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• Art Basel Miami Beach Sales, Day Two: Fewer Crowds, But a Couple Big Buys

  07-12-2017 23:52 via artnews.com
  Here's an extensive list of what's sold so far, and the prices.Read More
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• After Jens Hoffmann’s Suspension Over Sexual Harassment Claims, Other Institutions Await His Fate

  07-12-2017 23:19 via artnews.com
  A pending review by the Jewish Museum in New York will be eagerly watched.Read More
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• Miami Beach NADA Artadia Award for 2017 Goes to Carolin Eidner

  07-12-2017 22:47 via artnews.com
  The prize give $5,000 to an innovative artist exhibiting at the fair. Read More
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• ‘Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, Peter Hujar’ at Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles

  07-12-2017 22:27 via artnews.com
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• NADA Miami Opens to Brisk Sales at Ice Palace Studios, the Fair’s Original Home

  07-12-2017 21:54 via artnews.com
  The new old digs proved welcoming to a fair that continues through Sunday. Read More
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• 34 Artworks I Would Like to Acquire from NADA Miami 2017

  07-12-2017 21:02 via artnews.com
  Most are for sale for under seven figures. Read More
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• Scenes from Miami Art Week: Day 2

  07-12-2017 20:16 via artnews.com
  At the opening of Art Basel Miami Beach, a Hauser & Wirth after-party, and more. Read More
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• Saudi prince named as mystery buyer of $450m Leonardo da Vinci painting

  07-12-2017 20:06
  Prince Bader bin Abdullah bin Mohammad Farhan al-Saud forked out world record fee for Salvator Mundi, says New York TimesThe mystery buyer of the only Leonardo da Vinci painting in private hands has been identified as a little-known Saudi prince, on the same day the Louvre Abu Dhabi announced the work of art was headed to the new museum.The man was named as Prince Bader bin Abdullah bin Mohammad Farhan al-Saud, a royal from a distant branch of the ruling family, by the New York Times. The US new
  
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• Will The Gulf States' Extravagant Cultural Projects Change The Story Of Art History?

  07-12-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The museum, which opened in November, fits with a wider cultural movement in the Gulf. Over the past decade, the region has begun a sort of cultural arms race, one that counters its image as a wealthy desert with little culture or history. I.M. Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art opened in 2008 in Doha, and when it is completed in a year or so, Jean Nouvel’s desert-rose design for the National Museum of Qatar may even surpass his vision for the Louvre."
  
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• Pittsburgh Public Theatre Names A New Artistic Director

  07-12-2017 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Marya Sea Kaminski will leave her job as associate artistic director of Seattle Repertory Theatre to become the sixth artistic director in Pittsburgh Public Theater’s 44-season history, succeeding the retiring Ted Pappas.
  
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• Ultraviolet Named Pantone’s 2018 Color of the Year

  07-12-2017 19:13 via artnews.com
  The award is given annually to a hue that speaks to our cultural moment. Read More
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• Study: Jail Degrades Prisoners' Critical Thinking Skills

  07-12-2017 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A just-published study finds significant declines in several key areas of cognitive functioning among teenage boys who are doing time. Given that most prisoners eventually return to society, and ex-cons with poor reasoning ability and/or impulse control are unlikely to go straight, this could have widespread negative effects.
  
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• Jeff Koons and George Condo Recall the ’80s at New Museum’s 40th Anniversary Fete

  07-12-2017 18:35 via artnews.com
  The artists ruminated over youthful digressions and finding their way. Read More
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• The Silent Killer: What Does Harassment In The Theatre Look Like?

  07-12-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "After we solicited stories about harassment from the field last month, more than 100 theatre artists from around the country sent us emails or spoke to us over the phone and in person about their experiences. It is not only women who are the targets of harassment; men and gender-nonconforming individuals also had firsthand experiences to share. Most requested anonymity, citing an industry that, compared to Hollywood, is much smaller and more localized."
  
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• Charles II: Art and Power review – crowning glories of a royal passion

  07-12-2017 18:28
  Queen’s Gallery, LondonPortraits depicted him as a grotesque figure but the king loved art and amassed a magnificent array of works that celebrate his love of theatre – and Nell Gwyn
  Charles II had the face of a corrupt satyr. His portraits resemble the one Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray kept in the attic. Every sin seems etched into the work as a grotesque wrinkle. His heavy black eyebrows and ungainly nose add to the ugliness. In a popular print that was pinned up in about 1661 in
  
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• New UBS Report Calls Art Basel Miami Beach Fair Most Attended by Collectors

  07-12-2017 18:25 via artnews.com
  The Armory Show and TEFAF take second and third place, respectively. Read More
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• The Director And The Pharaoh: How Thomas Hoving Created The Museum Blockbuster

