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• French Court Hits Jeff Koons, Pompidou with $46,500 Fine for ‘Counterfeiting’

  09-03-2017 23:04 via artnews.com
  Today, Art Market Monitor (via Le Monde) reports that a French court has ruled in favor of the estate of the photographer Jean-François Bauret in a plagiarism case against the American artist Jeff Koons. Heirs to the now-deceased artist successfully argued … Read More
  
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• Will American buyers show up to Tefaf Maastricht?

  09-03-2017 23:00
  
  As dealers geared up for the VIP opening of the 30th edition of The European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf) in Maastricht on Thursday, 9 March, the question many were asking was whether US collectors and institutions would travel to Europe now that the Dutch fair has editions in New York.
  In an interview in the latest edition of The Art Newspaper, Michael Plummer, the co-founder of Artvest, which teamed up with Tefaf to bring the Dutch fair to New York, said that he believed that the US editions would d
  
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• The question on everyone’s mind in Maastricht: Will the Americans show up?

  09-03-2017 23:00
  
  As dealers geared up for the VIP opening of the 30th edition of The European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf) in Maastricht on Thursday, 9 March, the question many were asking was whether US collectors and institutions would travel to Europe now that the Dutch fair has editions in New York.
  In an interview in the latest edition of The Art Newspaper, Michael Plummer, the co-founder of Artvest, which teamed up with Tefaf to bring the Dutch fair to New York, said that he believed that the US editions would d
  
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• Olga Balema at Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles

  09-03-2017 22:58 via artnews.com
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• When the American dream almost died: on After the Fall at the Royal Academy of Arts

  09-03-2017 22:00
  
  A packet of Wrigleys spearmint gum floats, somewhat surreally, in front of a spare, geometric vision of Manhattan. A cartoonish car swerves, minutes from impact, in front of a careering red lorry on an overcast, curving, country road. The Brooklyn Bridge, its cables and wires snapped, appears to be on the point of melting: a doll-like woman sits and watches, apparently unaware of the missile sticking out of her back. For Europeans, the 1930s was the time of the last great surge of creativity in
  
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• The sacrament of scripts: on calligraphy in Islamic art

  09-03-2017 22:00
  Hans Ulrich Obrist, the director of international projects at the Serpentine Gallery, contributes a characteristically thought-provoking foreword to this careful analysis of modern Middle Eastern art, Signs of our Times: from Calligraphy to Calligraffiti. Obrists own Instagram project, The Art of Handwriting, was an attempt to counter Umberto Ecos fear that we are losing an art form in the replacement of handwriting by the typed and computerised word, and with it individuality and fluidity of ex
  
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• The devil is always lurking: on Hieronymous Bosch

  09-03-2017 22:00
  
  No more than 25 paintings and a similar number of drawings can be reliably attributed to the Netherlandish artist known as Hieronymus Bosch, who lived from around 1450 to 1516. Yet his images inspired countless imitators and continue to haunt the Western imagination today. His fantastic and capricious inventions, as the Italian commentator Giorgio Vasari described them in the 16th centuryhis monstrous animals and plants, his compelling visualisations of human sinfulnesswere without precedent in
  
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• Tefaf New York, take two

  09-03-2017 22:00
  
  To its most faithful attendees, Maastrichts The European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf)offering 7,000 years of vetted works from leading specialist dealerswould be difficult to replicate or improve upon. Except, perhaps, in its proximity to the most important commercial centres. And so last year the venerable Dutch fair teamed up with Artvest Partners to crack the US market with a pair of New York spinoffs. With the first edition under their belt, the fairs organisers are gearing up for Tefaf New York S
  
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• Sotheby’s launches evening sale dedicated to all things small

  09-03-2017 22:00
  
  Small is beautiful, a mantra Sothebys is capitalising on with the launch of an evening sale in June dedicated to bijou works of art. The only criteria is that each lot must be reproducible at actual size in the sale cataloguein other words smaller than 29.6cm x 22.8cm.The brainchild of Allan Schwartzman, the chairman of Sothebys Fine Art Division, and Thomas Bompard, the head of Impressionist and Modern art evening sales in London, the auction will focus on 20th- and 21st-century sculptures, pa
  
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• Old Master exhibitions not to miss in 2017

