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• Frieze Openings Begin, With Jeff Koons at Almine Rech, Ed Ruscha at Gagosian—and Monica Lewinsky!

  04-10-2016 23:47 via artnews.com
  The lines for the Jeff Koons show at Almine Rech’s new gallery here in London ran around the block, with an unruly mob at the front, vying to get in. Even if they couldn’t see Koons from the end of the … Read More
  
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• How Technology Is Blurring The Space Between Mind And Machine

  04-10-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some people worry that one day soon we might physically attach computer chips to our minds, but we don’t actually need to plug ourselves in: proximity is a red herring. The real issue is the seamless way in which we are already hybridising our cognitive space with our devices. In ways both quotidian and profound, they are becoming extensions of our minds.”
  
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• ‘We’re a part of American art too’: Black artists speak on their roles in art history

  04-10-2016 23:00
  
  Partway through a press lunch last week in honour of the publication of Four Generations: the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art, the abstract painter Sam Gilliam reflected on his distaste for the demand that black artists make work that transparently speaks to their race. You dont want to be part of a corner, he said. You want to be universal.
  Gilliam was joined by fellow artists Jack Whitten, Charles Gaines, Melvin Edwards and William T. Williams for an event at Le Bernardin restaura
  
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• The Nineties: don't look back in anger

  04-10-2016 23:00
  
  Is it too soon to consign the 1990s to history? It is a question that many dealers coming to Frieze London might ask. It was the era in which numerous galleries that dominate the art world todayfrom Sadie Coles in London to Gavin Browns Enterprise in New York and Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlincame to prominence. As Gregor Muir, the outgoing director of the ICA in London and a prominent writer and curator in the 1990s London scene, says: People are shocked that the 1990s is entering art histor
  
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• Re-branding the Wild West

  04-10-2016 23:00
  
  This month, the travelling exhibition Branding the American West: Paintings and Films, 1900-50 heads east to the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia (29 October-5 February 2017). The show features more than 100 works that depictand sometimes challengethe mythologised stereotype of the Wild West, including iconic Hollywood movies, formalist and abstract paintings, and images of cowboys, Native Americans and Pueblo villages. Hermon MacNeils bronze sculpture The Sun Vow (modelled 1898-99, c
  
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• Rana Begum wins Abraaj prize

  04-10-2016 23:00
  
  The Bangladeshi-British artist Rana Begum has won the ninth Abraaj Group Art Prize, the awards organisers announced today. The three shortlisted artists were also named: Doa Aly from Egypt, Raha Raissnia from Iran and Sarah Abu Abdallah from Saudi Arabia, making it the first all-female shortlist for the prize. Begum, whose work is influenced by Op Art, Minimalism and Islamic geometric patterns, receives $100,000 to create a new project that will be unveiled at Art Dubai (15-18 March 2017). The
  
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• Rachel Rose heads to Hollywood

  04-10-2016 23:00
  
  Rachel Rose, who won the 2015 Frieze Artist Award, has signed to Creative Artists Agency (CAA), one of Hollywoods biggest talent agencies. The company will not manage the US artists fine art business but will instead support her career making feature-length films. What is interesting is how the fine art and film worlds are melding, says the New York-based art adviser Lisa Schiff. Rose follows in the footsteps of artists including the British film-maker Steve McQueen, who is also signed to CAA,
  
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• Race to save Cornelia Parker’s Met sculpture

  04-10-2016 23:00
  
  Time is running out to save a large sculpture by the UK artist Cornelia Parker from ending up in a New York skip. Parkers Transitional Object (PsychoBarn), which the Metropolitan Museum of Art commissioned earlier this year as a temporary, site-specific piece for its roof, has only weeks to find a permanent home, despite being offered as a gift to several US institutions. It closes on Halloweenso appropriate. I think it will be taken down on 12 November, Parker says. We have had people interest
  
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• Mullican and Camplin expand consciousness at the Camden Arts Centre

  04-10-2016 23:00
  
  Matt Mullican and Bonnie Camplin are probably two of the most difficult artists to discuss, says Jenni Lomax, the director of the Camden Arts Centre, where solo exhibitions by the artists are currently on show. But this is precisely why the pairing works so well. Both their work is about communicating on a more perceptive or intuitive level, Lomax says.Mullicans show, The Sequence of Things, brings together strands of his existing practice, including drawings created on bedsheets under hypnosis
  
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• In pictures: Frieze Sculpture Park

  04-10-2016 23:00
  
  Claude Lalanne, Choupatte Gante (2015-16)
  Ben Brown Fine Arts, price in excess of 2m
  Created especially for the Frieze Sculpture Park, this is Claude Lalannes largest sculpture to date, which is inspiring given that she is 91. With this surreal work, which fuses a cabbage with the feet of a chicken, she is drawing on a number of traditions, including French decorative arts and Baroque sculpture. It is hardly surprising, then, that Claude and her late husband Franois-Xavier are icons among fashi
  
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• Guerrilla Girls target super-wealthy collectors

  04-10-2016 23:00
  
  Private museums are multiplying in Europe, the US and Asia, and they are coming under the scrutiny of the Guerrilla Girls, the activist collective and self-styled conscience of the art world, which is in London this week.
   
