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• Secret world of multimillion-pound art deals faces US inquiry into allegations of money laundering

  09-03-2016 22:12
  
  Investigators open an inquiry into Swiss businessman described as 'one of art world's consummate insiders'
  
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• Erró at Galerie Perrotin, New York

  09-03-2016 22:03 via artnews.com
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• The Gulf’s Chelsea: Alserkal Avenue

  09-03-2016 22:00
  
  Alserkal Avenue, in the industrial Al Quoz district of Dubai, may be a little off the tourist track but it has become the most lively commercial art hub in the emirates. The area comprises three “streets” of warehouses, once home to a marble factory. Abdelmonem bin Eisa Alserkal, a business magnate born and based in Dubai, decided to let them to cultural and arts organisations in 2008 and the area has expanded rapidly since then.
   
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• Ten years since Christie’s internationalised Gulf art business

  09-03-2016 22:00
  
  In 2006, Christie’s held its first sale in Dubai and it was a game-changer. Much to the surprise of everyone locally and in the West, it made $8,489,400. Suddenly, people in the Gulf realised that art could be a serious business, while Westerners were inspired by this, and the great museum projects in Abu Dhabi, to consider the region as new territory for expansion.
  Looking back at the auction house’s beginnings in Dubai, William Lawrie, the then director of contemporary Middle East
  
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• Stories of progress and property: on the European galleries at the V&A

  09-03-2016 22:00
  
  The new Europe 1600-1815 galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (V&A) display over a 1,100 of the museum’s treasures of art and design: paintings, sculptures, furniture, porcelain, textiles and more. They are part of FuturePlan, a rolling programme of new galleries and collection redisplays that has, since the 1990s, endeavoured to shed the V&A’s image as a rambling Victorian Wunderkammer, and turn it into a streamlined modern museum of art and design.The Euro
  
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• Sharjah's March Meeting: talking to itself or the wider community?

  09-03-2016 22:00
  
  The ninth edition of the Sharjah arts conference, March Meeting, is about education, engagement and participation. The panels will include discussions on the development of arts institutions and programming, particularly in places lacking in arts infrastructure or support such as those in much of the wider Middle East. Speakers therefore hail from a range of international institutions but are predominantly from Middle Eastern, Asian and African countries, including Christine Tohmé, the f
  
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• Sharjah: a welcome for thinkers from the Middle East, Asia and Africa

  09-03-2016 22:00
  
  The ninth edition of the Sharjah arts conference, March Meeting, is about education, engagement and participation. The panels will include discussions on the development of arts institutions and programming, particularly in places lacking in arts infrastructure or support such as those in much of the wider Middle East. Speakers therefore hail from a range of international institutions but are predominantly from Middle Eastern, Asian and African countries, including Christine Tohmé, the f
  
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• Ruling family backs photography

  09-03-2016 22:00
  
  With so many art anniversaries in Dubai this year, the Dubai Photo Exhibition is a new addition to the cultural calendar and has the backing of the Crown Prince of Dubai, no less. Held in a purpose-built, temporary museum in the Dubai Design District (d3), the exhibition includes works by artists from 23 countries selected by 18 curators, including the Emirati photographer Jassim Al Awadh and the London gallerist Zelda Cheatle, who is the chief curator of the exhibition. There are lectures, sym
  
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• Oil, pearls and roundabouts: shaping Dubai for tomorrow

  09-03-2016 22:00
  
  The tenth edition of the Global Art Forum (GAF), the art conference that runs in association with Art Dubai—the dynamic, commercial art event that takes place in March in the Gulf—also reflects local life and cultural production best. Entitled The Future Was, this year’s GAF was compiled by Bangladeshi-born, UK-raised writer Shumon Basar and is co-directed by Amal Khalaf and Uzma Rizvi. All are based outside Dubai but have strong regional associations: Basar has been associate
  
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• New display shows the functional side of Fabergé

  09-03-2016 22:00
  
  An unfamiliar side of Carl Fabergé, the jeweller whose firm crafted imperial eggs and cigarette cases for the tsarist elite, is on display at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. The museum has opened three rooms dedicated to Fabergé and the history of jewellery making and silver craftsmanship in Russia, including one for temporary exhibitions. Most surprising is the inaugural show Fabergé in the Great War (until 26 June), which features 43 uncharacteristically util
  
