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• Play that pop until the leaf drops

  10-06-2016 23:00
  Otterlo. The Krller-Mller Museums acquisition and installation of Pierre Huyghes living garden calendar La Saison des Ftes, which is due to be completed in June (see p4), has inspired Nature Based, an exhibition of contemporary works (primarily videos) that deal with the natural world. It is a favourite theme of the museum, which is located in the Netherlands Hoge Veluwe National Park. We ended up with a selection of works where you could say that there is no longer a clear line between fiction
  
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• Kenny Schachter on how to survive an art fair

  10-06-2016 18:11
  
  I enjoy many art fairs, especially the Art Basels (Basel, Miami and Hong Kong) and, considering its owners, MCH Group, announced a major expansion into the market for regional fairs [the group is to buy stakes in existing fairs], there are soon to be plenty more. In the face of such unprecedented economic uncertainty, that says an awful lot about overall business—I can’t be the only satisfied customer. The draws of convention-centre art are accessibility, convenience and the sheer v
  
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• Tate Modern: a museum for our times

  10-06-2016 18:04
  
  The Turbine Hall at Tate Modern is perhaps the most well known, and probably the most photographed, space in the world of contemporary art. A striking feature of a great example of 20th-century industrial architecture, it has hosted the important Unilever (and now Hyundai) series of large-scale installations since the museum opened at the Millennium. But as you enter Tate Modern what you initially experience is not so much particular artworks as an impressive space. In the public imagination, w
  
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• Brooklyn Museum Elects Barbara M. Vogelstein As Board Chair

  10-06-2016 18:01 via artnews.com
  The Brooklyn Museum has announced that Barbara M. Vogelstein will be replacing Elizabeth A. Sackler as chair of the board of trustees, effective June 10. Vogelstein had been a member of the board from 2001 through 2010, and she and … Read More
  
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• True to Life: Elaine de Kooning on Stuart Davis, in 1957

  10-06-2016 18:00 via artnews.com
  With the Whitney Museum opening a massive, 100-work Stuart Davis retrospective, we turn back to the April 1957 issue of ARTnews, in which Elaine de Kooning reviewed a different retrospective, at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. (Coincidentally, that show … Read More
  
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• L.A. Habitat: Lara Schnitger

  10-06-2016 17:30 via artnews.com
  L.A. Habitat is a weekly series that visits with 16 artists in their workspaces around the city.This week’s studio: Lara Schnitger; Glasell Park, Los Angeles. “We bought this building 5 years ago,” Lara Schnitger told me one afternoon in her expansive Los Angeles studio. … Read More
  
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• 'Lorem F*cking Ipsum': The alternative, motivational dummy text

  10-06-2016 17:16
  
  A placeholder that gets your frustration
  
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• Calais, clairvoyants and Serpentine minecraft – the week in art

  10-06-2016 17:03
  
  Mary Heilmann’s personal touch, Manchester’s lost architecture and Nicholas Nixon’s unbearably moving family portrait – all in your weekly art dispatchGeorgiana Houghton
  The psychedelic spirit drawings of this Victorian medium, who claimed to be guided by dead artists, are precocious abstract marvels.
  • Courtauld Gallery, London, 16 June-11 September.Continue reading...
  
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• Meg Webster at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

  10-06-2016 17:00 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Hauser & Wirth Will Take Over the Old Dia Building in Chelsea

  10-06-2016 16:45 via artnews.com
  Hauser & Wirth will be taking over the former Dia building at 548 West 22nd Street in Chelsea, the gallery announced today. The space will serve as a temporary location while the gallery builds a permanent space next door.Hauser & … Read More
  
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• Spider Women, Cargo Ships, Chia Grass, and ‘Mommy’: Behind the Scenes of ‘Mirror Cells’ at the Whitney Museum

  10-06-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  The term “mirror neurons” refers to the brain cells that activate when observing other’s actions. It is also partly the inspiration behind the title of “Mirror Cells,” the much-talked-about five-artist sculpture exhibition on view through August 21 on the eighth … Read More
  
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• Winding Back in Time: ‘Electronic Superhighway’ at Whitechapel Gallery, London

  10-06-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  January 29 – May 15 Read More
  
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• ADAA Names Five New Members, Including Altman Siegel Gallery and Maccarone

  10-06-2016 15:00 via artnews.com
  The Art Dealers Association of America announced today that it has added five new members: Altman Siegel Gallery (of San Francisco), Baldwin Gallery (Aspen, Colorado), Danziger Gallery (New York, Jonathan Boos (New York), and Maccarone (New York and Los Angeles). … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Alex Rotter Edition

  10-06-2016 14:36 via artnews.com
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• Anatomy of an artwork: Enrico Prampolini’s Entità Cosmica

  10-06-2016 14:00
  
  The Italian futurist painter turns to nature to explore human ingenuityThis 1937 work is included in the exhibition Painting In Italy 1910s–1950s: Futurism, Abstraction, Concrete Art, and traces the three major styles at the forefront of an avant garde that flourished in the shadow of two world wars. Continue reading...
  
