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The Visual Artists’ News Sheet
http://visualartists.ie/publications/van/
The Visual Artists News Sheet is the primary all-Ireland information resource
for visual artists presenting case study articles on all aspects of the lives
of professional artists, alongside features offering critical reflection and
analysis of relevant aspects of the art world in Ireland and internationally.
The Visual Artists News Sheet reports and reflects upon the broadest possible
range of issues relevant to Irish visual artists across Ireland. The Visual
Artists News Sheet is also committed to giving coverage to the diversity
of contemporary Irish visual arts practice in terms of media, generation and
geography. The Visual Artists News Sheet’s inclusive remit encompasses artists
working in traditional and contemporary modes; established and
emerging artists; artists who are based throughout the Republic of Ireland
and Northern Ireland.

The Visual Artists News Sheet maintains a commitment to focusing on the
experience and voice of the individual artist; with a view to supporting
peer-to-peer information exchange and dialogue amongst artists. The
majority of the content of the Visual Artists News Sheet is written by artists and
is from and about their direct experience of exhibitions / project initiatives,
studio groups or other forms of artist collectives.

The News Sheet is available to pick up free of charge in galleries and arts
centres. However, the most effective way to ensure that you receive the
Visual Artists’ News Sheet both regularly and promptly is to become a member
of Visual Artists Ireland. Membership is open to all artists and entitles
you to an annual subscription to the Visual Artists’ News Sheet as well
as a host of other benefits.

You can view back issues and archived articles here: http://visualartists.ie/category/van-ebulletin/visual-artists-news-sheet/
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Cyber-Archaeologists Working To Digitally Recreate Endangered Artifacts
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“Project Mosul has been launched by researchers from the Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage, an EU-funded initiative aimed at preserving cultural heritage using digital technology. The project consists of a team of volunteers working to digitally reconstruct ancient artifacts from the museum by using photographs and even video taken by tourists.”
Read the story at NPR Published: 06.05.15

Boston Public Library Finds Two Valuable Artworks (And They Had Never Left The Library)
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The two works were found together in the Print Collection, according to the statement, “approximately 80 feet from where the items should have been filed. I saw Rembrandt’s face and I was like, ‘Is this the Rembrandt? There are lots of prints of Rembrandt. This might be it. So I had someone come and confirm.”
Read the story at WBUR Published: 06.05.15

People Are Smuggling Artifacts Out Of Syria And Western Museums Are Holding Them To Protect Them
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“Syrian officials said they had moved hundreds of Palmyra’s statues to safety prior to the IS takeover but could not transfer large monuments. But across Syria, volunteers have risked their lives to preserve and protect irreplaceable monuments and mosaics, many of which date back to the 1st and 2nd Century; while civilians have turned over thousands of ancient artefacts for safekeeping. The British Museum said it could not reveal which Syrian artefact it was holding.”
Read the story at BBC Published: 06.05.15

Guggenheim Director Richard Armstrong: Our Plans In Abu Dhabi
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“Construction on the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi has not begun. Since 2007, we have worked together with the Tourism Development & Investment Company to improve conditions for the workers who will build the future museum. Documented progress has been made on worker accommodation, access to medical coverage, grievance procedures and passport retention, and additional work is underway.”
Read the story at The New York Times Published: 06.04.15

The Brooklyn Museum’s Dynamic New Director Has Big Plans
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As visionary, ambitious, and successful as Anne Pasternak’s programming has been at Creative Time, it’s a leap, to say the least, for her to assume leadership of the encyclopedic Brooklyn Museum, which has a staff of more than three hundred and fifty and resides in a five-story McKim, Mead & White building, whose oldest bits date back to 1893.
Read the story at The New Yorker Published: 06.02.15

Iraq’s National Museum Reopened In February. It’s Struggling
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“Three months later, however, and the museum is struggling to attract visitors. Some Baghdad residents insist they aren’t aware of its existence, despite a much publicized ceremony to mark the occasion, while others have stayed away because of a recent uptick in terrorist attacks—one of which struck a nearby café—that has persuaded many to cut down on nonessential movement.”
Read the story at National Geographic Published: 06.02.15

This Just In: Arts Criticism Isn’t Dead
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“Digital-age publishers are obsessed with the idea of community; of building it and/or finding it and/or representing it. There is no such thing as “community,” at least as far as it relates to how people consistently or predictably respond to the things you put in front of them. Therefore, don’t take any “community” for granted. It doesn’t really exist.”
Read the story at Glasstire Published: 06.02.15