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• Getting about the Gulf

  09-03-2016 22:00
  
  Travelling fr om Qatar to the United Arab Emirates is easy and inexpensive. Flights leave almost every hour, take around 70 minutes and can cost as little as £40. Travelling between the emirates is also simple; a taxi from Sharjah, which merges almost seamlessly into Dubai, takes less than half-an-hour out of rush hour and costs around £20. Abu Dhabi is about an hour’s drive from Dubai, depending on the traffic on the notoriously clogged Sheikh Zayed Road.Taxis: The UAE’
  
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• Football outscores culture as Qatar spending slumps

  09-03-2016 22:00
  
  As an exhibition of contemporary Chinese art opens at Qatar’s Al Riwaq Art Space (14 March-16 July), the energy-rich Gulf state is sharply reducing its public spending, including on culture.
  At the beginning of this year, with state revenues hit by the fall in global oil prices, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the emir of Qatar, approved wide-ranging cuts to the transport, energy, health and culture budgets. Qatar Petroleum had already laid off 3,000 people in 2015, while 1,000 nurses and pharm
  
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• Exhibitions and events in the Gulf

  09-03-2016 22:00
  
  QatarThe Museum of Islamic Art, Doha Port
  • Qajar Women: Images of Women in 19th-Century Iran, until 11 JuneQM Gallery Al-Riwaq, Al Corniche Street
  • What About the Art? Contemporary Art from China, 14 March-16 JulyQM Gallery Katara
  • Silks from the Silk Road—Chinese Silk Art, 24 March-9 MayW Doha Hotel & Residences
  • Art for Tomorrow, 12-15 MarchSharjahMaraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Al Taawun Road
  • Home Ground, until 1 SeptemberBait Al Shamsi, Al Buhaira Qurne
  
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• Doha: alien New York Times conference out of tune with new policies

  09-03-2016 22:00
  
  The Art for Tomorrow conference, subtitled Technology, Creativity and the City, is the second edition of the New York Times Conferences in Doha, the first business venture in the Middle East for the newspaper’s forum for discussions and debate. In order to make sense of it, it is necessary to understand that it is not a local production—it is taking place under the patronage of Qatar Museums for only four editions before moving to another city, yet to be named.
  The imported nature o
  
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• Art Dubai, the commercial dynamo of the Gulf art scene

  09-03-2016 22:00
  
  This is Art Dubai’s tenth year and its biggest presentation to date, with 500 artists and 92 galleries from 40 countries. It is split into three sections: Modern, which covers work from the last 60 years or so, to include the whole of the Middle East, Africa and South Asia; contemporary; and Marker, a curated section that focuses on a different theme or location each year (in 2016, the Philippines).
  This year the local art scene is out in force, with 34 Middle Eastern galleries (27 last y
  
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• Art and lifestyle expressed in objects

  09-03-2016 22:00
  
  In downtown Dubai, 15-minutes’ drive from Art Dubai’s beachside location, is Design Days Dubai, a fair showing limited-edition and collectible works from local and international design galleries. This year is the fair’s fifth edition and it is the most diverse ever, with exhibitors from 20 countries, but also with the largest retrospective exhibition of UAE-based design, entitled Wasl. Speaking of the emerging local scene, the fair director Cyril Zammit says: “Design mad
  
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• Ai Weiwei visits migrants at Greek border camp - video

  09-03-2016 21:38
  
  Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei visits the migrants at the Idomeni camp on the border between Greece and Macedonia on Wednesday. The artist condemns the poor conditions of the thousands of migrants that are still trapped in the camp and says the situation is a ‘big violation of human rights’Continue reading...
  
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• Electric Objects Announces New $100,000 Art Club Fund

  09-03-2016 21:30 via artnews.com
  Today, Electric Objects–the digital art platform whose product, the EO1, takes the form of a computer and screen you can purchase for $399 and then load with art when connected to the internet–announced The Art Club Fund, a new $100,000 … Read More
  
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• Guy Cogeval will continue as the Musée d’Orsay’s director for another year

  09-03-2016 21:12
  
  Guy Cogeval, who was due to step down as the director of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris this month after completing his second three-year term, will continue in this position for another year, the French ministry of culture announced on Wednesday, 9 March. The French president François Hollande renewed Cogeval’s contract following the suggestion of the new culture minister, Audrey Azoulay.Cogeval, who has led the museum since 2008, applied for a third term, but his ability
  
