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• ‘Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions’ at Kaufmann Repetto, Milan

  16-06-2016 23:03 via artnews.com
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• The new Tate Modern opens with a night of celebration and commemoration

  16-06-2016 23:00
  
  The art world decamped from Basel to Bankside last night as the new Tate Modern extension flung both its Boiler and Switch house doors open for the most grand and expansive of opening parties. Crowds poured through the new Herzog & de Meuron-designed spaces, crammed themselves into the lifts to take panoramic pictures from the viewing terrace on the tenth floor and descended into the subterranean and still-slightly-pungent former oil tanks to admire the improvised musical performances of Ta
  
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• Soweto uprising remembered in work created at Art Basel

  16-06-2016 23:00
  
  The South African artist Robin Rhode has created a mural at Art Basel commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Soweto uprising, when 12 people were killed in clashes between demonstrators and police in South African townships. The work was made on the stand of the Cape Town-based Stevenson gallery on Thursday. Its a memorial, and will only remain on show for one day, says Joost Bosland, the gallerys director. The piece was made with Rhodes handprints, recalling a photograph in which the sister
  
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• South Korean artist wins Cern residency prize

  16-06-2016 23:00
  
  The South Korean, Berlin-based artist Yunchul Kim has been awarded the Collide International Award. The prize, now in its fifth year, is administered by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) with a revolving partner. For the next three years, that collaborator is the UKs Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (Fact) in Liverpool.
  The prize includes 15,000 Swiss francs, a fully funded, two-month residency at Cern in Geneva and another months residency in Liverpool. During thi
  
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• She’s got the look: where to find self-portraits, a jeune fille, muses and an unmerry widow at Art Basel

  16-06-2016 23:00
  
  For as long as people have been making art, they have depicted the female form. But muses are no longer just nameless pretty faces without histories of their own. Here, we pull back the curtain on five dramatic portraits at Art Basel that span the 20th century. The works trace the evolution of the representation of women from object of obsession to mistresses of their own fate.Lynn Hershman Leeson, Roberta Breitmore series (1974-1978)
  The US artist Lynn Hershman Leeson takes portraiture to an ex
  
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• Private museums that put the public first

  16-06-2016 23:00
  
  One of the ways for philanthropists to pull rank in the art world is not just to build an art collection, but to show it in a dedicated, possibly starchitect-designed private museum. Basel is home to two shining examples: the Renzo Piano-designed Fondation Beyeler and the Schaulager, a super (art) store designed by Herzog & de Meuron for the Laurenz Foundation. Such privately-owned, publicly accessible spaces are increasing worldwidethree-quarters of the 236 institutions listed in the BMW A
  
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• Kunstmuseum stages sculptural revolution

  16-06-2016 23:00
  Sculpture underwent nothing less than a revolution in the second half of the 20th century. In the hands of new generations of European and US artists, the figure and the plinth were abandoned the figure and the plinth for abstraction, consumer culture and conceptualism. That transformation is the subject of Sculpture on the Move: 1946-2016, the ambitious survey show that inaugurated the Kunstmuseum Basels new building in April and continues until 18 September.
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• Global and industrial: the concept behind the new Tate Modern

  16-06-2016 23:00
  
  Frances Morris, Tate Moderns new director, has finally begun to work in the galleries of her institutions extension, ten years on from the Tates first announcement about the building. I am incredibly relieved and very excited indeed, she says.
  Click here for a photo tour inside Tate Modern's new extensionHer enthusiasm is understandable: with 75% of the works on display acquired since 2000, much of the art she is now installing was bought during her time as director of the Tates international c
  
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• Expert eye: Nina Zimmer's pick of Art Basel

  16-06-2016 23:00
  
  Nina Zimmer, currently the deputy director and curator of Modern art at the Kunstmuseum Basel, is heading to the Kunstmuseum Bern as its new director. She is also going to lead the Zentrum Paul Klee nearby. Before she leaves Basel, however, she is organising a major exhibition about Jackson Pollock (The Figurative Pollock, 2 October-22 January 2017) that could change how we think of the US artist, best known as an Abstract Expressionist. It will show that from his early to late works, he continu
  
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• Earplugs required for Douglas Gordon's Bound to Hurt performance plus more Basel gossip

  16-06-2016 23:00
  
   Bound to Hurt (your ears)
  Bitte, bitte, urged attendants at the Theater Basel, pressing earplugs into the hands of audience members there to see the Swiss premiere of Turner Prize-winning, Glasgow-born artist Douglas Gordon and composer Philip Venabless Bound to Hurt. While it may seem counter-intuitive to distribute earplugs before what is essentially a contemporary opera, they turned out to be a most welcome piece of kit. The plot deals with domestic violence, and at times the soundtrac
  
