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• ‘No Ordinary Love’ at Galerie Sultana, Paris

  31-08-2016 23:09 via artnews.com
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• William Kentridge: an animated life

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  William Kentridge combines the political and the poetic in allegorical films, charcoal drawings and large-scale installations combining film, sound, music and sculptural objects. He deals directly and obliquely with the troubled history of his native South Africa. Now 61, he first attracted international attention in the early 1990s with a cycle of films examining his homelands political upheavals through the characters of the capitalist property developer Soho Eckstein and his foil, the poet/l
  
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• Weimar blazes a trail with restoration of burned books

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  Ten days after the fire in 2004 that engulfed the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar and devoured a treasure trove of German national culture, the Berliner Zeitung newspaper declared the library beyond saving, saying that it would be stupid to try to restore the books.For library staff, there was no doubt that whatever could be salvaged, should be. Around 50,000 books were burned to a cinder and lost foreverbut 12 years later, a new permanent exhibition at the library examines how a further
  
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• Vienna museum director departs amid dispute over expenses

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  A row over mismanagement of public funds has erupted at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, home to the worlds largest collection of paintings by Gustav Klimt. Agnes Husslein-Arco, its director since 2007, was dismissed for violating the museums compliance regulations. The accusations against her included charging the museum for personal travel expenses and home repairs, using museum staff for personal needs and taking items from the museums shop. Many of the allegations were refuted by an external
  
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• Ullens pulls out of Picasso loans

  31-08-2016 23:00
  
  A Picasso exhibition at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing (UCCA), featuring loans from the Muse Picasso Paris, has been cancelled and a proposed facelift of the private gallery by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas has been put on hold. The moves follow the announcement in June that the art centre founded and funded by the Belgian collectors Guy and Myriam Ullens in the Chinese capital in 2007 is up for sale.After Rauschenberg
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• Turkey’s art world takes stock and stands firm after failed coup

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  Rosa Martnez, curator, artistic director of the fifth Istanbul Biennial (1997) and chief curator of the Istanbul Modern (2004-07)Optimism is not what is emanating from artists, curators and other art world professionals in Turkey today. They have not yet recovered from the shock of the coup attempt, and see the devastating impact of the post-coup repression as deep and still unfolding. Many have friends and acquaintances among the arrested journalists and university professors and are deeply di
  
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• This summer’s hottest lawsuits

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  Centaur of dispute
  Lawyers for Blue Art, the London-based company owned by the dealer Fabrizio Moretti, filed an amended complaint on 17 August against the New York art dealer David Zwirner and his gallery, which Moretti says failed to deliver a work of art he bought for $2m. The new complaint comes after Zwirners motion to dismiss named the previously anonymous purchaser and called the lawsuit a case of buyers remorse. In response, Morettis recent court filings reveal the work at the heart of
  
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• The shit that needs a fan

  31-08-2016 23:00
  
  Anyone fancy buying a sculpture made from 80,000kg of human poo? Mike Bouchets pungent piece, The Zurich Load, is making visitors to Manifesta 11 in Zurich feel rather queasy. (Anyone who excreted faeces in the city on 24 March contributed to the site-specific work, which the artist created in the Werdhlzli wastewater treatment plant.) But if no one stumps up for the excremental creation, it faces annihilation. A spokeswoman for Manifesta tells us that if no potential buyer emerges, The Zurich
  
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• The rest of July and August 2016 at a glance

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  Iraq seeks World Heritage status for Babylon
  17 July
  Iraqi officials are petitioning Unesco to list Babylon as a World Heritage Site, Hussein Fleih, the ancient sites director of antiquities, told media site Al-Monitor. Fleih is hoping that World Heritage-listing will lead to financial support for the ancient site, which is facing several alarming issues, including the very real threat of deterioration due to rising groundwater. On 17 July, Unesco named the al-Ahwar Marshes in the south-eastern
  
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• The glittering prizes, September 2016

