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• A Show Of Fakes Makes Them Real As It Gets

  01-06-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Here is a Rothko that isn’t a Rothko, a Coco Chanel suit that isn’t a Chanel, a Babe Ruth baseball glove that the Babe never set eyes on, and let’s not forget all the silver by Alt-Paul Revere. You name it, and Treasures on Trial: The Art and Science of Detecting Fakes probably doesn’t have it, but it might have something that might be. In the immortal words of master forger Elmyr de Hory: “If my work hangs in a museum long enough, it becomes real.”
  
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• Why Indie Opera Is So Cool, Fun, And Interesting

  01-06-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Today’s “indie opera” outfits are making do with less money than what even our country’s regional-level companies enjoy, so it’s no surprise that chamber-size realizations are often necessary. But what’s so pleasing about Heartbeat Opera’s “Butterfly” is how well its artistic intentions dovetail with its limited means.
  
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• The Amazon Bookstore - Not Really Built For People Who Read

  01-06-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It is reminiscent of an airport bookshop: big enough to be enticing from the outside but extremely limited once you’re inside."
  
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• Yale and MoMA team up to resurrect visionary light works

  01-06-2017 23:00
  
  Nearly a decade ago, a Seattle-based collector visiting New Haven, Connecticut, asked to see three works from the 1920s and 1930s by the artist Thomas Wilfred in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery. The objects, two strangely resembling flatscreen televisions and one a lamp on a table, had remained deep in storage for decades. When the collector asked the accompanying curator and conservators to plug in and switch on the works, they were understandably hesitant. One of us grabbed
  
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• Waiting for Houellebecq

  01-06-2017 23:00
  
  A country road, a tree. Evening, go the set directions for Waiting For Godot. Directions for the talk between Michel Houellebecq and Adam Lindemann on 2 June at the French Embassy might well have begun: A bust of Descartes, a TV. Noonish. Yes, the provocative author challenged his audience by not showing up to promote his show at Lindemanns gallery Venus. I went over to the embassy to apologise, Lindemann emailed after the event, and to my surprise they were all somewhat amusedapparently Houell
  
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• Vermeer and the masters of genre painting

  01-06-2017 23:00
  
  This month, the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin fully re-opens after a six-year refurbishment during which most of its galleries were closed. As part of the celebration, the museum will host Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting (17 June-17 September), which closed at the Louvre in Paris in May. The show looks at the mutual influences between Vermeer and artists like Frans van Mieris and Gerard ter Borch, who often borrowed one another's ideas and compositions. In this excerpt from th
  
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• The Donald Trump style of art history

  01-06-2017 23:00
  
  Amid the ceaseless, cascading grotesquerie of the 2016 US presidential election, the strange story of Victoria Gardner Coates was easy to miss. Having earned a PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania, Coates achieved minor notoriety as a conservative political blogger. This activity brought her to the attention of Donald Rumsfeld, the then defence secretary, who had by that point both sold and led the disastrous US war against Iraq. Rumsfeld appointed her to lead the team produci
  
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• Sleeping and sliding in the Rijksmuseum

  01-06-2017 23:00
  
  Have you dreamt about spending the night in a museum since reading From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler as a kid? Stefan Kasper of Haarlem in the Netherlands recently slept at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdamunderneath Rembrandts 1642 painting The Night Watch, no lesswithout hiding in a fusty sarcophagus. As the ten millionth visitor to the Rijksmuseum, he was treated to an overnight stay, including a bed and nightstand set up under the masterpiece and a gourmet dinner-for-one. Kasp
  
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• Pinochet Porn premieres at the Institute of Contemporary Arts

  01-06-2017 23:00
  
  There was keen anticipation amongst the friends and admirers of the late Ellen Cantor who gathered at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) last night (1 June) for the UK premiere of Pinochet Porn, the experimental feature-length film on which Cantor was working on during the final five years of her life, right up to her death from cancer in 2013. And we werent disappointed The work was painstakingly completed after Cantors death by her director of photography, the artist and film-maker
  
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• Münster: reflective art in a neo-Medieval Disneyland

