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• Para Site's new cookbook serves up wry recipes

  03-05-2017 23:17
  
  Hong Kongs native Cantonese cuisine is often considered to be adventurous even for Chinese palates, but the new cookbook The Unappropriated Recipes produced by the celebrated non-profit gallery Para Site pushes the citys culinary envelope even further. The project generated funding on Kickstarter last year, and solicited recipes from 80 of its staff, board members, regular artists, and Asian art world figures including Ming Wong, Lee Kit and Christina Li. While some of the recipes
  
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• That time the Met passed on a $75 Arbus photo

  03-05-2017 23:00
  
  The photography of Diane Arbus always draws crowds, and a new show of her works entitled In the Park at Lvy Gorvy gallery on Madison Avenue (until 24 June) is no exception. Arbus took all of the images in Central Park and Washington Square Park, capturing the hard core lesbians and winos, as she described them, who roamed Manhattans green spaces in the 1960s. The photographer Neil Selkirkthe only person authorised to make posthumous prints of her workprovided plenty of pithy insights at the priv
  
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• Pop-up love at ZAP shop and sisterly remembrance at Bonhams’s Jackie Collins auction

  03-05-2017 23:00
  
  Its a well known fact that the art world runs on relationships of all flavours. And when times are lean and public funding is on the dwindle, it makes sense to get collegiate. This was certainly the ethos underpinning at last nights (3 May) grand opening of the ZAP shop in a prime Mayfair premises just a couple of doors down from Thaddaeus Ropacs palatial new gallery on Dover Street. Leading UK institutions including the Liverpool Biennial, Glasgow International, the Baltic in Gateshead, and Lo
  
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• Non-dom art collectors in UK could be hit with new taxes

  03-05-2017 23:00
  
  UK-based art collectors should be looking carefully at new tax rules that came into force on 6 April. The rules, which have largely gone unnoticed except by tax specialists, apply to resident non-domiciled individuals (non-doms) who have lived in the UK for a long time but have a permanent home elsewhere. They could now be liable for tax on any art they sell, even if it is held outside the UK.
  Previously, if non-doms claimed the so-called remittance basis, an alternative tax treatment, they pai
  
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• Minneapolis Institute of Art unveils new-look period rooms

  03-05-2017 23:00
  
  When you enter a period room, you are invited to feel like you have been transported to a real place where a real person once lived. But the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) wants you to know that may not be the case. On 22 April, the institution unveiled an unorthodox overhaul of six of its 17 period rooms as part of an ongoing initiative to change the way the public thinks about these spaces.
  Until recently, Miaone of the first US museums to bring period rooms into its collection in the ear
  
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• Galleries showing historic feminist and politically minded artists win Frieze stand prizes

  03-05-2017 23:00
  
  Frieze announced the winners of its stand prizes on Thursday, 4 May. The jury composed of Lacmas Rita Gonzalez, Stefan Kalmr of Londons Institute of Contemporary Art, and Eva Respini of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Bostonto two New York galleries. Simone Subal Gallery won the prize for a gallery operating for fewer than 12 years for its solo presentation of works by the Austrian-born artist Kiki Kogelnik. And PPOW, showing in the main sector, was recognised for a group presentation of art
  
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• Damien Hirst turns film-maker for Venice show

  03-05-2017 23:00
  
  The British artist Damien Hirst has turned underwater film-maker. To mark the staging of Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, his colossal two-venue exhibition in Venice, Hirst will present a new documentary of the same name that tells the story of the mammoth undertaking, possibly inspired by the films of the late scuba-diving French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau. The 85-minute film, directed by Sam Hobkinson, features the artist and is expected to include scenes charting the recover
  
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• A. R. Penck, Neo-Expressionist Painter Whose Work Reflected on the Postwar German Condition, Dies at 77

  03-05-2017 22:33 via artnews.com
  In 1985, A. R. Penck told curator Klaus Ottmann that he didn’t miss East Germany, where he had been born in 1939 and from which he was exiled in 1961. East Germany, Penck said, “disappeared in a black hole”—it was … Read More
  
