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• The Whitney Acquires an Archibald Motley

  11-01-2016 23:34 via artnews.com
  One of the most thrilling exhibitions to arrive in New York last year was “Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist” at the Whitney, a traveling retrospective of the under-sung African American artist, organized by the Nasher Museum at Duke University. It … Read More
  
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• Paula Cooper: still driving the New York scene, 50 years on

  11-01-2016 22:00
  
  Sipping an Orangina soda and smiling warmly, Paula Cooper is not quite what I’d imagined. A sharp-suited espresso drinker might have been more in keeping with expectations of one of the world’s most powerful art dealers, especially one whose tastes are famously austere. After all, Cooper has survived and thrived in a mercurial art world for almost five decades. Hers was the first gallery to open in New York’s Soho, staging an exhibition of works by artists including Carl Andre
  
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• Face-off: Van Dyck and Mark Wallinger

  11-01-2016 22:00
  The Dulwich Picture Gallery, South London, has around 220 Dutch and Flemish Golden Age paintings in its collection. The gallery intends to publish its first comprehensive catalogue of the collection in the autumn of 2017. To whet the public’s appetite for these treats, the gallery’s chief curator, Xavier Bray, and the assistant curator, Helen Hillyard, have planned a series of monographic shows titled Making Discoveries. Over the next two years, works by artists including Peter Paul
  
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• Call of the desert strong as ever for Christo

  11-01-2016 22:00
  
  For nearly 40 years, Christo has been working to secure a piece of desert in Abu Dhabi for his project The Mastaba. The structure of 410,000 multicoloured barrels would be the largest sculpture in the world, and unlike many of Christo’s projects, it is designed to be permanent.
  “The engineering plan is almost finished,” he told us, just before he flew to the emirate last month for a reception at the US embassy. But he added: “We need to have the land secure. That is the
  
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• ‘I Value, I See, I Mark’: Sarah Meyohas Takes on the Art Market in a Performance at 303 Gallery

  11-01-2016 20:33 via artnews.com
  “I don’t know why people ask me for financial advice,” the artist Sarah Meyohas told me at 303 Gallery on Friday night. This was a peculiar comment, given that Meyohas has an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton … Read More
  
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• Consumer Reports: Item Idem

  11-01-2016 20:15 via artnews.com
  Item Idem is the fictional alter-ego brand name used by the French artist and designer Cyril Duval. Under this moniker, Duval has produced work at the intersection of conceptual art, industrial design and marketing/branding. Duval’s work has been exhibited at, … Read More
  
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• Two detained in Turkey over attempted sale of painting, claimed to be lost work by Van Dyck

  11-01-2016 19:10
  
  Two businessmen have been arrested and detained by Turkish authorities after they tried to sell an allegedly smuggled painting, claimed to be a lost work by Anthony van Dyck, to undercover police officers at a hotel rendezvous in Istanbul’s Topkapi neighbourhood.
  As reported by the Hurriyet Newspaper, the businessmen said they had purchased the work—which they planned to sell for 14m lira ($4.6m)—for $200,000 from a gang in Georgia. The work was allegedly taken from a European
  
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• ‘Objects and Bodies at Rest and in Motion’ at Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden

  11-01-2016 19:06 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Objects and Bodies at Rest and in Motion” is currently on view at Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden, until February 7. The show examines the relationship between objects and the human … Read More
  
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• Sotheby’s Acquires Art Advisory Firm Art Agency, Partners

  11-01-2016 18:18 via artnews.com
  In a somewhat surprising move, Sotheby’s announced today it will pay $50 million in cash to acquire the art advisory firm Art Agency, Partners and create a new Fine Art Division run by AAP’s Amy Cappellazzo and Allan Schwartzman. The … Read More
  
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• ‘I’m Glad I’m Me Now!’ On the Peculiar Brilliance of ‘Cracked Actor: A Film About David Bowie’

  11-01-2016 18:08 via artnews.com
  I think one of the stranger moments in the history of documentary filmmaking–if not filmmaking generally–is from a 1974 BBC documentary called Cracked Actor: A Film About David Bowie. The movie, not unlike Bowie’s best albums, is more like a … Read More
  
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• Maggie Lee’s ‘Mommy’ Soundtrack Is Now Available to Stream and Download

  11-01-2016 18:03 via artnews.com
  Last week, the soundtrack to the recent Maggie Lee movie Mommy was released on iTunes and Spotify by the film’s producer, Beta Pictures. The soundtrack features music from, among others, James K, Gobby, Physical Therapy, and, for the first time … Read More
  
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• Art world commemorates 50th anniversary of Alberto Giacometti’s death

  11-01-2016 17:36
  
  Alberto Giacometti died in Chur in his native Switzerland 50 years ago today (11 January). His spindly bronze figures had already come to define Modern art when he died at just 64. One such work, L’homme au doigt (1947), broke the record for the most expensive sculpture sold at auction when it fetched $141.3m at Christie’s in May.The National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition, Pure Presence, which closed yesterday (10 January), focused on a lesser-known aspect of Giacometti’
  
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• ‘A Tenacious Contributor of Ideas’: David Bowie on His Publishing Company, in 1998

  11-01-2016 17:09 via artnews.com
  David Bowie, the beloved musician who died yesterday at age 69, is best known for his unabashedly weird pop music, but a little-known piece of the British singer’s biography is that he also tried his hand at art-book publishing. (Another … Read More
  
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• Turner's Dutch Boats need not stay anchored in Britain to wield their power

  11-01-2016 16:57
  
  It is absurd to make a patriotic fuss about this painting staying in Britain – Turner is a great artist because he has something to say to the entire worldSelfishly, I am delighted that JMW Turner’s The Bridgewater Sea Piece – also known, drably, as Dutch Boats in a Gale is to stay at the National Gallery, in London. I was looking at it there just the other day: the roaring sea seems to lash against the very surface of this astonishingly mobile painting and seep out into the ga
  
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• Bowie blockbuster opens its doors for grieving devotees

  11-01-2016 15:41
  
  The blockbusting retrospective of David Bowie’s career opened at the Groninger Museum in The Netherlands last month (David Bowie Is, until 13 March). It is a timely monument to the man who straddled music, fashion and art for more than 40 years. The museum is usually closed on Mondays but opened its doors today (11 January) so that fans can pay homage to the late Thin White Duke. Visitors to the show can pay their respects by signing a condolences book in the lobby of the museum. On the m
  
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• Morning Links: David Bowie Edition

  11-01-2016 14:22 via artnews.com
  DAVID BOWIEDavid Bowie, who released his twenty-fifth album, Blackstar, only three days ago, died on Sunday after a ten-year battle with cancer. Here are a few of many obituaries:“David Bowie Dies at 69; He Transcended Music, Art and Fashion” [The New York … Read More
  
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