  09-03-2017 22:00
  
  Beyond CaravaggioNational Gallery of Ireland, Dublinuntil 14 May
  Considering that Caravaggio (1571-1610) made a deep impression on patrons in Rome and indelibly made his mark on Neapolitan art, it is remarkable that by the 1630s his influence was spent, while Bolognese classicism and the flamboyance of Pietro da Cortonas baroque triumphed. The so-called CaravaggeschiCaravaggios followers, contemporary and posthumousare the subjects of this show. Paradoxically it seems that the works of those wh
  
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• National Portrait Gallery marks International Women's Day by celebrating Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun

  09-03-2017 22:00
  
  It was apparently an excellent piece of serendipity that meant that Wednesdays (8 March) opening of the National Portrait Gallerys joint exhibition of Gillian Wearing and the early 20th-century French photographer Claude Cahun coincided with International Women's Day. But it was widely agreed that the date could not have been more appropriate, given the courageous vision of both artists and their joint fascination with issues of gender and identity. In our evermore fluid times, Cahuns statement
  
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• Moscow’s Garage Museum launches contemporary survey

  09-03-2017 22:00
  The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow and the surrounding area of Gorky Park will host the first Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art (10 March-14 May). The survey of the countrys art scene has been organised by six museum staff members, who travelled to more than 40 cities and towns in Russia, meeting around 200 artists. Works by more than 60 of these will be included in the show, which captures the zeitgeist of some of the most active and influential figures of the past five
  
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• Jeff Koons LLC and the Centre Pompidou are both found liable for copyright infringement in Paris court case

  09-03-2017 22:00
  
  On 9 March, the High Court of Paris (Tribunal du Grand Instance) ruled that the 1988 sculpture Naked by Jeff Koonsa porcelain work, over 1-metre tall, depicting a young nude boy and girlplaigiarised Enfants (children), a 1975 photograph by the French photographer Jean-Franois Bauret, who died in 2014. The court has ordered the company Jeff Koons LLC, which is run by the artist, and the Centre Pompidou to each pay 20,000 to the heirs of the photographer for infringement on the heritage and moral
  
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• Bill Viola photobombs in pioneer performance

  09-03-2017 22:00
  
  Could this be the first ever example of artistic photobombing? The year was 1975 and the young man in the wide-lapelled coat is the US artist Bill Viola. The image documents his performance Free Global Distribution (Surrogate Broadcast TV System), in which the artist tried to secretly stand in as many tourists photographs as possible in one day on the streets of Florence, in this case in front of the Duomo.
  Viola was working in Florence at the video production studio Art/Tapes/22, and the title
  
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• Pioneer Works in Brooklyn Hires Sheetal Prajapati as Director of Public Engagement

  09-03-2017 20:42 via artnews.com
  Pioneer Works, the expansive “center for research and experimentation in contemporary culture” in Brooklyn, has hired Sheetal Prajapati as director of public engagement, to begin later this month. In her role, Prajapati will work on education and arts programming with a “commitment to … Read More
  
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• Jeff Koons plagiarised French photographer for Naked sculpture

  09-03-2017 20:36
  
  Court rules American artist copied a 1975 postcard by Jean-François Bauret for his 1988 sculpture of two childrenThe American artist Jeff Koons plagiarised a French photographer for one of his celebrated sculptures, Naked, a French court has ruled.The judges decided the work, a porcelain sculpture of two naked children produced in 1988, had been copied from a 1975 postcard taken by photographer Jean-François Bauret called Enfants. Related: Jeff Koons: master of parody or great Amer
  
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• Deee-Lite: World Clique (Deluxe Edition)

  09-03-2017 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Once you’ve seen Adam Buxton, Joe Cornish and Louis Theroux dance to Deee-Lite’s “Groove is in the Heart”, it is difficult not to think of this extraordinary video when the song is played.
  The video demonstrates the degree to which Deee-Lite’s number one single “Groove Is In The Heart” had permeated British culture; the track seemed to be on the radio constantly, to the point of possible irritation. Seventeen years on, for those who still can’t get
  
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• Goodbye Heart: Keep Me Close and Q&A

  09-03-2017 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For seven months of 2016, Goodbye Heart, the Seattle dream-pop duo made up of Sam Ford and Nila K Leigh, came up with a new song every two weeks. Keep Me Close is the result of this feverish activity, an album of atmospheric synths, gritty electronic percussion and heart-wrenching vocals. Drawing inspiration from lush, textural movie soundtracks and their native New York City’s hip-hop roots, Goodbye Heart create an emotional, multi-layered sonic experience for driving, dancing, falling in
  
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• Elliott Murphy: Paris Stories

