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• Do we have to rebrand the arts as 'creative tech' for Turnbull to give us money?

  04-05-2016 23:24
  
  There has been universal head scratching as to why an industry that employs more than agriculture and construction is so utterly ignored by government
  Ray Huang’s book on the decline of the Ming dynasty focused on a year when nothing much happened. 1587 was A Year of No Significance – pretty much a non-year – but beneath the surface, signs of deep tectonic shifts could be found, ones that would lead to the dynasty’s collapse. Related: 'Jobs and growth' 2016 budget pitch c
  
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• Shiva is dead, long live Shiva

  04-05-2016 23:00
  
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  73" x 64" x 41" (185 x 162 x 104cms)
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  Many contemporary Indian artists who show their work in a the West tend to stay away from using traditional elements in they art due to its “cliché stigma”, says a spokesman for the Nature Morte gallery from New Delhi (D9). The South Indian artist L.N. Tallur, on the other hand, creates sculptures that seem to find a balance between the fading of tradition and its perennial residue. I
  
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• A satellite in the cloud: online-only art fair launches during Frieze New York

  04-05-2016 23:00
  
  Twelve galleries are participating in the first formal edition of the Dream art fair, an online-only event “accessible to anyone with a device and an internet connection” (dreamfair.org, until 8 May). Rebecca May Marston, the founder of London’s participating Limoncello gallery, is behind the initiative. “It became so depressing sitting at an art fair and not making money,” she says.
  She first experimented with selling online-only during Art Basel in Hong Kong in M
  
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• 2016 Berlin Biennale Announces Artist List

  04-05-2016 21:56 via artnews.com
  The Berlin Biennale announced its artist list today. Featuring 120 artists, as well as a few more mysteriously listed in a category called “Not in the Berlin Biennale,” this year’s biennial will be curated by the collective DIS and is … Read More
  
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• Mimes Gone Wild! Anthea Hamliton Stages Silent Performance at Frieze

  04-05-2016 21:42 via artnews.com
  Today Frieze New York opened to invited guests, and one of the harder-to-miss pieces inside its big tent on Randall’s Island was Kar-A-Sutra (After Mario Bellini) by Anthea Hamilton, a performance piece specially commissioned by the fair that lets a co-ed group of … Read More
  
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• Mimes Gone Wild! Anthea Hamliton Stages Performance at Frieze

  04-05-2016 21:42 via artnews.com
  Today Frieze New York opened to invited guests, and one of the harder-to-miss pieces inside its big tent on Randall’s Island was Kar-A-Sutra (After Mario Bellini) by Anthea Hamilton, a performance piece specially commissioned by the fair that lets a co-ed group of … Read More
  
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• Mimes Gone Wild! Anthea Hamilton Stages Silent Performance at Frieze

  04-05-2016 21:42 via artnews.com
  Today Frieze New York opened to invited guests, and one of the harder-to-miss pieces inside its big tent on Randall’s Island was Kar-A-Sutra (After Mario Bellini) by Anthea Hamilton, a performance piece specially commissioned by the fair that lets a co-ed group of … Read More
  
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• Maurizio Cattelan’s Live Donkey at Frieze New York Enrages Animal Activists as Fairgoers Line Up to See It

  04-05-2016 19:59 via artnews.com
  Tired clichés often compare an art fair to an animal pen, or a slaughterhouse, or whatnot, but this year at Frieze New York there is actually a real live farm animal underneath the giant white tent on Randall’s Island. Just steps … Read More
  
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• Maurizio Cattelan’s Live Donkey at Frieze Enrages Animal Activists as Fairgoers Line Up to See It

  04-05-2016 19:59 via artnews.com
  Tired cliches often compare an art fair to an animal pen, or a slaughterhouse, or whatnot, but this year at Frieze New York there is actually a real live farm animal underneath the giant white tent on Randall’s Island. Just steps … Read More
  
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• Howard Hodgkin: 'I felt like an outcast in the art world'

