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• Who's afraid of Robert Mapplethorpe?

  14-03-2016 22:08
  
  Twenty-five years after a landmark trial over exhibiting Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs, the debate about what can be shown in museums has shifted—but has not completely disappeared. The joint exhibition devoted to the late US photographer at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) and the J. Paul Getty Museum this week will show photographs from Mapplethorpe’s X Portfolio, which includes a provocative self-portrait with a bullwhip, but will omit two controversial imag
  
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• 'You don't need a gallery to show ideas': Orit Gat on Seth Siegelaub at the Stedelijk

  14-03-2016 22:00
  
  Seth Siegelaub reinvented himself—twice. The New Yorker, who lived a majority of his life in Europe, began his lifelong involvement with art and culture by opening Seth Siegelaub Contemporay Art and Orientalist Rugs on 56th Street in New York in 1964. The gallery presented work by an emerging generation of artists we now associate with conceptual art, but it was open for only two years. After it closed, Siegelaub continued to organise exhibitions internationally with artists like Lawrence
  
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• The heart of Islam on view in Washington, DC

  14-03-2016 22:00
  
  A new exhibition focusing on Saudi Arabia, the geographic heart of Islam, is due to open this week in Washington, DC. Symbolic Cities: The Work of Ahmed Mater at the Smithsonian Institute’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (19 March-18 September) focuses on the Jeddah-based artist’s landscape photography, which documents the rapid transformation of the ultra-conservative Middle Eastern state.
  The exhibition could not be timelier, with immigration, and how Muslims are treated and perceived,
  
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• British Museum nearly cancelled 1980 Olympics exhibition

  14-03-2016 22:00
  The British Museum in London nearly cancelled a major exhibition on the Olympics in 1980 because of the UK’s boycott of the Moscow Games. Archival research by The Art Newspaper reveals that the museum was worried the show would antagonise the Thatcher government, and the museum’s director went so far as to seek advice from the Office of the Prime Minister.The discussions offer an unusual insight into how a major national museum dealt with the political landscape of its day. The exhi
  
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• Art Basel in Hong Kong 2016

  14-03-2016 22:00
  Daily fair papers from Art Basel in Hong Kong, including news, analysis, interviews and live reporting from the event
  
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• 247365 Announces Full Artist Roster

  14-03-2016 21:39 via artnews.com
  247365, the New York gallery that began as a project space in the so-called “Donut District” in Carroll Gardens, then hopped the East River to occupy a basement on Eldridge Street, and then split for two-story digs on Stanton Street, now has … Read More
  
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• Nadia Ayari at Taymour Grahne

  14-03-2016 21:09 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Nadia Ayari: Bricks” is on view at Taymour Grahne Gallery in New York through Saturday, May 7. The solo show, the artist’s first with the gallery, presents … Read More
  
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• Mika Tajima at 11R

  14-03-2016 21:06 via artnews.com
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• Paris auction house staff in the dock for 'vast art theft scheme' - including a Chagall painting

  14-03-2016 20:59
  
  The practice of 'stealing from the dead' - removing artefacts during house clearances - has been widespread in the French auction world for decades
  
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• Wild at art: private art foundation dedicated to adventurer and watercolourist Tony Foster opens in Silicon Valley

  14-03-2016 20:30
  
  Only in Silicon Valley, a place known for its start-ups but not for its art scene, would a woman create the region’s first private art foundation because she felt it would rectify a “market failure”. Jane Woodward, the founder of the natural gas and wind energy investment firm MAP, opened the Foster Art and Wilderness Foundation on a quiet street in Palo Alto, California, on 27 February.
  The Foster is dedicated to the work of only one artist: the Cornwall-based watercolourist
  
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• Top Gear: Chris Evans should never have apologised for Cenotaph stunt

  14-03-2016 19:54
  
  Lutyens’ monument is one of Britain’s greatest public sculptures. But that doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with driving a fast car past the memorial. The Cenotaph in London – arguably Britain’s greatest public sculpture – reinvented the war memorial when it was erected in 1920. It is shocking now to look at 18th- and 19th-century military memorials and find they only list the names of officers, as if these losses counted more than the deaths of men i
  
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• Jeffrey Deitch to Return to Old Deitch Projects Space on Wooster Street, Now Home to Swiss Institute

