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• Tehran’s Mayor Replaces Ads On All 1,500 City Billboards With Famous Artworks

  07-05-2015 23:14 via artnews.com
  As reported by the New York Times today, Dr. Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, mayor of Tehran (“[and] a former Revolutionary Guards commander, retired pilot, and the loser of two presidential elections,” the article piles on neutrally) has ordered all of the … Read More
  
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• Jonathan Horowitz To Commission 700 Black Dot Paintings at $20 a Piece For Frieze New York

  07-05-2015 20:58 via artnews.com
  For Gavin Brown Enterprise’s contribution to this year’s Frieze New York, Jonathan Horowitz will present “700 Dots,” a piece that will recruit a total of 700 fairgoers to attempt to paint a “perfect” solid black dot, each participant receiving a … Read More
  
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• A LOOK AROUND THE VENICE BIENNALE: DAY 3, PART 2

  07-05-2015 20:16 via artnews.com
  Day three of the Biennale continues, with no shortage of performance artists and a constant stream of pavilion opening and events. Below, you’ll find more Biennale style, performances, and more. ALL PHOTOS: KATHERINE MCMAHON/ARTNEWS
  
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• Simon Denny, Representing New Zealand, Focuses on State Power

  07-05-2015 19:49 via artnews.com
  The grand Piazzetta de San Marco, located in the center of the city, has become a hub for investigations of state power for the run of this year’s Biennale. On one end, the Museo Correr is playing host to Jenny … Read More
  
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• Simon Denny, Representing New Zealand, Exposes the Language of State Surveillance

  07-05-2015 19:49 via artnews.com
  The grand Piazzetta de San Marco, located in the center of the city, has become a hub for investigations of state power for the run of this year’s Biennale. On one end, the Museo Correr is playing host to Jenny … Read More
  
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• Baltimore Symphony Enlists Designers To Reimagine What Musicians Wear On Stage

  07-05-2015 19:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If all now goes according to plan, four or five student designs of women and men’s garments will be presented to Baltimore Symphony players this summer. The design school has already taken the BSO musicians’ measurements with a 3-D body scanner. According to Gabbi Asfour, a fashion designer who leads the Parsons effort, once the […]
  
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• The Keeper Of The Grammar

  07-05-2015 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘Whom’ may indeed be on the way out”, she writes, “but so is Venice, and we still like to go there.”
  
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• The Arts Patron Of Teheran

  07-05-2015 19:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Almost overnight nearly all of Tehran’s billboards, which are owned by the city and are a prime source of income, stopped showcasing South Korean dishwashers and the latest bank interest rates (now 22 percent) and sported still lifes by Rembrandt and images by the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson.”
  
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• ‘The Key to Any Good Performance Art Is Nudity': A Talk With Rob Pruitt

  07-05-2015 19:00 via artnews.com
  Bill Powers: You have a wall in your studio where you match art-world figures with their celebrity look-alikes for your Instagram. What famous person do people think you look like? Rob Pruitt: Somebody said Jim Carrey, but I don’t see … Read More
  
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• ‘Travess Smalley’ at Foxy Production

  07-05-2015 18:30 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Travess Smalley” is currently on view at Foxy Production in New York until Saturday, May 30. The artist’s inaugural solo exhibition at the gallery features large scale print works, a five-volume … Read More
  
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• A Look Around the Venice Biennale: Day 3, Part 1

  07-05-2015 18:22 via artnews.com
  On day three of the Venice Biennale preview, many visitors began to make their way out of the main exhibition and into the surrounding pavilions and events. Below, a mix of Joan Jonas, Cheetos at the Spanish pavilion, and more … Read More
  
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• All Grown Up Now: Leo Fitzpatrick to Join Marlborough Chelsea As Director

  07-05-2015 18:07 via artnews.com
  This May the artist, actor, and downtown don Leo Fitzpatrick joined Marlborough Chelsea as a director. Fitzpatrick will sell art and curate shows in his own distinctive style in pop-up spaces within the 25th Street gallery. The news follows the … Read More
  
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• Das Kapital at the Arsenale: how Okwui Enwezor invited Marx to the Biennale

  07-05-2015 17:51
  
  Collector billionaires arriving by super-yacht will be greeted by a team of performers reading Das Kapital every day for the next six months. Charlotte Higgins talks to Biennale director Okwui Enwezor about revolution, racism and the small matter of Rolls-Royce sponsorshipAt the last Venice Biennale in 2013, the artist Jeremy Deller represented the UK. He emblazoned one of the walls of the British pavilion with a mural of a colossal William Morris rising up, kraken-like, from the Venetian lagoon
  
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• La Monte Young’s Unending Thoughts: The Composer Pays a Visit to Red Bull Academy

  07-05-2015 17:46 via artnews.com
  Yesterday evening, a group of people crowded into the Red Bull Academy Headquarters in Chelsea to hear the composer La Monte Young speak about his work. Red Bull had plastered images of Young around the city, in which he appears … Read More
  
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• Nigel Farage pictured pushing David Cameron around in supermarket trolley...

  07-05-2015 17:05
  
  A euphoric, and possibly inebriated, David Cameron has been pictured celebrating his second premiership, this time in coalition with Ukip, as an upbeat Nigel Farage pushes him down the street in a supermarket trolley.
  
