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• ‘Girls and Boys, Shut Up Please!’: Regarding That Julian Schnabel Toast to Mr. Chow

  03-12-2015 22:54 via artnews.com
  Andy Warhol used to treat Mr. Chow’s on 57th Street as his den room, dining often with younger artists such as Julian Schnabel, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Keith Haring. So, perhaps as a belated thank you for all that high-end Chinese … Read More
  
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• Mickalene Thomas Will Bring Domestic Violence and Suicide Prevention Specialists to the Aspen Art Museum

  03-12-2015 22:16 via artnews.com
  At a panel discussion in Miami Thursday, Aspen Art Museum director Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson revealed that in conjunction with the opening of Mickalene Thomas’s exhibition this spring at the museum, she will be inviting people into the museum who specialize … Read More
  
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• Goya: Visions of Flesh and Blood review – intelligent overview of Spanish artist

  03-12-2015 22:00
  
  This documentary about the celebrated painter is a well rounded assessment of the man and his workAn enjoyable, lucid profile of the celebrated Spanish artist that is very much a companion piece/guide to the current exhibition of Goya’s portraits at the National Gallery in London. That being the case, its biographical detail and curatorial insight lean heavily towards one aspect of Goya’s life and work: how he hacked through the layers of patronage to become court painter to the Bour
  
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• Prehistoric rock carvings 'were humanity's earliest architectural plans'

  03-12-2015 21:31
  
  Researchers say 14,000-year-old carvings by 'Paleolithic Picasso' depict a campsite built by early hunter-gatherers
  
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• ‘Did I Sell It?’: Frenzied Collectors Storm Opening of NADA

  03-12-2015 20:10 via artnews.com
  The New Art Dealers Alliance fair, which opened Thursday morning to VIP collectors, is the much more modest counterpart to the behemoth that is Art Basel Miami Beach, but it is not immune to displays of outlandish wealth. For instance, … Read More
  
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• ARTnews’ Complete 2015 Art Basel Miami Beach Coverage

  03-12-2015 19:34 via artnews.com
  Below, a continuously updated list of ARTnews’ reports from Art Basel Miami Beach.Art Basel Miami Beach – Opening Day     new – A Profile of Noah Horowitz, Art Basel’s Newly Minted Macher – You Can Have Caviar Delivered 24/7 – Jeb Bush Plans ‘Pop Art’ … Read More
  
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• Trong Gia Nguyen Wins 2015 Miami Beach Pulse Prize

  03-12-2015 19:04 via artnews.com
  The Pulse Contemporary Art Fair announced today that Brooklyn– and Ho Chi Minh City–based artist Trong Gia Nguyen has won the fair’s 2015 Miami Beach Pulse Prize. Nguyen’s work was brought to the fair by mc2gallery, which is based in Milan.At Pulse, … Read More
  
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• One-week wonders: how to create a hit exhibition in seven days

  03-12-2015 18:51
  
  Unfinished installations, tiny budgets – and a feminist punk choir singing Virginia Woolf. The ICA’s show-a-week project stretched artists to their limits. Tom McCarthy, Melanie Manchot, Eva Rothschild and Deborah Coughlin reveal allIn just three days, the ICA’s ambitious fig-2 project – which has exhibited a new art show every week this year – will be over. What was it like to be part of this snapshot of the UK art scene in 2015? And how do you create a show with j
  
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• Art Basel Miami Beach review – art and commerce collide by the sea

  03-12-2015 18:02
  
  It’s the western hemisphere’s biggest and most ostentatious art fair, and if you can get past the bling there are gems to be seen, many hailing from Latin AmericaSome people queue for concert tickets, or discounted flat-screen televisions. In Miami, they wait in line for postminimalism. It was 11am on Wednesday, and ushers and security staff had to stagger entries for the VIPs, professionals and chancers waiting to rush the booths of Art Basel Miami Beach, the art world’s prefe
  
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• ‘Valerie Snobeck: Reservoirs’ at Essex Street

  03-12-2015 17:27 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• The woman turning ancient buried treasure into jewellery

  03-12-2015 17:00
  
  Romilly Saumarez-Smith’s miniature artworks are made from detritus found by mudlarks and metal detectorists that she has snapped up on eBay – and they have the seal of approval of Edmund de WaalThe discarded scraps of ancient lives, found by metal detectorists and sold for tiny sums on eBay have been transformed by jeweller Romilly Saumarez-Smith into miniature works of art.The modest treasures include a button that dropped off a garment 1,000 years ago, a thimble almost worn through
  
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• Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa: 'At the end, all of the sculptures are destroyed. That is kind of satisfying'

  03-12-2015 16:56
  
  Karen Wright meets the Guatemalan artist in his temporary studio - the loading bay of Tate Modern in London
  
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• Muscle Men and Free Cash: Xavier Cha and Pope.L Shine at Art Basel’s Public Sector

  03-12-2015 15:41 via artnews.com
  After being inside of a massive and hectic art fair, the scene at Collins Park on Wednesday night for the Art Basel Miami Beach Public program of performances—which premiered privately on Tuesday but opened for the general public last night—felt … Read More
  
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• It's time to end the tyranny of Christmas cards

  03-12-2015 15:05
  
  Save money and your dignity this Christmas - don't buy a folded square of card with an anthropomorphic hippo on it.
  
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• Morning Links: Sylvester Stallone Edition

  03-12-2015 14:43 via artnews.com
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• Photographer shares a few simple tips for making your phone photography less crappy

  03-12-2015 12:58
  
  'Be deliberate.'
  
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• How to make phone photos better according to a photographer - 5 quick tips

  03-12-2015 12:58
  
  'Be deliberate.'
  
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• Stunning photo of Western masterpiece on bombed building in Syria sweeps social media

  03-12-2015 10:33
  
  'I chose it as an icon of love, a way of looking for the stories of love behind this wall that was completely obliterated by the machinery of war'
  
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• Off to the Races: Miami Basel Begins, With Buoyant Sales Reports, a Bevy of Stellas, and a Grab Bag of Celebrities

  03-12-2015 01:16 via artnews.com
  Art Basel Miami Beach opened its doors this morning to Earth’s primo art collectors, who perused the offerings from 267 galleries en route to snapping up works by blue-chip artists such as Picasso and Frank Stella, who continues his hot … Read More
  
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