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• Frank Gehry’s Luma project takes shape in Arles

  15-08-2016 23:00
  
  Luma Arles, the 20-acre cultural campus springing up in the southern French town of Arles, is taking shape with its centrepiece structurea 58-metre high, arts resource centre designed by Frank Gehryunder construction.
   
  The ambitious cultural project is driven by the Swiss pharmaceutical heiress and contemporary art collector Maja Hoffmann, whose Luma Foundation is providing around 100m in funding for the campus project. 
  Gehrys 9,000 sq. m stainless steel building, whi
  
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• Coupland goes for the gold

  15-08-2016 23:00
  In Vancouver, a city with one of the highest housing costs in North America, real estate developers have become the new patrons of public art. The Golden Tree, a monumental sculpture by Douglas Coupland, recently installed in the plaza of Intracorps new James Cheng-designed tower MC2, is a zeitgeisty exploration of real estate as a new gold rush. This 43 ft high, gold-finished mirror image replica of the beloved 800-year-old hollow treea Western Red Cedar stump in Vancouvers Stanley Parkis a fit
  
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• Body by Body at Princess, New York

  15-08-2016 22:50 via artnews.com
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• Obama’s Reading And Music Lists Are A Spotify Hit

  15-08-2016 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For the second year in a row, Mr. Obama released his summer vacation music and reading lists. And within a day, Mr. Obama’s playlist was the most listened-to on Spotify, other than those organized by the global music streaming service itself.”
  
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• Canada’s Trade Imbalance In Arts Leaders

  15-08-2016 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When I wrote last week about the worrying trend in Canadian arts to always give the top jobs to foreigners – there have been five examples in 15 months, including the leaders of the Royal Ontario Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Shaw Festival – the community howled in agreement. I had clearly struck a nerve with Canadian directors, curators and arts administrators who feel they face limited opportunities for advancement at home. But the labour market for artistic dir
  
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• Mo’ Money, Less Problems: Andrew Jeffrey Wright on His Photos of Cash

  15-08-2016 18:43 via artnews.com
  For over 15 years, the Philadelphia multi-hyphenate artist Andrew Jeffrey Wright has been taking photos of his money. At first, it was more of a performative project, influenced by the wide array of pictures of money he would come across … Read More
  
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• Baldwin wants his Bleckner

  15-08-2016 18:36
  
  A high-profile spat has broken out between the 30 Rock actor Alec Baldwin and the New York dealer Mary Boone over a painting by the artist Ross Bleckner, according to the New York Times.
  Baldwin says that in 2010, he bought a painting by Bleckner that he had admired for nearly a decade after seeing it in an exhibition invitation from Boone. The work, Sea and Mirror (1996), had earlier sold at auction at Sothebys for $121,000 to an anonymous buyer. Baldwin asked Boone to convince the owner to pa
  
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• Mellow yellow: Kenya's mosques and churches painted 'in the name of love'

  15-08-2016 18:33
  
  For his public art project Colour in Faith, Yazmany Arboleda is dousing the diverse faith buildings of Nairobi in a shade he calls ‘optimistic yellow’The Colombian-American artist Yazmany Arboleda is painting the city of Nairobi yellow – or at least its houses of worship. As part of his public art project Colour in Faith, religious buildings from mosques to churches are being washed in lemon yellow as a symbol of peace among all religions.“The goal was to take houses of w
  
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• Alec Baldwin says he paid $190,000 for the wrong painting

  15-08-2016 18:33
  
  The Hollywood actor fell in love with painting nearly a decade ago
  
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• MSU’s Broad Art Museum Appoints Carla Acevedo-Yates as Assistant Curator

  15-08-2016 17:46 via artnews.com
  The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University in East Lansing announced today that Carla Acevedo-Yates has been hired as an assistant curator. Acevedo-Yates is from San Juan, Puerto and will assist the museum in broadening its “international programming” and … Read More
  
