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• Untitled(it would be grand if we can get all of the upper middle class white women to strike)

  16-11-2016 23:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  in this day and age the word revolution is boring. it gives the police something to shut down. i want the world to see my drawing of an autocrat. i will label it autocrat so that they know its a drawing of an autocrat. it could be a drawing of a field worker, a walker or an eavesdropper. it could be a drawing of anything. it is too subjective to be universal even though i think anything personal is political like seventies feminism. i don’t know who the world is but they are there. they ha
  
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• Here’s the Exhibitor List for the Inaugural Edition of the Untitled San Francisco Fair

  16-11-2016 23:15 via artnews.com
  As you may have heard, the Untitled art fair, which appears annually in Miami as a satellite to Art Basel Miami Beach, is launching a San Francisco edition in January and today it announced the galleries that will be participating. … Read More
  
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• Hey Bay-Bay, What’s With The Cray-Zay Way So Many Pop Singers Sing The ‘Ee’ Sound?

  16-11-2016 23:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dan Nosowitz talked to linguists and voices coaches and eventually found a likely theory: It started out as a particular little trick of pop vocal technique and morphed into a way “to co-opt the signifiers of intensity.” (That’s not academic gobbledygook: when you get to that point in the article, it will make sense.)
  
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• In Post-Election Pivot, Rob Pruitt to Show Obama Paintings at Gavin Brown Instead of ‘Celebrity Look-Alike’ Works

  16-11-2016 22:18 via artnews.com
  For the past few months, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise has been planning a show with Rob Pruitt based on a game the artist has long played on Instagram: pairing an art world figure with their celebrity doppelgänger. Some of the matches … Read More
  
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• Phillips on an upswing with $111.2m 20th-century art sale

  16-11-2016 22:00
  
  Phillips rang in a fairly positive 20th-century art sale Wednesday night that garnered a hammer total of $97.1m, still below the low estimate of $100m but meeting the houses modest expectations and backing up the performance of post-war painting seen at Christies the night before.
  The sale was artistically impressive and kicked off with a strong, deeply hued work by Carmen Herrera, Cerulean (1965), that set a new record for the artist when it hammered for $800,000 ($970,000 with buyers fees), d
  
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• Monet's Grainstack fetches $81.4m at Christie's, setting a new auction record for the artist

  16-11-2016 22:00
  
  Someone will buy this, said the auctioneer Andreas Rumbler, through gritted teeth, as opening bids beyond $35m for Claude Monets Meule (Grainstack) (1891) failed to materialise during the Impressionist and Modern art evening sale at Christies yesterday (16 November). The work carried no guarantee and a wave of nervous laughter rippled through the room. But then the bidding began. Over the next 14 minutes, the work inched past its estimate of around $45m and, during the final phone battle betwee
  
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• Jane Simpson draws a top crowd for London launch of Selection Box

  16-11-2016 22:00
  
  Confirmation, if any were needed, of the respect and affection inspired by the artist and fine art publisherand now galleristJane Simpson, comes both from the calibre of the artists who have made special editioned works for her latest project, The Selection Box, and from the fact that so many of them then turned up at the Groucho Club in Soho on Tuesday night (15 November) to help launch it.
  Among the throng were Gary Hume, Georgie Hopton, Simon Periton, Fiona Banner and Gavin Turkall of whom h
  
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• Design Museum aims for ‘Tate effect’ after move to west London

  16-11-2016 22:00
  
  When the Design Museum opens its new 83m home on 24 November, visitors will gain access to its collection of more than 3,000 objects free of charge for the first time.The museum of industrial, graphic, fashion and architectural design has lofty ambitions for its new space in the former Commonwealth Institute, near Kensington High Street. We need to do something like Tate Modern did for contemporary art for design in this country, the museums director, Deyan Sudjic, said at a press conference in
  
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• Larry Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch Team Up Again in Miami for Erotic ‘Desire’ Show

  16-11-2016 21:48 via artnews.com
  Last year during Art Basel Miami Beach, Larry Gagosian teamed up with a somewhat surprising collaborator for a show, someone who has been his competitor since the two men met on West Broadway in SoHo in the 1970s: Jeffrey Deitch. … Read More
  
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• Kimberli Gant Appointed Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Chrysler Museum

  16-11-2016 19:53 via artnews.com
  The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, announced today that Kimberli Gant will be its McKinnon Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. She starts in her new position at the museum in mid-January.Gant comes from the Newark Museum in … Read More
  