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• Portrait of the Artist as a Collector: On Claude Simard’s Cabinet of Curiosities

  03-05-2017 17:43 via artnews.com
  Two years ago, New York Times co-chief art critic Holland Cotter lamented that in 2014 “we lost two of our most imaginative New York gallerists: Hudson, founder of Feature Inc., and Claude Simard, co-director of Shainman Gallery.” Both of them … Read More
  
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• Turner prize 2017: a cosmopolitan rebuff to Brexit provincialism

  03-05-2017 17:13
  
  Amid all the rule changes, Lubaina Himid is surely the favourite to win British art’s most important prize this year The 2017 Turner prize shortlist is unexpected and refreshing, not least because of the welcome relaxation of the rule that previously disbarred artists over 50 – a rule designed, I believe, to prevent older artists dominating through seniority alone.Related: Older artists on Turner prize shortlist after it axes upper age limitRelated: Turner prize: artists over 50 will
  
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• Dia Art Foundation Acquires Paintings by Brice Marden

  03-05-2017 16:00 via artnews.com
  The Dia Art Foundation, active of late with efforts to add to its iconic collection of Minimalist and Post-Minimalist American art, has acquired six paintings by Brice Marden, all made between 1971 and 1991. One of the works, Cold Mountain … Read More
  
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• Preview Frieze New York 2017

  03-05-2017 15:28 via artnews.com
  The sixth edition of Frieze New York opens to the public on Friday, May 5, with a preview day on Thursday, May 4. The fair will bring together more than 200 galleries from 31 countries to Randall’s Island Park, located … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Turner Prize Finalists Edition

  03-05-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Older artists on Turner prize shortlist after it removes upper age limit

  03-05-2017 13:12
  
  Lubaina Himid, Rosalind Nashashibi, Hurvin Anderson and Andrea Büttner earn place on list as contest relaxes rulesA noticeably more mature Turner prize shortlist has been announced after organisers abandoned age restrictions and acknowledged that artists of any age can have breakthrough moments.The four artists range in age from 43 to 62 after a decision was taken to drop the upper age limit of 50, which had been in place since 1991. Continue reading...
  
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• Older artists on Turner prize shortlist after it axes upper age limit

  03-05-2017 13:12
  
  Lubaina Himid, Rosalind Nashashibi, Hurvin Anderson and Andrea Büttner earn place on list as contest relaxes rulesA noticeably more mature Turner prize shortlist has been announced after organisers abandoned age restrictions and acknowledged that artists of any age can have breakthrough moments. Related: Turner prize: artists over 50 will now be eligible for prestigious awardContinue reading...
  
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• Larry Sultan: the artist-in-residence for America's middle-class suburbia

  03-05-2017 13:00
  
  A look at the artist and the teacher as two of his collections wrap up a national tour at San Francisco’s MOMAThe poet Robert Frost said there are two kinds of teachers: “The kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.” By all accounts, Larry Sultan was the second kind. An accomplished photographer with works in the permanent collections of museums like the Tate Modern, th
  
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• Turner Prize shortlist dominated by painters and older artists as Tate lifts age limit

  03-05-2017 12:47
  
  The 2017 Turner Prize shortlist, announced today, 3 May, immediately reflected the Tates recent decision to lift the age limit of the shortlisted artists. Since 1991, artists over 50 have been excluded from the prize, but this years shortlist includes the painter Hurvin Anderson, 52, and another painter and multimedia artist, Lubaina Himid, who is 62. Announcing the shortlist, Alex Farquharson, Tate Britains director, says: The upper age limit originally helped the prize define itself as an awa
  
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• Heroic British women swimming figures who deserve statues

  03-05-2017 11:32
  
  With the exception of mermaids – an excuse to put a bronze topless women in public – there are not enough tributes to inspirational women in the world of swimming …The recent news that there is finally to be a statue of a woman in Parliament Square – the suffragist Millicent Fawcett – got me thinking. Which woman would I choose to make a statue of, and where would I put her? Well, she would definitely be swimming-related, and definitely not remotely royal or fictio
  
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