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• Springtime in Paris sees four art fairs open this week

  29-03-2016 23:00
  
  Paris bursts into bloom this week with the opening of no less than four art fairs. Paris Art Week, as the seasonal event is known, could be seen as a turning point for the French capital, which has recently seen the plug pulled on several fairs as well as disrupted events in November due to the terror attacks.Now in its 16th year, Art Paris Art Fair (31 March-3 April) is the main event, featuring 143 galleries fr om 22 countries selling Modern and contemporary art in the Grand Palais. Several d
  
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• Picture researcher (part-time), New York

  29-03-2016 23:00
  The Art Newspaper is looking for a part-time paid picture researcher to be based in our New York office, starting in April.The position involves sourcing images for the monthly print publication, to illustrate news and comment articles on our US news, market and museums pages. Creative thinking, attention to detail and excellent organisational skills are a requirement for the job. You should also have experience working with picture agencies and press offices.To apply, please email a CV and bri
  
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• Pacific Standard Time expands scope to include Latino artists

  29-03-2016 23:00
  
  From the start, the Hammer Museum’s survey of radical Latin American women artists was expected to be the biggest exhibition in the 2017 edition of the Getty Foundation-funded programme Pacific Standard Time. But over the past two years, the show has rather improbably grown even more ambitious.Curators decided to expand their focus beyond Latin America to include artists of Latin origin based in the US. “We started thinking more about our audience,” says Cecilia Fajardo-Hill,
  
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• Latino and Latin American artists to meet in Pacific Standard Time

  29-03-2016 23:00
  
  From the start, the Hammer Museum’s survey of radical Latin American women artists was expected to be the biggest exhibition in the 2017 edition of the Getty Foundation-funded programme Pacific Standard Time. But over the past two years, the show has rather improbably grown even more ambitious.Curators decided to expand their focus beyond Latin America to include artists of Latin origin based in the US. “We started thinking more about our audience,” says Cecilia Fajardo-Hill,
  
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• Azuma Makoto at Chamber, New York

  29-03-2016 22:36 via artnews.com
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• LACMA Announces New Board Members, Including Thelma Golden

  29-03-2016 21:27 via artnews.com
  The Los Angeles Country Museum of Art has announced that it is adding three new members to its board of trustees: Thelma Golden, Soumaya Slim, and Caroline Grainge.Golden is the director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, … Read More
  
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• Greene Naftali to Open a Temporary Brooklyn Space With a Lutz Bacher Show

  29-03-2016 20:58 via artnews.com
  In a month where everyone is setting up outposts in San Francisco, here’s a little New York counter-programming: Greene Naftali is opening a temporary exhibition space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A Lutz Bacher show will inaugurate the space, which will be … Read More
  
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• What will Shanghai look like in 100 years? New culture initiative to predict the future

  29-03-2016 18:14
  
  A new, large-scale cultural project based in Shanghai will weigh up the future of humanity, questioning the impact of climate change and urban sprawl. The Shanghai Project, a biennial event which launches later this year (5 September-13 November), will be overseen by Yongwoo Lee, the director of Shanghai Himalayas Museum, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, the co-director of Serpentine Galleries in London.The inaugural edition, entitled 2116, projects 100 years into the future when—according to a re
  
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• What will Shanghai look like in 100 years? New culture initiative predicts the future

  29-03-2016 18:14
  
  A new, large-scale cultural project based in Shanghai will weigh up the future of humanity, questioning the impact of climate change and urban sprawl. The Shanghai Project, a biennial event which launches later this year (5 September-13 November), will be overseen by Yongwoo Lee, the director of Shanghai Himalayas Museum, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, the co-director of Serpentine Galleries in London.The inaugural edition, entitled 2116, projects 100 years into the future when—according to a re
  
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• Untitled Fair Adds Second San Francisco Edition

  29-03-2016 18:04 via artnews.com
  The Untitled art fair—which apparently styles itself “Untitled, Art”—announced today that it will host a second fair, in San Francisco, in January of 2017, at Pier 70, in the city’s Dogpatch neighborhood. Untitled has since 2012 staged a fair every December … Read More
  
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• Untitled Fair Adds San Francisco Edition

  29-03-2016 18:04 via artnews.com
  The Untitled art fair—which apparently styles itself “Untitled, Art”—announced today that it will host a second fair, in San Francisco, in January of 2017, at Pier 70, in the city’s Dogpatch neighborhood. Untitled has since 2012 staged a fair every December … Read More
  
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• Intimate Impressions: MoMA’s ‘Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty’ Is a Sumptuous Feast for the Eyes

  29-03-2016 17:44 via artnews.com
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• Los Angeles's mural 'movement': 'It gives you a sense of pride and belonging'

  29-03-2016 17:36
  
  Colorful murals have brought street art to LA’s rundown back alleys. But amid gentrification, are they bringing people together or just painting over the cracks?In the shadow of downtown Los Angeles, adjacent to artsy enclaves of Silver Lake and Echo Park, is a rundown area called Historic Filipinotown, named for its once thriving post-war immigrant community. Until recently, it was gang territory, with tags wallpapering alleys where homeless people slept. But now the homeless people are g
  
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• Who Wants to Buy Bill Koch’s Wine?

