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• Christo launches new floating installation

  17-06-2016 23:00
  Christo debuts his first completed public project this month since his 2005 collaboration with Jeanne-Claude on The Gates in New York. The Floating Piers (18 June-3 July) is a fully-functional modular floating dock on the scenic Lake Iseo, the fourth largest lake in the northern Italian region of Lombardy.
  The three-kilometre pier connects the communes of Sulzano and Monte Isola to the island of San Paolo with 70,000 sq. m of yellow fabric atop 200,000 floating polyethylene cubes.
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• Going Natural: Diamond Stingily on Her Queer Thoughts Show

  17-06-2016 19:06 via artnews.com
  At this point in her short career, Diamond Stingily is probably known best for a work she didn’t create—Martine Syms’s video Notes on Gesture (2015), which was shown last year at Syms’s exhibition at Bridget Donahue in New York. Stingily stars … Read More
  
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• Marc Fichou at Chimento Contemporary, Los Angeles

  17-06-2016 18:51 via artnews.com
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• Then and Now: Cindy Sherman, Photography Pioneer

  17-06-2016 18:23 via artnews.com
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• Adrien Brody, ‘Artist,’ Charms Pace Gallery, Others Amid Perplexing Art Basel Ubiquity

  17-06-2016 17:35 via artnews.com
  Usually the token Hollywood star to grace this stately Rhineland town with its presence during Art Basel is Leonardo DiCaprio, and when he comes, he’s actually here on business: he’s one of the world’s top 200 collectors. But DiCaprio seems … Read More
  
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• 'F*cking New York' photo series looks at our carnal relationship with cities

  17-06-2016 17:28
  
  In an age where dating apps let you know which humans within a slim radius might want to have sex with you, the sexuality of the city is more potent than ever.
  
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• ‘Zoom Pavilion’ at Unlimited Gives Art Basel a Real-Time Look at Surveillance

  17-06-2016 17:04 via artnews.com
  When I finally got wifi Friday morning at a hotel in the middle of the Black Forest in Germany, I opened my Instagram account and saw that I was now being followed by an account by the name “l.poitras.” Now, I … Read More
  
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• The Tate's switcheroo, underwater Sicily and gay Muslims – the week in art

  17-06-2016 16:38
  
  The superwomen of the USSR flex their muscles, David Hockney returns to portraiture, and how William Hogarth predicted Brexit – all in your weekly art dispatchSuperwoman
  Striking images from Soviet propaganda art explore how communism represented women from the 1917 Bolshevik revolution to the collapse of the USSR.
  • GRAD, London, 18 June-17 September. Continue reading...
  
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• The Tate's switcheroo, Jarman shortlist and queer Islam – the week in art

  17-06-2016 16:38
  
  The superwomen of the USSR flex their muscles, David Hockney returns to portraiture, and how William Hogarth predicted Brexit – all in your weekly art dispatchSuperwoman
  Striking images from Soviet propaganda art explore how communism represented women from the 1917 Bolshevik revolution to the collapse of the USSR.
  • GRAD, London, 18 June-17 September. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘The Arts Have Long Walked Us Toward Justice’: Sarah Lewis on Her Special Issue of Aperture, ‘Vision & Justice’

  17-06-2016 16:21 via artnews.com
  For the first time in its 64-year history, the photography magazine Aperture has tapped a guest editor to handle a full issue. That special guest is Sarah Lewis, the scholar of race, contemporary art, and culture who has served on President Obama’s Arts Policy Committee. … Read More
  
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• Brian Belott’s Stone Calculators Have Their Star Turn at the Gavin Brown’s Enterprise Booth at ARt Basel

  17-06-2016 15:38 via artnews.com
  On Wednesday night at the Grand Hotel Trois Rois in Basel, Switzerland, Gavin Brown was sitting with the collector Richard Chang, the artist Dustin Yellin and Nelson Mandela’s son, Kweku Mandela. At a certain point, the conversation turned toward Brown’s booth … Read More
  
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• How a 500-strong amateur choir became the centrepiece of the new Tate Modern

  17-06-2016 15:29
  
  One of the world's most unique art spaces, the Turbine Hall, will host a performance by artist Peter Liversidge entitled "The Bridge"
  
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• Morning Links: The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife Edition

  17-06-2016 14:36 via artnews.com
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• Anatomy of an artwork: Lygia Clark’s Casulo (Study), 1959

  17-06-2016 14:00
  
  Exploring key themes of the Brazilian artist’s response to European modernismWith her Casulo (Cocoon) series of folded metal sculptures – of which this is one example – the Brazilian artist took her first radical escape from the flat plane of the canvas, while retaining much of the geometric abstraction of her earlier paintings. Continue reading...
  
