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• Top shows to see during Frieze New York

  01-05-2016 23:00
  
  Cao Fei, until 31 August, MoMA PS1
  The Beijing-based artist Cao Fei aims to capture what it feels like to participate in fast-changing Chinese society. Although she has become a favourite at international biennials, Cao, aged 37, has never before had a solo show at a US museum. One highlight of her debut at MoMA PS1 is Whose Utopia? (2006), a multi-part video filmed inside a light bulb factory. The video shows automated machines assembling the bulbs and factory staff dancing and playing guitar.
  
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• Satellite dish: our pick of the top events outside the tent

  01-05-2016 23:00
  
  Satellite fair organisers are planning increasingly inventive projects to make their events stand out from the pack. Overwhelmed? Here is our pick of what to prioritise this week, from performance art in Red Hook to outdoor installations in Harlem.Watch a live performance
  This year’s edition of the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair includes a new performance by the Jamaica-born, Brooklyn-based artist Dave McKenzie. This ship would set sail, even anchored as it was (2016) takes as its poi
  
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• Original Tintin comic artwork sells for more than €1m

  01-05-2016 21:19
  
  Two pages of Hergé adventure story King Ottokar’s Sceptre auctioned in Paris, achieving higher price than expectedThe original artwork for the last two pages of the Tintin comic book King Ottokar’s Sceptre sold for a total of €1.046m (£0.82m) at auction on Saturday in Paris.“This is only the second time a Tintin plate has exceeded a million euros,” Eric Leroy, comic book expert at French auction house Artcurial, told AFP. Continue reading...
  
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• The Negro Page was an equestrian groom | Letter from Jan Marsh

  01-05-2016 21:13
  
  The painting in the Royal Collection now known as The Negro Page (Lost in Showbiz, G2, 29 April) is more interesting historically than is recognised. It is an early example of the horse portraits so popular in Britain – and also of the renowned Barbary mounts so prized by Europeans in the 17th century. The kingdom of Morocco, then stretching far south, was famed for horsemanship and the horses, together with their handlers, mainly of north-west African origin, were celebrated for what beca
  
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• Miami museum hosts two-day symposium on Cuban art

  01-05-2016 21:00
  
  A two-day symposium at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Dialogues in Cuban Art (28-29 April), brought a handful of artists from Cuba to the US, further connecting an ever more accessible country that has provided a rich cultural heritage to the city.
  The symposium came after a week of exchange that included studio visits and other cultural exploration. Most of the Cuban artists had not frequently travelled stateside, and one curator and one artist had before visited the US.The talks, all of w
  
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• Paying Too Much For Hamilton Tickets

  01-05-2016 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I missed Soho Repertory Theatre’s Blasted because stuff got in the way. I missed the original production of Ruined, and Meryl Streep in Mother Courage. I meant to go. I wanted to go. They were seminal events in the history of Western theatre. But life kept me busy. I can’t recall what kept me away. Just ordinary things. I didn’t make time for the ecstatic experience of being there. There are always a million reasons not to go and to save the money for something more impo
  
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• All Of The Colors Of The World

  01-05-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The collection’s crown jewel is a rich ball of mustard-y Indian Yellow. This pigment comes not from maize, nor earth, but from the dehydrated urine of a cow subsisting exclusively on mango leaves.”
  
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• Pop royalty gets ready to rock Pompeii

  01-05-2016 17:41
  
  Prog is returning to Pompeii, with the announcement that the Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour will perform there this summer (the British group’s 1971 gig at the ancient site went down in music history, after being filmed in a ghostly, empty amphitheatre). “Agreement reached. After 45 years, David Gilmour will play again at Pompeii on 7 and 8 July,” tweeted Italy’s culture minister, Dario Franceschini. Pop superstar Elton John is due to strut his stuff at the site just
  
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• Mission: find Warhol

  01-05-2016 17:31
  
  Adults and kids alike love Where’s Wally?, a cartoon created by the illustrator Martin Handford, who challenges readers to find his bobble-hatted boy in various crowd scenes. Catherine Ingram, a freelance art historian, and the illustrator Andrew Rae have given Where’s Wally? an art-historical twist with the launch of Where’s Warhol?, published by Laurence King. “Spot Warhol in the corridors of the Bauhaus or the Sistine Chapel as he and his famous friends pop up in 12 s
  
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• Well, Turns Out Prince Had A Secret Music Vault That His Estate Has Now Drilled Into

  01-05-2016 17:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, with a literal drill. There’s so much music in the shelf-lined, formerly secret vault that “his estate could put out an album a year for the next century.”
  
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• Britain’s National Theatre Needs To Learn Flexibility From The Temporary Space It’s About To Close

  01-05-2016 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What I hope – and all the omens are very good – is that the closure of the Temporary Space will not mark the end of something, but the start of new era at the National. … It’s a mindset which understands that the theatre must be far more progressive, diverse and porous in every way if it is to become truly national. That means in the stories it tells, the way it tells them, the audiences who come and the artists making work.”
  
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• What 12 death-row inmates requested for their last meal

  01-05-2016 15:01
  
  'All I wanted was to make people have the conversation and be aware of it'
  
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• Pablo Bronstein: Historical Dances in an Antique Setting – review

  01-05-2016 09:00
  
  Tate Britain, London SW1Pablo Bronstein’s trompe l’oeils with dancers invite wry smiles as much as contemplationThree young dancers are preening, twirling and gliding through the marble canyons of the Duveen galleries at Tate Britain. Every now and again they pause in order to strike some exaggerated pose. It might be a weak wrist to the forehead, as if receiving shocking news, or a flighty twist of the hip that suggests utter nonchalance in the face of so many gaping passersby, surp
  
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• How drawing focuses the mind | Daniel Glaser

  01-05-2016 06:59
  
  Sketching requires looking at objects in a different way – it’s all in the detailThe V&A has come under fire for banning sketching at its new exhibition of underwear. The museum says it’s to ease congestion as punters browse through 18th-century knickers and learn the history of the jockstrap . But as one Twitter user pointed out: ‘Drawing is an essential mode of looking.’Sketching something close up and looking at it from afar are approached in quite different
  
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