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• Amazon Has Become A Media Giant (And With Video, That’s Only The Start)

  31-03-2016 23:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What seemingly started as a way to get people to sign up for two-day shipping has turned into a major force in the world of entertainment. Prime Video may have started as a perk to draw in more Prime members. Now, it’s just as easy to believe that Prime Video may be its own draw, and two-day shipping a nice perk. For $99 a year—cheaper than a year of Netflix, which doesn’t ship anything other than DVDs.”
  
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• Former managing director of the Centre Pompidou pleads guilty to misuse of public funds

  31-03-2016 23:13
  
  Agnès Saal, the former managing director of the Centre Pompidou and the former director of France’s Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA, National Audiovisual Insitute), will plead guilty to charges of misuse of public funds during her time at the two institutions, the AFP reports.
  Saal became a symbol for high-level civil servants abusing the system after Le Figaro reported, in April 2015, that she had spent €40,000 on taxis in a period of ten months (including &euro
  
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• 'Zaha Hadid leaves a formidable legacy'

  31-03-2016 23:00
  
  I first met Zaha Hadid in the most inauspicious circumstances, when I was on “the client side” of the Cardiff Bay Opera House debacle in the mid 1990s. She was treated badly in that process and Nicholas Edwards, the chairman of the Cardiff Bay Opera House Trust who was the former Secretary of State for Wales, wrote the book Opera House Lottery (1997) as an attempt to set the record straight. Somehow our relationship survived the circumstances and at one of a number of commiserative
  
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• Yoko Ono: Serious Play

  31-03-2016 23:00
  Yoko Ono, who turned 83 in February, has made her presence felt for more than 50 years in a variety of incarnations—artist, musician, singer, anti-fracking activist and tabloid newspaper staple in the guise of John Lennon’s eccentric widow. However, her conceptual innovations in music, sculpture, photography and film, which fuelled the New York avant-garde in the 1960s, arguably prefigure the work of numerous contemporary artists.
  Ono seems more prolific than ever, with her practice
  
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• Xu Bing is watching you

  31-03-2016 23:00
  
  The Chinese artist Xu Bing has made his first film, a 90-minute feature entitled The Dragonfly Eyes, pieced together from real footage taken from Chinese surveillance cameras. “It’s a reversal, filming before screenwriting,” the artist told The Art Newspaper China. “Based on the collected materials, we made up a plot, then we searched for more materials to match the plot.” The resulting story is based on the real case of a husband who sued his wife for producing ug
  
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• Will China’s art market go the way of Japan’s?

  31-03-2016 23:00
  
  This year, a new buzzword entered the Japanese dictionary—bakugai. It means a buying explosion and was coined to describe the kind of reckless spending spree embarked on by wealthy Chinese tourists in Tokyo. Since 2011, something similar has happened in Christie’s and Sotheby’s global salesrooms. Now, though, it looks increasingly likely that the $170.4m purchase of Modigliani’s Nu couché by the taxi driver-turned-billionaire businessman and art collector Liu
  
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• Why shopping malls are making space for high-end art

  31-03-2016 23:00
  
  Using art to sell luxury products, from smart hotels and real estate to handbags, is well established, but art is increasingly being used to entice visitors into shopping malls—in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Paris and even rural Oxfordshire in the UK.The most striking example is China’s K11 Art Mall, the brainchild of the young retail billionaire Adrian Cheng. This flashy mall opened in 2013 in Huaihai Lu, Shanghai’s central shopping street, and boasts a museum in the third basement,
  
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• When the Beckhams met the Wirths

  31-03-2016 23:00
  Manuela Wirth, the Swiss wife of the art dealer Iwan Wirth, keeps a low profile even though she is co-president of Hauser & Wirth—but a recent interview with Manuela in the UK magazine Gentlewoman (by The Art Newspaper's editor-at-large Cristina Ruiz) revealed some fascinating facts. 1. The artist Martin Creed is designing the interiors of Iwan and Manuela’s north London home. 2. The couple sold their Holland Park home to David and Victoria Beckham for more than £30m. 3. T
  
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• West London gallery hub to keep V&A company

