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• Political artist Pyotr Pavlensky pulled from Russia’s top art prize

  16-02-2016 23:50
  
  The political performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky has been pulled from the running for Russia’s top art prize, eliciting a storm of criticism about growing censorship from curators and several resignations from the selection committee.Pavlensky was nominated for the visual art category in the state-sponsored Innovatsiya (Innovation) Prize, for his performance Threat: Lubyanka’s Burning Door, in which he set fire to the entrance of the Federal Security Service (FSB) building in Moscow
  
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• Celebrities don emergency blankets at Berlin fundraiser for refugees

  16-02-2016 22:31
  
  Charity event at art installation designed by Ai Weiwei outrages Berlin’s culture secretary A film charity event held alongside an installation in Berlin by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has sparked anger.According to Artnet, the Cinema for Peace fundraiser took place at the Berlin Konzerthaus, whose pillars the artist decorated – as part of his installation Safe Passage – with 14,000 lifejackets flown in from Lesbos, Greece, where almost 450,000 refugees arrived in 2015 on thei
  
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• When graffiti meets the ivy league: Brazilian street artist talks tagging at Yale

  16-02-2016 22:00
  
  A series of programmes titled Pixação + Contemporary Art: From the Periphery to the Center looks at the cultural and artistic value of Brazilian graffiti art. The show profiles the work of a Brazilian tagger from the outskirts of São Paulo named Cripta Djan, who told The Art Newspaper that “distinguishing pixação [the Portuguese word for tagging] from vandalism or fine art is just a matter of taste”. The programme has been supported by Yale Univers
  
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• The Buck Stopped Here: A tale of two cities, from striking poses in Vogue to thowing shapes at Dingwalls

  16-02-2016 22:00
  
  Two sharply contrasting ports of call last night (16 February). First to the National Portrait Gallery for the private view of Vogue 100: a Century of Style (until 22 May), charting the range of photography commissioned by British Vogue since its foundation in 1916. Here, surrounded by burnished glamour both on and off the walls, I found myself backing away from blown-up images of glossy supermodels and gravitating back to the earlier decades of Horst P. Horst, George Hoyningen-Huene and the bl
  
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• Putin dresses-down culture department over state of monuments

  16-02-2016 22:00
  
  At a meeting of his presidential council for culture and art in December, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, chastised officials about the state of the country’s rich architectural heritage and listened to the impassioned activists who have been fighting to save Russia’s monuments. Putin called cultural heritage a cornerstone in “the preservation of historical memory” and expressed regret about recent conflicts over construction in historic areas and the destruction
  
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• Creative Time’s new director Katie Hollander outlines her vision

  16-02-2016 22:00
  
  Katie Hollander, Creative Time’s new executive director whose appointment was announced by the board last week, has outlined some of her plans for the organisation. These include more of the “artist dream projects” the public art commissioner has become known for, as well as a potential television programme and educational platforms. “We live in uncertain and unstable times, people are looking for new ways to be challenged, inspired, and informed,” she recently tol
  
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• Brazilian street artist talks tagging at Yale

  16-02-2016 22:00
  
  A series of programmes titled Pixação + Contemporary Art: From the Periphery to the Center looks at the cultural and artistic value of Brazilian street art. The show profiles the work of a Brazilian tagger from the outskirts of São Paulo named Cripta Djan, who told The Art Newspaper that “distinguishing pixação [the Portuguese word for tagging] from vandalism or fine art is just a matter of taste”. The programme has been supported by Yale Universit
  
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• Here Is the First Round of Exhibitors for the 2016 Seattle Art Fair

  16-02-2016 20:55 via artnews.com
  The Seattle Art Fair announced the first round of exhibitors for this year’s edition, which runs August 4 to 7. Also in the announcement was news that the fair’s artistic director will now be Laura Fried, who was previously a … Read More
  
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• Untitled(another hunter shot him in the foot. he mistook it for small game.)

  16-02-2016 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  the mother has grey white hair. the daughter has brown red hair. the mother has a strong body in tight jeans as does the daughter. i saw them moving in to their new place on glisan earlier. the daughter is in her late twenties. the mother is in her late fifties. they are living at the same place. they look like they have some money. i think the mother would want me for herself and not for her daughter. the daughter has an image of a brooding man she wants to avoid.an old musky woman talks to a y
  
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• Brother of Spanish dealer in alleged forgery ring could be extradited to US

  16-02-2016 19:48
  
  One of two Spanish brothers wanted by US authorities in connection with the Knoedler fakes scandal can be extradited to the US, a Madrid court ruled today, 17 February, AP reports.
  Jesus Angel and Jose Carlos Bergantinos Diaz were arrested in Seville in 2014 for their connection to an alleged forgery ring involving the Long Island dealer Glafira Rosales, who pleaded guilty in 2013 to selling fake works with false provenances purported to be by Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko and
  
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• Pace to Open West 24th Street Space as It Readies Multi-Story Flagship in Chelsea

  16-02-2016 18:53 via artnews.com
  Nestled in a release for Pace Gallery’s upcoming Tim Hawkinson show is news that the gallery is planning to open a space at 537 West 24th Street, the former home of Hasted Kraeutler. The 24th Street location will be Pace Gallery’s … Read More
  
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• Matthew Lutz-Kinoy at Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles

  16-02-2016 18:48 via artnews.com
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• Birmingham Museum of Art Promotes Graham C. Boettcher to Deputy Director, Anne Forschler­-Tarrasch to Chief Curator

  16-02-2016 18:42 via artnews.com
  In one fell swoop Alabama’s Birmingham Museum of Art has promoted its chief curator, Graham C. Boettcher, to the position of deputy director, with decorative arts curator Anne Forschler­-Tarrasch taking the chief curator slot. Alongside the new appointments, both Boettcher and … Read More
  
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• Grammys 2016: Jimmy Carter level with President Obama after winning second award

  16-02-2016 18:40
  
  Carter won the Best Spoken Word Album category for the audio book version of his memoir
  
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• ‘Millennials Are Not Joiners’: On the Ground at the College Art Association 2016 Conference in Washington, D.C.

