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• Met Names Barbara Drake Boehm Senior Curator of The Cloisters

  09-09-2015 23:34 via artnews.com
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that Barbara Drake Boehm will be the Paul and Jill Ruddock Senior Curator at the museum’s medieval-art annex, The Cloisters, where she is currently a curator. In this newly created position, Boehm will … Read More
  
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• Met Appoints Stephen C. Pinson Curator of Photography

  09-09-2015 22:41 via artnews.com
  Thomas P. Campbell, director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has named Stephen C. Pinson curator of the museum’s photography department, effective November 2. Pinson has served as the Robert B. Menschel Curator of Photography and as the … Read More
  
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• Here’s the Exhibitor List for the 2015 Editions/Artists’ Books Fair

  09-09-2015 21:45 via artnews.com
  The Editions/Artists’ Books Fair has announced that, for its 2015 edition, it will move from the former Dia Chelsea building in Manhattan to the Tunnel building, a few blocks away along the Hudson River. This year’s fair runs from November 5 through November 8, during New … Read More
  
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• Here Is the Trailer for Jacob Ciocci’s Upcoming Show at Interstate Projects

  09-09-2015 21:11 via artnews.com
  This week, Jacob Ciocci released a striking new trailer for his upcoming show at Interstate Projects in Brooklyn. In it, Ciocci muses abstractly and poetically over a barrage of imagery—children’s home movies, mental-health stock footage, a deflating Barney balloon—about life, … Read More
  
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• Somewhere in New York, Bodega Has Opened a New Space Named Princess

  09-09-2015 20:49 via artnews.com
  The Lower East Side’s Bodega gallery, which moved to New York from Philadelphia last year, is opening a new project space this week called Princess. But while most galleries situate their project spaces in a back room or perhaps over … Read More
  
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• Henry Taylor at Carlos/Ishikawa

  09-09-2015 20:28 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: Henry Taylor’s solo show is currently on view at Carlos/Iskikawa in London. The exhibition features works from the Los Angeles–based artist. All of the portraits in the show were … Read More
  
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• CCS Bard Receives $1 M. Grant From Brant Foundation, Alex Kitnick Joins as Fellow

  09-09-2015 19:42 via artnews.com
  Today Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies—or CCS Bard, as it’s commonly styled—announced that it has received a $1 million grant from the Brant Foundation, a nonprofit headed by Peter Brant, who—full disclosure—recently announced he was acquiring part of the … Read More
  
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• CCS Bard College Receives $1 M. Grant From Brant Foundation, Alex Kitnick Joins as Fellow

  09-09-2015 19:42 via artnews.com
  Today Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies—or CCS Bard, as it’s commonly styled—announced that it has received a $1 million grant from the Brant Foundation, a nonprofit headed by Peter Brant, who—full disclosure—recently announced he was acquiring part of the … Read More
  
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• The Colosseum becomes a living artwork – powered by its own bacteria

  09-09-2015 17:58
  
  The arena’s exterior will be lit up with Roman bacteria that dates back to the time of the gladiators. Artist Sabine Kacunko explains why her project is a matter of life, death and 9/11The Colosseum has been many things in its lifetime: it began as a place where emperors distracted the masses with gladiators and gore; it was plundered for stone to construct buildings like St Peter’s Basilica and the Palazzo Venezia; then it was declared a sacred site to Christian martyrdom and left a
  
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• Charity sale splits art into parts

  09-09-2015 17:47
  
  Artists including Richard Wilson and Annie Morris submitted work to be broken down and sold in pieces for Macmillan Cancer SupportAs contemporary art prices continue to spiral upwards, how about buying a bit of an artwork rather than the whole thing?The unusual idea is at the heart of a charity exhibition and sale raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support, opening to the public at Somerset House in London on Thursday. Continue reading...
  
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• Bookish: On the Art World’s Publishing Boom

  09-09-2015 16:30 via artnews.com
  One morning last spring Julia Joern and Todd Bradway were sitting in a Manhattan townhouse discussing David Zwirner Books. The year-old enterprise is the latest addition to Zwirner’s fast-growing gallery, which now encompasses 80,000 square feet of space in New … Read More
  
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• Corso Zundert parade honours Van Gogh with beautiful floats using up to a million flowers

  09-09-2015 16:02
  
  Each year the 'Bloemencorso Zundert' parade celebrates its status as a global supplier of dahlia flowers.
  
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• The Queen becomes a street art pin-up

  09-09-2015 15:55
  
  With his rampantly patriotic and 100% unofficial portrait of Her Maj, street artist Pegasus shows how deadly dull most official portraits of Britain’s longest reigning monarch areThere is a new official portrait of the Queen to celebrate her becoming the longest reigning British monarch, but the photograph by Mary McCartney is not nearly as striking as the unofficial portrait a London street artist has created. Pegasus really loves the Queen – and not all that platonically. In his fa
  
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• Morning Links: Coca-Cola Bottle Edition

  09-09-2015 15:11 via artnews.com
  Andrew Bolton will become the new head of the Met’s Costume Institute, replacing Harold Koda. [The Hollywood Reporter]Collector Adam Solow is threatening to sue the U.S. government after the U.S. Bureau of Firearms, Tobacco, and Alcohol confiscated a chair made … Read More
  
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• Here Is the Exhibitor List for Art Basel Miami Beach 2015

  09-09-2015 14:00 via artnews.com
  Art Basel Miami Beach, the art fair, or, if you will, annual clusterfuck, callously pissing hellfire on not only the art world and its titular location, but the very concept of happiness itself, will return again this December. It runs … Read More
  
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• Female cartoonist could have 12 year prison term extended for shaking her lawyer's hand

  09-09-2015 12:39
  
  An Iranian artist currently serving more than 12 years in prison for criticising the government now faces further charges of “indecency” for allegedly shaking her male lawyer’s hand.
  
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