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• The Magician Who's A Conceptual Artist

  22-03-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  "[Derek] DelGaudio devises performances that combine sleight-of-hand with more theoretical preoccupations drawn from performance art, conceptual art and what's known as relational aesthetics ... [He] likes to nod to well-known conventions (pick a card, any card), only to slyly deconstruct them, in a manner that either heightens or thwarts their payoffs. His animating goal is not for observers to ask, 'How did he do that?' but, 'Why?'"
  
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• The Best Booths at 1-54 New York, From Leaf Assemblages to Invented Archaeological Finds

  03-05-2024 00:44 via artnews.com
  
  The 2024 edition of the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in New York opened to press on Wednesday afternoon at a new location, Chelsea’s Starrett-Lehigh building.While previous editions of the fair were held in Harlem, this year the fair moved to industry heavyweight neighborhood of Chelsea. More specifically, the Starrett-Lehigh, a massive near-century old Art Deco building that has been extensively renovated in the last decade and has lately become a magnet for fashion brands. The buil
  
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• Paul McCartney’s Rarely Seen Photography Gets a Big Museum Show in New York

  02-05-2024 22:42 via artnews.com
  
  During the early 1960s, at the height of “Beatlemania,” New York City was taken by storm as The Beatles kicked off their visit to the US. Tens of thousands of fans hurried to the streets, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Fab Four, and band member Paul McCartney was ready to greet them. But McCartney did more than simply posing for pictures—he also shot photographs himself, using his Pentax 35mm film camera.Six decades later, McCartney has returned to New York, where he is now s
  
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• Leonardo da Vinci to Get the Hollywood Treatment from ‘All of Us Strangers’ Director

  02-05-2024 21:03 via artnews.com
  
  Leonardo da Vinci is coming soon to a movie theater near you. The Renaissance artist will become the latest artist to receive a biopic, Variety reports, in the form of a new film from Andrew Haigh, the director most famous for making last year’s All of Us Strangers.The film will be based on Walter Isaacson’s acclaimed Leonardo biography, though it remains unclear whether it will touch on just one aspect of the artist’s life or the whole thing. It seems likely, however, that Hai
  
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• In Collection Hangs, Major Museums Remix the Classics

  02-05-2024 20:53 via artnews.com
  
  Until it reopened in a $230 million new building this past June, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum was an anomaly among United States institutions: it held a world-class collection of modern and postwar art with nowhere to properly exhibit the bulk of it at once. Now, a 50,000-square-foot space allows masterpieces like Picasso’s 1906 La Toilette to return to view, along with showstoppers from the likes of Chaim Soutine, Andy Warhol, and a whole lot more.The way these pieces are displayed, however
  
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• Multimillion-Dollar Frank Auerbach to Be Sold by the UK’s National Crime Agency

  02-05-2024 20:35 via artnews.com
  
  A painting by the British artist Frank Auerbach from his lauded “Albert Street” series is slated to hit the auction block after having been recovered by UK authorities from money launderer Lenn Mayhew-Lewis, according to the Guardian.Mayhew-Lewis bought the picture, which the UK’s National Crime Agency says could be worth “millions of pounds,” in 2017 for £1.6 million. Later, another unidentified person used the work as collateral to secure a &p
  
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• Are We Supposed to Believe Maurizio Cattelan Is Sincere Now?

  02-05-2024 19:23 via artnews.com
  
  Maurizio Cattelan is usually “dismissed as a prankster,” per the press release for his new show at Gagosian in New York. That’s because he duct-taped a banana to a wall and sold it for $120,000, made a sculpture of an asteroid hitting the pope, and—for his last New York show, a 2011 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum—dangled his art from the rotunda’s ceiling, making it hard to get a good look and leaving viewers wanting more.The same press release insists
  
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• At Frieze New York, Young Galleries Reveal Untold Narratives and Spotlight Overlooked Talents

  02-05-2024 18:54 via artnews.com
  
  The most coveted commodity at an art fair, beside the wares themselves, is attention. At a blue-chip bazaar like Frieze New York, where the crowd churns ceaselessly, and every wall aspires to be a show-stopper, a curator can’t leave discovery to chance. You might fear that Focus, the section of Frieze dedicated to enterprises 12 years and younger and to emerging talent, would be swallowed by the din. You’d be wrong. The section, curated by Lumi Tan, is an intergenerational showc
  
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• Laurence Broderick obituary

  02-05-2024 17:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Sculptor of The Guardian, known popularly as The Bull, which stands in Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centreThe sculptor Laurence Broderick, who has died aged 88, was known for a single work, although that work was both widely loved and hard to miss. Standing nearly three metres high and weighing seven tonnes, The Guardian, known popularly as The Bull, has stood in Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centre since 2003. In that time, it has become the city’s mascot, a symbol of its b
  
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• Tao Siqi’s Baudelaire-Inspired Erotic Paintings Stun at Frieze New York

