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• Lisson and Gagosian test Tehran's waters

  25-04-2016 23:00
  
  Following the lifting of economic sanctions in Iran in January, Lisson Gallery and Gagosian Gallery have taken steps into Tehran by lending works by two of their artists to an exhibition at a local gallery.
  
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• Five to see during Berlin Gallery Weekend

  25-04-2016 23:00
  
  Berlin’s Gallery Weekend has been going strong for 12 years. The city-wide event offers one of the most successful antidotes to endless art fair aisles. Of the 54 exhibitions opening this weekend, several will present artists’ responses to the fast-paced, image-saturated world in which we live: from traditional analogue photography, and the medium’s role in institutional critique and feminist discourse, to the explosion of images of post-internet art.
  Wolfgang Tillmans at Gale
  
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• Exhibitions mark 30th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster

  25-04-2016 23:00
  
  Today (26 April) marks the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine. The German photographer Gerd Ludwig has visited the abandoned site and its surrounding area nine times over the past 20 years to document the lives of survivors, the deserted town of Pripyat nearby, and to venture inside the abandoned nuclear reactor. More than 100 photographs from his project “The Long Shadow of Chernobyl”, published last year as a book, will go on show in Prague at the Galeri
  
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• 'All those things that sculpture is not supposed to be'

  25-04-2016 23:00
  A new film by Maurice Begleiter looks at the life and work of the American post-Minimalist sculptor Eva Hesse.
  
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• Oliver Clegg at Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas

  25-04-2016 22:41 via artnews.com
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• Purple Rain Room

  25-04-2016 21:21
  
  For all those weekend art lovers out there, Lacma and the artist collective Random International made a fitting tribute to the late recording artist Prince by turning their popular Rain Room installation a fetching shade of violet. Fans of His Highness shared snaps of themselves on Instagram underneath the Purple Rain. The singer died suddenly on Thursday 21 April, aged 57. Random International tweeted Lacma with a request to change the lighting in their installation and the museum agreed to do
  
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• Cecilia Alemani Will Curate Italy’s Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale

  25-04-2016 20:56 via artnews.com
  Cecilia Alemani, the Donald R. Mullen, Jr. director and chief curator of High Line Art, has been tapped to curate the Italian Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale. The Italian publication Artribune, which first reported the news, notes that Alemani … Read More
  
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• Pablo Bronstein review – no disco dads allowed in Tate's time-bending show

  25-04-2016 19:05
  
  Tate Britain, London
  Past and present shimmy around one another like three graces at a voguing contest in this stately dance work, casting new light on an old buildingPablo Bronstein has turned Tate Britain’s Duveen galleries into a stage, a promenade, a piazza. Three dancers move, stop and move again through the length of the long hall. They dance and pose, flutter their hands, come together and part, echoing one another in stately turns. Pina Bausch it isn’t, though I longed for an
  
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• Pablo Bronstein review – no disco dads allowed in Tate's time-bender

  25-04-2016 19:05
  
  Tate Britain, London
  Past and present shimmy around one another like three graces at a voguing contest in this stately dance work, casting new light on an old buildingPablo Bronstein has turned Tate Britain’s Duveen galleries into a stage, a promenade, a piazza. Three dancers move, stop and move again through the length of the long hall. They dance and pose, flutter their hands, come together and part, echoing one another in stately turns. Pina Bausch it isn’t, though I longed for an
  
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• Angela Y. Davis to Be Honored at the Brooklyn Museum’s Sackler Center First Awards

  25-04-2016 17:53 via artnews.com
  The Brooklyn Museum announced today that scholar and activist Angela Y. Davis will be this year’s honoree at its ceremony and dinner for the Sackler Center First Awards. Given out annually, the awards recognize women who have made significant contributions … Read More
  
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• Nothing to see here: the artist giving gallery staff a month off work

  25-04-2016 17:23
  
  German artist Maria Eichhorn has closed a London gallery and sent all its staff home – an empty gesture or a profound critique of our working lives?The show opened and then it closed. Or closed and then opened. At 6pm on 23 April, following a day-long crowded symposium in the otherwise empty Chisenhale Gallery in London, the doors and gates were locked, and a sign affixed to the railings. And that was it. Or rather, not it at all.Related: Paris hosts new exhibition of nothing I can think o
  
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• Stop this Disneyfication of our coastline | Patrick Barkham

  25-04-2016 16:59
  
  Our coast is seen as contemporary common land, the last wild place. ‘Selling’ it with something as attention-seeking as Tintagel’s ‘Arthur’ sculpture shuts down the imaginationSculpture by the seaside can always be expected to divide opinion, but English Heritage is inviting charges of Disneyfication by plonking a bronze vision of King Arthur on to the headland at Tintagel, Cornwall.It’s already tried to placate Cornish nationalists by insisting that Rubin Eyn
  
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• 12 ways the arts can encourage climate action

  25-04-2016 15:57
  
  A panel of experts around the world share their thoughts on the most effective ways the arts can prompt climate action
  Sponsored by Connect4ClimateOur belief is that people act out of having a relationship with the environment. If that emotional connection is not there, they won’t care. Rather than relaying messages, it’s about creating experiences and creating an alternative that’s actually more rewarding. I often wonder if it’s as simple as encouraging creativity over c
  
