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• Scenes from the Independent Art Fair

  02-03-2017 22:45 via artnews.com
  This year’s installment of the Independent art fair opened today, with a preview this afternoon and a public opening Friday, March 3. In Spring Studios in Tribeca for a second year, the fair gathers 52 exhibitors from 20 cities, with 15 presenting booths … Read More
  
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• Salon 94 Gallery to Launch Design Program

  02-03-2017 22:29 via artnews.com
  Amid all the Armory Week chaos, New York’s Salon 94 gallery will launch a design program called Salon 94 Design. Run by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, the gallery’s founding director, and British designer Paul Johnson, the program will kick off tonight and … Read More
  
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• Whitney Biennial expands definition of American art

  02-03-2017 22:00
  The 78th edition of the Whitney Biennial opens this monththe first in the museums Renzo Piano-designed home in New Yorks Meatpacking District.Launched in 1932 by the museums founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, as a survey of contemporary American art, the show attempts to take a snapshot of the moment, says Mia Locks, an independent curator who has co- organised the forthcoming show with Christopher Lew, an associate curator at the Whitney.
  Locks and Lew travelled around the US and Puerto Rico
  
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• The ‘one-way love affair’ between Matisse and Richard Diebenkorn

  02-03-2017 22:00
  When he was a 21-year-old student at Stanford University, Richard Diebenkorn had the rare opportunity to visit one of the greatest private collections of European Modernism. He was taken by his teacher, Daniel Mendelowitz, to nearby Palo Alto, where Sarah Stein and her husband Michael had amassed in their home more than 100 works by one particular French artist who drew Diebenkorns ardour. Right there I made contact with Matisse, Diebenkorn later recalled of his life-changing visit, and it has j
  
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• Sebastiano and his mentor Michelangelo arrive in London

  02-03-2017 22:00
  The exhibition Michelangelo and Sebastiano, which opens this month at the National Gallery, is a study of an asymmetrical relationship. Of the nearly 70 works included, Sebastiano will be represented much more fully: 21 paintings, 16 drawings and six letters to only two paintings, 15 drawings, four letters and three sculptures by Michelangelo. (Three works by other artists are also included.) But the salient feature of the exhibition is the fact that Michelangelo is by far the visually stronger
  
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• Queens museum trivia taps Trump, Brexit and the Big Apple

  02-03-2017 22:00
  
  The Queens Museum in New York is looking for Big Apple trivia buffs and those who heart New York for their tenth annual Panorama Challenge, a city trivia competition to be held on Saturday, 4 March at 6pm at the museums famous Panorama of the City of New York, the worlds largest architectural model, made for the 1964 Worlds Fair. The trivia categories range from Seinfeld to sanitation, and judges will give hints by pointing with lasers to different areas of the city on the Panorama. If youre ne
  
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• Independent fair delivers on diversity and quality with early sales

  02-03-2017 22:00
  
  Whats amazing is that in this climate, all these fairsthe Armory Show, ADAA, Independentare the best they have been in years, said Sandy Rower, Alexander Calders grandson and the head of the artists foundation. The dealers are just trying harder.
  He was just off the lobby at Spring Studios, where Independent, as iconoclastic as its name suggests, opened on 2 March to strong reviews. Judging by early sales at the sunny Tribeca space, collectors were rewarding dealers for their efforts to draw ne
  
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• How to make a work of art invisible

  02-03-2017 22:00
  This month, the French artist Edgar Sarin opens two shows in Europe that deal with invisibility and performance. In Berlin, Sarin will unearth 13 coffers buried months earlier in the Grunewald forest and carry them to the Konrad Fischer Galerie, where he will present them during the opening. At the Collge des Bernardins in Paris, he will install a group of sculptures, some also recently unearthed, that inspire weekly closed-door sessions with a group of participants for the duration of the show.
  
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• Eyes on the prize: get an original $100 work at the Armory Show

  02-03-2017 22:00
  
  If youre wandering the aisles of New York's Armory Show (until 5 March) with a budget of $100, keep your eyes peeled for the New York gallery Albertz Bendas booth. The Berlin-based conceptual artist Fiete Stoltes installation Eye features a photo booth that snaps and instantly prints passport-sized images of the sitters eye, with his or her silhouette framed inside the pupil. I wanted to stage the eye as a mirror to the world, Stolte tells The Art Newspaper over email. It's an everyday phenomen
  
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• Declassified papers reveal Margaret Thatcher’s spirited campaign to get the Thyssen collection

