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• ‘An Inventory of Shimmers’ at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts

  15-06-2017 23:17 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Wolfgang Tillmans: ‘It’s the great album tracks that didn’t become singles’

  15-06-2017 23:00
  
  The Fondation Beyeler picked a versatile artist for its first major photography exhibition. German-born Wolfgang Tillmans has tested the medium over his career since the 1990s, applying photography to art-historical genres such as still-lifes, landscapes and abstraction. He has experimented with techniques, from using photocopiers to forgoing the camera entirely and creating chemical reactions directly on paper. He has also always been directly involved in the installation of his work for exhib
  
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• Where does all the art go after a fair?

  15-06-2017 23:00
  
  Art storage is a booming, global business, worth over $1bn a year today. Simon Hornby, the president of Crozier Fine Arts, which has warehouses in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Newark and others further afield in Delaware and Connecticut, reckons that 80% or even more of all the worlds art is in storage at any one time.
  The Crozier warehouse in Chelsea, close by the Hudson River, was built in 1923, at a time when the area was bustling with transportation and stowage of everything from coal to dry goods.
  
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• Welcome to Basel (and Mulhouse)

  15-06-2017 23:00
  
  A World Not Ours
  La Kunsthalle Mulhouse
  Until 27 August
  Magnet Basel
  Various venues
  Until 1 OctoberMigration: Moving the World
  Museum der Kulturen, Basel
  Until 21 January 2018
  The Brussels-based, Greek-born curator, historian and writer Katerina Gregos is bringing an expanded version of her exhibition A World Not Ours, which debuted in 2016 at the Schwarz Foundation on the Greek island of Samosa major European entry point for refugeesto La Kunsthalle Mulhouse. In Europe, [migration] has become
  
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• Save the date: Steiner & Lenzlinger to play in the Tinguely

  15-06-2017 23:00
  
  An exhibition of work by the Swiss artists Gerda Steiner & Jrg Lenzlinger will be staged at the Museum Tinguely in Basel next summer during Art Basel 2018. Although the duo work in a wide range of media, they are best known for their large-scale interactive installations that reference nature and expose the hidden qualities of objects.For the 2014 Sydney Biennial, Steiner & Lenzlinger created a gym where visitors could play music, make a skeleton dance or blow bubbles simply by using th
  
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• In pictures: The Kiss, a crash and Bikini Atoll

  15-06-2017 23:00
  
  Urs Fischer
  The Kiss (2017)
  Sadie Coles Fairgoers cant seem to walk by Urs Fischers Plasticine version of Rodins The Kiss without needing to put their artistic skills to the test. Everybody likes to touch, Wetzel says. You can already see how much the work has changed since the fair opened on Tuesday. He likes the interactive element of the piece as it fits into the Tinguely Museums ethos of involving visitors in the collection. I think Fischer has done this in a very clever way with this
  
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• How the Grand Siècle in Rome inspired the drawings of Poussin and Claude

  15-06-2017 23:00
  The exhibition Poussin, Claude and French Drawing in the Classical Age at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York (16 June-15 October) brings together more than 50 drawings from the museums collection made by French artists living in Rome in the 17th-century. Aesthetically, the period, known as the Grand Sicle, was characterised by a dual interest in classicism and naturalism, but the show includes unconventional examples, say the show's curator, Jennifer Tonkovich. One scene by Poussin, in
  
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• Gutai’s spectacular rise—and potential fall

  15-06-2017 23:00
  
  The seemingly unstoppable rise of post-war Japanese art has been one of the major art- market success stories of the past ten years. Despite a history of engagement with Europe and the international art scene, the Gutai Art Associationfounded in Osaka in 1954 by Jiro Yoshihara (1905-72)had, until relatively recently, created few ripples in the art market. Pioneers in the combination of performance and plastic arts, the Gutai group presaged many of the developments that would come to define post
  
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• Fondation Beyeler builds on 20 years of success

  15-06-2017 23:00
  
  The Fondation Beyeler is running out of space. Sam Keller, its director, says that as the privately run museum in Riehen, near Basel, turns 20, the demands of its growing collection and increased visitor numbers make expansion essential. The current 3,000 sq. m of exhibition space is insufficient to accommodate gifts and long-term loans, a spokesman adds.The Swiss architect Peter Zumthor won the competition last year to design a new wing expected to cost around SFr100m (78m). His extension will
  
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• Elmgreen & Dragset reveal details of the Istanbul Biennial

  15-06-2017 23:00
  
  The high-profile Scandinavian artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, who took part in Art Basels Conversation programme earlier this week, revealed to us more details of the 15th Istanbul Biennial, which they are organising. The exhibition will feature 30 new commissions and works by ten Turkish artists out of a total of 57. A full list of artists participating is due to be announced next month. The biennial is due to open on 16 September (until 12 November), and takes place across the city in six
  
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• Diary: John Baldessari's crowd-pleasing pooches, down and dirty in Hamburg, plus more Basel gossip

  15-06-2017 23:00
  
  Best in show by a Swiss country mile
  A pair of patient pooches are charming adults and children alike in Unlimited, where they play a starring role in John Baldessaris surreal tableau vivant Ear Sofa; Nose Sconces with Flowers (in Stage Setting) (2017). The canines in questionGoliath (pictured), a cute Coton de Tular, and Maiko (taking time out), a dewy-eyed Japanese Spitzaccompany a glamorous model draped over an ear-shaped chaise longue. Goliath, a qualified therapy dog, may look small but ha
  
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• David Claerbout: the Nazi Olympics in ruins

  15-06-2017 23:00
  
  Olympia
  Schaulager, Basel
  Until 22 OctoberUntil October, visitors to Basel can experience Berlinor at least a small corner of itas they will never have seen it before, courtesy of the Belgian artist David Claerbout. Currently installed at the Schaulager is the artists monumental 2016 two-channel projection, Olympia (The real-time disintegration into ruins of the Berlin Olympic stadium over the course of a thousand years). The video simulates the organic deterioration of the 75,000-seat arena th
  
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• Art Basel: things that go clang!

