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• School of Art Director at Texas Tech University

  11-09-2024 23:34 via artsjournal.com
  19807Position DescriptionSearch Announcement: School of Art Director at Texas Tech UniversityThe J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual & Performing Arts and the faculty, staff, and students of the School of Art at Texas Tech University enthusiastically seek nominations and applications for a visionary leader as Director of the School of Art (SOA) at the rank of tenured, full professor. The ideal candidate will lead a thriving program that exemplifies the highest standards of a cre
  
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• Director of Development – New Art Center

  11-09-2024 23:31 via artsjournal.com
  The Director of Development (DoD) will design, shape, and lead all fundraising initiatives to advance New Art’s annual and strategic goals. Reporting to New Art’s Executive Director and working closely with the volunteer Board of Governors, the Marketing department, outside consultants, and other New Art staff members, the DoD will be integral member of the senior management team. The DoD will play an active role in developing and communicating New Art’s mission and vision to c
  
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• Graham Rawle obituary

  11-09-2024 17:18
  Author, artist and designer who created the collage series Lost Consonants for the Guardian in 1990The author, collage artist and designer Graham Rawle, who has died aged 69, of complications related to cancer treatment, once said: “As a kid I was always writing stories, making scrapbooks and magazines, building collections (bubble-gum cards, toy soldiers etc), making up jokes, drawing pictures. None of this seemed like work to me – it’s quite funny that this is now called &lsq
  
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• Nude descending a staircase on a skateboard: Jan Hakon Erichsen’s viral video art

  11-09-2024 13:00
  
  The artist explains how he became an Instagram star by smashing vegetables, popping balloons – and nearly killing himself with a knife sculptureMaybe you know him as the balloon guy. Or the knife guy. Or the guy who bashes vegetables with his own clean-shaven head. If you’ve misspent any time stuck in the visual treacle that is Instagram Reels, chances are you’ve found him, this bald man with the cucumber glasses or the carrot visor, the gherkin halo, the corn-on-the-cob unicor
  
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• Statue of Queen Elizabeth II derided as looking more like Mrs Doubtfire

  11-09-2024 12:57
  
  Mockery and indignation follow unveiling of sculpture of late monarch at Antrim Castle Gardens in Northern IrelandOne critic said it made the late queen look like Mrs Doubtfire. Others faulted the shape of the face, the posture and the wellies. Some called it offensive and ridiculous, and demanded it be melted down.Mockery and indignation began within hours of the unveiling of the bronze statue of Queen Elizabeth II at Antrim Castle Gardens in Northern Ireland on Friday. Continue reading...
  
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• Statue of queen derided as looking more like Mrs Doubtfire

  11-09-2024 12:57
  
  Mockery and indignation follow unveiling of sculpture of late monarch at Antrim Castle Gardens in Northern IrelandOne critic said it made the late queen look like Mrs Doubtfire. Others faulted the shape of the face, the posture and the wellies. Some called it offensive and ridiculous, and demanded it be melted down.Mockery and indignation began within hours of the unveiling of the bronze statue of Queen Elizabeth II at Antrim Castle Gardens in Northern Ireland on Friday. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘My old label said I was more annoying than lucrative’: painter-musician Issy Wood on her singular, insular world

  11-09-2024 12:05
  
  The British-American artist has turned down gallery mogul Larry Gagosian, walked away from a deal with Mark Ronson – and earned a big fanbase for her uncanny, intimate workAfter a stint in the commercial music world and amid a prolific career as a highly celebrated painter, Issy Wood accidentally released her second album in July. “Four days before it was meant to be, just by not making the files private on SoundCloud,” she says over cigarettes in her spacious east London studi
  
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• Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers review – a riveting rollercoaster ride from Arles to the stars

  11-09-2024 01:01
  
  Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers, National Gallery, London
  This daring, dazzling exhibition gives us a thrilling sense of the artist’s transfiguring genius, showing how he remade the world around him with beauty, hope and searing colourNeither The Poet nor The Lover, whose portraits open the this heart-stopping Van Gogh exhibition, were quite what they seem. The Lover’s eyes gazes dreamily from a face of blue-green tints, wearing a red cap flaming against an emerald sky, in which a gold mo
  
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