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• River goddesses, a scented tube platform, rabbits in surgical masks and much more midnight madness at the inaugural Art Night

  04-07-2016 23:00
  
  EU-loving art worlders had their legs emphatically stretched this weekend with Saturdays (2 July) anti-Brexit march attracting a considerable and multigenerational posse from the capitals visual arts contingent. Among the estimated 50,000 throng of protestors who paraded from Park Lane to Parliament Square were the eminent art historian Dawn Ades; the former Serpentine Gallery director Alastair Warman; the artists Anne Hardy, Charlotte Cullinan and Gavin Turk with his wife Deborah Curtis and th
  
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• Object lessons: best of London's Old Master auctions

  04-07-2016 23:00
  
  Claude Gelle, called Claude Lorrain, A pastoral landscape with a shepherd and shepherdess beside their livestock in an Arcadian landscape with drovers on a bridge beyond (1635-37)
  Bonhams, New Bond Street, Old Master Paintings, 6 July
  Estimate 600,000-800,000Claude Lorrains lyrical observations of landscape, light and nature revolutionised painting in the 17th century. Before then, pure landscape had been looked down upon: it offered only aesthetic simplicity when compared with the moral superio
  
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• Louvre Abu Dhabi to host summit on culture versus terrorism

  04-07-2016 23:00
  
  The United Arab Emirates will host a high-level, international conference on terrorism versus culture, led by the French president Franois Hollande and the president of the UAE, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The exact date is not yet fixed, but the event is due to take place in December in the Louvre Abu Dhabi building, designed by the architect Jean Nouvel.Since 2015, France has taken the lead in this campaign. The decision to hold the conference, which will bring together ministers as w
  
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• Floating Piers: how Italy learnt to love Christo

  04-07-2016 23:00
  
  In 1970, the year that Christo and Jeanne-Claude first conceived of the Floating Piers, the phenomenally popular installation that closed this weekend on Italys Lake Iseo, the artists wrapped monuments were greeted with hostility in nearby Milan. The Wrapped Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II was undone by the city authorities after two days of protests by ex-servicemen and monarchists, while the Wrapped Monument to Leonardo da Vinci lasted a week before a group of neo-fascists set it on fire.&nbs
  
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• Ai Weiwei to festoon Palazzo Strozzi facade with lifeboats

  04-07-2016 23:00
  
  Ai Weiwei will be the first artist to have the full run of the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence when his first retrospective in Italy, Ai Weiwei: Libero, opens there on 23 September (until 22 January 2017). Sculptures, installations, photos and videos will fill the exhibition spaces inside and out, including the piano nobile, the Strozzina contemporary art gallery and the courtyard, says Arturo Galansino, the director general of the Strozzi. The show will include Reframe, a new installation mad
  
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• Politics pervades everything: Kenyan artists take on status quo

  04-07-2016 19:30
  
  Elections are not for a year, but protests have already erupted into violence. Those tensions are having direct effect on artWorking on an industrial estate, Michael Soi paints giant, brightly coloured pictures of bar-girls and international businessmen in Nairobi’s nightclubs, and talks of art as dissent. A mile or so away, Peterson Kamwathi stands in a cut-down shipping container cum studio and says it his role to fight polarisation. Next door, Longinos Nagila hangs a work bearing the sl
  
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• Art Night review – London finally catches the 'nuit blanche' bug

  04-07-2016 19:22
  
  Live art legend Joan Jonas, Turner prize-winning Laure Prouvost, plus two human rabbits among those wowing and confusing the all-nighter crowdsFollowing the example of nuits blanches (white nights) held in cities around the world, London’s first all-night art festival had its highlights and its teething problems, not least the weather. Early on, Linder Sterling’s performance on Duke of York Steps, with a choir and orchestra, Northern Soul dancers and waltzing couples, ripped young me
  
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• Georgia O'Keeffe at Tate Modern review – one long, strange trip

  04-07-2016 17:48
  
  Tate Modern, LondonThis blockbuster retrospective seeks to show there is more to O’Keeffe than anodyne prints, signature aprons and sexual stereotypes – but her own gorgeous but awkward art compounds the clichesBeginning in grey gloom and charcoal drawings of things she saw only in her mind, Georgia O’Keeffe’s Tate Modern retrospective ends above the clouds, with stratospheric, light-filled views from an aeroplane window that look like nothing at all. There is a tension t
  
