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• Consumer Reports: Juliana Huxtable

  03-09-2015 20:45 via artnews.com
  Juliana Huxtable is a New York-based poet, artist, model, and DJ. In her work, Huxtable explores the mutating nature of identity, utilizing race, gender and queerness as mediums to explore post-identity politics. Huxtable was included in the 2015 New Museum … Read More
  
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• Performa and Lafayette Anticipation to Launch Partnership At 2015 Biennial

  03-09-2015 20:00 via artnews.com
  Today, Performa announced a new partnership with the Paris-based arts organization Lafayette Anticipation, Fondation Galeries Lafayette, which will begin with Performa’s 2015 biennial this November.Founded in 2013, Lafayette Anticipation is known for generating new works by contemporary artists, with a special emphasis … Read More
  
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• Habitat: Barnaby Furnas

  03-09-2015 19:48 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Barnaby Furnas, Chelsea, New York. “Technically my paintings are made more like watercolors than anything else,” Barnaby Furnas said about his process during a recent visit to his studio, as … Read More
  
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• Activists plan oil protest at British Museum

  03-09-2015 19:40
  
  Art Not Oil coalition to use stunts and flashmob to shine spotlight on £10m BP sponsorship deal with arts organisationsCampaigners against oil firms sponsoring UK arts groups are to stage an all-day protest festival at the British Museum in what they claim will be their most ambitious intervention to date.More than a dozen campaign groups are expected to converge on the museum on 13 September for “stunts, performances and creative interventions”. Continue reading...
  
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• There Is Now A Skate Park At The Kennedy Center

  03-09-2015 19:06 via artnews.com
  The Washingtonian reported this week that for the upcoming exhibition “Finding a Line: Skateboarding, Music, and Media,” The Kennedy Center will be installing a full-on skate park (a bowl, small ramps, and skateable fixtures) on its front plaza.The show–which runs from … Read More
  
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• Unseen MC Escher sketch goes on public display for first time

  03-09-2015 18:18
  
  Previously unknown work by Dutch artist famous for his optical illusions depicts the town of Montecelio near RomeA rare, previously unknown work by the Dutch graphic artist MC Escher has gone on display in The Hague after being acquired by the Escher Museum from the artist’s family.The sketch of Montecelio, about 12 miles outside Rome, shows the town’s buildings cluttering the hillside, topped by the ruins of a Roman fort dating from 998. Related: Twisted logic: the enigmatic world o
  
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• ‘Niele Toroni’ at Swiss Institute

  03-09-2015 18:08 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Niele Toroni” is currently on view at the Swiss Institute in New York. The exhibition spans almost five decades of the swiss painter’s work and is on view until … Read More
  
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• All about my mother: the most Freudian exhibition ever

  03-09-2015 17:33
  
  Jennifer Rubell is forcing gallery-goers to fondle fake glass babies, smash eggs, and disrobe to watch her riding a horse in the nude. Here, she explains why she wants to make people feel vulnerableStanding in the middle of a gallery, holding a glass baby, I can practically hear my hands sweat. I’m rocking gently from foot to foot, staring into the perfect, breakable face of a sleeping son, terrified I’m going to smash him on the floor like an egg.Not Alone is the latest show by the
  
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• Glenn Brown, painter and sculptor: 'Sculpture has to operate in its own right - it cannot be slavish to its sources'

  03-09-2015 17:00
  
  Glenn Brown has been in his studio near Old Street roundabout in east London for five years. A large modern space with top lighting, it is filled with signs of industriousness. In the hallway are armatures for the new sculptures he is working on and a suite of soon-to-be-shown drawings are ranged on the wall.
  
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• Photographer captures the beauty and intensity of his girlfriend giving birth at home

  03-09-2015 16:47
  
  Brazilian photographer Gustavo Gomes decided to document the arrival of his daughter Violeta right from the positive pregnancy test, and he didn't stop when girlfriend Priscila Bochi went into labour, resulting in some stunning photos.
  
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• Stars on the stand: courtroom art from notorious celebrity cases – in pictures

  03-09-2015 16:30
  
  What links OJ Simpson, Amy Winehouse, Woody Allen, Courtney Love and Mick Jagger? They’ve all been in the dock. Here, world-renowned court artists capture them giving evidence, high-kicking – and dashing water over lawyersCourtroom Art is out now, published by Portico
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• Prom 60, Royal Albert Hall, review: Jeremy Denk and the San Francisco Symphony brilliantly revive Henry Cowell

  03-09-2015 15:17
  
  Yet another coup for Proms director Edward Blakeman: composed in 1928, but only now getting its first Proms airing, Henry Cowell’s Piano Concerto proved a revelation. It’s hard to overestimate the importance of this American composer, who widely-imitated invention of note-clusters was only one of many ways in which he broke new ground and gathered distinguished disciples: John Cage, who was one of the latter, called him ‘the open sesame for new music in America’.
  
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• Prom 57, Royal Albert Hall, review: Maria Joao Pires plays magical Mozart

  03-09-2015 15:09
  
  Six of Mozart’s piano concertos are being performed at the Proms this year, and despite their seeming simplicity they really do sort out the men (and women) from the boys.
  
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• Morning Links: Assassin’s Creed II Edition

  03-09-2015 14:33 via artnews.com
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• Prom 61, Royal Albert Hall, review: A phenomenal performance by Yuja Wang

  03-09-2015 14:02
  
  Yuja Wang always makes a theatrical entrance, and this time in a spangled Marilyn Monroe ball-dress, but the moment she launched into the maelstrom of octave runs which begin Bartok’s Piano Concerto No 2 she was in her element.
  
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• $100 M. Modigliani Will Lead ‘Artist’s Muse’ Sale at Christie’s

  03-09-2015 13:59 via artnews.com
  Christie’s auction house in New York will be selling Amedeo Modigliani’s Nu couché (Reclining Nude) at a special evening sale of 20th century art on Monday, November 9, organized around the theme of “The Artist’s Muse.” The auction will kick off … Read More
  
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• Ai Weiwei gives first public talk since 2011 – and becomes a selfie Santa Claus

  03-09-2015 13:52
  
  The dissident Chinese artist wades in on the migration crisis, state censorship and dropping his drawers on Instagram at the Berlin literature festival, his first public appearance since his detentionThe first thing Chinese artist Ai Weiwei did as he stepped on stage last night at the Berlin Philharmonic was take a picture. Before him stood an audience of hundreds roaring with applause as a scrum of photographers snapped shutters like machine guns.In blue cotton trousers, a button-up olive green
  
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• Prom 63, Royal Albert Hall, review: A spiritedly and idiomatically delivered performance

  03-09-2015 13:39
  
  Mozart’s piano concertos have such a limpid simplicity that one is constantly surprised at the number of ways in which they can be got right - or very wrong. And with eight pianists playing eight of them in this year’s Proms, we’ve visited both ends of that spectrum.
  
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• Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency by Hal Foster review – what's new in the art world?

  03-09-2015 09:30
  
  What has come after postmodern irony? And who decides if it’s any good? This is a deft study of ideas in art over the past few decadesTwenty years ago this summer, some friends and I decided to invent, or at least christen, a new artistic movement. We planned a conference on “Patheticism” and announced an eclectic lineage: Melville’s Bartleby, Ruskin’s “pathetic fallacy”, lo-fi music and the slacker ethos. Postmodern irony was over, we declared, and henc
  
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