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• Haroon Mirza & Francesca Fornasari, feat. Nik Void & Tim Burgess at Production LiFE, Saint‐Nazaire, France

  19-06-2017 23:01 via artnews.com
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• Manchester gets first comprehensive retrospective of Wyndham Lewis in 40 years

  19-06-2017 23:00
  Wyndham Lewis, an official UK war artist in 1917 who was later tarnished by his brief admiration of Hitler, is the focus of Life, Art, War, an exhibition opening this week at the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester. This large survey of his work is also the first comprehensive show of it in 40 years and presents more than 160 works, including drawings, paintings and pamphlets.Lewis was born in Canada, grew up in England and travelled extensively around Europe. The avant-garde movements he en
  
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• Ikon artists serve up Brexit on a plate

  19-06-2017 23:00
  
  With last nights (19 June) artist-designed fundraising dinner for the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham coinciding with the first day of Brexit negotiations, it was appropriate that Cornelia Parker, fresh from her duties as the official election artist, rose to the occasion with a main course entitled The Full Brexit. This toothsome plateful, described by its creator as soft and hard, with lots of textures, consisted of a UK-tastic array of ingredients, including Welsh lamb in an English wholegrain mu
  
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• Richard Mosse arrested at anti-refugee rally on Greek island

  19-06-2017 22:48
  
  The Irish photographer and 2017 Prix Pictet winner Richard Mosse says he was arrested last Thursday by undercover Greek police while peacefully observing an anti-refugee rally by residents on the island of Chios, near Turkey. On the island to film an episode of Bloombergs Brilliant Ideas seriesan interview programme that profiles major international artistsMosse posted on Instagram that he was wrestled to the ground by plain-clothes policemen and held at a local jail overnight.Mosse has been tr
  
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• Irish photographer Richard Mosse arrested at anti-refugee rally on Greek island

  19-06-2017 22:48
  
  The Irish photographer and 2017 Prix Pictet winner Richard Mosse says he was arrested last Thursday by undercover Greek police while peacefully observing an anti-refugee rally by residents on the island of Chios, near Turkey. On the island to film an episode of Bloombergs Brilliant Ideas seriesan interview programme that profiles major international artistsMosse posted on Instagram that he was wrestled to the ground by plain-clothes policemen and held at a local jail overnight.Mosse has been tr
  
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• Three Charged in New York With Selling Fake Damien Hirsts

  19-06-2017 22:43 via artnews.com
  In a Manhattan courtroom earlier today Vincent Lopreto was charged with selling $400,000 worth of fake Damien Hirst prints over two years. Lopreto, who previously served time in New York state prison for selling forged Hirsts, pleaded not guilty. Two … Read More
  
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• The Smallest Show in Kassel, Germany

  19-06-2017 20:51 via artnews.com
  As you may have heard, it can be rather difficult to figure out where and what the actual art is at some of Documenta’s 80 or so venues in Kassel and Athens because the maps and the signage are, well, not … Read More
  
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• ‘This Is a Really Interesting “Performance” in a Way’: Ei Arakawa Work Stolen at Skulpture Projekte Münster

  19-06-2017 19:34 via artnews.com
  One of the highlights of the very wonderful 2017 edition of Skulpture Projekte Münster is installed in a remote field near Lake Aa in the German city. Titled Harsh Citation, Harsh Pastoral, Harsh Münster (2017), it’s a series of seven LED panels by … Read More
  
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• ‘This Is a Really Interesting “Performance” in a Way’: Ei Arakawa Work Stolen at Skulptur Projekte Münster

  19-06-2017 19:34 via artnews.com
  An LED painting was taken by thieves in the night. Read More
  
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• Chinese virtual art is a hit with Korean kids

  19-06-2017 19:32
  
  Chinese art came to Korea earlier this monthvirtually.  Art Busan, a fair which ran 1 to 5 June in the South Korean port city, invited the DSL Collection Virtual Reality Museum to participate. The digital platform features 30 of the 350 works in Dominique and Silvain Levy's collection of Chinese contemporary art, and was designed by Jean Bernard Grasset at Monochrom Virtual Arts Factory. Seven works were displayed in the booth. The project curator Joanne Kim says meanwh
  
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• Leonardo DiCaprio offers to turn over Basquiat and Picasso works to FBI as part of Malaysian money laundering investigation

