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• Katharina Marszewski at Exile, Berlin

  31-10-2016 22:48 via artnews.com
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• Yves Klein’s ‘living paintbrush’ on collaborating with the artist

  31-10-2016 22:00
  Yves Klein (1928-62) was only active as an artist for seven short years but his playful, conceptual practiceencompassing painting, sculpture, performance, installation, film, photography and judowas ground-breaking. The first major UK exhibition of his work in two decades opened earlier this month at Tate Liverpool (until 5 March 2017) and includes several Anthropomtriesbody imprints made by naked female models covered in Kleins patented shade of ultramarine blue pigment.
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• When Weston shot Whitman

  31-10-2016 22:00
  
  The exhibition Real American Places: Edward Weston and Leaves of Grass at The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California (until 20 March 2017) features 25 images shot by the US photographer during a cross-country trip.Weston was commissioned in 1941 by the Limited Editions Book Club to collaborate on a new edition of Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitmans poetry collection. The photographer embarked on a 24,000-mile journey across the US with his wife, Charis Wi
  
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• The great 3D quantum leap

  31-10-2016 22:00
  For a decade, from 1973 to 1983, Charles Atlas was the film-maker-in-residence for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, collaborating with the choreographer and his dancers to create a new way of translating dance onto the screen. So when the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis was looking to commission new works for its major exhibition on Cunningham opening in February 2017, one of the artists it turned to was Atlas. The result will be Tesseract, perhaps one of the most technically ambitious danc
  
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• Tate makes up for lost time with the help of Elton John

  31-10-2016 22:00
  
  Since Simon Baker joined the Tate in 2009 as the first curator of photography, the gallery has overhauled how it collects and presents photographic works, addressing what he describes as one giant gap in the national collection of Modern and contemporary art. The Tate established a photography acquisition committee the following year to help build strong relationships with leading collectors, which is paying off with important gifts and loans. In November more than 150 loans from Elton Johns co
  
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• Tate makes up for lost time

  31-10-2016 22:00
  
  Since Simon Baker joined the Tate in 2009 as the first curator of photography, the gallery has overhauled how it collects and presents photographic works, addressing what he describes as one giant gap in the national collection of Modern and contemporary art. The Tate established a photography acquisition committee the following year to help build strong relationships with leading collectors, which is paying off with important gifts and loans. In November more than 150 loans from Elton Johns co
  
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• ‘Photography has become the seismograph for contemporary society’

  31-10-2016 22:00
  
  Christoph Wiesner, the artistic director of Paris Photo, was appointed in 2015 along with the fairs new director, Florence Bourgeois. Their first edition was cut short by the November 2015 terrorist attacks on Paris and the fair closed after three days.A curator and art historian, Wiesner was the senior director at Yvon Lambert gallery in Paris from 2012, previously working with Schipper & Krome and then Esther Schipper in Berlin. He spoke to us on the eve of Paris Photos 20th anniversary e
  
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• Paris Photo Month on the move

  31-10-2016 22:00
  
  The biennial photography festival in Paris, Mois de la Photo (Photo Month), is moving its dates from November to April to avoid competition with Paris Photo. The 19th edition of the festival, which was due to take place this month, will open in April 2017. Founded in 1980, the event helped establish Paris as a centre of photography and inspired the launch of Paris Photo in November 1997. But the magnetic success of the fair made it urgent to reposition the festival, says Franois Hbel, the artis
  
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• Our pick of Paris’s photography centres

  31-10-2016 22:00
  
  It is not a surprise that Paris, which has streets named after photography pioneers including Nicphore Nipce and Louis Daguerre, is home to numerous institutions dedicated to the medium besides the Centre Pompidou, including these four venues.
  Jeu de Paume
  The Jeu de Paume is a non-collecting institution specialising in photography, video, film and digital art, which opened in May 2004. It has a programme driven by the idea that cultural institutions should engage with social and political chal
  
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• New York’s ICP reopens with survey of surveillance

