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• Will the real Modigliani stand up?

  20-06-2017 23:00
  
  The US scholar Kenneth Wayne is planning a variation to the traditional catalogue raisonn on the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. Ambrogio Ceronis catalogue raisonn, first published in 1958, is considered the benchmark, but is often said to contain gaps as his listing of 337 pieces only includes works that he had seen.
  The Modigliani Project, founded by Wayne in 2013, aims to throw new light on a market bedevilled by fakes and squabbles. We plan to publish a supplement to Ceroni by 2020 with a
  
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• Will the real Modigliani please stand up?

  20-06-2017 23:00
  
  The US scholar Kenneth Wayne is planning a variation to the traditional catalogue raisonn on the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. Ambrogio Ceronis catalogue raisonn, first published in 1958, is considered the benchmark, but is often said to contain gaps as his listing of 337 pieces only includes works that he had seen.
  The Modigliani Project, founded by Wayne in 2013, aims to throw new light on a market bedevilled by fakes and squabbles. We plan to publish a supplement to Ceroni by 2020 with a
  
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• The many loves of John Giorno

  20-06-2017 23:00
  
  Not just a fantastic poet, John Giorno must also be an impressive lover. How else to explain I Heart John Giorno, a 13-venue show dedicated to Andy Warhols former boyfriend and the current partner of Ugo Rondinone (who organised it)? Giorno kicked off the show on 21 June with a talk at Sky Art with MoMA curator Laura Hoptman, the pair nestled between two of his pieces: Its Not What Happens, Its How You Handle It and A Hurricane in a Drop of Cum. The conversation was lively and free-flowing, tou
  
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• Olafur Eliasson: ‘There is ultimately no space in which art cannot work’

  20-06-2017 23:00
  
  In the past few years, Ive grown more and more interested in policy making and have had discussions with politicians in Germany, Denmark, Iceland, and Ethiopia; with UN officials, with mayors and city planners, and with people who believe in the European Union and seek to revitalise it as a shared project; with climate scientists, who are addressing the fundamental changes the world needs to make to curb climate change; with economists, contemplative specialists, and compassion trainers; with t
  
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• Object lessons: a maquette by Barbara Hepworth, a Cubistic balalaika by Ben Nicholson and a work by Venice Biennale artist Mark Bradford

  20-06-2017 23:00
  London Sothebys22 June: Impressionist and Modern Art Day SaleDual Form (conceived 1965, cast 1966) by Barbara Hepworth(est. 150,000250,000)
  Collectors Mary and George Bloch spent four decades pursuing treasures, from antique snuff bottles to contemporary works; this day sale features selections from their trove of Modern sculptures, including five works by one of Britain's foremost Modern sculptors. This bronze maquette (the second of nine) derives from Hepworths Dual Form, a sculpture conceive
  
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• Miami artist to work on Pulse victims’ memorial

  20-06-2017 23:00
  
  The Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Floridathe scene of a mass shooting last June, when 49 people were killed by Omar Mateenis to be turned into a museum and memorial for the victims, says the clubs owner, Barbara Poma. According to the Orlando Sentinel newspaper, the memorial campaign will be led by the OnePulse foundation. The Miami-based artist Jefre Manuel has been appointed as the foundations design consultant, while the board of trustees includes Lance Bass, formerly of the boy band NSync.
  
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• Dara Birnbaum takes on Wonder Woman

  20-06-2017 23:00
  While the blockbuster Wonder Woman film continues to lasso audiences in theatres, raking in more than $400 in box office sales, it's worth remembering that the Amazonian warrior princess has been an inspiration for artists as well as comic book fans. Dara Birnbaum took the superhero as her subject in the 1978-79 video piece Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman, remixing scenes from the television series starring Linda Carter to deconstruct the feminist image in pop culture. The abbreviated na
  
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• Creative workshop is just the job for Venice Biennale

  20-06-2017 23:00
  
  No great Expo or Worlds Fair was complete without a native village or two in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Midway at Chicagos Worlds Columbian Exposition in 1893 had a Dahomey village, with Africans in traditional dress, as did Pariss Exposition Universelle in 1900. Caucasians were displayed as well as more exotic people. Young women, or colleens, in the Irish villages especially.
  This year at the heart of the main exhibition at the Venice Biennale, the art worlds greatest gatheri
  
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• Barnes Foundation Chief Curator Sylvie Patry Returns to Musée d’Orsay

  20-06-2017 22:23 via artnews.com
  Less than two years after she left the Musée d’Orsay to become the chief curator of the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Sylvie Patry will return to the Paris museum, this time as deputy director for curatorial affairs and collections. Through … Read More
  
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• Albertz Benda Now Reps Tsibi Geva

  20-06-2017 21:39 via artnews.com
  Tsibi Geva is now represented by Albertz Benda. The Chelsea gallery announced its first exhibition with the Israeli artist will be in October 2017. It will feature new work alongside pieces from his presentation at the 2015 Venice Biennale, where he represented … Read More
  
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• Painting of nursing mother wins BP Portrait Award 2017

  20-06-2017 21:15
  
  Artist Benjamin Sullivan’s portrait of his wife and baby daughter takes £30,000 National Portrait Gallery top prizeA painting of a weary but happy mother feeding her eight-month-old daughter has won this year’s BP Portrait Award, netting its artist – the subject’s husband – the £30,000 top prize.Judges at the National Portrait Gallery were moved by Benjamin Sullivan’s work Breech!, whose title hints at the trauma of baby Edith’s birth. It was
  
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• ‘It Is Not Fun Anymore’: Envoy Enterprises Closes After a Decade on the Lower East Side