  14-03-2016 18:55 via artnews.com
  The re-Deitchification of SoHo is complete. ARTnews can confirm that this August, Jeffrey Deitch will take back the cavernous primo real estate at 18 Wooster Street that housed Deitch Projects during its glory days—which means it current occupant, Swiss Institute, will … Read More
  
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• Justine Frischmann: waking up from Elastica to art in America

  14-03-2016 18:22
  
  Her band were one of the leading lights of Britpop – but when it all fell apart Frischmann regrouped in a quieter corner of the US and is now a visual artistJarvis Cocker has got his radio show, Damon Albarn has his Chinese operas and Liam Gallagher has his clothing label, but Justine Frischmann has kept a low public profile – until now. On a Thursday afternoon in New York art week, the former frontwoman of Elastica, an integral part of the Britpop pop boom of the mid-90s and arguabl
  
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• Medieval building in Hieronymus Bosch's home town collapses

  14-03-2016 18:12
  
  A Medieval building that was supposed to serve as the canvas for Bosch by Night, a lightshow commissioned as part of the year-long celebrations to mark the quincentenary of Hieronymus Bosch’s death, collapsed on 27 February—days before the project’s launch in the artist’s hometown of Den Bosch in The Netherlands.But the show will go on, say the artists involved and the Jheronimus Bosch 500 Foundation, the event’s organisers. The artists, working in conjunction with
  
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• Ed Ruscha on Marcel Duchamp: 'He was a guiding light'

  14-03-2016 16:59
  
  When conceptual art’s godfather finally had a retrospective, it was in California – where a group of young artists welcomed him to a game of naked chessIn typically singular fashion, Marcel Duchamp was 76 years old when he had his first career retrospective. The artist chose to present it in the unlikely location of Pasadena, a quiet, upscale Los Angeles suburb. The 1963 show was a coup for the visionary young gallerist Walter Hopps, whose Ferus Gallery formed the nexus of an emergin
  
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• Domestic Dreams: ‘Van Gogh’s Bedrooms’ at the Art Institute of Chicago Offers a Rich Look at Three Masterworks

  14-03-2016 16:38 via artnews.com
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• Emma Lavigne Will Curate 2017 Lyon Biennale

  14-03-2016 16:08 via artnews.com
  The director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz has titled her show "Printemps cosmique," or "Cosmic Spring" Read More
  
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• Martin Parr webchat – as it happened

  14-03-2016 15:10
  
  The quintessential photographer of everyday Britain answered your questions – catch up on his views about a Brexit, which Soviet space dog is his favourite, what he thinks of people who call him ‘cruel’ and more 2.08pm GMTThanks to everyone who took part. Martin says: “Now I am going for a cup of tea. So thank you for your questions.” 2.03pm GMTRaja Indra Putra asks:You seem to have several project going on at the same time. What are your current long-term projects?
  
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• Morning Links: Stolen Bacon Paintings Edition

  14-03-2016 13:43 via artnews.com
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• How to be a performance artist like Marina Abramovic

  14-03-2016 12:33
  
  Marina Abramovic is stepping out of the limelight for her latest performance art project. Her 716-hour stint sitting motionless and silent in the atrium of the Museum of Modern Art in New York was the main attraction of her 2010 retrospective at the museum, The Artist Is Present, which drew more than 550,000 visitors. At the Benaki Museum in Athens, the Marina Abramovic Institute has partnered with NEON, the non-profit organisation founded by the Greek collector and entrepreneur Dimitris Daskal
  
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• How Britain is viewed by the rest of the world – in pictures

  14-03-2016 08:00
  
  Tatty washing lines on backstreet terraces, natty Oxford students on bikes, and a man blowing bubbles for the joy of it – foreign photographers best capture British idiosyncrasies on the evidence of a new exhibition curated by Martin Parr Continue reading...
  
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• How Britain is really viewed by the rest of the world – in pictures

  14-03-2016 08:00
  
  Tatty washing lines on backstreet terraces, natty Oxford students on bikes, and a man blowing bubbles for the joy of it – foreign photographers best capture British idiosyncrasies on the evidence of a new exhibition curated by Martin Parr Continue reading...
  
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• English National Opera chorus plans silent protest over wage cuts and redundancies

  14-03-2016 00:05
  
  The organisation says it must make several singers redundant and cut pay for remaining members by 25%
  
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