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• Marcel Berlanger at Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels

  30-03-2016 23:13 via artnews.com
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• The Buck Stopped Here: 'Post-Art' and verbal pyrotechnics at the Italian Cultural Institute

  30-03-2016 23:00
  
  Gregor Muir may be recently returned from the travails of a monsoon-drenched Hong Kong, but the ICA’s supremo was firing on all verbal cylinders at the Italian Cultural Institute in London last night (30 March). Muir sang the praises of “Asian dematerialization and decentralization”, before declaring, “it’s discombobulating, I love it!” In the process he also coined the new term of “Post-Art,” which he declared to be the potential product of a glo
  
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• New £100,000 prize to give female artists mid-career boost

  30-03-2016 23:00
  
  Media executive, philanthropist and Tate trustee Elisabeth Murdoch has launched a £100,000 annual award for a mid-career female artist who is based in the UK. Unlike the Tate’s Turner Prize, artists over 50 years old are eligible; indeed, they could be the strongest contenders. The winner, who is due to be announced in the autumn, will get a solo show in a regional art gallery. Six unnamed institutions are on the shortlist of possible venues.
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• Doctors without Borders to sell rare Duchamp nude at Paris auction to fund its field operations

  30-03-2016 23:00
  
  A significant early work by Marcel Duchamp, Nu sur Nu (Nude on Nude) will be the star lot of the Impressionist and Modern art sale at the Paris auction house Artcurial on 6 June. The Expressionist female nude oil on panel was painted in 1910-11—predating Duchamp’s 1912 Modernist masterpiece Nude Descending a Staircase, which was shown at the New York Armory the following year.
  “Nude on Nude marks an important step in Marcel Duchamp’s evolution, when he started to distanc
  
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• Doctors without Borders to sell rare Duchamp nude at Paris auction

  30-03-2016 23:00
  
  A significant early work by Marcel Duchamp, Nu sur Nu (Nude on Nude) will be the star lot of the Impressionist and Modern art sale at the Paris auction house Artcurial on 6 June. The expressionist female nude oil on panel was painted in 1910-11—predating Duchamp’s 1912 Modernist masterpiece Nude Descending a Staircase, which was shown at the New York Armory the following year.
  “Nude on Nude marks an important step in Marcel Duchamp’s evolution, when he started to distanc
  
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• This Is How Much TV Millennials Watch

  30-03-2016 22:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For this survey, Nielsen split up millennials into three categories to accurately capture how they operate: “Dependent Adults” (Stage 1), living in someone else’s home; “On Their Own” (Stage 2), living in their own home without kids; and “Starting a Family” (Stage 3), living in their own home with kids.
  
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• Artists Elmgreen and Dragset bring 'Van Gogh's Ear' to New York

  30-03-2016 21:15
  
  The Scandinavian duo have a unique take on the Dutch master’s famous lobe: a four-and-a-half ton swimming pool that will hang outside Rockefeller CenterWednesday is Vincent Van Gogh’s birthday and the Dutch painter, who was born in 1853, is making a comeback (of sorts) with a new biopic that hits cinemas this fall. He is also the subject of an unlikely public art piece entitled Van Gogh’s Ear. The Berlin art duo Elmgreen and Dragset created the ear-shaped swimming pool that ope
  
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• Kathryn MacKay Named Associate Film Curator at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

  30-03-2016 20:27 via artnews.com
  The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive announced today that Kathryn MacKay will be an associate curator in its film department. She begins her new position at the Californian museum on Friday.In Toronto MacKay has held various positions at … Read More
  
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• ‘Artists Can Do Anything In Our Restaurant’: Michael Chow on Food, Painting, and Mae West

  30-03-2016 19:10 via artnews.com
  Michael Chow had been a struggling painter in London for ten years before founding his first restaurant, Mr. Chow, in 1968. He eventually expanded the business to New York and later Los Angeles, and now also has spots in Malibu … Read More
  
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• Extreme Relaxation: Michael Mahalchick Goes the Distance in Performance at His Canada Gallery Opening

  30-03-2016 18:38 via artnews.com
  Last Saturday, for the duration of the opening of his current solo show at Canada, which is titled “Skin Game,” Michael Mahalchick was stationed in the main gallery space with his face down on a massage table, staring at his … Read More
  
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• Charlotte Moorman: Chicago exhibit reveres avant garde's renegade cellist

  30-03-2016 17:12
  
  The retrospective pieces together what’s left of Moorman’s legacy post-Reagan, including her cello covered in gray felt, as Chicago resurges as a cultural nexusDuring the culture wars of the 80s and 90s, artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe challenged the orthodoxy and provoked the ire of Ronald Reagan’s Special Presidential Task Force on the Arts and Humanities. Reagan continued on with his purges, marginalising and defunding dissenting voices, and ultimately absorbing the remn
  
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• International Call for Curator/Curatorial Team for Valletta 2018 Multi-Site Exhibition Project

