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• Naked artist Deborah de Robertis decries 'hypocrisy' of Paris gallery arrest

  18-01-2016 18:54
  
  The 31-year-old Luxembourg-born artist was detained after stripping off in front of Manet’s Olympia at Paris’s Musée d’OrsayPerformance artist Deborah de Robertis vowed to continue making an exhibition of herself after stripping off in front of a nude painting by Edouard Manet led to her spending nearly two days in a police cell.The 31-year-old was unrepentant after a Paris judge threw out a charge of public indecency after she stripped off at Paris’s Musée
  
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• Gurlitt task force wraps up with ‘meager’ results

  18-01-2016 18:48
  
  The German task force assigned to investigate the provenance of almost 1,500 works found in Cornelius Gurlitt’s Munich apartment and his Salzburg home said research conducted on 162 works in the collection indicates that they were looted by the Nazis, though just five of them have been definitively identified as stolen fr om Jewish families and recommended for restitution.
  In its final report, published on 14 January, the task force led by Ingeborg Berggreen-Merkel said the provenance of
  
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• Smithsonian acquires Martin Luther King portrait bust for African American history museum

  18-01-2016 18:36
  
  The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, is celebrating Martin Luther King Day with a fitting addition to its collection. The museum has acquired a 1970 bust of the Civil Rights leader by the artist Charles Alston, according to Smithsonian Magazine.
  The sculpture has a distinguished history: in 1990, another edition of the work became the first image of an African American to be displayed at the White House. President Obama moved it into the Ova
  
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• National Trust to restore fire-devastated Clandon Park

  18-01-2016 18:30
  
  The National Trust has announced plans to restore Clandon Park, a Palladian mansion in Surrey, which was devastated by fire on 29 April 2015. It has resisted calls fr om the Onslow family, the original owners of the house, to demolish the shell and use the insurance proceeds for other properties. (Clandon Park was given to the National Trust in 1956.)Helen Ghosh, the director general of the National Trust, says that any insurance money would need to be spent on Clandon and could not be used els
  
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• Artist arrested (again) for nude stunt in front of Manet's Olympia in Paris gallery

  18-01-2016 18:15
  
  Deborah de Robertis was arrested for indecent exposure for her piece involving Edouard Manet's Olympia
  
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• No sex in this city: the bare-faced cheek of Paris's most sensual museum

  18-01-2016 17:34
  
  The Musée d’Orsay – which displays some of the most outrageous nudes ever painted – called in police on a nude performance artist in an act of prudery more worthy of Victorian England than Edouard Manet’s France The top 10 male nudes in artThe top 10 female nudes in artThe Musée d’Orsay in Paris was wrong to call in police when performance artist Deborah de Robertis posed nude next to Manet’s Olympia, a painting often seen as a depiction of a nak
  
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• David Bowie, patron saint of gender bending

  18-01-2016 17:11
  
  This review was originally published in 2013, when David Bowie Is opened at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. The exhibition is now at the Groninger Museum, Netherlands, until 13 March.British Rock burst upon the world with a spectacular ferocity comparable to that of the Ballets Russes 50 years earlier. The Russian ballet created complex intellectual works of collaborative genius—rock was always more individualistic and star-driven—but both were powerful performance arts th
  
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• Barenboim/Simon Bolivar/Dudamel, Royal Festival Hall, London, review: Symbolic passing of the musical torch

  18-01-2016 13:51
  
  As the performance went on the pianist's spirit got into everybody, and the finale provided a triumphant close
  
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• Light, time, legacy: Francis Towne's watercolours review – the romance of Rome in ruin

  18-01-2016 13:09
  
  British Museum, London
  A romantic poet with a watercolour brush, this 18th-century artist offers an astonishing vision of a city lost in time and spaceIn 1780, a watercolourist and art teacher named Francis Towne set out to see Rome. It was not an original destination for a cultural pilgrimage. Every artist and aristocrat in 18th-century Britain had to make the journey across the Alps at least once to see the splendours of the classical tradition. Some artists even made a living out of portrayin
  
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• Video artist Jeremy Bailey: 'There’s vulnerability in every internet troll'

  18-01-2016 11:15
  
  Enthusiastic, awkard and sometimes topless, the YouTube provocateur and part-time engineer discusses playfulness in tech, working in accounting to pay his bills – and why the comments section is the best part of any internet pageI am in London, talking to “new media artist” Jeremy Bailey in Canada via Skype. We are both watching a puddle. In Newcastle. Two people, three cameras, at least five screens and one giant puddle. “I love this!” cries Bailey. “The whol
  
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• Internet artist Jeremy Bailey: 'There’s vulnerability in every troll'

  18-01-2016 11:15
  
  The always enthusiastic, sometimes topless artist – and part-time engineer – discusses playfulness in tech and working in accounting to pay the billsI am in London, talking to “new media artist” Jeremy Bailey in Canada via Skype. We are both watching a puddle. In Newcastle. Two people, three cameras, at least five screens and one giant puddle. “I love this!” cries Bailey. “The whole industrial, military machine for this! To watch a puddle in Newcastle.&r
  
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• Lumiere London 2016: 16 celestial photos from the festival of lights

  18-01-2016 11:08
  
  Wintery London was adorned with incandescent suspended figures
  
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• Us As We Are by Ray Kamba

  18-01-2016 09:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sexual slavery,Dangerously confusing but deeply attached,Sliding deep down the ugly side.Down our interlocked,Bodies next to each other.Skin to skin,Thinking we are so glued.Nothing to ever separate us,Binding but seemingly temporary.Believing in something,That was never taught,Or introduced to the mind.Love potions trickle gradually,Out of love.We feel the need,To give each other space.Satisfy other desires,Priorities change andWe feel the need,To explore other territories,In the end. The post
  
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• The Vanishing Man review – Velázquez as he lives and breathes

  18-01-2016 08:30
  
  A missing painting draws Laura Cumming into the mystery of art itself in this eloquent homage to the Spanish masterClose up, painted faces decompose into an indecipherable mess of dots and dashes, applied by flicks of a brush. Much the same happens when you approach actual people: from a distance they possess the legible lineaments we call character but, once you begin to analyse their actions and speculate about their motives, they lose focus and blur into complexity and confusion.Tantalis
  
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• Untitled(don’t tell me i’m not ugly when i say i’m ugly, i said to myself)

  18-01-2016 03:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  they have a third party, he said. i got in touch with them. i had to get them on the phone. hey which file is it?don’t tell me i’m not ugly when i say i’m ugly, i said to myself.he’s concerned with what it costs to make an ingredient, he saidright, she said.he’s a blow hard. she’s thin and young.i’m getting so many emails, he said. i just want to find this email.right, she said.he has a nice voice that carries. he has an ugly face, big fat nose.my cousin
  
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