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• Christie’s Is Selling ‘The Largest Cushion-Shaped Fancy Vivid Pink Diamond Ever to Come to Auction’

  24-09-2015 20:45 via artnews.com
  One day, when my worldly trials have ended and I look back on my life’s work, I’m sure that I’ll spend quite a bit of the time I have left on this earth contemplating the blog posts I wrote about … Read More
  
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• Nolan Simon Is Painting Portraits Via Skype to Raise Money for Detroit’s What Pipeline Gallery

  24-09-2015 20:43 via artnews.com
  What a time to be alive. The Detroit-based painter Nolan Simon is currently painting portraits via Skype in order to raise money for a publications program run by the enterprising Motor City gallery What Pipeline.These works come at bargain prices: … Read More
  
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• ‘Raquel Nava: Passeio Selvagem’ at Referência Galeria de Arte

  24-09-2015 19:39 via artnews.com
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• Kanye West on Leonardo, Michelangelo, Beecroft, Sweatshirts

  24-09-2015 19:26 via artnews.com
  Vanity Fair woke up Kanye West from a nap last week to interview him about a little bit of everything. The bad news from that talk: it sounds like West’s hotly anticipated next album, Swish, is nowhere near completion. The good … Read More
  
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• Walker Art Center Announces Four New Staff Appointments

  24-09-2015 18:55 via artnews.com
  The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis has announced four new staff appointments for the institution’s visual arts, design, and education and public departments.Pavel Pyś, the former exhibitions and displays curator at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, has been named … Read More
  
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• The Power of Kreuk Compels You! The Trials Of Danh Vo

  24-09-2015 17:00 via artnews.com
  A rich collector, a beloved artist, and the case of the missing $350,000 installation Read More
  
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• Candida Höfer Wins the Cologne Fine Art Prize

  24-09-2015 16:47 via artnews.com
  Cologne Fine Art announced that photographer Candida Höfer has won this year’s Cologne Fine Art Prize, entitling her to €10,000, or about $11,250. Previous winners of the prize, which is awarded yearly to a Cologne-based artist, include Georg Baselitz, Sigmar … Read More
  
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• Independent Brussels Names Co-Directors

  24-09-2015 15:58 via artnews.com
  Independent Brussels, the Belgian edition of the New York art fair, has named Olivier Pesret and Liv Vaisberg as co-directors. They will oversee Independent’s European operations.“Independent has been a model and personal inspiration,” Vaisberg, the co-founder of another Brussels fair, … Read More
  
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• Mat Collishaw's shock tactics: 'Cruelty happening before your eyes'

  24-09-2015 15:20
  
  New Art Gallery, Walsall
  Massacred babies, death row meals, naked statues doing appalling things to each other … Collishaw’s grisly works challenge art’s relationship with violenceThe Massacre of the Innocents is one of western art’s most horrific themes. The slaughter of infants ordered by King Herod has been depicted among others by Bruegel as a war crime in a snowy village and by Poussin with an appalling intimate realism.Now Mat Collishaw has turned it into an evil t
  
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• Morning Links: Monkey Selfies Edition

  24-09-2015 14:43 via artnews.com
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• Do the visual arts have a leadership problem?

  24-09-2015 14:30
  
  Alongside a dearth of diversity among arts leaders, independent practitioners and working artists remain excluded
  Despite the predominantly female visual arts workforce of the past decade, it’s striking that men continue to be given the top jobs. Evidence of cultural diversity is still hard to find.Praise then to the Baltic gallery trustees, who have broken a continuous line of male directors with the appointment of Sarah Munro. My own examination of the state of play at the best-funded ga
  
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• Daigo-ji temple in Kyoto, Japan is beautiful in all four seasons

  24-09-2015 12:27
  
  The Shingon Buddhist temple was built in 874.
  
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