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• Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Roberto Cuoghi, Adelita Husni-Bey Will Represent Italy at the 2017 Venice Biennale

  15-11-2016 23:40 via artnews.com
  The Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism announced today that Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Roberto Cuoghi, and Adelita Husni-Bey will represent Italy at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Cecilia Alemani, the chief curator and director of High Line Art … Read More
  
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• ‘Art + Crush’ at Platform, Baltimore

  15-11-2016 23:33 via artnews.com
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• Why a collection of British photography is probably going abroad

  15-11-2016 22:00
  
  Over the past 20 years, the London dealer James Hyman and his wife Claire have assembled a private collection of more than 3,000 images by European and US photographers spanning the entire history of the medium. They are also the most active buyers of British photography in the world and are in the process of putting their British collection online at britishphotography.org. Hyman is considering the future of their British photography collection and is in talks with museums to donate the extrao
  
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• US outing for ancien régime metalworker’s opulent craft

  15-11-2016 22:00
  If, as the art historian Aby Warburg claimed, God is in the details, then divinity should be found in Pierre Gouthire: Virtuoso Gilder at the French Court, which opens at the Frick Collection this month. Gouthire (1732-1813)who is unknown, perhaps, to most audienceswas the metalworker who through the 1770s and 1780s supplied much of the incidental bits of French decorative art to Louis XVI and his court: chased bronze and gilt handles, supports, mounts and bases for hardstone, porcelain and ivor
  
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• Take a peek into Lacma’s future

  15-11-2016 22:00
  
  The Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has revealed fresh details of his plan to radically transform the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma). Zumthor spoke with Michael Govan, Lacmas director, at an event organised by Frieze magazine in London last month. Some renderings he presented were new to both the audience and Govan himself, who quipped: It was good to see the updates. The new-look galleries will allow the museum to present its encyclopaedic holdings in an unconventional way, flouting th
  
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• Museums are the diplomats of the 21st century

  15-11-2016 22:00
  
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  Director-general for culture and communication, Federal Foreign Office, BerlinThe Modern art collection founded in Iran under the auspices of the last empress Farah Pahlavi before the 1979 revolution is travelling abroad. The collection, which is housed in the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, includes paintings by Picasso, Rothko, Kandinsky, Pollock, Warhol and Bacon as well as many Iranian artists. It is to be shown at the Gemldegalerie in Berlin from 4 December (until 5 March
  
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• Josiah McElheny to Install Three Sculptures in Madison Square Park Next Summer

  15-11-2016 22:00 via artnews.com
  This coming summer, visitors to Madison Square Park in New York will be treated to more than just the usual monumental public art—they’ll also be able to see poetry readings, experimental theater, and dance performances. All of that will happen … Read More
  
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• Glenn Brown kicks off the CAS Great Works scheme with a major donation to Newcastle’s Laing Art Gallery

  15-11-2016 22:00
  
  With the unexpected closure of Inverleith House in Edinburgh and The New Art Gallery Walsall currently under serious threat, these are grim times indeed for the UKs public art galleries. How cheering then, amidst all the general gloom, to be able to report some good news.  It was announced last night (15 November) that the internationally renowned artist Glenn Brownwhose works can make more than 3m at auctionis giving the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle an important new painting made especi
  
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• Baghdad pop-up show rises from the ruins

  15-11-2016 22:00
  
  The Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq is planning to restage an exhibition this month in Baghdad that first took place in a bomb-blasted shopping centre in the Iraqi capital at the end of August. Within hours, the pop-up exhibition, titled Karrada, was shut down by the police.The Iraqi-Canadian artist Riyadh Hashim brought together 16 artists for the pop-up show in the ruins of the Al-Hadi shopping centre in the Karrada district on 30 August, after a suicide truck bomb and a co-o
  
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• Baghdad pop-up show could rise from the ruins

  15-11-2016 22:00
  
  Artists hope to restage an exhibition in Baghdad that first took place in a bomb-blasted shopping centre in the Iraqi capital at the end of August. Within hours, the pop-up exhibition, titled Karrada, was shut down by the police.The Iraqi-Canadian artist Riyadh Hashim brought together 16 artists for the pop-up show in the ruins of the Al-Hadi shopping centre in the Karrada district on 30 August, after a suicide truck bomb and a co-ordinated roadside device killed more than 300 people on 3 July.
  
