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• Thomas Campbell Out as Director of the Metropolitan Museum Amid Institution’s Financial Struggles

  28-02-2017 22:52 via artnews.com
  Thomas P. Campbell resigned as director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the institution announced this afternoon. He will leave his position June 30, 2017.“I couldn’t be more proud of the Met’s accomplishments during my … Read More
  
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• Trump’s travel ban denounced by curators and artists

  28-02-2017 22:00
  
  Artists, curators and leaders of top US museums are anxiously awaiting President Trumps revised executive order on immigrationand they are prepared to vigorously protest against the new administrations isolationist policies. The latest order, which was being drafted as we went to press and is expected to target the same seven countries with mainly Muslim populations, could have far-reaching effects on exhibitions, research and the future of cultural exchange between the US, the Middle East and
  
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• The other lives of artists

  28-02-2017 22:00
  Sebastiano del Piombo (around 1485-1547) was made piombatore, or keeper of the papal seal, in 1531, for his many years service to the papacy and continuing loyalty to Pope Clement VII. It is this role that gave him his sobriquethis family name was Luciani. But in Lives of the Artists, Vasari claimed that the honour ended a great career: Art suffered no great loss in [Sebastianos] death, he wrote, seeing that, as soon as he assumed the habit of Friar of the Piombo, he might have been numbered am
  
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• The great London auction reshuffle

  28-02-2017 22:00
  In a collective nod to a downturn in revenue from Europe and the importance of their Asian clientele, the three major auction houses have rescheduled their February sales to avoid clashing with the Lunar New Year celebrated in China. Christies and Sothebys have moved their Impressionist and Modern and Surrealist sales to 28 February and 1 March respectively, as we went to press, while Christies, Sothebys and Phillips are holding their post-war and contemporary evening sales in the second week o
  
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• Paul Walter, the voracious New York collector, connoisseur and bon vivant pioneered photography collecting, has died

  28-02-2017 22:00
  
  Which came firstculture or the homosexual? This was, albeit tongue-in-cheek, a primary question for Paul Walter, the most cultured of men and exemplar of late 20th-century Homo Manhattanensis, those wealthy aesthetes who were key to New Yorks cultural zest.
  Walter was physically a giant figure, a bear in gay parlance, with voracious appetites, not least for his obsessive collecting of manifold things, ranging from Asian objets and Raj silver to architectural drawings and the art of many styles
  
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• Moving Image fair embraces virtual reality

  28-02-2017 22:00
  
  The Moving Image fair, cofounded in New York in 2011 by gallerist Ed Winkleman and Murat Orozobekov to present video and film-based art, has entered a new dimension this year with the addition of virtual reality works.
  No longer the exclusive province of gamers or medical trainers, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) works are filtering into the art world via museum shows like the 2015 New Museum Triennial, Surround Audience, and the forthcoming Whitney Biennial
  
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• Metropolitan Museum director Thomas Campbell resigns

  28-02-2017 22:00
  
  Thomas Campbell, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, will resign from his post, the museum announced today. In recent months, Campbellas well as the museums board and other top administratorshave faced increased scrutiny as the Met worked to tackle its budget deficit. The Mets president, Daniel Weiss, will serve as interim chief executive officer and develop a transition plan with Campbell, who is due to remain at the museum until 30 June. Campbell joined the Met in 1996
  
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• Make your own musical at Tate Liverpool

  28-02-2017 22:00
  
  Put on those dancing shoes: Tate Liverpool is staging a musical courtesy of the US-born artist Christopher Kline, who plans to turn the gallery into a working set where visitors can drop in for a spot of singing, acting, lighting and set design (1 April-1 May). O.K.The Musical explores and restages the entire history and folklore of Klines hometown of Kinderhook in New York State with an original score by the artist, a statement says. Communities in Liverpool and Lancashire will contribute to t
  
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• Magritte painting breaks record at Christie’s Surrealist sale

