The Workplace Inspires Creativity

  16-11-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Appreciating art induces inspiration, which in turn facilitates performance on creative tasks. Our results show that simply displaying art in the work environment could enhance employees' creative capabilities, thereby driving innovation."
  
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• How Big A Mess Was David Hallberg When His Foot Injury Nearly Ended His Career? This Big

  16-11-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It turns out he was adrift in a sea of Carlton Draughts ... During more than a year of self-imposed exile in Melbourne, he spent hours on park benches, washing away the pain of a wrecked career with six-packs of beer." Sarah Kaufman looks at Hallberg's new memoir.
  
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• Lia Gangitano Wins Bard College Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence

  16-11-2017 18:11 via artnews.com
  The award comes with $25,000. Read More
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• Queen Victoria's Fake Cranach Turns Out To Be Genuine

  16-11-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "For more than a century art historical experts have labelled a painting Queen Victoria bought as a Christmas present for Prince Albert a 19th-century fake. But a new generation of art historians has discovered they were wrong. Victoria and her advisers were correct when they bought the painting in 1840. It is a genuine work by the German master Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop."
  
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• The Clothesline Project: an exhibit asking women to share stories of sexual abuse

  16-11-2017 17:51
  Mexican artist Mónica Mayer has brought an installation to the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington that features feedback from visitors about their own experiences of assault and harassmentIn 1962, Mexican artist Mónica Mayer had her first experience with sexual assault: she was an eight-year-old girl walking through a Mexican town with her mother a few steps ahead of her. As Mayer was reading a comic book, a man in his 30s approached.“He touched my ‘puss
  
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• And This Concert Is How Propaganda Is Made

  16-11-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anne Midgette: "An ultimate test of cultural diplomacy is the question of who controls the narrative. On Monday, the organizers restricted media access to this high-security event. After trying unsuccessfully to reach media representatives before the event, then waiting at the door, I was told that the fire marshal had ruled that no more people could enter the building. Later, the media representative explained that she had promised the fire marshal they would not exceed the RSVP list, and they
  
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• Looking Back At The 'Gay Girl In Damascus' Hoax And The Middle-Aged Married White Guy Who Pulled It

  16-11-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tom MacMaster did some real damage with the blog where he pretended to be Amina Arraf, a young Syrian-American lesbian caught in Damascus when the Arab Spring arrived - especially when, about to be exposed, MacMaster posted that "Arraf" had been kidnapped. Kevin Young considers the hurt that the hoax caused to MacMaster himself, other individuals, and even the early rebellion against Bashar al-Assad.
  
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• Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi restored – timelapse video

  16-11-2017 16:49
  Watch a timelapse from Christie’s showing the restoration of
  Leonardo Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi. The piece was sold for $450,000 (£400,000)
  on Wednesday evening to an anonymous buyer. Salvator Mundi is the most recent
  Leonardo to be discovered and unanimously agreed upon to be authentic by art historians and experts • Leonardo da Vinci painting sells for $450m at auction, smashing recordsContinue reading...
  
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• John Piper review – One of Britain's greatest artists? Pull the other one!

  16-11-2017 16:48
  Tate Liverpool
  From his flaccid, semi-modernist daubs to his visions of Olde England, John Piper was about as refreshing as a cup of weak tea. But the war, and its bombed-out buildings, did give him his finest hourJohn Piper’s art is a bit like being given a hanky and an Agatha Christie novel when you’ve got a cold. A drear and dark November is certainly the right time to open a survey of his Lemsip, soft-centred vision – if there is ever actually a good time to view his wan se
  
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• Jeremy Hutchinson, Who Argued Some Of The Most Important Court Cases In Britain's Cultural History, Dead At 102

  16-11-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He was one of the two attorneys whose groundbreaking defense prevailed in the 1960 obscenity trial of Penguin Books for publishing Lady Chatterley's Lover; eleven years later, he won a more difficult case against Paul Ableman's The Mouth and Oral Sex, establishing the "literary merit" argument. "He added a service to the arts by ending the cultural vandalism of Mary Whitehouse, whose attempt in 1982 to prosecute the National Theatre for staging Howard Brenton's The Romans in Britain collapsed af
  
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• Salvator Mundi went for $450m. But you can have the real thing for free | Loose canon