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• Mami Kataoka Will Direct the 2018 Biennale of Sydney

  04-07-2016 17:18 via artnews.com
  Today the Biennale of Sydney revealed that it has tapped Mami Kataoka, the chief curator of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, to be artistic director of its 21st edition, which will take place in 2018.“As one of the region’s most … Read More
  
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• Cracking 4th July fireworks without the bang

  04-07-2016 15:49
  Celebrate US Independence Day this 4th July with some quiet contemplation of recently restored fireworks books. The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced in a blogpost last week that they have conserved 19 books in their Department of Drawings and Prints on firework displays. The books cover more than four centuries of pyrotechnics, and include spotty 19th-century Japanese depictions reminiscent of colour-blindness tests; a 17th-century British engraving of how to make a fire-breathing
  
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• Students' end-of-year artwork 2016

  04-07-2016 12:55
  
  As part of our Students Express series, we asked you to share your end-of-year artwork. We have received hundreds of your paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculptures. Here are some of our favouritesView all submissionsContinue reading...
  
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• Leading Iranian artist banned from travelling to London

  04-07-2016 12:55
  
  The leading Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli was unable to attend a talk yesterday (3 July) at the British Museum in London after his passport was confiscated by the Iranian authorities. The lecture, which focused on the book European Women in Persian Houses, went ahead without Tanavoli, its author, was who was left in the dark about why he was not allowed to travel.The veteran artists sculptures are included in the Tate Moderns rehang alongside paintings by Warhol and Lichtenstein in a room call
  
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• Sculptural revolution: Sussex welcomes a playful woodland Mao

  04-07-2016 11:30
  
  A giant bust of the Communist leader and sockets in trees are part of Chinese artists’ response to the English countrysideExtremely odd things are happening among the trees of the Cass Sculpture Foundation, where a giant monochrome bust of Mao Zedong has been transplanted into west Sussex woodland, with “feckless” youths congregating under it listening to loud hip-hop.Elsewhere, there are plug sockets in the trees and a beautiful view of the South Downs has been blocked by a mo
  
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• Volte-face: This photographer goes to tourist spots and points his camera the wrong way

  04-07-2016 11:26
  
  Favouring 'the incidental over the monumental'
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 07.03.16

  04-07-2016 06:39 via feedproxy.google.com
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  Ten Hairy Legs presents work by four choreographers at New York Live Arts. Doug Varone’s mark for 10 Hairy Legs. (L to R): Derek Crescenti, Tony Bordonaro, Alex Biegelson, and William Tomaskovic. Photo: Rachel Neville … read more
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• 'Look in your attics': global hunt for 100 missing Gottfried Lindauer paintings

  04-07-2016 06:35
  
  New Zealand art gallery launches search to locate as many works as possible of portrait artist best known for painting Māori chiefsPeople around the world have been urged to look under their beds and poke through their attics in the search for at least 100 missing paintings by the celebrated 19th century portrait artist Gottfried Lindauer. The global treasure hunt has been initiated by a New Zealand art gallery that wants to locate as many works as possible by the prolific artist, in prepar
  
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• Untitled(I’m going to cut peaches, jacob said.)

  04-07-2016 02:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  i’m going to cut peaches, jacob said.yeah, i said.when you compartmentalize you have these conflicting things, jacob said. you isolate them. so you can deal with them later, like if you have no friends and i do have friends. there are these contradictions we have.i don’t not have friends. i just want to fuck every friend i have or every friend i have want s to fuck me. i think jacob wants to fuck me but he doesn’t know it or i want to fuck him and i don’t know it. regardl
  
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• Untitled(she doesn’t open her eyes when she remembers the poem. she doesn’t want to profane the words with her feelings. )

  04-07-2016 00:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  i miss my daughter. she was with me in the morning. i won’t see her till tuesday.i don’t want to mess her up. i don’t want anyone to mess her up. i especially don’t wantanyone disappointing her. i told her my new friend is frank. i lied. frank is amanda and amanda is frank. she wanted to know if frank was a woman. i said frank was frank. she said i was lying. i said i wasn’t to protect her. sometimes it’s better not to say anything, not to lie. she’s con
  
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