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• Horowitz on Hillary

  27-09-2016 23:00
  
  The personal and the political collide in Jonathan Horowitzs sculpture Hillary Clinton Is a Person Too (2008), a rendering of the Democratic presidential candidate modelled after a kitschy and cute 1970s Mothers Day figurine. The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (Mocad) has installed the work on the all-American green lawn in front of its on-site Mobile Homestead, a full-scale replica of Mike Kelleys childhood home conceived as a public sculpture by the late artist. Hillary will be on display
  
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• Getting digi with it: how the art world is grappling with new media

  27-09-2016 23:00
  Artists working in new media have never been so widely admireda generation of artists in their 20s and 30s, including Amalia Ulman, Neil Beloufa, Ian Cheng, Jon Rafman and Ccile B. Evans, are now shown internationally. Exhibitions have also moved beyond specialist kunsthallen such as ZKM in Karlsruhe, V2 in Rotterdam and YCam in Yamaguchi, Japan. Digital art was the subject of a major show, Electronic Superhighway, at the Whitechapel Gallery in London this spring, and the focus of this summers
  
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• Another Banquet: Jessica Stockholder Offers Food for Thought at Mitchell-Innes and Nash

  27-09-2016 22:30 via artnews.com
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• E-Flux Launches Platform for Writing About Architecture and Design

  27-09-2016 21:49 via artnews.com
  Last week, e-flux, the journal devoted to academic discourse about art, launched a new website for writing about architecture. That platform has a name that’s very to-the-point: e-flux Architecture.“We’ve always been extremely interested in the discourse you find in the theoretical … Read More
  
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• Sarah Cain at Galerie Lelong, New York

  27-09-2016 21:35 via artnews.com
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• Sound and Vision: David Bowie’s Art Collection Comes Back to New York at Sotheby’s

  27-09-2016 20:05 via artnews.com
  In July, Sotheby’s announced that it would auction off 400 works from the collection of David Bowie, a sale that would take place over the course of three nights and feature works by British artists Frank Auerbach, David Bomberg and … Read More
  
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• Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University Appoints Stephanie Smith as Its Chief Curator

  27-09-2016 19:01 via artnews.com
  The Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, announced today that Stephanie Smith will be its chief curator. Smith will leave her position at the Art Gallery of Ontario, where she is currently chief curator, to … Read More
  
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• ‘Enigmatic’ French artist Pierre Huyghe wins $100,000 Nasher Prize for sculpture

  27-09-2016 18:46
  
  The French artist Pierre Huyghe has won the $100,000 Nasher Prize, the worlds largest award for sculpture, given out by the Nasher Sculpture Centre in Dallas. The jury made up of curators and artistsincluding Nicholas Serota, Okwui Enwezor, Phyllida Barlow, Huma Bhabba, Pablo Len de la Barraselected Huyghe from a list of 150 nominees.
  Long recognised as one of the key representatives of relational aesthetics, a term coined by the French art critic Nicolas Bourriaud to describe art that often in
  
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• Camille gets carte blanche at Palais de Tokyo

  27-09-2016 18:30
  
  The Berlin-based artist Tino Sehgal is bringing his famous brand of performance art to Pariss Palais de Tokyo next month (12 October-18 December) with a huge exhibition spread across 13,000 sq. m of the contemporary art centres labyrinthine architecture. Sehgal is known for directly involving visitors through "constructed situations" acted out by performers (a cryptic press statement also points out that he will present his works alongside pieces by other invited artists). We understand, m
  
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• Wim Pijbes Departs From Museum Voorlinden Months After Taking Job as Director

  27-09-2016 18:20 via artnews.com
  The Art Newspaper reports that Wim Pijbes will leave his post as director of Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar, the Netherlands. The museum, which houses the collection of chemical-industry magnate and ARTnews Top 200 Collector Joop van Caldenborgh, opened just three … Read More
  
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• Knockout show in Qatar on Muhammad Ali

  27-09-2016 18:05
  An Islamic icon of a different kind is currently on show between the traditional treasures of Dohas Museum of Islamic Arta posthumous exhibition celebrating the life of the boxing icon, and prominent Muslim activist and campaigner, Muhammad Ali (until 5 November). The memorabilia include photographs from Alis outdoor exhibition bout at the Doha Stadium in 1971. Some of the exhibits will become part of the permanent collection at the planned 3-2-1 Olympic and Sports Museum in Doha, which wil
  
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• Basrah Museum opens against the odds in Iraq

  27-09-2016 17:00
  
  Few outsiders can imagine the challenges of creating a new museum in Iraq. Just a week before the Basrah Museum was scheduled to open inside a converted former palace of Saddam Hussein today (27 September) most of the collection had yet to arrive from Baghdad.
  The Basrah Museum has been planned for eight years and will join the National Museum in Baghdad as one of the most important institutions in Iraq. For the first time in a generation, the people of southern Iraq will have their own museuma
  
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• Wim Pijbes quits as director of just-opened Museum Voorlinden

  27-09-2016 16:37
  
  Less than three weeks after overseeing the opening of Museum Voorlinden, Wim Pijbes is stepping down as its general director.
   
