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• Keltie Ferris at Klemm’s, Berlin

  11-04-2016 23:47 via artnews.com
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• Allen Jones: ‘I Find That Life, as We Go On, Seems to Be an Affirmation of My Paintings’

  11-04-2016 23:19 via artnews.com
  In an Interview Magazine piece published online last Friday, the controversial 78-year-old British artist Allen Jones engages in a career-spanning conversation with Emily McDermott to coincide with his current retrospective exhibition at Michael Werner in New York, his first show in … Read More
  
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• Rhizome’s 2016 Seven on Seven Lineup Includes Hito Steyerl, Trisha Baga, Miranda July

  11-04-2016 23:08 via artnews.com
  Rhizome, the New York–based digital arts nonprofit that is affiliated with the New Museum, today announced the lineup for its annual Seven on Seven conference, which brings together seven artists with seven tech people for one-on-one collaborations.This year’s conference, scheduled for … Read More
  
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• Theaster Gates wins Germany’s Kurt Schwitters Prize

  11-04-2016 23:00
  
  The Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates has won the 2017 Kurt Schwitters Prize, which will culminate in his first solo museum show in Germany. The international jury for the award said they chose Gates for his “urban projects” in places like Chicago and Kassel and his ability to “activate socio-political energies that can alter entire neighbourhoods”.Gates has yet to start work on the exhibition, due to open at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover in late 2017, but visitors c
  
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• Performa teams up with contemporary African art fair in New York

  11-04-2016 23:00
  
  Performa, New York’s performing art biennial, is collaborating with 1:54 contemporary African art fair in Brooklyn next month. Organised by Adrienne Edwards, the curator at Performa and curator-at-large at the Walker Art Center, a new section of the fair dedicated to performance will feature two live works, one by the Jamaican-born artist Dave McKenzie. The other performance is due to be announced at the end of April.
  McKenzie’s performance, This ship would set sail, even anchored a
  
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• Fifty editions on, can Art Cologne regain top billing?

  11-04-2016 23:00
  
  One of the most repeated statistics to demonstrate the growth of the contemporary and Modern art market is that 50 years ago there was one dedicated art fair and now there are more than 200. What is perhaps more extraordinary is that the very first fair—Art Cologne, set up in 1967—is still going, and its history comes to the fore at its 50th edition opening this week (14-17 April).The ride hasn’t always been easy, especially during the years when the other mega-fairs (and the
  
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• Emerging from the Parisian shadow, Renaissance Lyons comes into its own

  11-04-2016 23:00
  
  All French provincial cities have had to learn to live in the shadow of Paris. Some, like Marseilles, prefer to look away—to the sea; others choose to celebrate a new intimacy won by improbably fast TGVs. The city of Lyons, as Stendhal mused, seemed to lack many “great men” and, what is more, to rejoice in their rarity. And such unambitious joie de vivre marked a contrast not only with Paris, but with that city just up the Rhone, Geneva, where the likes of Rousseau and Calvin
  
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• British team to conserve Ethiopia’s oldest wall paintings

  11-04-2016 23:00
  
  A project to conserve Ethiopia’s oldest wall paintings, which experts believe date to around 1100 or soon after, is due to begin this month. They are in the church of Yemrehanna Kristos, a full-sized building constructed inside a cave in the Lasta Mountains at an altitude of 2,700m. The cave is above a valley of juniper trees and, until recently, could only be reached by a day’s journey on foot or mule fr om the town of Lalibela, in northern Ethiopia. The church’s interior is
  
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• Robert Storr to Be Named an Officer of France’s Order of Arts and Letters

  11-04-2016 22:33 via artnews.com
  The U.S. French Embassy announced today that Robert Storr, the former dean of the Yale University School of Art, will be named an officer of France’s Order of Arts and Letters. Storr had previously been a chevalier in the order, … Read More
  
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• Oscar Murillo Deported From Australia After Destroying His Passport Mid-Flight in Protest

  11-04-2016 22:18 via artnews.com
  'The West is a salivating penis,' he said in a recent panel, 'pretty much ready to penetrate the rest of the world' Read More
  
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• Swiss authorities reportedly seize Modigliani painting after Panama Papers revelation

  11-04-2016 20:15
  
  Swiss authorities say they have seized a Modigliani painting, Seated Man with a Cane (1918), after the Panama Papers revealed the ownership of the canvas last week. Prosecutors raided warehouses at the Geneva freeport on Friday as part of a criminal investigation into the painting, which is worth as much as $25m and was stolen by Nazis during the Second World War.
  The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which has been examining documents leaked from the Panamanian law
  
