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• Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang review – jaw-dropping pyrotechnics

  13-10-2016 23:30
  
  Kevin Macdonald’s documentary – produced by Wendi Deng Murdoch – is a fascinating introduction to the Chinese artist’s thrilling celestial artworks Related: 'I love fireworks, they mean good luck': Wendi Deng Murdoch on Chinese art Nothing typifies the toweringly celestial ambition of the Chinese contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang than his “sky ladder”, a project over 20 years in the making. His jaw-dropping pyrotechnic concept involves a double-stranded firewo
  
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• Lars Fisk at Marlborough Chelsea, New York

  13-10-2016 23:24 via artnews.com
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• Porcelain’s poor relation

  13-10-2016 23:00
  The most recent catalogue produced by Jorge Welsh, China of all Colours: Painted Enamels on Copper, is a welcome addition to the existing literature on Chinese export art. Focusing on a relatively little known and studied areaenamels painted on copperit provides a comprehensive survey of past works on the subject, a well documented article by Christian Jrg, and a rich catalogue subdivided in 93 entries illustrating more than 160 objects, mainly from the 18th century and collected in Europe and t
  
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• Land ho: the flourishing of Flemish landscape painting

  13-10-2016 23:00
  
  The convergence of powerful currents has produced the exhibition Paradise on Earth: Flemish Landscape Painting from Breughel to Rubens at the Kunsthalle in Lipsiusbau, Dresden. The exhibition is a display of an exceptional collection of 141 paintings, as well as works on paper, mostly from the collections of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (state art collections in Dresden). The show surveys how landscape painting blossomed in Flanders over a period of some 150 years.
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• Get plastered at the Institute of Classical Art

  13-10-2016 23:00
  
  Have you ever wanted to get up close to a sculpture by Donatello? For decades, the Metropolitan Museum of Arts 2,600-strong plaster cast collection was squirrelled away in storage. Now, 120 works, including reproductions of classical and Renaissance sculptures, are returning to public view at the newly renovated Institute of Classical Architecture and Art on West 44th Street in Manhattan. The collection has mainly been visited by students and researchers, who are able to sketch or sculpt copies
  
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• Debbie and Marina, in the flesh

  13-10-2016 23:00
  
  Picture this: two superstars of their respective realmsthe performance artist Marina Abramovic and the Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harrywill come together on the evening of Friday, 28 October at the New York Public Library for another instalment of the talks programme Live from the NYPL, which will be streamed during the event. Theyll likely talk much about the new book [by Abramovic, Walk Through the Walls: a Memoir], but the rest will be a surprise in the best possible way, says a spokeswoman f
  
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• Collector and lawyer Peter Hort can pay, will pay artists

  13-10-2016 23:00
  
  Galleries who fail to pay their artists on time, if at all, could become a thing of the past. This summer Peter Hort, a lawyer and member of one of New Yorks most prominent collecting families, began a pilot project for a new business that could revolutionise the way art is sold in the city.
  The business, called RISBE (after Horts children), provides a new model for art sales. In it, the money from a sale goes through a third party, RISBE, which holds it in escrow before releasing a share to bo
  
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• Beat poetry and heavy beats, Marisa Merz’s mesmerising mixed-media, Jim Nutt’s nutty portraits and Bedwyr Williams’s wooden spoon in this week’s London exhibition roundup

  13-10-2016 23:00
  
  The Infinite Mix: Contemporary Sound and Image, Hayward off-site at The Store (until 4 December)The Hayward may be in the throes of a major refurbishment but it is popping up with a vengeance just across the river with this outstanding exhibition devoted to the most recent artistic combinations of sound and moving image. The show is held in a gutted office block owned by The Vinyl Factory, who have stumped up to provide the optimum conditions to view each of these ten top-notch and multifarious
  
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• Manuel Ocampo and Lani Maestro Will Represent the Philippines at the 2017 Venice Biennale