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• P! Will End Its Five-Year Run in Downtown Manhattan in May 2017

  15-08-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  For the past four years, the modestly sized storefront on Broome Street in Downtown Manhattan going by the name of P! has been one of the trickier art venues to figure out, even for people who have visited regularly. Depending … Read More
  
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• Two men arrested over attempted theft of Banksy copy

  15-08-2016 15:52
  
  Imitation was copy of Banksy piece that had already been taken from Folkestone and returned after court battleTwo men have been arrested in Folkestone after being caught allegedly trying to steal a copy of a Banksy graffiti artwork that was itself the focus of a legal tussle after being ripped from a wall in the Kent town and shipped to the US.The stencilled work by local street artist Robsci was based on Art Buff, a 2014 work by Banksy which was part of the Folkestone Triennial.It's still there
  
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• Eros and Elegy: On L.A.’s Queer Moment

  15-08-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  Four shows look at the past and present of the community, particularly its relationship with HIV/AIDS Read More
  
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• Ballpoint Art: The most fascinating art made with the humble biro

  15-08-2016 15:11
  
  Trent Morse's Ballpoint Art features a wide range of artists from Andy Warhol to Thomas Muller
  
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• Morning Links: Alec Baldwin May Have Bought the Wrong Painting Edition

  15-08-2016 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Russian artist Erik Bulatov unveils explosive works in former munitions factory

  15-08-2016 13:02
  
  The veteran Russian artist Erik Bulatov, who is known for his monumental paintings that draw on Soviet propaganda, has produced a series of sculptures for the first time. The works are on show in a former munitions factory in south-western France (by appointment).
  One of the works, a circular piece more than 18 metres wide, comprises a series of Cyrillic letters made from black steel that spell out and repeat the word forward.The vast sculptures were produced in the local area over the past yea
  
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• Campaign launched to save artistic community in London's Hackney Wick, home to Chapman Brothers and Gavin Turk

  15-08-2016 12:54
  
  One of the largest artistic communities in Londonand possibly Europeis under threat from plans to demolish a warehouse that is home to more than 100 artists and small businesses. The residents of Vittoria Wharf, formerly a tyre factory and series of car storage units, have launched a petition to save the arts hub in Hackney Wick, northeast London, which is due to be bulldozed to make way for a pedestrian bridge across a canal. Artists are facing eviction on 5 September.The London Legacy Develop
  
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• Polynesian sculpture admired by Picasso and Henry Moore far older than previously thought

  15-08-2016 12:29
  
  The British Museums Polynesian sculpture of Aa is much older than previously thought. Carbon dating of the most important surviving Polynesian wooden sculpture has revealed that it was carved more than 250 years before the arrival of Europeans and easy access to metal tools. It had previously been thought to date from the 18th or early 19th century.Two samples of wood have been dated by the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre in Glasgow. Although this cannot give a precise date,
  
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• Hold your horses: Gustavo Aceves to install monumental sculptures in front of Rome's Colosseum

  15-08-2016 11:43
  
  Fifty-five monumental statues of horses are to be placed in front of the Colosseum and at Trajans Market in Rome next month. The works, by the Mexican artist Gustavo Aceves, are made from a variety of materials including bronze, marble, wood, iron and granite. The horses are shown in fragments; some of them are standing in boats, others are positioned on top of classical columns. 
  The aim of the display is to tackle the issue of mass migration and to throw a spotlight on the suffering of t
  
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• Gustavo Aceves to install monumental horse sculptures in front of Rome's Colosseum

  15-08-2016 11:43
  
  Fifty-five monumental statues of horses are to be placed in front of the Colosseum and at Trajans Market in Rome next month. The works, by the Mexican artist Gustavo Aceves, are made from a variety of materials including bronze, marble, wood, iron and granite. The horses are shown in fragments; some of them are standing in boats, others are positioned on top of classical columns. 
  The aim of the display is to tackle the issue of mass migration and to throw a spotlight on the suffering of t
  
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