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• Visual AIDS Releases Slide Show to Mark World AIDS Day

  01-12-2015 23:48 via artnews.com
  To mark World AIDS Day, the New York–based arts nonprofit Visual AIDS, which supports HIV-positive artists and fights the disease through art, released a slide show called Radiant Presence, with images of works in the organization’s Artist+ Registry, which is the largest database of works … Read More
  
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• ‘Thomas Kong/John Neff’ at Night Club Chicago

  01-12-2015 20:21 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Thomas Kong/John Neff” is currently on view at Night Club Gallery in Chicago, showcasing collages by Thomas Kong as well as photographs and objects by John Neff. The … Read More
  
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• Preview Art Basel Miami Beach, Part 2

  01-12-2015 19:38 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 international galleries … Read More
  
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• Preview Art Basel Miami Beach 2015, Part 2

  01-12-2015 19:38 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 international galleries … Read More
  
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• Henry VIII portrait: copy of Holbein painting expected to sell for £1m

  01-12-2015 19:34
  
  Oil-on-oak-panel work in the style of the renowned court artist may have been sold for just £1 in 1801, and shows the ailing king in his 50sA portrait of Henry VIII that may have been purchased for £1 in the 19th century is expected to sell for about £1m at auction.The painting – oil on oak panel – is a contemporary copy of one of the last official portraits Hans Holbein the Younger completed of Henry when the king was in his early 50s.Related: Artist and Empire rev
  
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• Leslie Waddington, Celebrated British Art Dealer, Dies at 81

  01-12-2015 19:29 via artnews.com
  Leslie Waddington, whose London gallery offered master-class shows of postwar American art, and who was known for championing up-and-coming British artists during the late 1960s, has died at 81. A statement from Stéphane Custot, the co-owner of Waddington Custot Galleries, … Read More
  
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• Britain’s transport signage is celebrating its 50th birthday

  01-12-2015 16:44
  
  50 years ago, our road and railway signs got a makeover - but while the former have lasted, the latter were a victim of privatisation
  
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• Lifting the Veil: In ‘Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots,’ the Dallas Museum of Art Champions the Master’s Black Paintings

  01-12-2015 16:38 via artnews.com
  Jackson Pollock’s black paintings are finally getting their time in the limelight. At the Dallas Museum of Art, “Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots,” which is on view through March 20, features 31 of the 50 or so black paintings the artist … Read More
  
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• The stock market planetarium that could have a big bang any minute

  01-12-2015 16:31
  
  Black Shoals is a planetarium that tracks trading in real time, turning the flow of global capital into a twinkling night sky. Just watch out for the black holes …A black dome, dotted with thousands of tiny stars, hangs in the vaulted bowels of Somerset House in London. The stars blink and flash, then begin to form misty galaxies, like the evolution of the universe replayed at warp speed. Suddenly there’s a great flash, and the whole thing lights up with the white heat of the Big Ba
  
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• Noah Horowitz, Art Basel’s Newly Minted Macher, Takes His Talents to South Beach

  01-12-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  This past September, Noah Horowitz, clean-cut, in his mid-30s, and with a mild professorial mien, arrived on time for our interview at Cookshop, a restaurant in the heart of New York’s Chelsea art district. He unbuttoned his suit jacket, sat … Read More
  
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• D is for disrupt: send us your most risky, rebellious art

  01-12-2015 15:51
  
  Simon Denny, whose Serpentine Sackler Gallery is taking on tech giants like Apple and GCHQ, wants you to use the idea of disruption to create artworks this month. Share your riskiest art nowThe A to Z of Readers’ Art: our new project for youBan Facebook now! Your artworks about consciousness The idea of disruption, as it is used in the world of technology, has changed my frame of reference for creativity, and made me think about culture in a broader sense.The new meaning of the word was co
  
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• Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center Announces 10th Anniversary Season

  01-12-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  The Watermill Center, a so-called “performance laboratory” founded by avant-garde director Robert Wilson in an abandoned Western Union facility on Long Island, turns ten next year. To celebrate, the center has organized a yearlong schedule of events and programs.Most notably, … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Amy Schumer Edition

  01-12-2015 15:18 via artnews.com
  Annie Leibovitz shot Amy Schumer in black and white, holding a coffee cup, for Pirelli’s 2016 calendar. [Vulture]“When One Student’s Art Is Another’s Aggression”: on the case of the black student who put up “black only” and “white only” signs … Read More
  
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• Climate activists stage tattoo protest against BP at Tate Britain – video

  01-12-2015 11:00
  
  Liberate Tate are the artists’ collective who for five years have campaigned against BP’s sponsorship of the Tate. In this performance at Tate Britain in London, held two days before the opening of the Paris summit on climate change, 35 protesters take part in a project called Birthmark. Protestors tattoo each other with a number that represents the parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in the year of each person’s birthContinue reading...
  
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• Vogue's gallery: living it up with Europe's party people – in pictures

  01-12-2015 08:00
  
  Madonna made it famous in the 90s, but today kids from all over Europe are coming together for some late-night voguing action. Ewen Spencer’s photobook Come, Bring, Punish dives into the scene, snapping cross-dressers and revellers in all their glamorous, sweat-glazed glory Continue reading...
  
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