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• Picabia Alert #11: ‘Pa’ at Venus

  09-03-2016 20:28 via artnews.com
  “Picabia Alert” takes note of shows and publications that include the wily French artist Francis Picabia (1879–1953), aiming to sate Picabia appetites until a retrospective of the artist arrives at the Kunsthaus Zurich and New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2016.There’s … Read More
  
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• Kennedy Center Names Q-Tip First-Ever ‘Hip-Hop Director’

  09-03-2016 19:06 via artnews.com
  The Washington Post has reported that, for the first time in the institution’s history, the Kennedy Center’s history will focus on hip-hop music for its 2016 to 2017 season and has appointed the rapper and producer Q-Tip to curate.Although the center has … Read More
  
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• Marc-Olivier Wahler Appointed Director of MSU’s Broad Art Museum

  09-03-2016 18:50 via artnews.com
  Michigan State University has announced the appointment of Marc-Olivier Wahler as director of the university’s Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, effective July 1. Wahler will be replacing the museum’s founding director, Michael Rush, who died in March 2015.In a statement, … Read More
  
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• Will Elton John donate classic photography works to Tate?

  09-03-2016 18:49
  
  A show of key 20th-century photographs drawn from Elton John’s collection opening at Tate Modern in November could lead to other joint initiatives aimed at boosting the museum’s holdings and programme.
  The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection (10 November-7 May 2017) will include more than 150 works dating from the 1920s to the 1950s. Edward Steichen, Alexandr Rodchenko and Berenice Abbot are among the 60 artists represented. John, who began collecti
  
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• Martha Tedeschi to Leave Art Institute of Chicago, Will Become Director of Harvard Art Museums

  09-03-2016 18:49 via artnews.com
  The Art Institute of Chicago announced today that Martha Tedeschi, its deputy director of art and research, will leave her position at the museum in July. She’ll be going to the Harvard Art Museums, where she will become the Elizabeth … Read More
  
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• Lucian Freud’s life and work to be the focus of new Dublin research centre

  09-03-2016 18:45
  
  A new research centre dedicated to Lucian Freud is due to open at Dublin’s Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). It will house 50 key paintings and etchings by the late British artist, all of which are on long-term loan from private collections.Negotiations to secure the pieces, lent by numerous anonymous collectors, took more than two years, says a museum spokeswoman. Bella and Esther (1988), The Painter’s Mother Reading (1975) and The Pearce Family (1998) are among the paintings incl
  
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• Go Pro: The Hyper-professionalization of the Emerging Artist

  09-03-2016 18:23 via artnews.com
  Late last summer I arrived at a young artist’s Brooklyn studio for a visit that I thought had been set up as an opportunity to get to know the artist’s work better. I’d seen his paintings in a few exhibitions, … Read More
  
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• Elton John's modernist photo collection to be shown at Tate Modern

  09-03-2016 17:51
  
  Public will be able to see ‘amazing array’ from Sir Elton’s private collection of photographs by artists such as Man RayFor 25 years, they have hung on the walls of his houses in London, Beverly Hills and Venice. But a new exhibition will see Sir Elton’s John’s private collection of modernist photographs, one of the largest in the world, put on public display at Tate Modern. The singer began acquiring photography in 1991 and has a private collection that includes ov
  
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• Minneapolis Institute of Art Names Gabriel Ritter Curator of Contemporary Art

  09-03-2016 17:42 via artnews.com
  The Minneapolis Institute of Art has announced the appointment of Gabriel Ritter as curator of contemporary art, beginning this May. Ritter currently serves as assistant curator of contemporary art at the Dallas Museum of Art, where he organizes exhibitions for … Read More
  
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• 'He was a sexual outlaw': my love affair with Robert Mapplethorpe

  09-03-2016 17:36
  
  The dungeons and diamonds, the penthouses and pillow talk … Jack Fritscher relives his love affair with Robert Mapplethorpe – the hustler with a Hasselblad whose sexually explosive photographs thrilled and horrified AmericaOne hundred days after Robert Mapplethorpe’s celebrity-studded funeral, the gun-loving conservative politician Jesse Helms stood on the floor of the US senate and waved a photograph in the faces of his fellow representatives. The black and white shot, showin
  
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• Can Bogotá's state-sanctioned street art survive a crackdown by the new mayor?

