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• Giacometti and Klein perform unlikely duet for Gagosian

  29-04-2016 23:00
  
  An exhibition, billed as a first, which pairs Alberto Giacometti with Yves Klein, opened this week at Gagosian Gallery's space in Mayfair, London.
  The 50 works in the exhibition—equally split between the two artists—are on loan from the Fondation Alberto Giacometti, the Yves Klein Archives, the Beyeler Foundation as well as private collections.
  The exhibition's curator, Joachim Pissarro says that around “three or four” works by each artist are for sale. He adds that Albe
  
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• Sam Anderson at Rowhouse Project, Baltimore

  29-04-2016 22:45 via artnews.com
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• Artists in Guggenheim Show Release Statement Criticizing Termination of Gulf Labor Talks

  29-04-2016 22:11 via artnews.com
  Since the Guggenheim announced earlier this month that it would suspend its dialogue with the Gulf Labor Coalition, the group that is advocating for better working conditions for the laborers building the museum’s new Abu Dhabi outpost, groups have publicly criticized … Read More
  
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• Ghostly Tales: Yun-Fei Ji at Wellin Museum, Clinton, New York

  29-04-2016 20:30 via artnews.com
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• MoMA Offers Voluntary Buyouts to Employees Ahead of Upcoming Renovation

  29-04-2016 20:24 via artnews.com
  The New York Times reports that the Museum of Modern Art is offering voluntary buyouts to staff members who are 55 or older, and who have served at the museum for at least nine years as of July. Despite a … Read More
  
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• SFMOMA review: it's art history on steroids but must go beyond big names

  29-04-2016 18:50
  
  Heart of inaugural presentation is a collection that includes Warhol and Ellsworth Kelly, but in city’s battle over inequality the gallery may have picked a sidePleasant, quirky, but not exactly world class: that could have described San Francisco a few decades ago, and could describe the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, too. But as the city by the bay has grown into a hard-charging hub of tech wealth and class resentment, SFMOMA is changing too, into a much grander sort of museum. Afte
  
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• Wiretappers and Art Galleries: The Other Knoedler Trial, in 1956

  29-04-2016 18:21 via artnews.com
  Many are now familiar with the much-publicized Knoedler trial, which, as M. H. Miller wrote in a recent article published in these pages, “unearthed one of the greatest scandals the art world has ever seen and laid bare the chain … Read More
  
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• Five art spaces shortlisted for UK's premier museum prize

  29-04-2016 17:48
  
  The Art Fund’s Museum of the Year shortlist was announced today (29 April) with Bristol’s Arnolfini; the Bethlem Museum of the Mind in south London; Jupiter Artland near Edinburgh; London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and the York Art Gallery in the north of England being nominated for the £100,000 prize.
  “Each one of these five museums is outstanding—not just for the collections they display, but for the people who work there, and the visitors whose
  
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• Frieze New York preview: welcome to the island

  29-04-2016 17:00
  
  May is when the art world flocks to Manhattan’s Randall’s Island for Frieze New York. Since its 2012 debut as an outpost of the original London event, Frieze has become New York’s leading art fair, drawing around 40,000 visitors last year.This year’s fifth edition marks the first New York iteration without the founding directors Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp at the helm. It will be led in their place by Victoria Siddall, who has worked closely with the two since 2004
  
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• Naked contortions, empty exhibitions and Lego's mistake – the week in art

  29-04-2016 16:15
  
  Polly Penrose poses awkwardly for women everywhere, as Mona Hatoum arrives at Tate and Maria Eichhorn closes the Chisenhale – all in your weekly art dispatchMona Hatoum
  A welcome retrospective for this artist who makes the personal uncomfortably political and the familiar very strange indeed.
  • Tate Britain, London, 4 May until 21 August. Continue reading...
  
