Arts news

• Berlin street art museum gets under way

  29-05-2016 23:00
  
  Conversion work is due to start to turn a Wilhelmian-era Berlin building into one of the world’s first museums dedicated to street art. Described by the architects as “more of a hub”, which will include living and work spaces for artists on its upper floors, the Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art is set to open in the middle of next year.
  The facade of the former residential house in the capital’s Schöneberg district has long been used as a giant canvas
  
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• Art makeover for Parisian trains and tram stops

  29-05-2016 23:00
  
  The Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos will create a new site-specific public art work for the new Tramway T3 Nord rail line, which passes through the 17th and 18th arrondissements of Paris. Vasconcelos, who is known for her elaborate knitted and crocheted installations, showed a chandelier sculpture made of thousand of tampons (The Bride, 2001-5) at the 2005 Venice Biennale.
  The Tramway T3 art initiative is funded by the local government body, City of Paris, which has provided around €2.
  
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• On my radar: Jarvis Cocker’s cultural highlights

  29-05-2016 11:00
  
  The musician and broadcaster on the original Batman, the music of Cat’s Eyes, the importance of the BBC and the beautiful gameBorn in 1963 and raised in Sheffield, Jarvis Cocker founded Pulp (then called Arabacus Pulp) at the age of 15. Between 1983 and 2001 they released seven studio albums including His ’n’ Hers and Different Class. In 1996 Cocker made headlines by invading the stage during Michael Jackson’s performance of Earth Song during the Brit awards. Since Pulp&r
  
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• Artists speak out as the battle rages over Brexit

  29-05-2016 09:26
  
  The leading UK artist Tacita Dean, who has been based in Berlin for the past 15 years, says that the prospect of the UK voting to leave the Europe Union (EU) in the much anticipated referendum on 23 June fills her “with cold dread”. Brexit could make London as an art centre “provincial once more”, she fears. Dean is making a work that is partly inspired by the prospect of Brexit and has a Shakespearean dimension.  “I am making the largest blackboard drawin
  
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• Seeing Round Corners: The Art of the Circle review – the joy of life in the round

  29-05-2016 09:00
  
  Turner Contemporary, Margate
  From ancient Egyptian suns to Bridget Riley’s bright rings of colour, this compelling show celebrates the lure of all things circularA circle is itself, pure and simple, but a world of other things too: a bubble, an eye, a planet, the sun. Casually drawn on a scrap of paper, it can be a hole, a halo, a ring or the Earth itself. Since the dawn of mankind we have been looking with wonder at the full moon in the night sky and the coloured discs in each other&rsquo
  
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• Gin ices, pastel nails, MIA and mega-slides - make the most of summer '16

  29-05-2016 09:00
  
  From frozen cocktails to punk exhibitions, holiday clothes to countryside escapes… here’s our guide to what’s best to eat, see, do and buy in the coming months1 Is there such a thing as an It nail? Let’s pretend there is. SS16 manicures are the opposite of last season’s edgy nails. Rather than dark and sharp, the varnish you want right now is a milky pastel in either soft blue, lilac or the most delicate blushing pink.
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• New York’s Clifton Benevento Gallery Closes

  29-05-2016 02:00 via artnews.com
  After more than six years in business, SoHo gallery Clifton Benevento announced that it has decided to close, with its last official business on May 31. Its final show, a solo outing by Zarouhie Abdalian, closed on May 14. Clifton … Read More
  
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