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• Alec Baldwin on Accidentally Buying a $95,000 Pat Steir Painting at Artwalk Benefit

  18-11-2015 23:27 via artnews.com
  Alec Baldwin has more of a casual relationship with the art world, one consisting mostly of out-bidding bankers at Hamptons charity auctions and flirting with the idea of opening a gallery because it would “be really cool.” Yet on Tuesday … Read More
  
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• Lisa Cooley Now Represents Fiona Connor

  18-11-2015 22:24 via artnews.com
  Lower East Side gallery Lisa Cooley has announced that it now represents Fiona Connor. Connor was the subject of a solo show at the gallery last summer. That exhibition included a replica of a concrete drinking fountain from Tompkins Square … Read More
  
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• Tibet's Secret Temple: Wellcome Collection's new exhibition showcases the glories of Lhasa's Lukhang Palace

  18-11-2015 21:18
  
  The images and murals that adorned the private temple of Tibet's Dalai Lamas, once glimpsed only by initiates, are now on show at a new exhibition in London.  Peter Popham explores the earthly treasures of Tantric Buddhism
  
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• Rats: the history of an incendiary cartoon trope

  18-11-2015 20:06
  
  From early 20th-century US scaremongers to Nazi propagandists, there is a long tradition of cartoonists depicting their targets as vermin but not everyone believes a recent Daily Mail cartoon was racistIn 1909, the US satirical magazine Puck published an image that portrayed immigrants, quite explicitly, as vermin. In Samuel Ehrhart’s cartoon, Uncle Sam, a star-spangled pied piper, leads a scurrying group, carrying such labels as “murderer”, “thief” and “convi
  
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• ‘I’m in a State of Waiting Here’: Skyscrapers, Videos, and Free Juice at Jesper Just’s Performa Commission

  18-11-2015 20:06 via artnews.com
  Last Friday, while waiting in line to see Jesper Just and FOS’s Performa commission, one chicly dressed attendee could be heard saying, “I love this idea of ‘Don’t have a performance within your performance.’ ” Alas, there was a performance in … Read More
  
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• ‘Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age’ at Museum Brandhorst

  18-11-2015 19:19 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age” is on view at Museum Brandhorst in Munich through April 30, 2016. Featuring 230 works by 107 artists, the exhibition is … Read More
  
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• Invite only: step into Oliver Jeffers' secret art society

  18-11-2015 19:15
  
  He’s best known as an illustrator, but Jeffers also paints portraits – though you have to get access to a secret ceremony to see them, and after a few fleeting moments he dips them in paint so they are concealed forever
  “Nothing is permanent,” says Oliver Jeffers solemnly. The bestselling illustrator and U2 collaborator has invited me to a clandestine meeting at a Covent Garden warehouse, which in its time has been a tailors, mechanics and a gay brothel.Dressed in paint-s
  
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• ‘He Taught Me How to Be a Leather Dyke’: And Other Perfect Moments From Fotofocus’s Cincinnati Symposium on the 1990 Mapplethorpe Controversy

  18-11-2015 18:26 via artnews.com
  Late last month, FotoFocus and the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati hosted a symposium, titled “Mapplethorpe +25,” which took a look back at the dramatic events that surrounded the exhibition “Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment” a quarter century earlier. As … Read More
  
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• Team Building: Uri Aran Mounts Collaborative Performance at Gavin Brown’s Lower East Side Space

  18-11-2015 17:59 via artnews.com
  Last Monday afternoon, the artist Uri Aran staged a collaborative performance at Gavin Brown’s Lower East Side space that incorporated art, jazz, dance, and even bagels. The end result was a non-linear and at times absurdist exploration of group dynamics … Read More
  
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• Robert Smithson: the epic life of an American enigma

  18-11-2015 17:20
  
  His masterpiece Spiral Jetty took psychedelia back to nature, but Smithson was once a city boy dazzling New York with his porn pastiches. A new show revisits a legend’s unlikely beginningsRobert Smithson is one of the most enigmatic artists of the late 20th century. In 1970 he created Spiral Jetty, a snail-like coil of heaped stones that extends far out into the Great Salt Lake in Utah. This modern monument in the middle of nowhere (for years it vanished under the lake, only to resurface i
  
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• Yolanda Sonnabend obituary

  18-11-2015 16:01
  
  Stage designer and portrait painter, renowned for her work with the choreographer Kenneth MacMillanYolanda Sonnabend’s professional career as a stage designer was blessed with success from the outset. She had her first design commission at the Royal Ballet while still an undergraduate, in 1958. Then, through the 1960s, 70s and 80s, most often working for the choreographer Kenneth MacMillan, with whom she developed a special relationship, Yolanda, who has died aged 80, designed a string of
  
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• Retrospective: Knoedler & Co. Hires a Female Art Dealer in 1915

  18-11-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
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• Morning Links: Absolut Art Edition

  18-11-2015 14:48 via artnews.com
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• Classic paintings and film stills given wheat-free makeovers in 'Gluten Free Museum' project

  18-11-2015 14:39
  
  One of the internet's more bizarre artistic offerings
  
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• 'We must get men to talk': photographers address suicide rates among young men

  18-11-2015 12:09
  
  Rapper Professor Green has bravely shared his battle with grief since his father killed himself. Now, musicians and photographers have joined forces to confront the issue – and encourage vulnerable young men to seek help“Suicide is the biggest killer of men between 20 and 45,” says Professor Green with a tremble in his voice. “Someone could be hurting inside, but if they don’t tell you about it you might never know. We must get men to talk.” Continue reading..
  
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• Cigarettes, plastic surgery and religion: daily life for women in Iran – in pictures

  18-11-2015 08:00
  
  Whether they’re getting Botox, having a fag break or sneaking an illegal peek at a disrobed woman, Newsha Tavakolian’s photographs show middle-class Iranian women negotiating the space between Islamic ideology and self-expression• Tavakolian’s work is in the Carmignac photojournalism award retrospective at the Saatchi gallery, London, 18 November to 13 December Continue reading...
  
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• Cigarettes, plastic surgery and Islam: daily life for women in Iran – in pictures

  18-11-2015 08:00
  
  Whether they’re getting Botox, having a fag break or sneaking an illegal peek at a disrobed woman, Newsha Tavakolian’s photographs show middle-class Iranian women negotiating the space between Islamic ideology and self-expression• Tavakolian’s work is in the Carmignac photojournalism award retrospective at the Saatchi gallery, London, 18 November to 13 December Continue reading...
  
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• ‘It Is Clear That It Is Time for a Revolution’: At the Protests Against the Real Estate Summit at the Brooklyn Museum

  18-11-2015 00:17 via artnews.com
  Today the Brooklyn Museum played host to the 6th Annual Brooklyn Real Estate Summit, which became a hot-button source of controversy earlier this month after anti-gentrification activists criticized the nature of the event and the museum’s involvement with it. The theme for … Read More
  
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