  The Netherlands newest private museum, which houses the modern and contemporary art collection of the chemicals magnate Joop van Caldenborgh, opened to the public in Wassenaar, north of The Hague, on 11 September. Pijbes surprised many when he joined as director in July after eight years at the helm of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, where he had led the completion
  
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• Whatever’s Cooking: Will Stewart Says Goodbye to His Zax Supper Club

  27-09-2016 16:17 via artnews.com
  For the past year and a half, the artist Will Stewart has governed ZAX—the weekly Bushwick supper club he runs out of the space that he lives and works in—with relatively simple rules: the food, frequently made by guest chefs, … Read More
  
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• Habitat: Obsessions—A Look at Brent Birnbaum’s Coat-check Tags

  27-09-2016 15:26 via artnews.com
  Habitat: Obsessions is a ten-part series of visits to the surprising non-art collections of art-world professionals. “Collecting is my medium,” the artist Brent Birnbaum told me recently. Birnbaum has collected treadmills, Barack Obama T-shirts, pigeon feathers (found on the streets of New York), Ikea furniture, … Read More
  
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• Pierre Huyghe Wins Nasher Sculpture Center’s $100,000 Prize

  27-09-2016 15:14 via artnews.com
  The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas announced today that Pierre Huyghe has won its 2017 Nasher Prize. Huyghe, who hails from France, will now receive $100,000 as part of the award, which is given annually to an artist who has … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Potential Bronx Arts District Edition

  27-09-2016 14:46 via artnews.com
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• Los Angeles’s Young Art Gallery Closes

  27-09-2016 14:45 via artnews.com
  Young Art, the venturesome Los Angeles gallery that operated in various locations for a decade, announced in an email blast that it has closed. During its long run, Young Art gave early solo shows to a number of superb artists, including … Read More
  
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• Dark arts: how night inspires great painters

  27-09-2016 14:17
  
  Whether it’s the night terrors of Edvard Munch or the shadowy holy light of Dutch nativity scenes, northern European artists have long found their voice in the dark – as the Towner Art Gallery’s latest show exploresThe nights are drawing in. Autumn evenings are getting duskier, mistier, cooler. Early mornings are darker. Soon we’ll be living large parts of our lives under a nocturnal cloak.As the dark deepens it unleashes imagination and stories of ghosts and witches; dre
  
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• Nuevo New York celebrates Latinos in the arts – in pictures

  27-09-2016 14:00
  
  Immigration to the US is a hot topic of the 2016 election, with Trump’s campaign creating an increasingly hostile environment. Nuevo New York by Hans Neumann and Gabriel Rivera-Barraza, published by Damiani, adds a new narrative to the conversation, challenging negative stereotypes with portraits of and interviews with Latin American New Yorkers who have made their mark on artistic and cultural life in the US Continue reading...
  
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• Cologne to return Menzel drawing sold in 1939 to Hildebrand Gurlitt

  27-09-2016 13:46
  
  The city of Cologne has said it will hand over a drawing by Adolph von Menzel that the art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt purchased in 1939 from a woman who fled Nazi Germany with her Jewish husband.
   
  The drawing, Blick ber die Dcher von Schandau (View over the Roofs of Schandau), was purchased for the Wallraf-Richartz Museums collection in 1939. Gurlitt bought the drawing from Elisabeth Linda Martens, whose husband was classified as a Jew under the Nuremberg laws and fired without pension fro
  
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• Fire Ravages Stockholm’s Royal Institute Of Art

  27-09-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The institution, which focuses on the fine arts and architecture at the undergrad, grad, and post-grad level, is located near downtown Stockholm on Skeppsholmen island” next door to the city’s modern art museum. “The fire reportedly started on the fourth floor, and it quickly spread to the building’s attic and roof.”
  
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• Islamic extremist sentenced to nine years in prison for destroying Timbuktu mausoleums

  27-09-2016 13:20
  Judges at the international criminal court (ICC) in The Hague have sentenced an Islamic extremist to nine years in prison for destroying historic monuments in the ancient city of Timbuktu in northern Mali. In an unprecedented move, Ahmad Al-Faqi Al-Mahdi pleaded guilty to war crimes for ordering the razing of nine mausoleums and the 15th-century Sidi Yahia mosque. The historic verdict marks the first time the ICC has heard a case about the demolition of cultural heritage.Handing down the senten
  
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• The pay-what-you-can Turner Prize show opens

  27-09-2016 11:00
  
  Visitors to the Turner Prize 2016 exhibition at Tate Britain, which opens today (27 September) will be able to pay what they can but only on Tuesdays. On other days to see the work of the four nominees, Michael Dean, Anthea Hamilton, Helen Marten and Josephine Pryde, visitors will need to pay 12 (10.50 concessions). Last year, when the Turner Prize show was held in Glasgows Tramway, the first time it was held in Scotland, admission was free during the shows three-month-long run. Back in London,
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.26.16

  27-09-2016 10:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thinking and speaking
  Most of us have been admonished from an early age to ‘think before you speak.’ But it turns out that speaking doesn’t work that way. … read more
  AJBlog: The Artful Manager Published 2016-09-26More inspiration from DePauw
  Only one event at the seminal 21CMposium at DePauw University was in standard conference format — a panel discussion. That was deliberate, and was one reason the symposium was so powerful. … read more
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• Why Writing About Science Seems Like Little More Than PR

  27-09-2016 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Think about it. For every article singing the praises of new science, how often do you see one that is critical? Not often. Unless you’re talking about eugenics or fission bombs, a new scientific result or technology is almost always treated as an unequivocally good thing.”
  
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