  01-06-2017 23:00
  
  Skulptur Projekte Mnster is unique among the elite recurring shows. It is staged only every ten years and thus has a different relationship to the art worlds torrents and currents than other cyclical exhibitions. And in Kasper Knig, it has had a chief curator in place since the first edition in 1977, who arguably knows more about the city, its history, sociology, architecture and topography than anyone on earth.Knig is well aware that the north-western German city is an unlikely place for a rev
  
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• Grayson Perry draws inspiration from Brexit—and The Art Newspaper—for Serpentine show

  01-06-2017 23:00
  Will The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever! live up to its billing? The show of recent works by Grayson Perry at the Serpentine Gallery, which opens on 8 June, began, unusually for him, with the title of the show, says the exhibitions curator, Rebecca Lewin.
  There are so many potential political ramifications of being popular or unpopular, particularly as [Perry] was thinking about the title around the time of the referendum [on the UKs membership of the European Union], Lewin says.
  The vote las
  
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• From Athens to Kassel: Documenta on the move

  01-06-2017 23:00
  
  To understand the idea behind any particular edition of Documenta in Kassel, visitors usually head straight to the Fridericianum. This 18th-century building, one of the worlds first purpose-built museums, is where the shows artistic directors lay out their conceptual framework. However, visitors to the 14th edition will be walking into a Fridericianum transformed into the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens (EMST), presenting highlights from the Greek museums collection.The move is in
  
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• De Stijl in the Netherlands: a round-up

  01-06-2017 23:00
  A little-known Dutch painter who split from De Stijl only two years after its founding is the focus of the exhibition Chris Beekman: De Stijl Defector at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (until 17 September). Like fellow artists in Soviet Russiawhom he admired and felt connected to politicallyBeekman eventually withdrew from abstraction in favour of art primarily concerned with people and their place in society, says the shows assistant curator, Frank van Lamoen. The show includes around 80 wo
  
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• A comprehensive Piet Mondrian survey opens in the Hague

  01-06-2017 23:00
  As institutions across the Netherlands continue to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of De Stijl, the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague turns towards the movements greatest and most important artist: Piet Mondrian.This month, the museum opens a show of all 300 works by the Dutch master in its collectionmore than double the number included in the most recent career survey of his work, which was held there in 1994.The current show, which will be organised chronologically, expands and corre
  
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• Monika Sosnowska at Kurimanzutto, Mexico City

  01-06-2017 22:36 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Whitney Museum Names Kim Conaty Curator of Drawings and Prints

  01-06-2017 22:32 via artnews.com
  Kim Conaty, currently a curator at the Rose Art Museum near Boston, will be the Whitney Museum’s new curator of drawings and prints starting in July.At the Rose, Conaty organized shows of work by Sharon Lockhart, David Shrigley, Tommy Hartung, and … Read More
  
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• The Reassuring Comfort Of Pessimism

  01-06-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Pessimistic essayists and philosophers may not cast the same narrative gloom as fiction writers, but the implications of their work tend toward the universal. Indeed, to believe that unhappiness was merely a question of immediate circumstance and particular character might be seen as a crass form of optimism."
  
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• MoMA finishes first phase of expansion project

  01-06-2017 22:18
  The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) has completed the first phase of a $450m renovation and expansion project undertaken by the architectural firm Diller, Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler.The finished work, which occupies the east end of the museum, includes a new lounge, the extension of a Bauhaus-inspired staircase and the re-organisation of 15,000 sq. ft of space on the second and third floors to create expanded galleries. A new museum shop is also open on the second f
  
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• So A Robot Is Going To Steal Your Job? Maybe Not!

  01-06-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Another story is emerging from several recent papers and columns by economists and economic writers. Instead of a world without work, they say, there is currently more evidence for a world with too much work—and not enough humans to do it all. Rather than high-flying investment in machines and similarly high unemployment, there is strangely low investment and happily low joblessness. How can anybody say robots are killing jobs when the killer is nowhere to be seen and the supposed victim
  
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• In Texas, Blanton Museum Acquires 700 Works in Transfer from Contemporary Austin

  01-06-2017 21:52 via artnews.com
  The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas and the Contemporary Austin have agreed to a transfer through which the Blanton has acquired 700 works while the Contemporary shifts the focus of its future acquisition efforts solely to outdoor sculpture. The … Read More
  
