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Subject: Palestinian Artist Sentenced; Masked Bandits Steal 17 Artworks; Indian Artists Detained for Cow Sculpture
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:10:09 -0500
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African Art Fair Canceled in Wake of Attacks; Wim Delvoye to Show in
Tehran; Phillips Auction House Head Resigns; Nigeria Censors Artwork
Commemorating Slain Environmental Activists;
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NEWS
Wednesday November 25,
2015
Saudi Arabia Sentences Palestinian Artist to
Death
Ashraf Fayadh, a member of the art
organization Edge of Arabia, has been accused of abandoning his Muslim
faith.
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Masked Robbers Steal 17 Works from Verona
Museum
The thieves made off with an estimated $16
million worth of art, including five pieces by Tintoretto and a work by
Rubens.
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Nigeria Seizes Art Bus Commemorating
Environmental Activist Ken Saro-Wiwa
Impounded for its political content, the
artwork by Sokari Douglas Camp was created in homage to Saro-Wiwa and other
activists who campaigned against the environmental damages wrought by Royal
Dutch Shell in the Niger Delta.
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Wim Delvoye to Stage Historic Exhibition at
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
For the first time in its history, the
museum will devote its entire exhibition space to a non-Iranian artist.
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Edgar Arceneaux Wins Performa 15’s
Malcolm McLaren Award
Arceneaux’s piece was inspired by
performer Ben Vereen’s 1981 appearance at Ronald Reagan’s
inauguration.
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Indian Police Detain Artists for Exhibiting
Cow Sculpture Suspended from Helium Balloon
To its creators, the work examined the impact
of plastic litter on cows, but authorities deemed the work disrespectful to
Hindus.
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Niarchos Foundation Rescinds $3 Million
Donation to National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens
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Paris Photo Announces Gallery Weekend, After
Terrorist Attacks Led to Fair’s Early Close
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2015 Houston Artadia Award Winners
Announced
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President of Phillips Auction House
Resigns
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London’s National Portrait Gallery to
Receive Major Donation from Lucian Freud Estate
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African Art Fair Canceled in Wake of Paris
and Mali Attacks
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Spanish Artist Sued for Creating
Controversial Artwork from Eucharist Wafers
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Walker and MCA Chicago Announce Two-City
Survey on Merce Cunningham
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EDITORS SELECT
ASIA ART ARCHIVE
The gala’s entertainment invoked AAA’s
search for a permanent home in this jungle of notoriously high rents.
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KENYATTA A.C. HINKLE
The connections are so rich! Louisville
is in Lagos, and vice versa.
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HOLLIS FRAMPTON
Fourteen color pictures of desiccated
animal and plant remains represent a belated debut of sorts for the
artist.
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TRACY + THE PLASTICS
When I was in high school, I used to think
that if I were in a band we would all be soulmates. I was yearning for that
kind of relationship and this was a way of confronting that desire.
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FROM THE NOVEMBER ISSUE
Joyce Tsai on László Moholy-Nagy
and the Optics of Military Surveillance
Moholy-Nagy’s earliest ambitious
paintings and drawings were executed under the sway of Expressionism: He
made landscapes of pockmarked battlefields caught behind barbed wire and
moody portraits drawn with a highly gestural style, riven with pathos.
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