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• Tintin: 'Poignant' final image of Hergé’s much-loved character goes on display in London

  11-11-2015 22:27
  
  Somerset House is opening an exhibition about the intrepid reporter and his author and illustrator
  
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• Art Since 1989: Author Kelly Grovier explores the dawn of a cultural epoch

  11-11-2015 21:10
  
  At the end of the Eighties, the world was convulsed by revolutions in politics, science and technology - and with them, old notions of art became redundant. In a new book, Kelly Grovier explains how anything goes now - and why it should
  
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• Worldwide where it’s Fawkes that counts | Letters

  11-11-2015 20:42
  
  Pankaj Mishra (Narendra Modi the divisive manipulator, 9 November) betrays his extreme views. Modi is a democratically elected prime minister of the world’s largest democracy. Mishra and many like him have never come to terms with it. He claims that non-resident Indians, denied full dignity in a white man’s world, have hitched their low self-esteem to Modi mania. One wonders what Pankaj is doing in the white man’s land he despises. He should be in India challenging Modi, rather
  
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• Check Out Paul Bright’s Collection on the New Bright Lyons Website

  11-11-2015 20:30 via artnews.com
  Earlier this week, Bright Lyons—the Downtown Brooklyn store run by the collector Paul Bright that specializes in art and antiques—unveiled a new website that contains a browsable selection of around 600 works from Bright’s collection.Bright, who also just released a book about … Read More
  
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• James Cohan Gallery Now Represents Mernet Larsen

  11-11-2015 20:09 via artnews.com
  James Cohan now represents Mernet Larsen, the gallery announced today. The 75-year-old painter last showed in New York at Johannes Vogt Gallery in 2012, which also marked her first solo show in Manhattan. The year before, Larsen showed in a … Read More
  
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• Consumer Reports: John Michael Boling

  11-11-2015 20:02 via artnews.com
  John Michael Boling is an artist currently based in Athens, Georgia. In the past, Boling has served as associate director of Rhizome and was a the creator of the infamous website 53 o’s. His work has been shown internationally at … Read More
  
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• Marcus Harvey show to include sculpture of naked Margaret Thatcher with pigs

  11-11-2015 19:49
  
  Artist known for portrait of Myra Hindley made of children’s handprints will stage Inselaffe exhibition at Jerwood GalleryThere is a happy pig on top of a reclining, naked, sexualised Margaret Thatcher, but the artist Marcus Harvey insists his sculpture has nothing to do with David Cameron.It was made long before recent stories about the prime minister. Nor does the allegation have anything to do with the work’s meaning, he said. Related: Simon Hattenstone views Marcus Harvey's new a
  
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• Ulay v Marina: how art's power couple went to war

  11-11-2015 19:21
  
  Partners in love and performance art, Ulay and Marina Abramović made passionate, pioneering work together for more than a decade. Now things have turned sour – and he’s taking her to courtA bearded old man with a weathered face stands in pink knickers. As part of his performance A Skeleton in the Closet, he is writing numbers on the wall of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum: 252, 253, 288, 289. The lucky spectators who made it in to the sell-out show – 500 hopefuls remain
  
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• Is Camila Batmanghelidjh really worse than Henry VIII and Oliver Cromwell?

  11-11-2015 18:48
  
  The National Portrait Gallery has taken down its painting of the Kids Company founder. But if the collection is a reflection of life, surely there should be space for the more ‘morally ambiguous’ among us The serial wife-killer stands plump and cocksure in the National Portrait Gallery, flaunting a dagger. Hans Holbein’s lifesize drawing of Henry VIII is undoubtedly the greatest work of art in this museum of pictures of British people. But should such a murderous tyrant be cele
  
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• ‘This Is a Genocide’: Art Historian Zainab Bahrani on ISIS’s Destruction of Cultural Heritage

  11-11-2015 18:29 via artnews.com
  Last year, news outlets began reporting that the militant group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria had begun bombing and bulldozing cultural heritage sites and artifacts, some dating back to ancient times. The losses this far include … Read More
  
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• Alexandre Tharaud, St John’s Smith Square, London, review: Excellent playing fails to cast a spell

  11-11-2015 17:49
  
  This church has a notoriously ‘wet’ acoustic and the fine detail of Bach's Goldberg Variations took place in a blur
  
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• ‘Simone Fattal: Sculptures & Paintings’ at Karma International