  07-12-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The first blockbuster museum show to be so labeled, a traveling loan of funerary objects [under the title 'Treasures of Tutankhamun'] that brought in 8 million visitors nationwide and filled Egypt's coffers with gift-shop profits, was unprecedented. It was an ancient-art exhibit that was also a pop-culture moment ... [And] no one did more to bring Tut to the States, or indeed to bring museums into the larger world of marketing and commerce, than the Metropolitan Museum's director, Thomas P.F. H
  
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• Arguing over art is right but banning it is the work of fascists | Jonathan Jones

  07-12-2017 18:03
  A failed petition to remove a controversial Balthus painting from the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the latest worrying attempt to censor a work of artIn 1989, Republican senators Jesse Helms and Alfonse D’Amato launched an attack on artistic freedom. They railed against Piss Christ, a photograph by Andres Serrano of a cheap crucifix in a tank of the artist’s own urine. The red and yellow tints of Serrano’s piss give this modern Baroque artwork a spookily spiritual quality, red
  
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• Galerie Balice Hertling Opens Second Location in Paris

  07-12-2017 17:36 via artnews.com
  Art consultant Sibylle Rochat has been brought on as a partner. Read More
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• California Sued Over Failure To Teach Kids To Read

  07-12-2017 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The suit, announced in a statement, is the first in the United States to seek recognition of the constitutional right to literacy, the lawyers said. It alleges that the state failed to intervene when students achieved low proficiency rates in reading and fell behind at the three schools, which are among the lowest performing in the state.
  
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• Emile Zola, Photographer

  07-12-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Émile Zola is best known as the 19th century French author of celebrated works including Thérèse Raquin, Nana and Germinal. Now, the leader of the Naturalist literary movement is being recognised as a talented and experimental photographer with the auction of a rarely seen personal collection of pictures."
  
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• Leaky, Creepy Room: Adam Gordon Builds a Foreboding Booth in Miami

  07-12-2017 16:49 via artnews.com
  When Adam Gordon had his first solo exhibition at the New York gallery Chapter NY last year, he transformed the space into a dark, grim, claustrophobic environment. The gallery put out a press release saying that Gordon’s “practice focuses on … Read More
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• The Whole Idea Of 'The Great American Novel' Is Gendered And Generally Ridiculous, Writes Ursula K. Le Guin

  07-12-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "To me, the keystone of the phrase 'the great American novel' is not the word American but the word great. Greatness, in the sense of outstanding or unique accomplishment, is a cryptogendered word. In ordinary usage and common understanding, 'a great American' means a great American man, 'a great writer' means a great male writer. ... It makes perfect sense to me that I've never heard a woman writer say she intended, or wanted, to write the great American novel."
  
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• Low-Cost Housing For Artists Is Yet Another Victim Of Senate's Tax Bill

  07-12-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "An amendment [added by Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) would strike artists' housing from the list of qualified groups who can benefit from federally subsidized low-income housing. ... Moreover, as written, the law would also render all existing artists' housing developments built with housing credits retroactively ineligible for the benefit - creating a sudden tax liability for the investors who have used these credits for years."
  
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• Don McKinlay obituary

  07-12-2017 15:45
  My friend the artist Don McKinlay, who has died aged 88, was a painter, draughtsman, printmaker, sculptor and collagist.His most characteristic work centred on the human form. Early pieces were often intimate and personal, full of tender, original observations, and not without humour. McKinlay had an acute social conscience, and many of his later paintings were based on contemporary issues and images from news reports. Continue reading...
  
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• Why Is The Suzanne Farrell Ballet Closing?

  07-12-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Marina Harss asked Farrell, who answered - "enigmatically," notes Harss - "I don't really know. If I had my choice I would go on forever." Kennedy Center representatives, for their part, say only that the facility's upcoming expansion provides "a natural moment to transition" and that Farrell could "expand her teaching" there after construction is completed.
  
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• They've Found The Person Who Paid $450 Million For Leonardo's 'Salvator Mundi'

  07-12-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "He is a little-known Saudi prince from a remote branch of the royal family, with no history as a major art collector, and no publicly known source of great wealth. But the prince, Bader bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan al-Saud, is the mystery buyer of Leonardo da Vinci's painting Salvator Mundi," which is thought to be the last of the artist's surviving works in private hands.
  
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• Leonardo's 'Salvator Mundi', World's Most Expensive Art Work, Headed To Louvre Abu Dhabi

  07-12-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The painting, which sold at auction last month for $450 million, is evidently going on long-term loan to the new (and also expensive) Persian Gulf museum, which opened last month.
  
