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• Rashid Johnson: ‘I’m With Her’

  08-11-2016 23:37 via artnews.com
  Some news coming to the ARTnews Decision 2016 Desk here in Manhattan on Tuesday evening: Rashid Johnson will be supporting Hillary Clinton in the presidential race.On Instagram, he shared a picture of his New York City “I voted” sticked affixed to … Read More
  
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• Simon Denny: ‘Yes She Can’

  08-11-2016 23:09 via artnews.com
  Simon Denny YES SHE CAN #simondenny #yesshecan A photo posted by Hans Ulrich Obrist (@hansulrichobrist) on Nov 7, 2016 at 7:31pm PST Results are now coming in to the 2016 ARTnews Democracy Headquarters fast and furious. The latest: artist Simon … Read More
  
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• On the Origin of Art: David Walsh launches Mona's most ambitious exhibition yet

  08-11-2016 22:56
  
  Why do humans make art? Is it a byproduct of our biology, a means of making sense of the world – or is it all about sex? David Walsh is not a man to do things by halves. Most people already know this, of course; read anything written about the gambler-cum-art collector and you’ll find no shortage of excess. But staring with the gallery owner at one of his latest acquisitions – a lifesize fibreglass sculpture of a blue-haired anime boy, who wears nothing but a triumphant express
  
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• David Walsh of Mona: on art, sex and why (gallery) size matters

  08-11-2016 22:56
  
  In Mona’s most ambitious exhibition to date, four experts outside of the art world ask why humans make art – is it cultural, biological, or all about sex?David Walsh is not a man to do things by halves. Most people already know this, of course; read anything written about the gambler-cum-art collector and you’ll find no shortage of excess. But staring with the gallery owner at one of his latest acquisitions – a lifesize fibreglass sculpture of a blue-haired anime boy, who
  
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• Wendy White: ‘Nasty Women Vote!’

  08-11-2016 22:48 via artnews.com
  Nasty Women VOTE! #chinatown #imwithher #nastywoman #todaystheday #pantsuitnation🇱🇷 A photo posted by wendy white (@dubz19) on Nov 8, 2016 at 8:25am PST Polls have not yet closed anywhere in these United States of America, but the ARTnews Decision Desk is … Read More
  
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• Robert Longo: ‘Vote Stop Trump!’

  08-11-2016 22:33 via artnews.com
  Polls are closing in the next few hours, but that doesn’t mean that legendary Pictures Generation artist Robert Longo can’t take to Instagram to speak his mind on the election.Early today he posted to his account a picture of the command … Read More
  
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• Pick up a poster to show London is open

  08-11-2016 22:00
  
  Free posters by leading UK and international artists will be given out at select London Underground stations this morning (10 November) from 7.30am. David Shrigley, Jeremy Deller, Sol Calero, Alexandre da Cunha and Mark Titchner have all produced works in response to the Mayor of London Sadiq Khans London is Open campaign. Commuters will also be able to pick up postcards, badges and a lucky few will get a limited edition Deller tote bag (50 will be available at each station).
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• Leonardo Da Vinci’s St John the Baptist back on view at the Louvre after a thorough—but careful—cleaning

  08-11-2016 22:00
  
  Leonardo Da Vincis St John the Baptist (around 1513-16), a treasure of the Louvre Museum in Paris, is once again on view to the public from Wednesday, 9 November after a ten-month cleaning at C2RMF, the nearby restoration and research centre for French museums. The in-depth conservation, which was scrutinized by the media and specialists because of earlier restorations of Leonardos work at the museum, refreshes what was probably the most varnished painting in the Louvres collection, according t
  
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• Going underground: Langlands & Bell make their mark on Piccadilly Circus

  08-11-2016 22:00
  
  Given the proliferation of utterly awful public sculpture popping up over Londonhurtling elephants and giant Jelly Babies on Park Lane, anyone? the new permanent artwork by Langlands & Bell unveiled this week at Piccadilly Circus tube station provides a timely and welcome antidote. The brief was to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the death of Frank Pick, London transports chief executive. Pick was the mastermind behind such iconic London Underground designs as the famous bar and circle
  
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• Artists on the shorts list

  08-11-2016 22:00
  
  This Thursday, 10 November, Nitehawk Cinema in Brooklyn will host Art Seen, a selection of short films to explore the relationship between art and filmmaking, as part of its fourth Nitehawk Shorts Festival (9-13 November). The films include Where are we now (Who are we anyway?) (2016), directed by Zachary Heinzerling, a behind-the-scenes look at eponymous solo exhibition of the artist and landscape designer Vito Acconci at MoMA PS1 earlier this year, featuring Acconci, his wife and collaborator
  
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• A San Francisco park comes alive with art

  08-11-2016 22:00
  In this 360 video, commissioned by the public radio broadcaster KQED, the San Francisco-based artist and science illustrator Jane Kim, who paints plant and animal life, discusses the city's Golden Gate Park and its relationship to her work. Viewers are invited to interact with the scene by clicking and dragging their mouse, revealing how Kim enlivens the park with her art.
  
