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• Detroit Institute of Arts Awards Executives Raises as Compensation for Turmoil

  26-08-2015 23:13 via artnews.com
  The Detroit Institute of Arts has announced a $49,000-dollar salary raise for its executive vice president and COO, Annmarie Erickson; its vice president and CFO, Robert Bowen; and Graham Beal, who stepped down in June as its director, president, and CEO. The … Read More
  
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• Andrew Blauvelt Leaves Walker to Head Cranbrook In Detroit

  26-08-2015 23:05 via artnews.com
  The Minneapolis Star Tribune has reported that Andrew Blauvelt, the design director and curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, is exiting the institution after 17 years of service to become director at the Cranbrook Art Museum outside Detroit. (Thank you … Read More
  
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• Crystal Bridges Will Open Frank Lloyd Wright House in November

  26-08-2015 21:41 via artnews.com
  The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced today that its Frank Lloyd Wright house, which the Bentonville, Arkansas museum transplanted from New Jersey in 2014, will open to the public on November 11. Since its acquisition by the museum, … Read More
  
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• A Final Summer Group Show Will Alight in Upstate New York This Weekend

  26-08-2015 21:19 via artnews.com
  Just when the summer season seemed to be completely finished, two New York art dealers have announced plans for one final summertime exhibition, which will run for just two days this weekend, August 29 and 30, at 224 Main Street in Germantown, … Read More
  
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• Two Aspen Music Festival Fellows Killed In Crash

  26-08-2015 19:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Trumpeter Alex Greene, 23 and a student at the Curtis Institute, and tuba player Ben Darneille, 21 and studying at DePaul University, died in ain a car accident near Rock Springs, Wyoming on Monday night .
  
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• ‘S-M-L-XL’ at MCA Chicago

  26-08-2015 19:15 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show:  “S-M-L-XL” is currently on view at the MCA Chicago until October 4. The exhibition features four sculptures from over the course of five decades, ranging in size from small to … Read More
  
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• Theaster Gates at White Cube Bermondsey

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• ‘The Figure in American Art: 1766 –1971’ at Debra Force Fine Art

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• Rina Banerjee at Jacob Lewis

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• Piero Manzoni at Museu de Arte Moderna

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• Noah Purifoy at Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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• Magali Reus at SculptureCenter

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• Lynda Benglis at Storm King Art Center

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• Ken Gonzales-Day at Luis De Jesus

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• James Prosek at Leslie Feely

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• Chantal Joffe at Cheim & Read

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• Barbara Kasten at Institute of Contemporary Art

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• Andrea Fraser at Museum der Moderne

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• At SculptureCenter Block Party, Dads and Rats, Books and Bands

  26-08-2015 17:23 via artnews.com
  There were a lot of strollers at the SculptureCenter block party last Saturday in Long Island City in New York. It felt like the perfect place to be a weekend dad: feed the kids some cotton candy, subject them to … Read More
  
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• Apocalypse Now: Shezad Dawood on His New Post-Brooklyn Film

  26-08-2015 17:00 via artnews.com
  Over the past decade, Shezad Dawood’s films have involved aliens, the occult, mysticism, and apocalypses. Even weirder than the London-based artist’s subject matter is that much of it is couched in truth. Piercing Brightness (2013) takes its sci-fi plot from … Read More
  
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• Dismaland: Palestinian artist thrown out after protesting against Israeli works

  26-08-2015 16:56
  
  A Palestinian artist has been thrown out of Dismaland after covering his own paintings in bedsheets as a protest against the Israeli artists whose work was also on display.
  
