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• Clog fighting: Anna FC Smith's Gallery Oldham exhibition reveals the history of the lost British martial art

  06-01-2016 23:32
  
  Dean Kirby finds out how the gritty lads who took part got their kicks
  
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• Untitled(it is how i remember these numbers that save me)

  06-01-2016 23:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  the doc talks about his horse. i’m glad he loves his animal. i don’t especially care about them. i know its good to like them. i liked my ex wife’s dog because it was her dog.at a certain point i think people want me to fail or to do well and i doubt myself.i haven’t showered for four days. i wear my orange hat indoors.they want me to talk to this woman. she has deep lines in her face.i record her story with my i phone: i’m going to…why do they do this to me
  
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• The Thick of It actor Chris Addison to star at the Royal Opera House

  06-01-2016 22:31
  
  Comedian hopes fans of his TV work will see him in 'L'Etoile' and discover opera is not 'exclusive and super posh'
  
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• Widespread forgery of avant-garde artist exposed at Russian Art Week

  06-01-2016 22:00
  
  A four-year war for control of Natalia Goncharova’s artistic legacy showed no sign of ending during London’s recent Russian Art Week (27 November-4 December).At a conference on 2 December on the forgery of Russian avant-garde art, Konstantin Akinsha, a historian and journalist, highlighted the widespread faking of works attributed to Goncharova (1881-1962) and others. He cited alleged collusion by international experts, including curators, and criminal investigations in countries ra
  
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• The robots are coming

  06-01-2016 22:00
  
  Artists as diverse as Rachel Whiteread, Oscar Murillo and Yayoi Kusama are beginning to use the high-tech fabrication methods once available to only the most commercially successful artists such as Jeff Koons.
  Lower-cost robots that mimic an artist’s arm movements and joints are starting to replace the pricey computer-numerical-control (CNC) machines that Koons uses to produce his sleek, industrial aesthetic.“The paradigm has changed,” says Konstantinos Papalexiou, the owner o
  
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• The price is right? Galleries would ‘rather not say’

  06-01-2016 22:00
  Marc Spiegler, the director of the Art Basel fairs, believes that art dealers may need to be more transparent about pricing if they are to compete with the auction houses. In a presentation prepared for the Talking Galleries conference in Barcelona in early November, Spiegler said that the fact that auction houses provide the only publicly available prices for art means that the market is “at [their] mercy”. In this way, the auction houses have been allowed to “define what is a
  
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• Owner of purported Monet loses case in French court

  06-01-2016 22:00
  
  While Guy Wildenstein faces charges of tax fraud and money laundering in Paris, another French court has handed down its final ruling on a Monet that was the subject of a bitter attribution battle between the owner and the Wildenstein Institute. And it is a clear “non!”
   
  The work, Les Bords de Seine à Argenteuil (dated 1875 on frame), featured in the BBC programme Fake or Fortune in June 2011, in which its owner David Joel enlisted the help of the programme presenters,
  
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• Egypt to launch antiquities database to track public collections and combat smuggling

  06-01-2016 22:00
  
  The Egyptian ministry of antiquities is developing a new digital database to help officials to identify and recover smuggled artefacts. Working with the Antiquities Coalition and the American Research Center in Egypt, the ministry aims to document the materials, location and provenance of each object in the nation’s extensive public collections. Staff from the British Museum in London will train budding archaeologists in digitisation.
  “Registries are a proven solution in the fight a
  
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• A return to the object: Biennale de Montréal announces theme for 2016 edition

  06-01-2016 21:59
  
  The Biennale de Montréal—which relaunched with a new leadership team, after a rough patch, for its 2014 edition—has announced plans for this year’s exhibition, due to be held in the Québécois city from 19 October to 15 January 2017.“It’s very different from the last edition,” says the event’s director, Sylvie Fortin. While the 2014 biennale, L’avenir (looking forward), included many socially engaged works, the 2016 event looks
  
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• Saatchi Gallery's all-female exhibition could start to shift male gaze of the art world

