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• Untitled(The giant woman made two men from her collarbone. )

  12-01-2017 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He said he doesn’t want me to get in the way. We meet at the burnside bridge on the side with the death star high rise. He walks on one side and I on the other side. He crosses over. I walk alongside him. He walks ahead of me. I fall behind. I cross to the other side. I look over to him. He ignores me. He is heading to the Palace. It has a great glittery sign of a green rose above its gate. He goes there with other lonely men. They mirror each other with empty faces and lust. They pardon e
  
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• With an Art Strike and a New Presidency on the Horizon, Museums Prepare for Inauguration Day

  12-01-2017 22:59 via artnews.com
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• Sondra Perry Wins Seattle Art Museum’s Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Prize

  12-01-2017 22:42 via artnews.com
  The Seattle Art Museum has awarded Sondra Perry its Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Prize, which is given biennially to an emerging black artist. Perry, who is based in New Jersey, will now receive $10,000 and a solo exhibition at the … Read More
  
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• Glass House Names Philip Johnson Scholar Hilary Lewis Chief Curator and Creative Director

  12-01-2017 22:19 via artnews.com
  The Glass House, the 49-acre campus designed by Philip Johnson in New Canaan, Connecticut, has appointed Hilary Lewis, a scholar of the architect, as its new chief curator and creative director. She will begin in her new position on January 17.Lewis … Read More
  
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• Stake in $14.7m De Kooning painting among Steven Mnuchin’s assets

  12-01-2017 22:00
  
  Financial disclosures filed to US federal ethics authorities that were made public this week revealed that Steven Mnuchin, the son of the New York-based art dealer Robert Mnuchin and Donald Trumps pick for the position of treasury secretary, has a $5m-$25m stake in a painting by the Abstract Expressionist artist Willem de Kooning.
  Untitled III (1978), is the only work of art listed in the disclosure and belongs to an extensive set of holdings in Mnuchins dynasty trust, valued at $32.9m or more,
  
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• Must-see shows in May 2017

  12-01-2017 22:00
  
  Magnum Manifesto
  International Center of Photography
  26 May-3 SeptemberThe photographic agency Magnum was founded 70 years ago by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David Seymour shortly after the end of the Second World War. The photographers co-operative is probably the best known of its kind and created innumerable iconic images. This show at the International Center of Photographyfounded by Robert Capas brother Cornellis organised by SFMoMAs Clment Chroux, formerly of the
  
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• Must-see shows in March 2017

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  The Creative Act: Performance, Process, PresenceManarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
  8 March-29 July
  Visitors to the Manarat Al Saadiyat arts centre will get a taster of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabis growing holdings, as the long-delayed museum puts on its second collection-based exhibition. Following the previous, largely abstract exhibition Seeing Through Light in 2014, the forthcoming show will have a figure-focused theme and includes international works made since the 1960s highlighting the artists r
  
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• Must-see shows in June 2017

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  Grayson Perry Presents: the Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever!
  Serpentine Gallery, London
  8 June-10 SeptemberThere are serious questions hiding behind Grayson Perrys self-confident title for his exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery. What kind of art do people like? What subjects? Why do people like going to art galleries these days? What is the relationship of traditional art to social media? Perry asks. The exhibition will include mostly new works that look at how contemporary art can best reac
  
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• Must-see shows in July and August 2017

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  Matisse in the Studio
  Royal Academy of Arts, London
  5 August-12 NovemberMatisse in the Studio is the first major show to delve into the French artists studio collection, which included Asian and African masks, textiles, decorative pots and pitchers. It travels to the Royal Academy from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where it opens in April. The exhibition aims to recreate the artists working environment and will display the diverse objects that influenced the French artist. Matisse had many
  
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• Must-see shows in April 2017

