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• With sanctions in the rear-view mirror, European museums look to Iranian art

  12-06-2016 23:00
  
  The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London is the latest European institution to turn the spotlight on Iran. The museum has a major exhibition focusing on Iranian heritage and history in the pipeline.“The V&A is in the early stages of planning an exhibition that will showcase an important private collection of Iranian art supplemented by the V&A’s own holdings,” a museum spokeswoman says. No opening date has been set.
  Museums in the West continue to woo Iranian
  
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• Six shows to see during Art Basel

  12-06-2016 23:00
  
  Fondation Beyeler, Calder & Fischli/Weiss, until 4 SeptemberAlexander Calder and Fischli/Weiss, now on show at the Fondation Beyeler, seem an unlikely pairing for an exhibition. What does the Modernist mobile-maker have in common with the contemporary conceptual collaborators? Balance, movement and the potential for things to fall apart, says the show’s curator, Theodora Vischer.
  The curator likens the Swiss duo’s Questions (2002-03)—a projection in a dark room of “s
  
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• Our guide to satellite fairs during Art Basel

  12-06-2016 23:00
  
  While Art Basel dominates the landscape, the city is alive with smaller, more intimate fairs dedicated to cutting-edge art, design and photography—well worth the visit once you have had your fill of blue-chip art.
  Liste, Burgweg 15, 14-19 JuneKnown for its focus on emerging art, Liste returns for its 21st edition with 79 exhibitors—34 bringing solo presentations—including first-timers Cairo-based Gypsum Gallery, and The Sunday Painter, from Peckham in south London. Liste&rsquo
  
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• Object Lessons: from a pair of Medieval mourners to a pope’s gold cross

  12-06-2016 23:00
  
  Ben Nicholson, Painted Relief (1941)Modern British and Irish Art, Bonhams, London, 15 JuneEstimate £400,000-£600,000An unlikely patron of the St Ives artists, Cyril Reddihough was a Yorkshire solicitor and amateur artist who became lifelong friends with Ben Nicholson. “Redd” bought Nicholson’s paintings throughout his career, as well as works by his first and second wives, Winifred Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, and other Modern British artists, including Henry Moo
  
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• Hard lives of China’s internal migrants inspire its artists

  12-06-2016 23:00
  
  China’s urban migration since 1979 is the largest peacetime movement of people in human history—around 277 million Chinese have moved from rural areas to the cities, where they are officially classified as migrant labourers. Their lives, and issues of consumption, production, labour and identity are potent topics for the country’s artists.Typically semi-skilled, they often suffer discrimination. They are outsiders in the cities, often separated from their families, and the huk
  
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• Christian Jankowski on Manifesta11

  12-06-2016 23:00
  Looking out over Lake Zurich, artist Christian Jankowski discusses his Joint Ventures curatorial concept for Manifesta11.
  
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• As protests rage, will BP ditch the BM?

  12-06-2016 23:00
  
  The renewal of BP’s sponsorship agreement with the British Museum now looks increasingly unlikely. Although a museum spokeswoman says that “discussions are continuing” with BP, the company may well feel that the negative impact of anti-oil protests now outweighs the benefits. The museum stands to lose around £500,000 a year when the current arrangement ends in December 2017.Last month [May] the protest coalition Art Not Oil published a report based on documents obtained
  
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• Deep in the American West: meet Harry Koyama, a beet farmer with an artist's soul

  12-06-2016 16:00
  
  One of the few Asian Americans in the Yellowstone Valley, artist Harry Koyama paints flamboyant canvases of wildlife, wild places, and people that make up Montana. Writer Carrie La Seur is awestruck Gallery: Harry Koyama’s magnetic paintingsBy Carrie La Seur for Public Streets by Public Books, part of the Guardian Books Network
  Montana Avenue in Billings is a startlingly urban raft on the vast, grassy sea of rural southern Montana. It has microbreweries, artists, a cowboy hat–fixing
  
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• Deep in the American West: Harry Koyama's magnetic portraits of people, wildlife and landscape

  12-06-2016 16:00
  
  White in winter, brown in summer, with a bright green moment in late spring: raised on the sober palette of Montana, Japanese-American oil painter Harry Koyama is wanton in his use of colour. “Colour is my own enthusiasm with the profession and the medium,” he says. His presence in the Yellowstone Valley is pulling locals who normally wouldn’t think of buying artInterview: meet Harry Koyama, a beet farmer with an artist’s soul
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• Out of this world: why the most important art today is made in space

  12-06-2016 15:00
  
  Forget the Turner prize. This is art that reflects the true grandeur of the universe – it is the Sistine Chapel of the scientific ageIt’s all about scale. A black dot is moving across the face of a blazing giant. The shadow of the planet looks tiny, compared with the vast flaming orb of the sun embracing it, whose flares and vortices of unimaginable heat shudder the imagination. What a brilliant way to convey the size and power of the star we orbit. But these images of the
  
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• Serpentine pavilion and summer houses review – Dane’s design stacks up well

  12-06-2016 09:00
  
  Bjarke Ingels creates the most successful pavilion yet with his heap of fibreglass boxes, while four new ‘summer houses’ join in the funIn the history of architecture the pavilion – for an exhibition, in a garden, often temporary – has a special power. It can launch a movement, declare a manifesto in three dimensions, crystallise an idea, offer a vision of the future. Le Corbusier and Konstantin Melnikov did this at the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs in Paris in 1925, Mie
  
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• Winifred Knights (1899-1947); Mary Heilmann: Looking at Pictures – review

  12-06-2016 08:00
  
  Dulwich Picture Gallery, London; Whitechapel Gallery, London
  A neglected British painter is celebrated in a wonderfully strange and sensitive show, while Mary Heilmann is full of mischiefThe London painter Winifred Knights (1899-1947) was barely 20 when critics first called her a genius. At 21, she became the first woman to win the Prix de Rome for her painting The Deluge. This is still the work for which she is best known, but when it appeared in Fighting History at Tate Britain last year, many
  
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• The day I met Louise Bourgeois in her Manhattan studio

  12-06-2016 07:00
  
  Frances Morris, director of Tate Modern, was a young curator when she first met the legendary French artist. It wasn’t a comfortable conversation…
  The first time I met Louise Bourgeois in Manhattan in the early 1990s, I was really apprehensive. I was a youngish curator and she was the grande dame of the New York avant-garde art world. Her weekly salons were legendary. Artists, critics and curators would pay court, waiting to be cut down to size by her unhesitating and devilishly sha
  
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• Untitled(They were like an afterthought)

  12-06-2016 01:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  They saw from the safety of the boat a Syrian father and daughter in the seaThey were like an afterthoughtThey didn’t see them drownThey thought they heard them for an hour talking to each other how a daughter and father do when they are asking how the other isWhen it was impossible to see them they held onto the imageThere was no moon, the weather was murky and the night absoluteThe women wanted to turn the boat to look for themThe authorities said they had to be looked afterThey said the
  
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