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• Penny Goring at Arcadia Missa, London

  02-12-2016 23:23 via artnews.com
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• ‘We Sold It All to the Best People’: Despite Attendance Drop at Miami Basel, Art by the Young and Closely Watched Is Selling Quickly

  02-12-2016 23:20 via artnews.com
  The mood at Miami Basel is a bit subdued this year—attendance is down and sales are happening more slowly, as I reported on Wednesday. On the other hand, the opening yesterday of NADA Miami Beach, which specializes in emerging artists, was as frenetic … Read More
  
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• A Rant Against Political Correctness

  02-12-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jonathan Foreman: "If you have had much to do with liberal intelligentsia in the U.S., they like to think they are above their own country, and they often have contempt for their compatriots, and they think they’re better. They think that being super-critical of the United States exempts them. When they talk about Americans, they don’t think they’re talking about themselves. They’re the same people who are always vowing if Bush wins the election, they’re moving to I
  
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• What Went Wrong With The Met Opera's Commissioning Program?

  02-12-2016 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you start handing out $50,000 commissions to major artists, there’s not a lot of excuse for coming up almost completely empty-handed at the end of a decade. Muhly’s “Two Boys,” which began under the program’s auspices, made it to the Met’s main stage; everything else was either rejected (like Rufus Wainwright’s “Prima Donna”), fell through, or simply withered on the vine, and no new blood has been added to the pipeline for years.
  
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• So What’s Wrong at the Glasgow School of Art? Quite a Lot, According to Student Protesters

  02-12-2016 22:30 via artnews.com
  Glasgow School of Art is internationally revered. So when more than 200 students protest outside its main campus, as they did a few weeks ago, it’s worth taking note.What could be wrong? Apart from Brexit? Apart from the tragic 2014 … Read More
  
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• It Can 'Reach People Who Are Not A Captive Audience' - Shepard Fairey On The Power Of Street Art

  02-12-2016 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  "If you are going to an artist's gallery or museum show or website, you might find something interesting and new, but it's not the same as the visceral experience of encountering something unexpected on the street." A Q&A with correspondent Scott Timberg.
  
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• 'Poetry arises out of pragmatism’

  02-12-2016 22:00
  
  Jill Magid does not do anything halfway. The US artist, who has had solo shows at Tate Modern in London and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, is known for research-intensive projects that can take years to complete. She has exhumed the ashes of the Pritzker Prize-winning Mexican architect Luis Barragn, submitted herself to near-constant surveillance by police and signed a contract to turn her own ashes into a diamond. Magid immerses herself in bureaucratic institutions, such as th
  
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• Good art in bad taste: art that mixes high and low culture at the fair

  02-12-2016 22:00
  
  Toiletpaper magazine at Fondation Beyeler
  This absurd domestic interiorthere is an alligator (or crocodile?) that greets you outside the bedroomis also overloaded with bucatini pasta that is made fresh daily and strewn about the stand, which some visitors have even tried eating. The installation, called Maze of Quotes (2016) and designed by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari (the founders of Toiletpaper magazine), makes close associations between death and domesticity, as evidenced by a to
  
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• Climate change is the hot topic

  02-12-2016 22:00
  
  One of the most curious objects at Art Basel in Miami Beach is a glowing yellow vitrine that looks fresh from a mad scientists laboratory. Inside, a continuous stream of water pounds against a rock, slowly eroding it to nothing. The Los Angeles-based artist Carl Cheng created these machines in 1969 to represent how nature works in a future that could be completely manmade, says Mary Leigh Cherry of the gallery Cherry and Martin, which is offering two of them for $30,000 each.Outside the Convent
  
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• Scenes From Art Basel Miami Beach, Part 5

  02-12-2016 21:16 via artnews.com
  The parties, dinners, talks, and performances are continuing in Miami Beach as Art Basel and its satellite events enter the weekend. Below, a look around some of the events. See more in Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.
  
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• Pictures Generation Artist Philip Smith Wins 2016 Miami Beach NADA Artadia Award

  02-12-2016 20:52 via artnews.com
  The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) and Artadia, a nonprofit dedicated to giving artists grants, announced Philip Smith as the winner of the joint 2016 Miami Beach NADA Artadia Award. The prize is given annually to an artist exhibited in the NADA Miami … Read More
  
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• Bitter realities of arts funding amid the cuts | Letters

  02-12-2016 19:39 via theguardian.com
  
  I am writing to ask those people who set out their concerns so passionately about Walsall council’s proposal to end local authority funding to its art gallery (Letters, 30 November) what they would do if they found themselves in the horns of such a truly awful dilemma. Funding to all authorities in the Black Country has been hard-hit by swingeing budget cuts since 2010 and it’s been hard for all of them to choose which services to cut and which to carry. The situation in Walsall, how
  
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• The Furies that saved Cuba from invasion | Letters

  02-12-2016 19:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Following Castro’s death, perhaps we can now acknowledge the role that British-made aircraft played in defending Cuba from the CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion. The Cuban Air Force Hawker Sea Furies were instrumental in preventing the full invasion force from landing, which was the last time Sea Furies were ever used in action. A remaining plane is displayed at the Bay of Pigs Museo Giron.Martin Griffies
  Bristol• “British remainers must be EU reformers,” writes Mart
  
