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• Phillips Rebounds With $48.8 M. Contemporary Art Haul in London, Setting Records for Bradford and Nara

  14-10-2015 23:21 via artnews.com
  When Fredric Brandt, the plastic surgeon to the stars, took his own life earlier this year, he left behind a trove of artworks that might have surprised those who thought his tastes were purely cosmetic. His collection, scattered between his … Read More
  
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• MoMA Restaurant to Adopt No-Tipping Policy Next Month

  14-10-2015 21:41 via artnews.com
  If you tip poorly after eating a meal in New York, you might get a dirty look (or worse) from your server, but, starting next month, that will no longer be the case at the Modern, MoMA’s tony ground-floor restaurant.The New … Read More
  
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• Karl Lagerfeld: I Gave Away Basquiats, Warhols ‘Because I Thought They Would Not Last’

  14-10-2015 19:37 via artnews.com
  There are few things in life better than profiles of Karl Lagerfeld. There’s John Colapinto’s from 2007 (“The most important piece of furniture in a house is the garbage can!” the designer says) and Vanessa Grigoriadis’s from 2006 (“I am … Read More
  
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• Ann Veronica Janssens review – the artistic equivalent of an isolation tank

  14-10-2015 19:18
  
  Wellcome Collection, London
  States of Mind is a fun installation of coloured mist that feels like swimming through a painting by Monet – but it is light entertainment, nothing more
  You have to enter a crudely created airlock – open one door, close it, then open the next – to make sure Ann Veronica Janssens’ installation doesn’t escape. It is a mist. Passing through that second door, you are enveloped. Steamy vapour fills the air and is impregnated with colour.
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• Inspiring photo shoot captures women before and after chemotherapy

  14-10-2015 19:06
  
  'Many of them said that being photographed was a turning point for them in their fight with cancer'
  
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• ‘Making Place: The Architecture of David Adjaye’ at Art Institute of Chicago, Selected by Hank Willis Thomas

  14-10-2015 18:46 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. This week’s shows are selected by Hank Willis Thomas Read More
  
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• Cy Twombly, Gagosian Gallery, review: Twombly’s notes and scribbles are almost sublime

  14-10-2015 18:43
  
  Works by Cy Twombly hang in the new space in London and the sublime two blue diptychs are worth the visit alone
  
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• The new Musée de l'Homme is so much more than a racist cabinet of curiosities

  14-10-2015 18:11
  
  Picasso was inspired by ‘primitive’ art here, and the Hottentot Venus was exhibited as a freak. Now, the famous anthropological museum in Paris has reopened – and it’s better than ever. It’s high time London got its ownMuseums are not just places to look at interesting objects. They have personalities; they have history. The Musée de l’Homme – Museum of Man – in Paris, which has just reopened after a major renovation, has one of the richest
  
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• London Calling: A First Look at Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2015

  14-10-2015 17:50 via artnews.com
  Every October Frieze London delivers all sorts of extracurricular action around the city—openings, cocktails, dinners, and the like—but this year the scene feels particularly frenetic, with two grand new arrivals on the scene: Gagosian’s third and largest gallery in the … Read More
  
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• A history of nudity: Playboy's censorship is a throwback to the medieval era

  14-10-2015 17:41
  
  Playboy’s hackneyed idea of what naked beauty is, and who it’s for, seems increasingly narrow in the selfie era, a golden age of the civilised nudePlayboy is to abolish the nude. Many people will celebrate this, even if the magazine once seen as the bible of sexual liberation is getting out of the business of soft porn because it has been outdone by the internet, and not for any idealistic feminist reason. But don’t open any champagne until you have visited a few art museums. I
  
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• Documenta 14 Expands Team, Details First Publication

  14-10-2015 17:30 via artnews.com
  The countdown is on! The opening of Documenta 14 is now less than two years away, and today its organizers revealed a bit more about what they have planned for their edition of the once-every-five-years exhibition in Kassel, Germany, which has expanded … Read More
  
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• These continuous line tattoos are beautiful in their simplicity

  14-10-2015 17:27
  
  This tattooist has stripped back their style and gone for a more linear approach 
  
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• ‘It’s a Game That I Play with Myself About How to Shift the Familiar’: A Talk with Torey Thornton

