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• Uncanny photography at Parasol Unit, tree peeing and porn at the National Gallery, plus the rest of this week’s top London shows

  13-05-2016 23:00
  
  Magical Surfaces: the Uncanny in Contemporary Photography, Parasol Unit (until 26 June)The Freudian notion of the “uncanny”—which the great man described in 1919 as “that class of the terrifying which leads back to something long known to us, once very familiar”—is now a well stomped-upon creative territory, especially in the realm of photography. But this generation-spanning seven-artist show confirms that even in our jaded post-Freudian image-overloaded era
  
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• L.A. Habitat: Kaari Upson

  13-05-2016 22:46 via artnews.com
  L.A. Habitat is a weekly series that visits with 16 artists in their workspaces around the city.This week’s studio: Kaari Upson; Koreatown, Los Angeles. Last December, I visited Kaari Upson’s spacious studio, which is located on an unassuming block in Koreatown. At the time, the artist … Read More
  
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• The New Esopus Magazine Has Projects With Marilyn Minter, Mickalene Thomas, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Is Generally a Delight

  13-05-2016 22:02 via artnews.com
  Once a year, a truly beautiful thing occurs in the bookstores of all 50 United States: new copies of Esopus magazine arrive. Esopus is a freewheeling treasure trove of a book, sumptuously designed and filled with often-elaborate projects by artists, writers, and … Read More
  
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• ‘Island States’ at Tops Gallery, Memphis

  13-05-2016 21:55 via artnews.com
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• Sainsbury's apologises for ad seeking artist to revamp canteen for free

  13-05-2016 20:33
  
  Camden Road, London store ad calling for volunteer artist to redecorate staff canteen sparks social media rowSainsbury’s has apologised after one of its stores placed an ad calling for an artist to decorate the staff canteen for free. The store in Camden Road, north London, said it was looking for an “ambitious artist to voluntarily refurbish our canteen”. The ad added that the artist would gain experience in the creative industry while making “a comfortable area for our
  
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• Sexier Than City Buses: Allen Jones at Michael Werner Gallery, New York

  13-05-2016 19:28 via artnews.com
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• Tunick needs 100 nude women to stand up to Trump

  13-05-2016 18:25
  
  The US photographer Spencer Tunick is seeking 100 women to pose nude at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July. Tunick, known for capturing on camera crowds of naked men and women, will snap the derobed individuals outside the Quicken Loans Arena. He says on his website that “the photograph will involve 100 nude women holding large mirror discs, reflecting the knowledge and wisdom of progressive women and the concept of ‘Mother Nature’ into and onto the conven
  
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• Vagina kayaks, sunken cities and a cheeky Turner list – the week in art

  13-05-2016 17:45
  
  Bacon hits Merseyside, the Panama Papers inspire ‘offshore paintings’, and we reveal African photography’s rising stars – all in your weekly art dispatchSunken Cities
  Egypt is the most darkly alluring of ancient cultures. Underwater archaeology is one of the most adventurous ways to study the past. Put them both together and the British Museum hopes for a summer smash hit with this survey of two lost cities whose treasures have been recovered from the depths.
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• Sunken cities, vagina kayaks and a cheeky Turner list – the week in art

  13-05-2016 17:45
  
  Bacon hits Merseyside, the Panama Papers inspire ‘offshore paintings’, and we reveal African photography’s rising stars – all in your weekly art dispatchSunken Cities
  Egypt is the most darkly alluring of ancient cultures. Underwater archaeology is one of the most adventurous ways to study the past. Put them both together and the British Museum hopes for a summer smash hit with this survey of two lost cities whose treasures have been recovered from the depths.
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• Morning Links: Healing Arts Initiative Edition

  13-05-2016 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Deal sealed to exhibit Tehran art collection in Berlin

  13-05-2016 13:09
  
  Berlin will be the first foreign city to host the collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in an exhibition that will feature both international and Iranian artists. It is scheduled to run from December to February 2017.
  The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation announced yesterday (12 May) that it has signed a contract with the Tehran museum. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier welcomed the accord as “a signal of a new cultural and social openness that we want to u
  
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• Zaha Hadid’s designs to be celebrated in Venice show

  13-05-2016 12:54
  
  A selection of works-in-progress designed by the late Zaha Hadid, including projects to be completed, will take centre stage in a survey due to open in Venice this month. The exhibition will chart the four-decade career of the Iraqi-UK architect who died suddenly at the end of March.The exhibition at the Palazzo Franchetti on the Grand Canal (27 May-27 November) explores Hadid’s future ventures, including the Mathematics Gallery at the Science Museum in London, which opens in December (Ha
  
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• Art meets audience: how to create unique, immersive experiences

  13-05-2016 12:30
  
  Big or small, interactive art is about making allowances for time, responding to space – and always looking after the audienceWe at Home Live Art (HLA) specialise in producing site-specific, immersive and participatory art experiences, often in mainstream, non-arts environments.Artists from performance and live art disciplines create the works, which are based on the concepts of familiarity and the everyday: contexts in which to make and experience art.We launched 16 years ago, presenting
  
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• Yves Klein and the birth of the blue

  13-05-2016 12:00
  
  The time Yves Klein spent working in a London frame shop was crucial to his artistic development, so why is it forgotten?In 2006 the catalogue of the Yves Klein retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris included a section in which different authors examined the significance of certain countries or cities for Klein’s artistic development – France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New York – and, conversely, the impact the artist made on the art scene in these places. The omission of L
  
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• Mona Hatoum at Tate Modern: the art of war in our time

  13-05-2016 11:54
  
  Frances Morris, the recently appointed director of Tate Modern, has made it clear from the outset of her tenure (and indeed, through the works she has been amassing over the past 10 years as director of international collections) that she will be putting a much greater emphasis on work by women and by artists from beyond the standard US/Western Europe axis than has previously been the case.The Mona Hatoum show, which opened in London last week (4 May), ticks both of those boxes. Born in 1952 in
  
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• William Grill's wolves of New Mexico – in pictures

  13-05-2016 10:00
  
  Kate Greenaway-winning illustrator William Grill shares sketches he made drawing the wolves at Wild Spirit Wolf sanctuary in New Mexico to research his breath-takingly beautiful new book The Wolves Of Currumpaw Plus enter our competition and win an original illustration by William GrillContinue reading...
  
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• Arts workers should be angry about funding cuts – we can't work harder for less

  13-05-2016 07:06
  
  Defiance may seem heroic but running full programs with insufficient funding is a risky business. And the burden will fall on the workersThey’ve been calling the past week the worst ever for the Australian arts. They’re not wrong.The sector’s fears that Catalyst – the newly introduced arts funding program dispensed directly by the government’s arts ministry – would become an exercise of political favour and pork barrelling, seem to have come true. Almost half
  
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• Christie’s Imp-Mod Auction Totals $141.5 M., Secures Record With $8 M. Frida Kahlo

  13-05-2016 05:36 via artnews.com
  In the last of the New York evening sales this May, Christie’s netted $141.5 million during its Impressionist & Modern art auction, ahead of a low estimate of $134.3 million, in a sale that capped a modestly priced but overall stable … Read More
  
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• Scott Anderson at CES Gallery, Los Angeles

  13-05-2016 00:20 via artnews.com
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