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• ‘Nassos Daphnis: Pixel Fields’ at Richard Taittinger

  22-09-2015 20:03 via artnews.com
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• Anish Kapoor on Vandalism, Instagram, His Moscow Retrospective, and ‘The Long, Long View of Poetic Intent’

  22-09-2015 19:50 via artnews.com
  “If hate stops public experimentation, we all lose,” Anish Kapoor said at a press conference on Monday at Moscow’s Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, where “My Red Homeland,” a four-piece retrospective named after Kapoor’s 2003 kinetic wax sculpture, is on … Read More
  
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• Julia Margaret Cameron's Victorian portrait photography – in pictures

  22-09-2015 19:20
  
  Two London exhibitions are marking the bicentenary of the pioneering photographer’s birth. We look back at her delicate, expressive portraits featuring subjects ranging from Alfred Tennyson to a Sri Lankan plantation workerJulia Margaret Cameron: Influence and Intimacy opens at the Science Museum on 24 September; Julia Margaret Cameron opens at the V&A on 28 November
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• Julia Margaret Cameron: soft-focus photographer with an iron will

  22-09-2015 19:16
  
  From her housemaid to Alfred Tennyson, the indomitable Victorian wrestled everybody into her studio, dressing them up as characters from Shakespeare and the Bible. For years, these tableaux have been out of fashion – but two new shows cast this pioneering photographer in a new lightJulia Margaret Cameron was 48 when she was given a camera by her daughter and son-in-law in 1863. The photographs she made – working at first by trial, error and bossiness – were, she absolutely insi
  
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• Tate Modern to open 'reimagined version of the museum' with new 10-storey extension

  22-09-2015 18:45
  
  Tate Modern transformed the UK’s attitude to modern art, according to director Sir Nicholas Serota. The gallery is set to transform attitudes again with a “reimagined version of the museum” that opens next summer with a new 10-storey extension.
  
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• Tate Modern to open 'reimagined version of the museum' with new 10-storey extension

  22-09-2015 18:45
  
  The new building will offer 60 per cent more display space and more room for 'social interaction and experience'
  
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• Gloria Groom Named Chair of European Painting and Sculpture Department at Art Institute of Chicago

  22-09-2015 18:35 via artnews.com
  The Art Institute of Chicago announced that Gloria Groom has been named the chair of the museum’s European Painting and Sculpture department. She will now oversee the museum’s collection of Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, early 19th-century, Impressionist, and Post-Impressionist art.Groom, … Read More
  
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• Beatrix Ruf Wins ICI’s Agnes Gund Curatorial Award

  22-09-2015 17:47 via artnews.com
  Beatrix Ruf, the director of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, has been selected as the 2015 recipient of Independent Curators International’s Agnes Gund Curatorial Award, which “is presented every other year to an established curator for their outstanding contribution to the world … Read More
  
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• Proceeds From Christie’s Sale of Peter Doig’s ‘Cabin Essence’ Will Benefit World Justice Project

  22-09-2015 17:39 via artnews.com
  At its October 16 contemporary evening sale, coinciding with the Frieze art fair, Christie’s London will auction Peter Doig’s Cabin Essence, which the artist completed in 1994. The painting, according to Christie’s, is the largest work in Doig’s “Concrete Cabins” … Read More
  
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• This photographer is taking jaw-dropping photos of Europe’s abandoned buildings

  22-09-2015 15:54
  
  There’s something Ozymandian about Christian Richter’s abandoned buildings - ornate halls with grand pianos and plush furniture slowly decaying into dust, beds sprouting grass, cinemas caving in.
  
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• Tate Modern's Olympic-sized expansion to open in June 2016

  22-09-2015 15:45
  
  Extended London art gallery in former power station that was set to open for 2012 Olympics boasts 20,700 sq m more spaceThe new-look and expanded Tate Modern will open in 2016, following a £260m revamp featuring a 10-storey extension and 60% more gallery space.Around 5,000 schoolchildren will be the first visitors on 17 June next year with a dedicated preview day before the gallery opens to the general public. Related: Will Self: are the hyper-rich ruining the new Tate Modern?Continue read
  
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• Perahia, Richter, LSO and Haitink at the Barbican, review: Murray Perahia's Beethoven is still pre-eminent

  22-09-2015 15:44
  
  Every Beethoven performance by Murray Perahia is an event, but as he launched into the Piano Concerto No 4 in G major with the London Symphony Orchestra under Bernard Haitink’s direction he had the misfortune to stumble so badly in his opening flourish that he temporarily lost his poise. But not for long: he soon reasserted dominance by the sheer beauty and authority of his playing, with the orchestra enchasing the piano as though it were a rare jewel.
  
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• Perahia, Richter, LSO and Haitink at the Barbican, review: Murray Perahia's Beethoven is still pre-eminent

  22-09-2015 15:44
  
  The piano's voice had a bell-like purity - the closing Rondo went at a furious pace
  
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• Morning Links: Le Freeport Edition

  22-09-2015 14:53 via artnews.com
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• The flyaway success of the Ladybird art prank

  22-09-2015 08:00
  
  We Go to the Gallery, a Peter and Jane-style satire of modern art, won Miriam Elia fans around the world – and a legal warning from Penguin. But that hasn’t stopped the artist-provocateur and her new imprint, Dung BeetleWhen Miriam Elia released a small book lampooning the art world, she might have expected a squall, but she was completely unprepared for the force of what swept down on her. In 44 pages, closely modelled on the Peter and Jane Ladybird reading books from the 1960s and
  
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• Freckles: Brock Elbank's striking portraits – in pictures

  22-09-2015 08:00
  
  The photographer behind Somerset House’s Beard exhibition returns with another set of bold, intense portraits – and this time, freckled models of various ethnicities take centre stage Continue reading...
  
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• Celts – Art and Identity review: an unintentional resurrection | Jonathan Jones

  22-09-2015 01:01
  
  British Museum exhibition seems intended to bury the Celts but ends up reviving them in all their misty splendour Celts – Art and Identity is a great exhibition that achieves the opposite of what it intends. In wall texts and a richly detailed catalogue it sets out a sceptical approach to the ancient peoples of north-western Europe. Celts, we’re told, never called themselves Celts and modern constructions of a genetic and eternal Celtic identity – promoted by Scottish, Welsh an
  
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