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• Yoko Ono Sounds Off on the Election of Donald Trump

  11-11-2016 22:49 via artnews.com
  Yoko Ono just posted a response to the election of Donald Trump on Twitter. Click play and enjoy. Dear Friends, I would like to share this message with you as my response to @realDonaldTrumplove, yoko pic.twitter.com/s1BqfUgfLr— Yoko Ono (@yokoono) November … Read More
  
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• The last 10 years of David Hockney: from oil and canvas to iPad drawings – in pictures

  11-11-2016 22:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Current, a world premiere exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, focuses on the last decade of the British artist’s vibrant work, including his recent body of painting titled 82 Portraits and 1 Still Life, as well as hundreds of images the 79-year-old artist drew on tablet apps.“[They’re] a marvellous new medium,” Hockney told Guardian Australia’s Gay Alcorn, in a far ranging interview about art, perspective, and politics • David Hockney: Current runs
  
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• The radiant future that never came: on Communist art from the 1930s to today

  11-11-2016 22:00
  
  With Bernie Sanders barely an echo now, and with Republican president-elect Donald Trump sweeping up more than 60m votes on his way to the White House, the notion of a left-wing insurgencyespecially a Communist oneis a thought reserved for conspiracy theorists.
  But there was a time when the spectre of Communism haunted the US, and when the Communist Party USA demanded attention. At Galerie St. Etienne in New York, the show You Say You Want a Revolution is devoted to the work of those artists in
  
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• The many avenues of abstract painting

  11-11-2016 22:00
  At the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Luca Massimo Barbero has organised a career survey of the Italian painter Tancredi Parmeggiani (My Weapon Against the Atom Bomb is a Blade of Grass, 12 November-13 March 2017). The show looks at the artists short career (he died aged 37 in 1964) through 90 works, including one from the Brooklyn Museum that is being shown in Venice for the first time since Peggy Guggenheim donated it to the US institution. Although Tancredi (as he was known) was an a
  
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• Brooklyn Museum Will Be Free This Weekend, ‘as People Search for a Sense of National Unity’

  11-11-2016 21:51 via artnews.com
  Some nice news out of Kings County, New York, to conclude one of the worst weeks on record: the Brooklyn Museum announced that it will waive its standard $16 suggested donation and offer free admission this weekend, “as people search … Read More
  
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• Library closures, cuts and false economies | Letters

  11-11-2016 20:07 via theguardian.com
  
  On 5 November, my family and I marched in the first national demonstration for libraries, museums and galleries. As part of my mission to dismantle poverty, I’ve placed social literacy – and the fight to promote our libraries and local bookshops – at the heart of my work. Make no mistake; if we lose our libraries, if we sit by and watch as our communities are philistinised not only will we have paved the way for the privatisation of leisure centres, parks and social centres but
  
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• ‘It’s Not Just an Imitation of Painting’: Andreas Gursky on His Photos of Tulips, German Leaders, and Amazon Storage Facilities, at Gagosian

  11-11-2016 19:15 via artnews.com
  For those want to escape the sense of horror and confusion that has taken over New York following the result of the presidential election, a good idea would be to go by Gagosian’s space on West 21st Street, where a wonderful … Read More
  
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• ‘Olympia: Carte Blanche to Karma’ at Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris

  11-11-2016 18:35 via artnews.com
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• Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art Creates Award for Emerging Artists

  11-11-2016 18:28 via artnews.com
  The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England, announced today that it has created a new prize for emerging artists. Given out every two years to four artists, the award provides each winner £25,000 (about $31,500) toward creating new work and a £5,000 … Read More
  
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• Cursed by Gold: Penn Museum Investigates King Midas’s Golden Touch

  11-11-2016 17:55 via artnews.com
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• Cursed by Gold: A Large Show at Penn Museum Investigates King Midas’s Golden Touch

  11-11-2016 17:55 via artnews.com
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• Nika Autor To Represent Slovenia at the 2017 Venice Biennale

  11-11-2016 17:32 via artnews.com
  Nika Autor will represent Slovenia at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Andreja Hribernik, the director of Slovenia’s Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, will curate the pavilion.Autor’s multidisciplinary practice addresses effects that various forms of representation in media have on matters of … Read More
  
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• The Artificial Infinite: Carter Ratcliff on Agnes Martin, in 1973

  11-11-2016 17:23 via artnews.com
  With the Guggenheim Museum having recently opened an Agnes Martin retrospective, we turn back to the May 1973 of ARTnews, in which Carter Ratcliff wrote about the abstract painter’s work. Commenting on how her art is in dialogue with the … Read More
  
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• Rembrandt, animal magic and the battle of the Somme – the week in art

  11-11-2016 16:44 via theguardian.com
  
  In this week’s art openings, you can question the authenticity of a Rembrandt, mull over the nature of power – and hang out with a menagerie of arty animalsThe Somme
  The battle whose waste of life has become an image of the futility and madness of war is remembered by 21st-century artists including Jeremy Clark, Helen Grey, Michael Isaac, Lauren Adams and Charlotte Potter.
  • Moor House, London, from 11-30 November. Continue reading...
  
