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• ‘Insomnia’ at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm

  01-12-2016 23:07 via artnews.com
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• Whitney Biennial-bound artists take a bow in Miami

  01-12-2016 22:00
  
  Just two weeks before Art Basel in Miami Beach opened, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York released the artist list for its 2017 biennial: co-organised by Christopher Y. Lew and Mia Locks, it is due to open next March. But visitors to the fair can get a sneak preview in the aisles this week as dealers show off their newly anointed talents.Urgent topicsMitchell-Innes & Nash has brought works by Pope.L, Leigh Ledare and the collective GCC, highlighting a trio of urgent topics that
  
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• Waste collectors are artists too: an interview with Mierle Laderman Ukeles

  01-12-2016 22:00
  In 1969, the artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles gave work of art a new meaning when she renamed her everyday chores maintenance art. My working will be the work, she wrote, insisting that even domestic labour could be art. And not just domestic labour: since 1978, she has been the official (but unpaid) artist-in-residence at New Yorks Department of Sanitation. Her current show at the Queens Museum in New York looks at performances such as Touch Sanitation (1979-80), in which she shook hands with 8,50
  
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• Royal Academy to reassemble Charles I’s art for blockbuster anniversary show

  01-12-2016 22:00
  
  The Royal Academy of Arts in London (RA) plans to celebrate its 250th birthday in 2018 with a blockbuster show on the art collection assembled by Charles I. The Stuart king was one of the greatest English royal collectors, patronising some of the finest artists of his time. However, his unpopular religious policies, his attempt to rule without parliament, and his imposition of illegal taxes resulted in the English Civil War. The Parliamentary forces won, and Charles I was executed in 1649.
  
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• London's Russian sales buoyed by rare Rodchenko and Chashnik works

  01-12-2016 22:00
  
  The results of the London sales of Russian fine and decorative art have given the market some cause for reassurance following years of falling figures. Sothebys, Christies, MacDougalls and Bonhams brought in a combined total of 23.2m, an encouraging upswing compared with the 17.2m combined total this time last year, and the record low of 16.4m, fetched in June this year.
  The sales, collectively known as Russian Art Week, hit a high of around 30m back in 2011, but the market has been steadily sh
  
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• Large Glass celebrates its fifth birthday with a Duchamp fest

  01-12-2016 22:00
  
  In keeping with the carefully considered but never po-faced spirit that pervades all its activities, Large Glass, one of my favourite spaces in Londonor indeed anywherecelebrated its fifth anniversary last night (1 December) with a characteristically erudite and entertaining riff on Marcel Duchamp, whose most enigmatic masterwork gives the gallery its name.
  In honour of its first half-decade, five participants presented a specially commissioned 5-Way Portrait/Marcel Duchamp. This consisted of a
  
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• Expert Eye: Harry Cooper

  01-12-2016 22:00
  
  Art-historical references abound at Art Basel in Miami Beachif you know where to look. When we took a tour of the fair with Harry Cooper, the head of the department of Modern art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, history seemed to be his guide as he selected some of his favourite works on show. Cooper had the chance to present a more comprehensive narrative of 20th- and 21st-century art with the opening of the National Gallerys expanded East Building this autumn. You have to see
  
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• NADA Miami Beach Sees ‘Usual Rush’ and Flurry of Sales, Despite Muted Turnout Yesterday at Art Basel

  01-12-2016 21:55 via artnews.com
  The generalization goes that NADA Miami Beach is the foil to Art Basel Miami Beach: small rather than gigantic, inviting rather than imposing, and deal-laden rather than expensive. For the most part, that’s true, and it’s even more true this year. While crowds at yesterday’s … Read More
  
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• Scenes From Art Basel Miami Beach, Part 4

  01-12-2016 20:46 via artnews.com
  See more from Art Basel Miami Beach 2016 and its many related satellite events. Also see more in Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
  
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• Thomas Bayrle, Miami Institute of Contemporary Art — review

  01-12-2016 19:13
  The artist emerges from the shadow of his postwar German contemporaries
  
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• Thomas Bayrle, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami — review

  01-12-2016 19:13
  The artist emerges from the shadow of his postwar German contemporaries
  