  09-03-2017 19:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s possibly no surprise that Elliott Murphy has been busy of late, but it’s perhaps the form of output which may be out of the ordinary; Murphy is primarily known as an American rock musician who decamped to déshabillé Paris in the ‘80s, continuing to release a steady stream of quality albums year after year. Intime from 2014 and Aquashow Deconstructed from 2015 suggested perhaps that Murphy was taking a slower place by heading into a quieter, more acoustic phas
  
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• Sir Howard Hodgkin obituary

  09-03-2017 19:23
  
  Award-winning British artist who achieved superstar status with his vivid abstract workSir Howard Hodgkin, who has died aged 84, was literally a broad-brush artist, the width of whose lush, pigment-loaded strokes was accentuated in all but the later paintings by the smallness of the surface. Their impact was intensified by his habit of incorporating the frame, actual or suggested, as part of the picture.Like Francis Bacon, though, it pleased Hodgkin to refer to himself as a figurative painter; a
  
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• Sonic youth: Alexander Calder’s great-grandson Gryphon Rue organises sound art show in Marfa

  09-03-2017 19:02
  
  Alexander Calders great-grandson, the artist and musician Gryphon Rue, has organised a group exhibition at Ballroom Marfa in Texas where sound, or a sonic hint or potential, is the common fiber of each work, Rue told The Art Newspaper. The show Strange Attractor (10 March-6 August) includes Clangors (1942), a mobile sculpture by Calder that has never left the familys private collection.
  The work, made from three rods that are repurposed from former sculptures, is a sister work to The Clangor (1
  
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• Stephanie Rosenthal Appointed Director of Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau

  09-03-2017 18:31 via artnews.com
  The Berliner Festspiele announced today that Dr. Stephanie Rosenthal will be the next director of the Martin-Gropius-Bau museum in Berlin. On February 1, 2018, she will take the reins from Gereon Sievernich, the current director of the Festspiele’s exhibition hall … Read More
  
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• Howard Hodgkin: farewell to a matchless master of colour

  09-03-2017 17:41
  
  The brilliance and subtlety of Hodgkin’s intensely emotional works about love and loss made the artist a Turner for the modern ageHoward Hodgkin was a great artist of sex and death. Like the handful of British modern painters who are his peers – Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and David Hockney – he rebelled against the austerity of abstract art and instead put the human self, in all its desire and suffering, at the centre of his universe. Unlike Bacon, Freud and Hockney, though, h
  
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• Take It from the Masters: Elise Ansel Re-Reads and Reinterprets the Past at Danese/Corey

  09-03-2017 17:14 via artnews.com
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• Howard Hodgkin, Quicksilver Colorist Who Channeled ‘Emotional States,’ Dies at 84

  09-03-2017 17:00 via artnews.com
  Howard Hodgkin, the widely lauded British artist whose exuberantly colored paintings often stretch beyond their wood panels and onto their frames, and conjure what he termed “emotional states” with just a few broad, decisive strokes or dabs of paint, died … Read More
  
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• Prospect New Orleans Names Jennifer M. Williams Deputy Director

  09-03-2017 15:14 via artnews.com
  Prospect New Orleans has named Jennifer M. Williams deputy director in advance of its fourth edition, which is titled “Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp” and is set to open this November. Williams will work with Trevor Schoonmaker, Prospect’s … Read More
  
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• Howard Hodgkin dies aged 84

  09-03-2017 15:13
  
  The British painter Howard Hodgkin has died at the age of 84. A statement issued by the Tate said that he died peacefully in hospital in London. The Tates director Nicholas Serota, who staged exhibitions of Hodgkins work at all three museums he has directed, Modern Art Oxford (1976), the Whitechapel Gallery (1985) and Tate Britain (2006), says that Hodgkin was one of the great artists and colourists of his generation. His sensuous, intense paintings were infused with his love and understanding
  
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• Morning Links: Larry Bell Can’t Be Unrung Edition

  09-03-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Howard Hodgkin, Quicksilver Colorist, Dies at 84

  09-03-2017 14:27 via artnews.com
  Howard Hodgkin, the widely lauded British artist whose exuberantly colored paintings often stretch beyond their wood panels onto their frames and conjure what he termed “emotional states” with just a few broad, decisive strokes or dabs of paint, has died, according to Tate. … Read More
  
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• Queen unveils Iraq and Afghanistan war memorial in London

