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• Richard Gray Gallery opens new warehouse space in West Town, Chicago

  01-05-2017 23:00
  
  The Richard Gray Gallery, founded by the veteran dealer in Chicago in 1963, has expanded to a 5,000 sq. ft warehouse space in an industrial corridor a few miles west of the citys downtown. The inaugural show is dedicated to new work by the artist Jim Dine, while a concurrent exhibition of his painting and drawings from the 1960s opens in the gallerys New York outpost this week (both until 10 June).
  When the Chicago gallery started to grow its contemporary art programme, the partners Valerie Car
  
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• Object Lessons: a Western classic offered with its featured subject, a Roman-inspired glass dish by Carlo Scarpa and a netsuke from a vanguard collector

  01-05-2017 23:00
  
  DallasHeritage Auctions3 May: American Art Signature AuctionThe Pottery Connoisseur (around 1930) by Eanger Irving Couse, with jar from the Zia Pueblo(est. $100,000-$150,000)Couse trained at the Acadmie Julien but ultimately left Paris behind for New Mexico, where he became the founding president of the Taos Society of Artists and a noted painter of Native American subjects. As an added bonus to this prime example the auction house will offer one of the original jars depicted in this work, whic
  
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• Gallery Weekend Berlin gets serious

  01-05-2017 23:00
  
  This year's 13th edition of Gallery Weekend (April 28-30) was characterised by serious, historic, and contemplative proposals by 47 Berlin galleries. Setting the tone for the Gallery Weekend was a concert on Thursday evening at the new Frank Gehry-designed Pierre Boulez Saal of the Barenboim-Said Akademie, a conservatory that promotes intercultural dialogue against the backdrop of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The event marked a stark contrast to last years Gallery We
  
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• Dutch masterpieces owned by the Russian tsars to travel to Amsterdam

  01-05-2017 23:00
  
  Dutch Golden Age masterpieces from the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg are making a rare return to the Netherlands this autumn. Amassed by Russias tsars since Peter the Great, the museums collection of 17th-century Dutch paintings is the largest outside the Netherlands, with around 1,500 works. Sixty-three pieces by 50 artists are due to travel to the Hermitage Amsterdam for the first dedicated exhibition, Dutch Masters from the Hermitage: Treasures of the Tsars (7 October-27 May 2018).
  
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• Red Light District: American Folk Art Museum Celebrates Brutality at Downtown Party

  01-05-2017 22:04 via artnews.com
  The downtown bar Madame X advertises itself on its website as the “Sexiest Bar in New York City.” I am in no way qualified to comment on whether that claim has any basis in fact, even after attending Realms of … Read More
  
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• Benefit Tips from the Great Beyond: Pioneer Works Throws a Village Fete in Brooklyn

  01-05-2017 22:02 via artnews.com
  Most galas make time for remarks from artists and auctioneers, but maybe only one seems a sensible setting for a mic drop by an astronaut. Not an actual mic drop—he was too reserved for that, as befits someone who has successfully … Read More
  
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• ‘Remembrance: Gay Chicano Art’ at Quarter Gallery, Minneapolis

  01-05-2017 21:53 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• El Museo del Barrio Names Patrick Charpenel Executive Director

  01-05-2017 20:55 via artnews.com
  Patrick Charpenel will be the new executive director of El Museo del Barrio in New York.Charpenel is a Mexico City–based curator who has worked extensively in Mexico as well as internationally. He organized a Gabriel Orozco retrospective at the Museo … Read More
  
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• Getting Their House in Order: How a ‘Reloaded’ Christie’s Built a Near-$500 M. Sale

  01-05-2017 19:52 via artnews.com
  After a macher’s departure, a CEO switch, and a slip in its dominance, Christie’s contemporary seeks a new equilibrium Read More
  
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• Zhao Zhao is Now Represented by Roberts & Tilton

  01-05-2017 19:07 via artnews.com
  Roberts & Tilton gallery in Los Angeles announced today that it now represents the Chinese artist Zhao Zhao. He will have his second show with the gallery in spring 2018.Zhao’s multifaceted practice takes the rapidly changing socio-political landscape of China … Read More
  
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• Wassan Al-Khudhairi Appointed Chief Curator of Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

  01-05-2017 18:26 via artnews.com
  After its former chief curator, Jeffrey Uslip, resigned amidst controversy surrounding Kelley Walker works featuring images of African-Americans, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis has found a new chief curator: Wassan Al-Khudhairi. She begins at the museum on August 1, … Read More
  
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• Cornelia Parker is the first conceptual election artist – what will she do?

  01-05-2017 17:45
  
  The Turner-nominated sculptor and installation artist will provide a visual record of this spring’s snap election. Here’s who took on the quirky role before her and what they createdThe first artist to cover a British election was probably William Hogarth, whose series of paintings of the 1754 general election show voters being bribed with money, oysters and booze in a spectacular carnival of corruption. Hogarth, however, was a maverick satirist, not an official, accredited
  
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• Video: Mira Dancy in the Studio

  01-05-2017 17:00 via artnews.com
  Women lounge, pose, and, more than anything else, stare you down with insouciant confidence in Mira Dancy’s paintings. These models are often nude, and they always inhabit resplendently colored environments, surrounded by slashes and planes of raspberry, cranberry, blueberry. Her works have the … Read More
  
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• Frieze Week 2017: A User’s Guide to the Fairs

  01-05-2017 15:02 via artnews.com
  Beginning Monday, May 1, the New York art world will be filled with action as galleries prep shows, auction houses ready previews, and art fairs swing open their doors for a week with the Frieze New York art fair at its center. Frieze opens to … Read More
  
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• Madison Square Park Conservancy and School of Visual Arts Plan Symposium on Public Art

  01-05-2017 15:01 via artnews.com
  For the third year in a row, New York’s Madison Square Park Conservancy and the School of Visual Arts will co-present a symposium about public art. The event will be held in Madison Square Park on June 2 and is … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Met Gala Edition

  01-05-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• National Trust to display rescued Arts and Crafts De Morgan collection

  01-05-2017 09:00
  
  Paintings and ceramics by William and Evelyn de Morgan to go on display at new gallery at Wightwick ManorMore than 70 years after the owner of a mansion in Wolverhampton volunteered to rescue an internationally important collection of paintings and ceramics, the offer has been accepted, and the homeless De Morgan collection is about to go on display in a new gallery.For at least the next 10 years, the gallery will be a showcase for the beautiful ceramics and dreamy paintings by the Arts and Craf
  
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• Cornelia Parker named as official artist of 2017 general election

  01-05-2017 01:01
  
  Turner-nominated RA member, who will produce work of art about election, is first woman to take on role created in 2001Cornelia Parker, who once said of her art, “I resurrect things that have been killed off,” has been named the official artist for the 2017 general election, and is the first woman to take on the role. Related: Cornelia Parker, Stuart Maconie and more on the axing of A-level art historyContinue reading...
  
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