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• An-My Lê at Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris

  02-05-2017 23:39 via artnews.com
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• Why try to fix the Turner Prize when it ain’t broke?

  02-05-2017 23:00
  
  This years Turner Prize shortlist marks the most significant shift in the award for 25 years: the age limit of 50, established in 1991 and in place ever since, has been abolished. In a press conference on 3 May, the jurys chair and Tate Britains director, Alex Farquharson, said that age limit originally helped the prize define itself as an award for a breakthrough moment in a more emerging artists career. But now this remit is so well established, I think we can safely acknowledge that artists
  
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• Students leave pencil marks on ancient sculptures at the British Museum

  02-05-2017 23:00
  
  The British Museum has more than 50 incidents a year of pencil graffiti on its ancient sculptures. The London museum uses the term graffiti to refer to any marks drawn by visitors (not just written letters), and in most cases they are accidentally applied, usually by schoolchildren. Pencil is removable, but with one case a week, this raises serious concerns about the protection of the collection and the way the galleries are monitored.
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• Pop goes the yacht: Roy Lichtenstein’s designs for America’s Cup sail to Vermont

  02-05-2017 23:00
  
  The hull of a sailing ship painted by Roy Lichtenstein for the 1995 Americas Cup in San Diego, California, is the star of a show opening this month at the Middlebury College Museum of Art in Vermont, timed to coincide with this year's sailing race, which launches in Bermuda on 26 May.Young America: Roy Lichtenstein and the America's Cup (26 May-13 August) brings together, for the first time, models and a drawing of the design alongside the vessel itself. It also includes the premiere of a new f
  
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• Kaari Upson: unfinished artist

  02-05-2017 23:00
  
  Kaari Upson: Good Thing You Are Not Alone
  New Museum
  Until 10 SeptemberTalking to Kaari Upson is like looking at one of her wall-sized drawings. One idea leads to another, tangents splinter down unexpected paths, you travel forward and backward in time simultaneously, and suddenly youre back to the start and a picture starts to form. This seems to match her artistic practice, where drawings and videos and sculptures develop from and feed into another. For her show at the New Museum, the Los Ang
  
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• Great art in the great outdoors

  02-05-2017 23:00
  
  Spring has sprungand with it a fresh crop of public and outdoor art projects across New York. This is a special year for such work as it is the 40th anniversary of the Public Art Fund, a non-profit body founded in 1977 by Doris C. FreedmanNew Yorks first director of cultural affairswith the aim of turning the city into an open platform for contemporary art. Public art is a reflection of a vibrant and open democratic city that values creativity and individual expression, says Nicholas Baume, the
  
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• Great art in New York's great outdoors

  02-05-2017 23:00
  
  Spring has sprungand with it a fresh crop of public and outdoor art projects across New York. This is a special year for such work as it is the 40th anniversary of the Public Art Fund, a non-profit body founded in 1977 by Doris C. FreedmanNew Yorks first director of cultural affairswith the aim of turning the city into an open platform for contemporary art. Public art is a reflection of a vibrant and open democratic city that values creativity and individual expression, says Nicholas Baume, the
  
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• Exhibitions: from Annette Messager’s uterus wallpaper to David Batchelor’s mists of colour in London, via an African art odyssey in Paris

  02-05-2017 23:00
  
  Annette Messager: Avec et sans raisons, Marian Goodman Gallery, London (until 27 May)Annette Messager may now be in her 70s but shes more exuberant than ever. In this gathering of rumbustious recent work, the everyday turns nasty and body parts run riot. Floppy figures made from flaccid stockings cling pathetically to outsized objectsscissors, a hammer, earphones, a handbag that are sown out of shiny black leatherette and dangle from the ceiling, with their sadomasochistic undertones amplified
  
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• Black Mirror brings nightmare vision to Barbican’s sci-fi show

  02-05-2017 23:00
  
  Fans of the cult UK television series Black Mirrorwriter Charlie Brooker's powerful exploration of the jet-black underbelly of technologycan immerse themselves in an episode entitled 15 Million Merits in an exhibition due to open at Londons Barbican Centre next month (Into the Unknown: a Journey through Science Fiction, 3 June-1 September). A 6ft-high video installation will fill the main entrance, showing spliced segments from the episode, which depicts a hellish future in which citi
  
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• Naked man in a box who crashed the Met gala is arrested

