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• Assemble wins Turner Prize 2015: Room to improve... but this is a radical statement

  07-12-2015 23:43
  
  It makes a sociological point – that distinctive community streets were erased in thoughtless regeneration programmes – but an artistic one as well
  
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• ‘Towards the Theory of a Unified Hole’ at Bodega, New York

  07-12-2015 23:15 via artnews.com
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• ‘Can You Make Me 100 More?’: Stefan Simchowitz Skypes into the Bruce High Quality Foundation’s Fake Art Competition

  07-12-2015 23:15 via artnews.com
  On Friday evening—a few hours after a woman at Art Basel Miami Beach was stabbed multiple times in the neck with an X-Acto knife while walking by the booths, which prompted passersby to dismiss the pooling blood as performance art—the collective … Read More
  
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• Does Netflix Actually Have The Most-Watched Show On Non-Network TV?

  07-12-2015 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When the moderator at a conference panel asked Sarandos if he was happy with the fact that a recent survey showed Netflix would have the second-biggest show on cable if its viewers were traditionally measured—right behind Thrones—Sarandos evasively asserted that internal research suggests a Netflix show would actually take that number one slot.”
  
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• Westfries Museum: Ukraine militia offers stolen Dutch art treasures for sale

  07-12-2015 23:00
  
  Museum alleges the case involves 'Ukrainian art criminals who have contacts on the highest political levels' in the country
  
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• Urban regenerators Assemble become first 'non-artists' to win Turner prize

  07-12-2015 22:42
  
  Collective that uses art and design to tackle urban dereliction in Toxteth, Liverpool, becomes first non-artists to winA direct action collective described by one member as “sort of architects, sort of not, sort of maybe” has won the UK’s most prestigious art prize with an urban regeneration project.The 18 members of London-based Assemble were named winners of the 31st Turner prize on Monday night, receiving their £25,000 prize from the Sonic Youth co-founder and artist K
  
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• Early Music Pioneer Nikolaus Harnoncourt Announces His Retirement

  07-12-2015 22:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Dear audience,’ Mr. Harnoncourt wrote in the letter, which was in German. ‘My bodily strength requires me to cancel my future plans.’ He wrote of the ‘unbelievably deep relationship has developed between us on the stage and you in the hall,’ added that ‘we have become a happy community of pioneers,’ and urged audiences to remain faithful to that spirit.”
  
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• Turner Prize: Liverpool's Toxteth estate regeneration collective Assemble win prestigious art prize

  07-12-2015 22:05
  
  The architectural design collective helped to renovate a rundown area of Liverpool
  
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• Architecture Collective Assemble Wins 2015 Turner Prize

  07-12-2015 21:27 via artnews.com
  Assemble, a London-based architecture collective, has won the 2015 Turner Prize for its work redesigning derelict houses in Liverpool. The award, which includes a £25,000 ($37,700) prize, was presented by Kim Gordon of the band Sonic Youth this afternoon at an award … Read More
  
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• Power to the people! Assemble win the Turner prize by ignoring the art market

  07-12-2015 20:55
  
  The young architecture collective extend their artfulness into everyday life. Their work is a welcome, and vital, part of a bigger battle against social division under the ToriesSince reviewing the Turner prize exhibition as it opened, it is Assemble’s project that has stayed with me – though at the time I enjoyed Bonnie Camplin’s project, with its evocation of paranoia and conspiracy theories, very much. Nicole Wermer’s arrangement of Marcel Breuer’s Bauhaus Cesca
  
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• Urban regenerators Assemble win Turner prize

  07-12-2015 20:53
  
  Collective that uses art and design to tackle urban dereliction in Toxteth, Liverpool, becomes first non-artists to winA direct action collective described by one member as “sort of architects, sort of not, sort of maybe” has won the UK’s most prestigious art prize with an urban regeneration project.The 18 members of London-based Assemble were named winners of the 31st Turner prize on Monday night, receiving their £25,000 prize from the Sonic Youth co-founder and artist K
  
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• Sotheby’s Snags A Key Player From Christie’s

  07-12-2015 20:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Marc Porter “has been the principal dealmaker for major collections, securing large consignments, including many of the most important artworks sold during the past decade.”
  