  Theres a growing proliferation of private museums put together by billionaire art collectors, and theyre really to protect their very expensive spending habits in the arts, says Frida Kahlo, one of the founding members of the US-based collective, which has protested aga
  
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• Guerrilla Girls: going ape at the art world

  04-10-2016 23:00
  
  The Guerrilla Girls have spent more than 30 years holding the art world to account. Armed with humour, statistics and gorilla masks, the anonymous US-based collective has produced a steady stream of posters, hoardings and actions denouncing white, male privilege. During Frieze week, the self-styled feminist masked avengers are turning their attention to Europe. Their first UK exhibition, Is It Still Even Worse in Europe?, surveys more than 400 European museums on the efforts they have made towa
  
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• France to increase funding for museums and acquisitions in 2017 budget

  04-10-2016 23:00
  
  Frances Minister of Culture and Communication, Audrey Azoulay, has pledged to substantially increase funding for French museums next year. I know the difficulties confronting museums today, between a drop in attendance, particularly linked to the drop in tourism, and a rise in security expenses, she said in her official speech on 28 September to present the departments 2017 budget. As part of this, cultural funding will increase by 6.6% to a total of 2.9bnthe largest amount of government money
  
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• Found: Otto Dix’s picture book for five-year-old stepdaughter

  04-10-2016 23:00
  
  A picture book with 14 watercolours that Otto Dix painted in 1925 for his five-year-old stepdaughter, Hana Koch, is on public display for the first time.
  Hana was the daughter of Dixs wife Martha from her first marriage to the Dusseldorf doctor Hans Koch. She kept the book hidden in an old altar retable in her home in Bavaria. Five other picture books produced by Dixfor his stepson Martin, children Ursus, Jan and Nelly, and his granddaughter Bettinaare already well known.
  Twenty years ago, Hana
  
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• Candida Höfer travels down Mexico way

  04-10-2016 23:00
  
  The German photographer Candida Hfer travelled through Mexico to capture its rich architectural heritage. The resulting pictures are on show in Mexico City at Galeria OMR (until 5 November). Hfer travelled to the country in 2015 to photograph 15 historic buildings in the states of Jalisco, Puebla, Oaxaca, Guanajuato and Mexico City. They include the chapel of the 19th-century Hospicio Cabaas in Guadalajara, a Unesco World Heritage Site decorated with murals by Jos Clemente Orozco.The extraordin
  
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• Brexit bargain hunting?

  04-10-2016 23:00
  
  The pound this week slumped to a 31-year low due to the turbulence caused by Brexit. But although tourist spending in London rose after the UK voted in June to leave the European Union, few think that the devaluation will give much of a boost to British galleries taking part in the Frieze fairs.
   
  Some dealers, though, are more bullish. Rupert Wace, who has brought a Roman marine mosaic to Frieze Masters, believes that the effect of sterlings devaluation is considerable. He says: Immediate
  
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• Artist and collector let loose in Frieze toilets

  04-10-2016 23:00
  
  Theres no escape from the art at Frieze this yearnot even in the washrooms. For her Frieze Project, Julie Verhoeven has redesigned every aspect of the male and female toilets, from the lids and seats to the lavatory bowls and the insides of the urinals. The toilets have always been my favourite spot at Frieze; they are a refuge and a place to relax. I wanted to make them womb-like but also a little bit troublesome, she says. Theres blaring music playing while the artist patrols the (blue-carpete
  
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• East Wing Of DC’s National Gallery Reopens After Three-Year Renovation

  04-10-2016 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The I.M. Pei-designed wing of the National Gallery, a monumental presence on the Mall, opened in 1978 with its geometric peaks and knife-sharp edges … After nearly 40 years, the building needed upgrades to both improve infrastructure and accessibility and to make room for the museum’s expanding collection.”
  
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• ‘I’m Laughing at Myself a Little Bit’: Amalia Ulman on Her Show in London, and Ending Her Instagram Performance

  04-10-2016 21:48 via artnews.com
  If you look at the Instagram account of artist Amalia Ulman, which has 126,000 followers, the location of last post was 811 Wilshire LLC in Los Angeles, and it was put up at 10:30 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. Which would … Read More
  
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• Bronx Museum Moves Past Resignations Of Prominent Board Members

  04-10-2016 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The departures kicked up a cloud of controversy just three months after the museum had announced a $25 million capital campaign to renovate and expand its building along the Grand Concourse and to establish an endowment for the first time.”
  
