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• Anish Kapoor's 'Dirty Corner': Can vandalism ever add to an artwork?

  08-09-2015 20:33
  
  When it was discovered that Anish Kapoor's sculpture Dirty Corner, which has taken up residence in the garden of Paris's Palace of Versailles since June, had been vandalised with anti-Semitic graffiti on Sunday, France's Minister for Culture, Fleur Pellerin, made a special visit to the controversial 60m by 10m steel and rock creation to condemn the perpetrators.
  
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• ‘Concrete Cuba’ at David Zwirner, London

  08-09-2015 20:22 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Concrete Cuba” is currently on view at David Zwirner in London. The show highlights the origins of Concretism in Cuba during the 1950s, and features paintings and sculptures by … Read More
  
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• John Perreault, Noted Art Critic for The Village Voice and ARTnews, Dies at 78

  08-09-2015 19:31 via artnews.com
  John Perreault, who wrote sharp art criticism for ARTnews, Soho News, and The Village Voice, and who made art that often relied on strange materials, died on Saturday after having been briefly hospitalized with an illness. He was 78.Perreault is best-known … Read More
  
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• Met Will Deaccession English Furniture and Decorative Arts Holdings In Christie’s Auction

  08-09-2015 19:12 via artnews.com
  Christie’s announced on Tuesday an auction of works from the Metropolitan Museum’s collection of English furniture and decorative arts to benefit the Met’s acquisition fund in that department. The sale, which includes more than 200 lots, will take place October … Read More
  
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• Killed Deals, Crashing Markets, Flailing Flippers: What Does It All Mean? Kenny Schachter on the Summer Past and the Season Ahead

  08-09-2015 19:00 via artnews.com
  Kenny Schachter is a London-based art dealer, curator, and writer. The opinions expressed here are his own.Could we be in for a rough ride this fall in the high-flying, gravity-defying top end of the contemporary art market?That was the billion-dollar … Read More
  
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• Was Marcel Duchamp's 'Fountain' actually created by a long-forgotten pioneering feminist?

  08-09-2015 18:52
  
  In March 1917, the Philadelphia-based modernist painter George Biddle hired a 42-year-old German woman as a model. She visited him in his studio, and Biddle told her that he wished to see her naked. The model threw open her scarlet raincoat.
  
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• Being a Good Critic in a Bad World: Hal Foster and the Avant-Garde

  08-09-2015 18:30 via artnews.com
  The title of Hal Foster’s new book Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency is drawn from an oft-quoted maxim of Bertolt Brecht’s: “Don’t start with the good old days, but the bad new ones.” Contending that the last 25 years … Read More
  
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• A photographer is collecting photos lost on the internet from a time before selfies and filters

  08-09-2015 17:31
  
  We now live in a world where almost everyone is a photographer. Everyone knows the angles that work and the ones that don’t, how to look their best in a selfie and how to apply a filter that will give the picture a luxurious or vintage feel.
  
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• Anish Kapoor must reconsider – Dirty Corner should be cleaned | Jonathan Jones

  08-09-2015 17:08
  
  Public art often gets scarred by battles over its meaning or right to exist, but the vandals who daubed antisemitic graffiti on his sculpture are idiots who picked the wrong targetAnish Kapoor, it turns out, is not only a brilliant artist but a brave one. Faced with an antisemitic attack on his open-air sculpture Dirty Corner, he has chosen to defiantly leave the ugly, vicious daubings as they are, to let his art bear the scars of contemporary Europe’s darkest impulses: a dirty corner inde
  
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• The Syrian artist who superimposes Western masterpieces onto bombed buildings

  08-09-2015 16:48
  
  Syrian artist Tammam Azzam has found his own way of speaking out against the Syrian crisis. Using famous paintings from the Western world projected against bombed buildings, Azzam aims to “draw attention to the tragedy of Syria”.
  
