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• Video killed the dance hall star: an interview with Mark Leckey

  22-10-2016 23:00
  MoMA PS1 is hosting what it calls the largest ever exhibition on the Turner Prize-winning British artist Mark Leckey. The show, titled Containers and Their Drivers, highlights works from the 1990s to the present, including the one for which Leckey is best known: his film Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999), in which he spliced together documentary footage of British dance subcultures between the 1970s and 1990s. We spoke about the show with Leckey, who says he hopes people get lost in the potentia
  
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• Object lessons at the Hepworth Wakefield: the importance of sculpture

  22-10-2016 13:00
  
  The Turner shortlist recognises the skill and significance of modern sculptors. Why do they need another prize? The director of the Hepworth Wakefield explainsThis is an exceptionally exciting time for sculpture. In the last few weeks, the Turner prize has given a platform to artists such as Michael Dean, whose installation at Tate Britain looks at modern poverty with the help of millions of pennies and a “family” made of corrugated iron. (The Guardian’s Adrian Searle described
  
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• Ali Smith on the prime of pop artist Pauline Boty

  22-10-2016 12:00
  
  Boty was the first female pioneer of the British pop art movement before she died tragically young. Ali Smith pays tribute to an incarnation of the swinging 60sIt’s a very arsy painting. A cartoon-like traditional theatrical proscenium arch, complete with scrolls, pillars and an imperial coat of arms surrounded by unfurled flags, frames a stage whose space is literally filled with a giant fleshy, naked female bottom. Underneath, bright red, bouncing against blue, green and white stripes, t
  
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• Marina Abramović in her own words: ‘Why don’t we have a ménage à trois?’

  22-10-2016 10:00
  
  It was 1984, and the artist’s relationship was falling apart. She describes her attempts to save it, in an exclusive extract from her memoir• ‘I face so much jealousy’ – read the interview with Marina AbramovićOur plan was for me to start the walk at the Great Wall of China’s eastern end, the Gulf of Bohai on the Yellow Sea, and for Ulay to start at its western end, the Jiayu Pass in the Gobi desert. After walking 2,500km each, we would meet in the middle.
  
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• ‘I face so much jealousy’: Marina Abramović talks friends, enemies and fear

  22-10-2016 10:00
  
  The artist has always pushed herself to the limit, letting strangers cut her and turning her breakup into a performance. But only now does she understand why• ‘Why don’t we have a ménage à trois?’ – an extract from her new memoir“You are 10 minutes early,” Marina Abramović says. The performance artist leads me to her bedroom in the Greenwich Village apartment where she lives alone – minimalist, lime green sheets, huge TV on the wa
  
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• A Precipitous Drop In Dance Attendance In NYC

  22-10-2016 02:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A 20% decrease in the number of paid attendees at live performances emerged in the study, to be released Friday by the advocacy group Dance/NYC. The study looked at 172 dance organizations over a six-year period. The audience decline appears to have been led by drops at the largest organizations, those with budgets of more than $5 million.”
  
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• A Tour of TEFAF New York Fall

  22-10-2016 01:48 via artnews.com
  The inaugural New York edition of TEFAF—the illustrious fair that has long hosted dealers who specialize in everything from ancient to modern art fair in Maastricht, the Netherlands, each year—opened today to invited guests. On view were pre-Columbian sculptures, a sarcophagus, works … Read More
  
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• TEFAF Opens First New York Fair With Anderson Cooper Buying $275,000 Old Master as Oyster Shuckers Work the Aisles

  22-10-2016 01:43 via artnews.com
  The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht, Netherlands, is the world’s top annual destination for buying masterworks of previous centuries, from Roman-era busts to Old Masters to Pre-Raphaelites and so, so much more. And so when TEFAF took its party from … Read More
  
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• The Second Coming Of ‘Beast Jesus’: Replacement For Stolen Head Of Church Statue Goes Awry

  22-10-2016 00:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When vandals knocked off the head of the young Christ in a Madonna-and-child statue at a parish in Sudbury, Ontario, the priest accepted the offer of a local artist to sculpt a replacement. Uh-oh: our correspondent describes the result as “Lisa Simpson crossed with King Triton.” Where have we seen this story before?
  
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• Tom Stoppard’s First New Play In a Decade

  22-10-2016 00:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The profound question being debated here — is consciousness no more than brain tissue and, if so, is altruism merely the product of evolutionary biology? — has brought Stoppard into public colloquies with scientists and philosophers investigating this quintessential 21st century conundrum.
  
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• Face Values: Rashid Johnson Raises Tough Questions at Hauser & Wirth

  22-10-2016 00:08 via artnews.com
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