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• Sitting for Frank Auerbach: 'It's rather like being at the dentist'

  30-09-2015 20:09
  
  What’s it like to have your portrait painted by one of Britain’s most revered artists? As the Tate’s major new show prepares to open, four sitters – including his son Jake – recall the cold, the rum and the silenceDavid Landau, businessman Continue reading...
  
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• Turner prize 2015 review: conspiracy theory study sure beats a bunch of coats

  30-09-2015 19:58
  
  This year there is trilling and warbling, chairs and jackets, trestles and tables, and a frightening exploration of beliefs gone awryBlack-clad singers stand silhouetted in Tramway’s echoing white space. Janice Kerbel’s Doug, a sung catalogue of human and animal disasters, has already been presented in Glasgow, at the Mitchell library. Here it is again, in the Turner prize. Doug has that kind of upbeat classically trained singing that gets on my nerves. Trilling and warbling, spirall
  
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• LAND Launches Artist Residency Program

  30-09-2015 19:49 via artnews.com
  Los Angeles–based nonprofit art organization LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) announced today that it will launch an artist residency program this winter. Titled LANDxAIR, the program, which will be held annually, will take place at various institutions, both in America … Read More
  
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• Turner Prize, Tramway, Glasgow, first look: Community feel-good project stands out on an unusual shortlist

  30-09-2015 19:16
  
  With no Scots nominated, Assembly and Bonnie Camplin’s 'The Military Industrial Complex' stand out
  
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• Turner Prize, Tramway, Glasgow, first look: Community feel-good project stands out on an otherwise weak shortlist

  30-09-2015 19:16
  
  With no Scots nominated, Assemble and Bonnie Camplin’s 'The Military Industrial Complex' stand out
  
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• Josh Smith In Recent Doc: ‘If You’re Making Paintings Then I Must Be A Sculptor’

  30-09-2015 19:05 via artnews.com
  Recently, an online documentary about the artist Josh Smith was released on the Internet. Captured mostly in Smith’s Bushwick studio and made by Max Fierst, the 20-minute piece covers the artist’s history with painting, sculpture, and publishing, focusing on the … Read More
  
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• Performa Announces Yvonne Rainer European Tour

  30-09-2015 18:45 via artnews.com
  Performa, the New York nonprofit dedicated to performance-based art, announced today that it is producing a European tour of Yvonne Rainer’s The Concept of Dust, or How do you look when there’s nothing left to move? The piece will be complemented by … Read More
  
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• Sharjah Art Foundation Appoints Christine Tohmé Curator of the Sharjah Biennial 13

  30-09-2015 18:11 via artnews.com
  The Sharjah Art Foundation has named Christine Tohmé curator of Sharjah Biennial 13, which opens in March 2017.In 1993, Tohmé founded the contemporary art nonprofit Ashkal Alwan, the Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, which supports the development, creation, and dissemination … Read More
  
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• ‘Puppies Puppies: HorseshoeCrabs HorseshoeCrabs’ at Freddy Gallery

  30-09-2015 17:34 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Weatherland by Alexandra Harris review – are seasons and colours the same for all readers?

  30-09-2015 17:30
  
  How does the weather affect us? This is a splendid history of writers’ and painters’ reflections on the wind, rain and sunI learned this poem by Christina Rossetti when I was a very small child. I thought about it a lot. It was maybe my first thinking about weather in general. The wind was a force with its own ways, and it could not be seen or controlled. It was there, and we did not know who or what it was. It was a real being, unlike elves or goblins or mermaids. My
  
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• Conspiracy theorists and fur coats adorn Turner prize's Glasgow show

  30-09-2015 16:48
  
  Showcase of work by contenders for annual contemporary art prize is in Scotland for first time“I’ve been here five minutes and already I’m shopping,” despaired one of the first visitors to the 2015 Turner prize show as she rushed off to one of the artworks: a showroom selling everything from doorknobs to coffee tables to mantelpieces.Elsewhere visitors will wander round chairs with fur coats, listen to singers telling surreal and sad stories and hear accusations that Sky
  
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• France and Netherlands to jointly buy rare Rembrandts

  30-09-2015 16:39
  
  17th-century paintings worth €160m belonging to Rothschilds will alternate between Rijksmuseum and Louvre The Netherlands and France will together buy two rare Rembrandts for a total of €160m (£118m) , the Dutch culture minister has announced, after the two countries defused a potential bidding war.The 17th-century paintings, which belong to the Rothschild banking family and have rarely been seen in public, will alternate between the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Louvre in Par
  
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• When SoHo Met Hollywood: Revisiting ’90s Films by ’80s Art Stars

  30-09-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  On the directing careers of Schnabel, Salle, Sherman, and Longo Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Bad-Boy Women Artists Edition

  30-09-2015 15:20 via artnews.com
  Romanian artist Ionel Talpazan, who was discovered selling his U.F.O.-sighting artwork on the streets of Manhattan in the 1980s, has died at the age 60. [The New York Times]Christine Tohmé will curate the Sharjah Biennial 13, in March 2017. [Artforum]The Royal College … Read More
  
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• After a 16-Month Run, Baltimore’s Mysterious Freddy Gallery Will Close

  30-09-2015 15:10 via artnews.com
  On Friday, June 13, of last year, a gallery called Freddy opened its doors on West Franklin Street in Baltimore with plans for six months of programming. Now, 16 months later, the gallery has decided to make the show it is opening this … Read More
  
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• Retrospective: Barnett Newman on the New York School

  30-09-2015 14:35 via artnews.com
  And other excerpts from our coverage 100, 75, 50, and 25 years ago Read More
  
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• What Britain really needs is a memorial to the Easter Rising

  30-09-2015 11:32
  
  In the wake of media overreaction to Jeremy Corbyn’s plans to honour Constance Markievicz, a memorial to both Irish and British deaths in 1916 would stop the demonising of Irish nationhood and help end old grudgesJeremy Corbyn has been making yet another provocative comment about Irish republicanism. Now, according to reports at the weekend, he wants to put up a memorial to a violent republican.Outrageous … no, wait a moment.Related: Geoffrey Wheatcroft: The evil legacy of the Easte
  
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• Grisly death mask of Britain’s first train murderer among previously unseen objects on display at Museum of London

  30-09-2015 10:28
  
  The killer was so notorious people copied his mode of dress 
  
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• Strangers kiss blindfolded in latest, surprisingly touching 'first kiss' experiment

  30-09-2015 08:45
  
  'I felt like a little kid in elementary'
  
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• Urban scrawl: the patriotic graffiti blossoming around Moscow - in pictures

  30-09-2015 07:00
  
  Photographer Andrey Ivanov spent three years documenting slogans on the outskirts of the city to explore contemporary Russian identity. The Calvert Journal reports Continue reading...
  
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• Bowness photography prize 2015: an alternative eye on this year's finalists – video

  30-09-2015 05:21
  
  From the surreal to the sublime via a photographic doormat, Guardian Australia’s picture editor, Jonny Weeks, talks to our photographer-at-large, Mike Bowers, about the 47 finalists in this year’s prize. The winner of the competition, which is held at the MGA in Victoria, Australia, will be announced on 1 October Continue reading...
  
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