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• Controversial artist Richard Prince sued for copyright infringement

  04-01-2016 23:44
  
  The artist, whose work often involves appropriating the images of others, has been sued for his use of the photograph Rastafarian Smoking a Joint Richard Prince, a New York-based artist whose work often involves appropriating that of others, has been sued for copyright infringement by Donald Graham, a photographer who claims Prince knowingly reproduced his photo Rastafarian Smoking a Joint without seeking permission.Artnet reports that Graham filed a complaint on 30 December against Prince, the
  
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• Laura Owens Named Winner of the 2015 Robert De Niro Sr. Prize

  04-01-2016 22:59 via artnews.com
  Robert De Niro announced today that the painter Laura Owens has won the 2015 Robert De Niro Sr. Prize, named for the actor’s father, who was an artist, and awarded annually to a mid-career American artist. Owens will now receive … Read More
  
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• Here Are the U.S. Museums That You Can Bring a Concealed Weapon To

  04-01-2016 22:47 via artnews.com
  The Denver Museum of Nature & Science recently changed its weapons policy, allowing visitors with a concealed weapons permit the right to bear arms on their premises. According to the DMNS museum board, their updated policy is in line with … Read More
  
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• Harry Ransom Center Receives Grant to Digitize Gabriel García Márquez Archive

  04-01-2016 22:06 via artnews.com
  The Council on Library and Information Resources has awarded the University of Texas at Austin’s Harry Ransom Center a 2015 Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant of $126,730 for the purpose of digitizing over 24,000 pages from its Gabriel … Read More
  
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• Untitled( the haloed names appear in her novel)

  04-01-2016 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  u faces the middle of the room. she wants congress. no one is going to talk to her. she’s too needy. she needs to do the things she was supposed to do and there is so much that she hasn’t done. she will never have the time. she hates giving up and feeling lonely. she texts. she has big wiggly legs.j put the music on louder to annoy me. my heart rate is irregular. he doesn’t have anything to do. he hates that i can see that he is struggling. the weather is worse. the ice is dang
  
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• The artist Francesco Vezzoli on the ancient world, celebrity and 'Mrs Prada'

  04-01-2016 20:38
  
  The subject of a new documentary has gone from making lavish artworks with celebrities to talking Marx with Miuccia Prada and repainting ancient bustsSome interviewees can be guarded: but artists, happily, generally delight in telling you exactly what they think. So it goes with Italy’s Francesco Vezzoli, who the Guardian meets over breakfast at the glamorous Nautilus hotel in Miami in the week of enormous US art fair Art Basel Miami Beach. The fair is a major commercial event for any cont
  
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• ‘The New Contemporary’ at Art Institute of Chicago

  04-01-2016 20:19 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Here’s the Exhibition Trailer for Mark Flood’s ‘The Future Is Ow’ At Marlborough Chelsea

  04-01-2016 20:13 via artnews.com
  We’re only a few days into 2016 and I’m already making a trend forecast: exhibition trailers. This prediction is based solely on the trailer Mark Flood has released for “The Future is Ow,” the name of a forthcoming show of … Read More
  
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• The Whitney’s Conservation Team Is in This Week’s New Yorker

  04-01-2016 17:55 via artnews.com
  One of the longest articles in this week’s New Yorker has an unlikely subject: the Whitney’s conservators. Written by novelist and MacArthur Fellow Ben Lerner, the piece is about the trials and tribulations of restoring contemporary art. How do you … Read More
  
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• Sir Brian Tovey obituary

  04-01-2016 16:47
  
  My father, Sir Brian Tovey, a former director of GCHQ, who has died aged 89, had a flair for languages that led directly to his recruitment in 1950 by the recently formed government communications centre in Cheltenham. He worked there until 1983, serving as director for the final five years.On retiring from GCHQ, Brian embarked on a second career as a company director, in partnership with his wife, Mary (nee Lane), whom he met in Cheltenham in 1979 and married in 1989. Together they provided pol
  
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• Sistine perfection or pissed-up Manchester street scene? Let's put things in perspective

  04-01-2016 15:11
  
  Forget its supposed compositional harmonies: comparing a photo of some drunk revellers to the masterpieces of the Renaissance is an insult to the deeply skilled and difficult enterprise of paintingOh, come off it. I know you may have had a few. I know this time of year can bring out a bit of sentimental hungover tosh. But seriously – why are so many people comparing a photograph of New Year’s Eve in Manchester to the masterpieces of Renaissance art? It started when a BBC producer twe
  
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• Morning Links: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Update Edition

  04-01-2016 14:44 via artnews.com
  THE BEGINNING OF THE ENDHere’s a new development in the investigation of the infamous Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum robbery: a longtime associate of the long-suspected mobster Robert Gentile has agreed to work with the FBI. From his account, it appears Gentile … Read More
  
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• Christian Ihle Hadland, Wigmore Hall, review: A wonderfully rich repast

  04-01-2016 13:41
  
  After two eloquent Brahms Rhapsodies, his finale was an arresting performance of Prokofiev's second piano sonata
  
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• Barenboim/Kozhukhin, Wigmore Hall, London, review: Superb accompanist lifts violinist's limited palette

  04-01-2016 13:33
  
  It was wise of Michael Barenboim to choose the excellent pianist Denis Kozhukhin for his Wigmore Hall debut
  
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• Woman pictured in 'renaissance' New Year's Eve photograph reveals the story behind it

  04-01-2016 09:52
  
  The man in blue 'wasn't casually chilling and reaching for his beer!'
  
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• The story behind the Manchester New Year's Eve photograph likened to a Renaissance painting

  04-01-2016 09:52
  
  The man in blue 'wasn't casually chilling and reaching for his beer!'
  
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• The most unmissable culture of 2016

  04-01-2016 08:00
  
  Tarantino goes bounty-hunting, Botticelli takes you to hell, Bowie goes dark, and Jericho fills that Downton-shaped hole … in our bumper guide to the best 150 arts events to look forward to this year Continue reading...
  
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• Who belongs on the Australian beach? A history of gendered and racial possession

  04-01-2016 03:07
  
  Australian artists challenge some of the white masculine stereotypes that dominate national imagery of the country’s beaches Sun, surf and skin: Australian depictions of the beach – in picturesThe Australian novelist Robert Drewe asked recently: “What is it with Australians and the beach? Is there another nation so in love with its shoreline?”Related: Sun, surf and skin: Australian depictions of the beach – in picturesContinue reading...
  
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