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• ‘Theories of Modern Art’ at Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London

  26-05-2016 23:53 via artnews.com
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• Two Moscow museums to merge amid controversy

  26-05-2016 23:00
  The National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) in Moscow is being merged with Rosizo, the state museum that is run by the ministry of culture.The museum will be run by Sergei Perov, the general director of Rosizo who has said that he learned everything he needs to know about management in military school.In an interview in the Izvestia newspaper last year, Perov, the general director of Rosizo who will now run the merged museums, spoke of his admiration for Soviet art. When he first started a
  
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• Simon Starling takes to the stage for his latest project

  26-05-2016 23:00
  
  Simon Starling, the winner of the 2005 Turner Prize, is producing a play referencing W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound and Japanese Noh theatre with an accompanying exhibition in Glasgow this summer.
  At Twilight: A play for two actors, one dancer, 8 masks and a donkey costume, a collaboration with the theatre director Graham Eatough, takes as its starting point Yeats’s 1916 play At the Hawk's Well, inspired by a Noh play Yeats discovered through Pound. Starling came across the Noh play while working
  
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• Out with the old, in with the new: Marianne Boesky closes one space to open another

  26-05-2016 23:00
  Marianne Boesky will expand her Chelsea gallery on 24th Street to incorporate 303 Gallery's former home just next door, more than doubling her footprint to approximately 13,000 square feet. A release refers to the expansion, technically eastward from the original Boesky space on 24th street, as the new "Boesky East," although the gallery's space on the Lower East Side, which had the same name, is due to close.The expansion opens on 23 June with a show of works by Jay Heikes, Thornton Dial, and
  
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• Lost and found and lashings of gin at the Foundling Museum for Cornelia Parker’s show

  26-05-2016 23:00
  
  As if she hadn’t had enough to do, combining two rather large found objects— Hitchcock’s Psycho house and a 19th-century barn—on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Cornelia Parker has also been busy organising a brilliant exhibition called Found (until 4 September) at the Foundling Museum in London. Many of the 69 participating artists and cultural luminaries were out in force at last night’s opening (26 May), where it quickly became evident th
  
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• Location, location, location: the real estate lessons to be learned from Ace Gallery’s bankruptcy

  26-05-2016 23:00
  
  Given all the talk about Instagram shaping our self-images, Facebook replacing our friendships and art fairs draining the profits out of galleries, one surprise of the 21st-century culture industry is that so many art sales still depend on a physical, bricks-and-mortar space.
   
  Even a small gallery offers a platform that almost all artists—and collectors too—prefer to fair booths or web pages. And the reliable presence of a gallery open in regular business hours helps to signal
  
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• Join the .ART party

  26-05-2016 23:00
  
  Now deep into the era of post-Internet art, we stand on the precipice of yet another major new development for online culture. Adding to the art world’s reputation as a self-obsessed bubble, it will soon be able to distinguish itself from the rest of the world wide web with a new domain: .ART. Branded as an online “neighbourhood” for the arts, .ART is due to be launched by UK Creative Ideas Limited later this year. To join the .ART bandwagon, visit http://dotart.domains/.
  
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• Instagramming Kusama’s luminous pumpkins, performing for the camera at the Tate, Koons’s shiny monkey, and more in this week’s London exhibition round-up

  26-05-2016 23:00
  
  Graham Fagen: the Mighty Scheme, CGP Gallery and Dilston Grove (until 26 June)An early and abiding love of reggae and the fact that Scottish bard Robbie Burns almost emigrated from Scotland to Jamaica in the 18th century, form the source of Graham Fagen’s haunting sound and five-channel video installation The Slave’s Lament. The work echoes through the soaring, concrete, faux-Romanesque interior of Dilston Grove, a former church in Southwark Park. Burns’s anti-slavery words ar
  
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• Battle-scarred dinosaur skeleton to be auctioned in Germany

  26-05-2016 23:00
  
  On Saturday, 28 May, the German auction house Auctionata will offer a skeleton of a Jurassic-period stegosaurus in its Nature at Home—Prehistoric Fossils and Minerals sale. The approximately 150million-year-old, 7m-long skeleton (est €1.2m-€2.4m) is said to be the best known example of this type of dinosaur, made up of 90% original bone and with its tail spikes, vertebra and back plates nearly complete.
  The prehistoric skeleton was discovered in the Eastern Bighorn Mountains in
  
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• Los Angeles’s Thomas Duncan Gallery Will Close

  26-05-2016 18:18 via artnews.com
  It sometimes seems like not a week goes by without word of yet another gallery opening in Los Angeles, but today brings news of a closure in the city. Thomas Duncan Gallery, which opened in early 2012 and shows artists … Read More
  
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• SculptureCenter Announces New Summer Concert Series

  26-05-2016 18:03 via artnews.com
  SculptureCenter has announced that it will host a new three-week summer concert series in their outdoor courtyard called HOLDING SPACE, which will feature artists and musicians working in the “cutting edge of music production,” according to a press release. Sam Hillmer—the … Read More
  
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• Hugh Honour obituary

  26-05-2016 17:25
  
  Art historian whose innovative approach and breadth of reference transformed his disciplineHugh Honour, who has died aged 88, was one of the most versatile, prolific and influential art historians of the past half century. The “long” 18th century was his spiritual and scholarly heartland, but in tandem with his partner, John Fleming, he pioneered a more interdisciplinary and multicultural approach to art history, producing scholarly yet accessible work.Their book A World History of A
  
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• James Richards Will Represent Wales at the 2017 Venice Biennale

