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• How Italy stopped Venice being put on Unesco’s Heritage In Danger list

  30-08-2016 23:00
  
  Unescos World Heritage Site Committee meeting in Istanbul this July voted not to put Venice on its list of World Heritage in Danger sites, but instead to postpone the decision until the 2017 meeting. This was despite the highly critical conclusions of Unescos own recent State of Conservation report on Venice, and appeals by the lobby group Europa Nostra and other civil society organisations.
  Venices addition to this list (currently 55 sites, with only three in the West) would not only be embarr
  
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• Museum of African American History displays range from slavery to Prince

  30-08-2016 22:22
  
  Opening next month in Washington, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture investigates 400 years of US societyFrom slave shackles to Prince’s tambourine: when the Smithsonian’s African American museum opens next month, it will offer visitors a layered journey through the long and complicated history of black people in America written in artifacts large and small, old and new. Related: Inside the new Smithsonian: a vivid exploration of African American
  
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• China’s A4 Contemporary Art Center on the move

  30-08-2016 22:00
  
  An occupational hazard of running a museum founded by a real estate development firm: you might have to move when the company opens a shiny new development. The A4 Contemporary Art Center in the industrial city of Chengdu is due to reopen in a new building 4km away from its original location in April 2017. Backed by private real estate developers Chengdu Wanhua (Wide Horizon) Investment Group, the new A4 is part of a luxury lakefront property development in Chengdus Tianfu New Area.
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• Making Hay in the Hamptons: Toni Ross Creates an Unlikely Desert in an Evocative Garden Center

  30-08-2016 21:34 via artnews.com
  At the Marders Garden Center and Nursery in Bridgehampton, New York, through September 5 Read More
  
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• Magic City Switch-Up! NADA Miami Beach to Return to the Deauville Resort

  30-08-2016 19:26 via artnews.com
  After just a single year of setting up shop at the cushy environs of the Fontainebleau hotel, NADA Miami Beach will return to the retro glitz of the Deauville Beach Resort for its 2016 edition. The fair first moved to … Read More
  
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• Art for snobs: what's keeping great paintings from the public?

  30-08-2016 19:22
  
  Unfashionable and undemocratic, the old masters are due a makeover – not to push their prices up, but to ensure the widest possible audience enjoy themThe other night I stood in a young, boozy crowd that roared and laughed with delight at a work of art that’s more than 400 years old. Yet now I see a depressing feature in the New York Times claims that “old master” art has lost all relevance, is no longer of much interest to collectors, and may even cease to be sold by maj
  
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• Pedro Reyes’s haunted house taps into the scary side of American politics

  30-08-2016 19:13
  
  The United States presidential electionand Halloween seasonare about to get a bit spookier thanks to a new politically-themed haunted house installation conceived by the artist Pedro Reyes and commissioned by the New York-based non-profit Creative Time. Doomocracy, an interactive and immersive house of horrors, is due to open on 7 October at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in the Sunset Park neighbourhood of Brooklyn and run through 6 Novembertwo days before the election. This maze slash funhouse, a
  
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• There Is Now an Ice Cream Sandwich Inspired by the Barnes Foundation

  30-08-2016 18:14 via artnews.com
  Here is some truly beautiful and delicious-sounding news that is going straight from my inbox to your screen: Philadelphia ice cream purveyor Weckerly’s Ice Cream is offering a special sandwich, inspired by the Barnes Foundation, at a pop-up at that … Read More
  
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• Creative Time to Host Pedro Reyes’s ‘Doomocracy,’ a House of Horrors at the Brooklyn Army Terminal

  30-08-2016 17:46 via artnews.com
  For its fall exhibition, Creative Time has given Pedro Reyes free reign over the Brooklyn Army Terminal to create a work he’s called Doomocracy. From the sound of it, the installation is going to be pretty legitimately horrifying. Timed to be up … Read More
  
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• Creative Time to Host Pedro Reyes’ ‘Doomocracy,’ a House of Horrors at the Brooklyn Army Terminal

  30-08-2016 17:46 via artnews.com
  For its Fall exhibition, Creative Time has given Pedro Reyes free reign over the Brooklyn Army Terminal to create a work he’s called Doomocracy. From the sound of it, the installation is going to be pretty legitimately horrifying. Timed to be up … Read More
  
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• What Became of the NADA Art Fair 1.0 Generation?

  30-08-2016 17:00 via artnews.com
  With the announcement this week that New York dealer Lisa Cooley will be closing her seven-year-old downtown gallery, ARTnews is taking a look at a slightly earlier generation of galleries—call it the NADA 1.0 Generation.The first edition of the New Art … Read More
  
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• Risky Business: Bay-Area Venture Capitalists Bring Their Pioneer Mentality to Art

  30-08-2016 15:15 via artnews.com
  ‘Art and venture capital are both about judgment, style, the message, and moving a cause forward,” said Richard Kramlich, cofounder of New Enterprise Associates. The venture capital firm, which invests in fledgling high-tech businesses that are initially unprofitable, is located … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: ‘Now Be Here’ Edition

  30-08-2016 14:40 via artnews.com
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• Cereal art: the masterpieces made from breakfast ingredients – in pictures

  30-08-2016 08:32
  
  New York-based self-taught artist Sarah Rosado recreates masterpieces using only oat flakes, cinnamon sticks and fruit – ingredients more commonly found in her breakfast bowl. Just don’t add milk Continue reading...
  
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• Richard Long gets down to earth at 101 Spring Street

  30-08-2016 05:00
  
  Donald Judd once described the British sculptor Richard Long as the best artist in Europe and a far better artist than Bacon or Henry Moore. Now the Judd Foundation has invited Long to create new work at 101 Spring Street, the US artists former home and studio in New York.Long will create two monumental terracotta works on the ground floor by applying mud directly to the walls, which are nearly 60 feet long (1 October-17 December). The British artist is known for making work with natural materi
  
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• Cleaning of Chandos Portrait could confirm what Shakespeare looked like

  30-08-2016 05:00
  
  The National Portrait Gallery in London is considering cleaning one of its most famous pictures, the Chandos portrait of William Shakespeare. The proposal was made at a seminar with outside specialists; the gallerys trustees will decide next year whether to proceed with treatment.
  Although all portraits of Shakespeare are controversial, the Chandos picture (around 1600-10) is the one that is most likely to depict the dramatist from life. It is said to have been painted by a John Taylor, suppose
  
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• An edifice worthy of the pharaohs rises next to the pyramids

  30-08-2016 05:00
  
  The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), a gateway to the history of the pharaohs under construction outside Cairo, is attempting to do the impossible: hold its own next to the pyramids of Giza.
  Egypts ministry of antiquities hopes the gargantuan complex, designed by architects Heneghan Peng, will be built by the end of 2016, paving the way for a 2017 partial opening, according to Daily News Egypt. But with between 3,000 and 5,000 construction workers already labouring around the clock and a budget ris
  
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