  19-06-2017 18:59
  
  The US justice department has revealed new details in its investigation of an alleged $4.5 billion Malaysian money laundering scheme that has ensnared financier and art collector Low Taek Jho, known as Jho Low, and now movie star Leonardo DiCaprio. According to the new complaint filed by the US Attorneys Office in California, the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a fund established by the countrys prime minister in 2009, spent public funds on elaborate personal excesses, among them works of
  
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• Leonardo DiCaprio offers to turn over Basquiat and Picasso works to FBI

  19-06-2017 18:59
  
  The US justice department has revealed new details in its investigation of an alleged $4.5 billion Malaysian money laundering scheme that has ensnared financier and art collector Low Taek Jho, known as Jho Low, and now movie star Leonardo DiCaprio. According to the new complaint filed by the US Attorneys Office in California, the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a fund established by the countrys prime minister in 2009, spent public funds on elaborate personal excesses, among them works of
  
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• Sam Pulitzer, Martha Atienza Win Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel

  19-06-2017 18:07 via artnews.com
  Swiss insurance company the Baloise Group, which annually awards 30,000 Swiss francs (about $30,800 these days) each to two early-career artists in Art Basel’s Statements section, announced that this year’s winners are Sam Pulitzer, showing with Brooklyn outfit Real Fine … Read More
  
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• Primary Information Releases More Postcards for Protest

  19-06-2017 17:20 via artnews.com
  After releasing a series of politically minded, artist-designed postcards in May, the New York-based publishing project Primary Information has come out with another round—and plans to keep adding new cards to the mix every month “for the foreseeable future.” The new batch of … Read More
  
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• Sotheby’s Names Jan Prasens Managing Director of Europe

  19-06-2017 17:09 via artnews.com
  A little post-Basel auction world press release drop in the inbox this morning: Jan Prasens has been named managing director of Sotheby’s Europe, which also puts him in charge of operations in the Middle East, Russia, India and Africa, all from his perch … Read More
  
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• Italy’s five suspended museum directors return to work

  19-06-2017 16:45
  
  Five directors of Italian museums who were ousted by a controversial court ruling on 24 May have returned to workalbeit temporarily. On 15 June, Italys highest administrative court, the Council of State, suspended the decision by the Lazio regional administrative tribunal (TAR) that voided the appointments of Martina Bagnoli at the Galleria Estense in Modena; Paolo Giulierini, Eva DeglInnocenti and Carmelo Malacrino at the National Archaeological Museums of Naples, Taranto and Reggio Calabria r
  
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• Instead Of Relegating It To The Sidelines, Put Music At The Very Heart Of Education

  19-06-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Why make sure every child has the opportunity to learn music and to play an instrument? "Learning to read and play music gives you access to a new language, other worlds. It is one of the greatest gifts, along with security and self-belief and simple love, that a child can be given."
  
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• How Are We Supposed To Look At 'The Cosby Show' Now?

  19-06-2017 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yeah, we've got a problem. "As a nation, we’ve never known what to do with our fondness for the work of men who have become troublesome. We force ourselves to practice impossible moral surgery that hopes to cut off the artist to save the art. Mr. Cosby’s mistrial just further extends our permanent impasse with certain great figures and their problems."
  
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• Jacob's Pillow Is Going Beyond A Festival With Full-Year Residencies

  19-06-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The festival's new leader said, "There is a crisis of ambition in this country for choreographers. ... Choreographers need space and time to experiment with new works."
  
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• Here's The Reason The Roxane Gay-Written Marvel Comic Was Canceled

  19-06-2017 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And no, it wasn't "diversity." Nope - it's a system of how comic books are sold, "a system that rewards the status quo, instead of taking risks and breaking new ground."
  
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• Morning Links: Punk Rock and Theoretical Superstructure Edition

  19-06-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• A Young Artist About To Break Into The Big-Time Was Killed In The Grenfell Tower Fire

  19-06-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Like all of the stories from those who died in the fire, Khadijah Saye's is terrible - and the timing is also deeply awful: "Her work was being exhibited as part of a showcase of emerging artists at the Venice Biennale, and now an important gallery was offering to show her art. The director had wanted to meet at her studio, not knowing she worked out of the 20th-floor flat she shared with her mother."
  
