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14 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 Don’t just buy it, DIY it What do you think of every time you make a salad? Fifty years ago, the American artist Alison Knowles elevated the humble acts of chopping cucumber and washing lettuce into a work of art with her performance Make a Salad, 1962. In the mind of the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, “she has occupied the idea of salad. I’m a terrible cook but I always think of Alison Knowles if I make a salad. That’s what art can do.” The legacy of Knowles and other 1960s artists of the Fluxus movement is everywhere at Art Basel this year. They believed in the integration of all art forms with everyday life and that any member of the public is a potential practitioner or participant... READ MORE French collector plans offshore sculpture park Edouard Carmignac plans to install art on Porquerolles, an island 35 miles from St Tropez Collectors make their move at design fair More than 100 lights, classic pieces and specially commissioned chess sets fill the booths Hey, big spenders… …there’s more to building a world-class museum of contemporary art from scratch than eye-watering acquisition budgets Art Basel diary: all the antics of a fun fair So who says that performance art has to be durational and dull? Certainly not Los Angeles-based artist Kathryn Andrews, who delighted the Art Parcours opening crowd with an hour’s worth of international top-notch vaudeville acts… all articles   video Tracey Emin: an artist's view of Art Basel Tracey Emin speaks to us on the opening day of Art Basel 43 about what it feels like to visit the fair as an artist and which works of art have caught her eye.   A global Guggenheim: interview with director Richard Armstrong An interview with Richard Armstrong, the director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, about the Guggenheim UBS Map Global Art Initiative, a five-year programme to work with artists, curators and educators from emerging regions to produce travelling exhibitions.     The Art Newspaper, 70 South Lambeth Road, London SW8 1RL www.theartnewspaper.com

 

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