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• A member's view: modern art 'makes us think outside the box'

  17-06-2016 14:00
  
  Mystics and Rationalists at Modern Art Oxford presents an unconventional view of the world, says member Jessica TurnerI’ve been to Modern Art Oxford a few times, but I always think it’s good to get more insight into an exhibition. Usually, you walk around and read the placards, but it’s nice to have a conversation about it.Lots of art installations have a definite start and end. Mystics and Rationalists showed the mix of processes by which art is created. We don’t normall
  
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• The sculpture controlled by bees: Wolfgang Buttress's Hive

  17-06-2016 13:41
  
  Its 170,000 pieces of aluminium are a hive-like structure of latticework, controlled by the vibrations of honeybees in a hive at Kew that is connected to the sculpture“My approach to a sculpture seeks to frame nature so one can experience it more intimately,” says British artist Wolfgang Buttress, whose 17-metre high Hive installation opens at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, in London on Saturday. “I want visitors to feel enveloped, wrapped-up and involved in the experience
  
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• David Hockney among friends: a triumphant return to portraiture

  17-06-2016 13:00
  
  In the wake of a personal tragedy, Hockney embarked on a new project: to capture his wide social circle in defiantly exuberant tonesDavid Hockney once said that art comes in three kinds – landscapes, portraits and still-lifes. This mischievous pronouncement was directed with a wry smile at the high priests of the contemporary art world, where the smart money is on conceptual art, installation, performance, video, and digital art. In a career spanning more than six decad
  
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• Women film-makers dominate Jarman award shortlist for 2016

  17-06-2016 11:50
  
  Shortlist for £10,000 film-art prize features tales of Arab culture, life with Alzheimer’s disease and a posthumous cameo from Philip Seymour HoffmanFive of the six artists competing for the 2016 Jarman award for moving image art are women, exploring subjects as diverse as Alzheimer’s disease and Arab pop culture.Sophia Al Maria, Cécile B Evans, Shona Illingworth, Rachel Maclean and Heather Phillipson have been shortlisted alongside Mikhail Karikis for the £10,000
  
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• Wake up and smell the Manifesta: piles of poo and a view inside Houllebecq's head

  17-06-2016 09:00
  
  The art biennial known for pushing boundaries of taste has outdone itself in Zurich, sculpting a day’s worth of excrement, medically exhibiting the French author and making a Paralympic champion wheelchair on waterI am standing in a room full of shit. Nothing new there, I hear you say. Deposited by the population of Zurich, an entire day’s worth of processed human faeces stand in a gridded arrangement of compressed cubic blocks. The Zurich Load was made by is Californian artist Mike
  
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• Wake up and smell the Manifesta: piles of poo and a look inside Houellebecq's head

  17-06-2016 09:00
  
  The art biennial known for pushing boundaries of taste has outdone itself in Zurich, sculpting a day’s worth of excrement, medically exhibiting the French author and making a Paralympic champion wheelchair on waterI am standing in a room full of shit. Nothing new there, I hear you say. Deposited by the population of Zurich, an entire day’s worth of processed human faeces stand in a gridded arrangement of compressed cubic blocks. Californian artist Mike Bouchet’s The Zurich Load
  
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• How to keep an artist’s name alive

  17-06-2016 07:01
  
  As the art markets taste turns towards history, it is not just curators and scholars who are keeping the legacy of dead artists alive. At Art Basel, galleries with big stables of contemporary artists are devoting valuable space to works by artists including the late Mike Kelley, Josef Albers and Joan Mitchell. Such displays are paying off and reflect the increased competition among dealers to represent artists estates.The hot young artist dynamic has given way to history over the past five year
  
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• Houellebecq lights up Paris with photography show—and a smoking room

  17-06-2016 07:00
  
  The controversial French novelist Michel Houellebecq will be giving smokers a break in Paris next week; his new exhibition of photographs at the Palais de Tokyo (Rester Vivant, 23 June-11 September) includes a room for nicotine lovers. Its just me having a fraternal thought for my fellow addicts, Houellebecq tells us. The smoking room includes a bar and jukebox which will pay musical versions of 70 of his poems. The award-winning author says the show feels like a return to poetry. He says:
  
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• Bound to Hurt (your ears)

  17-06-2016 06:17
  
  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 soundtrack was loud enough to rumble seat
  
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• Untitled(a desultory white dude breathed in second hand smoke.)

  17-06-2016 00:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  i read an article in the atlantic about the sats and job applicants having to take intelligence tests.when amanda heard something she didn’t like or when i didn’t make myself clear she disappeared. i had no idea where she went.amanda made salmon and potatoes. i brought beaujolais red wine.she said i obfuscate. there are things i won’t talk about anymore. she said she doesn’t have anything to hide. we knew everyone had something to hide. when i got home in the morning i fe
  
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