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• An Ode to Print Media, Preserved in Fine Form by Kirsten Pieroth at Office Baroque’s Frieze Booth

  04-05-2017 23:53 via artnews.com
  Print media has been preserved! Or at least it has been in a work by Kirsten Pieroth at the Frieze booth for the Brussels-based gallery Office Baroque.For Untitled (The Wall Street Journal), 2015, Pieroth took copies of the titular publication—crinkly … Read More
  
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• Winner winner chicken dinner: Bridget Donahue awarded Frieze Frame Prize

  04-05-2017 23:00
  
  Bridget Donahue gallerys presentation of works by Susan Cianciolo (B25) has won Friezes prize for best in show at the fairs Frame section, which features galleries under eight years old. The award carries a $7,500 honorarium, sponsored by Stella Artois.The booth includes a series of drawings, collages and sculptures that Cianciolo made over the last 20 years and is timed to coincide with the current Whitney Biennial. Earlier in the biennials run, the museum re-staged her 2001 project Run Restau
  
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• NY hearts Giorno

  04-05-2017 23:00
  
  An ambitious citywide festival celebrating the life and work of the poet and artist John Giorno, part of the Beat Generation of writers who collaborated with artists such as Andy Warhol, is due to launch on 21 June across New York. The 13-venue project, marking Giornos 80th birthday, is organised by his husband, the Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone. The New Museum, Rubin Museum of Art and Swiss Institute are among the venues participating in Ugo Rondinone: IJohn Giorno. Portraits of Giorno by Elizabe
  
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• Museums show limited interest in borrowing Parthenon Marbles

  04-05-2017 23:00
  
  The British Museum has received only a single request to borrow one of the Parthenon Marbles since the sensational loan of a sculpture to Russia in December 2014. The pediment sculpture of the river god Ilissos (around 438-432BC) was lent for six weeks to the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, where it was seen by 136,000 visitors. It was the first time that any of the Parthenon Marbles had left the British Museum since arriving in London in 1807.
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• MoMA collection takes a Paris vacation

  04-05-2017 23:00
  
  In a landmark exchange, the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) is lending 200 works of art to the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris for an exhibition opening this autumn. Etre Moderne: Le MoMAParis (11 October-5 march 2018) will present key works from all six MoMA departments, including examples by Paul Czanne, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso and Ellsworth Kelly. Some works, like Andy Warhols 32-part Campbell's Soup Cans (1962), have never before been shown in France. The show will occupy the
  
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• Magnum Photos celebrates 70 years in New York with a show of 250 works

  04-05-2017 23:00
  It is the most famous photography agency in the world. Just the nameMagnumconjures up images that echo back to its founding in 1947 by a group including Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa. Risk-taking, excellence, machismo, glamourand of course, champagne. Being invited to join still makes any photographer a member of the ultimate club.To celebrate the agencys 70th anniversary, the International Center of Photography in New York (ICP) is hosting a major exhibition. The result of five years of
  
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• Magnum Photos celebrates 70 years in New York

  04-05-2017 23:00
  It is the most famous photography agency in the world. Just the nameMagnumconjures up images that echo back to its founding in 1947 by a group including Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa. Risk-taking, excellence, machismo, glamourand of course, champagne. Being invited to join still makes any photographer a member of the ultimate club.To celebrate the agencys 70th anniversary, the International Center of Photography in New York (ICP) is hosting a major exhibition. The result of five years o
  
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• How Matisse helped Diebenkorn calm his ‘rage at human nature’

  04-05-2017 23:00
  
  Anyone passingly familiar with the art of Richard Diebenkorn knows of his acknowledged debt to Henri Matisse. The exhibition Matisse/Diebenkorn at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) tallies that debt as no other curatorial project has before, thematically grouping 100 paintings (40 by Matisse, 60 by Diebenkorn) and a few drawings by the two, who never met.Despite the bounty of exemplary works that it contains, Matisse/Diebenkorn generates an uneasy mood that we might call the anxie
  
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• Hokusai’s late style comes into view at the British Museum

  04-05-2017 23:00
  The British Museums exhibition Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave, which opens this month, offers a fresh perspective on the Japanese artist by focusing on the last 30 years of his life. Hokusai (1760-1849)who lived until he was 89, working prodigiously right to the endclaimed to have started painting at the age of six. Altogether he produced 3,000 colour prints and nearly 1,000 surviving paintings.Hokusai had an eventful life. In 1807, he was called before shogun Tokugawa Ienari to demonstrate his
  
