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• Statues of famous musicians around the world – in pictures

  11-04-2017 23:17
  
  As Georgia announces a 7ft bronze statue of Tupac Shakur a week after it was revealed that he will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, here is a look at other artists who have been commemorated with statues, often with mixed results Continue reading...
  
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• Shut up, Siri

  11-04-2017 23:00
  
  You wont believe it, Eva Hesse began in a 1970 interview with Cindy Nemser. I was told by the doctor that I have the most incredible life he ever heard. Have you got tissues? The pivotal post-minimal sculptor died that year of a brain tumour at age 34. But she died as she lived, tragically, and this was apparent at a reading of her diaries at Hauser & Wirth on 12 April by the Guggenheims senior curator Jennifer Blessing and Andrew Savage, the visual artist and guitarist for the band Parquet
  
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• London exhibitions: an electrifying show at the Wellcome Collection, beautiful blue bodies at Stephen Friedman Gallery, and much more

  11-04-2017 23:00
  
  Stephan Balkenhol and Lisa Brice, Stephen Friedman Gallery (until 22 April)Both Stephan Balkenhol and Lisa Brice engage with everyday reality via the human figure, with Balkenhol and his rough-hewn painted wooden sculptures the better-known of the two. But I was especially struck by Lisa Brices 54 gouaches devoted to women in various states of undress, which process around the walls of the gallerys second space. All painted in a vivid cobalt blue, this series of self-possessed, unselfconscious
  
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• Germany marks the 500th anniversary of Luther’s Theses

  11-04-2017 23:00
  The start of the Protestant Reformation is commonly dated to 1517, when Martin Luther published his 95 Theses, supposedly nailing them to the door of the All Saints Church in Wittenberg. The quincentenary of that event is being marked in the northern German heartland, where there will be several exhibitions. Foremost among them is The Luther Effect: Protestantism500 Years in the World at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (12 April- 5 November).
  The show, which is organised by the nearby Deutsches
  
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• Dispatches from our Man at the Antarctic Biennale: a whale of a day

  11-04-2017 23:00
  
  Wednesday 22nd March: So gloomy outside porthole, rain on the sea, distant white smudge of ice, Paris slate grey morning like going to school. This place is plain nasty, absolute cruelty and indifference, the very definition of inhospitable, and it takes the maximum high romantic shift in our sensibilities to now consider it beautiful rather than just the bleakest spot on earth. No consideration whatsoever of its tourists, cares not a jot for them. Walked on deck with rain lashing the choppy oc
  
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• Art Cologne in advanced negotiations with Berlin's abc fair

  11-04-2017 23:00
  
  Art Cologne, Germanys leading art fair, is in discussions with abc art berlin contemporary to establish a new fair called Art Berlin. Both fairs have so far only acknowledged that they are in negotiations, but they look close to finalising a deal. In a letter to its exhibitors sent on Tuesday evening and an identical press release sent on Wednesday morning, abc said that Art Berlin will take place from the 14th to 17th of September 2017 in the Station in Berlin-Kreuzberg, centrally lo
  
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• Sean Kelly Gallery Now Represents Julian Charrière

  11-04-2017 22:13 via artnews.com
  New York’s Sean Kelly Gallery announced today that it now represents Julian Charrière, a Berlin–based Swiss artist whose multidisciplinary practice looks at our current geological epoch, the Anthropocene.Charrière, a former student of Olafur Eliasson, has gained attention for his research-based practice … Read More
  
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• Lawsuit against art historian over fake Rothko settled out of court

  11-04-2017 21:40
  
  The Las Vegas billionaire casino magnate Frank Fertitta has settled his claims against the Swiss art historian Oliver Wick in one of the ten lawsuits brought against the now-defunct Knoedler gallery for knowingly selling fakes. The terms of the settlement, filed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, 11 April, were not disclosed.
  Fertitta bought a fake Mark Rothko from Knoedler in 2008 for $7.2m. According to the collectors complaint, Fertitta said he agreed to buy the painting in part because
  
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• Stacking Up to Holbein: Ciprian Muresan Makes an ARTnews Palimpsest

  11-04-2017 21:08 via artnews.com
  We’re so vain, how could we resist this painstakingly produced drawing of an entire issue of ARTnews all on one sheet of paper with each page of the magazine reproduced atop the last to create a dense palimpsest?It is the work … Read More
  
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• Jeffrey Deitch Will Open a New Los Angeles Gallery in Post-MOCA Return to Hollywood

