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• Don’t bank on it: New York artist’s memorial to financial failures comes to Wall Street

  09-05-2016 23:31
  For six and a half years, from the height of the recession in 2009, the New York-based artist Michael Mandiberg woke up every Saturday, turned on his computer and discovered which US banks had failed that week. Then, he scoured Google to painstakingly record each newly defunct bank’s logo before it disappeared from the face of the Internet. The results of this ritual will go on show in a vacant office building on Wall Street from 15 September, the anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankru
  
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• Yale restores Louis Kahn’s vision for his Modernist landmark

  09-05-2016 23:00
  
  The greatest work of art at New Haven’s Yale Center for British Art is arguably the landmark building itself—and Louis Kahn’s last structure is due to reopen this month after a 16-month renovation of its public galleries and lecture hall, and an upgrade of its accessibility, security, mechanical and electrical systems. This is the third phase of a $33m conservation project that began in 2008.
  George Knight of Knight Architecture, who led the conservation work, says: “The
  
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• From drones to fair use: the hottest topics in museum law

  09-05-2016 23:00
  
  New media, copyright law and museum ethics were among key issues raised at the American Law Institute’s annual course on museum law, co-sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution in Los Angeles, between 6 and 8 April. Museums’ policies toward drones came up too.
  As art evolves, it presents lawyers with new challenges. “Contemporary art itself is changing with the media, making copyright issues more difficult,” says the New York-based art lawyer John Cahill. Meanwhile, amid
  
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• Disappointing Sotheby's sale shows correction at top end of the market

  09-05-2016 23:00
  
  Despite getting off to a good start, the Impressionist and Modern evening sale at Sotheby's New York last night (9 May) fetched a disappointing result—a $123.4m hammer total ($144.5m with premium) against an estimate of $164.8m-$235.8m. There was a 66% sell-through rate, and 22 out of 62 lots fetched hammer prices that were below the lower estimate. Of these, many sold to single bids.
   
  However, only one lot in the sale was guaranteed and many works were fresh to auction—a far
  
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• A lorra lorra Lowry

  09-05-2016 21:05
  
  The late Sixties icon and TV star, Cilla Black, was passionate about the paintings of L.S. Lowry, the artist famous for his grainy, grey depictions of northern industrial Britain in the 20th century. The Scouse singer quietly acquired three works by the Lancashire-born artist, which go under the hammer at Sotheby's London on 13 June (Family Group, 1938; The Black Church, 1964; The Spire, 1949). "Introduced to buying art by [her manager Brian] Epstein, from the start Cilla bought what
  
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• Austin’s Blanton Museum Names Carter E. Foster Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs

  09-05-2016 20:29 via artnews.com
  Today, The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin announced the appointment of Carter E. Foster as Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Prints and Drawings.Foster–who is currently the Steven and Ann Ames Curator … Read More
  
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• The Man-Machine: Jordan Wolfson on his Giant New Robot, Hung by Chains at Zwirner

  09-05-2016 19:17 via artnews.com
  Last July I was at Jordan Wolfson’s house in the Hollywood Hills, sharing a nice lunch with the artist outside by his pool, even though it was raining. Precipitation in Los Angeles is spoken of like a biblical plague when it’s hypothetical, … Read More
  
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• ‘I Want to Be Fridge-Like’: Mark Leckey Gives a Freewheeling Talk About His Work at Frieze

  09-05-2016 19:07 via artnews.com
  “I do feel stuck between the past and the future, the middle class and the working class,” Mark Leckey told Frieze editor Dan Fox on Friday. “I’m effectively middle class.” Leckey thought for a second about how he’d back that … Read More
  
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• ‘Samuel Jablon: Life is Fine’ at Freight + Volume

  09-05-2016 18:31 via artnews.com
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• ‘Sam Jablon: Life is Fine’ at Freight + Volume

  09-05-2016 18:31 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: Sam Jablon: Life is Fine is on view at Freight + Volume in New York through Sunday, May 15.
  
