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• Sonia Boyce: Artist and academic launches project shedding light on the role of black artists

  26-11-2015 23:49
  
  'Black Artists and Modernism' scheme will involve exhibitions and a possible TV documentary
  
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• Kipper Williams on cash-strapped Italian banks' art collections

  26-11-2015 20:56
  
  The country’s banks are putting their artistic assets on show with a new virtual museum Continue reading...
  
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• Forgotten history of black artists to be uncovered in £700,000 curation project

  26-11-2015 19:50
  
  Hundreds of works to be catalogued in attempt to uncover hidden story of their powerful influence on 20th-century art
  
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• The best art books of 2015

  26-11-2015 19:18
  
  Here are some of 2015's finest books to fire the imagination, engage the grey matter and invigorate the spirit over the festive period
  
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• Christmas 2015: The 8 best books in art

  26-11-2015 19:18
  
  Here are some of 2015's finest books to fire the imagination, engage the grey matter and invigorate the spirit over the festive period
  
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• Wittgenstein's Dream review – Gavin Turk mocks Freud in his own house

  26-11-2015 18:35
  
  The Freud Museum, London
  Ludwig Wittgenstein was deeply sceptical about the claims of psychoanalysis. Now, Gavin Turk gently ribs its founder with an entertaining takeover of his hallowed home Sigmund Freud is probably the most famous modern scientist after Einstein. In the shop at the Freud Museum, his iconic status is all too apparent: it is full of Freud finger puppets, soft toys, framed photographs and comic-book retellings of psychoanalytic theory. But is the science this Viennese doctor fo
  
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• 3D-printed classic paintings allow the blind to 'see' fine art for the first time

  26-11-2015 18:10
  
  "My fingers are a bit excited."
  
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• Enrico David, artist: 'My shows are like sand dunes in the desert. You will see an oasis ahead - or more sand'

  26-11-2015 15:53
  
  Karen Wright meets the artist in his studio in Hackney, east London
  
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• This Buddhist temple's 1,400-year-old ginkgo tree is dropping a sea of yellow

  26-11-2015 12:53
  
  It is known as 'Maidenhair'
  
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• Good dog films her owners’ wedding, does a damn fine job

  26-11-2015 12:18
  
  Husky 'insisted on filming the wedding video, so [they] let her do her thing'
  
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• Newsha Tavakolian's best photograph: woman on a mountainside outside Tehran

  26-11-2015 09:00
  
  ‘Somayyeh lived for years in a very conservative town in the country. Then she got divorced and moved to the city. She’s fighting to find a space for herself’
  I am never satisfied with my work. Every time I take a picture, I think I could have done better if I had stood in a different spot or had been more patient. This is one of a few that I actually like. People seem drawn to this shot: the natural response when you see Somayyeh is to wonder about her place in the world and w
  
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• How one road to a deal with Iran was paved with art

  26-11-2015 08:00
  
  Nancy Matthews, whose exhibitions of Iranian art in 2001 and 2007 came during years of a diplomatic standoff, tells Alexandra Glorioso the means are more important than the endIn November 1999, on her first visit to Iran, Nancy Matthews arrived at Tehran airport at 3 o’clock in the morning. Susan Koscis followed directly behind her. As far as they knew, they were only the second group of Americans to visit since the hostage crisis. Koscis had been part of the first group to visit Iran just
  
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• New stop on Delft tourist trail after Vermeer's Little Street identified

  26-11-2015 06:00
  
  Dutch art historian tells how he solved centuries-old mystery – and local people report a sightseeing invasionFew artists have left such a deep imprint on their birthplace as Johannes Vermeer on Delft. In the summer, tour parties weave through the Dutch town’s cobbled streets ticking off Vermeer landmarks. But until last week only the most devoted would have made a trip to the handsome townhouse at No 42 Vlamingstraat, noting that the artist’s aunt, Ariaentgen Claes van der Min
  
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• Untitled(he had blue marks on his hands as if a pen had leaked

  26-11-2015 02:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  they gave us ten thousand dollars. we each had a room with a table and two chairs.  we were asked to open up bodies. they gave me a man and a woman to work with. the white woman got on the table. she had on shorts and a white shirt. she had brown and black toe nails. she had a short beard on her chin. the brown man had his left hand on her temple and said he was there for her. the woman was shaking. she wanted the brown man to tell her a story. the brown man wanted me to ly on her. she had
  
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