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• Met plans shows on Max Beckmann and Marsden Hartley for Fifth Avenue home

  27-01-2016 23:43
  
  While all eyes will be on the Met’s programming when it moves into the Breuer building in March, the museum has not forgotten its Modern and contemporary collection in its Fifth Avenue home. The painters Max Beckmann and Marsden Hartley are among the artists to be featured in forthcoming solo exhibitions at the Met’s main building.Max Beckmann in New York (October 2016-February 2017) will include around 40 pictures, some made during the year he spent in the city (1949-50) and others
  
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• Unterlinden Museum, home of the Isenheim Altarpiece, officially reopened

  27-01-2016 23:19
  
  The French president François Hollande officially opened the renovated Unterlinden Museum in the city of Colmar, in France’s northeastern Alsace region, on Saturday, 23 January. The museum is best known as the home of the massive Isenheim Altarpiece (1512-16), made for a nearby hospice treating patients suffering from St Anthony’s fire. Painted by Matthias Grünewald, it features colourful and graphic depictions of the life of St Anthony and bodies tortured by the disease
  
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• Stolen art tracking companies ALR and ARG embroiled in 'bizarre' legal row

  27-01-2016 23:12
  
  Art Recovery Group accuses Art Loss Register of 'breaching competition law' after long dominating the sector
  
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• The Buck Stopped Here: set sail from London to Bristol for this week’s top shows including Elizabeth Peyton and John Akomfrah

  27-01-2016 22:00
  
  John Akomfrah, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (until 10 April) and Lisson Gallery, London (until 12 March)It’s especially appropriate that Vertigo Sea (2015), John Akomfrah’s sumptuous film—which was the talk of last year’s Venice Biennale—receives its UK premiere in Bristol. For the seafaring city was one of the earliest and most important centres of the British slave trade, and appalling images of slavery form a significant strand within Akomfrah’s multi-layere
  
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• Christie’s and Sotheby’s battle for the middle market

  27-01-2016 22:00
  
  The risks for auction houses doing business at the top end of the art market look set to outweigh the rewards this year as the fierce competition for record-breaking works vies with wider economic uncertainty. Higher-volume, lower-priced business in the middle market could be the saleroom mantra for 2016. Christie’s and Sotheby’s, which have been responsible for some nine-figure public sales and hefty guarantees to consignors in recent years, are now channelling resources lower
  
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• A trifecta of shows on Felix Gonzalez-Torres to open in London, New York and Milan

  27-01-2016 22:00
  
  As the traditional role of the art dealer continues to be redefined, collaborations and joint exhibitions are becoming more commonplace. But three galleries are taking it a step further this spring when Hauser & Wirth in London will present a show of works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres in conjunction with Andrea Rosen in New York and Massimo de Carlo in Milan.
  The artists Roni Horn and Julie Ault are organising the three exhibitions; each will focus on an aspect of the Cuban-born American artist
  
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• Stephan Jost Named Director of Art Gallery of Ontario

  27-01-2016 21:38 via artnews.com
  The Art Gallery of Ontario has named Honolulu Museum of Art director Stephan Jost as its new director, The Globe and Mail reports. He takes over for Matthew Teitelbaum, who left the Toronto museum last April to take the helm of … Read More
  
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• Mark Flood on Making Movies: ‘It’s a Great Way to Waste Money. I Highly Recommend It.’

  27-01-2016 20:36 via artnews.com
  In a piece published today in Interview magazine, the Texan artists Mark Food and Will Boone engage in a sprawling conversation, touching on bohemian studio environments, getting wasted, making art with the anti-art collective I Love You Baby, and Flood’s tenure working … Read More
  
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• ‘Allez les Bleus’ at Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen

  27-01-2016 20:20 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Why a Swiss gallery should return its looted Nazi art out of simple decency

  27-01-2016 18:51
  
  Nazi loot carries a legacy of hate. The latest ownership dispute – over a Constable painting, claimed by the heirs of British Jews – reminds us that respect is at the heart of the restitution debateMemory has many colours. A work of art that survives the centuries is an embodiment of history, marked invisibly by all the hands that have held it. Who owned it? Where did it hang? These are not just arcane questions for scholars but the network of human experience that haunts works of ar
  
