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• 15th-century painting given export bar to prevent it leaving UK

  27-11-2015 18:54
  
  The government hopes an individual or a gallery in the UK can match the asking price of £3.3m for the painting by Dieric BoutsA 15th-century devotional painting by the influential Netherlandish artist Dieric Bouts has been made subject to an export bar in order to prevent it leaving the UK.The work, called St Luke Drawing the Virgin and Child, has been sold to a foreign buyer but the government hopes that an individual or a gallery in the UK can match the asking price of £3.3m. Conti
  
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• Taking a look at life through Karl Lagerfeld’s lens

  27-11-2015 17:51
  
  At this year’s Art Basel contemporary art fair in Miami Beach there will be a mini retrospective of Lagerfeld’s work
  
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• Spy vs. Spy: Tech-Savvy Swiss Duo Bitnik Refines the Art of Espionage

  27-11-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  ‘I’ve hijacked your surveillance camera. How about a game of chess?” The words filled a closed-circuit television screen that only seconds before had shown commuters in London’s Charing Cross station. Whichever security guard read the message soon saw it replaced … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Texte zur Kunst Edition

  27-11-2015 14:57 via artnews.com
  Deborah Solomon profiles Sheena Wagstaff, the chairwoman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s department of modern and contemporary art. “No one has done a profile of me ever,” Wagstaff said. [The New York Times]Clara Kim and Nancy Ireson head to … Read More
  
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• The Black Years: how Nazi art came back to Berlin

  27-11-2015 11:36
  
  In a rare exhibition, Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof museum is exploring the dark side of Germany’s art history – and revealing why works from the Nazi era should not be hidden awayGerman artist Rudolf Belling’s 1924 sculpture Dreiklang (Triad) is a ragged twist of interlocking prongs made from lustrous birchwood. Inescapably modern, it is a pioneering example of abstract sculpture, and was Belling’s first real success. Its split structure might symbolise the schools of
  
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• Global panic: art show Exit brings climate change to shocking life

  27-11-2015 11:24
  
  Timed to coincide with the COP21 UN conference in Paris, this video installation is a stark reality check for Earth’s inhabitants as sea levels rise, natural disasters proliferate and forced migration multipliesThere are more than 19.5 million refugees worldwide, cities are emitting 70% of all greenhouses gases and around 3,500 languages are currently in danger of extinction.The statistics around the climate change debate may make for increasingly stark reading, but they suffer from one ma
  
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• How long can Beijing's biggest artist colony survive?

  27-11-2015 08:00
  
  Politics and urban development are suffocating Songzhuang, China’s biggest artist colony – and now Beijing’s city government has decided to move in down the roadArriving into Songzhuang, you’d be forgiven for wondering what had attracted over 5,000 artists to make this far outpost of Beijing the largest artist colony in China.Along the dusty main street, a line of boxy, low-rise buildings housing cheap restaurants and shops is disrupted occasionally by a brutalist gallery
  
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• At first light: the most iconic camera-less photographs – in pictures

  27-11-2015 08:00
  
  For well over a century, artists like Berenice Abbott, László Moholy-Nagy and Erwin Blumenfeld have been conducting wild photogram experiments, exploring the potency of light – without even using a camera. Here’s our pick of the best photograms from a new show called Light Works Continue reading...
  
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• Global creative community calls on world leaders to tackle climate change | Letters

  27-11-2015 07:00
  
  We, the creative community as represented by the signatories below, ask all those responsible for negotiating the post-2020 climate change framework to agree an ambitious and inspiring international agreement.The creative community – design, broadcasting, publishing, film, gaming, fashion, literature, music, the performing and visual arts, galleries and museums – can make a unique contribution to the global sustainability challenge. Collectively we shape not just our material world,
  
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