ARTINFO – Planted in the ground next to a blank cement wall in the Museum of Modern ArtÂ’s sculpture garden is a sign explaining that the four bronze Henri Matisse sculptures usually occupying the space, The Back I–IV, are currently out on loan for the exhibition “Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–17.” That show, devoted to early work by the artist, opened at the Art Institute of Chicago in March. Now it has come to MoMA, and last night the museum held an opening reception it.

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MoMA Throws a Dignified Homecoming Party for Matisse
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ARTINFO – The contestants on BravoÂ’s Work of Art: The Next Great Artist were told to make public art for the sixth episode, “Open to the Public,” which is funny given that the show is broadcast on national television each and every week, meaning that there’s not much, ahem, private art being made, ever.

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Last Night, on "Work of Art": Jumping on the "Noumenom"
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ARTINFO – On Saturday the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton held its annual midsummer gala, which serves as a focal point for Hamptons society. There was dinner, dancing, a wide variety of elaborate desserts arrayed on circular tables

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Swells Swanned at the Parrish Gala, Honoring Beth Rudin DeWoody
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ARTINFO – This past weekend, in the charming Provencal town of Arles, the 41st annual Les Recontres d’Arles international photography festival began its 10-day extravaganza of over 50 openings and screenings, showcasing an astoundingly diverse array of images by renowned and lesser-known artists alike. The huge assortment of works will remain on display until September 19 in the Roman town in the south of France.

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20 Picks from the Arles Photography Festival
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ARTINFO – Situated outside Paris, the Château de Versailles is a gleaming marmoreal symbol of the ancien regime, a corrupt system on the brink of revolution. Now the director of the historical landmark, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, is seeking to transform it into something new: a place to show contemporary art among the lustrous trappings of French kings.

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With Murakami on Deck, Versailles Announces Plan for Annual Contemporary Shows
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ARTINFO – American knowledge of Iceland is generally limited to Bjork, erupting volcanos, and banking meltdowns. With this week’s official announcement of the opening date for Harpa, a concert and conference center in Reykjavik, we can now add an Olafur Eliasson-designed architectural monument to that list. In many ways it’s been the “little building that could,” minus the “little” bit.

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With a Building Adorned by Olafur Eliasson, Iceland Seeks a Rebound
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ARTINFO – To say that Yoko OnoÂ’s Voice Piece for Soprano is the most visible artwork in MoMAÂ’s recent reinstallation of its contemporary art galleries is both unimpeachably accurate and totally wrong. Wrong in the sense that the piece is not visible at all; right in the sense that you can’t possibly miss it. Voice Piece for Soprano is a participatory artwork.

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Between a Dance and a Scream: A Q&A with Yoko Ono
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ARTINFO – In a new introduction to his 1971 book The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol, author John Wilcock writes that the tantalizing title led to “initial enthusiasm” among publishers when he first approached them in 1970. This enthusiasm turned to disappointment, however, when they learned that Warhol himself had actually contributed nothing to the book. Rather, Wilcock, one of the co-founders of the Village Voice, had interviewed more than 20 associates of the Pop artist to assemble a socially constructed portrait of his life in the late 1960s.

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8 Surprising Insights from "The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol"
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ARTINFO – If any urban sociologists are at work to bring our understanding of the “hipster” up to speed with its latest, post-Obama incarnation — hopefully in the process looking to update its obnoxious nomenclature — they could have done worse than set up an observation platform at MoMA PS1 last night, where MIA threw an impromptu album-release concert and party. Together with the art hipsters who always come en masse to the Long Island City alternative space’s openings and Warm Up afternoons were a mob of music hipsters, distinguished by their stampede of sneakers in every synthetic material and retina-shocking hue known to man, all of them there to celebrate the Sri Lankan singer’s latest effort, MAYA. (Clearly, none of them were deterred by MIA’s brattish, if baited, turn in the New York Times Magazine, or her record’s thrashing by the very community she hopes to reach.)

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MIA Fights the Power at PS1
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ARTINFO – On the night of June 25, prominent figures of the Paris fashion world flocked to the famed Hôtel Costes where Lacoste was presenting its 2010 Holiday Collector’s series, featuring two polo shirts designed by Chinese artist Li Xiaofeng. The latest collaboration between Lacoste and contemporary artists, Li’s contribution consists of one polo shirt made from 317 porcelain shards and one cotton polo shirt bearing a print of the artist’s porcelain-shard digital collage.

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Lacoste Launches Porcelain Polo Shirts by Li Xiaofeng
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ARTINFO – “It’s cute watching all the Easterners go gaga over Hollywood,” Christopher Knight wrote in his Los Angeles Times pan of MOCAÂ’s “Dennis Hopper Double Standard” exhibition. Well, ARTINFO thought it was pretty cute when art stars of the East and West (and some crossovers, like New York expat Jeffrey Deitch) went gaga over each other at the private dinner hotelier André Balazs and MOCA director Deitch threw on the roof of the former’s Standard Downtown L.A.

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Deitch & Co. Celebrate Hopper Show
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ARTINFO – In “Art that Moves You,” this week’s episode of BravoÂ’s Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, something strange happened. OK, lots of strange things happened, and that’s nothing new in this reality-show tribute to the most surreal aspects of a broadly fictionalized art world. (Simon de Pury, amazingly, is real.) But here are three occurrences that rattled ARTINFOÂ’s sense of the order of things

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Last Night, on "Work of Art": From Painterbation to the Panopticon
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ARTINFO – Political junkies might have heard recently that the Tea Party Nation had to cancel its July convention in Las Vegas because it was too hot. Perhaps Beverly Hills might do as an alternative venue. Next Friday, on Beverly Boulevard, the right-wing group will have a chance to see their de facto in what might be her most revealing portrait to date.

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Sarah Palin, Memorialized with Porn Art
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Mark Rylance’s fearless and footloose performance gives life to an otherwise pedantic exercise in the vein of Molière.

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On the London Stage: Actor’s Skill, in Delivery and Dexterity, Redeems ‘La Bête’

It’s rare to find a level of craftsmanship like this on a debut; Mount Kimbie have delivered a strong statement of intent and a record that is certainly a contender for album of the year. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com

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Mount Kimbie – Crooks & Lovers

Assuming you approve of Surgeon’s latter-day DJing efforts to operate outside of the genre he’s prominently been associated with, there’s little to dislike about Fabric 53. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com

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Various – Fabric 53: Surgeon

Undoubtedly influenced and buoyed on by The Horrors’ recent upsurge in critical acclaim, O Children have raised their game somewhat from the cabaret goth outfit of twelve months ago… Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com

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O Children – O Children

Episode #28 for The Sorcerer’s Apprentice , in which our protagonist talks about the Bruckheimer machine, postulates as to how the film was written, and gets a bit more ranty about the words “suggested by” than he intended to. Direct link for the feedreaders