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• Rodin's explicit Iris and daring Freud nude go on sale for estimated £13m-plus

  27-01-2016 17:57
  
  Highly sexualised sculpture once owned by Sylvester Stallone will form centrepiece of modern art auction next monthSylvester Stallone called his copy the “flying beaver”. Lucian Freud, meanwhile, placed his at the end of his bed, making it the first thing he saw in the morning.The Hollywood actor and one of Britain’s greatest painters may not have much in common but it has emerged that they shared a fondness for Auguste Rodin’s most audacious and sexually explicit sculptu
  
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• Who is really to blame in the Knoedler fakes case?

  27-01-2016 17:41
  
  One of the biggest art world scandals has been put on a very public stage as the first trial connected to the Knoedler Gallery’s sale of forgeries started in a Manhattan district court on Monday. In their opening statements, addressed to a jury of seven women and three men, the lawyers on each side offered sharply conflicting views of the case.
  The attorney for the collectors Domenico and Eleanore De Sole, who bought a painting supposedly by Rothko for $8.3m that turned out to be a fake,
  
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• Specialist, Jewelry and Watches

  27-01-2016 17:16
  
  Specialist, Jewelry and Watches  
  S/He will:                       Conduct pre-auction appraisals and adviceHold specialist valuation for jewelry and watchesAppraise, authenticate and catalogue items of Jewelry including diamond and other gems, bracelets, earrings, brooches, necklaces, pendants, designer piecesAppraise and authenticate Gentleman’s jewelry, cufflinks
  
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• A Cataloguer and Sales Coordinator

  27-01-2016 17:01
  
  The CataloguerS/He will:
  catalogue the departments items for sale at auctiondownload records fr om external databasesAssist with administrative tasks associated with cataloguing as required.play an active role in ensuring the quality of the catalogue databasebe responsible for a shelving section, re-shelving, tidying and ensuring correct shelf-sequenceAbility to catalogue quickly and accurately ·Good oral and written communication skills ·Good general IT skills (MSWord, email, int
  
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• Ai Weiwei Closes Danish Show Early, Protesting New Refugee Law [Updated]

  27-01-2016 16:45 via artnews.com
  After a law passed in Denmark that allows authorities to search asylum-seeking refugees’ homes and confiscate their belongings, Ai Weiwei protested by closing his show at the Faurschou Foundation in Copenhagen, the Guardian reports. The show, titled “Ai Weiwei: Ruptures,” … Read More
  
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• Ai Weiwei Closes Danish Show Early, Protesting New Refugee Law

  27-01-2016 16:45 via artnews.com
  After a law passed in Denmark that allows authorities to search asylum-seeking refugees’ homes and confiscate their belongings, Ai Weiwei protested by closing his show at the Faurschou Foundation in Copenhagen, the Guardian reports. The show, titled “Ai Weiwei: Ruptures,” … Read More
  
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• Ai Weiwei closes exhibition in Denmark to protest confiscation of asylum seekers' valuables

  27-01-2016 16:42
  
  'The Danish parliament chooses to be at the forefront of symbolic and inhuman politics'
  
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• Ai Weiwei cancels two shows in Denmark in protest over new asylum seeker law

  27-01-2016 16:14
  
  Ai Weiwei has cancelled two shows in Denmark in protest against the country's new law that allows police to seize cash and valuables from asylum seekers entering the country. The bill will also delay family reunions for some refugees for at least three years.The exhibition Ruptures opened at the Faurschou Foundation in Copenhagen last March and was due to run until 15 April. But today (27 January), Ai announced he was pulling the show on his official Instagram and Facebook accounts. “This
  
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• At Knoedler Forgery Trial, Lawyer Teaches Abstract Expressionism and John Elderfield Takes the Stand

  27-01-2016 15:35 via artnews.com
  Curator John Elderfield and the daughter of artist Richard Diebenkorn were among the first witnesses called by the plaintiffs to testify in the Knoedler & Company forgery trial Tuesday afternoon. The trial, which began this week in United States District … Read More
  
