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12 June 2012 Download today's issue of the Art Basel daily paper (PDF) in print In print only: French government blocks export of Foucault archive Jeddah’s sculptures by Henry Moore Moscow to build Pompidou-style centre Warsaw gets a McDonald’s before a new modern art museum Islamic extremists threaten the Muslim tombs and treasures of Timbuktu The new Barnes reviewed (and the saga of building it revisited) The art-fair marathon is longer than ever, and brand-name galleries are getting bigger, but is the model sustainable? Documenta special: this year’s creative director on how Kassel is a stage for its 13th edition Click for full list of articles in the current issue subscribe The Art Newspaper is available in print and online versions. Subscribe now. unsubscribe You received this email from The Art Newspaper because you are on the Thursday newsletter list. Unsubscribe to permanently remove yourself from this list   From the Art Basel Daily paper Curators turn East but Art Basel looks to the US What’s wrong with being a white American male artist under the age of 45? The odds of getting into an international survey of contemporary art in Europe right now are stacked against you. Four large exhibitions taking place this summer—Documenta in Kassel, Germany; the itinerant biennial Manifesta, which has landed in Genk, Belgium; Paris’s La Triennale; and the new Kiev Biennale in Ukraine—present a vision of the world that focuses on countries at the centre of recent political upheavals or on the fringes of Western awareness. Americans count for just over 9% of the total number of 550 artists included in these shows. The US artists whose work is on display tend to be over 50, if they are still alive at all. Younger ones are often female or African-American... READ MORE Documenta sparks “censorship” row The German artist Gregor Schneider says organisers of the exhibition have blocked a work he planned to install in Karlskirche church, Kassel  Government gives painting an over-16 rating Goodman Gallery forced to take the work off display in its Johannesburg space The artist’s survival guide to art fairs Love it or loathe it, a big fair is an opportunity to embrace the visual noise, critique the commercialism—and sell work Art Basel diary: Shrigley sets Basel a-twitter Here’s something you probably won’t see at Art Basel any time soon: an image of a hirsute figure not unlike Public Enemy No. 1, the late terrorist Osama bin Laden, by the UK artist and japester David Shrigley… all articles     The Art Newspaper, 70 South Lambeth Road, London SW8 1RL www.theartnewspaper.com

 

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