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• This Chicago installation runneth over

  22-06-2017 23:00
  
  You might not need a sudsy bathbut you will need a rinseafter a visit to a new interactive installation by the London-based sculptor Roger Hiorns, located in a lakeside park at Chicagos Navy Pier landmark. The work, A retrospective view of the pathway, is made of three huge stainless-steel tanks that erupt with a non-toxic, biodegradable detergent foam. Visitors are welcome to frolic in the froth that spills out of the tanks onto the surrounding grass. The work was unveiled on 21 June as part o
  
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• Future’s so bright: Times Square shows children's art

  22-06-2017 23:00
  
  For four minutes out of every hour, visitors to New Yorks Times Square can enjoy a brief respite from the advertising on the Clear Channel Spectacolor Sign to see the work of young New York artists instead. The billboard displays a rotating selection of 27 works in the Metropolitan Museum of Arts current exhibition P.S. Art 2017: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of NYC Kids (until 29 October), an annual juried show of art by public school students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. The Time
  
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• French military funds technology to document heritage in conflict zones

  22-06-2017 23:00
  
  The French ministry of defence is funding a US-French consortium that is working to democratise the technology used to digitally document heritage sites threatened by war. A $1.1m grant, announced last month, supports a three-year project to widen access to this 3D data, so that it can be used by troops on the ground and scholars via their laptops anywhere to assess the condition of monuments and sites at risk. Peacetime applications include sites threatened by climate change and urban growth.
  
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• Fontainebleau theatre restoration enters final phase

  22-06-2017 23:00
  
  The final stage of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-funded renovation of the 19th-century imperial theatre at the Chteau de Fontainebleaua Unesco World Heritage site near Parisbegins in June. Designed in 1857 for Napoleon III, the theatre reopened in 2014 after the first phase, which cost 5m and saw 25 specialists and 135 craftsmen revive the original dcor of the main auditorium. The final phase focuses on restoring the theatres machinery, the upper levels of the salons and the podium that houses
  
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• First Backlot Arts Festival opens this weekend in Astoria's Kaufman Arts District

  22-06-2017 23:00
  
  A weekend-long festival of exhibitions, performances and interactive workshops for all ages is coming to Astoria in Queens, New York, thanks to the Kaufman Arts Districtan artistic hub spanning 24 blocks that is anchored in part by the historic Kaufman Astoria Studios.
  The first edition of the Backlot Arts Festival (24-25 June) aims to inspire artists and creatives to participate in future events happening in this great neighbourhood, Tina Stipanovic, the curator of the festival, told The Art N
  
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• Conrad Shawcross channels Brexit in his St Pancras International sculpture

  22-06-2017 23:00
  
  The official take on Conrad Shawcrosss new sculpture, which now hangs from the roof of St Pancras International, is that the giant rotating work, The Interpretation of Movement (a 9:8 in blue) (2017), is a celebration of mechanics and engineering. The latest commission in the stations Terrace Wires public art programme is an awesome technical feat, with its three articulated arms stretching out to a 16m span and all driven by an incredibly complex gearing system.Yet although the sculpture was c
  
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• Abstract art that Khrushchev condemned to get home in Moscow as well as US and China shows

  22-06-2017 23:00
  
  A Russian IT entrepreneur plans to open a museum of Russian abstract art in Moscow later this year and has set up a foundation that will spend $4.5m to promote the work abroad, including in China and the US.Olga Uskova, the founder and president of the software company Cognitive Technologies, tells The Art Newspaper that she intends to transform a former Soviet factory-workers club, designed by the Constructivist architect Konstantin Melnikov, into a museum displaying works of art from the seco
  
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• Michael Rosenfeld Gallery Now Represents Estate of Hannelore Baron

  22-06-2017 22:24 via artnews.com
  Today, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery announced that going forward, it will represent the estate of Hannelore Baron, the American artist who is best known for her work in the realms of assemblage and collage. She died of cancer in 1987. “Since … Read More
  
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• ‘Tomorrow Tomorrow’ at Canada, New York

  22-06-2017 21:14 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Character Traits: Sam Anderson on Her SculptureCenter Show

  22-06-2017 19:54 via artnews.com
  Visitors to SculptureCenter in Queens might notice a strange melody playing throughout its basement. Twin Peaks–like piano music lingers throughout its darkened halls, only to abruptly give way to a more classical-sounding score and then, briefly, to a sadder arrangement. Who’s … Read More
  
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• Watermill Center Benefit to Honor Laurie Anderson and Isabelle Huppert, in Tribute to Lou Reed

  22-06-2017 19:41 via artnews.com
  ‘Tis the season for galas out east, and today comes news about perhaps the biggest, the Watermill Center’s 24th annual summer benefit and auction. The production value at this particular party far exceeds that of your average Hamptons shindig—it’s more … Read More
  
