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• Kakadu: the Crocodile Dundee tour of Australia's wetland wonderland

  15-03-2017 23:57
  
  Thirty years after Paul Hogan’s smash-hit film put the Top End on the tourist trail, Nikki Marshall takes in some of its locations – and has a much-too-close encounter with a croc called Chopper“You feel it from the heart. It’s something words can’t explain.”
  So says Paul Arnold, a Darwin-based landscape photographer dressed like a cross between Steve Irwin and Crocodile Dundee (khaki shorts and shirt, battered bush hat, huge gold nugget on a kangaroo-skin str
  
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• Snapshot from a brighter moment: the 2017 Whitney Biennial reflects a pre-Trump America

  15-03-2017 22:00
  
  Tension, upheaval, uncertainty, disorientation: do these themes sound familiar? They are the persistent refrain of many recent biennials because they are the persistent problems of our time. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev made trauma the key issue of Documenta 13 in Kassel in 2012 and last years Venice Biennale, organised by Okwui Enwezor, imagined a sprawling capitalist wreck. Here we are, he wrote in the catalogue essay, standing, puzzled, looking with scrutiny at the inscrutable; a plateau of de
  
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• Modern Renaissance

  15-03-2017 22:00
  
  One of Art Dubais most significant success stories, now in its third edition, Art Dubai Modern features 15 galleries, showing solo or group exhibits of 20th-century art from across Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.
  Since its inception in 2014, the programme has thrived. Whilst the canon of Western art history is rooted in a history of millennia, the local scene emerges from hazier narratives, often lost in the mists of time and unknown to many outside academia. But over the past decade, th
  
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• March Madness in the gallery

  15-03-2017 22:00
  
  March Madness, the annual American college basketball tournament, has inspired two of its fansthe artist Hank Willis Thomas and Adam Shopkorn, the founder of the commercial gallery Fort Gansevoort in New Yorkto co-organise an eponymous annual show of art that relates to sport. This years March Madness exhibition, which opens tonight (16 March) at Fort Gansevoort (until 6 May), features work by 31 female artists. We thought it was the right time and the right year to do an all-around women show,
  
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• Let there be light

  15-03-2017 22:00
  
  For decades Syrian art was underrepresented internationally in fairs and exhibitions, with few books or specialist curators and no collector base to match that of the Turkish or Iranian market. Now, the horrific tragedy of the Syrian civil war has seen a mass exodus of the countrys younger artists, and one sad result is that treasured works by Modernist masters like Louay Kayyali and Fateh Moudarres are being sold by families desperate for money, according to the London-based curator Nour
  
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• Hong Kong stays buoyant despite turbulence in the Western art market

  15-03-2017 22:00
  
  The coming edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong (23-25 March) takes place during a watershed moment for the Asian art market. While the Western art market has been marred by a fall in consignments, financial headwinds and by the political and economic shock-waves caused by Brexit and the US presidential election, the art world in the far East had a much smoother 2016. Our Hong Kong consignments are only down 12% on last year, much less than the global average, Christies global president Jussi
  
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• Fields of Light and Colour

  15-03-2017 22:00
  
  It was her show at Londons Parasol Unit that provided Rana Begum with the impetus to begin the journey that culminated this week with the unveiling of her Abraaj Group Art Prize (AGAP)-winning installation at Art Dubai, No. 695 (2017). The London-based Bangladeshi artist, an alum of Chelsea College of Art & Design and the Slade School of Fine Art, was awarded the coveted prize last October, receiving a bursary of $100,000 to realise a site-specific project at Art Dubai, working with cu
  
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• Fair opening sales

  15-03-2017 22:00
  
  Dealers in the contemporary sections of Art Dubai have reported fairly brisk sales at the fair this week, with local and regional private collectors buying up works in a variety of media across a wide range of price points. A spokesman for the London-based gallery Victoria Miro, which is showing works by artists such as Idris Khan and Alex Hartley, says that the entire booth had almost sold out (works across the stand range in price from $20,000 to $800,000). The local gallery The Third Line ha
  