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• Giacometti’s Women of Venice sculptures restored and reunited for Tate Modern show

  04-05-2017 23:00
  
  Bronze editions of Alberto Giacomettis Women of Venice can be found in major museums across the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. But what happened to the six plaster originals, first shown in the French pavilion at the 1956 Venice Biennale, that were used to cast these bronzes?
  In pieces and too fragile to go on display, they sat in the storeroom of the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti in Paris for decades. Tomorrow (10 May), t
  
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• Giacometti’s Women of Venice plaster sculptures restored and reunited for major Tate Modern show

  04-05-2017 23:00
  
  Bronze editions of Alberto Giacomettis Women of Venice can be found in major museums across the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. But what happened to the six plaster originals, first shown in the French pavilion at the 1956 Venice Biennale, that were used to cast these bronzes?
  In pieces and too fragile to go on display, they sat in the storeroom of the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti in Paris for decades. This month, thanks t
  
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• Giacometti’s Venice Biennale sculptures reunited for first time in 60 years

  04-05-2017 23:00
  Alberto Giacometti is best known for his elongated, rough-textured figures in bronze, but the Tate Moderns career survey of the artists work (10 May-10 September) will present a richer picture. The showthe first major exhibition of Giacomettis work in the UK in 20 yearswill display over 250 works including bronze, clay and plaster sculptures alongside sketchbooks and paintings, with many loans from the co-organiser, the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti in Paris. While a group of his large
  
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• A life’s work: Ellsworth Kelly’s last paintings

  04-05-2017 23:00
  
  Some artists make a virtue of variety. Ellsworth Kelly made a virtue of consistency, as can be seen in an exhibition of the final nine paintings the artist finished before he died in December 2015, on show at the Matthew Marks gallery (Ellsworth Kelly: Last Paintings, 5 May-24 June). Like much of Kellys work, the pictures revisit and expand on favourite motifs, including the rainbow-band Spectrum series he inaugurated in 1953. Next door, a concurrent show of 16 of his plant drawings made betwee
  
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• Will the Real Leonardo Please Stand Up? Dora Budor Is Filling Frieze New York With DiCaprios

  04-05-2017 21:46 via artnews.com
  The crowd at Frieze New York hardly bats an eye when Leonardo DiCaprio makes his carefully low-key appearance at the annual fair on Randall’s Island. But today, starting at 11 a.m. sharp, when today’s preview event for the fair began … Read More
  
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• The Walls Can Hear: Kevin Beasley Sculptures Listen While You Look at Frieze

  04-05-2017 21:27 via artnews.com
  Watch what you say around Kevin Beasley’s sculptures in Casey Kaplan’s booth at Frieze—lest your trenchant insights and charming bon mots be broadcast in ways that could compromise. Hidden from view above fairgoers’ heads are two microphones tuned to pick … Read More
  
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• About Those Jordan Wolfson Ice Sculptures at the Creative Time Gala

  04-05-2017 20:26 via artnews.com
  There’s a glut of social affairs around this time of year, when everyone comes to New York for Frieze, and this busy calendar is buttressed by all the galas. One of the more entertaining ones is the annual fundraiser for … Read More
  
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• ‘Sheer Joy in Object Form’: The Collective Design Fair Convenes in New York

  04-05-2017 20:09 via artnews.com
  Wall text placed before the mass of booths at the newly opened Collective Design Fair in New York bears a political message from the fair’s founder, Steven Learner. Professing a mission of diversity and adaptability for an enterprise started in … Read More
  
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• Ice Cream Paint Job: Opavivará! Collective Brings Frozen Treats to Frieze

  04-05-2017 20:00 via artnews.com
    Inside of the tent containing the Frieze art fair–which opened today and takes place all weekend on Randall’s Island in New York–temperatures feel almost tropical.  So, it’s a lucky break that the Rio de Janerio gallery A Gentil Carioca brought some … Read More
  
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• At Simone Subal’s Frieze New York Booth, Kiki Kogelnik Looks at Looking at Women

