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• Fright Show: Peabody Essex Museum Examines the Art of Horror and Sci-Fi Film Posters

  17-11-2017 23:37 via artnews.com
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• Love The Art, Hate The Artist?

  17-11-2017 23:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I expect art to be troubling because I expect people to be troubling. I am prepared to like and dislike something in every work. I can also appreciate the aesthetic genius of a moral monster without feeling that I am becoming inured to monstrosity. Just as I can read Heidegger without becoming a Nazi, I can look at one of Adolf Hitler's juvenile watercolour paintings and appreciate a bit of pink in the sky there, and understand it as a painting of its era and one by a tyrant at the same time. A
  
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• Auction Items: Flipping a Kerry James Marshall, Day-Sale Surprises, and Jeff Koons Oddities

  17-11-2017 23:10 via artnews.com
  Kerry James Marshall Smashes RecordAs you may have heard, Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi (ca. 1500) brought the house down at Christie’s New York on Wednesday night, selling for $450.3 million—the most ever paid for any artwork at auction and the most … Read More
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• Stabilization? Met Museum Cuts Its Projected Deficit, Adds To Endowment

  17-11-2017 23:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Where a shortfall of $15 million had been projected for the fiscal year 2017, which ended in June, that figure was contained to $10.1 million, according to the report, and the Met said it is on track to eliminate its deficit by 2020. In addition, the museum’s endowments increased by almost $300 million, to a total of $2.9 billion; and the Met said it raised $232 million in philanthropic gifts, membership dues and government support."
  
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• What Place Do Art Fairs Have In Art-Rich Berlin?

  17-11-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Yet another fair feels like a car company offering another new model: there are already more than enough different cars, besides other options like bicycles, trains and planes. But, like the possibility of a new and really interesting car model entering the stage—an electric one, for instance—there’s always a chance of a new and really interesting art fair showing up. Anything truly innovative could of course change my calendar.”
  
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• ‘Queer Califas’ at Long Hall, Plummer Park, West Hollywood, California

  17-11-2017 22:13 via artnews.com
  See images from one notable show every weekday. Read More
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• Memphis College Of Art Says It Will Close

  17-11-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The final decision had been made two weeks earlier, spurred by a combination of declining admissions — down by 35% just this year, according to High Ground Memphis — increasing real estate debt, and the school’s small endowment fund. Tuition at the school is $35,000 per year. While many remain optimistic that the school could remain open, it would take a miraculous $30 million endowment donation to make this possible.
  
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• How France Is Branding Its Culture Across The Globe

  17-11-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The opening of the Louvre Abu Dhabi over the weekend is the latest example of how traditional French cultural diplomacy is being supplanted by brand politics: Abu Dhabi bought the rights to use the Paris museum's famous name at a price tag of over $500 million over three decades. This example of "soft power" goes beyond museum names such as the future Shanghai Pompidou Center — and can be seen in the exporting of Sorbonne's academic reputation, the proliferation of Christian Dior boutique
  
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• From the Archives: Elizabeth Murray Shattering Expectations for Abstract Painting, in 1984

  17-11-2017 21:27 via artnews.com
  "I heard one young European artist say that he didn't believe there were any good women artists. What a stupid remark!" Read More
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• From the Archives: Elizabeth Murray on Shattering Expectations for Abstract Painting, in 1984

  17-11-2017 21:27 via artnews.com
  "I heard one young European artist say that he didn't believe there were any good women artists. What a stupid remark!" Read More
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• For Performa, Jason Moran Summons Music for Julie Mehretu’s Paintings in an Empty Church

  17-11-2017 21:17 via artnews.com
  The concert was a high-profile part of the Performa biennial in New York. Read More
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• New Plays At The Center Of A Touring Scheme

  17-11-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The organization acts as a producer and manager all in one, from mapping out a show’s tour route to managing it on the road. “We view ourselves as being in service to the artists and the work, and we also view ourselves as being in service to our colleagues who will be our client.”
  
