The Art Newspaper newsletter

Display problems? View this email in your browser

Thursday 4 October 2012 | View in browser News | Museums | Market | Conservation | Exhibitions | Jobs | Comment | In print ON SALE NOW In October's print edition: Syria’s world heritage sites are "directly targeted" New York's 9/11 museum is world’s most expensive France's super rich face super tax See all the headlines from this month’s print edition Subscribe now to get more than 100 articles only in the print edition.    In this week’s edition news Dead Gaddafi in triplicate Three major artists—Jenny Saville, Yan Pei-Ming and Luca del Baldo—have created paintings of the corpse of the deposed Libyan dictator Billionaire art collector set to be next Georgian prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili’s Georgian Dream coalition party wins election victory More news in the current issue: British called upon to stem illicit trade of artefacts Steve McQueen gets catalogue raisonné Why Riace Bronzes languish in limbo museums Azerbaijan to get contemporary art space—and maybe a biennial Aida Mahmudova, the artist, patron and niece of the first lady, is hoping to build up the country’s fledgling art scene Two huge state-run museums open in Shanghai Expo 2010 buildings become China Art Palace and Power Station of Art Guess Jeans boss to open Los Angeles art space Maurice Marciano is looking for a space to house exhibitions, a library and a studio for an artist-in-residence More in museums in the current issue: London’s leading museums lose more than a million visitors during Olympic Games Lacma's boulder is an LA blockbuster Louvre offers a French view of the art of the Middle East  market Art HK founder plans new fair in Istanbul ArtInternational Istanbul is due to coincide with the city’s international biennial next year More in market in the current issue: LA gallery expands to Japan Need a loan? Use your art The battle for private selling shows  Conservation Klimt’s studio opens its doors Renovated space, reconstructed using original photos, includes artist’s bath and exact copy of his carpet More in conservation in the current issue: Libyan shrines under attack In the pink: Van Gogh virtually restored The perils of DIY restoration Exhibitions The Turner Prize endurance test The Turner Prize 2012 opened at Tate Britain this week (2 October-6 January 2013), taxing art critics’ stamina. “Whoever thought of running [Luke] Fowler’s 93-minute documentary about a Glaswegian psychiatrist in an art gallery?” asked Jackie Wullschlager in the Financial Times (above, Fowler's All Divided Selves, 2011). Rachel Campbell-Johnston, the chief art critic of the Times, advises visitors to “linger in the first room with Paul Noble”, describing the artist’s drawings of the fictional Nobson Newtown as a “discombobulating dystopian dream”. In the Guardian, the critic Adrian Searle called this year’s exhibition “the longest to see”. He warns visitors to avoid the intervals in Spartacus Chetwynd’s work. When she and her co-performers are present, “it’s all mummery and flummery with a winning amateurism”. Otherwise, you find two stages that are a “bit dismal” when empty. The winner of the £25,000 Turner Prize will be announced on 3 December, and the award is due to be presented by the actor Jude Law. It is given to an artist under 50, born, living or working in Britain, whose work the judges agree has been shown in an “outstanding” exhibition in the previous 12 months. The death in late September of one of the judges, Michael Stanley, the director of Modern Art Oxford, has inevitably cast a shadow over this year’s prize… READ MORE All exhibitions jobs Director, Fundacion Yannick y Ben Jakobert, Mallorca The small low budget Sa Bassa Blanca museum of the Fundacion Yannick y Ben Jakober is on the north coast of the island of Mallorca, Spain. It shows Old Master portraits of children from the 16th-19th centuries and contemporary art in a bucolic setting. Read more All jobs     You received this email from The Art Newspaper because you are on the Thursday newsletter list. Unsubscribe to permanently remove yourself from this list. © The Art Newspaper, 70 South Lambeth Road, London SW8 1RL. Tel: +44 (0)20 3416 9000 www.theartnewspaper.com

keyword:art gallery, gallery, fantasy art, landscape art, nude, abstract art, fine art, wall art, art, artwork, painting, oil painting, landscape painting, buy art,art daily,art news,artdaily, daily art, art newspaper, arte, arts daily,contemporary art news,fine art news,the art daily,art news daily,art daily news,daily newsletter,artdaily.org, artdaily.com, art site, art news, art of the day, art daily, museums, Pavarotti, exhibits, artists, milestones, digital art, architecture, photography, photographers, special photos, special reports, featured stories, auctions, art fairs, anecdotes, art quiz, education, mythology, 360 images, 3D images, last week, ignacio villarreal, The First Art Newspaper on the Net, The First Art, Newspaper

Posted in: