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• Artie Vierkant at New Galerie, Paris

  10-05-2016 23:40 via artnews.com
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• The four major challenges that await the British Museum’s new director

  10-05-2016 23:00
  
  Hartwig Fischer, who took over last month as director of the British Museum, will find that Neil MacGregor is a hard act to follow. During his 13-year tenure, MacGregor’s global vision and outstanding communication skills raised the museum’s international profile and made antiquities relevant to a new generation. But no director can be a master of all arts. There is plenty to be done at the UK’s largest and most popular museum, which drew a record 6.8 million visitors last yea
  
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• Stefan Simchowitz settles bitter legal case with Ibrahim Mahama

  10-05-2016 23:00
  The Los Angeles dealer and artist agent Stefan Simchowitz and the Dublin dealer Jonathan Ellis King have settled their legal case against the Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama. A Californian court dismissed the lawsuit on 4 May after a lengthy battle that first began in June 2015 when the dealers sued Mahama for declaring hundreds of jute sack works inauthentic, potentially costing them $4.5m.
  The row centred on six lots of jute sack material, which Mahama sold to Simchowitz and Ellis King for &po
  
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• George Shaw gets back to (human) nature at the National Gallery

  10-05-2016 23:00
  Speaking at last night’s (10 May) unveiling of his glum but atmospherically-charged woodland scenes—made in response to the leafy backdrops of the National Gallery’s scenes of myth and martyrdom—George Shaw revealed how the anxiety-inducing weight of art history had caused him to “retreat into the woodland of my childhood.”
  In a sporting metaphor mash-up he also described taking on the mantle of the gallery’s associate artist as being “a bit like
  
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• Christie’s sets record for Basquiat at solid contemporary art auction

  10-05-2016 23:00
  
  Christie’s post-war and contemporary evening sale last night (10 May) produced solid results—a relief for the New York art market after Sotheby’s patchy Impressionist and Modern sale which failed to reach its lower estimate on 9 May. The Christie's auction made a hammer total of $277.4m ($318.4m with premium) against an estimate of $280m-$391m, with a sell-through rate of 87%. Of the 61 lots on offer, 15 achieved hammer prices equal to or above their upper estim
  
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• Kienholz’s ‘Five Car Stud’ Will Be Shown at the Prada Foundation in Milan

  10-05-2016 18:47 via artnews.com
  Edward Kienholz’s Five Car Stud, which is owned by Milan’s Fondazione Prada, will be exhibited in Italy for the first time, in a Kienholz retrospective that opens May 19 at the foundation. Five Car Stud ranks as one of the most controversial … Read More
  
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• Guillaume Bottazzi – Wonderland

  10-05-2016 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Guillaume Bottazzi – Wonderlandby Le French May:In a 565 square meters space, the Hong Central Library will host this solo show from May 21th to June 5th. The post Guillaume Bottazzi – Wonderland appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Christie’s Hosts $318.4 M. Contemporary Sale, Sets New Basquiat Record, $57.3 M.

  10-05-2016 17:59 via artnews.com
  It took until day three of the New York sales for a lot to pass the $50 million mark, and when bidding reached that magic number on Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled (1982) at the $318.4 million postwar and contemporary evening sale at Christie’s tonight, … Read More
  
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• American Beauty: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and the Case of the Missing Flag

  10-05-2016 17:18 via artnews.com
  Robert Rauschenberg kept only one major example of his earliest, most influential body of work, the Combine paintings he made between 1954 and 1961. Short Circuit (1955) is similar to other works from the period; it incorporates sculptural elements with … Read More
  
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• Andria Hickey Named Senior Curator at MOCA Cleveland

  10-05-2016 17:10 via artnews.com
  MOCA Cleveland announced today that Andria Hickey will now be a senior curator at the museum. She is expected to start her new position there in September.Hickey comes from the Public Art Fund, where she was recently promoted to curator. … Read More
  
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• Rachel Maclean Will Represent Scotland at the 2017 Venice Biennale

