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• New Vodka Brand Is Taking Miami Beach (By Strategy)

  13-11-2015 21:07 via artnews.com
  Emory Vodka, “a new ultra-premium line of 100% corn-based, Naturally Gluten Free vodka with a unique design concept,” will “launch” a “subliminal guerrilla marketing campaign” during Art Basel Miami Beach and “the unique brand marketing platform that Art Basel and … Read More
  
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• Enrico David's sculpture orgy: what fun, how weird, how strange!

  13-11-2015 18:20
  
  David’s irreverent sculptures contort into impossible positions, as if offering themselves to passing strangers – or waiting for someone to give them a good seeing-to. He is an imp of the perverseLegs straight, shoulders flat to the floor, arse in the air and ear to the ground. What a performance: the whole body is folded in an impossible position. It looks as if he is offering himself to passing strangers, waiting for someone to give him a good seeing-to. Unless he just got stuck li
  
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• ‘Thornton Dial: Works on Paper’ at Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York

  13-11-2015 17:58 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Thornton Dial: Works on Paper” is on view at Marianne Boesky’s East 64th Street location in New York until December 19, and features works created between 1990 and … Read More
  
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• Welcome to NetPark: the world's first invisible art gallery

  13-11-2015 17:35
  
  Talk to trees in an augmented reality treasure hunt or help the king and queen of Scentopia defeat the evil Weedo in a hands-on digital art park in Southend. Don’t forget your smartphoneStep into NetPark, the invisible art gallery, where there is absolutely nothing to see – unless you want to. Tucked away in Southend-on-Sea, the “world’s first digital art park” is quietly opening its nonexistent doors. On hearing this claim of a global first, people may be incredulo
  
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• Strong Sotheby’s Contemporary Day Sale Totals $98 M., Sets Kenneth Noland Record at $3.37 M.

  13-11-2015 17:35 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s capped its auction week yesterday with a respectable contemporary day sale that brought in $98 million. With 323 out of 418 lots finding buyers, 80 percent of the works that went on the block sold. Although some momentum was lost … Read More
  
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• Habitat: Louise Fili

  13-11-2015 17:28 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Louise Fili; Kips Bay, New York. “They were going to raise their rent from $12,500 to $50,000 per month, just like that!” Louise Fili said, discussing a Manhattan restaurant whose logo she designed … Read More
  
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• VIA Art Fund Names Fall 2015 Grant Recipients

  13-11-2015 17:12 via artnews.com
  The nonprofit philanthropic arts organization VIA Art Fund has announced its fall 2015 grant recipients, who received a combined total of $190,000.In recognition of work that falls within VIA’s three core values of “artistic production, thought leadership, and public engagement,” the … Read More
  
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• Sex and the city: 1660s London brought to life at National Maritime Museum

  13-11-2015 17:07
  
  Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution exhibition explores the great cultural and scientific changes that shook Restoration England“Sexual intercourse began/ In nineteen sixty-three/ (which was rather late for me),” wrote Philip Larkin. But he was wrong. It began in 1660. This was exactly the right moment for the 27-year-old Samuel Pepys, who careered joyously through a suddenly uninhibited London full of beautiful people sensually clad in frills, lace and silk – and that was j
  
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• $170m Modigliani sale was 'missed opportunity for Italy'

  13-11-2015 16:37
  
  Filippo Nogarin, populist mayor in artist’s hometown of Livorno, says painting should have remained in Italian handsThe record-breaking sale of Amedeo Modigliani’s famous painting of a nude, Nu Couché, to a Chinese billionaire for $170.4m (£120m) made headlines around the world this week. But it has prompted lamentation in the Italian artist’s hometown of Livorno, whose mayor said the painting should to have been bought by Italy instead.“I am displeased that
  
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• Russia discovers two secret paintings under avant-garde masterpiece

  13-11-2015 16:27
  
  Researchers in Moscow uncover colourful Cubist images beneath Kazimir Malevich’s famed ‘Black Square’Art experts in Russia say they have discovered two earlier paintings hidden under a monochrome masterpiece by Kazimir Malevich. Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery – which houses one of three versions of the art work Black Square – uncovered two Cubist images underneath the top coat of black paint as they investigated it using x-rays for its centenary this year. Related
  
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• Marina Abramović sued by her ex, and Modigliani breaks a record – the week in art

  13-11-2015 15:59
  
  Ulay and Marina’s relationship has soured – and he’s taking her to court. Plus the reclining nude bought for $170m by a former taxi driver and much more – in your weekly art-world dispatchSamuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution
  What makes history gripping? Is it plague, fire and revolution – all of which feature in the world of the great 17th-century diarist Pepys – or the daily details he records from feasting on oysters to “dallying” with women at
  
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• Morning Links: Condom Installation Art Edition

  13-11-2015 14:41 via artnews.com
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• Berrell Jensen obituary

  13-11-2015 14:21
  
  My mother, Berrell Jensen, has died aged 83. In the 1960s she was one of South Africa’s most prolific metal sculptors. After leaving South Africa in 1968 she went on to develop and manage a craft centre in Donegal, an adult education centre in Belfast, and two community centres in London. She retired in Ireland, where once more she took up her oxy-acetylene torch, creating art for a number of public commissions, including one weighing several tons and completed just prior to her first hip
  
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• Richard Goode, Wigmore Hall, review: At 72 this great American is just hitting his stride

  13-11-2015 14:02
  
  The Andante cantabile was on a grand scale too, the whirling Presto was driven by a breathless agitation
  
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• Graffiti, The Iliad, and why art helps us laugh in the face of death

  13-11-2015 13:58
  
  Jenny Valentine on why art has the power to save and change us, from reading The Iliad via a wall in Falmouth to Yves Klein’s Fire Colour OneThere’s a quote at the very beginning of my new book Fire Colour One. My husband Alex took a photo of some graffiti on the Falmouth seafront and a clever friend told us it was from The Iliad so that’s what it says underneath, all highbrow and literary. Check me. I read the classics. Except I don’t. Turns out it’s actually from
  
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• Christie’s Nets Healthy $145.5 M. at Imp-Mod Auction, Led by Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne

  13-11-2015 05:33 via artnews.com
  The New York evening sales concluded tonight with the Impressionist and modern sale at Christie’s, which racked up $145.5 million, well above its low estimate of $108.8 million—a quite successful tally accrued during a slow, steady waltz through a list of 59 relatively low-priced … Read More
  
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• Untitled( george’s face looked like a miscommunication.

  13-11-2015 02:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  she had a black sweater on with white skulls and bows that reminded me of hello kitty. her breasts were low and billowed. an oblong white vegetable was on the table.i took off my black sweat shirt and had to put it back on. i pulled my hands down the back of my neck to wipe the sweat.i was thinking about the women. something happens to me when they take off their underwear and i have had a budweiser. i felt hopeful and i wanted to die. i wanted to work with them, to make a proposal that they cou
  
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• Crowd Control: Xavier Cha Channels Unseen Forces at 47 Canal

  13-11-2015 00:11 via artnews.com
  Let’s begin with a warning.If you are going to be able to see Xavier Cha’s current show in New York at 47 Canal—a five day affair that closes this Sunday, November 15—it would be best to stop reading right now. … Read More
  
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