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• Annette Kelm at Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany

  04-04-2017 23:50 via artnews.com
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• Texas oil town is enjoying another boom—and this time it’s for art

  04-04-2017 23:00
  
  When the Dallas Art Fair launched in 2009, Lisa Taylor of the Dallas Art Dealers Association was sceptical about its prospects. There are so many art fairs all around the world, she told the Dallas Business Journal. Why would I come to Dallas?
  If it was odd back then for a local industry booster to cast doubt on that very cause, today the question is all but absurd. In its ninth year, the fair (Fashion Industry Gallery, 6-9 April) has expanded its roster, attracting big names such as Gagosian,
  
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• Object lessons: Renate Bertlmann's performance photographs and Bosco Sodi's mixed-media work

  04-04-2017 23:00
  
  Renate Bertlmann, Zrtliche Pantomime (tender pantomime) (1976/2012)
  Richard Saltoun Gallery, SP-Arte, Sao Paulo, 6-9 AprilR$32,000
  London-based dealer Richard Saltoun is offering a set of four black-and-white photographs of one of Bertlmanns first staged performances, which belong to her tender-poetic series dealing with corporeal symbols of eroticism and sexuality. The images retain their shock value, showing the Austrian artist in her home wearing a black camisole and donning a mask adorned w
  
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• Hermitage to boost security after St Petersburg metro bombing

  04-04-2017 23:00
  
  The State Hermitage Museum has ramped up security following a terrorist bombing in the citys metro on Monday 3 April that killed 14 people and injured over 70. All visitors are being inspected, which surely might cause inconvenience for the museums guests, the museum said in a statement posted on its website and Facebook page on Tuesday.
  The Hermitage also said it had reached an agreement with Rosgvardia, the new National Guard created by President Vladimir Putin in 2016, to strengthen security
  
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• Hermitage boosts security after St Petersburg metro bombing

  04-04-2017 23:00
  
  The State Hermitage Museum has ramped up security following a terrorist bombing in the citys metro on Monday 3 April that killed 14 people and injured over 70. All visitors are being inspected, which surely might cause inconvenience for the museums guests, the museum said in a statement posted on its website and Facebook page on Tuesday.
  The Hermitage also said it had reached an agreement with Rosgvardia, the new National Guard created by President Vladimir Putin in 2016, to strengthen security
  
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• Guinness family to auction Francesco Guardi Venetian view painting

  04-04-2017 23:00
  
  A dramatic painting by Francesco Guardi of the Rialto Bridge and a bustling Grand Canal is being sold for only the second time since it was painted in the mid-1760s. The grandly scaled canvas, which has been handed down through generations of the Guinness family, is expected to sell for around 25m.It is one of the greatest 18th-century view paintings and one of the greatest pictures Guardi ever painted, says Henry Pettifer, the head of Old Master paintings at Christies, which is auctioning the
  
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• Egypt tries to plug funding gap as treasures go back on display

  04-04-2017 23:00
  
  When the 2011 revolution swept through the Egyptian capital, ambitious museum projects were put on the back burner as the country grappled with political turmoil and economic crisis. But six years later, Egypts cultural initiatives are picking up speed.
  The Museum of Islamic Art, which was badly damaged by a bomb attack on the nearby police headquarters in 2014, reopened at the end of January. The long-awaited National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation (NMEC)under construction in Cairos al-Fustat
  
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• Egypt revives major museum projects, six years after revolution

  04-04-2017 23:00
  When the 2011 revolution swept through the Egyptian capital, ambitious museum projects were put on the back burner as the country grappled with political turmoil and economic crisis. But six years later, Egypts cultural initiatives are picking up speed.
  The Museum of Islamic Art, which was badly damaged by a bomb attack on the nearby police headquarters in 2014, reopened at the end of January. The long-awaited National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation (NMEC)under construction in Cairos al-Fustat
  
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• Dispatches from our Man at the Antarctic Biennale: seasickness hits

  04-04-2017 23:00
  
  Saturday 18th March: Woah! Impossible to sleeptossing and being turned, the Gods moving me around despite myself, whole room shifting as if my own personal earthquake. The small cabin like a womb where you twist suspended in amniotic fluid but in this case a Yummy Mummy still jogging late term throwing you this way and that.  8AM breakfast with sparkly Nick Shapiro here to represent Toms Saraceno, had three year grant tracking fracking, worse polluted atmosphere in rural Pennsylvania than
  
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• Death, destruction and deity: painting Guernica

  04-04-2017 23:00
  In the first week of January 1937, six months into the Spanish Civil War, Josep Renau, Republican Spains dynamic young director of Bellas Artes, approached Picasso to commission a large work of art for the Spanish Republic Pavilion in the forthcoming Exposition Internationale des Arts in Paris. It would hang pride of place. As the worlds most famous artist, and as the director of the Prado museum in absentia on a salary of 15,000 pesetas per annum, Picasso was pressured to produce a powerful pr
  
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• Collectors reserve space as New York’s first art freeport prepares for summer launch

  04-04-2017 23:00
  
  Soon the burgeoning Harlem art scene will boast one venue where the works will pointedly not be on view: Arcis, a 110,000 sq. ft, purpose-built art storage facility within a federally designated Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) that is insured to hold up to $3bn in art.
  Scheduled to open in July, Arcis is the fruit of nearly two years work by former executives of the art logistics firms Crozier and Dietl and developer Cayre Equities to create storage to serve the needs of international collectors in Ma
  
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• Turner's German masterpiece to be auctioned in London

  04-04-2017 17:59
  
  Ehrenbreitstein is one of only six major paintings by the artist still in private hands and has an estimate of £15m-£25mOne of the finest paintings by JMW Turner still in private hands is to be auctioned in London.Ehrenbreitstein, showing a magnificent ruined fortress perched on a cliff overlooking a tranquil valley, was considered something of a showstopper when first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1835. Continue reading...
  