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• After Announcement That Olga Viso Will Step Down as Walker Director, Museum Professionals Largely Praise Handling of ‘Scaffold’ Controversy

  17-11-2017 20:45 via artnews.com
  Museums across the country have been facing similarly difficult dilemmas. Read More
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• Carrie Mae Weems Will Organize ‘Day-Long Convening’ at New York’s Park Avenue Armory on the History of Violence

  17-11-2017 20:21 via artnews.com
  The gathering will happen on Sunday, December 17. Read More
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• French Teachers Suggest Practical Alternative For The 'Masculine Prevails' Grammar Rule

  17-11-2017 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The teachers' objection was not just philosophical; it was philological. The rule, they said in the French version of Slate, was a parvenu (it was enunciated in the 17th century and became widely taught only in the 19th century) and politically motivated (it buttressed French laws that denied women equal rights). ... In its place, the teachers suggested using 'the rule of proximity,' in which the adjective matches the gender of the noun closest to it, which was common practice for centuries."
  
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• Magical Mystery Tour: In an Enigmatic Performa Work, Anu Vahtra Reveals SoHo’s Past

  17-11-2017 19:37 via artnews.com
  It is the Estonian artist's first foray into performance art. Read More
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• Our Struggle With The Idea Of Scientific "Progress"

  17-11-2017 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Accelerating scientific invention does not make human beings any more good-natured or reasonable but simply increases their capacity to achieve their goals. In practice, this means the groups that are most powerful will increase their hold over the rest. Schemes for improving the human animal by technological means will not alter these facts. What counts as improvement will be decided by existing human beings, with the most powerful among them having the biggest say. The result is more likely t
  
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• Now 'Downton Abbey' Has Its Own Traveling Museum

  17-11-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "All the old habitats, including Mr. Carson's pantry, the servants' dining room and Lady Mary's bedroom (faintly scandalous with its memory of Kemal Pamuk’s coital demise) are painstakingly recreated, right down to the forks and spoons arranged just so on the Crawley dinner table. Behind the green baize door lies the servants' quarters just as you left them, along with Mr. Carson's old desk, complete with period-era bills and correspondence."
  
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• Oliver Sacks' Essential Qualities Of Creativity

  17-11-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "All of us, to some extent, borrow from others, from the culture around us. Ideas are in the air, and we may appropriate, often without realizing, the phrases and language of the times. We borrow language itself; we did not invent it. We found it, we grew up into it, though we may use it, interpret it, in very individual ways. What is at issue is not the fact of “borrowing” or “imitating,” of being “derivative,” being “influenced,” but what one doe
  
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• Why We Still Need Chekhov's Plays, Even After A Century

  17-11-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lyn Gardner: "If the anniversary of the Russian revolution offers one reason for the current glut of Chekhov revivals, the other may well be the way the plays speak so directly to a world in flux, where the characters cannot comprehend or adjust to the cultural, social and political earthquakes that engulf them."
  
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• As Leonardo masterpiece sells for $450m, Trump effort goes for … slightly less than that

  17-11-2017 17:49
  President’s untitled piece, which depicts the Manhattan skyline, barely cleared its minimum price of $5,000 at auction on Thursday – and there were only two bidsOn Wednesday, a long-lost Leonardo da Vinci painting sold for $450.3m, rocking the art world and prompting hand-wringing over the soaring price of premium works.
  On Thursday, that same art world was given a reality check, when a sketch by the less celebrated Donald Trump sold for just $6,875 at an auction in Los Angeles. Rela
  
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• Do Civilizations Actually "Collapse"?

  17-11-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The stories are often presented as cautionary tales to frighten us into correcting the error of our ways – lest we bring about the end of our own global civilisation. They promote an ethic of environmental responsibility that we ignore at our peril. It is no coincidence that they focus on climate change, human-caused environmental impacts and overpopulation because these three factors are the major global concerns of our times."
  
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• So, When Are We Going To See The First Billion-Dollar Painting? (Probably Not For A While)

  17-11-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some people are asking that very question following the record-smashing sale of Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi for $450 million. But there were some special factors at play here that are unlikely to be repeated - as Robin Pogrebin reports, "the artwork achieved an unprecedented price because it was an unprecedented piece."
  
