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• The Whitney Hires Marcela Guerrero and Rujeko Hockley as Assistant Curators

  24-01-2017 23:45 via artnews.com
  Some big news from the curatorial-jobs front: the Whitney Museum has added two assistant curators to its roster, Marcela Guerrero and Rujeko Hockley. Hockley will begin on March 6, Guerrero on April 25. Guerrero comes to the Whitney from the Hammer … Read More
  
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• The artists who have chosen to stay in Syria

  24-01-2017 22:00
  
  The civil war in Syria has fuelled an exodus of the countrys creative individuals: artists, film-makers, writers and poets have relocated to cities such as Paris and Berlin. But some veteran visual artists have chosen to stay. They include Mouneer Al Shaarani, 64, a calligrapher and book designer who has exhibited his work around the world. He moved back to Syria from Egypt during the war to live and work here in order to inspire, he has said.Youssef Abdelke, 65, whose work is in international
  
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• London exhibitions: the domestic space is a world of toils, tricks and treats at Sadie Coles HQ, while Ken Price sends winter packing with a riot of colour at Hauser & Wirth—plus Paul Nash and Peter Liversidge

  24-01-2017 22:00
  
  Paul Nash, Tate Britain (until 5 March)
  Paul Nash is best known as a quintessentially British landscape painter who also produced some of the most powerfully damning images of the devastation of the First World War. But alongside his almost mystical engagement with the countryside and natural forms of southern England, Tate Britains survey is devoted to demonstrating that Nash was an ardent internationalist closely in touch with the movements of the European avant-garde and especially Surrealis
  
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• Rodney Graham at Hauser & Wirth, Zurich

  24-01-2017 21:44 via artnews.com
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• ‘Operation Pandora’: police in Spain and Cyprus lead major bust of antiquities traffickers

  24-01-2017 21:18
  
  This Sunday, the Spanish interior ministry released the results of Operation Pandora, an international police investigation related to an illegal trafficking ring in cultural property, coming mainly from conflict zones. The operation, launched by Spain and Cyprus last autumn, went into action from 17-23 November 2016 and involved authorities from 18 European countries. It led to the arrest of 75 individuals and the seizure of 3,561 cultural objects, half of which were antiquities.The operations
  
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• Revolution and Its Discontents: Cate Blanchett Performed Ranters of All Persuasions in ‘Manifesto’ at the Park Avenue Armory

  24-01-2017 20:49 via artnews.com
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• Smithsonian American Art Museum Names Stephanie Stebich Director

  24-01-2017 19:58 via artnews.com
  The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. announced today that Stephanie Stebich will be its new director. She will begin in the post on April 3.Stebich is currently the executive director of the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington State, … Read More
  
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• Welcome to the world's smallest art fair – on a disappearing speck of sand

  24-01-2017 17:35
  
  The art at the Biennale de la Biche off Guadeloupe is set to disappear into the sea, thereby mirroring the futility and emptiness of elite events like Venice BiennaleArt in the 21st century is a floating world of curators and collectors, gallerists and critics, that generates a constant fleeting excitement without leaving much behind to impress future generations. It is a closed circuit of mutually fascinated Instagram stars exchanging the glamour of art for the lubricant of money; a school of d
  
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• Susan Krane, Director of San Jose Museum of Art, to Step Down

  24-01-2017 17:34 via artnews.com
  The San Jose Museum of Art in California has announced that Susan Krane will step down as executive director on January 31. Krane “will be focusing on several personal research and writing projects, including her longstanding interest in creative modes … Read More
  
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• Grisha Bruskin, Sasha Pirogova, and the Recycle Group Will Represent Russia at the 2017 Venice Biennale

  24-01-2017 17:30 via artnews.com
  For its pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale, Russia has selected artists Grisha Bruskin, Sasha Pirogova, and the Recycle Group’s Georgy Kuznetsov and Andrei Blokhin, the TASS news agency reports. Semyon Mikhailovsky, a curator who often works with the Russian … Read More
  
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• ‘One Year I Bought All the Purple in New York City’: A Talk With Julian Schnabel

  24-01-2017 15:15 via artnews.com
  “Julian Schnabel: Plate Paintings 1978–86” is on view at Aspen Art Museum until February 19, 2017. Schnabel’s upcoming solo exhibition at the Pace Gallery in New York will run from February 24 through March 25.Bill Powers: We’re looking at new plate … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: College Art Association Edition

  24-01-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Who will be the Musée d’Orsay's new director?

  24-01-2017 14:10
  
  Michel Draguet, the director-general of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, and Laurence des Cars, the director of Pariss Muse de lOrangerie, are among the four candidates shortlisted for the post of director of the Muse dOrsay in Paris. The successful applicant will replace Guy Cogeval who has led the museum since 2008.The other candidates confirmed by the French Ministry of Culture include Sylvain Amic, the director of museums in Rouen, and Dominique de Font-Raulx, the director of the
  
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• Signs of the times: museums and libraries preserve placards from the Women’s Marches

  24-01-2017 12:19
  
  Did you carry a colourful, witty or incisive sign to one of the many womens marches around the world on 21 January? Dont throw it outdonate it. Institutions including the New-York Historical Society, the Bishopsgate Institute in London and the Smithsonians National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, are looking to preserve some of the signs held high by millions of protesters the day after the inauguration of US president Donald Trump.
   
  Stefan Dickers, the special collections a
  
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• Korean government apologises for culture blacklist

  24-01-2017 12:02
  
  South Koreas ministry of culture, sports and tourism issued a formal apology on 23 January for drawing up a blacklist of cultural figures to be excluded from government support and subsidies. Nearly 10,000 names are said to be on the list, including the author Han Kang, winner of the Man Booker International Prize in 2016.
   
  The list targets individuals from a variety of media who are considered critical of Park Geun-hye, the countrys president. Park is currently suspended from office amid
  
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• MFA Boston to bring experts together with $24m overhaul of conservation centre

  24-01-2017 09:00
  
  Construction of the revamped $24m conservation centre at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is due to begin later this year. The museum plans to centralise six specialist areas of conservation by converting the top two floors of its four-storey, 1970s George Robert White wing into a 22,000 sq. ft, open-plan facility.
  The new centre will have rooms for cross-departmental meetings and collaborative laboratories for paintings, objects, furniture and frame conservation (Asian art, paper and textile st
  
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• Fashion influencers: world leaders reimagined as hipsters – in pictures

  24-01-2017 08:00
  
  From Donald Trump crying at an Arcade Fire gig to Winston Churchill running bikram yoga classes, Israeli illustrator Amit Shimoni creates alternative histories for our leaders that swap G20 summits for urban foraging Continue reading...
  
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• How Martin Sharp's art for Oz magazine embodied the Summer of Love

  24-01-2017 07:43
  
  On the 50th anniversary of Oz magazine’s era-defining launch in Britain, biographer Joyce Morgan tells how the artist who produced its most famous images was liberated by the political culture he found in Swinging LondonA sinister gap-tooth smile grinned from the cover. Martin Sharp’s image announced the arrival of London’s Oz magazine, the exuberant herald of the hippy era.
  Sharp was already notorious in his Sydney hometown Related: Richard Neville dies aged 74: Oz magazine co
  
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