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• Cuba or bust: conservators from US plan study trip

  16-06-2016 23:00
  
  Less than a month after Barack Obama became the first serving US president to set foot in Cuba in 88 years, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced plans to send a group of US conservators, students and graduates from the University of Delaware to Cuba to learn about the preservation challenges faced there, such as high humidity, mould growth and termite infestation. Although the details are still being finalised, the group hopes to make the journey sometime this year.The miss
  
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• Confidence in market rises against the odds

  16-06-2016 23:00
  
  Economic uncertainty over the UKs European Union referendum and slower growth in the US may weigh heavily, but art market experts are more confident than they were at the beginning of the yearat least for the gallery business. The six-monthly Art Market Confidence survey, researched by Anders Petterson of ArtTactic, measures the confidence levels of 122 experts in the post-war and contemporary markets, mostly in the US and Europe. Its latest findings, due to be published later this month, show
  
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• In pictures: inside Tate Modern's £260m expansion

  16-06-2016 22:00
  
  The view from Herzog & de Meurons new extension at Tate Modern
  Herzog & de Meurons new extension at Tate ModernA staircase in the new extensionA video by Marvin Gaye Chetwynd on show in the oil tanks downstairs 
  Visitors admiring Mary Martins, Inversions, 1966 
  Children playing in galleries on preview day 
  Kader Attias city made out of couscous, Untitled (Ghardaa), 2009 
  The honeycomb wall in Herzog & de Meurons new extension 
  A bed capsule by Ricardo Basbaum
  
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• Life, art, the universe and everything | Brief letters

  16-06-2016 20:01
  
  Bob Holman and a life well lived | Art and deep space | Nudist plays at the Tate | When to dip your credit cardOf course Bob Holman (Obituary, 16 June) resigned from his professorship in social administration at Bath University in order to live more fully by his Christian socialist principles. He also confessed to me when we were travelling together on the train from Bath together the perhaps less laudable, but rather more human, additional motive that he had come to loathe one of his fellow pro
  
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• Darren Bader’s Video at Art Basel Waxes Rhapsodic on Elton John and Billy Joel

  16-06-2016 19:30 via artnews.com
  The Darren Bader video at the booth of his London gallery Sadie Coles HQ starts innocently enough: a computer-animated helicopter flies out of a giant computer-animated mouth, with some string trailing it in a way that makes it look like … Read More
  
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• Ka-Ching! Sol Calero Erects a Venezuelan Currency Exchange Booth in Basel’s Statements Section

  16-06-2016 18:42 via artnews.com
  If you think Art Basel needs more places where you can sit in a palm tree-laden lobby and watch telenovelas, you should make your way to the fair’s Statements sector. There, the booth of London-based Laura Bartlett Gallery has been transformed completely into a … Read More
  
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• The Tate Modern building is great, but don’t assume the art inside is | Christina Paterson

  16-06-2016 18:15
  
  Visitors are flocking to the brilliant new ‘twisted pyramid’ extension – and most of their pleasure will probably come from the experience of just being thereIt was opened by the Queen. She didn’t say what she thought about the giant spider in the entrance hall, or the fact that spider had been made by a woman who was 15 years older than her. She didn’t ask how an 80-year-old could make a bronze spider that was 30ft high. When the Queen opened Tate Modern, in 2000,
  
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• MoMA Fires Assistant Film Curator Sally Berger

  16-06-2016 18:12 via artnews.com
  Indiewire reports that the Museum of Modern Art has fired Sally Berger, an assistant curator in the film department. She had been with the museum for 30 years. In a statement, Rajendra Roy, the chief curator of MoMA’s film department, … Read More
  
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• ‘I’m Like an Anthropologist’: Dinner With Film Legend Jonas Mekas During His First-Ever Trip to Basel

  16-06-2016 17:48 via artnews.com
  “No, I’m not tired—I don’t know what being tired is!” said Jonas Mekas, the 93-year-old artist and filmmaker, a few hours after flying into Basel, Switzerland from his home in New York. It was Wednesday night, and Art Basel was … Read More
  
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• Christo's Floating Piers: walking on water, Lake Iseo, Italy

  16-06-2016 15:15
  
  The artist Christo’s latest large-scale project links two islands and a town amid the stunning scenery of northern Italy Continue reading...
  