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• Shanghai Biennale Names Cuauhtémoc Medina as Curator for 2018

  17-11-2017 16:56 via artnews.com
  He previously curated Manifesta and a Mexican pavilion for the Venice Biennale. Read More
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• *This* Is Probably The Right Way For An Orchestra To Do A Nightclub Concert

  17-11-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anne Midgette on a National Symphony Orchestra concert at Anthem, a new riverfront club in southwest DC: "[Rather than] pander to a younger audience by giving it what they think it wants to hear, ... this performance had the orchestra, in street clothes, simply playing the music it does well, including large chunks of this week's subscription program. Rather than chasing the audience, it introduced itself as it is and let the audience come to it."
  
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• ‘This Art Speaks to Me’: Audrey B. Heckler on Her Collection of Outsider Art at Sara Kay Gallery

  17-11-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  For the first show in her new gallery in New York, dealer Sara Kay invited Audrey B. Heckler, a seasoned collector of outsider art, to display a selection of paintings, sculptures, and drawings from her collection of 300-plus works. “I … Read More
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• Morning Links: Billy the Kid Edition

  17-11-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Chaïm Soutine’s Pastry Cook of Cagnes: a portrait of youth, but not innocence

  17-11-2017 11:00
  Having lived the stereotype of the penniless artist in Paris, Soutine was drawn not to the glamour of the roaring 1920s, but to those in the world below stairsChaïm Soutine’s Pastry Cook of Cagnes has kitchen whites as ill-fitting as his jumbo ears: both need to be grown into. Or has a hard life already meant that he’s worried away any puppy fat and his clothes now hang off him? This is a portrait of youth, but not innocence. Continue reading...
  
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• Chief Operating Officer, Cultural Facilities & Services

  17-11-2017 06:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Houston First Corporation invites applications for the position of Chief Operating Officer, Cultural Facilities & Services.
  The Position:The Cultural Facilities & Services/Chief Operating Officer (COO) is responsible for the overall management of Theater District Facilities, developing and maintaining relationships with resident companies, the City of Houston and the business community in order to ensure the goals and objectives of the organization are met.
  The Cultural Facilities &
  
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• Chapman brothers reunite with Goya's art 16 years after defacing it

  17-11-2017 06:00
  Works by the enfants terribles of Britart form part of Spanish exhibition exploring enduring influence of Francisco de GoyaThe sleep of reason produces monsters and, if you are Jake and Dinos Chapman at least, an enduring obsession with the works of Francisco de Goya.Sixteen years after the brothers famously took their pens to 83 prints of the Spanish artist’s bleak and ultraviolent series The Disasters of War, the trio are to be reunited in an exhibition at the Goya museum in Zaragoza. Re
  
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• Sotheby’s Totals $310.2 M. at Postwar and Contemporary Sale, Bacon Triptych Sells for $36.8 M.

  17-11-2017 05:41 via artnews.com
  Also selling was an Andy Warhol Mao (1972), which went for $32.4 million. Read More
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• Phillips Hauls in $113.9 M. at Solid 20th-Century and Contemporary Sale, With $21.1 M. Peter Doig Leading the Way

  17-11-2017 02:23 via artnews.com
  The sale had a strong sell-through rate of about 90 percent. Read More
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• Del Kathryn Barton's fertile universe: 'The naked body is so many things'

  17-11-2017 00:29
  The artist’s new exhibition in Melbourne features a huge sculptural work and Cate Blanchett in a 15-minute film about the sex life of a redback spider“We have to fight to preserve our child selves,” says Del Kathryn Barton.It’s the day before the opening of her new exhibition, The Highway is a Disco, at NGV Australia. There is still clanking, thumping and hammering going on inside the multi-roomed space that will house more than 150 of the two-time Archibald prize-winner&
  
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• Seattle: A Culture Of Growth (For Both Good And Bad)

  17-11-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Over the past decade, Seattle has added 220,000 jobs, an increase of nearly 15 percent. Amazon, which employs 40,000 people here and holds about one-fifth of the city’s premier office space, has keyed that growth, but the revival has spilled far beyond it. Thirty-one Fortune 500 companies now operate research and engineering hubs in Seattle, up from seven in 2010. More construction cranes are working here than in any other U.S. city, many in the South Lake Union area where Amazon has cent
  
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