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• Top US prosecutor has art market in his sights

  26-01-2016 22:00
  
  A co-ordinated effort by the Department of Homeland Security and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York has extracted a promise from the actor Nicolas Cage to repatriate a dinosaur skull to its native Mongolia. It is the latest success in a three-year effort by the US government to seize and return improperly removed fossils. It also represents part of a larger push by Preet Bharara, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, to police the ar
  
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• The Guardian view on London’s new Monet exhibition: the glory of the garden | Letters

  26-01-2016 20:13
  
  It’s hard to say whether Monet was a painter who gardened or a gardener who painted, but he was a pivotal figure in both artsWas Claude Monet a painter who gardened? Or a gardener who painted? Visitors to the Royal Academy’s exhibition Painting the Modern Garden, in which Monet is the dominant presence, may find the difference as tricky to resolve as the horticultural details of the blooms conjured by his brushwork. Related: Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse review –
  
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• The Guardian view on London’s new Monet exhibition: the glory of the garden | Editorial

  26-01-2016 20:13
  
  It’s hard to say whether Monet was a painter who gardened or a gardener who painted, but he was a pivotal figure in both artsWas Claude Monet a painter who gardened? Or a gardener who painted? Visitors to the Royal Academy’s exhibition Painting the Modern Garden, in which Monet is the dominant presence, may find the difference as tricky to resolve as the horticultural details of the blooms conjured by his brushwork. Related: Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse review –
  
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• ‘Patrick Groth: Who Knows Why Geese Go Barefoot?’ at Laurel Gitlen

  26-01-2016 19:48 via artnews.com
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• James Turrell Donates Custom-Made Skyspace To Pittsburgh Museum The Mattress Factory

  26-01-2016 18:23 via artnews.com
  The Mattress Factory, a contemporary art museum in Pittsburgh, has announced that James Turrell has donated one of his “Skyspace” works to the museum’s permanent collection. Estimated at $1 million, the gift is the largest in the museum’s history.“He called … Read More
  
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• Christie’s 2015 Sales Fall By 5 Percent From Year Prior, Despite Record-Breaking Lots

  26-01-2016 17:33 via artnews.com
  Total sales at Christie’s in 2015 couldn’t match the heights of 2014, the auction house announced today. The aggregate haul came to $7.4 billion, which is down 5 percent compared to the previous year.The total is still the second-highest year-long … Read More
  
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• Is Norway gearing up for a new biennial?

  26-01-2016 17:17
  
  A contemporary art project running across Oslo—entitled Oslo Pilot—could be a forerunner for a permanent art festival in the Norwegian capital, said the organisers of the initiative at a briefing yesterday (26 January) at the residence of the Norwegian ambassador in London.
  Oslo Pilot, a two-year project, which began last year, explores the “intersecting temporalities of the artwork, the periodic art event and the public sphere”, says a project statement. Asked whether O
  
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• Sucked up, squeezed out: the super-absorbent art of Park McArthur

  26-01-2016 15:52
  
  Artists are a slippery sort, says the US sculptor, whose first British show features ‘diaper’ paper, heaps of condoms, and forbidding monoliths of foamIt’s a common enough refrain: we see a film or a work of art that grabs hold of our emotions, and we say it totally absorbed us. But in the art of Park McArthur, absorption is much more than a metaphor. The young American sculptor, whose newest exhibition opens this week at the Chisenhale gallery in east London, is renowned in th
  
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• Banksy's teargas mural boarded up

  26-01-2016 15:33
  
  Less than 48 hours after it was painted on the side of the French embassy in London, a mural by Banksy criticising the use of teargas in the Calais refugee camp known as the “Jungle” has been boarded up. The work depicts a girl fr om the musical Les Misérables with streaming eyes from the cloud of CS gas engulfing her. French police have denied using tear gas wh ere families live in the Jungle, but a QR code on Banksy’s mural links to a YouTube video of overnight police
  
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• Consumer Reports: Takeshi Murata

  26-01-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  Takeshi Murata is an artist living and working out of Saugerties, New York, who has exhibited work venues including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. … Read More
  
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• ‘Concrete Cuba’ at David Zwirner, New York

  26-01-2016 15:15 via artnews.com
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• Artist's 'blank books' project seeks to restock historic Baghdad library

  26-01-2016 15:10
  
  Wafaa Bilal will send Kickstarter donors an empty white book and put real book on shelves of University of Baghdad library that was destroyed in warAn Iraqi-American artist is using online crowdfunding and performance art to help return books to the shelves of the University of Baghdad’s library, which burnt down during the Iraq war.
  The library of the university’s college of fine arts hosted more than 70,000 titles until looters set fire to the entire collection in 2003. The buildin
  
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• Morning Links: Maurice Sendak Museum Edition

  26-01-2016 14:58 via artnews.com
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• Account Director, Hong Kong

