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• Puppies Puppies Will Present a Different Video Every Day of the Berlin Biennale

  24-05-2016 23:24 via artnews.com
  This year’s DIS-curated Berlin Biennale, which has a terrific line-up, will run for a little more than three months, from June 4 through September 18, but if you cannot make it to the German capital during that stretch, you can, at least, take solace … Read More
  
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• Christie’s to open exhibition space in Beijing

  24-05-2016 23:00
  
  Christie's will open an exhibition space in Beijing in the autumn “reflecting their ongoing commitment and growth in China”, despite the softening in the country’s art market since 2015.Although Christie’s has had an office in Beijing for many years, the larger premises will provide permanent viewing and exhibition facilities. Exact details of the location and an opening date are yet to be confirmed, but Christie’s global president Jussi Pylkkanen says the plan is
  
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• Arco prepares for lift-off in Lisbon

  24-05-2016 23:00
  
  Lisbon seems to be the European capital of the moment, a destination that is attracting increasing numbers of tourists, foreign property investors and trendy young expats. Its small but lively art scene, too, is slowly gaining international recognition.
  The organisers of Arco Lisboa, the first outpost of the established Madrid fair outside Spain, believe that the city itself will draw foreign collectors. The fair is working closely with local galleries and institutions to create an integrated p
  
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• Paddle8 Sees High-Profile Layoffs and Departures as Company Shifts Gears After Merger With Auctionata

  24-05-2016 22:46 via artnews.com
  Online auction house Paddle8 has suffered a number of defections from its top ranks, while also laying off several employees, as the company adjusts to its merger with rival startup Auctionata, ARTnews has learned. In recent weeks over a dozen … Read More
  
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• Altman Siegel Now Represents Alex Olson

  24-05-2016 22:08 via artnews.com
  San Francisco’s Altman Siegel gallery has announced it now reps Los Angeles–based artist Alex Olson. Olson is known for her abstract paintings, which juxtapose patterns, shapes, textures, and colors to create disjointed visual and linguistic symbols. Altman Siegel will hold … Read More
  
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• Diamond Intense, Fancy

  24-05-2016 20:52 via artnews.com
  I don’t believe in God or a soul or energy, but I do think that, every year, I lose a little something fundamental inside myself that I’ll never get back, some internal conviction that makes me more or less human … Read More
  
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• Atlas of Memory: Michelle Stuart and Jill Baroff at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York

  24-05-2016 20:43 via artnews.com
  ‘Theatre of Memory: Photographic Works,” Michelle Stuart’s engrossing and elegant exhibition (through June 26), ably organized by curator and critic Gregory Volk, spotlights a lesser-known aspect of this Land Art pioneer’s practice. The recent installations are prefaced by a pair … Read More
  
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• Beyoncé Visited the William N. Copley Show at the Menil Collection

  24-05-2016 20:11 via artnews.com
  A photo posted by Beyoncé (@beyonce) on May 24, 2016 at 10:41am PDT Proving once again that her taste in contemporary art is exquisite, catholic, and beyond reproach (read: wonderfully similar to mine), Beyoncé just put a photo on her Instagram account that shows … Read More
  
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• ‘Artists in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ at Yokohama Museum of Art

  24-05-2016 19:25 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Avant-Garde Fairy Tales: Russian Avant-Garde Research Project Seeks to Untangle Facts, Fakes, and Fictions

  24-05-2016 19:09 via artnews.com
  Scandals have never been in short supply in the world of Russian avant-garde art, but the last few years have seen a bumper crop, with the controversial arrest of a respected Russian curator on fraud charges and, more recently, the … Read More
  
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• An exploration of Cigarettes in art

  24-05-2016 16:53
  
  Bristol-based artist Fuller has created a new work Duty Paid paying homage to the packaging of a bygone era
  
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• Oedipe, Royal Opera House, review: 'A masterpiece'

  24-05-2016 16:41
  
  Enescu's only opera, completed in 1936, finally arrives at Covent Garden in a magnificent co-production with La Monnaie first seen in Brussels in 2011. And what a masterpiece it is. Designed by Spanish-Catalan Alfons Flores and directed by Àlex Ollé, it opens with a tableau of 20 panels of sepia draped figures recalling a cathedral frontage where the Thebans celebrate the birth of a son to King Laïos and Queen Jocaste (memorably incarnated by Sarah Connolly), interrupted by th
  
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• Courtauld Institute announces £50m revamp

  24-05-2016 16:14
  
  The Courtauld Institute of Art in London has launched a £50m redevelopment programme celebrating its founder’s vision that “art is and must be for all”. The specialist art history and conservation institute, the UK’s smallest university, has secured funding towards the first phase of Courtauld Connects, a plan to overhaul the Courtauld Gallery in Somerset House, digitise more than a million images from the photographic collections and forge educational partnerships
  
