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• ‘Ni Haifeng: Asynchronous, Parallel, Tautological, et cetera…’ at Pearl Lam Galleries

  18-08-2015 22:02 via artnews.com
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• German Art Historian Eike Schmidt Appointed Director of Uffizi Gallery

  18-08-2015 21:58 via artnews.com
  Eike Schmidt, a German art historian currently working at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, has been named director of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Schmidt will be the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi, replacing Antonio Natali.Italy’s culture minister Dario Franceschini … Read More
  
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• People Who Live In Glass Houses: James Welling on His Andrew Wyeth–Inspired Photographs

  18-08-2015 21:01 via artnews.com
  Last week, when I spoke to James Welling at David Zwirner, the gallery was de-installing its De Wain Valentine show. Whirring drills threatened to upstage the soft-spoken photographer, who discussed his show at The Brandywine River Museum of Art, “Things … Read More
  
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• Marc Straus Gallery Taps Ken Tan As New Director With Expansion In Mind

  18-08-2015 20:04 via artnews.com
  Marc Straus Gallery announced today that Ken Tan has been hired as the gallery’s new director. Tan will work with the current director of the Lower East Side space, the artist Tim Hawkinson, in an effort to expand the gallery’s presence … Read More
  
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• Michael Govan Announced As Recipient Of ICI’s 2015 Leo Award

  18-08-2015 19:22 via artnews.com
  Independent Curators International (ICI) announced that Michael Govan will be presented with the 2015 Leo Award at ICI’s 40th Anniversary Benefit & Auction this November. The annual award, named after famed art dealer Leo Castelli, honors those who have demonstrated … Read More
  
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• Italy's culture minister looks abroad for overhaul of art galleries and museums

  18-08-2015 18:35
  Dario Franceschini ruffles local feathers by appointing seven foreigners to head Italy’s most prestigious galleries, including Florence’s Uffizi and Accademia Italy’s culture ministry has appointed 20 new directors to manage some of its top museums, including Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, with a number of foreigners brought in to revamp the way the country’s vast heritage is presented to the public.Fourteen art historians, four archaeologists, one cultural manager and
  
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• How Banksy's policeman got his legs back: tales from art's emergency ward

  18-08-2015 17:52
  It’s hard enough repairing artworks that are just paint on canvas. But what if they’re made out of soap, card or dirty knickers? Meet the experts who can fix almost anythingIn a large, light-filled studio in east London, conservator Julia Nagle and I are bent over a canvas. The picture, by the minimalist Italian artist Turi Simeti, is utterly and hypnotically black, a few feet wide; in the centre of the frame, the surface swells gently, as if a creature from another dimension is atte
  
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• Frank Gehry Is Redesigning the Los Angeles River Basin Waterway

  18-08-2015 17:37 via artnews.com
  Frank Gehry is turning his attention to landscape architecture, according to an article in the Los Angeles Times. The architect, famous for his work on the Guggenheim Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in L.A., has been secretly working with … Read More
  
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• The Rubin Museum Is Crowdfunding to Expand Its Shrine Room

  18-08-2015 17:19 via artnews.com
  On September 1, the Rubin Museum in New York will launch a “Find Your Focus” crowdfunding campaign to raise money to relocate and expand its popular Tibetan Shrine Room, the AP reports. The shrine room, which is currently part of the museum’s “Gateway … Read More
  
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• Carnegie Museum Hires Eric Crosby as Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art

  18-08-2015 16:28 via artnews.com
  Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art announced today that it has tapped Eric Crosby, the associate curator of visual arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, to be its new Richard Armstrong Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. He starts … Read More
  
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• The new Turner prize bus tours reek of tartan fetishism

  18-08-2015 16:08
  By only showcasing Scottish art on the tour bus for the world’s biggest art prize, the Travelling Gallery is letting itself be corrupted by petty nationalismSome brilliant Scottish artists have won the Turner prize. Brilliant English ones have as well, plus bad Scottish artists and bad English ones. It’s a truly British institution, a modern vindication of the political union in which we still live, for now. So staging this autumn’s Turner prize in Glasgow is both a deserved re
  
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• Morning Links: UFARTED Edition

  18-08-2015 14:51 via artnews.com
  In an unfortunate social media gaffe, the University of Florida is using #ufarted to market its master’s program in art education. [Huffington Post]Jerry Saltz on Melva Bucksbaum. [Vulture]A Roman altar was stolen from the Senhouse Museum, in England. [BBC News]In … Read More
  
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• An insider's cultural guide to Minsk: rocking in the 'world's cleanest city'

  18-08-2015 11:41
  Despite the Belarusian government’s strict laws, Minsk manages to host an eclectic music and arts scene that even Jethro Tull – yes! – approves ofModernity lost in Soviet spirit. Continue reading...
  
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• Covent Garden market will soon be filled with 100,000 glowing white balloons

  18-08-2015 11:19
  
  Covent Garden market is getting quite the makeover later this month, when a French artist will fill the ceiling with a "floating cloud" of 100,000 glowing balloons.
  
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• Rightwing Russian activists attack Moscow art exhibition

  18-08-2015 08:00
  Conservative Christian group takes offence over sculpture show depicting naked Christ and heads of John the Baptist. The Moscow Times reportsRussia has been accused of encouraging religious intolerance after rightwing activists attacked a major art exhibit in Moscow, claiming it offended their ultra-conservative beliefs and was therefore illegal under recent laws. Members of God’s Will, a Christian group led by self-proclaimed missionary Dmitry “Enteo” Tsorionov, vandalised the
  
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• Artist to fill Covent Garden market with 100,000 balloons

  18-08-2015 08:00
  Charles Pétillon’s glowing pop-up installation will stretch over 50 metres across ceiling of market buildingA French artist will fill the interior of Covent Garden market with 100,000 glowing white balloons as part of a vast pop-up installation.Charles Pétillon, who is known for his technique of using balloons to create eerie images in everyday settings – from swimming pools to children’s playgrounds – will create his largest sculpture yet in central London,
  
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