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• The Crime Issue

  03-05-2016 23:30 via artnews.com
  An investigation into some of the more colorful art-related indiscretions in recent years, as well as a look at the aesthetics of crime and punishment Read More
  
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• Move over, Chelsea and Brooklyn: Harlem is where the art is

  03-05-2016 23:00
  
  As international crowds gather in New York for the auctions and Frieze New York, they would do well to go on a jaunt to the area that is New York’s latest, and perhaps unlikeliest, gallery hub: Harlem. The rise of Harlem—a neighbourhood still very much in transition from the violent years of its crack epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s—follows a ten-year splintering of the New York art world, which was formerly centred in the warehouses of Chelsea.This month, both Gavin Brown&rsq
  
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• Creating value around women artists: the chief curator’s view

  03-05-2016 22:13
  
  In our May print edition, we examine new initiatives in the US and UK that aim to promote female artists—and ask curators, collectors and artists whether such philanthropic endeavours can make a difference. According to research by the Freelands Foundation and The Art Newspaper, female artists in the US and UK receive fewer than 30% of all solo shows at major museums.
  We spoke with Helen Molesworth, the chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca), Los Angeles, for the story, an
  
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• Biennale de Montreal Announces Preliminary Artist List and Projects

  03-05-2016 21:44 via artnews.com
  The Biennale de Montreal announced its preliminary artist list today. As it stands now, there are 45 artists who are set to show work at the biennial, which opens on October 19 at the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal. The … Read More
  
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• Tiki Bars, Tarot Readers, and Virtual Reality: At The Third Annual Village Fête at Pioneer Works

  03-05-2016 21:43 via artnews.com
  On Sunday evening, Pioneer Works rang in the first day of May with its third annual Village Fête. The guests were firmly divided into two camps: half had just returned from the opening of SFMOMA, while the other half were … Read More
  
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• A Passion for Hell: Hieronymus Bosch at Noordbrabants Museum, the Netherlands

  03-05-2016 21:00 via artnews.com
  Unlike such exhibitions as Edgar Degas at the Museum of Modern Art and van Gogh at the Art Institute of Chicago, which were assembled oceans away from the environments that nurtured the painters, the show devoted to Hieronymus Bosch at … Read More
  
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• Theft! Forgery! Murder!: Art History’s Greatest Crimes

  03-05-2016 20:42 via artnews.com
  From the earliest moments of recorded civilization there have been instances of art being the subject of violence, theft, and destruction. Art and crime will forever be linked, and this should come as no surprise—art is a powerful tool for … Read More
  
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• Wild walks, slides and crazy golf: art shows to throw yourself into

  03-05-2016 19:58
  
  Stuck for summer fun? Well, why not play golf with Jeremy Deller, spiral down a chute with Carsten Höller, or get lost in Edinburgh’s eerie sculpture park?Sightseeing: the most dazzling art and design of summer 2016It’s festival time, and the green fields are soon to fill with dance tents, burger stands and overflowing toilets. Art has no Glastonbury as such (and the “art” at Glastonbury tends to run to carved Green Man statues), but you can put together your own min
  
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• Sightseeing: the most dazzling art and design of summer 2016

  03-05-2016 19:58
  
  Dive into underwater cities, swoon over O’Keeffe’s ravishing blooms, swoosh down Carsten Höller’s slides and hang out with Hockney and his friends in LA
  Wild walks, slides and crazy golf: art shows to throw yourself intoSummer culture: Film | Dance | Theatre | Music Global politics and domestic life, personal threat and vulnerability are consistent themes in Beirut-born Mona Hatoum’s art. The breadth of her artistic language, with its references to minimalism and sur
  
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• Consortium of claimants seek to extend Bolero's €1m a year international copyright for another two decades

  03-05-2016 19:46
  
  The piece of classical music has proved a serial money-spinner for a succession of copyright owners, including the composer's brother's masseuse, her hairdresser husband and his second wife
  
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• Marisol: the forgotten star of pop art

  03-05-2016 19:05
  
  Once as famous and influential as Andy Warhol, the artist, who has died aged 85, fell into obscurity – but her enigmatic work is sure to be rediscovered and endureThe artist Marisol, who has died aged 85, was perhaps the most underestimated sculptor to emerge in New York in the 1960s – when the rigidities of the postwar avant garde gave way and a pluralistic, hybrid set of styles began to flower. Her deadpan depictions of popes, presidents and her own family, crafted from wood into b
  
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• A Fight at the Museum: Ryan McNamara Brings Battling Dance Troupes to the Guggenheim

  03-05-2016 18:46 via artnews.com
  Last night, Ryan McNamara staged a turf war at the Guggenheim. Three trios had an hour-long dance-off that took place in the museum’s basement, in a new performance called Battleground (2016), and the audience was left to pick the winner. … Read More
  
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• Italy spends €1bn in historic boost for cultural heritage

  03-05-2016 17:37
  
  The Italian government announced yesterday, 2 May, that it is allocating €1bn to major restoration and building projects at 33 museums, monuments and archaeological sites across the country, including Pompeii, the earthquake-stricken city of L’Aquila and the Uffizi galleries in Florence. The culture minister Dario Franceschini described the funding, which will continue until 2020, as the “biggest investment in cultural heritage” in Italy’s history.The “one bil
  
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• Preview NADA 2016

  03-05-2016 17:30 via artnews.com
  The fifth edition of NADA New York, put on annually by the New Art Dealers Alliance, opens to the public on the evening of Thursday, May 4, with a preview earlier in the day. The fair, which returns to Pier … Read More
  
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• ‘Carambolages’ at Grand Palais, Selected by Mark Dion

  03-05-2016 17:00 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. This week's shows are selected by Mark Dion Read More
  
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• Kathleen Ferrier Awards, Wigmore Hall, review: 'Stratospherically high' standards

  03-05-2016 16:33
  
  The entrants of this year's Kathleen Ferrier Awards are singers to watch out for
  
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• Mona Hatoum's internal organs to feature in Tate Modern show

  03-05-2016 15:51
  
  First UK survey of Lebanese-born artist covers 35 years of work, including internal video footage from endoscopic probes
  One of the first thing visitors will see at Tate Modern’s survey of work by Mona Hatoum are the artist’s internal organs and fluids on vivid display courtesy of endoscopic probes. Continue reading...
  
