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• Sotheby’s raises buyer’s premium in bid to ‘offset margin pressure’

  17-10-2016 23:00
  
  In a bid to raise revenue, Sothebys is increasing its buyers premium in time for the November sales in New York. In a statement, the auction house describes the changes as modest and are expected to impact 5-10% of all lots. Sothebys last adjusted its fees in February 2015.The new pricing structure will see Sothebys charging 25% on the first 175,000 or $250,000 from 13 November. Christies, which hiked its buyers fees for the first time in three years last month, now charges less: 25% up to 100,
  
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• Morning meditation at MoMA

  17-10-2016 23:00
  
  Start your day off with a soothed spirit and a chance to see Monets Water Lilies (1914-26) without the crowds at Quiet Mornings, a series of meditation sessions at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York on Wednesday mornings throughout the month of October. From 7:30AM-9AMbefore regular visiting hoursQuiet Mornings participants are guided through a half-hour meditation overlooking the sculpture garden, led by a different instructor each week, and can wander peacefully through permanent col
  
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• Grayson Perry’s Typical Man in a Dress show delivers a flamboyant man-ifesto

  17-10-2016 23:00
  
  Grayson Perry is no slouch at addressing audiences. As well as being one of the UKs best-known artists, hes a Bafta-winning TV presenter and delivered the prestigious BBC Reith Lectures to a live audience. He achieved pretty much all of the above in full makeup and a series of outrageously extravagant frocks. But the showman-artist declared the Sunday night performance of his new live show Typical Man in a Dress at Brasserie Zdel on 16 October to a small invited audience of family and friendsin
  
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• Art, politics and passion at the National Arts Awards

  17-10-2016 23:00
  
  Tonight we get to leave politics behind and celebrate the arts, Carolyn Powers, the chair of the National Arts Awards, rejoiced when she began the festivities for the non-profit American for the Arts annual recognition of artists and patrons on 17 October in New York, which presented Doug Aitken with this years award for outstanding contribution to the arts. But bi-partisan lobbying for government support of the arts in the United States is at the centre of the non-profits mission, and politics
  
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• Chris Coy at Anat Egbi, Los Angeles

  17-10-2016 21:53 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: Chris Coy’s 2016 solo exhibition is on view at Anat Egbi in Los Angeles through Saturday, October 22.
  
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• Cornelia Parker, Stuart Maconie and more on the axing of A-level art history

  17-10-2016 19:26
  
  It sparked Cornelia Parker’s career, shaped Yinka Shonibare’s politics and opened Stuart Maconie’s mind to all things unorthodox. Leading cultural voices on why children deserve to study art historyWho thought it would be a good idea to undermine art in the school curriculum? Who thought studying the history of our visual culture was a waste of time? Who thought that only private schools should have that privilege? Was it someone who said we don’t need experts? If it is g
  
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• MoMA Receives Donation of 102 Works by Latin American Artists, Will Establish Research Institute

  17-10-2016 18:13 via artnews.com
  ARTnews Top 200 collectors Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and Gustavo A. Cisneros announced today at a press briefing that they will donate 102 works of modern art by 37 Latin American artists to the Museum of Modern Art in New … Read More
  
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• MoMA boosts Latin American holdings with Cisneros collection

  17-10-2016 17:22
  
  The Venezuelan collector Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and her husband Gustavo Cisneros have donated 102 works of Latin American art to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the museum announced today, 17 October. The gift of art spanning the 1940s to the 90s by 37 artists working in Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina and Uruguay cements the museums place as a leading hub for the study of Latin American art in the US.
  Cisneros, a long-time patron of the museum who founded its Latin American and
  
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• 9 Art Events in New York City to Attend This Week

  17-10-2016 16:40 via artnews.com
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• Italian mafia trading weapons for Libyan artefacts plundered by Isil?

  17-10-2016 16:16
  
  The 'ndrangheta and Camorra mafia groups in southern Italy are dealing in antiquities looted by Isil in the Middle East, according to an investigation by the Italian newspaper La Stampa.
   