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• Mary Heilmann: Looking at Pictures review – art that plays fast and loose

  10-06-2016 13:39
  
  Whitechapel Gallery, London
  Cool and Californian, punky and urban – Mary Heilmann toys irreverently with the more uptight traditions of abstract art to create a new world of pleasureHow do you make painting your own, when so much has been done, so much said, when all bases are covered and all formal gambits foreclosed? The answer is to do it all again – in your own way. Mary Heilmann’s career as a painter began in the early 1970s. This retrospective shows her groping her way th
  
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• Latin American artists triumph at South London Gallery

  10-06-2016 13:07
  
  For its first major foray in London, the Guggenheim in New York has chosen to partner with the South London Gallery (SLG) on a potted survey of contemporary art from Latin America. Although not the most obvious of pairings, the SLG has a long history of showing Latin American artists and the local area has one of the largest Hispanic populations in Europe.
  The resulting exhibition, titled Under the Same Sun, is a glorious cacophony of voices. Sound plays its part: Carlos Amorales invites galler
  
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• 'It was not a sentimental love': Françoise Gilot on her years with Picasso

  10-06-2016 13:00
  
  At 94, the artist talks to Emma Brockes about her unlikely match with Picasso, her own ambition – and why she’s buying back all her paintingsFrançoise Gilot takes a stern line with interviewers, assuming they approach her with interest in only one thing: her affair with Picasso, which started 70 years ago and lasted a decade, during which time she had two children with the artist, before walking out. “When people know nothing about you except one thing, you have to talk
  
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• French museums kick off culture events to mark Euro 2016

  10-06-2016 12:27
  
  Football fever is spilling over into French museums and galleries for the next month as France plays host to the 15th UEFA European championship (until 10 July). The Louvre-Lens is leading the pack, welcoming fans with an exhibition celebrating its local club RC Lens, titled RC Louvre: Memories of Blood and Gold (until 17 November). The show traces the history of the team and its stadium, the Stade Bollaert-Delelis, which is visible outside of the glass pavilion gallery space. On display are me
  
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• Made for each other: Moholy-Nagy and the Guggenheim rotunda

  10-06-2016 03:03
  The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York is notoriously inhospitable to art. (With all due respect to Frank Lloyd Wright, it takes chutzpah to build a museum whose main exhibition space is largely devoid of flat walls.) The rotunda’s sweeping vistas often drown out individual works of art; the winding ramps encourage visitors to forge onward rather than pause in front of an object for closer examination.
  But the Guggenheim’s most successful shows turn the building’s challe
  
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• Serpentine summer programme goes BIG

  10-06-2016 02:41
  
  The Serpentine’s outgoing director, Julia Peyton-Jones, has been at the helm of the institution since 1991 and inaugurated the annual Serpentine Gallery Pavilion programme in 2000. The 16th edition of the project, which runs from 10 June to 9 October, will be her last, and the programme has been dressed up for the occasion with four ancillary summer houses to complement the main design.The pavilion has been designed by the Copenhagen and New York-based firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), whic
  
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• Untitled(i can stay in nature like van gogh or like the poor glassy eyed alcoholic, in the small lean park on presidio in san francisco who wanted to talk to me about himself and i said hold onto that thought to see what came next.)

  10-06-2016 00:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  i don’t need to hear from my lawyer or my sister to know that i’m reasonable and still exist. i can stay in nature like van gogh or like the poor glassy eyed alcoholic,  in the small lean park on presidio in san francisco who wanted to talk to me about himself and i said hold onto that thought to see what came next. he types with his one index finger. he takes off his black glasses that make him anonymous. he has things to do. has the lawyer who looks like john wayne with a wig
  
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• Omaha Symphony Posts Record Attendance, Ticket Sales

  10-06-2016 00:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  And “symphony officials say subscription ticket sales for next season are 8 percent higher than they were on this date last year. Subscription revenue is up 9 percent so far. The fastest growth is in the Rocks and Movie Music series.”
  
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