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• ‘All Art Is Tragedy’: Wifredo Lam Paints a Picture, in 1950

  20-11-2015 22:35 via artnews.com
  Wifredo Lam, who was born in Cuba in 1902, was one of the very few artists from beyond the borders of the American and European art worlds to become a genuine star in those locales in the middle part of the 20th century. Lam’s work had … Read More
  
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• Jason Rohrer Will Be the First Video Game Designer to Have a Solo Museum Show

  20-11-2015 21:33 via artnews.com
  The Davis Museum at Wellesley College has organized a solo show of work by video game designer Jason Rohrer, which will open February 10, 2016. Though Rohrer’s revered game Passage is in the collection at the Museum of Modern Art … Read More
  
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• ‘Darren Bader: rocks and mirrors’ at Galleria Franco Noero, Turin

  20-11-2015 20:02 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Darren Bader: rocks and mirrors” is on view at Galleria Franco Noero in Turin, Italy, through December 23.
  
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• ‘I Wanna Grow a Concept!’: Wyatt Kahn Works Through How to Complete a Painting In New Performance Piece

  20-11-2015 18:57 via artnews.com
  Endearing, vivacious, and hyper-self-reflexive, Wyatt Kahn’s Work is a charming addition to this year’s Performa biennial. In the puppet-mocumentary, Kahn’s hard-edged, sculptural paintings come alive as plush pillow sculptures with the aid of puppeteers actually visible on stage, and Khan himself appears as his … Read More
  
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• Susan Philipsz' War Damaged Musical Instruments review – as uplifting as it is painful

  20-11-2015 18:19
  
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  A bugle from the Battle of Waterloo, a tuba from the trenches ... the Turner prize-winning artist marks the first world war centenary with a mournful soundwork in which instruments salvaged from battlefields play The Last PostSounds are calling down the 86m-long Duveen Gallery at Tate Britain, from 14 speakers mounted high on the walls. Otherwise, the space is empty.You can’t predict which speaker will next come to life with plangent, mournful music. Each of the speake
  
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• Asylum for artefacts: Paris's plan to protect cultural treasures from terrorists

  20-11-2015 17:48
  
  The president of the Louvre has drawn up a 50-point plan to protect artworks under threat around the world. At last, someone is responding to Isis with a full-throated defence of our common human heritageWe’ve had an era of “cultural diplomacy”, when museums aspired to spread global goodwill. Now, as Isis continues to attack both humans and human heritage, it’s time for a more hard-headed approach – the defence of civilisation and its treasures. And France is leadin
  
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• Boston Mayor Declares November 20, 2015 Corita Kent Day

  20-11-2015 17:36 via artnews.com
  Boston mayor Marty Walsh has declared November 20, 2015 Corita Kent Day for the city of Boston, in honor of what would have been the late nun and artist’s 97th birthday, according to Harvard Art Museum’s Facebook page. “The proclamation … Read More
  
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• ‘It’s Always a Question of Fantasy’: Juliana Huxtable On Her Indisputably Brilliant Performa Commission

  20-11-2015 17:32 via artnews.com
  Last Friday, at There Are Certain Facts That Cannot Be Disputed, Juliana Huxtable’s performance at the Museum of Modern Art commissioned for the Performa 15 biennial, the pre-show soundtrack included an ominous minor key southern rap instrumental by Three 6 … Read More
  
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• Art masterpieces worth €15m stolen from gallery in Italy

  20-11-2015 17:31
  
  Portrait of a Lady by Peter Paul Rubens and Male Portrait by Tintoretto among paintings taken in raid on Castelvecchio museum, VeronaMasterpieces by Rubens and Tintoretto were among 15 artworks stolen to order by masked robbers from a museum in Verona, the city’s mayor has said.Three men dressed in black entered the Castelvecchio museum in northern Italy at the evening change of guard on Thursday, tying up and gagging the site’s security officer and a cashier before taking the painti
  
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• Galleries outside London 'should do more to attract rich donors'

  20-11-2015 17:22
  
  After handing works to the Whitworth in Manchester, art dealer Ivor Braka says museum directors need to be better at charming potential donorsUK art galleries outside London should work harder to charm gifts out of rich donors, said a leading art dealer, Ivor Braka, after donating works to the Whitworth gallery in Manchester.Braka and another art dealer, Thomas Dane, are donating six contemporary works by British artists Tracey Emin, Gilbert and George, Michael Landy, Anya Gallaccio, Rebecca War
  
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• Habitat: Daniel Heidkamp

  20-11-2015 17:02 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Daniel Heidkamp; Sunset Park, New York. “I often write about my paintings,” Daniel Heidkamp told me. “Thinking about my work through literary terms has definitely helped to shape the solo shows … Read More
  
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• Felt-tip tourists: holiday firm unveils adult colouring book travel guide

  20-11-2015 14:59
  
  Adult colouring books are such a hot ticket that a holiday villa rental company has appointed a colouring-in artist in residence to prepare ‘guidebooks’ to its destinationsIn a year that has seen adult colouring books consistently top the bestseller charts, a travel company has announced the appointment of the first “colouring-in book artist in residence”. Oliver’s Travels, which sells luxury holiday villas, has hired an illustrator to turn some of its destinations
  
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• Morning Links: Scootering Around Art Basel Edition

  20-11-2015 14:51 via artnews.com
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• Violence, victors and victims: how to look at the art of the British empire

  20-11-2015 13:00
  
  There can be few more contentious subjects than the empire, and few artistic legacies more explosive. Now, Tate Britain is to hold the first major British exhibition of masterworks from the colonial period – and the results are revealingOne wet autumn night in 1951, the travel writer Peter Fleming – the elder and, at that point, more famous brother of Ian – was leaving the theatre when he heard a woman ask her companion to dinner to meet “a friend back from Rangoon”
  
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• Look up London! A pigeon's eye view of the city – in pictures

  20-11-2015 08:00
  
  Architectural photographer Paul Grundy wants Londoners to slow down and see things in a whole new light. From the Barbara Hepworth high up on Oxford Street to a shooting star pylon in Greenwich, he has taken shots of public art – from the groundContinue reading...
  
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• DC Comics in Lego: Batman, Robin and Superman hit Bondi – in pictures

  20-11-2015 01:01
  
  Ai Weiwei isn’t the only artist sculpting in Lego this season. New York artist Nathan Sawaya has used hundreds of thousands of bricks to recreate large-scale sculptures of some of DC Comic’s most enduring superheroes (and villains), including Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and the Joker. The largest exhibition of its kind is on show in Sydney for the next six monthsInterview: Nathan Sawaya – the artist making sculptures from lego• The Art of the Brick: DC Comics runs at th
  
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• Remaining two NC Wyeth paintings stolen in 2013 return to Maine

  20-11-2015 00:45
  
  The paintings, worth up to $500,000 each, will be displayed with four other works that were found earlier after being stolen from businessman’s homeA pair of stolen NC Wyeth paintings worth up to $500,000 apiece have been recovered and will be displayed in Maine along with four other stolen paintings recouped nearly a year ago in California, officials said Thursday.The two paintings were recovered last month when a third party surrendered them to a retired FBI agent in the Boston area, Har
  
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