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• Tate Modern Director Announces Departure

  30-10-2022 21:01 via artnews.com
  Over the course of the last two decades, Frances Morris served in various role at the London museum, as head of displays and as director of the its international art collection. In 2016, she was appointed as director at Tate Modern, becoming the first women to lead the museum.
  
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• Police In Canada Take To Substack To Defend Against Critics

  30-10-2022 20:32 via thewalrus.ca
  The newsletter marked a new step in an evolving PR strategy for an institution that, sources say, is grappling both with its brand and its internal identity. – The Walrus
  
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• Elon Musk’s Twitter Could Be In For A World Of Hurt

  30-10-2022 20:02 via wired.com
  If Musk carries through on his ideas even partly, Twitter users could see big and confusing shifts in the platform’s features and social dynamics. – Wired
  
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• To Fight Disinformation, We Have To Understand Why It Works

  30-10-2022 19:29 via wired.com
  These creators understand that we are a species of storytellers, not rational actors. To speak to our irrationality, and tell these stories, they adopt an approach that has been tried and tested throughout history. – Wired
  
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• Dancing Around Art

  30-10-2022 19:02 via washingtonpost.com
  A dance residency is a relatively avant-garde move for an art museum. Now imagine using museum spaces as dance workshops and, literally, pop-up theaters, where performers might jump, leap or spin (carefully) in view of priceless paintings, artifacts and sculptures. – Washington Post
  
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• Strange Clay review – dynamic ceramic

  30-10-2022 14:00
  Hayward Gallery, London
  Twenty-three artists explore the potential of this ancient material in works tackling issues from Post-it note wars to feudalism and pornStrange Clay is a wild surprise. Totem poles of chimney pots sprout beckoning fingers and toby jug handles. Distant minarets float on the horizon. Curious stumps glow like molten lava. There are Post-it notes scrawled with resentful messages, sea creatures sprawled on the floor and winged sprites hidden among the foliage of a life-size g
  
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• Hilma review – handsome biopic about mystic Swedish artist

  30-10-2022 13:30
  Lasse Hallström explores the tumultuous life of Hilma af Klimt, now recognised as a pioneer of abstract artA pioneer of abstract painting and, as this film tells it, the leader of an all-woman spiritualist collective, the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint was rather written off by the art world establishment during her lifetime (she died in the 1940s). But this handsome biopic by Lasse Hallström, with his daughter Tora Hallström in the role of the younger Hilma, attempts to redress th
  
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• Lovers’ drunken brawl nearly cost Francis Bacon an eye, diaries reveal

  30-10-2022 11:00
  The spat and injury inspired Bacon to paint his violent expressionist canvas Self-Portrait with Injured EyeFrancis Bacon feared for his sight in one eye and how it would affect his future as a painter after he was seriously injured in a drunken brawl with a lover in 1972, it has emerged.Part of the evidence comes from the previously unpublished diaries of the late Denis Wirth-Miller, who was Bacon’s friend for 45 years, although their relationship was famously turbulent. Continue reading..
  
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• You see aspects of his paintings wherever you look: on Cézanne’s trail in Aix-en-Provence, France

  30-10-2022 10:00
  It’s easy to see why the chic town in the south of France made such an impression on the famous artistA slice of Parisian chic in the south of France, Aix-en-Provence is an idyllic place to while away an autumn weekend. In July and August, the Roman boulevards bake – the heat here is more intense than coastal Marseille just 30km away – and the rows of elegant plane trees along the Cours Mirabeau offer little respite. But come in November or early spring and the place is lively,
  
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• I introduced my son to sculpture – and he quickly figured out the point of it

  30-10-2022 09:30
  A visit to a sculpture show inspires our boy to make his first foray into the art marketMary works in art, so she points at the works we encounter and gives additional information. We’re at London’s Frieze sculpture exhibition and she’s kind enough to give her explanations as if she’s telling the kids, while knowing full well that I’m listening in equal ignorance.Unfortunately, she wasn’t available earlier today, when my son asked what a sculpture actually was
  
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