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• The Man Who Laughed at Surveillance Technology: Mishka Henner on His Jarring Images About Images

  21-10-2015 23:32 via artnews.com
  The scariest thing about Mishka Henner’s “Feedlots” photographs is that they are so beautiful. In one photograph from the series, a pool of bright red swirls interrupts a field of greyish boxes. The closer you look, the more you begin to … Read More
  
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• Joseph Cornell Really, Really Liked Sweets

  21-10-2015 20:48 via artnews.com
  Exciting news. Other Press just released a new edition of Utopia Parkway (1997), Deborah Solomon’s deeply researched and intensely entertaining biography of the Surrealist Joseph Cornell (1903–72). The book, which takes its name from the road that Cornell lived on in Flushing, Queens, with … Read More
  
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• ArtTable Names New Board Members

  21-10-2015 20:17 via artnews.com
  ArtTable announced today the appointment of nine new members to its board of directors: Ruth Abrahams, Alyson Baker, Naomi Beckwith, Jenny Dixon, Tracy Freedman, Deborah Harris, Elizabeth Smith, Susan Talbott, and Xiliary Twil. The new members range from the Marilyn … Read More
  
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• ‘Fawn’s Leap, NY’ at Kimberly-Klark

  21-10-2015 19:50 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Fawn’s Leap, NY” is currently on view at Kimberly Klark in Queens. The joint exhibition features work by Jacky Connolly and Flannery Silva in the artist-run space, which is open on … Read More
  
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• Fly, funky and fearless: meet the Black Romantics

  21-10-2015 19:35
  
  London is seeing the rise of a new wave of young black creatives, from style queen Swanzy to painter Barka and performance poet Belinda Zhawi. Is this the future of Afropolitanism?The women in Barka’s paintings have full lips. The men have broad noses. But although their skin is always shaded grey, the imagery is unapologetically black. No one in Barka’s portraits returns your gaze because, he says, they are, “funky, fly and don’t give a fuck”. The artist dubbed his
  
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• Dutch museum achieves the impossible with new Hieronymus Bosch show

  21-10-2015 19:20
  
  To mark the artist’s 500th anniversary, the director of small Dutch museum secures 20 of 25 surviving panels by ‘the devil’s painter’
  Seven years ago, the director of a small museum in the Netherlands set out on an impossible quest: he wanted to borrow every surviving work in the world by the wildest imagination in the history of art, Hieronymus Bosch, to celebrate his 500th anniversary in the city of his birth. He did not have a single painting to offer on loan in return
  
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• Consumer Reports: Sadie Laska

  21-10-2015 18:56 via artnews.com
  Sadie Laska is an artist living and working in Brooklyn. This year, she has staged solo exhibitions at Canada in New York and Galerie Bernard Ceysson in Luxembourg. In addition to visual art, Laska has also performed in the groups IUD … Read More
  
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• Punk with a paintbrush: how Turner sunk the Empire

  21-10-2015 18:01
  
  JMW Turner’s Battle of Trafalgar celebrates a great British victory 210 years ago today … but really it’s a mutiny, revealing a gigantic act of unpatriotic rebellionThe sea broils with war. Sails hover like veils above the dead and dying. Is this the Victory or defeat? JMW Turner’s painting The Battle of Trafalgar 21 October 1805 is well worth looking at on Trafalgar Day, 210 years after Nelson’s stunning defeat of the French and Spanish fleets that changed the cou
  
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• The weird worlds of Roger Dean, prog rock's artist in residence

  21-10-2015 17:14
  
  Space was not the final frontier for artist Roger Dean, best known for his album covers for the band Yes. He went far beyond the galaxies for his fantastical images. Roger Dean: Somewhere Near Here, is at Trading Boundaries in Sheffield Green, East Sussex, until 3 November Continue reading...
  
