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Announcement Announcement 57 articles, 2016-06-01 00:10 1 Clifton Benevento Gallery Closes Today, Spanish Police Arrest Seven over Stolen Francis Bacon Paintings, and More (2.04/3) A daily round-up of must-read news from the art world and beyond. 2016-05-31 10:24 734Bytes www.blouinartinfo.com 2 vo trong nghia venice architecture biennale at the venice biennale, we interview vo trong nghia who has created a small bamboo forest to highlight his firm's recognizable work with bamboo. 2016-05-31 13:18 3KB www.designboom.com (0.01/3) 3 thomas winwood proposes water room for NGV summer architecture commission detailed in a way to appear as a volume of water in the space, the pavilion is a response to the idea of the garden as an artificial and abstracted nature. 2016-05-31 21:01 2KB www.designboom.com 4 Fionn Meade Paul Chan Meade Chan Meade Chan Meade Chan Meade Chan Meade Chan Meade Chan Meade Chan Meade Chan Meade Chan Meade Chan Meade Chan Meade Chan Meade Chan Meade Chan Meade Chan Meade Chan Meade Chan A common feature within Paul Chan’s three works on view in the exhibition Less Than One is the use of silhouette form to question power... 2016-05-31 19:19 22KB www.walkerart.org 5 jan fabre unfolds spiritual guards across florence across three sites in florence, jan fabre unfolds 'spiritual guards' - a multifaceted exhibition of sculpture, drawing, installation, performance, and film. 2016-05-31 19:44 3KB www.designboom.com 6 On the Gaze in the Era of Visual Salamis Our attention is not focused on a singular image, but is distributed along the image’s path. 2016-05-31 22:21 12KB rhizome.org 7 7 Genders, 7 Typographies: Hacking the Binary In a recent panel at the New Museum, artist Jacob Ciocci defined technology as “anything that organizes or takes apart reality,” which prompted a realization: gender could be also be understood a... 2016-05-31 22:21 832Bytes blogs.walkerart.org 8 Memories of Martin Friedman As director of the Walker Art Center from 1961 to 1990, Martin Friedman—who passed away May 9 at age 90—oversaw the construction of a new Walker building, spearheaded the creation of the Minneapo... 2016-05-31 19:20 868Bytes blogs.walkerart.org 9 Lee Kit and the Fleetingness of Feelings “Hold your breath, dance slowly,” invites artist Lee Kit. As you walk into the dimly lit galleries, wandering from space to space, or nook to nook, you find yourself doing just that: holding your... 2016-05-31 22:21 837Bytes blogs.walkerart.org 10 Building Bridges: Symposium at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo This past weekend, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin hosted Building Bridges, a symposium reflecting upon curatorial practice and how curators move from educational to institutional context... 2016-05-31 22:21 972Bytes blogs.walkerart.org 11 Christie’s Sells Most Expensive Handbag Ever Auctioned Sold in Hong Kong, the Himalayan Birkin bag set a world record. 2016-05-31 18:30 696Bytes wwd.com 12 palais varnhagen residences by david chipperfield top out in berlin a david chipperfield-designed residential project - named 'palais varnhagen' - has topped out in berlin ahead of its completion at the end of 2016. 2016-05-31 18:14 3KB www.designboom.com 13 Edie Campbell in Isabel Marant’s Fall 2016 Campaign Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin shot the campaign. 2016-05-31 18:12 1KB wwd.com 14 “The Bone Clocks” Author David Mitchell Turns in Book for Oslo’s Future Library British novelist David Mitchell presented his contribution to the Future Library, following in the footsteps of Canadian author Margaret Atwood. 2016-05-31 17:51 3KB wwd.com 15 CT Scans Reveal the Youngest Mummified Fetus Ever Found | Conservation Lab Medical imaging was used to identify the minuscule fetal skeleton bundled inside a coffin in the Fitzwilliam Museum's collection. 2016-05-31 17:30 4KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 16 Art house: Los Angeles and New York artists tackle the inequity of real estate From a crazy golf course in LA’s Skid Row funded by Mike Kelley’s estate, to New Yorkers asking Who Stole the House?, artists are addressing the cost of property 2016-05-31 16:46 6KB www.theguardian.com 17 Your Eyes Won't Believe These Ferrofluid Photos Philip Overbuary's space-age abstracts blend digital aesthetic with analog materials. 2016-05-31 16:10 2KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 18 hitomi sato's installation recreates the shimmers of light thousands of transparent film hands extrude from two parallel walls, leaving a space in the middle for the spectator to move along. 