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• The healing power of great buildings comes at a price

  31-03-2017 23:00
  
  This month, the art world looks to Athens, where Documenta 14 (8 April-16 July) is taking place. Later in the year, the Greek government will inaugurate another attraction: a magnificent 1,400-seat opera house and an elegant national library designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, set within a 42-acre park landscaped by Deborah Nevins & Associates.
  The 673m cultural centre, financed entirely by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, is unusual among new cultural institutions worldwide in its o
  
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• Russian state museum plans Washington branch in Trump Hotel

  31-03-2017 23:00
  
  The State Hermitage Museum is opening an outpost in Washington, D.C.The Art Newspaper understands.The institution, which last year scrapped plans for a branch at 725 5th Avenue in New York, has settled on space just down the street from the White House in the historic Old Post Office Pavilion, which is now a Trump International Hotel.
   
  Ethics experts are now raising questions. The museum, which is funded by the Russian state, will be installed in a building administered by a US gover
  
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• Positive news from Egypt

  31-03-2017 23:00
  
  At first I thought it was just fake news: the former minister of antiquities for Egypt declaring last month that most ancient artefacts from his country across the world had been exported legally and should stay where they are. I cannot think of a more constructive statement for moving the antiquities debate forward because, finally, someone in a position of influence has acknowledged reality. Others may cavil at the intervention of Mamdouh el-Damaty, a renowned Egyptologist, professor at Ain S
  
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• Cerith Wyn Evans: Light Fantastic

  31-03-2017 23:00
  Cerith Wyn Evans first emerged as a key figure in the 1980s alternative scene in London, where he collaborated with the likes of dancer and choreographer Michael Clark, cult performer Leigh Bowery and the Neo Naturist group, while also making his own experimental films and videos. Since the 1990s, he has built a reputation for site-specific sculptural works that often use light and deal with notions of time, language and perception. This year is his busiest yet. He has been selected by Christin
  
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• Abelardo Morell at Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York

  31-03-2017 22:24 via artnews.com
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• Step inside our rubbish skip (sorry, gallery)

  31-03-2017 19:08
  
  If you find visiting galleries a little intimidating, its worth heading to a rather novel, small-scale new venue in Hoxton Square in East London. The Skip Gallery is a.... gallery in a skip (to put it bluntly). The London-based artists Catherine Borowski and Lee Baker came up with the innovative idea after struggling to find an exhibition space last year. I was thinking of a moveable gallery and thats when I came up with the idea of a gallery in a skip and how it could be a series
  
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• Hannah Black to Present New Commissioned Performance Work at MoMA PS1

  31-03-2017 18:35 via artnews.com
  Many may have come to know Hannah Black for touching off an art-world controversy last week when she published an open letter urging Whitney Biennial curators to destroy a Dana Schutz painting of Emmett Till’s open casket funeral, but Black is an … Read More
  
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• From the Archives: Jill Johnston on Robert Morris, in 1965

  31-03-2017 16:41 via artnews.com
  On view now at New York’s Castelli Gallery are two shows of new felt pieces by Robert Morris, the veteran artist whose career has ranged through Minimalism, Conceptualism, Post-Minimalism, and other, more idiosyncratic aesthetic concerns. Meanwhile, at the Grey Art Gallery, … Read More
  
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• For Documenta 14, Maria Eichhorn Starts Institute on ‘Expropriation of Europe’s Jewish Population’

  31-03-2017 16:29 via artnews.com
  Though the start of Documenta 14’s Athens half is less than two weeks away, the show’s organizers still have not released an artist list, saying that they don’t want to play the hype game. Nevertheless, a few details are known about … Read More
  
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• Tate St Ives reopens as part of £20m revamp

  31-03-2017 16:26
  
  Art lovers and locals welcome reopening of Cornish gallery after 18 months in first phase of huge refurbishment projectTate galleries’ Cornish outpost, Tate St Ives, has reopened after a refurbishment project during which the gallery shut its doors for 18 months.The gallery, which sits on the golden sands of Porthmeor Beach, Cornwall, and is just round the corner from the house once occupied by sculptor Barbara Hepworth, was due to be shut for only six months. Continue reading...
  
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• Morning Links: Brooke Shields Edition

  31-03-2017 15:31 via artnews.com
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• Queer painters, neon dreamers and a century of ceramics – the week in art

  31-03-2017 15:00
  
  Cerith Wyn Evans’s neon installation illuminates Tate Britain along with a major survey of queer British art – all in your weekly dispatchQueer British Art 1861–1967
  This ought to be an exciting alternative history of British art and its sexualities from the age of Oscar Wilde and John Singer Sargent to the coming of David Hockney.
  • Tate Britain, London, 5 April–1 October. Continue reading...
  
