A mini high-rise will go up in Pasadena next week when Chris Burden’s Small Skyscraper (Quasi Legal Skyscraper), 2003 is installed in the courtyard of the shopping and entertainment venue One Colorado. The four-storey, aluminium and plywood…
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If, by chance, you feel like cleaning your clothes in Venice next month, why not pop in to the Casa dei Tre Oci, a grand 20th-century palazzo on the Giudecca, where visitors can use a fully operational soviet-style launderette installed by emerging…
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Anna Somers Cocks, the chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund since 2000, has resigned. (Somers Cocks is also the chief executive of The Art Newspaper). Lord Norwich and Nathalie Brooke, both honorary chairmen, Sir Ronald Grierson, and David…
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An ancient Roman alabaster sarcophagus, which was stolen more than 20 years ago from a church south of Rome, was returned to Italy on 18 July. It came from the London-based collection of an unnamed antiquities, flown back to Rome on a cargo flight…
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The Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles, has pulled out of a Richard Hamilton retrospective, after the abrupt departure of its long-standing chief curator, Paul Schimmel at the end of June. Schimmel is the co-curator of the Hamilton…
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Anyone listened to the 1963 song “Twenty-Four Hours from Tulsa” lately? Did you laugh? So why did it make us feel pleasantly weepy then?
How long can we understand a work of art in the terms of its own time? Fifty years? Twenty? Probably not more…
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The Chinese government plans to turn Beijing into a key art hub in Asia by building an 83,000 sq. m freeport next to the Beijing Capital International Airport scheduled for completion late 2013. Officials hope that the vast storage facility, which…
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We spoke to Tracey Emin at Art Basel in June, prior to her “surreal” Olympic-torch relay experience, about her solo show in Margate and working with Louise Bourgeois….
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If you pop along to the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, why not drop in on an intriguing group exhibition at Annex East located on the doorstep of the Games in Hutchins Close (until 23 August). Five young London-based contemporary galleries…
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The Austrian sculptor Franz West died in Vienna on Wednesday after a long illness, aged 65. Known for his large-scale, oddly-shaped works often made from paper-mache, plaster and wire, West’s monumental looping sculptures The Ego and the Id…
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