  10-05-2016 16:43 via artnews.com
  The British Council Scotland announced today that Rachel Maclean will represent Scotland at the 2017 Venice Biennale. The Glasgow–based artist’s project is being commissioned and curated by Alchemy Film and Arts in partnership with Talbot Rice Gallery and the University … Read More
  
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• It's obscene that Japan found Megumi Igarashi guilty for her vagina art

  10-05-2016 14:55
  
  The eroticism of shunga suggests Japan is as libertarian as they come. But this new case won’t change a country continually swinging between sexual freedom and suppressionEvery culture has its own complicated set of rules about sex. The fact that rules are made to be broken only adds to the fun. That is probably all we can conclude from the case of the Pussy Boat. The artist Megumi Igarashi, known as Rokudenashiko, has been found guilty of obscenity in Japan for publishing data from which
  
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• Morning Links: Maurizio Cattelan’s ‘Him’ Edition

  10-05-2016 14:53 via artnews.com
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• Director, Picasso Museum

  10-05-2016 12:49
  The rules have been published governing the appointment of the director of the Picasso Museum in Barcelona, the aim of which is the management, organisation and administration of the Museum and its heritage and resources.The rules state that the new management must continue to develop the following strategic lines:1. Accentuate the specific nature of the museum through bespoke discourse adapted to the cultural realities of Barcelona and Catalonia within an international action framework.2.&
  
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• Ugo Rondinone’s seven stone towers rise in the Las Vegas desert

  10-05-2016 12:45
  
  One of the most ambitious land art works to be built in the US in recent years—Seven Magic Mountains by the Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone—will be unveiled tomorrow (11 May) in the desert outside Las Vegas. 
  The work, located in the south of the city along Interstate 15, comprises seven stacked towers built from locally-sourced limestone boulders. Each stone is painted in a different fluorescent colour. 
  The non-profit Art Production Fund and the Nevada Museum of Art have
  
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• Huang Yong Ping ‘occupies’ Grand Palais with 250m-long snake for Monumenta commission

  10-05-2016 12:29
  
  The French-Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping describes his vast Monumenta installation, Empires, as being “an occupation” of the Grand Palais and a “metaphor” for the rise and fall of political power.  Greeting visitors at the entrance is a towering installation of shipping crates. Turning to the left, part of the skeleton of a snake can be glimpsed rising over the top of the containers. The crates of China Shipping stand in opposition to those of the French shipping c
  
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• Tourist climbs and smashes 126-year-old statue while taking a selfie

  10-05-2016 11:31
  
  The statue depicting Portugal's tragic king Dom Sebastiao was both toppled and shattered by an unidentified man
  
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• In from the cold: Iran x Cuba – review

  10-05-2016 06:37
  
  Playful seriousness abounds in this exhibition at New York’s Rogue Space galleryHoly Cow. The title of Allahyar Najafi’s painting captures the playful seriousness that abounds in IRAN X CUBA: Beyond the Headline. The show features work by 19 artists from two countries whose revolutions denied them the tender affections of a certain global hegemon for decades on end; now, as if love might actually trump hate in time, they have come together at New York’s Rogue Space gallery.In N
  
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• Susan Delvalle Named President and Executive Director of Creative Capital

  10-05-2016 06:01 via artnews.com
  Creative Capital, the nonprofit organization known for giving grants to artists, announced today that Susan Delvalle will be its new president and executive director, starting on June 1. She will assume her new role when Ruby Lerner, the founder of … Read More
  
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• Sotheby’s Notches New Rodin Record at Otherwise Mixed $144.5 M. Imp-Mod Sale

  10-05-2016 05:22 via artnews.com
  Despite a new record for a work at auction by Auguste Rodin—L’Eternel Printemps (1901-1903), which went for $20.4 million after competitive action from multiple bidders—Sotheby’s did not pull off an absolute victory at its Impressionist & Modern Evening Sale in New York Monday night. … Read More
  
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