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• Mind and body and piña coladas at the Delfina Foundation

  22-05-2016 23:00
  
  Mind, heart and body were fully provided for at the Delfina Foundation at its Appropriating the Moment event on Saturday (21 May). The evening kicked off with a hardcore intellectual discussion with Marseille-based psychoanalysts and performance art collectors Marc and Josée Gensollen, who grappled with the implications of owning the immaterial with writer, curator and performance specialist Adrian Heathfield and Delfina associate Teresa Calonje.
  At one point the general chin-stroking wa
  
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• Little museum, big gift: Renaissance Society receives $1.5m in pledged funding for artist commissions and shows

  22-05-2016 23:00
  
  In an age of massive gifts for museum expansions, the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, a non-collecting contemporary art institution founded by faculty members in 1915, is focussing its fundraising on its exhibition programming and producing new work with artists.  “The Ren” is happy to maintain its small physical footprint, Øvstebø said—it has occupied the same 3,000 square feet of exhibition space in a Neo-Gothic lecture hall since 1979&md
  
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• Documents signed by Abraham Lincoln go on sale at Sotheby's

  22-05-2016 23:00
  On Wednesday, Sotheby’s will offer two unique lots, both bearing Abraham Lincoln’s signature, in a sale titled Two Centuries of American History: Highly Important Letters and Documents.
  The auction features a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation—the important Civil War document that  “order[ed] and declare[d] that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are and henceforward shall be free”—that was originally sold in
  
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• Brighton festival recalls pavilion's use as wartime hospital for Indian troops

  22-05-2016 15:58
  
  Installation by Tower of London poppies designer Tom Piper, with Ajay Chhabra, evokes plight of wounded Indian soldiersThe theatre designer Tom Piper, who created the field of scarlet poppies at the Tower of London in 2014 with the ceramic artist Paul Cummins, will this week commemorate the strangest chapter in the history of the Brighton Pavilion, when it became a hospital for Indian soldiers wounded in the first world war.It is Piper’s first major outdoor commission since he and Cummins
  
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• The Italian art movement that was pushed aside (until now)

  22-05-2016 11:15
  
  Sometimes, art movements are just too avant-garde for their own good. This seems to be the case with the high-minded, 1970s Pittura Analitica group which, until now, has been rather under the radar in the UK. Mazzoleni gallery in London has remedied the situation, with a comprehensive 21-piece exhibition dedicated to the minimalist art group (until 23 July). “These artists focused on the materiality of painting, championing everything from elastic bands to watercolours, paint ro
  
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• Edward Snowdomes and internet cookies you can eat: welcome to the Yami-Ichi

  22-05-2016 10:53
  
  From digital Tarot cards to Instragrammed underpants, roll up to the internet black market you can browse in real life – same day delivery guaranteedThe internet is not what it used to be, cries the chorus. Once a playground of geeks and innovators, it is now ruled by the corporate giants, Facebook, Google and Apple. But those nostalgic for its heyday are gathering at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall this weekend for the first UK Internet Yami-ichi. Related: Kittens, Kanye and kiss-and-tel
  
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• Edward Snowdomes and edible internet cookies: welcome to Yami-ichi

  22-05-2016 10:53
  
  From digital Tarot cards to Instragrammed underpants, roll up to the internet black market you can browse in real life – same day delivery guaranteedThe internet is not what it used to be, cries the chorus. Once a playground of geeks and innovators, it is now ruled by the corporate giants, Facebook, Google and Apple. But those nostalgic for its heyday are gathering at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall this weekend for the first UK Internet Yami-ichi. Related: Kittens, Kanye and kiss-and-tel
  
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• Francis Bacon: Invisible Rooms; Maria Lassnig review – an embarrassment of riches

  22-05-2016 09:00
  
  Tate Liverpool
  The raw melodrama of Francis Bacon meets the humour and humanity of Maria Lassnig in this superb double billThere is a Francis Bacon pope in Tate Liverpool that is barely a squeak from high camp. It shows the pontiff in sumptuous purple robes, raising his dainty little hands in a fit of girlish horror. It is a very strange addition to the long sequence of screaming popes; indeed this pontiff is not screaming so much as wincing with his eyes closed. But it makes the point, as Bacon
  
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• Untitled(i had a japanese friend in second grade. we wanted to take over the world and blow up the school and to have hostages to torture.)

  22-05-2016 02:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  j didn’t shave. u kept smiling to herself like an idiot. the red head put on new musicfour japanese women domestics talk in japanese. one has on a kimono.u has been reading. she never used to read. she has been reading the books from my library. i feel blessed. i have never known anyone who has read the novels short stories and poem that i love.  u tells me what happens in a novel. currently she is reading a novel about an isolated masochist who teaches an orphan how to cope with shit
  
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