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• Cafe Society

  28-02-2015 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An aged Andy Gibb look-a-like sat at the table next to me, facing my direction. Shoulder length blonde hair, both the color and texture of rope, and a gray beard. His white linen shirt was unbuttoned deeply enough to display on his chest a large smooth rock hanging from the leather string around his neck. ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Which International Art Fairs Have the Largest Attendance?

  28-02-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  Recently The New York Times cited Skate’s Art Market Research in an article on the slowdown in the growth of art fairs worldwide. In an analysis of attendance figures, Skate’s found “that 1,032,792 people attended the world’s top 20 art … Read More
  
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• Which International Art Fairs Have the Highest Attendance?

  28-02-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  Recently The New York Times cited Skate’s Art Market Research in an article on the slowdown in the growth of art fairs worldwide. In an analysis of attendance figures, Skate’s found “that 1,032,792 people attended the world’s top 20 art … Read More
  
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• Food for thought: Daphne Guinness

  28-02-2015 13:00
  The artist and fashion authority is among those supporting the charity initiative Fifty Children – Fifty Artists by producing a portrait of a young person living in Tower Hamlets in order to raise awareness of child poverty within the east London borough.
  
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• Rory Pilgrim, Inventing Impressionism: this week’s new exhibitions

  28-02-2015 10:00
  
  From Rory Pilgrim’s Platform residency in Sheffield to the National Gallery’s impressionism showcase in London, Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark find out what’s happening in art around the countryAs part of the gallery’s Platform residency programme of work-in-progress exhibitions, Rory Pilgrim is setting up an arena for the sharing of cultural memories and creative ideas between generations. Not one to dabble willingly in the shallows, Pilgrim intends to congregate a council of locally bas
  
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• Artists’ subtle critique of power opens at New York University’s Abu Dhabi outpost

  28-02-2015 09:30
  
  The collective Slavs and Tatars ends a three-month residency at Saadiyat Island with an exhibition on princely grooming
  
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• Richard Diebenkorn and the colours of California

  28-02-2015 09:00
  
  Diebenkorn was both a figurative and abstract painter, but whichever label he wore he captured the tension beneath calm. Ahead of a major retrospective at the Royal Academy, Olivia Laing discovers his luminous canvasesIn 1959, a telling photograph was taken of Richard Diebenkorn, one of the greatest and most doggedly independent American painters of the 20th century, and certainly the best still to remain practically unknown in the UK, though a retrospective at the Royal Academy is likely t
  
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