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Warren Niesluchowski, a translator, writer, and nomad who made himself welcome around the globe, has died. He was seventy-two. Niesluchowski, who befriended, collaborated, and shared his erudition with

The Whitney Museum of American Art announced today that Donna De Salvo has resigned from her position of deputy director for international initiatives and senior curator. De Salvo most recently organized

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The artist visits the Prospect Park Zoo, listens to some middling house music in Williamsburg, and hits Whole Foods with his young niece, among many other activities. Read More

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The Istanbul Biennial has announced that fifty-seven artists and collectives from twenty-six countries, including Argentina, Iran, South Korea, and the United States, will participate in its sixteenth

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The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council has a new artistic leader, Lili Chopra, who sees the needs of the city and the needs of artists as complementary. Her first River to River Festival starts this week.

In contrast to the forced smiles and schmaltz of traditional wedding photography, Ian Weldon takes a documentary approach – capturing the real character of the big day

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Peter Schäfer, the director of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, resigned following backlash to a |https://twitter.com/jmberlin/status/1136633875411755010|tweet| posted on the official museum Twitter account

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She will be the first to lead the museum at the University of California, Irvine. Read More

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Kim Kanatani has been appointed the inaugural director of the UCI Institute and Museum for California Art (UCI IMCA) at the University of California, Irvine. Kanatani comes to the UCI IMCA from the

American artist Robert Therrien, whose exaggeratedly oversize sculptures of quotidian objects toyed with viewers’ sense of scale and time, has died. He was seventy-one years old. “Everyone, at some

Lonnie Holley emerged as part of the American art world of the 1980s as a sculptor of evocative sandstone carvings and elaborate found object assemblage. More recently, Holley has expanded into sound

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Yana Peel, the chief executive officer of the Serpentine Galleries in London, stepped down on Tuesday, days after |https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/jun/14/yana-peel-uk-rights-advocate-serpentine-nso-spyware-pegasus|The

Andrea Bowers removed part of her installation after complaints — but her piece raises questions about who can tell intimate stories.

She flunked art at school and spent 10 years in children’s services. Helen Cammock talks about unlocking her creativity – and taking off on a singing, dancing, sketching tour of Italy

Last October, in a balmy Roman autumn, the artist Helen Cammock was making prints at the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica. The building sits at the back of, and forms the stage-set for, the Trevi fountain: from its windows you can look down to the crowds of tourists staring up at Oceanus and his tritons. Cammock was hand-making a book in the studios downstairs; elsewhere in the building is one of the world’s outstanding collections relating to fine art printing, including Piranesi’s own metal plates with their glorious, finely etched lines.

For Cammock, much of 2018 passed on a kind of Italian grand tour, in Florence, Rome, Palermo, Bologna, Venice and Reggio Emilia. It was a remarkable time of freedom and adventure. “I have never had space to just focus on making work, ever,” she says. “I’ve always had loads of jobs – and most artists do.” The reason for this unexpected period was that she won the Max Mara award, which recognises women artists based in the UK. The prize is a tailor-made six-month residency in Italy, followed by exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery in London and the Collezione Maramotti – the museum in Reggio Emilia established by Max Mara’s founder, Achille Maramotti. When we next meet, in her London studio this spring, she is about to be nominated for the Turner prize. The exhibition opens in September at Turner Contemporary in Margate, ahead of the winner’s announcement in December.

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As an adaptation of a Patricia Highsmith story, Rosa Aiello’s video The Coquette, 2018, promises to end with murder and without justice. The twenty-four-minute satire noir follows a doomed young woman

Yana Peel steps down, citing ‘misguided personal attacks on me and my family’

The head of the Serpentine Galleries has resigned after the Guardian revealed she is the co-owner of an Israeli cyberweapons company whose software has allegedly been used by authoritarian regimes to spy on dissidents.

On Tuesday, Yana Peel announced she was stepping down as the chief executive of the prestigious London art gallery so the work of the Serpentine would not be undermined by what she called “misguided personal attacks on me and my family”.

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Junya Ishigami’s hillock of Cumbrian slate was meant to feel ‘primitive and ancient’. But British regulations – and the wind – dashed his dreams. Is it time to rethink the annual event?

Squatting on the lawn like a moody crow, this year’s Serpentine Pavilion is an enigmatic arrival to Kensington Gardens. Formed from hundreds of pieces of rough Cumbrian slate piled up in a gentle mound, it has the look of a bird hunkered down in a hollow in the landscape, making a protective shelter with its outstretched wings. As you approach, you find the great feathered hill is in fact a thin shell, 62 tonnes of slate effortlessly held up on a forest of slender white columns, creating a cave-like space within.

Part bird, part spoil heap, the 19th annual pavilion is the work of Japanese architect Junya Ishigami, 45, who has built an international reputation as an architectural conjuror, concocting daring structures that push the boundaries of what’s technically possible. He made a five-storey metal balloon float in a gallery in Tokyo, and constructed a frame in the Barbican so thin it was practically invisible. He is currently building his most audacious structure yet: a student centre in Japan with a 100-metre-long roof made from a continuous plate of 12mm-thick steel, with not a column in sight. So what drove his slate hillock for the Serpentine?

