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• Gavin Brown’s Enterprise’s Jamie Kenyon Has Joined 47 Canal

  19-10-2015 23:27 via artnews.com
  After three years at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise in New York, Jamie Kenyon has joined Lower East Side gallery 47 Canal as director. (If you were at Frieze London this past week you may have spotted him at 47’s booth, which … Read More
  
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• New Manhattan Burger Joint Near Basquiat’s Apartment Will Offer a $64 Basquiat Burger

  19-10-2015 22:14 via artnews.com
  This week, the Bowery will welcome to its boutique-stuffed environs a new branch of PYT Burger, a Philadelphia-based patty shack known for doing wild and crazy things like making burgers with doughnuts for buns, because that’s just how people roll … Read More
  
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• Artist Jonathan Jones on Wiradjuri country: 'Everything is chained up'

  19-10-2015 22:11
  
  Indigenous people of New South Wales struggle to gain access to the wood, shells, emu eggs and possum skins necessary to their culture, the artist saysIn Australia the term “black stump” delineates the point at which an established settlement ends and the so-called uncivilised wilderness begins.Related: At Poisoned Waterhole creek I tell my son about the slaughter of our people | Stan Grant You’re not meant to touch red gums, but that’s what you make clubs, spears and shi
  
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• ‘I Believe in the Beyond of Bed, Bath & Beyond’: Andrew Kuo on Sports, ‘The Sopranos,’ Sadness, and More

  19-10-2015 21:47 via artnews.com
  Extracurriculars is a new recurring feature in which artists discuss their interests that are not art.“Last night I talked to some wasted guy whose tooth flew out of his mouth while screaming about the Mets,” artist Andrew Kuo tweeted recently. His handle, … Read More
  
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• Bryan Hymel on 'Carmen' and the perils of singing the most difficult notes in opera

  19-10-2015 20:44
  
  It was only after trying to sing like the 'three Tenors' that I found my operatic voice
  
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• ‘We Aim to Become an Epicenter of a Generation of Exhibitors’: Paris Internationale’s Co-Founders on Their FIAC Satellite Fair

  19-10-2015 20:01 via artnews.com
  Last year, Paris’s FIAC got into the satellite fair game, launching (Off)icielle, which focuses on younger dealers. This year, (Off)icielle returns with FIAC, but it is joined by a newcomer fair, Paris Internationale, which has been started by five local galleries: Galeries … Read More
  
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• Miley Cyrus Is Taking Dan Deacon On Tour

  19-10-2015 19:43 via artnews.com
  Today, Pitchfork reports that the rainbow rock musician and composer Dan Deacon is playing select dates in support of Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz, the collaborative project between Cyrus and The Flaming Lips.Deacon—who has made work ranging from electronic … Read More
  
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  19-10-2015 17:41
  
  Get your weekly art world low-down every Friday, sketching out all the latest news, scandals and unmissable shows Delivered right to your inbox every Friday afternoon, Art Weekly is your one-stop shop for all your arty needs ... Jonathan Jones handpicks the best exhibition openings and rounds up the week’s biggest stories, in case you missed them.To sign up, create an account on theguardian.com Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Rei Naito: The Joys Were Greater’ at Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo

  19-10-2015 17:37 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Joe Sheftel Will Close New York Gallery, Join Hammer as Director of Donor Relations

  19-10-2015 17:20 via artnews.com
  After nearly four years in business, dealer Joe Sheftel announced today that he will close his Lower East Side gallery to join the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles with the title Director, Donor Relations.“It has been exhilarating to run a … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: ‘The Room’ Edition

  19-10-2015 15:02 via artnews.com
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• Picasso in a space suit: the astronaut artist orbiting Earth

  19-10-2015 14:52
  
  Photographs taken by astronaut Scott Kelly from the International Space Station are beautiful – but could a robot do better?What makes astronaut Scott Kelly’s photographs so special? Kelly, the commander of the International Space Station, has just become the US astronaut who has spent the longest time in space. Up there sitting in a tin can far above the earth, his hobby is taking photographs of the incredible planet below him – and it’s more than a hobby. Kelly calls hi
  
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• Inside the mind of the museum-goer

  19-10-2015 12:00
  
  Why do some people spend all day in a gallery while others dash around in an hour? Welcome to the latest obsession of the world’s biggest museums “Each of us has our own singularity,” says Schaeffer, “owing as much to the accidents of personal history as to the weather on a particular day. We have a sort of hedonistic computer in our brains, gauging pleasure against pain, constantly appraising actions. But it does not calculate what we see, rather our own inner state.&rdq
  
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• Landscape Photographer of the Year: Image of snow-capped Jurassic Coast scoops top prize

  19-10-2015 01:07
  
  The shot of a cold, calm sea sweeping up to cliffs was taken by Andy Farrer to win the overall title and £10,000
  
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