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• Vito Acconci: the controversial and pioneering US artist who refused all restraint to explore his body

  31-05-2017 23:00
  
  Poet, sculptor, performance artist and architect, and many other things, Vito Acconci died on 27 April, aged 77. Acconci was an artist who built an early reputation on acts that would make an audience uneasy. At the end of his life, in a career survey, he was recognised as the pioneer that he had been for 50 years. A man always clad in black, with a dour, weary face that made him look like the Rodney Dangerfield of the art world, Acconci was a prodigious speaker, but it was when he combine
  
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• Perrotin to inaugurate Tokyo gallery with Soulages show

  31-05-2017 23:00
  
  The Parisian gallerist Emmanuel Perrotin is opening, on 7 June, a space in Tokyo, adding to his gallery network including Hong Kong, Seoul and New York, with an exhibition by French painter Pierre Soulages.Located in Roppongi near the Mori Art Museum, the 130 sq m space is on the ground floor of the Piramide Building, which houses Wako Works of Art, Ota Fine Arts and London Gallery, and adjacent to the building where Taka Ishii Gallery, among others, is situated.We've seen an evolution wit
  
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• Object lessons: a relic from the Forbes family collection, a portrait of contemporary migration and a neo-Russian painting

  31-05-2017 23:00
  
  New YorkSothebys6 June: Important DesignEight panels from the Birth of Aphrodite mural (circa 1934) from the S.S. Normandie by Jean Dupas(est. around $1m)
  This assemblage of eight glass panels was originally displayed in the Grand Salon of the S.S. Normandie ocean liner, an extravagant ship completed in 1935 that epitomised French Art Deco opulence. The panels, which feature gold, silver and palladium leaf, are among the 56 that originally comprised a mural of Greek mythological and maritime sc
  
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• Nairy Baghramian: check your privilege

  31-05-2017 23:00
  Every ten years, a few artists experience a double shot of prestige, by featuring in both the quinquennial Documenta exhibition and Skulpur Projekte Mnster, which occurs once a decade. This year, Nairy Baghramian is one such artist. This Berliner, born in Iran in 1971, takes an often irreverent approach to the language of sculpture, architecture and installation, which has led to recent solo shows at, among others, the Serralves Museum, Porto (2014) and Smak in Ghent (2016)the latter show trave
  
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• In memoriam, June 2017

  31-05-2017 23:00
  Jol Brard, a director of the Maison Europenne de la Photographie, Paris, died on 5 May, aged 70. Born in Tarbes, Brard grew up in New York and Montreal and returned to France as a teenager in 1963. He became involved with Paris Audiovisuel from its foundation in 1978 and then helped to organise the Mois de la Photo biennial in 1980. He was the general commissioner of the biennial from its beginning to 2017. It was from the biennial that the Maison Europenne de la Photographie grew, and he was it
  
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• Frank Lloyd Wright: a force of nature

  31-05-2017 23:00
  On 16 October 1956, Frank Lloyd Wright hosted a press conference at Chicagos 1,700-room Hotel Sherman. Perhaps the USs most famous architect needed a truly big venue to unveil the Illinois, a proposal for a mile-high skyscraper boasting 528 floors, served by 56 atomic-powered elevators, housing 130,000 tenants and equipped with a garage for 15,000 cars and twin helipads for 100 helicopters.
  Knowing how to seduce the press, Wrights 9ft perspective drawing of the 5,280ft towerdramatic enough in i
  
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• A long history of scholarship drives a survey of Raphael’s drawings

  31-05-2017 23:00
  The UK is particularly fortunate to have very large collections of drawings by Raphael concentrated in three public institutions: the British Museum, London; the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle; and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The exhibition Raphael: the Drawings at the Ashmolean, which opened this week, exhibits 120 of these works, of which 50 are from the museums collectionthe largest holding anywhere. The show is in collaboration with the Albertina, Vienna (which has contributed 25 wo
  
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• Sam Durant’s Scaffold to be dismantled and burned