  31-03-2016 23:00
  The Victoria and Albert Museum attracts millions of art lovers every year to South Kensington, in west London, but until now the area has never been a hub for art galleries. A £15m development project by John Martin, the co-founder and former fair director of Art Dubai, and Scott Murdoch, the managing partner of CWM, the property adviser and gallery specialist, aims to change that.Five large, listed buildings on Cromwell Place, located opposite the Natural History Museum and at the heart
  
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• Wear your art on your… boots

  31-03-2016 23:00
  
  Dr Martens, arguably the UK’s most enduringly popular shoes, are a favourite of art students (and lecturers) the world over—and you can now buy the art-historical version, decorated with a classic 15th-century war scene, The Triumph of Camillus, by the Italian Renaissance painter Biagio d'Antonio. The company’s classic eight-eye boots, embossed with details such as knights brandishing weaponry, cost £125 (art students may need to save up). The delectable DMs are part of
  
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• Vision, virtuosity, versatility

  31-03-2016 23:00
  
  Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World was created to be both the accompanying text for the exhibition of the same title and its long-lasting legacy. A major event for the world of ancient Greek and Roman art, this remarkable exhibition brought together more than 50 fine bronzes, most of them large-scale and many of them strikingly juxtaposed for the first time. All the works demonstrate the extraordinary vision, as well as the skills and virtuosity of the Hellenistic artist
  
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• Venice tops danger list

  31-03-2016 23:00
  
  Europa Nostra, the European heritage organisation, is warning that the lagoon of Venice is the most endangered heritage site in Europe. At an event in Venice last month, Europa Nostra and the European Investment Bank Institute appealed to European, Italian and Venetian governments as well as political and business leaders to come together and protect the site before it is too late. It also called for Venice and its lagoon to be added to Unesco’s World Heritage in Danger list.Rising sea le
  
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• Thomas Schütte to open his own museum

  31-03-2016 23:00
  The German artist Thomas Schütte asked: “What do you do with the stuff when you’re dead?” His answer: build a museum to house it. Due to open on 10 April, the 700-sq.-m sculpture hall in the grounds of the Museum Island Hombroich, near Düsseldorf, will show work by international artists as well as Schütte’s own. Although architectural models are a key part of Schütte’s output, the museum is his largest and most ambitious building to date. Its des
  
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• The rest of the past month at a glance, April 2016

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  Rijksmuseum’s director to leave for private museum
  1 March
  Wim Pijbes, the director of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, announced that he will leave his post after eight years to lead a private museum nearing completion on the Dutch coast. Pijbes oversaw the completion of the Rijksmuseum’s celebrated €375m renovation, which opened in 2013. He will start work in July at the Museum Voorlinden, which will show the collection of the industrialist Joop van Caldenborgh.
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• The Met gets a second chance to get contemporary art right

  31-03-2016 23:00
  
  Two images haunt the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s engagement with the contemporary. One of these is the famous Life magazine photograph of 15 New York School artists—the so-called “Irascibles”—who protested the museum’s conservative stance toward contemporary art by refusing to submit work for the exhibition American Painting Today, 1950. The other image is the “torpedo diagram” created by Alfred Barr, the founding director of the Museum of Modern
  
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• The media fail to cover the bulk of art market transactions

  31-03-2016 23:00
  Indeed, the headline, eight- and nine-figure sales at major auction houses seem to suck most of the media oxygen. The effect is compounded by the sheer number of press releases, newsletters and notices that land in journalists’ in-boxes on a daily basis. The ability to assess what is truly important when every forthcoming sale is marked “important” has become increasingly necessary.To this end, we have expanded our monthly pick of objects for sale, which is now a two-page sprea
  
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• The Buck Stopped Here: Delacroix’s disciples, Shrigley’s satirical sketches and more in this week’s London exhibition round-up

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  Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art, National Gallery (until 22 May)This is the first major UK show in more than 50 years of the great 19th-century French Romantic, Eugène Delacroix, described by Baudelaire as “a poet in painting.” However, this overdue exhibition is devoted as much to the many artists who claimed Delacroix as their hero as to the artist himself. Only a third of the works are by Delacroix and many of these are on a reduced scale—his epic orgiastic The
  