  14-10-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  Torey Thornton’s show “Kneed a Sea Ware Groin” at London’s Stuart Shave/ Modern Art closes on October 3 Read More
  
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• Glory Days: Disco, Pigeon Graveyards, and the Opening of ‘Greater New York’

  14-10-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  “I feel like Bushwick is over,” a MoMA PS1 security guard said at the public opening of “Greater New York,” the fourth installment of the museum’s quinquennial. (He lives in Bed-Stuy now, where “it’s a lot nicer.”) The guard was, … Read More
  
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• Samara Scott's sinkholes of paranoia

  14-10-2015 15:23
  
  The artist makes liquid sculptures – pools of nail varnish, coconut water and confetti – that show our cocktail of desire and disgust for consumer culture
  Samara Scott has a wonderfully alluring way of describing her art. “I like to think of it as trembling, putrid glitter,” she says. “Like the sewers of a tranny club. Or that horrible festering crustiness of putting eyeliner on in a festival portaloo.” If that sounds trashy, it’s because it is. The 30-y
  
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• Morning Links: Charlie Hebdo Gargoyles Edition

  14-10-2015 15:04 via artnews.com
  The faces of Charlie Hebdo victims Cabu and Georges Wolinski have been made into gargoyles guarding the 13th century façade of a church in western France. [Artforum]An art professor in Mississippi has made a 14-foot violin from steel and cast bronze. [THV11.com]Stanya … Read More
  
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• MC Escher exhibition pays tribute to Dutch master of illusion

  14-10-2015 14:13
  
  Works by enigmatic artist famous for his neverending staircases – and for snubbing the Rolling Stones – go on display in LondonThe first major exhibition in England of the work of MC Escher, an artist whose instantly recognisable images have sold in millions and been widely imitated in advertising, opens this week at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London.His work is beloved by the public – though he snubbed the Rolling Stones when they requested an album cover – and by ma
  
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• Frieze Art Fair 2015: Ken Kagami will do a comedy drawing of your genitals for free in 30 seconds

  14-10-2015 13:38
  
  'Art fairs can be stuffy, and this lightens things up a bit'
  
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• Musicians prepare to battle like Bruce Lee at Institute of Contemporary Arts

  14-10-2015 13:08
  
  Experimental installation, Enter the Dragon, combines music and martial arts in project inspired by iconic mirror scene in 1973 Hollywood filmThe Institute of Contemporary Arts is to host a two-week installation during which live bands will perform in a hall of mirrors inspired by the Bruce Lee film Enter The Dragon.The “mutating sound sculpture”, brainchild of Chinese artist Zhang Ding, will involve 26 musicians, bands, producers and DJs. Each night two of them will play on opposite
  
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• Motherhood in art: from miracle milk to joke shop breasts and caesarean scars

  14-10-2015 11:48
  
  Fouquet gave us a study of eerie perfection. The impressionists captured intimacy. And Cindy Sherman was a witty Madonna in thrift store gown and joke shop breast. A new book called Body of Art chronicles 1,500 years of motherhood
  There is a fascinating if obvious juxtaposition in Phaidon’s new book Body of Art. Cindy Sherman’s untitled work of 1989, in which she poses as the Virgin and Child of Jean Fouquet’s 1450 diptych, faces the original. Sherman’s version is deliber
  
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• These photos of humans with the smartphones removed show our grim addiction to technology

  14-10-2015 11:46
  
  Is it a hand or an iPhone holder?
  
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• Liberal MP Craig Kelly rages against 'appalling' Parliament House artwork

  14-10-2015 03:19
  
  Shakespeare-inspired depiction of partially nude witch has particularly incensed the MP for the Sydney seat of HughesDouble, double toil and trouble; art is hung and anger does bubble.A storm is brewing over the paintings placed in the public areas of Parliament House in Canberra, with a federal government backbencher singling out a Shakespeare-inspired depiction of a partially nude witch. Related: Craig Kelly sends Facebook love letter to prime minister: 'I'm sticking with Tony!' Any time a con
  
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