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• Heather Phillipson Wins the 2016 Film London Jarman Award for Video Art

  28-11-2016 22:05 via artnews.com
  Film London announced today that Heather Phillipson has won its 2016 Film London Jarman Award, given annually to an artist working with film and video. Phillipson, who is based in London, has won £10,000 (about $12,400). Like her fellow nominees, … Read More
  
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• Top 10 shows during Art Basel in Miami Beach

  28-11-2016 22:00
  
  Thomas Bayrle: One Day on Success Street
  Until 26 March 2017 ICA, MiamiWhile work continues on the Institute of Contemporary Arts planned permanent home, Miamis youngest art institution is operating out of the Moore Building in the Design District. On show in this airy, shopping-mall-like space is the first US museum presentation of work by the German artist Thomas Bayrle, whose large-scale installation Wire Madonna (2016) is to be found in the buildings atriumbait for eager Instagrammers.
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• To combine art with everything around it: Tate Modern explores the many sides of Robert Rauschenberg

  28-11-2016 22:00
  Robert Rauschenberg had a knack for explaining his work. Painting, he once wrote, relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two.) One of the ways he mined that gap was to use the humdrum things around him. I think a painting is more like the real world if its made out of the real world, he explained. His use of found objects connects him back to Duchamp and forward to Pop art, and it is through those prismsas Neo-Dada or proto-Popthat Rauschenb
  
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• Ringing the changes at the ICA with new director Stefan Kalmár

  28-11-2016 22:00
  
  An impressive crowd of Miami refuseniks gathered last night, 28 November, to ring in the changes at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) and welcome its incoming director Stefan Kalmr. Amongst the throng welcoming the former director of New Yorks Artists Space, were the artists Wolfgang Tillmans, Oscar Murillo, Jeremy Deller, Michaelsoon to become Sir MichaelCraig-Martin and Liam Gillick. Joining them were the Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson; the MoMA curator Stuart Comer; the galler
  
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• Push for US national Latino museum gathers pace against the clock

  28-11-2016 22:00
  
  Efforts to establish a branch of the Smithsonian dedicated to Latino culture are gaining momentum after the successful debut of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, DC. Bipartisan legislation was reintroduced in September to create a permanent home for the National Museum of the American Latino in the US capital.
  So many people who support the African-American museum have come to me and said, Youre next, Xavier Becerra, who co-sponsored the bill in
  
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• Our guide to the satellite fairs during Art Basel in Miami Beach

  28-11-2016 22:00
  
  As usual, it is a busy week in Miami. With nearly 20 fairs orbiting Art Basel in Miami Beach, there is a lot to see and do. Here is our breakdown of some of the more interesting projects at the satellite events around town.Art Miami/Context
  3101 NE 1st Avenue and 118 NE 34th Street, Miami29 November-4 DecemberArt Miami, which enters its 28th year, includes around 130 exhibitors. At Context, its sister fair, the South African curator Claire Breukel has organised a show titled To Jump Rope that i
  
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• Modern-day Monuments Men wanted by the British Army

  28-11-2016 22:00
  
  The British Army could be recruiting modern-day Monuments Men and Women as early as next year, The Art Newspaper understands. The ministry of defence has tasked the army with creating a specialist cultural protection unit, MPs were told during a debate in Parliament in late October. The army, as well as the navy and air force, is looking to recruit between 15 and 20 people, such as archaeologists, with the specialist knowledge that the military lacks on the front line. For the first time since
  
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• Art Basel in Miami Beach 2016

  28-11-2016 22:00
  Our daily edition from Art Basel in Miami Beach, including news, analysis, interviews and live reporting from the fair
  
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• Jarman winner Heather Phillipson: 'My next work will be furious. Fascism is on my doorstep'

  28-11-2016 21:00
  
  She is an acclaimed poet but the page is not enough. This year’s winner of the Jarman award talks about the anger and anxiety behind her giant feet and exploding dogsHeather Phillipson is talking human hearts. “I had it installed especially,” she says, “to catch all the cliches. Hearts are the best bins for cliche. Hearts get top marks for looking at home pretty much anywhere. Hearts are there to catch passing feelings and strangle them. I wish I were as alive as my heart
  
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• No Exit: Two Venues, Two Visions—Liu Wei Traps Viewers in His Existentialist World

  28-11-2016 20:30 via artnews.com
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• Rubell Family Collection to Move to 2.5-Acre Campus in Miami

  28-11-2016 20:20 via artnews.com
  The New York Times reports that the Rubell Family Collection in Miami will move to a 2.5-acre campus in the city’s Allapattah District in 2018. The new space will be designed by Selldorf Architects, the firm behind the upcoming Frick … Read More
  
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• Sara Friedlander Appointed Head of Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Department

  28-11-2016 18:26 via artnews.com
  Christie’s announced today that Sara Friedlander has been appointed Head of the Department of Post-War and Contemporary Art in New York. In her new role, Friedlander will mentor and lead development of the department’s specialist team and guide New York business and … Read More
  
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• Peter Cain Now Has an Online Catalogue Raisonné

  28-11-2016 18:02 via artnews.com
  This morning was shaping up to be a Monday morning like any other—average, mediocre, without surprise. But then it took an exciting turn: an email landed in my inbox stating that a complete catalogue raisonné of the work of the … Read More
  
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• Nina Chanel Abney Now Shows With Jack Shainman

  28-11-2016 17:32 via artnews.com
  With the opening of Art Basel Miami Beach less than two days away, New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery announced this morning that it will now show the superb young painter Nina Chanel Abney and have her work on offer at … Read More
  
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• Gabi Ngcobo appointed curator of the Berlin Biennale

  28-11-2016 17:13
  
  The South African curator Gabi Ngcobo will head the tenth Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, due to take place in the summer of 2018.
   
  Ngcobo has most recently co-curated the 32nd Bienal de So Paulo (until 11 December) and in 2007 co-curated the Cape07 Biennale in Cape Town. She will join an illustrious list of past curators of the Berlin Biennale, among them Hans Ulrich Obrist, Maurizio Cattelan and Ute Meta Bauer.
   
  Ngcobo is a founding member of the Nothing Gets Organised (NGO)
  
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• Did the boldness of Britain's public art pave the way to Brexit? | Jonathan Jones

  28-11-2016 16:58
  
  From the Angel of the North to the Tower of London poppies, art on an epic scale has captured imaginations, fired up patriotic pride – and made us a Brexit nationEmerging from customs at St Pancras International station last night, I found myself looking up at two colossal sculptures. Paul Day’s nine-metre bronze statue of a kissing couple loomed up in all its detailed smoochiness. Higher still, suspended from the roof, soared Ron Arad’s wave-like Thought of Train of Thought.To
  
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• How to Fix the Art World, Part 3

  28-11-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  Welcome to Part 3 of ‘How to Fix the Art World.’ If you are just now tuning in, here are the links to Parts 1 and 2, and here’s a little background:Back in August my staff and I embarked on … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Pauline Oliveros Edition

  28-11-2016 14:44 via artnews.com
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• The best of Amsterdam Art Weekend

  28-11-2016 11:30
  
  An intricately-detailed ten-part vision of environmental disaster by the New York-based artist Dustin Yellin is on display for the first time at Grimm gallery in Amsterdam (until 7 January). The 20-ft work shows a tidal wave unleashed by melting ice caps sweeping away people, animals, art and buildings. The apocalyptic landscape consists of thousands of images cut out of magazines and collaged together in blocks made from multiple sheets of glass held together by invisible glue. Details have be
  
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