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• Byzantine 'flat-pack' church to be reconstructed in Oxford after spending 1,000 years on the seabed

  12-11-2015 22:13
  
  The 'Ikea-style' church, which dates to around 550 AD, will be put on display at the Ashmolean Museum
  
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• Valérie Belin wins Prix Pictet for showing how consumers are 'slowly killing the planet'

  12-11-2015 19:46
  
  The French photographer’s project Still Life took memento mori of cheap, plastic goods (from Slinkys to soldier dolls) to expose grotesque excessFrench photographer Valérie Belin, who lives and works in Paris, has won the Prix Pictet. The SFr100,000 award – presented at a ceremony in her home city – showcases “leading photographers’ contributions to the debate about the most pressing social and environmental challenges of today” and this year’s th
  
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• Sabine Moritz, painter: 'Having grown up in East Germany, I feel like a dinosaur'

  12-11-2015 19:15
  
  Karen Wright meets the artist at her studio in the middle of Cologne
  
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• Susan Hiller review – a bizarre, brilliant haunted house

  12-11-2015 19:05
  
  Lisson Gallery, LondonWith UFO testimonies, ghost photographs and drawings made by literally splitting hairs, Hiller’s new show is a fascinating gathering of countercultural beliefs and outsider truths that will leave you spookedSomething has been lost. It vanished years ago and no one can remember what it is. But still we search the skies and the shadows. Every mysterious light in the sky and each phantom in the camera lens is a glimpse of that nameless thing we lack.Susan Hiller’s
  
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• 'Heaven and hell are just one breath away!' Warhol's eerie last work revealed

  12-11-2015 18:46
  
  More than 100 of the artworks Andy Warhol made in his last days – which have never been exhibited before – will take over the Ashmolean museum in 2016
  More than 100 works made by Andy Warhol in the last years and months of his life, and never before exhibited, will be among the stars of next year’s exhibitions at the Ashmolean museum in Oxford – along with a “flatpack” Byzantine church that is finally being put together 1,500 years after the ship carrying it s
  
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• Manifesta 12 Will Be Held in Palermo, Italy, in 2018

  12-11-2015 18:19 via artnews.com
  The opening of Manifesta 11, in Zurich, is still more than seven months away, but today reps from the roving European biennial announced that they have selected Palermo, Italy, on the island of Sicily, as the site of Manifesta 12, … Read More
  
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• ARCO Madrid Will Stage a Lisbon Fair in 2016

  12-11-2015 17:46 via artnews.com
  The International Contemporary Art Fair (ARCO), which has run annually in Madrid since 1981, will hold a 2016 edition in Lisbon from May 26 through May 29, 2016, the art fair announced today.ARCOlisbon will open at the Fábrica Nacional da Cordoaria, in Belém, … Read More
  
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• ‘Cynthia Daignault: Light Atlas’ at Lisa Cooley

  12-11-2015 17:30 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Cynthia Daignault: Light Atlas” is on view at Lisa Cooley Gallery in New York until December 20. The show features 360 paintings created over the course of a … Read More
  
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• Van Gogh’s ear has been recreated using DNA, and it can hear you

  12-11-2015 16:24
  
  The ear is able to hear sounds through a microphone system
  
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• Christie’s Contemporary Art Day Sales Net $88.8 M., With Records for Gilliam, Krushenick, and for a Moment, Kelley

  12-11-2015 16:06 via artnews.com
  Christie’s finished out its contemporary-art auctions in New York with a morning sale and an afternoon sale Wednesday that offered about 400 lots and raked in $88.8 million in total. About 81 percent of the 224 lots in morning sale found buyers, while about 76 percent of the 175 lots … Read More
  
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• ‘It’s Never Really Over’: Tavares Strachan on His New, Rosalind Franklin-Inspired Show

  12-11-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  Tavares Strachan, the Nassau, Bahamas-born artist, makes conceptual works that tackle science, sociology, history, and technology. His latest exhibition, “Seeing is Forgetting the Thing that You Saw,” is on view now at Anthony Meier Fine Arts in San Francisco through December 11. Its focus … Read More
  
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• Lumiere 2016: Light festival extravaganza returns to dazzle Durham

  12-11-2015 15:00
  
  There are 29 exciting installations to explore throughout the northern city
  
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• Morning Links: Zaqistan Edition

  12-11-2015 14:54 via artnews.com
  The unofficial Republic of Zaqistan, an artist-run nation located northwest of Salt Lake City in Utah, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. [Hyperallergic]Here’s a profile of Glenn O’Brien, newly named top editor of Maxim. It covers a lot of … Read More
  
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• Masters Of The Everyday: Dutch Artists In The Age Of Vermeer: Masterpieces from the Queen’s art collection go on display at Buckingham Palace

  12-11-2015 12:28
  
  One of only 34 known Vermeer paintings is among the exhibition
  
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• Durham lights up for the Lumiere festival – in pictures

  12-11-2015 11:54
  
  Originally planned as a one-off, the first Lumiere took place in Durham in 2009, but six years on it has become the UK’s largest light festival. The Guardian’s photographer Chris Thomond went along Continue reading...
  
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• ‘I’ve got you under my skin’: You can soon get tattooed with ink made from a loved one

  12-11-2015 10:48
  
  The inventor has already produced some made from his daughter and son
  
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• Cy Twombly blackboard covered in scribbles fetches $70 million at Sotheby’s

  12-11-2015 10:25
  
  Untitled (New York City), 1968 broke a new record for Twombly at the Contemporary Art Evening sale
  
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• Watching Shia LaBeouf watch Shia LaBeouf is fascinating in its dullness

  12-11-2015 06:43
  
  Does a three-day livestream of LaBeouf watching (and sleeping through) his films critique our obsession with access to the stars or further facilitate it?Shia LaBeouf is watching every film he’s ever appeared in, back to back in reverse chronological order, with the resulting quiet spectacle streamed live for the 72 or so hours it takes to complete the marathon movie session. At the time of writing he’s having a little rest; every now and again his eyelids drift south and his head lo
  
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• Sotheby’s Contemporary Sale Hauls In $294.9 M., Setting Twombly Record at $70.5 M. in an ‘Infectious’ Salesroom

  12-11-2015 05:48 via artnews.com
  An enormous round of applause rang out in the Sotheby’s salesroom following its contemporary art evening sale tonight in New York, as the auction house wrapped perhaps the first solidly positive sale of the past week, totaling $294.9 million, over a low … Read More
  
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• Untitled(everyone wanted something more from the master than he had to give

  12-11-2015 02:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  the master was on the fifth floor. i was on the third floor. i heard him walking above me on the fourth floor.there was a phone and an intercom on every floor. the second floor had two thousand rooms.the master’s thin assistant bob was a marathon runner. he had his desk on the fourth floor.  he went up and down the fourth and second floors, seldom did he go to the fifth floor where the master worked slept thought about what he thought about, his thoughts were a mystery to us.the assis
  
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