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Commercial goes pastoral: the draw of showing art in the open air

The Art Newspaper

The Wiltshire gallery attracts 150 to 200 visitors a day and large-scale sculpture shows are the biggest draw, alongside regular talks and symposiums, says its founder Johnny Messum. Laurence Edwards’s Large Chthonic Head (2023), a temporary installation on the beach at Lowestoft, in Suffolk,organised by Messums in 2023.

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The legacy of the Baghdad Modern Art Group is explored in first major US show

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All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, organised by the specialists Nada Shabout and Tiffany Floyd together with the museum’s chief curator, Lauren Cornell, unites 64 works of painting, sculpture and drawings by 30 artists including Dia al-Azzawi and Mohammed Ghani Hikmat.

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Chardin’s strawberries masterpiece forms fruity backdrop to Dior catwalk

The Art Newspaper

In a room modelled on the Gemäldegalerie at the Kulturforum in Berlin, Jonathan Anderson, Dior’s new creative designer, bedecked models in outfits drawing on 18th- and 19th-century French menswear. LVMH also owns Dior. The Art Newspaper

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With the help of conservators, one of Van Gogh’s finest Arles landscapes will be heading to Japan

The Art Newspaper

After his first work, Van Gogh went on to complete three more paintings of the bridge, alongside four drawings and a watercolour—evidence that it was an important motif for him. My Friend Van Gogh/Emile Bernard provides the first English translation of Bernard’s writings on Van Gogh (David Zwirner Books 2023, UK and US ).

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Renewed Bern Kunsthalle works to reframe Switzerland's history

The Art Newspaper

New entrance, new thinking Shortly after Fokianaki’s appointment in late 2023, new fire regulations prompted the Kunsthalle to add a second entrance at the back of the building. And it is now a moment in Swiss society and museums where these discussions are more prominent.”

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London's pre-contemporary art market gets boost from two new summer events

The Art Newspaper

This bijou, polished pop-up has been founded by Sebastien Paraskevas and Alesa Boyle who in 2023, along with Tom Neville, co-founded Trois Crayons, the specialist drawings and works on paper group selling exhibition. 9 Cork Street, with 35 participating galleries showing over 250 drawings from the 15th to 21st centuries.

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Revealed: how Van Gogh's nephew exchanged two of the artist's drawings for butter and bacon

The Art Newspaper

© Martin Bailey In early 1945, just before the end of the Second World War, Vincent van Gogh’s nephew gave two of the artist’s drawings to the owner of a cheese business—in exchange for 35 packets of butter and a little meat. Van Gogh never found a buyer for the drawings and they later passed down to his nephew. By the 1930s V.W.

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