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  • Louise Bourgeois spider to return to Tate Modern for gallery’s 25th birthday – Museums Association

    The 10 metre-high stainless-steel spider that greeted the first visitors to London’s Tate Modern in 2000 will return to the Turbine Hall next year in honour of the gallery’s 25th anniversary. Louise Bourgeois’ Maman – which the late French-American artist described as an exploration of the “ambiguities of motherhood” – was initially commissioned for the gallery’s opening, and was exhibited both in the Turbine Hall and outside the museum before its permanent acquisition by Tate in 2008.

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  • ‘New Dawn’ and the Parliamentary Archives – Parliamentary Archives: Inside the Act Room

    ‘New Dawn’ is a major new permanent contemporary artwork by artist Mary Branson, celebrating the ‘Votes for Women’ movement in Parliament. It consists of 168 individually hand-blown glass ‘scrolls’, in the colours of the various women’s suffrage organisations, individually backlit to ebb and flow with the tidal Thames. And they were inspired by the Original Acts in the Victoria Tower.

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  • The inside story of Blenheim’s gold toilet heist – BBC News

    It was the night before, Blenheim chief executive Dominic Hare was at a glamorous exhibition launch party being held at the palace, hosted by Cattelan himself. It was America’s first time on display outside of New York and the artwork’s presence was creating a buzz. He remembers slipping away from the festivities, hoping for a turn on the fully usable toilet. But when confronted with a line, he told himself “that’s okay, there’s no point queuing. You can come back tomorrow and have a look”.

    But just a few hours later, his colleague Ms Paice was witnessing the final moments as the 98kg (216lbs) artwork was being heaved into a boot. She recalls a confusing and fast-moving scene: “It was just shadows and quick movement. I just saw them move towards the car, get in the car….and then the car just sped straight off.” From the burglars entering and exiting the courtyard, the audacious heist had taken just five minutes. Police arrived shortly after, and it was only when staff searched the palace they realised what had been stolen.

    “That was when… I felt my stomach drop,” Ms Paice says. “And I thought, this is big.” … The stolen gold has never been recovered.

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  • In London, an enormous exhibition of 500+ works roots out the creative seeds of flowers – Colossal

    In nature, flowers serve as an essential component of the reproduction process. But for humans, scented blooms are ripe with myriad meanings and symbolism that transcend their biological functions. … A massive exhibition opening next month at Saatchi Gallery cultivates a vast repertoire of works that explores how blooms have become an omnipresent entity in human life and creativity. Flowers: Flora in Contemporary Art and Culture brings together more than 500 photographs, installations, sculptures, archival pieces, and other objects to create a rich landscape spanning millennia.

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  • The peppermills of Jens Quistgaard

    Taking the dispersal of salt and pepper as the jumping off point, JHQ’s designs are a meditation on the possibilities of shape for a common household object. Intriguing and fantastical, the variety of forms expands the vocabulary of functional design, calling on an array of familiar references: chess pieces, tools, clocks, toys, as well as natural and botanical shapes. These peppermills, otherwise known as “table seasoners”, evoke tiny household sculptures, powerful individually, but most compelling when grouped and viewed in sets.

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  • Banana artwork sells for $6.2 million – Hyperallergic

    Tonight’s top bidder didn’t acquire a “part of history” — he bought a banana and a roll of tape. … Following auctioneer Oliver Barker’s nervous introduction (“Not quite sure what to expect here”), a rhythmic volley ensued between several bidders on the phones, a paddle in the room, and an ambitious online bidder. Six minutes later, the hammer finally plopped down at $5.2 million ($6,240,000, with the house’s fees) thanks to a phone bidder with Jen Hua, head of Sotheby’s China. The buyer, it was announced in an email blast shortly thereafter, was Chinese collector Justin Sun, owner of BitCurrent and founder of the crypto platform Tron. It’s not surprising considering that this was the only lot in the sale eligible for payment in cryptocurrencies and that two coins inspired by Cattelan’s work — the Solana-based “Banana Tape Wall” ($BTW) and a token called $BAN started by a Sotheby’s employee — are in thousands of digital “wallets.” That information, and the fact that Sun once paid nearly as much for a chance to have lunch with Warren Buffet, should tell you all you need to know about the bro energy surrounding this auction. Sun said in the email blast that he plans to “personally eat the banana” in the coming days as “part of this unique artistic experience.”

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  • Crudely gesturing Trump effigy appears in Philadelphia – Hyperallergic

    “When I first saw the images of it, I thought, oh, it’s really disrespectful to women, facing this really gentle, beautiful form,” said Cohen, whose organization restored the sculpture and placed it in the park. But when she read the text, she understood that the installation was actually a work of satire, which she called “brilliant.” “This is what public art is all about,” Cohen said. “These kinds of dialogues and debates and standing by your words when you’re quoted in such a manner in public.”

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  • Sculpture of a turd on Nancy Pelosi’s desk appears on National Mall – Hyperallergic

    It’s not immediately clear if the sculpture is satirizing the idolization of January 6 or serves as an actual endorsement of Trump, but one thing is for sure — this is the shit that gets people talking.

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