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• ‘Looking at Art In A Tent Is Like Eating Chicken From A Bucket’: A Chat With Benjamin Genocchio, the New Director of The Armory Show

  17-12-2015 22:58 via artnews.com
  “There’s no reason why New York doesn’t have an outstanding art fair,” said Benjamin Genocchio, who on Thursday was named the new director of the Armory Show. “And I want to find a new model that works in this environment. Basel, they’re … Read More
  
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• Magali Reus Named Winner of the 2015 Prix de Rome

  17-12-2015 21:53 via artnews.com
  The 2015 Prix de Rome was awarded earlier today to Magali Reus, the young Dutch artist whose sculptures deal with the relationship of humans to their environments. Through the award, which is given biennially to a contemporary Dutch artist, Reus … Read More
  
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• Thomas J. Loughman Appointed Director and C.E.O. of Wadsworth Atheneum

  17-12-2015 21:21 via artnews.com
  Hartford, Connecticut’s Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art has announced the appointment of Thomas J. Loughman as the institution’s eleventh director and C.E.O., effective February 1, 2016. Loughman currently serves as the associate director of program and planning at the Clark … Read More
  
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• New Foundation Seattle Creates Grant for Pacific Northwest–Based Artists, Curators, and Writers

  17-12-2015 20:26 via artnews.com
  The New Foundation Seattle announced today that it has created a grant called the Career Incentive Funds (CIF), which will be awarded to Seattle- and Portland-based artists, curators, and writers. The news comes on the heels of last month’s announcement that … Read More
  
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• Vertiginous Pleasures: Caillebotte Retrospective Cements the Painter as a Top-Tier Impressionist, Ahead of His Time

  17-12-2015 20:17 via artnews.com
  History has treated painter Gustave Caillebotte unkindly. Caillebotte’s art has been underappreciated ever since his death from a stroke in 1894, at the age of 45. For almost eight decades, he was mostly known as a perspicacious art collector who … Read More
  
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• Bridget Riley at David Zwirner, New York, Selected by Dawn Kasper

  17-12-2015 19:51 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. This week's shows are selected by Dawn Kasper Read More
  
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• Dorotheum Shatters Records Throughout 2015 [Sponsored]

  17-12-2015 19:49 via artnews.com
  Dorotheum is responsible for the content of this post.It has been a banner year for Dorotheum, one of Europe’s most prominent auction houses. Auctions across all categories, including fine arts, automobiles, and rare jewels fetched high prices and broke records, catapulting … Read More
  
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• Artnet News Chief Benjamin Genocchio Will Lead the Armory Show

  17-12-2015 19:00 via artnews.com
  The art-media intrigue continues!There has been much speculation about who would replace former Armory Show director Noah Horowitz, who was hired by Art Basel in July. Today, the Armory Show announced Horowitz’s replacement in the top job at the fair: … Read More
  
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• Neville Wakefield Will Curate the 2016 Spring Program at Red Bull Studios

  17-12-2015 18:34 via artnews.com
  Neville Wakefield has been named the curator for the spring 2016 season at Red Bull Studios, the energy drink-supported art space in Chelsea, which in the past has organized exhibitions by the likes of DIS, Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, … Read More
  
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• Master of the Darth arts: the man doing a Star Wars cartoon every day for a year

  17-12-2015 17:35
  
  Fanboy artist George Folz has posted #darthdays online every single day of 2015, capturing iconic scenes from Star Wars. And he’s not going to stop until 2020Star Wars fans are notorious for their devotion – just look at the growing number of people who list Jedi as their religion. But artist George Folz, a fan since the age of four, has found a more creative outlet for his obsession. Every day this year, he has posted a comic-book panel based on the original trilogy on Twitter, in a
  
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• Kitty Scott, Julie Lomax Appointed to Positions at the Liverpool Biennial

  17-12-2015 16:57 via artnews.com
  The Liverpool Biennial has announced that Kitty Scott will co-curate the 2018 edition. Also announced was Julie Lomax’s appointment as director of development.Since 2012, Scott has been the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Carol and Morton Rapp Curator of modern and … Read More
  
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• Richard Constable obituary

  17-12-2015 15:49
  
  My friend and colleague Richard Constable, who has died aged 83, was the great-great-grandson of the landscape painter John Constable, and was himself an artist who did a great deal to further his ancestor’s reputation and legacy.Born in Lewes, East Sussex, to John, a military officer, and Eileen (nee Saltmarsh), Richard was brought up on a farm in Devon. Time spent on Dartmoor made him a keen naturalist, with a passion for collecting and breeding butterflies and moths. Another early inter
  
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• MOCA Los Angeles’s Board Adds Four, Including Lari Pittman

  17-12-2015 15:45 via artnews.com
  Changes are afoot at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, which announced this morning that it has added four members to its board: businessman Gabriel Brener, philanthropist Mary Klaus Martin, artist Lari Pittman, and hedge fund manager and art … Read More
  
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• Calais migrants start charging visitors to see Banksy's Steve Jobs mural

  17-12-2015 15:40
  
  The painting remains covered by a red blanket unless visitors pay five eurors
  
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• ‘Polite Midwestern Order’: Milwaukee’s Nicolas Frank Talks Perspective, Dementia, and Beer

  17-12-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  The genesis of Milwaukee-based artist, curator and writer Nicolas Frank’s current show “Post Self”—on display now until January 23 at Western Exhibitions in Chicago—comes out of the artist’s relationship with his mother. “It actually all starts from my mom,” Frank … Read More
  
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• ‘Polite Midwestern Order’: Milwaukee’s Nicholas Frank Talks Perspective, Dementia, and Beer

  17-12-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  The genesis of Milwaukee-based artist, curator, and writern Nicholas Frank’s current show “Post Self”—on display now until January 23 at Western Exhibitions in Chicago—comes out of the artist’s relationship with his mother. “It actually all starts from my mom,” Frank … Read More
  
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• Pharmaceutical Executive and Collector Martin Shkreli Arrested On Fraud Charges

  17-12-2015 15:10 via artnews.com
  But who will listen to that Wu-Tang Clan album now?
  
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• From participation to diversity, art is no longer standing still

  17-12-2015 15:00
  
  In her last column of the year, Susan Jones offers four seasonal reasons to be cheerful – and a bonus new year’s resolutionTo some, I will always be that irritating person who finds some fault with how the subsidised arts operate. Over the past year I’ve ranted in this column on, among other things, the plethora of naff art language and the male-domination of arts leadership. I’ve championed our much underrated crafts scene and banged the “small is beautiful”
  
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• Morning Links: ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’ Dispute Edition

  17-12-2015 14:47 via artnews.com
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• Pussy Riot to open 'women's-only' museum

  17-12-2015 11:25
  
  The band's Maria Alyokhina announces plans to open the space in Montenegro.
  
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• Katthy Cavaliere: exploring grief and mortality in a poignant retrospective

  17-12-2015 04:35
  
  The late artist grieved through her work for her mother, who died of ovarian cancer three years before the same disease claimed Cavaliere herself. A retrospective that’s part of Mofo festival features her obsession with childhood and documenting herselfThrough her work, Katthy Cavaliere grieved for her mother. A 2010 video called nest features the Australian artist sitting atop a pile of her mother’s clothes and looking pensively out to sea; an homage to how the pair would often visi
  
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• Star Wars: The Force Awakens: the artist behind the iconic movie posters

  17-12-2015 01:11
  
  Bewitched by movie posters as an art student, Ciara McAvoy was perhaps destined to paint (yes, paint) them some day. She reveals how the force awakened within her
  
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