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• Artist Accuses Gucci of Ripping Off Her Art for Ad Campaign—Fashion Brand Responds

  16-10-2019 23:07 via ARTnews
  Sharona Franklin claimed that the brand decided not to commission her when the company learned of her disability. Read More
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• Tim Burton’s Show at the Neon Museum Show in Las Vegas Is a Fantastical Love Letter to the City: See Inside

  16-10-2019 22:52 via ARTnews
  The exhibition features never-before-seen works by the Beetlejuice filmmaker, who grew up being fascinated by the city. Read More
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• Dealer Rudolf Zwirner (David’s Dad) Cofounded the First Art Fair—Now He’s Not So Hot on Them

  16-10-2019 20:04 via ARTnews
  "Art fairs are extremely dangerous and expensive for younger galleries," the Cologne legend said in an interview. Read More
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• ‘Art Workers Don’t Kiss Ass’: Looking Back on the Formation of MoMA’s Pioneering Union in the 1970s

  16-10-2019 20:04 via ARTnews
  Art workers' rights experts respond to the union's continuing impact. Read More
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• Banksy Opens Online Shop of Affordable Wares, But There Is a Big Catch

  16-10-2019 19:56 via ARTnews
  Pieces in the shop are available for as little as $12.80, but only a lucky few will be able to buy them. Read More
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• In Reversal, Italian Court Rules That ‘Vitruvian Man’ Can Travel to Louvre for Leonardo da Vinci Retrospective After All

  16-10-2019 18:41 via ARTnews
  Some historians and activists had argued that the work is too fragile to travel. Read More
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• Leonardo's Vitruvian Man can go to the Louvre, court rules

  16-10-2019 18:25 via Art | The Guardian
  Challenge by Italian heritage group threatened to disrupt deal with Paris museumLeonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man will join several works at a blockbuster exhibition on the Renaissance artist’s life at the Louvre after an Italian court rejected an appeal against the drawing being lent to the Paris museum.Italia Nostra, a heritage group, recently filed a complaint saying the drawing, which is kept in a climate-controlled vault at the Accademia Gallery of Venice, was too fragile to tra
  
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• Cosmic gardens and boulder boulevards: the genius of Charles Jencks – in pictures

  16-10-2019 16:06 via Art | The Guardian
  From gigantic rippling mounds of grass inspired by space to thrilling modern henge-scapes, we celebrate the visions of the great landscape artistCharles Jencks obituary Continue reading...
  
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• New Van Gogh Museum Director, Collector Stefan Edlis Dies, and More: Morning Links from October 16, 2019

  16-10-2019 15:00 via ARTnews
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• Van Gogh Museum’s Next Director Will Be Mauritshuis Leader, in Major Move Atop Dutch Museum World

  16-10-2019 14:08 via ARTnews
  She takes the place of Axel Rüger, who stepped down to run the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Read More
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• Pre-Raphaelite Sisters review – the heroic women behind the frilly-shirted bro-fest

  16-10-2019 12:57 via Art | The Guardian
  National Portrait Gallery, LondonWomen supported the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, as lovers, helpers and models – but they were rewarded with paintings that depicted them as objects of fantasyThe latest effort to write women back into art history, Pre-Raphaelite Sisters offers a female take on that frilly-shirted testosterone-fest, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.Like the Barbican’s Modern Couples exhibition last year, the show reminds us that a work of art seldom springs, magnificent,
  
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• Budge up, great white males! MoMA goes global with an explosive $450m rehang

  16-10-2019 07:00 via Art | The Guardian
  It has the world’s finest modern art collection. But now the revered museum is rebalancing its walls – massively boosting work by women and artists of colour• MoMA unveils $450m expansionIn his Poetics, Aristotle argued that poetry was a more scientific and serious genre than history. This was because, he said, history is concerned only with individual and particular events. Poetry, on the other hand, is concerned with what might happen: that is, deep and general truths. In the
  
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• Artist Guan Wei floats on clouds of good fortune as MCA gets feng shui treatment

