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• Four artists to see at the São Paulo biennial

  07-09-2016 23:44
  
  When the title of this years Bienal de So Paulo, Live Uncertainty, was announced over a year ago, nothing seemed more fitting. Brazil was reeling from the seismic protests of 2013 that started over public transport and experiencing the first hiccups of a political storm that would climax with the removal of president Dilma Rousseff from office just days before the show was slated to open on 7 Septemberthe countrys Independence Day.The countrys political tumult can perhaps be seen in the referen
  
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• Four artists to see at the São Paulo Bienal

  07-09-2016 23:44
  
  When the title of this years Bienal de So Paulo, Live Uncertainty, was announced over a year ago, nothing seemed more fitting. Brazil was reeling from the seismic protests of 2013 that started over public transport and experiencing the first hiccups of a political storm that would climax with the removal of president Dilma Rousseff from office just days before the show was slated to open on 7 Septemberthe countrys Independence Day.The countrys political tumult can perhaps be seen in the referen
  
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• ‘Homo Ludens’ at Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo

  07-09-2016 23:37 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Nobuyoshi Araki nude photos censored in Mexico City

  07-09-2016 23:17
  
  A series of explicit prints by the Japanese artist Nobuyoshi Araki were censored from display on the walls of a local bar in Mexico City last week. The images, drawn from the 76-year-old artists published photography books, depict nude women, some in bondage, as well as food and flowers, and were labelled by authorities as pornography.
  The installation was part of an exhibition organised by the artist Abraham Cruzvillegas with the Mexico City gallery Kurimanzutto, which now plans to restage the
  
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• The young are joined by the young-at-heart, and a sprinkling of celebrity sparkle, at Apollo’s 40 Under 40 bash

  07-09-2016 23:00
  
  The young, and the young at heart, were out in force to celebrate Apollo magazines power list of top 40 movers-and-shakers aged under 40. The event took place at the Ham Yard Hotel just off Piccadilly and was co-hosted by Sophie Macpherson.
  This year it was the Asia Pacific region that was under scrutiny with the 37-year-old sound artist and composer Samson Young, who will represent Hong Kong at the 2017 Venice Biennale, snagging the No 1 spot. But the main excitement at last nights bashespecia
  
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• A book with an inside look

  07-09-2016 23:00
  
  A new artist book by the Brazilian sculptor Juliana Cerqueira Leite gives an in-depth, to-scale view of the female anatomy. The wordless volume, A Potential Spacean anatomical term for a space that can occur between adjacent, but not attached, surface membranes was made by laser-cutting thick pages with the outlines of a 3-D scan from a cast of the inside of a vagina (no word on whose). As an object, A Potential Space formally mimics the mechanism of dissection in carrying this inner organ into
  
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• Gagosian Is Doing a Tattoo Parlor at the New York Art Book Fair

  07-09-2016 22:24 via artnews.com
  With this year’s addition of a Gagosian-sponsored pop-up tattoo parlor, the New York Art Book Fair–happening this year at MoMA PS1 between September 15 and 18–takes one mores step into becoming the publishing version of the Warped Tour.Think about it. … Read More
  
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• DIS Will Be an Artist in Residence at New Inc, the New Museum’s Incubator

  07-09-2016 21:19 via artnews.com
  What does one do after curating a world-class biennial? Many high-flying curators choose to keep a low profile, perhaps lining up a cozy little academic job or a plum museum gig, taking it easy. But not so for DIS, the New York–based collective! The … Read More
  
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• London embassies open their doors to reveal art treasures

  07-09-2016 18:18
  
  National Trust is offering behind-the-scenes tours of three European embassies housing a wealth of wonderful artThere are portraits of José, Prince of Brazil, the unfortunately nicknamed Maria the Mad, and Catherine of Braganza, the woman who helped make Britain a nation of tea drinkers.But why a drawing room in the grand London residence of the ambassador of Portugal houses an enormous portrait of a 17th-century English lady, Doddington Montagu, wife of the first Duke of Manchester, rema
  
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• Here is Surveillance Footage of a Man Stealing a Kenny Scharf Mural from the East River Esplanade