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  Winners
  The Theodora Niemeijer Prize 2016, the only Dutch prize for visual arts dedicated specifically to female artists, has been awarded to Sissel Marie Tonn. Her proposed project, Intimate Earthquake Archives, will go on show at the Van Abbemuseum on 27 September 2016. She receives prize money of 10,000.The Iraq-born, Berlin-based artist Hiwa K has won the 10,000 Arnold Bode Prize from the city of Kassel, Germany. The prize, named after the founder of Documenta, will be presented at Kasseler
  
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• The art market comes to a mobile near you

  31-08-2016 23:00
  
  The art market is waking up to the importance of mobile technology. In September, the art technology company Artlogicwhich designs websites and provides integrated systems for galleries including Victoria Miro, Thomas Dane and Paul Kasminis launching a new version of its database, with an emphasis on mobile devices. In July, the annual Hiscox Online Art Trade Report identified that mobile usage has grown significantly during 2016 and now accounts for an average of 40% of online traffic and 24%
  
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• Tamir Rice shooting: park gazebo could come to Chicago

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  The Stony Island Arts Bank, a cultural venue and community centre set up by artist Theaster Gates in Chicago, is in talks to display the Cleveland Park gazebo where 12-year-old Tamir Rice was fatally shot by police in November 2014.Were still in conversation with the Tamir Rice Foundation and very excited about the prospect of having the gazebo in Chicago, says Amy Schachman, the director of programmes and development for the Rebuild Foundation, which runs the Stony Island Arts Bank. She stress
  
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• Sotheby’s expands in Dubai

  31-08-2016 23:00
  
  Sothebys is due to open a 300-sq.-m office space and showroom in Dubais International Financial Centre in early October. Heading up the office is Katia Nounou, who works for the firms private sales arm. Its about the numbers; our UAE clients have more than doubled in the past five years, and the value of their purchases has tripled, says Edward Gibbs, the companys chairman and head of department for the Middle East and India. Our clients are international and comfortable buying at auction in Ho
  
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• Seeing the (saucy) light in Blackpool

  31-08-2016 23:00
  
  When Dame Barbara Windsor flicks the switch on the Blackpool illuminations this evening, the towns Grundy Art Gallery will also see the light as it opens a major show of neon works, both historic and contemporary. These range from classic pieces by French neon-pioneers such as Bertrand Lavier and Francois Morellet, to a wall of text pieces by legendary conceptualist Joseph Kosuth and more recent works by the likes of Martin Creed, Tracey Emin, Gavin Turk and Eddie Peake.
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• Science, then and now, reveals marvels of Medieval manuscripts

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  Medieval manuscripts are normally displayed for a maximum of three months, to keep their glowing colours as fresh as when they were first painted. But the 150 manuscripts featured in the Fitzwilliam Museums exhibition of its rich collectionmany of which came from the 1816 founding bequest of Viscount Fitzwilliamwill be on display in Cambridge for a full five months. The show Colour: the Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts (until 30 December) is part of the UK institutions 200th anniversa
  
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• Saddam Hussein’s former palace reborn as museum

  31-08-2016 23:00
  One of Saddam Husseins former palaces is due to reopen this month as a museum. The Basrah Museum, in southern Iraq, has been planned  since 2008, when British troops began to pull out of the country. The institution, overseen by the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, was launched with the help of the British Army and the British Museum. The first gallery, to be unveiled on 27 September, is dedicated to the history of the Basra region from around 300BC to the 19th century. Other rooms
  
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• Royal Academicians back arts education campaign

  31-08-2016 23:00
  
  A campaign to persuade the UK government to include art and other creative subjects in the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) has the unanimous backing of Royal Academicians, said Christopher Le Brun, the president of the Royal Academy of Arts (RA). He was speaking as members of parliament met in July to debate the EBacc. Critics argue that the exclusion of art, music and drama will have long-term negative consequences for the arts and creative industries in England. A petition to Parliament, signed
  
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• Renata and Michal Hornstein