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• Montblanc steps up its art patronage

  29-04-2016 16:02
  
  Montblanc, the German luxury brand best known for its pens and watches, has appointed the independent curators Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath as the co-chairmen of its cultural foundation. At the celebration of the foundation's 25th anniversary on 26 April in Venice, the company's chief executive Jérôme Lambert announced that the Lebanese-German double act will bring "new energy" to Montblanc's corporate art collection during their three-year term.
   
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• Morning Links: Global Ultra Luxury Faction Edition

  29-04-2016 14:59 via artnews.com
  ULTRA LUXURY“Last night, members of the artist-activist groups Global Ultra Luxury Faction and the Illuminator projected phrases on the façade of the Guggenheim museum to protest the Guggenheim trustees’s decision to break off negotiations with the Gulf Labor Coalition.” [Hyperallergic]Collectors … Read More
  
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• Anatomy of an artwork: The Butterbur Leaf

  29-04-2016 14:33
  
  Dissecting the 2016 work by Japanese painter Yoshitomo NaraA young girl sketched in basic, picture-book style stands upon a leaf, holding a pair of batons. The initial sweetness of the figure – who might otherwise fulfil all the requirements of kawaii, the Japanese notion of cuteness – is tempered by the anger that flashes across her face. Continue reading...
  
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• Emporiums of inspiration: the Museum of the Year 2016 shortlist

  29-04-2016 13:00
  
  From a Scottish country estate to a psychiatric hospital, the Museum of the Year shortlist is announced this week. Tracy Chevalier, Grayson Perry, Norman Foster, Antony Gormley and John Akomfrah champion their favouritesI was writer in residence at the gallery in 2008 and so knew it in its old incarnation as well as its new, following the superb renovation last year. It remains a very democratic experience. York Art Gallery has always been welcoming, with lots of places to sit and ways to intera
  
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• Vince Tutton obituary

  29-04-2016 12:50
  
  My friend Vince Tutton, who has died 72, was a prolific artist and inspiring teacher.He was born into a Welsh mining community in the Rhondda valley town of Ferndale, son of Ernest, a coal miner, and Edna, a cook in a local hospital. Vince’s early work reflected the harsh lives of the miners and the landscape in which they lived. Continue reading...
  
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• Twice the size and seven storeys high: the new San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is ready for lift off

  29-04-2016 10:44
  
  Few museum expansions in recent memory have been as anticipated as that of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA). The city's major Modern art museum is due to reopen on 14 May having doubled in size, tripled its gallery space and added 3,000 gifts to the collection, 530 of which are on show across 18 inaugural exhibitions. By many measures, the museum is now the largest space dedicated to Modern and contemporary art in the US.
  The $305m extension, which has been designed by the Norweg
  
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• With Its New Building, SFMOMA Cements a Place on the World Stage

  29-04-2016 04:38 via artnews.com
  Pop open the champagne and ignite the fireworks! The staff of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art deserves to celebrate. Their $305 million expansion and renovation project, designed by the Norwegian firm Norwegian firm Snøhetta, is a triumph. They have completed … Read More
  
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• Bethlem Museum of the Mind on shortlist for museum of year award

  29-04-2016 01:01
  
  Museum in grounds of mental hospital up against V&A, Arnolfini, York Art Gallery and Jupiter Artland sculpture park and galleryOne of the newest and most unusual museums in the UK, Museum of the Mind, which opened only last year at Bethlem, one of the oldest mental hospitals in the world, has made the shortlist for the 2016 Museum of the Year award.The small museum in the handsomely converted former administrative building within the hospital grounds in Bromley, greater London, showcases bot
  
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• Another first for Pharrell at Dallas festival

  29-04-2016 00:44
  
  Pharrell Williams can put yet another feather in his cap (or, more often, fedora) as a composer for live dance and theatre with his score for The Rules of the Game, a performance piece for eight dancers with choreography by Jonah Bokaer and set design by the artist Daniel Arsham.
  The performance, which takes its name and cues from the eponymous Absurdist play by Luigi Pirandello (1918), will premiere as the opening event for the Soluna international music and arts festival in Dallas, Texas, on
  
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