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• Peter Oundjian To Step Down As Toronto Symphony Music Director; Andrew Davis Named Interim MD

  01-06-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Over his 14-year directorship, Oundjian grew to be the energetic face of a revitalized TSO, steering the Orchestra out of deep financial ruin in the process – according to the TSO’s annual reports available from the 2006/07 season onwards, the organization ran yearly operational surpluses except for the 2009/10, 2011/12, and 2012/13 seasons. While the move isn’t surprising at all, the other news is that Sir Andrew Davis will return to fill in as Interim Artistic Director throu
  
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• Baltimore Book Festival Cancels Rachel Dolezal Appearance After Protests

  01-06-2017 20:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A top priority of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts is to listen to our constituents, and after hearing from a cross-section of opinions on having Rachel Dolezal participate in this year’s festival, we had to consider how her appearance may affect both the audience and the other extraordinary authors we have planned for the Baltimore Book Festival. For that reason, we believe it would be appropriate to remove Ms. Dolezal from the festival line up.”
  
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• Liverpool celebrates The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album with a little help from artist friends

  01-06-2017 20:11
  
  For the 50th anniversary of The Beatless Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album, the city of Liverpool has commissioned 13 new works, including public art, concerts, theatre and dance performanceseach inspired by a song from the album.  Among the pieces unveiled in the city on Thursday, 1 June are a 12-metre-high psychedelic mural by the US artist Judy Chicago, a series of public billboards by the British artist Jeremy Deller.
  Chicago says that although she was never a particularly big
  
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• Charles Isherwood Argues That The Age Of Trump May Be Good For The Arts

  01-06-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The precipitously departed theater critic of The New York Times resurfaces in the pages of Town & Country: "History isn't a flawless guide, but periods of economic and political dislocation can actually inspire an efflorescence of culture."
  
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• Rethinking the Town Hall: Nick Cave on ‘Until,’ His Massive MASS MoCA Installation

  01-06-2017 20:00 via artnews.com
  This year alone, Chicago has suffered more than 900 incidents of gun violence, the artist Nick Cave told me in a recent interview. “We read about what’s going on in these communities, but we choose to be disconnected, to shun ourselves … Read More
  
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• MoMA Unveils Final Design for Revamped Galleries and Expansion Plans

  01-06-2017 19:42 via artnews.com
  “There’s a tendency to see the museum collection as frozen in time, and it isn’t,” Glenn Lowry, the Museum of Modern Art’s director, told members of the press this morning while unveiling more details of MoMA’s ongoing expansion plans. Along those … Read More
  
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• Blouin Art Magazines Terminate Staff

  01-06-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Roughly 20 to 30 full-time employees in New York, including editors, ad sales and office workers, were told last week that they were all being terminated in two weeks — but could “reapply” for their jobs as contract freelancers. Louise Blouin’s mini-art publishing empire, which includes Modern Painters, Art + Auction and the Web site Blouinartinfo.com, has struggled financially in recent years.
  
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• An Explanation (Sort Of) For The Sudden Mass Exodus From The Brooklyn Rail

  01-06-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In mid-May, the respected culture journal announced, with no explanation, that the entire board of directors and senior staff, as well as half a dozen other staffers, were leaving the following week. Since then, Rail co-founder Phong Bui has reclaimed his former title of Publisher and said that he has hired new staff and plans to double the pay for freelance reviewers by the end of this year. As for his former colleagues, Bui says, "I think people agree that stepping down is the way to let me re
  
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• We're Safer And More Powerful Than Ever In History - So Why Do We Feel So Fragile?

  01-06-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Beyond doomsday proclamations about mass extinction, climate change, viral pandemics, global systemic collapse and resource depletion, we seem to be seized by an anxiety about losing the qualities that make us human. How did we arrive at this moment in history, in which humanity is more technologically powerful than ever before, and yet we feel ourselves to be increasingly fragile?"
  
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• How The Right Sound Effect Can Transform A Movie Scene

  01-06-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "This video from The Royal Ocean Film Society makes a compelling case that sound is every bit as important as picture in cinema. ... 'Storytelling With Sound' lays out some of the ways audio makes films better, and includes an interview with one of the masters: Ben Burtt, the brilliant sound designer behind the Star Wars saga who gave us R2-D2. He's also the voice of Wall-E."
  
