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• Nancy Spector Named Artistic Director and Chief Curator of Guggenheim Foundation

  15-02-2017 22:57 via artnews.com
  After less than a year as the Brooklyn Museum’s deputy director and chief curator, Nancy Spector will leave her new post to become the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s first-ever artistic director and its Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator, a … Read More
  
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• What it was like as a Saudi artist, working in the US during the travel ban

  15-02-2017 22:00
  
  Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine, 23 January 2017I had been in Lewiston for my residency (part of the exhibition Phantom Punch, supported by the Bates College Museum of Art and the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture) for five days, setting up the studio in the city centre on Lisbon Street. At 8am, the museums director, Dan Mills, arrived to accompany me to the college cafeteria and after a light meal I went to the studio to finish the preparations for the performance that eveni
  
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• New galleries bring buzz to San Francisco, but no gold rush—yet

  15-02-2017 22:00
  
  After new spaces opened on the coattails of the dramatically expanded San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) last yearmost notably Gagosian opening a branch within a few blocksthe citys gallery scene continues to grow.
  In January, the blue-chip Berggruen Gallery unveiled a three-floor, 10,000-sq. ft space South of Market, next door to Gagosian. The same week, former Matthew Marks director Adrian Rosenfeld opened a new space in the Minnesota Street Project in the scruffy Dogpatch neighborho
  
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• It's about time: NYU launches US first time-based media conservation graduate course

  15-02-2017 22:00
  
  The Institute of Fine Arts (IFA) at New York University (NYU) is preparing to launch a four-year graduate course in time-based media conservation. The degree is the first of its kind in the US and reflects the growing need for specialists in the field as the popularity of technology-based works increases. Thanks to a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, classes will start in autumn 2018, with the first graduate students due to matriculate in 2022.
  NYU is one of only four graduate-level c
  
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• First French art prize for female artists awarded 

  15-02-2017 22:00
  
  France's culture ministry has lent support to a women's contemporary art prize launched by AWARE (Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions), founded by Camille Morineau, the new director of the Monnaie de Paris. In January, French culture minister Audrey Azoulay awarded the prize at the ministry in Paris to two artists, 36-year-old Laetitia Badaut Haussmann, who creates photographic prints and sculptures, and 93-year-old painter Judit Reigl.Morineau asked four art professionals to ea
  
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• First art prize dedicated to female artists awarded in France

  15-02-2017 22:00
  
  France's culture ministry has lent support to a women's contemporary art prize launched by AWARE (Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions), founded by Camille Morineau, the new director of the Monnaie de Paris. In January, French culture minister Audrey Azoulay awarded the prize at the ministry in Paris to two artists, 36-year-old Laetitia Badaut Haussmann, who creates photographic prints and sculptures, and 93-year-old painter Judit Reigl.Morineau asked four art professionals to ea
  
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• Kapwani Kiwanga at Logan Center Exhibitions, Chicago

  15-02-2017 20:57 via artnews.com
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• Christie’s Hires Max Carter as Imp-Mod Senior Vice President, Loses Global Head of Programming to White Cube

  15-02-2017 20:21 via artnews.com
  It’s a crowded revolving door at Christie’s today.In a press release, the auction house announced that it has hired Max Carter, a Christie’s vet who worked in various capacities starting in 2007, as a senior vice president in the Impressionism and … Read More
  
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• Video Art ‘at the Tempo of Emergency’: Arthur Jafa on His Recent Work

  15-02-2017 20:04 via artnews.com
  During a symposium on fellow artist Kerry James Marshall at the end of last month, Arthur Jafa recalled a conversation he had with Marshall long ago. Jafa asked the painter, “What is the difference between painting and photography?” Without hesitation, … Read More
  
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• ‘The conversation’s changed’: how Asian culture edged into the Australian mainstream

  15-02-2017 20:03
  
  Melbourne’s new Asia Topa performing arts festival – a four-month-long juggernaut of shows from across the Asia Pacific region – is part of a growing trend towards telling non-Anglo storiesDancer Daniel Kok was recently in Melbourne in a show he devised with Australian performer Luke George called Bunny: an interactive exploration of bondage and the ancient underground erotic art of shibari. Kok’s works are provocative, often erotic explorations of current politics, of de
  
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• Bright lights and a bidet chandelier: Iran gets a blast of shocking colour

  15-02-2017 17:07
  
  How will British ‘colour activist’ David Batchelor go down in a country where vibrant hues are all but banned? Will his lavatorial light land him in trouble?In the early 1990s, visitors to Iran would have been struck by the country’s lack of vibrant colour. Eight years of war, on top of a revolutionary ideology that regarded individual expression as frivolous, had obliterated it from the streets. The palette of the public space was dominated by dark shades of brown, grey and na
  
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• Protesting Trump, Wellesley’s Davis Museum Will Remove From View Works Made or Donated by Immigrants to the United States

  15-02-2017 15:35 via artnews.com
  A few days after President Trump signed an executive order barring citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States, the Museum of Modern Art in New York responded by hanging work by artists from those countries. Now the … Read More
  