  26-01-2016 14:43
  Our client, an international communications consultancy, seeks an Account Director for their Hong Kong office. The ideal candidate will speak fluent Mandarin and Cantonese and will play an important role in supporting senior members of the accounts teams to ensure delivery of high quality work and advice for clients. S/he will be required to give guidance to peers and team members, so three to five years of relevant working experience is required, and strong writing skills are a must.For more in
  
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• Sales Director AND Arts Director

  26-01-2016 14:40
  Our client, a prominent contemporary art gallery in Mexico City, seeks a Sales Director and an Arts Director.  The Sales Director will focus on sales and sales strategy, must have a proven track record of sales at blue chip level and an existing, international client base. Thorough knowledge of the global contemporary art market is key and financial and strategic skills are desired.  The Arts Director will work in a curatorial and programming capacity whilst acting as liaison to the ga
  
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• A tour of an Iranian art collector's flat - video

  26-01-2016 14:31
  
  Iranian art is being collected by major institutions around the world and Mohammed Afkhami is one of the people crucial to making it happen. In this video, he gives us a tour of his own impressive collection ReframeIran is published in partnership with The Tehran Bureau. Contact us @tehranbureau Continue reading...
  
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• A tour of an Iranian art collector's flat – video

  26-01-2016 14:31
  
  Iranian art is being collected by major institutions around the world and Mohammed Afkhami is one of the people crucial to making it happen. In this video, he gives us a tour of his own impressive collection ReframeIran is published in partnership with The Tehran Bureau. Contact us @tehranbureau Continue reading...
  
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• Rome spares Iranian president's blushes by covering nude statues

  26-01-2016 13:15
  
  Sculptures in Capitoline Museum obscured by large white panels for Hassan Rouhani’s meeting with Italian PMItalian officials keen to spare the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, any possible offence on his visit to Rome covered up nude statues at the city’s Capitoline Museum, where Rouhani met Matteo Renzi, the Italian prime minister.Photographs of Monday’s visit show both men standing near a grand equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor. Nude statues in the vic
  
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• Don’t Stop Looking by George Kyomushula

  26-01-2016 08:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Don’t stop looking for love that has emptied in your soul child gauge / don’t stop looking for someone who will love you and give love that will full tanked your love gauge / don’t stop looking for peace and harmony, out from this world barbed wire which formed in countries, divided by countrymen as concentration camps /
  Don’t stop looking for the bread to feed your kids, no matter how the slave masters whom changed named into bosses, whoop you with whips of taxation, ins
  
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• Miners to models: Merthyr Tydfil strikes a pose – in pictures

  26-01-2016 08:00
  A dinner lady in Moschino and an ex-coal miner rocking Antipodium: these real residents of the Welsh ex-mining town met with high-fashion for Tom Johnson and Charlotte James’ photo series Merthyr Rising Continue reading...
  
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• Thornton Dial, Pioneering Artist Who Channeled Everyday Materials Into Intricate Constructions, Dies at 87

  26-01-2016 07:36 via artnews.com
  Artist Thornton Dial, who used found objects, fabric, and paint to make astounding, intricate wall reliefs and sculptures that harbor nuanced narratives, at once grand and intimate, died yesterday, Monday, January 25, at his home in Emelle, Alabama. The cause of death was … Read More
  
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• Opera: Not Snobby, Not Elitist, Not Expensive (Says Comedian)

  26-01-2016 02:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Chris Addison: “It seems mental to me. … People imagine it is all dickie bows. I have seen great stuff here; paid £6 and sat at the back. True, there are top price tickets I would never buy, but there are super-expensive seats at Arsenal too. You could come to four operas for the price of an Arsenal ticket and have two quid over for a lovely cup of coffee.”
  
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• Getty displays Medieval illuminated pages after legal battle finally ends

  26-01-2016 02:00
  Visitors to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles can see for themselves what a legal battle that raged for five years was all about. Two brilliantly illuminated pages—part of a table of contents from the Zeyt’un Gospels, a Medieval Armenian bible—are on show as part of the exhibition Traversing the Globe through Illuminated Manuscripts (until 26 June).The Getty bought eight of these contents pages, known as a canon table, for $950,000 from an Armenian-American family in 1994. But th
  
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• Should Public Transit Pay Pacific Northwest Ballet School To Relocate?

  26-01-2016 01:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Eastside school features studios framed in soaring glass and steel, ‘floating’ floors to absorb dancers’ leaps and pirouettes, expanses of mirrors, and barres to give even the youngest girls in leotards the surroundings of a professional ballerina. But the industrial warehouse building the ballet has so carefully transformed is directly in the path of Sound Transit’s East Link route through Bellevue.”
  
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• Banksy’s Newest Work: A Protest Of France, On The French Embassy In London

  26-01-2016 00:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The artwork, which depicts a young girl from the film and musical Les Misérables with tears in her eyes as CS gas billows towards her, appeared overnight on Saturday. In a first for the elusive graffiti artist, the artwork is interactive and includes a stencilled QR code beneath.”
  
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