  02-05-2024 15:40 via artnews.com
  
  A common result of walking through any art fair is realizing that, after two hours, no more than a handful of works remain in your memory. And the ones that are on view at Capsule Shanghai’s Frieze New York booth are likely to be among that handful this time around. In the Focus section for young galleries, Capsule is showing work by Tao Siqi. Upon passing the booth, a double take is almost compulsory. Sensual, violent scenes—bondage, asphyxiation, and other kinky activities&mda
  
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• Asante ‘Crown Jewels’ Displayed, Biden Forgives $6.1 Billion Art Student Debt, Stolen Frank Auerbach Work to Auction, and More: Morning Links for May 2, 2024

  02-05-2024 14:39 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESGOLDEN DISPLAY. The Asante golden “crown jewels,” looted by British troops have gone on display in Ghana’s Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi, to jubilant celebrations, reports the BBC. The 32 items are on loan from London’s Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) and the British Museum to the Asante King Otumfuo Osei Tutu II for three
  
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• Asante ‘Crown Jewels’ Displayed, Biden Forgives $6.1 Billion Art Student Debt, and More: Morning Links for May 2, 2024

  02-05-2024 14:39 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESGOLDEN DISPLAY. The Asante golden “crown jewels,” looted by British troops have gone on display in Ghana’s Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi, to jubilant celebrations, reports the BBC. The 32 items are on loan from London’s Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) and the British Museum to the Asante King Otumfuo Osei Tutu II for three
  
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• Five Shows to See in Chelsea During Frieze New York 2024

  02-05-2024 14:13 via artnews.com
  
  After the frenzy of the Venice Biennale, the art world will now shift its attention to the Frieze art fair in New York, which opens its doors to VIPs today. It returns to the Shed in Hudson Yards, and will this year have 68 exhibitors.This location means Frieze attendees will be just a 10-minute walk away from the nearby galleries in Chelsea. While the area’s buzziest show might be the one at Gagosian for Maurizio Cattelan, who is fresh off of his participation in the Venice Biennale&rsquo
  
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• Yan Wang Preston review – gloriously confronting art history in the nude

  02-05-2024 13:02 via theguardian.com
  
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  The artist braved the freezing Pennines to cast a Romantic painting in a bold new light, while her restaging of Manet’s Olympia is wonderfully subversiveA woman stands majestically on a rocky, icy precipice; she looks out at a vast frosty tract, covered in thick, flawless snow. Her back is turned to us, the mood is contemplative. She surveys her domain, straight-backed, black hair licking the back of her neck.It’s a photograph by the UK-based Chinese artis
  
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• Beauty, filth, violence and death: why still life art is more subversive than you think

  02-05-2024 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Once dismissed as a lesser art form, the still life has been reinvented as a radical form of expression, as a thrilling new show makes clearStill life is the lowest form of art. So declared the French Academy when it established its Hierarchy of Genres in the 17th century. Historical scenes and portraiture were the noblest genres, whereas landscapes and still lifes were considered lowly. According to the art institute, biblical frescoes required a higher level of mastery; an inanimate fruit
  
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• ‘They look sad’: Tony Cragg scraps audio guides for Castle Howard exhibition

  02-05-2024 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Sculptor says he wants visitors to form their own relationships with art, without ‘anyone else interfering’They are ubiquitous at art galleries across the world: the audio guide telling shuffling visitors the full story of what they are looking at and occasionally how they should feel.In the eyes of Sir Tony Cragg, one of the world’s leading sculptors, they are a “terrible” modern scourge that “mess up” the enjoyment of art. “I think they look sad,
  
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• The Best Booths at Frieze New York, From a Pouncing Tiger to a Meta Reflection on Consumerism

  02-05-2024 05:10 via artnews.com
  
  For its 12th edition, Frieze New York has once again returned to the Shed, the arts center in Hudson Yards. With 68 exhibitors, the fair, which opened to VIPs on Wednesday morning, was the first held since Frieze acquired the Armory Show, its main New York competitor. That should have lent the event some extra excitement, but the preview felt a bit subdued—perhaps due to post–Venice Biennale fatigue has now made its way across the Atlantic. Still, there was a steady stream of visitor
  
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• Biden Administration Forgives $6.1 Billion in Debt of Former Art Institutes Students

  01-05-2024 23:32 via artnews.com
  
  President Biden announced on Wednesday that his administration will forgive $6.1 billion in debt owed by 317,000 students of the now-defunct Art Institutes.  The for-profit art school system, which had locations across the United States, shuttered last year. Students who were enrolled at any Art Institute branch from January 1, 2004 through Oct. 16, 2017, when the Education Management Corp. (EDMC) oversaw the organization, are eligible for debt forgiveness.  During this perio
  
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• Metropolitan Museum of Art Signs Cultural Agreement with Thailand

  01-05-2024 20:26 via artnews.com
  
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently signed a memoradum of understanding (MOU) with Thailandformalizing collaborative efforts to study and display Thai art.A signing ceremony took place on April 25 at the museum in New York with Phnombootra Chandrajoti, director-general of Thailand’s Fine Arts Department, and Max Hollein, the Metropolitan Museum’s director and CEO. Thailand’s consul general in New York, Somjai Taphaopong, and the Ministry of Culture’s executive directo
  