  11-04-2017 20:32 via artnews.com
  About four years after ending a tumultuous stint as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Jeffrey Deitch is back for a Hollywood sequel. This time, he’ll be opening his own gallery in a 15,000-square-foot space at 925 … Read More
  
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• He ain’t heavy, he’s Shia LaBeouf

  11-04-2017 19:38
  
  The US actor-slash-performance artist Shia LaBeouf, whose latest feature film Man Down is setting UK box office records of the wrong sort, can take comfort in his ongoing artistic collaboration with Luke Turner and Nastja Sde Rnkk. While the trio first met in Los Angeles, their story begins in London, they told the independent curator Ellen Mara De Wacheter for her new book, Co-Art: Artists on Creative Collaboration, published this month by Phaidon. LaBeouf was in Britain filming another war mo
  
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• House Republicans join fight to save NEA

  11-04-2017 19:15
  
  Bipartisan support continues to mount for the National Endowment for the Arts, which the Trump administration targeted for the axe along with 18 other independent agencies in its first budget proposal. Thirty-two members of the House of Representatives, including 11 Republicans, have signed a letter urging an increase to the agencys funding from around $148m to $155m in 2018.
  The signatories, led by the Houses Arts Caucus co-chairs Louise M. Slaughter (Democrat, New York) and Leonard Lance (Rep
  
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• No Show: The Sprawling Ab Ex Survey That Wasn’t

  11-04-2017 15:11 via artnews.com
  Beginning in early 2000, Walter Hopps (a leading curator of 20th-century art and founding director of the Menil Collection in Houston) and art historian William C. Agee began kicking around ideas for a comprehensive exhibition of Abstract Expressionist work from … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Jeff Koons x Louis Vuitton Edition

  11-04-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Artoon by Pablo Helguera, April 2017

  11-04-2017 13:43
  
  See related story: Berlin Wall gets its own protective railingFor more Artoons click here to see our online collection
  
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• Director of Poland’s Second World War Museum dismissed

  11-04-2017 12:50
  
  The Polish historian Pawel Machcewicz has been dismissed from his role as director of the newly-opened Second World War Museum in Gdansk, one of the worlds largest historical museums. The move comes shortly after a court ruling paved the way for a controversial merger with the still-unbuilt Westerplatte Museum, allowing Polands right-wing PiS government to create a new state-sanctioned institution. On 6 April, Polands minister of culture, Piotr Glinski, appointed Karol Nawrocki as the
  
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• Bruce Nauman's sound piece returns to Tate Modern's Turbine Hall

  11-04-2017 12:41
  
  The US artist Bruce Naumans sound installation Raw Materials gets a second outing at Tate Modern in London next month, 13 years after it was first aired in the Turbine Hall. The work, comprising 22 fragments of speech recorded over 40 years and transmitted from 22 speakers, was commissioned for the Turbine Halls Unilever Series in 2004. According to a press statement, visitors are encouraged to listen rather than look, as a discord of voices relay incessant thoughts, exclamatory commands a
  
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• Master and servant: how Tania Bruguera is using Beckett to dismantle power

  11-04-2017 12:40
  
  Artist Tania Bruguera knows about power struggles: she’s been jailed and says she’ll run for the Cuban presidency. So the co-dependency in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame makes it the perfect play for her directorial debutLater this month, visitors to a 17th-century monastery in Porto, Portugal will venture through a forest of scaffolding, climb stairs to take their seats and place their heads through holes in a giant piece of fabric. Below this circle of disembodied faces, an actor w
  
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• ‘Art is my weapon’: meet the Turkish artist taking on Erdoğan

  11-04-2017 08:00
  
  Ekin Onat’s project for the Venice Biennale sensationally exposes police brutality and political revolt in Turkey. As the country prepares for a historic referendum, Onat explains why she faces exileIt started, somewhat innocuously, with a tree. Ekin Onat waves a hand across Gezi Park in central Istanbul, on a bright but quiet Saturday morning, pinpointing the recent history of protest that galvanised all but two of Turkey’s 81 provinces in the spring of 2013.“A tree! Green spa
  
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• untitled(in the beginning we had the family and at the end we will have the family. you can’t reason with the family. you can’t reason with the head of the table. we will have the family on mars. we will fornicate on the red planet and populate it. we

  11-04-2017 02:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  the frost giant was not seeing where he was. he didn’t know how he got there. he was in the desert. the desert wasn’t his climate. he was in nature. he had a meeting with elon musk. he didn’t believe in the future. he thought everything had already happened. they saw he was not the one who knew what was coming. he was someone else. he wanted to make them happy. the frost giant said he loved them like a sociopath who tells everyone what they want to hear and then molests them. t
  
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