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• A week without immigrant art: college museum responds to Trump’s travel ban

  15-02-2017 15:25
  
  The Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, is marking the Presidents Day holiday this year by making a loud visual statement in response to President Trumps executive ordertemporarily put on holdto ban citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the US. In a project called Art-Less, the museum is highlighting the contributions of immigrants by de-installing or shrouding works on view from the permanent collection that were either made by artists who were immigrants, o
  
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• Morning Links: Girl Scout Cookie Edition

  15-02-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Here Is the Exhibitor List for Art Basel 2017

  15-02-2017 13:00 via artnews.com
  It’s been just over seven months since the 2016 edition of Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland, wrapped up its last edition in that stately Rhineland city. Seven months does not seem that long a span of time, in the scheme … Read More
  
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• Three African artists will take centre stage at new Zeitz MoCAA

  15-02-2017 12:35
  
  Zeitz MoCAA, the first major contemporary art museum to be built in Africa, has announced three of its inaugural exhibitions.A monographic show devoted to the work of the Swaziland-born, South Africa-based artist Nandipha Mntambo, known for her sculptures of the female form made from natural materials such as cowhide (until 27 January 2018) will be one of a trio of exhibitions to mark the opening of the Cape Town museum on 22 September.
   
  The Zimbabwean artist and activist Kudzanai Chiurai
  
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• Do you want to host the Turner Prize?

  15-02-2017 11:03
  
  Tate is looking for a venue for the 2019 Turner prizecould it be you? The prestigious, headline-hitting award is presented alternate years at Tate Britain and at a selected UK venue (the Baltic in Gateshead bagged the honour in 2011 while the Tramway in Glasgow hosted the prize in 2015; this year, the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull, the UK City of Culture, will take a turn; 26 September-7 January 2018). The Tate is now inviting expressions of interest in hosting the Turner Prize 2019 exhib
  
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• Richard Mosse: Incoming review – shows the white-hot misery of the migrant crisis

  15-02-2017 11:00
  
  Barbican Curve, London
  The Irish artist follows migrants with a thermal military camera as they flee Syria, Iraq and elsewhere, turning them into a teeming mass of ghostsTwo years ago, Richard Mosse and his cinematographer, Trevor Tweeten, stood on a hillside on the border between Turkey and Syria and watched a battle unfolding in the Syrian town of Dabiq, 10km away. “We were able to see entire buildings on fire beneath glimmering minarets, the slow arc of mortars launched, rockets tracing
  
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• 'Creativity improves wellbeing': art transforms mental health ward

  15-02-2017 10:48
  
  A psychiatric ward in London has been given a makeover, with work donated by artists and workshops for patients Artists give hospital ward a makeover – in picturesWhen most people think of a secure mental health unit, they don’t tend to picture it decorated with artwork by award-winning artists and patients.A psychiatric ward housing patients with schizophrenia in Springfield University hospital in Tooting, London, however, has undergone an artistic renovation. The once blank, colour
  
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• Forgeries are hurting the art market – but I'd buy ones this good

  15-02-2017 10:16
  
  Valuable paintings have recently been declared fakes, spreading fear through the world art market. But if they are fakes, I may be on the side of the forgers
  How can you tell when the art market is terrified? Perhaps when a leading auction house sets up its own forensic department, so it can offer art collectors the additional reassurance of a battery of scientific tests when they fork out hundreds of thousands, or even millions, on a painting that may be a masterpiece – or may be a fake.
  
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• Midas touch: the artist using gold to turn films into flickering frescos

  15-02-2017 09:00
  
  Joe Ramirez has patented a new art form: a spellbinding fusion of painting and film. We watch the American work his magicJoe Ramirez does not do things by halves. He has in his time made a chair with 112 joints, lacquered a car 17 times, and once spent five years restoring frescos in a Benedictine chapel in Chicago. So it comes as no surprise to learn that the California artist has been working on The Gold Projections since 2005. It is the latest instance of him being possessed by what he calls
  
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• The white frontier: Inuit life in 1900s Canada – in pictures

  15-02-2017 08:00
  
  With these images of far-flung communities in north-west Canada, Geraldine Moodie became the one of the country’s first professional female photographers Continue reading...
  
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• Paddle8 Staff ‘Gutted’ Following Split With Auctionata; Co-Founder Has Departed Company

  15-02-2017 00:10 via artnews.com
  Earlier today, online auction startup Paddle8 announced widespread layoffs that would sever ties with dozens of staffers in their three offices, in New York, London, and Los Angeles, sources close to the matter tell ARTnews. Some departments are down to a … Read More
  
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• Paddle8 Staff ‘Gutted’ Following Split With Auctionata as Co-Founder Departs Company

  15-02-2017 00:10 via artnews.com
  Earlier today, online auction startup Paddle8 announced widespread layoffs that would sever ties with dozens of staffers in their three offices, in New York, London, and Los Angeles, sources close to the matter tell ARTnews. Some departments are down to a … Read More
  
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