  31-05-2017 22:41
  After a mediation held at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis on Wednesday, an agreement has been reached that will see Sam Durants Scaffold sculpture dismantled and burned, in a ceremony overseen by Dakota elders. The work, which references US state-sanctioned hangings, raised an outcry among Native American groups when it was installed in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden because of its recreation of a historic gallows used in 1862 to hang 38 Dakota men executed by the US Army in Mankato, Min
  
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• Sam Durant’s controversial Scaffold to be dismantled and burned

  31-05-2017 22:41
  After a mediation held at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis on Wednesday, an agreement has been reached that will see Sam Durants Scaffold sculpture dismantled and burned, in a ceremony overseen by Dakota elders. The work, which references US state-sanctioned hangings, raised an outcry among Native American groups when it was installed in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden because of its recreation of a historic gallows used in 1862 to hang 38 Dakota men executed by the US Army in Mankato, Min
  
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• Gordon Matta-Clark at Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal

  31-05-2017 21:29 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Alvin Lucier Sits in a Room—and Speaks with Fellow Experimental Musician John Olson

  31-05-2017 20:39 via artnews.com
  Alvin Lucier is a composer and sound-theorist who has worked with experimental music since the early 1960s. His many works include the electronic sonification of brainwaves and I Am Sitting in a Room, an epochal piece from 1969 for which … Read More
  
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• SFMOMA Names Eungie Joo Curator of Contemporary Art, a Newly Created Position

  31-05-2017 20:31 via artnews.com
  The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has named Eungie Joo, a museum veteran with an international footprint, to the newly created position of Curator of Contemporary Art. She begins June 1. “It’s a very exciting time to think about institutional practice … Read More
  
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• Silent witness: the outsider art of Susan Te Kahurangi King

  31-05-2017 20:04
  
  She stopped speaking aged four, and has since communicated only through her acutely detailed drawings. As her first UK exhibition opens, her sister and curator reveal an extraordinary life – and talent Upstairs at the Marlborough Contemporary, a woman bows over a pad of headed notepaper. She doesn’t look up when the door opens. She picks a fluorescent highlighter from a heap in her lap and with the broad side of the nib blocks out a quad of blue or green – close, companionable
  
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• Louder than words: the drawings of mute artist Susan Te Kahurangi King

  31-05-2017 20:03
  
  From Fantaman to Donald Duck and the Queen, the New Zealand artist has spent the last 60 years drawing her own world in detailed and sometimes luridly disturbing worksThe artist’s sister and curator talk about Susan’s extraordinary lifeContinue reading...
  
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• Marie Cosindas, Pioneer of Color Photography, Dies at 93

  31-05-2017 19:32 via artnews.com
  Marie Cosindas, an early pioneer of color photography whose work blurred the line between could be produced by a paintbrush and what could be accomplished using a camera, has died. She was 93.Before William Eggleston revolutionized the field by introducing hues … Read More
  
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• Marie Cosindas, Pioneer of Color Photography, Dies at 91

  31-05-2017 19:32 via artnews.com
  Marie Cosindas, an early pioneer of color photography whose work blurred the line between could be produced by a paintbrush and what could be accomplished using a camera, has died. She was 91.Before William Eggleston revolutionized the field by introducing hues … Read More
  
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• Giuseppe Penone unveils Rome’s first permanent installation of contemporary art

  31-05-2017 17:51
  
  A public sculpture by the Italian artist Giuseppe Penone was unveiled last week in Rome in what is being called the first permanently installed work of contemporary art in the city.The work, titled Foglie di pietra (2017), was commissioned by the luxury fashion brand Fendi and placed outside its flagship boutique. But getting the work installed required negotiations with an array of state bureaucrats, including the landmark authority and the ministry of culture.
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• Watercolour of Rossetti's long-haired muse to be auctioned in July

  31-05-2017 17:47
  
  It is expected that the painting, portraying Fanny Cornforth as Lilith, will fetch up to £600,000 in Sotheby’s auctionThe artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti had a thing about women with long hair – and his first mistress, Fanny Cornforth, had it in abundance. A watercolour portrait coming up for sale at a Sotheby’s auction celebrates her beauty, but the final oils version of the scene was her greatest humiliation – when her face was painted out and replaced with that of
  
