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• ‘ETHER’ at Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

  01-11-2016 23:06 via artnews.com
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• Object lessons: from Pissarro's rare colour print to Avedon's slaughterhouse worker

  01-11-2016 22:00
  
  Camille Pissarro, Les Baigneuses gardeuses doies (around 1895)
  Old Master Through Modern Prints, Swann, New York, 3 November
  Estimate $15,000-$20,0000A consummate colourist in his paintings, Camille Pissarro was perpetually frustrated by the limitations of colour in printmaking. His son recalled that he frankly hated printingla poupe, when numerous colours are printed on the same plate at the same time. Instead, he preferred to use each colour on a different plate, one after the other. Inevitab
  
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• Judge cites New York law protecting art buyers in lawsuit against Zwirner Gallery

  01-11-2016 22:00
  
  A judge in New Yorks Supreme Court partially denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the Italian art dealer Fabrizio Moretti against David Zwirner and his gallery. In his amended complaint, Moretti claims that Zwirner Gallery violated New Yorks Arts and Cultural Affairs Law, when it allegedly changed the dimensions of a $2m Jeff Koons Gazing Ball sculpture after the dealer purchased a version in 2013, and in the way it editioned the works.
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• How the Albright-Knox Art Gallery raised more than $100m in just three months

  01-11-2016 22:00
  
  Last April, Janne Sirn, the director of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, got an email that most museum leaders only dream about. A man who had never before donated to the institution pledged to jump-start its $80m capital campaign with an ambitious matching scheme. The Los Angeles-based billionaire Jeffrey Gundlach ended up giving $42.5m and the museums trustees pledged $21.3m this summer.With Gundlachs help, the Albright-Knox has completed what may be the fastest capital-raising campaign in US m
  
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• Hamilton: an American auction

  01-11-2016 22:00
  
  Hamilton fanatics and American history buffs, mark your calendars: you have the chance to own a piece of Alexander Hamiltons personal history thanks to an upcoming auction at Sothebys in New York, Alexander Hamilton: an Important Family Archive of Letters and Manuscripts, due to be held on 18 January. The auction will include hundreds of documents that have been passed down in the founding fathers family, such as notes for president George Washingtons third annual address to Congress in October
  
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• Bowie the collector at Sotheby’s: from spinning with Hirst to rewriting art history

  01-11-2016 22:00
  
  David Bowies 1971 visit to Andy Warhols Factory may not have been a wild success, but its no secret that he had a keen interest in visual art and close connections with artists. This was made especially manifest from the early 1990s when the Thin White Duke became a conspicuous contemporary art world presence, sitting on the board of Modern Painters magazine and befriending and interviewing the likes of Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, as well as John Bellany and Balthus.
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• Dia Art Foundation establishes Sackler Institute with help from longtime donors

  01-11-2016 21:43
  
  The Dia Art Foundation in New York has been given a grant by the Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation, a long-time supporter of the museum, to back various museum projects. The amount of the gift is undisclosed and no staff hires are planned.The gift establishes the Sackler Institute, an umbrella term for much of the museums already-existing programming, like artist-on-artist lectures, poetry readings, gallery talks and community free days. The endowment will also support conservation pro
  
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• Two Tony Feher Memorial Exhibitions to be Held in New York and San Francisco

  01-11-2016 21:11 via artnews.com
  Earlier this year the art world lost the luminary conceptual sculptor Tony Feher. In honor of his passing, Anthony Meier Fine Arts in San Francisco and New York’s Sikkema Jenkins & Co. will concurrently show a selection of Feher’s work at … Read More
  
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• Come On In! Hauser & Wirth Opens New Space at Old Dia Building—With a Guston Show, and a Roth Bar!