  30-03-2016 16:22
  The Valletta 2018 Foundation is launching an international call for the engagement of a curator or a curatorial team for a high-profile multi-site exhibition and cultural project within Valletta and around Malta and Gozo. The working title of this multi-site exhibition and cultural project shall be ‘The Sea – Our Neighbour”. The project shall be one of the keystones of the Valletta 2018 Cultural Programme and will be the opening exhibition of Valletta’s European Capi
  
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• East Londoners to help artist Aaron Angell build capital’s first public gas-fired kiln

  30-03-2016 15:02
  
  More than 20 young adults in east London will help build and operate the city’s first publicly accessible gas-fired kiln as part of a new project called Town Gas. The London-based ceramicist Aaron Angell, who will develop the scheme over the next two years, says that the move will “open up a whole new world of creative possibilities, both for young people in east London and existing artists in the area”.
  The project is backed by the non-profit art agency Create, which develops
  
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• Morning Links: David Lynch for Bernie Sanders Edition

  30-03-2016 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Historic Chinese water village rivals Beijing and Shanghai as new art destination

  30-03-2016 13:19
  
  Many top figures of the art world travelled to Wuzhen, one of China’s historic water villages, straight after Art Basel in Hong Kong, which closed on the weekend. Among those at the launch of the inaugural Art Wuzhen earlier this week were the Swiss collector of contemporary Chinese art, Uli Sigg, and Hou Hanru, the director of Rome’s MaXXi, both of whom are members of the ambitious event’s advisory board, as well as the artists Sui Jianguo, Song Dong, Xu Bing, Ann Hamilton an
  
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• Curator, 1860-1960

  30-03-2016 13:00
  Following the retirement of one of our curators, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the largest museum for modern and contemporary art and design in the Netherlands, is looking for aCurator (m/f)1860-1960full-time, 36 hours/week This position has a particular focus on Dutch and international visual art between 1860 and 1960. In close collaboration with the director, the chief curator, and the head of collections, the curator will develop a vision relating to the acquisition, policy and di
  
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• Curator, Contemporary Art

  30-03-2016 12:50
  For more than a century, the Stedelijk Museum has presented world class artists at an early stage of their career. The museum encouraged artists to think ambitiously, work in unusual formats and produce new artworks. To support and develop this mandate, the museum is looking for aCurator (m/f)Contemporary Artfull-time, 36 hours a weekThe post specifically focuses on developing and managing new productions in the field of New Media and Live Arts, which includes digital media, performance, dance,
  
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• British artist Idris Khan wins major public art commission in the Middle East

  30-03-2016 12:42
  
  The UK artist Idris Khan has secured a high-profile commission in the Middle East, winning a competition to design a permanent public monument for the new Memorial Park in Abu Dhabi.
  Khan’s design—a series of large-scale metal panels, each propped up against the next—was sel ected by the government of Abu Dhabi. The monument will be placed near the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque.
  A spokeswoman for Sean Kelly gallery, Khan’s US-based dealer, says: “Idris’s sculptur
  
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• UK places export bar on £15m Veronese drawing

  30-03-2016 11:44
  
  A Veronese drawing has fetched £15.4m, making it one of the most expensive works on paper ever sold. On 29 March a UK export licence was deferred, to allow a UK buyer to match the price. The preparatory drawing of Venice Triumphant (around 1581) was an experimental composition for the Apotheosis paintings in the ceiling of the Sala del Maggior Consiglio, the grandest state room in the Doge’s Palace. Veronese drew it on varnished paper, probably so that he could trace the architectur
  
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• Sea of Hull: Spencer Tunick invites people of Hull to strip off for City of Culture nude art installation

  30-03-2016 10:10
  
  The event will take place on Saturday 9 July so no nudity in the midst of Storm Katie is required
  
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• Artists putt the world to rights—with crazy golf

  30-03-2016 09:46
  
  Crazy golf gets an arty twist with the launch of Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf at the New Art Exchange space in Nottingham this week (1 April-19 June). Ten artists—including Yinka Shonibare, John Akomfrah and Lindsay Seers—use the popular leisure activity usually associated with time-warped British seaside resorts as a launchpad for a series of topical, even controversial, issues. “From migration to global warming and globalisation, each hole is a glimpse into a new
  
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• Hull citizens invited to undress for nude City of Culture artwork

  30-03-2016 08:29
  
  US photographer Spencer Tunick’s installation Sea of Hull will use body make-up to ‘celebrate city’s seafaring history’People in Hull are being asked to take part in a mass naked art event as the city continues to prepare to be the UK City of Culture.
  The city is to be the latest to host a one-off installation by the American photographer Spencer Tunick, who is known for his images of masses of naked people taken at locations all over the world. Continue reading...
  
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• Untitled( she had a secret when people were allowed to have one)

  30-03-2016 02:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ego death, jacob said.i wasn’t sure what i had said for him to say it.that sounds unpleasant, i said.it was, jacob said. it was very painful.was it for a long time, i said.well, jacob said.it came to a head, i said.yeah, jacob said.jacob likes to stick his tongue out playfully when we talk.jacob had an ego death. i’ve heard of a social death but not an ego death. i had a time when i was jacob’s age in my early twenties when i was disconnected from what was real. i cycled to chu
  
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