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• Pansy Ass Ceramics at DAIS Gallery, Toronto

  21-03-2017 22:24 via artnews.com
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• From Zero to Hero: After Six Decades of Remaking Art, Heinz Mack Keeps on Dreaming

  21-03-2017 22:21 via artnews.com
  The first artwork in the latest gallery show of Heinz Mack—catalytic cofounder of the Zero group in the late 1950s and a firebrand ever since—is a systematic explosion of color. Large in scale on a canvas measuring nearly 12 by 20 … Read More
  
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• What does the election mean for France’s art market?

  21-03-2017 22:00
  
  The results of the impending French presidential election could radically change the countrys political landscape and alter the balance of power between London and continental European market places, casting a cloud of uncertainty over Frances resilient art trade.
  Although attendance and sales at Pariss leading art fairs, such as Fiac, the Biennale des Antiquaires, PAD and Paris Photo, suffered in the wake of the deadly terrorist attack in the capital in 2015, the citys auction houses bucked th
  
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• Howard Hodgkin’s absent friends at the National Portrait Gallery

  21-03-2017 22:00
  
  It was especially poignant that, after Howard Hodgkin had chosen the title of Absent Friends for his major exhibition of portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, his sudden death on 9 March meant that at the private view last night (22 March) he was the most absent friend of all. Inevitably there was much reminiscing amongst the artists many friends that did attend the packed opening. The unprecedented gathering of Hodgkins evocative, atmospheric portraitsin which he uses colour and for
  
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• Calling all caretakers: artists invite the public to camp out at stately home

  21-03-2017 22:00
  
  Two British artists are inviting volunteer caretakers to experience a future without fossil fuels in the grounds of Compton Verney, the country home and gallery in the West Midlands. Inspired by the hippie communes of 1960s America, Alex Hartley and Tom James are building an off-grid dome from scrap materials to draw attention to the impact of climate change. Members of the public will inhabit the dome for five days at a time, while the artists run workshops on survival skills such as brewing m
  
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• Asia’s new rich help cushion global market’s fall, economist Clare McAndrew reports

  21-03-2017 22:00
  
  Total sales in the global art market shrank by 11% in 2016 to $57bn, a more than $10bn fall from an all-time high of $68bn in 2014, provides the headline finding of a report by the economist Clare McAndrew, which was released today. Speaking ahead of The Art Market 2017s publication during Art Basel in Hong Kong on 22 March, McAndrew said: There have been two years of decline, but that was after such a high peak, so we are not back to the situation in 2009, and even then it bounced back quickly
  
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• Let’s Fight for Arts Funding: Tom Finkelpearl on the Impact of the NEA, NEH, and Other Supporters of Culture on New York City

  21-03-2017 20:51 via artnews.com
  In the federal executive branch’s budget proposal released March 16, the National Endowments for the Arts (NEA) and Humanities (NEH) as well as the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) are marked to be completely eliminated. Together last year, … Read More
  
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• Whitney Biennial: Emmett Till casket painting by white artist sparks anger

  21-03-2017 17:56
  
  Dana Schutz’s depiction of the mutilated body of a 14-year-old African American boy has been accused of using black death as racialized ‘spectacle’
  A painting included in this year’s Whitney Biennial in New York is being protested for perceived racial insensitivity.Open Casket by American painter Dana Schutz depicts the mutilated corpse of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old black boy murdered in 1955 after it was falsely claimed he flirted with a white woman. Related: Whitney B
  
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• Metropolitan Museum Names Stephanie D’Alessandro New Curator of Modern Art

  21-03-2017 17:52 via artnews.com
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has named its new Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Modern Art: Stephanie D’Alessandro. She will start in May, in the wake of Rebecca Rabinow departing last July to become the director of … Read More
  
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• A New Crossroads in Moscow: Garage Museum Launches the First Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art

  21-03-2017 17:42 via artnews.com
  Bottles of vodka zipped around the tiny, jam-packed room in downtown Moscow, passing from hand to hand like buckets of water in a slapstick fire drill. What began as a modest birthday fete on the third floor of the Marriott … Read More
  
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• The art of colour: why Victoria Beckham is channelling Van Gogh this season

  21-03-2017 17:32
  
  One of spring’s biggest trends is duo-toning – wearing two contrasting hues. Art critic Jonathan Jones explains how 17th-century colour theory is influencing your wardrobeIsaac Newton was not a man of fashion. He spent more time on calculus than catwalks. Yet the great 17th-century scientist’s discoveries are the ultimate source of this season’s scintillating experiments in colour.When Newton used a glass prism to break up a beam of sunlight in a dark room, he produced a
  
