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• The Buck Stopped Here: Richard Billingham joins forces with Agnès B and Celebrity Big Brother’s Dee

  10-02-2016 22:00
  
  Thumbs up all round for the first segment of the photographer Richard Billingham’s new feature, Ray and Liz. The film was screened last night (10 February) at a fundraising gathering at the British Film Institute (BFI) in London to an enthusiastic crowd, including the photographer Martin Parr, art-loving designer and long-term Billingham supporter Agnès B, the Photographers’ Gallery director Brett Rogers and Frieze’s Matthew Slotover. The movie revisits Billingham&rsquo
  
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• Marc Quinn and White Cube part company after more than 20 years

  10-02-2016 22:00
  
  Marc Quinn is no longer with White Cube, the gallery that has represented him since it first opened in a tiny space in Mayfair in 1993. The departure of the British artist, reported earlier this week by the Baer Faxt newsletter, was confirmed by a gallery spokeswoman today, 11 February. “We are not representing him anymore. We wish him every continued success with his future projects,” she said adding that the split had taken place “in the last couple of weeks”. Quinn di
  
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• London auctions signal the end of boom years for post-war and contemporary art

  10-02-2016 22:00
  Against a backdrop of global stock market woes and tumbling oil prices, the first two auctions in London this week signalled that the post-war and contemporary art market has—for the most part—lost its sizzle.  Phillips first auction of 20th-century and contemporary art in London on 9 February was a bumpy ride, with 65% of works sold either failing to meet or just scraping their low estimates. The grand total also fell short of its £25.9m low estimate, making £20.8m
  
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• Consumer Reports: Ann Craven

  10-02-2016 21:13 via artnews.com
  Ann Craven is an artist who lives and works in New York City. Craven recently held her first retrospective, “Time,” at Le Confort Moderne in Poitiers, France. Her most recent show, “Hello, Hello, Hello,” is up through March 5 at Maccarone … Read More
  
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• Cheikhmous Ali: the Syrian archaeologist who doesn’t take sides

  10-02-2016 21:00
  
  He is missing the boots, the hat and the whip, and one must admit that nature didn’t give him the figure that it gave Indiana Jones, à la Hollywood hunk Harrison Ford. Rather small and near-sighted, Cheikhmous Ali seems always to have an easy air and a warm smile. But when it comes to discussing the fight to save Syria’s heritage, which has been caught in the crossfire of a civil war that began five years ago this March, he speaks with a conviction that cannot fail to impress
  
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• ‘Julien Ceccaldi: King and Slave’ at Jenny’s, Selected by Joshua Abelow

  10-02-2016 20:00 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. This week's shows are selected by Joshua Abelow Read More
  
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• ‘We Could Be Doing Something Differently Every Moment’: Laura Poitras on Her Whitney Show, ‘Astro Noise’

  10-02-2016 19:46 via artnews.com
  Laura Poitras became an overnight phenomenon with the release of Citizenfour, the 2014 documentary on NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, which won her both an Oscar and a shared Pulitzer for Public Service with journalist and collaborator Glenn Greenwald. Following My Country, My … Read More
  
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• Scratch videos, film and sound works to explode across Sheffield this spring

  10-02-2016 19:39
  
  A number of early “scratch videos”—edgy 1980s works using found footage appropriated from mainstream media—will go on show during this spring’s Art Sheffield festival (16 April-8 May).
  The artistic director of the biennial event, Martin Clark, throws new light on these subversive, rough-cut videos, which heralded contemporary video art practice and the YouTube age. Clark has sel ected rarely seen scratch videos by film-makers such as Nick Cope, Richard Heslop, the
  
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• Turner’s house to be restored—but only if crowdfunding cash comes in

  10-02-2016 19:16
  
  A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to restore J.M.W. Turner’s former home in Twickenham, west London. The artist designed and built Sandycombe Lodge in 1813; his guests at the villa located near the Thames included the architect Sir John Soane.  The campaign aims to raise £25,000; the total currently stands at £3,845 (deadline of 7 March). The restoration cost is £2.4m, with £125,000 still required; the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Architectural Herita
  