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  Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties
  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  3 April-16 JulyIn a remarkable cultural exchange, 31 institutions in China are lending 160 objects to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for this show exploring the Qin and Han dynasties. The exhibition, which covers around 440 years of history, examines the development of a cohesive Chinese Han ethnic identity in light of recent scholarship and archaeological digs conducted in the past 50 years. The show
  
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• How Photo London aims to take the title of photo capital from Paris

  12-01-2017 22:00
  
  The organisers of Photo London (18-21 May) have made no secret of their ambition to take the crown from Paris and establish London as the European centre for photography. The fair, now in its third edition, continues to gain momentum, with an exhibitor list that has been bolstered by the first-time participation of major contemporary art galleries and a extensive programme of collateral events, exhibitions and talks.
  Gallery numbers have hovered around the same as last years edition (85 in 2016
  
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• From Grey Gardens to Geary Contemporary

  12-01-2017 22:00
  
  Fans of Grey Gardens (1975), Albert and David Maysless cult favourite documentary on the isolated life of mother and daughter Big Edie and Little Edie Beale in their run-down East Hampton mansion, will fondly remember the young handyman Jerry Torrethe Bealess only regular visitornicknamed the Marble Faun by Little Edie. Fittingly, Torre went on to learn stone carving and is now an artist, whose work is currently on show at the New York gallery Geary Contemporary in the exhibition Charles Andres
  
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• British war artists on the Italian Front

  12-01-2017 22:00
  After a five-month refurbishment, the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art reopens to the public with the exhibition War in the Sunshine: the British in Italy 1917-18 (13 January-19 March), which tells the story of British forces stationed in Italy during the First World War. In 1917, Britain sent around 120,000 soldiers to help stop the advancing German and Austro-Hungarian forces on the Italian Front. The show presents 75 works of art, all on loan from Londons Imperial War Museum. They i
  
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• A translator from east to west: Kenneth Baker on John McLaughlin in Los Angeles

  12-01-2017 22:00
  
  The exhibition John McLaughlin Paintings: Total Abstraction at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) invites us to revisit a moment when abstract art put all reference beyond itself in abeyance. The moment may be a nostalgic fiction.
  Reproductions of paintings such as those in the Lacma exhibition catalogue for the show amplify this whisper of idealism more than McLaughlin's paintings do themselves: their handmade look and feel (and in some cases condition problems) humanise his acknowle
  
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• Can these San Francisco fairs do what so many Los Angeles fairs couldn’t?

  12-01-2017 21:00
  
  They look like a school of jellyfish sinking and rising, or like dancers in diaphanous skirts that billow with each movement. In fact they are strange light fixturesnine motorised lamps with bulbs dressed in silk shades that flare and contract as they descend on cables from the ceiling. The installation is hard to miss at the entrance of FOG Design + Art Fair which opened today at Fort Mason in San Francisco (until 15 Janaury), the fourth edition of the fair and by many accounts the best yet.
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• Robert Filliou at M HKA, Antwerp

  12-01-2017 20:47 via artnews.com
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• I lost my art to a Starship Trooper

  12-01-2017 20:16
  
  Its hard to ignore an exhibition which goes by the catchy title of I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper. The show in question, which opens at the Griffin Gallery in London today (12 January-24 February), is not actually about 1970s disco, exploring instead appropriation and why artists look to their forefathers for inspiration. Catherine Loewe, the London-based art advisor who has curated the exhibition, says: The exhibitions title comes from the 1978 Hot Gossip song of the same name, and
  
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• ‘The Space Between That Information and Me’: A Conversation With Kyle Thurman

  12-01-2017 18:39 via artnews.com
  In 2010 I met Kyle at West Street Gallery in New York. It was an apartment gallery run by Alex Gartenfeld, who is now chief curator at the ICA Miami, and Matt Moravec, who now owns Off Vendome. At the … Read More
  
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• ICP Announces 2017 Infinity Awards, With Nods to Sophie Calle, Aperture’s ‘Vision & Justice’ Issue, and For Freedoms Super-PAC

