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• White House asks for Van Gogh loan – but museum offers gold toilet instead

  25-01-2018 23:00
  The Guggenheim Museum proposed lending Maurizio Cattelan’s America after turning down a request for Landscape With Snow The Guggenheim Museum has reportedly turned down a White House request to borrow a Van Gogh painting, and has instead offered the Trump administration the use of a golden toilet.The White House had asked the Guggenheim, based in New York, to borrow Landscape With Snow, Van Gogh’s 1888 work depicting a man and a dog walking through a field. Related: On the throne: wh
  
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• Kemang Wa Lehulere at Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

  25-01-2018 22:51 via artnews.com
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• Declining White House’s Van Gogh Loan Request, Guggenheim’s Nancy Spector Offered Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet Instead

  25-01-2018 21:44 via artnews.com
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• First Comprehensive Survey of Robert Ryman Drawings to Show at Pace Gallery in New York

  25-01-2018 21:29 via artnews.com
  The show will open in Chelsea on February 24. Read More
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• Naked veggies and a ringing rebuke | Brief letters

  25-01-2018 18:45
  Kettle’s Yard loan scheme | Plastic packaging | Books on shelves | Bayeux tapestry | Bell-ringingIt is true that we no longer lend out the Ben Nicholsons and Alfred Wallises that Harland Walshaw was lucky enough to choose from as a student (Letters, 24 January), but we do still invite students in to Kettle’s Yard to choose a work of art, which for a small deposit and a modest fee they can hang on their walls for the year. And there are some beautiful works to choose from. We do love
  
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• City of Kassel Launches Fundraising Campaign to Protect Olu Oguibe Obelisk First Shown at Documenta

  25-01-2018 18:42 via artnews.com
  The German city aims to raise €600,000. Read More
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• Nicola Gordon Bowe obituary

  25-01-2018 18:21
  
  Art historian who specialised in the Irish Celtic revivalThe pioneering art historian Nicola Gordon Bowe, who has died of meningitis aged 69, wrote magisterial studies of two of the greatest figures of the Irish Celtic revival, Harry Clarke and Wilhelmina Geddes, both artists in stained glass.Her work also had a wider significance outside Ireland – Art and the National Dream (1993), a volume of essays she edited, offered a nuanced understanding of global design, art and architecture, in pa
  
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• Blinded by the light: James Turrell obliterates the senses in stunning new Mona wing

  25-01-2018 18:00
  Mona owner David Walsh calls his $32m new wing ‘a testimonial to the power of light as art’When people talk about having a religious experience with contemporary art, there is a good chance they’re talking about an encounter with James Turrell. The American artist’s large scale installations work with light, and fuse art with science, in ways that lead some viewers into rapture.On beholding his work in a 2013 retrospective, one New York Times reporter wrote breathlessly:
  
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• A Yue Minjun Installation Was on Last Night’s ‘X-Files’

  25-01-2018 17:30 via artnews.com
  The truth is out there, but apparently, so too is a work by the Chinese artist. Read More
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• Consumer Reports: Sonya Sombreuil

  25-01-2018 15:05 via artnews.com
  Sonya Sombreuil is a Los Angeles-based artist and the creator of COME TEES, an apparel line specializing in small-batch hand-printed clothing with roots in both underground and fine art communities. Over the years, COME TEES garments have been seen on everyone from … Read More
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• San Antonio Museum of Art Acquires Works by Kevin Beasley, Rodney McMillian, Martine Syms

  25-01-2018 15:00 via artnews.com
  Syms's piece was shown at "Made in L.A." at the Hammer Museum in 2015. Read More
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• Morning Links: Part Musical Hypnotist, Part Ranting Madman Edition

  25-01-2018 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Bryan Barcena Named Assistant Curator and Manager of Publications at MOCA Los Angeles

  25-01-2018 15:00 via artnews.com
  He was previously a research assistant for Latin American art at the museum. Read More
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.24.18

  25-01-2018 10:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Glowering at Lowry: MoMA Director's Renegade Proposals for Collection ManagementWhile supervising the Museum of Modern Art's second major expansion during his 23-year tenure, director Glenn Lowry has been thinking about how his soon-to-be reconfigured institution should change with the times. If ... read moreAJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2018-01-24Remembering Ursula K. Le GuinThere may be no contemporary writer who's shaped me, and many of the authors of my generati
  
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• My leap into motherhood – in pictures

  25-01-2018 08:00
  Fashion photographer Camille Sanson was terrified of giving birth, so much so that she even put off having children. Her series Absolution explores how she came to terms with her darkest thoughts Continue reading...
  
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• Dutch museum row reopens uneasy debate about colonial legacy

  25-01-2018 06:00
  Mauritshuis, home of Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring, removes bust of slave-trader founderA debate over the Netherlands’ colonial heritage burst into the open this week after one of the country’s leading museums came under fire for removing a bust of its founder from its lobby.The Mauritshuis in The Hague, home to national treasures including Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring and Carel Fabritius’s The Goldfinch, said the decision was part of a reorganisation o
  
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• Neil Diamond Is Retiring Because He Has Parkinson's. But Being A Musician Could Help His Treatment

  25-01-2018 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jessica Grahn's research has focused on how and why the human body responds to music. She's looked at Parkinson's patients and found some very interesting therapeutic effects to cranking the music up that might help point to better lives for those like Diamond living with the disease, and even point to the evolutionary mystery of why music makes us move the way it does.
  
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