Arts news

• Victoria Miro to open first overseas gallery in Venice

  05-04-2017 23:00
  Victoria Miro is opening her fourth exhibition spacein a small jewel box of a gallery in the heart of Venice, according to the London dealer. With three venues in London, the Venice gallery is Miros first permanent space abroad.While not considered an art market hub, Miro describes Venice as an inspirational setting for artists to respond to. Miro is not alone: Galerie Alberta Pane from Paris is also due to open in the Italian city next month.Miros first exhibition in Venice, called Poolside Ma
  
  Read more

• Russia’s regional collections get left out in the cold

  05-04-2017 23:00
  
  Works by Wassily Kandinsky and other Russian and European masters have been left out in the coldliterallyas a foundation created by a Russian bishop with ties to Vladimir Putin works to establish up to 25 new displays dedicated to patriotism in cities across the country. The rush to launch the elaborate multimedia exhibitions is drawing fierce opposition.
  The displays are inspired by an annually updated exhibition called RussiaMy History, which was launched in 2013 by Tikhon Shevkunov, a Russia
  
  Read more

• Origin of the World 2.0 for the age of Trump

  05-04-2017 23:00
  
  The American artist Elena Dorfman has given a 21st-century twist to Gustave Courbets realist painting LOrigine du monde (Origin of the World, 1866), a view of a naked woman, her legs parted, that still has the power to shock audiencesand provoke censorshipa century and a half after its creation. In her latest series of works, The Origin of the New World, Dorfman has photographed silicone sex dolls posed in the same manner as Courbets modelthough with a more explicit and, ironically, anatomicall
  
  Read more

• New legal battle over Schiele watercolours

  05-04-2017 23:00
  
  A dispute in New York over two watercolours by Egon Schiele will revisit the tragic life of their owner in the 1930s, Fritz Grnbaum, a popular Jewish entertainer in Vienna who died a Nazi prisoner in Dachau.
  Some also see the case as an early assessment of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act, which regularised a federal statute of limitations of six years, beginning with the discovery of an object, during which claims can be made for the recovery of Nazi loot in the US. The statu
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Michelangelo-designed frame reimagined by National Gallery

  05-04-2017 23:00
  
  The National Gallery has created a new frame for Sebastiano del Piombos The Raising of Lazarus (1517-19) altarpiece, which was unveiled in its new Michelangelo & Sebastiano exhibition (until 25 June). The new composite frame, which contains a mix of carefully sourced antique pieces as well as newly made replicas based on 16th-century architectural elements, is much closer stylistically to the original frame and gives the large-scale painting even greater visual impact.
  The original frame wa
  
  Read more

• Legal battle over Schiele works owned by Jewish entertainer who died in Dachau

  05-04-2017 23:00
  
  A dispute in New York over two watercolours by Egon Schiele will revisit the tragic life of their owner in the 1930s, Fritz Grnbaum, a popular Jewish entertainer in Vienna who died a Nazi prisoner in Dachau.
  Some also see the case as an early assessment of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act, which regularised a federal statute of limitations of six years, beginning with the discovery of an object, during which claims can be made for the recovery of Nazi loot in the US. The statu
  
  Read more

• Dispatches from our Man at the Antarctic Biennale: learning how to leave no trace

  05-04-2017 23:00
  
  Sunday 19th March: Woke to thick fog, magnificent sea aboil. Out on slippery green metal deck, weather dropping, air and water temperatures falling, we are approaching Antarctic waters, the coldest in the world. Lurched up to front prow or bow or whatever, so very Titanic could almost hear Enya wailing away in the background. HUGE grey waves but dont seem so nauseous when you actually see them smash against the boat. Breaking news that Chuck Berry died at 90, No particular place to go the only i
  
  Read more

• Berlin exhibition surveys the long history of alchemy

  05-04-2017 23:00
  What do a blue glass necklace from the third or fourth century excavated in southern Russia and Jeff Koonss shiny polyurethane resin Dom Prignon Balloon Venus (2013) have in common, aside from the fact that they are included in an exhibition opening at Berlins Kulturforum this month? Both are in the alchemistic tradition of transforming materials, says Jrg Vllnagel, the organiser of the exhibition, titled Alchemy: the Great Art.Koons is often accused of being superficial, a word Vllnagel interp
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Consumer Reports: Theodore Darst

  05-04-2017 21:02 via artnews.com
  
  
  Theodore Darst is an artist living and working in Manhattan. His solo show “Cult Trash” is currently on view at Magenta Plains in New York. Additionally, the artist has work in the group exhibition “storefront: THIS KNOWN WORLD” at the Museum … Read More
  