  28-02-2017 22:00
  
  The mood was high at Christies last night after the total haul for the evenings Impressionist & Modern and Surreal auctions136.9m with fees and a high combined sell through rate of 92%showed a 45% increase on results this time last year. Jay Vincze, the head of Impressionist and Modern art for Christies London, called this incredibly reassuring for the market, which was further bolstered by the continued slump in the value of the pound, making works more attractive to foreign buyers, e
  
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• Maggi Hambling’s new paintings celebrated with smoke and strong women

  28-02-2017 22:00
  
  The redoubtable Maggi Hambling was in characteristically forthright form at the dinner to celebrate her exhibition of new paintings at the Marlborough Fine Art gallery last night (28 February). If they want me, they have to have the fucking cigarettes and thats it! she announced asundeterred by rules, regulations and smoke alarmsshe sparked up a Marlboro Light in front of a densely painted self portrait. The painting also has a cigarette emerging from the impasto. It was undoubtedly an evening
  
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• Foundation uses crowdfunding to raise $65,000 to restore work by female Old Master

  28-02-2017 22:00
  The Advancing Women Artists Foundation has turned to crowdfunding to raise $65,000 by 16 April to preserve a rare depiction of the Last Supper by Plautilla Nelli, Florences earliest-known female artist, who is the subject of an exhibition opening this month at the Uffizi. The 7m-long canvas by the 16th-century nun, which for centuries decorated the refectory of the monastery of Santa Maria Novella, is the only known painting of the biblical theme by a woman. The restored work is due to go on pub
  
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• Artoon by Pablo Helguera, March 2017

  28-02-2017 22:00
  
  See related story: What defunding the NEA would mean for US museumsFor more Artoons click here to see our online collection
  
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• 1:54 art fair to launch in Marrakech next February

  28-02-2017 22:00
  
  The biannual art fair 1:54, which takes its name from the 54 countries that make up the African continent, is launching its first African edition in Marrakech in February 2018. The expansion follows successful fairs in London and New York. The Moroccan-born and raised founding director of the fair, Touria el Glaoui, says she has been thinking about an African venue since she first established the event in London in 2013. El Glaoui settled on Morocco as it has one of the most dynamic art sc
  
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• Galerie Templon Now Works With George Segal Estate in France

  28-02-2017 19:25 via artnews.com
  At this year’s Armory Show, which opens Wednesday, March 1, the booth of the Paris-based Galerie Templon will show a sculpture by George Segal, the late American sculptor known for his portraits of men and women that he typically made of … Read More
  
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• Galerie Templon Now Reps George Segal Estate, Will Show Never-Before-Exhibited Sculpture at Armory Show

  28-02-2017 19:25 via artnews.com
  At this year’s Armory Show, which opens Wednesday, March 1, the booth of the Paris-based Galerie Templon will show a never-before-exhibited sculpture by George Segal, the late American sculptor known for his portraits of men and women that he typically made … Read More
  
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• Galerie Templon Now Reps George Segal Estate in France

  28-02-2017 19:25 via artnews.com
  At this year’s Armory Show, which opens Wednesday, March 1, the booth of the Paris-based Galerie Templon will show a sculpture by George Segal, the late American sculptor known for his portraits of men and women that he typically made of … Read More
  
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• Galerie Templon Now Reps George Segal Estate

  28-02-2017 19:25 via artnews.com
  At this year’s Armory Show, which opens Wednesday, March 1, the booth of the Paris-based Galerie Templon will show a sculpture by George Segal, the late American sculptor known for his portraits of men and women that he typically made of … Read More
  
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• Walker Art Center Director Olga Viso: ’A Society Is Only as Free as Its Artists’

  28-02-2017 19:10 via artnews.com
  Following reports that funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities may be on the chopping block in the Trump administration’s forthcoming budget, museum directors are coming out swinging.The Met’s director, Thomas P. … Read More
  
