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• Steve McQueen’s Ashes to have US debut at the ICA Boston

  10-01-2017 23:09
  
  A standout piece in the last Venice Biennale, Steve McQueens powerful double-sided video installation Ashes (2014) is being show in the US for the first time at the ICA Boston next month (15 February-9 July 2017). The museum acquired the work in early 2016 as a gift from the collectors Tristin and Martin Mannion.Ashes is a diptych of two projections on a single screen. One side shows a young fisherman from Grenada named Ashes happily sitting on a bobbing fishing boat in the Caribbean. Shot by t
  
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• NADA New York Announces 2017 Exhibitor List and Winner of International Gallery Prize

  10-01-2017 23:05 via artnews.com
  The New Art Dealers Alliance announced the exhibitor list today for the 2017 edition of its New York fair, which will open on March 2 in its new location at Skylight Clarkson North in far west SoHo. This time around, … Read More
  
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• The top ten museum acquisitions of 2016

  10-01-2017 22:00
  Museums competed fiercely for acquisitions last year, both at auction and in negotiations with private collectors. Institutions sought to secure classic examples by recognised masters and expand their holdings beyond the canon. Here are our picks of the most important acquisitions of 2016, including a house with Hollywood pedigree, a collection of Latin American Modernism and one of the finest portraits of the English Renaissance.
  J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
  Orazio Gentileschis Dana
  The J
  
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• Poland's clampdown on its cultural institutes

  10-01-2017 22:00
  
  Poland has carried out a sweeping reorganisation of its overseas branches of cultural institutes, dismissing the directors in Berlin, New York, Stockholm, New Delhi and Vienna. Critics say that the countrys right-wing government, which came to power in 2015, is starting to impose its political views on the arts.
  The director of the Polish Cultural Institute in Berlin, Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska, was fired in December, apparently for devoting too much attention to Jewish issues, according to r
  
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• Wang Hsin at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

  10-01-2017 21:31 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• New York to get its own Fourth Plinth competition on the High Line

  10-01-2017 21:23
  
  Londons Fourth Plinth Commission, a series of large-scale public contemporary art commissions in the citys Trafalgar Square, has inspired a new venue for public art across the pond: the High Line Plinth on New Yorks elevated art park. The platform will be at the centre of the Spur, a new stretch of the park above 30th Street and Tenth Avenue due to open next year. The High Line Plinth will provide artists with an opportunity to work on a larger scale than ever before possible on the High Line,
  
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• Building Better Futures: Complex Movements Brings ‘Beware of the Dandelions’ to Detroit

  10-01-2017 19:05 via artnews.com
  Multifarious piece—part interactive sculpture, part community engagement project—uses speculative fiction for social change Read More
  
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• Katsushika Hokusai's later life to feature in British Museum show

  10-01-2017 18:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Museum announces details of first UK exhibition to explore last decades of 19th-century Japanese artist’s life and workHe produced one of the most recognisable of all art images but the British Museum believes there is much more to the 19th-century Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, particularly his output as an older man.The museum has announced details of the first UK exhibition to explore the later life and art of Hokusai (1760-1849), who produced his most famous work, the Great Wave,
  
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• Indonesia’s Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantra to Open in November

  10-01-2017 18:08 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MACAN) in Nusantara, Indonesia, announced today that it will officially open to the public in November 2017. Located in Indonesia’s capital of Jakarta, Museum MACAN’s opening will coincide with the city’s biennale on November … Read More
  
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• Eran Neuman Appointed Director of Israel Museum

  10-01-2017 17:06 via artnews.com
  The Israel Museum announced today that Eran Neuman will be its new Anne and Jerome Fisher Director. He will replace James S. Snyder, who will then assume the newly created role of International President, working to foster relationships with institutions … Read More
  
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• Marc Quinn dips into John Soane’s treasure chest

  10-01-2017 15:18
  
  Unlikely partnerships abound in the art world, so a forthcoming show of works by the artist Marc Quinn at Sir John Soanes Museum in London, considered a veritable treasure trove of antiquities by connoisseurs, is no surprise. According to the museum website, the show (Drawn from Life, 28 March- 23 September) will include a series of ethereal fragmentary sculptures, made in collaboration with [Quinns] partner, a dancer, [which] will be placed among the multiple antique casts and sculptures that f
  
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• Morning Links: Trump’s Border Wall Edition

  10-01-2017 15:05 via artnews.com
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• Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights shows a world waking up to the future | Jonathan Jones

  10-01-2017 14:11 via theguardian.com
  
  With its giant strawberries and nudity, Hieronymus Bosch’s painting has been seen as a celebration and warning about sin – but it’s really about a Renaissance-era curiosity that helped better explain the worldThe Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch is a wonder of art. By that I don’t just mean it is one of the world’s greatest paintings. It is also something we wonder at, astonished, like a rare relic in a cabinet of bizarre curiosities. What is happening
  
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• Grand Palais closure means that Fiac, Paris Photo and La Biennale Paris must move out

  10-01-2017 13:23
  
  The historic Grand Palais in Paris will close for more than two years from 2020, causing upheaval in the art fair calendar with three major fairsFiac, Paris Photo and La Biennale Parisforced to relocate to temporary locations.
  The government cultural body, Runion des muses nationaux (RMN), which runs the Grand Palais, says that the refurbishment of the turn-of-the-century venue is due to begin late 2020. The overhaul will result in exceptional high-quality, generous exhibition spaces to accommo
  
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• Nazi-loot panel asks Sprengel Museum to return Schmidt-Rottluff work to heirs

  10-01-2017 12:39
  
  The German governments advisory panel on Nazi-looted art has asked the Sprengel Museum in Hanover to return Marsh Landscape With Red Windmill, a 1922 watercolour by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, to the grandchildren of Max Rdenberg, a Jewish businessman who died in the Holocaust.Rdenberg imported feathers from Shanghai that he washed in his factory by the river Leine in Hanover to sell to eiderdown manufacturers. A philanthropist and patron of the arts, he amassed a collection of Modern artparticularl
  
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• Strikes, closures and public gatherings: the art world gears up for Trump’s inauguration

  10-01-2017 11:14
  
  The art world is mobilising ahead of Donald Trumps inauguration on 20 January. Allora and Calzadilla, Hans Haacke, Barbara Kruger, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin Buchloh, Hal Foster and Lucy Lippard are among the more than 80 top artists, critics and art historians who are calling for a strike on the day Trump is to be sworn in as US president.We consider Art Strike to be one tactic among others to combat the normalisation of Trumpisma toxic mix of white supremacy, misog
  
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• The eyes have it: how staring at strangers became a global movement

  10-01-2017 04:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Taking cues from Marina Abramović and ancient meditative practices, an Australian organisation is taking its eye-gazing events on the roadWe don’t normally look for a deep and personal connection with total strangers, but for the attendees at The Human Connection’s monthly eye-gazing events, that’s exactly what we’re here for. Usually steel-reinforced personal space bubbles have been punctured, and in a corner of the Fitzroy Gardens in Melbourne, people have gathered
  
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