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• ‘It’s Not Nice to Kick the Dead, But In This One Case I Don’t Really Care': An Hour With David Salle

  07-05-2015 16:54 via artnews.com
  David Salle is remarkably measured in his thinking, prone to prefacing any vaguely provocative statement with a phrase like “of course these are generalizations and there are always exceptions and you could create a counterargument if you were to take … Read More
  
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• Ron Jones obituary

  07-05-2015 16:47
  
  Our father, Ron Jones, who has died aged 88, was a prolific artist, educator and ambassador for the visual arts.He was born in the month of the general strike in the Welsh colliery village of Aberfan. His father, Daniel, was an unemployed miner; his mother, Catherine (nee Jones), had campaigned as a young woman for the first Labour party leader, Keir Hardie. The family suffered the deprivations visited upon the Welsh valleys by industrial strife and poverty, and this was to become a dominant fea
  
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• Clandon Park 'miraculously' retains Speakers' Parlour after fire

  07-05-2015 15:42
  
  National Trust says Hogarth painting and state bed hangings are also saved from 18th-century stately home reduced to burnt-out shellOne of the most important rooms at the 18th-century Clandon Park mansion “miraculously survived” a devastating fire more than a week ago, the National Trust says. Treasured objects in the Speaker’s Room in the Grade-I listed property, near Guildford, Surrey, have also been saved, along with other parts of the collection rescued in the salvage operation at the
  
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• Clandon Park mansion retains treasures after fire, says National Trust

  07-05-2015 15:42
  
  Speakers’ Parlour and range from collection, including Hogarth painting and state bed hangings, salvaged from 18th-century stately home reduced to burnt-out shellOne of the most important rooms at the 18th-century mansion Clandon Park “miraculously survived” a devastating fire more than a week ago, the National Trust reports.Important objects in the Speaker’s Room in the Grade-I listed property, near Guildford, Surrey, have also been saved, along with other parts of the collection rescue
  
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• Morning Links: ‘My East is your West’ Edition

  07-05-2015 15:40 via artnews.com
  Edward Snowden’s bust, removed from Fort Greene last month, has been released from police custody and handed over to Postmasters Gallery for a show starting tomorrow. [Blouin Artinfo] A list of participating galleries in the upcoming Seattle Art Fair was … Read More
  
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• Barbara Hannigan in Focus II, Barbican, review: First attempt to sing and direct hits high note

  07-05-2015 13:49
  
  Soprano Barbara Hannigan is one of our most brilliant and versatile singing actresses, as comfortable with Boulez and Ligeti as with Mozart and Handel, and she’s added a new string to her bow.
  
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• Koen Vanmechelen, artist: 'I need the living material inside my work... the feathers, the eggs and the corn'

  07-05-2015 13:30
  
  The utopian artist Koen Vanmechelen has been working in the small town of Hasselt, Belgium, for the past seven years. Writing this column, I have seen some wonders but none surpass the surprises contained within the sprawling building, formerly a glue and gelatine factory, that announces itself as the "University of Diversity".
  
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• At the Punta Della Dogana, Danh Vo Offers a Moving Selection of Martin Wongs

  07-05-2015 11:59 via artnews.com
  The most elegant show in Venice? That would have to be “Slip of the Tongue,” the exhibition that artist Danh Vo has organized at billionaire François Pinault’s museum at the Punta della Dogana. Vo’s layout is about as spare as you can get … Read More
  
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• ARTnews’ Complete 2015 Venice Biennale Coverage

  07-05-2015 11:33 via artnews.com
  Below, a continuously updated list of ARTnews’ reports from the Venice Biennale. The Main Exhibition – The Central Show, Focused on Strife, Is Uneasy, Uneven – An Airport in the Arsenale The National Pavilions – In and Around the Arsenale: Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, and … Read More
  
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• The Top of the Tree: Ursula von Rydingsvard in Venice

  07-05-2015 11:07 via artnews.com
  Context matters: proof is looking at Ursula von Rydingsvard’s sculptures in the Giardino della Marinaressa. Set in this small park, the mostly cedar works could have grown in the garden like a native species, so comfortable are they in the … Read More
  
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• In Deep Water: The Pavilions of Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, and Tuvalu in Venice

  07-05-2015 10:54 via artnews.com
  The Venice Biennale, with its global array of national pavilions, allows visitors to make like Marco Polo and sail east, while remaining rooted in the West. The Korean and Japanese pavilions in the Giardini are a good place to start, but … Read More
  
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• Blek le Rat: I encourage people not to vote - the political system is broken

  07-05-2015 10:06
  
  Blek le Rat is known as the father of stencil graffiti, one of the most politically engaged art movements of the past century, but his faith the electoral system is non-existent to the point that he urges others not to vote.
  
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• Artists who displayed Edward Snowden statue in New York park escape charges

  07-05-2015 02:01
  
  Unnamed pair who affixed bust of NSA whistleblower onto war monument in Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn receive summonses for non-criminal violation The mystery artists who put a bust of Edward Snowden on a War of Independence memorial have been ticketed but not criminally charged, while the city has given back their confiscated statue, their lawyer said Wednesday. The four-foot-tall, 100-pound likeness of the exiled National Security Agency whistleblower appeared last month on a monument in Fort Gre
  
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