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• John Knight at Redcat, Los Angeles

  17-05-2016 23:37 via artnews.com
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• Untitled(i miss her insults. they made me laugh because they were truthful.)

  17-05-2016 23:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  good boy, a said. that’s a good boy. use my leg. use it.a licked my upper lip and teeth. i sucked on her neck, breast, and tongue.i stuck my finger in her asshole.i have a song on my mind, a said. girlfriend in a coma by morrissey.a played it on her iphone.  the lyrics were scandalous.you think i hate women, i said. I smiled.no, a said.she played beautiful south.he kills his wife, a said. and dry walls her. he starts to hear her voice. she haunts him.my cock was very hard. i wanted to
  
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• Palestinian Museum opens—with no exhibition or collection

  17-05-2016 23:00
  
  The Palestinian Museum in the town of Birzeit, north of Jerusalem, is being inaugurated today (18 May), even though the institution is currently without a collection. Its director, Mahmoud Hawari—a research associate at the Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford, and a visiting academic at the British Museum in London—was only appointed two weeks ago.
  The museum, which comprises 3,500 sq. m of exhibition and educational space, focuses on the history and culture of Palestine f
  
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• Jeff Koons pops up in Vauxhall for opening of new show

  17-05-2016 23:00
  
  Some of the more soberly studious attendees at the event were a little perplexed by Hirst’s decision not to include information labels for the exhibits, especially when informed by gallery staff that lists of works were not available for distribution on this occasion. Heaven forbid that anyone might wish to check the dates, media and titles of works on show at a private view…
  
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• Where the Dead Don’t Stay Dead: The Propeller Group at James Cohan, New York

  17-05-2016 22:36 via artnews.com
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• Phillips ups thresholds for buyer’s premium

  17-05-2016 22:00
  
  Phillips has raised the thresholds of its buyer’s premium, putting its fee structure in line with Sotheby’s and leaving Christie’s looking relatively cheap.
  The new thresholds mean that buyers now need to add an extra 25% to works with a hammer price of up to and including $200,000 (this was previously set at $100,000); 20% for works between $200,001 and $3m (previously $100,001-$2m) and 12% for works over $3m (previously $2m). The last time that Phillips raised its premiums w
  
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• MoMA PS1 Announces Line-Up for its Summer Warm Up Parties

  17-05-2016 21:52 via artnews.com
  MoMA PS1 has announced this year’s line-up for its long-running Warm Up parties—19 years strong!—that are held on Saturdays in the courtyard during the summer months. The performances start at 3:00 p.m. and go until 9:00 p.m., with the doors … Read More
  
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• Marlborough Chelsea Adds Werner Büttner, Ansel Krut, and Aïda Ruilova to its Roster

  17-05-2016 19:48 via artnews.com
  Marlborough Chelsea announced in a release to ARTnews that it now represents three artists of varying age and nationality: Werner Büttner, Ansel Krut, and Aïda Ruilova. “These multigenerational, international artists exemplify Marlborough Chelsea’s commitment to a broad engagement of contemporary art … Read More
  
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• Lower East Side Mainstay ABC No Rio to Relocate After Receiving Demolition Orders

  17-05-2016 19:40 via artnews.com
  ABC No Rio, the East Village cultural center that has played host over the past three decades to artists, punks, and activists (and occasionally all three at the same time), has finally received its marching orders from the city. As … Read More
  
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• When Felonies Become Form: The Secret History of Artists Who Use Lawbreaking as Their Medium

  17-05-2016 18:00 via artnews.com
  Artists have long gotten away with murder, sometimes literally. After Benvenuto Cellini killed his rival, the goldsmith Pompeo de Capitaneis, in 1534, Pope Paul III—a Cellini fan—reportedly pardoned the Florentine artist, declaring that men like him “ought not to be … Read More
  
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• Gallery Assistant, Anita Shapolsky Gallery

  17-05-2016 16:35
  Small established gallery in the Upper East Side is seeking a Gallery Assistant.The position will include the following responsibilities:Ensure that the gallery is open and ready for presentation Answer phones and manage mail Maintain a current website (wordpress) , phone message greeting, contact database Send out e-mail blasts for exhibition announcements (mailchimp) Compose, proofread, organize, and maintain correspondence, including sale proposals and offers, consignments, loan forms, shippi
  
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• Palestine Museum review – a beacon of optimism on a West Bank hilltop

