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• Hand gestures review – shining study of sculptors in bronze

  19-11-2015 23:00
  
  This quiet, slow-burning documentary weaves its way through the atmospheric Milan workshops of an art that stretches back to the sixth century BCAustere, meditative, inscrutable, fascinating – Hand Gestures is the kind of documentary that is made all too rarely in this age of spoonfed soundbites and burbling talking heads. This quiet, slow-burning film studies the process by which a bronze sculpture is made, a meticulous series of steps that have barely changed since the sixth century BC.
  
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• Michael McGinnis Steps Down as President of Phillips After 16 Years

  19-11-2015 22:43 via artnews.com
  Phillips president Michael McGinnis will be stepping down from his position and leaving the company, he announced in an email to staff. He will be pursuing “various opportunities in the non-auction side of the art business.”“My tenure with Phillips has … Read More
  
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• New Foundation Seattle Awards Martha Rosler Inaugural 100K Prize

  19-11-2015 22:27 via artnews.com
  Today the New Foundation Seattle named artist Martha Rosler the first recipient of its 100K Prize, which will be given biennially to a notable American female artist. With the award, Rosler will receive $100,000 from the Seattle–based nonprofit arts organization, which … Read More
  
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• ‘Conversations’ at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis

  19-11-2015 20:08 via artnews.com
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• Getting the Band Back Together: Martha Wilson’s Punk Group Is Still Gigging After All These Years

  19-11-2015 20:04 via artnews.com
  The artist Martha Wilson answered the door to her apartment wearing a gray suit and tie, with a matching fedora that covered her curious hair, half of which is dyed a reddish orange. Ilona Granet, one of Wilson’s collaborators, stood … Read More
  
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• Casey Kaplan Now Represents Jonathan Gardner

  19-11-2015 19:35 via artnews.com
  Jonathan Gardner, whose lush, richly colored, cartoon-inflected paintings abound with beautiful ladies (who are quite often topless), elegant patterns, and art-historical references, is now represented by Casey Kaplan in New York.A representative for the gallery, which is based in Manhattan’s Flower … Read More
  
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• Emma Hart, artist: 'There is something magic about your hands in clay... your troubles fade away'

  19-11-2015 19:17
  
  Karen Wright meets the artist in her studio in Peckham, south-east London
  
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• Martha Lucy Appointed Deputy Director and Curator of the Barnes Foundation

  19-11-2015 17:51 via artnews.com
  Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation has named Dr. Martha Lucy deputy director for education and public programs as well as its inaugural curator, Thom Collins, the museum’s executive director and president, announced today. The appointment takes effect immediately.In a statement, Collins said, “Martha … Read More
  
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• The future is round: why modern architecture turned doughnut-shaped

  19-11-2015 17:19
  
  From GCHQ to the Apple campus, huge disc-like buildings are popping up around the world. As artist Simon Denny warns, they betray a world with no corners in which to hide“Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it,” Buckminster Fuller once said. Unfortunately, the public thought the same when the architect tried to flog them his circular houses. But if we’re not living in circles in the 21st-century, we’re increasingly finding ourselves working in them
  
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• An Imagined Museum review – unforgettable art from the year 2052

  19-11-2015 17:12
  
  Tate Liverpool
  This fantastical exhibition catapults us into the future – when civilisation is on the brink of collapse – and shows us how to save the world’s greatest artworks
  A boy sees a beautiful woman on a concrete jetty at Orly Airport a moment before a shot rings out and a man falls dead, throwing the airport into terror and chaos. The memory of her face will stay with him all his life, as he survives the destruction of Paris and then is sent back in time to find this wo
  
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• London to get 'tropical paradise' festival in the middle of winter with waterfall, rainforest and swim-up bars

  19-11-2015 16:59
  
  'It’s basically a box of summer during winter'
  
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• Here Is the 2016 Outsider Art Fair Exhibitor List

  19-11-2015 16:03 via artnews.com
  The 24th Outsider Art Fair opens in New York at the Metropolitan Pavilion on January 21, 2016, and runs through January 24. The fair features 59 exhibitors from 13 countries showing work by newly discovered or self-taught artists. A full … Read More
  
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• People stuck their arm in a hole and let a tattoo artist ink what they wanted

  19-11-2015 15:18
  
  'I think there is a bit of magic there in the exchange, the drawing-a-card-out-of-the-deck dynamic'
  
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• Morning Links: Kazimir Malevich’s Racist Joke Edition

  19-11-2015 14:44 via artnews.com
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• Couple in long-distance relationship connect by splicing together their photos

  19-11-2015 12:05
  
  The composites highlight the differences and similarities of their worlds
  
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• See Cate Blanchett transformed into homeless man for art exhibition

  19-11-2015 08:49
  
  She previously played a man in the film I'm Not There
  
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• Cate Blanchett transforms into homeless man for art exhibition

  19-11-2015 08:49
  
  She previously played a man in the film I'm Not There
  
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• Untitled(V was a crushed pill)

  19-11-2015 01:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  V was a crushed pill. She noted the squatting woman.The young man in a plaid and yellow jacket crowded v. His beard was homogenous and rainproof.  I seated myself next to him. He moved two chairs down.Danzig, the young man said. All day. All day.I did crack cocaine when I went to college in Memphis, said V.I went to public school, I said.When V smoked heroin she was numb for three hours. She would forget everything. Sometimes she reconnected with a dreamy old storyline but mostly she felt s
  
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