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• ‘Supports/Surfaces’ at Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles

  21-02-2017 22:32 via artnews.com
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• We are all made of stars: a Moroccan artist’s search for a familiar symbol in the US

  21-02-2017 22:00
  
  I came to America for a project, Out Among The Stars from New York to Los Angeles, with the photographer Marwen Farhat and the Culturunners crew.For the past year, I have been looking at the subject of the five-point star, a symbol of strong spiritual and ideological significance in both the Moroccan and American flags and culture. While on the road, I documented the stars I found and interviewed local people associated with them. I wanted to understand what the star meant to them, and act as a
  
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• Take a cross-country trip with artist Sara Ouhaddou

  21-02-2017 22:00
  For her project Out Among the Stars, Sara Ouhaddou crossed the US from New York to Los Angeles, in search of a symbol that is significant to both Arab and American cultures: the star. She wrote a series of blog posts for us about her travels and experiencesincluding finding familiar stories in Mississippi and a trip to the shooting range in Texas.
  
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• Out Among the Stars by Sara Ouhaddou

  21-02-2017 22:00
  For her project Out Among the Stars, Sara Ouhaddou crossed the US from New York to Los Angeles, in search of a symbol that is significant to both Arab and American cultures: the star. She wrote a series of blog posts for us about her travels and experiencesincluding finding familiar stories in Mississippi and a trip to the shooting range in Texas.
  
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• Nada kicks it up a notch

  21-02-2017 22:00
  
  The contemporary and emerging arts non-profit, New Art Dealers Alliance (Nada) is teaming up with the crowd-funding platform Kickstarter for its third annual Nada Presents, a programme of events and talks, at this years Nada New York fair, due to open next week (2-5 March)and it will be quite a drag. The eventsparticularly performance-heavy this year, says Nadas executive director, Heather Hubbsinclude a series Contemporary Drag, which features an eponymous revue performance on Thursday, 2 Marc
  
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• Leonardo’s Adoration of the Magi returns to Uffizi after restoration

  21-02-2017 22:00
  
  A newly restored Leonardo da Vinci panel painting, works rescued from central Italys earthquake zone and Renaissance-inspired drawings by the Russian film director Sergei Eisenstein are on the eclectic list of exhibitions coming to Florences Gallerie degli Uffizi this year. The prestigious museum, which is best known for its crowd-pulling collection of masterpieces by the likes of Botticelli, Raphael and Titian, is beefing up its programme with more temporary shows during the low tourist season
  
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• Dutch Golden Age shines through at the Louvre

  21-02-2017 22:00
  The Louvre is going Dutch this spring with the reopening of its Northern European painting galleries and not one, but three exhibitions devoted to the art of Hollands 17th-century Golden Age.
  A major survey, Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting, has been in the making for almost five years, says the curator Blaise Ducos. It is a co-production with the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, where the show will travel later this year. Twelve o
  
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• Andrea Rosen to close gallery spaces in New York

  21-02-2017 22:00
  
  Andrea Rosen has announced that after 27 years, she will close her New York gallery space in the coming months. Since 2002, the gallery has been the chief agent of the Felix Gonzales-Torres Foundation; going forward, Rosen will co-represent the foundation with David Zwirner Gallery.Although the gallery will continue to exist, with selective activities, these will no longer include a permanent space or representation of living artists. Rosen represents a range of young to mid-career artists of i
  
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• Beuys the myth, more than the artist, explained in new documentary

  21-02-2017 21:52
  
  When he was active, Joseph Beuys (1921-86) was the art star of post-war Germany. The son of a civil servant, he claimed to have survived a plane crash in Crimea while serving in the Luftwaffe during the Second World War, largely thanks to a band of wandering Tartars. With that story as a creation myth, Beuys added a hat and vest as props, and leapt into a void at the Dusseldorf Art Academy, where he became a professor.
   