  17-05-2016 16:01
  
  With gardens of native species in lieu of a perimeter wall, this bright limestone hangar is a powerful and positive presence – even without any contentsA sharp white crown rises from a hilltop in the West Bank, looking out across sun-scorched terraces of olive trees and sage bushes to the waters of the Mediterranean – a distant prospect that most Palestinians will never be able to reach. Seen from the valley below, this monolithic hangar could be the latest Israeli fortification, cas
  
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• Master Strokes: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Golden Age review – a lust for life

  17-05-2016 15:30
  
  Victoria and Albert Museum, London
  The Flemish are precise and the Dutch are florid – but they all share a Falstaffian appetite for life. Innkeeper, more beer! Related: Rubens, Rubens, everywhere Dutch and Flemish art are as different as gouda and pancakes – at least it seems that way, looking at oil paintings. In the Renaissance, these regions of northern Europe were divided by war and religion. The birth of the Dutch Republic in 1581 created a Protestant but tolerant culture whose
  
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• Morning Links: Adam Lindemann Edition

  17-05-2016 14:44 via artnews.com
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.16.16

  17-05-2016 09:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  This Week In Audience 05.15.16 – New Audience V. Old Audience Edition
  A confluence of stories this week that rocket between new and old, digital and physical. Physical books making a comeback while e-book sales fall. Downloads collapsing as streaming takes hold. Transitions sure are messy … read more
  AJBlog: AJ Arts Audience Published 2016-05-15An Asterisk for Twombly Record* at Sotheby’s? Bloomberg Reports Payment by Art-Swap
  When is an “auction record” not r
  
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• Cadavers in pearls: meet the Anatomical Venus

  17-05-2016 09:00
  
  They were reclining beauties with ecstatic expressions – and lift-out intestines. Enter the necrophiliac world of 18th-century anatomical modelsIt is a truism of sitcoms that, whenever there’s a conversation about violence towards testicles, men always cross their legs. As a woman, reading Anatomical Venus, you will want to fold yourself protectively over everything, wrap your arms around your kidneys and liver, run some barbed wire round your reproductive area. Between 1780 and 1782
  
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• Painted desert: Ugo Rondinone erects a fluorescent stone circle in Nevada

  17-05-2016 07:30
  
  Seven Magic Mountains by the Swiss artist has just gone on display in the desert near Las Vegas Continue reading...
  
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• Vice President-Facilities & Program Planning

  17-05-2016 06:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Arts Consulting Group, Inc. seeks a vice president (VP) of facilities & program planning to guide new and existing nonprofit organizations, universities, and government agencies as they consider the scale, scope, and characteristics of building, renovating, restoring, or adaptively reusing cultural facilities.
  Arts Consulting Group, Inc. (ACG), and its subsidiary Arts Consulting Group Canada, Ltd., is the leading provider of hands-on interim management, executive search, revenue enhancement
  
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• Helsinki embraces museum building ‘boom’

  17-05-2016 04:34
  
  Helsinki is experiencing a boom in museum building. The Helsinki City Museum, which reopened its doors to 2,500 visitors on 12 May, is the latest cultural initiative aimed at attracting more tourists to the Finnish capital. “Helsinki has realised that culture affects tourism, the economy and the whole well-being of a city,” says Tiina Merisalo, the director of the museum.
  Half a block of the oldest part of Helsinki has been joined together to create the new Helsinki City Museum, whi
  
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• Divers discover 1,600-year-old shipwreck in Israel

  17-05-2016 04:25
  
  On Monday, 16 May, the Israel Antiques Authority announced the country’s most significant discovery of marine artefacts in 30 years. The site was found by two divers just before the Passover holiday in April, in the harbour of Caesarea National Park. It includes cargo from the wreck of a merchant ship carrying a large load of metal pieces—presumably to be recycled—1,600 years ago.The wreckage includes well-preserved items in bronze, such as lamps, a faucet shaped like a wild b
  
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• Legal battle between graffiti artist and fashion label back on

  17-05-2016 04:22
  
  The legal battle between the graffiti artist Joseph Tierney and the Italian fashion designer Moschino and its creative director Jeremy Scott is not over yet. A settlement reached between the parties in April has now fallen apart.
  Tierney, who works under the alias Rime, says fashion label infringed his copyright when they incorporated his Vandal Eyes mural in Detroit in a number of garments, including a dress worn by Katy Perry at the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute Gala last year
  
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