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• Works from the Barjeel Art Foundation collection come to CCS Bard

  10-07-2017 23:00
  
  The Sharjah-based Barjeel Art Foundation and the Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies in New York (CCS) have collaborated to organise an exhibition of works that deal with cultural and socio-political issues in the Arabic-speaking world. Title No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects (until 29 October), the show includes 25 sculptures, photographs, videos and installations drawn from the foundation that span more than two decades. More 20 artists, including Kader Attia, Mona Hatoum
  
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• US court reverses prior ruling in Cassirer case; says restitution lawsuit should proceed

  10-07-2017 23:00
  
  A Holocaust-related lawsuit seeking a Camille Pissarro painting from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation in Madrid was revived yesterday by a federal appeals court in California. The previous dismissal in 2015 by a federal judge in Los Angeles was incorrect, the Ninth Circuit court of appeals said, because the plaintiffs should be permitted to prove the museum knew the painting had been stolen.
  The reversal opens up a new path for a long-standing suits. The plaintiffs are David and Ava
  
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• Tate Modern exhibition aims to be a 'turning point' for African-American artists

  10-07-2017 23:00
  What did it mean to be a black artist in the US? Was there a black art or a black aesthetic? These are some of the broad questions posed by the exhibition, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, which opens to the public at Tate Modern tomorrow (12 July-22 October). It is an ambitious undertaking by the curators Mark Godfrey and Zoe Whitley, not least because so much of the art on show defies categorisation. Some is overtly political, created in the streets rather than the st
  
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• Some vintage posing as the Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair comes home

  10-07-2017 23:00
  
  The moveable feast that is the Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair came home last Sunday (9 July) to Vauxhall, south Londonvery close to where the first Vauxhall motors chugged out of the Vauxhall Ironworks company at the beginning of the 20th century. This years theme was The Original and there was no shortage of originality amidst the plethora of artistic goodies on sale from the boots of cars old and new. Queues of punters snapped up Gavin Turks plinth-only Invisible Sculptures and his signed em
  
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• Nazi-looted Pissarro case can go ahead, says US appeals court

  10-07-2017 23:00
  
  A Holocaust-related lawsuit seeking a Camille Pissarro painting from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation in Madrid was revived yesterday by a federal appeals court in California. The previous dismissal in 2015 by a federal judge in Los Angeles was incorrect, the Ninth Circuit court of appeals said, because the plaintiffs should be permitted to prove the museum knew the painting had been stolen.
  The reversal opens up a new path for a long-standing suits. The plaintiffs are David and Ava
  
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• Nanne Dekking named chair of The European Fine Art Foundation

  10-07-2017 23:00
  
  The European Fine Art Foundation (Tefaf) has a new chairman. Nanne Dekking, the chief executive and co-founder of Artory, will take over from Willem van Roijen, effective immediately.
  Dekking previously served as vice chairman and worldwide head of private sales at Sotheby's, and was for 11 years employed by Wildenstein & Co. Artory, which he co-founded in 2015, compiles information on individual works of art that allows collectors to prove ownership and guarantee authenticity. It will conti
  
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• ‘The Times’ at FLAG Art Foundation, New York

  10-07-2017 21:04 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Hobby Lobby agrees to pay $3m fine for Iraqi looted artefacts

  10-07-2017 20:15
  
  The Oklahoma City-based Hobby Lobby is known to most Americans for its refusal to pay for health insurance that includes female contraception, but last week the arts-and-crafts vendor gained still more infamy when it was slapped with a complaint from federal prosecutors in Brooklyn that the company bought 5,500 artefacts illegally smuggled out of Iraq in December 2010. The complaint alleges that Hobby Lobby's $1.6m purchase was rife with "red flags," not least among them the decision to go
  
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• Dia Art Foundation Acquires Works by Lee Ufan and Kishio Suga

  10-07-2017 19:38 via artnews.com
  Dia Art Foundation has added eight works by the artists Lee Ufan and Kishio Suga to its collection. Two of the works by Suga can currently be seen at Dia:Chelsea in New York, in an exhibition that opened last fall … Read More
  
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• Phillips Names Jean-Paul Engelen Deputy Chairman, Americas

  10-07-2017 19:25 via artnews.com
  Phillips announced in a press release that Jean-Paul Engelen, who was previously the worldwide co-head of 20th century and contemporary art at the auction house, will be promoted to deputy chairman, Americas. Since 2015, Engelen had overseen the contemporary department with his … Read More
  
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• ‘You Directly Copied the Series’: Brad Troemel Accuses Fashion Designer of Ripping Off His Grid Work for Ready-to-Wear Collection

  10-07-2017 18:57 via artnews.com
  A few looks from the Vika Gazinskaya Spring 2018 ready-to-wear collection appear to take direct inspiration from the work of artist Brad Troemel—without permission, acknowledgement, or arrangement. Through a few posts on Instagram, Troemel alleges that, after making a back-to-back comparison, the … Read More
  
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• Report: Steve Bannon Owns Painting of Himself as Napoleon, After David

  10-07-2017 15:50 via artnews.com
  There’s never a dull day in the United States of America these days. While perusing Twitter this morning, I was delighted to come across the news that Steve Bannon, the ultra-right-wing White House Chief Strategist for the Trump Administration and former … Read More
  
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• Arthur Jafa Directed the New JAY-Z Video

  10-07-2017 15:49 via artnews.com
  Last week, the musician and entrepreneur JAY-Z (which is how you style it now) released 4:44, his first album in four years, exclusively on the Tidal, the music streaming site he co-owns. And a few days later, what appeared on … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Art to See Before You Die Edition

  10-07-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Work begins at The Factory—the Manchester arts hub designed by Rem Koolhaas’s OMA

  10-07-2017 12:58
  
  The long-awaited arts hub known as The Factory, the permanent home for the biennial Manchester International Festival (MIF), moved a step closer at the weekend (8 July). A ground-breaking ceremony took place marking the start of construction and enabling works on the culture complex. The cube-shaped building, scheduled to open in 2020, will be the first major UK commission for Rem Koolhaass OMA architectural practice. The centre for art, theatre, dance and music events will form part of th
  
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• Parviz Tanavoli's Lions of Iran exhibition gets green light after Hassan Rouhani’s victory

  10-07-2017 11:59
  
  Parviz Tanavolis long-planned exhibition, the Lions of Iran, was finally green-lighted following Hassan Rouhanis victory in the June elections in Iran. Almost 1,000 patrons attended the opening at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) on 2 July for what the 80-year-old artist described as his most successful show to date.My efforts have been rewarded, a delighted Tanavoli told The Art Newspaper on the opening night. It was so full we had to close the doors. The exhibition, which shows t
  
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• Gorgeous goats – in pictures

  10-07-2017 08:00
  
  Meet Ben, Bella, Sherlock and Sydney – the elegant goats turned into portraits by Kevin Horan. As the American photographer explains, he just treated them ‘like customers in a small-town photo studio’ Continue reading...
  
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