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• The art of BDSM

  13-11-2016 22:00
  
  The artist Ali Silverstein had never made the connection between her approach to painting and BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, Sadism and Masochism) before a discussion with a visitor to her solo booth at the fair Untitled in Miami Beach last year. I was talking about continually being present and feeling these genuine desires come up from a place thats not in my mind, from a real body place, and then being brave enough to keep following those, and thats when she [said]
  
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• Alphonse Mucha's grandson sues Prague to stop Asian tour of Slav Epic

  13-11-2016 22:00
  
  A major legal battle looms over Alphonse Muchas monumental Slav Epic. The gigantic canvas cycle, which took the Czech-born Art Nouveau pioneer 18 years to complete, is due to go on a controversial tour to Asia, which has alarmed Muchas descendants and some conservators.The Slav Epic depicts key events in the history of the Slavic people through 20 large paintingssome more than eight-metres tall. It is a rare work on canvas by Mucha (1860-1939) who is best known for his advertising posters and d
  
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• On my radar: Gavin Turk’s cultural highlights

  13-11-2016 11:00
  
  The British artist on east London’s Institute of Light cinema, Michael Clark’s Bowie tribute and Jarvis Cocker’s flair for radioArtist Gavin Turk, 49, found fame in the 1990s as a key figure in the Young British Artist (YBA) movement. Born in 1967 and raised in Surrey, he studied at the Royal College of Art but was refused his postgraduate degree because his final show, Cave, comprised a whitewashed studio featuring a single blue heritage plaque that read: “Gavin Turk, sc
  
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• Sir Elton John: ‘I collect for the beauty, not the value. I’m in awe of these things’

  13-11-2016 10:30
  
  As modernist prints from his collection go on show, the star talks homophobia, Brexit Britain and how photography became his second greatest passion• See our gallery of images from The Radical Eye, Elton John’s exhibition at Tate ModernI am standing with Sir Elton John in the lounge of his west London house looking at a wall hung with six black-and-white Cindy Sherman photographs from her series Untitled Film Stills. He is telling me how he came to own them. “I was sitting next
  
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• Animality review – perfectly beastly

  13-11-2016 09:00
  
  Marian Goodman Gallery, London
  Animals have to be removed from their natural habitat to be taken seriously as art, as this fascinating zoo of a show demonstratesAnyone who wants to know what cuts it in contemporary art – and what doesn’t – should look no further than animals. Beasts are a perfect case in point. The mere depiction of a tiger, say, faithfully observed in all its striped stealth, or burning brightly in some lyrical vision, might play in the shires but it won&rsquo
  
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• What your choice of art says about your personality – Quiz

  13-11-2016 07:00
  
  Do you prefer abstract or figurative paintings? The answer is likely to correlate with other preferences in your lifeWhat do your preferences in art tell us about your personality? To find out, simply choose which of these two pictures you prefer… Continue reading...
  
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• The Radical Eye: photographs from the Sir Elton John collection – in pictures

  13-11-2016 00:55
  
  Highlights from Sir Elton’s hoard of more than 7,0000 modernist prints, now on show at Tate ModernThe Radical Eye is at Tate Modern, London, until 7 May 2017 Continue reading...
  
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