  02-03-2017 22:00
  
  Margaret Thatcher campaigned hard to bring the Thyssen collection to the UK, recently declassified Downing Street documents at the UK National Archives reveal. At one point in 1988, it looked like the UK prime minister was winning over Baron Heini Thyssen-Bornemisza, but British hopes were ultimately thwarted. His wife, a former Miss Spain, preferred Madrid as a home for the collection that Neil MacGregor, the then director of Londons National Gallery, advised Downing Street was the most import
  
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• David Hockney on why he studied Disney’s Pinocchio

  02-03-2017 22:00
  David Hockney, whose retrospective at Tate Britain (until 29 May) has proved popular with old and young alike, speaks here to Martin Gayford about the deep desire humans have to make pictures and how he would freeze-frame Disneys Pinocchio (1940) in order to better understand its complex depictions of water. The discussion follows the recent publication of Hockney and Gayfords A History of Pictures, published by Thames & Hudson.For more on David Hockney at Tate Britain, s
  
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• Bill Viola reimagines the Renaissance with a retrospective in Florence

  02-03-2017 22:00
  In 1974, fresh after graduating from the experimental studies programme at Syracuse Universitys visual and performaning arts department, Bill Viola moved to Florence to work at Art/Tapes/22, one of the first video art production studios in Europe. Although he was there only two years, it turned out to be a pivotal experience for the young artist. 
  First as an assistant and then as the technical director of the studio, Viola worked with artists like Joan Jonas, Chris Burden and Jannis Kounel
  
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• At Volta and Nada fairs, two takes on politics

  02-03-2017 22:00
  
  The effects of fractured political systems are looming themes at Armory week satellite fairs geared toward younger dealers and artists. At Volta, running 1-5 March at Pier 90, the centerpiece is a curated section, organised by the Brooklyn-based curator Wendy Vogel. Titled Your Body is a Battleground after the famous Barbara Kruger photomontage, created on the occasion of the 1989 Womens March on Washington, the mini-exhibition comprises works by eight artists dealing with the idea of resistanc
  
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• Artist to artist: Dara Birnbaum on Marisa Merz

  02-03-2017 22:00
  
  In early February, we asked the artist Dara Birnbaum to share her reactions to the exhibition Marisa Merz: the Sky is a Great Space, at the Met Breuer. The career survey, which closes in May (and travels to Los Angeles) includes more than 100 works made during Merzs 50-year career, from small drawings to large sculptures that hang from the ceiling. Here, Birnbaum reflects on Merzs place in the Arte Povera movement and explains how her art echoes through contemporary art.One of the arguments cura
  
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• Birds Are the Word in Beguiling Sculptures by Kathleen Ryan at Independent

  02-03-2017 21:13 via artnews.com
  Perched on racks near the ground-floor entrance to the Independent art fair, before the three floors higher up swell in size and welcome washes of natural light, are a series of ceramic birds by Los Angeles–based sculptor Kathleen Ryan. They’re droopy, … Read More
  
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• Revamped Armory Show draws praise and crowds

  02-03-2017 21:00
  
  The Armory Show, opening to the public today and running through 4 March at Piers 92 and 94 on the west side of Manhattan, is the subject of scrutiny this year, the first fully under new executive director Benjamin Genocchio, and he has taken pains to distinguish the fair from its global competitors. This is not a franchise fair, Genocchio told assembled journalists as the doors opened on Wednesday. This is a New York institution.Gone is the tidy chronological separation between Modern and cont
  
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• Guitar Center: David Shrigley Rocks It at Independent

  02-03-2017 20:49 via artnews.com
  For the start of Independent art fair, British artist David Shrigley had the Anton Kern section of the seventh floor feeling like a booth at a music-instrument trade show. In addition to a selection of drawings in a style more … Read More
  
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• Russian and Syrian forces retake Palmyra from Isil

  02-03-2017 20:32
  
  Syrian government troops have retaken Palmyra from Islamic State forces, with help from Russian air support, the Syrian army said in a statement on Thursday. Politicians in Russian welcomed the news as a triumph, as widely reported by the states media, but few details have emerged about the condition of the ancient site, where Isil has previously wreaked large-scale destruction.
  Konstantin Kosachev, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Russias upper house of Parliament, told the RIA
  
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• Beverly Buchanan House Sculptures Charm at Independent Art Fair

  02-03-2017 20:05 via artnews.com
  Minutes into the Independent preview today, before crowds had made certain parts of the fair clogged to a crawl, collectors were already admiring Andrew Edlin Gallery’s booth devoted to Beverly Buchanan. A couple were chattering away in French, lavishing the … Read More
  
