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• Sotheby’s buys prestigious art advisory firm in $85m deal

  10-01-2016 22:00
  
  In a bold move, Sotheby’s auction house has acquired the powerhouse advisory Art Agency, Partners. Founded less than two years ago by Amy Cappellazzo, the former chairwoman of Christie’s post-war and contemporary art department, and Allan Schwartzman, one of the world’s leading art advisers, the firm is renowned for having one of the best address books in the business.
  Sotheby’s has paid $50m cash for the firm with an additional $35m payable over the next five years if c
  
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• David Bowie (1947-2016): the man who charmed the world

  10-01-2016 22:00
  The exhibition David Bowie Is, which was on show at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2013, confirmed that Bowie (1947-2016) was more than a musician, but an artist, a style icon and one of the world's most adored cultural figures. It was among the V&A's most highly-attended exhibitions ever with more than 2000 visitors everyday (312,000 total) and more than 1 million people saw the show during its international tour. Here, Jeremy Deller and other artists, musicians and performers explain
  
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• Art world hero: artists and curators pay tribute to David Bowie

  10-01-2016 22:00
  
  Leading art-world figures are today mourning the death of the musician, artist and actor David Bowie, who had been suffering from cancer for the past 18 months. Bowie, who died aged 69 yesterday, studied art at Bromley Technical High School, briefly going to Croydon School of Art. He continued to create works throughout his life; in 1995 he had his first one-man exhibition of paintings in The Gallery on Cork Street.The Turner Prize nominee Dexter Dalwood told The Art Newspaper: “I started
  
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• Khamis/Houston, National Gallery, review: Promising young pianists tackle Granados's 'Los Goyescas'

  10-01-2016 17:16
  
  The National Gallery puts on fifteen free classical concerts like this each year, usually themed to tie in with exhibitions
  
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• {Fiction} A Hero’s Death

  10-01-2016 15:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Image courtesy of Freedigitalphotos.net / Simon Howden)
  The city night is in front of you, the bar is behind you. The scent of gin and cheap perfume mixes with cigarette smoke from the trio by the bar’s door. Then there is you—your name isn’t particularly important, but you are a he—stumbling out of the bar, slicing between the semi-circle of smokers and onto the sidewalk.
  You’re tipsy, not drunk. A five O’clock shadow clings to your face, giving you the app
  
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• John Akomfrah: The acclaimed political film-maker and artist whose work deals with racial identity and immigration

  10-01-2016 14:59
  
  Film artist John Akomfrah has long dealt with migration – and now his work has terrible resonance, as he tells Hettie Judah
  
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• Laurie Lee: The unseen paintings and drawings of the 'Cider with Rosie' author

  10-01-2016 14:46
  
  A new exhibition will feature never-before-seen artworks recently discovered by the writer's daughter, Jessy Lee
  
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• Julian Charrière: For They That Sow the Wind review – bracing and beautiful

  10-01-2016 09:00
  
  Parasol Unit, London
  Intrepid Swiss artist Julian Charrière turns ancient icebergs, radioactive dust and desert lithium into the stuff of poetryJulian Charrière is the ideal artist for the start of a new year. His work is bracing, beautiful, quick with ideas and driven by a highly adventurous curiosity.He has gone beneath the blazing sands of Bolivia to find the lithium that powers our batteries, and scaled the volcanoes of Mexico to inscribe them with riddles. He has been to Stali
  
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• So … This Is Really Weird, But Sean Penn Interviewed Mexican Druglord El Chapo For Rolling Stone

  10-01-2016 07:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And the first half of it goes like this: “I take no pride in keeping secrets that may be perceived as protecting criminals, nor do I have any gloating arrogance at posing for selfies with unknowing security men. But I’m in my rhythm. Everything I say to everyone must be true. As true as it is compartmentalized. The trust that El Chapo had extended to us was not to be fucked with.”
  
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