Archive for February, 2016
By: Art Forum on Monday, February 29th, 2016 at 11:00 pm
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By: Art F City on Monday, February 29th, 2016 at 10:02 pm
The animated GIF/avatar teaser for Angela Washko’s web project for Panther Modern, “Room Sixteen“, which is now live. The piece touches on the terror of navigation, rampant online misogyny and the tendency to form enclaves in whatever corner of the net we’re in. “Is every olive branch also a trap?” asks one caption inside Washko’s... | Read More
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By: Arts Journal on Monday, February 29th, 2016 at 10:01 pm
“Manchester Camerata orchestra’s Music in Mind (MIM) projects, which involved 7,200 people in care homes and community projects across Greater Manchester last year, have had such dramatic effects on participants that academics at Manchester and Lancaster universities are backing a research student to create the world’s first in-the-moment, multi-sensory assessment tool to quantify... | Read More
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By: ArtDaily.org on Monday, February 29th, 2016 at 9:24 pm
On February 20st and 21nd, 2016, Clars Auction Gallery’s hosted their important Fine Art, Decorative, Jewelry and Asian Art sale which experienced intense bidding, particularly from the Internet, on the investment level property from several major estates and collections that was offered. Overall, the sale performed with strength in all categories achieving $2.1 million but it was the Asian... |
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By: ArtDaily.org on Monday, February 29th, 2016 at 9:23 pm
Jean-Michel Alberola (born in 1953 in Algeria, lives in Paris) is at once one of the best-known and most mysterious French artists of his generation. Palais de Tokyo has invited him to put on a large-scale solo show, the first in Paris since his retrospective at the Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, almost 20 years ago. Political, poetic, committed and profound, Jean-Michel... |
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By: ArtDaily.org on Monday, February 29th, 2016 at 9:23 pm
Naad Parent and her family are saddened to announce the death of Claude Parent on February 27th in the evening, on the day following his 93rd birthday. Claude Parent was born in 1923 and has consistently appeared as a maverick figure in the field of architecture; a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, once a student of Le Corbusier, he was the practician and theoretician of the “oblique... |
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By: ArtDaily.org on Monday, February 29th, 2016 at 9:23 pm
The Israel Museum today announced that James S. Snyder, Anne and Jerome Fisher Director of the Museum, will assume the newly created role of International President for the Museum’s worldwide activities, effective January 1, 2017. In his new capacity, Mr. Snyder will spearhead the ongoing development of the Museum’s extensive international network of Friends organizations, which has... |
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By: ArtDaily.org on Monday, February 29th, 2016 at 9:23 pm
Four leaders of a crime gang were convicted Monday of plotting to steal jade and rhino horn artefacts worth £57 million ($79 million, 73 million euros) from museums across Britain to export illegally to China. Ten more men have already been convicted of the same crime, including Chi Cheong Donald Wong -- a London-based intermediary who would find buyers for the stolen items and made frequent... |
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By: Art Forum on Monday, February 29th, 2016 at 8:42 pm
Claudia La Rocco on Maria Hassabi, Pam Tanowitz, and Justin Peck... |
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By: Arts Journal on Monday, February 29th, 2016 at 8:18 pm
“A number of publicists and journalists told me stories about sexually inappropriate behavior they’d encountered while doing their jobs—and many, including me, had never spoken up, mostly out of fear for their jobs. More than one woman who I interviewed asked to remain anonymous, and several confirmed but then cancelled our interviews outright.”
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