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• Ana Prvacki: US artist pays homage to greats by creating shadows of their work

  23-01-2016 22:34
  
  The price of the works she is displaying in an Los Angeles gallery suggest you can make good money in the shadows
  
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• Venice Biennale Taps Christine Macel to Be Artistic Director of 2017 Edition

  23-01-2016 16:35 via artnews.com
  Today Christine Macel, the chief curator of Paris’s Centre Pompidou, was named artistic director of the 2017 Venice Biennale, which is set to run May 13 through November 26, 2017.The Biennale’s president, Paolo Baratta, said in a statement, “In the wake of … Read More
  
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• Christine Macel named director of the 2017 Venice Biennale

  23-01-2016 13:49
  
  The artistic director of the next Venice Biennale will be Christine Macel, the international exhibition’s board of directors announced today (23 January). The 57th biennale is due to open in 2017 on 13 May and run until 26 November. Macel has been the chief curator at the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou in Paris, since 2000, overseeing the department of “création contemporaine et prospective”. She has organised solo exhibitions at the Cen
  
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• Mahnaz Fancy takes the reins at Canvas magazine

  23-01-2016 10:36
  
  Canvas magazine, the bi-monthly publication covering art and culture in the Middle East, has a new editor. Mahnaz Fancy joins the magazine after almost three years as the executive director of ArteEast, a New York-based non-profit dedicated to promoting and supporting artists from the Middle East and North Africa. Fancy, who has a doctorate from the University of Chicago, says that her priorities include “leveraging my experience working in the U.S to continue developing Canvas's content
  
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• Pablo Escobar by Gonsalves Mpili

  23-01-2016 06:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
   
    
  Dear Sir,
  Hopefully these words won’t  make you spit out,
  I f I had your  dials,
  I’ll call you and talk business.
  Silver or lead is not my to do list,
  In making money you are a beast,
  I want the good in you,
  The bad I’ll exclude,
  Don’t be rude,
  People liked your character of Robin Hood,
  I’ll build a statue of you,
  Kindly accept my offer,
  Can we work together,
  Reply this request with a box of cigars,
  Over my door steps as a yes,
  A smirk
  
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• Museum of London looks for architect for Smithfield project

  23-01-2016 00:34
  
  The Museum of London is gearing up for its move from the Barbican for greener pastures in Smithfield market. An international competition was launched on Thursday to choose an architect for the project, with the winner expected to be announced this summer.
  The museum’s director Sharon Ament says the present site, which it has occupied since 1976, is “a failing building with problematic entrances and a location that is difficult to find”. The move to Smithfield, just over five
  
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