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• Morning Links: Michel Houellebecq Edition

  26-08-2015 15:01 via artnews.com
  Here are 7 other incidents to rival yesterday’s story of the boy who accidentally punched a 350-year-old painting. [The Telegraph]Artist Eliza Bennett is embroidering her own hand for a new series called A Woman’s Work Is Never Done. [Dazed Digital]A mysterious Michel … Read More
  
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• Fears for legendary Savitsky art collection after dismissal of museum director

  26-08-2015 14:40
  Supporters say Marinika Babanazarova falsely accused of stealing from remote Uzbek museum housing world-class Russian avant-garde worksOne of the world’s greatest collections of Russian avant-garde art is housed in an unlikely place: the remote city of Nukus, the capital of Karakalpakstan – a depressed and desolate region of north-west Uzbekistan. The Savitsky Karakalpakstan art museum holds about 90,000 artworks, paintings from the 1920s and 1930s along with archaeological finds and
  
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• 1997 or bust: how Tony Blair and Damien Hirst let us all down

  26-08-2015 14:23
  New Labour’s landslide victory and Charles Saatchi’s YBA show promised a new Britain that was keen to shove conservatism aside. What’s happened since is awe-inspiring and angeringTwo events changed the face of Britain in 1997. One was the landslide victory for New Labour in the general election on 1 May. The other was Sensation: Young British Artists, an exhibition from the Saatchi Gallery that opened in September at the Royal Academy in London.To a nation basking in Tony Blair
  
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• Dismaland: The artists doing cooler things than Banksy at his 'bemusement park'

  26-08-2015 13:11
  
  Some familiar and not-so-familiar names have been invited to take part in Banksy's Dismaland, the artist's first UK show in six years.
  
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• 24-hour party person: could comedian Joe Pera survive a dance marathon?

  26-08-2015 12:00
  We sent standup comedian Joe Pera, armed with a granola bar, a sweater and a head full of Eagles lyrics, to spend 24 hours at Agathe Snow’s Stamina event at the Guggenheim. Could he survive?“Some dance to remember, some dance to forget,” sang my favorite band, Eagles, in a song called Hotel California. But as I learned on Thursday evening at the Guggenheim, there are also some people who dance to explore the “social interactions and political ideologies that unite and div
  
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• This artist carves skulls out of pearls

  26-08-2015 10:45
  
  Death has never looked so adorable as in these tiny skulls from jewellery designer Shinji Nakaba, which are all crafted out of pearls.
  
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• Getting A Ticket To Banksy’s Dismaland Theme Park Is A Nightmare (That’s Gotta Be What He Wanted)

  26-08-2015 10:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The website crashed from all the traffic, and people have to stand in line queue for hours at the gate.
  
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• A fistful of euros: the Spanish town where spaghetti westerns never died – in pictures

  26-08-2015 08:00
  In the dust of Tabernas desert near Almería in Spain is a wild west town where gunslingers still roam. The saloons and stores built as sets for Sergio Leone’s iconic films like The Good, The Bad and The Ugly stayed standing after the film crews rode out. In his book Dreaming Leone, Spanish photographer Alvaro Deprit shows the people keeping the spaghetti western spirit alive Continue reading...
  
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• Young Girl Accidentally Breaks 2,000-Year-Old Vase at Israel Museum

  26-08-2015 00:40 via artnews.com
  Kids need to be more careful in museums! Today footage surfaced of a young boy slipping and putting his hand through a 350-year-old painting in Taipei. Now Haaretz has reported that a “young girl” accidentally knocked over a 2,000-year-old vase at … Read More
  
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• Met’s Breuer Annex Will Be Renovated Ahead of March Opening, Will Include a ‘Book Bar’

  26-08-2015 00:12 via artnews.com
  Today the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York detailed its plans for the Met Breuer, the museum’s annex for modern and contemporary art, which is set to open in March 2016 at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s former, Marcel … Read More
  
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• Met Breuer Will Be Renovated Ahead of March Opening, Will Include a ‘Book Bar’

  26-08-2015 00:12 via artnews.com
  Today the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York detailed its plans for the Met Breuer, the museum’s annex for modern and contemporary art, which is set to open in March 2016 at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s former, Marcel … Read More
  
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