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• Art Institute of Chicago Is Renting a Replica of Vincent van Gogh’s Bedroom for $10 Per Night on Airbnb

  10-02-2016 19:12 via artnews.com
  To promote its forthcoming show of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings and drawings of his bedroom, the Art Institute of Chicago is now renting a replica of the Post-Impressionist’s room on Airbnb. The cost: $10 a night.A blurb for the show, … Read More
  
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• It’s Over: Knoedler Settles With the De Soles, Concluding Three-Week Case Over $8.3 M. Fake Rothko

  10-02-2016 16:53 via artnews.com
  Domenico and Eleanore De Sole have settled with the remaining defendants in their case regarding their purchase of a fake Mark Rothko painting from New York’s Knoedler Gallery for $8.3 million in 2004. The De Soles alleged that Knoedler and … Read More
  
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• An even Bigger Splash: why David Hockney's pop-art poem lives on

  10-02-2016 15:27
  
  Tilda Swinton’s new erotic thriller shares the enigmatic title of Hockney’s Californian masterpiece, co-opting its eerie drama and languid intensity A Bigger Splash review: entertainingly oddball psychodrama Some painters – and some paintings – are the silent type. They fear language. Their art is a wordless enigma. Caravaggio left almost no trace of his speech, let alone any writing. The court cases his violent life led to are the only record of the way he accounted for
  
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• Morning Links: Wu-Tang Clan Fan Edition

  10-02-2016 14:54 via artnews.com
  QUESTIONS OF MONEYA Wu-Tang Clan fan recently discovered that his artwork appeared in the band’s recent album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, which was sold for $2 million to Martin Shkreli with exclusive listening rights. The fan is now suing … Read More
  
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• Treasures of modern art to be seen outside Russia for first time

  10-02-2016 13:50
  
  Sergei Shchukin’s collection of more than 250 paintings including works by Picasso and Matisse will be displayed in ParisOne of the world’s greatest private collections of modern art is to go on show for the first time outside Russia, museum curators have said. The collection of more than 250 paintings put together by Sergei Shchukin before the Russian revolution will be displayed in its entirety in October at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris – a major coup for the newly op
  
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• Bjarke Ingels to design 2016 Serpentine pavilion – but he's not the only one

  10-02-2016 12:00
  
  Julia Peyton-Jones’s swansong as gallery director includes four more summer houses in Kensington Gardens, designed by architects aged between 36 and 93
  “Bigamy” is how the maverick Danish architect Bjarke Ingels describes the work of his practice, the Bjarke Ingels Group (or BIG), which has been announced as the designer of this year’s Serpentine Gallery pavilion. “Why have one when you can have both?” he often quips, in defence of his gleefully pluralist arch
  
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• Bjarke Ingels to design 2016 Serpentine pavilion – but he's not alone

  10-02-2016 12:00
  
  Julia Peyton-Jones’s swansong as gallery director includes four more summer houses in Kensington Gardens, designed by architects aged between 36 to 93
  “Bigamy” is how the maverick Danish architect Bjarke Ingels describes the work of his practice, the Bjarke Ingels Group (or BIG), which has been announced as the designer of this year’s Serpentine Gallery pavilion. “Why have one when you can have both?” he often quips, in defence of his gleefully pluralist archi
  
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• Piero Manzoni and me: Gavin Turk on the artist who got away with merda

  10-02-2016 11:21
  
  Tickling the very concept of art, the Italian artist gained fame by tinning his own profundities and taking a line for a four-mile walk – all before he died aged 29I first discovered Piero Manzoni when I was, as Gilbert and George call it, “a baby artist cogitating on what art was and what art could be”. On my own and among friends, I was trying to find the point where the real world stopped and art began. Originality appeared to be a process of “coming up with” ide
  
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