  13-10-2016 20:29 via artnews.com
  The Philippines’ National Commission for Culture and the Arts and its Department of Foreign Affairs announced that Manuel Ocampo and Lani Maestro will represent the country at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Joselina Cruz, the director of the Museum of Contemporary … Read More
  
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• Chelsea Dealer Mike Weiss Closes Gallery, Citing an ‘Unresolvable’ Situation With Construction Next Door

  13-10-2016 19:55 via artnews.com
  In what appears to be a continuing trend of gallery closures throughout New York, Mike Weiss Gallery in Chelsea has shut its doors. In a phone conversation with ARTnews, gallery owner Mike Weiss confirmed the news last night.Weiss cited issues with … Read More
  
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• Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Architect-Artist Duo LOT-EK Flattens Its Architecture and Pins It to the Wall

  13-10-2016 19:27 via artnews.com
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• Carrie Mae Weems Receives Watermill Center’s Inga Maren Otto Fellowship, With Royce Weatherly and Carlos Bunga

  13-10-2016 18:57 via artnews.com
  Today, the Watermill Center announced that the artists Carrie Mae Weems, Royce Weatherly, and Carlos Bunga have been selected as the 2017 recipients of its Inga Maren Otto Fellowship. The fellowship, named after the eponymous philanthropist, who helped create the award, … Read More
  
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• Without Doubt: At 90, Ed Moses Is Flush With Confidence

  13-10-2016 18:39 via artnews.com
  ‘I never thought I would live this long,” Ed Moses said with a wry grin. It’s a gorgeous Sunday morning at his home and studio in Venice, California, and he was in his element, amid a batch of big abstract … Read More
  
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• ‘It Has to Be Tragic or Somewhat Manic-Depressive’: A Talk With Sam McKinniss

  13-10-2016 17:37 via artnews.com
  Bill Powers: Artist Alex Da Corte said I should ask you, what is your favorite Angela Lansbury film? Sam McKinniss: That’s a toss up between Beauty and the Beast and Death on the Nile, the Agatha Christie movie.BP: Didn’t Alex and the … Read More
  
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• Damien Hirst Will Show at Pinault Palaces in Venice Next Year

  13-10-2016 17:21 via artnews.com
  Whoa boy, it’s looking like it’s going to be an interesting spring in Venice next year. The Centre Pompidou’s chief curator, Christine Macel, who’s curating the Biennale, has titled her show “Viva Arte Viva,” and now there is news that … Read More
  
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• Goodbye art history A-level, you served the elite well | Jonathan Jones

  13-10-2016 16:42
  
  History of art only really flourished in private schools. If it’s to be revived, it needs to draw on the days of great communicators such as Kenneth ClarkThis autumn yet another new edition of EH Gombrich’s classic 1950 book The Story of Art – the “Luxury” edition – will be out in time for Christmas. Meanwhile the BBC is hard at work on Civilisations, an epic attempt to regain the factual television heights of Kenneth Clark’s 1969 series Civilisation. Re
  
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• Modern art’s Magnificent Seven: Emmanuel Di Donna opens new gallery on Madison Avenue with show of abstract masterworks

  13-10-2016 16:00
  
  The art dealer Emmanuel Di Donna opens his new purpose-designed 6,500 sq. ft gallery today at 744 Madison Avenue in Manhattan with the show, Paths to the Absolute (13 October3 December), featuring 13 paintings by seven artists from the European and American avant-gardes: Vassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still. Di Donna, formerly the worldwide head of Sothebys Impressionism and Modern art department, says he took his i
  
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• Richard Serra review – rusting hulks that trap the ticking of time

  13-10-2016 15:03
  
  Gagosian Britannia Street, London
  It may look like a big chunk of derelict dockyard but the great sculptor’s new work feels like a monument to our timesImagine walking in the dark nave of a cathedral. You turn a corner and it turns into the hull of a rustbucket ship. Another twist and you are in a north African souk. These are just some of the impressions you might get walking through the curvaceous labyrinth that is Richard Serra’s new sculpture NJ-2.This is not some virtual-reality
  
