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• UK cities hit out at Dallas Symphony Orchestra's decision to cancel tour over 'safety risks'

  23-12-2015 20:29
  
  Leading US orchestra pulled out of scheduled dates in Birmingham and Edinburgh, sparking incredulity from residents
  
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• Robert Ryman review – more than simply pale and interesting

  23-12-2015 18:31
  
  Dia Art Foundation, New York
  Working almost entirely with the colour white, for six decades the artist has made remarkably warm paintings in which the immaterial is made manifestWhite, Wassily Kandinsky thought, had had a bad run in painting before him. The impressionists’ snow effects were usually rendered in light blue and mauve, while Vincent van Gogh, in an 1888 letter to his fellow painter Émile Bernard, wrote that he felt unjustified in painting with white – too far from
  
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• ‘Thirty Nine Years’ at Susanne Hilberry Gallery

  23-12-2015 17:30 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Thirty Nine Years” is currently on view at Susanne Hilberry Gallery. The show, on view until February 13, honors the legacy of Susanne Hilberry at the eponymous contemporary art gallery in Detroit … Read More
  
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• UK buyer sought for £30m Pontormo painting

  23-12-2015 16:53
  
  Temporary export ban placed on 16th-century Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap after its sale to overseas collectorA temporary export ban has been placed on a 16th-century Mannerist masterpiece after it was sold to a foreign buyer for more than £30mPortrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap (1530) is one of only 15 surviving paintings by the Florentine painter Pontormo and one of the only examples of his work that resides outside his native Italy.Continue reading...
  
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• LOMEX, a Gallery Named for Robert Moses and Housed in Eva Hesse’s Studio, Opens on the Bowery

  23-12-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  The merchant Samuel Delaplaine built the Federal-style house on 134 Bowery, where curator and writer Alexander Shulan just opened his intriguing new gallery LOMEX, in 1798. Delaplaine, whose great-grandfather came to the New World from France in the early 1600s, … Read More
  
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• The strange tale of the Snowflake Man

  23-12-2015 12:05
  
  Using chilled velvet, tiny wood chips and turkey feathers, Wilson Bentley caused a flurry with his pioneering pictures of these miniature wonders. His results are astonishing – so why was he seen as an oddball outsider?The structure of a snowflake is one of the most beautiful things in nature. Every flake is different, they say; each one an intricate lattice of frozen water molecules with spectacular symmetry. Everybody knows this. When children make paper snowflakes they cut them out to m
  
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• Papercraft models and cut outs: Five facts about this year's Happy Holidays Google Doodle

  23-12-2015 02:33
  
  This year's Happy Holidays Google Doodle is clearly intended to send us to the craft table and get making decorations for our homes
  
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