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• Frieze New York 2016: What happens at the world's biggest art pilgrimage

  05-05-2016 23:53
  
  All the fun of the fair as witnessed by David Usborne, who encounters art lovers, art dealers, and the major talking point at Frieze – a donkey
  
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• A Few Delights at Frieze New York

  05-05-2016 23:53 via artnews.com
  32 things I would like to buy, stare at, or eat, with some commentary Read More
  
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• Russian Orchestra Performs Concert In The Recently Liberated Ancient City Of Palmyra

  05-05-2016 23:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Famed conductor Valery Gergiev led Saint Petersburg’s celebrated Mariinsky orchestra through pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Prokofiev and Rodion Shchedrin in front of a crowd of Russian soldiers, government ministers and journalists.
  
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• Sigmund Freud: snubbed by science, embraced by art

  05-05-2016 23:00
  
  In his 1940 poem In Memory of Sigmund Freud, W.H. Auden wrote: “… if often he was wrong and, at times, absurd/to us he is no more a person/now but a whole climate of opinion/under whom we conduct our different lives”. That climate of opinion has done nothing but intensify in the decades since Auden wrote his ode. This year is the 160th anniversary of Freud’s birth and he remains a totemic cultural figure, although this is less the case in the field of psychology.Almost
  
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• Radical solution proposed to solve Venice's cruise ship problem

  05-05-2016 23:00
  
  “Of course, the best thing for the environment would be to do nothing,” says Paolo Costa, the president of the Venice Port Authority (VPA), who nonetheless is lobbying hard for a large channel, 120m wide at its maximum, to be dredged through the lagoon to enable the cruise ships to enter the Marittima port in Venice by a back route, thereby eliminating their passage through the town.
  Speaking to the La Nuova di Venezia newspaper on 9 April, he made clear that he believes the damage
  
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• Radical solution proposed to solve Venice cruise ship problem

  05-05-2016 23:00
  
  “Of course, the best thing for the environment would be to do nothing,” says Paolo Costa, the president of the Venice Port Authority (VPA), who nonetheless is lobbying hard for a large channel, 120m wide at its maximum, to be dredged through the lagoon to enable the cruise ships to enter the Marittima port in Venice by a back route, thereby eliminating their passage through the town.
  Speaking to the La Nuova di Venezia newspaper on 9 April, he made clear that he believes the damage
  
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• Pope.L’s Pop Tarts have serious shelf-life

  05-05-2016 23:00
  
  Visiting art fairs can work up an appetite, but a series of drawings at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects in Frieze New York (C25) might make you rethink your choice of snack. The gallery sold three drawings on Pop Tarts by the Los Angeles-based artist Pope.L, including Quad Figure (Four Tarts) (1997-8), during the fair’s VIP preview on Wednesday. The tarts “have so many preservatives they have maintained their integrity for nearly 20 years”, says the gallery’s dir
  
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• Furniture retailer West Elm has designs on opening New York gallery

  05-05-2016 23:00
  The international furniture retailer West Elm is getting into the art business. The Art Newspaper understands that the company is planning to launch an exhibition space as part of a new concept store in New York’s Chelsea neighbourhood. West Elm plans to showcase a new line of high-end design on the first floor and contemporary art on the second floor. The programme is organised in partnership with Uprise Art, an online gallery that specialises in affordable work by emerging artists. In re
  
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• Even Europe’s Most August Theatre Is Joining The Cinemacasters

  05-05-2016 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  No less than the home of Molière, Racine, and Voltaire, the Comédie-Française will be transmitting its performances to moviegoers, beginning in October, with three productions presented in 300 cinemas in France, Belgium, and Switzerland. The broadcasts will subsequently be offered to the rest of the world in subtitled versions. (in French; Google Translate version here)
  
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• Dealer Hervé Bize on the works of François Morellet at Frieze New York

  05-05-2016 23:00
  The dealer Hervé Bize discusses the work of François Morellet from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s, on show at Frieze New York.
  • For more on the fair, see our Frieze New York 2016 page
  
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• Bacon, Spencer and Lowry, oh my: Christie’s hits British art trifecta for 250th anniversary auction

  05-05-2016 23:00
  
  This year marks Christie’s 250th anniversary and the house announced today that one of its key celebrations, the Defining British Art sale scheduled for 30 June, will be anchored by a trio of historic works by heavyweight UK artists: Francis Bacon, Sir Stanley Spencer and LS Lowry.
  Each almost seems to have been selected to represent different periods of British art history, each is strong for different reasons. The oldest, The Garage (1929), is Spencer's vision of an idealised workshop,
  
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• The Artist’s Way In The Swamp Of Corporate Creativity

  05-05-2016 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When Julia Cameron published “The Artist’s Way,” in 1991, she probably could not have foreseen exactly how the very idea of creativity would collide with the marketplace. “Creative” sits right above “innovation” and “disruption” in the glossary of terms that have been co-opted by corporate America and retooled to signify an increasingly nebulous set of qualities.
  
