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Pilvi Takala, Wallflower (still), 2006. Video, 10:26 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and Carlos/Ishikawa.

■ Jeu de Paume in Paris has received repeated threats by groups and individuals opposing Palestinian artist Ahlam Shibli’s exhibition ‘Phantom Home’. The controversy is centred on her latest series of work entitled “Death” which explores dead or imprisoned Palestinians presented in both public and private spaces. [The Art Newspaper]

It is now possible to sign the petition for pressing the French Minister of Culture to respect the freedom of artistic expression and its independence from cultural institutions and political agendas.
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Abbas Akhavan, Study for a Garden, 2012, Delfina Foundation, London Residency – Image courtesy Christa Holka and the Third Line, Dubai

■ The Abraaj Group Art Prize announced the winners of the 2014 edition: Abbas Akhavan (Iran), Kamrooz Aram (Iran), Bouchra Khalili (Morocco), Basim Magdy (Egypt) and Anup Mathew Thomas (India). These artists will now start working closely with this year’s selected Guest Curator, London-based Pakistani-Born Nada Raza. She is responsible for supervising the production and the display of artworks as well as the publishing of the annual catalogue at Art Dubai. [art-agenda] [The Abraaj Group Art Prize]

â–  The Sobey Award for Canadian artists under 40 announced its shortlist: Isabelle Pauwels (West Coast & the Yukon), Mark Clintberg (Prairies & The North), Duane Linklater (Ontario), Pascal Grandmaison (Quebec) and Tamara Henderson (Atlantic). Their works will be exhibited at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (AGNS) opening on September 13, 2013. The winner is to be announced at the Gala AGNS event on October 9, 2013. [Sobey Art Award]
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Giusepe Penone, Spazio di Luce, 2013. Courtesy the artist; Le château de Versailles; domus. Photo: Tadzio

â–  Vancouver artist Geoffrey Farmer has won the Gershon Iskowitz Prize, consisting in a sum of $50,000 as well as a solo exhibition in February 2014 at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto [cbc.ca]

â–  “Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965–1980” was awarded an accolade for Outstanding Achievement in Exhibitions from the Canadian Museums Association. Shown in five major cities across Canada between September 2010 and January 2013, Traffic was collectively curated by Michèle Thériault and Vincent Bonin (Montreal), Barbara Fischer (Toronto, London, Guelph), Jayne Wark (Halifax), Catherine Crowston (the Pariries + the Arctic) and Grant Arnold (Vancouver). [museums.ca]

■ Richard Serra’s “Shift” (1972) was finally confirmed for an indefinite heritage protection after a long lobbying battle within the township council for King City in Ontario, which officially voted for (although via a 5-2 split decision) the designation of the sculpture to a cultural heritage site. [ArtsBeat]
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Newslinks – Venice Digest and Other Links

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Raphaëlle de Groot’s performance during the preview week for the Venice Biennale. Courtesy Galerie de l’UQAM. Photo: Gwenaël Bélanger

Venice Digest

■ Tino Sehgal won the Golden Lion prize for best artist, in Massimiliano Gioni’s “The Encyclopaedic Palace” exhibition at the 55th Venice Biennale. Seghal’s acceptance speech at the ceremony can be heard here. [BiennaleChannel]

■ The Golden Lion for best National pavilion was awarded to Angola, who presented in Venice for the first time with a commission by two architects (Paula Nascimento and Stefano Rabolli Panserato) to curate “Beyond Entropy”. The concept of the exhibition started off with the paradoxical nature of the Biennale’s theme, The Encyclopaedic Palace, claiming that: “No building could ever contain all the knowledge of the world”. Nascimento and Panserato’s interview can be seen here. [BiennaleChannel]
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Richard Robinson, If you were to work here: the mood in the museum, 2013. performance view at the Auckland Triennial. Courtesy Auckland Museum