  16-11-2017 16:24
  The only way out of the trap of the human condition is to admit our moral incapacity and call on God for helpA painting by Leonardo da Vinci, circa early 1500s, has just been sold for $450m. That makes it the most expensive painting ever. It is called Salvator Mundi, and depicts Christ, hand raised as if about to give a priestly blessing. He is the saviour of the world, says Leonardo. It was probably only a few years after Leonardo finished this great work that, on the other side of the Alps, a
  
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• Old Vic Investigation Turns Up 20 Complaints Of Sexual Harassment By Kevin Spacey

  16-11-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "An investigation opened by the theatre, following allegations that the actor had sexually assaulted young men while working [as artistic director] there, led to 20 people coming forward to report incidents of inappropriate behaviour up to 2013. ... The Old Vic said a 'cult of personality' had existed around Spacey during his time as director and that his stardom and status had prevented people, particularly junior staff and young actors, from speaking out."
  
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• All the Da Vincis in the world: rated

  16-11-2017 15:43
  As Salvator Mundi, his potent depiction of Christ, becomes the most expensive artwork ever, here’s our guide to every Leonardo painting in existence, from the masterpieces to the less-than-perfects Continue reading...
  
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• New York Public Library Unveils (Another) New Master Plan

  16-11-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The $317 million plan, approved by the board on Wednesday, will be the largest renovation in the history of the [system's flagship] building, which opened in 1911. ... [The plan] does not dictate any specific future for the most hotly disputed unused historic space in the building: its seven football-field-size floors of stacks, which have been largely empty since 2013."
  
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• The New Museum Of The Bible Does Its Job Very, Very Well - And Yet ...

  16-11-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Philip Kennicott: "What it does well, it does as well or better than any museum in the country ... bearing with it something that most historians and museum professionals may have thought was long discredited: the 'master narrative' idea of history, that there is one sweeping human story that needs to be told, a story that is still unfolding and carrying us along with it."
  
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• Another Classical Music Critic's Job Is Gone: David Patrick Stearns To Leave Philadelphia Inquirer

  16-11-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Faced with the almost-certain elimination of his position, Stearns has accepted a buyout offer from the paper after more than 17 years.
  
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• Morning Links: Leonardo Sells for $450.3 Million (Highest-Ever Price for Art) Edition

  16-11-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Masha Gessen, Jesmyn Ward, Robin Benway, Frank Bidart Win 2017 National Book Awards

  16-11-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "At a glitzy gala in New York City on Wednesday night, four writers emerged with one of the world's most illustrious literary prizes, the National Book Award: Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing, won for fiction; Masha Gessen's The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, for nonfiction; Frank Bidart's Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016, for poetry; and Robin Benway's Far from the Tree, for young people's literature." (includes video of complete ceremony)
  
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• $450 Million - Leonardo's 'Salvator Mundi' Is Now The Most Expensive Artwork In History

  16-11-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "After 19 minutes of dueling, with four bidders on the telephone and one in the room, Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi sold on Wednesday night [at Christie's] for $450.3 million with fees, shattering the high for any work of art sold at auction. It far surpassed Picasso's Women of Algiers, which fetched $179.4 million at Christie's in May 2015."
  
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• Philadelphia Orchestra Names Two Interim Co-Presidents To Succeed Allison Vulgamore

  16-11-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Matthew Loden and Ryan Fleur will share administrative leadership, with the title of interim co-presidents, as the orchestra looks for a successor to ... Vulgamore," who departs Dec. 31. "Fleur and Loden are currently executive vice president for orchestra advancement and executive vice president for institutional advancement, respectively."
  
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• Documenta Promises This Year's Massive Deficit Won't Derail The Next Festival

  16-11-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The dates have been set for the next Documenta, the pace-setting quinquennial German contemporary art exhibition, allaying fears that the future of the show was in doubt after this year's edition ran over budget and caused a deficit expected to be €5.4m at the end of the year. The city of Kassel is able to shoulder the extra costs incurred by the 2017 extravaganza, the mayor says."
  
