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• Jeff Koons Collaborates With Community Organization Groundswell On New SoHo Hotel Mural

  01-03-2016 23:53 via artnews.com
  11 Howard, the swanky new SoHo hotel owned by property mogul Aby Rosen, has received a site-specific mural courtesy of a partnership between a group of young artists from New York-based public arts organization Groundswell and the artist Jeff Koons, who provided … Read More
  
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• Moscow to put avant-garde artists and designers on the map

  01-03-2016 22:05
  
  Down Chagall Embankment, up Kandinsky Street, right on Rodchenko, left on Lissitzky, straight along Architect Melnikov Street, then down along Brothers Vesnin Boulevard. Those kinds of directions will soon be a reality in the Russian capital. On Tuesday, 1 March, Moscow’s Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced that 14 new streets to be built in the vast territory of the former Soviety ZIL autoplant will bear the names of leading avant-garde artists and constructivist architects. The site is bein
  
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• Why London's National Gallery can’t just stop at 1900

  01-03-2016 22:00
  The National Gallery’s new director Gabriele Finaldi took charge six months ago. In a change fr om his predecessor, Nicholas Penny, Finaldi tells us that he wants to “ramp up” the exhibition programme. He also wants to address the London gallery’s longstanding need for a larger and more flexible space for special exhibitions. His most radical and fundamental idea is to extend the gallery’s remit, adding paintings fr om well into the 20th century, quite possibly up
  
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• The Art Newspaper’s picks of what to see at the ADAA’s Art Show

  01-03-2016 22:00
  
  Richard L. Feigen & Co: Joseph Cornell, The Crystal Cage (Portrait of Berenice), $3.8mThe centrepiece of Feigen stand is an impressive, sprawling valise construction by Joseph Cornell, with elements collected by the artist over the span of 20 years. The Crystal Cage (Portrait of Berenice) was assembled between 1943 and sometime in the 1960s, and tells the story of a fairy-tale girl named Berenice, “almost his own Thumbalina- or Alice in Wonderland-type figure,” said the gallery&
  
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• Gabriele Finaldi says why London's National Gallery can’t just stop at 1900

  01-03-2016 22:00
  The National Gallery’s new director Gabriele Finaldi took charge six months ago. In a change fr om his predecessor, Nicholas Penny, Finaldi tells us that he wants to “ramp up” the exhibition programme. He also wants to address the London gallery’s longstanding need for a larger and more flexible space for special exhibitions. His most radical and fundamental idea is to extend the gallery’s remit, adding paintings fr om well into the 20th century, quite possibly up
  
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• Canadian dealer fights to raise the profile of Native American art

  01-03-2016 22:00
  
  It’s 40 years since the Canadian dealer Donald Ellis founded his gallery dedicated to Native American art in New York. The leader in this highly specialist field, Ellis has sold pieces to most of the prominent institutions in the United States, as well as to representatives of the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, and the Louvre in Abu Dhabi.Ahead of showing at the Armory Show in New York (3-6 March 2016), he talks to The Art Newspaper about why his area deserves more attention—an
  
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• Can Photo San Francisco succeed where Paris Photo Los Angeles failed?

  01-03-2016 22:00
  
  A new fair dedicated to photography is due to open in San Francisco early next year at the Fort Mason Festival Pavilion on the city’s northern waterfront (27-29 January). Photo San Francisco, which is organised by the World Photography Organisation (WPO), is the latest attempt to break into the photography market in the US; last month, Reed Exhibitions, the company behind three editions of Paris Photo Los Angeles, announced that it has cancelled this year’s fair, due to open in Apri
  
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• Manfred Pernice at Lulu, Mexico City

  01-03-2016 19:54 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: Manfred Pernice‘s solo exhibition is on view at Mexico City’s Lulu gallery through April 3. 
  
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• Isa Genzken’s orchids blossom in Central Park

  01-03-2016 19:47
  
  Before springtime hits New York this year, Central Park will have some impressive new blooms thanks to a sculptural installation by the German artist Isa Genzken organised by the Public Art Fund. Two Orchids (2015), a pair of around 30-ft sculptures of white flowers made from cast aluminium and stainless steel that were first shown at last year’s Venice Biennale, are on on view at the Doris C. Freedman Plaza near the park’s southeast entrance from 1 March to 21 August. “While
  
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• The Joker Card

  01-03-2016 19:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Joker Card
   
  (Zanni character of Commedia dell’arte)
  I. Epic JourneyZany, digger of potato, exiled:Travels to haunt the penny field.
   
