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• (Don’t) Smoke It If You Got It: Andrei Koschmieder Brings The Green To Basel

  02-12-2015 22:54 via artnews.com
  For a split second after looking at the artist Andrei Koschmieder’s work at the Art Basel booth for Brooklyn gallery Real Fine Arts, I felt less like I was at an art fair in Miami and more like I was … Read More
  
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• Topical Cream Taps Henke, Satterwhite, de Joode for Sports-Bra Fundraiser

  02-12-2015 22:51 via artnews.com
  One of the more edifying recent developments in the art-writing landscape has been the fast rise of Topical Cream, an online-publishing outfit that bills itself as “a media platform focusing on women working in FAT: fashion, art and technology.” Over … Read More
  
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• Carl Andre and Paula Cooper Honored with France’s Order of Arts and Letters

  02-12-2015 22:16 via artnews.com
  The U.S. French Embassy announced today that sculptor Carl Andre and gallerist Paula Cooper were honored with France’s Order of Arts and Letters, given to those who make significant contributions to art around the world. Andre was named commandeur of … Read More
  
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• Preview NADA Miami Beach 2015

  02-12-2015 21:19 via artnews.com
  The 13th edition of the New Art Dealers Association’s Miami Beach fair opens Thursday, December 3, at its new location in the Fontainebleau Hotel, which is closer to the Miami Beach Convention Center, where the main fair Art Basel Miami Beach … Read More
  
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• White Cube and Almine Rech Plan New York Outposts

  02-12-2015 20:33 via artnews.com
  As Art Basel Miami Beach brings the world’s dealers to South Beach, word has gotten out that two major European galleries are planning incursions into the New York City market.Brussels–based Almine Rech Gallery plans to open a space on the Upper East … Read More
  
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• Time for Turner: Glasgow’s contemporary art scene

  02-12-2015 20:00
  
  With the Turner prize about to be presented in Glasgow for the first time, our writer samples the city’s dynamic art sceneTo say that in the 25 years since Glasgow was named city of culture it has transformed itself into an artistic powerhouse would not be an overstatement. The city’s artistic and cultural scene is rivalled in the UK only by that in London, but it has none of the elitism and snobbery that some say is rife in the capital. On 7 December, the Turner prize will be presen
  
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• Rashaad Newsome at Art Basel: 'It's so punk rock to take over the streets'

  02-12-2015 19:52
  
  The artist organised a procession of bikers, voguers and muscle car enthusiasts through Miami’s design district – a proud and subversive pageant of an alternative black AmericaThanks to performers such as FKA twigs, vogueing is back in, er, vogue – but the artist Rashaad Newsome has paid his dues in this still-clandestine world, with its arcane rules and rivalry, all centred on a pose-based dance created by black, gay New Yorkers in the 80s. Not only has Newsome encorporated vo
  
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• Jumana Manna at Chisenhale Gallery, London

  02-12-2015 19:50 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: Jumana Manna’s one-person show is on view at Chisenhale Gallery in London. The exhibition, comprised of a new feature-length film and an installation of sculptures, closes December 13.
  
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• Tightrope Walk: the show that sums up art in 67 paintings

  02-12-2015 19:28
  
  As De Keyser’s last works brood at the David Zwirner, a sweeping account of modern painting from Chris Ofili’s sexual fireworks to Lucian Freud’s meaty closeups lights up London’s White CubeThey are small things, clustered in an order that is like an interrupted thought. Hung just as they were in his studio, Raoul De Keyser’s last paintings now occupy a wall at David Zwirner gallery in London. De Keyser died in 2012 at the age of 82. A few marks, some strange bent s
  
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• Tadao Ando and Elyn Zimmerman Win the 2016 Isamu Noguchi Award

  02-12-2015 18:52 via artnews.com
  The Noguchi Museum has named architect Tadao Ando and artist Elyn Zimmerman as the winners of the 2016 Isamu Noguchi Award, which is given annually “to individuals who share [museum founder] Noguchi’s spirit of innovation, global consciousness, and East-West exchange,” according to … Read More
  
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• Lang/Philharmonia/Salonen, Royal Festival Hall, review: Lang Lang comes across as an over-assertive party guest

  02-12-2015 17:13
  
  There never was any problem with his technique, but the implicit message of his playing in the first movement was 'look at me'
  
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• Pollock and the polar bear: could an animal hair solve a great art mystery?