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• Which skin colour are you? The pantone chart that confronts racism

  21-10-2015 17:13
  
  Brazil is meant to be a postracial society, where skin colour doesn’t count. But Pierre David’s human swatches reveal the truth about racism there – and beyondIn 1933, in a book called The Masters and the Slaves, the Brazilian anthropologist Gilberto Freyre wrote: “Every Brazilian, even the light-skinned, fair-haired one, carries about him on his soul, when not on soul and body alike, the shadow, or at least the birthmark, of the aborigine or the negro.”Freyre belie
  
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• Which skin colour are you? The human swatch chart that confronts racism

  21-10-2015 17:13
  
  Brazil is meant to be a postracial society, where skin colour doesn’t count. But Pierre David’s swatches reveal the truth about racism there – and beyondIn 1933, in a book called The Masters and the Slaves, the Brazilian anthropologist Gilberto Freyre wrote: “Every Brazilian, even the light-skinned, fair-haired one, carries about him on his soul, when not on soul and body alike, the shadow, or at least the birthmark, of the aborigine or the negro.”Freyre believed th
  
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• Ai Weiwei Receives Three-Year German Visa

  21-10-2015 17:11 via artnews.com
  Ai Weiwei’s spokesperson has announced that the Chinese artist and free speech activist has been given a three-year German visa, and will be taking up a professorship at Berlin’s University of the Arts. Ai posted a photo of the visa, which … Read More
  
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• Pires/Gewandhaus/Chailly, Barbican, London, review: A magical evening of golden moments

  21-10-2015 16:31
  
  Pianist Maria Joao Pires offered a sound of warm fullness and muscular expressiveness
  
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• Morning Links: Thieving Gallery-Goers Edition

  21-10-2015 14:41 via artnews.com
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• Controversial religious Barbie doll exhibition opens in Buenos Aires

  21-10-2015 14:06
  
  Barbies dressed as saints, Ken on the cross and Johnny Depp at the Last Supper … artists face down protest and unveil Barbie: The Plastic Revolution exhibitionAfter almost a year’s delay following opposition and outcry from churchgoers and rightwing activists, Emiliano Pool Paolini and Marianela Perelli, two artists from Rosario in Argentina, have finally unveiled Barbie: The Plastic Revolution, part of the Saints and Sinners exhibition at a small gallery in Buenos Aires’ La B
  
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• Anish Kapoor’s Orbit losing £10,000 a week, described as ‘standout success’ for Olympic legacy

  21-10-2015 11:38
  
  ‘Pointless monument at vast taxpayer expense’ isn’t bringing in the £1.2m annual profit forecast
  
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• Coal faces: the last miners in Spain – in pictures

  21-10-2015 08:00
  
  Pierre Gonnord spent five years shooting Spain’s last generation of coal miners the moment they finished their shifts – an important record of a disappearing community. Mining began here centuries ago, and the pits will close in 2018Going under: meet the last coal minersContinue reading...
  
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• The Lost Performance Of James Baldwin And Ray Charles At Carnegie Hall

  21-10-2015 02:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If the image of Baldwin and Charles on stage together rings no bells, it may be because negative press had buried it out of range of critics.”
  
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• Netflix And Studios Face Lawsuit Over Lack Of Captioning During Songs

  21-10-2015 01:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The suit alleges that films advertised by the studios with the option of captions or subtitles are incomplete as song lyrics are not included.”
  
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• Do Videogames Help Keep The Modern Symphony Alive?

  21-10-2015 00:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Having begun its first season three years ago, the videogame oriented content continues to make waves among the more, erm, ‘reserved’ concertgoer crowd. While many programmers and conductors appear to roll their eyes at such a debasement of their art, they still gladly take the money that’s off-setting the orchestra’s annual 2.8% decline in sales. “
  
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• Could Louise Bourgeois’s ‘Spider’ Topple the Auction Record for Work by a Female Artist?

  21-10-2015 00:03 via artnews.com
  Though Christie’s elected to not list publicly the estimated sale price for Louise Bourgeois’s Spider (1997), which will be auctioned as lot 10 in the house’s postwar and contemporary evening sale on November 10 in New York—it is high enough to break … Read More
  
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