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• Met Director Thomas Campbell, New U.S. Citizen: ‘This Immigrant Has Voted’

  08-11-2016 21:45 via artnews.com
  Thomas Campbell, an Englishman who serves as the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, only became a U.S. citizen two years ago; the naturalization ceremony took place in the museum’s American Wing. And so, today, Campbell … Read More
  
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• Richard Prince: ‘Both of Me Is Voting for Hillary’

  08-11-2016 21:43 via artnews.com
  That Richard Prince, he’s a wily one. Earlier the artist deleted a tweet that contained just the word “vote” and a picture of a pulp fiction work of his that showed on the cover a woman named “Hilary.” (A colleague … Read More
  
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• Deborah Kass: ‘Damn Straight, I Voted!!!’

  08-11-2016 19:42 via artnews.com
  Damn straight, I voted!! A photo posted by Deborah Kass (@debkass) on Nov 8, 2016 at 7:48am PST It’s… a bird! It’s… a plane! It’s… Hillary’s campaign logo reimagined as an emblem of the hero who will save us all (from … Read More
  
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• Artist who bobbed down the Rhône in a bottle

  08-11-2016 19:24
  
  The Marseille-born artist Abraham Poincheval is known for his hair-raising feats of endurance, such as living inside the hollowed-out carcass of a bear at the Muse de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris in 2014. An exhibition of Poinchevals works at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris next year (3 February-8 May) will throw light on the artists motivations and preparations for his off-beat projects (devotees of the artist can see installations and images linked to his latest quirky initiative: floating
  
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• The Radical Eye review – Elton John's ravishing photography collection

  08-11-2016 19:03
  
  Switch House, Tate Modern, London
  From the tears of Man Ray to the Paris of Robert Frank and the manspread of Salvador Dali, this astounding collection is a history of modernist photographySir Elton John’s image, his glasses askew and playing up for the camera in Irving Penn’s 1997 portrait, greets visitors to The Radical Eye. It is an endearing gag, leaving one unprepared for an exhibition as serious as it is surprising, and which could serve as a short course in the development of
  
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• Modernist photos from Elton John's private collection go on display

  08-11-2016 18:51
  
  Tate Modern’s Radical Eye exhibition features 200 of 8,000 works collected by singer since he quit drinking 26 years agoAlmost 200 modernist photographs from a vast collection built by Sir Elton John after he stopped drinking 26 years ago have gone on display at the Tate Modern.The singer has about 8,000 works – some of which he hangs in his penthouse in Atlanta, Georgia – in a private collection considered one of the finest in the world. Continue reading...
  
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• Collector Aby Rosen? He’s With Her—and So Is Fellow Mega-Collector Tico Mugrabi!

  08-11-2016 18:35 via artnews.com
  We’ve heard from Jeff Koons, who was so excited to vote for Hillary Clinton that he forgot to shave. We’ve heard from Rob Pruitt, who made a collage with Hillary Clinton in the middle of the sun, ruling over some … Read More
  
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• Rob Pruitt: ‘I’m With Her’

  08-11-2016 18:24 via artnews.com
  It is 12:15 p.m. here in New York City, and ARTnews can confirm that the great state of Rob Pruitt has gone to Hillary Clinton. Read More
  
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• Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth, New York

  08-11-2016 17:27 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Gritty, Grizzled Jeff Koons Casts for Clinton!

  08-11-2016 17:23 via artnews.com
  And there you have it: Jeff Koons has voted for the candidate that he’s already endorsed, Hillary Clinton. “So thrilled to vote for Hillary this morning!” he wrote on Twitter. “Be sure to vote! #ImWithHer #VOTEHILLARY”As Koons goes, so goes … Read More
  
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• ‘Americana Gone a Bit Weird’: Valerie Hegarty on Her New Ceramic Still Lifes

  08-11-2016 17:14 via artnews.com
  In 2013 Valerie Hegarty displayed her unique reverence for history by recreating Rembrandt Peale’s 1824 portrait of George Washington without his head in the Cupola House Parlor of the Brooklyn Museum. In another early American period room, Hegarty presented a sculpture … Read More
  