  31-10-2016 22:00
  
  The International Center of Photography (ICP) reopened on the Bowery, New York, in June in a ground-floor space it bought for $23.5m. The new venue has roughly the same amount of exhibition space as the museums former Midtown site, where its photography school will stay until at least 2018.
  The inaugural show, Public, Private, Secret (until 8 January 2017), tackles surveillance and the issue of privacy in the digital age, mixing historical and contemporary works, and still and moving images, wi
  
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• MoMA book revisits New Documents show

  31-10-2016 22:00
  
  A forthcoming book to be published by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) titled Arbus, Friedlander, Winogrand: New Documents, 1967, looks at an influential but little-known photography exhibition at the museum. The show was organised by John Szarkowski and included the work of Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand. Their work pointed in a then-radically new direction, where casual street shots of everyday people took precedent over highly choreographed work."It became one of those singu
  
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• Modernism goes Latin American at MoMA

  31-10-2016 22:00
  
  A major gift of Latin American art to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) stands to change the way in which Modernism is understood. In October, the Venezuelan collector Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and her husband, the media billionaire Gustavo Cisneros, donated 102 works of Latin American art to the New York institution. The gift will enable MoMA to expand its narrative of 20th-century art history and to install works by Latin American artists alongside their North American and European contempora
  
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• In praise of the lesser- known photographer

  31-10-2016 22:00
  
  The London-based dealer Michael Hoppen has been collecting photographs documenting crime scenes, zoological specimens and scientific explorations for more than a decade. I saw a wonderful show about eugenics, The Beautiful and the Damned, curated by Roger Hargreaves at the National Portrait Gallery many years ago, he says. I suddenly realised there was an area of photography that I hadnt really considered before and it was science. When a photographer is documenting a crime scene or a science p
  
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• Five photography shows coming up this year

  31-10-2016 22:00
  Live and Life Will Give You Pictures: Masterworks of French Photography 1890-1950Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
  (until 9 January 2017)
  The show features more than 170 photographs from the collection of the late New York physicist Michael Mattis and his wife Judith Hochberg, including many never-before-seen works such as a photogram titled Swan and Starfish (1928) by Man Ray. Another highlight is the earliest-known print of Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris (1932) by Henri Cartier-Bresson.Femi
  
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• Election Mad-ness!

  31-10-2016 22:00
  
  Looking for a cathartic experience to counteract the maddening avalanche of election emails? The New York-based collective DETEXT, which uses online textual material as its medium, has written Campaign, a 30-minute slapstick comedy on the US presidential race, exclusively with excerpts from an abundant primary source: the mass fundraising emails sent by the campaigns of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The one-act performancewhich features characters such as the candidates, Barack Obama and Tea
  
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• Ed Ruscha, the occasional photographer

  31-10-2016 22:00
  
  The leading US artist Ed Ruscha, who is showing a series of new paintings at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill in London (Extremes and In-betweens, until 17 December), tells The Art Newspaper that he rarely takes photographs today, even though he was a trailblazer in the medium at the start of his career.His last major photography exhibition, In Focus: Ed Ruscha, was held at the Getty Center in Los Angeles in 2013. It included the slender, pocket-sized volumes that he began publishing in 1963 and his ext
  
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• Each Tate gallery needs its own director not just a chief curator plus

  31-10-2016 22:00
  
  It is not generally known that what is now Tate Britain opened in 1897 as the National Gallery of British Art and was a department of the National Gallery. Twenty years later the gallery on Millbank was given its own director and board of trustees and three years later a new identity, National Gallery, Millbank. In 1932 the name was changed to the Tate Gallery, in honour of its sugar daddy and already its informal name. It was not until 1955 that it became fully independent of the National Gall
  
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• Centre Pompidou surveys a decade of collecting

  31-10-2016 22:00
  
  The Centre Pompidou has organised an exhibition of 100 images acquired over the past ten years for the 20th edition of Paris Photo. The show in the Grand Palais will present works by 40 artists, from Richard Avedon to Jeff Wall, through Brassa, Andreas Gursky, Ren Magritte, August Sander and Wolfgang Tillmans. Called The Pencil of Culture, a reference to William Henry Fox Talbots The Pencil of Nature (1844-46), the exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue on the recent history of the colle
  
