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• US collector and Dutch dealer reject Nazi loot claim

  12-01-2016 22:00
  
  The US owner of a Dutch Golden Age painting, which he wants to sell, has rejected a restitution claim made by the heirs of Richard Semmel, a wealthy German-Jewish textile factory owner. Semmel’s heirs argue that he was forced to sell Gerrit Dou’s Portrait of a Gentleman with a Walking Stick (around 1645) in 1933. We can reveal that the painting by Rembrandt’s pupil, once believed to depict Rembrandt’s father, is owned by Thomas Kaplan, who bought it in 2006 fr om th
  
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• Matthew Collings on his heady days with David Bowie

  12-01-2016 22:00
  In April 1997 I had a book published by a new company formed by David Bowie called 21. The launch was at a club in New Burlington Street. I was in the middle of filming a TV series called This Is Modern Art. Because he was the glamorous host of the launch it was full of conventional-style press photographers and press and media people. It was the first time I met him. When we were introduced he said: “I’ve read everything you’ve written.” I couldn’t understand what
  
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• Hannah Starkey at Maureen Paley, London

  12-01-2016 19:38 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: Hannah Starkey’s seventh solo show at Maureen Paley in London is on view through January 24.
  
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• ARTnews Ltd. Hires Vincent Fremont as CEO

  12-01-2016 19:29 via artnews.com
  ARTnews Ltd., which publishes these pages, announced today that it has hired Vincent Fremont as its new CEO. Fremont helped found the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. after the artist’s death in 1987, and served as its … Read More
  
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• Gagosian Gallery and Qataris wrangle over Picasso sculpture

  12-01-2016 19:15
  
  Two art world power players are going head to head. Tuesday morning, the New York dealer Larry Gagosian sued the agent of the Qatari royal family over the sale of a 1931 sculptural bust of Picasso’s mistress Marie-Thérèse, currently on display in the Museum of Modern Art.
  As the New York Times reports, in documents filed in Manhattan federal court, Gagosian says he bought the sculpture in good faith for about $106m from Picasso’s daughter, Maya Widmaier-Picasso, in May
  
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• I Am Van Dyck review – the Andy Warhol of 17th-century portraiture

  12-01-2016 19:09
  
  Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
  The surfaces of Van Dyck’s paintings are all glitter, but the stories they tell are often shockingly morbid
  What would it be like if the ghost of a famous artist came back to see his paintings, flitting among the 21st century gallery crowds with his Laughing Cavalier moustache? That’s what happens in I Am Van Dyck at Dulwich Picture Gallery. While people queue for the gallery’s hit MC Escher exhibition, the 17th century master Anthony van Dyck, b
  
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• ‘This Person Is Multiple, This Practice Is Multiple, and This Might Be Confusing’: A Roundtable Discussion on Frank Stella at the Whitney

  12-01-2016 18:48 via artnews.com
  Ever since Frank Stella said that a painting is “a flat surface with paint on it—nothing more,” in the early 1960s, his body of work has appeared to grow steadily outwards. The freestanding architectural works he has made since the mid-’80s … Read More
  
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• Here’s the Exhibitor and Artist List for Paramount Ranch 3

  12-01-2016 18:39 via artnews.com
  Paramount Ranch 3, the outré Los Angeles contemporary art fair, announced the artist and exhibitor list for its third edition today. By our count, this year’s fair has 51 exhibitors and 78 artists.New York is well-represented, with Bridget Donahue, Real Fine … Read More
  
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• Champagne Life review – all-female show doesn’t make Saatchi a feminist

  12-01-2016 18:05
  
  Saatchi gallery, London
  It’s hard to see the point of this flat, gimmicky exhibition that lumps together 14 women artists, but declines a deeper discussion into gender
  In three decades, the Saatchi gallery has survived relocations, incarnations and vicissitudes: the controversies over the 1996 Royal Academy exhibition Sensation (based on Charles Saatchi’s collection); the 2004 Momart storage warehouse fire, in which many of those works were lost; and the court cases with landlords an
  
