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• Royal Academy of Arts to stage its greatest spectacle

  04-07-2017 23:00
  
  It was the setting for the fiercest rivalries in British art, the place where the countrys finest artists would reveal their creations in direct competition with one another. The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) annual Summer Exhibition, once the grandest social occasion of its day, is where Reynolds and Gainsborough, Turner and Constable, and many, many more, would battle for the publics attention and for highly coveted exhibition prizes. In 1832, when a seascape by Turner was hung alongside a canva
  
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• Parry and thrust and pregnant pauses at unveiling of Frieze Sculpture

  04-07-2017 23:00
  
  Never mind the angst of installing an outdoor exhibition of often immense works to remain in Regents Park throughout the summer. Or the risk of a downpour on the entirely al-fresco opening. The primary concern of the Frieze artistic director Jo Stella-Sawicka was that, despite their near-identical due dates, the appearance of her impending offspring would not coincide with last nights (4 July) unveiling of the newly extended Frieze Sculpture. The exhibition now runs from 5 July until the closin
  
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• Object lessons: an ancient Egyptian relic, a Venetian scene by Guardi and an artefact from an important collection of ethnographic art

  04-07-2017 23:00
  
  LondonChristies, King Street6 July: Old Masters Evening SaleVenice: the Rialto Bridge with the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi by Francesco Guardi (around 1765)Est. around 25m
  A dramatic painting by Francesco Guardi of the Rialto Bridge and the bustling Grand Canal is being sold for the second time since it was painted in the mid-1760s, having been handed down through generations of the Guinness family. The work, which shows one of a pair of views that Guardi painted of the famous Venetian scene (one l
  
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• Object lessons: a Venetian scene by Guardi, an ancient Egyptian relic and an artefact from an important collection of ethnographic art

  04-07-2017 23:00
  
  LondonChristies, King Street6 July: Old Masters Evening SaleVenice: the Rialto Bridge with the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi by Francesco Guardi (around 1765)Est. around 25m
  A dramatic painting by Francesco Guardi of the Rialto Bridge and the bustling Grand Canal is being sold for the second time since it was painted in the mid-1760s, having been handed down through generations of the Guinness family. The work, which shows one of a pair of views that Guardi painted of the famous Venetian scene (one l
  
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• London poised to regain Old Master crown from New York

  04-07-2017 23:00
  
  The fracturing of the New York Old Master auction market with Christies moving away from the traditional major sales in January has given London a chance to become once again the worlds Old Master capital. This year, both Sothebys and Christies have produced formidable catalogues for their July sales.
  The Sothebys sale (5 July) is the stronger of the two, and in terms of the pre-sale estimate of 48.4m to 73.5m, it is the most valuable it has ever offered in London. Much of this is due to J.M.W.
  
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• Gary Hume creates new works for Sprüth Magers London reopening

  04-07-2017 23:00
  
  The German art dealers Monika Sprth and Philomene Magers are to reopen in their newly expanded home on Grafton Street in Londons Mayfair at the end of September, just in time for Frieze art fair. The pair are relaunching with an exhibition over three floors of new works by Gary Hume, opening 29 September (until 23 December). It is the former YBAs first solo show in the UK since his retrospective at Tate Britain in 2013, which ran in tandem with a survey of works by the painter Patrick Caul
  
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• David Shrigley takes the nation’s temperature

  04-07-2017 23:00
  
  The mischief-making artist David Shrigley has made a series of quirky works for a new report that gauges the health of the UK. Health and social care professionals, artists and academics have contributed to the inquiry, which looks at the links between the arts, health and wellbeing. The all-party parliamentary group behind the report is due to present its findings in the House of Commons on 19 July. The report presents the most substantial argument yet for the integration of arts and creativit
  
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• True Faith review – the exhilarating art and afterlife of Joy Division and New Order

  04-07-2017 19:56
  
  Manchester Art Gallery
  Featuring bootleg footage, classic covers and haunting paintings, this terrific show is a reminder of how art was at the core of Manchester’s most enigmatic bandTrue Faith is a terrific, somnolent and exhilarating exhibition, focusing both on the truncated but still influential career of Joy Division and its much longer afterlife, without Ian Curtis, as New Order. Joy Division’s dark, painful music, its sonic gloom and echoing aural spaces dominate the first ha
  
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• Venice Biennale: Putin has a hot date as dance surrenders to orgasmic quivers and S&M taboos

  04-07-2017 14:38
  
  Marie Chouinard’s sexually charged debut programme sees dancers locked up like zoo animals then unleashed, while Vladimir Putin is taunted with whips – and made to dance with a Nubian QueenA naked woman punches her body repeatedly against a wall, her expression hidden by the dark fall of hair covering her face. A pale, serious youth dances a solitary path through a crowd of onlookers, his limbs floating, warping and buckling to low-level electronic music. A middle-aged man in a knitt
  
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• Cass Sculpture Foundation to commission public art for Battersea Power Station district

  04-07-2017 12:38
  
  The vast new Battersea Power Station regeneration project taking shape in south London will encompass several cultural initiatives including an annual public sculpture commission and a new multi-use arts venue called The Village Hall.The revamped famous 1930s power station, which is owned by a consortium of Malaysian investors, is a flagship development at the heart of Nine Elms, the new residential and commercial district spanning the Thames from Lambeth Bridge to Battersea (the redevelopment
  
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• Record for quintessential US cowboy sculpture in time for 4 July

  04-07-2017 11:32
  
  The bronze sculpture, Coming Through the Rye (1902, cast by 1906), was a collaboration between Frederic Remington and Riccardo Bertelli of Roman Bronze Works. Although the foundry produced some of the cowboy chroniclers most complex pieces, this particular design proved more arduous than others. In 1908, the frustrated artist smashed his model with a metal bar, leaving just eight completed casts (and two prototypes). The sculpture"a dramatic portrayal of the American cowboy that
  
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• Secrets of much-loved wartime cartoonist Giles revealed in new book

  04-07-2017 08:00
  
  Carl Giles’s work in the Daily Express did much for morale in the second world war and his spirit of fantasy extended to the stories he told about his own lifeIn September 1943, when the readers of the leftwing Sunday newspaper Reynolds News badly needed cheering up – with a long, cold, dark winter ahead and years of war and rationing to come – the paper lost its star cartoonist, Carl Giles. The shock was greater because the lifelong socialist had decamped to the Tory peer Lord
  
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• Indian women wear cow masks to ask: are sacred cattle safer than us?

  04-07-2017 03:20
  
  Kolkata artist Sujatro Ghosh’s latest project points to country’s veneration of cows to highlight rising violence against women Indian women are posing in cow masks as part of a provocative photographic series that asks: is it safer to be a sacred animal in India than a woman? Related: Blues and moos: Indian state launches cow ambulance serviceRelated: On patrol with the Hindu vigilantes who would kill to protect India's cowsContinue reading...
  
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• China Cracks Down On Social Media - And Artists Find Their Work-Arounds

  04-07-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Digital restrictions are the backdrop to the work of all Chinese artists, and for some, the so-called Great Firewall—the online surveillance structure that blocks data from foreign countries—provides both subject and medium. “The Chinese internet is such a unique and rich material, I am often inspired by it,” says the New York- and Shanghai-based artist Miao Ying. “For anyone who resides in China, you will be shaped by it, not just because of the firewall. China has
  
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