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• Bay Area collectors reach critical mass

  31-10-2016 22:00
  Trying to find a common denominator in the current show at Pier 24the massive photography foundation opened by the collector Andy Pilara on the San Francisco waterfrontis a brain game of the highest order. One gallery is filled with the modern-gothic images of Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Another has psychedelic colours and a music theme, with portraits of Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and Aretha Franklin alongside visual riffs by John Baldessari and Christian Marclay.Although previous shows have had loose
  
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• A museum for a time of doubt

  31-10-2016 22:00
  Since the announcement in 2006 that a cultural district was to be created on Saadiyat Island off Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), ten years have passed and the conventional art museum sought by the Emiratis has turned into a universal institution as a result of influence almost exclusively from the French side. Although the term universal museum is a venerable one, anchored firmly in the history of European philosophy, it offers the capital of the emirates something quite original t
  
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• Political Reactions: A Testy Ai Weiwei Speaks With Tania Bruguera at the Brooklyn Museum

  31-10-2016 20:00 via artnews.com
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• Picasso's widow may have hidden artworks from family, court told

  31-10-2016 19:52
  
  Pierre Le Guennec, convicted last year of possessing stolen goods, says he was asked to store rubbish bags containing worksA man who kept nearly 300 Pablo Picasso artworks in his garage for almost 40 years has told a French appeal court the artist’s widow may have wanted to hide the works from his family.
  “Mrs Jacqueline Picasso had problems with [her stepson] Claude [Ruiz] Picasso,” Pierre Le Guennec said, presenting a new version of events to the court in the southern city of
  
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• Trump the Loser, according to Kruger

  31-10-2016 19:33
  
  The cover image emblazoned across New York magazine's election special issue, out this week, is a typically scorching work from the US artist Barbara Kruger who is known for her pithy, poetic text pieces that can cut to the quick. The word Loser is outlined in Krugers unique font (and red background) across the Presidential candidates striking teeth, mouth and wrinkles. The editor-in-chief, Adam Moss, says that his team were drawn to [the image], in part, for the three w
  
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• Agnes Martin paintings at center of wave of disputes over provenance

  31-10-2016 18:13
  
  A work by the artist, whose retrospective is showing at the Guggenheim, is the latest to be questioned as arguments over authentication hit the art marketThe approach of the fall art sales brings with it almost unprecedented disputes over provenance. From Frans Hals to Ross Bleckner, Mark Rothko to Agnes Martin, the sheer number of authentication disputes heading to court is placing pressure on the art world to reform its standards for certifying work.Related: Agnes Martin: the artist mystic who
  
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• Chinese Billionaire Art Collector Liu Yiqian Is in This Week’s New Yorker

  31-10-2016 18:10 via artnews.com
  Liu Yiqian, the Chinese billionaire with a proclivity for purchasing multimillion-dollar art using his American Express card, like a record-breaking $170 million dollar Modigliani, received the New Yorker treatment in this week’s issue.The profile chronicles Liu’s rise from the working class to extreme wealth … Read More
  
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• Holbein the '16th-century Hebdo': artist's woodcuts are dangerous political satire

  31-10-2016 18:08
  
  Cambridge academic Ulinka Rublack’s new book claims the artist best known as a painter of the Tudor hierarchy had earlier used art to criticise the powerfulThe 16th-century artist Hans Holbein the Younger’s series of tiny woodcuts, The Dance of Death, should be viewed as dangerous satire and an early form of political cartoon, according to a Cambridge academic. Related: The Dance of Death by Hans Holbein review – capering skeletons and ruined churches What struck me was how man
  
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• Pioneer Works Names Regine Basha Director of Residency Program

  31-10-2016 17:45 via artnews.com
  Pioneer Works, the multidisciplinary arts nonprofit in Red Hook, Brooklyn, founded by artist Dustin Yellin, announced today that it has appointed Regine Basha as the director of its residency program. Basha will begin in her new post immediately.Basha is an … Read More
  
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• Give me Van Gogh’s ear over Damien Hirst’s luxury basement any day | Jonathan Jones