  09-03-2016 15:39
  
  The Colombian capital decriminalised graffiti after protests following the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old street artist at the hands of the police. Five years on, returning mayor Enrique Peñalosa believes graffiti is a blight on the city Jeff gathers us all along one side of the road, which isn’t easy as there are around 60 of us and the street is narrow. A car drives by slowly, the windows open, two women leaning out.“Welcome to Colombia!” they shout, as we all wave ba
  
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• Morning Links: Steve Martin Edition

  09-03-2016 15:02 via artnews.com
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• Wanted, dead or alive: do statues always leave our hearts stone cold?

  09-03-2016 14:54
  
  The row over the Rhodes statue in Oxford reveals the superstitious way we view sculpted figures – more alive to us than the campaigners care to admitCampaigners calling for an Oxford University statue to be toppled have achieved the uncanny. They have brought the 19th-century imperialist Cecil Rhodes back to life. His dark spirit now inhabits his statue at Oriel College as if its stone were flesh and blood. An object has become a living entity through the power of rage.I once saw something
  
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• Ariodante, Britten Theatre, review: Well-sung but badly directed

  09-03-2016 12:57
  
  It's a shame the castrato title role could not have been sung by a countertenor, but mezzo Katie Coventry handled its big demands with idiomatic confidence
  
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• New survey paints grim picture of gender balance in Australian visual arts

  09-03-2016 07:03
  
  Countess Report shows that despite women dominating visual art degrees, commercial galleries and state museums still under-represent them
  A new report written by artist Elvis Richardson paints a grim picture of gender equality in Australia’s visual arts.Drawing on data from 2014, the study found that while close to three-quarters of Australian visual art graduates were women, more than half of the artists exhibited in commercial galleries and state museums were men. Related: Women in art:
  
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• Australian visual arts survey finds gender imbalance at most levels

  09-03-2016 07:03
  
  Produced with the National Association for the Visual Arts, the Countess Report shows commercial galleries, state museums and art media still have work to doRelated: A room of one's own: why women need to have their artistic voice heard A new report written by artist Elvis Richardson paints a grim picture of gender equality in Australia’s visual arts. Related: Women in art: why are all the 'great' artists men?Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Fétiche’ at Venus, New York

  09-03-2016 05:35 via artnews.com
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• Secret flight path of the Parthenon statue

  09-03-2016 03:00
  
  When the British Museum in London lent a Parthenon sculpture to the State Hermitage Museum to mark the Russian institution’s 250th birthday in late 2014, there were fears that Greece might try to seize the statue en route to St Petersburg. To prevent this, the loan was shrouded in secrecy until the sculpture of the river god Ilissos went on show in the Hermitage (6 December 2014-18 January 2015). The Art Newspaper has learned that the route it took was designed to avoid European Unio
  
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• Untitled(I Can’t Guarantee That There Won’t Be Cloudy Areas)

  09-03-2016 02:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  j went to bishops on hawthorne to get a short dapper haircut. he lookslike a soldier. he has an upright bearing. i think he can fuck repeatedly. if i eversleep with a man it will be a young man like j. i have kissed a dude. men have wider and bigger mouths than women. the transexual i kissed had a wide mouth. the kissing was intimate and delicate. it made me curious if women felt this when they kissed a man.why was it important for me to know how a woman felt?
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• Untitled(THESE RACIST CYNICAL MINDLESS … )

  09-03-2016 01:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  the elderly woman has on a pink jacket, puma sneakers, and a brown curly wig. her heavy set daughter has on a black dress and a red brown sweat shirt. she moves as slowly as her mother.he just take life for granted, said the elderly lady. he just do. girls she gonna show  up. i want eddie to pick up a place. i’m not financing it    i want eddie to pick a placethe motown thing. i’m surprised they offer that rate. last time i went to a concert itwas eighty dollars.
  
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• Untitled (she’s only meaner because you thought you had a chance with her

  09-03-2016 00:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  j had a nasal tumor and a toothache. now, i’m the one with the toothache. if i bite down on lettuce i get light headed from the dull pain. i took 4 advil. i’ll take another three in five hours. j has purple rings under his eyes. sometimes, he looks tormented. for the most part he looks at peace.s is in her late twenties. the more money i give her the more attention she will give me. she’s good looking but far from perfection.what are you doing?watching vanderpump rules.do you w
  
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