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• Van Gogh's Garden at Auvers, once labelled a fake, gets its day in the sun at Royal Academy

  30-01-2016 21:00
  
  The Royal Academy of Art's exhibition Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse (30 January-20 April), is clearly aimed at big ticket sales. There are no upsetting revelations in the London show to alarm the scholars—the catalogue is rather like an album—and it will come as no surprise that Claude Monet is the star, with 35 of his paintings included. He is present at the start, in the middle, and at the end, with the Agapanthus Triptych (1916-19), painted during his last years at
  
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• Artist Jimmy Cauty's dystopian diorama – in pictures

  30-01-2016 18:00
  
  The former KLF member’s work The Aftermath Dislocation Principle is a 1:87 scale model village reeling in the aftermath of a mysterious event. It will be at Bruton Art Factory, Somerset, from 23 April, and will then tour historic riot sites in the UK. Continue reading...
  
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• A Look at the Hammer’s ‘Made in L.A.’ Biennial

  30-01-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  In 2012, the Hammer launched Made in L.A., a biennial focused on Los Angeles. Some 61 artists and collectives working primarily in that city participated in the first edition, from young guns like Math Bass to established figures like Channa Horwitz. This year’s edition, … Read More
  
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• A Look at the Hammer’s Made in L.A. Biennial

  30-01-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  In 2012, the Hammer launched Made in L.A., a biennial focused on Los Angeles. Some 61 artists and collectives working primarily in that city participated in the first edition, from young guns like Math Bass to established figures like Channa Horwitz. This year’s edition, … Read More
  
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• Zurich marks the year it went Dada

  30-01-2016 13:00
  
  As a refuge for artists during the Great War, this staid city was revolutionary, says William Cook
  
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• Fat, felt and a fall to Earth: the making and myths of Joseph Beuys

  30-01-2016 13:00
  
  Was Beuys’s art – moulded out of everyday objects from VW vans to sausages – utopian drivel or full of remarkable foresight? Thirty years after his death, it’s time to reassesses the reputation of a sculptor, teacher, activist and shamanOn 21 May 1974, a man arrived at John F Kennedy airport on a flight from Germany. He was dressed in a fedora and fishing vest, and had his hand over his eyes. At Immigration he was subject to the usual barrage of questions. “What is
  
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• Zurich celebrates a century since the birth of Dadaism and is still at the cutting edge of contemporary art

  30-01-2016 12:55
  
  As a refuge for artists during the Great War, this staid city was revolutionary
  
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• Gardens in Art: Sow, Grow, Repeat Winter

  30-01-2016 11:00
  
  A new exhibition of modernist paintings at the Royal Academy of Arts puts plants and gardens at the centre of the showWe’re all familiar with Monet’s waterlily paintings, but did you know he was a gardener first? This week Alys Fowler and Jane Perrone visit Painting the Modern Garden: From Monet to Mattise - a new blockbuster show at the Royal Academy of ArtsA panel of three experts join Alys and Jane in the studio to discuss the show: garden designer Sophie Walker; Eileen Hogan, who
  
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• Gardens: what to do this week

  30-01-2016 07:00
  
  Go to an exhibition of paintings of gardens, rip up cardboard boxes and plant vincaGardens have long provided fertile ground for artists and a new exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London explores this theme with a display of more than 120 works. Painting The Modern Garden: Monet To Matisse runs until 20 April. Continue reading...
  
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• Why Isn’t Jazz More Popular? Could It Be The Jazz Police?

  30-01-2016 02:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The notion that jazz is or isn’t is actually antithetical to the spirit of this music and all of the artists who have pushed its boundaries. Trying to make this music fit into a neat little box just can’t happen. And that’s tough for some people. We crave definitions for our art, and when we can’t describe or compare it, many get frustrated. Hence, the Jazz Police.”
  
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• Foreign-Accent Syndrome – The Words Are The Same, But The Accent…

  30-01-2016 01:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Foreign-accent syndrome is similar to aphasia, a communication disorder that can cause a variety of speech problems, often after a stroke or brain injury. But that doesn’t explain psychogenic foreign-accent syndrome. And, if patients’ speech is just impaired, why would that register as a different accent?”
  
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• Contemplating Death – Poignancy Of The End-Of-Life Memoir

  30-01-2016 00:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “All this attention comes not from a greater understanding of mortality but from a greater ignorance of it. The promises of religion are replaced by the promise of science, yet medicine fails to vanquish its ultimate foe, instead rendering death more obscure, a matter for procrastination.”
  
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