  04-05-2017 19:50 via artnews.com
  Visitors to Simone Subal Gallery’s Frieze New York booth today were greeted by a mustard-yellow breast, its pointy tan nipple pointed directly at them. From far away, it may have seemed like a minimalist object. Up close, however, it was clearly … Read More
  
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• Islamic and Arab art institute opening in New York aims to challenge stereotypes

  04-05-2017 18:04
  
  The city’s first Institute of Arab and Islamic Art aims to counter misconceptions and provide a hub for exhibitions and interfaith dialogueSheikh Mohammed Rashid Al-Thani noticed something missing in New York City’s cultural institutions – there is the Swiss Institute, the Asia Society and the Jewish Museum, but there isn’t anything to represent Arab Muslim artists, until now. Related: The beauty of art can counter Islamophobia – but it won't be easyRelated: Artist
  
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• On the High Line and at Frieze, Jon Rafman Dreams of the Internet’s Darkest Corners

  04-05-2017 17:41 via artnews.com
  Jon Rafman may not be a mystic, but he believes in the mysteries of the deep internet. He’s an obsessive Googler and a frequenter of online forums—the kind of user who searches and searches, until there’s no stone left unturned, … Read More
  
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• Tate Modern names extension after oligarch donor Len Blavatnik

  04-05-2017 16:36
  
  USSR-born billionaire made one of largest donations in Tate’s history to help fund building temporarily named Switch HouseTate Modern has named its new extension the Blavatnik Building, after the USSR-born billionaire oligarch Len Blavatnik, who made one of the largest donations in Tate’s history.The building opened in June 2016 and had been temporarily named Switch House, after the part of the old power station where the new galleries stand. Continue reading...
  
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• Tate Modern names extension after billionaire Len Blavatnik

  04-05-2017 16:36
  
  USSR-born billionaire made one of largest donations in Tate’s history to help fund building temporarily named Switch HouseTate Modern has named its new extension the Blavatnik Building, after the USSR-born billionaire oligarch Len Blavatnik, who made one of the largest donations in Tate’s history.The building opened in June 2016 and had been temporarily named Switch House, after the part of the old power station where the new galleries stand. Continue reading...
  
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• Complete Coverage of Frieze Week 2017 in New York

  04-05-2017 15:10 via artnews.com
  Below, a continuously updated list of ARTnews reports from Frieze Week 2017 in New York, including interviews with artists who produced new projects for Frieze, a look around the opening of TEFAF, and more. Here’s a guide to the action.Frieze … Read More
  
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• Crossing Over: Postcommodity Flips the Script on U.S. Border Patrol

  04-05-2017 15:05 via artnews.com
  In 2012, the three-person collective Postcommodity began having conversations with United States Border Patrol officials. The artists—Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez, and Kade L. Twist—were interested in various forms of deception along the U.S.-Mexico border, but they needed an insider’s perspective. They … Read More
  
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• Tate Modern's recent extension renamed Blavatnik Building after record £50m donation

  04-05-2017 15:03
  
  Today (4 May) Tate announced that Tate Modern's new extension will be named the Blavatnik Building, after the Ukrainian-born American businessman Len Blavatnik. Although the size of the donation is not being disclosed, The Art Newspaper can report that it is over 50m. This makes it the largest-ever financial donation to a UK museum. Until now the Sainsbury family has been the most generous donor, providing 25m for the British Museums 2014 extension and over 30m for the 1991 Sainsbury
  
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• Tate Modern's extension renamed Blavatnik Building after record £50m donation

  04-05-2017 15:03
  
  Today (4 May) Tate announced that Tate Modern's new extension will be named the Blavatnik Building, after the Ukrainian-born American businessman Len Blavatnik. Although the size of the donation is not being disclosed, The Art Newspaper can report that it is over 50m. This makes it the largest-ever financial donation to a UK museum. Until now the Sainsbury family has been the most generous donor, providing 25m for the British Museums 2014 extension and over 30m for the 1991 Sainsbury
  
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• Morning Links: Leaping Structure Edition

  04-05-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Red alert: Kofi Annan on the photos that capture our choking planet

