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4 THE ART NEWSPAPER Number 284, November 2016

Contents

Issue 284, November 2016 Section 2

SPECIAL REPORT:

PHOTOGRAPHY

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TATE MAKES UP FOR LOST TIME

Photography has come in from the cold—with help from

collectors including Elton John

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INTERVIEW: CHRISTOPH WIESNER

The artistic director of Paris Photo identiies new trends in

collecting ahead of the fair’s 20th edition this month

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SAN FRANCISCO REACHES CRITICAL MASS

How the city became the epicentre of serious photography

collecting in the US—even Silicon Valley is getting interested

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THE ICP IS WATCHING YOU

Why the International Center of Photography reopened on

New York’s Bowery with a survey of surveillance

FEATURES

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ARTIST INTERVIEW: CHARLES ATLAS

The ilm-maker on his new 3D ilm and performance work,

commissioned for a major Merce Cunningham show

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LOUVRE ABU DHABI

The Middle Eastern institution is

reinventing the idea of the

universal museum

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FLORENCE AND VENICE

How the loods that devastated Italy

50 years ago prompted a strong—and

lasting—international response

BOOKS

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ESSAYS

New writings by the evergreen John

Berger, 90 this month

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MODERNISM

What Rainer Maria Rilke learned from Rodin

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ANTIQUITY

Ambitious project re-examines Roman art in the provinces

EXHIBITIONS

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INTERNATIONAL

Once ridiculed, now revered: Cy Twombly gets a career

survey at the Centre Pompidou

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INTERNATIONAL

Let them eat cake... Versailles celebrates its spectacular

entertainments while the National Gallery of Australia

recreates Louis XIV’s palace in Canberra

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UNITED KINGDOM

The public sculpture project that the UK forgot is

resurrected in Leeds, complete with 5.5m-tall King Kong

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UNITED STATES

Ahead of his show at New York’s MoMA PS1, the British

artist Mark Leckey tells us why he feels doomed

CALENDAR

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CALENDAR

Our pick of exhibitions around the world this month

DIARY

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LOUISA BUCK'S LONDON

The Barbican’s show on vulgarity: just not vulgar enough

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DAN DURAY IN NEW YORK

Fran Lebowitz talks, Martin Scorsese listens

ARTOON

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US ELECTION

Pablo Helguera’s take on the US presidential race

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Charles Atlas leaps into FEATURES

the third dimension

The great storyteller BOOKS

John Berger at 90

Party like it’s 1682: EXHIBITIONS

the rise of Versailles

Quality gossip from DIARIES

London and New York

SPECIAL REPORT

Who’s collecting photography in

London, Paris and San Francisco

Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother (1936) is in Tate Modern’s exhibition The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection, which opens this month

NEWS

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EUROPE

How our contributor Martin Bailey tracked down Van

Gogh’s lat-packed bed, from Arles to the Netherlands

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INTERNATIONAL

Are Old Masters shown in leading museums clever fakes?

Experts at odds over paintings sold by Giuliano Ruini

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UNITED STATES

Mike Kelley Foundation supports exhibitions across the US,

including a show in the artist’s home city of Detroit

MUSEUMS

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EUROPE

How are French museums spending their Louvre Abu

Dhabi windfalls?

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EUROPE

Centre Pompidou’s planned franchise in Brussels gets

lukewarm greeting from Belgian experts

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UNITED STATES

Architect Peter Zumthor’s radical plan for the Los Angeles

County Museum of Art

CONSERVATION

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AUSTRALIA

Sydney Opera House could use robotics—instead of an

abseiling man with a hammer—to check its famous roof

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EUROPE

Fifty years on, the “mud angels” who saved Italian art

treasures remember the Florence lood

ART MARKET

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ANALYSIS

Online platforms are multiplying, but can they really shake

up the art market?

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LONDON AUCTIONS

Strong results calm post-Brexit fears as buyers take

advantage of the weak pound

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ANALYSIS

The times they are a-changin’ in Mayfair, as young dealers

channel their energy into Old Masters

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NEWS

US election casts a shadow of uncertainty over the market

ahead of the autumn auctions

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OBJECT LESSONS

Our pick of the pieces coming to market this month

COMMENT

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CULTURAL POLICY

Museums are the diplomats of the 21st century, says the

head of culture at Germany’s Foreign Oice

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ARTS EDUCATION

Geofrey Quilley argues that the decision to scrap A-level

art history in England must be challenged

REGULARS

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IN THE FRAME

MoMA’s Paola Antonelli’s big night at the White House

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LETTERS

The Serpentine stands up for female artists

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OBITUARY

The Italian polymath Dario Fo

US election memorabilia inside Mike Kelley’s

Mobile Homestead, which is hosting an

election party this month; see p

King Kong comes to Leeds;

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KELLEY: COURTESY OF THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT

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