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• Uwe Henneken at Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels

  01-06-2016 23:09 via artnews.com
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• US Senate committee submits private museum findings to Internal Revenue Service

  01-06-2016 23:00
  A chill went down the spines of collectors when news broke late last year that the US government was scrutinising private museums to discover whether they benefit their wealthy founders more than the general public. In November, the Senate Finance Committee sent a letter to 11 museums set up by collectors asking about their opening hours, attendance figures and the role of the founders in day-to-day operations. Six months later, the results are in.On 17 May, Orrin Hatch, the Republican senator
  
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• The touch behind the image: on New Imagery in Italian Art at the Guggenheim Collection

  01-06-2016 23:00
  
  What becomes of contact in a world of images? With the advent of mass culture in the 1960s, the image became the basic unit of consumption. Television sets, billboards and flimsy magazine spreads extended promises of opulence that remained, by design, out of reach. Imagine: New Imagery in Italian Art 1960-1969, a thoughtful show at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, attempts to reconcile the opposing imperatives of an era at once remote and intimate. Many of the works on display recall
  
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• The stones cry out: on Medieval art in war-torn Syria

  01-06-2016 23:00
  
  Museum With No Frontiers organises exhibitions in the form of visiting trails and the virtual environment, and The Ayyubid Era is the published version of its Medieval Syrian section. The Ayyubids, originally Kurdish, were the dynasty founded by Saladin in 1183. Their rule was effectively ended by the invasion of the Mongols who captured Aleppo and Damascus in 1260 and were in turn defeated by the militarily successful Mamluks. In their short rule, the Ayyubids were among the great building dyn
  
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• Monster sculptures: Serra, Kapoor and Webster in New York

  01-06-2016 23:00
  
  Chelsea is glimmering with subdued success. Among its current compelling shows are Sigmar Polke at David Zwirner gallery and Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth. Art isn't all noisy fairs, these shows seem to say. Come. See our quiet, wealthy dignity.Then, on 21st Street, there a bunch of giant, monster sculptures that look like they want to kill you.
  That's hyperbole, but it almost seems like this was planned. Going east to west, Gagosian, Gladstone and Paula Cooper galleries all present monum
  
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• Kunstkammer museum to open in Adelaide, filled with classic porcelain, clocks, textiles and paintings

  01-06-2016 23:00
  A major new museum housing one of Australia’s largest private collections made up of more than 3,000 decorative arts objects opens in Adelaide this week (3 June). Furniture, ceramics, metalware, clocks and paintings dating from the 18th and 19th centuries go on show at the David Roche Foundation House Museum, which encompasses two buildings: Fermoy House, the former home of the late collector, and a new, adjoining A$5m ($3.6m) wing designed by the local practice, Williams Burton Leopardi a
  
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• California landscapes resonate in London

  01-06-2016 23:00
  Your show at the Serpentine is called The Weight of the World, but much of your work is about weightless things, such as shadows and light. Where does this heaviness come from?The exhibition takes its name from a series of works that all feature circles. In this case, the expression “weight of the world” is less psychological and more physical—a big circle weighing down in each work. This new series was painted a year ago. I made the first one and Hans Ulrich Obrist [the artist
  
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• Michael Goodson Named Senior Curator at Wexner Center for the Arts

  01-06-2016 22:16 via artnews.com
  The Ohio State University’s Wexner Center for the Arts announced today that it has hired Michael Goodson as senior curator of exhibitions, effective July 1. Currently, Goodson serves as the director of exhibitions at Columbus College of Art & Design in Ohio.At … Read More
  
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• Anton Kern to Move from Chelsea to 55th Street in Midtown

  01-06-2016 22:14 via artnews.com
  After 15 years in Chelsea, Anton Kern Gallery is leaving its space at 532 West 20th Street and relocating to Midtown, on 55th Street between Madison Avenue and 5th Avenue, sources told ARTnews. The news comes over a year after … Read More
  
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• Wagner's Ring Cycle at Leeds Town Hall - review: An unqualified triumph for the departing Music Directior, Richard Farnes

  01-06-2016 18:53
  
  To see and hear the Ring Cycle sung, played and performed at the extraordinary level reached by Opera North this summer is a very special musical experience indeed
  
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• Stravinsky Myths and Rituals at the Royal Festival Hall, London - classical review: An exhilarating evening in the heart of old Russia

  01-06-2016 18:30
  
  The second event in Esa–Pekka Salonen's Stravinsky series with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Voices was an exhilarating evening
  
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• Shortlist Announced for Sobey Art Award, a Contemporary Art Prize in Canada

  01-06-2016 17:33 via artnews.com
  This morning, the shortlist was announced for the Sobey Art Award, a Canadian contemporary art prize that gives more than $100,000 CAD ($76,474) to emerging artists under the age of 40. The winner who emerges from the pool of five, which … Read More
  
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• 'The dictator who failed to dictate': free-range architecture under Mussolini

  01-06-2016 17:17
  
  He made a documentary about architecture in Nazi Germany and followed the Stalinist heritage trail. For his latest BBC4 film, Jonathan Meades is turning his camera towards Il Duce – one fascist monument at a time“After Jerry and Joe” was the cryptic subject line of the email from Jonathan Meades to promote his latest documentary. “The third and final piece on dictators’ architecture,” read the body of the message, followed succinctly by Meades’s address:
  