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• Best shows during Art Basel in Hong Kong

  15-03-2017 22:00
  
  Ambiguously Yours: Gender in Hong Kong Popular Culture 
  M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon Cultural District
  Until 21 MayThe TV dramas, pop songs, comics and movies of 1980s and 1990s Hong Kong fostered a sense of belonging among Hong Kongers and strengthened their cultural presence in the wider region. Now an exhibition at the M+ Pavilion aims to cast new light on this golden age. Androgyny and gender fluidity were not just accepted at the time, but celebrated. Because of the commercial success of
  
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• Bankrupt French company's huge stock of precious manuscripts to go on sale

  15-03-2017 22:00
  
  The world's greatest private stock of manuscripts, which includes around 130,000 items and several cultural treasures, is coming to market. Acquired over a dozen years by the scandal-hit Aristophil company, the precious pieces are due to be auctioned at Drouot as early as next September, under the guidance of the auctioneer Claude Aguttes. Grard Lhritier, the founder of Aristophil, was charged with organised fraud in 2015. He is accused of setting up a Ponzi scheme by greatly inf
  
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• Art Jameel teams up with Metropolitan Museum of Art

  15-03-2017 22:00
  
  The non-profit Saudi-based foundation Art Jameel, the organisation behind the prestigious Jameel Prize has announced its intention to expand with a permanent space in the UAE. The Jameel Arts Centre Dubai is scheduled to open at the end of 2018. In the interim, the foundation will have a presence in the Emirates via Project Space Art Jameel, a satellite branch in Alserkal Avenue, which will remain open until the centre is officially inaugurated. The announcement comes at a busy time of exp
  
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• Art Basel in Hong Kong 2017

  15-03-2017 22:00
  
  Our daily edition from Art Basel in Hong Kong, including news, analysis, interviews and live reporting from the fair
  
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• A home for young collectors

  15-03-2017 22:00
  
  Emerging collectors at Art Dubai can find a solid offering of established, but younger, artists who have works in the permanent collections of noted institutions, foundations and feature in biennales in Venice and Sharjah and are interesting not because of their age or nationality, but because they are a good artist, first and foremost, says Fabienne Leclerc of In Situ (Paris).
  Age, for the artist or collector, neednt equate to compromising quality. I always suggest buying artists around t
  
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• Ralph Eugene Meatyard at Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

  15-03-2017 20:42 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Kerry James Marshall: 'As an artist, everything should be a challenge'

  15-03-2017 19:54
  
  Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Kerry James Marshall taught himself to draw and made his first paintings in Harlem YMCA. As a major retrospective opens in LA, he talks about taking on the Old Masters
  The day before the crowds get in to his critically praised retrospective, Kerry James Marshall is walking around the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, taking in 30 years of his work. Wearing a casual green T-shirt and slacks and with his visitor badge still attached, he looks more like a touri
  
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• Visit UK's Houses of Parliament on your mobile in first virtual tour

  15-03-2017 19:47
  
  People can get a closer look at Houses of Commons and Lords, Westminster Hall and other spaces in 360-degree tourBritain’s Houses of Parliament can now be explored by anyone, at any time and wherever they are, thanks to the first 360-degree virtual tour of the Commons, the Lords and the spaces in between.Viewers can look at where MPs and peers argue over Brexit, where big events and ceremonies are celebrated or where the suffragette Marjory Hume chained herself to a statue, shouting: &ldqu
  
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• The ICA Miami goes both global and local in its new home opening this December

  15-03-2017 19:14
  
  The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, which was founded in 2014 and has been camping out temporarily in the historic Art Deco Moore Building in the citys Design District, will finally get a permanent home on 1 Decemberand with it some new art. The museum has announced a series of commissions and exhibitionsby artists like Chris Ofili, Tomm El-Saieh, Allora & Calzadilla and Mark Handforthto kick-start its new 37,500 sq ft building designed by the Madrid-based firm Aranguren + Gallegos Ar
  