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• Interview with artist Annette Messager

  11-11-2016 15:15
  With new work inspired by the feminist group Femen, the artist is as bold as ever
  
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• Interview: Turner Prize nominee Anthea Hamilton

  11-11-2016 15:15
  ‘I’m forever wishing I was a minimalist, but somehow that doesn’t become me’
  
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• Goodman Gallery marks 50 years in Johannesburg

  11-11-2016 15:15
  Through political tumult, the gallery has been a resolutely non-discriminatory space
  
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• German export law threatens new private museum

  11-11-2016 15:15
  Collector Andrew Hall bought the 1,000-year-old castle from artist Georg Baselitz
  
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• Snapshot: ‘On the Night Bus’ by Nick Turpin

  11-11-2016 15:14
  The street photographer’s series explores privacy and voyeurism in the public sphere
  
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• Morning Links: ‘I Want a President’ Edition

  11-11-2016 14:37 via artnews.com
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• Portrait of the Artist, London — review

  11-11-2016 14:36
  Inner scrutiny or marketing? What self-portraits say about the artist
  
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• Elton John’s photo collection at Tate Modern

  11-11-2016 14:36
  The show features many high-quality prints that the singer has acquired over the past 25 years
  
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• Albrecht Dürer’s The Rhinoceros: the most influential animal picture ever?

  11-11-2016 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Created in 1515 Dürer’s woodcut shaped public perceptions of the creature for more than two centuries. It’s a pre-eminent example of art besting realityAlbrecht Dürer had a showman’s instincts for killer subject matter. When history’s greatest print-maker decided to create an image of the rhinoceros that had visited Lisbon in 1515, it became one of the most influential animal pictures ever. Continue reading...
  
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• Baltic centre launches international award for emerging artists

  11-11-2016 13:40 via theguardian.com
  
  The biennial prize offers four artists a £30,000 commission, mentoring and a 13-week exhibitionAn international award for emerging artists has been launched by the Baltic Gateshead, offering four artists a £30,000 commission and a 13-week exhibition.There are a lot of arts prizes in the UK but Sarah Munro, the Baltic’s director, said its biennial award offered something different, not least that it would be the first in the country selected solely by artists. Continue reading..
  
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• Germany appoints first Jewish members to Nazi-loot art panel

  11-11-2016 13:36
  
  The German culture minister Monika Grtters has appointed the first Jewish members to the so-called Limbach Commissiona panel established in 2003 to mediate in Nazi-looted art ownership disputes. The minister made three new appointmentstwo of whom are Jewish.
  Gary Smith, the former director of the American Academy in Berlin, and Raphael Gross, the director of the Simon Dubnow Institut for Jewish History and Culture in Leipzig, are to join the committee along with Marion Eckertz-Hfer, the former
  
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• Bidding war for Bowie's angst-ridden Auerbach in record-breaking sale

  11-11-2016 13:05
  
  Every lot offered at Sothebys London last night from the eclectic collection of David Bowie was sold, with almost all pieces skyrocketing far past their estimates. The auction, which set new records for 11 British artists and made a total of 24.4m, proved that the power of the late musicians name outweighed the gloom ushered in by the election of Donald Trump just two days earlier.
   
  Most of the art on the block was British 20th-century painting, deeply unfashionable when it was acquired b
  
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• From kitsch to collectable: the visionary rescuers of Victorian art

  11-11-2016 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In the 1960s, when Victorian art was deemed kitsch, some amateur collectors rescued paintings from shops and auctions. Those pieces are now worth a mint – but it was never about the moneyIn the early 1960s, Andrew Lloyd Webber, while a pupil at Westminster School, came across an unframed canvas in a shop on the Fulham Road and instantly fell in love with it. The painting, or at least what he could see of it through a thick film of dirt, showed a slumbrous young woman, swathed in diaphanous
  
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• Amnesty International and Iranian rock band launch campaign to free artists jailed in Iran

