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• Haegue Yang at Greene Naftali, New York

  04-04-2016 23:52 via artnews.com
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• Laddie John Dill at Ace Gallery, Los Angeles

  04-04-2016 23:35 via artnews.com
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• Mark Bradford puts the US Constitution into new embassy in London

  04-04-2016 23:00
  
  The Los Angeles-based artist Mark Bradford is making a vast, site-specific work incorporating the entire text of the US Constitution for the new US embassy in London, which is due to open on the south bank of the River Thames at the end of 2016. The piece spans 32 canvases and is due to be installed in the atrium next spring. Entitled The Constitution, it has been commissioned by the US governmental body Art in Embassies (AIE).Bradford has referred to the US Constitution in previous works. His
  
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• Marina Abramovic 'dreams’ of premiering Seven Deaths film at the Royal Academy

  04-04-2016 23:00
  
  Marina Abramovic hopes to premiere her video tribute to the opera singer Maria Callas, Seven Deaths, at the Royal Academy in London in 2020. The show has not been formally announced, but the Belgrade-born performance artist told The Art Newspaper it is her “dream” to unveil the long-awaited video installation at the institution.Speaking at the launch last month of the As One performance art programme, co-organised by the Marina Abramovic Institute, at the Benaki Museum in Athens, th
  
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• Ancient Egyptian statue sold by Northampton museum to leave the country after no alternative buyers come forward

  04-04-2016 22:02
  
  Campaigners from the Save Sekhemka Action Group said the work will almost certainly disappear from public view
  
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• Exhibitionism review – little satisfaction, except for Rolling Stones fans

  04-04-2016 21:00
  
  Saatchi Gallery, London
  This accumulation of detail from the Rolling Stones’ five decades tells you much about how they market themselves, less about the bandAs is the modern way, visitors to the career-spanning official Rolling Stones exhibition – a stones’s throw from the Chelsea flat the band’s principals shared in 1962 – exit through the gift shop. And there you may see the function “the world’s greatest rock’n’roll band” serve thes
  
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• SJ Watson: art, identity and the world's most famous amnesiac

  04-04-2016 19:49
  
  From Memento to Before I Go to Sleep, the case of Henry Molaison holds an enduring fascination for artists. SJ Watson, whose bestselling novel explored lost memory, asks Kerry Tribe about her video installation H.M. – and what we can learn from the world’s most famous amnesiacWhat does it mean to be conscious? It’s the state of being awake, being aware, being alive. It’s that thing that human beings have that rocks don’t, even though both are composed of the same ra
  
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• 2,000 Scottish Football Fans Will Receive a Foam Multiple by David Shrigley at a Game Tomorrow

  04-04-2016 18:52 via artnews.com
  Tomorrow, 2,000 lucky fans of Glasgow, Scotland’s Partick Thistle football club will receive a yellow foam thumb designed by artist David Shrigley to use while cheering on their beloved Jags against Dundee United. They are being given out on a first-come, first-served … Read More
  
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• Cairo art festival opens amid cultural clampdown

  04-04-2016 18:30
  
  The cultural crackdown in Cairo seems to be on pause this April. After escalating censorship in the city in the past months, the Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF, until 22 April) has opened with little interference from state authorities. Although the festival’s director, Ahmed El Attar, says that the festival has become increasingly aware of tightening restrictions since 2012, he says the regulations have not been entirely unreasonable. “The issue is the bureaucracy of pa
  
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• ‘The IMDB of Surf Clubs’: Paul Slocum on His Internet Artist Club Catalogue for Rhizome

  04-04-2016 18:26 via artnews.com
  Rising to popularity roughly around the mid-to-late 2000s and aided by developments in software and social media, Internet artist clubs (or surf clubs) acted as both think tanks and dig sites for artists interested in the culture and aesthetics of … Read More
  
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• Tuesday Nights in 1980 review – sharp rendering of a city in transition

  04-04-2016 18:19
  
  Molly Prentiss’s debut sets up shop as New York is about to clean up its act in the 80s but can her characters cash in or will they be left behind?Molly Prentiss’s spirited debut, Tuesday Nights in 1980, opens with a woman who is risking the small comforts of her life to attend clandestine political meetings in a basement in Buenos Aires. The woman, Franca, and her friends are documenting the names of the people who have “disappeared” in the years after the military junta
  
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• Mark Ruffalo, Emma Thompson, Mark Rylance and other stars urge British Museum to end BP sponsorship

  04-04-2016 18:17
  
  A starry list of actors, writers and scientists have urged the new director of the British Museum, Hartwig Fischer, to end its longstanding relationship with the energy company BP in a letter organised by the group Art Not Oil, published by the Guardian yesterday (3 April). A museum spokeswoman issueda robust response, expressing its gratitude to the company for its "loyaland on-going" support, which suggest its trustees won’t be U-turninganytime soon. The BM can call on some starry suppo
  
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• Rose Art Museum Names JJ PEET Recipient of the 2016 Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence Award

  04-04-2016 18:11 via artnews.com
  Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum announced today that JJ PEET has been named the recipient of the 2016 Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence Award.PEET’s residency will occur at various locations across the Brandeis campus, including the Rose Art Museum’s … Read More
  
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• A Statue Of George Orwell, Rejected At First For His Politics, To Grace BBC Smoking Area

  04-04-2016 17:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The BBC and the writer parted acrimoniously in 1943, when Orwell resigned after two wartime years as a talks producer in the Eastern Service, making propaganda broadcasts for India. In his resignation letter, under his real name, Eric Blair, he wrote: ‘For some time past I have been conscious that I was wasting my own time and the public money on doing work that produces no result.'”
  
