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• Ulay claims legal victory in case against ex-partner Marina Abramović

  21-09-2016 23:02
  
  The artists, who were lovers and collaborators 70s and 80s, are locked in legal proceedings relating to a contract over their joint worksThe former romantic partner of Marina Abramović, the world’s best-known performance artist, has claimed victory in a legal battle sparked after he said that she was in violation of a contract over their joint works.Abramović and Ulay, born Frank Uwe Laysiepen, had been lovers and co-creators for more than a decade before their separation in 1988
  
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• Marina Abramović ex-partner Ulay claims victory in case about joint works

  21-09-2016 23:02
  
  A Dutch court has ordered Abramović to pay €250,000 to former co-creator and lover Ulay as his share of sales of artistic collaborationsThe former romantic partner of Marina Abramović, the world’s best-known performance artist, has claimed victory in a legal battle sparked after he said that she was in violation of a contract over their joint works.Abramović and Ulay, born Frank Uwe Laysiepen, had been lovers and co-creators for more than a decade before their separatio
  
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• I Hated Mahler – So This Is How I Tried To Understand His Music

  21-09-2016 22:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Barton Swaim just didn’t get it. So he made another pass at the composer’s 9th symphony. “Mahler’s achievement, if I’m right, was to translate the things that make human life by turns fulfilling and painful, elegant and stupid—the tawdriness, the chaos, the dignity and comedy and splendor—into exquisitely beautiful works of art. They are overpowering and outrageous in their scope, but beautiful all the same. Six months ago I didn’t see the point of
  
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• Puppies Puppies and Friends at Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris

  21-09-2016 22:58 via artnews.com
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• Historic first as Tate Britain buys early portrait by female artist

  21-09-2016 19:26
  
  Joan Carlile’s Portrait of an Unknown Lady (1650-5) is the earliest work by a female artist to join the Tate’s collectionA rather grubby, overpainted and at first glance unremarkable portrait of a 17th-century lady in a white satin dress has been revealed to be the work of Joan Carlile (1606-1679), probably the first woman to work in Britain as a professional oil painter.The Tate Britain has announced that Portrait of an Unknown Lady 1650-5 has the distinction of being the earliest w
  
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• Taryn Simon looks at how we all mourn at the Park Avenue Armory

  21-09-2016 19:04
  
  An Occupation of Loss, the latest major work by the New York-born multidisciplinary artist Taryn Simon, deals with the physical and structural markings of loss that mankind has practised since Neanderthal times, the artist told The Art Newspaper. The work involves more than 30 professional mourners, a historic profession where a person enacts rituals based on grieving and spiritual practices. The mourners perform the grieving customs of 11 separate cultures within 48-ft tall concrete pipes that
  
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• Preview Expo Chicago 2016

  21-09-2016 18:08 via artnews.com
  The fifth edition of Expo Chicago opens to the public on Thursday, September 22, with a vernissage reception, benefitting the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and runs through Sunday, September 25. Highlights to the fair include William N. Copley at … Read More
  
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• Residents overlooked by Tate Modern extension should 'get net curtains'

  21-09-2016 18:02
  
  Tate director Nick Serota suggests solution for Neo Bankside tenants who don’t want to make an exhibition of themselvesSir Nicholas Serota has suggested that owners of £4.5m luxury flats overlooked by Tate Modern should get net curtains if they want to improve their privacy.Tate Modern’s £260m Switch House extension opened to widespread acclaim and excitement in June. But the building’s nearest neighbours, residents of the Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners-designed Ne
  
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• Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art Wins $200,000 Don Tyson Prize From Crystal Bridges

  21-09-2016 17:42 via artnews.com
  The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced today that the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art in Washington, D.C., has won the first Don Tyson Prize. The award comes with $200,000 and recognizes an achievement in American art.The Archives … Read More
  
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• William Kentridge review – love and propaganda on a trip through the stars

  21-09-2016 17:32
  
  Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
  Bolshevism, Einstein, a journey to the moon… the South African artist’s new show is a dazzling montage of modern timesIt is a century and more since the modern age began. Dadaism started in 1916. Other movements and ideas that still shape our lives have either had or soon will have centenaries, from Einstein’s general theory of relativity (published in 1916) to the Russian revolution (1917). Where have we got to, after all those revolutions? Is
  
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• Who will build a permanent art centre in Copenhagen?