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• Howardena Pindell Works Make First NY Appearance in Decades at Independent Art Fair

  02-03-2017 19:54 via artnews.com
  The Independent art fair may be devoted mainly to young and emerging artists, but this year, it also has some wonderful art by a giant of postwar abstraction. At Garth Greenan’s booth, works from Howardena Pindell’s “Video Drawings” series from … Read More
  
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• Howardena Pindell Works Make First New York Appearance in Decades at Independent

  02-03-2017 19:54 via artnews.com
  The Independent art fair may be devoted mainly to young and emerging artists, but this year, it also has some wonderful art by a giant of postwar abstraction. At Garth Greenan’s booth, works from Howardena Pindell’s “Video Drawings” series from … Read More
  
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• Scenes from the 2017 Armory Show

  02-03-2017 19:02 via artnews.com
  The 23rd edition of the Armory Show opened to members of the Press and VIPs today in New York’s West Side, on Piers 92 and 94. The fair brings together over 200 galleries from 30 countries. Below, a look around the action.
  
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• Teresita Fernandez wants to change the way you think about American landscapes

  02-03-2017 18:00
  
  When we think of the Hudson River School, we tend to picture majestic vistas, dramatic waterfalls and lush treetops. But a new installation by Teresita Fernndez, due to open this spring at the former home of the Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church, seeks to remind us that these vistas have always been home to real peoplethey are simply outside the frame. I think landscape is as much about what you dont see as what you do see, Fernndez says.
  The artist teamed up with Olana, which m
  
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• Director, University of Michigan Museum of Art

  02-03-2017 17:59
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  Ann ArborThe University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) was recognized as the top public university art museum in the country in 2016 by Best College Reviews. UMMA is a place where minds are enriched and communities come together to discover, contemplate, and enjoy the art of our world. One of UMMAs most important roles is its contribution to the academic mission of the University of Michigan. From the research and study uses of the extraordinary w
  
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• Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program

  02-03-2017 17:40
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  The Clark Art Institute, located in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, is one of a small number of institutions globally that is both an art museum and an international center for research, critical discussion, and higher education in the visual arts. Opened in 1955, the Clark houses exceptional European and American paintings and sculpture, extensive collections of master prints and drawings, English silver, and early photography. Act
  
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• Gustav Metzger: an artist who tore down the old to build the new

  02-03-2017 17:10
  
  The artist, who has died aged 90, could make work out of trees, newspapers, fridges or cars – but all of it fought the ravages of capitalismFor years, I would encounter Gustav Metzger in public talks and at galleries, often away from the beaten track. He was always there, always watching and listening. At first I found him a bit intimidating. More recently, I would see him, looking slightly frail and small and in a certain disarray, struggling with bags of documents and other papers, as he
  
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• US billionaire defends refusal to sell £30m Pontormo painting

  02-03-2017 16:39
  
  J Tomilson Hill attacks ‘false statements’ over his rejection of National Gallery’s bid for Portrait of a Young Man in a Red CapAn American billionaire and philanthropist has attacked what he described as “false statements” made over his refusal to sell a 16th-century masterpiece to the National Gallery.J Tomilson Hill, one of the world’s foremost art collectors, spoke of feeling “battered” by criticisms that he rejected a £30.7m offer for hi
  
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• 2017 Baltic Artists’ Awards Go to Jose Dávila, Eric N. Mack, Toni Schmale, and Shen Xin

  02-03-2017 16:33 via artnews.com
  Jose Dávila, Eric N. Mack, Toni Schmale, and Shen Xin have won this year’s Baltic Artists’ Awards, which are given out by the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England. Each of the four winners will be part of … Read More
  
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• Habitat: Fair Thee Well—Visits With Artists in Their Studios Before Independent New York

  02-03-2017 16:30 via artnews.com
  Artists are famously ambivalent about showing up at art fairs. John Baldessari once likened the experience to that of a kid walking in on his parents having sex. But showing one’s art at them is de rigeur. Fairs—evolved from bazaars … Read More
  
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• Visions for Pantyhose and Sand: Senga Nengudi’s Booth at the Armory Show

  02-03-2017 16:00 via artnews.com
  Senga Nengudi, who started her career in the fertile African-American art scene of 1960s and ’70s Los Angeles before settling in the more remote outpost of Colorado Springs, appears in a Focus booth at the Armory Show that is presented by Thomas … Read More
  
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• A Lynn Hershman Leeson Sculpture at the Armory Show Takes Your Picture and Tweets It for You

  02-03-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  Tucked away at the back of Vilma Gold gallery’s Armory Show booth is a sculpture that tweets your picture, so you don’t have to do it yourself: Lynn Hershman Leeson’s HYBRID MUTANT #2 (1966–2017). The pictures wind up on the … Read More
  
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• Was Hitler's architect a Watts fan?

