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• Phillips Contemporary Art Day Sale Sees Records for Math Bass, Tetsumi Kudo, Jon Pestoni, More

  10-11-2015 23:53 via artnews.com
  Phillips wound down its auction week in New York with a day sale of 20th-century and contemporary art that saw a fairly mediocre sell-through rate of 72 percent, with 159 of 221 lots finding buyers. That sell-through rate was almost identical to the … Read More
  
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• United States Artists Name 2015 Fellows, Including Paul Pfeiffer, Mickalene Thomas, Dawoud Bey

  10-11-2015 21:45 via artnews.com
  Earlier today the United States Artists grant-making organization announced its 2015 fellows. Selected from over 400 nominees from various artistic disciplines, the 37 fellows will each receive a $50,000 reward.The winners in the category of visual arts are: Judith Baca, USA … Read More
  
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• This Town, That Town: Washington D.C.’s Hirshhorn Museum Has Its Anniversary Gala in New York

  10-11-2015 21:07 via artnews.com
  On Monday night, Washington D.C.’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden held its 40th anniversary gala in, of all places, Lower Manhattan, on the 68th floor of 4 World Trade Center. The gala honored 40 living artists—among them Marina Abramovic, Lynda … Read More
  
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• Modigliani painting sells to Chinese billionaire for record breaking $170m

  10-11-2015 20:10
  
  Sale to Liu Yiqian, former taxi driver who is one of China’s most ostentatious billionaires, makes painting the second most expensive ever sold at actionA Chinese taxi driver turned billionaire art collector has paid a record-breaking $170m (£113m) for a painting of a nude woman by Amedeo Modigliani at an auction in New York.
  Reclining Nude was sold at Christie’s on Monday after a protracted, nine-minute bidding battle, eventually going to Liu Yiqian, who has built a reputation
  
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• Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things: Lost poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley to go on display after being acquired by Bodleian Libraries

  10-11-2015 19:16
  
  All copies of the pamphlet, which was first published in 1811, were believed lost to fire 
  
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• Percy Bysshe Shelley lost poem to go public at University of Oxford

  10-11-2015 19:16
  
  All copies of the pamphlet, which was first published in 1811, were believed lost to fire 
  
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• Squid ink with a side of ego: what big-name chefs are serving us | Catherine Shoard

  10-11-2015 18:37
  
  Bradley Cooper in Burnt is every inch the modern celebrity cook – these hotshots claim to be catering for us, but in truth they’re just pleasing themselvesThe weekend before last I made sandwiches so disgusting that my boyfriend was sick. It was the combination – salmon eggs and avocado, taramasalata and celeriac remoulade – and, beyond that, the intention. This was a lunch born of the eagerness to use up leftovers, rather than the desire for it to taste nice enough to at
  
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• Detours: Xavier Cha on a Lafawndah Performance at the Brooklyn Museum

  10-11-2015 18:31 via artnews.com
  Detours is an ongoing series in which a New York–based artist gives us a tour of a show of his or her choosing Read More
  
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• Georg Friedrich Haas on 'Morgen und Abend': 'I don't do melodies'

  10-11-2015 18:09
  
  'Expect soundscapes, not harmonies', says the composer of his Covent Garden premiere.
  
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• ‘Olivier Mosset: Plan B’ at The Power Station

  10-11-2015 18:08 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Olivier Mosset: Plan B” is on view at The Power Station in Dallas until December 18, showcasing works by the Swiss artist in a space that was constructed as a … Read More
  
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• Modigliani Reclining Nude sells for £113m at auction: Do you have better taste than a billionaire?

  10-11-2015 17:58
  
  Modigliani's Reclining Nude painting has sold for a whopping £113m, making it the second most expensive painting ever sold at auction, after Picasso's Les Femmes D'Alger. 
  