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• It’s Alive! The Ramones Prove Too Tough to Die at the Queens Museum

  03-05-2016 15:40 via artnews.com
  “Hey! Ho! Let’s Go: The Ramones and the Birth of Punk” is at the Queens Museum for a reason—all four of the original Ramones grew up in the same eight-or-ten-block patch of that borough. So to get in the mood … Read More
  
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• Ai Weiwei is making a feature film: I'm worried

  03-05-2016 15:35
  
  As an artist and philanthropist he is revered, but posing as Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi was an egotistical stunt – Ai’s art is best when he is not at its centre Ai Weiwei is making a feature film about the plight of refugees. Will it be a serious response to tragedy – or a monument to self-indulgence? I ask this because Ai’s initial artistic response to the refugee crisis does not inspire confidence. Related: Ai Weiwei poses as drowned Syrian infant refugee in 'haunting' p
  
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• Mitchell-Innes & Nash Now Represents Monica Bonvicini

  03-05-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  Mitchell-Innes & Nash has announced representation of Monica Bonvicini. To coincide with Frieze Week, the gallery’s booth at the Frieze Art Fair will be displaying eight works by the Italian artist, including a neon light piece and leather chain-link sculptures. … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Marisol Edition

  03-05-2016 14:56 via artnews.com
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• Ted Cruz bruised in Indiana as Leicester City stage huge soccer upset

  03-05-2016 14:27
  
  Republican candidate heckled by 12-year-old on eve of primary as England witnesses a sporting fairytale Continue reading...
  
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• West End’s ‘Doctor Faustus’ Cancels Shows Due To Flooding

  03-05-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Producers called off Saturday’s matinee and evening performances of the Christopher Marlowe play, which stars Kit Harington (Game of Thrones), following floods at the venue, the Duke of York’s Theatre.
  
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• Thoma Foundation Gives Arts Writing Awards in Digital Art to Christiane Paul and Nora Khan

  03-05-2016 12:00 via artnews.com
  The Thoma Foundation announced today it has given this year’s Arts Writing Awards in Digital Art to Christiane Paul and Nora Khan. The awards, which were first given out last year, recognize writers who have made significant contributions to criticism … Read More
  
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• Ai Weiwei shoots 'over 600 hours' of footage for film about the refugee crisis

  03-05-2016 10:30
  
  The feature-length project is due for completion next year and will no doubt include controversial elements
  
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• Mona Hatoum review – electrified, if not always electrifying

  03-05-2016 10:00
  
  Tate Modern, London
  Currents surge, wires spool and buzz, and the political and personal fuse in this major survey of an artist forever pushing herself to do things differently
  An electric current runs through Mona Hatoum’s show at Tate Modern. The crackle and intermittent droning hum seeps through the galleries and can be heard almost everywhere, like a threat, sometimes nearer, sometimes more distant, but always there.The noise comes from Homebound, a tableau of furniture and objects arr
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.02.16

  03-05-2016 09:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Five Notable Stories From Last Week’s ArtsJournal: Alternative Reality Edition
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  AJBlog: diacritical/Douglas McLennan Published 2016-05-02This Week In Audience 05.01.16
  What are the boundaries in artist/audience relationships these days? Do you have a problem with inclusiveness if you can’t define what it is? … read more
  AJBlog: AJ Arts Audience Published 2016-05-02Bedford in Baltimore: Christopher is Third Contemporary Expert Recently Tapped to Lead a Major Art M
  
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• Producer, Artistic Development

  03-05-2016 07:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Producer, Artistic Development collaborates with the both the President & CEO and Executive Producer in cultivating professional partnerships, initiating, developing, commissioning original creative projects and properties meant to debut at NJPAC and potentially tour to other performing arts centers. In addition, the Producer books and produces several distinct attractions like annual special events, television broadcasts, concerts and recitals. The Producer also maintains a close workin
  
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• Tolkien annotated map of Middle-earth acquired by Bodleian library

  03-05-2016 07:00
  
  Map includes geographical pointers from Hobbit author and sheds light on creative process that spawned fantasy worldHere be dragons – and wolves, bears, witches, camels, elephants, orcs, elves and hobbits. Related: Unseen JRR Tolkien poems found in school magazineRelated: Alex Wheatle: I was mesmerised by Tolkien’s inventiveness of languageRelated: Hobbit first edition with JRR Tolkien's inscription doubles sales recordContinue reading...
  
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• High concept, high craft: Fiona Hall's must-see exhibition opens in Canberra

  03-05-2016 04:19
  
  First appearing at the 2015 Venice Biennale, the dark, urgent Wrong Way Time comprises about 800 objects – one of the NGA’s most complex installations everThe first thing you’ll notice is the sound. Lining two walls of a dark, cube-like space within the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra is a congregation of clocks of different shapes and sizes, ticking, chiming and cuckoo-ing relentlessly. Each has been painted with ominous images and phrases that read like a lament to
  
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• This Week In Defining Audience

  03-05-2016 00:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What are the boundaries in artist/audience relationships these days? Do you have a problem with inclusiveness if you can’t define what it is? Do we lose an essential part of the audience experience when movies go in-home? And what is to be learned about what audiences want from the big new insta-culture districts?
  
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