The lure of David Bowie (The Art Newspaper‘s favourite musician, performer and art aficionado) was such that even as the issue went to press late last night, staffers braved the enormous VIP queue—stretching all the way from the V&A’s main…
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Guggenheim Prize artist borrows works for show
“Great artists steal”, Picasso is supposed to have said. Yet some, like the 2013 Hugo Boss Prize-winning artist Danh Vo, are happy to borrow, as he did for
Salman Rushdie portrait to slumber in London (after Paris no show)
It’s not often you see the headline-hitting UK author Salman Rushdie rendered as a dozing 3-D digital animation. But visitors will get the chance to see this Warhol-esque, somnolent spectacle, Sleep Al-Naim, in an exhibition due to open at…
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Werner Spies rehabilitated with Max Ernst show in Vienna
Werner Spies, the prominent German art historian, has organised his first major show since his spectacular fall from grace in 2010. Spies’s involvement in the Beltracchi forgery scandal—he falsely authenticated seven Max Ernst paintings by the…
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New Dehli show and symposium will focus on India’s rapid growth
An exhibition and symposium focusing on politics and social issues in India is due to take place early 2014 at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, a 25-acre compound in the centre of New Delhi. Following the launch of the Kochi-Muziris…
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Louise Blouin in bid to buy the Armory Show?
The Art Newspaper understands that the art publisher Louise Blouin is in negotiations with Merchandise Mart Properties (MMPI) to acquire its art fair holdings including the Armory Show, Art Platform Los Angeles and Volta. According to…
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This is not a talent show, says curator of Venice Architecture Biennale
“The Architecture Biennale is not an ‘Architecture’s Got Talent’ show.” So says David Chipperfield, the British curator of the Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens on Wednesday (29 August-25 November). His theme is “Common Ground”, his aim…
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Surprising Tehran show of art inspired by the Stations of the Cross
In a surprise move, an exhibition focusing on human rights abuses is due to open at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art next month. The show, dedicated to the German sculptor and kinetic artist Günther Uecker, includes 14 works from the series…
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Ed Kienholz to go on show at the Pace Gallery
Works by the late US artist Ed Kienholz will go on show at the Pace Gallery in New York this winter (2 November-22 December).
The exhibition will include ten “Concept Tableaux”, a series that ranks “among the most impressive ‘unmade’ works of…
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A gift of 400 drawings puts French painter’s legacy on show
Around 400 works on paper by the French painter Eugène Leroy, who was admired by artists such as Georg Baselitz and Markus Lupertz but worked in relative isolation for most of his career, are on show at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing, which was…
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