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• Magazzino, a New Home for Postwar Italian Art in Upstate New York, Announces Inaugural Show

  27-02-2017 23:13 via artnews.com
  Magazzino, a new home for Italian postwar and contemporary art in the Hudson Valley just north of New York City, will open to the public on June 28, with an exhibition dedicated to the influence and legacy of Margherita Stein, … Read More
  
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• ‘The Fates’ at Interstate Projects, Brooklyn

  27-02-2017 22:44 via artnews.com
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• UK exhibition roundup: Roger Hiorns at Ikon Gallery, Richard Wilson at Annely Juda and Lubaina Himid at Spike Island

  27-02-2017 22:00
  
  Roger Hiorns, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (until 5 March)Roger Hiorns is the master of altered states: most famously he transformed an abandoned South London council flat into a miraculous grotto of blue copper sulphate crystals. There is some copper sulphate in his current exhibition at the Ikon Gallery in his native Birmingham, but this time covering a piece of hardboard and accompaniedthe label informs usby brain matter. The ominous material is also painted in yellowish streaks across a square
  
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• The art fair is dead, long live the art fair

  27-02-2017 22:00
  
  With another concentrated week of New York art fairs upon us, it is all too easy to knock the experience, which leaves collectors shuttling in a daze from pier to pier and artists feeling like cows visiting a slaughterhouse. But where some see a slaughterhouse, I see an enormous economy of thousands of people, artists and art workers alike. There are serious challenges for the art business to address, but on the whole, I have a hard time finding fault with fairs as economic engines for the art
  
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• Tefaf Maastricht 2017

  27-02-2017 22:00
  
  Everything you need to know about the fine art of collecting
  
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• Spring awakening? A shake-up for New York’s fairs

  27-02-2017 22:00
  
  The Armory Show is under new direction and Nada has bumped its New York edition from May to March, while the mid-market Pulse fair, which originated in Miami, has closed its Manhattan edition, opting instead for a year-round series of events. Facing stiff competitionwith dates coming hot on the heels of Arco Madrid and just before Art Dubai and Art Basel in Hong Kongthe New York market seems to realise it must innovate to remain relevant, but each fair is formulating its own answer to that chal
  
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• Sale of Klimt portrait to go ahead at Sotheby's

  27-02-2017 22:00
  
  Questions raised over the provenance of a small portrait by Gustav Klimt have now been resolved, according to a spokeswoman for the auction house. Girl in the Foliage (Mdchen im Grnen) is due to go under the hammer tomorrow, 1 March.
   
  Sotheby's estimates that the Austrian painters 1896 work Girl in the Foliage (Mdchen im Grnen) will sell for between 1.2m and 1.8m. It is listed as lost after 1972 in the catalogue raisonn written by Alfred Weidinger, the chief curator at the Belvedere
  
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• Roger Hiorns's bodies and brain-matter in Birmingham join Lubaina Himid’s 100-strong cavorting crowd (and more) in this week’s exhibition roundup

  27-02-2017 22:00
  
  Roger Hiorns, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (until 5 March)Roger Hiorns is the master of altered states: most famously he transformed an abandoned South London council flat into a miraculous grotto of blue copper sulphate crystals. There is some copper sulphate in his current exhibition at the Ikon Gallery in his native Birmingham, but this time covering a piece of hardboard and accompaniedthe label informs usby brain matter. The ominous material is also painted in yellowish streaks across a square
  
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• Questions raised over provenance of Klimt portrait being sold at Sotheby’s

  27-02-2017 22:00
  
  Questions are being raised over the provenance of a small portrait by Gustav Klimt due to go under the hammer at Sotheby's on 1 March.
   
  The auction house estimates that the Austrian painters 1896 work Girl in the Foliage (Mdchen im Grnen) will sell for between 1.2m and 1.8m. It is listed as lost after 1972 in the catalogue raisonn written by Alfred Weidinger, the chief curator at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna. 
   
  Bibiana Preisinger is listed in the provenance notes in Sothebys
  
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• Participatory play mocks the world of modern art

  27-02-2017 22:00
  
  Beneath the Gavel, an interactive tongue-in-cheek play that satirises the art market and art auctions, will have its New York debut on 15 March (until 9 April) at the 59E59 theatrea space that coincidentally once belonged to Christies auction house. During the performance, audience members are provided with bidding paddles and fake $100,000 bills that are dramatically shot out of cannons installed around the room. They bid on paintings by the contemporary artist Daniel Zeigler from the estate o
  
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• Participatory play mercilessly mocks the world of modern art

  27-02-2017 22:00
  
  Beneath the Gavel, an interactive tongue-in-cheek play that satirises the art market and art auctions, will have its New York debut on 15 March (until 9 April) at the 59E59 theatrea space that coincidentally once belonged to Christies auction house. During the performance, audience members are provided with bidding paddles and fake $100,000 bills that are dramatically shot out of cannons installed around the room. They bid on paintings by the contemporary artist Daniel Zeigler from the estate o
  
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• Object lessons: from Berthe Morisot to Gustav Klimt

  27-02-2017 22:00
  
  Berthe Morisot, Femme et enfant au balcon (Woman and child on the balcony) (1872)Impressionist & Modern evening sale, Christie's London, 28 FebruaryEstimate 1.5m-2mBarbara Lambrecht started collecting in the early 1970s, focusing on Impressionist and Fauvist works. A committed philanthropist, Lambrecht is selling her collection at Christies and donating all proceeds to the Rubens Prize Collection in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Siegen, Germany. Lambrecht is an admirer of those rare fem
  
