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• To break through the Modernist cube: on Lygia Pape at the Met Breuer

  20-04-2017 23:00
  
  About halfway through A Multitude of Forms, Lygia Papes first career survey in the United States (on now at the Met Breuer), viewers encounter a projected video of a vast white cloth cut with holes from which dozens of smiling faces poke through. The undulant mass of people and fabric move as a collective volume, enacting a poetic reconciliation of body and canvas, figure and ground. Titled Divisor (Divider), this participatory work is an obvious highlight of the exhibitionso much so, in fact,
  
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• Nowhere to hide: new tool brings technical firepower to the fight against fraudsters

  20-04-2017 23:00
  
  A new platform launching this month from Art Fraud Insights seeks to clean up the unregulated online art marketplace by hunting down fakes, forgeries and copyright infringement. The Art and Artistic Legacy Protection (AALP) service will work with artists and artist-endowed foundations to scour the darkest corners of the internet for bogus sale listings and unauthorised copies.
  There is a vast network of highly organised internet sellers that are doing an enormous amount of volume online, says C
  
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• Moving images in Miami

  20-04-2017 23:00
  
  Faena Art has brought the Biennale de limage en mouvement (Biennale of Moving Images) to the US for the first time since the travelling event of new video and film commissions, organised by the Centre dArt Contemporain Genve, was founded in 1985. The arts non-profit is showing its choice of biennale highlights at Faena Bazaar and Park in Miami Beach (through 30 April), with a series of film screenings on weekends and seven video installations, including the Paris-based filmmaker Emilie Jouvets
  
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• Hugo Boss Prize exhibition links nature with nurture

  20-04-2017 23:00
  The Guggenheim opens the latest edition of its biennial Hugo Boss Prize show in New York this month (21 April-5 July) with new work by Anicka Yi, the 11th winner of the award. The installation will include olfactory art, a long-held interest of Yis, with works that rely on her studies of micro-organic forms and her interest in data collection. Hopefully the installation will inspire a wide and unpredictable range of responses, but one thing I think visitors might turn over in their minds after s
  
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• Dispatches from our man at the Antarctic Biennale: goodbye—until next time

  20-04-2017 23:00
  
  Wednesday 29th March: Hotel call in the 7am dark, specially chosen striped New & Lingwood shirt given me by Ed Spurr, director of Marlborough Contemporary who had been pleased to hear of my travels with their star artist Bismarck. Marvellous, we have been trying to track him down... he was last seen in Mexico... its good to hear he has been sighted in the South Pole. Crappy lobby coffee and romantic taxi up to Ushuaia airport, so nearby, clouds hanging low under the ringing mountains, the d
  
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• De Stijl factory gets a new lease of life in time for art movement's centenary

  20-04-2017 23:00
  
  The only industrial building designed by Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964), the Dutch designer and architect associated with the De Stijl movement, sat empty for nearly a decade before its current owner bought it and set about bringing it back to life. Fast forward two years and not only has the former textile factory in Bergeijk, a city in the Netherlandss Noord-Brabant province, undergone a sympathetic restoration, but a visitors centre devoted to the buildings celebrated designers is due to open t
  
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• Ashley Bickerton gets ornamentally hysterical with Damien Hirst

  20-04-2017 23:00
  
  According to Ashley Bickerton, Ornamental Hysteria, the title of his new exhibition at Damien Hirsts Newport St Gallery, means absolutely nothing. And agreeing on a name for the show was by far the hardest thing in what he describes as his and Hirsts lengthy and deep collaboration over the show. We went back and forth a million times; I wanted it to be called Bastard Tongues after my Dads book [Bickertons father is the eminent linguist Derek Bickerton] but Damien said he wasn't having Bastard w
  
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• Art Brussels courts ‘a sophisticated audience’

  20-04-2017 23:00
  
  Now in its 35th year, Art Brussels opens its doors to the public today (until 23 April), with an aim to cementing the citys growing reputation as both an incubator for the avant-garde and as a European market leader for Modern and contemporary art.
  Those goals are reflected in the fairs Discovery and Rediscovery theme. Of the 144 galleries exhibiting, 30 are showcasing work produced in the last three years by young, emerging and lesser-known artists. A further nine booths are dedicated to works
  
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• World's largest collection of rock art at risk, Australian senators told

  20-04-2017 22:53
  
  Irreplaceable Indigenous art in Western Australia has been vandalised and is under threat from emissions from a proposed fertiliser plant, inquiry hearsIrreplaceable Indigenous rock art at a site in remote Western Australia has been vandalised with graffiti, treated with contempt by outsiders, and placed under threat by an invasive weed, an inquiry has heard.Murujuga, commonly known as the Burrup peninsula near Karratha, holds the largest concentration of ancient rock art in the world – 2,
  