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• Preserving Native American Languages – There’s An App For That

  04-10-2016 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There are several apps for that, actually, and video games as well; they’re seen as good ways to meet young people on their own ground. Alli Joseph (of the Shinnecock Indian Nation) gives a brief survey of what’s out there.
  
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• Barcelona’s Grand Experiment To Take Back Its Streets From Cars

  04-10-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Barcelona’s system of superblocks — called “superilles” in Catalan — would go well beyond the pedestrian plazas that have sprouted up on the streets of New York City. While those spaces have carved out more room for pedestrians in busy corridors, the superblocks represent a more radical approach that fundamentally challenges the notion that streets even belong to cars.”
  
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• ‘Turandot’ – Isn’t It Time To Retire This Piece Of Misogynistic Yellowface?

  04-10-2016 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That’s pretty much the tenor of this essay by Rob Buscher, Festival Director of the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, on the blog of Opera Philadelphia, which just completed a run of Puccini’s final work.
  
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• Picasso Portraits review – tame exhibition sells his radical genius short

  04-10-2016 19:12
  
  National Portrait Gallery, LondonYou won’t learn from this show how Picasso actually tore apart the portrait form as a way of seeingIf you have ever been fooled by sensationalist biographies that caricature the 20th century’s greatest artist as a destroyer of women, a selfish monster, a man who always put his art ahead of the people around him, the National Portrait Gallery’s soft-centred exhibition of a Picasso always ready to sketch a lunch companion on a napkin or trot out h
  
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• Review: Pavillion of Art and Design, London

  04-10-2016 18:57
  The 10th edition of the fair boasts a standout Joan Miró and furniture by Joaquim Tenreiro
  
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• Collaboration is key to Ghana’s growing art scene

  04-10-2016 18:36
  
  In a sign that Ghanas art scene is going from strength to strength, one of countrys top non-profit organisations is relaunching in a larger space next month. ANO, which was founded in 2002 as a cultural research platform, is moving to a venue in the centre of the capital city, Accra, which will include spaces for exhibitions, performances, screenings, a library and workshops.Nana Oforiatta-Ayim, the writer, film-maker and curator who runs ANO, says the new building will not only be a place for
  
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• Raymond Pettibon Keeps Drawing Over His Works at David Zwirner, and Other Observations This Morning in Mayfair

  04-10-2016 18:30 via artnews.com
  If it wasn’t already evident that it’s Frieze Week in London, a stroll down New Bond Street would probably tip you off, as there are collectors on nearly every corner talking to dealers with binders, with iPads, and making the sounds … Read More
  
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• Review: Philippe Parreno, Tate Modern Turbine Hall

  04-10-2016 18:20
  The French artist offers up a potpourri of sound, image and sensation that is constantly shifting
  
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• Director of Indonesia’s Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Steps Down

  04-10-2016 17:27 via artnews.com
  Today, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MACAN) in Nusantara, Indonesia, announced that Dr. Thomas J. Berghuis has stepped down from his position as museum director. Dr. Berghuis, who served as MACAN’s director since May 2015 and helped establish … Read More
  
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• Review: Helen Marten, Serpentine Sackler, London

  04-10-2016 17:19
  For all the immersive razzmatazz, the 30-year-old Turner Prize nominee is a sculptor to the core
  
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• San Francisco’s FOG Design+Art Fair Announces 2017 Exhibitor List

  04-10-2016 17:05 via artnews.com
  The annual FOG Design+Art fair in San Francisco has announced the exhibitors list for it’s fourth edition, which will be held at  Fort Mason from January 12 to 15, 2017. The fair’s opening preview gala will benefit SFMOMA, as it has in the … Read More
  
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• Like Frosting on a Birthday Cake: Xu Zhen at James Cohan Gallery

  04-10-2016 16:46 via artnews.com
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• African American artists get Paris debut

  04-10-2016 16:31
  
  The most important exhibition of African American art ever to be mounted in France, and arguably in Continental Europe, opens in Paris on Tuesday, 4 October, at the Muse du Quai BranlyJacques Chirac (until 15 January 2017). The Color Line brings together nearly 200 works from the end of the American Civil War in 1865 up to the present day, mostly borrowed from the US.
  Daniel Soutif, a curator, philosophy professor and writer, who has put together the exhibition, says that, aside from the contem
  
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• African American artists get an outing in Paris

  04-10-2016 16:31
  
  The most important exhibition of African American art ever to be mounted in France, and arguably in Continental Europe, opens in Paris on Tuesday, 4 October, at the Muse du Quai BranlyJacques Chirac (until 15 January 2017). The Color Line brings together nearly 200 works from the end of the American Civil War in 1865 up to the present day, mostly borrowed from the US.
  Daniel Soutif, a curator, philosophy professor and writer, who has put together the exhibition, says that, aside from the contem
  