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• Erwin Wurm and Brigitte Kowanz to Rep Austria at 2017 Venice Biennale

  04-04-2016 17:38 via artnews.com
  Erwin Wurm and Brigette Kowanz have been tapped to represent their home country of Austria at the 2017 Venice Biennale.The two artists will present separate projects in the shared space of the Hoffmann Pavilion, under the show title “Licht-Pavillon” (Light Pavilion).Kowanz is known … Read More
  
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• A Hong Kong Film Banned In China Wins Asia’s Top Film Award

  04-04-2016 17:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Set in 2025, it depicts political gangs and persecution of local people for speaking Cantonese not Mandarin. It comes amid increasing nervousness in Hong Kong about perceived Communist Party interference in its affairs.”
  
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• A New Trove Of Letters Reveals A Lot More About A Mysterious Poet

  04-04-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The poet Adrienne Rich’s “radical feminist beliefs had a curiously distancing effect, often thought too blunt, too simplistic. It seems hard for people to imagine that these ideas could be the result of a complex mind, a complicated experience. And like many artists, Rich was wary of those who wanted to connect her work too closely to the shape of her life. When she died, she asked that her friends and family refrain from participating in any full-length biography; many of her archiv
  
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• The Woman Who Knows How To Rebuild Syria

  04-04-2016 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I had no illusions of being the next Zaha Hadid. … Nevertheless, hope is blind, and always manages to find its way into the human heart, mine included.”
  
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• The New Jersey Orchestra’s First Woman Music Director Is About To Take The Baton

  04-04-2016 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Zhang and the orchestra will be playing a mix of Russian and American music this weekend — a program that will obviously getting a bit more scrutiny than was originally intended. ‘We programmed this two years ago — we just thought it was beautiful music. No one thought it would have this much attention at all,’ she said.”
  
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• What Dancers Do With Bad Reviews

  04-04-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Even vague critiques can lead to breakthroughs.”
  
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• No Matter How Bad The U.S. Economy Got, Museums Kept On Growing

  04-04-2016 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Museum leaders say they must expand because they want to show art forms such as performance that do not fit neatly in white-cube galleries. They also need to adapt to museums’ evolving role as community hubs—and, most importantly, they need to build to show more of their rapidly growing collections and to attract new gifts.”
  
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• ‘Absolutely Gross, Degenerate Stuff’: Trump and the Arts

  04-04-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  In the spring of 1994, an artist named Paul Rebhan walked into the Museum of Modern Art in New York and taped one of his paintings to a wall. Next to the work, he placed a card that read, “Gift … Read More
  
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• Azerbaijani Author Accused Of ‘Hooliganism’ And Prevented From Traveling To Literary Festival

  04-04-2016 15:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Stone Dreams, which told of the massacres of Armenians by Azeris, provoked widespread protests in Azerbaijan four years ago. Aylisli’s books were burned, his title of ‘People’s Writer’ revoked, and a reward was offered to anyone who cut off his ear.”
  
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• Gregor Schneider succeeds Tony Cragg as professor of sculpture at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

  04-04-2016 15:09
  
  The German artist Gregor Schneider, who is known for his unsettling installations, has been appointed professor of sculpture at the prestigious Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He assumes the role this summer, replacing the British sculptor Tony Cragg who was in post from 2006 to 2014.The Kunstakademie says in a statement: “His built spaces and projects have attracted much attention and provoked controversy, such as his Haus u r—for which he received the Golden Lion at the Venice Bien
  
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• When Should A Great Artist Retire?

  04-04-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This delicate question hovers over the Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Verdi’s ‘Simon Boccanegra,’ conducted by James Levine and starring Plácido Domingo in the title role.”
  
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• Judi Dench Walks Away With An Olivier Theatre Award Record

  04-04-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “No-one has won as many Oliviers for acting since the awards began 40 years ago.As she collected her award she joked that she was ‘livid’ because she had lost a bet with her grandson.”
  
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• George Orwell statue to welcome staff, visitors and smokers at BBC HQ

  04-04-2016 15:00
  
  Broadcaster to commemorate former employee after initially rejecting plan, reputedly because he was too leftwing A gaunt figure, cigarette in hand, bending forward with a combative look to engage any passerby in argument, will soon take up position among the fellow smokers lurking outside the new main entrance of the BBC headquarters in London.On the wall near the new full-length bronze statue of George Orwell, being created by the sculptor Martin Jennings, his provocative declaration will be in
  
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• Just How Terrifying *Are* Our New AI Overlords, Or Servants, Or Whatever They Are?