  12-01-2017 18:21 via artnews.com
  The New York–based International Center of Photography, which reopened its museum last spring downtown on the Bowery, announced the 2017 winners of its Infinity Awards. The awards, which will be given at a gala in April, have been distributed annually … Read More
  
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• Hull's Ferens gallery to reopen after £5.2m refit backed by city council

  12-01-2017 18:00
  
  Cash-strapped council contributed £3.7m to revamp after deciding cuts to culture funding were a ‘false economy’One of the most important regional galleries in England is to reopen on Friday after a £5.2m refurbishment, paid for in part by a cash-strapped local council that said cuts to culture funding were a “false economy”. Continue reading...
  
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• Manchester's Factory arts building gets go-ahead

  12-01-2017 17:30
  
  £110m Rem Koolhaas-designed centre seen by city council as ‘genuine cultural counterbalance to London’Manchester’s proposed £110m arts centre, the Factory, has moved a step closer to being built after city councillors gave planning permission for the Rem Koolhaas-designed building.The Factory will be erected on the site of the former Granada Studios and is seen by the city council as a game changer, one which the authority’s leader Sir Richard Leese has said w
  
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• Food firm Dr Oetker returns artwork sold by woman fleeing Nazis

  12-01-2017 17:03
  
  German company praised for giving work by Hans Thoma back to heirs of Hedwig Ullmann, who was forced to sell it in 1938 The German food company Dr Oetker, best known for its baking powders, cake mixes and pizzas, has said it will return an artwork to the heirs of the former Jewish owner who was forced to flee Nazi Germany. The decision to restitute the work, a lithograph by Hans Thoma called Spring in the Mountains (Frühling im Gebirge/Kinderreigen) follows an audit of the company’s a
  
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• Worcester Art Museum Awarded $825,000 Grant for Its Pre-Contemporary American Art Collection

  12-01-2017 16:39 via artnews.com
  The Worcester Art Museum, in Massachusetts, announced today that it has been awarded a three-year grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to support a series of projects focused on the museum’s collection of pre-contemporary American art. The award totals $825,000.The … Read More
  
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• Cathy Wilkes Wins Inaugural Maria Lassnig Prize

  12-01-2017 16:30 via artnews.com
  Following one of her largest shows to date, at the Modern Institute in Glasgow, Cathy Wilkes has won the inaugural Maria Lassnig Prize. Named for the Austrian feminist painter and funded by the Maria Lassnig Foundation, the prize is given … Read More
  
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• BBC unveils Big Painting Challenge to help nation brush up its artistic skills

  12-01-2017 15:40
  
  Ten people will undergo six-week artistic boot camp before a champion is crowned – but broadcaster insists it is not a Bake Off with brushesThere will be two jolly presenters, 10 amateur contestants, one winner and lots of encouragement for the nation to get painting – just don’t call it The Great British Paint Off.The BBC has launched a new primetime show in which contestants, including a retired optometrist and a former astrophysicist, undertake a six-week artistic boot camp
  
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• Morning Links: ‘Rehearsals for Revolution’ Edition

  12-01-2017 14:57 via artnews.com
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• Art dynasty heir Guy Wildenstein cleared of tax fraud

  12-01-2017 13:35
  
  Guy Wildenstein, the principal heir of one of the biggest art dealing dynasties in the world, has been cleared of tax fraud and money laundering by the Paris criminal court today (12 January). Wildenstein and seven other co-defendants had been accused of hiding paintings and properties worth hundreds of millions of euros from the French taxman.The presiding judge Olivier Geron said there had been a clear attempt at concealment, according to the BBC. But shortcomings in the investigation and Fre
  
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• Art dynasty heir Guy Wildenstein cleared of €550m French tax fraud