  16-10-2019 06:44 via Art | The Guardian
  The Museum of Contemporary Art’s exhibition of work by the Chinese Australian artist shows why he’s the master of traversing two culturesIt seems appropriate that a painting titled Feng Shui dominates the new exhibition of Guan Wei’s work at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA). He is the master of working and living between two cultures: the China of his birth and Australia, his home for most of the last three decades.A rhythmically moving ocean where creatures grea
  
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• Stefan Edlis, Towering Chicago Collector of Pop Masters and Contemporary Art, Is Dead at 94

  16-10-2019 01:21 via ARTnews
  With his wife Gael Neeson, he donated 44 key postwar works to the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015.Read More
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• At MCA Chicago, Captivating Collection Show Celebrates Blackness Through American History

  15-10-2019 21:07 via ARTnews
  Over the course of three different installations, 'Prisoner of Love' has offered key works by Arthur Jafa, Deana Lawson, Kerry James Marshall, and more. Read More
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• Little-Seen David Hockney Painting of Former Lover and Muse Goes to Auction at Christie’s, with $25 M.–$45 M. Estimate

  15-10-2019 20:00 via ARTnews
  The piece hasn't been seen by the public since 1973.Read More
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• Nam June Paik review – Move over Tim Berners-Lee, here's the real web prophet

  15-10-2019 18:53 via Art | The Guardian
  Tate Modern, London
  He built a garden of tellies, revelled in digital overload and foresaw the internet back in 1974. What a shame this revealing show smothers Paik in seriousnessThe first room says it all. By which I mean it shows you all the work by Nam June Paik you need to understand his contribution to modern art. There you will see, among other things, his masterpiece: TV Garden, an array of different-sized monitors embedded among greenery, their multicoloured screens blossoming like flowe
  
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• Nam June Paik review: move over Tim Berners-Lee, here's the real web prophet

  15-10-2019 18:53 via Art | The Guardian
  Tate Modern, London
  He built a garden of tellies, revelled in digital overload and foresaw the internet back in 1974. What a shame this revealing show smothers Paik in seriousnessThe first room says it all. By which I mean it shows you all the work by Nam June Paik you need to understand his contribution to modern art. There you will see, among other things, his masterpiece: TV Garden, an array of different-sized monitors embedded among greenery, their multicoloured screens blossoming like flowe
  
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• Salvador Dalí Work Swiped from San Francisco Gallery

  15-10-2019 17:27 via ARTnews
  The piece, 'Burning Giraffe' (1966) carried a price tag of $20,000. Read More
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• As Honolulu Biennial Grows, High-Profile Hirshhorn Museum Director Will Curate 2021 Edition

  15-10-2019 16:57 via ARTnews
  Melissa Chiu is an expert in Asian and Asian-American contemporary art, one of the biennial's focuses. Read More
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• Gauguin at the National Gallery review – portrait of a troubling talent

  15-10-2019 15:05 via Art | The Guardian
  This efficient documentary doesn’t shy away from the problems this post-impressionist star poses for art lovers todayThe National Gallery’s new exhibition, Gauguin Portraits, gets its own gallery film for anyone unable to get to London to see the thing. Opening with a brief introduction from National Gallery director Gabriele Finaldi, this does very much what it says on the tin: an hour-long profile of the painter, followed by a wander around the exhibition itself.Gauguin, of course,
  
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• Literary Critic Harold Bloom Dies, Brooklyn Museum Francis Bacon to Auction, and More: Morning Links from October 15, 2019

  15-10-2019 15:00 via ARTnews
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• Brooklyn Museum to Sell Francis Bacon Pope at Auction with $6 M. to $8 M. Estimate

  15-10-2019 14:14 via ARTnews
  The proceeds of the sale will go to benefit its collection. Read More
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• Brooklyn Museum to Sell $8 M. Francis Bacon Pope at Auction

  15-10-2019 14:14 via ARTnews
  The piece is estimate to sell between $6 million and $8 million at Sotheby's contemporary art evening auction on November 14, with all proceeds going to the Brooklyn Museum.Read More
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• John Giorno – the New York radical who broke art and poetry's boundaries

  15-10-2019 14:06 via Art | The Guardian
  Whether sleeping in a five-hour Warhol film, putting poetry over the phone or experimenting with augmented reality, the artist, who has died aged 82, refused to be confined by convention‘What do telephones, poetry and the Museum of Modern Art have in common?” read a press release issued by the New York institution on 21 July 1970. A question to which they might have added gay liberation, Aids activism, the aesthetics of advertising, Tibetan Buddhism and sleeping for Andy Warhol, and
  