  Bueys, the documentary, premiered in Berlin last week at the Berlin I
  
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• Rashid Johnson to Direct Adaptation of Richard Wright’s ‘Native Son’ in Feature Film Debut

  21-02-2017 21:45 via artnews.com
  It’s been a while since the go-go days of the ’90s, when ’80s art stars could jump from showing in white cubes in SoHo to directing big-budget flicks in Hollywood. David Salle, Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo, and Julian Schnabel all … Read More
  
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• An Embarrassment of Riches: ‘The Shchukin Collection’ at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris Overflows With Modernist Masterpieces, and Offers Dark Parallels to the Plutocratic Present

  21-02-2017 21:30 via artnews.com
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• So you want to be an artist? Then let the pros show you how it's done

  21-02-2017 20:00
  
  DBC Pierre wrote in a fever, Frank Turner dabbled in thrash and Nikki Amuka-Bird jumped off a cliff … artists reveal how they got to the top – and how you can tooThe actor: Nikki Amuka-Bird, 40, has performed with the RSC and starred in Luther, NW and DenialIt can be a nomadic existence. You might find yourself somewhere cold and wet at five in the morningIf the job gets boring, loosen up, throw in a new characterI promised a girl I'd write her a love song for her birthday. It was t
  
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• Sadie Laska Will Organize ‘Animal Farm’ Show at the Brant Foundation

  21-02-2017 19:42 via artnews.com
  Next up at the Brant Foundation Art Study Center in Greenwich, Connecticut, will be a group show organized by the artist Sadie Laska with the title “Animal Farm,” a name perfectly in tune with these Orwellian times. “Artists in the … Read More
  
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• ‘Spider-man’ and accomplices sentenced in Paris museum theft

  21-02-2017 19:37
  
  On Monday, 20 February, hefty sentences and fines were handed down for the three defendants in the 2010 theft of five paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, Braque and Lgervalued at 109mfrom the Muse dart moderne de la ville de Paris. The burglary was referred to by the prosecutor as one of the worst in a museum in modern history and an attack against humanitys heritage.
  Vjran Tomic, aka Spider-manthe professional burglar who carried out the theft on 20 May 2010was given the heaviest penalt
  
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• Artadia Announces Finalists for 2017 Los Angeles Awards

  21-02-2017 19:33 via artnews.com
  Each year, the Brooklyn-based nonprofit Artadia awards a series of grants to artists in various cities, including Atlanta, San Francisco, Houston, and others. Today, we have news of the five finalists for its Los Angeles awards, which will eventually be whittled … Read More
  
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• Susan Greenberg Fisher Appointed Director of Collections at the Brooklyn Museum

  21-02-2017 17:55 via artnews.com
  The Brooklyn Museum announced today that Susan Greenberg Fisher has been appointed its director of collections, effective February 27. In this role, Fisher will work closely with the museum’s director of curatorial affairs, Sharon Matt Atkins, to manage all aspects … Read More
  
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• Naima J. Keith Wins High Museum’s David C. Driskell Prize for African American Art History

  21-02-2017 17:55 via artnews.com
  California African American Museum deputy director Naima J. Keith has been named the winner of the High Museum of Art’s David C. Driskell Prize, which is awarded annually to a scholar or artist who has made a major contribution to … Read More
  
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• Details Announced for Geoffrey Farmer’s Canadian Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale

  21-02-2017 17:00 via artnews.com
  For his Canadian Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale, Geoffrey Farmer will once again return to his interest in the relationship between people and their pictures. In an installation titled A way out of the mirror, he will draw inspiration from a … Read More
  
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• Rembrandt’s dog and the Louvre’s cat

  21-02-2017 16:51
  
  Officials at the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig, Germany, say that they have discovered a delectable pencil sketch of a dog by none other than the Dutch Old Master Rembrandt.  Museum curators previously attributed the drawing, which has been in the museums collection since 1770, to the German artist Johann Melchior Roos. The work, known affectionately as the Braunschweig terrier, will go on show in the exhibition Drer, Czanne and Me: How Masters Draw (6 April-7 July). The boldne
  
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• Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting review – the birth of the cool