  26-05-2016 16:37 via artnews.com
  The Arts Council of Wales announced today that James Richards will represent Wales at the 2017 Venice Biennale. The Welsh Pavilion will be curated by Chapter, an arts center based in Cardiff.Though this is the first time Richards will have … Read More
  
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• With ‘Gallery Tally Project,’ Micol Hebron Examines Gender Inequality in the Art Market

  26-05-2016 16:26 via artnews.com
  Last month, the artist Micol Hebron played an April Fools’ joke on her Facebook followers. She posted that Larry Gagosian, bluest of the blue-chip dealer, had emailed her to admit he had a “woman problem,” acknowledging that 86 percent of … Read More
  
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• The fine line between drawing and photography

  26-05-2016 16:12
  
  Photography literally means “drawing with light”, so it is perhaps surprising that the relationship between drawing and photography is not more regularly explored. Two related, boutique exhibitions at the Photographers’ Gallery in central London and the Drawing Room in Bermondsey have tackled the subject side-on, with a carefully selected group of artists who challenge, stretch and play with the relationship between the two media.The Photographers’ Gallery is showing 12
  
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• Here Is the Line-Up for the Eighth Season of ‘Art In the Twenty-First Century,’ With New Host Claire Danes

  26-05-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  Nonprofit Art21 has shared the line-up for the eighth season of its Peabody Award–winning television series, Art in the Twenty-First Century, which will air on PBS this September. The show’s four one-hour episodes, which in previous seasons were organized around different … Read More
  
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• Cornelia Parker channels the spirit of Duchamp, Dickens and Madame Tussaud’s

  26-05-2016 15:47
  
  Jeremy Deller has contributed a page from John Lennon's school records, which lists the young Beatles’ run-ins with his teachers. One wrote that the impudent Lennon “groaned at me”. The relic is one of the many treats Cornelia Parker has picked for her show at London's Foundling Museum. The British artist-curator has infiltrated the exhibits and historic paintings in the museum that tells the history of an orphanage and school established in the 18th century with the help of t
  
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• The Louvre's missing pyramid and the magic of trompe l’oeil

  26-05-2016 14:42
  
  Muralist JR has cast a spell over the Paris museum’s glass canopy in a work that recalls the Renaissance’s eye-fooling tricks. Now can we have one for the Shard?The Louvre has got rid of its pyramid. This seems a bit extreme. I know that not everyone loved IM Pei’s glass entrance canopy in the courtyard of the vast Paris museum when it was unveiled in 1989, but over the years the pyramid has become a beloved landmark. Why demolish it now?Related: JR: ‘I realised I was giv
  
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• Yes, these are actually cakes not CGI planets

  26-05-2016 14:39
  
  Boasting irresistibly satisfying ripples of marbled colour, and the type of eggshell speckle that you find on the inside of reassuringly expensive book covers, it's hard to believe that design polymath Kia Utzon-Frank's sculptural creations are as edible as they are beautiful.
  
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• Morning Links: Terence Koh Edition

  26-05-2016 14:38 via artnews.com
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• Collections Manager and Web Manager

  26-05-2016 14:00
  Job OverviewThe Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation (FWAF), which owns the finest collection of Scottish art outside institutions, is seeking a Collections and Website Manager reporting to the foundation’s director, James Knox. The wide-ranging role (see attached job specification) includes sourcing and implementing a new collections management system and - with the director – finalising the choice of a web developer to create a new website and working with them on its design, structure an
  
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• Member of Ai Weiwei’s studio questioned by police during evacuation of Idomeni camp

  26-05-2016 11:41
  
  A member of Ai Weiwei’s studio was reportedly detained by police evacuating the Idomeni refugee camp on the border between Greece and Macedonia this week. Lu Hengzhong, who has been filming at Idomeni for the past 12 weeks, was gathering footage at the train station that runs through the camp when two policemen stopped her on 24 May, according to a post on Ai’s Instagram account. She was forced to switch off her camera before being questioned by three plain clothed policemen about h
  
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• A pair of glasses were left on the floor at a museum and everyone mistook it for art

  26-05-2016 11:17
  
  The architect of the hoax had similar success with a baseball cap and a bin
  
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• JR makes Louvre pyramid disappear

  26-05-2016 11:07
  
  The French artist JR has created an anamorphosis of the Musée du Louvre's pyramid by entirely covering one of its glass sides with a black-and-white photograph. The image of the museum buildings behind is intended to give the illusion that I.M.Pei's pyramid has temporarily disappeared.“JR wanted to intervene in a spectacular manner in the public space,” says Stéphane Malfettes, a curator at the Louvre, about how the work came about.JR, best known for mounting women's p
  
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• Joining the dots: Shigeo Anzaï's stars of modern art – in pictures

  26-05-2016 08:00
  
  From Damien Hirst in his boxers to Yayoi Kusama in a polkadot wonderland, Shigeo Anzaï tracks art’s biggest names to their natural habitats and captures them in candid black and white Continue reading...
  
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• Joining the dots: Shigeo Anzaï's constellation of art stars – in pictures

  26-05-2016 08:00
  
  From Damien Hirst in his boxers to Yayoi Kusama in a polkadot wonderland, Shigeo Anzaï tracks art’s biggest names to their natural habitats and captures them in candid black and white Continue reading...
  
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• Joining the dots: Shigeo Anzaï's constellation of art stars – in pictures

  26-05-2016 08:00
  
  From Damien Hirst in his boxers to Yayoi Kusama in a polkadot wonderland, Shigeo Anzaï tracks art’s biggest names to their natural habitats and captures them in candid black and white Continue reading...
  
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