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• Take me out tonight

  17-06-2017 23:00
  
  Downtown New York was reeling, for most of the month, from the 3 June death of Benjamin Cho, the fashion designer, DJ, artist and nightlife fixture, but on 18 June the after-party for Chos memorial tried to channel the loss into a positive place. That evening, the club Pauls Casablanca hosted its final Smiths Night, the dance party pioneered by Cho in 2003 that would often go on late into Monday. The artist Andrew Kuo presided in the DJ booth alongside Brian DeGraw, a member of the band Gang Ga
  
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• Good things come in small packages at the Rijksmuseum

  17-06-2017 23:00
  The Rijksmuseum is out to prove that good things really do come in small packages with its latest exhibition that explores the art of 16th-century Dutch microsculptures. Titled Small Wonders, the Amsterdam show features around 60 of the 130 extant examples of this unique art form.Expertly carved from boxwood, these micro-carvings, some of which are just 25mm in diameter, take the form of prayer beads (also known as prayer nuts), altarpieces, shrines, skulls and coffins. Religious scenes decorate
  
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• Fontana’s rarely-seen Fine di Dio series comes to light at Art Basel

  17-06-2017 23:00
  
  The London- and Paris-based gallery Tornabuoni Art has pulled off an art historical coup with its presentation at Art Basel (until 18 June) of four rare and fragile works from Lucio Fontanas Fine di Dio series (1963-64). The last exhibition devoted to these works, comprising 38 pieces in total, was held in June 1963 at the Galleria dellAriete in Milan, when five of the large, oval-shaped perforated works painted in different monochrome hues were displayed. 
   
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• Khadija Saye, my dear artist friend whose laughter I will never forget

  17-06-2017 22:54
  
  Artist Sanaz Movahedi recalls the young art photographer who died in the Grenfell Tower fire and whose work is on show at the Venice BiennaleI first met Khadija Saye at Peer in Hoxton, east London, where we were both gallery assistants. I remember being incredibly nervous on my first day, because I’d never worked at a place like that, but within minutes of being with Khadija, her bright smile and soft chuckle took any fear away. I can still see and hear that laugh and it will always bring
  
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• Among the victims, my kind, funny friend Khadija Saye, and her mum

  17-06-2017 22:54
  
  Artist Sanaz Movahedi recalls the young art photographer who died in the Grenfell Tower fire and whose work is on show at the Venice BiennaleGrenfell Tower fire - latest updates
  I first met Khadija Saye at Peer in Hoxton, east London, where we were both gallery assistants. I remember being incredibly nervous on my first day, because I’d never worked at a place like that, but within minutes of being with Khadija, her bright smile and soft chuckle took any fear away. I can still see and hear
  
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• Interview with Yuriy Tarnawsky

  17-06-2017 13:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Talking with ukrainian writers is harder than you think. You need to ask more questions than usual and you need to explain a lot for the reader. Mainly because no one really knows a thing about ukrainian literature and its rather unique place in worlds culture. It’s complicated, strange and terrible. It lays where Chtulhu sleeps and acts like an idiot savant. It’s irritating at best and utterly annoying at worst. Also – Kick the chair. Don’t forget to breathe. Down with t
  
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• Khadija Saye: artist on cusp of recognition when she died in Grenfell

  17-06-2017 09:00
  
  Work of Khadija Saye, who died in Wednesday’s fire, was being exhibited at Venice Biennale and had caught eye of influential directorThe day before she died, Khadija Saye had met an influential gallery director who was blown away by the young artist’s work and wanted to meet her. After years of striving to create her work while studying and holding down a job as a care worker, it felt like her moment to shine had come.Her work was being exhibited as part of a showcase of emerging art
  
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• Hermann Nitsch: I show everything that is ... I don’t know what is bad or good

  17-06-2017 03:02
  
  Austrian artist, whose bloody installation for Dark Mofo has sparked protests and controversy, says he has never been interested in provocation“I was never interested to make provocation,” says Austrian avant-garde artist Hermann Nitsch.
  The 78-year-old artist is in Australia for Mona’s annual midwinter arts festival, Dark Mofo. Since Nitsch arrived in Hobart a week ago, the location of his performance, 150.Action, and the rehearsals for it have been a closely guarded secret.Re
  
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• Shepard Fairey: artist behind Obama 'Hope' poster unveils largest work to date in Sydney

  17-06-2017 00:19
  
  On the side of 309 George St in Sydney, the street artist’s latest work has been unveiled as part of Vivid SydneyThe mural is still being completed when we speak but the work by the 47-year-old Los Angeles-based artist Shepard Fairey is already doing the rounds on Instagram.The artwork, on the side of 309 George St in Sydney, is a 50m-high and 30m-wide woman with flowers behind her ears, holding a giant waratah – the floral emblem of New South Wales – and the word “OBEY&r
  
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• Los Angeles Lights Up City Hall With The Bat Signal In Honor Of Adam West

  17-06-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hundreds of fans, some in costume, cheered as Mayor Eric Garcetti and Police Chief Charlie Beck switched on the iconic signal and splashed a yellow oval with a bat silhouette high up on the wall of City Hall.
  
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