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• Long Museum founders to open third space in just four years

  26-04-2016 23:00
  
  The Chinese collectors Wang Wei and Liu Yiqian are building museums almost as quickly as they are breaking auction records. The billionaire couple will open their third museum in four years, in the south-western metropolis Chongqing, on 26 May. The Long Museum Chongqing is the institution’s first branch outside Shanghai.
  An independent municipality of around 30 million people surrounded by Sichuan Province, Chongqing is one of the world’s largest cities, but few outside China have e
  
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• ‘Void + Collapse’ at 55-59 Chrystie, New York

  26-04-2016 22:58 via artnews.com
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• Prix Canson for Works on Paper Names 2016 Finalists

  26-04-2016 22:08 via artnews.com
  The Prix Canson has revealed the finalists for its 2016 edition. Given out annually by the Fonds Canson pour l’Art et le Papier, the prize recognizes an artist who makes works on paper and has contributed to his or her … Read More
  
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• Cevdet Erek Will Represent Turkey at the 2017 Venice Biennale

  26-04-2016 19:10 via artnews.com
  The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Art (İKSV) announced earlier today that artist, musician, and academic Cevdet Erek will represent Turkey at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Erek’s work builds on his interest in architecture and sound design through the creation … Read More
  
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• Anish Kapoor says addition to artwork was 'foisted' on him by Boris Johnson

  26-04-2016 18:16
  
  Mayor of London insisted on Carsten Höller slide being built around Kapoor’s Olympic Park sculpture to make it more profitable, artist saysArtist Anish Kapoor has revealed that a project in which the world’s longest slide will be built around his Olympic Park sculpture was “foisted” upon him by Boris Johnson, mayor of London, to make the artwork more profitable.From June, Kapoor’s 114-metre-high (374 ft) structure – which was erected in 2012 on the Stratf
  
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• All that glitters: V&A to show rare relics of England's finest embroidery

  26-04-2016 18:00
  
  Exhibition will showcase the dazzling skill of English needle-workers, who stitched gold, silver and pearls into pieces coveted by kings and popesA golden lion on red silk once thrown over a king’s horse, a pair of gold and silk slippers peeled from the mummified feet of a bishop when his tomb was opened after 600 years and a lute being played by an angel on horseback are being gathered together at the V&A museum – precious survivors of an art form in which England once led the w
  
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• Wolfgang Tillmans Designs Posters to Protest Brexit

  26-04-2016 17:43 via artnews.com
  Wolfgang Tillmans, the German photographer, released a series of posters today that protest the United Kingdom leaving the European Union. In the posters, which have images of flags and landscapes printed on them, Tillmans urges U.K. citizens to vote and … Read More
  
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• Wolfgang Tillmans Designs Posters Opposing Brexit

  26-04-2016 17:43 via artnews.com
  Wolfgang Tillmans, the German photographer, released a series of posters today that oppose the United Kingdom leaving the European Union. In the posters, which have images of flags and landscapes printed on them, Tillmans urges U.K. citizens to vote and consider … Read More
  
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• Frieze art fair enlists Hollywood agency in push to meet mass market demands

  26-04-2016 17:34
  
  A recent deal with WME-IMG talent agency signals a potential move away from the gallery system as investors look to scale up the still minuscule art marketThe tent is up and the dealers are in town. And Frieze, the annual contemporary art show, is preparing to unleash a live donkey, a professional pickpocket and live snails on an art-hungry New York public. It’s also bringing, as a contemporary art show should, the scent of something new.Ahead of the 5-8 May show on Randall’s Island
  
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• Minneapolis Institute of Art Names Ghenete Zelleke Head of Decorative Arts and Sculpture Department

  26-04-2016 17:25 via artnews.com
  The Minneapolis Institute of Art has announced the appointment of Ghenete Zelleke as the new James Ford Bell curator of decorative arts and sculpture and head of the department of decorative arts, textiles, and sculpture, effective this August. Zelleke will … Read More
  
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• Prunella Clough: Unknown Countries, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, review: 'A shining example to other female artists'

  26-04-2016 17:13
  
  Revered by artists such as David Hockney, British painter Prunella Clough's work is on display at a wonderful exhibition
  
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• ‘You Make Publics Around The Ideas’: Martine Syms on Publishing, Self-Help, Zine Culture, and More

  26-04-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  Martine Syms is the rare artist who thinks of holding more than one job as an aspiration rather than simply a necessity. The self-proclaimed conceptual entrepreneur is just as recognized these days for her achievements in publishing as she is for creating work … Read More
  
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• These anti-Brexit posters show just what we lose by leaving the EU

  26-04-2016 15:11
  
  Artist Wolfgang Tillmans turns activist with passionate posters about why Britain should stay in Europe. Is he going too far – or not far enough?The artist Wolfgang Tillmans has said what I feel: “What is lost is lost forever,” he warns over a blue and violet image of the Earth from above, apparently one of the photographer’s pictures taken through the window of a passenger jet – an image of boundless space, longing and desire. Related: How the world caught up with
  
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• Morning Links: Andrew Bolton Edition

  26-04-2016 14:45 via artnews.com
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• Borodin Quartet, Wigmore Hall, concert review: 'Passionately compelling'

  26-04-2016 12:42
  
  The Borodin Quartet prove their unwavering high standards with a performance of Shostakovich
  
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• Alberto Giacometti / Yves Klein review – one master, one mad genius

  26-04-2016 12:04
  
  Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London
  Giacometti’s expressive sculpture captures the modern condition, but in this provocative pairing, it’s Klein’s fiery alchemy that takes your breath awayI’ve seen enough of Alberto Giacometti’s art for a while. That is a shame, because there is a lot of it about – and more coming. The Swiss sculptor who gave visual form to Parisian existentialism after the second world war has a big exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual A
  
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• Artists turn Montana ranch into vast open-air sculpture and music centre

  26-04-2016 10:00
  
  A new sculpture park opens to the public on 17 June on an 11,000-acre ranch in the Beartooth Mountains outside of Fishtail, Montana.Seven works, some of them site-specific by Mark di Suvero, Patrick Dougherty, Stephen Talasnik and Ensamble Studio have been installed in the rugged canyons and mountain landscape. Another two will be in place in time for the opening, with more planned in coming years.
  The works in situ include Di Suvero’s Beethoven’s Quartet, 2003, a steel sculpture th
  
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