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• Banana splits: inner-Melbourne council won’t commit to returning controversial fruit sculpture

  17-04-2022 22:00
  
  Yarra city council says ‘no decisions’ made about whether Fallen Fruit statue will returnGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingA 1.8-metre public sculpture of an anthropomorphic banana in Melbourne that was removed for repairs may never be reinstated, with the council unable to commit to its return.The artwork, which features a menacing skull facing Rose Street in Fitzroy, was created by artist Adam Stone and titled Fallen Fruit. Continue reading...
  
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• Dancing Through The Century

  17-04-2022 20:20 via artsjournal.com
  by Deborah Jowitt I’m sitting at a table miles from New York City staring at a small, yellow, lined piece of paper and hoping I can decipher my scribbles racing across it. The task? Martialling my…
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• Empty galleries and fleeing artists: Russia’s cultural uncoupling from the west

  17-04-2022 17:42
  
  GES-2 was meant to be Moscow’s answer to Tate Modern, but the invasion of Ukraine has cast a pall over the projectRussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesOn a recent Saturday in April, Muscovites strolled around GES-2, a vast new arts centre built in a disused power station steps away from the Kremlin. But guests visiting the 54,400 sq metres centre, designed by the pioneering Italian architect Renzo Piano, were faced with one hard-to-miss problem – the art was absent.“It is not the
  
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• Exhibition of Pompeii’s sex scenes aims to decode erotica

  17-04-2022 17:03
  
  As art found among ruins goes on display, site’s director says ancient life was just as complex as our ownAn exhibition of erotic art found among the ruins of Pompeii will aim to show inquiring minds that racy scenes were present in homes across all sections of society and public spaces and that the images were not looked on in a scandalous or embarrassing way.About 70 relics, including two medallions decorated with images of satyrs and nymphs that came from a ceremonial chariot found at t
  
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• Exhibition of Pompeii’s sex scenes aims to decode ancient erotica

  17-04-2022 17:03
  
  As exhibition of erotic art opens, site’s director says ancient life was just as complex as our ownAn exhibition of erotic art found among the ruins of Pompeii will aim to show inquiring minds that racy scenes were present in homes across all sections of society and public spaces and that the images were not looked on in a scandalous or embarrassing way.About 70 relics, including two medallions decorated with images of satyrs and nymphs that came from a ceremonial chariot found at the site
  
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• Piero della Francesca’s pregnant Mary to be put ‘among 3,000 graves’

  17-04-2022 16:34
  
  Mayor of Monterchi, Tuscany, rejects court’s ruling that painting by Piero della Francesca be put back in hilltop chapelA 30-year dispute over a fresco by the Renaissance master Piero della Francesca shows no sign of waning after an Italian court ruled that it must be returned to where it was originally painted, even though that location now predominantly serves as a cemetery.The Madonna del Parto depicts a pregnant Virgin Mary and is considered one of the greatest works from the Renaissan
  
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• Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: Alienarium 5 review – an all-together-now of beautiful minds

  17-04-2022 14:00
  
  Serpentine Gallery, London
  Fellow aliens Alan Turing, Georgia O’Keeffe, David Bowie et al convene in outer space in the French artist’s beguiling tribute to earthly geniusAt the back of the Serpentine Gallery, among the spring blossom, is a strange vision of elsewhere. You must stand outdoors to see it, through a pane of glass darkly. At first it looks like a drop of milk, falling in slow motion, its splash rising in a delicate corona. Then it twists and expands, and twists again, li
  
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• Friend of Francis Bacon snubs the Tate to give art works to Paris instead

  17-04-2022 08:37
  
  Barry Joule says he is cancelling plans to donate a collection to the UK gallery because it failed to exhibit works in earlier giftAn extensive collection of Francis Bacon’s art will be given to France instead of to the Tate following a row between the gallery and one of the artist’s closest friends.Barry Joule, who was Bacon’s confidant, said he is so frustrated by the Tate’s failure to exhibit an earlier donation of the artist’s work that he has cancelled plans to
  
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