  The Italian mafia groups are reportedly handing over to Isil weapons smuggled out of Moldova and Ukraine by Russian criminal groups in exchange for Roman and Greek artefacts illegally excavated from ancient sites including Leptis Magna, Cyrene and Sabratha in Libyaall Unesco World Heritage Sites. The obj
  
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• Saint Jerome once owned by controversial collector Giulano Ruffini sent for technical tests

  17-10-2016 15:41
  
  A painting of Saint Jerome attributed to the 16th-century artist Parmigianino is now being investigated, Sothebys New York has confirmed. A similar set of technical tests led the auction house to conclude that a Portrait of a Man attributed to Frans Hals, which it also sold in good faith, was a forgery, as our sister paper the Journal des Arts first reported in late September. 
  The auction house sold the painting of Saint Jerome in January 2008 for more than $800,000 as a work from the cir
  
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• Why we should back Tania Bruguera's presidential bid for a free Cuba

  17-10-2016 15:32
  
  The Cuban artist exposes how anti-democracy feeling is still rife in the one-party state. This is valuable ‘artivism’ in a less-than-rosy nationArt is good at pointing out simple truths that otherwise get forgotten, or conveniently ignored. Cuban artist Tania Bruguera has just announced that she is running for president of Cuba when Raul Castro steps down – as he has said he will – in 2018.
  There’s just one snag. You can’t run for president of Cuba. The social
  
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• Consumer Reports: Raque Ford

  17-10-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  Raque Ford is an artist living and working in Brooklyn. She has staged solo exhibitions at Soloway, Brooklyn, and Welcome Screen, London, and has been included in group shows at Sculpture Center, Queens; Kimberly Klark, Queens, and Galerie Division, Montreal, among other … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Dalí’s Lobster Telephone Edition

  17-10-2016 15:06 via artnews.com
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• Former Cognac bottling factory is home to new French culture foundation

  17-10-2016 13:07
  
  One of Frances most famous brands of Cognac, Martell, has launched a new cultural foundation based in one of its former bottling factories. The new organisation, the Fondation dEntreprise Martell, is housed in Gatebourse, a celebrated modernist building which was inaugurated in 1929.Officials at the new foundation plan to turn the Gatebourse building located in central Cognac, western France, into a multifaceted cultural hub, according to a project statement. The cultural programmeencompassing
  
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• Artist Kader Attia opens new art hub in Paris

  17-10-2016 11:55
  
  The Paris-born artist Kader Attia opens a new, three-storey exhibition and events space today (17 October) in Paris.  The space is a new kind of artistic laboratory for sharing ideas and showing works in the post-Brexit age, he says. The new venue, close to the Gare du Nord train station and co-founded with the restaurateur Zico Selloum, is called La Colonie.The space will host workshops, conferences, lectures and readings. Far from a museum or institutional context, the artistic proposals
  
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• International relations: meet Jacky Tsai's satirical superheroes – in pictures

  17-10-2016 08:00
  
  Jacky Tsai takes western comic book heroes and thrusts them into traditional Chinese paintings, to reflect the clashing and melding of the two cultures Continue reading...
  
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• Nikon-Walkley awards 2016: the best photographs

  17-10-2016 07:22
  
  A look at some of this year’s winners and finalists in the prestigious annual photographic awards for excellence in Australian photojournalism – accompanied by the opinions of the awards team and words from the photographers themselves Continue reading...
  
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• Four Trends In Understanding Audience: Measurement, Streaming and Politics

  17-10-2016 02:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This Week: Is there a correlation between value and attention in the arts?… Data’s in: the plus/minuses of live-streaming… Some ideas from a researcher on measuring aesthetic experience… How might the arts weigh in on politics without being dismissed?
  
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• The Bigger Picture: Making Sense Of Last Week’s Trending ArtsJournal Stories

  17-10-2016 01:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This Week: Did Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize for literature expand the category to songwriting?… Artists protest against gentrification… We’re deeply conflicted about the value of creativity… Is Google rewiring our brains so they don’t work so well?… Are we all living in a giant computer simulation? (don’t laugh)
  
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