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• Hilla Becher, Influential German Conceptual Photographer, Dies at 81

  13-10-2015 23:54 via artnews.com
  Hilla Becher, who, with her husband, Bernd, revolutionized the field of photography with their austere images of industrial structures, and who went on to teach important German photographers like Andreas Gursky and Thomas Struth, died on October 10. She was … Read More
  
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• Does a Lutz Bacher Work in ‘Greater New York’ Rip Off a Daniel Arsham Film Set? Daniel Arsham Weighs In

  13-10-2015 23:04 via artnews.com
  One of the more imposing sculptural works in “Greater New York,” the quinquennial survey of Gotham-based artists that opened at PS1 Sunday, is Lutz Bacher’s Magic Mountain (2015), an unruly pile of spiky foam points, all colored a dusty gray-green, that takes … Read More
  
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• Shave Stuart/Modern Art Awarded 2015 Frieze London Stand Prize

  13-10-2015 21:41 via artnews.com
  Frieze London announced today that London’s Stuart Shave/Modern Art gallery has won this year’s Stand Prize, for outstanding presentation by a gallery. In recognition of Stuart Shave/Modern Art’s display of the artists Mark Flood and Yngve Holen, the London-based gallery was … Read More
  
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• How corrupting can images or marks on a canvas really be?

  13-10-2015 21:20
  
  A judge has ruled that photographs and paintings belonging to artist Graham Ovenden should be destroyed
  
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• ‘I Don’t Buy Into the Idea of the Grand Artist Mythos’: Artie Vierkant on His Shows at Feuer/Mesler and Mesler/Feuer

  13-10-2015 21:18 via artnews.com
  Using ground-up soybean seeds and Photoshop-manipulated prints, Artie Vierkant still wants to know if we ever really own our ideas in the age of the Internet Read More
  
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• Paedophile artist’s photographs and paintings must be destroyed, judge rules

  13-10-2015 21:12
  
  Graham Ovenden had been controversial for decades prior to his conviction on six counts of indecency with a child
  
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• Raymond Pettibon in Estonia, Brought to You by the United States Government

  13-10-2015 19:35 via artnews.com
  For half of last century, from 1939 to 1991, Estonia was under three successive occupations. First, the Soviet-German nonaggression pact handed Estonia and its fellow Baltic States, Latvia and Lithuania, to Russia as part of their “spheres of interest” land … Read More
  
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• Frieze art fair 2015 review – do foxes like the Bee Gees?

  13-10-2015 19:09
  
  Art for animals, a giant Felix the Cat and a fake cocktail party offer respite from all the hotshot galleries flogging hideous trinketsBeginning at one end of Frieze 2015 crawling through a tunnel into a hole, and ending it on my knees in a scale model of the entire art fair, to the sound of the Bee Gees’ How Deep Is Your Love, rather takes the shine off the whole event.Somewhere between these twin escapades, I saw quite a few cocks, went to a cocktail party, hung about in bed with strange
  
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• Frieze art fair 2015: where you can get a comedy drawing of your genitals for free

  13-10-2015 19:04
  
  At the 13th edition of Frieze, Ken Kagami is drawing punters’ genitals in just 30 seconds – and there are six ‘smart bedrooms’ if art-browsers need a napThis week, women can have a comedy drawing of their breasts sketched for them by Ken Kagami, while for men, the artist will look at someone’s face then draw his genitals. And it costs nothing – ideal for the hard-up or miserly. Or for £6,500, a visitor to the 13th edition of the Frieze art fair in London
  
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• Porn can be art says ex-stripper Lucy Sparrow who has created an erotic emporium in Soho

  13-10-2015 18:34
  
  'I hope the sex workers find it funny', she tells Matilda Battersby 
  
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• ‘The Freedom Principle’ at MCA Chicago, Selected by Hank Willis Thomas

  13-10-2015 18:20 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. This week's shows are curated by Hank Willis Thomas Read More
  
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• Hank Willis Thomas Selects ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’

  13-10-2015 18:15 via artnews.com
  This week’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” posts are going to be a little bit different. Instead of selecting shows from around the world to highlight, ARTnews’ editors asked Hank Willis Thomas to take the reins and pick five shows to present, and he has kindly agreed. … Read More
  
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• Hirshhorn Receives $2 M. Donation Toward ‘Future Fund,’ for Redesign of Public Spaces, Technology

  13-10-2015 17:39 via artnews.com
  The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., has received a donation of $2 million from trustee Joleen Julius and her husband Mitch Julius. This is, according to the museum, the “single largest individual donor gift in the … Read More
  
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• Giacometti: Pure Presence review – the most profound, universal art of the past 75 years

  13-10-2015 17:32
  
  National Portrait Gallery
  The artist captures his family and his lovers in all their heroic human honesty in a formidable five-star showIn the last years of his life Alberto Giacometti got friendly with a young woman called Yvonne Poiraudeau – a wild character who hung out with prostitutes and gangsters in the Paris of existentialism and New Wave cinema. Giacometti calls her Caroline in his portraits of her.Paintings of Caroline hang together in the formidable final room of this exhibition
  
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• Polish painting looted by Nazis makes triumphant return after decades in Ohio

  13-10-2015 17:00
  
  Poland has praised the ‘high ethics’ involved in the recovery of the 18th-century work, taken at the end of the second world war by a US serviceman. It took an investigation by his son – and the FBI – to get it home againAs a 12-year-old in Columbus, Ohio, Bob Wittmann saw it as an “ugly painting of this guy with a wig”, hanging in the living room. But he kept his mouth shut because “my dad was very proud of the stuff he brought home from the war”.
  
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• These statues pass through each other daily, telling a tragic love story

  13-10-2015 16:20
  
  Figures represent a Muslim boy and a Christian girl
  
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• Domesticated: Marc Fischer Highlights the Connection Between Hard-Core Punk and Suburbia

  13-10-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  Hard-core punk is probably not the first thing most people think about when looking at the image of a quaint tree-lined ranch house, but thanks to the artist Marc Fischer’s internet-based project Hardcore Architecture, that may soon change.Fischer found the … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: DNA Signatures Edition

  13-10-2015 14:24 via artnews.com
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• Tania Bruguera: the more the secret police torture me, the better my art gets

  13-10-2015 14:10
  
  The performance artist was hounded in Cuba for an artwork championing free speech. Why did she end up thanking the secret police who surrounded her house, cut her phonelines then jailed her?Tania Bruguera sits down on the grass and crosses her legs, as casual and at ease as the undergraduates all around us. “This,” she says with a gesture towards the grand facade of Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library, “is a really nice place for a recovery.”As water flows out of the f
  
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• Porn on the fourth of July: Fiona Banner rewrites the art of war

  13-10-2015 12:13
  
  Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
  Helicopters dance to house music while porn is turned upside down in the artist’s text-mashing, eye-chewing war zone“THE BASTARD WORD”, reads a neon sign that fills a whole wall. My life is filled with bastard words, and so is Fiona Banner’s Scroll Down And Keep Scrolling, at Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery. If her neon sign addresses her conflict with words, it also embodies her difficulties with neon. The glass lettering is stressed and wonky an
  
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