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• Art world heads back to school as Frieze Academy launches

  27-01-2016 15:11
  
  The Frieze franchise is expanding to coincide with its 25th anniversary this year. In addition to establishing one of the world’s biggest art fairs and publishing one of the leading contemporary art magazines, Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp have launched Frieze Academy, a programme of talks and courses designed to educate and help further the careers of arts professionals including gallerists, journalists and artists.
  Having launched its first course on 16 January, Frieze Academy is cu
  
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• Morning Links: #statuenude Edition

  27-01-2016 15:02 via artnews.com
  #STATUENUDETo protect Iranian president Hassan Rouhani’s “virgin eyes” from nude marble sculptures during his recent visit to Rome’s Capitoline Museums, museum workers erected Donald Judd-like white boxes around offending works of art. This, of course, has led to backlash from many outraged … Read More
  
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• Robert Rauschenberg's nine night electronic tennis match in the dark

  27-01-2016 15:00
  
  Think Silicon Valley has a monopoly on tech disruption? In 1966, New York hosted an art-tech mashup on an unrivalled scale, as John Cage, Yvonne Rainer and friends got plugged in for a spectacular set of public performancesIt was one of the strangest games of tennis New York City had ever seen. There, in the cavernous space of the 69th Regiment Armory, the US painter Frank Stella and tennis pro Mimi Kanarek rallied with rackets wired to an electronic network, so that each time they hit the ball,
  
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• Doctor Who star Matt Smith to play Mapplethorpe

  27-01-2016 13:42
  
  Call it Mapplethorpe mania. The controversial photographer, whose images of the underground BDSM scene were at the centre of the US culture wars in the 1980s, is now on his way to a museum, movie theatre and television screen near you.
  The J. Paul Getty Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) are preparing to open a joint exhibition of Mapplethorpe’s work in March (Robert Mapplethorpe: the Perfect Medium, 15 March-31 July). The rest of Hollywood is not far behind. A biopic
  
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• Iranian president touched by Mediterranean courtesy

  27-01-2016 13:27
  
  Much was made of Italy’s decision yesterday, 26 January, to shield the eyes of the Iranian president Hassan Rouhani from the nude statues at Rome’s Capitoline Museums. Officials hid Roman sculptures including the museum’s prized Venus—who modestly attempts to cover her nakedness—in large white boxes for Rouhani’s first visit to Europe since trade sanctions on Iran were lifted. Italians took to Twitter to protest censorship, posting photos of other classical m
  
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• Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center Announces Free Admission

  27-01-2016 13:00 via artnews.com
  Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center announced that, beginning February 13, admission to its galleries will be free for at least three years, though tickets will still be required for some special events and performances. This change was made possible by a … Read More
  
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• Painting by Rembrandt’s favourite pupil given UK export bar

  27-01-2016 12:31
  
  Treasures from Castle Howard, one of England’s greatest country mansions, now look set to go abroad. Export licence applications have been submitted for an important portrait by Ferdinand Bol and a pair of pietre dure cabinets made in Rome. Both items from the Yorkshire house were sold at Sotheby’s last July.Bol’s Portrait of a Boy (1652) is “one of the most remarkable child portraits of the Dutch Golden Age”, according to the UK culture department, which has initi
  
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• Interview with Matt Margo

  27-01-2016 11:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sometimes a simple Q&A goes in a wrong direction and turns into something bigger than it was to be. You end up having a kind of boxing match with an interviewee – wandering around an imaginary landscape made of the talk. And then you find out that you were hanging in the air all the time and there’s no actual ground anywhere around. And also – there’s no feeling of falling. You just hang there and all you can do is smell yourself. It’s fascinating and horrifying
  
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• Take a running leap: the man who dreamed of jumping roofs – in pictures

  27-01-2016 11:04
  
  On long childhood car journeys, Michael Snyder imagined himself hurdling passing buildings at high speed. As an adult, he recreated his fantasy, superimposing himself into urban landscapes around Washington DC Continue reading...
  