  21-09-2016 17:18
  
  Competition is heating up over who will build and run a permanent art centreor kunsthalon Copenhagens Paper Islanda popular harbourside location in the Danish capital famous for its street food.The frontrunners include the Copenhagen art dealer Nicolai Wallner and the local architect Kristoffer Lindhardt Weiss, who have co-founded the consultancy Wallner Weiss, and Copenhagen Contemporary, a privately run institution that opened in a newly refurbished warehouse on the island on 25 August. The s
  
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• Here Is the Exhibitor List for NADA Miami Beach 2016

  21-09-2016 17:08 via artnews.com
  Last month, the New Art Dealers Alliance announced that it would be moving NADA Miami Beach, its fair that runs during the edition of Art Basel in that Florida city, back to its longtime home at the Deauville Beach Resort after a … Read More
  
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• High Museum in Atlanta Lowers Admission Fees for Adults

  21-09-2016 17:00 via artnews.com
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• François Hollande announces $100m fund to protect cultural heritage in the Middle East

  21-09-2016 16:35
  
  Franois Hollande, the president of France, denounced the destruction of Syrias cultural heritage in a speech at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Tuesday night. Standing in the Mets Temple of Dendur in its Egyptian galleries on 20 September, Hollande also announced the formation of a $100m fund from private and public donors to combat terrorist attacks on cultural sites and protect the resources of humanity.Besides appealing for sites to be protected, Hollande also called for a strengthened commit
  
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• Habitat: Obsessions—A Look at Ursula von Rydingsvard’s Collection of Wooden Objects

  21-09-2016 15:50 via artnews.com
  Habitat: Obsessions is a ten-part series of visits to the surprising non-art collections of art-world professionals.Artist Ursula von Rydingsvard is well known for her massive wooden sculptures cut with circular saws and other hand tools. She is less famous for her collection—40 … Read More
  
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• Habitat: Obsession—A Look at Ursula von Rydingsvard’s Collection of Wooden Objects

  21-09-2016 15:50 via artnews.com
  Habitat: Obsessions is a ten-part series of visits to the surprising nonart collections of art-world professionals.Artist Ursula von Rydingsvard is well known for her massive chainsaw-carved wooden sculptures. She is less famous for her collection—40 years in the making—of wooden objects that … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Joan Carlile Edition

  21-09-2016 15:17 via artnews.com
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• Don’t drunk text your ex: artist offers a cringe-free alternative

  21-09-2016 15:00
  
  We all know the feeling that comes the morning after an ill-advised message. When I Think About You I Text Myself provides an artful solutionIt’s late. You’re a little worse for wear. And feeling nostalgic. You know that what you really shouldn’t do now is send a text, yet the more you try to talk yourself out of it, the worse the urge gets.Related: I am funnier and franker on Google chat, but what’s the truth about instant-message me? The youth Narcissus mistook his own
  
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• 'Antidote to far right's poison'​ ​– battle for Cable Street’s mural

  21-09-2016 14:30
  
  Eighty years on from the day anti-fascists clashed with Oswald Mosley’s blackshirts in the Jewish East End of London, David Rosenberg tells the story of the long struggle to protect the giant artwork and its enduring message of solidarity‘It was frightening,” says Rene. “They slung my brother in a Black Maria. My mum was waiting up for him and he didn’t come home. He was in a police cell. My dad came home covered in blood.”Sally chips in: “They knocked m
  
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• Tate buys portrait by one of Britain's earliest female artists

  21-09-2016 12:54
  
  Tate has acquired its earliest picture by a female artist, a work discovered in a country auction. It is a portrait by Joan Carlile, who was one of the first British painters to work professionally, making miniature copies of Italian pictures and doing portraits. The purchase is part of Tates new focus on acquiring works by female artists for its collection.The Carlile portrait (1650-55) of an unidentified woman was a sleeper in a Woolley & Wallis auction in Salisbury, where it sold on 10 De
  
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• Jarvis Cocker helps launch first commercial gallery in the UK for self-taught artists

  21-09-2016 11:58
  
  Jarvis Cocker, the British musician who famously sang about studying sculpture at Central Saint Martins college of art, is to collaborate on the inaugural exhibition at The Gallery of Everythingthe UKs first commercial gallery dedicated to self-taught artists. Its aim, according to a statement, is to communicate an alternative history of art.All proceeds raised from sales at the gallery, due to open in a former barber shop in Marylebone on 25 September, will go towards the non-profit activities
  
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• Kim Jong-un or Jesus? North Korean artist turns propaganda on its head

  21-09-2016 08:00
  
  At a tense time on the Korean peninsula, defector Sun Mu is stoking controversy with his satirical works, NK News reportsIt was after he fled North Korea in 2001 that artist Sun Mu decided to turn the regime’s propaganda painting style on its head. He began producing satirical works that have since been described as “Disney characters with a military aesthetic”.After he settled in South Korea, his work became increasingly provocative, gaining attention for its ability to parody
  
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• Study: Latino Art Underrepresented at College Art Association’s Annual Conference

  21-09-2016 00:05 via artnews.com
  At last Friday’s U.S. Latinx Arts Futures Symposium, hosted by the Ford Foundation at its headquarters near the United Nations on Manhattan’s East Side, Rose G. Salseda, a Ph.D. candidate in art history at the University of Texas at Austin, presented a study … Read More
  
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