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An arrangement with some 110,000 students seeks to raise at least $200 million needed to open Roden Crater in five years. Read More

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Scarecrows have appeared in the villages of Bednall and Acton Trussell in Staffordshire as residents raise money for local charities and compete to be named Britain’s best kept village

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Since 1996, John Peter Askew has been heading 1,500km from Moscow to photograph the Russian city of Perm. His intimate shots capture family meals, frozen merry go-rounds and men in their trunks

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Built using technology usually found in Alps, footbridge will follow path of old land bridge

A spectacular footbridge that will link the Cornish mainland with the island fortress of Tintagel is beginning to take shape thanks to technology usually employed for challenging construction projects in the Swiss Alps.

Hefty sections of steel, each weighing up to 4.5 tonnes, have arrived in Tintagel village having been manufactured off-site and are being manoeuvred into place this week.

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Kevin Killian, a poet, novelist, playwright, art critic, scholar, prolific Amazon reviewer, and collaborator and friend to scores of artists, has died. Considered a pioneer of queer literature, Killian

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He cared for snails in a sculpture and once released a goldfish at the Met. Read More

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Tim Palmer believes the UK should help with climate adaptation efforts in the developing world. Susan Roaf makes a case for climate-ready buildings

Theresa May’s initiative to decarbonise the UK economy by 2050 has been estimated to cost £50bn per year (theguardian.com, 6 June). It is hoped that by taking leadership in this way, others will follow. However, the world’s emissions are already changing the Earth’s climate, and such changes will only get larger as emissions of greenhouse gases continue.

As an example, Namibia is being forced by one of its most intense droughts on record to raise $1m by auctioning off some of its wildlife. This shouldn’t be necessary. If the UK were to give just 1% of this £50bn per year to help climate adaptation efforts in the developing world – for example, supporting investment in solar-powered desalination infrastructure in drought-prone countries – this would send a powerful signal that it is taking seriously not only its future emissions but also its responsibilities for past and ongoing emissions.
Tim Palmer
Royal Society research professor in climate physics, University of Oxford

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A long-forgotten monument to a woman who helped inmates in New York’s infamous 19th-century jail is to be installed in a courthouse lobby.

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Sotheby’s, the only major publicly traded auction house, will be acquired by BidFair USA, owned by collector and telecommunications entrepreneur Patrick Drahi, in a deal worth $3.7 billion. Under the

Berlin’s Culture Senator Klaus Lederer announced on Wednesday that René Pollesch has been appointed the next artistic director of the city’s Volksbühne Theater. He will take the helm of the institution

The Broad in Los Angeles has purchased Mark Bradford’s monumental painting Deep Blue, 2018, and David Hammons’s African American Flag, 1990. Featuring the mapping motif often seen in Bradford’s

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From 80s Toxteth to a neon-masked gang, the prize reveals that video art is becoming increasingly inventive

In one film, a mother talks about visions of turning her baby into a fried egg – and then eating it. In another, the traditional martial arts movie gets reimagined as an impressively choreographed African wedding ceremony.

The nominees for this year’s Jarman award, which recognise the pioneering work of UK-based artist film-makers, show how the field of the moving image is becoming increasingly diverse and inventive.

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From mammoth fossils to a civet’s anal glands, these drawings of the natural world prove how modern nature photography can be traced back to the pioneering work of Galileo

On 17 August 1603 – they chose the day for its excellent astrological alignments of Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury – a group of friends got together in Rome to found a society to study and record the natural world. They wanted to emulate the lynx, believed to be the most keen-eyed of animals, so they called themselves the Academy of Linceans. Their mission was to look at nature with the bright, sharp eye of the night-hunting cat.

The Barber Institute’s exhibition of the pioneering masterpieces of natural history this secretive society commissioned is a journey to the dawn of modern science. Keen eyes look back at you everywhere. A pelican glares with a fierce, blue-pupilled orb, surrounded by circles of pink skin that resemble the orbits of planets. A civet stares out of another of these bold yet precise watercolours while also turning its anus to face the onlooker – the Linceans were interested in its anal musk gland as a source of precious scent.

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15 projects from nine countries have been selected for the second Bicycle Architecture Biennale, which launches on Monday in Amsterdam

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At a new exhbition, opening in pride month, the often overlooked work of LGBT black and Latinx artists is being spotlighted

It’s pride month, which means gay culture is at the forefront all over the world. But beyond the rainbow flag emoji, there’s one art exhibition in San Francisco that digs beneath the surface to shine light on what the curator calls: “A minority within a minority.”

Opening 29 June at the San Diego Art Institute, Forging Territories: Queer Afro and Latinx Contemporary Art showcases the works of 20 regional LGBTQ artists who have been overlooked in some way or another.

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More than 80 exhibitions featuring work of nearly 300 photographers and visual artists comprise this year’s PhotoEspaña. The work is displayed in venues across Madrid, and in a further six cities, until 1 September

Ijewo by Cristina de Middel, from the This is what hatred did series, 2015. Exhibited in Sin Fronteras at the Palacio de la Magdalena

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