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• Stolen Dutch paintings offered for sale by Ukrainian militia

  07-12-2015 20:34
  
  Friesland museum from which golden age artworks vanished in 2005 believes security service and far-right party also involved in attempt to sell canvases A hoard of stolen Dutch golden age paintings is being offered for sale by an ultra-nationalist militia in Ukraine, according to the museum from which the works vanished a decade ago.The Westfries Museum in Hoorn, 50km north of Amsterdam, said on Monday it suspected members of the Ukrainian state security service, SBU, the far-right Svoboda (Free
  
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• A New Director – And New Goals – For The Museum Of The City Of New York

  07-12-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Donhauser will inherit a gleaming building, but also long-standing challenges, such as competition for visitors in a city where blockbuster shows in bigger museums draw millions of tourists each year. The museum must balance its role as a repository for historic objects ranging from photographs to 18th-century tankards with devising new shows that appeal to contemporary audiences.”
  
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• That’s How Ruff Ryders Roll: Swizz Beatz and DMX Contribute to Rare Moment of Authenticity at Art Basel Miami Beach

  07-12-2015 20:14 via artnews.com
  “The artists get to keep 100 percent of what they sell because they deserve it,” the producer, rapper, and art collector Swizz Beatz yelled enthusiastically from from a stage in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood Saturday night, followed by a bevy of … Read More
  
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• Will The University Of Oklahoma Finally Return A Nazi-Looted Impressionist Painting?

  07-12-2015 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The terms of any possible agreement are unclear, and the discussions may yet founder. But the negotiations are an abrupt turnaround in a case that drew wide attention.”
  
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• Plague and hell fire: the V&A's window on to a dark, disturbing world

  07-12-2015 19:05
  
  In the museum’s new permanent display of art from 1600 to 1815, a breathtaking Bernini sets us off on a journey from plague-ridden Baroque darkness to Enlightenment exuberance
  Ludovica Albertoni was a 16th-century noblewoman who gave her wealth and ultimately her life to help the poor and the sick of Rome. After she was beatified by the pope in 1671, Gian Lorenzo Bernini created a stupefying sculpture for her tomb statue. With her head thrown back and one hand caressing her right breast, s
  
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• We’re All Born To Be Conned

  07-12-2015 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “That’s the power of the good con artist: the ability to identify your deepest need and exploit it. It’s not about honesty or greed; we are all suckers for belief.”
  
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• Punishment By The Beach: Narwhalz (Of Sound) Takes Miami

  07-12-2015 17:34 via artnews.com
  At one distant end of the Art Basel week spectrum, far away from the one with all the bald Frenchmen wearing pink pants, the visual artist and musician Narwhalz (Of Sound)—government name Brian Blomerth—performed a set of abstract Gameboy music … Read More
  
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• ‘It’s a Toxic Soup of Ego and Higher Callings’: A Talk With Carroll Dunham

  07-12-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  Carroll Dunham’s latest exhibition at Gladstone Gallery in New York closed December 4.Bill Powers: The inclusion of animals in your new paintings was a surprise to me. Carroll Dunham: It’s almost like animals allow me to represent personality. The horse, … Read More
  
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• How the Turner prize turns unknown artists into multi-millionaires – video

  07-12-2015 14:45
  
  As the winner of Britain’s biggest art award is announced, we explore how it has helped unknowns reach stratospheric sales figures. Who’s now a billionaire – and which runnerup went on to become one of the richest living artists?• All auction records courtesy of Artnet Continue reading...
  
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• Morning Links: Stabbing At Art Basel Edition

  07-12-2015 14:19 via artnews.com
  A stabbing occurred at Art Basel Miami Beach on Friday night. At 5:15 p.m., a woman stabbed another visitor to the fair with an X-Acto knife, saying, “I had to kill her and two more!” The injuries were non-fatal, but … Read More
  
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• 'The reasoning was crazy' – how Italy blocked the sale of a Dalí painting

  07-12-2015 10:34
  
  Elena Quarestani met the surrealist painter in the 1970s, but her memory of the ocassion have been overshadowed by a legal fight over Figure at a TableElena Quarestani was 18 when she met Salvador Dalí at his suite in Le Meurice hotel in Paris in the 1970s. Her family owned one of the Spanish surrealist’s early works – a portrait of the painter’s sister called Figure at a Table – and she was hoping he might embellish the painting with some surrealist flair to make
  
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• Howard Arkley, the man who saw Australian suburbia in technicolour

  07-12-2015 05:22
  
  Even as he fought his own demons, the Melbourne artist celebrated diversity where others saw conformity, shrugging at the idea that abroad was betterHoward Arkley confessed to a love-hate relationship with the Australian suburbs but his paintings of their universality – and peculiarity – made him famous. In a week when several big-name international artists (Ai Weiwei and Grayson Perry) arrive on Australian soil, Arkley’s art continues to celebrate a vernacular that shrugs at t
  
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