  02-05-2017 22:40
  
  A naked Russian performance artist who had himself encased in a transparent plastic box and dropped on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum last night while celebrities arrived on the red carpet for the Costume Institutes annual gala. He was arrested by polices and is facing charges of public lewdness, obstructing governmental administration, criminal trespass and disorderly conduct, according to the New York Daily News.In a video posted on his Facebook profile, Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich is show
  
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• ‘A Lot of Naked Ladies, That Kind of Stuff’: John Currin on the Drawings Behind the Paintings, on View for the First Time at Frieze New York

  02-05-2017 21:42 via artnews.com
  After accidentally calling his wife (“Our numbers are very similar,” said Rachel Feinstein) and then catching him while he was stuck in traffic, I got John Currin on the horn last week via the landline at his studio in the Flatiron neighborhood … Read More
  
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• Jordan Wolfson review – shock jock with a baseball bat

  02-05-2017 20:00
  
  A giant marionette dangles on a chain, rats smoke, a boy dances in urine and the artist beats a man to death ... a controversial new show explodes in a frenzy of cartoon sex and violence A virtual reality headset over my eyes, headphones over my ears, a gallery assistant helps me grab the metal bar screwed to the plinth. “Hold on tight,” she says. Waiting in line, I watched a woman shudder, nearly overturning the plinth. Another ahead of me shook her head, trying to look somewhere el
  
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• Let’s Get Real: Tisch Abelow on Jordan Wolfson’s ‘Real Violence’ at the Whitney Biennial

  02-05-2017 19:37 via artnews.com
  I don’t want to talk about Jordan Wolfson’s virtual reality simulation Real Violence (2017), but I fear we need to.My first exposure to Wolfson’s work was in 2012, when he presented his CGI video Animation, masks (2011) at Alex Zachary … Read More
  
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• Cornelia takes on Corbyn and May

  02-05-2017 17:41
  
  Cornelia Parker has taken on the rather daunting role of official UK election artist, and has agreed to produce a work by September in response to the election campaign culminating in the vote on 8 June. How Parker will interpret the aims and antics of party leaders Theresa May (Conservatives), Jeremy Corbyn (Labour) and Tim Farron (Liberal Democrats) remains to be seen. She says in a statement however that "we live in scary but exhilarating times. The whole world order seems to be changing." Th
  
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• NEA and other culture agencies spared the axe

  02-05-2017 17:38
  
  A bipartisan spending bill that is expected to be passed by the US Congress this week not only preserves but increases funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
  The NEA and the NEH are both set to received $150m in 2017, a $2m boost over last year. The Institute of Museum and Library Services will also see a $1m increase in its budget, bringing it to $231m, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will also keep its funding.The agencies we
  
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• Dan Byers Named Director of Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

  02-05-2017 17:32 via artnews.com
  After about two and a half years as senior curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Dan Byers is headed five miles west-northwest to Cambridge to serve as director of Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.Byers will … Read More
  
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• The ARTnews Accord: Alanna Heiss and Massimiliano Gioni in Conversation

  02-05-2017 15:55 via artnews.com
  The New Museum in downtown New York turned 40 at the beginning of this year. P.S. 1, an upstart art center with similarly progressive roots, marked the same occasion in 2016. Massimiliano Gioni, artistic director of the New Museum, has … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Mysterious Alice Neel Portrait Edition

  02-05-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• French cultural groups organise anti-Le Pen rally

  02-05-2017 12:44
  
  A citizens' rally, Culture against the Front National, is taking place this evening, 2 May, at the Philharmonie de Paris in protest against Marine Le Pen's presidential bid.Orlan, one of the artists attending the rally, has made an anti-Le Pen declaration calling on people to vote for the centrist Emmanuel Macron. Let's barricade Le Pen who makes references to tradition, although there are nice and festive traditions, Orlan says.Accusing Le Pen of being against freedom of expression, she says:&
  
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• Imitation Rain Room to feature in Shanghai's newest entertainment park

  02-05-2017 11:39
  
  Along with Virtual Reality and 3D games, an ice world, a ball pit and a climbing wall, Shanghais vast new entertainment complex, Family Happy Dream Park, will also feature areas modelled after Random Internationals Rain Room and Yayoi Kusamas red-and-white Dots Obsession when it opens later this month. The materials are different, we focus on immersive experience instead of an exhibition, says the centres brand manager Emy Zou. She says the organisers did not worry about copyright, because
  
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• Rhône glacier installation by Noémie Goudal – in pictures

  02-05-2017 08:05
  
  The Rhône glacier in the Swiss Alps is shrinking due to climate change. Artist Noémie Goudal produced and photographed an installation of the changing landscape for Project Pressure Continue reading...
  
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