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• San Francisco Chronicle Hires A New Art Critic

  10-09-2015 23:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  During a 40-year career in the arts, Charles Desmarais, 66, has been a curator, museum director, writer and art school president. When he joins The Chronicle in November, he will succeed Kenneth Baker, who retired last spring after 30 years as the Chronicle critic.
  
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• Poet Claudia Rankine says next book will be on culture of cancer

  10-09-2015 22:55
  
  Rankine, who has influenced Black Lives Matter, talked with artist Carrie Mae Weems about race, bodies and how surviving cancer inspired her latest workOn the courts of the US Open in Queens on Tuesday, crowds were riveted as Serena Williams played (and won) against her sister Venus. The following night in Midtown Manhattan saw another, quieter example of “black excellence”: a conversation between Carrie Mae Weems, a 2013 MacArthur fellowship recipient, and the poet Claudia Rankine,
  
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• Habitat: Natalie Frank

  10-09-2015 21:54 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Natalie Frank, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. “As a high schooler in Texas, I got in trouble for bringing nude studies of men into the classroom,” Frank told me when I … Read More
  
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• ‘Emily Mae Smith: Medusa’ at Laurel Gitlen

  10-09-2015 19:02 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: Emily Mae Smith: Medusa is currently on view at Laurel Gitlen. With an underlying feminist critique, Smith’s meticulously crafted oil paintings feature narratives of screwball humor and violence. … Read More
  
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• Timothy Taylor Now Represents Shezad Dawood and Gabriel de la Mora

  10-09-2015 18:50 via artnews.com
  Today, London-based gallery Timothy Taylor announced its representation of Shezad Dawood and Gabriel de la Mora. The two artists will join a roster that includes Alex Katz, Josephine Meckseper, and Kiki Smith.Dawood is known for his film-based work, which often engages with … Read More
  
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• Prom 70, Royal Albert Hall, review: Nikolai Lugansky shines in Rach 2

  10-09-2015 17:51
  
  Nikolai Lugansky was the first of the young Russian pianists to make his mark in the West after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and his dependably excellent performances of the Romantic concertos have made him a Proms favourite. This time, as soloist in Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor with the St Petersburg Philharmonic under Yuri Temirkanov’s direction, he was in every sense on home ground, and things felt right from the start.
  
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• The world’s largest hammock looks like a nice place to be

  10-09-2015 17:36
  
  The Guinness World Record for the World’s Largest Hammock (yes, it exists) was broken this week, with a 65-footer being erected in New Jersey.
  
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• Denis Gardarin Gallery Will Stage Two Joseph La Piana Shows in Red Hook, Brooklyn

  10-09-2015 17:00 via artnews.com
  Chelsea art dealer Denis Gardarin announced today that he is working with artist Joseph La Piana on two new projects, both of which will open on September 25 in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood. The first, located inside La Piana’s 4,000-square-foot studio there, will be … Read More
  
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• David Noonan, artist: 'I think of pictures as being a dialogue between figuration and abstraction'

  10-09-2015 17:00
  
  When I arrive at David Noonan's studio in Homerton, east London, I enter into a quietly domestic scene. Noonan introduces me to his two assistants, Pat and Dave, both artists themselves, who are quietly engaged with finishing a large work about to leave the studio for his imminent show.
  
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• Anish Kapoor sued for leaving racist graffiti on his 'queen's vagina' sculpture at Versailles

  10-09-2015 16:09
  
  The controversial sculpture, which has been repeatedly vandalised, could land the artist in court for inciting racial hatredBritish artist Anish Kapoor announced at a press conference on Wednesday that a Versailles politician is taking him to court for choosing to display antisemitic information on his sculpture Dirty Corner. “I think it’s a wonderful reversal; I’ll see him in court,” said Kapoor. “It shows how insane the whole thing is.” Related: Anish Kapoor
  
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• Old Guys Painting: David Salle on the Mature Painter’s Letting Go

  10-09-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  Painting is one of the few things in life for which youth holds no advantage. The diminutions wrought by aging—of muscle mass, stamina, hearing, mental agility (the list goes on)—are offset among painters by fearlessness, finely honed technique, and heightened … Read More
  
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• Granite head of Lenin unearthed for new Berlin exhibition

  10-09-2015 15:44
  
  3.5-tonne piece, long buried and mostly forgotten in a forest on the edge of the city, will feature in exhibition of key figures from German history A quarter of a century after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Lenin has made a comeback of sorts, after authorities unearthed a granite head of the Russian revolutionary to haul it across the German capital. The 3.5-tonne piece, long buried and half forgotten in a forest on the edge of the city, will become a highlight of a new museum exhibit of key fig
  
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• Irma Stern ‘masterpiece’ used as kitchen notice board sells for nearly £1 million

  10-09-2015 14:57
  
  A “masterpiece” by Irma Stern found being used as a kitchen pin board has sold at auction for nearly a million pounds.
  
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• Morning Links: David Adjaye Edition

  10-09-2015 14:51 via artnews.com
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• Life's a drug: why pharmaceutical art is so addictive

  10-09-2015 14:10
  
  Machine-guns made of painkillers, ecstasy pill murals ... artists from Damien Hirst to Chemical X make pharma art to expose our numb, drug-addled ageWe live in a chemical world, where everything from pain to pleasure to survival itself can be shaped by legal and illegal drugs. Many people live on a daily cocktail of prescribed pharmaceuticals, and many more take unprescribed ones at the weekend. No wonder so many artists make pharma art. Life in the west is no longer raw even at the rawest times
  
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• This is a flat 2D painting on canvas

  10-09-2015 13:08
  
  No seriously. Those aren’t folds and creases. There is no paper or tape. Nothing tangible to hold.
  
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• Ai Weiwei webchat – post your questions now

  10-09-2015 10:58
  
  The controversial Chinese artist is joining us to answer your questions in live webchat from noon BST onwards on Friday 11 September – post yours in the comments below 9.58am BSTFrom his vast sea of sunflower seeds in Tate Modern, to his vision for the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing, Ai Weiwei’s art is arresting in its scale, moving in its humanity, witty in its iconoclasm – and strident in its politics.His art and campaigns – including the naming of students killed
  
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• The man in the digital mask

  10-09-2015 08:00
  
  Artist Bill Shannon explores the gap between the artificial and what is realIf you think this looks like a 3D version of a Picasso, then you’re not far off. Inspired by the abstract ideas of cubism, artist Bill Shannon created the digital headgear to explore the disconnect between our real and digital selves.Acting as a “digital face in front of the face”, the mask projects pre-recorded footage of Shannon in different emotional states from an iPod app on to the screens, which a
  
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• 'We are Gilbert & George': artist duo to visit Mona for first Australian show

  10-09-2015 03:08
  
  Retrospective spanning five decades of artists’ pictures from 1970 to 2014 will go on display at Hobart museum from 28 November Gilbert & George, partners in art, life, fine tailoring and Turkish cuisine, will visit Australia in November for a major retrospective of their work at the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Tasmania.“We are Gilbert & George,” declared the email and video which dropped into art lovers’ inboxes on Thursday morning direct from the duo th
  
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