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• The Big Fake: Behind the Scenes of Knoedler Gallery’s Downfall

  25-04-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  Domenico and Eleanore De Sole live most of the year in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Domenico is originally from Calabria, and he grew up in a military family, moving all around Italy. He got a law degree from Harvard in … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Artist-Run Super PAC Edition

  25-04-2016 14:50 via artnews.com
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• Nepal earthquake anniversary: World Monuments Fund to finance rebuilding of Char Narayan Temple

  25-04-2016 14:01
  
  Today (25 April) marks the first anniversary of the deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked Nepal, killing more than 9,000 people and toppling some of the Himalayan country’s most beloved cultural heritage sites. As the Nepalese government continues to face criticism for the slow pace of the country’s reconstruction, Nepal’s prime minister Khadga Prasad Oli announced today that the reconstruction of key heritage sites in Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur is to finally begin,
  
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• Tillmans stands up for Europe with feisty anti-Brexit posters

  25-04-2016 13:11
  
  The London-based artist Wolfgang Tillmans has launched an impassioned plea for the United Kingdom to stay in the European Union come the referendum on 23 June. In a statement posted on his website, the German-born photographer extols the virtues of the EU and urges students countrywide to register before 7 June, as they “drop off the voter register easily”. But it is his pithy comments on why the vote matters that should make people sit up and take notice. “I feel that we have
  
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• Pablo’s post-Tate spectacle: a blockbuster opera for the Rambert

  25-04-2016 12:31
  
  Argentine artist Pablo Bronstein’s new live art piece for the Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain in London will keep visitors (and the installation performers) on their toes. Historical Dances in an Antique Setting ((26 April-9 October) is a continuous performance featuring three exquisite, earnest dancers who weave their way around the neo-classical architecture. “The performance takes inspiration from the Italian concept of sprezzatura, a long-standing interest of the artist, with t
  
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• Maria Eichhorn’s new show shuts the Chisenhale Gallery for five weeks

  25-04-2016 12:00
  
  For the next five weeks anyone turning up to the Chisenhale Gallery will be met by closed shutters, locked gates and a notice stating: “For the duration of Maria Eichhorn’s exhibition, 5 weeks, 25 days, 175 hours, Chisenhale Gallery’s staff are not working. The gallery and office are closed from 24 April to 29 May 2016.”
   
  Try emailing the gallery or anyone working there and you will receive the following response: “I cannot read your email. Your email is bein
  
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• Object lessons: from Dali’s diary to a Yongzheng vase

  25-04-2016 11:00
  
  Salvador Dali, autograph notebook (1930s)R. and B.L. Dada-Surrealism Library, Sotheby’s, Paris, 26-27 April
  Est €40,000-€50,000
  As an art movement founded by poets, it should come as no surprise that Surrealism produced a rich seam of artists’ books and other publications. In collaboration with the French auction house Binoche et Giquello, Sotheby’s Paris is staging the fifth in a series of sales from a French books and manuscripts collection dedicated to the movemen
  
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• Myrna Ayad appointed new director of Art Dubai

  25-04-2016 10:00
  
  Myrna Ayad, an arts writer, editor and consultant, has been appointed the new director of Art Dubai. She replaces Antonia Carver who has been named global director of Art Jameel, the Saudi arts and culture foundation, which partnered with London’s Victoria and Albert Museum to create the Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art. Carver will continue her relationship with Art Dubai by joining the fair's advisory board.
  Over the past five years, Art Dubai has seen visitor number rise from 20,000 to 25
  
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• Jenny Saville: 'I used to be anti-beauty'

  25-04-2016 10:00
  
  Saville made her name with giant paintings of fleshy, flawed bodies. She talks about being bankrolled by Charles Saatchi, how having children is changing her art – and the joy of late-night vacuumingIt’s funny to think of Jenny Saville in her studio at 1am, music blaring, with vacuum cleaner in hand as she approaches one of her canvases and starts sucking great lines through her work. That it should be a Henry vacuum, the shamelessly anthropomorphised device, makes it even better: as
  
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• Brooklyn museum’s rehang of permanent galleries allows collection to shine

  25-04-2016 06:05
  
  Anne Pasternak, who took up the reins as the director of the Brooklyn Museum seven months ago, says she “wanted to see if a big institution could be nimble”. The museum has already re-installed the displays for three departments in its encyclopaedic collection—Egyptian, American and European art—the first rehang of permanent galleries in over a decade. “It’s very rare to have two encyclopaedic museums in one city,” Pasternak says, referring to the Metro
  
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• Untitled(he’s a gentle person, said the young man with the red blond mustache. just clumsy and unfortunate.)

  25-04-2016 03:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  i have mustard and a sausage, coffee, lemonade, a banana cream  pie, rhubarb and vanilla ice cream.  i read impressions of africa. african women compete to make the loudest belch in a dance. “little by little, the dance grew more lively and assumed a fantastic quality while the frequency and volume of the noises increased in a powerful crescendo. there was a moment of impressive climax, during which harsh deafening sounds marked the rhytm of a diabolic sarabande; the feverish bal
  
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