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• Tefaf brings welcome cheer to the market

  31-03-2016 23:00
  
  That sales were made at all at Tefaf, Maastricht (29th edition, 11-20 March), was very much to the credit of the fair, as many dealers had started the year feeling the chill of a cooler market. “There’s pressure riding on this fair,” Stephen Ongpin, the Old Master drawings dealer, said on opening day.He was one of many dealers who ended up with a handful of decent sales to report, including pieces by the Dutch artists Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1609-51) and Govert Flinck (1605-60
  
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• Tate Modern plans African-American show

  31-03-2016 23:00
  
  A major exhibition of African-American art from the 1960s and 70s is due to open at Tate Modern in 2017. The exhibition, which has not been formally announced, is likely to include work by Sam Gilliam and Joe Overstreet, among others. The show is organised by the curators Mark Godfrey and Zoe Whitley, who have been travelling to the US to visit artists’ studios and meet with gallerists. In 2015, Godfrey won an Absolut Art Award for the development of an anthology dedicated to “the b
  
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• Talking about art in Isil times

  31-03-2016 23:00
  
  “What does it mean to be talking about art when we have Daesh [Isil] and Hezbollah around us?” asked Christine Tohmé of Beirut’s Ashkal Alwan at last month’s March Meeting, posing a fundamental question not just for the art world of the Middle East.
  To a packed room, this founder of a very influential community centre that runs art seminars, workshops and scholarships in Beirut went on to say: “Here we have 20 museums, 15 foundations, collections—how d
  
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• Subhash Kapoor’s presence felt in New York

  31-03-2016 23:00
  New York’s Asia Week (10-19 March) was unfortunately dominated by a string of antiquities seizures, some linked to the dealer Subhash Kapoor. Kapoor is on trial in India for smuggling thousands of antiquities out of that country, a charge he denies. A Gandharan Bodhisattva head and two Indian sandstone sculptures were confiscated by US federal agents ahead of auction, while an Afghan sculpture was seized from a New York gallery. According to a statement released by investigators: “Wi
  
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• Star Wars site tumbles into the sea

  31-03-2016 23:00
  
  A portion of wall was swept into the sea last month at Skellig Michael, an island off the west coast of Ireland that was listed as a Unesco World Heritage site in 1996 for the remains of a Medieval monastery at its summit. The craggy outcrop was used as a filming location for last year’s blockbuster Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which has led to a surge of bookings at hotels and guesthouses on the Irish mainland at Portmagee, the departure point for tourist boats to Skellig Michael.The Of
  
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• Small galleries hit the roof over Frieze’s grey carpet

  31-03-2016 23:00
  
  The flooring of this May’s edition of Frieze New York will be covered entirely by grey carpet. However, the move has left some smaller galleries unhappy because removing it from their booths and replacing it with another material (that might better show off a floor work, for example)could reportedly cost between $3,000 and $15,000, according to some dealers. Dimitri Parisis, the owner of Dimitri Carpet in Hoboken, New Jersey (one of Frieze’s recommended booth contractors), says the
  
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• SIAL adds Asian art to master’s spread

  31-03-2016 23:00
  Undeterred by a possible dip in the market, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London (SIAL), has launched a master’s degree in Modern and contemporary Asian art to help turn out “highly employable” experts in the field. “There will be an increasing need for graduates with Asian art expertise to enter museums, public and private galleries, art fairs, auction houses and biennials,” Jos Hackforth-Jones, the director of SIAL, says. The 12-month master’s (from &pou
  
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• Shawcross creates a surprise at teatime at the Peninsula

  31-03-2016 23:00
  
  The ADA Project
  until 6 April
  The Peninsula Hotel, Salisbury Road, KowloonThe British artist Conrad Shawcross has brought his dancing robot to the lobby of the Peninsula Hotel. The ADA Project, which incorporates an industrial-strength robotic arm, will be “conducting” music by Mira Calix this week. Performances are due to take place at 3pm and 5pm on 23 March and during the evening of 24 March. At other times, the work will function in “salon mode”. Shawcross, who is in
  
