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• Artadia Announces 2015 Houston Grantees

  23-11-2015 22:23 via artnews.com
  Artadia has announced the winners of the seventh cycle of 2015 Houston Artadia Awards: Lily Cox-Richard, Autumn Knight, JooYoung Choi, El Franco Lee II, and Charisse Weston. Artadia has implemented similar merit-based awards programs in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, … Read More
  
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• Performa Names Edgar Arceneaux Winner of the Malcolm McLaren Award

  23-11-2015 21:45 via artnews.com
  Performa announced today that the Los Angeles–based artist Edgar Arceneaux has won the biennial’s Malcolm McLaren Award for his performance Until, Until, Until…, staged for the first time on Friday, in New York.Named for the British artist who was also … Read More
  
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• Exhibition to honour Leonardo da Vinci – the inventor and engineer

  23-11-2015 20:43
  
  Museum to celebrate scientific side of Renaissance painter – with drawings and models of his pioneering ideas for flying machines and building equipment
  An exhibition celebrating the genius of Leonardo da Vinci as a scientist, inventor and engineer is to open at the Science Museum in London in February.The painter, who created the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, also once said he believed it was his destiny to build a machine to allow a man to fly, and had one of the most insatiably curious
  
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• ‘The Work Has No Metaphors’: Agatha Gothe-Snape Pays Cheironomic Homage To Lawrence Weiner

  23-11-2015 20:19 via artnews.com
  Last Wednesday evening at 8 p.m., audience members loosely filled the benches of the very ecclesiastical-looking auditorium inside New York’s Society for Ethical Culture for a performance of Agatha Gothe-Snape’s Performa 15 commission, Rhetorical Chorus (LW). The LW stands for … Read More
  
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• Richard Phillips on his First-Ever Show on the Lower East Side, and Taking on the Fallout from Playboy Marfa

  23-11-2015 20:01 via artnews.com
  On a recent afternoon in Long Island City, Richard Phillips—who has his first solo show in New York in three years on view at Mathew NYC on the Lower East Side—came to the door of his studio wearing jeans and a leather … Read More
  
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• Pagliacci and Cavalleria rusticana: Smelled any good operas lately?

  23-11-2015 18:24
  
  The Royal Opera's production of 'Cav and Pag' could take audience involvement to a new level
  
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• The Real Worth of a Photograph: How the New York Public Library’s Picture Collection Has Survived In the Age of Google Image

  23-11-2015 17:41 via artnews.com
  There are around 80 million photographs shared on Instagram everyday, according to the company’s statistics. That’s roughly 929 photos a second, which equates to 3.3 million images an hour, or a little over 1.5 million photographs every half hour. 1.5 … Read More
  
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• 2015 Venice Biennale Passes 500,000 Visitors, A 5% Increase From 2013

  23-11-2015 17:30 via artnews.com
  Yesterday marked the last day of the 56th international Venice Biennale, which has reported a total visitor count of 500,875, with 2,899 average visitors per day. Numbers have been increasing slowly since 2009; this number is a 5.45% increase from 2013’s … Read More
  
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• 2015 Venice Biennale Passes 500,000 Visitors, 5 Percent Increase From 2013

  23-11-2015 17:30 via artnews.com
  Yesterday marked the last day of the 56th international Venice Biennale, which has reported a total visitor count of 500,875, with 2,899 average visitors per day. Numbers have been increasing slowly since 2009; this number is a 5.45% increase from 2013’s … Read More
  
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• Hauser Wirth & Schimmel to Open Los Angeles Mega-Gallery with Show of Postwar Female Sculptors

  23-11-2015 17:03 via artnews.com
  Zurich-based gallery Hauser & Wirth is finally set to open its first California gallery, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, and today we get word on the first exhibition: “Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016.” The all-female survey of postwar … Read More
  
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• Hauser Wirth & Schimmel to Open Los Angeles Mega-Gallery with Show of Post-War Female Sculptors

  23-11-2015 17:03 via artnews.com
  Zurich-based gallery Hauser & Wirth is finally set to open its first California gallery, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, and today we get word on the first exhibition: “Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016.” The all-female survey of postwar … Read More
  
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• 5 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week

  23-11-2015 16:30 via artnews.com
  TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24Screening: The Forbidden Room at the Museum of Modern Art Canadian filmmaker and artist Guy Maddin has become known for his wacky, unhinged vision in the past decade, and it says something The Forbidden Room has been considered … Read More
  