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• Bob and Roberta Smith is first artist to donate to new Tate Modern

  16-06-2016 15:04
  
  Primary school children attend special preview of new gallery before public openingBob and Roberta Smith has become the first artist to donate work to the new Tate Modern after dozens of schoolchildren ran down the slope of the Turbine Hall shouting and holding his placards which spelled out: “All Schools Should be Art Schools.”The primary school children were the first arrivals on a day when more than 3,000 children were attending a special preview of the new gallery, with its huge
  
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• Morning Links: 36-Foot-Long Gerhard Richter Print Edition

  16-06-2016 14:53 via artnews.com
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• Morning Links: 36-Foot-Long Gerhard Richter Digital Print Edition

  16-06-2016 14:53 via artnews.com
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• 'Fearless, stoic and attractive': a history of the state-sanctioned Russian woman ​

  16-06-2016 12:48
  
  A new exhibition charts the rise of the Soviet ‘superwoman’, where liberation was closely tied to state ideologyFrom leaders Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Mikhail Gorbachev, to cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Alexey Leonov, the enduring characters of the Soviet Union were rarely women. Laika was female, but she was a dog, and died a painful death shortly after her orbit in space.Fast forward to the present day and president Vladimir Putin has built a cult of personality around wrestling tige
  
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• Why it's high time UK concert programmes opened their doors to music beyond the Western tradition

  16-06-2016 12:34
  
  The British classical-music establishment is full of complacent cultural imperialism. Britain is now a very multi-ethnic society, but you'd never know that from its concert halls. There's an increasingly need for the other classical musics of the world to be given their proper place in UK concert programmes, says Michael Church
  
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• 'Vulgar' vagina calligrapher Sun Ping banned from China Artists Association

  16-06-2016 11:49
  
  Ping is trying to counter 'sexual taboos' in China but the government-led body is unimpressed
  
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• It’s a family affair at Dieter Roth’s studio

  16-06-2016 11:37
  
  Ever since the death of Dieter Roth in 1998, the Basel studio in whichthe famously reclusive artist worked and died has been preserved prettymuch intact, faithfully retaining the spirit and feel of its lateoccupant. The lair-like space is rarely open to visitors, as it remainsthe workplace of Bjrn, Roths son and former collaboratorbut Bjrndecided to host a couple of open evenings for selected guests at thestart of this years fair. Not only were visitors free to wander through
  the extraordinary,
  
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• On the flipside: match the famous paintings to their frames – quiz

  16-06-2016 10:02
  
  Brazilian artist Vik Muniz has painstakingly recreated the flipsides of some of the world’s most familiar artworks for his show Verso at the Mauritshuis. Can you guess which masterpieces these battered old frames belong to?Revealed: see another side to your favourite masterpiecesWhose celestial night scene is stickered up like this?Edward Hopper's NighthawksVincent Van Gogh's Starry NightWhich Dutch room with a view lies behind here?Pissarro's View from my Window Vermeer's View of DelftWhi
  
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• Revealed: the unseen flip-sides of the world's most famous paintings

  16-06-2016 10:00
  
  From the Mona Lisa to Van Gogh’s Starry Night, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz has exposed – literally – the nuts and bolts of centuries-old masterpiecesFlipside of art: match the famous paintings to their frames – quizThe Mona Lisa has a note reading “this way up”, Rembrandt’s Lucretia is screwed together with car parts, and Matisse’s The Red Studio is covered with chicken wire.
  These are the revelations of an exhibition at the Mauritshuis in The Hague
  
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• Beach body ready? Laura Callaghan's neo-narcissists of Instagram – in pictures

  16-06-2016 08:00
  
  The sly, knowing work of Irish illustrator Laura Callaghan skewers the shallow desires of the Instagram generation – and a culture that ensures women are never comfortable in their own skin Continue reading...
  
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• Brâncuşi sculpture goes on display as Romania bids to take ownership

  16-06-2016 00:21
  
  Wisdom of the Earth, valued at €11m, is one of just a few works by Constantin Brâncuşi remaining in his homelandA nationally treasured work by Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuşi has gone on display at the National Bank of Romania as part of a bid by the state to raise funds to buy it from a private owner.Wisdom of the Earth is a 50cm (20in) tall sculpture carved from limestone in a primitive modernist style. It depicts a female figure sitting with folded arms and he
  
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• Why Sad Music Can Make Us Happy

  16-06-2016 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As human beings we like to feel things when we are moved”. Though the feeling may not be exactly the same as happiness, it may be the ability to cope with the sadness that gives the feeling of comfort.
  
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