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• ‘Un-becoming’ at Fridman Gallery, New York

  21-11-2016 23:44 via artnews.com
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• The Mystery Of A Long Lost Paul Newman Masterpiece And How A Film Detective Tracked It Down

  21-11-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The saga includes an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor and film director, his much-younger, Russian-born Chekhov-loving fiancée, a dying actor’s wish, a friend of Allen Ginsberg, a one-line New York Times review, and the deep, dark closets in New York, Los Angeles and Paris, where the coffee-colored, bruised-looking box holding the film languished for more than 50 years.”
  
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• YBAs chow down at vegan feast for Gavin Turk's solo show at Newport Street Gallery

  21-11-2016 22:00
  
  Super chef Mark Hix took Gavin Turks dietary sensibilities into account last night (21 November) to whip up a vegan feast for a friends-and-family viewing of the artists magnificent new solo show at Damien Hirsts Newport Street Gallery. Chowing down on toothsome rock samphire pakoras, autumn vegetable broth and roasted penny bun mushrooms with hedgerow garlic was a clan gathering of Turks 90s YBA contemporariesSarah Lucas, Gary Hume, Mat Collishaw as well as Cornelia Parker, Fiona Banner and th
  
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• Tripping at the Wolfsonian’s spiritual show

  21-11-2016 22:00
  
  Just a little trippy is how a spokeswoman for the Wolfsonian-Florida International University museum in Miami Beach describes one of the institutions current shows, the Pursuit of Abstraction (until 16 April 2017). The exhibition features works made between 1900 and 1960 by 49 artists, including Gertrude Hermes, Agnes Pelton and Ida OKeeffeGeorgias younger sisterwho experimented with new forms of expression to reintroduce mystery into everyday life as modernisation eroded mysticism, the shows c
  
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• The next Berlin? Kuala Lumpur launches gallery weekend

  21-11-2016 22:00
  
  Following in the footsteps of Berlin, Brussels and Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur is the latest city to launch a gallery weekend in a bid to showcase its commercial and cultural offerings. Thirteen commercial galleries in the Malaysian capital are participating in the first edition of the citywide initiative, Mapping the Multidisciplinary, from 25 to 27 November.
  The first edition of what will be an annual event provides a developing platform for visitors to explore and discover the contrasts, controve
  
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• The art data arms race is on: Artnet acquires Tutela analytics

  21-11-2016 22:00
  
  Ramping up the race to apply the power of big data to the art trade, the German-owned online price database and auctioneer Artnet has acquired Tutela Capital SA, a boutique analytics firm co-founded by the former trader Fabien Bocart, for an undisclosed sum.
  Tutela specialises in quantitative art market analyses, intelligent algorithms, and high-frequency price indices, and since its founding in 2011, has valued for more than $2bn. The acquisitionnot long after Sothebys announced it had purchas
  
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• Object lessons: from a monumental Art Deco sculpture to a German Symbolist painting

  21-11-2016 22:00
  
  Georges-Laurent Saupique, Les Colonies: LAfrique du Nord, LIndochine, LAfrique noire et Les Antilles (1927-29)Art Deco sale, Artcurial, Paris, 22 November
  Estimate 1.2m-1.5m
  These monumental Art Deco sculptures, representing the French colonies, were designed by Georges Saupique for the entrance of the Parisian headquarters of the Compagnie Financire Franaise et Coloniale. The two-year project, which fused Orientalist and Art Deco sensibilities, helped build Saupiques reputation as an artist. S
  
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• PinchukArtCentre Announces Shortlist for 2017 Future Generation Art Prize

  21-11-2016 21:41 via artnews.com
  Today, PinchukArtCentre in Kiev announced the 21 artists shortlisted for its 2017 Future Generation Art Prize. The prize, established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2009, is given to emerging artists younger than 35. The winner of the prize, which … Read More
  
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• ICA Miami to Open New Permanent Building in December 2017

  21-11-2016 21:41 via artnews.com
  The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami announced today that it will be opening its permanent location in the Miami Design District on December 1, 2017. Its first show there will be called “The Everywhere Studio,” and will feature 100 works.Designed … Read More
  
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• Six Artists Tapped for Nordic Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale

  21-11-2016 19:22 via artnews.com
  Today the Office of Contemporary Art Norway announced that Siri Aurdal, Nina Canell, Charlotte Johannesson, Jumana Manna, Pasi “Sleeping” Myllymäki, and Mika Taanila will collectively represent Norway, Sweden, and Finland for a joint project titled Mirrored in the Nordic Pavilion … Read More
  
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• November New York Auctions Bring in $1.29 Billion, on Par with May Sales But Half of Last Year’s Total

