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• L.A. Story: Catherine Opie on Her Controversial Photographs of Los Angeles Subcultures, in 1998

  22-01-2016 23:25 via artnews.com
  In honor of her two shows at Lehmann Maupin and her show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles opening this weekend, below is a profile of Catherine Opie from the September 1998 issue of ARTnews. —The Editors“L.A. Story” By Suzanne MuchnicFrom the … Read More
  
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• Georgia Museum of Art rejoices over acquisition of Van Dyck painting - until original is discovered in Cambridge

  22-01-2016 22:56
  
  It took an eagle-eyed British art historian to point out that the gallery appeared to have made a not-insignificant mistake
  
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• Outline bling: a Drake-inspired colouring book

  22-01-2016 22:19
  
  The adult colouring trend and Drake’s artsy spree have collided, and that can only mean one thing—a new (unofficial) book. Published by Sugoi Books, it is a résumé in linear outline of Aubrey Drake Graham’s career, from his acting turn as Jimmy Brooks on the Canadian teen drama Degrassi: the Next Generation (2001-09) to his questionable dance moves in the James Turrell-inspired music video Hotline Bling (2015). Under Star Projectors: The Drake Coloring Book has c
  
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• Why it's great news that Frances Morris will run Tate Modern

  22-01-2016 21:52
  
  The Tate veteran has already made her mark, transforming Louise Bourgeois’s reputation and championing female and non-European artists The first time I met Frances Morris she was trying unsuccessfully to get a model aeroplane factory working. Now she is to run a power station that has become one of the world’s leading galleries of modern art. Morris’s appointment as the new director of Tate Modern has thrilled the art world. Tate supremo Sir Nicholas Serota describes her as &ld
  
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• Christie’s Sets a Record for Outsider Art at Auction With a $785,000 William Edmondson

  22-01-2016 21:38 via artnews.com
  Christie’s announced today that it set a record for a work of outsider art at auction in its inaugural sale of self-taught artists, called “Liberation Through Expression: Outsider and Vernacular Art.” The top lot was William Edmondson’s Boxer, with a … Read More
  
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• At the Winter Antiques Show, Calder Necklaces, a 3-D Portrait of Kate Moss, and More

  22-01-2016 21:25 via artnews.com
  Yesterday afternoon, members of the press gathered inside the Park Avenue Armory to preview the 2016 Winter Antiques Show, which opens today and runs through January 31. The fair, which will celebrate its 62nd anniversary this year, boasts 73 exhibitors … Read More
  
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• This Weekend, Arvid Logan Is Airbrushing Shirts at Tom Sachs’s Bodega

  22-01-2016 20:38 via artnews.com
  Today and tomorrow, the young artist Arvid Logan will be airbrushing shirts at the artist Tom Sachs’s Bodega pop-up, located at 245 Centre in Lower Manhattan. The ‘brushing is part of a week-long takeover of the space by the 8 … Read More
  
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• ‘Em Rooney: The Word for Forest’ at Bodega, New York

  22-01-2016 19:27 via artnews.com
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• Habitat: Sterling Lawrence

  22-01-2016 18:00 via artnews.com
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• Monet's garden, Segal's house and Emin's penis bracelet – the week in art

  22-01-2016 17:45
  
  The former YBA launches a jewellery line, the Musée d’Orsay calls the cops and London Art Fair showcases the difference between men and womenPainting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
  What were the first abstract paintings? Monet’s late paintings of his waterlily pond put in a good bid for the prize. The RA revisits them in this blockbuster show that also includes garden paintings by Manet, Van Gogh, Cézanne and Klee – a pastoral gathering of modern giants.&bull
  
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• ‘Untitled Body Parts’ at Simone Subal

  22-01-2016 17:24 via artnews.com
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• Sotheby’s Reports Fourth Quarter Loss of $10 M. to $19 M.

  22-01-2016 16:46 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s CEO Tad Smith announced this morning in a teleconference that Sotheby’s had lost somewhere between $10 million and $19 million in the fourth quarter of 2015.Smith, who was joined by Sotheby’s interim CFO Dennis Weibling, attributed the losses in … Read More
  
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• 'People think curating just means choosing nice things' – secrets of the museum curators

  22-01-2016 16:30
  
  From Tudor piss-pots to Botticellian nymphs, four curators reveal their favourite objects and what their job really entailsTell us something we don’t know about being a museum curator
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• ‘We All Make Up the Landscape Together’: 32 Galleries Converge in London for Condo

  22-01-2016 15:00 via artnews.com
  “The last thing London needs is another art fair,” Vanessa Carlos, a dealer in the British capital, said last week. If she seemed fatigued when she said this, it wasn’t because the London Art Fair was rolling into town just … Read More
  
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• Plague skulls and stone-age axes: London's history dug up in 10 objects

  22-01-2016 14:54
  
  A Shakespearean cannonball and a Victorian plate that survived 100 years in a rubbish dump are among relics photographed for Museum of London showIf the history of the world can be told in 100 objects, the lives and deaths of Londoners can be documented in 10, on the evidence of a new collaboration between National Geographic magazine and the Museum of London.From an axe head shaped about 6,000 years ago, which resurfaced at the Olympics site in Stratford, to a cheap Victorian souvenir plate tha
  
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• Morning Links: Guerrilla Girls’ Twin Cities Takeover Edition