  04-05-2016 19:39
  
  The artist, famously as emotional as his vibrant works, only started to earn acclaim in his 60s – and two decades later, paints more passionately than ever“I hate painting,” says Howard Hodgkin, one of the world’s greatest living painters. “Most of the time it’s irrelevant. It doesn’t mean enough, ever, quite.” The 83-year-old English artist is in New York for an exhibition of new and recent works at Gagosian gallery, entitled From Memory. It is an
  
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• ‘The Numbers Are All Randomized’: Variations on Pi at Frieze New York

  04-05-2016 19:25 via artnews.com
  At Frieze New York on Randall’s Island, Galerie Hervé Bize’s fair booth eschewed the typical white cube aesthetic in favor of an overload in blues and reds. A sequence of enlarged pixels, resembling an enormous scan code, patterned both the … Read More
  
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• Museums take to Instagram to showcase their collections – in pictures

  04-05-2016 19:22
  
  The @52museums Instagram project sees a different international museum take over the account for each week of 2016, engaging museum-goers around their award-winning collections and buildings Continue reading...
  
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• Holy Art Fair Batman! Alex Da Corte’s Joker-Inspired Balloon Towers Over Frieze’s North Entrance

  04-05-2016 19:00 via artnews.com
  Walking outside of Frieze’s North entrance, the first thing fairgoers will probably notice is a large inflatable ballon of a kind of pig/baby hybrid, hovering ominously above everything, doing battle with the New York skyline. The balloon is the work … Read More
  
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• Sean Raspet Brings Soylent Products and Prototypes to Frieze New York

  04-05-2016 18:36 via artnews.com
  A colleague this morning bemoaned the fact that at Frieze New York, the art fair on Randall’s Island that has a preview opening today, he was going to have to pay $7 for a bagel. This was an exaggeration, but it … Read More
  
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• Patrick George obituary

  04-05-2016 18:07
  
  Painter whose all-weather pursuit of heightened realism sought out English light and atmospherePatrick George, who has died aged 92, was a landscape and figure painter of distilled emotion and intelligence who enjoyed a greater reputation among fellow artists than with the general public. A modest man of considered opinions and dry humour, he preferred to paint at his Suffolk home rather than court the art establishment, and his visits to London were mostly made in order either to teach or to se
  
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• Knotted gun sculptor Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd dies at 81

  04-05-2016 17:41
  
  Swedish artist behind iconic Non-Violence artwork died on Tuesday evening at a hospital in HelsingborgCarl Fredrik Reuterswärd, one of Sweden’s best-known modern artists and the creator of the iconic knotted revolver sculpture, has died at 81.The sculptor died in a hospital in Helsingborg, south-western Sweden, on Tuesday evening, said Thomas Millroth from the Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd Art Foundation. No cause of death was given. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘In the Studio’ at Petit Palais, Selected by Mark Dion

  04-05-2016 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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• ‘In the Studio’ at Petit Palais, Paris, Selected by Mark Dion

  04-05-2016 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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• Here’s the Artist List for the Bienal de São Paulo 2016

  04-05-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  Today the organizers of the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo revealed the 81 artists they have invited to their show. Making the cut are Pierre Huyghe, Pope.L, Park McArthur, and Pia Lindman—and those are just a few of the names starting with the letter P! The full list, … Read More
  
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• Here’s the Artist List for the Bienal de 2016 São Paulo

  04-05-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  Today the organizers of the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo revealed the 81 artists they have invited to their show. Making the cut are Pierre Huyghe, Pope.L, and Pia Lindman—and those are just a few of the names starting with the letter P! The full list, which follows … Read More
  
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• Memes, MP3s and the explosion of album art

  04-05-2016 15:00
  
  With the iTunes Store, Spotify and Twitter replacing the record shop, instant recognition and meme-friendliness has spurred an unexpected evolution in cover artThe first album I properly owned was Michael Jackson’s Dangerous. Given to me as a present on Christmas Day, 1991, I played the cassette constantly on a chunky Walkman and subjected my family to repeated plays on long car journeys. I was equally obsessed with the artwork; an intricately detailed, multi-layered tableau created by art
  