  04-04-2016 14:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As they grow smarter and more capable, they will routinely surprise us by making our lives easier, and we’ll steadily become more reliant on them. Even as many of us continue to treat these bots as toys and novelties, they are on their way to becoming our primary gateways to all sorts of goods, services, and information, both public and personal.”
  
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• An insider's guide to Sarajevo: 'our Olympic past seems almost like a myth'

  04-04-2016 14:38
  
  In the unpretentious Bosnian capital you can brush shoulders with the stars, discover incredible street art and see amazing buildings, but there is no escaping reminders of the city’s fraught historyWhere worlds collide and synchronise
  Sarajevo was always famous for its jokes. Even during the war, black humour helped people keep their minds clear Continue reading...
  
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• Morning Links: British Petroleum Edition

  04-04-2016 14:22 via artnews.com
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• A Guy Stacked His Books All Over Manhattan To See Who Would Take Them

  04-04-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Would people ignore the stacks, bump into them, see them as pile of rubbish? He has no idea what the immediate reactions have been, because he doesn’t stick around.”
  
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• The Art Lords Of Kabul Try To Reclaim Their City

  04-04-2016 13:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Because of the poor security situation, many defensive walls have sprung up around high-profile buildings in the city, and these provide the ArtLords with their canvases.”
  
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• The Cellist Who Serves As Putin’s Best Friend – And Helpful Money Launderer

  04-04-2016 13:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A few weeks later Roldugin told a New York Times reporter that he ‘didn’t have millions’. This may have been modesty. Or it may be that he is unaware of what is being done in his name. It was certainly untrue. The documents suggest, however, Roldugin may have been playing a passive role – he did not even have personal control of the account.”
  
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• Panama Papers: Dmitry Rybolovlev used offshore company to hide art from wife, leaked documents reveal

  04-04-2016 13:03
  
  The Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev used a company registered in the British Virgin Islands to hide art from his former wife Elena during their divorce proceedings. The same company helped Rybolovlev move paintings by Picasso, Van Gogh and Rothko, among others, out of Switzerland to London to keep them out of Elena’s grasp.The revelation comes from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) which has spent the past year examining over 11 million documents leake
  
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• A Broadway Composer Bans His Works From Being Performed In North Carolina Due To Law

  04-04-2016 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Stephen Schwartz, the composer and lyricist for Wicked, Pippin, Godspell and more, has pulled his works from North Carolina because of its new discrimination law. He says, “In the 1970’s, I, along with many other writers and artists, participated in a similar action against apartheid in South Africa, and as you know, this eventually proved to be very effective.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 04.03.16

  04-04-2016 07:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Another Magazine Puts the Met Under the Microscope, Unfortunately
  The Metropolitan Museum wanted attention this spring, this year, what with the opening of the Met Breuer–and it’s sure getting it. Another magazine has had its crack at interpreting the Met’s renewed attention to contemporary… … read more
  AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2016-04-033 Reasons Why Louis C. K.’s ‘Horace and Pete’ is the Best Series of Our Time
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• Moreau’s links to Modernism explored

  04-04-2016 05:40
  
  Paintings by the late French Symbolist artist and writer Gustave Moreau are juxtaposed with the work of Modern and contemporary artists such as Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Damien Hirst and Richard Prince, in the show Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) at Nahmad Contemporary gallery in New York (until 9 April 2016). The exhibition draws its name from a book of poems by the forefather of the Symbolist movement, the French poet Charles Baudelaire. “Moreau’s and Baudelaire’s tie
  
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• Student sculptors revive the faces of cold-case victims

  04-04-2016 05:22
  
  The New York Academy of Art (NYAA) in the Tribeca neighbourhood of Manhattan relaunched a five-day forensic sculpture workshop where students produce clay model busts of cold-case murder victims by using 3-D printed, plaster replicas of their skulls. The class has proven so popular that there is talk of expanding it into a 15-week course that will be available to the school’s Masters students.
  The university first partnered with the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner last year
  
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• Le Corbusier’s freshly-restored Paris shelter to open to the public

  04-04-2016 05:02
  
  Public tours of a newly-restored Salvation Army shelter in Paris designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret start in April. The tour guides for the 11-storey building, known as the Cité de Refuge, will be the residents of the building themselves who have been trained by the Fondation Le Corbusier.
  The Cité de Refuge, which opened in 1933 and takes its forms from ocean liners, is historically significant as Le Corbusier’s first urban housing project and one of o
  
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• What Is Greatness? – Six Highlights From This Week’s ArtsJournal 04.03.16

  04-04-2016 02:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A number of stories this week tackled the meaning of greatness in art (even if they didn’t explicitly frame it that way). A changing culture requires changing definitions of greatness, but defining “great” has often been problematic.
  
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• Ksenija Sidorova: Princess of the accordion takes 'Carmen' into a whole new aria

  04-04-2016 02:09
  
  Ms Sidorova will unveil her Carmen at concerts in Bristol and Cheltenham in July
  
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• Who Won Big At The Olivier Awards?

  04-04-2016 00:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lin-Manuel Miranda, as a matter of fact – but not for Hamilton. (Full list of winners at the link.)
  
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