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• Bipartisan bill to remove hurdles for heirs seeking Holocaust-era art

  11-04-2016 19:53
  
  A bill to eliminate any legal hurdles for the heirs of Holocaust victims to claim works of art looted by the Nazis was introduced into Congress on 7 April. The legislation is sponsored by Texas Republican Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, as well as Democratic New York Senator Chuck Schumer and Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal. The bipartisan bill comes as Cruz ramps up his campaign to win the Republican candidacy for this year’s presidential election, with the last State primaries
  
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• Romania offers tax breaks on donations to buy Brâncuși sculpture

  11-04-2016 18:58
  
  Public fund is trying to raise €6m to secure piece by Constantin Brâncuși that is seen as one of country’s finest modern artworksRomania’s culture minister has said people who donate money towards the purchase of a sculpture by Constantin Brâncuși, considered one of the country’s finest modern artworks, will be given tax breaks.On Monday, Vlad Alexandrescu said accounts had been opened at six banks for a €6m (£4.8m) public donation campaign
  
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• A Stop in Wonderland: Marcel Wanders at Friedman Benda, New York

  11-04-2016 18:57 via artnews.com
  In his solo show at Friedman Benda, design virtuoso Marcel Wanders offers a creative haven in the form of what appears to be a depressive, jewel-toned counterpart to the manic, fairy-tale world of Alice in Wonderland. (In fact, Wanders designed the interior of … Read More
  
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• Mellon Foundation Funds $1.2 M. Diversity Initiative at Tang Teaching Museum

  11-04-2016 18:26 via artnews.com
  The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has helped create a three-year, $1.2 million initiative at Skidmore College’s Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery in Saratoga Springs, New York, that will augment the museum’s exploration of identity and race, as well as create new … Read More
  
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• Adam Green’s Aladdin is granted 3D printed wishes

  11-04-2016 18:14
  
  The now ubiquitous 3D printer is the new magic oil lamp—at least it is in the artist Adam Green’s 90-minute film interpretation of the Middle Easter tale of Aladdin, to be shown nightly at the Hole gallery in New York until 14 April. Green plays the title character, here a “struggling recording artist” sometime in the near future, with a cast that includes the actress Natasha Lyonne as Aladdin’s mother, the artist Francesco Clemente as the genie and the childhood s
  
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• A brush with Picasso: rare portraits to be displayed in London

  11-04-2016 18:04
  
  National Portrait Gallery exhibition will feature more than 75 portraits, some of which have never been seen in the UKIn one portrait a young Pablo Picasso paints himself as a well-dressed teenager in the 19th-century realist tradition; in another, aged 90, he has a cartoonish skull looking like a boulder about to topple from the mountain.“It is a remarkable work, looking in the mirror and looking death in the face,” said art historian Elizabeth Cowling of Self Portrait 1972, which w
  
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• Paying More Than Lip Service: Artists, Curators Restage an Andrea Fraser and Helmut Draxler Deep Cut in Los Angeles

  11-04-2016 18:02 via artnews.com
  Frances Stark, A. L. Steiner, Martine Syms, and others convene to consider the many jobs that artists are asked to do Read More
  
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• Everything is possible – five things we learned at the Apichatpong Weerasethakul all-nighter

  11-04-2016 17:47
  
  A retrospective celebrating the Thai director at Tate Modern, London, opened with a 14-hour screening of his films. It revealed him as a tireless creator like no otherA few years ago, a career retrospective of Louise Bourgeois displayed her enormous statues of spiders alongside smaller artefacts such as her woven figures. Her parents were weavers by trade and the spider is a weaver of webs: the whole exhibition uncovered fascinating connections in her work but also showed her constantly busying
  
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• Warhol soup can screen prints stolen from Missouri museum

  11-04-2016 17:38
  Last week, a number of colour screen prints from Andy Warhol's Campbell’s Soup Can series were stolen from the Springfield Art Museum in Missouri. Local police are now investigating the burglary and the museum has closed its exhibition The Electric Garden of Our Minds: British/American Pop, which was due to run until 17 April.
  In a press statement released on the museum’s website, the public affairs officer for the city’s police department declined to disclose the number of pr
  
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• Artist opens subversive supermarket in Shanghai

  11-04-2016 15:32
  
  The Chinese artist Xu Zhen has taken his Xu Zhen Supermarket project to the streets of Shanghai—to the bewilderment of many a Chinese granny. The conceptual art supermarket, which has “Fill the void” as its sales slogan, is a spot-on recreation of China’s ubiquitous mini-marts, peddling soft drinks and booze, junk food, cigarettes, condoms, and other familiar products. All of the branded packages have been emptied of their products, however. On Friday, 8 April, the store
  
