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• Britain's 'oldest artwork' discovered after 14,000 years

  02-11-2015 22:11
  
  A dig in Jersey has uncovered artefacts from the end of the last Ice Age
  
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• ‘Under Construction Since 1996’: Rhizome’s Newly Remodeled Website Debuts

  02-11-2015 22:07 via artnews.com
  Today, the nonprofit digital arts organization Rhizome relaunched their website with the help of the New York division of the ad agency Wieden+Kennedy.As the organization approaches their 20th year, “our website was beginning to not represent the kind of web … Read More
  
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• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Abstraction: Frank Stella Stuns at the Whitney

  02-11-2015 21:00 via artnews.com
  Get ready to be dazzled by Stellaworld. The dozens of eye-popping paintings and massive sculptures executed by Frank Stella, beginning in 1958, that fill the Whitney Museum’s capacious fifth floor and outdoor terrace are going to envelop you. As soon … Read More
  
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• Ye Olde Performace Art Biennial: Renaissance-Themed Performa Opens In New York

  02-11-2015 20:17 via artnews.com
  The biennial Performa’s opening night gala for its tenth-anniversary edition happened to fall on All Saints’ Day, and so it’s appropriate that the chosen setting was a church. On Sunday, a small group of guests were led into the nave of … Read More
  
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• ‘It’s Not Like We Take This Out to the Suburbs and Do a Tryout:’ RoseLee Goldberg on Performa’s Risks and the Must-See Events this Month

  02-11-2015 20:17 via artnews.com
  The biennial Performa’s opening night gala for its tenth-anniversary edition happened to fall on All Saints’ Day, and so it’s appropriate that the chosen setting was a church. On Sunday, a small group of guests were led into the nave of … Read More
  
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• MoMA Is Now Requiring Timed Tickets for ‘Picasso Sculpture’

  02-11-2015 20:01 via artnews.com
  It seemed too good to be true that entry to MoMA’s “Picasso Sculpture” was un-ticketed when the exhibition opened in September. Today, the museum announced that that would no longer be the case anymore—museum visitors are now required to buy … Read More
  
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• ‘Allan McCullom: Shapes Spinoffs’ at Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin

  02-11-2015 18:59 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “The Shapes Project: Shapes Spinoffs” showcases 144 handmade ash wood objects by Allan McCullom. “Shapes Spinoffs,” a continuation on McCullom’s ongoing series “Shapes Project,” began in 2005 and is on view … Read More
  
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• ‘Allan McCollum: Shapes Spinoffs’ at Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin

  02-11-2015 18:59 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “The Shapes Project: Shapes Spinoffs” showcases 144 handmade ash wood objects by Allan McCollum. “Shapes Spinoffs,” a continuation on McCollom’s ongoing series “Shapes Project,” began in 2005 and is on view … Read More
  
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• Robert Cozzolino Named Curator of Paintings at Minneapolis Institute of Arts

  02-11-2015 18:47 via artnews.com
  The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (or Mia, as it is styling itself now) announced today that Robert Cozzolino will be the museum’s new Patrick and Aimee Butler Curator of Paintings. He is expected to begin his position at the Minnesota … Read More
  
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• C is for consciousness: paint your rich inner life

  02-11-2015 17:40
  
  All of us have a vast universe locked in the confines of our skulls. Wellcome Collection curator Emily Sargent wants you to use colour and light to explore your experience of the world. Share your art on human consciousness now
  The A to Z of Readers’ Art: our new project for you
  Gallery: the best of your B is for Body submissionsWhile science is still busy trying to come up with an established truth about what goes on inside our heads, artists (not to mention philosophers, writers and neur
  
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• Sotheby’s Had to Up Guarantee From $350 M. to $500 M. to Win Taubman Collection, Says ‘Major Art-World Player’

  02-11-2015 17:32 via artnews.com
  This week in New York, Sotheby’s begins its four-part sale of about 500 works from the collection of Alfred A. Taubman, the collector and former chairman of the auction house who spent ten months in prison for his role in … Read More
  
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• Rubin Museum of Art Appoints Jorrit A.M. Britschgi Director of Exhibitions, Collections, and Research

  02-11-2015 16:53 via artnews.com
  The Rubin Museum of Art has named Jorrit A.M. Britschgi director of exhibitions, collections, and research. Britschgi currently serves as head of exhibitions at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich. In his new position, which he will begin in early March, … Read More
  
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• Rubin Museum of Art Appoints Jorrit A. M. Britschgi Director of Exhibitions, Collections, and Research

  02-11-2015 16:53 via artnews.com
  The Rubin Museum of Art has named Jorrit A. M. Britschgi director of exhibitions, collections, and research. Britschgi currently serves as head of exhibitions at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich. In his new position, which he will begin in early … Read More
  
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• ‘I Don’t Know Half as Much as There Is to Know, But at Least I Know Half’: A Talk with Richard Prince

  02-11-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  Richard Prince lives and works in New York City. His solo show at Barbara Gladstone, “Cowboy,” closed last month Read More
  
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• 10 Art Events to Attend This Week in New York City

  02-11-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  A guide to the next seven days Read More
  
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• Fire in a Bronx Piano Factory: At Lucien Smith’s One-Night-Only Show, ‘Macabre Suite’

  02-11-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  On Thursday evening, there was an unusual amount of activity at an abandoned piano factory in the South Bronx, on the not-so-pristine banks of the Harlem River. A battalion of security guards clustered around the loading dock, and through the … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: North Korean Defector Edition

  02-11-2015 14:37 via artnews.com
  The Trevi Fountain’s 18-month-long, Fendi-sponsored restoration is almost complete. [The Art Newspaper]It’s not easy being an art newspaper in the post-print era. [The New York Times]A North Korean defector who created propaganda posters in a former life now uses his … Read More
  
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• Falling out of love with French cinema?

  02-11-2015 13:24
  
  Britain is considered to be one of the most difficult markets for French films
  
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• South Korean designers paint colourful murals on streets that only appear when it rains

  02-11-2015 12:56
  
  The Seoul team wanted to 'give people something to look forward to in monsoon season'
  
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• World War I: Tate Britain to play war-damaged instruments for months to mark centenary of conflict

  02-11-2015 00:56
  
  The work will be played in Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries from 21 November until 5 April
  
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• World War 1: Tate Britain to play war-damaged instruments for months to mark centenary of conflict

  02-11-2015 00:56
  
  The work will be played in Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries from 21 November until 5 April
  
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