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• Old Master landscape looted by Nazis comes back on the market

  29-05-2017 23:00
  
  After a decades-long recovery effort that recently ended in a restitution agreement, an Old Master landscape looted by the Nazis will come to auction at Sotheby's London on 5 July. The proceeds from the sale of Michele Marieschis La Punta della Dogana e san Giorgio Maggiore (1739-1740), estimated between 500,000 and 700,000, will be shared between the heirs of the Jewish-Austrian couple that fled Europe and eventually settled in New York and the trust of its most recent unnamed owner who bought
  
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• David Goldblatt brings ex-offender portrait series to British jails

  29-05-2017 23:00
  
  The South African photographer David Goldblatt has installed photographs of former criminals in prisons in Birmingham and Manchester. The portraits, part of a series called Ex-Offenders, show men and women at the scene of their crimes, with accompanying texts that relate the subjects stories in their own words. Goldblatt has previously focused on ex-offenders in South Africa and worked with the arts organisation Multistory in West Bromwich to bring the project to the UK.
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• Architectural practice IF_DO show what they can do with Dulwich Picture Gallery’s pavilion

  29-05-2017 23:00
  
  Move over Serpentine, theres a new gallery pavilion in town This ones south of the river and is positioned in front of Dulwich Picture Gallery. Young Bermondsey-based architectural practice IF_DO beat off 75 other contenders in the competition launched by the gallery and the London Festival of Architectureto design a contemporary response to the original Sir John Soane-designed building and its garden setting. And all within a modest construction budget of 100,000. Its no mean feat to grap
  
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• Anselm Kiefer gets first Russia solo show at the Hermitage

  29-05-2017 23:00
  
  The State Hermitage Museum is staging Anselm Kiefers first solo exhibition in Russia as part of its commemoration of the centenary of the Russian Revolution.  Anselm Kiefer, for Velimir Khlebnikov: Fates of Nations, which opens on 30 May (until 3 September), is co-organised with Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, one of the galleries that represents the German artist. With around 30 new works inspired by Kiefers visit to St Petersburg last year, the show is dedicated to the Russian Futuris
  
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• Art world gets a roasting in Palme d’Or film

  29-05-2017 11:20
  
  The art world is skewered in The Square, the Swedish film that has scooped the Palme dOr at this years Cannes film festival. According to the UK newspaper The Telegraph, the movie, directed by Ruben Ostlund, is a blackly comic send-up of the art worlds pretensions and neuroses. It centres on the director of a contemporary art gallery who makes a splash with a new performance art space called The Square. Peter Bradshaw reports in The Guardian that the most excruciating part is a formal dinne
  
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• Courtney and Cullinan: #friendsforlife

  29-05-2017 10:46
  
  Nicholas Cullinan, the director of Londons National Portrait Gallery, has a new fanand she isnt holding back about just how much she likes him. The US singer and actress Courtney Love bumped into the charming scholar on her recent art jaunt around Europe, taking in a visit to the Venice Biennale. Seeing Nicholas prompted an outpouring of love and affection from Courtney who posted her homage on Instagram.Those rare moments in life that you run into your soulmate for the first time and you just
  
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• JFK, Bardot and Sid Vicious … 70 years of Camera Press stars

  29-05-2017 08:00
  
  The British company is celebrating its platinum anniversary with a big London show. Here is a taste of what to expect – from Raquel Welch dancing to Clint Eastwood skateboarding through traffic Continue reading...
  
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