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• The art machine: the Centre Pompidou at 40

  29-01-2017 22:00
  It was number 493 of the 681 submissions to a 1971 architectural competition set up by the French government for a grand cultural centre on the Plateau Beaubourg in Paris. The design by the young architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers (together, less famously, with Gianfranco Franchini and the engineers Ove Arup), was a radical proposal for the construction of a building for information, fun and culture, a sort of machine, an informative tool, as Piano and Rogers put it.
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• Tate Modern to stage its first Picasso show—focusing on just a single year

  29-01-2017 22:00
  
  Tate Modern is to devote a major exhibition to a single pivotal year in Picassos prolific career. Perhaps surprisingly, Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy (8 March-9 September 2018) will be the first solo show dedicated to the artists work at the London gallery. With important pieces on loan from museums and private collections, it will also be one of the most significant shows the gallery has ever staged, according to a press release.
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• Tala Madani: the descent of man

  29-01-2017 22:00
  Anyone desperate to find hope and humour in a country run by little men with big egos would do well to look at the art of Tehran-born, Los Angeles-based artist Tala Madani. Through her paintings, and also short stop-motion animations, she has a history of exposing the absurdities of a hyper-masculine and at times savagely phallic culture. Her speciality is depictingwith an economy of brush strokessad-sack, naked, misshapen, balding, middle-aged men who excrete, secrete and play with themselves
  
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• Louise Bourgeois and Yayoi Kusama united in Sotheby’s exhibition

  29-01-2017 22:00
  
  Fittinglyfollowing the week when more than one million people around the world marched for womens rightsSothebys is to host a joint exhibition of two of the greatest female artists of the 20th century: Louise Bourgeois and Yayoi Kusama.Traumata, which opens at the auction houses private-selling gallery, S|2, in London on 24 February (until 13 April), will bring together sculptures, paintings and works on paper by Bourgeois and Kusama in a bid to tease out the parallels between their very differ
  
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• Exhibition offers antidote to Trump's view of Iran

  29-01-2017 22:00
  
  As President Donald Trump's immigration ban is causing a global uproar, the future of the US-Iran nuclear deal negotiated by his predecessor also hangs in the balance. Trump has described Iran as a terrorist state, pledged to renegotiate the agreement, and filled his administration with foreign policy hardliners. Iran is among the seven countries whose citizens are barred from entering the US for at least the next 90 days.This is the backdrop to the first wide-ranging survey of contemporary Ira
  
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• Art consultants Arisohn + Murphy offer pop-up project management

  29-01-2017 22:00
  Do you want to organise a pop-up show in an unfamiliar city? Need someone to haggle with a contractor over a construction project that just wont end? Trying to figure out where to get that strangely shaped sculpture fabricated on a tight deadline? Arisohn + Murphy can help.
  Part McKinsey for the art world, part project management firm and part start-up, the company was quietly founded by two former Gagosian employees in 2015. More interested in working behind the scenes, they have not discussed
  
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• A Certain Kind of Light review – let there be mirror balls

  29-01-2017 09:00
  
  Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
  An exhibition on the theme of light is the latest to draw on the Arts Council’s huge national collection. But how illuminating is it?A show about light: a light show – what might a curator put in? Just about all art concerned with making the world visible in some sense speaks of light, the very condition in which it was made. But an all-inclusive approach would be ridiculous, to be sure, so how about a show on light?You could include Manet, who believed
  
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