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• Really Big Diamond Fetches $18 M. at Auction

  16-11-2016 19:45 via artnews.com
  Times might be dark, but this twisted world keeps on spinning. Honestly I’m too spiritually exhausted to even attempt to add something of note, so I’m just going to leave this here: Fortune reports that yesterday a 9.14-carat pear-shaped pink diamond insanely … Read More
  
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• Fancy Vivid Pink: Really Big Diamond Fetches $18 M. at Auction

  16-11-2016 19:45 via artnews.com
  Times might be dark, but this twisted world keeps on spinning. Honestly I’m too spiritually exhausted to even attempt to add something of note, so I’m just going to leave this here: Fortune reports that yesterday a 9.14-carat pear-shaped pink diamond … Read More
  
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• This isn't austerity, it's asphyxiation: can regional galleries survive the cuts?

  16-11-2016 19:12
  
  With the art market rocketing and funding collapsing, how can galleries such as Walsall keep buying new works? The director of the Contemporary Art Society unveils its bold new acquisition planThe collections that regional museums hold are often extraordinary. The pre-Raphaelite collection at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery is arguably the best in the world. But the vast majority have no funds for buying art. While many have friends groups and some are lucky enough to have the occasional maj
  
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• A window of opportunity for Bridget Riley

  16-11-2016 19:09
  
  Leading op-artist Bridget Riley has unveiled a new work at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague which breaks new ground for the UK artist. The piece, entitled Dance, is a window made especially for the museums reception area. Riley is thrilled with the luminescent installation, saying that the daylight behind the window lends it an extra dimension, making the result even better than Id hoped. The museum has championed Riley, with one of her most famous works, Tremor (1961), part of the collection (th
  
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• Shanghai: a megacity hungry for culture

  16-11-2016 18:55
  This year’s Biennale comes amid an explosion of gallery openings and exhibitions
  
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• Through the trap door: Tino Sehgal's mesmerising mind maze

  16-11-2016 18:45
  
  Adrian Searle goes beyond the beaded curtain into a theatrical world of flooded rooms and whispering strangers at the Palais de Tokyo“What is the riddle?” asked the young woman, doing a little writhing dance as she spoke. “The riddle is this, the riddle is that: what is the riddle?” Search me, I said. Related: Tino Sehgal: These Associations – review One way or another, we are all interpreters. But there are no innocent bystanders. Continue reading...
  
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• Chiara Parisi to step down after five years as director of Monnaie de Paris

  16-11-2016 18:38
  
  After five years at the helm of the arts programme for the Monnaie de Paristhe former Paris mintthe Italian curator Chiara Parisi is leaving her position and will be replaced by Camille Morineau. A graduate of the prestigious cole normale suprieure and a former student at the Institut national du patrimoine (National heritage institute), Morineau has organised exhibitions such as Niki de Saint Phalle at the Grand Palais (2014-15), and as Roy Lichtenstein (2013), Gerhard Richter: Panorama (2012)
  
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• Chiara Parisi to step down after five years as arts director of Monnaie de Paris

  16-11-2016 18:38
  
  After five years at the helm of the arts programme for the Monnaie de Paristhe Paris mintthe Italian curator Chiara Parisi is leaving her position and will be replaced by Camille Morineau. A graduate of the prestigious cole normale suprieure and a former student at the Institut national du patrimoine (National heritage institute), Morineau has organised exhibitions such as Niki de Saint Phalle at the Grand Palais (2014-15), and as Roy Lichtenstein (2013), Gerhard Richter: Panorama (2012) and Yv
  
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• United States Artists Names 2016 Fellows, Including Miranda July, Stanley Whitney, Shirin Neshat

  16-11-2016 18:00 via artnews.com
  United States Artists in Chicago announced its fellows for 2016 today. The 46 artists in fields ranging from visual arts to what the foundation calls “media” will receive $50,000 each.“By supporting American artists, USA is supporting creativity, free expression, and … Read More
  
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• UK places export ban on £1.2m Hogarth painting

  16-11-2016 16:41
  
  British buyer sought for The Christening, one of the earliest known works by the 18th-century satiristOne of William Hogarth’s earliest paintings satirising the lives of the wealthy in 18th-century England is in danger of leaving Britain unless £1.2m can be raised by a UK buyer.The culture minister Matt Hancock has placed a temporary export bar on Hogarth’s painting The Christening, described as an important precursor of his better known modern moral paintings. Continue reading
  
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• Van Gogh's lost drawings: unconvincing, but does anyone care in a post-truth art world?