  04-05-2017 13:45
  
  From a masked Tokyo commuter in a crush to the plastic particles killing our oceans, the former UN secretary-general hails the photographers shortlisted for tonight’s space-themed Prix Pictet prizeWe are running out of space. Fly over Africa at night and you will see mile after mile of fires burning red in the dark as scrub is removed to make way for human beings. Satellite images of nocturnal Europe or America show vast areas lit up like an enormous fairground. From Shanghai to Sydney, fr
  
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• Camden Arts Centre gets first new director in almost 30 years

  04-05-2017 12:19
  
  Camden Arts Centre, one of Londons leading contemporary art venues, will get its first new director in almost three decades this autumn. Martin Clark, the British-born director of Bergen Kunsthall in Norway, will take up the role in September. He replaces the longstanding director Jenni Lomax, who is stepping down after 27 years at the helm.Before joining the Bergen Kunsthall in 2013, Clark championed international artists in the UK regions, serving as artistic director at Tate St Ives (2007-13
  
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• There’s no place like home: Frieze New York gets domestic

  04-05-2017 11:00
  
  Comparisons between the art market and real estate are often overblown, but at this years Frieze New York fair, a decidedly homey atmosphere reigns.
  Standing in the middle of Ibid Gallerys booth is a mosaic-tiled wooden cabana with a working shower by James Herman, related to his ongoing project of recycling found materials for domestic structures. Cleanliness and personal space are an interesting proposition for an art fair that can be crowded and messy, gallery director Magnus Edvardsson told
  
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• 'This was my form of language': the artist who draws cities from memory

  04-05-2017 08:30
  
  British artist Stephen Wiltshire draws detailed panoramas from memory after just a brief gaze at the cityscapes. Wiltshire is autistic, but his family and those he works with are keen to stress that he’s seen as an artist in his own rightStephen Wiltshire’s meticulously detailed panoramas are so intricate that you would be forgiven for thinking that he spent weeks closely studying the architecture of our cities. His work becomes all the more impressive when you discover that Wiltshir
  
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• In the round: centuries of circular design – in pictures

  04-05-2017 08:00
  
  A new book explores information design in the form of circles – from 18th-century musical scores to photographs of Jupiter Continue reading...
  
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• Works not to miss at Frieze New York

  04-05-2017 06:00
  
  A stairway to heaven it is not: the UK artist Cornelia Parker has transformed fragments of a staircase used by the US guitar legend Jimi Hendrix into an installation (There must be some kind of way out of here, 2016, on Frith Street Gallerys stand). The remnants of the stairs come from a house in Mayfair, London, where Hendrix lived between 1968 and 1969. Parker salvaged the painted wood pieces after the property was recently converted into a museum. The price of the work is available upon requ
  
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• The past is present at Frieze New York

  04-05-2017 06:00
  
  Frieze New York, known for its cutting-edge contemporary art, is looking back in time this year, with more galleries showing 20th-century art than ever before. Newcomers in this field include Castelli Gallery, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Axel Vervoordt and Eykyn Maclean, which is offering Red Rabbit (1982) by Jean-Michel Basquiat for $8.5mthe first time that a work by the late artist has appeared at the fair.
  It is not the first time that the fair has courted galleries with a more historical bent
  
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• Tefaf New York Spring: Colour blocking at the Armory

  04-05-2017 06:00
  
  Dickinson gallery has brought a bit of Dutch history to New Amsterdam for the spring edition of The European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf) in New York, which opened to VIPs on Wednesday (Anderson Cooper and John McEnroe were among the celebrity collectors spotted roaming the aisles) and runs through 8 May. The gallerys stand is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the founding of De Stijl, the Dutch Modernist movement that included painters and designers such as Mondrian and Rietveld. Taking over a pe
  
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• Tefaf New York Spring: Colour blocking at the Amory

  04-05-2017 06:00
  
  Dickinson gallery has brought a bit of Dutch history to New Amsterdam for the spring edition of The European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf) in New York, which opened to VIPs on Wednesday (Anderson Cooper and John McEnroe were among the celebrity collectors spotted roaming the aisles) and runs through 8 May. The gallerys stand is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the founding of De Stijl, the Dutch Modernist movement that included painters and designers such as Mondrian and Rietveld. Taking over a pe
  
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• Sudanese artist’s haunting images of prison come to MoMA