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  Renata and Michal Hornstein were near-victims of the Nazi death machine in Poland who became Canadian millionaires, putting their wealth to the public good. Renata Witelson was born in Lodz, Poland, and spent her youth evading death. Her family fled the Nazis to the Warsaw ghetto where the parents were captured and later murdered. Escaping to Krakow and then Budapest, Renata hid in a convent and with a Polish family, until she was able to reach a safe house in Pressburg (now Bratislava).Michal
  
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• Raphael to visit Moscow

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  The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in MoscowRussias major repositories of Western artare strengthening ties with their Italian peers. An exhibition of work by the Renaissance master Raphael is due to open on 13 September at the Pushkin (until 11 December) as a result of a co-operation agreement signed this summer with the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Many of the works in the show, including Raphaels Self-portrait (1506), have never before been sh
  
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• Parish Churches of Greater London: a Guide

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  This guide covers 420 Anglican and Roman Catholic churches, about a third of those described in the Buildings of England series. It omits the greater churches, and those of the City of London, as they have been covered elsewhere. Every church has at least one colour illustration.
  The author, a retired banker, admits he is by no means a professional photographer, but the photos alone make the book really useful. The brief texts for each church contain not only information, but often charmingly q
  
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• Museums in Scotland are braced for fallout from unpopular Brexit

  31-08-2016 23:00
  
  Even though Scottish voters strongly opposed Brexit in the June referendum, they will still have to face the consequences of Britains exit from the European Union. John Leighton, the director-general of the National Galleries of Scotland, spoke for many when he expressed concerns over the UK vote. It will be vital for us to promote our culture with confidence and ambition, and to continue to demonstrate how the arts can transcend politics and boundaries to link us with the wider world, he says.
  
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• Musée de Cluny’s treasures head to Texas

  31-08-2016 23:00
  The Dallas Museum of Art in Texas will present treasures from the Muse de Cluny-Muse National du Moyen ge in Pariswhich is currently undergoing a 7.3m renovation and expansion, due to be completed in 2020in the travelling exhibition Art and Nature in the Middle Ages. The show, due to open on 4 December (until 19 March 2017), will feature around 100 objects that date from the 12th to early 16th centuries, including tapestries, stained glass, stone capitals and manuscripts. Focusing this exhibitio
  
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• ‘Mixed feelings’ as Brian Sewell’s treasure trove is to be dispersed

  31-08-2016 23:00
  I have mixed emotions about the auction of works owned by the late art critic Brian Sewell at Christies that takes place on 27 September. The collector in me is excited to witness the dispersal of a largely unknown treasure trove of Old Master and 19th-century pictures and drawings, hidden from the market for 40 years or more. But as a friend of Brians for over 25 years, it will be sad to say goodbye to things that I always enjoyed when visiting him in Eldon Road in west London. Here, framed dr
  
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• Manifesta inspires Milan collector to open museum in Palermo

  31-08-2016 23:00
  The Milanese dealer and collector Massimo Valsecchi plans to open a house-museum in Palermo in time for the Manifesta biennial, which opens in the Sicilian capital in 2018. He is renovating the 18th-century Palazzo Butera to house his eclectic collection of ancient artefacts, decorative arts and contemporary art. Valsecchi, who had been in talks to donate part of the collection to the Museo delle Culture in Milan, is a member of the Manifesta 12 board. As Europe risks disintegrating, we should l
  
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• Malaysian collector Jho Low embroiled in US department of justice investigation

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  The Malaysian financier and art collector Low Taek Jho, known as Jho Low, has been drawn into an investigation over an alleged money laundering scheme that diverted $3.5bn from public funds in Malaysia to spend on lavish properties in New York and Los Angeles, a $35m private jet and $200m worth of art. The details were revealed in a civil complaint filed on 20 July by the US department of justice, which is seeking to recover more than $1bn in assets that were allegedly stolen and laundered thro
  