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• Antony Gormley asks for 'vandalised' beach sculptures to be cleaned

  22-06-2017 19:26
  
  Sculptor’s life-sized iron men in Crosby have been brightly decorated with a polka-dot bikini and other embellishmentsAntony Gormley has asked for paint to be removed from his iron men sculptures on Crosby beach after they were embellished with colourful outfits by an unknown artist. Related: Why Antony Gormley’s iron men are broadening our horizons Art or vandalism? @peterjharvey gives his verdict to @bbcmerseyside @snellyradio at 01:24:30https://t.co/nYmdxmyliQ Pic: @PrawnCufflinks
  
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• Documenta 14 Will Bring Work to Angola in Partnership with Fundação Sindika Dokolo

  22-06-2017 19:09 via artnews.com
  The organizers of Documenta 14 broke with tradition this year by extending the show, which typically appears in Kassel, Germany, every five years, to Athens. Now they have their eyes on Luanda, Angola, where they will present Documenta 14 works by 16 … Read More
  
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• The Sunday Painter Gallery to Move to London’s Vauxhall District

  22-06-2017 17:51 via artnews.com
  This September, the Sunday Painter gallery in London will relocate from its current space in the city’s Peckham neighborhood to its Vauxhall district. In the new locale, the gallery will be in close proximity to Tate Britain as well as … Read More
  
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• Oskar Fischinger Features as a Muse for Google

  22-06-2017 17:47 via artnews.com
  On the occasion of the birthday of the great German intermedia artist Oskar Fischinger—maker of motion paintings and experimental films dating back as the 1920s—Google has put together a controllable visual/sound interface that can be accessed via its main search-engine page. … Read More
  
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• Northern exposure: artists explore theme of alienation for Nordic biennial

  22-06-2017 17:13
  
  What is Nordicness? What does alienation mean in todays political landscape? These are some of the issues tackled in the ninth Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Momentum, in the small Norwegian town of Moss, which opened last weekend (until 11 October).
   
  The biennial has been organised by five curators from throughout the Nordic countries. For this edition, it was Ulkria Flink from Sweden, Ilari Laamanen from Finland, Jacob Lillemose from Denmark, Jn Ransu from Iceland and Gunhild Moe
  
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• Korsakoff Blight – Now in print

  22-06-2017 15:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Upon inheriting the home of his deceased father, Korsakoff Blight embarks on a bizarre journey into the center of the creative soul. The post Korsakoff Blight – Now in print appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Freemasons reveal their secrets and Art Deco home

  22-06-2017 15:33
  
  Notoriously considered a mysterious and secretive society for men, Londons Freemasons have taken in their first artist in residence. Hidden in plain sight amongst central Londons innumerable imposing buildings, close to Covent Garden, is the Freemasons Hallthe headquarters of the United Grand Lodge of England and a fine example of Art Deco architecturewhere the South African painter Jacques Viljoen has spent the last four months capturing masonic life in the lodge. Organised as part of the
  
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• Morning Links: Barf Green Edition

  22-06-2017 15:03 via artnews.com
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• Travel photo of the week: Mona Lisa gets street cred in Paris

  22-06-2017 14:26
  
  A 50-metre high, jazzed up interpretation of La Gioconda is one of 32 murals brightening the skyline of Paris’s 13th arrondissement Continue reading...
  
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• Rare drawing from Brian Sewell’s collection to feature in Wyndham Lewis survey

  22-06-2017 11:33
  
  The largest ever survey of the British Modernist artist Wyndham Lewis, which opens this week at the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, will include a rare early drawing once owned by the late art critic Brian Sewell.  The pen drawing, titled An Oriental Design (around 1900-05), is the earliest work in the show and was made while Lewis was a student at the Slade School of Art in London. [The drawing], with its small scale and dense cross-hatching, is Lewis attempt to copy Augustus Joh
  
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• Famous photos restaged, from Picasso to Capa – in pictures

  22-06-2017 08:00
  
  From Diane Arbus’s man in curlers to the little running boy by Willy Ronis, Catherine Balet makes delightful re-creations of the world’s most recognisable shotsContinue reading...
  
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• How Nicholas Serota’s Tate changed Britain

  22-06-2017 07:00
  
  Over three decades, he transformed a nation’s attitude to art. But is his revolution now in danger of being reversed? By Charlotte HigginsIn 1970, if you had said that London would one day become the centre of the international art world, the successor to Paris before the first world war and New York after the second, most people would have thought you mad. The gleaming commercial galleries, the art fairs, the record-breaking sales at Christie’s and Sotheby’s, the arrival of th
  
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• Study: How Adults And Children Look Differently At Art

  22-06-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In a small-scale study, a research team led by Francesco Walker of Vrije University presents evidence that children and adults look at works of art quite differently, with kids focusing first on visually stimulating elements. Adults, in contrast, try to make sense of the thing from the get-go."
  
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