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• Lord Charles March on His ‘Very English’ Abstract Photographs

  20-01-2015 22:47 via artnews.com
  In February, Charles March, the photographer and Earl of March and Kinrara, will host shows of his abstract works at both Hamiltons gallery in London and Venus Over Manhattan in New York, the latter of which opens tomorrow. The works … Read More
  
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• Always Crashing in the Same Car: Ron Arad on His Upcoming Show at Paul Kasmin

  20-01-2015 22:32 via artnews.com
  This February, the Israeli architect, artist, and designer Ron Arad will join New York’s Paul Kasmin Gallery with a debut exhibition that will showcase his riffs on the Fiat 500. After 10 years at Friedman Benda, Arad came to Kasmin looking … Read More
  
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• Supreme Court rejects Norton Simon’s appeal in looted art case

  20-01-2015 22:27
  
  Goudstikker heir can pursue her seven-year claim on Cranach’s Adam and Eve
  
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• Respond: artists offer bold, urgent take on #blacklivesmatter

  20-01-2015 22:00
  
  A gallery in New York invited artists to respond to issues of racism and police brutality in the wake of the Eric Garner case. We spoke to 11 of them“My bone to pick with the art world” says artist Joseph DeLappe, “is that it’s too slow to respond to anything.” He’s right: the New York art world in particular isn’t known for being especially responsive to current events, especially not when regarding the concerns of black folks.
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• Rubens and His Legacy: crass analogies, bad ideas – and barely any Rubens

  20-01-2015 19:50
  
  Rubens was so great he managed to invent nudes, portraits, rainbows and even Jesus Christ – or so the Royal Academy would have us believe in its sloppy and simplistic new exhibition, Rubens and His LegacyThe irritation started when I entered the first room of the Royal Academy’s much-touted epic exhibition Rubens and His Legacy and my eyes fell on a painting by John Constable. It is hard to think of a painter who has less in common with Rubens. But the curators have spotted one connection I
  
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• Father Figures: Visiting William N. Copley’s Drawings Exhibition With the Artist’s Son

  20-01-2015 19:38 via artnews.com
  Where do you begin with William N. Copley? There are almost too many good stories about the artist, collector, art dealer, patron, and all-around gadabout, whose life cut a wild path through some of the most intriguing moments in postwar art … Read More
  
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• Chapter NY on the Lower East Side Moving to Full-Time Schedule

  20-01-2015 19:23 via artnews.com
  Chapter NY has been run on a part-time basis for the last year and a half by Nicole Russo, a director at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, who kept the gallery open on a weekend-only schedule. Today, Russo announced that she’s left … Read More
  
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• Wildenstein and Qatar Battle Over Aborted New York Art Palace Sale

  20-01-2015 18:07 via artnews.com
  Before finalizing a $90-million contract to buy Wildenstein & Company’s palatial New York headquarters last year, Qatari diplomats tried it on for size, hosting a lavish party inside the stately gallery where the art-dealing dynasty had long exhibited its treasures. … Read More
  
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• Skate’s Releases 2014 Art Fairs Report

  20-01-2015 18:00 via artnews.com
  Art market analysis service Skate’s released its 2014 Art Fairs Report, which “focuses on the world’s major art fairs and their operators, aggregated statistics for the world’s most important art fairs and various subsets of data.” This year’s report found … Read More
  
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• Sotheby’s to sell rare double self-portrait by Francis Bacon

  20-01-2015 17:57
  
  Bleak portrayal of artist in depths of despair set to be highlight of next month’s auction, with estimate of £13m-£18mOne of the most startlingly bleak self-portraits of the last century, in which a self-loathing Francis Bacon depicts himself in the deepest pits of despair, is to be a highlight of next month’s big-money London auction sales.Sotheby’s has announced it is to sell a rare double self-portrait by an artist whose work last year set a new world record price for art at auction.
  
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• Here’s the 2015 Volta NY Exhibitor List

  20-01-2015 17:25 via artnews.com
  The Volta NY fair will kick off its eighth edition on March 5 in a new location—Pier 90 in Hell’s Kitchen, next door to its sister fair, The Armory Show. This year’s Volta NY will bring 90 galleries to Pier … Read More
  
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• Just In: This Year’s National Book Critics Circle Awards Nominees

  20-01-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For the first time in the 39-year history of the awards, one book is a finalist in two different categories.”
  