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• Matisse Junkies, Rejoice! A Survey of Grand Works and Studio Relics Captivates in Boston

  31-05-2017 17:30 via artnews.com
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• Have bike, will empower: Tania Bruguera launches public art initiative CycleNews in Corona

  31-05-2017 16:42
  
  In the latest iteration of her ongoing Immigrant Movement International (IMI) project, the Cuban political artist Tania Bruguera has partnered with activist groups, government officials and other artists to launch CycleNews, a long-term initiative that aims to empower undocumented immigrants by informing them of the services that are available to them through the New York City Mayors Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA). The project comes out of Brugueras role as the first public artist-in-reside
  
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• Lévy Gorvy to Represent Dan Colen in Collaboration with Gagosian, Massimo De Carlo

  31-05-2017 16:00 via artnews.com
  Dominique Lévy and Brett Gorvy announced that they will share representation of 37-year-old artist Dan Colen with his current galleries, Gagosian and Massimo De Carlo. Lévy Gorvy’s first exhibition with the artist will be in March 2018, at the gallery’s … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: 2,400-Year-Old Scythian Tattooed Skin Edition

  31-05-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  West Coast ConcernsCatherine Wagley explores the exploding Los Angeles art scene, with galleries and private museums and the like sprouting all over town. But then she floats the question that most seem too scared to ask: Maybe this art world California gold … Read More
  
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• Ai Weiwei poses as drowned Syrian refugee toddler once again

  31-05-2017 12:15
  
  The Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has once again posed as Alan Kurdi, the drowned Syrian refugee toddler who was pictured washed up on a Turkish beach in September 2015. The new image, which Ai posted on Instagram on 29 May, shows him lying face down on a bed of porcelain sunflower seeds installed at the Israel Museum for his show, Maybe, Maybe Not (2 June-30 August).Ai first recreated the harrowing scene in February 2016 for India Today magazine on the beach where Alan was found, spark
  
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• Norman Foster unites his archives and art under one roof

  31-05-2017 11:14
  
  The British-born, Pritzker prize winning architect, Norman Foster, opens his archive and an international research centre on Thursday, 1 June, housed in a palatial building in Madrid. The new Spanish headquarters of the Norman Foster Foundation is a historic building that has been restored and expanded by the architect. He has designed a glass and steel pavilion of inspiration in the courtyard, leading to a basement filled with his archive, library plus photography and slide collection. The sle
  
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• Renaissance remixed: street artists add 'their own spin' to the old masters

  31-05-2017 11:00
  
  A new exhibition in New York sees the work of artists such as the Master of Santo recreated in cardboard – but is it supportive or sacrilegious?The Italian Renaissance painter known as the Master of Santo would surely have been intrigued if he had been able to see a new reinterpretation of one of his paintings, more than 500 years after his death. The era has provided plenty of inspiration for contemporary artists – the work of Jacob Burckhardt, for example – but still, the old
  
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• David Hockney retrospective becomes Tate Britain's most popular show

  31-05-2017 11:00
  
  Exhibition receives 478,082 visitors, with demand pushing the gallery to open until midnight over its final weekendTate Britain’s David Hockney retrospective has become the gallery’s most popular exhibition, seen by nearly half a million visitors.The show closed on bank holiday Monday this week after a 16-week run which was characterised by long queues and busy gallery spaces. Related: Tate Britain to open till midnight to cope with Hockney show demandContinue reading...
  
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• War games: Russia's young cadets on parade

  31-05-2017 08:00
  
  Over 200,000 youth are enrolled in cadet clubs that offer a potent mix of patriotism and play fighting. Photographer Sarah Blesener captured the camaraderie among the students in her series Toy Soldiers Continue reading...
  
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• War games: Russia's child soldiers on parade

  31-05-2017 08:00
  
  Over 200,000 youth are enrolled in cadet clubs that offer a potent mix of patriotism and play fighting. Photographer Sarah Blesener captured the camaraderie among the students in her series Toy Soldiers Continue reading...
  
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• Renzo Piano Talks About Architecture Expressing A City

  31-05-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you’re an architect in the right place and time, you don’t change the world but you do get to build something that reflects the changes that are happening.
  
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