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• Three good reasons why Brisbane’s Asia Pacific Triennial is the tops

  07-01-2016 22:00
  
  If you have no plans to go to Brisbane between now and 10 April when the eighth Asia Pacific Triennial (APT) closes, you should reconsider. The 2015 Venice Biennale boasted of getting half a million visitors, but the 2012 APT trumped it with 565,000, which makes the politicians of the Australian state of Queensland thoroughly immodest about this event, which is almost certainly the most intelligent and stimulating big show of non-Western art anywhere, for three reasons.
  The first is that does n
  
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• An unconventional pastoralist: on Samuel Palmer

  07-01-2016 22:00
  
  The painter Graham Sutherland played a large part in the revival of interest in Samuel Palmer (1805-81) in the 1920s and 1930s and it was he who later referred to Palmer as “a sort of English Van Gogh”. The appellation has been decried as far-fetched, but there is more than a grain of truth in the comparison between the Dutchman who gave up his career in the church and turned to art as an alternative form of preaching, and the Englishman who tried his whole life to balance the claim
  
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• Swap shop: the stories behind six objects in Pia Camil’s New Museum installation

  07-01-2016 20:48
  
  Pia Camil is making every museumgoer’s dream come true: she is opening a gift shop where everything is free. But if you want to take an object home, you must bring something special to leave in its place.
  For her first solo presentation at a New York museum, the Mexico City-based artist is creating an interactive bazaar in the New Museum’s lobby (13 January-17 April). On five designated days during the exhibition’s run, Camil will invite the public to exchange a personal objec
  
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• Jess Wilcox Named Director of Exhibitions at Socrates Sculpture Park

  07-01-2016 20:10 via artnews.com
  Socrates Sculpture Park announced today that Jess Wilcox will be the outdoor Queens museum’s new director of exhibitions, effective immediately. She’ll be leaving her position as the Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art programs coordinator, which she … Read More
  
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• ‘Henry Wessel: Continental Divide & Traffic’ at Galerie Thomas Zander

  07-01-2016 19:57 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Henry Wessel: Continental Divide & Traffic” is currently on view at Galerie Thomas Zander in Cologne. The exhibition is on view until January 15 and features black-and-white images … Read More
  
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• Andrew Ciechanowiecki obituary

  07-01-2016 19:11
  
  My friend and mentor, Andrew Ciechanowiecki, who has died aged 91, was a gallery owner and authority on Old Master paintings. Andrew moved from his native Poland to London in the early 1960s, becoming a director of the newly-founded Mallett gallery, at Bourdon House, Mayfair, and mounting four groundbreaking sculpture exhibitions.In 1966 he established the London branch of the French Heim gallery, eventually buying out his former partner François Heim. There he held 38 highly successful e
  
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• Bruce High Quality Foundation Opens New Sunset Park Compound, Exits Manhattan

  07-01-2016 19:00 via artnews.com
  Since 2013, the Bruce High Quality Foundation University has lorded over Avenue A in a spacious second-floor loft between East 2nd and East 3rd streets, with the letters BHQFU plastered on the windows for all below to see. Last April … Read More
  
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• Nicholas Serota: ‘The Concept of the Museum Is in Constant Evolution’

  07-01-2016 18:36 via artnews.com
  This week, the Art Newspaper published a version of a speech given by Nicholas Serota, the director of the Tate, at the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul. In the speech, Serota gives his thoughts on the future of … Read More
  
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• In 2015, 60% of North American Museums Charged for Admission, Says AAMD Report

  07-01-2016 18:31 via artnews.com
  The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) has released its second annual American Art Museums By the Numbers report, which details a number of statistics about how museums in the United States, Canada, and Mexico have been doing over the … Read More
  
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• Storm King Art Center Brings Back Artist Residency Program for Second Year

  07-01-2016 18:01 via artnews.com
  Storm King Art Center, the world-class sculpture park in the Hudson Valley, will offer a residency program for the second year in a row, again partnering with The Shandaken Project to bring participants to the sprawling upstate campus from June until … Read More
  
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• John Akomfrah: 'I haven’t destroyed this country. There's no reason other immigrants would'

  07-01-2016 17:56
  
  The acclaimed artist and film-maker’s new project explores the horrifying role of the sea in migration to challenge the current climate of panicFor centuries the sea has been used to conceal the worst human atrocities, its depths doubling as a graveyard for slaves, prisoners and refugees. In the wake of the migration crisis, it is a motif that is as powerful as ever and one that has driven two new bodies of work by acclaimed film-maker John Akomfrah, which will go on show in the UK in Janu
  