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• George Shaw review – down, dirty and delightful in the woods

  09-05-2016 18:26
  
  National Gallery, London
  Shaw’s perversely beautiful paintings of detritus – and himself urinating against a tree – are the result of two years up close and personal with the old masters
  The artist, the teenager and the serial killer have one thing in common – they are drawn to the woods. That spot on the edge of town where depravity and danger bloom like fungi is the theme of George Shaw’s luscious, funny, provocative new paintings. It is a place we all know, the b
  
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• Martine Syms at the ICA: 'people act like art is a white thing'

  09-05-2016 17:30
  
  More likely to quote cultural theory than Beyoncé songs, this home-schooled, high-achieving Los Angeleno prefers to take her art out of the gallery to where everyone really hangs out – the internet – even if it brings along the hatersWalking into Martine Syms’s first solo UK show, Fact & Trouble at the ICA, feels like walking into someone else’s memories: a disconcerting mix of the familiar and the foreign. Arrows point up a narrow, poorly lit stairwell which o
  
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• Sculptor Antony Gormley: 'the selfie is charming' but it's a modern paradox

  09-05-2016 17:10
  
  The British artist known for his public installations – which often inspire many creative selfies – is about to open a new solo exhibition in New YorkThis week, British sculptor Sir Antony Gormley was flying from London to New York City.
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• Sotheby’s Announces $25 M. Loss for First Quarter of 2016

  09-05-2016 15:27 via artnews.com
  Just hours before bidding begins at its New York headquarters on York Street this evening, Sotheby’s posted a $25.9 million loss for the first quarter of 2016—the same quarter during which, a year ago, it announced a net income of $5.2 million.In … Read More
  
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• Megumi Igarashi found guilty of obscenity over 'vagina kayak' artwork

  09-05-2016 15:23
  
  Ms Igarashi has been fined £3,560 for distributing digital images of her vagina
  
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• Morning Links: Nicole Eisenman Edition

  09-05-2016 15:03 via artnews.com
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• Derren Brown's Ghost Train interview: On virtual reality, creative freedom, and our love affair with fear

  09-05-2016 13:55
  
  The illusionist reveals the secrets behind his latest project, collaborating with Thorpe Park to bring a new attraction which promises to revolutionise the Ghost Train
  
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• Japanese vagina kayak artist found guilty of obscenity

  09-05-2016 11:15
  
  Megumi Igarashi fined after distributing data that would allow 3D printing of her genitals in order to raise funds for boatA Japanese artist who made a kayak modelled on her vagina has been found guilty of breaking the country’s obscenity laws, in a case that has invited widespread ridicule of attitudes towards images of female genitalia.Megumi Igarashi, who works under the pseudonym Rokudenashiko – or good-for-nothing girl – was arrested in July 2014 after she distributed data
  
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• Hitler statue sells for £12 million at Christie's auction house

  09-05-2016 11:06
  
  'Hitler is pure fear; it's an image of terrible pain'
  
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• Hitler statue by Maurizio Cattelan sells for £12 million at Christie's auction house

  09-05-2016 11:06
  
  'Hitler is pure fear; it's an image of terrible pain'
  
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• Hitler sculpture by Maurizio Cattelan sells for £12 million at auction

  09-05-2016 11:06
  
  'Hitler is pure fear; it's an image of terrible pain'
  
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• Ancient Egyptian statue of Sekhemka disappears into private collection in 'moral crime against world heritage'

  09-05-2016 10:57
  
  Campaigners call for an end to anonymous auction house sales of art after Panama Papers expose 'unethical and anonymous trade in high-end antiquities for tax purposes or money laundering'
  
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• Phillips Sells $46.6 M. of Contemporary Art in Subdued Sale in New York

  09-05-2016 06:08 via artnews.com
  The first night of New York’s May auctions wrapped up with a modest 20th-century and contemporary art sale at Phillips. The house hammered down $39.3 million total (without buyers’ premium), below a presale estimate of $40.85 million to $60.95 million (calculated … Read More
  
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• Christie’s ‘Bound to Fail’ Succeeds, Sets Record With $17 M. Cattelan Hitler Sculpture

  09-05-2016 03:00 via artnews.com
  The May sales in New York kicked off with “Bound to Fail,” a specialty auction at Christie’s that directly referenced the difficulties facing the market but became a runaway success, selling all but one of the 39 lots, including Maurizio Cattelan’s … Read More
  
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