  01-11-2016 21:04 via artnews.com
  Does something look different at the tail end of West 22nd Street? Ah, that’s because an historic red brick building has been spangled with new signage for mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth, which has now officially taken residence in the building … Read More
  
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• Louvre to offer shelter for world treasures rescued from war zones

  01-11-2016 19:39
  
  New secure facility in northern France could become temporary repository for artefacts in danger of being destroyed, says HollandeThe Louvre Museum is to offer a haven for world treasures rescued from war zones such as Syria and Iraq at a secure storage facility in northern France.The French president, François Hollande, said the new conservation facility in Liévin could become a temporary repository for international cultural and artistic treasures. Continue reading...
  
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• Agnes Martin, Guggenheim Museum, New York — review

  01-11-2016 18:38
  A retrospective of the artist’s work reveals her sparse, calm, distinctive vision
  
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• Light – one of the great impalpable joys of life

  01-11-2016 18:15
  
  From the awe of the aurora borealis to the thrills of Diwali and bonfire night, light is a constant source of wonder that shapes our worldLight therapies tested | The scientist who diagnosed Sad | Does vitamin D fight winter gloom?In a room just to the left of the Sackler Octagon hangs one of Tate Britain’s most-visited paintings. Now 130 years old, oil on canvas, and a little over 7ft tall, John Singer Sargent’s Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose depicts two girls in the early evening of f
  
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• David Bowie's art collection goes on display before auction

  01-11-2016 18:08
  
  Musician amassed around 400 paintings, sculptures, design objects and other items by artists such as Damien Hirst and Jean-Michel Basquiet Related: David Bowie's 50-year creative output at a glance It is unquestionably diverse: a deceptively gentle Winifred Nicholson landscape of St Ives harbour, a small tropical fish preserved in formaldehyde by Damien Hirst, lots of colourful postmodern Memphis furniture and – for reasons that may never be fully known – a Tintoretto altarpiece. Con
  
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• Bowie’s private art collection up for auction

  01-11-2016 16:54
  Sale highlights late musician’s role as serious collector and critic
  
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• Emma Hamilton: Seduction and Celebrity review – the betrayal of Nelson's mistress

  01-11-2016 16:48
  
  National Maritime Museum, London
  She was the irresistible beauty from the brothels who captivated Europe. This vivid show is a glorious reminder of her rise and fallOf all the men who loved Emma Hamilton, the artist George Romney is the one whose passion has endured. Her husband, the vulcanologist, classicist and art collector Sir William Hamilton, found himself spurned when she fell madly in love with Horatio Nelson. And her heroic lover never grew old with her as he hoped. Nelson died on HMS V
  
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• Directorship

  01-11-2016 16:11
  Job brief 
  The BSR seeks to appoint a Director of high scholarly reputation (whether in academic research or the creative arts), with the ambition, strategic vision and management skills to lead it in its second century. The Director is responsible for the management of the institution, the pursuance of its chartered aims, and the enhancement of its reputation. Primary roles are to increase the flow of external funding, and to lead in developing research strategies and maintaining wide disc
  
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• School of Art Institute of Chicago Announces Endowment of Nick Cave’s Professorship

  01-11-2016 16:03 via artnews.com
  The School of the Art Institute of Chicago announced today that it has received a gift of $2 million to endow the professorship of artist Nick Cave. The donation comes during SAIC’s fundraising campaign in celebration of its 150th anniversary.The … Read More
  
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• Dia Art Foundation Creates Sackler Institute, Focused on Programming, Research, and Education, With ‘Generous’ Gift

  01-11-2016 15:58 via artnews.com
  The Dia Art Foundation in New York announced today that, following a gift from the Dr. Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation, it has created the Sackler Institute, which a release describes as “a center without walls.” The gift is being … Read More
  
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• ADAA Art Show Releases 2017 Exhibitor List

  01-11-2016 15:52 via artnews.com
  Even though we were just at an art fair at the Park Avenue Armory a week or so ago, life goes on, and so here we are telling you about the ADAA Art Show in 2017, which has for years … Read More
  
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• Turner Contemporary gives ‘brand Margate’ much-needed boost