   
   
  (Harlequin character of Harlequinade)
  II. AffairLust-lock-lost in lady ColumbineTrickily stupid lad Harlequin.Actin’ cool, himself foolsDances day-dreams and droolsLust-lock-lost in lady Columbine.
   
   
   
  (Pierrot/Clown Blanc)
  III. LamentFor long have i now gazed your faceWith looks of beggar child in helpless
  
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• Leslie Thornton obituary

  01-03-2016 18:52
  
  Sculptor whose very human figures pointed to the frailty of lifeWhen, during the second Vatican council, the future Cardinal Heenan was made archbishop of Westminster, his place in Liverpool was taken by Bishop George Beck. The battle between Catholic traditionalists and modernisers was embodied in Frederick Gibberd’s Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, then under construction. Nicknamed Paddy’s Wigwam, this was insistently modernist; Archbishop Beck, however, was not. Appalled by the
  
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• People of Geneva say ‘non’ to museum extension designed by Jean Nouvel

  01-03-2016 18:20
  
  The people of Geneva have narrowly rejected a controversial plan to extend and renovate the city’s Musée d’Art et d’Histoire by the French architect Jean Nouvel. The “non” camp won the public vote on 28 February with 54%.  
   
  Ateliers Jean Nouvel in Paris designed the planned extension, which was approved by Geneva’s municipal council last May, in collaboration with the local firms Architectures Jucker and DVK Architectes. The CHF131m ($131.1
  
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• SculptureCenter Reveals More Details of its All-Female 2016 Exhibition Lineup

  01-03-2016 18:04 via artnews.com
  Last September, SculptureCenter announced that all of its solo shows in 2016 would feature work by female artists—a plan that, in an ideal world, would not be treated as breaking news, but here we are.With the exhibition schedule currently underway—there … Read More
  
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• Matthew Lutz-Kinoy at Freedman Fitzpatrick

  01-03-2016 17:00 via artnews.com
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• Georgia O’Keeffe show at Tate Modern to challenge 'outdated' views of artist

  01-03-2016 16:44
  
  UK’s largest ever exhibition of US artist’s work will be Tate Modern’s first show since its £26m revampThere are few artists in history whose work is consistently reduced to the single question: flowers or vaginas?But a new Tate Modern retrospective of Georgia O’Keeffe, a giant of American 20th century modernism, is to challenge the “conservative male” – and widely accepted – assumptions that her famous flowers paintings are depictions of fem
  
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• Flowers or vaginas? Georgia O’Keeffe Tate show to challenge sexual cliches

  01-03-2016 16:44
  
  UK’s largest ever exhibition of US artist will be Tate Modern’s first show since £26m revamp and aims to counter ‘conservative male’ readings of her workThere are few artists in history whose work is consistently reduced to the single question: flowers or vaginas?But a new Tate Modern retrospective of Georgia O’Keeffe, a giant of American 20th-century modernism, is to challenge the “conservative male” – and widely accepted – assumptions
  
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• Long-lost Caravaggio painting goes on show in Tokyo

  01-03-2016 16:26
  
  Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy was found in a private collection in 2014 and is part of exhibition at National Museum of Western ArtA long-lost painting by the Italian master Caravaggio is being shown to the public at an exhibition in Tokyo.Related: 'Restitution of a lost beauty': Caravaggio Nativity replica brought to PalermoContinue reading...
  