■ Just before the opening of the 55th Venice Biennale, Massimiliaono Gioni, arguably the busiest man in the art world right now, discusses his grand show themed “The Encyclopaedic Palace” [The Art Newspaper], and frankly admits to his nervousness in an interview with the New York Times. [NYT]

■ Prior to the start of the Venice Biennale, Art Basel HK grabbed our attention as one of the biggest events in this year’s cultural calendar. The inaugural event made waves and wooed many Asian collectors, amid some ambivalence amongst the locals about the internationalization of Hong Kong art scene. [The Guardian]
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Gordon Matta-Clark with camera at Food restaurant, 1972. Photo by Cosmos Andrew Sarchiapone. via Mousse

■ The second edition of Frieze New York is kicking off on 10 May. Part of this year’s project includes a tribute to artist-run spaces and initiatives that have defined and transformed the cultural and artistic history of New York City. While Frieze New York 2012 acknowledged the contribution of Fashion Moda with a presentation of John Ahearn’s work, the fair is this year organizing homage to FOOD, the legendary restaurant opened in October 1971 by Gordon Matta-Clark and Carol Goodden in collaboration with other artists.
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David Shrigley, one of the artists shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize. Shrigley was nominated for his solo exhibition “Brain Activity” at Hayward Gallery, London

■ Tate announced Turner Prize 2013 shortlist: David Shrigley, Tino Sehgal, Laure Prouvost and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. The Turner prize exhibition this year will take place in Derry-Londonderry as part of its year as UK City of Culture , and the winner of the £40,000 prize will be announced on 2 December. Work will be shown at Ebrington, the site of a former army barracks.

â–  The Mark Rothko Art Center opened in Daugavpils, Latvia, the birthplace of the late artist.
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Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2013 nominee, Cristina de Middel, Untitled, from the series The Afronauts (2011). Courtesy of the artist.

■ Canada’s prestigious Sobey Art Award has now announced its longlist for 2013, selecting five artists from each main region (West coast & Yukon, Prairies & the North, Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic) which is to be reduced in the shortlist to one finalist per said region. Nominated in late June, the finalists will be showcased at the Nova Scotia Art Gallery in Halifax, opening on 13 September, to unveil the winner on 9 October with $50,000 cash prize. For now all bets are on for who will rise to top this year.

â–  Nominees for this year’s UK based annual Deutsche Börse Photography Prize were recently revealed in London: Mishka Henner, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Chris Killip and Cristina De Middel will be featured together at Photographer’s Gallery in a group exhibition open until 30 June 2013, with the laureate finally named on Monday 10 June 2013.
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M-KOS goes on spring break!

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This month M-KOS turns to two years old since its launch in March 2011. For this occasion, we would like to thank all our readers for their on-going support. Although winter still seems to linger in and around Montreal, M-KOS is now taking a short spring break, following North America’d school tradition of a recess in early spring. We will soon come back with new reports from the centennial Armory in New York, Art Souterrain in Montreal and perhaps some snapshots from London. In the meantime, we will be posting on Facebook & Twitter, so why not follow us from there?

Image credit: Romain Lamy, Le paradis, from the series Le monde merveilleux, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Art Souterrain. Lamy’s work can be viewed at Art Souterrain 2013.

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David Zwirner inaugurates new London venue with Luc Tuymans


Luc Tuymans, Allo!, 2012. Oil on canvas. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner Gallery

David Zwirner opens his new gallery in London today inaugurating with Luc Tuymans exhibition Allo!.

The exhibition comprises a series of paintings entitled Allo! initially inspired by Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899), but in the end drawing more visual references from the final scene in the 1942 film The Moon and Sixpence, itself an adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s eponymous novel from 1919. Tuymans’s convoluted interest on the topic enacts a general negation of modernism and Hollywood’s longstanding idealization of the artist as a romantic savage. This will be Tuymans’ ninth solo show since joining David Zwirner in 1994.
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