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• M is for Majesty: share your artwork now

  04-10-2016 15:53
  
  For this month’s readers’ art project, curator Anya Matthews invites you to share your artwork on the theme of majestyThe A to Z of Reader’s Art series has reached the letter M. This month we want your artworks that show visions of majesty – and who better for inspiration than James Thornhill, whose Painted Hall for the Old Royal Naval College in London, is one of the great unsung wonders of British art.Related: Good thinking: your art on the theme of knowledgeContinue re
  
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• A Fistful of Dollars: How American Collectors at Frieze Will Capitalize on the Pound’s Three-Decade Low

  04-10-2016 15:47 via artnews.com
  Brexit-induced anxiety may be rising here in London after Prime Minister Teresa May’s speech yesterday, when she confirmed that she would be pushing for what the dailies termed a “Hard Brexit” come spring. And, in accordance with her take-no-prisoners approach, she … Read More
  
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• The transformation of Philadelphia – in sculptures

  04-10-2016 15:13
  
  Artist Drew Leshko documents the changes in his home city of Philadelphia by creating intricate paper sculptures of its shops and historical buildings. Here he explains how and why the project came aboutPeter Bradshaw on Hollywood’s treatment of gentrification
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• Morning Links: David Byrne’s Neuroscience Show Edition

  04-10-2016 14:40 via artnews.com
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• Guerrilla Girls webchat – your questions answered on feminist art, if they'll lose the masks and Gorilla Glue

  04-10-2016 13:01
  
  The iconoclastic feminist art group descended on Tate Modern for a live chat to share their views on art, oligarchy and political activism 12.01pm BSTThe Guerrilla Girls’ Complaints Department project is at Tate Modern, in London, until 9 October.F & K: Thank you so much. Come to the Complaints Department at the Tate Modern through Sunday, and complain about everything we didn't get to answer. Look for the hours on the Tate website. Ta ta! 12.01pm BSTSusan Johnson Mumford asks:What&rsq
  
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• Guerrilla Girls webchat – your questions answered on feminism and art, if they'll lose the masks and Gorilla Glue

  04-10-2016 13:01
  
  The iconoclastic feminist art group descended on Tate Modern for a live chat to share their views on art, oligarchs and political activism 12.01pm BSTF & K: Thank you so much. Come to the Complaints Department at the Tate Modern through Sunday, and complain about everything we didn't get to answer. Look for the hours on the Tate website. Ta ta! 12.01pm BSTSusan Johnson Mumford asks:What’s your take on UN Women’s He for She initiative, which is arguably inclusive and solution-orie
  
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• Why avant garde Graz is Vienna’s cooler little sister

  04-10-2016 12:00
  
  A huge student community and a multicultural edge combine with a rich history of innovative art to make Austria’s second city an alluring city break choiceGraz, Austria’s second city, is like Vienna without the pomposity. There is the sweep of architectural styles – from gothic to Renaissance to baroque – you’d expect in a former imperial city with a Unesco-listed old town. But it is less traditional than the capital and the vibe is more relaxed, thanks partly to th
  
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• Was the National Gallery scammed with a fake Old Master painting?

  04-10-2016 11:41
  
  Orazio Gentileschi’s painting David Contemplating the Head of Goliath, until recently held by the National Gallery, could be a fake. If it is, it seriously undermines the gallery’s authority Orazio Gentileschi’s painting David Contemplating the Head of Goliath is a striking object. Just 25cm tall and 19cm wide, it is painted on a small but very valuable slab of the precious stone lapis lazuli. This intensely blue rock has been mined in Afghanistan since ancient times and was on
  
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• Paul Nash: the artist in words and pictures

  04-10-2016 09:00
  
  A new edition of the war artist’s wonderful memoir Outline is out – plus Dave McKean’s dark graphic novel inspired by itVisiting the Tate archive ahead of its major new retrospective of Paul Nash, I was struck again by the artist’s powerful way with words. Whether carefully typing up an explanation of the various elements that make up his 1941 masterpiece Battle of Britain, or playfully describing his feelings about death – “death, I believe, is the only solut
  
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• Gwangju Biennale: personal and political mingle among the living and the dead

  04-10-2016 05:49
  
  Asia’s pre-eminent biennale founded in memory of 600 people massacred by the Korean army pairs provocative works with an air of quiet contemplationIn 1980, the Korean army massacred left-leaning students and civilians in the northern city of Gwangju. Around 600 people died in the pro-democracy demonstrations, and it is in their memory that the Gwangju Biennale was founded. It’s Asia’s pre-eminent biennale, and its political roots throw a distinctive cast on the curation. With m
  
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