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• Mnuchin's Trump card

  01-12-2016 18:26
  
  The New York-based dealer Robert Mnuchin declined to speak at length yesterday (30 November) about his son Stevens nomination by Donald Trump for secretary of the treasury, as the VIP preview of Art Basel in Miami Beach opened and news of the president-elects latest cabinet pick ran on the front page of the New York Times. He said only: Im proud of my son. On Monday, a group of artists and curatorsincluding Cecily Brown, Rob Pruitt, Marilyn Minter and Dan Colenheld an anti-Trump rally in front
  
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• ARTnews’s Complete Art Basel Miami Beach 2016 Coverage

  01-12-2016 18:03 via artnews.com
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• Crystalline: art from the Arctic, space and beyond - in pictures

  01-12-2016 17:49
  
  From an Arctic expedition to working in a studio in the school of biology and environmental science at University College Dublin, artist Siobhan McDonald collaborates with researchers to broach subjects at the edges of current scientific knowledgeCrystalline, curated by Helen Carey, will open at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, on 26January 2017Continue reading...
  
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• Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Names 2016 Arts Writers Grantees

  01-12-2016 17:33 via artnews.com
  The Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program named its 2016 grantees today. A total of $695,000 will be given to the 20 winning writers, who will each receive somewhere between $15,000 and $50,000.The grants recognize arts … Read More
  
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• Mark Beasley Will Be Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Hirshhorn

  01-12-2016 17:20 via artnews.com
  Two years into her run as director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Melissa Chiu is continuing to staff up. Today the museum announced that it is hiring its first-ever curator of media and performance art. … Read More
  
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• A second coat: why painting is the comeback art of the 21st century

  01-12-2016 17:13
  
  It tends to be ignored by art prizes, but painting is trendier than ever – and makes conceptual art look elitist and out of touchIt seems only yesterday that painting was “dead”. Now it’s everywhere. In London, galleries east of Spitalfields are full of the stuff. Recently, visiting an exhibition by a painter friend, I was chatting to the young artist who runs the gallery – which doubles up as his painting studio. Opening a hidden cupboard, he took out some of his b
  
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• Art Basel Names Philipp Kaiser Curator of Public Sector at Miami Beach Fair

  01-12-2016 17:05 via artnews.com
  Art Basel announced today that Philipp Kaiser will be the new curator for its Public sector, the section of Miami Beach fair that presents large-scale public art commissions in Collins Park. He’ll take the helm with the 2017 edition of the fair, replacing the … Read More
  
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• Trisha Donnelly Wins Museum Ludwig’s 2017 Wolfgang Hahn Prize

  01-12-2016 15:26 via artnews.com
  The Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, announced today that Trisha Donnelly has won its 2017 Wolfgang Hahn Prize. The New York–based artist, who recently had a solo show at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, Portugal, will now … Read More
  
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• Scenes From Art Basel Miami Beach, Part 3

  01-12-2016 15:06 via artnews.com
  The Art Basel VIP preview began yesterday at Art Basel Miami Beach. Below, a look around the fair.
  
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• Morning Links: Shake Shack Edition

  01-12-2016 14:21 via artnews.com
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• What is the role of the liberal biennial in a conservative world?

  01-12-2016 14:00
  
  The first Whitney Biennial opened in New York on 22 November 1932 in a climate of healthy liberal optimism. Two weeks earlier, the Democratic nominee for president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, had defeated the incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover in a landslide. In a radio message just after his victory, Roosevelt heralded a national victory for liberal thought and promised an orderly recovery to a nation still deeply mired in the Great Depression.The director of the Whitney Museum of American Ar
  
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• Theaster Gates and Tracey Emin get down with Chaka Khan, plus more Miami gossip

  01-12-2016 14:00
  
  Im every art starThe annual star-studded party held by White Cube at Soho Beach House always attracts the crme de la crme of the Florida art crowd, and this years shindig, held in a purpose-built marquee on the beach, was no exception. The bash, which honoured the artist Anselm Kiefer, proved difficult to access (security checked a special infrared mark stamped on partygoers wrists no fewer than six times), but once guests were inside, they chowed down on mini grilled-cheese sandwiches and mount
  
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• Speakers, ceramics and a miniature forest: Design Miami’s eclectic spread

  01-12-2016 14:00
  
  Jason Jacques Gallery
  Kim Simonssons Mossboys and girls series (2016),
  $15,000-$25,000
  The New York-based dealer Jason Jacques has collaborated with Digifabshop to create a treehouse-like display for contemporary ceramics by international artists including Beate Kuhn, Gareth Mason and Eric Serritella. Most at home are the Finnish artist Kim Simonssons mossy ceramic sculptures of children wearing feathered headdresses. They peer down eerily from their shelves like little wood sprites, Jacques sa
  