  29-03-2016 17:18 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s announced today that it is selling over 20,000 bottles of wine from the cellar of William I. Koch in a three-day auction that begins May 19. William, better known is Bill, is the slightly-less-evil twin of industrialist David Koch, … Read More
  
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• Light and Space Artist Ron Cooper Is a Mezcal Maven

  29-03-2016 16:44 via artnews.com
  I nearly dropped my copy of the New Yorker’s Food & Travel Issue this morning while reading Dana Goodyear’s rollicking story about the recent mezcal boom in the United States when I discovered this bit of information: the Light and Space artist … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Tax-Smart Collectors Edition

  29-03-2016 14:32 via artnews.com
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• Van Gogh’s The Night Café to stay at Yale after US Supreme Court rejects appeal

  29-03-2016 12:21
  
  Vincent Van Gogh’s $200m painting, The Night Café (1888), is to remain hanging at Yale University after the US Supreme Court rejected an appeal over its ownership. The decision last week ends a lengthy legal battle between the university and Pierre Konowaloff, who first filed the complaint in 2008, arguing that the work was stolen from his family during the Russian Revolution.
  Konowaloff’s lawyer, Allan Gerson, accepted there was nothing else he could do. “This is the e
  
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• How we made The Angel of the North

  29-03-2016 08:00
  
  Antony Gormley: ‘I nearly pulled out when a paper ran a story headlined: Nazi but nice’I was rather standoffish at first. There was a site near Gateshead, an old pithead, and the local council wanted to build something. I think there’d been some kind of international competition, but they hadn’t been terribly pleased with the results. I said: “I don’t make art for motorways.” But then I saw a photograph of this mound on the hill, with a deep valley below
  
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• Steinway piano maker pairs visual artists and composers in new commissions

  29-03-2016 07:00
  
  A high-tech player piano, decorated by the Los Angeles artist Mark Bradford and programmed to play a new score by the Grammy-winning jazz composer Robert Glasper, is the first in a series of three artistic collaborations organised and commissioned by the historic piano-makers Steinway & Sons. The unique object, Apollo/Still Shining, is due to be auctioned during Christie’s Post-war and contemporary art day sale in New York on 11 May, to benefit three museums: the Walker Art Center in
  
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• Steinway pairs visual artists and composers in new piano commissions

  29-03-2016 07:00
  
  A high-tech player piano, decorated by the Los Angeles artist Mark Bradford and programmed to play a new score by the Grammy-winning jazz composer Robert Glasper, is the first in a series of three artistic collaborations organised and commissioned by the historic piano-makers Steinway & Sons. The unique object, Apollo/Still Shining, is due to be auctioned (with an estimate of $400,000 to $600,000) during Christie’s Post-war and contemporary art day sale in New York on 11 May, to benef
  
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• 'Art to eat with your eyes': Ken Done on 10 of his artworks – in pictures

  29-03-2016 05:30
  
  Ken Done was everywhere in the 80s and 90s – doona covers with a tropical-fish print, Harbour Bridge-emblazoned T-shirts or a handbags bearing cute koalas. But Done’s passion has always been painting and here he shares some of his favourite and most meaningful works, including his eye-poppingly colourful depictions of the Great Barrier Reef and Sydney beach life. In an interview with Guardian Australia he said that in any truly great piece of art: ‘You need to love it when you
  
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• Ken Done: sell-out, one-hit wonder, or Australia’s most underrated artist?

  29-03-2016 05:29
  
  In the 80s it seemed like every Australian family owned at least one Ken Done handbag, mug or doona cover. But he still battles the prejudices of the Australian art establishment‘Art to eat with your eyes’: Ken Done on 10 of his artworks – in picturesKen Done thinks a lot of contemporary art is “shallow, pretentious and hardly worth looking at”.Not all of it, he says. Some is “absolutely fantastic”. Just a certain kind of conceptual art often favoured by
  
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• Huntington expands American art galleries

  29-03-2016 04:01
  
  The Huntington Library, Art Collection and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California announced that it will add 5,000 additional sq ft of display space to its American galleries with the opening of a new wing. Named for the lead donors of the $10.3m building project, the Jonathan and Karin Fielding Wing will feature eight new rooms, in addition to a new glass entrance. The expansion will make the Huntington’s “one of the largest displays of historic American art in the Western Uni
  
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• Sol LeWitt’s art collection reveals friendships and artistic resonances

  29-03-2016 03:06
  
  Drawings from the collection of the American Minimalist and conceptual artist Sol LeWitt are at the centre of an exhibition opening at the Drawing Center in New York. The show offers a peak into the more than 4,000 works by around 750 artists LeWitt amassed before his death in 2007. Drawing Dialogues: Selections from the Sol LeWitt Collection (15 April-12 June) includes more than 100 works by artists including Mel Bochner, Hanne Darboven and Alighiero Boetti.
  “A lot of his friends say he
  
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• Artist’s archive documents history of Christian Palestinians

  29-03-2016 02:14
  
  The James Gallery at the City University of New York’s Center for the Humanities is hosting an open call for contributions to a project called the Christian Palestinian Archive. The Jerusalem-born artist Dor Guez, the son of a Jewish father and a Palestinian Christian mother, launched the archive in 2009 with a suitcase of photographs he found of his grandmother underneath her bed. Today it contains thousands of documents sourced from Christian Palestinians around the globe.
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• How Whistler's Mother became a powerful symbol of the Great Depression – in pictures

  29-03-2016 00:01
  
  The Mona Lisa, The Scream, Andy Warhol’s paintings of Marilyn Monroe: there are few artworks so ardently referenced, replicated and parodied long after their maker’s lifetime. James McNeill Whistler’s Portrait of the Artist’s Mother 1871, more commonly known as Whistler’s Mother, is another such artistic touchstone, and is exhibiting in Australia for the first time at the National Gallery of Victoria. It will be accompanied by images and objects that give context to
  
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