  16-02-2016 18:34 via artnews.com
  The last time the College Art Association held its annual conference in Washington, D.C., was 1991. This was during the Culture Wars, and Robert Mapplethorpe dominated. The opening reception was held at the Corcoran Gallery, which had caved to political … Read More
  
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• Alleged Member of Knoedler Forgery Ring Will Be Extradited From Spain to U.S

  16-02-2016 17:37 via artnews.com
  Jose Carlos Bergantinos Diaz, the alleged partner of Glafira Rosales in her sale of a cache of counterfeit paintings through the Knoedler Gallery, can be extradited to the United States, Spain’s National Court has ruled. The news, which was first … Read More
  
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• Mike Bidlo at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art

  16-02-2016 17:30 via artnews.com
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• Paolozzi mosaic takes tube station lift down to platform level

  16-02-2016 16:26
  
  Church Window panel is peeled off wall in trickiest job of Tottenham Court Road restoration project At the old exit from Tottenham Court Road tube station in central London, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi’s Church Window mosaic has gone. It has been peeled off the wall and lowered down a lift shaft to begin a new life at platform level.The move was one of the final and trickiest jobs on what is perhaps the largest public art conservation projects of recent times – restoring and, where necessar
  
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• Computer love: exhibition celebrates Manchester’s tech lineage

  16-02-2016 16:01
  
  Can machines imitate human life? This question, which underpins our ever-escalating engagement with Artificial Intelligence, was posed by the pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing while he was working at the University of Manchester in 1950.
  Now, eight artists explore the legacy of Turing’s ideas through a series of robots, machines, video installations and performances in an exhibifration at Manchester Art Gallery, which opened over the weekend.
  Manchester is part of computing histor
  
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• Enlightenment Decor: Marcel Broodthaers and Hanne Darboven

  16-02-2016 15:24 via artnews.com
  The pairing of Marcel Broodthaers and Hanne Darboven in a single text would seem to favor the former’s methods, which lampooned and utilized the idiosyncrasies and serendipities of surface and contingency that brought about such a pairing in the first … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Ai Weiwei Lifejacket Sculpture Edition

  16-02-2016 14:58 via artnews.com
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• Gods, monsters and naked maidens: Joe Machine's folk myths – in pictures

  16-02-2016 14:03
  
  A time when men wore beards and women wore ... nothing. New paintings by the stuckist artist Joe Machine reimagine Britain and Ireland’s heroes and villains, finding that most of them spring from foreign mythologyContinue reading...
  
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• Tell us something we don't know: why science can't show us much about art

  16-02-2016 12:43
  
  The scientific ‘discovery’ that Van Gogh’s art changed after his 1888 breakdown proves a forensic approach is no match for the subjective eye of an art lover Related: Science peers into Van Gogh's Bedroom to shine light on colors of artist's mind I am happy to announce a new annual award, the Vincent Prize for Scientifically Proving the Bleeding Obvious about Art History. The first winners are the researchers who, the papers tell us, have used chemical analysis of Vincent van G
  
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• American Airlines and seven others sued over damage to Lucio Fontana sculpture

  16-02-2016 12:09
  
  American Airlines, along with seven other art handling companies, has been accused in a federal complaint of damaging a slash sculpture by Lucio Fontana while it was shipped fr om Paris to the Armory Show in New York last year. Lloyd’s of London, who insured the work for the Beverly Hills gallery Marc Selwyn Fine Art, filed the claim in a New York court on 11 February, citing breach of contract and negligence.
   
  Elite Systematic Arts and MainFreight in the US; CDG Handling, ARC Trans
  
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• What my blond Jesus could teach Germany

  16-02-2016 09:00
  
  As a new xenophobia grips Germany, artist Ken Aptekar explains why his latest show – 10 years in the making – is taking place in an ex-nunnery beside one of the few synagogues to survive KristallnachtIn the St Annen-Museum in the northern German city of Lübeck, the novelist Erica Fischer is making a speech to open a new exhibition about how Germans get on with their neighbours. It is, to put it mildly, topical. “I strongly hope that the fear Muslims have of becoming the ne
  
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• Despite Constant Phones And Cameras, Celebrities Are Wielding The Power Of Secrets

  16-02-2016 01:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The stars have gained an extra advantage lately because the financially challenged tabloids have less money these days to pay sources. Meanwhile, the stars get to both circumvent the media and to float an image of utter transparency through their promiscuous use of social media. In fact, that may only obscure them further.”
  
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• The Producer Of The Grammys On Making Musical Moments And Predicting The Winners

  16-02-2016 00:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We’re also faced with some challenges that we haven’t had in the past, in particular the loss of some pretty significant people, artists, performers who we feel the need to in some way recognize on the show. So things keep changing.”
  
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