  20-06-2017 20:57 via artnews.com
  After over a decade on the Lower East Side, first on Chrystie Street and then on Rivington Street, a few blocks away, Envoy Enterprises will close its gallery space in August, it announced in an email blast. The final show … Read More
  
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• Three men charged with selling fake Damien Hirst prints online for $400,000

  20-06-2017 20:43
  
  Three men have been charged with producing counterfeit Damien Hirst prints, including one from the YBAs spot painting series. Dozens of collectors around the world bought the counterfeit works online, earning the group more than $400,000, according to Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance.Demand in the market for limited editions can lead to fakes with little or no value, Vance said in a statement. In this case, the alleged fraud went beyond plain imitation, and the defendants are charged wit
  
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• 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair Announces Exhibitor List for London Edition

  20-06-2017 17:10 via artnews.com
  The 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair has announced that it will play host to 41 galleries from 18 countries for its fifth London edition, which is set to take place at Somerset House from October 5 to 8, during Frieze … Read More
  
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• Travelogue: Jens Hoffmann

  20-06-2017 16:56 via artnews.com
  Curator Jens Hoffmann has helped oversee biennials in Indianapolis, Istanbul, San Juan, Shanghai, and the tiny West Indies island of Saint Kitts. And though he’s busy co-curating the inaugural Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art and serving as director of special … Read More
  
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• Serpentine pavilion 2017: a shimmering African canopy spreads out over Kensington Gardens

  20-06-2017 16:39
  
  Inspired by a tree used as a meeting place in his native village of Gando, architect Francis Kéré has brought a piece of Burkina Faso to London – a deceptively simple roof that seems to float above the greenery“I almost hope it will rain,” says Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine, standing beneath the soaring timber canopy of the gallery’s summer pavilion, which plunges inwards to form a conical funnel where rain will be channelled into a
  
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• Morning Links: Truly Artful Tallahassee Edition

  20-06-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Queen’s birthday honours: Ukrainian-born museum donor Leonard Blavatnik is made a knight

  20-06-2017 12:12
  
  Leonard Blavatnik, the Ukrainian-born businessman who has given substantial donations to the Tate and Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, has been knighted in the Queens Birthday Honours list. His knighthood was awarded for services to philanthropy. Tate Modern has named its new extensionformerly the Switch Housethe Blavatnik Building after the entrepreneur donated more than 50m, the largest-ever financial donation to a UK museum. He has also supported the V&As new Exhibiti
  
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• Chinese art world goes fur crazy for cats on WeChat

  20-06-2017 11:55
  
  The internet is made of catsand so is the social media of the Chinese art world. On the popular platform WeChat, postings are full of the cats of artists, curators and art administratorsand group chat Cat Poop Club Member 1 compiles and distils the feline fancies of Chinese artists. Its 128 members post upwards of several thousand pictures and comments per day: a mixture of cats and other beasts, but mostly members own mogs. Members get artistic with digital doodles of the imagesa face-swapping
  
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• Summer 2017's finest art, design and photography

  20-06-2017 07:00
  
  Tapestry goes into space, Matisse and his subjects take over the Royal Academy, black power is on the rise, the V&A gets some va-va-voom and Manchester goes mad for New Order. Here are the pick of the shows• Summer arts preview 2017: TV | Comedy | Film | Pop | Classical | Theatre“Liverpoole is one of the wonders of Britain,” wrote Daniel Defoe in 1715. “What it may grow to in time I know not.” He might be relieved not to have lived to see some of the city’s
  
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• Cue mist! Gregory Crewdson, the photographer with a cast, a crew and a movie-sized budget

  20-06-2017 07:00
  
  It took two years and was more work than some Hollywood films. Now Cathedral of the Pines – about lost souls in Appalachia – is coming to the UK. The photographer reveals the story behind his most personal series yetIn 2013, in retreat from “a difficult divorce”, Gregory Crewdson moved from Manhattan to a converted church in rural Massachusetts. “I had to relocate myself, physically and psychologically,” says the photographer. So he spent his time mountain tre
  
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• Can blood, guts and gore in art be beautiful? Nitsch shows it can | Stephanie Convery

  20-06-2017 06:59
  
  The controversial Austrian artist’s Dark Mofo performance was a confronting but exhilarating examination of life and death
  • Warning: this article contains images that some may find disturbingIn a cavernous warehouse, a man in white is gutting fish on a table covered by a white sheet. The fish are laid out, entrails displayed, in a pattern on the table and on the floor, which is also covered in white canvas. A crowd of hundreds presses around it, straining to see; they part to make wa
  
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• Public art: the feel-good hit that makes us linger - and spend money | Meg Bartholomew

  20-06-2017 06:19
  
  More visitors, better productivity and free publicity are an easy return on investment for art. Property developers and city planners are taking noticeNow that Vivid Sydney, the yearly festival of lights, music and ideas, has drawn to a spectacular close, I am waiting with anticipation on a much more mundane spectacle – the crunching of some numbers. This is exciting as, at around this time last year, Destination NSW confirmed that 700,000 more people came to Vivid in one year than came to
  
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• Three men charged over Damien Hirst counterfeits that sold for $400,000

  20-06-2017 00:16
  
  Fake ‘limited-edition’ Hirst prints were sold online to dozens of buyers by a New York group that included a man previously imprisoned for a similar scheme Three men were charged in New York on Monday with making counterfeit Damien Hirst prints which they sold on for more than $400,000.The fake “limited-edition” Hirst prints were sold online to dozens of art buyers around the world, according to Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance. The group included a man who had bee
  
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