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• ‘Ceiling tours’ of Greenwich's Painted Hall to launch this spring

  27-02-2017 22:00
  
  This spring, the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich is offering ceiling tours of its Painted Hall. The English artist James Thornhill decorated the hall between 1708 and 1727, receiving a further commission to create works for the dome of another Christopher Wren-designed building in London, St Pauls Cathedral. Conservators are currently treating the hall, which is covered in 3,400 sq. m of paintings, as part of a refurbishment project that includes a new visitor centre and caf. From April, v
  
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• Rock art to digital films: on the territory's art trail

  27-02-2017 21:19
  
  The Northern Territory is an art lover’s paradise with ‘bush TVs’, Hermannsburg pottery, contemporary Indigenous artworks and more • Culinary adventures in the NT
  •Northern Territory regional guideFollowing the Northern Territory art trail offers those who love art the chance to get out of white cube galleries and into lovely, wild parts of the country. Visit the tiny Central Australian community of Papunya to see where contemporary dot painting began or make your way
  
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• Pace Gallery to Open a New Space in Seoul Next Week

  27-02-2017 20:54 via artnews.com
  Pace Gallery is opening a new outpost in Seoul next week, with an inaugural exhibition at a new space in the city’s Yongsan district featuring “ten internationally-acclaimed artists” scheduled for March 4 through April 29, according to a post on the gallery’s … Read More
  
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• Sounds of Spectral Forces: On AUDINT’s Audio Channeling of the Dead and Supernatural

  27-02-2017 20:29 via artnews.com
  In an origin story fit for the sort of ficto-critical headspace it inhabits, the group known as AUDINT (short for “audio intelligence”) was originally formed in 1945 by ex-members of the Ghost Army, a mobile World War II-era deception unit … Read More
  
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• Digital photo project to show Sistine Chapel in unprecedented detail

  27-02-2017 20:26
  
  Three-volume collection uses 270,000 digital frames to reproduce Michelangelo frescoes with 99.9% accuracyThe last time the entire Sistine Chapel was photographed for posterity, digital photography was in its infancy and words such as pixels were bandied about mostly by computer nerds and Nasa scientists.Now, after decades of technological advances in art photography, digital darkrooms and printing techniques, a five-year project that will aid future restorations has left the Vatican Museums wit
  
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• Publishing project photographs entire Sistine Chapel

  27-02-2017 19:16
  
  Collectors’ book made using hi-res images many of which are produced at 1:1 scale, including The Creation of AdamThe last time the entire Sistine Chapel was photographed for posterity, digital photography was in its infancy and words such as pixels were bandied about mostly by computer nerds and NASA scientists.Now, after decades of technological advances in art photography, digital darkrooms and printing techniques, a five-year project that will aid future restorations has left the Vatica
  
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• 2017 Armory Week Art Fair Cheat Sheet

  27-02-2017 19:03 via artnews.com
  Armory Week has returned. A succinct guide to its fairs, below.The Armory Show March 2–5 This year marks the first Armory under the new directorship of Benjamin Genocchio, who has promised a “smarter, tighter, more curated” affair. The once-segregated modern … Read More
  
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• Sotheby’s Posts $65.5 M. Profit for Fourth Quarter of 2016, Beating Expectations

  27-02-2017 18:14 via artnews.com
  This morning, Sotheby’s CEO Tad Smith addressed shareholders in its quarterly earnings call, the ceremony that over the past year has been somewhat dour as the auction house dealt with layoffs and weaker sales amid a contracting market.But in the fourth … Read More
  
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• In all his glory: Michelangelo's naked Christ comes to Britain

  27-02-2017 16:52
  
  Michelangelo dared to sculpt Jesus naked, but for centuries the church covered him up with a bizarre metal veil. Now the National Gallery is revealing allI have seen Jesus Christ’s penis at last. Michelangelo’s statue The Risen Christ stands in the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. This masterpiece of his middle years – finished in 1521, when he was 46 – is more startling in some ways than his youthful David. After all, it is one thing to portray a young warlik
  
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• Preview the 2017 Armory Show, Part 1

  27-02-2017 16:00 via artnews.com
  The 23rd edition of the Armory Show opens to the public on Thursday, March 2, with a preview day on Wednesday, March 1. This year’s fair is the first to be fully planned by Ben Genocchio, who came on board as director only … Read More
  
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• Magazzino, new Hudson Valley arts space for Italian art, to open this summer

  27-02-2017 15:55
  
  New Yorks Hudson Valley is gaining a new arts destination this summer with the launch of Magazzino, a converted warehouse turned arts space that will show postwar and contemporary Italian works of art from the collection of Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu. The 20,000 sq ft space (which includes a small library) has been revamped by the architect Miguel Quismodo and is located on the Hudson River in the town of Cold Spring, around 60 miles from Manhattan.
  Olnick and Spanu created the private spac
  
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• Preview the 2017 ADAA Art Show

  27-02-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  The 29th edition of the Art Show, organized annually by the Art Dealers Association of America, opens to the public Wednesday, March 1, with previews on Tuesday, February 28, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. The show will … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Bruce Springsteen Edition

  27-02-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Who will paint Serota?

  27-02-2017 09:05
  
  The National Portrait Gallery in London is commissioning a
  portrait of Nicholas Serota, who steps down as director of the Tate at the end of
  May. Selecting the artist will only take place after he leaves and has a little
  more time. Unlike most eminent figures who are immortalised for the gallery,
  Serota knows hundreds of portraitists and will have his own views on who might
  be appropriate. For the chosen artist, it will be a slightly intimidating
  prospect to have to capture the features an
  
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