  07-09-2016 17:39 via artnews.com
  The first iteration of Kenny Scarf’s 60-foot-long site-specific street art banner NEVERENDINGOGO was erected in East River Park June 22. A few days later, it was stolen. A replacement mural was installed again in July, but that was also stolen. … Read More
  
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• Yoko Ono to Reissue 11 LPs, Including ‘Plastic Ono Band’

  07-09-2016 17:09 via artnews.com
  Rolling Stone reports that Yoko Ono will reissue 11 albums, three of which are due out November 11. Among the records that will get a re-release this year is Plastic Ono Band, the 1970 album that resulted from a collaboration … Read More
  
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• From Palace to Tank: Art Collector Qiao Zhibing Is Parlaying His Shanghai Karaoke Club Into a Museum-Cum-Recreation-Space

  07-09-2016 16:33 via artnews.com
  Shanghai Night is a karaoke palace like no other—a lavish five-story complex with chandeliers, marble floors, and wood-paneled rooms for private parties. Visitors are astounded by the opulence, as well as by the young hostesses in white dresses who stand … Read More
  
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• Programming for Documenta 14 Begins Next Week in Athens With ‘Parliament of Bodies’ and ’Exercises of Freedom’

  07-09-2016 14:54 via artnews.com
  Though Documenta 14, arguably the grandest and most important art exhibition in the whole world, is not set to arrive until next year, first in Athens on April 8 and then in Kassel, Germany, its traditional home, on June 10, … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Walmart Edition

  07-09-2016 13:42 via artnews.com
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• The Infinite Mix review – video-art medley dances madly with big ideas

  07-09-2016 12:57
  
  The Store, London
  The Hayward’s new offsite show is a weird, wonderful assortment of installations featuring ghostly opera stars, dancing plant-life and a bullet-riddled tour of Kendrick Lamar’s home townMaria Callas stands in a narrow alcove beyond a barrier in a dark and resounding space. A holographic apparition, Callas is a woman in red, played by artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, lip-synching the diva’s voice as she sings arias from Cherubini’s Medea, Verdi’s
  
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• Tehran’s Modern art collection to make first stop among Berlin’s Old Masters

  07-09-2016 12:48
  
  Berlins cultural leaders have announced that an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) will open this winter at the Gemldegalerie (4 December-26 February 2017), which houses the citys collection of Old Master paintings. 
  The German capital will become the first foreign city to host the collection, which is considered one of the best holdings of Western art outside the US and Europe. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation annou
  
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• ARTnews reveals 2016's top 200 collectors

  07-09-2016 12:48
  
  Despite a distinct cooling in the art market, ARTnews top 200 collectors listreleased yesterday (7 September)boasts the usual array of billionaire property developers, computer software designers and hedge funders who are also serious collectors.
   
  Scrolling through the alphabetically arranged list most are collectors of Modern and contemporary art, which is still the most dominant category in the market despite a 14% drop in auction sales last year, according to The European Fine Art Foun
  
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• Blackpool illuminations: neon art lights up the seaside – in pictures

  07-09-2016 08:00
  
  From jagged geometric patterns to an anxious Snoopy, neon works by artists including Gavin Turk and Tracey Emin buzz with static in The Charged Line Continue reading...
  
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• Archaeological work at Ephesus shut down by Turkish government

  07-09-2016 04:16
  
  Turkeys crackdown on dissention has spread to the field of archaeology, with a dig at the ancient site of Ephesus in western Turkey suspended because of a political dispute with Austria. The project, run by the Austrian Archaeological Institute, was forced by the Turkish government to stop work at the end of August, despite two more months of planned conservation at the site.I regret this decision very much because it mixes politics and science, and is inconsistent with the partnership that we
  
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• You Say You Want A Revolution review: a dizzying trip to the heart of the 1960s

  07-09-2016 01:03
  
  V&A, London
  From CIA leaflets to Twiggy coathangers, the details matters in this sensory bombardment of a show, jam-packed with music, style and rebellious historyYou might be forgiven for heaving a sigh at the subject of this V&A attempt to come up with a blockbuster pop culture follow-up to 2013’s wildly successful David Bowie Is, an exhibition still touring the world three years on. It’s not that the late 1960s and their attendant counterculture represent an unfertile area
  
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