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• Factum Arte: the art copyists giving the Renaissance a renaissance

  28-02-2017 19:01
  
  With their immaculate replicas of everything from Tutankhamun’s tomb to Italian architecture, this Madrid company is bringing ancient civilisations to lifeThe curator at the National Gallery could not contain her wonder. Calling me over to the replica of the Borgherini Chapel that has been installed as part of the gallery’s Michelangelo and Sebastiano exhibition, she pointed out a surreal detail. Not only has this reproduction of a piece of Renaissance architecture got hyperrealistic
  
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• Mexican-Canadian artist caught up in political maelstrom over Trump Tower commission

  28-02-2017 18:22
  
  When the Mexican-Canadian artist Miriam Aroeste accepted a commission from the Holborn group to produce 180 original pieces for the new Trump Tower in Vancouver, which opens today, 28 February, she never dreamed she would be caught up in a political maelstrom.I had an amazing working relationship with my client, she says of the Holborn Group, the development firm lead by Joo Kim Tiah, the son of the Malaysian real estate magnate Tony Tiah Thee Kian, who built the tower. They gave me great freed
  
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• Preview NADA New York 2017

  28-02-2017 17:40 via artnews.com
  The sixth edition of NADA New York, put on annually by the New Art Dealers Alliance, opens to the public on the evening of Thursday, March 2, with a preview earlier in the day. The fair, which was moved up … Read More
  
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• Musée d’Orsay Appoints Laurence des Cars as Director

  28-02-2017 17:33 via artnews.com
  Laurence des Cars will be the next director of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, Le Monde reports. She will succeed Guy Cogeval, who is stepping down after serving as the museum’s director since 2008.Des Cars is currently the director of the Musée de … Read More
  
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• Preview Independent New York 2017

  28-02-2017 17:26 via artnews.com
  The eighth edition of Independent New York opens to the public on Friday, March 3, with a preview day on Thursday, March 2. The art fair, which returns to Spring Studios in Tribeca for a second year, will gather 52 … Read More
  
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• Preview the 2017 Armory Show, Part 2

  28-02-2017 16:33 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. Part 1 of the preview looked at exhibitors participating in the main Galleries section of the fair. Part 2 … Read More
  
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• Public Access: E.S.P. TV Aims a Lens at the Inner Workings of ‘Work’

  28-02-2017 16:00 via artnews.com
  For “Work,” an exhibition at the enterprising arts space Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, the multimedia collective E.S.P. TV moved the venue’s office operations from back-of-house to center stage. What has traditionally been an open plan workspace on the second floor … Read More
  
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• The Life of the Party: Seurat Dazzles at the Met

  28-02-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
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• Morning Links: Broken Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin Edition

  28-02-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Laurence des Cars named new director of Musée d’Orsay

  28-02-2017 14:05
  
  Laurence des Cars, the director of Pariss Muse de lOrangerie, has been appointed as the new director of the Muse dOrsay in Paris. She replaces Guy Cogeval who steps down after nine years on 15 March.Des Cars was a curator at the Muse dOrsay from 1994 to 2007 when she was appointed head of Agence France-Musums, the French government body responsible for delivering the Louvre Abu Dhabi project (the new museum is scheduled to open later this year in the United Arab Emirates). She became the direct
  
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• Desert X: the arid exhibition that's bringing land art to Coachella

  28-02-2017 14:00
  
  The likes of Doug Aitken have decamped to the outskirts of Palm Springs to exhibit large-scale works that challenge the history of the western expansion and appear along the route to a certain music festivalDesert X art installations – in picturesSpeeding down the Gene Autry Trail, a Palm Springs desert road named after the singing cowboy, there are mountains to the north and south, and billboards on each side. Somewhere between the ads for milkshakes and legal counsel, there are large-sca
  
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• Desert X: the arid biennial that's bringing land art to Coachella