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• Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Executive Director

  01-06-2017 17:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Executive Director (ED) of MRT will be a results-oriented leader, responsible for supervising all aspects of the organization’s managerial operations, fundraising, public visibility, and strategic business planning.
  OrganizationFounded in 1979, Merrimack Repertory Theatre (MRT) in Lowell, Massachusetts is dedicated to developing and producing new plays that tell great stories and explore what it means to be alive today. MRT has mounted more than 200 productions in its 37-year history,
  
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• Non-Compliant Mutants: Dianna Molzan’s Tricky Sculpture-Paintings Speak Their Own Language

  01-06-2017 17:35 via artnews.com
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• Intelligence - How Is It We've Overlooked Animals For So Long?

  01-06-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Hardly anyone actually thinks that we are the only minded species. But the philosophy of mind has gone on as if we were. As the ethologist Frans de Waal charges in this admirable new book, we have in effect been Darwinists about the animal kingdom but Creationists about the human head. This outcome has many causes, including a long and cross-cultural history of deep-seated attitudes towards our place in nature, cross-cut by our pathological denial of our exploitation of other animals. Such atti
  
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• How On Earth Do You Notate A Meredith Monk Piece And Teach It To A New Group Of Musicians? She And They Are Figuring That Out

  01-06-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In the 1970s and '80s, when current classics like Dolmen Music were new, they weren't written down, at least not in a form even close to complete. Ms. Monk and her group were too busy singing them - living them, you could say - to sit and score them. It's only in the past 15 years or so that Ms. Monk has turned some of her attention to preserving the pieces that she wants to survive her."
  
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• Noose left at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

  01-06-2017 17:02
  
  Visitors at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, found a noose on Wednesday afternoon, 31 May, in the permanent exhibition Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: Era of Segregation 1876-68, the New York Times reports. It had been placed on the floor in front of the display Democracy Abroad, Injustice at Home, which deals with African American ambivalence towards the First World Warmeant to make the world safe for democracywhen they did not have freedom in the
  
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• What's Not Okay To Ask A Dancer To Do?

  01-06-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "When your instruments are human beings, is there a limit to how far you should go? Five choreographers open up about where" - and when and why - "they draw the line." (Elizabeth Streb's answer is, of course, that she doesn't.)
  
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• Looking Back At 20 Years Of Being A (Female) Theatre Critic

  01-06-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Susannah Clapp of Britain's The Observer: "Strangely, given the fawning on female actors and the sneering at 'luvvies', the theatre is the most male world in which I have worked. Far less women-driven than publishing or literary journalism or broadcasting. In all areas: writers, directors, designers, heads of theatres. That is changing. It is hard to overemphasise the difference that one thing made to this."
  
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• Donmar Warehouse's All-Female Shakespeare Trilogy Headed For Cinemas

  01-06-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Filmed versions of Julius Caesar, Henry IV and The Tempest, directed by Phyllida Lloyd and starring Harriet Walter, will be released throughout [this] year."
  
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• David Lewiston, Who Collected Dozens Of World Music Recordings For Nonesuch Explorer Series, Dead At 88

  01-06-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "For decades, Mr. Lewiston, a classically trained pianist, roamed the four corners of the earth with tape recorder in hand, seeking out Tantric Buddhist chants in Tibet, festival music in Oaxaca, Mexico, the kecak monkey chant of Bali, the panpipe music of Peru."
  
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• Report From Mongolia: What Has The Philadelphia Orchestra Gotten Itself Into?

  01-06-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Coming in for a landing at Genghis Khan Airport this week, a group of Philadelphia Orchestra musicians will be literally dropped into a parallel world where familiarity feels eerie and the exotic is oddly reassuring." David Patrick Stearns sets the scene for us in Ulaanbaatar, where a reduced group of the Fabulous Philadelphians is giving performances and workshops this week.
  