  02-12-2015 17:11
  
  Ruth Kligman claimed Jackson Pollock painted her a lover’s gift before he died. But can this splashy pastiche actually be real – and could a polar bear hair, from the rug in his studio, prove it?Dark, dark, dark. Jackson Pollock’s later years were mired in black sorrow and so was his art. It became grossly, powerfully figurative at times, and his abstractions took on a wild emotional savagery.He died, drunk, in a car crash on Long Island in August 1956. With him in his Oldsmobi
  
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• No Man's Land review – Miami's Art Basel week kicks off with all-female show

  02-12-2015 16:30
  
  Rubell Family Collection, Miami
  A counterblast against pervasive art world sexism, this show winds up as a great cross-section of cultural production today – and the men aren’t even missedThis past summer the magazine ArtNews published a special issue on the status of women artists – and the statistics it presented affirmed that the art world still has a whole lot to improve. Less than 30% of the exhibitions at America’s leading museums go to women artists. The share of w
  
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• Little women: photographing tweens from Boston to Beirut

  02-12-2015 16:16
  
  Rania Matar photographs girls aged between eight and 13, letting them choose their own clothes and poses. She talks about growing up a tomboy, selfie culture – and why she gets annoyed when anyone says the pictures are sexualDress straps slip off shoulders, painted nails splay on hips. At first glance, the postures struck by the children in Rania Matar’s photographs are grown-up. But look more closely at these girls, who are aged between eight and 13, and the picture becomes more com
  
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• The Le Baron Nightclub at Art Basel Miami Beach Will Require a Rob Pruitt–Designed Hand Stamp for Re-Entry

  02-12-2015 16:01 via artnews.com
  Perhaps hoping to ease the shame of showing up to an art fair still rocking the mark of a late night out imprinted on your right hand, Exhibition A, the online edition-hawking site, has recruited a few big-name artists to design … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: ‘4’33″‘ Remix Edition

  02-12-2015 15:08 via artnews.com
  Can you copyright silence? It would appear so—SoundCloud has taken down a John Cage “4’33″” remix. [New York Magazine]Rhizome relaunches their reviews section with a criticism of the Wrong Biennale. [Rhizome]Climate-change activists protested British Petroleum at the Tate Britain over … Read More
  
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• Why the history of maths is also the history of art

  02-12-2015 07:55
  
  In her new book Mathematics and Art, historian Lyn Gamwell explores how artists have for thousands of years used mathematical concepts - such as infinity, number and form - in their work. Here she choses ten stunning images from her book that reveal connections between maths and art.When I was a graduate student in art history, I read many explanations of abstract art, but they were invariably inadequate and misleading. So after completing my PhD, I went on to learn the history of biology, physi
  
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• The Louvre comes to Abu Dhabi | Kanishk Tharoor

  02-12-2015 07:00
  
  Floating on a £18bn island, two new museums will make the UAE a global capital of culture. But are they part of a cynical campaign to put art in the service of the state or a sign of a more enlightened future?When they are finally completed, both the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will be almost entirely surrounded by water. Perched on the eastern rim of Saadiyat Island – a monumental £18bn complex that seeks to turn the capital of the United Arab Emirates i
  
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• Kreuk, Vo, and Bortolozzi Settle Two-Year Dispute Over Alleged Commission [Updated]

  02-12-2015 04:30 via artnews.com
  The Dutch collector Bert Kreuk, artist Danh Vo, and Berlin gallerist Isabella Bortolozzi have resolved their two-year legal dispute over a site-specific installation at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague. After a six-hour negotiation today, all parties have agreed to withdraw their claims … Read More
  
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• Kreuk, Vo, and Bortolozzi Settle Two-Year Dispute Over Alleged Commission

  02-12-2015 04:30 via artnews.com
  The Dutch collector Bert Kreuk, artist Danh Vo, and Berlin gallerist Isabella Bortolozzi have resolved their two-year legal dispute over a site-specific installation at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague. After a six-hour negotiation today, all parties have agreed to withdraw their claims … Read More
  
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