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• Morning Links: Frank Stella Edition

  08-09-2015 14:47 via artnews.com
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• Skate’s Takes a Look at the ‘Masterpiece’ Market

  08-09-2015 14:30 via artnews.com
  In its Market Notes section, Skate’s offers a deep dive into its Top 10,000 list, which tracks the 10,000 highest auction prices on record. The big news, according to its calculations: over the first eight months of this year, the value … Read More
  
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• Anish Kapoor's 'queen's vagina' vandals and the rise of cultural fascism in France

  08-09-2015 11:44
  
  The ‘abominable’ antisemitic slogans graffitied on Kapoor’s sculpture linked to peak in support for the far-right Front National
  Even before Anish Kapoor’s installation at the Château de Versailles was vandalised this weekend for the second time there were concerns that France was in the grip of a wave of “cultural fascism”.
  The contemporary work – officially called Dirty Corner but nicknamed the queen’s vagina – had already been deface
  
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• Dismaland's a hit, but how are Banksy's New York works holding up?

  08-09-2015 11:00
  
  Two years ago, the street artist turned New York into a giant installation, to the frustration of the authorities. As Dismaland wows the UK, have any of the works that held the Big Apple spellbound survived?Deep in the Red Hook neighbourhood of Brooklyn, just two short blocks away from the Hudson river, stands a nondescript, single-storey industrial building with a large gaping hole on the side of it. Not that you’d notice the hole unless you knew what you were looking at. It has been fill
  
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• Anish Kapoor wants to keep anti-Semitic vandalism on 'Dirty Corner' sculpture, he thinks

  08-09-2015 10:19
  
  Anish Kapoor has said he would like to see the offensive graffiti used to vandalise his Versailles sculpture “Dirty Corner” remain.
  
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• Drawing in Silver and Gold review – a stupendously rich gathering of great art

  08-09-2015 09:00
  
  British Museum, London
  Some of the finest drawings in history were done using silverpoint. A new exhibition is proof that this artform is ingenious, magical – and will stop you in your tracksThe equivalent of an iPad drawing app in Reformation Germany was a leather-bound sketchpad with its pages coated in paste. A thin metal stylus fitted snugly into a clasp on the spine of the book. Using this stylus, you could draw delicate sketches wherever you happened to be.
  A surviving example of thi
  
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• Ai Weiwei on Beijing: 'It's a prison for freedom of speech' - video

  08-09-2015 08:30
  
  A Guardian Cities / Tate special series Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was exiled from Beijing for 18 years and remains under constant surveillance in the city. In the first of our exclusive new series with Tate, he allows cameras into the self-enclosed neighbourhood for artists he has created in Caochangdi – and reveals his playful techniques for carving out a space in ‘a city that doesn’t really belong to its residents’ Continue reading...
  
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• Ai Weiwei on Beijing: 'It's a prison for freedom of speech'

  08-09-2015 08:30
  
  A Guardian Cities / Tate special series Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was exiled from Beijing for 18 years and remains under constant surveillance in the city. In the first of our exclusive new series with Tate, he allows cameras into the self-enclosed neighbourhood for artists he has created in Caochangdi – and reveals his playful techniques for carving out a space in ‘a city that doesn’t really belong to its residents’ Continue reading...
  
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• Smile for Andy! Warhol's Polaroids of his famous friends – in pictures

  08-09-2015 08:00
  
  Warhol documented his whole life in Polaroids, taking more than 20,000 shots of the famous and fabulous. Here are a select few of Dolly, Divine, Basquiat, Burroughs – and a super-70s Audrey Hepburn having a cigarette break Continue reading...
  
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• Art, design and architecture: what to see in autumn 2015

  08-09-2015 07:00
  
  Ai Weiwei hits Britain, Turner goes to Glasgow, the Celts invade the British Museum – and Damien Hirst has a crack at curating with the opening of his own £25m galleryFrom the stately dome of the US Capitol in Washington DC to the rugged concrete columns of a recently built cowshed in Somerset, the influence of Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio persists across centuries and continents, his lasting legacy often found in the most unlikely places. Organised by the Royal Institute of
  
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