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• Pakistan’s Cross-Dressing Dancers – “Safe” Gender Exploration In A Conservative Culture

  20-01-2015 16:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Male and female roles are clearly defined in Pakistan, and transgender people often face harassment and abuse. One role where they are tolerated is as dancers at weddings and other celebrations at which men and women are strictly segregated. In between the dancing and showers of rupee notes, they must fend off groping from drunken […]
  
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• 2014 Was A Record Year For Art Auctions

  20-01-2015 16:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Christie’s has maintained its $800m lead at auction over Sotheby’s in 2014, as both houses reported record nominal sales for 2014.”
  
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• German art consultant ordered to pay €19m damages

  20-01-2015 16:18
  
  Helge Achenbach levied “surcharge” on art and vintage cars sold to Aldi supermarket heir, Düsseldorf court decides
  
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• 'My bod is yours': artist plans to tattoo herself all over with strangers' names

  20-01-2015 16:07
  
  Your signature on a work of art? Illma Gore will charge as little as $10 via crowdfunding sites to create an ‘absurd, beautiful’ artwork all over her skinLast week, Illma Gore, a Brisbane-based street artist, launched an online campaign to tattoo her body from top to toe with names crowdsourced on Kickstarter. For as little as $10, the public can pledge any name or message they like – and it will be etched eternally on her skin. Tattoo Me was inexplicably suspended by the crowdfunding plat
  
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• Telling Stories in Three Dimensions: Installation Art Today

  20-01-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  Once upon a time, storytelling was the most ambitious mission of painting. Panel by panel, Renaissance artists told the lives of Christ and the saints on the walls of churches. Michelangelo presented the sweeping drama of the Old and New … Read More
  
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• Tate Britain to host first major exhibition of Barbara Hepworth in 50 years

  20-01-2015 15:14
  
  Tate Britain curators hailed the “age of Google” after their online research tracked down a “handful” of works believed lost for the first major exhibition on Barbara Hepworth, dubbed “one of Britain’s greatest artists,” in London for five decades.
  
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• Tate Britain to host first major exhibition of Barbara Hepworth

  20-01-2015 15:14
  
  Tate Britain curators hailed the “age of Google” after their online research tracked down a “handful” of works believed lost for the first major exhibition on Barbara Hepworth, dubbed “one of Britain’s greatest artists,” in London for five decades.
  
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• Morning Links: Barbara Hepworth Edition

  20-01-2015 14:40 via artnews.com
  Artist and activist Emma Sulkowicz, whose performance carrying a mattress at Columbia University, in response to her alleged rapist not being expelled, garnered national attention, will attend the State of the Union as the guest of New York Senator Kirsten … Read More
  
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• Abu Dhabi’s wish-list from the British Museum grows

  20-01-2015 14:14
  Loans could number several hundred and go to the Gulf for extended stays
  
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• Barred from his own UK exhibition: Syrian artist denied visa

  20-01-2015 13:06
  
  A prominent Syrian artist has been refused a visa to travel to Britain for the opening of a major exhibition of his works in London.
  
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• Guggenheim's new curator has Abu Dhabi satellite and 'crisis in thinking' in mind

  20-01-2015 12:01
  
  Works acquired under Sara Raza’s residency are due to travel to the Middle East and North Africa
  
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• Untitled (I love the togetherness, but I need privacy and I despise chores).

  20-01-2015 08:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Two men with pony tails head the meeting. A caustic woman and a woman with a wide ass remain silent. They have called a meeting for communal living. They will meet again next week at four. I think about what it would be like for a person like myself to be part of a commune. ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Guess what? 2014 was a record year at auction

  20-01-2015 08:00
  
  Christie’s on top again as contemporary art takes the biggest share—but Asia sales fall
  
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• Mofo festival 2015: the hits and misses

  20-01-2015 05:14
  
  From the debauchery of Faux Mo to a Syrian wedding singer turned electro superstar, the Guardian Australia team pick their festival highs and lowsHobart’s seventh Mona Foma (Mofo) festival ended, at least for me, around 2am on an arctic Monday morning in the Odeon theatre at one of the festival’s now legendary Faux Mo parties. Occupying an enormous block every night of the festival, the parties appear to be designed by and for someone on LSD. Entering through a slit in some fabric, it felt l
  
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• Snow White Rising: The Hunter

  20-01-2015 04:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
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