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• Allison Smith: Material Girl

  17-01-2015 17:15 via artnews.com
  Occupying a storefront in the Uptown section of downtown Oakland is a place called SMITHS. Sunlight seeps through the tall windows onto antique-looking jugs, teapots, baskets, and quilts, that are stacked on shelves along one wall, as if on display … Read More
  
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• LA Art Show 2015: 'There will be works of remarkable mediocrity'

  17-01-2015 14:00
  
  Major galleries and collectors are nowhere to be seen but despite its lack of cachet, the art fair is expanding thanks to an influx of Chinese galleriesWhether your tastes run to historic or contemporary art, LA Art Show 2015 has something for everybody. That’s certainly good for art collectors who can get their hands on a piece for considerably less than they might pay in a gallery, but some sellers at the fair feel sullied by the company they find themselves in.
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• Cotton to Gold: The riveting new show that mines the art riches of industrialists

  17-01-2015 13:00
  
  The loom that presides over the first room of Cotton to Gold, a revelatory new show opening in London at the end of the month, fashioned more than premium fabric: its relentless mechanism drove a passion for collecting whose legacy is enjoyed to this day. Prospering principally from the textile industry, discerning 19th-century gentlemen entrepreneurs of the North-west ploughed their new wealth into the acquisition of fine things, from books to glass, prints, watercolours, ancient coins, natu
  
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• PJ Harvey, John Akomfrah, Grace Schwindt: this week’s new exhibitions

  17-01-2015 07:00
  
  From PJ Harvey’s performance art in London to Grace Schwindt’s video installation in Sheffield, Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark find out what’s happening in art around the countryAdam Dant’s ink on paper drawings craft alternative realities that rival Tolkien for imaginative world-building. Although they often resemble fantastical antique maps or pamphlet pages from bygone eras, the crazy universe they conjure is rooted in our own. His latest show, The Budge Row Bibliotheque, takes a psych
  
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