  15-06-2017 23:00
  
  Jean Tinguelys clanking, splashing fountain in front of the Theater Basel turns 40 this year and the city celebrated on Wednesday night with fireworks and a marching band. The artists radical, pioneering ideas live on at Art Basel, where this year a number of galleries are showing historic and cutting-edge mechanical and motorised art.The Dsseldorf-based dealer Hans Mayer, one of Tinguelys early supporters, has an impressive large-scale piece filling a wall of his stand. Although Attila (1963)
  
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• Heroic Indie Rock Band Superchunk Puts Records Up for Auction at Paddle8, in Aid of Planned Parenthood

  15-06-2017 20:35 via artnews.com
  Superchunk, the North Carolina-based rock band at the core of the independent record label Merge, has launched an auction on Paddle8 to raise funds for Planned Parenthood. On offer are a set of limited-edition 7-inch records by the band—a new song titled … Read More
  
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• Basel’s Fondation Beyeler Mounts a Superb, Moving Wolfgang Tillmans Survey

  15-06-2017 20:09 via artnews.com
  The show includes 200 works by the artist, spanning 30 years. Read More
  
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• Getty Museum Receives Gift of 186 Photographs from Bruce Berman

  15-06-2017 19:45 via artnews.com
  Bruce Berman—chairman and chief executive of Village Roadshow Pictures, the production company responsible for movies like Training Day and Ocean’s Eleven—has gifted 186 photographs from his collection to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The announcement comes ten … Read More
  
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• Art Basel 2017: By the Numbers

  15-06-2017 19:39 via artnews.com
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• Walter Robinson, Artist, Is Feted in Basel for Upcoming Show at Vito Schnabel Gallery

  15-06-2017 18:44 via artnews.com
  Walter Robinson, the artist who in another life was the founding editor of Artnet Magazine, was standing in a tan suit at Chez Donati in Basel on Thursday afternoon, fanning himself with a Japanese hand fan at a lunch in … Read More
  
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• Blind Copies: Lenka Clayton Captures the Rhythms of Everyday Life and Questions the Nature of Originality

  15-06-2017 18:27 via artnews.com
  Through July 9, at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia Read More
  
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• Checkpoint Helsinki Appoints Paul O’Neill as New Artistic Director

  15-06-2017 17:46 via artnews.com
  Checkpoint Helsinki, a contemporary arts initiative in Finland, has appointed Paul O’Neill as its new artistic director beginning this fall. Since its founding in 2013, the organization has worked to commission and produce contemporary art projects by artists and curators invited … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Think of Dominique de Menil as ‘Mizz D’ Edition

  15-06-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• 'Beirut is more beautiful by bike': street art reinvents a notorious city – in pictures

  15-06-2017 13:30
  
  The bike-unfriendly reputation of Lebanon’s capital is transforming, as the Chain Effect collective enlists locals of all ages to become pro-cycling graffiti artists Continue reading...
  
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• Labour MP searching for missing artist says Grenfell Tower fire is ‘corporate manslaughter’

  15-06-2017 11:24
  
  Khadija Saye, a 24-year-old artist whose works are currently on show at the Venice Biennale, is missing after the blaze in Grenfell Tower in West London that killed at least 12 people. Saye is believed to have been living in a flat on the 20th floor with her mother, Mary Mendy.The Labour MP for Tottenham, David Lammy, whose artist wife mentored and employed Saye, today described the young photographer as a wonderful artist with an amazing career ahead of her. Speaking on BBC Radio 4s Today
  
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• Labour MP searching for missing artist calls Grenfell Tower fire ‘corporate manslaughter’

  15-06-2017 11:24
  
  Khadija Saye, a 24-year-old artist whose works are currently on show at the Venice Biennale, is missing after the blaze in Grenfell Tower in West London that killed at least 12 people. Saye is believed to have been living in a flat on the 20th floor with her mother, Mary Mendy.The Labour MP for Tottenham, David Lammy, whose artist wife mentored and employed Saye, today described the young photographer as a wonderful artist with an amazing career ahead of her. Speaking on BBC Radio 4s Today
  
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• Three to see: Basel

  15-06-2017 10:16
  
  The Fondation Beyeler's Wolfgang Tillmans survey (until 1 October) is the institutions first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the medium of photography. With more than 200 works spanning the three decades of the German artists career, including abstraction, figuration, vast differences in scale and Tillmanss distinctive method of installation, the survey exemplifies many of the key elements of exhibiting contemporary photography. Among the highlights are images from the early 1990s of the
  
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• Basel Makes a ‘Statement’ on Gender Equality

  15-06-2017 09:04 via artnews.com
  At Art Basel this year, the Paris gallery MFC-Michèle Didier is showing a number of posters by the Guerrilla Girls that starkly address gender inequality in the art world. One reads, “Dearest art collector, It has come to our attention … Read More
  
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• Supercharged children– in pictures

  15-06-2017 08:00
  
  Famed for his pictures of Spanish miners, the French photographer Pierre Gonnord has turned his lens on young people, creating powerful pictures that look like – and have the depth of – oil paintings Continue reading...
  
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