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• Morning Links: Super 8 Edition

  04-05-2016 14:37 via artnews.com
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• Jo Ann Kaplan obituary

  04-05-2016 13:49
  
  My friend and colleague Jo Ann Kaplan, who has died aged 70, was a painter, film-maker and film teacher. Her last film, Watching Paint Dry, shows Jo Ann painting her self-portrait. Through the use of time-lapse photography, we see paintings start, develop and finish. These are intercut with close-up shots of her facial features.Begun in 2007 when she was diagnosed with emphysema, it is a film of an artist coming to terms with her mortality by exploring the changing topography of her ageing face.
  
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• Iranian artist Atena Farghadani freed after more than a year in prison

  04-05-2016 13:45
  
  The Iranian artist Atena Farghadani, who was sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison last June for her satirical cartoon of members of the Iranian government, was released yesterday (3 May), according to Amnesty International. Her release comes following a successful appeal in April to have her sentence reduced to 18 months.Farghadani was arrested in August 2014 for depicting Iranian parliamentarians as monkeys and goats in protest against two bills that will outlaw voluntary sterilisat
  
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• Mural artist Richard Wilson plans to keep adding to Leicester City artwork

  04-05-2016 12:00
  
  • Wilson, from Harrow, revisits city to add ‘champions’ after title win
  • Artist hopes to return to add Claudio Ranieri’s entire squad to 50m workIt has become one of the standout images of Leicester City’s stunning achievement; the giant mural located in the home of the Premier League champions that depicts Claudio Ranieri in charcoal grey, looking purposefully into the distance while a Leicester flag flutters behind him. It is a magnificent piece of work made
  
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• Benjamin Grosvenor directs The Britten Sinfonia, Barbican, concert review: 'A revelatory performance'

  04-05-2016 11:44
  
  The young superstar pianist Benjamin Grosvenor turns his hand to directing from the keyboard ​
  
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• Artist's barn damaged in Storm Desmond given £25,000 lifeline

  04-05-2016 10:54
  
  Zurich art gallery steps in to save Kurt Schwitters’ Lake District experiment in art and architecture at the suggestion of the late Zaha HadidA modest agricultural building badly damaged in the north of England by Storm Desmond is in fact an enigmatic artwork left unfinished by the German artist Kurt Schwitters when he died in 1948. Now it has been offered a £25,000 lifeline by a Swiss art gallery.The grant was suggested to Galerie Gmurzynska by the architect Zaha Hadid, who had work
  
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• Frieze New York jury awards stand-out booths

  04-05-2016 10:00
  
  Two galleries at Frieze New York have won the fair’s prestigious Frieze Stand Prize: the established Cologne-based dealer, Galerie Gisela Capitain (B38), and the three-year-old gallery, Instituto de Visión of Bogotá, which is in the Focus section (D24).
  Award jurors—including Suzanne Cotter, the director of the Serralves Museum, Porto, and Reto Thüring, the curator of contemporary art at Cleveland Museum of Art—said that “the quality of the works selec
  
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• Real estate mogul Aby Rosen reaches $7m tax settlement

  04-05-2016 05:00
  
  The New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, announced yesterday (3 May) a $7m settlement with the New York-based real estate developer and art collector Aby Rosen “for failing to pay millions in sales and use taxes”. Schneiderman alleges that, between 2002 and 2015, Rosen bought or commissioned more than 200 works of art (through two companies) for at least $80m—but failed to properly pay the applicable tax.Schneiderman says that Rosen signed resale certificates to accom
  
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• Meet the birdman of Brooklyn

  04-05-2016 05:00
  Like most New Yorkers, I didn’t think much of pigeons. But a trip to see Duke Riley and his flock—more than 2,000 birds of varying breeds that the artist has trained at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for his Creative Time project Fly By Night—changed all that.
  The Brooklyn-based artist’s vast knowledge of the history of pigeon-breeding is matched only by his affection for the birds. I couldn’t help but share his enthusiasm during a recent visit to the Baylander, a decommis
  