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• Noble-Winged Seraphs: On Nabokov’s Butterfly Illustrations

  24-05-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  Soon after Vladimir Nabokov arrived in the United States in 1940, he secured a job at the Museum of Natural History studying insects. His job entailed arduous, 14-hour days craning over microscopes and sketches of butterfly anatomy. The work strained … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Hitchhiking Shia LaBeouf Edition

  24-05-2016 14:37 via artnews.com
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• Mount Etna spews molten rock and fire – video

  24-05-2016 14:08
  
  Watch Italian journalist Turi Caggegi’s beautiful video of Mount Etna spewing molten rock and fire over the weekend. The images echo paintings by Georgian artist Joseph Wright of Derby, lighting up the night skiesExplosions in the sky: why Mount Etna erupting is as pretty as a paintingWatch the full video on YouTube
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• Tracey Emin: 'The stone I married is beautiful and dignified – it will never let me down'

  24-05-2016 13:30
  
  She may now prefer horse-riding to hell-raising, but Tracey Emin is still full of attitude. As she takes a break from the art world, she talks about the ‘horrible’ press, banning high heels – and why a paleolithic partner is a perfect pick-me-upThe last time Tracey Emin opened an exhibition of her work – in Hong Kong in March – she caused international headlines by announcing that she had married a stone in the garden of her house in the south of France. The artist&
  
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• Looted Safavid bowl returned to National Museum of Afghanistan

  24-05-2016 12:01
  
  Christie’s and the British Museum in London have joined forces to return a looted, early 17th-century tinned-copper bowl to the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul.
  According to a Christie’s statement, the object, which dates from the Safavid period, was lost during the civil war of the 1990s in Afghanistan. In 1994, it was bought in good faith from an Afghan antique dealer in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, by a German couple, Patrick and Paola von Aulock, who later decided to sell the b
  
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• Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, review: 'Power of love and creativity'

  24-05-2016 11:48
  
  David McVicar's Glyndebourne production of Die Meistersinger premiered in 2011 to a deafening chorus of approval, but that was before people had seen Richard Jones's production for Welsh National Opera. While McVicar set the work in a lovingly-recreated city of Wagner's time, Jones adopted a delicately surreal approach which allowed him to rivetingly illuminate Wagner's elaborate affirmation of the power of love and creativity.
  
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• Louvre and Cairo museum strike antiquities co-operation deal

  24-05-2016 11:40
  
  The director of the Louvre, Jean-Luc Martinez, is forging closer links with cultural organisations in Egypt after signing a co-operation agreement last week (15 May) with Khaled El-Enany, the Egyptian minister of antiquities.
   
  The French museum is due to enter into a partnership with the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo, which remains closed after a suicide car bomb badly damaged the 19th-century building in early 2014. A ministry spokesman says that a date for the re-opening is yet to be c
  
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• Children destroy glass art installation as adults film them

  24-05-2016 11:38
  
  The bottom of Shelly Xue's 'Angel is Waiting' was destroyed while on display at Shanghai Art Museum
  
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• Bubblegum and taxidermy: oddball table settings you won't try at home – in pictures

  24-05-2016 09:44
  
  Artisans, artists and designers from Melbourne created 40 eccentric and/or exquisite table designs for the annual Best of the Best exhibition, to raise money for the National Gallery of Victoria’s acquisitions.With themes ranging from bubblegum to taxidermy, the tables were set for a black tie gala dinner event in May valued at $650 a head, before being opened to the public. Here are some highlights. Continue reading...
  
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• Explosions in the sky: why Mount Etna erupting is as pretty as a painting

  24-05-2016 08:52
  
  Turi Caggegi’s recent volcanic YouTube footage is uncannily similar to Joseph Wright’s 18th-century art of Vesuvius – both capture an Italian night on fire
  Images of Mount Etna spewing molten rock and fire in its latest eruption reveal once again the astonishing and dangerous beauty of volcanoes. These living mountains can be colossally destructive, yet Etna’s frequent eruptions are “Strombolian” events, sending superheated rock and fire-lit ash high in the ai
  
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• Hong Kong cancels light display countdown to end of autonomy from Beijing

  24-05-2016 06:14
  
  Art installation on territory’s tallest skyscraper called off after arts council accused creators of showing ‘disrespect’Days after it was launched, organisers have cancelled an art installation on Hong Kong’s tallest skyscraper that carried a politically provocative message about the city’s relationship with mainland China.The organisers of a large-scale public art exhibition said in a statement on Sunday that they were dropping the light show on the building&rsquo
  
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