The New Whitney: “A Giddy, Irrational Space For Spectacle”
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“It is said that museums have gone from “being about something” to “being for somebody,” racing to shed their old skins and remaking themselves in our image. So all museums must now become revisions, articulated interventions and reinterpretations of their former selves and their place in the cultural world—a compulsion now embraced by the new Whitney.”
Read the story at New Criterion Published: 06.15

Frick Museum Abandons Controversial Expansion Plan
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“It just became clear to us that it wasn’t going to work,” said a museum official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the board had not yet made the decision final with a vote.
Read the story at The New York Times Published: 06.03.15

Frick Collection Abandons Controversial Expansion Plan
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“Facing a groundswell of opposition to a proposed renovation that would have eliminated a gated garden to make way for a six-story addition, the [Fifth Avenue] museum – long admired for its intimate scale – has decided to abandon those plans and start over from scratch.”
Read the story at New York Times Published: 06.04.15

Museum Workers Versus The Museum Of Modern Art
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To be clear, this isn’t a group of laborers that are raking in massive amounts of cash. According to a press release sent out by the union prior to the demonstration, the salary of “entry-level museum staff starts at approximately $29K per year and the membership, which includes professional staff such as curators, librarians and conservators, averages $49K.”
Read the story at The Daily Beast Published: 06.03.15

Now That Everyone’s A Photographer, It All Seems So Democratic. Except For Artists…
From 'I Was Here' Published by Dewi Lewis Publishing ISBN: 9781907893582

“Many artists are ready to self-fund their first opus because they believe that they need a release early on in their career rather than after having developed a 30 or 40 years practice. That’s fine if it changes their life. But if it doesn’t make a difference, I wonder if they’ll be in a position to spend another 20 or 25,000 dollars the next time around. In a way, it has become about whether or not you have access to money, rather than the value of your work. It isn’t as democratic as we like to think.”
Read the story at Time Published: 06.02.15

This Florida Artist Wrapped His House And Trees In Aluminum Foil. The Neighbors Object…
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Tarpon Springs police Sgt. Ed Miller claims residents have called his landlord and city arborists have inspected the trees, but so far no one can find any justified reason for Janowski to be forced to remove the foil. “Code enforcement is still trying to determine if the project is violating any ordinances.”
Read the story at Orlando Weekly Published: 06.01.15

Iraq’s National Museum Is Open Again – Now People Have To Start Coming
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“Guides and curators say the museum has averaged about 300 visitors a day since it reopened [in February] … Those who do brave the risks of terrorist attacks and the traffic, which is snarled by regular checkpoints, say they are thrilled to see the museum’s collection, which has been largely closed to the public for the past 20 years.”
Read the story at National Geographic Published: 06.02.15

Anti-Democratic? Why Do Museums Hide So Much Of Their Collections?
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“Big museums have long refused to recognize their unexhibited collections of duplicates and minor works as a financial resource. As a consequence, they are wasting value by keeping these works hidden. If they were redistributed to smaller institutions, and even to private collectors and businesses, they would fund an explosion of the value for which we have museums in the first place: people looking at art and getting more out of it when they do.”
Read the story at Democracy Published: 06.01.15

Silicon Valley Has Been Great For Art! (No It Hasn’t)
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“The global industry of technology has so many synergies with art and it’s such a creative community that it only made sense to bring a high quality fair to Silicon Valley. We believe they will be the next great caretakers of the art market. You could talk about just the wealth and you need a certain level of affluence to collect art, but we think it’s beyond that.”
Read the story at Pacific Standard Published: 06.01.15

Saudi Arabia Is Mired In Artistic Conservatism. But Once Upon A Time, Not So Long Ago…
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Jeddah, the “ancient city near Mecca is home to one of the world’s most spectacular arrays of open-air modern sculpture. Perhaps aware of the kudos its neighbours are getting from their Guggenheim branches and skyscrapers, Jeddah has just restored these modernist marvels and moved a selection into a new seaside sculpture park.”
Read the story at The Guardian (UK) Published: 06.01.15

Rediscovering The Identities of Some Of West Africa’s Long-Anonymous Master Sculptors
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“Some sculptors here, such as The Essankro Master and The Master of the Arched Back, are designated only by their region or style, but many others … now have names and stories (one, Kuakudili, has a face) and so they are slowly becoming known as individuals.”
Read the story at Hyperallergic Published: 05.28.15