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• You’ve Gotta See This!: Artists Are Luring Their Peers and Predecessors Out of Obscurity and Back into the Spotlight

  04-04-2017 17:13 via artnews.com
  In 2008 New York feminist artist Judith Bernstein was having her first show in decades at Mitchell Algus Gallery, presenting her iconoclastic “Horizontal” series, large-scale drawings of phallus-like screws dating back to 1966. By coincidence, Los Angeles art provocateur Paul … Read More
  
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• Terra Foundation reveals ambitious plans for Art Design Chicago in 2018

  04-04-2017 16:53
  
  The Terra Foundation for American Art announced its long-awaited plans for Art Design Chicago, a year-long, multi-institutional exhibition series to take place in 2018. Comparisons to Pacific Standard Time, the survey of Los Angeles art largely funded by the Getty held in 2011 (and due to take place again this year), are unavoidable; in fact, it provided much of the inspiration.
  Among the 25 exhibitions planned so far are a retrospective on the artist Charles White at the Art Institute of Chica
  
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• Video: Eric N. Mack in the Studio

  04-04-2017 16:12 via artnews.com
  Eric N. Mack has been pushing his painting into strange new territories over the past few years. In many pieces, Mack applies oil, acrylic, and bits of detritus—like, say, fashion-magazine pages, posters, or the odd orange peel—to pieces of fabric, … Read More
  
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• Lorna Simpson Is Now Represented by Hauser & Wirth

  04-04-2017 16:00 via artnews.com
  Hauser & Wirth—the global mega-gallery with outposts in Zurich, London, New York, Los Angeles, and Somerset, England—now represents Lorna Simpson. Its first project with the artist will be for its booth at Frieze New York, which will display new painting … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Angela Merkel’s Side-Eye Edition

  04-04-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Fair Director

  04-04-2017 08:57
  Art Central is an annual art fair entering its fourth year in Hong Kong and takes place during Hong Kong Art Week: the busiest week in the year, co-timed with the leading international art fair Art Basel in Hong Kong. Situated in a purpose built temporary structure on the waterfront of the iconic Victoria Harbour it is one of the key events on the social and cultural calendar in the city and the most recent edition welcomed over 35,000 visitors from Hong Kong, Asia and across the world.
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• The dream factory: CushmoK's gothic reveries – in pictures

  04-04-2017 08:00
  
  Niger-born French photographer CushmoK blends surrealism and poetry in his ‘small, dreamlike sculptures’Continue reading...
  
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• Ice age art in Indonesia reveals how spiritual life transformed en route to Australia

  04-04-2017 06:20
  
  Cave discoveries suggest Indigenous Australians’ strong connection with animals may have its roots in the exotic species their ancestors encountered in SulawesiA cave dig in Indonesia has unearthed a unique collection of prehistoric ornaments and artworks that date back in some instances to at least 30,000 years ago. The site is thought to have been used by some of the world’s earliest cave artists.Published this week,our new findings challenge the long-held view that hunter-gatherer
  
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• Director of Capital Projects and Construction Needed!

  04-04-2017 01:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Public Theater seeks an executive to oversee all Capital Projects efforts and manage all tasks related to capital improvements for the organization’s facilities. Reporting to the Executive Director, this individual oversees details related to The Public’s multi-million dollar capital projects in order to complete construction projects in a cost-efficient and timely manner.
  Specifically:
  Interview, negotiate and finalize the selection of architects, owner’s representatives,
  
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• Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada - Chief Executive Officer

  04-04-2017 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  For over 20 years, MOCA has been celebrated for its incisive, artist-centric approach to programming, and hospitable visitor experience. At its West Queen West location, MOCA acted as a hub for creative exchange and played a critical role in shaping the contemporary art scene in Toronto and further afield. This coming fall, MOCA will move into a new 55,000 square foot purpose-designed home in a former industrial space at the heart of an evolving neighbourhood in Toronto - one of the most liveabl
  
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• Untitled(she is in the astral regions. she looks down at america. it is smaller than she thought. it is smaller than china. she loves china and the chinese. they have never hurt her. she has never known a chinese person even though she is chinese herself.

  04-04-2017 00:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  there’s an ape behind me. he may have left.i place the 160 dollars in the helping yourself with esp book.a white dude hands a novel to the brown dude. the brown dude looks in it.the brown dude is very handsome. he’s pakistani. he works with textiles.his father died from cancer. he’s scared he will suffer the same fate.alex steals because she’s jealous of the victim and she likes it.i steal cuz i was bonnie parker in my past life, alex said. i have to fight the urge to be
  
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• Darwin Had It Right: Work Way Less, Accomplish Way More

  04-04-2017 00:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Figures as different as Charles Dickens, Henri Poincaré, and Ingmar Bergman, working in disparate fields in different times, all shared a passion for their work, a terrific ambition to succeed, and an almost superhuman capacity to focus. Yet when you look closely at their daily lives, they only spent a few hours a day doing what we would recognize as their most important work. The rest of the time, they were hiking mountains, taking naps, going on walks with friends, or just sitting and
  
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