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• Madonna hits Miami Beach

  31-08-2016 23:00
  
  Its a match made in heaven: the queen of pop and the worlds glitziest art fair. Madonna will be jetting in to Art Basel Miami Beach in December, when one lucky fan will have the chance to visit the fair with the Material Girl, as part of a competition organised by the charity fundraising site Omaze. The competitions organisers say: Are you Like a Virgin to the art scene? When you factor in the one and only Madonna youll be Vogue-ing your way to pop star heaven. The prize also involves getting p
  
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• Legal saga over Dalí work is concluded in Spain’s Supreme Court

  31-08-2016 23:00
  Spains Supreme Court has put an end to a civil lawsuit brought by the Fundaci Gala-Salvador Dal against Juan Javier Bofill, the owner of the Barcelona exhibition company Faber Gotic.
  In 2012, a commercial court in Barcelona ruled in the foundations favour, ordering Faber Gotic to remove Dals name and image from a commercial display of the artists late sculptures in the city centre, and to pay compensation to the foundation for advertising the exhibition in connection with the official Dal Theatr
  
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• Leading lady Irma Stern heads Bonhams sale

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  Two 1940s paintings by the grande dame of South African art, Irma Stern (1894-1966), lead Bonhams South African art sale in London on 14 September.
  Watusi Dancers (1942), consigned by a South African collector, depicts the Tutsi people of the Congo region and was originally shown in Argus Gallery, Cape Town, in 1946-47. Zanzibar Arab (1945) was first exhibited in Johannesburgs Bothners Gallery in 1946 and was reproduced in Sterns book, Zanzibar, which records her travels.w The works carry an 80
  
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• Is there a looted work in the Neue Galerie’s collection?

  31-08-2016 23:00
  The collector and philanthropist Ronald Lauder has long been an advocate for the restitution of cultural artefacts looted by the Nazis in the 1930s and 40s. The Neue Galerie in New Yorka museum of German and Austrian art founded by Laudernow believes it may have found one such work in its own collection, the New York Times reported in August. Lauder and his staff say they are working to determine the next step for the object, which they declined to identify publicly. The gallerys collection incl
  
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• In the Trade, September 2016

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  The auction housesPhillips has appointed Robert Manley, formerly at Christies, as deputy chairman and senior international specialist of 20th century and contemporary art and Scott Nussbaum, formerly at Sothebys, as senior specialist and head of 20th century and contemporary art in New York. Helena Newman has been promoted to co-chairman of Sothebys Europe, alongside Oliver Barker in London, Mario Tavella in Paris and Philipp Wrttemberg in Frankfurt. The auction house has also appointed Claudia
  
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• In Memoriam, September 2016

  31-08-2016 23:00
  Gerald Grosvenor, the sixth Duke of Westminster, who possessed one of the greatest privately owned collections of Old Masters, died on 9 August, aged 64. The freehold owner of 300 acres in Mayfair and Belgravia, central London, the duke increased his wealth (estimated at 8bn) through his work as a property developer. He assumed responsibility for managing the family estates, including the hereditary seat, Eaton Hall, Chester, at the age of 19. The family collection includes works by artists such
  
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• How to give artists life after death

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  An artists estate is successful when it is able to keep the work alive: when subsequent generations of artists draw inspiration from it and when curators, researchers and collectors continuously find new ways to approach it. This goal is achieved when the estate initiates dialogue and exhibitions, contextualises the work, and makes it accessible to contemporary artists. Reaching it, however, requires a quantity of high-quality works as well as financial resources. Furthermore, a vast array of k
  
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• How the Louvre is spending its Abu Dhabi windfall

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  The Louvre Museum in Paris is earning hundreds of millions of euros from its 30-year partnership with the still-under-construction Louvre Abu Dhabi. Now, the public can see how it is using that money. The worlds most-visited museum has almost completed a two-year project to ease congestion at its Pyramid entrance. I.M. Peis underground atrium was designed to accommodate 4.5 million visitors a year when it opened in 1989, but annual attendance is now approaching 10 million. The renovation has mo
  
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• Hopes are high for new director of Hong Kong’s M+ museum

  31-08-2016 23:00
  The recent appointment of the Sydney-based curator Suhanya Raffel as the executive director of Hong Kongs M+ museum has been welcomed by arts professionals in the region, who say she will boost the much-delayed flagship project of the West Kowloon Cultural District. But some also raised concerns about the challenges she faces in Hong Kong, including the complex political landscape, stifling bureaucracy and rising costs.
   
