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• More than a black and white issue

  17-01-2016 23:44
  Black Pulp!—a show opening this Tuesday, 19 January, at the Yale School of Art’s 32 Edgewood Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut—brings together 90 years of art and print media that confront and subvert racist depictions and stereotypes of African Americans. “The pulp attitude is to take the tragic and painful points of history, like Jim Crow and the Vietnam War, and challenge them through biting humor, satire, and wit,” the exhibition’s co-curator, the artist a
  
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• Watts couple’s revamped ‘his and hers’ studios to open in Compton

  17-01-2016 22:00
  
  Visitors will gain new insights into the working practice of the Victorian artist George Frederic Watts and his wife, the ceramicist Mary Seton Watts, when the couple’s newly refurbished studios open in Compton, Surrey, later this month (26 January). The studios are part of Artists’ Village, an Arts & Crafts hub in Compton that also includes Watts’s gallery, pottery and chapel.A major work by Watts, The Court of Death (around 1870-1902), will go on show in the newly restor
  
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• Crowdfunding offers small investors the lure of big art

  17-01-2016 22:00
  
  A new investment firm, Arthena, is introducing the art market to equity crowdfunding, a financing model better known in the tech world, where online platforms let individuals contribute to start-ups. Both industries are attracting new investors because they present “very exciting” prospects for growth, says Arthena’s founder, Madelaine D’Angelo, a former art appraiser and consultant.
  She has modelled the firm on AngelList Syndicates, which allows inexperienced “ang
  
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• 2015 Film in Review

  17-01-2016 18:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When lazy critics complain that 2015 was somehow lackluster at the cinema, really what they’re lamenting is the lack of obvious critical bandwagon films from the heavy-hitting American filmmakers they love to rally consensus behind. Sure, there were no Scorsese or Wes Anderson or Coen brothers movies for everyone to collectively fawn over, but instead the year provided an incredibly diverse collection of visionary works, and the lack of general consensus over the best of the year shou
  
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• Lumiere Festival London 2016: Installations turned off due to overcrowding

  17-01-2016 17:54
  
  Kings Cross Station was evacuated
  
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• New exhibition 'Creation From Catastrophe' looks at how architects are doing more to prepare us for disaster - but is it enough?

  17-01-2016 17:35
  
  The show is especially prescient following the recent floods in Cumbria, which has raised questions about how to build in the region in the future
  
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• When Nature wipes the slate clean...

  17-01-2016 17:30
  
  ...shouldn't architects do more to prevent the next disaster, asks Christopher Beanland
  
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• Lumiere London boosts trade as roads closed for free festival of lights

  17-01-2016 16:38
  
  Four-day event sees busy streets temporarily pedestrianised for people to view colourful artworks and installationsA free festival of lights that will draw thousands on to the streets of London for its final night on Sunday massively boosted trade during what is usually one of the quietest, coldest and darkest weeks of the year, its organisers have claimed.The four-day Lumiere London event saw stretches of Oxford Street, the Mall, Piccadilly and Regent Street closed from dusk until 10.30pm so pe
  
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• Art market in 'mania phase' and risks bursting of the bubble, report says

  17-01-2016 13:30
  
  Experts expect a ‘severe correction’, particularly in contemporary and American art, after years of spiralling prices and celebrity and luxury obsessionAfter examining more than a million auction records from over 36 years, economics professors at the University of Luxembourg have concluded that the international art market is overheating, creating the potential for a “severe correction” in the postwar and contemporary and American segments.Related: Are the most expensive
  
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• Champagne Life review – from the monumental to the mildly insulting

  17-01-2016 09:00
  
  Saatchi Gallery, London
  Despite individual highlights – huge, hyperreal portraits, a marooned horse, spectral wax sculptures – this all-female show invites the suspicion of tokenismFrom a distance, I thought they were dirty hubcaps, arranged as if on the wall of a grimy backstreet mechanic’s. Only up close did I realise that what I was looking at was a collection of aluminium cooking pots, each one placed upside down, the better that I might contemplate its base, blackened by t
  
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• Ed Vaizey wants the best of British ideas for an arts and culture renaissance - so here are ours

  17-01-2016 00:42
  
  From bringing back B-movies to stopping working altogether - here's our pick of the best
  
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