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• Finally, A Biennial That Does Justice to Indigenous Narratives

  15-10-2019 14:01 via ARTnews
  The inaugural edition of the Toronto Biennial asks a lot of viewers but is well worth the effort. Read More
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• A Look Around the Inaugural Toronto Biennial

  15-10-2019 14:00 via ARTnews
  The exhibition runs through December 1.Read More
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• David LaChapelle's Lavazza 2020 calendar – in pictures

  15-10-2019 10:00 via Art | The Guardian
  The photographer best known for his surreal celebrity portraits has teamed up with Lavazza to create their 2020 calendar. Shot in Hawaii, his shoot is a hymn to the relationship between humankind and the natural word. Continue reading...
  
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• Buy a classic sport photograph: Kelly Holmes' eye-popping celebration

  15-10-2019 09:22 via Art | The Guardian
  The fifth of a new Guardian Print Shop series featuring classic sports images from the likes of Gerry Cranham, Mark Leech and Tom Jenkins – yours to own for just £55 including free delivery Those eyes! Having just crossed the line to win 800m gold at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, British athlete Kelly Holmes is pictured bursting into celebration. Part shock, part jubilation, her expression spoke volumes of her remarkable journey to success. Holmes’ career had been blighted by in
  
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• Gavin Turk: art's king of trash on plastic, protest, prison and canning his pee

  15-10-2019 07:00 via Art | The Guardian
  The former YBA once put a plaque up to himself – but these days he’s more likely to be getting locked up with Extinction Rebellion. He’s even recycling his urine‘I have a lot of piss,” says Gavin Turk. He’s going to need it. He shows me a drink can he’s made from silver bearing the label “artist’s piss” in several languages as we stand in his studio, fittingly located in Canning Town, London.Turk is planning to fill as many cans like th
  
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• From hated queen to 21st-century icon: Paris exhibition celebrates life of Marie-Antoinette

  15-10-2019 06:00 via Art | The Guardian
  Paris show includes treatment of woman France loved to hate in mangas, fashion and filmWhen Marie-Antoinette met a gruesome end at the guillotine 226 years ago this week, she was the most hated woman in France. As the horse-drawn cart carried the former queen, her blonde hair shorn and prematurely grey, through the streets of Paris to her execution in 1793, the crowds jostled to spit and hurl insults at her.She was 37, an Austrian-born “foreigner” accused of treason and of being aloo
  
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• Hundreds Ascend Metropolitan Museum of Art Stairs for Indigenous Peoples’ Day Protest

  15-10-2019 01:49 via ARTnews
  Decolonize This Place, which was involved in organizing the action, distributed a text that read, "No museum, no board member, no philanthropist, no member of the ruling class should feel safe right now." Read More
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• Aichi Triennale Artist Minouk Lim Speaks Out on Art World Censorship and How the Exhibition Could be ‘Reborn’

  14-10-2019 21:56 via ARTnews
  "There is vulnerability in truth, which is why we must protect it," the artist told ARTnews. Read More
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• ARTnews in Brief: Stephen Westfall Joins Alexandre, MoMA Wins Bessie Award—and More from October 16, 2019

  14-10-2019 21:06 via ARTnews
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• ARTnews in Brief: MoMA’s Judson Church Exhibition Wins Bessie Award for Dance and Performance—and More from October 15, 2019

  14-10-2019 21:06 via ARTnews
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• ARTnews in Brief: Gavlak Gallery Moves Los Angeles and Palm Beach Locations—and More from October 14, 2019

  14-10-2019 21:06 via ARTnews
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• Éric Baudelaire Wins Prix Marcel Duchamp, France’s Biggest Art Prize

  14-10-2019 20:30 via ARTnews
  He is only the second filmmaker ever to win the $38,600 award. Read More
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• Following Censorship Controversy at Aichi Triennale, Artists Discuss Why They Removed Their Work—and Then Reinstated It