The Popular Artist Who Painted ‘The Singing Butler’ Injured His Shoulder And May Quit Painting
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“The artist, who grew up in Methil, Fife, first found fame in 1989 when two of his canvases submitted to the Royal Scottish Academy sold on the first day. His work has since featured in exhibitions in Edinburgh, London and New York. He was made an OBE in 2003.”
Read the story at BBC Published: 05.29.15

The Raid To Find Long-Missing Nazi Art
Ein Mann fotografiert am 21.05.2015 in einem Gewerbegebiet in Bad Dürkheim (Rheinland-Pfalz) das Kunstwerk "Schreitende Pferde" des Bildhauers Josef Thorak. Monumentale Kunstwerke, die einst für Adolf Hitlers Neue Reichskanzlei in Berlin gedacht waren, sind nach jahrelangen Ermittlungen in Bad Dürkheim beschlagnahmt worden. Foto: Uwe Anspach/dpa +++(c) dpa - Bildfunk+++

“Although a few museums will be pleased to be able to exhibit the original works — as reminders of the fanatic cult of heroism that led to the deaths of millions of people — the artistic value of the bombastic sculptures is debatable at the very least.”
Read the story at Der Spiegel Published: 05.26.15

Will The Protest Mattress – Remember, It Was A Senior Year Art Project – End Up In A Museum?
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“Whatever its fate in art or social history, Mattress Performance could well live on in objecthood. But would a museum or gallery want it? On the phone from California, where she is visiting a friend in Laguna Beach post-graduation and luxuriating in the distance from the 50-pound mattress she hauled around daily since September, Sulkowicz says no one has approached her about the prospect yet.”
Read the story at Vulture Published: 05.28.15

Dean Sends ‘USC7′ MFA Group Another Letter
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“As the USC students and the administration go back and forth over what promises were and were not kept, a larger debate now rages about the future of art in education.”
Read the story at Los Angeles Times Published: 05.27.15

‘USC7′ MFA Students Respond To Dean’s Letter
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“Current and former Roski faculty also issued a statement, expressing solidarity with the USC7, urging the administration to ‘honor its commitments to its students.'”
Read the story at Hyperallergic Published: 05.29.15

One Last Havana Biennial Before Cuba Opens
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“Everyone knows that major shifts are inevitable once capitalism begins to flood the socialist zone. And a sense of mingled excitement and apprehension is in the air at the 12th Havana Biennial, a diffuse, gradually unfolding, monthlong series of art exhibitions that have been injected into the tissue of this majestic heirloom of a city, adding contemporary warmth to its gorgeously crumbling bones.”
Read the story at The New York Times Published: 05.29.15

So Now Taking Instagram Images And Turning Them Into Art Is Art. A Discussion Well Worth Having
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“Here, you’ve got an appropriation artist whose whole reputation is from taking images that he finds interesting and turning them into art,” Ian Ballon, an Internet copyright litigator with Greenberg Traurig, LLP told The Daily Beast. “But courts evaluate ‘fair use’ based on a multi-part balancing test and, if you change the facts just a little bit, something that looks very similar could actually be a ‘fair use.’”
Read the story at The Daily Beast Published: 05.29.15

Is The Top Of The High-End Art Auction Market Softening?
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The percentage of guaranteed contemporary works at Christie’s evening auctions increased to 52 percent in May from 44 percent in November, according to ArtTactic. Meanwhile, average prices decreased 15.8 percent.
Read the story at The New York Times Published: 05.28.15

Repressive Middle East Governments Hiding Behind Shiny International Art Buildings
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“In this context of repression, it’s clear that whatever the Louvre, the Guggenheim and New York University might say, the reality is that they provide a sheen of high-end respectability to an autocratic state.”
Read the story at The New York Times Published: 05.28.15

Want To Make Art About Superheroes? It’s Not Easy (As These Leaked Sony Emails Show)
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“Gagosian Gallery worked for months to license images of Batman, Superman, Iron Man and Spider-Man for a series by the German photographer Andreas Gursky. More than six prominent Hollywood executives were involved in the negotiations, including Robert Iger, the chairman of the Walt Disney Company, Kevin Tsujihara, the chairman of Warner Brothers, the producer Charles Roven and the chief executives of DC and Marvel Comics.”
Read the story at The Art Newspaper Published: 05.28.15

