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• Manhattan Gets A Cool New Little Island

  20-05-2021 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mega-mogul Barry Diller’s $260 million, 2.4-acre pet project and civic mitzvah, near 13th Street in Hudson River Park, is the architectural equivalent of a kitchen sink sundae, with a little bit of everything. Who knows what it will feel like when crowds arrive this weekend. I suspect they will be enormous. – The New York Times
  
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• New TRG Report: Arts Activity Increased In April

  20-05-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Currently the sales revival is uneven across venue types, with aggregate sales for symphonies and concert halls the lowest compared to the equivalent month in 2019. –TRG
  
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• The New Gehry Towering Over Arles

  20-05-2021 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Until recently, it would have been possible to walk across town and replicate the experience with Van Gogh’s Starry Night Over the Rhône—to stand on the banks of the river and gaze out at the same vista that met the artist’s eye over 130 years ago. For the first time in many years, Arles’ skyline is changing, with the addition of an ambitious new cultural complex called LUMA Arles. – Smithsonian
  
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• Will Audiences Return To Movie Theatres?

  20-05-2021 22:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Like so many businesses, the movie theater industry has been ravaged by the economic effects of the pandemic. Theaters were starved of audiences when lockdowns went into effect, and studios delayed new releases or, in some cases, put them out on streaming services. Some chains have shut down and others have declared bankruptcy. AMC Entertainment’s chief executive, Adam Aron, said this month that the chain had been “within months or weeks of running out of cash five different times b
  
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• Art students seek to take university to court over ‘heartbreaking’ clearout

  20-05-2021 18:14
  
  Royal College of Art offers ‘limited compensation process’ as works damaged and lost after tidy-upThe conceptual artist Farvash Razavi had planned to use the colour-changing inks she spent two years developing with scientists for an intricate installation at her master’s graduation show. That is, until she found her delicate pieces shattered in a box after her university, the Royal College of Art (RCA), cleared out her studio over the summer.
  Razavi’s sculpture, which exp
  
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• Art students seek to take university to court over ‘heartbreaking’ clear-out

  20-05-2021 18:14
  
  Royal College of Art offers compensation for work and materials damaged or lost in studio tidyThe conceptual artist Farvash Razavi had planned to use the colour-changing inks she spent two years developing with scientists for an intricate installation at her masters graduation show. That is, until she found her delicate pieces shattered in a box after her university, the Royal College of Art (RCA), cleared out her studio over the summer.
  Razavi’s sculpture, which explored censorship and be
  
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• Black Lives Matter photographer becomes Southbank Centre chair

  20-05-2021 18:00
  
  Misan Harriman, who only took up photography four years ago, now leads Britain’s largest art centreA former City headhunter turned photographer who took one of the defining pictures from last year’s Black Lives Matter protests in London has been appointed chair of Britain’s largest arts centre.Misan Harriman is to succeed Susan Gilchrist as chair of trustees at the Southbank Centre, it was announced on Thursday. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Borrowdale Banksy’ mystery over stone artworks in Lake District

  20-05-2021 17:44
  
  Stone structures appear at three locations, courtesy of ‘talented, patient,’ unknown artistLake District landscapes have inspired artists for centuries, from Beatrix Potter to Taylor Swift, and now it seems another has been stirred by the views after a number of stone artworks appeared in the area, courtesy of an unknown artist whom locals are referring to as the “Borrowdale Banksy”.Two structures have been photographed so far, one on Castle Crag and another a three-hour
  
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• Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy review – a fish’n’chips surrealist

  20-05-2021 09:00
  
  Whitechapel Gallery, London
  She shocked pre-war Britain with a hat made of seafood, covered a plaster head in giraffe hide and created dream-like boxes of corals and shellfish. Eileen Agar had some commendably wild notionsA vintage Pathé newsreel from 1936 is playing on a loop at the Whitechapel Gallery with a commentary so comically steeped in archaic sexism, the “jokes” are hard to decipher. It’s a light item about an artist called Eileen Agar, who has made herself a h
  
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• Kate Moss auctions Sleep With Kate video as non-fungible token

  20-05-2021 08:00
  
  Supermodel is one of a number of famous women asserting control of their image onlineKate Moss joins a growing number of female celebrities who are attempting to take back some control of their own image using the new art form of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) – one-of-a-kind assets that are linked to photos, videos, audio and other types of digital files, and can be bought and sold.The supermodel is auctioning a video of herself sleeping, called Sleep With Kate, which is attracting bids of up
  
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• Phenomena: art meets science in spectacular and profound mini-documentary series

  20-05-2021 05:20
  
  By creating special effects without digital trickery, this new bite-sized ABC series evokes the thrill of watching the ordinary become extraordinary Director Josef Gatti blurs the line between artistic expression and scientific experiment in the visually amazing Phenomena – or perhaps makes the point that in certain circumstances they can be one and the same. In this nine-part short form YouTube series for ABC Science, which has an additional 28-minute compilation episode screening on ABC
  
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