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• Walter Robinson at Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz

  01-08-2017 23:36 via artnews.com
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• All the small things

  01-08-2017 23:00
  Have you ever wondered what a male diving beetles foot looks like under a microscope? Probably not, but it reveals itself to be a fascinating abstract composition of vibrant coloursturquoise, magenta, purple, redin an image taken by the scientist and photographer Igor Siwanowicz. The work snagged fifth place in the 2016 Nikon Small World Photomicography Competition, launched in 1975 by the Japanese camera manufacturer, which judges photographs of objects magnified by a light microscope. The Bruc
  
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• Missing in Münster: Koki Tanaka Equipment Stolen from Skulptur Projekte

  01-08-2017 22:50 via artnews.com
  This is starting to get worrisome. Today, officials at Skulptur Projekte Münster—who must have the patience of saints—shared news of the third unfortunate event to affect a work in their decennial public art show. Sometime last night, it seems, “technical … Read More
  
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• Coal Miner’s Coughs and Cocoons of Cotton Candy: A Night at the Watermill Center Benefit

  01-08-2017 21:08 via artnews.com
  Rudy Giuliani, oddly enough, was among the guests. Read More
  
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• Harold Williams, founding president and CEO of LA’s J. Paul Getty Trust, has died

  01-08-2017 20:54
  Harold Marvin Williams, the founding president and chief executive of the Los Angeles-based J. Paul Getty Trust, died on Sunday, 30 July, aged 89.
  Williamsa businessman who had also served as the dean of the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles and the chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commissionbecame the president and chief executive of the Getty Museum in 1981. He took up the reins as the president and chief executive of Getty Trust when it was
  
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• ProjectArt Taps Chana Budgazad Sheldon to Help Build ‘America’s Largest Free Art School’

  01-08-2017 19:30 via artnews.com
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• The Met might return another ancient vase to Italy

  01-08-2017 19:08
  An ancient vase at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has been confiscated by the Manhattan district attorneys office based on evidence that it was looted from Italy in the 1970s, the New York Times reports.
  Authorities were tipped off about the works provenance by the archaeologist Christos Tsirogiannis, who identified it through his research into the files of the Italian art dealer Giacomo Medici. Medici, who was convicted in 2004 of conspiring to traffic antiquities, denies any connection to the
  
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• Edinburgh art festival review – follies, broken statues and a surprise star

  01-08-2017 18:51
  Various venues
  Douglas Gordon knocks Robert Burns off his pedestal and Pablo Bronstein goes gothic at Jupiter Artland. But it’s the video art of Stephen Sutcliffe and Kate Davis that delves deepest at this year’s festivalIn the soaring gothic entrance hall of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, big chunks of black marble are heaped on the ground in front of a glistening statue of the national poet Robert Burns. You recognise a leg, and see that Douglas Gordon has commissioned a j
  
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• Marguerite Matisse plays starring role in Picasso’s studio and RA show

  01-08-2017 18:35
  Matisse in the Studio, which opens at Londons Royal Academy of Arts (RA) on 5 August (until 12 November) after its debut at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, includes more than the objects that the French artist held most dear. A painting by Matisse of his only daughter, Marguerite, aged 13, has been lent by the Muse Picasso-Paris. The star loan comes from the key years of 1906 and 1907 when both artists first drew inspiration from African masks and sculpture to produce radically new works depic
  
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• Marinaro Gallery Heads to Chinatown

  01-08-2017 18:16 via artnews.com
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• Community feel: South London Gallery's housing estate art

  01-08-2017 17:45
  The South London Gallerys outreach programme knows no bounds with the launch of Open Plan, a three-year art scheme covering nearby Elmington, Pelican and Sceaux Gardens housing estates. Open Plan launches tomorrow (2 August) with the Art Block, a new free space on Sceaux Gardens estate which houses patterns and pieces made by local children in a special setting designed by the artist Morag Myerscough. In tandem with the commissions in Art Block, two artist commissions each year will result in th
  
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• World of leather: how Tom of Finland created a legendary gay aesthetic

  01-08-2017 15:52
  His subversive drawings ridiculed authority figures and inspired the look of Freddie Mercury and the Village People. A new film tells the story of Touko Laaksonen’s rise to became Scandinavia’s kinkiest art export While sex between men was partially decriminalised 50 years ago in the UK, in Finland it took until 1971. And it wasn’t until very recently that the Finns were relaxed enough about homosexuality to acknowledge openly one of their country’s most famous exports. I
  
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• Thieves damage Koki Tanaka work at Sculpture Projects Münster