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• Maurizio Cattelan gets down to donkey business

  04-05-2016 05:00
  
  This year’s fair has its own mascot, of sorts: the donkey at the centre of Maurizio Cattelan’s installation Warning! Enter at your own risk. Do not touch, do not feed, no smoking, no photographs, no dogs, thank you. The work (P6), which comprises an empty room, a live donkey and a chandelier, has been re-created in tribute to Daniel Newburg Gallery, where it debuted in 1994. Cattelan remembers carting the original donkey from Connecticut to Manhattan. “When we got back to the
  
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• Maurizio Cattelan and a donkey who's starred at the Met—it must be Frieze New York

  04-05-2016 05:00
  
  This year’s fair has its own mascot, of sorts: the donkey at the centre of Maurizio Cattelan’s installation Warning! Enter at your own risk. Do not touch, do not feed, no smoking, no photographs, no dogs, thank you. The work (P6), which comprises an empty room, a live donkey and a chandelier, has been re-created in tribute to Daniel Newburg Gallery, where it debuted in 1994. The piece was only up for one day before complaints from neighbours about the donkey's braying forced the sho
  
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• Martin Creed brings ‘peace memorial’ to the shores of New York this week

  04-05-2016 05:00
  
  With three exhibitions and a new album on the way, it is fair to say that Martin Creed is busier than ever. During Frieze week, the Turner Prize-winning British artist is lighting up the Brooklyn waterfront with a 48ft-long, 25ft-tall red neon sculpture that rotates on a steel beam. Work No. 2630, Understanding, was commissioned by the Public Art Fund and is Creed’s largest outdoor work to date. In June, he will launch an even more ambitious project at the Park Avenue Armory: he wants to
  
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• Lisson’s new home under the High Line

  04-05-2016 05:00
  London- and Milan-based Lisson Gallery (B62) opened its first outpost in New York on 3 May. The 8,500 sq. ft space, which spans a block in Chelsea, under the High Line, will “predominantly [be used to] show work by artists who do not have gallery representation in the US”, says the gallery’s director Alex Logsdail. The inaugural show presents new paintings by the 100-year-old artist Carmen Herrera (until 5 June). Lisson is also organising the first US solo presentation of work
  
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• Lisson unveils new home under New York's High Line

  04-05-2016 05:00
  
  The London- and Milan-based Lisson Gallery opened its first outpost in New York yesterday (3 May). The 8,500 sq. ft space, which spans a block in Chelsea, under the High Line, will “predominantly [be used to] show work by artists who do not have gallery representation in the US”, says the gallery’s director Alex Logsdail. The inaugural show presents new paintings by the 100-year-old artist Carmen Herrera (until 5 June). Lisson is also organising the first US solo presentation
  
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• Lights, camera… art!

  04-05-2016 05:00
  
  What do Ben Affleck and Miss Universe have in common with the Frieze art fair? Quite a lot, it seems, given that all three now have ties to the entertainment and sports branding group WME IMG. In the run-up to Frieze New York’s fourth edition, which opens to VIPs on 4 May, the fair and the mega-agent announced a “new strategic partnership” last month.
  Few details are available, although parties close to the deal dismiss the view that it is an immediate, long-sought sale of the
  
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• Hirst and Gagosian reunite

  04-05-2016 05:00
  
  Two of the art world’s smartest salespeople have kissed and made up. Gagosian Gallery marks its re-representation of Damien Hirst with a solo stand (B61) at Frieze New York that features some of the artist’s greatest hits, including a black sheep in formaldehyde (2009). The artist and gallery ended their initial relationship after 17 years in 2012, but Larry Gagosian recently told the New York Times: “Great artists, like great people, have second acts.” Across the way, Wh
  
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• Hirshhorn plans Kusama bonanza