  06-01-2016 21:33
  
  Champagne Life exhibition, featuring 14 female artists, seems to represent all the oppressed generations who never got the chance to pick up a paintbrush
  A white-haired woman looks unnervingly across a huge white space in the Saatchi Gallery from ashen eyes magnified by huge tortoiseshell-framed spectacles. What has she seen? What does she know? And why does her judgment seem so severe?Ljubica is one of three colossal portraits of older women by Jelena Bulajić that feature in Champagne Life
  
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• Executive Director Babacar M’Bow Fired From MoCA North Miami

  06-01-2016 21:23 via artnews.com
  Artforum reports today that Babacar M’Bow was officially fired from his post as executive director of MoCA North Miami on December 31 following a multiple-week suspension stemming from sexual harassment claims. City chief of staff Natasha Colebrook-Williams will temporarily serve as director … Read More
  
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• ‘Jean Baudrillard’s Photography: Ultimate Paradox’ at Château Shatto

  06-01-2016 20:51 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Jean Baudrillard’s photography: Ultimate Paradox” is currently on view at Château Shatto in Los Angeles, until February 6. The exhibition features works named only for respective cities or towns where … Read More
  
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• ‘Jean Baudrillard’s Photography: The Ultimate Paradox’ at Château Shatto

  06-01-2016 20:51 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Jean Baudrillard’s photography: The Ultimate Paradox” is currently on view at Château Shatto in Los Angeles, until February 6. The exhibition features works named only for respective cities or … Read More
  
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• A floating forest grows in Queens

  06-01-2016 18:47
  
  With the holidays past, a familiar sight in New York in January is the stacks of discarded Christmas trees left on the curb for collection. But rather than let the winter blues set in, the artist Michael Neff has extended the life of some of these fine firs with the room-sized Suspended Forest at the Knockdown Center in Maspeth, Queens. Neff has created the installation twice previously in unauthorised spots under the BQE highway in Williamsburg, but those were removed by the city within days,
  
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• 'We want to live a decent, simple life'​ – refugee camps ​as seen by illustrator George Butler

  06-01-2016 18:11
  
  George Butler has provided poignant snapshots of life in Afghanistan and Lebanon. Here, he trains his watercolours on Greece and Serbia, where refugees are crowding into camps after escaping armed conflict at home Continue reading...
  
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• Saatchi Gallery to Hold its First All-Female Show

  06-01-2016 17:41 via artnews.com
  The Guardian reports that London’s Saatchi Gallery has announced that it will hold an all-female exhibition titled “Champagne Life,” which will include the work of 14 emerging women artists from around the world. The exhibition will open on January 13.The … Read More
  
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• Guy Wildenstein’s Tax Fraud Trial Gets Delayed Until May

  06-01-2016 17:11 via artnews.com
  On Monday, after Guy Wildenstein was put on trial in Paris for tax fraud and money laundering in France and possibly the U.S., a court decided to delay the art dealer’s trial until May 4. The New York Times reported … Read More
  
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• New York Public Library Releases 180,000 Digitized Items For Free Use

  06-01-2016 17:08 via artnews.com
  The New York Public Library announced yesterday that 180,000 out-of-copyright materials from its digital collections are now available for download, no permission required. This is, according to the NYPL, “intended to facilitate sharing, research and reuse by scholars, artists, educators, … Read More
  
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• Outraged over a £15,000 Glasgow art project? Look at the bigger picture | Liam Hainey

  06-01-2016 16:49
  
  Ellie Harrison’s grant for her work the Glasgow Effect has attracted ire from fellow artists – but they should focus on the budget butchers cutting arts fundingFor many who live or work in the city, the phrase the “Glasgow miracle”, used to describe the remarkable body of contemporary art produced there, can easily get the hackles up. It’s not that the people of Glasgow aren’t proud of the city’s contribution to contemporary art, more that there’s
  
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• Art among the cacti: recurring exhibition to launch in the Southern Californian desert

  06-01-2016 15:39
  
  A three-month contemporary art exhibition is due to launch early next year in Southern Californian's Coachella Valley and its desert cities, including Palm Springs and Rancho Mirage. The new event, Desert X, is described as a “recurring exhibition” by the organisers. The show is scheduled to open February 2017 and could catch the tail end of the popular Coachella music festival. Venues are scheduled to include the Palm Springs Art Museum and Sunnylands Center & Gardens in Rancho
  
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• Artist documents their progress from age 2 to 28

  06-01-2016 15:27
  
  'I was lucky enough to start very early...but I don't think it's ever too late to give it a go.'
  