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• Iris Grace: Mother of six-year-old girl acclaimed for her beautiful paintings on new book about autism, family life and Thula the therapy cat

  01-03-2016 16:10
  
  'A positive, inspiring but realistic story of an incredible journey'
  
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• The Storyteller: At 85, Her Star Still Rising, Faith Ringgold Looks Back on Her Life in Art, Activism, and Education

  01-03-2016 15:35 via artnews.com
  In 1963, Faith Ringgold was 32, the mother of two daughters, and on the hunt for a gallery to show her work. To say that it was difficult for black artists to find gallery representation at that time would be … Read More
  
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• Preview the 2016 Armory Show

  01-03-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  The 22nd edition of the Armory Show opens to the public on Thursday, March 3, with a preview day on Wednesday, March 2. This year’s fair is the first edition with Artnet News editor Ben Genocchio at the helm, replacing Noah Horowitz, who left to be … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: The Met’s New Website Edition

  01-03-2016 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Wim Pijbes to leave Rijksmuseum for new museum on Dutch coast

  01-03-2016 14:07
  
  The director general of the Rijksmuseum, Wim Pijbes, has decided to leave the Netherlands' national museum of art and history this summer to run the new Museum Voorlinden, which is nearing completion on the Dutch coast.
  Pijbes took the helm of the Rijksmuseum in 2008 when the main building of the Amsterdam institution had been closed for five years for a major modernisation and expansion that was taking years longer than planned. He got the €375m project back on track so that the Rijksmuse
  
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• Paris, Milan…Suffolk—Anna Wintour drops in on rural museum

  01-03-2016 12:29
  
  The famed editor-in-chief of US Vogue, Anna Wintour, probably doesn’t spend many Mondays in rural, windy East Anglia. But yesterday (29 February) she accompanied her friend, the fashion designer and sculptor Nicole Farhi, to the Gainsborough House Museum in Sudbury to unveil Farhi’s portrait bust of the artist Thomas Gainsborough. Wintour funded the bronze, as part of what director Mark Bills called a “sizeable donation” towards the planned multi-million pound extension
  
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• Gang may have stolen antiquities for Chinese market, says expert

  01-03-2016 11:43
  
  Break-ins at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam and Durham’s Oriental museums marred by near-comical mishapsAn organised crime gang convicted of plotting audacious raids on museums and auction houses to steal rhino horn and artefacts worth up to £57m may have had specific Chinese buyers waiting for the goods, an antiquities expert has said.Fourteen men have been convicted of thefts and attempted plots, including break-ins at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum and Durham’s Oriental
  
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• 'What's happening is fascism': artists respond to Israel's 'war on culture'

  01-03-2016 11:30
  
  Banned books, fines for theatre groups, playlists for radios, funding axed for ‘disloyal’ art … do Israel’s artists feel under attack from culture minister, and ex-brigadier-general, Miri Regev? The term “loyalty in culture bill” sounds like something out of Nineteen Eighty-Four. However, last month, Israel’s minister for culture and sport introduced just that to a parliamentary committee, which responded with a mixture of rightwing approval and leftwin
  
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• Bret Easton Ellis and Alex Israel: California Uber alles

  01-03-2016 11:00
  
  The American Psycho novelist and the pop artist have joined forces to create artworks evoking the double lives of people in their adopted home, Los AngelesWhen the world-renowned author Bret Easton Ellis is not writing novels, he is hanging out at shopping malls. That is, when he’s with the artist Alex Israel. The duo have a ritual of taking Ubers to Los Angeles malls, finding a bar and drinking martinis or tequila.That’s how they come up with new ideas, some of which are on show as
  
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• Ellen Fullman: how to play a 100ft stringed instrument

  01-03-2016 08:30
  
  It’s got 56 strings, takes five days to install, and sounds like a prairie wind. Artist Ellen Fullman talks about why the last skirt she wore was made of metal – and how she negotiates the baggage carousel when she takes her ‘absurd’ instrument on tourThe Long String Instrument is exactly that – and then some. Stainless steel and phosphor bronze strings, 100-feet-long, are stretched taut across a room. Ellen Fullman, the instrument’s creator, places her finger
  
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• 2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: colour, wonder, materialism and magic

  01-03-2016 02:27
  
  The country’s only survey of contemporary Australian art is a cabinet of curiosities filled with lizard tails, Banksia Men, teeth, gods and puffer fishThe Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art begins before you enter the main gallery space. Nests of rods wrapped in colourful yarn and embellished with hacky sacks, bells and pompoms are tangled together in an amorphous mass, which drips from the bannisters and wraps around the standing posts as you walk down the stairs. Related: Everything hap
  
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