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• Controversial trove from imperial Chinese shipwreck lands in New York

  06-03-2017 22:11
  
  Treasures from an ancient shipwreck, discovered off the coast of an Indonesian island, will be shown in the US for the first time. The Asia Society in New York is presenting 76 extraordinarily well-preserved objects salvaged from the wreck in the exhibition Secrets of the Sea: a Tang Shipwreck and Early Trade in Asia (7 March-4 June). Alongside photography and video documentation of the original excavation, viewers can see porcelain, precious metal vessels and the oldest examples of Chinese whi
  
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• US embassy art scheme should survive Trump

  06-03-2017 22:00
  
  The Trump administration is considering cutting federal funding for the arts, among other spending programmes, in an attempt to reduce domestic spending. However, one US cultural initiative appears to be secure: the State Departments Art in Embassies (AIE) programme, which places works by US artists in embassies and ambassadorial homes around the world.
  Art in Embassies looks forward to continuing to engage, educate and inspire global audiences, by featuring art that transcends national borders
  
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• Liberty, fraternity, Fossil Free: activists protest oil giant Total’s sponsorship at Louvre

  06-03-2017 22:00
  
  Visitors to the Louvre Museum in Paris on Sunday, 5 March may have spotted a performance piece of sortsby anti-oil activists, not artistson the staircase leading to the Winged Victory of Samothrace, one of the museums most famous pieces and a favourite gathering spot in the Louvre. Around 40 activists, clad all in black, gathered on the steps and removed their jackets, shirts and scarves in a three-minute choreographed gesture, draping them down the middle of the staircase so that they resemble
  
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• Erotic bookcase by Carabin goes on show outside Paris for first time

  06-03-2017 22:00
  
  An extraordinary erotic bookcase has been lent for display outside Paris for the first time, in an exhibition on French Belle poque prints at Amsterdams Van Gogh Museum. Designed by Franois-Rupert Carabin, it is surmounted by three female nudes modelled from prostitutes recruited at Montmartre brothels. Carabin (1862-1932), now largely known among cognoscenti, was a sculptor, engraver and photographer. His friends included Rodin, Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec.The 1890 walnut bookcase was com
  
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• America celebrates its love affair with Rodin

  06-03-2017 22:00
  
  In the century since Auguste Rodins death on 17 November 1917, the French sculptor (b. 1840) has been the subject of countless exhibitions and articles, not to mention movies dramatising his jagged love affairs and rugged sculptures. Even more remarkably, considering the adolescent state of the art market at the time, he found great fame during his lifetime, with his last two decades in particular marked by the kind of global success associated with art stars today: international exhibitions, p
  
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• Colin Snapp at Alexander Levy, Berlin

  06-03-2017 21:52 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• MoMA Communications Director Margaret Doyle Departs for Polskin Arts

  06-03-2017 21:51 via artnews.com
  After 12 years at Museum of Modern Art, Margaret Doyle will be departing her post of director of communications, ARTnews has learned. She will be joining the public relations firm Polskin Arts & Communications, a division of Finn Partners, and … Read More
  
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• Political 70s Italian TV + pussy pheromones at Prada Foundation

  06-03-2017 20:16
  
  A new series of exhibitions at the Prada Foundation in Milan deal with unusual and rather illuminating subjects. The maverick Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli ruminates on RAI, Italys national broadcaster, in the 1970s when the TV channel stood out due to its cultural projects and pedagogical programmes (TV 70: Francesco Vezzoli watches RAI; 9 May-24 September). Italian public TV is interpreted by the artist as a driving force for social and political change in a country in transition from the r
  
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• ‘Long Live Degenerate Art’: In ‘Art et Liberté,’ an Egyptian View of Surrealism Addresses Contemporary Issues

  06-03-2017 19:38 via artnews.com
  Centre Pompidou, Paris, October 19, 2016–January 16, 2017; Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, through May 28, 2017 Read More
  
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• A World View: John Latham review – trying to make sense of an oddball visionary

  06-03-2017 19:20
  
  Serpentine Galleries, London
  A survey of the British conceptual artist, whose burnt-book sculptures and spray-can paintings held a mirror to society, proves he’s no less baffling today
  Pffft went the spray gun, spitting a little constellation of black spattery dots on an otherwise empty canvas, like God’s first go at filling the void, an event in time as well as space. I expect lots of artists have this same feeling of beginning again whenever they set out to work. A kind of hubris,
  
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• Jarrett Gregory Joins Hirshhorn as Curator

