The same team determined to put Istanbul onto the international art fair circuit with Contemporary Istanbul (entering its eight edition, 7-10 November) launched a new event designed to deepen the market for traditional Ottoman and Islamic art. The…
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Matthew Affron will be the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s curator of Modern art. He leaves the Fralin, the University of Virginia’s art museum, where he has organised a forthcoming exhibition “Joseph Cornell and Surrealism” with the Musée des…
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the world’s finest museums, seeks an Associate Curator, Modern American Art. The specialist in twentieth century American Art will participate in research, development and active management of the Modern and…
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A new tribe of hyper-rich global nomads is distorting the international property market. Like Hans Holbein’s anamorphosis, it can only be understood when seen from an acute angle. In this case the angle of arrogant wealth. It is not unusual to find…
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Chris Dercon, the director of Tate Modern since?2011, compares his job with running a public broadcasting company. The day before we met, he had held a brainstorming session with the Tate’s curators about its programme. “You start with set ideas and…
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Mention the idea of collecting works from across the ages to the contemporary and Modern art dealer Richard Ingleby, and he gets visibly excited. “There is huge scope for mixing works across time and place,” he says, adding that he has organised…
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A Mark Rothko painting on display at London’s Tate Modern was defaced today (7 October) by a member of the public.
A museum visitor who witnessed the incident wrote about it on Twitter just minutes after it happened and posted a picture of the…
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the world’s finest museums, seeks a specialist in international Contemporary Art. The Associate Curator/Curator (title commensurate with experience) will participate in research, development and active…
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Snorkeling off the Italian island of Elba; a mother’s tears as her son departs for university; the trauma behind erasing a tattoo: these are some of the tales told by participants in Tino Sehgal’s commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in London….
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The essayist and playwright David Mamet says that the function of mass entertainment is to “cajole, seduce and flatter consumers to let them know that what they thought was right is right, and that their tastes and their immediate gratification are…
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