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• O Say Can You See? Olafur Eliasson Expands His Investigation of How and What We See

  20-04-2017 19:46 via artnews.com
  Through April 22, at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York Read More
  
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• Jef Geys at Essex Street, New York

  20-04-2017 18:50 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Don't look now: the artists who turn their backs on the world

  20-04-2017 17:57
  
  Stanley Brouwn had books about his work pulped, Cady Noland plagues anyone trying to sell or show hers … even in this oversharing, celebrity-driven age, some artists refuse to play to the gallery
  Making art is not enough. Today, artists are expected to promote themselves. They have to rub shoulders with supermodels at the big art fairs and gladhand movie stars at glitzy summer parties. But in his new collection of essays, Tell Them I Said No, the art critic Martin Herbert focuses on the o
  
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• Christie’s to Offer Brancusi Bronze at May Imp-Mod Evening Sale That Could Sell for $30 M.

  20-04-2017 16:00 via artnews.com
  The auction consignments keep rolling in. After Sotheby’s and Phillips revealed possible record-breakers in the realm of contemporary yesterday, Christie’s has announced a major lot that could lead its Impressionist and modern evening sale this May. A 1913 bronze cast of Constantin … Read More
  
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• Frieze sculpture park to open in London this summer

  20-04-2017 15:52
  
  Frieze art fair, which takes place in autumn in London, is extending its presence into the summer months with the opening of its sculpture park in July. For the past two years, large-scale works have been installed in Regents Park to coincide with the start of Frieze in October and have remained in situ until the following January.
   
  Dubbed Londons largest outdoor exhibition, this years sculpture park will feature works by 23 artists from the 20th and 21st centuries. They include three bus
  
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• From the Archives: A Studio Visit with Barkley L. Hendricks, in 2008

  20-04-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  There are passive portraits, where subjects blankly look off in the distance, and then there are Barkley L. Hendricks’s paintings. His subjects, many of whom are black, stare directly at viewers, their eyes locked on the viewer’s face, as if … Read More
  
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• A Muse Mentored: Art by Farrah Fawcett Goes on View in Texas

  20-04-2017 15:20 via artnews.com
  A legendary red swimsuit poster that sold in the millions and her role as a fetching detective on Charlie’s Angels established Farrah Fawcett as a sex symbol of the 1970s—long-limbed, feather-haired, often beaming with a thousand-watt smile. Despite a lengthy … Read More
  
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• Stedelijk Museum Names Karen Archey Curator of Contemporary Art for Time-Based Media

  20-04-2017 15:07 via artnews.com
  After three years at e-flux, Karen Archey is now the curator of contemporary art, time-based media at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.Archey joined e-flux in 2014. In her tenure there, she founded the organizations’s conversations website, where users can discuss … Read More
  
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• Marlborough Contemporary Now Represents Ahmed Alsoudani

  20-04-2017 15:01 via artnews.com
  Two months after Marlborough Chelsea took over the programming of the second floor of the Marlborough flagship space in London, and rechristened the two-continent enterprise Marlborough Contemporary, they’ve added a new artist to the roster: Ahmed Alsoudani, the Iraq-born, New … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Watson as Curatorial Advisor Edition

  20-04-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Ashley Bickerton comes full circle with first UK retrospective at Damien Hirst’s gallery

  20-04-2017 14:25
  
  When Ashley Bickerton first met Damien Hirst in New York in the late 1980s, his initial reaction was Who the hell is this obnoxious little monster? But horror quickly gave way to pleasure, Bickerton says, and the pair soon became close friends.
   
  Around 30 years later, Bickerton is opening his first major retrospective in the UK thanks to Hirst, who has been collecting the artists work since the early 2000s. Ornamental Hysteria (21 April-20 August) features 50 works spanning more than
  
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• Major exhibition on the Hajj planned for Abu Dhabi this autumn

  20-04-2017 13:06
  
  A major exhibition on the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia that every Muslim must make, is due to open in Abu Dhabi this autumn, focusing on the challenges faced by Emirati pilgrims who make their way to Islams holiest site. The show, titled Hajj: Memories of a Journey (opens 20 September), will be held in the grounds of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque and is due to open 20 September. The Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority is backing the exhibition. Its spokeswoman s
  
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• When Ancient Athenians Tried To Make Athens Great Again

  20-04-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Twenty-four centuries ago, Athens was upended by the outcome of a vote that is worth revisiting today. A war-weary citizenry, raised on democratic exceptionalism but disillusioned by its leaders, wanted to feel great again—a recipe for unease and raw vindictiveness, then as now. The populace had no strongman to turn to, ready with promises that the polis would soon be winning, winning like never before. But hanging around the agora, volubly engaging residents of every rank, was someone to
  
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