  02-03-2017 15:03
  
  It seems that Hitlers favourite architect Albert Speer found the art of Victorian artist George Frederick Watts to his taste. The exhibition at the Watts Gallery near Guildford, south of London, about Watts mural paintings (until 5 November) includes this Diana and Apollo executed to decorate the dining room of Virginia, Countess Somerss London house, 7 Carlton House Terrace. This later became the German embassy and photographs taken just before the Second World War show the room remodeled
  
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• Shifting Focus: The Armory Show shakes up its curated sector

  02-03-2017 15:00
  
  The Armory Show has stepped into new terrain this year for its curated section, Focus. Rather than taking a geographical theme as with recent editions of the fair (last years was Africa), the 2017 presentation, organised by the curator Jarrett Gregory, is shaped around a socially engaged theme that asks What Is to Be Done? and looks for answers through the art. What that question encapsulates is a despair and a hope it questions the potential for change, Gregory says of the title, which comes f
  
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• Morning Links: Octopus Hunting Edition

  02-03-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Gustav Metzger, auto-destructive art trailblazer, has died aged 90

  02-03-2017 14:19
  
  The artist Gustav Metzger, the leading proponent of the Auto Destructive public art movement, has died age 90. Metzger coined the term in 1962 for a group of artists who dismantled objects as part of the creative process. He was one of the truly radical artists of the 20th century, says Hans Ulrich Obrist, the artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, who worked closely with Metzger over the past two decades.Metzgers art and activism sprang from his political beliefs. By 1958, he
  
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• Young Seattle gallery wins first $10,000 Presents prize at The Armory Show

  02-03-2017 13:00
  
  The Armory Show today announced that its new $10,000 Presents Booth Prizeawarded by jury to a young gallery exhibiting in that sector of the fairgoes to Mariane Ibrahim Gallery of Seattle, for a solo stand of multimedia works by Zohra Opoku. A German-Ghanaian artist living in Accra, Opoku plays on the symbolic significance of African textiles to explore contemporary issues of fashion, identity, history, and socio-cultural dynamics in videos, photographs, and installations.The five-year-old gall
  
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• Purple rain: Marilyn Mugot's neon China – in pictures

  02-03-2017 08:00
  
  In cities like Chongqing and Guilin, French photographer Marilyn Mugot finds a China lit up by the rush of modern life Continue reading...
  
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• Untitled( I know how to identify them, she said.)

  02-03-2017 02:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I see my iphone and i think about her face. It takes up everything.
  I see her body and I forget about her predicament.
  This woman is facing me while she talks to another dude. She annoys me. She talks really fast. He talks about his girlfriends. She is talking about her age. She doesn’t want to age. She’s happy to have a conversation with her friend. He’s not standing and typing like he was yesterday. He has black hair. I think he likes to talk to women. I haven’t seen hi
  
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• At the Armory Show, Dealers See Moderate Sales in Switched-Up Fair Setup, With Kusama Selling for Around $1 M.

  02-03-2017 01:27 via artnews.com
  The Armory Show opened to VIPs this morning, debuting a rejiggered booth landscape reflecting the vision of its new director, Ben Genocchio. But while the fairgrounds looked markedly spiffier than in years past, restoring a bit of glitz to the … Read More
  
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• Gustav Metzger, pioneer of auto-destructive art, dies aged 90

  02-03-2017 01:01
  
  Artist, whose pieces included garbage bags, inspired artists such as the Who guitarist Pete TownshendGustav Metzger, the inventor of auto-destructive art who spent a lifetime baffling, infuriating and thrilling audiences, as well as influencing generations of younger artists, has died aged 90.A spokeswoman for the artist said he died at his home in London. Continue reading...
  
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• Gustav Metzger, Artist and Activist Who Created Auto-Destructive Art Movement, Dies at 90

  02-03-2017 00:48 via artnews.com
  Gustav Metzger, the German-born British artist whose work exposes modern society’s will to destroy people and things, has died, according to Andrew Wilson, a Tate curator, who announced the news on Twitter. He was 90.Metzger’s greatest contribution to art history was … Read More
  
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