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• Shanghai Museum to begin major construction project

  31-03-2016 23:00
  The Shanghai Museum is due to begin an extensive renovation and expansion at its 32,900 sq. m People’s Square location later this year. The first phase, which involves the repair of facilities, is not expected to have an impact on daily operations. After the completion of the museum’s eastern branch in the Pudong New Area—now under construction and due to open by 2020—the main branch will close for a more thorough renovation. The eastern satellite, to be located on the we
  
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• Scanner to make fast work of Giorgio Cini photo collection

  31-03-2016 23:00
  The Institute of Art History at Venice’s Fondazione Giorgio Cini is digitising its million-strong collection of photographs of art from the Veneto with the help of the world’s fastest circular scanner. The Replica 360 Recto Verso, designed by the Madrid-based firm Factum Arte, can scan a double-sided document in four seconds. The system matches the images and adds them to the existing catalogue, complete with basic metadata tags. The Ecole Polytechnique of Lausanne is using the data
  
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• Recession takes a heavy toll on Brazil’s art scene

  31-03-2016 23:00
  As Brazil sinks into its deepest recession in more than two decades, museums and cultural centres are struggling to stay afloat. Some institutions are preparing to rent out their facilities during the Olympic Games to generate much-needed cash. Others are cutting staff and putting ambitious exhibitions on hold.Brazil’s economy shrank 3.8% in 2015, the biggest drop since 1990, according to data released by the government in March. Unemployment is on the rise and the national currency has sh
  
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• Race is on to beat art forgery with DNA technology

  31-03-2016 23:00
  A British company is the latest to launch a labelling system that uses synthetic DNA to help protect works by living artists. Mark Darbyshire, the London framer, and Steve Cooke, the software developer, have created Tagsmart Certify to help combat forgeries. While issues of authenticity dog the market for older works, Cooke says the dynamics of today’s broader landscape—including online channels and emerging markets—heighten the need for immediate authenticity in contemporary a
  
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• Pushkin is crowdfunding to treat Egyptian shroud

  31-03-2016 23:00
  The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow is turning to crowdfunding to raise money to conserve a 2,000-year-old Egyptian shroud featuring a unique double portrait, of a woman and a boy, placed between images of the gods Osiris and Anubis. The piece, which was made between AD120 and AD130, is in urgent need of conservation. “We hoped that [treating] the paint layer would be enough,” says Natalya Sinitsyna, a fabric conservation specialist. “But the paint layer was applied
  
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• Plot thickens over contested Picasso bust

  31-03-2016 23:00
  The latest papers from an ongoing lawsuit over the sale of Picasso’s bust of Marie-Thérèse Walter (1931), involving the Qatari royal family, Larry Gagosian and Maya Widmaier-Picasso (Marie-Thérèse’s daughter), were filed on 11 March. They claim that Widmaier-Picasso cancelled a deal, brokered by the former Christie’s executive Guy Bennett, to sell the bust for $42m to the Qatari royal family, after receiving, in May 2015, a better offer from Larry Ga
  
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• Operation Archangel: statue airlifted for restoration

  31-03-2016 23:00
  
  After heavy winds thwarted earlier attempts, the statue of the Archangel Michael was lifted by helicopter from its perch, 156m above the abbey of Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy, on 15 March so that it could be restored. The 520kg, 4.5m-tall gilded-copper statue is by Emmanuel Frémiet, best known for his equestrian statue of Joan of Arc in Paris. Dating from 1897, it depicts St Michael, sword in hand, trampling the dragon Lucifer. The piece has undergone two previous restorations, in 1935
  
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• Old Masters to be folded into ‘Classic Week’ at Christie’s this month

  31-03-2016 23:00
  
  Christie’s decision to shift its New York Old Master sales from their habitual January slot to the spring came as a surprise when it was announced last year. Now those sales have been repackaged as part of what the firm is calling Classic Week, which will be held for the first time between 12 and 15 April. The move is yet more evidence of the auction house’s pursuit of cross- collectors and its belief in the power of so-called “curated sales” to attract new buyers t
  
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• No Moore! Columbia students protest public sculpture