  06-03-2017 18:43 via artnews.com
  The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden announced today that it has hired Jarrett Gregory as curator. Starting March 6, Gregory will oversee the Hirshhorn’s collection of international contemporary art, helping to organize exhibitions, commissions, and special programs.Gregory was previously an … Read More
  
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• George W Bush's talent as a painter finds an ironic muse: the combat veteran

  06-03-2017 18:01
  
  In his new book Portraits in Courage, the subjects of the former president’s paintings are the very men torn to shreds, quite literally, by his own policyIt’s been just over five years since a hack of the Bush family emails exposed former president George W Bush as a dedicated student of painting. Since that unintended exhibition of early work – a series of self-portraits mid-toilette – the world has awaited the development of the artist’s oeuvre with bemusement, de
  
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• Morning Links: Met Museum Rooftop Edition

  06-03-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Armory Week Wrap-UpMost of the fairs that took over New York during Armory Week closed yesterday after running through the weekend. If you’ve been busy all week, and need to catch up on the coverage, check out all of the … Read More
  
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• Homely artist Rachel Whiteread knows her place

  06-03-2017 14:13
  
  Its a busy year for Rachel Whiteread, the UK artist known for her monumental House (1993-94), a life-sized cast of the interior of a condemned terraced house in Londons East End. A survey of her sculptures, drawings and documentary material is due to open at Tate Modern this autumn (12 September-4 February 2018), but a more homely work called Place (Village) (2006-08), comprising 150 vintage dolls houses, is due to go on permanent display at the V&A Museum of Childhood in east London f
  
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• Home-loving artist Rachel Whiteread knows her place

  06-03-2017 14:13
  
  Its a busy year for Rachel Whiteread, the UK artist known for her monumental House (1993-94), a life-sized cast of the interior of a condemned terraced house in Londons East End. A survey of her sculptures, drawings and documentary material is due to open at Tate Modern this autumn (12 September-4 February 2018), but a more homely work called Place (Village) (2006-08), comprising 150 vintage dolls houses, is due to go on permanent display at the V&A Museum of Childhood in east London f
  
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• Put away the gallery guides – art is best when shrouded in mystery

  06-03-2017 13:36
  
  A new app, Smartify, allows you to point your phone at artworks and instantly know everything about them. But while facts can enrich enjoyment, it is the shock of the unknown that really makes art resonateLooking at art should be be like walking in the countryside. You may not know exactly where you are, or what bird is making that peculiar sound, or what the hill ahead of you is called, but that’s part of the fun of it. You don’t need to know those things to feel the poetry of natur
  
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• Jenny Holzer to use augmented reality in Blenheim Palace show

  06-03-2017 12:16
  
  The US artist Jenny Holzer will show new works, some of them using augmented reality, in an exhibition due to open at Blenheim Palace this autumn (28 September-31 December). The 18th-century English estate in Oxfordshire is the family seat of the dukes of Marlborough.Holzer is known for her large-scale electronic LED signs and 1970s Truisms text works. She is the fourth contemporary artist to have a show at the palace after Michelangelo Pistoletto last year and Lawrence Weiner in 2015. The
  
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• R is for radical: share your artwork now

  06-03-2017 11:00
  
  For this month’s art project, Tate Modern photography curator Shoair Mavlian invites you to share your artwork on the theme of radicalIn the 1920s, photography offered a radical new way to capture, view and interpret the world. Today photography is a central part of our lives – we all carry a camera in our pocket on our phone – but the modernist period was really the starting point of this, when photography became integrated into society and disseminated information. Continue r
  
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• Punk prosthetics: the mesmerising art of living sculpture Mari Katayama

  06-03-2017 08:00
  
  Born with tibial hemimelia, Japanese artist Mari Katayama chose to have her legs amputated at the age of nine. Now she uses her body in her dazzling work, adorned with crystals, seashells and lifesize dolls
  Mari Katayama stares out from the centre of the photograph, looking like a mannequin with a Louise Brooks bob. Lit by fairy lights and surrounded by all her personal artefacts, she is wearing a cream corset and reclining in a Louis XVI-style loveseat. Beside her sits a lifesize doll, a handse
  
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• US artist Jenny Holzer chosen for Blenheim Palace installations

  06-03-2017 01:01
  
  Holzer will be fourth contemporary artist, and first woman, invited to add a new twist to palace’s historic interiors and groundsThe American artist Jenny Holzer, known for challenging texts imposed on urban settings, has been chosen as the next contemporary artist to tackle one of the most privileged spaces in the UK, the baroque splendour of Blenheim Palace.She has already visited the enormous 18th-century building in Oxfordshire, where she will create installations including some of her
  
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