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• After 25 Years, New York’s Sandra Gering Inc. Gallery to Close This Summer

  15-03-2017 18:11 via artnews.com
  After 25 years, New York’s Sandra Gering Inc. gallery will close this summer. Its final show, from May 11 to July 28, will be devoted to an installation by Jennifer Wen Ma. The gallery will officially shutter on August 31.In a … Read More
  
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• Gallery refuses eviction after hosting Israeli veterans’ group

  15-03-2017 17:17
  
  A Jerusalem art gallery faces eviction from a municipal building after not heeding city warnings to cancel a politically-charged talk. While artists are calling the eviction notice censorship, the gallery says it will fight to keep its rightful place in Jerusalem city center.The non-profit Barbur gallery on 8 February hosted Breaking the Silence, a group of Israeli combat soldiers who speak out against military rule over Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Barbur, which was given 90 da
  
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• The Connecticut garden that inspired American impressionist painters

  15-03-2017 16:06
  
  Florence Griswold’s house and garden, now a museum, has barely changed since the turn of the 20th century when artists escaped here to paint outside, says the director of a new film on American impressionismIt doesn’t take long to see why, at the start of the 20th century, artists were happy to jump on a shiny new train and flee the teeming cities of New York and Boston for a rather fine guesthouse in Old Lyme, Connecticut. On arrival, the guesthouse’s owner, Florence Griswold,
  
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• Over the Wall: Thomas Houseago’s Latest Works Engage Builders, Breakers, and Climbers

  15-03-2017 15:57 via artnews.com
  Thomas Houseago got his start as a rough-and-tumble performance artist in the gritty environment of northern England. “I would cover myself in dirt and then set myself on fire,” as he put it. Much has changed in the 26 years … Read More
  
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• El Museo del Barrio Acquires 47 Works from the Estate of Antonio Lopez and Juan Ramos

  15-03-2017 15:54 via artnews.com
  A suite of 47 works from the Estate of Antonio Lopez and Juan Ramos is going to El Museo del Barrio in New York. The gift from the estate, the largest to a cultural institution in its 30-year history, comes in … Read More
  
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• 7-Hour Line Edition

  15-03-2017 14:00 via artnews.com
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• Wild family: photographer David Chancellor at home and abroad – in pictures

  15-03-2017 08:00
  
  The South Africa-based artist is known for his shots of trophy hunters, tribes and conservationists. Now the British-born photographer has also turned his lens on another kind of wildlife: his family• Chancellor’s show, Handle Like Eggs, is at Francesca Maffeo Gallery, Leigh-on-Sea, until 15 April. All photographs: David Chancellor/Francesca Maffeo Gallery Continue reading...
  
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• Through Partnership with Saudi Nonprofit Art Jameel, the Metropolitan Museum Will Acquire Middle Eastern Modern and Contemporary Art

  15-03-2017 08:00 via artnews.com
  As part of its ongoing effort to diversify its modern and contemporary holdings, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Art Jameel will launch a new partnership. The Saudi Arabia–based nonprofit announced the news ahead of the winter 2018 opening of … Read More
  
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• Through a Partnership with Art Jameel, the Metropolitan Museum Will Acquire Middle Eastern Art

  15-03-2017 08:00 via artnews.com
  As part of its ongoing effort to diversify its modern and contemporary holdings, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Art Jameel will launch a new partnership. The United Arab Emirates–based nonprofit announced the news ahead of the winter 2018 opening … Read More
  
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• Untitled(he has a spectacular head space.)

  15-03-2017 01:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  he has hold of a white garbage can that matches his white t-shirt and the red wool hat. he gives her an ice coffee. they talk about something i can’t overhear. she has arid breasts. he finishes talking to one woman and then he talks to another. he is the bee and they have the honey. he has his arms crossed. she moves her hand. my mind is slow. the skinny young man leaves with his pretty girlfriend. he has a spectacular head space.
  why not go to the screen for more warmth? how can she not b
  
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