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Thursday 17 January 2013 | View in browser News | Museums | Market | Conservation | Exhibitions | Jobs | Comment | In print ON SALE NOW In January's print edition: Great leap forward for US-China museum loans UK counts cost of diplomacy The Assads: final portraits? 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 Munich to get its own Fourth Plinth Scandinavian artists Elmgreen and Dragset are organising temporary art commissions in Germany Market Growth in internet sales forces fraud issue Identifying forgeries being sold on websites is not enough to tackle the problem Museums Writer’s shrine in Moscow to get epic treatment International team of artists and designers to create "literary park" near museums dedicated to Mikhail Bulgakov Conservation Picasso murals under threat Government contemplates tearing down buildings damaged during terrorist attack in Oslo  LA FOCUS Open it and they will come. You hope… A number of Los Angeles galleries are making the move in search of the right area Keeping it strictly old school LA teaching is still top for next generation of artists Features Artist interview: Walid Raad, a mediator between worlds The artist challenges historical narratives in his Islamic-inspired show at the Louvre this month  exhibitions Polish show digs into Andy Warhol’s Slovakian roots Andy Warhol supposedly once said: “I am from nowhere.” The king of Pop art is remembered today as an icon and champion of the American dream—a celebrity rejoicing in the company of stars, a lover of glitter and glamour. But he was also an introvert hiding behind a wig and a camera. In his art, he combined the sacred with the profane, raising repetitiveness and superficiality to the level of high art. Warhol was born in Pittsburgh but his roots go back to what is today Slovakia. His parents emigrated to America from the Miková village in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and arrived in the industrial belt of the US. It was there that Andy Warhola (he later dropped the final “a”) grew up, the youngest of three children. He was raised in the moral traditions of the Ruthenians, based on the Greek-Catholic religion. He spoke to his mother Julia, to whom he was particularly attached, in Slovak. In New York, where his career began, he led the life of a celebrity, but he shared his apartment (a multi-storey building) with his mother and her memories of the Old World... READ MORE All exhibitions video Art Basel Miami Beach 2012: the long game David Gryn, the curator of the Art Video section at Art Basel Miami Beach, and Edward Winkleman, the co-founder of the Moving Image video art fair, discuss how to present feature-length videos at fairs and the rise of the cinematic experience in making and showing art films. All videos       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

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