  12-01-2017 13:12
  
  Paris judge says scion to art fortune made ‘clear attempt’ to hide assets but failings by French investigators ruled out guilty verdictThe French-American art dynasty scion Guy Wildenstein has been cleared of hiding paintings and properties worth hundreds of millions of euros from the French authorities after one of the biggest tax fraud trials ever held in the country.State prosecutors had wanted the 71-year-old to be sentenced to two years in prison and given a €250m (£2
  
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• Five must-see shows at Condo 2017 in London

  12-01-2017 12:59
  
  The second edition of Condo opens this weekend (until 11 February) with 15 London galleries hosting 36 of their international contemporaries. Galleries, from as far away as Shanghai and Guatemala City, will bring works by their artists and put on exhibitions in London spacesall for a fraction of the price of showing at an international fair. I was particularly interested in proposing Condo as one alternative model because I feel that the current structure galleries are expected to operate in fa
  
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• Museum Roles - Qatar

  12-01-2017 12:33
  SML are interested in talking to candidates who are either based in, or would consider a move to Qatar. We are working with a range of different museums in the region and have the following vacancies:
   
  Curator of Oriental Paintings
  Head of Exhibition Management
  Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs
  Senior Collections Registrars
   
  If you would like more information on any of these searches, please email [email protected]
  
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• 'Substantial' gold hoard found hidden in piano

  12-01-2017 12:10
  
  A mysterious hoard of gold coins has been discovered hidden in a piano in Shropshire and a local coroner now needs to determine whether it is treasure. The British Museum, which administers the Portable Antiquities Scheme, describes the find as substantial.
  The gold was recently discovered by a tuner inside a Broadwood upright piano which had originally been sold in 1906 by a musical instruments shop in Saffron Walden, Essex. The ownership of the piano for most of the 20th century remains untra
  
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• Theaster Gates: 'I want to believe that there is power in my poverty'

  12-01-2017 12:00
  
  The Chicagoan artist, who made a name for himself with his art-meets-urban regeneration projects in the city, is back in a gallery with work that challenges assumptions about race, class and what it means to be poorEarlier this decade the artist Theaster Gates began dropping hints that he might not be long for the confines of the art world. Instead, Gates said, he wanted to focus on what he called “practicing life”. What could be interpreted as an abstract idea made sense when you lo
  
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• Sarah McCrory named director of Goldsmiths' new contemporary art gallery

  12-01-2017 11:43
  
  Sarah McCrory, the director of the Glasgow International festival, has been appointed director of the new contemporary art gallery at Goldsmiths college in south-east London. The inaugural show in the public space at the heart of the campus is due to open early 2018.  
   
  The London-based architects Assemble, who won the Turner Prize in 2015, were selected in 2014 to convert former public baths and Victorian water tanks on site in to the new 1,000 sq. m gallery. Many of the baths cast-
  
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• Art on death row: ‘it’s good, evil, vanilla ... all things in what we humans call life’

  12-01-2017 05:44
  
  For those fighting the death penalty, art isn’t just about self-expression – it’s also a weapon in the battle for hearts and minds
  Tyrone Chalmers started drawing at age eight. “Art shadows me everywhere I go in life… my best work comes from within my dreams.”Chalmers is a passionate and committed artist. He is also a convicted murderer on death row. In handwritten letters to Guardian Australia sent from Unit 2 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nas
  
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• Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Detroit-Area Stalwart, Will Close After 40 Years

  12-01-2017 00:13 via artnews.com
  In an email announcement today, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, located in Ferndale, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, announced that, after 40 years in business, it will be closing its doors. It said, “We are grateful beyond measure for Susanne’s vision and … Read More
  
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• This Year's Sundance Film Festival Takes An Emphatic Political Stance

  12-01-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sundance finds itself navigating some unusually slippery terrain this year. Mr. Redford, who recuses himself from programming decisions, bristles when his festival is seen as having an agenda. “We don’t take a position,” he insisted. At the same time, his top programmers, John Cooper and Trevor Groth, say they are taking a specific stance, one that is political by nature: For the first time in the festival’s history, there will be a spotlight on one theme — global w
  
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