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• Iggy Pop on Trial, Long Island Iced Teas, and the Long Game: At the 2017 Edition of Art Los Angeles Contemporary

  30-01-2017 22:47 via artnews.com
  “Most learned spirits, I must confess, I hated jazz,” said the artist Todd Gray, who had just entered the theater at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica as part of a procession that included a tall woman in white, two … Read More
  
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• John Baldessari's BMW Art Car races into the top ten at Daytona

  30-01-2017 22:00
  
  If you think that arts sole purpose is to look beautiful, you probably missed Daytona 24, the 24-hour sports car endurance race in Daytona, Florida (28-29 January). After 652 laps of racing, the BMW Art Car, this year designed by John Baldessari, crossed the finish line faster than many less attractive cars, securing a very respectable eighth place despite heavy rain. My car has now earned its spurs on the racetrack, Baldessari says. It has proven itself as the fastest work of art I ever create
  
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• Five millennia of African art and history go on show in Paris

  30-01-2017 22:00
  Africa may be the worlds oldest populated continent, but its history is still widely misunderstood. We think we know Africa, but we have prejudices, says Galle Beaujean, the head of the Africa collections at Frances national museum of non-Western art, the Muse du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac in Paris.
  With the historian Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, she is mounting a major exhibition to throw the visitor off course. The French title of the show alludes to this ambition through a double entendre: L
  
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• Liz Glynn at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

  30-01-2017 20:37 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Phillips Continues International Expansion, Hires Clarice Pecori Giraldi as Regional Director for Italy

  30-01-2017 20:25 via artnews.com
  It’s déjà vu all over again: Phillips has found a job for another former Christie’s staffer, making it the fourth time this month that Phillips has plucked new hires from the rival auction house’s talent pool. This time, it’s Clarice Pecori Giraldi, … Read More
  
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• Thrice-in-a-lifetime Picasso show at Tate | Brief letters

  30-01-2017 20:20
  
  Latin grammar | Mixed measurements | Charitable status | Picasso exhibitions | Weetabix | Leicester’s CurveIn correcting Donald Elliott’s “e unum pluribus” to ex uno plures, Paul Jenkinson (Letters, 28 January) has failed to see that, in the US’s motto, “e pluribus unum”, the gender of unum is neuter. His plures therefore is wrong, as that is the masculine or feminine plural of plus. What we need is the neuter plural plura. So, as he suggested: write out
  
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• MoMA Names Recent Acquisitions: James Turrell’s ‘Meeting,’ a 12-Foot-Long Mark Bradford Painting, K8 Hardy Video, More

  30-01-2017 19:40 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Modern Art in New York has revealed a complete list of the acquisitions it made over the 2015–16 fiscal year. Some of the museum’s most important new holdings, such as Kerry James Marshall’s 2015 painting Untitled (policeman) … Read More
  
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• Art rises from the ashes for Mackintosh Building auction

  30-01-2017 18:06
  
  A charity auction with a difference is due to take place at Christies London 8 March: the Ash to Art sale includes works by 25 high-profile artistsincluding David Shrigley, Tacita Dean, Anish Kapoor and Jenny Savillemade from the debris of the Mackintosh library at the Glasgow School of Art which was tragically struck by a fire May 2014. Each artist was sent a piece of debris specifically chosen for them with a note telling them what it was, where it was from and explaining the concept, say
  
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• Pioneer Works Announces 2017 Residency Recipients

  30-01-2017 15:52 via artnews.com
  Pioneer Works, the Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary arts nonprofit, announced today its slate of residents for 2017 in three categories: visual arts, music, and tech.The 13 visual arts residents were chosen from a pool of some 650 open-call applications for the program, … Read More
  
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• NADA Names New Members, Directors, Board Leadership

  30-01-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  The New Art Dealers Alliance has added six galleries to its roster, appointed new members to its board of directors, and elected a new executive committee. The news, announced today, comes about a month ahead of the 2017 edition of its annual fair … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Immigration Order Protest Edition

  30-01-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Diana deserves the best of British sculpture – not some tacky statue

  30-01-2017 13:32
  
  Princes William and Harry are commissioning a statue of their mother for Kensington Gardens. If it ends up being bland and bronze, it will be a waste of public money – and a betrayal of Diana’s modern imageDo Princes William and Harry realise what they are stirring up? They are going to commission a statue of their mother for the grounds of Kensington Gardens. It is more than understandable for them to seek to honour Diana’s memory. But whose money are they commissioning it wit
  
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• Saloua Raouda Choucair, pioneering Lebanese artist, dies aged 100

  30-01-2017 11:46
  
  The Beirut-born artist Saloua Raouda Choucair, an important figure in abstract art who rose to prominence in 2013 with a major show at Tate Modern in London, has died aged 100. A spokeswoman for the New York-based CRG Gallery, which represents Choucair, says that the artist was a pioneer inspired by the pure lines of Islamic art and architecture, embracing science, mathematics and poetry in her practice. Choucair studied at the American University of Beirut in the mid-1940s and worked in t
  
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• A totem sculpture, Physical Energy, to rise up in the woods south of London

  30-01-2017 10:56
  
  Anyone driving up the A1 towards Gateshead in the North East of England cannot fail to notice the 20m-tall figure of the Angel of the North, which has become an emblem for the whole region since it was created by Antony Gormley in 1998.
   
  This year, the bicentenary of the birth of George Frederick Watts, probably the best English artist we have nearly forgotten, the South of England will also get a totem work of art, to be sited near the A3 highway leading to Guildford and then London.
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• 'Spider-Man' burglar on trial over €100m Paris art theft

  30-01-2017 05:36
  
  Vjeran Tomic goes on trail for theft that included works by Picasso and Matisse from city’s Modern Art MuseumA burglar known as “Spider-Man”, notorious for daring acrobatic heists, goes on trial Monday for the 2010 theft of a €100m haul that included works by Picasso and Matisse from a Paris gallery.Vjeran Tomic, 49, who is facing 14 charges, will stand trial along with two accomplices charged with handling stolen goods. Continue reading...
  
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• Campaign launched to save Vincent van Gogh’s grave

  30-01-2017 03:15
  
  In the French town of Auvers-sur-Oise, Vincent van Goghs grave is in urgent need of restoration. Van Gogh spent the prolific last 70 days of his life in the village northwest of Paris, painting around one picture a day before shooting himself in the surrounding wheat fields in July 1890. The local council of Auvers-sur-Oise and the Institut Van Gogh, a non-profit organisation dedicated to conserving the places which inspired the artist, are working to raise 1.2m to repair the Notre-Dame-de-lAss
  
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• Tate Modern to host 'once in a lifetime' Picasso exhibition

  30-01-2017 01:01
  
  Landmark show will focus on ‘year of wonders’ 1932, at height of painter’s affair with young lover Marie-Thérèse WalterPicasso’s greatest works of art are being brought together for a “once in a lifetime” exhibition in London and Paris that will take visitors through a pivotal year in the artist’s life.The display, Picasso 1932, is being staged as a collaboration between the Musée National-Picasso in Paris and Tate Modern, which said
  
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