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• Andrea Rosen Gallery Now Represents Simon Fujiwara

  30-11-2015 23:05 via artnews.com
  New York’s Andrea Rosen Gallery announced today that it now represents multidisciplinary artist Simon Fujiwara. Fujiwara held his first one-person exhibition in New York at Andrea Rosen in 2013 and will see his next exhibitions taking place in Tokyo, at the Obayashi Foundation … Read More
  
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• Seamus Harahan Wins the 2015 Jarman Award

  30-11-2015 22:38 via artnews.com
  Filmmaker Seamus Harahan, who is based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, has won the 2015 Film London Jarman Award, which was presented at London’s Whitechapel Gallery along with £10,000 (about $15,100) and a commission for Channel 4’s short-form arts show, Random … Read More
  
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• For Performa 15, Chimurenga Hosted a Radio Station, a Book Market, a Hair Salon, and Quite a Bit More

  30-11-2015 22:02 via artnews.com
  One afternoon earlier this month, the Cape Town, South Africa-based group Chimurenga, which bills itself as a “multi-tiered programming platform,” settled into the Performa Hub in TriBeCa for a short-term residency that proved to be one of the more multifarious projects in this year’s performance-art biennial, Performa 15.First, some background. … Read More
  
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• The Landlord From Hell: Artist Duo Body by Body Tackles Gentrification in New Operatic Performance

  30-11-2015 21:31 via artnews.com
  All things considered, I enjoy living in New York City. With that said, it can often feel deeply absurd and almost unlivable, like waiting in a perpetual line for some kind of artisanal ramen that you know is never going … Read More
  
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• ‘Karl Haendel: Organic Bedfellow, Feral Othello’ at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York

  30-11-2015 20:41 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Karl Haendel: Organic Bedfellow, Feral Othello” is on view at Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York. The exhibition, showcasing new pencil drawings from the Los Angeles–based artist, is … Read More
  
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• Here Are the 2015 Recipients of Creative Capital Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grants

  30-11-2015 20:38 via artnews.com
  The Arts Writers Grant Program announced its 2015 recipients on its website this week. Among this year’s winners are New York Times critic Martha Schwendener and novelist Lynne Tillman.Co-supported by Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation, Arts Writers Grants are … Read More
  
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• Anish and Antony to the rescue! Can the sculptors gentrify Afghanistan?

  30-11-2015 19:40
  
  A merciless graphic novel imagines what would happen if Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley were dropped on Afghanistan. Its creator explains his hallucinatory rompScott King is nervous. He was nervous back in 2014, when his miniature graphic novel, Anish and Antony Take Afghanistan, was exhibited in New York – entirely by coincidence – on the anniversary of 9/11. The problem is that the book ends in an orgy of terrorist violence – a swarm of passenger planes crashing into building
  
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• Preview Art Basel Miami Beach 2015, Part 1

  30-11-2015 18:49 via artnews.com
  The 2015 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, the last major art fair of the calendar year, opens on Thursday, December 3, with previews beginning Wednesday, December 2. Comprised of nine different sections, the fair will include 267 leading international galleries from 32 … Read More
  
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• Growing Pains: Franklin Sirmans and the Future of the Pérez Art Museum Miami

  30-11-2015 16:35 via artnews.com
  There are major streets in downtown Miami that have been effectively hollowed out by development, impossible to traverse and made useless in the name of progress. It is a city of luxury high-rises and scaffolding. On a recent trip, at … Read More
  
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• Rachel Podger/OAE, St John's Smith Square, review: A delivery of superb Baroque music

  30-11-2015 16:28
  
  Podger’s performance in a rarely-performed concerto by Pisendel was majestic
  
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• Reflections on birth by women who are dying – video

  30-11-2015 16:25
  
  Six women at St Christopher’s Hospice in Sydenham, south-east London, reflect on life, birth and motherhood. The footage is part of Birth: Origins at the End of Life, a film by artist Whitney McVeigh in collaboration with Pulse Films• Language of Memory, a solo exhibition by Whitney McVeigh, at Summerhall in Edinburgh from 12 December to 9 MarchContinue reading...
  
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• Life, birth and motherhood: women at the end of their life reflect – video

  30-11-2015 16:25
  
  Six women at St Christopher’s Hospice in Sydenham, south-east London, reflect on life, birth and motherhood. The footage is part of Birth: Origins at the End of Life, a film by artist Whitney McVeigh in collaboration with Pulse Films• Language of Memory, a solo exhibition by Whitney McVeigh, at Summerhall in Edinburgh from 12 December to 9 MarchContinue reading...
  
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• Donald Dump: how Trump the pottymouth triggered an artistic overload

  30-11-2015 15:14
  
  The Republican candidate’s campaign-trail trolling has sent the art world into satirical overdrive. From Trump the turd to Trump in drag, say hello to the megalomaniac billionaire’s colourful new incarnationsIs visually shaming presidential candidates the best way to boycott them? Last week, an image surfaced of US presidential candidate and consummate foulmouth Donald Trump with his face wrapped around a lip-shaped urinal by Dutch designer Meike van Schijndel. It’s a snapshot
  
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• Here Are the Exhibitors for the 2016 Armory Show

  30-11-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  The Armory Show announced the exhibitors for its 2016 edition, with the art fair once again returning to Piers 92 and 94 in New York. Pier 94, home to the Contemporary section, includes 113 galleries, and Pier 92, the Modern section, … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Politicking at Art Basel Edition

  30-11-2015 14:46 via artnews.com
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• This skyscraper in Manchester howls when it's windy and it isn't even one of those art projects

  30-11-2015 13:58
  
  The architect has acknowledged that it's causing 'distress'
  
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• Artist Peter Liversidge sends unwrapped items covered in postage stamps to people around the world

  30-11-2015 12:47
  
  'The first thing I ever sent was a piece of toast when I was 11'
  
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• Can you identify the world cities from their 'naked' metro maps?

  30-11-2015 12:11
  
  Artist and urban planner Neil Freeman of Fake is the New Real has been updating his geographically accurate maps of city subway systems, all drawn to the same scale. We’ve used a selection of his maps below: can you identify the cities? All images: Neil Freeman / Open Street Map Continue reading...
  
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• Gilbert & George: 'The rightwing press may be unpleasant but they're polite'

  30-11-2015 04:06
  
  As a mammoth retrospective of the London duo’s 45-year career opens at Mona in Tasmania, the partners in art and life reflect on mullahs, vicars, homophobic journalists and the sure-fire way to spot a leftieMy meeting with Gilbert & George kicks off with a confession. I had a very strong reaction to their art.“It was noticeable,” George says, with a wry smile. “You went up in smoke.” Related: 'We are Gilbert & George': artist duo to visit Mona for first Aust
  
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