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• ‘Its Own Sovereign State’: Catching up with the NON collective at the New Museum

  01-06-2016 16:34 via artnews.com
  Last Friday at the New Museum, in order to get into “Legacy Systems,” a performance by the multinational collective and record label NON presented in tandem with Red Bull Music Academy, ticket holders received a custom crafted, label-branded passport, which … Read More
  
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• Paddle8 Exodus Continues as Marketing and Communications Directors Leave Company

  01-06-2016 16:03 via artnews.com
  Days after it was reported that a dozen staffers at online auction house Paddle8 had left or been laid off following the company’s merger with Auctionata, two more senior staffers will be leaving the company, ARTnews has learned.Those adding their … Read More
  
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• True to Himself: William N. Copley at Menil Collection, Houston, Texas

  01-06-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
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• Morning Links: Real Estate Edition

  01-06-2016 14:48 via artnews.com
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• Francis Bacon's painting gloves are going to auction – praise be!

  01-06-2016 14:21
  
  The paint-splattered gloves are proof that we worship artists’ relics – from Turner’s paintbox to Pollock’s brushes – as traces of genius in their own rightIs art a modern religion? It’s like the joke about sex being dirty: it is if you’re doing it properly. At its most powerful, art can offer a cosmic sense of place that for many of us religion no longer provides. The other day, I visited the latest incarnation of the Mark Rothko room at Tate Modern. No
  
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• Open bottles and dry your dishes with art

  01-06-2016 14:00
  
  “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful,” famously wrote the arts and crafts pioneer William Morris. Lovers of contemporary art and homeware can now kill two birds with one stone at Art Licks Trading, which launches this evening (1 June) at its temporary home of Safehouse 1 in Peckham, south London. Ten emerging artists have made functional items for the home, including a champagne-flute-and-sickle tea towel by Pio Abad; a halo pillo
  
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• The best of Germany's June auctions

  01-06-2016 11:31
  BerlinBerlin’s Villa Grisebach will today (1 June) auction valuable works restituted from German and Swiss museums to the heirs of Rudolf Mosse, a newspaper magnate persecuted by the Nazis and forced to sell his collection in 1934. Works in the sale of 19th-century art include a pastel portrait by Berlin’s best-known artist of his time, Adolph Menzel, showing the artist’s sister in a red blouse (around 1850). The pastel, with a high estimate of €400,000, will be offered a
  
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• Richard Goode plays Schubert at the Royal Festival Hall - review: Goode's touch was wonderfully light and flexible

  01-06-2016 11:30
  
  Goode's performance reflected the distillation of a lifetime's thought about how this difficult music should be approached
  
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• Looking back at Age and Consent – in pictures

  01-06-2016 11:28
  
  The photographic exhibition entitled Age and Consent, staged in Australia in 1999, was an unusual and confronting show given its unflinching portrayal of the nude, ageing female body. The exhibition was an official event in the International Year of Older PersonsThese images have been published to coincide with the publication of an extract from Melanie Joosten’s book A Long Time Coming: Essays on Old AgeContinue reading...
  
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• Hayward Gallery moves into a temporary home across the Thames as its Southbank base is overhauled

  01-06-2016 11:13
  
  Artists Jeremy Deller and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster will unveil two new moving-image works this autumn in an exhibition co-organised by the Hayward Gallery in London. The show, entitled The Infinite Mix: Sound and Image in Contemporary Video (9 September-4 December), is the Hayward’s only major off-site exhibition while the Southbank-based gallery undergoes a two-year refurbishment.
  The exhibition will open at The Store, a 1970s building located at 180 The Strand in central London
  
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• Manchester street art draws attention to social issues – in pictures

  01-06-2016 10:30
  
  Murals created around Manchester for the first Cities of Hope street art convention feature nine world-renowned artists, each championing a social issue and the work of a local social-justice organisation. Continue reading...
  
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• Dalí in a diving helmet: how the Spaniard almost suffocated bringing surrealism to Britain

  01-06-2016 08:30
  
  Eighty years ago, as Dylan Thomas served boiled string, Salvador Dalí put on a diving suit, grabbed a billiard cue – and changed British art for ever. Can new exhibition Surreal Encounters recapture that spirit?One spring day in 1936, Salvador Dalí visited a diving shop in the south east of England and asked to be fitted for a deep sea diving suit. When the salesman enquired how deep he intended to venture, the Spaniard replied that his dive was to be into the depths of the h
  
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• Rievaulx Abbey riches from dissolution come to light in new museum

  01-06-2016 01:01
  
  Artefacts from Cistercian jewel in Yorkshire displayed for first time since being buried in building collapse 500 years ago Some of the loot missed by the salvage men who stripped one of the most important and beautiful abbeys in Britain, when Henry VIII ordered the dissolution of the monasteries, is going on display for the first time in a new museum at Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire.The artefacts include a beautiful carved stone doorway, reconstructed for the first time since it was buried in a h
  
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• National Gallery of Art names next Mellon lecturer

  01-06-2016 00:00
  The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, has named the art historian Alexander Nemerov as the next speaker in its prestigious A. W. Mellon Lecture series.
  Nemerov will deliver six talks in March, April and May 2017 in a series titled The Forest: America in the 1830s, which looks at the work of painters like Thomas Cole and John Quidor and writers like James Fenimore Cooper.
  "There is a sense, on the one hand, of art being too fully achieved [in this period] to really portray the humanness
  
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