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• Wanted: Lichtenstein’s long-lost spinnaker

  07-05-2017 23:00
  
  A reward of $25,000 has been offered for information leading to the whereabouts of a ship spinnaker designed by the late Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. The vessel sailed in the 1995 Americas Cup in San Diego, California; its hull, which is decorated with Lichtensteins mermaid motif, features in a show opening this month at Middlebury College Museum of Art in Vermont (Young America: Roy Lichtenstein and the America's Cup; 26 May-13 August). Anyone with information on the missing sail should contact
  
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• Venice Biennale 2017

  07-05-2017 23:00
  
  As the art world flocks to Venice, we provide the lowdown on Christine Macels main show, key pavilions and collateral events
  
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• The path to other dimensions: Christine Macel’s Viva Arte Viva at the Venice Biennale

  07-05-2017 23:00
  
  The 56th Venice Biennale in 2015 was curated by a seasoned artistic director of biennials, Okwui Enwezor. This years main show has been taken on by Christine Macel, who as chief curator at the Pompidou Centre is much more associated with museum exhibitions. Viva Arte Viva (13 May-26 November), as its title suggests, heralds art as a vibrant force for human connection in an increasingly troubling world dominated by individualism and indifference, as she puts it. With more than 120 artists, 103 o
  
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• Memories from the director’s chair: five curators look back on their Venice Biennale shows

  07-05-2017 23:00
  
  Daniel BirnbaumDirector, Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2009: Making Worlds
  Did organising the Venice Biennale meet your expectations?
  In 2003, I was a co-curator; Francesco Bonami was the director, but he delegated large parts of the curatorial job to a number of colleagues. And I did the whole Italian pavilionnow known as the international section with him. So I had seen the madness, as they say, from the inside. When I was offered the job for 2009, I knew that I didnt want to do the same thing ag
  
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• Madison Square Park to turn into a ‘utopia’ of public art and performance this summer

  07-05-2017 23:00
  
  Madison Square Park will come alive with music, dance and poetry this summer through a project by Josiah McElheny in collaboration with the non-profits Danspace Projects, Blankforms and Poets House. The artist was commissioned by Mad Sq Art to develop a programme that creates an idealisticalmost utopianexperience of how an urban park can, through the arts, advance public spaces through the visionary efforts of individuals and groups, says Brooke Rapaport, the organisations director and senior cu
  
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• Jack Tilton, Relentlessly Venturesome Art Dealer, Has Died

  07-05-2017 21:01 via artnews.com
  “Showing young artists isn’t a way to make a lot of money but I do it because I love art and it’s fun to help young artists,” the dealer Jack Tilton said in an interview last year with the Art … Read More
  
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• I've created a monster! Shezad Dawood on his oceanic epic Leviathan

  07-05-2017 16:00
  
  Mass migration and climate change – not to mention a giant squid: Leviathan has it all. As his wildly ambitious new work opens in Venice, he reveals the story behind a strange odyssey that will take years to completeThe giant squid, democracy, mental health, migration – big beasts, one and all. And each plays a role in Leviathan, a cycle of 10 films by artist Shezad Dawood that traces links from human activity to marine ecology and back again. The fates of crayfish, phytoplankton and
  
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• Leviathan Episode 1: Ben trailer – video

  07-05-2017 15:30
  
  Artist Shezad Dawood’s multi-platform work, Leviathan, weaves a tale of oceanic ecology and migration in paintings, sculpture, fiction and a cycle of 10 films – to be released between now and 2020. Watch a trailer for the saga’s first episode, entitled Ben Continue reading...
  
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• On my radar: Justine Frischmann’s cultural highlights

  07-05-2017 11:00
  
  The former Elastica frontwoman, now a painter, recommends her favourite South American architecture, educational podcasts and political readingBorn in London in 1969, Justine Frischmann studied architecture at University College London; there, she met fellow student Brett Anderson and they co-founded Suede in 1989. Two years later, she left the band and founded Elastica with ex-Suede drummer, Justin Welch. Elastica’s self-titled first album was released in 1995 and for 10 years held the re
  
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• Cornelia Parker review – ghosts in the machine

  07-05-2017 09:00
  
  Frith Street Gallery, Golden Square and Soho Square, London
  Parker depicts the US presidential race as Halloween nightmare. What will she make of the General Election?Last week, Cornelia Parker was named official artist for the forthcoming election. Who knew such preferments existed? Her job, over the next month, is to produce work “about” the election which will then be quietly filed away in the parliamentary art collection, if the last few appointments – figurative artists Da
  
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• Art from the Alps: a journey to Giacometti’s homeland

  07-05-2017 08:00
  
  Switzerland’s mountains are stunning but the art of the Giacometti family enriches the cultural landscape, too. With a retrospective of sculptor Alberto opening at Tate Modern next week, our writer tours the area that inspired him Chugging to the Landwasser Viaduct through the village of Filisur on the Glacier Express, it’s hard not to laugh at the views. Switzerland is unbelievably good-looking. The vistas almost look fake – the lakes too scenic, the villages too chocolate-box
  
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