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• Object lessons: a Broodthaers décor, the head of Sekhmet and a rare portrait of a female court jester

  27-06-2017 23:00
  
  LondonPhillips30 June: 20th Century and Contemporary Day SaleLampe bleu et chaise (around 1969) by Marcel BroodthaersEst. 80,000-120,000
  The late Belgian artist, who made a living as a poet and critic until 1964, when he was 40 years old, is known for highly conceptual works, like this assemblage of found objects including a folding chair and a photographic lamp with a blue bulb, whose shade is inscribed with the letters of the alphabet. Broodthaers, following on the heels of Marcel Duchamps re
  
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• Now is the time for an Italian-American museum exchange programme

  27-06-2017 23:00
  
  One of the most consequential art news stories of 2015 was the appointment by the Italian Ministry of Culture of 20 new museum directors leading institutions as large as the Uffizi in Florence and Capodimonte in Naples to smaller places like the Paestum Archaeological Park and National Gallery of the Marche in Urbino. When the appointment process started, the Ministry of Culture was clear that its search would embrace foreign candidates who could bring a more international understanding of muse
  
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• Christie’s Impressionist and Modern sale falls short of goal but beats last year’s result by nearly 500%

  27-06-2017 23:00
  
  What a difference a year can make: In 2016, the evening before the the UKs historic Brexit vote on 23 June, the 33-lot Impressionist and Modern Art evening sale at Christies totalled 21.8m hammer (25.6m with fees). The problem? A dearth of big-ticket consignments, attributed to both poor oil prices and trepidation over the potential pullout from the European Union. Although the political situation globally remains uncertain, the art market has not shown parallel signs of wavering, and the 27 Ju
  
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• Wondering Women: ‘Animating the Archives’ Channeled the Energy of Feminist Activity in L.A. from 1975 to 1991

  27-06-2017 22:18 via artnews.com
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• At Christie’s $190.3 M. Imp-Mod Sale in London, Record-Breaking $45.8 M. Beckmann Goes to Gagosian

  27-06-2017 22:02 via artnews.com
  The second week of sales in London kicked off tonight with a £149.4 million ($191.7 million) Impressionist and modern art evening sale, with the house ably finding buyers for all but two of the 32 lots on offer, en route to a … Read More
  
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• Beatriz González at Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich

  27-06-2017 20:23 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Austrian court rules in favour of Franz West’s family in legal battle over estate

  27-06-2017 19:39
  
  The family of the late Austrian sculptor Franz West won a legal victory today (27 June) in a five-year battle over the artists estate, when a Viennese court concluded that a new foundation established days before his death to manage his rights and assets was created without a proper contract. They were done in the hospital, just two days before he died and just hours before he had to receive medication, says the familys lawyer, Christoph Kerres of Kerres Partners.Unless the foundation appeals t
  
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• MoMA Receives $50 M. Gift From Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation to Support Expansion

  27-06-2017 18:32 via artnews.com
  The collector and hedge fund titan Steven A. Cohen and his wife, Alexandra Cohen, are the latest big-money contributors to the Museum of Modern Art’s capital campaign for new exhibition space. The institution announced today that the couple’s foundation has given $50 million in … Read More
  
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• TEFAF New York Announces Exhibitors List for 2017 Fall Fair

  27-06-2017 18:19 via artnews.com
  TEFAF New York announced the 93 dealers who will take part in its second fall edition, which returns to the Park Avenue Armory October 28 through November 1. Ten new exhibitors have been added to the roster of dealers focused on … Read More
  
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• MoMA gets $50m from Steven and Alexandra Cohen for expansion

  27-06-2017 18:09
  
  The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Foundation has given the Museum of Modern Art in New York an unrestricted $50m gift. The money will support the museum's on-going expansion and renovation by the architectural firm Diller, Scofidio and Renfro, which is due to be complete in 2019.
  In recognition of the gift, the museum will name its largest continuous open gallery, which will occupy the entire sixth floor after the expansion, the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions.
  This gift
  
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• Art Gallery of Ontario Adds Four New Curators

  27-06-2017 18:00 via artnews.com
  With a reinstallation of its collection underway, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Canada has added four curators to its staff. Julie Crooks, Alexa Greist, Wanda Nanibush, and Caroline Shields have all been appointed assistant curators.Crooks, Greist, Nanibush, and Shields … Read More
  
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• Factory outlet: the art inspired by Joy Division and New Order

  27-06-2017 17:49
  
  From an Ian Curtis doppelganger to works by Barbara Kruger and Scott King, the exhibition True Faith explores the Manchester bands’ visual legacy. Co-curator Jon Savage selects some of his favourites Continue reading...
  