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• Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth is fine for horses, but not avant garde art

  21-03-2017 16:49
  
  The new works destined for London say pithy things about the modern world – but they keep sculpture trapped in the 19th centuryI’ve never been convinced that Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth public sculpture project, in London, is a marvellous thing for art – it is a completely outdated way of displaying sculpture that modern art specifically and, I thought, finally rejected a long time ago. Related: Winged bull and giant dollop of cream to adorn Trafalgar Square's fourth
  
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• Replica of statue destroyed by Isis and whipped cream to top London’s Fourth Plinth

  21-03-2017 15:56
  
  The American artist Michael Rakowitz and the British artist Heather Phillipson were announced today, 21 March, as the winners of the next two commissions to occupy the Fourth Plinth in Londons Trafalgar Square. Rakowitz will present a replica of the Lamassu statue that once stood at the Nergal Gate in Nineveh, Iraq, and was destroyed by Isis in 2015, while Phillipson will show THE END, a sculpture of a giant mound of whipped cream complete with cherry, fly and a functioning drone on top. The wo
  
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• ‘The Painting Must Go’: Hannah Black Pens Open Letter to the Whitney About Controversial Biennial Work

  21-03-2017 15:36 via artnews.com
  Despite initially receiving semi-positive notices, mainly from white critics, a Dana Schutz painting in the Whitney Biennial generated controversy this weekend. This past Saturday, the artist Parker Bright held a protest in front of the work, which is titled Open … Read More
  
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• Winged bull and giant dollop of cream to adorn Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth

  21-03-2017 15:19
  
  Works by Michael Rakowitz and Heather Phillipson will be the next two occupants of London square’s north-west plinth A dollop of glistening cream – complete with a cherry and a functioning drone – and a recreation of an ancient sculpture destroyed by Isis, will be the next artworks to sit on the fourth plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square. Michael Rakowitz’s piece The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist will occupy the plinth from 2018. The work is a response to what Ra
  
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• Creative Time Will Stage 25-Year Sophie Calle Project at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn

  21-03-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Spring is here again. With it we get longer days, of course, plus, in New York at least, another exciting annual development: news of the latest Creative Time commission. The next commission is typically grandiose and ambitious: a 25-year-long project involving French conceptual … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: ‘Between a Craft Fair and a Gun Show’ Edition

  21-03-2017 14:00 via artnews.com
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• Wolfgang Held obituary

  21-03-2017 12:56
  
  My husband, Wolfgang Held, who has died aged 83, was a writer, artist, musician and translator who brought key British and Irish literary figures to a wider German public.Born in Freiburg, Germany, the son of Fritz, a tax collector, and his wife, Louise (nee Frey), Wolfgang had a traumatic childhood spent under the Nazi regime, sheltering in cellars from bombing raids, as described in his novel Rabenkind (Raven Child, 1985). Continue reading...
  
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• Hidden Lights: Art-World Professionals Answer a Question—Who Are the Most Underrated Artists Today?

  21-03-2017 12:45 via artnews.com
  For the third time in two decades, ARTnews approached a cross section of museum directors and curators to opine about one of their favorite subjects: Who are the most underrated artists today, both living and dead?While the names may have … Read More
  
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• Perfect touch: man-made works that dovetail with nature – in pictures

  21-03-2017 08:00
  
  From a red bridge emerging from mist in rural Japan to a tiered stream stepping down a hillside, Toshio Shibata’s photographs – gathered for a new exhibition in New York – take a positive view of our impact on the landscape Continue reading...
  
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• Out and About in Hong Kong

  21-03-2017 04:17
  
  The crme de la crme of Hong Kong's art world was out in force last night (20 March) in the city's Central district, with hordes of art lovers descending upon the Pedder Building where several galleries launched exhibitions coinciding with the launch of Art Basel Hong Kong. At Hanart TZ gallery, a live jazz band was regaling bemused guests attending the Luis Chan retrospective (the music wasnt just incidental; as gallery founder Tsong-Zung Chan says, for Luis, art was a way of dancing w
  
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• Cy Twombly’s Little-Seen ‘Leda and the Swan’ Could Reach $55 M. at Christie’s Sale in May

  21-03-2017 00:00 via artnews.com
  A large Cy Twombly painting that hasn’t been seen in public for over 25 years is finally getting some fresh air this May. Leda and the Swan (1962), a work with a sister painting that has long been in the collection at the … Read More
  
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