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• Papunya's daughters: Australia's second generation of master dot painters

  14-09-2015 22:29
  
  The tiny Aboriginal settlement of Papunya was the birthplace of dot painting. Now daughters and granddaughters of past artists fuel an artistic renaissanceDotted masterpieces from Papunya – in picturesIn the remote Northern Territory community of Papunya, Punata Stockman Nungarrayi, 59, grew up watching her dad paint. Her father was Kumuntjayi Stockman Tjapaltjarri and, until his death in early September, one of the last remaining first-wave figures of the Papunya-style of art – more
  
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• Dotted masterpieces from the tiny Aboriginal town of Papunya – in pictures

  14-09-2015 22:28
  
  In the 1970s a striking new art style, popularly known as dot painting, emerged from the remote Aboriginal community of Papunya. It was spearheaded by a small group of male artists, including Clifford Possum and Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri. Now a new exhibition celebrates the second wave of Papunya artists, predominantly the daughters and granddaughters of the originals, who inherited both the stories and skills of their fathersPapunya’s daughters lead a second generation of master dot painters
  
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• Sarah Crowner Is Now Represented By Simon Lee Gallery

  14-09-2015 21:21 via artnews.com
  Simon Lee Gallery announced today that it now represents Sarah Crowner in London and Hong Kong. Her work is currently featured in a group exhibition, “Faux Amis,” on view at Simon Lee’s London location until October 7. Crowner is represented … Read More
  
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• Jeffrey Deitch on His Grand Return to His Storied SoHo Space

  14-09-2015 21:06 via artnews.com
  On a recent evening in SoHo, there was no block party outside of 76 Grand Street. There was no performance ambling down the adjacent corridor. There was just a name on the door, Jeffrey Deitch.This was the original location of … Read More
  
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• Here’s a Work That Maya Angelou Painted

  14-09-2015 20:53 via artnews.com
  Pretty incredible painting. It’s titled The Protector of Home and Family, dated 1969, and shows a woman holding a shotgun. Swann Galleries in New York is billing the piece as the “first known visual art work by Dr. Maya Angelou … Read More
  
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• Invitation to a Voyage: On Sylvia Sleigh’s Other Portrait of the Late Art Critic John Perreault

  14-09-2015 20:10 via artnews.com
  Earlier this month, the perspicacious art critic and artist John Perreault died at the age of 78. Perreault was the Village Voice’s critic from 1966 to 1974, writing about the most adventurous art of the time in a style that was … Read More
  
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• Ai Weiwei review – momentous and moving

  14-09-2015 19:28
  
  If there were any who doubted Ai Weiwei’s work matched his reputation, this rollercoaster of a show – racing between his time in jail, the Sichuan earthquake and 3,000 crabs – should silence them Three-thousand porcelain river crabs clamber over one another in a great red, green and white sprawl of twitching legs and claws. Porcelain sunflower seeds are one thing, crabs another. Good thing they’re not quite real.This is but one small moment in the largest show Ai Weiwei h
  
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• Ai Weiwei, Royal Academy, review: A coherent and beautifully installed exhibition

  14-09-2015 19:09
  
  Ai Weiwei’s exhibition at the Royal Academy acts as a double celebration. It honours the recent return of his passport (seized by the Chinese government in 2011), and his ability to travel. And it gives the British public a long overdue opportunity to see a major exhibition of arguably the best known contemporary Chinese artist. This is a coherent and beautifully installed exhibition. It will give the viewer a chance to analyze this extraordinary artist in both his “activist” m
  
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• The World Goes Pop at Tate Modern: How pop art was used as dissent

  14-09-2015 18:06
  
  In his 1975 autobiography Andy Warhol wrote: "The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet." Perhaps he was being ironic, which is worse.
  
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• ‘Gordon Matta-Clark: Energy & Abstraction’ at David Zwirner

  14-09-2015 17:45 via artnews.com
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• Tate Modern highlights pop art by women ignored by sexist establishment

  14-09-2015 17:38
  
  Many of the works overlooked in the 1960s and 70s will be seen in public for the first time when they go on display in LondonWork by female artists from the 1960s and 70s that was marginalised and ignored by a sexist art establishment is finally getting recognition in a major pop art show at Tate Modern.“It’s never too late,” said Jessica Morgan, curator of the World Goes Pop exhibition, explaining how she and her fellow curators spent five years uncovering the hidden stories f
  
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• Exile, arrest and torture: why Brazil's pop artists risked everything

  14-09-2015 16:23
  
  Forget Warhol’s electric chairs: Brazilian pop artists in the 60s showed the most extreme violence – and they fought the dictatorship’s tightening grip when the stakes could not have been higherThe banner is stark – a silkscreen of a corpse, and beneath it just four words. Seja marginal, seja herói, it reads in Portuguese: “Be an outlaw, be a hero.” Hélio Oiticica’s 1967 work of a bank robber who committed suicide before the police could ap
  
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• Taylor Wessing Prize 2015: Photograph of Iraqi refugee family fleeing Isis shortlisted

  14-09-2015 15:30
  
  A photograph of an Iraqi refugee family forced to flee Isis is one of four images shortlisted for this year’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize.
  
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• Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize 2015: Photograph of Iraqi refugee family who fled Isis shortlisted

  14-09-2015 15:30
  
  A photograph of an Iraqi refugee family forced to flee Isis is one of four images shortlisted for this year’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize.
  
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• Morning Links: Mind-Reading Slime Edition

  14-09-2015 15:05 via artnews.com
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• The World Goes Pop review – a bitty and disappointing tour of minor art

  14-09-2015 14:40
  
  Tate Modern’s new exhibition should scream blockbuster. Instead, it tells a tedious story of forgotten (and forgettable) global pop
  Filled with the overlooked and overcooked, the forgotten and forgettable, The World Goes Pop is a bitty and disappointing exhibition. A corrective to the male-dominated canon of the movement, it is filled with feminist pop; Spanish, Japanese, eastern European, Brazilian and Argentinian pop; late pop; remade pop – and things that aren’t really pop a
  
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• I puritani, Wales Millennium Centre, review: A courageous production featuring superb performances

  14-09-2015 14:40
  
  Romantic bel canto, the English Civil War and the Troubles might seem an unlikely recipe for operatic success. But the pitting of Roundhead against Cavalier in Bellini’s final masterpiece, I puritani, holds compelling modern-day sectarian parallels for director, Annilese Miskimmon.
  
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• You don't have to be mad to invest in art – but you do have to be realistic

  14-09-2015 14:00
  
  Everyday art lovers may not be phoning in a bid for a Christie’s Modigliani but they can still make plays at events like the Affordable Art FairAffordable art? An oxymoron, surely, as the Christie’s publicity machine gears into full gear, ready to promote a Modigliani nude that will headline its next big auction of modern and contemporary art works, in November. The price tag for the 1917 oil painting? $100m or more.
  It’s enough to drive an art lover to despair – especial
  
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• Chineke!, Queen Elizabeth Hall, review: Europe's first professional BME orchestra offers freshness, energy and flashes of brilliance

  14-09-2015 13:44
  
  Chineke is an Igbo word meaning ‘the spirit of creation’, and as it comes from one of Chi-chi Nwanoku’s ancestral languages, she’s taken it for the name of the orchestra she’s just founded. And – not before time - the Chineke! Orchestra does represent a hugely significant moment in our cultural life, it being Europe’s first-ever symphony orchestra made up entirely of BME – Black and Minority Ethnic – professional musicians.
  
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