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When the stars align: Miró and Calder to shine in joint New York shows

11-12-2016 22:00

Acquavella and Pace are joining forces to present a thematic, two-gallery show of constellation works by Joan Mir and Alexander Calder next April, the first time that these roughly contemporaneous bodies of work will be brought together.The pairing springs from the abiding friendship between the two artists and the remarkably reciprocal works they produced on their respective continentsEurope and the USin the late years of the Second World War. Dubbed constellations by the exhibiting galleries,

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The Storr story: how Paul Storr designed and orchestrated the production of silverware

11-12-2016 22:00

Art in Industry: the Silver of Paul Storr is the third in a trio of catalogues by Christopher Hartop, published in conjunction with selling exhibitions at the London dealer Koopman Rare Art. The earlier two are The Classical Ideal: English Silver 1760-1840 and Royal Goldsmiths: The Art of Rundell & Bridge 1797-1843. These lavishly illustrated books cover an important period for British silver. Hartop discusses objects, relates facts and gossip about makers, designers and patrons, and explore

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London exhibition roundup: a glut of Rauschenberg treats at Tate, the aftermath of Post-Modernism, a De Chirico-inspired group show and Thuring’s trompe l’oeil tapestries

11-12-2016 22:00

Revolt of the Sage, Blain Southern (until 21 January)This ambitious, disquietingly atmospheric show takes its title from a 1916 work by Georgio De Chirico. The picture itself is deliberately absent, but the Italian painters moody notion of a mysterious metaphysical realm, redolent of loss and longing and in which the past is the same as the future permeates a diverse lineup of leading contemporary artists. These include Goshka Macuga, Christian Marclay and John Stezaker, which here are made to

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Lawsuit over Cady Noland’s Log Cabin dismissed

11-12-2016 22:00

A lawsuit over a work by Cady Noland was dismissed by a Manhattan federal court on 2 Decemberbut it left the question of whether the artist rightfully disavowed her work under the Visual Artists Rights Act unresolved.

In 2014, the Ohio collector Scott Mueller bought Nolands Log Cabin, a sculpture depicting the faade of a cabin with an American flag, for $1.4m. Noland allegedly disavowed the work when she learned that some of the logs had rotted and been replaced. Mueller sued for a full

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Australia’s Impressionists review – from the outback to the Riviera

11-12-2016 09:00

National Gallery, London
This show comes alive when the rugged spirit of Australia’s very own impressionists, at home and in Europe, is fully unleashedThere is a portrait in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, that shows the Dutchman in dark clothes, brush in hand, looking sharply over one shoulder. The encounter is intimate and intense. Friends thought it by far the best likeness, and Van Gogh himself treasured the portrait, asking his brother, Theo, to take special care of it in the last mon

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