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• A Still Is a Still Is a Still . . . Still: Clyfford Still’s Replicas

  23-11-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  Inspired by a rare opportunity to acquire iconic Clyfford Still paintings, buyers made headlines in 2011 when Sotheby’s auctioned four Still canvases for $114 million, nearly twice the combined asking price. The most expensive paintings, 1949-A-No.1 and 1947-Y-No.2, sold for … Read More
  
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• Artist and Empire review – a captivating look at the colonial times we still live in

  23-11-2015 14:57
  
  Tate Britain, London
  There may be less stiff upper lips and square jaws, but it’s hard to escape the modern parallels in this provocative exhibition that brings the British empire back to lifeThe British Empire has become invisible. It is an abstraction that people argue about. Right and left lay claim to its pride or shame, but the historical entity – whose rights and wrongs patriots and radicals now debate – lies cold in its grave, its banners, medals, statues and pith helmet
  
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• Morning Links: Anti-Bullying Edition

  23-11-2015 14:56 via artnews.com
  New York Magazine sits down for dinner with Tara Subkoff and Urs Fischer, now anti-bullying activists. [Vulture]Gary Hume has left longtime gallery White Cube. [The Art Newspaper]Thieves wearing masks broke into Verona, Italy’s Castelvecchio museum and lifted 17 paintings, together worth up … Read More
  
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• Middle class people dominate arts, survey finds

  23-11-2015 14:46
  
  Findings also reveal extent to which gender and ethnicity influence prospects of entering and gaining fair deal in industry
  The UK’s creative industries are dominated by middle class people, according to a survey that reveals the extent to which gender and ethnicity continue to influence careers in the arts.The findings prompted leading figures to express their concerns that the lack of diversity means the arts is becoming the preserve of the rich.Related: Does it matter that arts audience
  
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• This Chrome extension turns each new tab into a nice Google Earth picture

  23-11-2015 14:18
  
  Oddly satisfying.
  
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• Google Earth pictures in every new tab thanks to this Chrome extension

  23-11-2015 14:18
  
  Oddly satisfying.
  
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• Bishop Auckland set to become unlikely home to Spain's 'golden age' masters

  23-11-2015 14:11
  
  Plans are under way to turn a former bank and a school-turned-pizzeria in the market place into £5.5m Spanish art gallery
  
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• Mystery of Vermeer's Little Street in Delft revealed

  23-11-2015 12:57
  
  Dutch art historian says he knows whereabouts of 17th-century street, one of only two surviving outdoor scenes by artistIn the 350 or so years since Johannes Vermeer captured the everyday 17th-century Delft scene of The Little Street, one question has remained: where is it? Now a leading Dutch art historian says he knows.The answer, according to Frans Grijzenhout, professor of art history at Amsterdam University, came from trawling through detailed contemporaneous records kept by the city in the
  
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• We Met as Strangers: the man who photographed people he met on Twitter

  23-11-2015 08:00
  
  Michael Chapman’s personal photography project explored his extended social network, even if it failed to uncover any secret Nazi dungeons“I was talking to one of my strangers about how I hadn’t met any weirdos yet, and she leaned forward and went ‘My coat is made of human hair’. And I thought ‘Yes! Brilliant!’.”Michael Chapman is the man who met 100 strangers off the internet and lived to tell the tale. The British photographer has spent the last
  
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• Monochrome masters: 40 years of black-and-white classics – in pictures

  23-11-2015 08:00
  
  A couple with chimps for babies, a young woman sunbathing nude and dock workers in Havana … a new series called Double Elephant collects work by some of the most influential photographers of the 20th century: Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, Manuel Àlvarez Bravo and Garry Winogrand. Here’s our pick from the 30s to the 70sContinue reading...
  
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• Asia Pacific Triennial 8 review – a colourful snapshot of the world

  23-11-2015 07:06
  
  Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
  Large-scale Australian exhibitions of international art have traditionally had a Eurocentric focus but the APT presents another, more inclusive, worldviewDuring the media preview for the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art there was the promise of a performance to open proceedings at the vast show spread between the Queensland Art Gallery and the Gallery of Modern Art. Cynical journalists and embittered art critics who’d
  
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