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• Artists return to the church

  15-11-2016 22:00
  The artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have organised the group show The Others (until 22 January 2017) at St Agnesa former Catholic church in Berlin remodelled as a new space for Knig Galleryfeaturing 12 contemporary artists taking on Christian iconography. The exhibition is about the representation of the body in religious imagery, Dragset tells The Art Newspaper. Many works reclaim the identity that was excluded by the Church, Elmgreen adds. Among the highlights are Andres Serranos Bl
  
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• High Line curator Cecilia Alemani to present pared-down Italian pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale

  15-11-2016 21:56
  
  The Italian Pavilion at next years 57th Venice Biennale, due to open on 13 May 2017 until 26 November 2017, will show the work of three artists who were born in Italy between the mid-1970s and 80s: Roberto Cuoghi, Adelita Husni-Bey and Giorgio Andreotta Cal. This is a distinct paring down from recent past editions of the event, which showed 15 artists and duos in 2015 and 14 in 2013.Ive chosen to invite fewer artists than in the past in order to align the Italian Pavilion with the other nationa
  
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• Theresa May’s sari was mark of respect | Brief letters

  15-11-2016 19:57
  
  Traditional Indian dress | Modern art market | Baffled baby boomers | Letter-writing masterclasses | Doc MartensJullien Gaer (Letters, 12 November) displays ignorance; the sari is the normal dress of Indian women of all ranks and stations in life. It was not at all inappropriate for Theresa May to wear a sari to a reception in Bengaluru. It would have been regarded as a courteous affirmation of Indian customs and is no more incongruous than an Indian politician wearing evening dress at a si
  
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• ‘Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor’: Artists Space Steps Out of Analysis and Into Action

  15-11-2016 19:27 via artnews.com
  Amid all the election paraphernalia of the past few months, some bold stickers have been appearing across New York City. With white text on a red background, they demand: “Decolonize This Place.” After seeing the stickers strewn about the city—on … Read More
  
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• Newly discovered 'Van Gogh' drawings labelled imitations by museum

  15-11-2016 17:30
  
  Row breaks out as Van Gogh Museum rebuts academic’s claims she has found dozens of sketchbook drawings by artistAn extraordinary row has broken out between the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and an academic who claims to have found more than 60 drawings made by the artist at the height of his powers.Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, a professor at the University of Toronto in Canada, and her publishers called a press conference on Tuesday to unveil an accounts ledger that she said was used as a sketc
  
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• Death Watch: Flag Foundation Presents Elmgreen & Dragset’s Witty, Enigmatic, and Macabre Installations

  15-11-2016 16:32 via artnews.com
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• Deborah Kass’s Trump Is on the Cover of this Week’s New York Magazine

  15-11-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  If the cover of New York magazine this week looks familiar, well, that is because it is. The image is a variant of a work that artist Deborah Kass designed earlier this year in support of Hillary Clinton. New York‘s cover reads, “How … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: U.S. Election Fallout Edition

  15-11-2016 14:41 via artnews.com
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• The best exhibitions of Christmas 2016 | Jonathan Jones

  15-11-2016 14:30
  
  Celebrate the season with Rauschenberg’s gorgeous assemblages, Warhol’s secret warmer side and Joan Eardley’s gritty realismIt is the season of goodwill, and the great American artist Robert Rauschenberg was generous in every sense, from the richness of his works to his engaged involvement in politics and philanthropy. He also happened to be a genius. In the 1950s, Rauschenberg took painting off the wall to create free-flowing assemblages of stuff that exist between art and lif
  
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• Time the Turner prize grew up: why it needs to embrace the over-50s

  15-11-2016 14:05
  
  In the 1990s, having an age limit on Turner prize nominees dovetailed with a young punk energy in British art. But it’s now a pointless and conservative ruleThe Turner prize is looking old – and paradoxically, this is down to its obsession with youth. Related: Turner prize 2016 exhibition review – bleak and baffling, but no bum dealContinue reading...
  
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• Protect Your Library From Theft The Way Medieval Scribes Did Theirs – With Terrifying Curses

  15-11-2016 13:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If anyone take away this book, let him die the death; let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever size him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen.” Yes, this was a real thing.
  