British Museum To Stream A Live Tour Of Its New Show (And You Can Ask Questions, Too)
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“The museum has British historian and broadcaster Dan Snow on hand to lead a 30 minute journey through the exhibition’s white marble statues, terracotta works, bronzes and ornate vases. There’ll also be the chance to post questions using the iOS and Android app.”
Read the story at Engadget Published: 05.28.15

Justice? Instagram Artist Appropriates Artist Who Appropriated Her Work And Undercuts His Price By 99.9%
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“Selena Mooney, who founded the website SuicideGirls, which has sold online access to erotic images for more than a decade, wrote on Tuesday that she would sell nearly identical copies of one of the pictures chosen by Mr. Prince. She offered a steep discount, though. Her versions, five different inkjet prints on canvas at the same size as Mr. Prince’s, cost just $90. Proceeds will go to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group, she said.”
Cyber-Archaeologists Working To Digitally Recreate Endangered Artifacts
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“Project Mosul has been launched by researchers from the Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage, an EU-funded initiative aimed at preserving cultural heritage using digital technology. The project consists of a team of volunteers working to digitally reconstruct ancient artifacts from the museum by using photographs and even video taken by tourists.”
Read the story at NPR Published: 06.05.15

Boston Public Library Finds Two Valuable Artworks (And They Had Never Left The Library)
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The two works were found together in the Print Collection, according to the statement, “approximately 80 feet from where the items should have been filed. I saw Rembrandt’s face and I was like, ‘Is this the Rembrandt? There are lots of prints of Rembrandt. This might be it. So I had someone come and confirm.”
Read the story at WBUR Published: 06.05.15

People Are Smuggling Artifacts Out Of Syria And Western Museums Are Holding Them To Protect Them
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“Syrian officials said they had moved hundreds of Palmyra’s statues to safety prior to the IS takeover but could not transfer large monuments. But across Syria, volunteers have risked their lives to preserve and protect irreplaceable monuments and mosaics, many of which date back to the 1st and 2nd Century; while civilians have turned over thousands of ancient artefacts for safekeeping. The British Museum said it could not reveal which Syrian artefact it was holding.”
Read the story at BBC Published: 06.05.15

Guggenheim Director Richard Armstrong: Our Plans In Abu Dhabi
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“Construction on the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi has not begun. Since 2007, we have worked together with the Tourism Development & Investment Company to improve conditions for the workers who will build the future museum. Documented progress has been made on worker accommodation, access to medical coverage, grievance procedures and passport retention, and additional work is underway.”
Read the story at The New York Times Published: 06.04.15

The Brooklyn Museum’s Dynamic New Director Has Big Plans
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As visionary, ambitious, and successful as Anne Pasternak’s programming has been at Creative Time, it’s a leap, to say the least, for her to assume leadership of the encyclopedic Brooklyn Museum, which has a staff of more than three hundred and fifty and resides in a five-story McKim, Mead & White building, whose oldest bits date back to 1893.
Read the story at The New Yorker Published: 06.02.15

Iraq’s National Museum Reopened In February. It’s Struggling
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“Three months later, however, and the museum is struggling to attract visitors. Some Baghdad residents insist they aren’t aware of its existence, despite a much publicized ceremony to mark the occasion, while others have stayed away because of a recent uptick in terrorist attacks—one of which struck a nearby café—that has persuaded many to cut down on nonessential movement.”
Read the story at National Geographic Published: 06.02.15

This Just In: Arts Criticism Isn’t Dead
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“Digital-age publishers are obsessed with the idea of community; of building it and/or finding it and/or representing it. There is no such thing as “community,” at least as far as it relates to how people consistently or predictably respond to the things you put in front of them. Therefore, don’t take any “community” for granted. It doesn’t really exist.”
Read the story at Glasstire Published: 06.02.15

The New Whitney: “A Giddy, Irrational Space For Spectacle”
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“It is said that museums have gone from “being about something” to “being for somebody,” racing to shed their old skins and remaking themselves in our image. So all museums must now become revisions, articulated interventions and reinterpretations of their former selves and their place in the cultural world—a compulsion now embraced by the new Whitney.”
Read the story at New Criterion Published: 06.15

Frick Museum Abandons Controversial Expansion Plan
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“It just became clear to us that it wasn’t going to work,” said a museum official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the board had not yet made the decision final with a vote.
Read the story at The New York Times Published: 06.03.15

Frick Collection Abandons Controversial Expansion Plan
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“Facing a groundswell of opposition to a proposed renovation that would have eliminated a gated garden to make way for a six-story addition, the [Fifth Avenue] museum – long admired for its intimate scale – has decided to abandon those plans and start over from scratch.”
Read the story at New York Times Published: 06.04.15

