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• Francis Picabia, Museum of Modern Art, New York

  27-11-2016 23:40
  The artist emerges from this retrospective as hugely talented — and nasty
  
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• Year in Review 2016

  27-11-2016 22:00
  The sublime to the ridiculous: 2016 as we reported it
  
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• La Biennale des Antiquaires gets a new director—and a new name

  27-11-2016 22:00
  
  The Biennale des Antiquaires, the prestigious jewellery, art and antiques fair held at the Grand Palais in Paris, has been renamed La Biennale Paris. The fair re-launched in September as an annual event but will retain the biennial label. This is because the name is part of our DNA, says Mathias Ary Jan, the new head of the Syndicat National des Antiquaires (SNA, the French association of antiques dealers), which organises the fair.Ary Jan, a Paris-based dealer specialising in 19th-century Euro
  
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• In the raw: Dubuffet’s sophisticated drawings

  27-11-2016 22:00
  When Jean Dubuffet (1901-85) abandoned his familys wine business to take up art full-time in his 40s, he pledged that he would finally learn to draw. The champion of art brut had studied draughtsmanship years before at the fine arts academy in his native Le Havre, northern France. He sought fresh inspiration in the awkward drawings of children and the everyday, careless marks of a finger on fogged glass or a knifepoint on a lump of butter, as he wrote to his friend and fellow painter Gaston Chai
  
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• The telecoms bigwig who picked up a paintbrush

  27-11-2016 14:10
  
  It is the last chance to catch a show of works by budding artist Philipp Rudolf Humm at Riflemaker gallery in London (Being and Time; until 28 November). The Belgian-German practitioner draws on the Renaissance and Pop art in his playful figurative works that reference Botticelli and Edouard Manet. The latter looms large in Adulation (2016) which looks to the 1863 masterpiece Olympia. Jostling, analysing, photographingher voyeuristic audience is reminiscent of that that surrounds the Mona Lisa a
  
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• The telecoms bigbwig who picked up a paintbrush

  27-11-2016 14:10
  
  It is the last chance to catch a show of works by budding artist Philipp Rudolf Humm at Riflemaker gallery in London (Being and Time; until 28 November). The Belgian-German practitioner draws on the Renaissance and Pop art in his playful figurative works that reference Botticelli and Edouard Manet. The latter looms large in Adulation (2016) which looks to the 1863 masterpiece Olympia. Jostling, analysing, photographingher voyeuristic audience is reminiscent of that that surrounds the Mona Lisa a
  
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• Nigerian artists draw global interest with social subjects

  27-11-2016 10:05
  A thriving domestic scene is emerging, with galleries, exhibitions and prizes promoting local talent
  
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• Monica Bonvicini review – a body blow of a show

  27-11-2016 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Baltic, Gateshead
  Fierce, mordant and confrontational, Monica Bonvicini aims to annoy at every turn in this bracing first UK survey
  The door before you is slightly ajar. A celestial light beckons beyond. Just as you are wondering whether this enticing spectacle down a long, dark corridor is a lifesize photograph or some kind of video projection, there is a sudden convulsion. The door slams shut in your face.This is Monica Bonvicini at her most abrupt and direct, but it is characteristic nonethel
  
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