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• Bluecoat’s very special birthday

  15-11-2016 13:16
  
  The Liverpool-based arts centre Bluecoat hits a momentous milestone next year: the 300th anniversary of its building, which began life as a charity school for orphans in 1717. The venue was converted into an arts complex in 1907, making the Bluecoat the oldest culture hub in the UK. Curators at the Bluecoat have organised a plethora of exhibitions and events over 300 days to commemorate the special occasion including the show Public View (4 February-23 April) featuring 100 artists who have exhib
  
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• Whitechapel Gallery curator hopes all-female show will be 'defiant riposte' to Trump winning US election

  15-11-2016 11:56
  
  Continuing its focus on female artists, the Whitechapel Gallery in East London is scheduled to present next year an exhibition of photographs by 17 women drawn from the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. Announcing the show the day after Donald Trump was elected US president on 8 November, the curator Lydia Yee said she hoped it would be a defiant riposte to Trumps inauguration in January.It is perhaps ironic that the museum is based in Washington, Yee sai
  
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• Whitechapel Gallery curator hopes all-female show will be “defiant repost” to Trump winning US election

  15-11-2016 11:56
  
  Continuing its focus on female artists, the Whitechapel Gallery in East London is scheduled to present next year an exhibition of photographs by 17 women drawn from the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. Announcing the show the day after Donald Trump was elected US president on 8 November, the curator Lydia Yee said she hoped it would be a defiant repost to Trumps inauguration in January.It is perhaps ironic that the museum is based in Washington, Yee said
  
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• Pipilotti Rist, New Museum, New York — review

  15-11-2016 11:49
  A radiant retrospective showcases an artist with an instinct for teasing convention
  
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• Sotheby’s Impressionist auction falls short of estimates

  15-11-2016 09:08
  New York art sale calms nerves but last year’s was double the size
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.14.16

  15-11-2016 08:53 via feedproxy.google.com
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  It’s been a week since the election. … I will confess that one of my first impulses was to throw in the towel on my work attempting to better connect arts organizations with their communities. Even then, though, I knew that was a form of cowardice that I couldn’t, ultimately, abide. … read more
  AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2016-11-13Lives in Layers
  Jonah Bokaer and Daniel Arsham bring their latest work to BAM Howard Gilman Opera House. … read mor
  
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• Meet Edi Rama, Albania's artist prime minister

  15-11-2016 08:30
  
  The infrastructure’s basic, corruption endemic, but the most powerful man in the country still finds time to doodle in his ministerial diary – and has a show at one of the world’s leading galleriesYou could debate which country has the most ornate government office: the gilded Elysée, the fortresslike Kremlin, the hulking Great Hall of the People in Beijing. But no leader has an office quite like Edi Rama, the prime minister of Albania. Covering the walls of his office i
  
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• Led by $54.5 M. Munch, Muted Impressionist-Modern Sale at Sotheby’s Nets $157.7 M., Down 48 Percent From Last Year

  15-11-2016 05:18 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s achieved a total of $157.7 million at its Impressionist and modern art evening sale Monday night, kicking off a week of fall auctions in New York by passing its $142.8 million low estimate and selling 81 percent of the works on … Read More
  
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• How The Oxford English Dictionary Reinvented Its Relevance

  15-11-2016 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “To tell you the truth, the OED was going nowhere in 1976, when I signed on. We didn’t know that at the time, but the University Press—who controlled its purse strings—couldn’t see how they could restore its relevance. Behind closed doors, discussions raged on about whether the dictionary should be mothballed as soon as the current update had reached Z.”
  
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• Central America’s first Holocaust museum to open in Guatemala

  15-11-2016 00:00
  
  The first museum in Central America dedicated to remembering the Holocaust will focus on a lesser-known side of the Nazi-led genocide: the Holocaust by bullets. This is the name given to the mass murder by shooting of Jewish and Roma communities in the Soviet Union during the 1940s. Due to open early in 2017, the permanent display at Holocaust Museum of Guatemala will memorialise these victims through the stories of local witnesses.Launched by the organisation Yahad-In Unum, a non-profit founde
  
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