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Untitled(The energy doesn’t feel right)

14-03-2015 23:25 via feedproxy.google.com

I pretend I’m not there to meet Sabrina. She has black nicotine teeth. Have you read the ethical slut, Sabrina said. I think all women have the right to be lazy, I said. Sabrina felt that when she finished one relationship she found herself in another one. She wanted to be with many people at ... Continue Reading

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Charting the Reach of E-Commerce Art Sites

14-03-2015 15:00 via artnews.com

Selling art online is a booming business. The just-released annual TEFAF report put 2014 online sales at about €3.3 billion ($3.5 billion), which represents 6 percent of the total art market. That was a solid jump from its 2013 estimate of €2.5 billion ($2.62 billion). … Read More

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Alexander McQueen, Idiot Box, Format 15: this week’s new exhibitions

14-03-2015 10:00

From an Alexander McQueen retrospective in London to the Format 15 photography festival in Derby, Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark find out what’s happening in art around the countryAlthough a maestro of traditional tailoring, Alexander McQueen dedicated his life to challenging the fashion norm. The designer’s career survey, Savage Beauty – one of New York’s Metropolitan Museum Of Art’s most-visited shows ever, now getting an eagerly awaited five-month run in London – demonstrates his r

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Why I plant pansies at scenes of homophobic abuse

14-03-2015 07:30

Artist Paul Harfleet’s family had always accepted his sexuality, but it was a different story outside the home – like many young gay people, he often faced abuse. Now he’s created the Pansy Project as a way to deal with the bad memories in a positive wayFrom an early age, Paul Harfleet knew he was different. He spoke in a very particular way, he looked like a girl and he was perceptive enough to realise that his little peculiarities set him apart from everyone else. “I was just very

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Helen Sear, artist: 'I am trying to slow down the instantaneousness of the camera'

14-03-2015 01:00

Helen Sear lives and works in Wales, and will be the first female artist to represent Wales in the forthcoming Venice Biennale. She has been in her current studio, a large shed, for the past six years. Today it is hung with the photographs that form most of her practice, although there is also a sculpture, one of several that will appear in Venice. It is in a "rural industrial estate" near to the village where she and husband have bought a former shop, transforming it into a comfortable home

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