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• The Rock Collector

  06-12-2014 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Hey kid. Can you stop for a minute?” “No. I’m supposed to get home by five. My mom is waiting for me.” “Just a second OK? I want you to throw a rock down here to me.” “There’s lots of rocks on the trail you are on down there. Why do you need one from ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• British artist to crush dead father's skull for new work exploring 'weird' relationship

  06-12-2014 18:26
  
  A British artist is planning to crush his dead father’s skull into powder and use it to create a 3D-printed replica of his own head.
  
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• Director of Development, Frost Art Museum

  06-12-2014 16:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Florida International University is recognized as a Carnegie engaged university. Its colleges and schools offer more than 180 bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs in fields such as engineering, international relations, architecture, law and medicine. As one of South Florida’s anchor institutions, FIU is Worlds Ahead in its local and global engagement, finding solutions to the […]
  
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• Matching up to Beethoven: How do today's composers answer the challenge of the classical giant?

  06-12-2014 13:00
  
  Between the ages of 27 and 33, Beethoven wrote nine of his 10 sonatas for piano and violin.
  
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• Shia LaBeouf collaborator: I don’t think you need a sign saying ‘Don’t murder the artist’

  06-12-2014 10:01
  
  When Shia LaBeouf said he was raped during an art exhibit, one question loomed: how was it possible? In their first interview since the news broke, his collaborators tell their side of the storyShia LaBeouf’s shock revelation last week that he was whipped, stripped and raped by a woman in Los Angeles on Valentine’s Day has become one of the most talked-about celebrity stories of the year. The confession was all the more extraordinary for the seemingly bizarre circumstances of the alleged ass
  
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• Do It Yourself culture: from music and art to theatre and film

  06-12-2014 09:00
  
  How technological and economic change has brought on a new wave of lo-fi creativity – a special reportWelcome to The Guide’s special issue taking the temperature of the UK’s do-it-yourself scenes; from music to film, art and theatre. From guerrilla art collectives, to lo-fi theatre groups and online collaborators they all have one thing in common: a passion for their form that sees them try to create their own rules. Scroll down for interviews, plus guides on how to set up your own DIY art
  
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• Latin American art has its day in the sun

  06-12-2014 09:00
  
  As US curators look south, collectors begin to take note
  
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• Seek and ye shall find

  06-12-2014 08:58
  
  Most dealers are playing it safe but there are surprises in store for the more intrepid collector
  
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• Aboriginal collection goes walkabout

  06-12-2014 08:57
  
  Works bought in Australia by Dennis and Debra Scholl will visit five US museums
  
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• Can satellite fairs give artists their first big break?

  06-12-2014 08:55
  
  It doesn’t happen every day, but a sharp-eyed curator’s visit could be a stepping stone to future success
  
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• ArtCenter South Florida's windfall will benefit local artists

  06-12-2014 08:54
  
  Residency programme will focus on artistic development
  
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• Another look at ‘The Responsive Eye’

  06-12-2014 08:54
  
  El Museo del Barrio to add a Latin American twist to important 1960s exhibition
  
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• Roll up, roll up for the magical art-history tour

  06-12-2014 08:48
  
  When the fair seems too much to handle alone, a guided tour could be the answer
  
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• Storm brewing over historic Miami homes

  06-12-2014 08:46
  
  Preservationists urge City to rein in developers’ desire to replace older properties with “McMansions”
  
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• Design age dawns for Latin America

  06-12-2014 08:44
  
  From Mexico to Chile, a new generation is combining traditional craftsmanship with contemporary ideas
  
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• Group therapy is the way to go

  06-12-2014 08:42
  
  Mexican artist Pedro Reyes's roaming clinic comes to Miami
  
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• Peter Marino: meet the architect

  06-12-2014 08:40
  
  From East Hampton gardens to Louis Vuitton purses, subtle doesn’t come into it
  
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• New season at the Warehouse

  06-12-2014 08:38
  Programme includes new acquisition by Mario Merz and a Miami debut for Brancusi
  
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• My Miami: Mark Handforth

  06-12-2014 08:34
  
  The sculptor reveals his favourite haunts
  
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• Art Basel Miami Beach 2014 – as it happened

  06-12-2014 07:03
  
  We’re at America’s biggest art fair, where artists, architects, collectors and celebrities hit Miami Beach to buy cutting-edge work by day – and go to parties by night 1.02am ET And with that it’s probably time to conclude this live blog. Art Basel Miami Beach has been an exhilarating, at times queasy, but always fascinating cocktail of art, ideas, partying and, of course, money. Out of all the above, of course, it’s the art that’s designed to endure and which has left the biggest im
  
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• Lee Miller’s War, Tom Dale & Julie Verhoeven: this week’s new exhibitions

  06-12-2014 07:00
  
  Lee Miller’s War | Fiona Banner Selects From The V-A-C Collection | William Morris and Andy Warhol | Tom Dale | Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse | Julie Verhoeven | Graeme Durant | 30 Years Of The FutureIn the next-door galleries, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff chart the atmosphere of dread that infected London at the end of the Blitz. Yet it’s Lee Miller’s photographs of the liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps that most powerfully prepare us fo
  
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• Jon Rafman Had a Great Virtual Reality Piece at NADA

  06-12-2014 06:15 via artnews.com
  Earlier this week, on the 11th floor of the Deauville hotel, home to the NADA art fair in Miami, Jon Rafman staged a pretty stunning new piece in room 1111. Junior Suite used the Oculus Rift virtual reality system to … Read More
  
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• Jon Rafman Had a Great Virtiual Reality Piece at NADA

  06-12-2014 06:15 via artnews.com
  Earlier this week, on the 11th floor of the Deauville hotel, home to the NADA art fair in Miami, Jon Rafman staged a pretty stunning new piece in room 1111. Junior Suite used the Oculus Rift virtual reality system to … Read More
  
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• Curtain Wall Cyclorama

  06-12-2014 01:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  the way she held onto the back of my belt while hugging me. They’d rather see us annihilated. she said. When one thing becomes two. we look for the straightest limbs of love. to put up houses & lay in the firewood & write inside of walls what we dare not say aloud. across the ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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