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• Abraham Cruzvillegas: ‘La Ciudad de México está al borde del colapso ... pero sigue optimista’ – vídeo

  10-11-2015 16:40
  
  Pese a la naturaleza precaria de la ciudad, Abraham Cruzvillegas ve mucho que adorar en la urbe donde vive y trabaja: la protesta, la música, la transformación constante ... y las perlas que se encuentra en la basura. El primer artista mexicano en exponer en el espacio Turbine Hall de la Tate Modern en Londres nos muestra de primera mano cómo su arte celebra el caos moderno de la Ciudad de MéxicoRead this article in English here Ai Weiwei: ‘Pequín es una
  
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• Alexander Calder at the Tate, 1962 - Guardian review

  10-11-2015 16:39
  
  A new Alexander Calder exhibition is opening at the Tate Modern. The Guardian was wowed by the gallery’s last retrospective for the master of the mobile More than any living abstract artist, Alexander Calder is the one whose work I should most recommend the sceptic to see. It is now nearly twenty years since New York’s Museum of Modern Art held the first Calder retrospective. It was organised by James Johnson Sweeney, whom we in London may now thank for the largest Calder retrospecti
  
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• Take me to the cosmic vagina: inside Tibet's secret tantric temple

  10-11-2015 16:12
  
  Lukhang temple is the Buddhist Sistine Chapel, full of stunning murals of body-hopping yogis and the vagina that gave birth to the world. It’s meant for the Dalai Lama’s eyes only – so how did a US photographer manage to share its secrets?
  In the spring of 1986, Thomas Laird stood before the secret tantric paintings in the Lukhang temple of Lhasa, Tibet. The American photographer was one of the first westerners ever to enter, and the first to shoot inside this secret space crea
  
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• Asking Apple Care for help with your existential crises

  10-11-2015 15:50
  
  It’s late, you’re alone and all your friends are offline. You’ve just been through a terrible break-up and you need someone to talk to.
  
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• Sex sells: why Modigliani's 98-year-old hymn to lust is worth $170m

  10-11-2015 15:11
  
  Painted through an absinthe haze as the first world war raged, Amedeo Modigliani’s Nu couché mixes modernist thrills with age-old hedonism. No wonder it still seducesShe offers herself up to the painter, lying back on a rich red bed, her eyes as black as desire. This is not an academic study of the nude; this is a painting about sex.Related: Modigliani's Reclining Nude fetches second-highest ever art auction price No paintings have ever been easier on the eye than the great modernis
  
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• Here Is the Exhibitor List for Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2016

  10-11-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  The Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair hits Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar for its seventh edition in late January. The fair’s exhibitor list, released to ARTnews, features new additions from New York, London, Berlin, and elsewhere, and includes new sections for the fair, including … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Facebook Army Edition

  10-11-2015 14:57 via artnews.com
  A Manhattan socialite has accused her Swiss banker ex of stealing their $25 million art collection, including works by Basquiat and Warhol. [New York Post]On the high-tech restoration of the Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C.. [Citylab]Meet Artbit, the Shazam of … Read More
  
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• Modigliani’s Reclining Nude sells for £113m, second highest sum ever paid for a painting

  10-11-2015 10:05
  
  The Italian painter's work was not appreciated during his fairly short life
  
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• Abraham Cruzvillegas: 'Mexico City is about to collapse … yet it's optimistic' – video

  10-11-2015 09:45
  
  Abraham Cruzvillegas, the first Mexican artist to exhibit at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, shows us how his art embraces the modern chaos of Mexico City. Despite its precarious nature, Cruzvillegas loves the city in which he lives and works: the protests, the music, constant transformation ... and some great rubbishAi Weiwei: ‘Beijing is a prison for free speech’ – videoAntony Gormley: ‘London is bought, developed and abandoned’ – videoContinue reading...
  
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• Modigliani's Reclining Nude fetches second-highest ever art auction price

  10-11-2015 05:34
  
  Painting sells for US$170.4m in New York auction, falling $9m short of record set by Picasso’s Women of Algiers (Version O)A painting by Amedeo Modigliani has fetched US$170.4m (£112.7m) at an auction in New York, setting a world record for the artist. Related: A Picasso has just been bought for a record US$179m, but is it worth it?Continue reading...
  
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• Christie’s ‘Artist Muse’ Sale Nets $491.4 M., Led by a $170.4 M. Modigliani, the Second-Highest Price Ever Realized at Auction

  10-11-2015 05:31 via artnews.com
  Amedeo Modigliani’s Nu Couché (1917–18) soared past its already astronomical $100 million on-request estimate en route to a record-smashing price of $170.4 million at Christie’s Monday night, making the magnificent nude portrait the second-most-expensive painting ever sold at auction—and, in a twist, … Read More
  
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