  04-05-2017 06:00
  
  With the spectre of a government crackdown on dissidents looming in Russia, Turkey and elsewhere, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York has acquired a key document of one artists incarceration: Ibrahim El-Salahis Prison Diaries (1976).In 1975, after a failed military coup in Sudan, the prominent African Modernist was falsely accused of anti-government activities and was sent, without trial, to the notorious Kober prison in Khartoum. He spent six months and eight days in a cell with ten ot
  
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• Sophie Calle's secrets, Kapoor's take on Trump and other New York gossip

  04-05-2017 06:00
  
  John Currin on Larry Gagosians mile-high bed
  Everyone has such nice names, dont they? said the painter John Currin as he signed a copy of his recently published catalogue to an Annie (suggesting that his taste in names is surprisingly sedate) at the Gagosian Shop on Tuesday. Currin welcomed fans of all stripes, including one enthusiastic man who piled up six copies of the $100 book, regaling them with tales about paintballing with a friend who was formerly in the Special Forces (the welts last
  
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• Past is present at Frieze New York

  04-05-2017 06:00
  
  Frieze New York, known for its cutting-edge contemporary art, is looking back in time this year, with more galleries showing 20th-century art than ever before. Newcomers in this field include Castelli Gallery, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Axel Vervoordt and Eykyn Maclean, which is offering Red Rabbit (1982) by Jean-Michel Basquiat for $8.5mthe first time that a work by the late artist has appeared at the fair.
  It is not the first time that the fair has courted galleries with a more historical bent
  
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• Frieze New York gets theatrical

  04-05-2017 06:00
  
  From afar, there was not much to see. On 6 May 1968, Galleria La Tartaruga in Rome looked closed. The door had been sealed off and there was no way in. Yet a sign reading The optical spy by Giosetta Fioroni, or my bedroom action by Giuliana Calandra implied that something was going on. Visitors who got close enough could see a peephole cut into the wall revealing a young woman in a bedroom sitting in bed, reading a book, manicuring her nails.
  The performancearranged by Fioroni, with Calandra pl
  
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• Creative Time has a banner year

  04-05-2017 06:00
  
  Creative Time unveiled its next project at its gala fundraiser on 3 May. For Pledges of Allegiance, to debut in New York this summer, the public-art body has invited 16 artistsincluding Yoko Ono, Robert Longo, Alex Da Corte and Ahmet gtto create customised flags addressing the current political climate. 
  Originally conceived by W Magazines Alix Browne, the project was developed in collaboration with her colleague Cian Browne, Salon 94 curator Fabienne Stephan and the fashion boutique Openi
  
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• Brooklyn's UrbanGlass celebrates 40 years

  04-05-2017 06:00
  
  For the past four decades, the non-profit UrbanGlass has provided an experimental platform for artists seeking to expand their practice into glass with subsidised studio space, fellowships and training. Those who have taken up the opportunity include Robert Rauschenberg, Lynda Benglis, Toots Zynsky, Dale Chihuly and Kiki Smith; recently, Titus Kaphar produced work at UrbanGlass for his solo show, Shifting Skies, at Jack Shainman Gallery.
  The organisation has grown considerably since it was foun
  
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• Almine Rech revisits pioneering 1933 show of African and Modern art

  04-05-2017 06:00
  
  In 1933, the Durand-Ruel gallery in New York staged a pioneering show of paintings by Andr Derain and Fang sculptures from Gabon, Africa: an early explicit link between the Parisian Modernists and the sources they were studying to transcend Western norms of representation. Derain may have been the first of the group to buy an African sculpture, says the tribal art specialist Bernard De Grunne, who has co-organised an updated exhibition with the anthropologist Carlo Severi and the dealer Almine R
  
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• A Tour of TEFAF New York Spring 2017

  04-05-2017 00:46 via artnews.com
  The storied TEFAF, whose acronym originally stood for The European Fine Art Fair, returns to New York and the Park Avenue Armory for its spring presentation of modern and contemporary art. And while the Old Masters and momento mori galore … Read More
  
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• Scattered Sales, Bottomless Bubbly Buoy TEFAF’s First Spring Edition in New York

  04-05-2017 00:27 via artnews.com
  It makes a lot of sense that this reporter’s first time witnessing a Jeff Koons Louis Vuitton bag in the wild was at today’s VIP opening of the first TEFAF New York Spring. And what a glory it was, a … Read More
  
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