2016-05-31 16:01 1KB www.designboom.com 19 This Audiobook Series Will Turn You On Experience the erotic adventures of Badbadtati, in seven naughty audio episodes. 2016-05-31 15:55 5KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 20 A Vintage Toy Piano Gets Transformed into a Synthesizer Bristol-based maker Liam Lacey has a thing for old things. 2016-05-31 15:10 4KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 21 Creating the Krush Brand We created a brand for a tech company poised to take the world by storm. Challenge Krush, an exciting new tech firm, turned to us to guide them through the process of developing a visual identity and articulating their brand positioning. The result is a brand... 2016-05-31 15:06 3KB realart.com 22 Ukrainian Collector Returns Stolen Dutch Painting After ten years with no news, another one of the 24 paintings stolen from the Westfries Museum in the Netherlands has been recovered in Ukraine. 2016-05-31 14:45 2KB news.artnet.com 23 Alexander McQueen Store Wins Prix Versailles The British brand’s new Paris flagship was the overall winner in the retail category at the second edition of the commercial architecture prize. 2016-05-31 14:26 1KB wwd.com 24 Artiquette: 11 Tips for Surviving a Gallery Dinner Getting invited to gallery dinners is an honor; don't mess it up and more will come your way. 2016-05-31 14:26 4KB news.artnet.com 25 ‘Excitement: An Exhibition by Rudi Fuchs’ at Stedelijk, Amsterdam Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday 2016-05-31 14:16 2KB www.artnews.com 26 Is This the Secret to Westeros' Geography? 'Game of Thrones' seems a lot more believable when you compare it to history. Well, minus the dragons. 2016-05-31 14:09 2KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 27 Summertime Bruce: Watermill Center’s Summer Benefit Will Feature Bruce High Quality Foundation The invite. COURTESY BHQF AND WATERMILL CENTERThe summer benefit at the Watermill Center, Robert Wilson's "performance laboratory" inside an old Western Union 2016-05-31 13:33 4KB www.artnews.com 28 Many Ways to Dream: Around Los Angeles On shows at REDCAT, Joan, Cherry and Martin, Sad, Farago, CES, Team, Gagosian, and the Hammer Museum 2016-05-31 13:31 9KB www.artnews.com 29 new rome EUR convention center by fuksas nears completion designed by studio fuksas, rome's EUR convention center is nearing competition ahead of its opening in autumn 2016. 2016-05-31 13:00 2KB www.designboom.com 30 Jude Law Plays a Homicidal Adulterer in Ivo van Hove's “Obsession” The show, an adaptation of Visconti's filmed version of the James M. Cain novel, will premiere at London’s Barbican Center in 2017. 2016-05-31 12:58 3KB www.blouinartinfo.com 31 Psychedelic Polka Dots Color Kusama's Latest Show The mega-artist's mesmerizing new exhibition features three new mirror rooms, pumpkin sculptures, and 'infinity net' paintings. 2016-05-31 12:35 3KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 32 Vagina Kayak Artist Creates Graphic Novel Vagina kayak artist Megumi Igarashi has published an English- language memoir in graphic novel form, which confronts the controversy surrounding her work. 2016-05-31 12:34 2KB news.artnet.com 33 billie tube amplifier by heaven 11 audio moving away from the trend of generic design and disposable materials, heaven 11 audio billie’s shell is made of thick, machined aluminum. 2016-05-31 12:30 2KB www.designboom.com 34 Dutch Artist Accuses Duke Riley of Plagiarism Jasper van den Brink published an idea for a project with pigeons and LED lights, and now he says Duke Riley's "Fly By Night" project is too similar to his. 2016-05-31 12:27 4KB news.artnet.com 35 Shia LaBeouf Wants You to Pick Him Up: Last Week in Art LaBeouf, Rönkkö, & Turner are touring the US with strangers for their new project #TAKEMEANYWHERE. 2016-05-31 12:25 4KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 36 9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week A guide to the next six days 2016-05-31 12:16 7KB www.artnews.com 37 M. C. Hammer Helps You Hang Your Art Rapper and producer M. C. Hammer appears in a terrific new ad for a 3M product that lets you hang art on your walls without using a hammer. 2016-05-31 12:12 2KB news.artnet.com 38 naoto fukasawa driade the japanese designer combines natural stone with rich wood to realize his 'ten' armchair and 'ci' table for driade. 2016-05-31 11:05 1KB www.designboom.com 39 Digital Arts Magazine Triple Canopy to Move from Greenpoint to Chinatown Renderings of Triple Canopy's new Chinatown space: from top, the space seen during working hours; the space seen set up for an event.
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