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• 'Renoir sucks at painting' movement demands removal of artist's works

  06-10-2015 23:42
  
  The group has protested at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, while its Instagram account has drawn the ire of the artist’s great-great-granddaughterA new movement born of an Instagram account has one central complaint: Pierre-Auguste Renoir - the French impressionist – was a terrible artist, and his paintings should be removed from museums.
  Holding signs that said “ReNOir”, “Take ’em down! Renoir Sucks” and “God Hates Renoir”, members of th
  
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• Shortlist Announced for This Year’s Max Mara Art Prize for Women

  06-10-2015 23:27 via artnews.com
  The Whitechapel Gallery, Collezione Maramotti, and Max Mara announced the shortlist for this year’s Mara Art Prize for Women yesterday. The prize is given biannually to a United Kingdom–based female artist, who then receives a six-month residency at various locations … Read More
  
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• Joan Miró at Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich

  06-10-2015 22:27 via artnews.com
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• Hepworth Wakefield Creates an Annual Sculpture Award

  06-10-2015 22:24 via artnews.com
  To celebrate its fifth year in business, New Yorkshire gallery the Hepworth Wakefield is creating a sculpture prize, The Guardian reported. Because the Hepworth Wakefield is known for its sculpture collection (its named after sculptor Barbara Hepworth, who also lived … Read More
  
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• Beautiful geometry: William Boyd on John Hoyland

  06-10-2015 19:35
  
  The world is finally waking up to John Hoyland and his abstract paintings. But William Boyd has been an admirer for decades. As John Hoyland: Power Stations opens at Damien Hirst’s new gallery, the novelist pays tribute to a ‘modern master’I bought my first John Hoyland in 1994. It was a predominantly red abstract with a rectangle of acid green at the bottom, painted in 1964. It was at auction – Christie’s – and as it turned out, I was the sole bidder. A year
  
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• Chantal Akerman, Revolutionary Feminist Filmmaker and Video Artist, Dies at 65

  06-10-2015 18:14 via artnews.com
  Chantal Akerman, the Belgian filmmaker who introduced a previously unseen female perspective on domesticity to cinema, and whose video installations dealt with personal histories, died sometime during the past few days. She was 65. Her cause of death has not yet … Read More
  
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• George Eastman House Becomes the George Eastman Museum

  06-10-2015 18:12 via artnews.com
  The George Eastman House, the Rochester, New York, photography and cinema museum, announced today that it will henceforth be known as the George Eastman Museum. They have also launched a new website, eastman.org. Bruce Barnes, the Ron and Donna Fielding … Read More
  
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• Hepworth prize launched to reward Britain's best sculptor

  06-10-2015 17:53
  
  Hepworth Wakefield gallery marks fifth anniversary with new £30,000 contemporary sculpture prize to be awarded every two yearsA new £30,000 prize to recognise contemporary British sculpture is to be named after one of the 20th century’s greatest proponents of the art form, Barbara Hepworth.The Hepworth gallery in Wakefield has announced its fifth anniversary plans, which include a prize it hopes will become one of the UK’s most prestigious art awards. Continue reading...
  
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• Morning Links: Protesting Renoir Haters Edition

  06-10-2015 14:44 via artnews.com
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• 'The NHS is our baby, it's very vulnerable': street art superstar Stik's hospital takeover

  06-10-2015 13:53
  
  Supporters queued all night to buy prints of Sleeping Baby, the new mural Stik painted at London’s Homerton hospital. He says it’s there to focus resistance against creeping NHS privatisationVideo: following Stik’s Homerton projectStik, the once-homeless street artist whose large stick-figure murals pepper London, has unveiled his latest work, one that has raised £50,000 for the building it’s painted on – Homerton hospital in Hackney.Sleeping Baby now adorns t
  
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• How street artist Stik is raising money for a London hospital – video

  06-10-2015 13:02
  
  Stik, the street artist whose stick-man paintings adorn the streets of London, has created a mural called Sleeping Baby at Homerton university hospital in Hackney. He says he hopes his artwork will galvanise people to stop NHS privatisation. One hundred silkscreen prints of the image, retailing at £500 each, have raised money for the hospital Continue reading...
  
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