  21-02-2017 16:19
  
  Louvre, Paris
  Vermeer exhibitions are often padded out with his lesser peers – but here, fine choices illuminate the staggering soulfulness of the Dutch masterSome artists are so dazzling they reduce all around them to greyness. Their genius is a flame for us moths who queue for hours to see any exhibition with their name on it. Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting, which opens this week at the Louvre, was already jam-packed when I went to see it and that was two days before the gener
  
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• Morning Links: Iraqi Artifacts at the Venice Biennale Edition

  21-02-2017 14:48 via artnews.com
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• Francis Kéré becomes first African architect of Serpentine pavilion

  21-02-2017 13:00
  
  The architect is planning to bring one of his characteristically stripped-back structures, honed in the villages of his native Burkino Faso, to leafy west London
  A huge wooden disc will float above the lawn in Kensington Gardens this summer, a wheel of spindly timber slats hovering over a bright blue landing pad like some rustic flying saucer. This is the vision of Diébédo Francis Kéré, the first African architect to be chosen to design the annual Serpentine gallery p
  
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• Menzel drawing and Pissarro painting in Gurlitt trove are restituted to heirs

  21-02-2017 12:58
  
  A drawing of the interior of a Gothic church by Adolph Menzel and a painting by Camille Pissarro, hidden for decades in Cornelius Gurlitts collection, have returned to the heirs of the original Jewish owners, the Kunstmuseum in Bern and German government announced.German Culture Minister Monika Grtters returned the Menzel drawing on 20 February to the heirs of Elsa Helen Cohen, who sold it in 1938 to the art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt, Corneliuss father, to fund her escape to the US. Pissar
  
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• Installation in Venice to re-imagine Lenin’s tomb within Malevich’s black cube

  21-02-2017 12:11
  
  Visitors to the 57th Venice Biennale (13 May-26 November) this summer can see a sculptural rendering of Vladimir Lenins mausoleum housed inside a 3D version of Kasimir Malevichs famous black square. The project is known as Object Number#1, the enigmatic title given by Russian officials to Lenins body in 1924 after the Bolshevik leader had died.
  The initiative, which marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, is a collaboration between the London-based cultural institution Grad (Gall
  
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• Watercolour by mysterious British artist goes on show after 50 years in shadows

  21-02-2017 08:00
  
  British Museum to exhibit view of Egyptian temple of Karnak by Birmingham painter Henry Stanier discovered in storageA 19th-century view of the Egyptian temple complex of Karnak is to go on display at the British Museum for the first time this week – more than half a century after it was acquired.The long-awaited public showing comes 113 or so years after the death of the artist, about whom little is known.Continue reading...
  
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• Iraq Museum to display 40 ancient artefacts at Venice Biennale

  21-02-2017 07:00
  
  Show represents first time since 1988 that Baghdad institution has given permission for any part of its collection to leave Iraq
  The Iraq Museum of Baghdad is to display 40 ancient artefacts at the Venice Biennale this year, including several that were recently returned after its looting in 2003. The exhibition will be the first time all the objects have been legally allowed out of the country.Ancient clay pots, medical objects, musical instruments and figurines of deities and animals will be am
  
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• Answering 'cultural genocide': Iraq's looted treasures to be displayed at Venice Biennale

  21-02-2017 07:00
  
  Iraq Museum takes unusual step of allowing objects to leave country to show their significance amid Isis’s ‘nihilistic’ destructionThe Iraq Museum of Baghdad is to display 40 ancient artefacts at the Venice Biennale this year, including several that were recently returned after its looting in 2003. The exhibition will be the first time all the objects have been legally allowed out of the country.Ancient clay pots, medical objects, musical instruments and figurines of deities an
  
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• America after the Fall review – when US art crashed into a fearful modern world

  21-02-2017 01:00
  
  Royal Academy, LondonDance marathons, dustbowl farms, brawling sailors, impoverished cotton-pickers … Adrian Searle takes a journey through 1930s America in a gripping showThe sedan careers up the hill on a country road, slewing as a truck comes over the rise. We have a death’s-eye view, watching it happen. Everything slows down – a car pootling toward the sedan from behind, the oncoming truck going so fast its wheels have left the road. A storm is moving in, the fence-posts a
  
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