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• Morning Links: Bob Dylan Noble Prize Edition

  13-10-2016 15:01 via artnews.com
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• Morning Links: Bob Dylan Nobel Prize Edition

  13-10-2016 15:01 via artnews.com
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• Donation from collector Hallam Chow shores up M+ museum

  13-10-2016 14:58
  
  The M+ museum in Hong Kong, the delayed flagship project of the new West Kowloon Cultural District, has been boosted by a donation of five works by south and southeast Asian artists from the local collector, Hallam Chow.
  The works donated are by Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba (Circus, 2007), L.N. Tallur (Colonial Sisters, 2008), Sopheap Pich (Head in Arms, 2010), Jompet Kuswidananto (Third Realm: Venice Series #3, 2011) and Eko Nugroho (Untitled, 2010).
  Chow, who runs a law practice, says in a statement
  
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• Beirut to build new modern art museum

  13-10-2016 13:00
  
  BeMA – Beirut Museum of Art – will feature 124-metre tower and have 2,300 works, with first exhibition in 2020Beirut is to get a new modern art museum with a design inspired by Italian campaniles and Arabic minarets. Continue reading...
  
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• London’s National Gallery close to buying £30m Pontormo portrait

  13-10-2016 12:49
  
  The National Gallery looks set to buy a portrait by Jacopo Pontormo for just over 30m after the UK government privately agreed to an unprecedented 19m grant to cover tax. The export licence deferral on the painting expires on 22 October and an announcement is expected shortly.
  Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap (1530) depicts Carlo Neroni, a Florentine aristocrat. Pontormo is one of the great portraitists of the 16th century and most of his works remain in Italy, which means that the National
  
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• Marcantonio Raimondi: the Renaissance printer who brought porn to Europe

  13-10-2016 11:50
  
  In 1524 Raimondi, an engraver working with Raphael’s circle of sexual libertarians, printed I Modi – The Positions. These pornographic illustrations gave erotic art to the massesThe Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester is exhibiting the works of Marcantonio Raimondi (c.1480–1534), a printmaker who collaborated closely with the great Renaissance artist Raphael. The reproductions of Raphael’s paintings that Raimondi undertook helped spread artistic knowledge across Europe. I
  
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• Tino Sehgal—and 300 performers—take over the Palais de Tokyo in Paris

  13-10-2016 11:14
  
  Tino Sehgal interrogates the nature of an exhibition in the 21st century in his survey show, Carte blancheTino Sehgal, at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (until 18 December). A solo show is a monument for individualism, giving all this space to an individual, says the British-German, Berlin-based artist known for his constructed situations.  The exhibition is focused around experiences and interactions between visitors and 300 participants, aged between eight and 82, enacting Sehgal's works.
  
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• Cars and girls: Louis Faurer's New York moments – in pictures

  13-10-2016 08:00
  
  With his melodramatic, stylised photographs, Louis Faurer finds quiet poignancy amid the melée of the city’s streets Continue reading...
  
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• Alt city guide to Liverpool | Tony Naylor

  13-10-2016 07:30
  
  Left-field Liverpool is thriving with a strong DIY culture and an art world bubbling with grassroots projects. Here’s our pick of the most exciting music and culture venues, and the best places to eat and drink For decades, Liverpool has experimented with every international trend, using each one in a cool, discriminating way to create distinctively Liverpudlian art. Think of the Beat-influenced poets of the 1960s or the psychedelic music lineage that links Echo & the Bunnymen to the C
  
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• Sam Falls at Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles

  13-10-2016 00:18 via artnews.com
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• Study: Reading Literature Can Bridge Political Divide

  13-10-2016 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The linguist Roman Jakobson once contrasted political conventions with literary ones: the problem with political conventions, he said, is that they encourage people to “mindlessly agree” with slogans, which in turn, create unnecessary antagonism between different groups of people. Literary conventions, on the other hand, where individuals get together to read and talk about books, were different.”
  
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