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• Morning Links: Gigantic Scimitar Edition

  01-06-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Gallery Director

  01-06-2017 14:55
  The gallery specialises in Art & Design from 1800 to the present day and the successful candidate should have a specialist working knowledge of art within this date line. The candidate will be responsible for researching and selling works of art both within the exhibition framework and outside of it. They will have at least ten years' experience of working in a commercial gallery or an auction house and have existing relationships with art buyers and sellers together with a proven track rec
  
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• T is for transportation: share your artwork now

  01-06-2017 14:47
  
  For this month’s project, Madeline Cornell of the Robert Mann Gallery in New York invites you to share your art on the theme of transportationIn today’s fast-paced world, reliable modes of transportation are essential. In one of Mike Mandel’s earliest photography series, People in Cars, we are taken back to a bustling time when the San Fernando valley was undergoing a major transformation into a commercial landscape and car culture was beginning to rev up. Mandel’s goal w
  
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• Controversial Walker Art Center Sculpture Will Be Dismantled And Burned

  01-06-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sam Durant's piece Scaffold, based partly on the gallows at which 38 Dakota men were hanged in 1862, was greeted with outrage by Native Americans when it appeared in the Walker's about-to-reopen sculpture garden. It will now be taken apart and burned in a ceremony overseen by Dakota elders.
  
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• Thomas Campbell gives his last press conference at the Met

  01-06-2017 14:36
  
  On Wednesday, 31 May, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York gave its annual spring press breakfast, which discusses the museums upcoming exhibitions and gives updates on the institutions news. This year, it served an additional purpose: it was the last press conference given by Tom Campbell, who will step down as the museums director in June.
   
  Campbell took the opportunity to emphasise the museums key achievements and developments during his eight-year mandatewhile adroitly alluding
  
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• Game over? Málaga bishop takes on Space Invader guerrilla artist

  01-06-2017 14:27
  
  Diocese seeks removal of mosaic by French ‘urban acupuncturist’ Invader after it appeared on episcopal palace wall without permissionAuthorities in Málaga are looking into whether a prolific, video game-inspired artist may finally have invaded the wrong space, after one of his idiosyncratic mosaics appeared on the wall of the episcopal palace in the southern Spanish city.The French artist, known as Invader, claims to have created almost 3,500 works in 71 cities around the worl
  
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• Andres Serrano’s contentious Piss Christ to be shown for the first time in Trump’s America

  01-06-2017 11:18
  
  The US artist Andres Serrano is due to show some of his most controversial works, including Piss Christ (1987) and Black Supper (1990), in an exhibition opening this week at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston, Texas (3 June-8 October). The incendiary display also includes Serranos portrait of Donald Trump, which is part of the America photographic series (2002-04), and his Torture series (2015) which shows volunteers being degraded and shackled.
   
  Piss Christ, a photograph o
  
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• Vroom vroom: Cao Fei's BMW car unveiled

  01-06-2017 07:38
  
  Earlier this week at the Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Chinese multimedia artist Cao Fei unveiled her futuristic design for the latest BMW art car, a sleek non-reflective all black rendition of the M6 GT3 race car that seems straight out of one of Caos animations or virtual reality. The car design is accompanied by a video about a time traveling spiritualist and its own augmented reality app of colorful lights. Cao Feis car is the 18th in BMWs art car series, first launched in 1975. For the past
  
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• Chris Buck's best photograph: Billy Joel in the dark with an Applause sign

  01-06-2017 07:00
  
  ‘Billy said, “I’ll do this – but I’m not one who performs because of an urgent need for approval”’I had seen the sign about eight months earlier at a prop house. It was just an odd piece that caught my eye and belonged in a daytime TV studio, to flash when the audience should clap. When I got to the hotel suite with my assistant the journalist was interviewing Billy Joel in another room, so we set up in the bedroom. We stripped off the sheets, plugged th
  
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• Untitled(I’m living on a planet without wind.)

  01-06-2017 00:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The young black man reads a comic novel. The comely white woman talks to a client. She has on white shoes with thick soles. He talks on his smart phone.We don’t know who is on the other end. He seems unlucky. This is the second timehe has asked for work. She said he should leave his number.A young Asian woman with thick thighs looks at a shirt on a rack. The loser brother is here. He vexes me. He reminds me of myself when I’m dumb and helpless. We avoid each other. I yearn for elsewh
  
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