  Raffel joined the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney as the dir
  
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• Heavyweight artist

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  A Team GB super-heavyweight boxer who won a silver medal at the Rio Olympic Games in August is also a trained artist. London-based Joe Joyce graduated from Middlesex University in 2009 with a BA degree in fine art. The athlete-artists Expressionist portraits include one of the late boxing legend Muhammad Ali. His tutor at Middlesex University, Stephen Mumberson, says: He is a modest young man outside the ring and a full professional in the ring. He approaches his painting with the same level of
  
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• Gilbert & George get their groove on

  31-08-2016 23:00
  
  Anti-elitist they may be, but Gilbert & George have dropped a rather exclusive record: a limited-edition signed vinyl album entitled The Thoughts of Gilbert & George. Released by the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1s label, MoMA/MoMA PS1 Records, it is a throwback to The Singing Sculpture, first performed in 1969, in which the artists sang along to the 1930s tune Underneath the Arches, with bronze-powdered faces and wearing smart suits. There are just 2,000 copies of the new album, whi
  
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• Galleries chip in to bring contemporary art to Florence

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  In May, the New York Times reported on the growing trend of commercial galleries contributing six-figure sums to help fund US museum shows in the face of dwindling public arts funding. A similar dynamic has found its way to Florence, where museums are joining forces with international blue-chip galleries to present contemporary art shows in a bid to boost attendance and increase interest in older treasures.Paintings by the US artist John Currin are interspersed throughout the Museo Stefano Bard
  
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• Founder of price transparency app hits back at critics

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  Magnus Resch, the art market entrepreneur behind the Magnus price data app, has responded to claims that his service had stolen information from other databases and galleries. The free app, which combines aggregated public information with digital recognition technology, also includes prices, the holy grail of the primary market. In July, the Magnus app was removed from the Apple Store after breach-of-copyright claims by three German galleries, which asked for imagesas well as the price datato
  
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• Detroit invests $3.7m in African-American art

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  The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is launching a three-year, $3.7m initiative to expand its collection of work by African-American artists. Its first purchase is David Hammonss Bird (1990), a basketball covered in chicken wire and suspended from a birdcage frame. The sculpturewhich represents a significant portion of the museums entire annual acquisitions budget, according to the Detroit Free Pressis expected to go on show this autumn. (A spokeswoman for the museum declined to comment on the p
  
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• Curtain rises on Buddha restoration

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  From now until January 2017, entry to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, includes a performance, a ballet of sorts, starring conservators and one very big 300-year-old Buddhist painting. Visitors can watch the restoration of The Death of the Historical Buddha (1713), a 16ft-tall scroll made by the Osaka-born painter, calligrapher and poet Hanabusa Itcho (1652-1724), in a temporary conservation studio installed in the institutions Asian art gallery. A specialist will be on hand to explain what the
  
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• Corrections, September 2016

  31-08-2016 23:00
  In our article Rachel Whitereads Cabin opens and House returns (The Art Newspaper, July/August, p4), we wrongly stated that House (1993-94) would be included in an exhibition of Whitereads work. We should have said that images of House, which was a temporary public sculpture, would be featured. We incorrectly captioned an image of Julia Peyton-Jones (The Art Newspaper, July/August, p13), saying that she would be entering the House of Lords. She has been made a dame rather than a peer. In Bortola
  
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• Church murals by Delacroix get a fresh look

  31-08-2016 23:00
  Religious murals by the great French Romantic painter Eugne Delacroix (1798-1863) in Pariss Saint-Sulpice church will be on view to the public again in October after a year of painstaking restoration. The three paintings depict the expulsion of Heliodorus from the temple, Jacob wrestling an angel, and the Archangel Michael defeating Lucifer. Delacroix waterproofed the underlying stone with up to 13 layers of wax, resin and oil, but water leaked in from the roof. Following repairs to the roof, re
  