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• Glasgow rules the waves

  11-04-2016 15:11
  
  From skateboarding clams and swimsuit performance art to QE3’s maiden voyage, Sarah McCrory’s Glasgow International 2016 festival programme is awash with freewheeling energy, but some big shows sink under their own weightIt was close to midnight when the 10-year-old boy on the mini-bike burned rubber and roared down the street next to Glasgow School of Art. His ride was part of Mega Hammer, a night of performances orchestrated by Marvin Gaye Chetwynd at the opening of Glasgow Interna
  
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• Glasgow International rules the waves

  11-04-2016 15:11
  
  From skateboarding clams and swimsuit performance art to QE3’s maiden voyage, Sarah McCrory’s 2016 festival programme is awash with freewheeling energy, but some shows sink under their own weightIt was close to midnight when the 10-year-old boy on the mini-bike burned rubber and roared down the street next to Glasgow School of Art. His ride was part of Mega Hammer, a night of performances orchestrated by Marvin Gaye Chetwynd at the opening of Glasgow International festival. Chetwynd
  
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• Morning Links: Campbell’s Soup Edition

  11-04-2016 14:54 via artnews.com
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• Singapore branch of Pinacothèque de Paris shuts too

  11-04-2016 13:55
  
  The Asian branch of the now closed Pinacothèque de Paris is also shutting its doors, a year after it opened in Singapore’s historic Fort Canning Arts Centre. Founded by Marc Restellini, the Modigliani scholar and entrepreneur ran the for-profit Pinacothèque Singapore de Paris through his company Art Heritage Singapore.
   
  The museum, which closes today, 11 April, presented high-profile temporary exhibitions, displayed works drawn from private collections and focused on l
  
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• Huge Kanye West kissing Kanye West mural painted over by creator for a reported $100,000

  11-04-2016 13:48
  
  It remains unknown who paid for the one-off lifesize print
  
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• Truth is stranger than fiction? New book adds bizarre twist in tale of Prince of Liechtenstein’s Cranach

  11-04-2016 12:18
  
  “In among the paintings, we’ll slip in a Titian, a Cranach or a Hals. Never a copy, always a version that differs just slightly from the original work…. A mix of various museum pieces”.No, this is not the confession of a real-life forger, it’s a quote from a fictional  character in a French-language novel. Faussaire was published last June by the Parisian publishing house L’âge d’homme and tells the story of a supposed master forger called G
  
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• Kanye West mural destroyed by its creator

  11-04-2016 10:58
  
  Scott Marsh, the artist behind Sydney’s huge Kanye Loves Kanye mural painted over his work for a reported $100,000A huge mural of Kanye West locked in a passionate embrace with Kanye West has been destroyed by its creator. Australian artist Scott Marsh painted over the six-metre-tall depiction of the rapper, having reportedly sold the piece for $100,000 (£53,000). Located in Chippendale, a creative district in Sydney, the image is a re-creation of a photo of Kim Kardashian and Kanye
  
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• Seeing Ourselves: from Boccaccio to the age of the selfie

  11-04-2016 09:00
  
  Frances Borzello’s study of women and their self-portraits is a cornucopia of the weird, the chilling and the sublimeSome books are so beautiful, you tremble to open them. Thames & Hudson’s new edition of Frances Borzello’s Seeing Ourselves: Women’s Self-Portraits (£24.95) is one of these, its ivory pages so crammed with fantastic reproductions, you might want to think about investing in a pair of white cotton gloves before you read it.And it
  
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• One man's trash: the filtered flotsam of artist Stuart Haygarth – in pictures

  11-04-2016 08:00
  
  Stuart Haygarth walked from Kent to Land’s End, picking up the trash he found on beaches – and arranged it into collections that show us how weird the ordinary objects in our lives can be Continue reading...
  
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• Cleaning of sculpture on London's Wellington Arch reveals intricate details

  11-04-2016 07:01
  
  Bronze statue of Peace by Adrian Jones was commissioned by Edward VII to replace an equestrian statue of the Duke of WellingtonHigh above the roaring traffic of London’s Hyde Park Corner, conservators are delicately cleaning and waxing intricate details usually visible only to pigeons of one of the most spectacular pieces of public art in the capital. “The quality is ridiculously good, far better than it needed to be”, historian Steven Brindle says. “Poor Jones knew this
  
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