Museum Workers Versus The Museum Of Modern Art
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To be clear, this isn’t a group of laborers that are raking in massive amounts of cash. According to a press release sent out by the union prior to the demonstration, the salary of “entry-level museum staff starts at approximately $29K per year and the membership, which includes professional staff such as curators, librarians and conservators, averages $49K.”
Read the story at The Daily Beast Published: 06.03.15

Now That Everyone’s A Photographer, It All Seems So Democratic. Except For Artists…
From 'I Was Here' Published by Dewi Lewis Publishing ISBN: 9781907893582

“Many artists are ready to self-fund their first opus because they believe that they need a release early on in their career rather than after having developed a 30 or 40 years practice. That’s fine if it changes their life. But if it doesn’t make a difference, I wonder if they’ll be in a position to spend another 20 or 25,000 dollars the next time around. In a way, it has become about whether or not you have access to money, rather than the value of your work. It isn’t as democratic as we like to think.”
Read the story at Time Published: 06.02.15

This Florida Artist Wrapped His House And Trees In Aluminum Foil. The Neighbors Object…
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Tarpon Springs police Sgt. Ed Miller claims residents have called his landlord and city arborists have inspected the trees, but so far no one can find any justified reason for Janowski to be forced to remove the foil. “Code enforcement is still trying to determine if the project is violating any ordinances.”
Read the story at Orlando Weekly Published: 06.01.15

Iraq’s National Museum Is Open Again – Now People Have To Start Coming
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“Guides and curators say the museum has averaged about 300 visitors a day since it reopened [in February] … Those who do brave the risks of terrorist attacks and the traffic, which is snarled by regular checkpoints, say they are thrilled to see the museum’s collection, which has been largely closed to the public for the past 20 years.”
Read the story at National Geographic Published: 06.02.15

Anti-Democratic? Why Do Museums Hide So Much Of Their Collections?
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“Big museums have long refused to recognize their unexhibited collections of duplicates and minor works as a financial resource. As a consequence, they are wasting value by keeping these works hidden. If they were redistributed to smaller institutions, and even to private collectors and businesses, they would fund an explosion of the value for which we have museums in the first place: people looking at art and getting more out of it when they do.”
Read the story at Democracy Published: 06.01.15

Silicon Valley Has Been Great For Art! (No It Hasn’t)
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“The global industry of technology has so many synergies with art and it’s such a creative community that it only made sense to bring a high quality fair to Silicon Valley. We believe they will be the next great caretakers of the art market. You could talk about just the wealth and you need a certain level of affluence to collect art, but we think it’s beyond that.”
Read the story at Pacific Standard Published: 06.01.15

Saudi Arabia Is Mired In Artistic Conservatism. But Once Upon A Time, Not So Long Ago…
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Jeddah, the “ancient city near Mecca is home to one of the world’s most spectacular arrays of open-air modern sculpture. Perhaps aware of the kudos its neighbours are getting from their Guggenheim branches and skyscrapers, Jeddah has just restored these modernist marvels and moved a selection into a new seaside sculpture park.”
Read the story at The Guardian (UK) Published: 06.01.15

Rediscovering The Identities of Some Of West Africa’s Long-Anonymous Master Sculptors
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“Some sculptors here, such as The Essankro Master and The Master of the Arched Back, are designated only by their region or style, but many others … now have names and stories (one, Kuakudili, has a face) and so they are slowly becoming known as individuals.”
Read the story at Hyperallergic Published: 05.28.15

The Popular Artist Who Painted ‘The Singing Butler’ Injured His Shoulder And May Quit Painting
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“The artist, who grew up in Methil, Fife, first found fame in 1989 when two of his canvases submitted to the Royal Scottish Academy sold on the first day. His work has since featured in exhibitions in Edinburgh, London and New York. He was made an OBE in 2003.”
Read the story at BBC Published: 05.29.15

The Raid To Find Long-Missing Nazi Art
Ein Mann fotografiert am 21.05.2015 in einem Gewerbegebiet in Bad Dürkheim (Rheinland-Pfalz) das Kunstwerk "Schreitende Pferde" des Bildhauers Josef Thorak. Monumentale Kunstwerke, die einst für Adolf Hitlers Neue Reichskanzlei in Berlin gedacht waren, sind nach jahrelangen Ermittlungen in Bad Dürkheim beschlagnahmt worden. Foto: Uwe Anspach/dpa +++(c) dpa - Bildfunk+++