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• Christie’s Education switches to the Open University

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  After 20 years of working with Glasgow University, Christies education arm is changing its postgraduate degree accrediting partner to the UKs Open University from autumn 2017. Jane Hay, the international managing director of Christies Education, says that the change reflects a fluid higher education landscape. There are increasingly regulatory complexities in offering Scottish academic qualifications in an English context, Hay wrote in a letter to alumni in August. The challenges for Scottish i
  
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• China’s big mistakes

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  China is fast becoming a land of giantsgiant statues, that is. Although the enormous golden Chairman Mao in Henan Province was demolished before it was completed earlier this year, more huge sculptures are springing up. In June, the Jingzhou Tourism Investment and Development Group unveiled a 48m-high statue of Guan Yu, a deified warrior hero of the Three Kingdoms period; it weighs more than 1,200 tons and its 10m-high base is covered in 4,000 pieces of bronze, reports Sina.com. Also entertaini
  
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• Bling with a sting

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  The Algerian artist Adel Abdessemed has turned his hand to jewellery design, with his first wearable art project going on show at Elisabetta Cipriani gallery in London next month (14 October-3 November). A piece entitled Game, comprising a chain bracelet (edition of six) and a pair of earrings (edition of ten), blends beauty and brutality, the gallery says. Game is a weapon and an ornamenta double-edged object. An architecture of razor blades that I developed it is a prism as well as an evidenc
  
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• Bishop’s Zurbaráns head to Dallas and New York

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  Jacob and His Twelve Sons (1640-44), a 13-work series by the Spanish Old Master Francisco de Zurbarn, will be shown for the first time outside Europe at the Meadows Museum, Dallas, next year and the Frick Collection, New York, in 2018. The series tells the story of the biblical patriarch Jacob, who shared a prophecy with his sons on his deathbed that they would found the 12 tribes of Israel. All but one of the works, which are housed at Auckland Castle, north-east England, was bought at auction
  
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• Billionaires to build Chelsea home for coveted collection

  31-08-2016 23:00
  The private museum boom has transformed art scenes across Asia and Europe, but it has been a bit slower to catch on in New York. That is due to change in autumn 2017, when the billionaire collector James Tomilson Tom Hill, the president of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, and his wife Janine, the director of fellowship affairs at the Council on Foreign Relations, open the Hill Art Foundation in Chelsea.
  Tom Hill says the couple were intrigued by the idea of doing in a public setting what
  
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• Biennale des Antiquaires draws new blood from Old Masters

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  The Biennale des Antiquaires, the prestigious jewellery, art and antiques fair held at the Grand Palais in Paris, has had the biggest shake-up in its 54-year history.The Syndicat National des Antiquaires (SNA, the French association of antiques dealers), which founded the Biennale in 1962, voted last year to switch to an annual slot. Its an essential development, says the SNA president Dominique Chevalier. This enables us to be on the same level as the London fairs and Tefaf Maastricht.Chevalie
  
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• Auction house results confirm global art market downturn

  31-08-2016 23:00
  Both Christies and Sothebys have reported disappointing, if unsurprising, sale totals for the first six months of the year.Christies reported a 37.5% ($1.5bn) drop in auction sales$2.5bn compared with $4bn for the same period the previous year. Meanwhile, Sothebys reported a 19% ($600m) drop in sales for the period$2.5bn compared with $3.1bn for the first half of 2015. Private sales also continued to fall (to $464m at Christies and $250m at Sothebys).This will come as little surprise to the tra
  
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• Auction estimates face scrutiny

  31-08-2016 23:00
  The UKs Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has begun talking to trade associations in the art market about the way auction houses present their pre-sale estimates, following a complaint that these do not include the (mandatory) buyers premium. In July, the Antiques Trade Gazette reported that the ASA had launched an investigation, though a spokesman for the authority says the publication has got slightly ahead of itselfnothing has been finalised. He added: But we have decided to take a proact
  
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