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• High Museum of Art Acquires 58-Foot-Long Kara Walker Silhouette

  27-06-2017 17:40 via artnews.com
  The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, has acquired Kara Walker’s The Jubilant Martyrs of Obsolescence and Ruin (2015), a 58-foot-long cut-paper piece that, like much of the artist’s work, tackles racism and violence throughout American history. It joins … Read More
  
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• Jeremy Deller's human Somme memorial lives on

  27-06-2017 15:21
  
  A new publication out next month (Thames & Hudson) throws new light on Jeremy Deller's poignant public art project evoking the centenary last year of the bloody Battle of the Somme. The UK-wide event, entitled Were here because were here, was commissioned by 14-18 Now, the official cultural programme for the centenary commemoration. Deller devised the piece in collaboration with 27 organisations including the National Theatre in London, the National Theatre of Scotland and Ma
  
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• Morning Links: David Bowie’s Tintoretto Painting Edition

  27-06-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• [UPDATED] A Recent History of Small and Mid-Size Galleries Closing

  27-06-2017 14:36 via artnews.com
  The following post has been updated to include gallery closures internationally. Hat tip to the Twitter account of collector Alain Servais, who keeps assiduous track of these things, under the hashtag #groworgo.—The EditorsLast fall, Nate Freeman, senior staff writer here … Read More
  
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• A Recent History of Small and Mid-Size Gallery Closures

  27-06-2017 14:36 via artnews.com
  Last fall, Nate Freeman, senior staff writer here at ARTnews, took a close look at the struggle of what he called the “middle-class gallery.” And just this past weekend, the New York Times reported on the same subject; the article … Read More
  
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• A Recent History of Small and Mid-Size Galleries Closing [Updated]

  27-06-2017 14:36 via artnews.com
  The following post has been updated to include gallery closures internationally. Hat tip to the Twitter account of collector Alain Servais, who keeps assiduous track of these things, under the hashtag #groworgo.—The EditorsLast fall, Nate Freeman, senior staff writer here … Read More
  
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• A Recent History of Small and Mid-Size Galleries Closing

  27-06-2017 14:36 via artnews.com
  Last fall, Nate Freeman, senior staff writer here at ARTnews, took a close look at the struggle of what he called the “middle-class gallery.” And just this past weekend, the New York Times reported on the same subject; the article … Read More
  
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• Threatened Walsall gallery saved by Arts Council grant

  27-06-2017 12:01
  
  The New Art Gallery Walsall, which has been under threat of deep public funding cuts, has been saved by a four-year 3.5m grant from Arts Council England, which was announced today (27 June). The gallery is also considering a partnership with the University of Wolverhampton to secure its long-term future.The 21m Caruso St John-designed gallery in the West Midlands opened in 2000 among the first of a wave of National Lottery-funded projects bringing contemporary art to the English regions. The ho
  
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• Winning entries in the iPhone photography awards 2017 – in pictures

  27-06-2017 12:00
  
  The winning entries in the annual iPhone photography awards have been announced, chosen from thousands of entries submitted from around the world. The overall winner: children in Iraq playing against a backdrop of oil wells set aflame by Isis Continue reading...
  
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• 'Warehouse' of Italian art comes to Hudson Valley

  27-06-2017 11:37
  
  Magazzinowarehouse in Italianseemed like a fitting name to the collectors Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu for their new, free art space dedicated to post-war and contemporary Italian art. Privately funded by the couple and open by appointment from 28 June, the elegant space in Cold Spring in the Hudson Valley will have rotating displays drawn from the more than 400 works in the Olnick Spanu collection. The Spanish architect Miguel Quismondo has extended the building, a former dairy distribu
  
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• Superstars of St Ives – in pictures

  27-06-2017 10:35
  
  Twisted trees, beer bottle still lifes, brazen blocks of colour … work by everyone from Francis Bacon to Patrick Heron and Lucian Freud is going under the hammer at Sotheby’s – capturing a time when a Cornish fishing village regularly rivalled London as an art superpower Continue reading...
  
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• Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: 'I know there will be an attempt to silence me'

  27-06-2017 08:00
  
  Her films about ‘honour’ killings and acid attacks won Oscars – and caused fury in Pakistan. How will her latest work, an uncompromising look at lives wrecked by the partition of India, be received?When Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy was studying for her A-levels while growing up in Pakistan, she heard that Michael Jackson was playing a concert in India. The 17-year-old was desperate to go, but when she told her grandfather, he forbade her – not just from the concert, but from the
  
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