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• Cathleen Chaffee Named Chief Curator of Albright-Knox Art Gallery

  12-09-2017 22:53 via artnews.com
  The position had been vacant since Douglas Dreishpoon stepped down in 2014. Read More
  
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• U.S. Pavilion at 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale to Feature Seven Exhibitors

  12-09-2017 22:52 via artnews.com
  Each will contribute to a collective exhibition titled "Dreams of Citizenship." Read More
  
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• Metropolitan Museum of Art Acquires First-Century Egyptian Coffin

  12-09-2017 21:05 via artnews.com
  The work will now be on view in the museum's Egyptian galleries. Read More
  
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• Move over, Nelson! These are the statues modern Britain needs

  12-09-2017 19:56 via theguardian.com
  From colonialists to Confederates, the debate over who should be honoured is raging around the world. We asked Guardian readers to nominate deserving figures yet to be carved in stone. Here, we make the case for people ranging from David Attenborough and JK Rowling to Peter Tatchell and Britain’s first Asian MPIconoclasm never fell out of fashion, but it has almost always been metaphorical: if you wanted to find the last time monuments were destroyed to significant political effect in this
  
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• Marius Ritiu at Slag Gallery, Brooklyn

  12-09-2017 19:44 via artnews.com
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• Eyebeam to Move to Space in Bushwick

  12-09-2017 18:09 via artnews.com
  The art-and-technology nonprofit will open to the public on November 30. Read More
  
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• Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles and Latin America collide - in pictures

  12-09-2017 16:34 via theguardian.com
  The city wide exhibition launches today and sees more than 70 shows all aimed at connecting the dots between Latinos, Latin America and Los Angeles Continue reading...
  
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• Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA – the perfect exhibition for Trump's America

  12-09-2017 16:32 via theguardian.com
  From themes of borders and immigration to its role in a city dealing with conflict between its Latino communities and the art world, this large-scale Los Angeles exhibition could not feel more timelyTensions between the Los Angeles art world and the city’s Latino communities have been bristling over the last 18 months. Focusing around the east LA neighbourhood of Boyle Heights, art galleries that have tried to move into the area have been met with community organized resistance. Along with
  
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• Celebrity art dealer jailed for stealing works worth £500,000

  12-09-2017 16:05 via theguardian.com
  Jonathan Poole sentenced to four years after admitting 26 offences against nine victims, involving works by artists from Rodin to John Lennon An art dealer to the stars has been sentenced to four years in jail for stealing paintings and sculptures “in broad daylight” like the protagonist of the Hollywood film The Thomas Crown Affair.Jonathan Poole, who specialised in selling artwork by famous musicians, stole work and cheated clients over three decades, Gloucester crown court was tol
  
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• Morning Links: ‘Plop Art’ Edition

  12-09-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Why we can’t escape the rise of ‘plop art’ | Jonathan Jones

  12-09-2017 14:20 via theguardian.com
  Rachel Whiteread is right – Britain is full of bad public art. But debates on the subject are irreconcilable: one person’s plop is another’s poetic visionThe sculptor Rachel Whiteread has come up with a new art term: “plop art” What can it mean? Is she cocking a snook at the American artist Paul McCarthy, whose controversial sculptures include a giant inflatable poo, perhaps? You wouldn’t want one of those plopping down in front of your house.But no, Whiteread
  
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• Contemporary, controversial and coming soon: Cape Town's vast new art museum

  12-09-2017 13:20 via theguardian.com
  The MOCAA, described as ‘Africa’s Tate Modern’, will be the continent’s biggest ever art museum when it opens later this monthThe invites have been sent for the opening night, the displays readied in 80 galleries spread over nine floors, and 24,000 tickets have sold out in a matter of minutes. For a few short days there is quiet.The calm will not last. In Cape Town, on one of the world’s most recognisable waterfronts in the world, a vast new art museum, the biggest
  
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• Buzz building for opening of Zeitz MOCAA, 'Africa's Tate Modern'

  12-09-2017 13:20 via theguardian.com
  Hopes high for shot in the arm for contemporary art in Africa as continent’s biggest ever art museum prepares to open its doors on Cape Town’s waterfrontThe invites have been sent for the opening night, the displays readied in 80 galleries spread over nine floors, and 24,000 tickets have sold out in a matter of minutes. For a few short days there is quiet.The calm will not last. In Cape Town, on one of the world’s most recognisable waterfronts in the world, a vast new art museu
  
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• The alt city guide to Leeds

  12-09-2017 07:30 via theguardian.com
  With a capital of culture bid in the works now is a great time to explore Leeds’ DIY and underground scene where friendly music, art and food venues flourish and the nightlife is among the best in the country‘Leeds is quite modest,” insists Bryony Bond, creative director at the Tetley gallery. “It doesn’t market or push itself, which is endearing – but the stuff going on here is brilliant.”That may be changing. Leeds is, after all, bidding to be a Europe
  
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• See What the Top 200 Collectors Bought in the Past Year

  12-09-2017 05:50 via artnews.com
  Our survey shows how acquisitions can be signs of the times.Read More
  
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• Maezawa’s World: The Japanese Collector Recently Set the Auction Record for Jean-Michel Basquiat—Twice

  12-09-2017 05:50 via artnews.com
  “I can very much sympathize with his story of dramatically rising to the mainstream through talent, luck, and timing,” the collector said of the artist. Read More
  
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• An Introduction to the 2017 ARTnews Top 200 Collectors

  12-09-2017 05:50 via artnews.com
  Art collectors at the uppermost echelons can be a secretive coterie. In an age when some are throwing open doors to gleaming new private museums and revealing their holdings with great fanfare, there are others whose names will never appear … Read More
  
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