  16-11-2016 15:20
  
  The Van Gogh museum says the 65 newly discovered drawings are fakes – these flaccid sketches certainly lack the spirit of the artist’s greatest period“Post-truth” is on everyone’s lips when it comes to politics in the age of Trump and Brexit – it’s the word of the year, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Are we also entering the age of post-truth art? Related: Newly discovered 'Van Gogh' drawings labelled imitations by museumRelated: Van Gogh 'c
  
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• Morning Links: Rev. Howard Finster Edition

  16-11-2016 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Art Basel Miami Beach Announces Conversation and Salon Program, Hans Ulrich Obrist Heads Up New Series

  16-11-2016 15:00 via artnews.com
  Today, Art Basel Miami Beach released the list of “celebrated artists, galleries, art historians, writers, curators, museum directors and collectors” taking part in its Conversations and Salon programs at this year’s fair.Hans Ulrich Obrist returns as a moderator and curator, this time heading … Read More
  
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• Van Gogh Museum rejects artist's 'lost sketchbook'

  16-11-2016 12:21
  
  A set of 65 newly revealed Van Gogh drawings have been dismissed by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam as imitations. They appear in a book, entitled Vincent van Gogh: the Lost Arles Sketchbook, to be published on Thursday 17 November.
  Launched at a press conference in Paris on 15 November, the publication reproduces drawings that are said to be pages from a disbound sketchbook used by Van Gogh from May 1888, soon after his arrival in Arles, up until shortly before he left the asylum at Saint-Rmy
  
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• Tate St Ives announces Anne Barlow as new artistic director

  16-11-2016 11:54
  
  Anne Barlow, the director of the New York-based, non-profit exhibition space Art in General, has been appointed as the artistic director of Tate St Ives, more than a year after the departure of the previous incumbent Sam Thorne who was appointed as the director of Nottingham Contemporary late 2015.Barlow takes up the post in spring 2017 when part of Tate St Ives, which has been closed for 18 months, re-opens with two exhibitions, The Studio and The Sea, in the existing gallery (31 March-3 Septe
  
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• De Kooning painting sells for record $66m at Christie’s New York

  16-11-2016 10:00
  
  Christies post-war and contemporary auction last night saw a new record for Willem de Kooning, whose large, richly coloured abstract work from 1977, Untitled XXV, sold for $59m ($66.3m with premium) to a buyer identified by the house as international.This was over double the $27.1m that was paid when the painting sold at the Christie's New York autumn evening sale ten years prior, a record for a post-war painting at the time. Even so, bidding on the work was far from spirited, and typical for t
  
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• Gavin Turk: the analyst will unmask you now

  16-11-2016 09:00
  
  He has impersonated tramps, punks, Pollock and Che. But who is the real Gavin Turk? As a major retrospective opens, we challenged psychoanalyst Darian Leader to find the man behind his many masks
  Who is Gavin Turk? The title of his major new retrospective consists of a string of questions – Who What When Where How and Why - but it is no accident that the “Who” comes first. Turk’s explorations of artistic identity and authenticity have been as witty as they have been profo
  
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• Record-Setting $66.3 M. de Kooning Leads $277.5 M. Christie’s Postwar and Contemporary Auction, But Sales Still Down

  16-11-2016 06:40 via artnews.com
  Christie’s netted a total of $277.5 million at its postwar and contemporary sale in New York Tuesday night, a haul healthily over its low estimate of $216 million, though just shy of the high estimate of $296 million. By selling … Read More
  
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• Remembering Sydney's lost buildings – in pictures

  16-11-2016 03:00
  
  Over the past two centuries Sydney’s architectural landscape has been continually transformed and many buildings have been consigned to dust. A new exhibition at the Museum of Sydney, Demolished Sydney, which opens on 19 November, remembers the city’s lost buildings from the Garden Palace to the ‘Black Stump’ Continue reading...
  
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• Untitled(if it was a democracy there wouldn’t be this class warfare)

  16-11-2016 02:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  lorn is transgender. she vomits politics and subjectivity on a passive homosexual client.my job, lorn said. the petty and the middle bourgeosie…freedom…social democracy…bernie…i was in trump country…white trash every where…there is class warfare in this democracy…this isn’t a democracy…they were standing outside the greyhound smoking…they looked retarded and slow and malnourished…they’re addicted to the nicotine&he
  
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