  22-01-2016 14:13 via artnews.com
  TWIN CITIES TAKEOVERLast night, over 30 institutions in St. Paul and Minneapolis kicked off events and exhibitions inspired by the Guerrilla Girls in what is being termed “Guerrilla Girls’ Twin Cities Takeover.” Programming is scheduled through March. [MPR News]GROUNDEDCurator Christine Tohme … Read More
  
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• Artist to sit naked on a toilet for two days to protest 'bulls**t' art world

  22-01-2016 13:22
  
  Lisa Levy is directly responding to Marina Abramovic's The Artist is Present
  
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• On the paper trail: why today's leading artists are giving their works to the British Museum

  22-01-2016 13:00
  
  The British Museum has long been a home for old master prints and drawings, and now contemporary artists from Riley to Baselitz are donating their work. So what’s in it for them?One of the British Museum’s least known treasures is also one of its greatest. The big draws may be the Parthenon marbles, the Sutton Hoo treasure and the Rosetta Stone, but high at the back of the museum, next to the temporary exhibition galleries and through a door hidden by Michelangelo’s huge Epifan
  
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• On the paper trail: why today's artists are giving their works to the British Museum

  22-01-2016 13:00
  
  The British Museum has long been a home for old master prints and drawings, and now contemporary artists from Riley to Baselitz are donating their work. So what’s in it for them?One of the British Museum’s least known treasures is also one of its greatest. The big draws may be the Parthenon marbles, the Sutton Hoo treasure and the Rosetta Stone, but high at the back of the museum, next to the temporary exhibition galleries and through a door hidden by Michelangelo’s huge Epifan
  
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• Edward and Nancy Kienholz review – rough, angry satires on American life

  22-01-2016 12:37
  
  Sprüth Magers, London
  From a concrete TV to a shocking depiction of small-town violence, these raw installations are all the more potent for being rooted in a love of AmericanaNot many paintings can kill you but The Medicine Show, created by Ed Kienholz in 1958-59, has both the will and weapons to do just that. Sharp, jagged pieces of wood protrude far from its stained, resinous, coagulated surface, threatening to impale anyone who gets too close or takes a fall in its vicinity. One too man
  
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• Three picks from next week's Old Masters auctions at Sotheby’s New York

  22-01-2016 09:00
  
  While Sotheby’s Old Masters week centres on the $25m-plus Danaë by Orazio Gentileschi (above), to be offered in its evening sale on 28 January, a number of other less heralded pictures also deserve attention.First up, on 27 January, is the dramatic Crowning with Thorns by the seldom encountered French Caravaggist Valentin de Boulogne (around 1591-1632) from the estate of former Sotheby’s head Alfred Taubman. The artist is best appreciated for his genre scenes of gallants and we
  
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• Cameron and Muslim women: a new twist on an old colonial story | Madeleine Bunting

  22-01-2016 08:00
  
  The prime minister’s intervention implies he bears the white man’s burden to ‘save’ the brown womanBefore David Cameron launched himself this week into a critique of the English language skills of Muslim women in the UK, he would have done well to take a tour of Tate Britain’s exhibition Artist and Empire. It’s a deeply unsettling reminder of a past that the British have made an art of half-forgetting.This is painting by the square metre: huge canvases to demo
  
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• Bruised bottoms: the multicoloured markings of Roller Derby – in pictures

  22-01-2016 08:00
  
  In the competitive women’s sport of Roller Derby, a bruise is a badge of honour to show off to your fellow team members trackside. These images might look like photographs but they are actually massive 3D leather canvasses, which artist Riikka Hyvönen has layered with wood, paint and lashings of glitterRiikka Hyvönen is one of 30 artists published in the XL Catlin Art Guide 2016, published and exhibited at London Art Fair, until 24 January
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• Ever the rebel: remembering Joseph Beuys, 30 years on

  22-01-2016 07:35
  
  It’s 30 years since the incomparable, influential and insane artist Joseph Beuys died (23 January 1986, born 1921). Known as much for his conflicts with authority as his conceptual creations, his relationship with the art market was unsurprisingly volatile. In 1969, Beuys was the first West German artist to sell for over 100,000 deutschmarks through the dealer René Block at the third edition of Art Cologne, the world’s oldest Modern and contemporary art fair. (At the time, a
  
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• Budding cat artists present new work at the National Gallery of Victoria – in pictures

  22-01-2016 03:59
  
  As part of the National Gallery of Victoria Kids Summer festival, children channelled their inner Picasso at a feline-themed workshop: Draw a Cat with Kat. Illustrator Kat Chadwick led the classes over a five-day series this week, resulting in 6,550 masterpieces. The workshops – the first of which involved life drawing, as three cats posed nonchalantly in the Great Hall – were an accompaniment to Studio Cats, a large-scale installation that forms part of the Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei e
  
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• Postwar public art treasures in need of protection

  22-01-2016 01:01
  
  Works of art designed for ‘brave new world’ after second world war among those listed by Historic England and now on show to highlight their value A hulking, imperious Guy the gorilla in south London’s Crystal Palace park; a stoic Winston Churchill watching traffic in Woodford Green, north London; a heroic embodiment of British miners originally installed on a roundabout in St Helens, Merseyside – just some ­examples of Britain’s treasured postwar public sculptu
  
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• Boundaries Blur at the Outsider Art Fair, Which Has Newfound Attention, Pricy Dargers, and Quite a Bit More

  22-01-2016 00:21 via artnews.com
  One of the nice things about the Outsider Art Fair, which opens its 24th edition tonight with a vernissage at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, is that, by and large, the price point is significantly lower than at a contemporary fair of … Read More
  
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