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• Does London need a new concert hall? The virtues of the Barbican Hall have been overlooked

  12-01-2016 17:34
  
  Sir Simon Rattle wants a brand new, acoustically perfect concert hall for London. But Michael Church watched him perform at the Barbican on Sunday and the sound was flawless
  
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• What Does It Take to Be Number One?: Rutherford Chang Is Playing Tetris Live on Rhizome’s Website, Aiming for Supremacy

  12-01-2016 17:33 via artnews.com
  This week (it started Sunday and is ending Thursday), the artist Rutherford Chang will be live-streaming his playing of Game Boy Tetris on Rhizome’s website, presented in tandem with the New Museum and broadcast via the gaming platform Twitch. The … Read More
  
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• Chrysler Museum of Art Hires Lloyd DeWitt as Chief Curator

  12-01-2016 17:23 via artnews.com
  The Chrysler Museum of Art’s director, Erik Neil, announced today that Lloyd DeWitt has been appointed chief curator and curator of European art. DeWitt plans to begin his new position at the Norfolk, Virginia-based museum in the spring. It will see him leading … Read More
  
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• Science fiction in the Holy Land

  12-01-2016 17:00
  
  Can science fiction help solve the Israel-Palestine conflict? For the London-based artist Larissa Sansour and her partner and main collaborator Søren Lind the answer could be written in the stars.
  Sansour, one of Palestine’s best-known artists, uses video and photography to reimagine current events in the Middle East. The political nature of Sansour’s works has courted controversy: she was removed fr om the shortlist for the 2011 Lacoste Prize, she claimed for being “to
  
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• Creative Capital Announces 2016 Awardees in Emerging Fields, Literature, and Performing Arts

  12-01-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  Creative Capital announced today that it will award funding to 46 projects by 23 individual artists in emerging fields (or, types of work that can’t be classified under traditional mediums), literature, and performing arts.“Our goal is to fund really exciting … Read More
  
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• 'Beyond everything': one woman's ghostly odyssey around Ireland

  12-01-2016 14:58
  
  Dutch photographer Bertien van Manen made repeated trips to Ireland after losing her husband, and death was a shadowy presence on the fantasy isle wherever she pointed her lens“Where can it be found again, an elsewhere world, beyond maps and atlases,” wrote Seamus Heaney in the final lines of A Herbal, a poem in which human mortality is contrasted with the circular and continuous life force that is nature – lush grass growing from earth in a graveyard. When Dutch photographer,
  
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• Morning Links: BowieNet Edition

  12-01-2016 14:46 via artnews.com
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• Fatal bomb blast in Istanbul near Blue Mosque

  12-01-2016 11:00
  
  Ten people have been confirmed dead after a bomb exploded in Istanbul’s historic Sultanahmet area this morning, Tuesday 12 January. The explosion is reported to have occurred close to the Obelisk of Theodosius, which is near the Blue Mosque and the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts. The area includes several of the city's most-visited sites and foreign tourists are reported to be among the casualties. Hagia Sophia, the former church turned mosque that is now a museum is within walking di
  
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• William Boyd: how David Bowie and I hoaxed the art world

  12-01-2016 07:30
  
  David Bowie didn’t just publish my fake biography of an invented artist, he also wrote the jacket blurb and launched it – on April Fool’s day – at Jeff Koons’ studioThe awful news of David Bowie’s shocking and untimely death made me take out my journal and search for the first time I met him. It turned out to be on 22 February 1994 at an editorial-board dinner for the art magazine Modern Painters. Here’s what I wrote: “Modern Painters dinner tonigh
  
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• Untitled( jack has never seen a beheading on youtube)

  12-01-2016 01:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  i have the same headache i’ve had for some time. it starts at the back of my head and it moves to above my eyes. i feel nauseous.she walks in. she has black glasses on and high shoes taller than herself.i thought the boy who looks like a fuzzy picture was nice.i sit upright dignified everyone can see that i have stature im not only afrustrated medicated zombie.the short woman sits where i sat when the woman who played with her hair aroused me.the january sun shines in the grey sky.jack has
  
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