  14-10-2019 19:46 via ARTnews
  Pedro Reyes said, "This edition of Aichi Triennale is perhaps the most political exhibition that has taken place in Japan in this century." Read More
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• Remembering John Giorno Through His Poetic Art

  14-10-2019 19:44 via ARTnews
  The poet and artist, who died last week, conceived of unforgettable phrases, and found new ways to circulate them. Read More
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• Richard Prince’s Marijuana Brand Secures Distribution Deal with MedMen, the ‘Apple Store’ of Pot

  14-10-2019 19:22 via ARTnews
  Four locations in Los Angeles will begin carrying the product, which features designs by the artist. Read More
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• An ‘accessible’ lunch can leave a bad taste | Brief letters

  14-10-2019 18:58 via Art | The Guardian
  Michelin star in Manchester | Flour power | Puddings | Female pre-Raphaelite artists | The F-word | Tripping over petsThat’s an interesting remark from your north of England correspondent in “Mana from heaven: The chef who finally brought a Michelin star to Manchester” (12 October): “At the moment he’s focused on opening for lunches mid-week. Charged at £65 per head, as opposed to the £105 evening tasting menu, it’s Mana’s bid to remain acces
  
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• Picasso Biographer John Richardson’s New York Manse Is Available for $7.2 M.: Look Inside

  14-10-2019 18:07 via ARTnews
  Works by Picasso, Warhol, and other luminaries fill the 5,400-square-foot loft.Read More
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• C.I.A. Officer Says She Posed as Art Dealer While Undercover in Shanghai

  14-10-2019 17:43 via ARTnews
  In former spy Amaryllis Fox's memoir, “Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the C.I.A.,” the young officer dealt art by day and dealt with arms dealers by night.Read More
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• John Giorno Dies, Uffizi Director Wins Contract Extension, and More: Morning Links from October 14, 2019

  14-10-2019 15:00 via ARTnews
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• 'Dress like your life depends on it': art's most glamorous and scandalous nightclubs

  14-10-2019 09:00 via Art | The Guardian
  Fuelled by booze and fleeing the humdrum, they dressed and danced like their lives depended on it. We celebrate the heyday of racy caverns crammed with art and attitudeThe Cave of the Golden Calf had such a scandalous reputation that a high society divorce case once cited the mere act of attendance as evidence of dubious character. The doorway to the notorious Mayfair club stood at the top of a steep set of steps and was illuminated by a single electric light bulb. A panel set in the wall showed
  
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• Martin Parr's 40 years in the life of Wales: 'Let's face it – people are funny'

  14-10-2019 07:00 via Art | The Guardian
  His ability to turn photos into odd mini-dramas has found its perfect subject: Wales. We talk mountains, beaches, mushy peas and Magnum with the great photographerWhat do Martin Parr’s photographs of Wales tell us about the country, its past, its present and its future? “Nothing much,” Parr replies in a deadpan voice when I pose the question. It’s not quite the response I was anticipating, given that he has been photographing the country for 40 years now and his best shot
  
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• Restored 19th-century ships' figureheads to go on display in Plymouth

  14-10-2019 01:01 via Art | The Guardian
  The 14 carvings will hang from the ceiling in arts venue The Box, due to open in the springA collection of 19th-century wooden figureheads from British naval warships has been lovingly restored from the ravages of years at sea and will form a striking display at a new heritage and arts complex in Plymouth.The 14 figureheads, some of which were so badly water-damaged that their insides had turned into a soggy mulch, are to be suspended from the ceiling of The Box gallery and museum, which is due
  
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• An Historian Says To Be Wary Of Written History

  13-10-2019 22:30 via ArtsJournal
  Why? “People say: history will exonerate me! But history never exonerates anyone. In fact, this makes me very wary about the role of written history – how unfair written history can be.” – Irish Times
  
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• How Did A Promise For A Less Eurocentric Nobel Prize In Literature Turn Into Two European Winners?

  13-10-2019 22:00 via ArtsJournal
  And that’s not even taking into account the genocide apologist stance of the man who won. This two-year award “decision fails to demonstrate the widened perspective that Olsson promised. Taking him at his word, it invites questions about how diligent their search can have been, how knowledgeable the jury, and indeed how global a literary prize the Nobel can claim to be.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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