  31-03-2016 23:00
  
  In 1968, students at Columbia University in New York occupied buildings on campus to protest the Vietnam War. In 1985, they convinced the school’s board of trustees to divest fr om Apartheid South Africa. Today, students are carrying on the school’s tradition of civic engagement by organising a sit-in to protest the installation of a two-tonne Henry Moore sculpture on campus. As of this writing, 200 students have confirmed their attendance on Facebook to the 31 March protest. Meanwh
  
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• New law is a factor in expansion abroad as auction house opens office in Los Angeles

  31-03-2016 23:00
  
  Ketterer Kunst has become the first leading German auction house to begin its overseas expansion since the anticipation of the country’s more stringent cultural property laws. Robert Ketterer, the owner of the auction house, says that this was not the primary reason for opening an office in Los Angeles, where, he says, there is demand to be closer to buyers and consigners in a growing art scene. However, he adds: “With the latest developments regarding the cultural property law in G
  
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• National Academy to move to ensure its ‘perpetuity’

  31-03-2016 23:00
  The National Academy Museum and School in New York, founded in 1825 by a group of artists and architects including Thomas Cole and Rembrandt Peale, will put its two Fifth Avenue Beaux-Arts mansions at 89th Street up for sale within the next month, a spokesman told The Art Newspaper. The buildings, which the academy has occupied since 1942 and partially renovated from 2010, were appraised at $107m in 2012. “The sale of our buildings [will allow] the National Academy to establish—for t
  
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• Museums beware: Irish gang that stole £50m of antiquities is still on the loose

  31-03-2016 23:00
  
  On 4 April, the sentencing will begin at Birmingham Crown Court of 14 men convicted of stealing Chinese antiquities worth more than £50m from British museums and auction houses. Many of the criminals are part of the Rathkeale Rovers, a gang named after a town near Limerick in Ireland. More than half the gang could still be at large, so security experts are warning museums to remain extra vigilant.The men were convicted in a series of four separate trials in Birmingham, which were conducte
  
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• Museums and the art trade: dangerous liaisons?

  31-03-2016 23:00
  
  The foggy world of art dealers’ historical relationships with museums is coming into sharper relief. When the National Gallery in London acquired the archive of the dealers Thomas Agnew and Sons in 2014, it marked a growing interest in exploring this history, following the Los Angeles-based Getty Research Institute’s acquisition of the Knoedler Gallery’s archive in 2012 and the Colnaghi archive’s installation at Waddesdon Manor.The National Gallery’s conference on
  
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• More gloom for tomb as further delay dogs Augustus project

  31-03-2016 23:00
  The restoration of the Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome, which has been closed to the public for 80 years, has hit another setback. The project began in 2006, with the goal of finishing in time for the 2,000th anniversary of the Roman emperor’s death in 2014. In October 2015, it was announced that work would finally start this January, with the tomb due to reopen in March 2017. However, around a quarter of the companies bidding for the contract made “anomalous” offers of more than
  
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• London vs Bradford: round two

  31-03-2016 23:00
  The furore over the Science Museum group’s decision to transfer 400,000 images from the National Media Museum (NMM) in Bradford to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum rumbles on, and there have also been grumblings about the future of Media Space, the 500 sq. m gallery that opened at the Science Museum in London in 2013. It hosts two photography exhibitions a year, featuring works drawn mainly from the NMM—but an established UK photographer, who prefers to remain anonymous, tel
  
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• Letters to the editor, April 2016

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  Capital idea should go further
  I write in reference to Antony Gormley’s plea for property developers to offer artists low-cost studio space in London (“Antony Gormley backs campaign to create affordable studios across London,” published online on 8 March). Artists do not just live in London, so why not make this a nationwide initiative? It makes far more sense; all artists who joined the scheme could pay a flat rate, and there could even be some exchange between the various stu
  
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• Koons gives Klimt the big blue ball

  31-03-2016 23:00
  
  Jeff Koons’s reworking of Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss will go on display next to the original painting in the Belvedere Museum in Vienna this summer. Entitled Gazing Ball (Klimt Kiss), Koons’s version is a near exact copy of the original, painted by his studio assistants, with a large blue glass ball attached to the front of the canvas. Speaking at a conference in Qatar last month, Koons said he was “thrilled” his 2015 work would be seen side by side with the 1907-08 o
  