  Read more

• Rubin Museum Director Patrick Sears Will Retire

  05-04-2017 18:12 via artnews.com
  After 11 years in leadership roles at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York— five as executive director, and six before that as chief operating officer—Patrick Sears informed staff today that he will retire. “I was given the opportunity … Read More
  
  Read more

• Parker Ito Is Now Represented by Team Gallery

  05-04-2017 17:23 via artnews.com
  During the early 2010s, Parker Ito was known for producing mass amounts of art. “I heard that Picasso made around 250,000 works in his lifetime. I could make that many JPEGs in five years,” he once said. “And when I say … Read More
  
  Read more

• What a Great Idea It Is: Cory Arcangel on 200-Plus Hours of Music by Tony Conrad

  05-04-2017 16:51 via artnews.com
  In the 2010s, Tony Conrad often invited me to speak in his class at the Department of Media Studies at the University at Buffalo. Usually Tony and I would Skype in to his class from his apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. … Read More
  
  Read more

• James Rosenquist obituary

  05-04-2017 16:25
  
  Pop artist best known for the gallery-filling painting F-111In 1960, the painter Agnes Martin moved out of the studio in Lower Manhattan, New York, where she had worked for the two previous years. Her place was taken by a young man of Swedish descent from North Dakota called James Rosenquist. These were febrile times in American art. Martin had painted small-scale, abstract works of conventual reticence and calm. Rosenquist painted billboards.Until he moved into 3-5 Coenties Slip – the col
  
  Read more

• Morning Links: Siren Call Edition

  05-04-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
  
  Read more

• Richard Parry appointed new director of Glasgow International

  05-04-2017 13:15
  
  Richard Parry, the curator and director at the Grundy Art Gallery in Blackpool, has been named as the director of the Glasgow International contemporary art festival, replacing Sarah McCrory who organised the 2014 and 2016 editions of the biennial. Parry will oversee the eighth edition, which is due to take place next spring (20 April-7 May 2018). Further details of the programme encompassing Scottish and international artists will be announced later this year. Parry joined the Grundy Art
  
  Read more

• Polish artist Pawel Althamer creates first commission for Bangladesh sculpture park

  05-04-2017 12:24
  
  The Polish artist Pawel Althamer, who has specialised in building community sculptures, has completed the first commission for a new sculpture park in Sylhet, the city that is a spiritual and cultural centre for Bangladesh. It is a giant figure of a woman, large enough to walk through the limbs, built with bright textiles over a bamboo frame by a volunteer team that included four of Althamers neighbours from Poland and around 100 villagers and children as well as patients of a local drug rehabi
  
  Read more

• Roanne Dods obituary

  05-04-2017 11:46
  
  My friend Roanne Dods, who has died of cancer aged 51, was founding director of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, through which she distributed £14m of grants to a vast range of arts organisations over 11 years.She was born in Peru to expat parents, Jean (nee Mennie) and Robin Dods, who worked in the fabric industry, and who also had two sons. The family moved to Milan when Roanne was 10. She boarded at Wellington school, Ayr, and went on to study French, Arabic and moral philosophy at th
  
  Read more

• Tunisian pavilion to issue travel documents at Venice Biennale

  05-04-2017 11:41
  
  Tunisia will have a national pavilion at the Venice Biennale this year for the first time since 1958, presenting a project that focuses on migration and freedom of movement. The project involves Tunisian nationals who will issue visitors with a "travel document" at three locations across the city throughout the Biennale (13 May-26 November).
   
  The Tunisian pavilion is forgoing the cloak of nationalism in favour of a more global and humanistic narrative. What is fascinating is that this is
  
  Read more

• The colour in anything: illustrations by Quentin Blake – in pictures

  05-04-2017 08:00
  
  Away from his Roald Dahl illustrations, Quentin Blake has brought to life everything from James Blake’s music to Michael Rosen’s poetry Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Guernica: the town that became a symbol for peace

  05-04-2017 07:30
  
  Eighty years since bombs devastated it – and as a new exhibition opens in Madrid displaying Picasso’s fabled artwork – the Basque town is a proud advocate of peace, as well as gateway to a region of lush hills and wild Atlantic coastPast the handgun factory that has become an arts centre, behind the rebuilt station with its shiny statue of the first Basque president, there’s a long blackened tunnel with a padlocked door. Begoña unlocks it and we step inside. It sme
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUKnews on Twitter!