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• Habitat: Emily Noelle Lambert

  07-01-2016 17:35 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Emily Noelle Lambert; Greenpoint, Brooklyn. ““How do I get started again?” “Where do I want the work to go?” “What do I want it to be?” These are a … Read More
  
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• Blockbusters: how Rutherford Chang became the second best Tetris player in the world

  07-01-2016 17:21
  
  The obsessive NY artist has played Nintendo’s Game Boy classic 1,555 times, beating Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, as part of an ongoing performance that recasts Tetris as a metaphor for life under capitalismRutherford Chang’s high score on Tetris so far is 614,094, which puts him in second place globally and four places ahead of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. In his ongoing work Game Boy Tetris, the New York artist films himself playing the classic 90s puzzle game over and over ag
  
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• Louvre-Lens director Xavier Dectot steps down after five years, and heads for Edinburgh

  07-01-2016 16:36
  
  Xavier Dectot is stepping down as director of the Louvre-Lens museum in northern France to take up a new role at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, where the 42-year-old will head the department of art and design.
  Opened in December 2012 on a former mining site, the northern outpost of the Paris museum has since welcomed almost two million visitors. The satellite branch drew 900,000 visitors in its first year compared with 400,000 in 2015.
  When he was appointed early 2011, Dectot was
  
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• Lumiere London festival reveals full line-up of artists

  07-01-2016 16:30
  
  London’s first light festival will see illuminated artworks across the city, including Leicester Square’s Garden of Light and a net sculpture at Oxford CircusLocations for the installations set to illuminate central London next week in the capital’s first major light festival have been revealed. Lumiere London, a free outdoor light festival taking place over four evenings from 14-17 January, will feature 30 installations from leading artists.The works are set to appear around K
  
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• Inception-inspired coffee table bends reality (and a city) in your own home

  07-01-2016 15:39
  
  The ultimate gift for fans of Christopher Nolan's cerebral blockbuster
  
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• French dealer’s Dubai residence damaged in New Year's Eve fire

  07-01-2016 15:09
  
  The fire that broke out in Dubai’s luxury Address Downtown tower on New Year’s Eve in which at least 16 people were injured, has caused “extreme damage” to the French art dealer Stephane Custot’s office and residence, according to his press agent.
  The dealer’s new 700 sq. m outpost, Custot Gallery Dubai, was scheduled to open on 18 January in the heart of the city’s new Alserkal Avenue arts district. The date has now been pushed back to 14 March and wil
  
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• Morning Links: Mobsters and Dealers Edition

  07-01-2016 14:44 via artnews.com
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• Petworth House masterpieces to go on display for first time

  07-01-2016 13:47
  
  Exhibition to include works overlooked in 1950s when Egremont family’s collection was seized in lieu of inheritance taxMore than half a century ago experts including art historians from the National Gallery in London toured the attics of a house in West Sussex, looking at grimy family portraits, dusky landscapes and dim religious works, choosing the paintings the government would accept instead of cash to settle a huge inheritance tax bill. Some of the pictures ended up in the National Gal
  
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• Israeli high court says antiquities dealers must document all artefacts online

  07-01-2016 13:31
  
  The Israeli high court has rejected a request by antiquities dealers in the country to overturn legislation that requires them to document their entire inventory online. Now antiquities dealers will have to allocate every artefact an identification number and picture, which will be stored on an electronic database.
  It is hoped the new system will help stop the illegal trafficking of artefacts, as it will be difficult for dealers to add objects without proper provenance. The Israel Antiquities A
  
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• Saatchi Gallery to host its first all-female art exhibition

  07-01-2016 10:09
  
  Champagne Life will attempt to redress the devastating gender imbalance within the exhibition of art
  
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• Laurie Anderson to direct 2016 Brighton festival

  07-01-2016 01:01
  
  Multidisciplinary American artist will showcase new works at 50th anniversary edition of eventLaurie Anderson is to be guest director in what will be the 50th year of Brighton festival.The pioneering and eclectic American artist, who became known to audiences outside the art world in 1981 with her hit single O Superman, will show new works for the festival which will this year have a theme of “home”. Related: Laurie Anderson interview: ‘I shared a cinema with 500 rats who lived
  
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