  21-11-2016 18:18 via artnews.com
  The fall sales in New York totaled $1.29 billion this year, a mark slightly higher than last May’s $1.2 billion figure but down significantly from this point a year ago. While unadorned sums may not be the only indicator of market … Read More
  
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• Anselm Kiefer review – an apocalyptic epitaph for the liberal age

  21-11-2016 17:58
  
  White Cube Bermondsey, London
  Kiefer’s warnings about the frailty of society now look scarily prescient, and his Wagnerian new works suggest the innate violence of nationalismWhen critics feel like taking a pop at the spectacularly serious art of Anselm Kiefer, they tend to moan that he is a little bit melodramatic. Throughout his career in a peaceful, affluent, liberal post-1945 Europe, he has wallowed in nightmares from history. His art is loaded with the past, caked with the mud of batt
  
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• David Lewis Gallery Now Represents Barbara Bloom

  21-11-2016 17:29 via artnews.com
  David Lewis Gallery in New York announced today that it now represents Barbara Bloom. The gallery has slated its first exhibition with the artist for May 2017.Having worked since the late 1970s, Bloom is often loosely associated with the Pictures … Read More
  
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• Monica Bonvicini review – S&M gear has kinks ironed out

  21-11-2016 16:59
  
  Baltic, Gateshead
  Between the power drills, leather tassels and saucy builders’ humour, Italian artist Monica Bonvicini lets sadomasochism hang heavy in the air. But the audience frustratingly ends up neither master nor slaveA Murano glass strap-on gleams under fluorescent light, in a play area with the gear all waiting: chains and black leather, a dangling noose and a body harness slung from the ceiling. I have been in S&M clubs like this, and so too has Monica Bonvicini. Since the 19
  
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• How to Fix the Art World, Part 2

  21-11-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  Welcome to Part 2 of ‘How to Fix the Art World.’ If you are just now tuning in, here’s a link to Part 1, and here’s a little background:Back in August my staff and I embarked on an epic project: … Read More
  
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• Director - The National Museum, Norway

  21-11-2016 15:57
  DIRECTOR
  THE NATIONAL MUSEUMNORWAY
   
  From 2017 the position of Director of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Norway will be available for a fixed term of six years. The board of the museum is now seeking qualified candidates for this position.
  In 2020 the National Museum will relocate to a new, attractive complex in central Oslo. The new complex has received much attention nationally and abroad, and with its 55,000 m2 it will be one of the largest museums in Northern Eu
  
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• Morning Links: Salvador Dalí’s Dinner Parties Edition

  21-11-2016 14:57 via artnews.com
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• Prada Foundation moves into photography with new gallery in Milan’s oldest shopping arcade

  21-11-2016 13:05
  
  The Prada Foundation is launching a new photography gallery next month in Milans oldest shopping arcade, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II which opened in 1877. The new space, called Osservatorio, extends across the fifth and sixth floors of the Galleria where Mario Prada, the grandfather of the patron and collector Miuccia Prada, opened the fashion brands first store in 1913.
  Osservatorio will be a place where trends and expressions in contemporary photography are explored, investigating
  
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• Germany to fund research into Nazis’ 'degenerate art'

  21-11-2016 12:42
  
  The German government says it will fund research into the Nazis campaign against so-called degenerate art at Berlins Free University (Freie Universitt) in 2017 after a private foundation withdrew funding.The degenerate art unit at the Free University investigates the Nazis campaign against art they considered corrupt and linked with mental illness, Bolshevism, Jews and threats to the health of the [German] race. The campaign culminated in Joseph Goebbelss order for the seizure of more than 20,0
  
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• Another shot: highlights from Portrait Salon 2016 – in pictures

  21-11-2016 09:09
  
  Rejected from the Taylor Wessing portrait prize, these excellent photographs get their chance to shine in the Portrait Salon exhibition Continue reading...
  
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• Artist creates mirrored shields for Standing Rock protesters

  21-11-2016 06:47
  
  As protesters and police continue to clash in North Dakota over a $3.7bn oil pipeline, the artist Cannupa Hanska Luger plans this week to distribute mirrored shields he created, to inspire the demonstrators to hold ground and not panic. He also hopes that, once the shields are in use, police will see the reflection of their own shared humanity underneath their uniformsand realise that they are also on our side, Luger told The Art Newspaper.If completed, the 1170-mile-long Dakota Access Pipeline
  
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• Richard Prince is sued yet again for unauthorised appropriation of photographs

  21-11-2016 05:01
  
  The artist Richard Prince has been sued for a fifth time for his unauthorised use of a celebrity photographers work. Eric McNatt filed the latest copyright infringement lawsuit on 16 November in Manhattans federal court over a portrait he took in 2014 of the musician Kim Gordon, from the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, to accompany an interview published by Paper magazine. The gallery Blum & Poe and Ocula, which sells art online, are also named as defendants in the case.According to McNa
  
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