  01-11-2016 14:20
  
  Turner Contemporary, which opened in 2011 in a David Chipperfield-designed gallery on Margate seafront, has led the towns regeneration attracting nearly one million tourists as well as a growing number of artists and other creatives who have moved there, many from London. Now the gallery has the statistics to show funders and any  sceptics that the 17m-project would fail to deliver value for money.Since it opened five years ago, 48% of visitors have come to Margate specifically to visit Tu
  
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• Theaster Gates Starts Artisan and Craft Workforce Training Program in Chicago

  01-11-2016 14:15 via artnews.com
  Today the Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates, operating under the banner of his nonprofit Rebuild Foundation, announced the launch of Dorchester Industries, a self-described “workforce training and apprenticeships initiative for un- or underemployed people across the South Side of Chicago.”This announcement … Read More
  
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• Art Basel Miami Beach Will Screen Maurizio Cattelan Documentary in 2016 Film Program

  01-11-2016 14:00 via artnews.com
  The organizers of Art Basel Miami Beach, which runs December 1 through 4 this year, announced today that the fair will feature Maura Axelrod’s documentary Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back, as well as some 50 other time-based works, as part of its film … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Allan Sekula Edition

  01-11-2016 13:37 via artnews.com
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• Zorionak! Guggenheim Bilbao to celebrate 20th birthday with jam-packed programme

  01-11-2016 13:31
  
  Twenty years ago next October, Frank Gehrys titanium Guggenheim Bilbao opened in the run-down, former industrial town in the Basque region of northern of Spain. Since then, the museum has attracted nearly 20 million visitors to the region and has contributed almost 4 billion to the national GDP. It is hardly surprising, then, that other cities around the world have wanted to emulate the so-called Bilbao effect.
  To mark its 20th anniversary, the museum announced today (1 November) a special prog
  
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• Picasso’s electrician admits he lied in court

  01-11-2016 13:01
  
  Pierre Le Guennec, the electrician employed by Pablo and Jacqueline Picasso in the 1970s, told the appeal court of Aix-en-Provence on Monday 31 October that he had "lied" when he said that the artist and his wife gave him 271 works in a cardboard box.
  Le Guennec, now 78, and his wife, Danielle, 73, made headlines in 2010 when they took the hundreds of works to the Picasso Administration, asking for authentication certificates, which are required for a sale. The group of unsigned and unrecorded
  
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• Pergamon Museum renovation costs spiral as reopening is delayed

  01-11-2016 12:58
  
  The estimated cost of renovating Berlins Pergamon Museum has rocketed to 477m, almost double the initial estimate of 261m. The German government has warned that the full reopening of the museum will be delayed by four years until 2023.
  The reason for the delay is the discovery of a vast concrete pumping station under the museum, according to a spokesman for the construction ministry who spoke to the Deutsche Presse Agentur. The station was put in place during the museums construction between 19
  
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• British Museum marks 50th anniversary of Sexual Offences Act with LGBTQ show

  01-11-2016 11:23
  
  An exhibition exploring gay love and sexuality based on objects in the collection of the British Museum in London is due to open next spring. The show, provisionally titled A Little Gay History (May-October 2017), coincides with the anniversary of the passing of the Sexual Offences Act in July 1967, which partially decriminalised homosexuality in England and Wales.The small-scale, chronological exhibition is based on the 2013 book A Little Gay History by Richard Parkinson, the former curator of
  
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• Would Clinton or Trump be better for the arts?

  01-11-2016 09:00
  
  With so much at stake in this months US presidential election, little attention has been paid to how the next leader of the free world will affect the arts in the US. But as the nations symbolic and bureaucratic leader, the next president stands to hold profound sway over its cultural agenda.
  Although neither campaign has an officially stated position on the arts, a spokeswoman for Hillary Clinton pointed us towards several quotes by the candidate on the matter, including one from a forum in Oc
  
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