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• Jewish Museum shut since fatal shootings will host Belgian art fair

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  The 2016 edition of Brussels’ Accessible Art Fair (22-25 September) will be in the city’s Jewish Museum, where four people died after a gunman opened fire in 2014. The museum closed for four months afterwards and has not been fully open to the public since. Stephanie Manasseh, the director of the artist-led fair, says that the idea to hold its tenth edition in the Jewish Museum came from the museum’s director. “Putting a business inside that realm is risky; there are lot
  
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• Italy to create museum for long-hidden ancient art collection

  31-03-2016 23:00
  The Italian culture ministry has finally reached an agreement to create a museum in Rome for what has been called “world’s most important private collection of ancient art”. The collection, which includes more than 600 Greek and Roman sculptures, has been in storage at the Torlonia family’s Roman palazzo since 1976.
  The princely family, who made a fortune in the 18th and 19th centuries as bankers to the Vatican, acquired many of the artefacts from excavations on land they
  
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• Indians and Pakistanis work together to realise Partition Museum

  31-03-2016 23:00
  The first museum dedicated to the history of Partition is racing against the clock to open before the 70th anniversary, on 15 August 2017, of the start of the largest forced migration in history. It will house works of art, films, archival material and personal effects of some of the 14 million people who fled their homes following the division of the Indian Empire, formerly under British rule, into the Hindu-majority India and the Muslim-majority Pakistan.
  “It should have been done much e
  
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• In the Trade, April 2016

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  Galleries• Gagosian Gallery is scheduled to open a 4,500 sq. ft space in San Francisco, on 657 Howard Street, directly across the street from the city’s Museum of Modern Art, on 18 May.• After more than ten years of trading, the New York-based Laurel Gitlen gallery is closing down. Among its stable were the artists Corin Hewitt, Edgardo Aragón and Emily Mae Smith.• Espasso gallery, in Tribeca, New York, which specialises in mid-century Modern and contemporary Brazilia
  
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• In Memoriam, April 2016

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  Lord Briggs of Lewes (Asa Briggs), the historian of the Victorian era and culture, educator and Bletchley Park code-breaker, died on 15 March, aged 94. Briggs was educated at Keighley Boys’ Grammar School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he took his BA in 1941 and a BSc the same year from the University of London. He was a member of the Intelligence Corps working on code breaking at Bletchley Park from 1942 to the end of the war. He was one of the original founders in 1969 of th
  
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• Iggy Pop really does get his ding-dong out

  31-03-2016 23:00
  
  Life drawing got a little livelier recently at the New York Academy of Art, when the musician Iggy Pop posed for a varied crowd of 21 people, aged 19 to 80, in an unusual art class organised by New York’s Brooklyn Museum and conceived by the UK artist Jeremy Deller. “For me, it makes perfect sense for Iggy Pop to be the subject of a life class; his body is central to an understanding of rock music and its place within American culture,” Deller says. “His body has witness
  
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• How art went back to basics

  31-03-2016 23:00
  Primary Structures was a watershed. When the show opened at the Jewish Museum in New York on 27 April 1966, it helped usher in a generation of artists who raised fundamental questions about the nature and purposes of three-dimensional art. The “younger American and British sculptors” referred to in the show’s subtitle were “impelled to test primary definitions and basic aesthetic issues”, as the curator, Kynaston McShine, wrote in his catalogue essay. They were imp
  
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• Groundbreaking exhibition celebrates the women of a famously ‘macho’ preserve

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  The unsung contribution of women to the development of Abstract Expressionism throughout the 1940s and 1950s will be explored in an exhibition opening in June at the Denver Art Museum.The show, which is believed to be the first all-female survey of the movement, aims to counter the notion that Abstract Expressionism was exclusively the domain of “macho, paint-splattered men”, says the curator Gwen Chanzit.On display are 51 paintings by 12 female artists, including Mary Abbott, Joan
  
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