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• Cornelia Parker Will Have a Show on the Roof of the Met

  15-10-2015 22:22 via artnews.com
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Iris and Gerald B. Cantor Roof Garden will play host to an installation by British sculptor Cornelia Parker. The commissioned work is still in-progress, but Parker had this to say, in an interview with The … Read More
  
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• Here Is The First Episode Of Casey Jane Ellison’s New Web Series

  15-10-2015 22:10 via artnews.com
  Today marks the premiere of The Right & Left Brains Of Casey Jane’s, the new web series from the artist and comedian Casey Jane Ellison, who was included in the 2015 New Museum Triennial. It was commissioned by a clothing … Read More
  
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• Barbie’s new Virgin Mary look angers Catholics in Argentina

  15-10-2015 21:56
  
  Art exhibition in Rosario to display some 33 Barbies and Kens this weekend, all of which could be considered offensive to many religions
  
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• AHMM: the Stirling prize-winners who design schools for the future – in pictures

  15-10-2015 21:23
  
  AHMM have won the 2015 Stirling prize for Burntwood School in Wandsworth, London. The architecture practice is renowned for designing schools that are strong, vibrant, grown-up and generous – which inspires their students to be just the same. Here are their best
  The Stirling prize-winning building – and the lessons it offersContinue reading...
  
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• Solo Shows: The Curious Magic of One-Work Exhibitions

  15-10-2015 21:10 via artnews.com
  The history of the empty gallery show is by now widely known. The bare rooms and closed spaces of Yves Klein, Robert Barry, Art & Language, Maria Eichhorn, and many other artists are ensconced in art history books and, in … Read More
  
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• Berkeley Art Museum Announces Series of Mural Commissions for New Project Space

  15-10-2015 20:36 via artnews.com
  As part of a major redesign courtesy of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, in Berkeley, California, will also unveil a 60-by-25-foot project space devoted to murals called Art Wall, the museum announced today. … Read More
  
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• ‘Rashid Johnson: Anxious Men’ at The Drawing Center, Selected by Hank Willis Thomas

  15-10-2015 20:28 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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• Habitat: Charles Andresen

  15-10-2015 20:17 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Charles Andresen, East Hampton, New York. “It’s been a new, exciting, and daunting experience to work in Elaine de Kooning’s iconic space,” Charles Andresen said of his residency at the painter’s former … Read More
  
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• New photography exhibition shows the tough reality of the now barely legal squatting movement

  15-10-2015 20:08
  
  Squatting has withered since its 1970s heyday. As a historic show of photos opens in London, Charlie Gilmour wonders if the movement is ripe for reinvention in the new era of eviction, bedroom tax and homelessness
  
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• Tim Griffin and David Lang Named Chevaliers of France’s Order of Arts and Letters

  15-10-2015 19:09 via artnews.com
  France’s Ministry of Culture and Communication announced today that the executive director of The Kitchen, Tim Griffin, and composer David Lang will be awarded the insignia of chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters tomorrow, October 16, at the … Read More
  
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• Mark Bradford to Make His Largest Work to Date for the Hirshhorn Museum

  15-10-2015 17:02 via artnews.com
  The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden announced today that it has commissioned Mark Bradford, the Los Angeles–based painter, to do a site-specific painting. The work will be on view for ten months, starting on November 17, 2016.A release calls … Read More
  
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• ‘I Always Feel Like I’m Making Future Artifacts’: Dustin Yellin on His New Installation in Los Angeles

  15-10-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  As machines whirred and whined in his Red Hook studio, Dustin Yellin told me that he had recently been to Africa, where nearly a quarter of some countries’ populations are affected by HIV, and where Yellin was collecting experiences to … Read More
  
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• Did Instagram Kill Photography’s Stars?: ICP Confronts Today’s Image Revolution

  15-10-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  In an age when more than 880 billion photographs are taken each year—with more than 1.8 billion uploaded to the Internet every day—how can museums keep up? That is a question now facing the International Center of Photography, New York’s … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Larry Gagosian’s Carriage House Edition

  15-10-2015 14:23 via artnews.com
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• A satsuma Sistine Chapel – and other strange edible art

  15-10-2015 13:57
  
  For a nation on a Bake Off sugar high, a new contest to find the best food art is a delicious diversion – but it will never feed the soul like the real thing
  Britain loves baking. A nation was glued to its screens to see Nadiya Hussain win The Great British Bakeoff recently, as if a TV cookery show actually mattered.Me too. In fact, I am so down with the Great British Bake Off that I agreed to be a judge in an art homage to it, called Edible Masterpieces. The Art Fund contest challenges ar
  
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• Hilla Becher obituary

  15-10-2015 13:40
  
  Artist-photographer who with her husband created a unique record of vanishing industrial structuresIn June 1966, the German artist Hilla Becher, who has died aged 81, set off, together with her husband Bernd and their two-year-old son Max, to south Wales in a VW camper, towing an old caravan fitted out as a darkroom. They were there on a six-month British Council bursary to photograph the coalmines’ winding towers and processing plants. Whatever initial reservations the Welsh miners may ha
  
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• Searching for Sam Gilliam: the 81-year-old art genius saved from oblivion

  15-10-2015 13:39
  
  In the 1960s, he was hailed as an artist as radical as Jackson Pollock – but the art world somehow forgot Sam Gilliam. Here’s how two savvy fans tracked him down and brought him back into the spotlightThree years ago, Sam Gilliam was living in obscurity and his money was running out. He was nearing 80, his health was bad and he had no pension. But there was one thing he still had, one thing he had never given up on: the studio near his apartment in Washington DC.In the 1960s and 70s,
  
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• These charming animal silhouettes are coloured using nature

  15-10-2015 10:09
  
  Artist Nikolai Tolstyh threw pens and paints aside for a series of drawings, using the Russian countryside to illustrate his animals.
  
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• From an Instagram hoax to a holiday in Pyongyang

  15-10-2015 07:00
  
  Artist Amalia Ulman discusses her new film, based on a trip to North Korea, showing at Frieze this weekNorth Korea is known for many things – but rarely is it contemplated for its aesthetics. While some international artists have addressed the politics and human rights abuses of Kim Jong-un’s regime, few have travelled to the country to experience their effect firsthand.Related: Portraits to inspire and intimidate: North Korea's omnipresent leadersRelated: 'The North Korean posters t
  
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