“Although a few museums will be pleased to be able to exhibit the original works — as reminders of the fanatic cult of heroism that led to the deaths of millions of people — the artistic value of the bombastic sculptures is debatable at the very least.”
Read the story at Der Spiegel Published: 05.26.15

Will The Protest Mattress – Remember, It Was A Senior Year Art Project – End Up In A Museum?
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“Whatever its fate in art or social history, Mattress Performance could well live on in objecthood. But would a museum or gallery want it? On the phone from California, where she is visiting a friend in Laguna Beach post-graduation and luxuriating in the distance from the 50-pound mattress she hauled around daily since September, Sulkowicz says no one has approached her about the prospect yet.”
Read the story at Vulture Published: 05.28.15

Dean Sends ‘USC7′ MFA Group Another Letter
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“As the USC students and the administration go back and forth over what promises were and were not kept, a larger debate now rages about the future of art in education.”
Read the story at Los Angeles Times Published: 05.27.15

‘USC7′ MFA Students Respond To Dean’s Letter
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“Current and former Roski faculty also issued a statement, expressing solidarity with the USC7, urging the administration to ‘honor its commitments to its students.'”
Read the story at Hyperallergic Published: 05.29.15

One Last Havana Biennial Before Cuba Opens
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“Everyone knows that major shifts are inevitable once capitalism begins to flood the socialist zone.
And a sense of mingled excitement and apprehension is in the air at the 12th Havana Biennial, a
diffuse, gradually unfolding, monthlong series of art exhibitions that have been injected into the tissue of this majestic heirloom of a city, adding contemporary warmth to its gorgeously crumbling bones.”
Read the story at The New York Times Published: 05.29.15

So Now Taking Instagram Images And Turning Them Into Art Is Art. A Discussion
Well Worth Having
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“Here, you’ve got an appropriation artist whose whole reputation is from taking
images that he finds interesting and turning them into art,” Ian Ballon, an
Internet copyright litigator with Greenberg Traurig, LLP told The Daily Beast
. “But courts evaluate ‘fair use’ based on a multi-part balancing test and,
if you change the facts just a little bit, something that looks very similar
could actually be a ‘fair use.’”
Read the story at The Daily Beast Published: 05.29.15

Is The Top Of The High-End Art Auction Market Softening?
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The percentage of guaranteed contemporary works at Christie’s evening
auctions increased to 52 percent in May from 44 percent in November,
according to ArtTactic. Meanwhile, average prices decreased 15.8 percent.
Read the story at The New York Times Published: 05.28.15

Repressive Middle East Governments Hiding Behind Shiny International Art Buildings
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“In this context of repression, it’s clear that whatever the Louvre, th
e Guggenheim and New York University might say, the reality is that they
provide a sheen of high-end respectability to an autocratic state.”
Read the story at The New York Times Published: 05.28.15

Want To Make Art About Superheroes? It’s Not Easy (As These Leaked Sony
Emails Show)
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“Gagosian Gallery worked for months to license images of Batman, Superman,
Iron Man and Spider-Man for a series by the German photographer Andreas
Gursky. More than six prominent Hollywood executives were involved in the
negotiations, including Robert Iger, the chairman of the Walt Disney Company,
Kevin Tsujihara, the chairman of Warner Brothers, the producer Charles
Roven and the chief executives of DC and Marvel Comics.”
Read the story at The Art Newspaper Published: 05.28.15

British Museum To Stream A Live Tour Of Its New Show (And You Can
Ask Questions, Too)
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“The museum has British historian and broadcaster Dan Snow on hand to lead
a 30 minute journey through the exhibition’s white marble statues, terracotta
works, bronzes and ornate vases. There’ll also be the chance to post questions
using the iOS and Android app.”
Read the story at Engadget Published: 05.28.15

Justice? Instagram Artist Appropriates Artist Who Appropriated Her Work And Undercuts His Price By 99.9%
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“Selena Mooney, who founded the website SuicideGirls, which has sold onlin
e access to erotic images for more than a decade, wrote on Tuesday that she
would sell nearly identical copies of one of the pictures chosen by Mr.
Prince. She offered a steep discount, though. Her versions, five different
inkjet prints on canvas at the same size as Mr. Prince’s, cost just $90.
Proceeds will go to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights
group, she said.”