  09-03-2017 13:49
  
  Monarch pays tribute to military and civilians who served in countries during service attended by other royals and PM The Queen paid tribute to the many thousands of UK military and civilians who served in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Gulf as a new memorial was unveiled on the banks of the Thames. The prime minister, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince of Wales, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry and senior figures from the cabinet attended a military drumhead service on Thursday alongside 2,500 inv
  
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• Queen unveils Iraq and Afghanistan war memorial amid fury at Blair presence

  09-03-2017 13:49
  
  Monarch pays tribute to military and civilians who served in countries during service attended by other royals and politiciansThe Queen unveiled a memorial to the many thousands of UK military and civilians who served in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Gulf, but there was disquiet among some for the way the event was organised and the presence of the former prime minister Tony Blair. A full contingent of senior royals and politicians met 2,500 military and civilian guests as the new memorial, on the b
  
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• Painter Howard Hodgkin dies aged 84

  09-03-2017 13:41
  
  British artist, a central figure in contemporary art for more than 50 years, died peacefully in hospital in LondonHoward Hodgkin, regarded as one of Britain’s greatest contemporary painters, has died aged 84.The artist, a central figure in contemporary art for more than 50 years, died peacefully in hospital in London. Related: 'There's less time, so on one goes' Howard Hodgkin at 80Continue reading...
  
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• Queen to unveil Iraq and Afghanistan war memorial in London

  09-03-2017 11:38
  
  Sculpture by Paul Day honouring military and non-military personnel cost £1m and was funded through donationsA memorial honouring the contribution and sacrifice of thousands of UK service personnel, aid workers and civilians during the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts will be unveiled by the Queen on Thursday.The sculpture, by Paul Day, features two large stone monoliths supporting a bronze medallion and commemorates the twin themes of duty and service. It will be dedicated during a service
  
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• Peter van Agtmael's return to America – in pictures

  09-03-2017 11:09
  
  The New York photographer returned from Iraq and Afghanistan to find his homeland riven with its own social issues Continue reading...
  
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• Yan Wang Preston’s best photograph: a Chinese village's ancient tree – sold for $25,000

  09-03-2017 10:21
  
  British-Chinese artist Yan Wang Preston has won the Syngenta award 2016/17 for her topical response to the theme Grow/Conserve: ‘I had seen the tree in its original village, covered with leaves. The hotel that bought it broke two cranes trying to replant it’The first time I shot this tree was in March 2013, while I was working on a project to photograph the entire length of the Yangtze river at 100km intervals. I stopped in at a tiny village called Xialiu in Yunnan Province. The firs
  
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• All about my mother: the demons of Paula Rego – by her son

  09-03-2017 09:00
  
  Nick Willing grew up feeling excluded by his mother’s passion for art. Now she has let him into her life for a brutally honest BBC film about the depression that almost killed her – and the self-portraits she made to surviveDame Paula Rego is wearing a red cardigan and a necklace of brightly coloured mice. Sitting in her studio surrounded by a strange population of life-size “dollies”, discombobulated animals, disembodied faces and racks of costumes, she greets her son, f
  
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• New memorial to all involved in Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts

  09-03-2017 07:00
  
  Sculpture, by Paul Day, honouring military and non-military personnel to be unveiled by the Queen in LondonA memorial honouring the contribution and sacrifice of thousands of UK servicemen and women, aid workers and civilian personnel during the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts will be unveiled by the Queen on Thursday.The sculpture, by Paul Day, features two large stone monoliths supporting a bronze medallion and commemorates the twin themes of duty and service. It will be dedicated during a serv
  
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• One-Year Intensive Master’s Program Across 3 Continents

  09-03-2017 02:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ever thought about becoming an arts manager, doing business in international markets? The Master of Management in International Arts Management helps you develop international cultural leadership skills. Deadline: April 15.
  Are you ready to focus on doing business in international markets?
  Do you want to build your international contacts list?Then how does an intensive 12-month international cultural leadership program sound?
  A program where you will get to study at four prestigious universities
  
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• This Picture Of Strawberries Contains (Believe It Or Not) No Red Pixels

  09-03-2017 01:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The strawberries appear red, despite their lack of any red pixels, because of color constancy, or the way that the human brain is designed to perceive the same colors under a range of circumstances. Remember The Dress? Same deal."
  
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• A Visual Search Engine For Every Object On Earth

  09-03-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The neural nets that we trained here are the beginning of counting oil tanks, or buildings, or windmills. Imagine we wanted to look at sustainable energy infrastructure—solar farms, solar panels on roof—you could start to think about counting their growth through time. You start to get really interesting data streams.”
  
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