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• Here’s the Exhibitor List for Independent New York 2018

  16-11-2017 14:00 via artnews.com
  Newcomers this year include Cheim & Read, Marlborough Contemporary, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., and Magenta Plains. Read More
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• This Movie Drew So Many Violent Protests In Russia That - They're Making It Into A TV Series

  16-11-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Russian Orthodox extremists have demonstrated, made death threats, and even committed arson to protest Matilda, a romantic period film about a ballerina with whom the young Nicholas II had an affair before he married. (The last tsar, now considered a saint and martyr, would of course never have done such a thing.) So director Alexei Uchitel announced that he's expanding it into a four-part miniseries.
  
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• 'Toxic' Office Culture Leads To Massive Staff Turnover At Queensland Symphony: Report

  16-11-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Twenty-seven full-time and part-time staff have left [the Australian] orchestra in just 21 months, an unusually high turnover rate for the company which currently lists 26 people on its staff. ... Orchestra insiders claim that morale at the QSO is 'toxic' and an external consultant has been contracted to improve morale and company cohesiveness. Former staff describe scenes of 'backstabbing, gossip and shouting matches' among administrative staff and management." At fault, allege current and for
  
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• Stephen Friedman Gallery Now Represents Toyin Ojih Odutola

  16-11-2017 12:00 via artnews.com
  She is currently the subject of a solo show at the Whitney Museum. Read More
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• Brave new art world: the app that brings galleries to your living room

  16-11-2017 11:00
  ArtPassport lets you take a virtual tour of an exhibition from the comfort of your sofa – part a mission by two brothers to demystify the art worldImagine being able to view some of the art world’s greatest masterpieces from the comfort of your own home – no more jostling to see past the heads of tourists or travelling halfway across the world to find that your gallery of choice is closed for a refurb.Related: Meet the entrepreneurs shaking up the art worldContinue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.15.17

  16-11-2017 09:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Another classical music critic is sent into the night … and this time it’s me.
  Life in the newspaper world these days can’t help but feel like Russian Roulette. With every wave of layoffs, my position has seemed that much closer to its end. And I’m surprised that I lasted as long as I did. ... read more
  AJBlog: Condemned to Music Published 2017-11-15Soft power and the arts (2/3)
  The British Council and the University of Edinburgh have teamed up to prepare an em
  
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• Bellringers to create dazzling light show at Durham Cathedral

  16-11-2017 08:00
  Sensors on each bell will trigger flashes of light during six-hour performance for Lumiere festivalAs darkness falls on Thursday evening, the bells of Durham Cathedral will ring out across the city – and continue for the next six hours while brilliant flashes light up sections of the enormous building, inside and out. The bellringers will literally be playing the cathedral, sensors on each bell directly triggering the flashes of light, with Cuthbert, the great 17th-century tenor bell, illu
  
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• ‘We Witnessed History’: Christie’s $450.3 M. Leonardo da Vinci Becomes Priciest Work of Art Ever Sold, at $788.9 M. Postwar Sale

  16-11-2017 07:23 via artnews.com
  History was made at Christie’s postwar and contemporary evening sale on Wednesday night, when Salvator Mundi (ca. 1500), believed to be the last painting by Leonardo da Vinci in private hands, sold for $450.3 million, making it the most expensive … Read More
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• ‘We Witnessed History’: Christie’s $450.3 M. Leonardo da Vinci Becomes Priciest Work of Art Ever Sold, at $785.9 M. Postwar Sale

  16-11-2017 07:23 via artnews.com
  History was made at Christie’s postwar and contemporary evening sale on Wednesday night, when Salvator Mundi (ca. 1500), believed to be the last painting by Leonardo da Vinci in private hands, sold for $450 million, making it the most expensive … Read More
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• Leonardo da Vinci painting sells for $450m at auction, smashing records

  16-11-2017 02:24
  Christie’s sells long-lost Salvator Mundi, artwork billed as ‘biggest discovery of the 21st century’, for $400m plus auction house premiumSalvator Mundi, the long-lost Leonardo da Vinci painting of Jesus Christ commissioned by King Louis XII of France more than 500 years ago, has sold at Christie’s in New York for $450.3m, including auction house premium, shattering the world record for any work of art sold at auction. The sale generated a sustained 20 minutes of tense te
  
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• Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ Sells for $450.3 M. at Christie’s in New York, Shattering Market Records

  16-11-2017 01:50 via artnews.com
  The work had sold for just £45 at Sotheby's in London in 1958. Read More
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