  28-02-2017 14:00
  
  The likes of Doug Aitken have decamped to the outskirts of Palm Springs to exhibit large-scale works that challenge the history of the western expansion and appear along the route to a certain music festivalDesert X art installations – in picturesSpeeding down the Gene Autry Trail, a Palm Springs desert road named after the singing cowboy, there are mountains to the north and south, and billboards on each side. Somewhere between the ads for milkshakes and legal counsel, there are large-sca
  
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• Desert X art installations – in pictures

  28-02-2017 14:00
  
  A look at the large artworks at Desert X, a scavenger hunt on a Palm Springs desert road for the ever-elusive unique experience – a rare thing in the Instagram ageDesert X: the arid biennial that’s bringing land art to CoachellaContinue reading...
  
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• Institut du Monde Arabe show gives sneak preview of planned museum of modern and contemporary art in Palestine

  28-02-2017 13:26
  
  A new exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA) in Paris is a taster for a major new museum planned for Palestine. The show, called For a Museum in Palestine (until 26 March), includes 60 contemporary works selected by the French artist Ernest Pignon-Ernest, which will form the basis of the collection at the planned Palestinian Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. The pieces have been donated by mainly French artists with works on display by Grard Fromanger and Herv Tlmaque, k
  
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• Guggenheim's show of Middle Eastern and North African art goes to China

  28-02-2017 13:04
  Shanghais Rockbund Art Museum will this April host the final leg of the Solomon L. Guggenheim Museums group show of contemporary art from the Middle East, But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise (until June 11). It marks the largest exhibition of contemporary art from the region to show in mainland China, as well as Rockbunds first major collaboration with a Western institution.But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise debuted last April in New York and is the third phase of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Glob
  
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• Guggenheim's Middle East and North African art show goes to China

  28-02-2017 13:04
  Shanghais Rockbund Art Museum will this April host the final leg of the Solomon L. Guggenheim Museums group show of contemporary art from the Middle East, But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise (until June 11). It marks the largest exhibition of contemporary art from the region to show in mainland China, as well as Rockbunds first major collaboration with a Western institution.But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise debuted last April in New York and is the third phase of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Glob
  
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• China mourns sudden death of provocative photographer Ren Hang

  28-02-2017 12:21
  Chinas art world on Friday mourned the death at age 29 of prolific and provocative photographer and poet Ren Hang. Ren was known for his stylised photographs of bold nudes. He had long struggled with depression, and challenged Chinas taboo surrounding mental illness with his openness: he maintained a public blog documenting My Depression from June 2007 until last September, in 2013 he published a book by the same title, and presented his battle in his many poems. In late January, he posted on t
  
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• Ibrahim Mahama presents a portrait of Ghana told through its objects

  28-02-2017 11:26
  
  The Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama, 29, has joined White Cube in London. He is the first artist born and based in Africa signed by the gallery. His arrival follows the departure of the British duo Jake and Dinos Chapman, who left White Cube earlier this month after 20 years with the gallery to join Blain Southern, and shows the continuing internationalisation of the White Cube roster.
   
  The memory of objects
  Mahamas debut exhibition at White Cube, and his first solo show in the UK, opens t
  
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• Turkish art show granted ‘asylum’ in Germany

  28-02-2017 10:46
  
  A Turkish art exhibition has been granted asylum in Germany after it was cancelled in Turkey in early 2016. Post-Peace, on show at the Wrttemberger Kunstverein (WKV) in Stuttgart since 25 February (until 7 May), includes a work by the Turkish artist Belit Sa, which, according to the organisers, was the reason the show was stopped at the last minute in Istanbul.
   
  Hans Christ, one of the WKVs two directors, told German Deutschlandradio that the cancellation was a clear act of political cens
  
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• The masterpieces hiding in old master paintings – in pictures

  28-02-2017 08:00
  
  Using x-rays and ultraviolet light, Alejandro Guijarro looks deep into the very fabric of old master paintings – and finds a mysterious world of light and shade Continue reading...
  
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