  01-08-2017 15:19
  Thieves broke into the university building in Mnster to steal technical equipment that was part of a work by the Japanese artist Koki Tanaka on display at the citys Sculpture Projects, a festival that takes place every ten years.Tanakas video project, Provisional Studies: Workshop #7 How to Live Together and Sharing the Unknown, will be temporarily closed to the public until the projection equipment and monitors can be replaced, Sculpture Projects Mnster says. We are trying to replace it quickl
  
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• Morning Links: Kanye West’s Watermill Center Gala Non-Appearance Edition

  01-08-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Warburg Institute appoints the V&A’s Bill Sherman as director

  01-08-2017 12:47
  The Victoria and Albert (V&A) scholar Bill Sherman has been appointed director of the Warburg Institute at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Sherman, the director of research and collections at the V&A, replaces David Freedberg who stood down in April. The Warburg Institute grew out of the private library of the German art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929) who amassed science, history and art history publications. Under threat from the Nazis, his 60,000-strong lib
  
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• Bass Museum acquires Allora & Calzadilla petrol pump

  01-08-2017 12:37
  The Bass museum in Miami has acquired one of Allora & Calzadillas petrol pump installationsa series of large-scale sculptures of fossilised gas pumps, one of which was shown at the Venice Biennale in 2011. It is the first time a major work by the US-Cuban duo has been bought by a Miami museum.  Silvia Karman Cubia, the director and chief curator of the Bass, says the acquisition came about after a long conversation with the artists, whom she has known for around 25 years. I saw one of
  
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• The rise in art protests: how the gallery became a new battleground

  01-08-2017 12:00
  An exhibit by controversial artist Dana Schultz, accused of profiting from black pain, has led to anger, the latest in an increasingly long line of art world protestsNew York-based artist Dana Schutz caused an uproar this spring when she exhibited Open Casket, a painting of Emmett Till, the 15-year-old whose brutal murder sparked the civil rights movement. As a white artist making art about black pain and showing it at the Whitney Biennial, several activists responded negatively to the work, one
  
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• Can graphic design save lives?

  01-08-2017 11:59
  Can graphic design save your life? The curators of an exhibition posing that question at Londons Wellcome Collection think so, and have martialed around 200 examples ranging from designs for the outside of ambulances, hospital interiors, hard-hitting posters, cigarette packaging and images of street art aimed at alerting and informing the public about an epidemic. Examples in the exhibition (7 September-14 January 2018) range from a Second World War anti-malaria poster designed by Abram Games t
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.31.17

  01-08-2017 11:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kurt Weill in 2017
  “Wherever I found decency and humanity in the world, it reminded me of America.” That this observation – recorded by Kurt Weill in 1947 – rings hollow in 2017 does not diminish the fascination ... read more
  AJBlog: Unanswered Question Published 2017-07-30The NYC Influence
  Over time, various cities emerge as strongholds of finance:  Venice, Zurich, Edinburgh, Singapore, Hong Kong.  These cities, though they have many other characteris
  
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• Miami patron Dennis Scholl becomes chief executive of ArtCenter/South Florida

  01-08-2017 11:43
  Miamis bid to become a leading art destination has been boosted with the appointment of the veteran local figure Dennis Scholl as the new chief executive and president at ArtCenter/South Florida in Miami Beach. Scholl, a high-profile collector and entrepreneur, takes the reins in September at the non-profit organisation known for its studio residency and outreach programmes. ArtCenter/South Florida is based in Lincoln Road in Miami Beach. In the late 1980s, ArtCenters founder, Ellie Schnei
  
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• Stolen Guercino painting will need a year of conservation

  01-08-2017 11:40
  A Guercino altarpiece that was stolen from an Italian church in 2014 and recovered in February in Casablanca will now undergo a year of conservation in Rome to reverse the damage. Italian and Moroccan authorities returned the painting, Madonna with the Saints John the Evangelist and Gregory Thaumaturgus (1639), to Italy earlier this month. As the criminal investigation continues in Morocco, the work will be treated by specialists at the Italian governments Superior Institute for Conservati
  
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• Trajal Harrell – the dirty dancer voguing his way into history

  01-08-2017 08:00
  From the runway strut to the hoochie koochie, choreographer Trajal Harrell is turning outlaw dance forms into radical, booty-shaking spectacleThe voguing balls of Harlem, the hoochie koochie dances of rural America, the elaborate, prancing gait of runway models – these aren’t influences that routinely feature in contemporary dance. Yet for the American choreographer Trajal Harrell they’ve proved extraordinarily fertile. Over the last two decades he’s produced a body of wo
  
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