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• Travel with the Impressionists: From Monet's garden to Sorolla's Alhambra

  27-01-2016 10:36
  
  As a new exhibition opens at the Royal Academy of Arts, Aoife O'Riordain explores the scenery behind the paintings
  
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• Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture

  27-01-2016 10:04
  Mia inspires wonder with extraordinary exhibitions and one of the finest wide-ranging art collections in the country. Fr om Monet to Matisse, Asian to African, 40,000-year-old artifacts to world-famous masterpieces, Mia links the past to the present and enables global conversations.  Company Details: Mission: The Minneapolis Institute of Art enriches the community by collecting, preserving, and making accessible outstanding works of art from the world’s diverse cultures. Vision: 
  
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• Is Lady Gaga the face of 21st-century Dada?

  27-01-2016 10:00
  
  As Zurich celebrates the centenary of the birth of the “anti-art” movement in the Swiss city, a sprawling exhibition at the Cabaret Voltaire asks what Dada looks like in the 21st century—and Lady Gaga is one potential answer.
  “We have extended an open invitation to Gaga” to be blessed in a “Holy Catholic Mass”, says Adrian Notz, the director of Cabaret Voltaire. Should the pop star affirm her commitment to Dada, Notz will baptise her in a nearby pool. &
  
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• Why does contemporary art look so simple? You asked Google – here’s the answer | Jonathan Jones

  27-01-2016 09:00
  
  Every day millions of internet users ask Google some of life’s most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the commonest queriesWhy do the lights keep going on and off? How is less more? What place does a balloon dog have in an art gallery? Or, as a lot of people have been asking Google: “Why does contemporary art look so simple?”I am tempted to answer – because it’s idiotic. But first, we need to define what contemporary art means in this qu
  
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• Art on film at Sundance, from Mapplethorpe’s S&M photos to virtual reality landscapes

  27-01-2016 05:40
  
  Art and artist documentaries have been part of the Sundance film festival programme for more than a decade. At this year’s event, which opened in snowy Park City, Utah, last week and runs until 31 January, visitors can see films on Robert Mapplethorpe, Cai Guo-Qiang and an entire section dedicated to virtual reality.
  The documentary Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, which premiered at Sundance, will air on HBO in March to coincide with the opening of
  
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• Cardboard city: Sydney festivalgoers demolish giant creation – in pictures

  27-01-2016 04:33
  
  It took weeks to create and just minutes to destroy ... the ‘Ephemeral City’ at Sydney’s Barangaroo Reserve featured a series of mammoth cardboard constructions built by visitors to Sydney festival over recent weeks. The community project was the brainchild of French artist Olivier Grossetête, who has staged similar projects around the globe. The cardboard structures were hauled down on Tuesday – the final day of the 2016 Sydney festival – before festivalgoers
  
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• Self-taught artist Thornton Dial dies, aged 87

  27-01-2016 01:37
  
  The self-taught American artist Thornton Dial died on 25 January. He was 87 years old.  Born in 1928 to sharecroppers in Alabama’s western flatlands, from childhood Dial created sculptures, drawings and paintings with salvaged materials. His work is known to address social injustices such as poverty and the African slave trade. In the late 1980s, after years of working in a boxcar factory, the artist met the Atlanta art collector Bill Arnett through another self-taught artist, Lonnie
  
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• Untitled(The therapist was like a sex worker)

  27-01-2016 01:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  the tall 17 year old african black boy with long hands and small ears said something about liberty and equality in french. his hand held my neck and eyes. he had been fucking girls since he was fourteen. as a boy he had never fought a boy who was stronger than him. now that he was nearly a man the contest had changed. he was scared and humiliated. he shared a room with ten brothers and sisters. the african boy said he didn’t believe in an unconscious. he believed in what he could see with
  
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• Untitled(i have no one to go home to, being homeless may be preferable to living alone)

  27-01-2016 01:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  my ex wife thinks for herself without saying what do I know. her blank eyes make me squirm. where am i going? i’m doing what i can. it hasn’t been not easy. i can’t belief it. i have lost my domestic bliss. i have no one to go home to, being homeless may be preferable to living alone.i haven’t lived on my own for over fourteen years and even then it was only for a few months after my girlfriend left me.i have been looking for a place to live. i can’t deal with it. i
  
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