  11-11-2016 12:37
  
  Amnesty International has joined forces with the Iranian rock band Kiosk to launch a campaign to free artists jailed in Iran. They are calling on other artists and the wider international community to condemn the actions of the Iranian government by voicing their support for the #FreeArtists campaign.According to the human rights charity, there are currently four artists imprisoned for their work, including the brothers Mehdi Rajabian and Hossein Rajabian (a musician and a film-maker respective
  
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• Award-winning artist studios in north London face redevelopment

  11-11-2016 12:19
  
  As gentrification continues to sweep London, another of the citys artist studio spaces is facing redevelopment. There are plans to demolish the Cockpit Arts building in Camden, north London, although the local council intends to relocate all artists and designers to a new building on the same site. Camden is anxious not to lose them as they are big local employers, says Michael Pountney, the vice-chairman of the Holborn Library Users Group.The redevelopment is part of a proposed overhaul of Hol
  
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• John Kasmin: the rogue and his gallery

  11-11-2016 11:43
  His London gallery transformed the art world of the 1960s — John Kasmin talks about those ‘extravagantly bohemian’ days
  
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• Three to see: Paris

  11-11-2016 11:36
  
  Mexico has been in the spotlight during the recent US presidential election campaign (President-elect Trump plans to build a tall, powerful, beautiful, southern border wall" between the US and Mexico). The Grand Palais exhibition of Modern Mexican art, Mexico 1900-1950 (until 23 January 2017), is a timely reminder of the countrys numerous significant art schools and pioneering artists, from Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros to ngel Zrraga and Frida Kahlo. Indeed, there is a section titled
  
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• Prix Pictet 2016 shortlist turns the lense on space - in pictures

  11-11-2016 11:28 via theguardian.com
  
  From Hong Kong’s tiny subdivided flats to the migrant crisis, this year’s photography and sustainability award shortlist explores the theme of space from all perspectives The winners will be announced at an exhibition in London in May 2017. See last year’s winners here
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• Prix Pictet 2016 shortlist turns the lens on space - in pictures

  11-11-2016 11:28 via theguardian.com
  
  From Hong Kong’s tiny subdivided flats to the migrant crisis, this year’s photography and sustainability award shortlist explores the theme of space from all perspectives The winners will be announced at an exhibition in London in May 2017. See last year’s winners here
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• Tehran exhibition in Berlin faces delay after Iranian culture minister resigns

  11-11-2016 11:24
  
  An exhibition at Berlins Gemldegalerie of the collection of Tehrans Museum of Contemporary Art faces a short delay after the resignation of the Iranian Culture Minister Ali Jannati in October, the Berlin museums authority says.Berlin is to be the first foreign host of the collection assembled under the auspices of the last empress, Farah Pahlavi. It includes works by Picasso, Rothko, Kandinsky, Pollock, Warhol and Bacon acquired before the Iranian Revolution in 1979, as well as Iranian artists.
  
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• David Bowie's art fetches £24m in first round of sale

  11-11-2016 02:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Total includes Jean-Michel Basquiat painting sold for more than £7m on packed night at Sotheby’s The first items from David Bowie’s personal art collection were sold at auction in London on Thursday, fetching more than £24m.A 1984 Jean-Michel Basquiat painting, titled Air Power, was the most expensive of the night, selling for nearly £7.1m including premium – double the pre-sale upper estimate of £3.5m. Another Basquiat work, Untitled, sold for nearly &p
  
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• Russia's remote observatory hosts art show

  11-11-2016 01:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Show, perched in mountains of Karachay-Cherkess republic, features contemporary work from seven Russian and three Austrian artistsAfter art shows in Moscow have been doused in urine, covered in red paint and picketed by conservative activists, one curator has found a new exhibition in a remote observatory 900 miles from the Russian capital.
  The show, featuring work from seven Russian and three Austrian artists, is “a classic contemporary art experience,” explains curator Simon Mraz.
  
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• ‘Time Lines’ at Independent Régence, Brussels

  11-11-2016 00:12 via artnews.com
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• Edward Snowden, artists and activists to weigh-in on Trump at Oakland tech conference

  11-11-2016 00:11
  
  Immediately following the news that Donald Trump had won the US presidential election this week, the Real Future Faira one-day technology and activism conference in Oakland, California organised by the news platform Fusionannounced that it would open free to the public in a bid to process what Trumps victory means for surveillance and privacy, according to a newsletter. Anyone who purchased a ticket in advance will be refunded.
  The event is due to open on 15 November at the Oakland Museum of Ca
  
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