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• Mattel’s New Misty Copeland Doll – What’s Wrong With This Picture?

  05-05-2016 22:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It resembles Copeland in some ways: It’s clearly a ballerina, with nicely arched feet in pink toe shoes, hair pulled back, stage makeup, dance costume. The costume is one that’s closely identified with Copeland, copied from the flame-red unitard she wears in the ballet “Firebird.”
  
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• The Tiny Archipelago Whose Only Export Is Music

  05-05-2016 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When we became independent, all we had was people. Today, all we export is music, maybe because it was always the easiest art. You don’t need any material to sing.”
  
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• Frieze art fair New York 2016 – in pictures

  05-05-2016 21:41
  
  Situated in an enormous tent stretching almost the length of Randall’s Island, the Frieze art fair sees the world’s galleries descend on New York to show everything from paintings to installations ... and even a beast of burden Continue reading...
  
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• UK Theatre Industry Survey: Top Concern Is Arts Education

  05-05-2016 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Across the board, the topic of arts education demonstrated the most acute concern from respondents, scoring an average of 2.24. The deepest pessimism came from respondents in Yorkshire and Northern Ireland. Most respondents (84%) were more negative than positive about the prospects for arts opportunities in schools over the next 10 years, with one in three declaring they were deeply pessimistic about the future.
  
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• Wolf Spiders, Bondage Polaroids, and Crapstraction: Opening Day at NADA New York

  05-05-2016 21:06 via artnews.com
  In addition to the work-hungry collectors crawling through NADA New York during its opening Wednesday afternoon, there was another, slightly more venomous crew crawling around: hairy, six-legged wolf spiders. Or so claimed the artists Brad Troemel and Joshua Citarella, who … Read More
  
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• Portrait of the artist as a young woman: inside the mind of Eva Hesse

  05-05-2016 21:00
  
  Reading the 899 pages of Eva Hesse’s diaries from the 1950s and 1960s, which have been excerpted but never published in full until now, feels like eavesdropping on a young, ambitious woman’s psychotherapy sessions. While struggling to make great work, the late German-born, US-raised artist confesses to attacks of self-doubt and anxiety, acute fears of abandonment and, on occasion, fears of getting fat. She tracks her moods, winter colds, her PMS and the disintegration of her brief m
  
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• Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel makes last-ditch effort to save George Lucas museum

  05-05-2016 18:34
  
  The mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, has ramped up his bid to save a museum proposed by Star Wars creator George Lucas. Lawyers representing Chicago City and the Chicago Park District yesterday (4 May) filed a petition for a writ ordering the dismissal of a case brought against them by the local non-profit, Friends of the Parks.
  The petition was filed one day after Lucas’s wife Mellody Hobson announced the couple is looking at other cities to host the project after a two-year legal fight t
  
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• Kader Attia at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Selected by Mark Dion

  05-05-2016 17:30 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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• A century of Dada: from anti-war artists to mainstream con artists

  05-05-2016 17:28
  
  A tiny but brilliantly subversive protest movement has become the common currency of big-money, mass-audience art – Dada’s founders would feel sickIt began in horror. It has ended in farce. A century ago the world was two years into an apocalyptic war: and 1916 saw it turn more murderous yet with the Battle of the Somme, killing almost 20,000 British soldiers on its first day alone. Related: How dada spawned the art of anarchy | Jonathan JonesContinue reading...
  
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• Frieze New York review – art world displays its best face and a fine ass

  05-05-2016 17:21
  
  There’s a booth full of Damien Hirsts, a fridge full of Soylent, and a donkey which is also an artwork by Maurizio Cattelan as NYCs most important art fair returnsI have gazed upon rather a few memorable asses in my day, but the one at Frieze New York is truly something. Behind a white wall, indifferent to the phalanx of artists, dealers, collectors and chancers pounding through New York’s most important art fair, is a placid brown donkey, 15 hands high, munching on grass beneath a l
  
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• Amid the Frieze Week Frenzy, Off Vendome Shares Its Space With Five Galleries

  05-05-2016 17:00 via artnews.com
  Bridget Donahue, Real Fine Arts, Chewday’s, Jenny’s, and Galerie Max Mayer take over a floor of the Chelsea gallery Read More
  
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• V&A Illustration Awards 2016 shortlist showcases stunning literary artworks

  05-05-2016 16:21
  
  Last year's Overall Winner was Sterling Hundley for his illustration of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island
  
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• Russia’s Mariinsky Orchestra to play concert in Palmyra

  05-05-2016 16:19
  
  The ruins of ancient Palmyra will serve as the setting for a classical music concert by St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Orchestra scheduled for today at 3pm GMT. The concert is led by Valery Gergiev, who is known for his support of President Vladimir Putin’s policies. Peskov says: "Culture figures express their solidarity with those fighting against terrorists."
  The concert, titled Prayer for Palmyra: Music Revives Ancient Walls will take place in the amphitheater of the city that was re
  