  11-11-2015 16:57 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Simone Fattal: Sculptures & Paintings” is currently on view at Karma International in Zürich through November 28. It showcases figurative sculptures, black and white paintings, and collages by the artist … Read More
  
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• Blistering barnacles! Tintin is back – with added swearwords

  11-11-2015 16:46
  
  Hergé’s adventurer is born again for the iPad age, with a new show and a digital project that puts all his expletives back in. The world’s top Tintinologist talks quiffs, colonialism – and beating Armstrong to the moonMichael Farr discovered Tintin at the age of four. Sixty-odd years later, after a career spent – like his boyhood hero – as a foreign reporter, he is a top Tintinologist, speaking at Tintin conferences around the globe, where aficionados gather
  
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• Russian artist who nailed genitals to Red Square could face three years in jail amid FSB fire allegations

  11-11-2015 16:37
  
  Controversial performance artist may face criminal charges for his latest work, Threat
  
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• Here Are the Exhibitors for Independent New York 2016, at Its New Home in TriBeCa

  11-11-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  Independent New York, the art fair that runs concurrently with the Armory Show in March, has shared the details of its 2016 edition. The fair, previously held at the former Dia building in Chelsea, which was recently sold, will open … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Hillary Clinton Edition

  11-11-2015 15:04 via artnews.com
  Artist Sarah Sole is quite the fan of Hillary Clinton—she has painted her nude, as Marilyn Monroe, as a Gothic American, and also as a Teletubby, to name a few. [The Huffington Post]Artist Zurab Tsereteli, creator of a 9/11 memorial in … Read More
  
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• James Turrell: 'More people have heard of me through Drake than anything else'

  11-11-2015 15:00
  
  The artist got attention from a new audience thanks to Drake’s Hotline Bling video – but his long career deals with art and life’s most fundamental substanceIn the art world James Turrell is something of a deity, so it feels almost apt that upon being introduced he instantly banishes me to another world, a world he created, with the reward of an interview after my return.
  An aide escorts me through a Los Angeles gallery hosting his latest exhibition and out to the back where th
  
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• Houston art gallery braced for backlash ahead of race exhibition by all-white artists including Ti-Rock Moore

  11-11-2015 11:24
  
  ‘Why aren’t more white artists aren’t stepping up to take on issues of race?’ asks curator of Houston Museum of African-American Culture asks
  
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• Can you spot the woman in these pictures? Bodypaint artist blends model into country scenes

  11-11-2015 11:15
  
  Jorg Dusterwald was named German Body Painting Champion in 2008
  
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• Christie’s $331.8M Postwar Auction Offloads a Record Bourgeois—and an Undervalued Warhol—En Route to Modest Total Sales

  11-11-2015 05:45 via artnews.com
  The trend of cooler bidding that’s defined these New York sales continued Tuesday night at Christie’s during its Postwar and Contemporary Art Evening sale, where notable flops and a few withdrawn lots accounted for a tepid $331.8 mil. haul, just … Read More
  
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• Christie’s $331.8M Postwar Auction Offloads a Record Bourgeois—and an Undervalued Warhol—En Route to Low Total Sales

  11-11-2015 05:45 via artnews.com
  The trend of cooler bidding that’s defined these New York sales continued Tuesday night at Christie’s during its Postwar and Contemporary Art Evening sale, where notable flops and a few withdrawn lots accounted for a tepid $331.8 mil. haul, just … Read More
  
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• Christie’s $331.8 M. Postwar Auction Offloads a Record Bourgeois—and an Undervalued Warhol—En Route to Modest Total Sales

  11-11-2015 05:45 via artnews.com
  The trend of cooler bidding that’s defined these New York sales continued Tuesday night at Christie’s during its postwar and contemporary art evening sale, where notable flops and a few withdrawn lots accounted for a tepid $331.8 million haul, just … Read More
  
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• Lucian Freud portrait of Camilla's ex-husband sells for nearly $35m

  11-11-2015 04:24
  
  Painting of Andrew Parker Bowles – formerly married to the Duchess of Cornwall – beats pre-sale estimate at Christies auction in New YorkA Lucian Freud portrait of the ex-husband of Britain’s Duchess of Cornwall, Andrew Parker Bowles, sold for $34.89m in New York on Tuesday, Christie’s said.
  The giant oil painting called “The Brigadier” smashed its pre-sale estimate of $30m. The British artist created it between 2003-04, shortly before Camilla married the Prin
  
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