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• Nazi-Looted Monet Painting Held by FBI Expected to Be Returned to Owner’s Descendants

  01-05-2024 20:21 via artnews.com
  
  A small pastel drawing by Claude Monet that was seized by Nazis during World War II is expected to be returned to the descendants of its previous owners by the the FBI, the Times-Picayune reported last week.Monet’s Bord de Mer is currently in storage at the New Orleans Field Office of the FBI after being seized last June. The work was last sold by New Orleans-based antiquities dealer M.S. Rau. to Bridget Vita and now-deceased husband Kevin Schlamp in 2019. Schlamp died in March. The F
  
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• New York’s Newest Art Fair Feels Like a Place to Hang Out, Not Shop—and That’s a Good Thing

  01-05-2024 19:59 via artnews.com
  
  New York is hardly in need of another art fair, but that’s what we got this week in the form of Esther, which feels more like an ambitious group show than a selling event. That’s something to be thankful for, since the art market in this city tends to be pretty risk-averse. And, despite the fact that Esther is designed to peddle art, this show has character, which is more than you can say for all the other interchangeable fairs that pass through the Big Apple annually.For starters, t
  
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• A Look at the Financiers, Celebrities and Other Consignors Behind the May Auction Sales

  01-05-2024 15:45 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.The annual May auction sales in New York are always an important indicator of the market’s health, and next month’s sales appear all the more notable after a year most art dealers would rather forget. And you can add to that more than a little pearl-clutching that the art market is
  
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• 25 Artworks Not to Miss at New York’s Museum of Modern Art

  01-05-2024 15:15 via artnews.com
  
  New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is the place to be if you want to learn about modern and contemporary art. For nearly a century, the museum has played a major role in the collection of modern architecture, design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, and digital media.MoMA was founded by art patrons Lillie P. Bliss, Mary Quinn Sullivan, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, who sought in the late 1920s to challenge the conservative policies of traditional museums and to establis
  
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• Art Students and Faculty Join Pro-Palestine College Protests, Lawsuit Ends Over ‘Fearless Girl’ Sculpture, Saudi Artist Arrested, and More: Morning Links for May 1, 2024

  01-05-2024 15:14 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESUNIVERSITY PROTESTS. As pro-Palestinian student protests intensify today, art students and faculty continue to join in demonstrations across US campuses and cities. Late last week, Rhoda Rosen, a curator and adjunct art history professor at the SAIC told gathered demonstrators: “We support your vision of the School of The Art Institute of Chicag
  
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• Phillips Evening Sale Features Noah Davis Painting Consigned by Aryn Drake-Lee

  01-05-2024 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  One of the most notable lots of Phillips Modern and Contemporary evening sale on May 14, a small Noah Davis painting Untitled (Boy with Glasses), belongs to Aryn Drake-Lee, the ex-wife of actor Jesse Williams.The small 10-inch by 10-inch figurative portrait was included in an exhibition of work by Davis and his older brother, artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph called “Young Blood” at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, WA in 2016. In installation photos of the exhibition, a photo credit
  
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• Phillips Evening Sale Features Noah Davis Painting Consigned by Actor Jesse Williams

  01-05-2024 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  One of the most notable lots of Phillips Modern and Contemporary evening sale on May 14, a small Noah Davis painting Untitled (Boy with Glasses), belongs to the actor Jesse Williams and his ex-wife Aryn Drake-Lee.The small 10-inch by 10-inch figurative portrait was included in an exhibition of work by Davis and his older brother, artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph called “Young Blood” at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, WA in 2016. In installation photos of the exhibition, a photo cre
  
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• Seven Tribeca Shows to Catch This Week

  01-05-2024 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  As art fairs flood New York—starting with Frieze and followed by Independent—with a myriad of notable auctions, as well as the Whitney Biennial, the scene is definitely bustling this spring.Though there are a sizable amount of well-planned museum shows to add to that mix too, galleries have slowly been taking over the Tribeca neighborhood and their presence has not gone unnoticed. As such, below is a list of six must-see shows during Frieze week in New York.
  
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• What Does Culture Look Like Without Nightlife?

  01-05-2024 00:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Last year, 125 grassroots music venues closed permanently and 1,293 pubs shut their doors across Britain. According to the Night Time Industries Association, more than 3,000 pubs, clubs and venues have closed down in London alone since the pandemic began in March 2020. – The Guardian
  
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• Mind Blown: The Vegas Sphere As Experience

  30-04-2024 23:32 via msn.com
   I don’t know whether the Sphere is the future of live music—it’s very expensive, both to build and attend, and the venue’s path to profitability isn’t clear at all. But I do know this: The Sphere is a mountain. – The Atlantic
  
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• Senior Director of Communications – Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

  30-04-2024 23:25 via artsjournal.com
  Does This Sound Like You?Are you intrigued and moved by the power of music and the arts? Does being in close proximity to the artistic process drive your curiosity for constant learning and being part of enriching experiences? If you’re ready to bring these qualities to the forefront of your next professional role, then this opportunity is for you! If you’re a savvy and meticulous communications leader with a passion for collaborative process in the performing arts, come join like-mi
  
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