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• Space Oddity on Collins Avenue

  01-12-2016 14:00
  
  This years Public is a study in contrasts. For his fourth and final year as the curator of Art Basel in Miami Beachs public art display, Nicholas Baume says he has put together his most classical presentation yet. But in addition to Ugo Rondinones riff on an ancient totema new permanent installationand Sol LeWitts Modernist grids, there are moments of provocation, he says. Baume, the director of the New York-based Public Art Fund, points to the Cuban artist Yoan Capotes Naturaleza Urbana (2012)
  
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• Double Dutch at the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum

  01-12-2016 14:00
  
  Modern Dutch Design More is More
  Until 11 June 2017
  Wolfsonian-FIU
  www.wolfsonian.orgMiami Beach is home to the largest collection of pre-war Dutch design and decorative art outside The Netherlands, at the Wolfsonian-FIU museum. The institution has highlighted this strength with an exhibition featuring around 200 pieces from its holdings, including furniture, posters and decorative objects, and a handful of loans.
  The show looks at major Dutch design groups including the Nieuwe Kunst, which was
  
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• Art Basel price points: works for every budget

  01-12-2016 14:00
  
  Margot Bergman
  Portrait (2013), $8,000, Corbett vs Dempsey
  One of a number of strong figurative painters whose work is on show at the fair, Margot Bergman repurposes portraits found in flea markets and thrift shops, transforming the subjects into something deeply uncanny.
  Liza LouUntitled #9 (2011-12), $120,000, Lehmann Maupin
  The South African artist, known for her use of craft materials, wove together glass beads to create this 50-inch wall piece. Her first exhibition with Lehmann Maupin Hong
  
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• Guggenheim Helsinki plans rejected by city council

  01-12-2016 13:06
  
  A last-ditch attempt to establish a Guggenheim museum in Finland with public money was definitively rejected by Helsinki City Council yesterday (30 November). Councillors voted 53 to 32 against the latest proposalthe third since 2011to develop a satellite of the US-based Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in the Finnish capital. The revised plan had narrowly won approval from the Helsinki City Board on 21 November, following the Finnish governments decision in September not to give 40m towards th
  
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• France proposes new global fund for endangered heritage sites

  01-12-2016 12:08
  
  Forty countries are expected to attend a conference on safeguarding endangered cultural heritage, scheduled to be held at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi on the 2 and 3 December. The conference is taking place in the wake of the horrific destruction of cultural sites by Isil in Iraq and Syria over the past four years. Hosted by France and the UAE, it will focus on ways of preventing such attacks and countering the trafficking of cultural goods. The decisions taken will be submitted to the UN S
  
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• France joins international treaty to protect cultural heritage in war zones

  01-12-2016 11:20
  
  The French government will join an international treaty aimed at strengthening protection for cultural heritage in war zones, 17 years after it was adopted in the Hague. The move was officially announced yesterday (30 November), on the eve of an international conference convened by France and the United Arab Emirates in Abu Dhabi to look at ways of countering terrorist attacks against culture and art trafficking in the Arab world.
  France, as well as the US and the UK, were among those who initi
  
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• 'My works seek to merge the poetic and the scientific'

  01-12-2016 09:00
  
  Artist Siobhan McDonald explains how seismology, climate change and a doomed Arctic expedition have shaped her latest exhibition, Crystalline We live in an era in which humans have become the dominant force of change on the planet. First proclaimed at the turn of the millennium by the climate scientist Paul Crutzen, the Anthropocene asserts that since the Industrial Revolution, humans have altered the environment so extensively as to create a new geological epoch. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘The VIPs Are Just Not as Crazy’: Art Basel Miami Beach Opens With Less Mania Than in Recent Years But Steady Sales

  01-12-2016 00:49 via artnews.com
  Art Basel Miami Beach opened its doors to VIP First Choice cardholders this morning, and while many dealers and collectors commented that the aisles seemed slightly less teeming than usual, a few big sales in the opening hours indicated that … Read More
  
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• Lucie Stahl at Dallas Museum of Art

  01-12-2016 00:24 via artnews.com
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