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• Walter Robinson's arty bedding in St Moritz

  19-06-2017 14:54
  
  The veteran artist (and journalist) Walter Robinson is making his presence felt in Switzerland this summer with a show of works at the Vito Schnabel gallery in St Moritz (30 July-2 September). Robinson is an art world stalwart, having edited artnet from 1996 to 2012, and is also famous for his bon mots, having penned influential theses such as the 2014 article Flipping and the rise of Zombie Formalism. His celebrated paintings on bedsheets, known as The Americans, will be on show in St Moritz.&
  
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• The 73-Year-Old Senegalese Woman Who Is 'The Lighthouse At Sea' For Many Dancers

  19-06-2017 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Germaine Acogny, who says dance is the mother of all the arts, "is best known for fusing West African and modern dance. She has been sharing her decades-old technique with young artists from across the continent at L’Ecole des Sables, French for the School of Sands, in a remote fishing village in Senegal."
  
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• How A Man Who Hadn't Finished A Book In 35 Years Became A Reader

  19-06-2017 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It all began with a conversation with his daughter about craft. "It doesn’t just happen?' he asked. I clenched my fingers into my palms. 'No,' I told him. 'I don’t just create something in one sitting.' Finally, I told him that if he tried to read, he’d understand better."
  
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• There's An India That Only Exists On British Screens, And It's Not The Real India

  19-06-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Direct talk from a critic: "What is India really like? British TV doesn’t really care. Instead, the point of India on telly is to serve as an exotic backdrop to western dramas of self-discovery."
  
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• Another Noose - The Third In Recent Weeks - Found Near A Museum In D.C.

  19-06-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This time, it was by the National Gallery of Art. The first two were at the Hirshhorn and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
  
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• Turns Out Shakespeare's Iambic Pentameter And Fantastical Characters Might Be Great For Students On The Autism Spectrum

  19-06-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The play that seems to work the best is The Tempest. "That particular play, McClatchy explains, 'seemed to go right to the heart of the matter in a lot of ways, in terms of being locked on an island and feeling like ‘the other.’'"
  
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• What Does Amazon's Purchase Of Whole Foods Really Mean?

  19-06-2017 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Itmeans empire, basically: "The move takes it one step closer towards founder Jeff Bezos’ long-held ambition of becoming the 'world’s store,' and it is unquestionably the central actor in the remaking of American, and perhaps global, consumerism. What remains unclear is whether it is overall a force for good, or a destroyer of traditional retail that erodes jobs, ruins malls, and transforms a once-productive workforce into underemployed, couch-bound consumers."
  
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• Moca Taipei announces major LGBTQ show as Taiwan set to legalise gay marriage

  19-06-2017 13:03
  
  A new exhibition focusing on LGBTQ issues due to open this autumn at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei (Moca Taipei), Taiwan, will be the first exhibition of its kind to open in a government-run museum in Asia, the organisers say. Spectrosynthesis: Asian LGBTQ issues and Art Now (9 September-5 November) will include around 50 works by 22 artists including Ho Chun Ming of Taiwan; the Chinese artist Yan Xing; and Samson Young, who is representing Hong Kong at this years Venice Biennal
  
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• More Than $4.5 Million Disappeared From The Malaysian Government ... To Fund 'Dumb And Dumber To'?

  19-06-2017 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Well, some of it, at least. Some may also have been used to finance - this is real, people - The Wolf of Wall Street. "Now, the US government is looking to claw some of that money back—and, in a bizarre turn of events—wants Hollywood to fork over millions in assets the DOJ says were purchased with dirty money."
  
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• In pictures: the 'remarkable, powerful' works of Khadija Saye who died in Grenfell Tower blaze

  19-06-2017 11:24
  
  Artists, critics and museum directors have been hailing the work of Khadija Saye, the 24-year-old photographer who died with her mother Mary Mendy in the Grenfell Tower fire in West London last week. Sayes work is currently on show in the Diaspora Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in a presentation curated by David A Bailey featuring emerging artists from diverse cultural backgrounds. The art critic Waldemar Januszczak described Sayes wet collodion tintypes exploring the migration of traditi
  
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• Despite protests, Tasmania gives Nitsch his biggest-ever audience

  19-06-2017 10:55
  
  As people queued for Hermann Nitsch's 150.Action, part of the Hobart-based MONA Museums Dark Mofo festival on 17 June, a group of 50 animal rights activists held a peaceful protest outside the venue. With a large line of attendees starting to snake its way into the security screening area, protestors offered up alternatives, why not go to the beach instead said one protestor, visit an animal sanctuary, said another.But this audience was not interested, they were here for the chal
  
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