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• Heather Phillipson Dots Frieze With Dogs, Trampolines, Digital Technology

  05-05-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  COME ON IN, WE’VE BEEN EXPECTING YOU. These are the first words viewers see in Heather Phillipson’s project for Frieze New York, a wacky three-part video-and-sculpture installation that features canines, dog food, trampolines, king-size pillows, and faux hedges, among other … Read More
  
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• Mirror, Mirror: David Altmejd Reimagines Human Evolution at Frieze New York

  05-05-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  At Andrea Rosen’s booth at Frieze New York yesterday, a small throng of visitors murmured in quiet appreciation of David Altmejd’s Le désert et la semence (2015), a large-scale installation composed of, among other things, synthetic hair, glass eyes, coconuts, … Read More
  
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• Collectors Are Still Buying, But Frieze New York Reflects a Cooled Down Art Market

  05-05-2016 15:08 via artnews.com
  The fifth edition of Frieze New York kicked off Wednesday morning on Randall’s Island, and while many participating galleries reported strong sales of works in the six-figure range, the prevailing sentiment was that the sales were a lot like the … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Infinity Rooms Edition

  05-05-2016 14:48 via artnews.com
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• PSA: ARTnews Is Doing Some Stuff During Frieze Week

  05-05-2016 14:36 via artnews.com
  And by “some stuff,” we mean exactly two things. (In addition to our thorough and sometimes wacky reporting, which you can read here!) ARTnews contributing editor (and owner of Half Gallery) Bill Powers will be appearing in conversation with the … Read More
  
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• ‘Being Here Is an Unusual Experience’: Finding Some Quiet Time With Fred Wilson at Frieze New York

  05-05-2016 14:10 via artnews.com
  Pace Gallery has organized a mini solo exhibition of the artist Fred Wilson at Frieze New York, and Wilson himself was walking around the fair yesterday, looking dapper but slightly dazed. I asked him if he had time for a … Read More
  
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• Trump attempts Republican reconciliation after sealing the nomination

  05-05-2016 13:56
  
  Canada declares a state of emergency in Alberta amid a ‘nasty, ugly’ inferno, and the US expands the Takata airbag recall to become the largest in historyDonald Trump will today begin the process of pulling together the Republican party, add staff for a national campaign, try to seduce donors he’s alienated, and stem the loss of party faithful to likely Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, following his installation as presumptive GOP nominee with Ted Cruz’s and John Kas
  
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• Lenin’s four-tonne head goes on show in Medieval Berlin Fortress

  05-05-2016 12:14
  
  Vladimir Lenin is back on display in Berlin. Or at least, his head is. The communist revolutionary’s 19-metre-high statue was dismantled from its place of honour on Leninplatz two years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The monumental granite head, weighing nearly 4 tonnes, was buried in a woodland, the symbol of a fallen political regime that many wanted to put behind them.
  Now it is lying on its side with four metal rods sticking out of the scalp as part of a new permanent exhibition c
  
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• Spiritualist artist Georgiana Houghton gets UK exhibition

  05-05-2016 10:58
  
  Overlooked painter is becoming recognised as being decades ahead of abstract pioneers such as Wassily KandinskyShe has been dismissed as an eccentric, amateur artist who claimed to talk to the dead and receive their help with her watercolours. But Georgiana Houghton’s abstract style is beginning to be recognised as being decades ahead of painters in a similar vein such as Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian. Now the fascinating story of the overlooked Victorian artist is to be told in the
  
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• Mahmoud Hawari appointed new director of long-awaited Palestinian Museum

  05-05-2016 10:00
  
  A new director has been appointed at the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit, north of Jerusalem, only two weeks before the new institution opens to the public. Mahmoud Hawari—a research associate at the Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford, and a visiting academic at the British Museum in London—will take the reins at the new museum, which is due to open on 18 May.
   
  Hawari has also led several Palestine-based archaeological projects, including excavations at Khirbat al Maf
  
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• Block party: visionary prints of 20th-century Britain – in pictures

  05-05-2016 08:00
  
  As Britain emerged from the trauma of the first world war, artists used daring printmaking techniques to conjure a world full of ambition and progress Continue reading...
  
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• Herb Alpert Foundation Names 2016 Award Winners, Including Simone Leigh

  05-05-2016 04:44 via artnews.com
  The Herb Alpert Foundation, created by the eponymous artist and trumpet player, has announced the 2016 winners of its annual Awards in the Arts, which each carries an restricted $75,000 prize: Ishmael Houston-Jones for dance, Cauleen Smith for film/video, Dohee Lee … Read More
  
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• A Tour of Frieze New York 2016

  05-05-2016 00:50 via artnews.com
  The fifth edition of Frieze New York opened to invited guests today on Randall’s Island, between Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx in the East River. Below, a look around the fair, beginning with Alex Da Corte’s floating baby outside the big tent. The show opens … Read More
  
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