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• Letícia Parente at Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo

  10-04-2017 23:15 via artnews.com
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• Mark Wallinger’s Ecce Homo finds new home for Easter outside St Paul’s

  10-04-2017 23:00
  
  Mark Wallingers life-sized sculpture of Christ, Ecce Homo, was the first work to be shown on Trafalgar Squares Fourth Plinth back in 1999. This universal image of human vulnerabilityconsidered by many, including this correspondent, to be one of the finest pieces of public art in recent memoryhas found a new home on the steps of St Pauls Cathedral (until 22 May). It was installed this morningjust in time for Easterby Wallinger in collaboration with Amnesty International and St Pauls. The wo
  
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• Dispatches from our Man at the Antarctic Biennale: installing art for the penguins

  10-04-2017 23:00
  
  Tuesday 21st March: Brutal tannoy at seven; fog now lifted and we could see the blue Antarctic peninsular itself, HUGE mountain range, the scale is so surprising, the sfumato of the whole thing, the ice and shrouded mist amongst the peaks. And on the other side Petermann Island named after the German geographer here in 1874.  No coffee for fear of peeing, bundling up in obligatory endless layers. Great excitement of our first humpback whales, the white side of their fins flipping at last m
  
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• Berlin Wall gets its own protective railing

  10-04-2017 23:00
  
  What remains of the Berlin Wall, a formidable barrier that separated East from West for 28 years until it was pulled down in 1989, is now getting its own barrier to protect it from tourists. A permanent railing is being installed in the German capital to stop visitors from leaving their own historic mark on itor from taking a little Cold War relic home with them.
  In 1990, 119 artists painted the East Side Gallery on a 1.3km-long expanse of the wall, which was designated a heritage site the foll
  
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• Hilton Als Has Won the Pulitzer Prize For Criticism

  10-04-2017 22:25 via artnews.com
  The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced this afternoon, and among those honored was Hilton Als, the theater critic for The New Yorker, who captured the prize for criticism. In addition to writing his regular columns for The New Yorker, Als is … Read More
  
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• Late-Period Lichtenstein Could Reach $20 M. at Sotheby’s Postwar and Contemporary Sale in May

  10-04-2017 21:28 via artnews.com
  In March Christie’s announced a major consignment in its New York sale in May by plastering a painted billboard on a building in New York’s Tribeca, allowing passersby on Canal Street to see the likeness of Roy Lichtenstein’s Red and … Read More
  
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• Print It: Introducing Dizzy, a New Magazine by Arvid Logan and Milah Libin

  10-04-2017 19:31 via artnews.com
  Influences for the new magazine Dizzy—created by New Yorkers Arvid Logan, 22, and Milah Libin, 24—run the gamut from ’90s graffiti ‘zines and art and children’s journals to forgotten publications sourced from junk shops. “We have one that’s on the cover, … Read More
  
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• Claudia Rankine on Whitney Biennial row: 'Anyone who is subject to a culture can use it'

  10-04-2017 17:13
  
  The poet and playwright talks about the scandal surrounding Dana Schutz’s Emmett Till painting, which has led to accusations of exploiting black suffering“Let the world see what I have seen,” said Mamie Till Mobley, whose profound words helped spark the civil rights movement in 1955 when she left her 14-year-old black son’s casket open at his funeral after he was lynched for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Now, Brooklyn painter Dana Schutz has painted Emmett Till&rs
  
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• Morning Links: Damien Hirst in Venice Edition

  10-04-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Jeff Johnson obituary

  10-04-2017 13:20
  
  My friend Jeff Johnson, who has died aged 75, was described by his fellow artist Anthony Green as “the greatest miniaturist that Britain produced in the 20th century”.Jeff was born into a working-class family in South Shields, son of Harold, a marine engineer at the docks, and his wife, Annie (nee Wilson). Jeff attended South Shields grammar technical school, and Sunderland College of Art, where he met Serena Carr. They married in 1962 - she was his lifelong muse and appears in count
  
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• Victoria and Albert Museum plans new centre and touring shows for expanded photography collection

  10-04-2017 12:35
  
  The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) announced last week plans for a new photography centre that will house the museums collection following the controversial decision to transfer 270,000 photographs from the National Media Museum in Bradford to the London-based institution. The museums curatorial team will also organise touring exhibitions of the collection, alongside an existing programme of UK and international loans. A museum spokeswoman says that the photographs will be available
  
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• Carsten Höller will play with visitors’ perceptions of new Centro Botín

  10-04-2017 11:10
  
  The artist Cristina Iglesias sea-bed inspired sculptural installation, which flows through the waterfront park in the northern Spanish city of Santander towards the new Centro Botn, is in place and will be plumbed in this month ahead of the planned opening on 23 June of the Renzo Piano-designed landmark building. Desde lo subterraneo (from the underground) is a site-specific work in five parts commissioned by the Fundacin Botn. Nearby, Carsten Hllers light installation 7.8Hz, also com
  
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• Patriot acts: Ben Turnbull's military collages – in pictures

  10-04-2017 08:00
  
  By cutting up comic books into tiny fragments and reassembling them, Ben Turnbull builds fiendishly complex visions of war and American culture Continue reading...
  
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• Top Stories From AJBlogs For The Weekend 04.09.17

  10-04-2017 06:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lines For Mulligan, With Video
  The press of Art Pepper business distracted Rifftides from noting that yesterday was the birthday of Gerry Mulligan. He would have been 90. On the occasion, Franca Mulligan sent news about an ... read more
  AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2017-04-08
  Become Wind
  I have a rare NYC performance next week, and, even rarer, a NYC world premiere. The ensemble Contemporaneous, led by Bard graduates David Bloom and Dylan Mattingly, is premiering my Cap Rock Wind for mezzo-soprano
  
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