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• Morning Links: Guggenheim Seeks Cabinetmaker Edition

  06-01-2016 15:11 via artnews.com
  CALLING ALL CABINETMAKERSThe Guggenheim is on the market for an on-call cabinetmaker with an M.F.A. [NYFA]BACKLASHPeople are not exactly happy about the fact that artist Ellie Harrison has been awarded £15,000 by Creative Scotland to stay within the Greater Glasgow area … Read More
  
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• Saatchi Gallery to show its first all-female art exhibition

  06-01-2016 13:02
  
  Champagne Life, which will showcase work of 14 artists, attempts to redress gender disparity in contemporary artIt is best known for propelling previously niche artists such as Tracey Emin and Paula Rego into the mainstream. And now, as it prepares to mark its 30th anniversary, the Saatchi Gallery in London is set to get the art world talking again, with its first all-female exhibition.Champagne Life, which opens on 13 January, brings together the work of 14 emerging artists from around the worl
  
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• Long-awaited Wildenstein trial postponed due to legal technicality

  06-01-2016 12:00
  
  The highly anticipated trial of the Wildenstein family on charges of tax evasion and money laundering was blocked in Paris today, 6 January, due to a legal technicality. The family’s lawyers argued that initiating combined criminal and civil proceedings for the same case was unconstitutional.
  In a courtroom packed with more than 20 lawyers and dozens of journalists, the judges found that the question was serious enough to be put before the High Court of Justice. This will take months. If
  
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• Pixação: the story behind São Paulo's 'angry' alternative to graffiti

  06-01-2016 10:58
  
  Derived from heavy metal album covers, São Paulo’s distinctive street writing is rooted in a desire to protest against inequality in Brazil’s largest city. But some pixadores now fear their work is being ‘sold out’. Photographs: Pablo Lopez LuzIf Brazil is “not for beginners”, as the composer Antonio Carlos Jobim once said, then its great urban centre, São Paulo, is certainly not for the faint of heart. It’s not just the noisy streets, the
  
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• Curator of 'show of the decade' Goya exhibition prepares for poignant farewell

  06-01-2016 08:45
  
  Celebrated portrait exhibition is in its final week but a feature-length film will leave Xavier Bray with a permanent record of his ‘obsession’The moment the doors close for the last time on the National Gallery’s celebrated Goya exhibition will be especially poignant for the show’s guest curator.
  Xavier Bray is planning a private farewell for a collection of portraits he spent more than 10 years bringing together, before they are scattered and returned to their owners. R
  
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• Goya's Duchess of Alba: 'Every hair on her head awakens desire' - video

  06-01-2016 08:30
  
  In a clip from the forthcoming film Goya: Visions of Flesh and Blood, Xavier Bray, the curator of the National Gallery’s exhibition of portraits by the Spanish artist, talks about the collection’s jewel Continue reading...
  
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• Designers needed for travelling pavilion dedicated to Charlie Hebdo

  06-01-2016 05:04
  
  A competition to design a mobile exhibition pavilion dedicated to free speech has been launched on the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks in Paris (7 January), when two gunmen murdered 12 people at the satirical magazine, including the publication’s editor and three fellow cartoonists.
  Plans for the so-called Charlie Hebdo Portable Pavilion were announced by the Hong Kong-based firm Bee Breeders, which organises architectural competitions “focusing on initiatin
  
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• Kara Walker finds her roots on PBS

  06-01-2016 03:35
  
  Kara Walker is the first visual artist to be featured in the PBS television series Finding Your Roots, which follows celebrities and cultural figures as they trace their genealogy. Walker appeared in the first episode of the third season on Tuesday, 5 January 2016, along with the political analyst Donna Brazile and the television actor Ty Burrell. The artist’s work often explores the tension between race and identity in America and the lasting implications of the slave trade, although her
  
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