Contemporary Art Daily Week in Review: March 7, 2010

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Welcome to Week in Review, our Sunday round-up of the last 7 days of activity here at Contemporary Art Daily.
This week’s featured exhibitions:
Bernd and Hilla Becher at Konrad Fischer
Oscar Tuazon at Kunsthalle Bern
Ann Veronica Janssens at Alfonso Artiaco
Thomas Eggerer at Daniel Buchholz
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster at Dia at the Hispanic Society
Tony Just …

Spencer Tunick to undress Salford’s ‘everyday people’

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Photographer who specialises in large-scale nude installations is asking for 1,000 volunteers to reinvigorate the spirit of LS Lowry. Cloth caps not needed
Just a week after coaxing 5,200 Australians to pose naked on the steps of Sydney Opera House, photographer Spencer Tunick has announced he will tackle an altogether chillier …

Art News from Twitter for March 8th, 2010

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What are artists and art-lovers talking about? Here are the latest twitter art related tweets from March 8th, 2010

@thefuschiatree: Towards A New World – An Exclusive Seminar On Contemporary Indian Art – http://p0.vresp.com/qRZfDm – 08 Mar 10 09:21

@miekla: Find out if you can agree to my opinion, as far …

The street art of JR

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From the slums of Kenya to the Paris banlieues, the guerilla photographer JR aims to put a human face to the most impoverished areas of the world. Just don’t ask him who he is
The Parisian photographer JR is a man routinely touted as the hippest street artist since Banksy. His …

This week’s exhibitions previews

 This week’s exhibitions previews

Jenny Holzer, Gateshead
The most extensive Holzer show ever in the UK presents a selection from the last two decades of text artworks in the form of LED installations, billboards, T-shirts, condom wrappers and paintings. Holzer infiltrates the mass media sloganeering signage of our city streets with pithy truisms, knowing cliches …

Turbine Hall commission: Adrian Searle profiles artist Ai Weiwei

 Turbine Hall commission: Adrian Searle profiles artist Ai Weiwei

A passionately political artist equipped with a talent for mischief, Ai Weiwei is a fine choice for Tate’s Turbine Hall. I suspect the Chinese government won’t agree
The announcement that the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is to be the next artist to take on Tate Modern’s annual Turbine Hall commission is …

Exit Through the Gift Shop : Film review

 Exit Through the Gift Shop : Film review

This teasing faux documentary about Banksy and his fellow street artists is priceless – and hilarious, says Peter Bradshaw
He is Britain’s newest national treasure: but he presumably won’t be accepting a TV viewers’ award from Ant and Dec any time soon, or making libertarian interventions in the smoking debate, or …

Not everyone can be an artist | Jonathan Jones

 Not everyone can be an artist | Jonathan Jones

Interactive art is gaining ground – but whether it’s Spencer Tunick’s nudes or Antony Gormley’s plinth, no masterpiece was ever created by committee
The rise of interactive art seems to make sense in our digital age. It seems only right that art, too, should twitter. And so the noughties saw the …

Portrait of Elizabeth I reveals she held serpent where a posy now appears

 Portrait of Elizabeth I reveals she held serpent where a posy now appears

Behind the enigmatic smile: National Portrait Gallery to display 16th century work which has given up its secret after 400 years
The queen wears a magnificent gown and a faint, enigmatic smile ‑ but then she knows what she really holds in her hands, a secret revealed again to the world …

Artist Ann Veronica Janssens at Alfonso Artiaco

 Artist Ann Veronica Janssens at Alfonso Artiaco

Artist: Ann Veronica Janssens
Venue: Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
Date: February 12 – March 23, 2010
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Full gallery of images and link available after the jump.

Images:

Images courtesy of Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
Link: Ann Veronica Janssens at Alfonso Artiaco
Tags: Alfonso Artiaco, Ann Veronica Janssens, Europe, Italy, Naples
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