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• Lena Henke at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt

  16-05-2017 23:26 via artnews.com
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• The great estates race

  16-05-2017 23:00
  
  There was a time, not so long ago, when the word estate in an art market context referred to the collection left behind by an august patron of the arts, to be battled for and divvied up across an auction houses bargaining table. These days, however, an estate battle is more likely to be waged among high-powered dealers for the works left behind when an artist dies.
  In the past 18 months, galleries have signed dozens of estates, giving them the often-exclusive right to represent the artists heir
  
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• The great artists' estates race

  16-05-2017 23:00
  
  There was a time, not so long ago, when the word estate in an art market context referred to the collection left behind by an august patron of the arts, to be battled for and divvied up across an auction houses bargaining table. These days, however, an estate battle is more likely to be waged among high-powered dealers for the works left behind when an artist dies.
  In the past 18 months, galleries have signed dozens of estates, giving them the often-exclusive right to represent the artists heir
  
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• Object lessons: an anti-authoritarian triptych by Mike Kelley, a Western sculpture by Frederic Remington and an early work by Rosemarie Trockel

  16-05-2017 23:00
  
  Los AngelesLos Angeles Modern Auctions (Lama)
  21 May: Modern Art and Design
  Mike Kelley, The Missing Leg (1984)(est. $600,000-$800,000)
  The triptych, created while the late US artist was travelling in Australia, was originally shown as part of Australiana, an installation of 40 works included in the Newport Harbor Biennial in 1984. The anti-authoritarian but comic work is composed of black-and-white paintings on paper that depict a tin of lard atop a wooded fire, a pig with a missing front
  
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• Hal Foster named next Mellon lecturer at the National Gallery of Art

  16-05-2017 23:00
  
  The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, has named the art historian Hal Foster as the next speaker in its prestigious A.W. Mellon lecture series. Foster, who is a professor of art history at Princeton University, will deliver six talks in April and May 2018 in a series titled Positive Barbarism: Brutal Aesthetics in the Wake of World War II, which looks at figures like Jean Dubuffet, Asger Jorn, Eduardo Paolozzi and Claes Oldenburg.The talks focus on how the disasters of the war forced a
  
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• Bidders move fast for Modern sculptures at Sotheby's New York

  16-05-2017 23:00
  
  The Impressionist and Modern evening sale at Sothebys on 16 May got off to an unsettled start the announcement, by auctioneer and worldwide co-head of the department Helena Newman, that the star lotan early Egon Schiele painting from 1909 with an asking price of $30m to $40mwas one of two lots to be withdrawn from the sale, evidently in the final hour. Without the firepower of that heavy-hitter, the house could not compete with Christies $289m take the night before, but pulled off $173.8m with
  
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• One year after her release from prison, Iranian artist says she will not stop making political work

  16-05-2017 21:40
  
  The Tehran-based artist Atena Farghadani, who was sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison for her satirical cartoons depicting members of the Iranian government as monkeys and goats, says she is planning an exhibition of her protest art.
  Speaking one year after her release from Evin prison, Farghadani says gallery owners in Tehran are too scared to mount such a show, but that she remains undeterred, posting critical works to Facebook and Instagram.I dont intend to stop protesting or mak
  
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• Felipe Ehrenberg, Mexican Conceptualist Who Rebelled Against the Status Quo, Dies at 73

  16-05-2017 20:36 via artnews.com
  Felipe Ehrenberg, the Conceptual artist whose ephemeral actions brought art objects beyond the confines of the gallery space, sometimes by posting word scores halfway across the world using mail services, died of cancer in Morelos, Mexico. He was 73.Ehrenberg’s formative … Read More
  
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• Labour Party promises £1bn extra in culture funding over five years

  16-05-2017 18:35
  
  The UKs Labour Party manifesto, published on Tuesday, 16 May, promises a new 1 billion Cultural Capital Fund to upgrade our existing cultural and creative infrastructure to be ready for the digital age. Administered by the Arts Council, the fund would distribute around 200m annually over five years, making it among the biggest arts infrastructure projects ever, transforming the countrys cultural landscape, the party says.
   
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• The road to the Venice Biennale is paved with good intentions

  16-05-2017 17:35
  Art matters. It is more than a commodity to be bought and sold by the rich or a frippery for extravagant lifestyles (yes, Jeff Koons handbags for Louis Vuitton, I mean you). In her exhibition for the Venice Biennale, Viva Arte Viva, the Centre Pompidous curator Christine Macel has produced a manifesto of sorts for a much wider interpretation of arts role: its ability to bring communities together, bridge divides, open minds and changes lives. So far, so good. 
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• Abby Bangser, Artistic Director of Frieze Art Fairs, Goes to Dia Art Foundation for New Post

  16-05-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  Abby Bangser, the artistic director of Frieze Art Fairs for the Americas and Asia since 2015, is moving to the Dia Art Foundation in New York to take up the newly created position of deputy director of strategic initiatives. The post is … Read More
  
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• One Last Batch of Photos from Around the 2017 Venice Biennale, from the New V-A-C Foundation to a Sterling Lucy McKenzie Show

  16-05-2017 15:14 via artnews.com
  As of Saturday, May 13, the Venice Biennale is officially open. There is a lot to see in the Floating City, from pavilions scattered around the town (don’t miss a remarkable Frank Walter retrospective in Antigua and Barbuda’s, to name one) to special shows timed to the … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Record-Breaking Yayoi Kusama Attendance Edition

  16-05-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Art of the state: how the Venice Biennale is tackling the refugee crisis

  16-05-2017 14:35
  
  Tunisia and fictional nation NSK are issuing passports instead of showing art at this year’s Biennale. It’s a satirical swipe at the refugee crisis, but does it reduce asylum seekers to mere spectacle?In 1992, amid the collapse of socialism and the tumultuous breakup of Yugoslavia, a group of artists came together to create a utopian fictional state. Part art project, part political statement, the state – called NSK – reconsidered what a modern globalised nation could be.
  
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• Video piece takes viewers to heart of no-go Fukushima

  16-05-2017 13:54
  
  A new work on show at the Arts Catalyst Centre in London will transport visitors to the Fukushima region in northeast Japan, which was struck by a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami early 2011 triggering a disaster at the local nuclear power plant. In 2015, the curatorial collective Dont Follow the Wind installed a series of works in the out-of-bounds area by leading international artists such as Ai Weiwei and Trevor Paglen. But the show, known as 11 March 2015, remains inaccessible (it wi
  
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• Final cut: films condensed into a single frame – in pictures

  16-05-2017 08:56
  
  Jason Shulman photographs entire movies with ultra-long exposures, creating impressionist photo masterpieces in the process Continue reading...
  
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• At Christie’s $289 M. Impressionist-Modern Sale, $57.4 M. Brancusi Smashes Artist’s Record

  16-05-2017 05:30 via artnews.com
  The New York auctions began tonight with an Impressionist and modern evening sale at Christie’s Rockefeller Center salesroom that totaled $289 million, handily eclipsing its low estimate of $207 million and falling just short of its $307 million high estimate.“It’s the best Impressionist and … Read More
  
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• Uh-Oh: A Third Of The Metropolitan Opera's Seats Were Unsold This Season

  16-05-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the 2015-16 season, the Met took in 66 percent of its potential capacity. Some numbers are improving a bit more substantially: The company’s paid attendance rate, which includes discounted tickets, rose to 75 percent this season from 72 percent in 2015-16. And the company said it attracted 80,000 new ticket buyers this season, up from 74,000 the year before. The challenge is turning those newcomers into regulars.
  
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