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• Jim Nutt Wins Artists’ Legacy Foundation’s 2015 Artist Award

  23-09-2015 23:53 via artnews.com
  The Artists’ Legacy Foundation announced two days ago that it awarded Jim Nutt the 2015 Artist Award, which includes an unrestricted grant of $25,000, to be used at the artist’s will.Nutt’s work, noted for its brooding and psychological images of … Read More
  
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• Frieze Art Fair 2015: Where you can buy art work featuring real twin girls joined together by their hair for just £20,000

  23-09-2015 21:54
  
  An 'iconic work' by Brazilian artist Tunga is not the sort of art that you hang on the wall, says Nick Clark
  
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• Kara Walker Named Tepper Chair of Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts

  23-09-2015 21:00 via artnews.com
  Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts announced today that Kara Walker has been appointed as the school’s Tepper Chair. Under her new title, Walker will create a positive research environment for the school’s students. She will start this … Read More
  
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• Guggenheim v Guggenheim: French court throws out case

  23-09-2015 20:59
  
  Family had claimed Solomon Guggenheim Foundation was not respecting Peggy Guggenheim’s wish that her Venice art collection remained intactA French court has thrown out a legal action by relatives of the art collector Peggy Guggenheim to have her Italian collection, which includes works by Picasso, Miró, Matisse and Dalí, restored to its original appearance and purpose.The court case, known as Guggenheim v Guggenheim, pitted two of the celebrated collector’s grandsons ag
  
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• ‘The Lazy Sunbathers’ at Sies + Höke

  23-09-2015 19:04 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Portfolio: Philippe Halsman

  23-09-2015 18:36
  After a long and rather dispiriting day photographing the Ford (of automobile fame) family in the early 1950s, Philippe Halsman asked Eleanor Ford, Henry's daughter-in-law, if she might jump for his camera. Although worried about her high heels, she gave it a go, and before Halsman knew it, the rest of the family wanted a turn. For the next six years he ended his shoots by asking his subjects to leap for him.
  
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• Edmund de Waal interview: The artist and writer on the joy of running, his love of Japan, and why he can't make porcelain while listening to opera

  23-09-2015 18:36
  There is something magic about making something out of nothing I think it is extraordinary, particularly when you're a child and you've got no control over anything in the world, to be able to shape something yourself. I started making pots when I was five years old, and I see it today in other kids: that pleasure in simply doing something for yourself.
  
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• Hair, horror and hooks: Frieze reveals commissions for art fair

  23-09-2015 17:56
  
  As well as buying a Rembrandt or Lichtenstein, visitors to the London fair can peruse an eclectic mix of conceptual artworksVisitors to the contemporary tent of London’s Frieze art fair will have to first push their way through heavy plastic butchers’ curtains before walking down a spookily dark corridor past phrases such as “Welcome to purgatory”.Once inside they might bump into wandering twin girls conjoined by their long hair. Or visit a cave and discuss the Greek god
  
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• Sotheby’s Is Selling John Lennon’s Detention Sheet

  23-09-2015 16:45 via artnews.com
  Today in news about scraping the bottom of the barrel, Sotheby’s London will be selling a sheet from John Lennon’s detention book, which documents the 29 times that he was sent to detention between September 9, 1955 and July 11, … Read More
  
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• Seeing Red: Hermann Nitsch on His Violent Paintings at Marc Straus

  23-09-2015 16:27 via artnews.com
  “Nothing is new. Nothing is intense. Nothing is a provocation," said the 77-year-old Austrian artist Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Madonna Edition

  23-09-2015 14:59 via artnews.com
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• Side by side, Edvard Munch and Vincent van Gogh scream the birth of expressionism

  23-09-2015 14:16
  
  Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
  The exhibition Munch: Van Gogh shows the two artists, who never met, shared a passionate desire to paint the savage intensity of life – and it casts fresh light on the Dutchman’s tragedy
  A gunshot and a scream reverberate through the yellow house, echo across the fjord, and fill a new exhibition at the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam with pity and terror.In 1890 Vincent van Gogh fatally shot himself in the French countryside. Three years later the Norwegian pa
  
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• Anish Kapoor's 'Dirty Corner' to be covered in gold leaf after artist told to remove anti-Semitic vandalism against his will

  23-09-2015 14:12
  
  Anish Kapoor’s controversial Versailles sculpture is to be covered in gold leaf to mask anti-Semitic slogans used to vandalise the work earlier this month.
  
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• Anish Kapoor's 'Dirty Corner' to be covered in gold leaf after artist told to remove anti-Semitic vandalism against his will

  23-09-2015 14:12
  
  A French court ruled the vandalism must be erased immediately, despite the artist's intentions to keep the slogans on show as a tribute to humanity's intolerance
  
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• Florian Boesch and Graham Johnson, Wigmore Hall, review: Boesch does not just sing this music, he inhabits it to the hilt

  23-09-2015 13:20
  
  Is the song recital an endangered art-form? Full marks to John Gilhooly, director of the Wigmore, for coming out of his corner to belabour the doubters and purveyors of shoddy goods. As he’s pointed out in this newspaper, song recitals these days are often given by opera singers who don’t bother to prepare, ‘and why would anyone whose first experience is of someone bluffing their way through pieces they barely know go back for more?’
  
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• Wendy Whiteley's secret garden and her one-woman mission to save it

  23-09-2015 06:04
  
  Born out of grief following the death of Brett Whiteley, Wendy has tended an unofficial garden overlooking Sydney’s Lavender Bay for 23 years Whether by accident or adventure, Sydneysiders seem to stumble on Wendy Whiteley’s secret garden when they need it most – in my case, on my very first day in Australia. Landing in the small hours of a Saturday morning, I was surprised to find the city as drizzly as the London I left 24 hours earlier. I arrived with a colleague and our edi
  
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• Wendy Whiteley's (not so) secret garden and her one-woman mission to save it

  23-09-2015 06:04
  
  Born out of grief following the death of Brett Whiteley, Wendy has tended an unofficial garden overlooking Sydney’s Lavender Bay for 23 years Whether by accident or adventure, Sydneysiders seem to stumble on Wendy Whiteley’s secret garden when they need it most – in my case, on my very first day in Australia. Landing in the small hours of a Saturday morning, I was surprised to find the city as drizzly as the London I left 24 hours earlier. I arrived with a colleague and our edi
  
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• Mat Collishaw's new show 'In Camera': Death, sieges and crushed bugs

  23-09-2015 03:45
  
  It's Monday afternoon and Mat Collishaw emerges from the King William in Camberwell, blinking and with a cigarette in his fist. It might be the perfect vignette of former YBA behaving badly were it not for the fact that the cigarette is electronic and the handsome 1930s pub, still advertising LONDON STOUT in stone carving above the door, is Collishaw's studio and home.
  
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• Mat Collishaw's new show 'In Camera': Death, sieges and crushed bugs

  23-09-2015 03:45
  
  Mat Collishaw was once called 'the nastiest of the Young British Artists.' He shows his latest installation to Alice Jones
  
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