  04-05-2016 05:00
  
  It will be a blockbuster for the ages: the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, is planning the first survey of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Rooms next year. Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors (23 February-14 May 2017) will bring together six of the popular rooms, which have attracted round-the-block queues in Los Angeles and New York. Also on show will be more than 60 paintings and sculptures, and archival material that has never been seen before. “The real value…
  
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• Hirshhorn Museum plans Kusama bonanza

  04-05-2016 05:00
  
  It will be a blockbuster for the ages: the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, is planning the first survey of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Rooms next year. Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors (23 February-14 May 2017) will bring together six of the popular rooms, which have attracted round-the-block queues in Los Angeles and New York. Also on show will be more than 60 paintings and sculptures, and archival material that has never been seen before. “The real value…
  
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• Genius at work: New York celebrates its MacArthur winner

  04-05-2016 05:00
  
  With one phone call last autumn, Nicole Eisenman went from being an artist’s artist to a certifiable genius: she won the prestigious MacArthur fellowship, also known as the “genius grant” ($625,000 over five years, no strings attached). But the 51-year-old artist is not resting on her laurels. This month, she opens an exhibition at the New Museum (4 May-26 June) and her first show at Anton Kern Gallery in Chelsea (19 May-25 June). The gallery is also presenting new bronze scul
  
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• Gardens of earthly delight: how Eden was recreated by Roberto Burle Marx

  04-05-2016 05:00
  
  “Why don’t we do a show about gardens, because we have Central Park right in front?” Jens Hoffmann, the Jewish Museum’s deputy director of exhibitions and public programmes, recalls thinking when he arrived at the Fifth Avenue institution in 2012. Four years later, the museum is presenting an exhibition dedicated to the Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx (1909-94).
  The São Paulo-born artist and designer broke out of the rigidly symmetrical French gar
  
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• Frieze New York opens to VIPs with a splash of Hollywood gold-dust

  04-05-2016 05:00
  
  What do Ben Affleck and Miss Universe have in common with the Frieze art fair? Quite a lot, it seems, given that all three now have ties to the entertainment and sports branding group WME IMG. In the run-up to Frieze New York’s fifth edition, which opens to VIPs today (4 May), the fair and the mega-agent announced a “new strategic partnership” last month.
  Few details are available, although parties close to the deal dismiss the view that it is an immediate, long-sought sale of
  
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• Frieze New York opens to VIPs today with a splash of Hollywood gold-dust

  04-05-2016 05:00
  
  What do Ben Affleck and Miss Universe have in common with the Frieze art fair? Quite a lot, it seems, given that all three now have ties to the entertainment and sports branding group WME IMG. In the run-up to Frieze New York’s fourth edition, which opens to VIPs today (4 May), the fair and the mega-agent announced a “new strategic partnership” last month.
  Few details are available, although parties close to the deal dismiss the view that it is an immediate, long-sought sale o
  
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• Diary: Finding Nemo in the Antarctic and reeling it in with Brody

  04-05-2016 05:00
  
  Finding Nemo in the AntarcticA group of refreshingly crazy artists and scientists—and the chief executive of The Art Newspaper—will venture to the ends of the earth in 2017 for the first Antarctic Biennale. Anna Somers Cocks, our founding editor and newly appointed chair of the biennial’s board, will bunk down on the Akademik Ioffe ship during the 12-day expedition to the South Pole. The artists on board will land at different locations, making objects and installations along
  
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• Di Donna Gallery to move to Madison Avenue

  04-05-2016 05:00
  
  The Di Donna Gallery is moving to a new location on Madison Avenue and 65th Street that is three times the size of its existing space. The venue is due to open on 13 October with a non-selling show of American and European abstract art. The gallery’s founder, Emmanuel Di Donna, says that he never considered leaving the Upper East Side when his lease ended. The once-sleepy neighbourhood has been injected with new blood since he opened the gallery inside the Carlyle Hotel in 2010. Barbara G
  
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