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• V&A celebrates the designers who made the most of plywood

  13-07-2017 23:00
  
  Its not every day that a drop tank from a 1942 De Havilland Mosquito aeroplane is brought into an art museums conservation studio, but that is precisely what conservators at Londons Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) were confronted with in the run-up to the institutions major exhibition on plywooda material that is as versatile as it is ubiquitous. The show, due to open tomorrow (15 July), charts the rise of this humble material from the 1850s to today and features an eclectic group of objec
  
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• Emma Hart keeps all lines of communication open at unveiling of her Max Mara show

  13-07-2017 23:00
  
  All hail Emma Hart! The winner of the 2015-17 Max Mara Womens art prize has just unveiled Mamma Mia!, a spectacular and engaging installation that fills the Whitechapels number two gallery (until September 3) with a family of giant glazed ceramic heads, suspended from the ceiling like huge lamps that also double up as massive inverted jugs, sliced off at the spout/nose. These suggestive vessels are the fruits of the six-month Italian residency that came with the prize, part of wh
  
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• David Zwirner’s Hong Kong gallery to launch with new works by Michaël Borremans

  13-07-2017 23:00
  
  David Zwirners Hong Kong gallery will launch in early 2018 with an exhibition of new works by the Belgian artist Michal Borremans. Details of the show are still under wraps, but it is understood the paintings are a continuation of Borremans acclaimed Black Mould seriesworks depicting hooded figures that were first shown in London in 2015.Borremans is a bit of a super star in Asia, says Angela Choon, a senior partner at David Zwirner. Collectors in the region love the quality of his painting, th
  
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• Gokula Stoffel at Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel Galpão, São Paulo

  13-07-2017 22:34 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Gokula Stoffel: Anxious Madonna” is on view at Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel Galpão in São Paulo through Saturday, July 29. The solo exhibition, the São Paulo–based artist’s … Read More
  
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• Guggenheim Museum to Stage Danh Vo Survey in 2018

  13-07-2017 22:27 via artnews.com
  This coming February, the Guggenheim Museum in New York will present a comprehensive survey of Danh Vo, the Vietnamese-born artist whose installations, photographs, sculptures, and actions have, over the past 15 years, focused on authorship and crisscrossing peoples and cultures. Katherine … Read More
  
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• Greene Naftali Now Represents Tony Cokes

  13-07-2017 21:16 via artnews.com
  Greene Naftali gallery in New York now represents Tony Cokes, the video artist known for his text-heavy films that combine original and appropriated imagery, often with an attention to identity and power structures.Cokes’s work resists what he calls the “representational … Read More
  
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• ‘End of Times; Beginning of Times’: The ARoS Triennial in Denmark Stares Down Climate Change

  13-07-2017 16:26 via artnews.com
  As the sun started setting around 10 p.m. in Denmark, attendees at a reception on the rooftop of the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum included a lot of Scandinavians but also Rirkrit Tiravanija, Doug Aitken, and Meg Webster, all assembled amid an otherworldly vibe … Read More
  
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• True Confessions of a Justified Art Dealer, Part Eight: My $500,000 Mistake

  13-07-2017 15:43 via artnews.com
  Previous entries in Mesler’s column are here.In February 2017 my family and I relocated from New York to Sag Harbor where we are happy and building a new life. I have stopped drinking and know I can never go back. Rental, my … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: $3.9 M. Coin Edition

  13-07-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• What the V&A’s director actually said about digitisation

  13-07-2017 14:30
  
  Tristram Hunt, the new director of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, recently appeared to take an unlikely stand against the digitisation of museum collections. Museums are rethinking the rush to digitise their collections amid concerns that such projects are costly and of little value, wrote the Times newspaper, in a report on Hunts comments at the Hay Festival in Wales. Some may have assumed that Hunt, a historian specialised in 19th-century Britain and a former politic
  
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• The future is handmade: Santa Fe's International Folk Art Market

  13-07-2017 14:00
  
  The arty enclave of Santa Fe, New Mexico, will host the 14th International Folk Art Market from tomorrow (14 July). The annual weekend-long festival, which draws some 20,000 visitors to browse hand-dyed and woven textiles, jewellery, basketry, carvings, ceramics, glass, sculpture, paintings and toys from all over the world, is the most diverse event of its kind.The 160 vendors are selected by jury and represent 53 countries; new this year are comers from Argentina, Jordan, Tajikistan
  
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• Like father, like daughter: William Morris Gallery celebrates May Morris

  13-07-2017 13:26
  
  The William Morris Gallery in northeast London is shining a light on the unsung talents of the Victorian textile designers younger daughter, the craftswoman, writer, teacher and campaigner for female artists, May Morris (1862-1938). The gallery has reached its 15,000 crowdfunding target to stage a major new exhibition this autumn on Mays key contribution to the Arts and Crafts movement. May Morris: Art and Life (7 October-28 January) will bring together embroideries, jewellery, costumes and wor
  
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• Pioneering American artist Daniel LaRue Johnson dies

  13-07-2017 12:56
  
  The American artist Daniel LaRue Johnson, known for his varied embrace of assemblage, Hard Edge abstraction and Minimalist sculpture, as well as his socially oriented and public work, has died. News of his death was confirmed by John Wright Schaefer of the Peyton Wright Gallery in Santa Fe and Vincent Vallarino of Vallarino Fine Art in New York, two of his representing galleries. In a statement, John Wright Schaefer said: "Peyton Wright Gallery is saddened by the passing of Daniel LaR
  
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• In the age of Trump (and before), museums help immigrants on the path to US citizenship

  13-07-2017 12:40
  
  The New-York Historical Society is putting its collection and resources to work in response to the Trump administrations proposed travel ban on people from six countries. It has joined forces with CUNY Citizenship Now!, a programme run by the City University of New York that provides free legal services to immigrants seeking US citizenship, to organise workshops that will prepare Green Card holders for the naturalisation test.
  The museum, which has hosted naturalisation ceremonies for more than
  
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• Photographer Zanele Muholi 'enraged' after Airbnb altercation

  13-07-2017 11:35
  The South African photographer and activist Zanele Muholi has been left enraged after a member of her crew was hospitalised last week following an alleged racist attack in Amsterdam.
  In a statement released by the artist, she says that her colleague and fellow artist Sibahle Nkumbi was pushed down the stairs and almost killed by a man in what she describes as an attack motivated by racism, sexism and xenophobia. The attack came to light when videos of the altercation were posted by Muholi
  
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• Leica: the camera that freed the world – in pictures

  13-07-2017 08:00
  
  Adored by everyone from Henri-Cartier Bresson to Sebastião Salgado, the Leica compact revolutionised photography – taking it out of the studio and onto the streets. The exhibition Eyes Wide Open! celebrates 100 years of pivotal moments Continue reading...
  
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• Free movement of artists 'must be protected' after Brexit

  13-07-2017 08:00
  
  Nicholas Serota, head of Arts Council England, and V&A director Tristram Hunt say the art world must become more international after BrexitThe free movement of artists and performers must be protected after Brexit, Sir Nicholas Serota and Tristram Hunt have urged. They were speaking in London at a conference for the Creative Industries Federation. Serota, who stepped down as director of the Tate last year to head Arts Council England, said there was a risk Britain would “stagnate&rdquo
  
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