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• Bob Dylan: a Hockney-like painter of America's strange essence

  08-11-2016 16:36
  
  Dylan’s art marks him out as a staunch traditionalist – but his powers of observation make his canvases evocative celebrations of life itselfLong before Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel prize in literature, pundits used to talk about “Dylan versus Keats”, as if you had to choose, and as if Dylan’s poetic transformations of folk song are really so different from what John Keats does in his eerie ballad La Belle Dame sans Merci. When it comes to Dylan’s art, the
  
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• Elton John’s prints collection on show at Tate Modern

  08-11-2016 16:23
  Exhibition highlights moments that photography broke with tradition
  
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• Guggenheim Abu Dhabi's collection grows as curatorial team shrinks

  08-11-2016 15:19
  
  The Guggenheim Abu Dhabis second, collection-based exhibition is due to open next March, three years after mainly abstract works acquired for the planned contemporary art museum were first shown in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The announcement comes amid speculation over the momentum of the much-delayed project, which was launched ten years ago, prompted by the recent departure of two key members of its curatorial team.
  The projects associate curator for Middle Eastern art, Reem Fadda, and i
  
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• Morning Links: Record-Breaking Lilac Knickers Edition

  08-11-2016 14:47 via artnews.com
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• Ghana's first travelling museum ready to hit the road

  08-11-2016 12:41
  
  Kiosk-sized cultural exhibition will travel across the country’s 10 regions in December A new project in Ghana aims to make moveable museums available to all corners of the country by taking a small kiosk-sized gallery on the road to showcase artworks and cultural artefacts. The “kiosk museum” is the brainchild of Nana Oforiatta Ayim, a writer and film-maker, and founder of ANO, a non-profit art space in Accra. She decided to make use of an ubiquitous feature of African archite
  
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• Work censored as art world descends on Shanghai

  08-11-2016 11:58
  
  The unprecedented convergence of the 11th Shanghai Biennale opening and two major art fairs as well as numerous exhibitions makes the Chinese city the focal point of the Asian art world this week. The West Bund Art & Design Fair, opens tomorrow (November 9), followed by Art 021 on Thursday and the biennial on Friday (until 12 March), accompanied by scores of gallery and museum events. The flurry of events is widely described as a mainland, autumn version of the March art week in Hong Kong s
  
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• 'Caravaggio' found in French attic unveiled in Milan

  08-11-2016 11:17
  
  A disputed Caravaggio painting found in an attic near Toulouse and classed as a French national treasure is to go on show to the public for the first time this week at Milans Pinacoteca di Brera. Judith Beheading Holofernes (1606-07) will be displayed alongside the institutions Caravaggio masterpiece, the Supper at Emmaus (1605-06), a copy of Caravaggios Magdalen in Ecstasy (after 1610) and three works by the painters Flemish follower Louis Finson. The exhibition Caravaggio: a Question of Attri
  
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• The choice is yours: artist hacks voting machines for US election-themed show

  08-11-2016 10:00
  
  As the US elects its next president, R Luke DuBois explores how we make choices with an exhibition of machines making sound, selfies and ‘hanging chads’R Luke DuBois an artist who works with data, and a professor at NYU. For his video Acceptance (2016), he wrote software to synchronize Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s convention acceptance speeches, so they appear to be reading each other’s words in a never-ending crossfire. In another one of his recent installations, T
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.07.16

  08-11-2016 09:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Remembering and Re-imagining an Era
  Danspace Project’s Platform 16: Lost & Found revisits and examines the decades when  HIV/AIDS felled so many. … read more
  AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-11-07An ideal concert
  Anderson and Roe, the piano duo, at the National Gallery in DC, on October 30. And why was it ideal? Well, first, … read more
  AJBlog: Sandow Published 2016-11-07Otis Redding at the Whisky — Revisited
  You can never really have too much Otis Redding. The
  
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• Artadia’s 2016 Atlanta Award Winners Are Jiha Moon and Cosmo Whyte

  08-11-2016 00:08 via artnews.com
  Artadia has announced the awardees for its 2016 Atlanta awards: Jiha Moon and Cosmo Whyte. Each will receive $10,000 in unrestricted funds as well as access to the ongoing benefits of the Artadia Awards program.Moon and Whyte were chosen from five … Read More
  
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• Sotheby’s Reports Big Loss

  08-11-2016 00:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An expected loss, the auction house says. Sotheby’s on Monday reported a loss of $54.5 million in the third quarter, compared with a $17.9 million loss for the same period a year ago.
  
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