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• British Museum permanently installs first Caribbean art commission

  31-03-2017 14:55
  
  The responsibility of being the first Caribbean artist to be commissioned by the British Museum (BM) is weighing heavily on Zak Ov. Imagine representing the whole of the Caribbean in one moment? he asks. I have to get this right, otherwise Ill never hear the end of it.Ov was speaking at the unveiling of his Moko Jumbie sculptures in the BMs Africa Galleries on 30 March. The towering figures were installed in the museums Great Court in 2015 and have now become part of the permanent collection, d
  
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• Contemporary art venue springs up at waterside Warsaw site

  31-03-2017 14:19
  
  A new contemporary art space has opened in Warsaw on the banks of the Vistula River, which will host exhibitions and events organised by the citys Museum of Modern Art. The 600 sq. m structure, loaned for free by the Vienna-based Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) foundation, will remain in situ until the museums new headquarters open in Plac Defilad in 2020. The new venue, located next to the University of Warsaw library, is called The Museum by the Vistula.The temporary structure, de
  
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• Fantasy Life: the journey of the players who inspired Moneyball – in pictures

  31-03-2017 13:30
  
  In 2002, photojournalist Tabitha Soren started following the Oakland A’s draft picks – 23 men who also inspired the book and film Moneyball – and has captured their incredible journeys ever since. Her work appears in a new book, Fantasy Life, out 1 April Continue reading...
  
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• Sidney Nolan’s Kelly, Spring, 1956: The Oz outlaw becomes a universal figure

  31-03-2017 13:00
  
  The artist’s striking depiction of Ned Kelly weaves in European influences, allowing the Aussie outlaw to be presented as a universal figure of freedom Continue reading...
  
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• Paul Theroux on how artist Ashley Bickerton became an alien in paradise

  31-03-2017 13:00
  
  From sharks to transgender nymphs, Bickerton’s vibrant visions of tropical island life play on the experience of being an expat outsider. Paul Theroux meets a connoisseur of not belongingWhat they wrestle with, those creative aliens and expats who stay on the move throughout their lives (there are not many, and I sometimes think I’m one of them), is what to do with the blaze and tang of all that buffeting? Bending ever onward, as residents and as visitors, they travel from culture to
  
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• From Queer British Art 1861-1967 to Howard Hodgkin: this week’s best exhibitions

  31-03-2017 10:29
  
  Works whose creators expressed their sexualities in an era that prohibited them, and the artist who passed away before the opening of his first exhibitionIn Oscar Wilde’s story The Portrait of Mr WH, an artist fakes a portrait of the youth Shakespeare supposedly addresses in his sonnets, in his desperation to reveal their gay subtext. This brilliant allegory of the hidden histories of sexual identity makes good reading to accompany what ought to be a fascinating journey into the secret his
  
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• Beyond the bombs: Elger Esser's Middle Eastern landscapes – in pictures

  31-03-2017 08:00
  
  Elger Esser’s photographs celebrate the serene beauty of Egypt, Lebanon and Israel, but still subtly acknowledge the ongoing conflicts in the region Continue reading...
  
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• British artist makes work out of Isis bullet holes

  31-03-2017 05:22
  
  Last year, under the protection of Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers, the British artist Piers Secunda travelled to Iraqi villages recently liberated from Isis control. He made moulds of the bullet holes he found riddling the walls of the village buildings, and used these to create a series of plaster cast sculptures derived from ancient Greek and Assyrian reliefs. Around ten of these diptychs and triptychs are now on view at the Thomas Jaeckel Gallery in New York (until 6 May). This is the artists fi
  
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• The National review – happy accidents shine in major Australian contemporary art show

  31-03-2017 04:38
  
  Three Sydney galleries have joined together to present a wide-scale survey of Australian contemporary art, which is most successful in its juxtaposition• Sydney galleries embrace Australian contemporary art – in picturesThere is no shortage of contemporary Australian art, it seems. In art fairs and museums, biennales and commercial galleries, there’s access to the experience of it, and if you want to dig deeper, there’s no shortage of commentary about it online, in print a
  
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• Sydney galleries embrace Australian contemporary art – in pictures

  31-03-2017 04:38
  
  The National: New Australian Art is a collaboration between Sydney’s Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carriageworks and Museum of Contemporary Art to present a new survey of local, contemporary works every second year until 2021. The venues are running exhibitions concurrently, featuring work from Australian artists at all stages of their careers. This year the exhibitions are free at Museum of Contemporary Art until 18 June, Art Gallery of NSW until 16 July and Carriageworks until 25 June.
  
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