  31-10-2016 17:24
  
  Once a symbol of soulful suffering, the painter’s brutal act of self-mutilation is still a reminder that art should be more than the pursuit of money and success“Death to Van Gogh’s Ear!” howled Allen Ginsberg in 1957 at a time when the severed aural appendage of the painter who invented expressionism was becoming synonymous with soulful suffering. Today the ear is ’ere again, with another explanation for Van Gogh’s brutal act of self-mutilation all over the m
  
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• Barbara Kruger Did the Cover for the New Issue of New York Magazine

  31-10-2016 16:58 via artnews.com
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• Outrage Grows Over Sudden Closure of Inverleith House, Beloved Edinburgh Gallery

  31-10-2016 16:39 via artnews.com
  The sudden closure of Inverleith House, the beloved art gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland, has outraged artists and art lovers worldwide and spurred protests. More than 700 people turned out for a demonstration by the gallery earlier this month, and nearly 10,000 so far … Read More
  
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• Consumer Reports: Petra Cortright

  31-10-2016 15:59 via artnews.com
  Petra Cortright is a Los Angeles–based known for her self-portrait videos created with a computer webcam and then uploaded onto YouTube, as well as her Photoshop-based paintings on aluminum, linen, paper, or acrylic, among other things. She has staged solo exhibitions at venues … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Powdery Substances at the Opera Edition

  31-10-2016 13:58 via artnews.com
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• I prefer my Shakespeare without neon lights – that doesn’t make me a luddite

  31-10-2016 13:41
  
  I’m delighted that Emma Rice is taking her weird ideas and leaving the Globe theatre. I prefer stuff that has been around for a few centuriesI am browned off with nearly everything modern: buildings, music, art, language, so I was rather cheered to hear that artistic director Emma Rice is leaving the Globe. Good. She can do her neon/electric lights and modern noise and “challenge the sanctity of Shakespeare’s words” somewhere else. Then we’ll still have at least one
  
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• Norcia's Basilica of San Benedetto among historic sites destroyed by latest Italian earthquake

  31-10-2016 13:22
  
  A violent 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck central Italy between the Umbria and Marche regions, near the towns of Norcia, Preci and Castelsantangelo sul Nera, on the morning of 30 October. The earthquake, the most powerful to hit the country since 1980, has brought devastation to areas that were already damaged by the 6.2-magnitude earthquake of 24 August, which killed almost 300 people. No further deaths have been reported in the recent wave of seismic activity. The latest disaster follows a pa
  
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• Outdoor discos to kitsch schnitzel ads: Twitter account relives the Soviet era

  31-10-2016 11:09
  
  Soviet Visuals curator says followers are hungry for propaganda nostalgia, whether they were born before 1991 or notIn a one-minute video snippet unearthed by the new online project Soviet Visuals, hundreds of people wearing sailor hats and 80s shell suits dance at an outdoor disco in the Russian city of Ufa.Shared as part of the project’s bid to celebrate the culture and aesthetics of the Soviet Union, the video was retweeted more than 1,500 times.Here is an outdoor Soviet disco from 1989
  
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• Lacma reaches halfway point for $600m Zumthor building with another surprising gift

  31-10-2016 05:00
  
  Five years ago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) literally rolled out the red carpet at its inaugural Art+Film gala in an explicit bid to reach Hollywood players alongside more established museum patrons. And this weekend, the event worked it Gucci-sponsored magic to bring out stars like Bradley Cooper, Gwyneth Paltrow and Leo DiCaprio (who co-chaired the event) and gross about $3.6m (net revenues not available).But the biggest gifts so far towards Lacmas plans for a new museum buil
  
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• Van Gogh 'cut off his ear after learning brother was to marry'

  31-10-2016 01:01
  
  New research casts doubt on popular theory that painter took razor to his ear after row with fellow artist Paul GauguinIt is the most famous act of self-mutilation in the history of art, but the exact motivation – love? Jealousy? Rage? – for Vincent van Gogh’s decision to cut off his ear has remained unknown for more than a century. According to a new study of his time in Provence, the gruesome procedure was in fact inspired by the news his brother Theo, his most loyal confidan
  
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