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• A Milton Avery Feast Awaits at Miami Basel

  07-12-2017 15:13 via artnews.com
  Five galleries at the fair showcase the severely underrated American painter's work. Read More
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• Two Longtime WNYC Radio Hosts Placed On 'Immediate Leave' For Alleged 'Inappropriate Behavior'

  07-12-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Leonard Lopate, 77, who has hosted a popular midday talk show about books, culture and society for 32 years, was escorted from the building on Wednesday, about an hour before his program was to begin; he says management has refused to tell him what incidents led to his suspension. Also off the air is Jonathan Schwartz, who hosts weekend music shows and the online-only Jonathan Channel, both focused on the Great American Songbook. (includes audio)
  
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• Morning Links: Breaking the Silence Edition

  07-12-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
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• John Hockenberry's First 'Takeaway' Cohost Recounts Just How Badly He Treated Her

  07-12-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Adaora Udoji, breaking her non-disclosure agreement: "Within months of the show's launch in April 2008, my co-host John Hockenberry was yelling and screaming at me in the studio, at times when senior staff was present. ... The more I complained, the more the focus became my lack of experience in radio. But they were fully aware of that when they hired me. I was even told one of the reasons for John's explosions were his frustration with my 'incompetence'. I was the problem."
  
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• Los Angeles Museums And Galleries Start To Close As Wildfires Rage

  07-12-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Getty Center and Getty Villa, the Hammer Museum, and the Skirball Center have all shut their doors to the public temporarily. They say that neither their buildings nor their collections have suffered any fire damage, but the heavy smoke in the air alone could damage their art.
  
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• Sanya Kantarovsky Goes Sartorial in Miami

  07-12-2017 14:31 via artnews.com
  The artist's clothing pieces are limited editions, and available at the booth of Berlin gallery Tanya Leighton. Read More
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• Editor Of Paris Review Resigns Over 'Abuse Of My Position' With Female Colleagues

  07-12-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lorin Stein, 44, stepped down following an internal investigation by the magazine's board into complaints from female staffers and freelance writers - an investigation that started when Stein told board members that he was on the notorious online list of "Shitty Media Men."
  
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• Marin Alsop To Leave São Paulo Symphony After 2019

  07-12-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Fundação Osesp, the organization that operates the orchestra, has announced that Alsop will become Honorary Conductor as of 2020 and that a fellowship for young conductors will be established in her honor. While the announcement was full of praise for Alsop's achievements with the orchestra (notably a much higher international profile), the assumption seems to be that her contract was not renewed. (in Portuguese; for Google Translate version, click here.)
  
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• Syria's First-Ever Oscar Contender Is Actually Banned In Syria

  07-12-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When Aleppo-born director Sam Kadi was making the documentary Little Gandhi, it was too dangerous for him to return to Syria from abroad, so he directed his cameramen via Skype as they tried to avoid sniper fire. And he says that if the film were shown inside Syria now, he would be executed.
  
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• Putting Life In The Calais Refugee Camp Onstage

  07-12-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In 2015, two young English playwrights, Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, traveled to the notorious shantytown known as the Jungle and ended up establishing a theatre tent for the migrants there. Two years on, with the Jungle now bulldozed, the two Joes have created a play dramatizing a year in the life of the camp, and it's about to open at London's Young Vic.
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.06.17

  07-12-2017 10:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Essential Personnel”: My Q&A with Getty’s Communications VP on the Approaching Wildfires
  With the area’s surrounding streets and nearby freeway closed to traffic due to rapidly spreading wildfires that are approaching (but so far have not reached) the Getty Center, the Getty today is staffed by only “essential ... read more
  AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2017-12-06The Murder of the LA Weekly
  Southern Californians have been bludgeoned wit
  
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• UPDATED: Saudi Prince Revealed as Buyer of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’

  07-12-2017 00:54 via artnews.com
  He is not a well-known collector, though his family has come under fire for its displays of wealth. Read More
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• Saudi Prince Revealed as Buyer of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’

  07-12-2017 00:54 via artnews.com
  He is not a well-known collector, though his family has come under fire for its displays of wealth. Read More
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• Art Basel Miami Beach Sees ‘Slow But Steady’ Sales—Including $9.5 M. Nauman—on Opening Day in Mid-Renovation Convention Center

  07-12-2017 00:48 via artnews.com
  Collectors and celebrities were out in force. Read More
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• Quincy Jones And The Netflix Of Jazz

  07-12-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Qwest will operate like a highly specialized version of Netflix: Members pay a small fee each month for access to the full video library. It also resembles more boutique streaming platforms like Mubi, the art-film streaming service, or Boiler Room, an organization that archives its own underground-music concerts on its website."
  
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