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• ‘Sound Design Is Sort of Everything’: Ryan Trecartin on Making Music, Live and Otherwise

  02-12-2016 19:17 via artnews.com
  Low on the list of likely items to find in the manic-panic artwork of Ryan Trecartin: flute, clarinet, vibraphone, saxophone, triangle (the kind a chamber musician daintily dings), upright piano, and a dowdy, blowsy French horn. Yet there they were … Read More
  
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• Scenes From NADA Miami Beach, Part 2

  02-12-2016 19:00 via artnews.com
   NADA Art fair opened Thursday to VIP cardholders and press and continues through Sunday. Below, a slideshow of the action around the fair. See more in Part 1 and read all about it in Nate Freeman’s report from the scene.
  
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• Julio Le Parc, Pérez Art Museum, Miami — review

  02-12-2016 18:47
  Colourful, noisy, irreverent and surprising, this is a life-affirming show
  
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• A Symbol of Freedom: Anita Brenner on the Modern Art Scene in Mexico, in 1954

  02-12-2016 18:44 via artnews.com
  With a show dedicated to Mexican modernism at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, we turn back to the Summer 1954 issue of ARTnews, in which Anita Brenner reported on the Mexican art scene. Though her report—one of several that she … Read More
  
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• Snapshot: ‘Connected’ by Amy Lombard (2013)

  02-12-2016 16:36
  The Brooklyn-based photographer captures meetups by online groups across the US
  
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• Twombly at the Pompidou: out of time and ahead of it

  02-12-2016 16:01
  The American artist’s first posthumous retrospective sensationally captures his greatness
  
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• Art and tech: lost in a sea of screens

  02-12-2016 16:01
  A manic show in New York depicts a ‘pretty frightening’ clash of worlds
  
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• Berlin returns Nazi-looted sculpture to Jewish publisher’s family

  02-12-2016 15:52
  
  A marble sculpture called Susanna by Reinhold Begas, on display in Berlins Alte Nationalgalerie, has been restituted to the heirs of a Jewish media mogul whose most prestigious newspaper was forced to close when the Nazis seized power.The sculpture, dating from 1869, will remain on loan to the Berlin museum for now, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation says.
  Rudolf Mosse was one of the three richest men in Berlin at the turn of the 19th century. His palatial neo-Baroque home on Leipziger P
  
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• Scenes From NADA Miami Beach, Part 1

  02-12-2016 15:37 via artnews.com
   The NADA Miami Beach art fair opened yesterday to VIP cardholders and press. Nate Freeman’s full report on the action is here. Below, a slide show from around the fair.
  
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• Animal rights activists target Hermitage over road kill in Jan Fabre show

  02-12-2016 15:35
  
  Russian Orthodox fundamentalists and animal rights activists have targeted an exhibition at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg that features road kill displayed in installations by the Belgian multidisciplinary artist Jan Fabre.Jan Fabre: Knight of Despair/Warrior of Beauty (until 30 April 2017), which opened in October to a social media storm demanding that it be shut down, is part of the Hermitage 20/21 program to bring contemporary art to one of the worlds most famous classical muse
  
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• Morning Links: Ousmane Sow Edition

  02-12-2016 14:54 via artnews.com
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• The Florida island that revived Rauschenberg

  02-12-2016 14:00
  
  When Robert Rauschenberg arrived on the tiny island of Captiva, Florida, in 1970, he was worn out by life in New York. His star turn in the 1964 Venice Biennale made him famous. But he was lonely, depressed and drinking much more than he was working. Everything was falling apart, he said in a later interview. There was such an abundance of bad news.
  As Calvin Tomkins wrote in the book Off the Wall: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg, the critical rap is that he stopped breaking new ground around
  
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• Sales Points: Art Basel in Miami Beach

  02-12-2016 14:00
  
  Growing Paine
  The monumental version of Roxy Paines latest stainless-steel tree, Compression (2016), sold for $2m at Paul Kasmin Gallery to a US collector with plenty of public space. The maquette is on show at the stand.
  Marshall parts with his curtain girl
  A US collector at the top of a long waiting list bought Kerry James Marshalls Untitled (curtain girl) (2016), a painting on vinyl of a young woman parting a star-spangled beaded curtain, from Jack Shainman Gallery for $600,000. The work come
  
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• Political critique pays off for galleries

  02-12-2016 14:00
  
  The effects of Donald Trumps shock election to the US presidency may not be fully felt in the art market for several months, but dealers at Art Basel in Miami Beach are taking a pre-emptive approach, filling their stands with overtly political works that respond to the prevailing climate of uncertainty. And despite noticeably thinner crowds at this years fair, the strategy appears to be paying off.  Sadie Coles sold Jonathan Horowitzs photograph featuring Trump playing golf to the New York
  
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• Mark Dion goes inside the mind of a plant explorer

  02-12-2016 14:00
  
  In the middle of Coconut Grove, Miamis historic neighbourhood on the edge of Biscayne Bay, is the Kampong. The eight-acre tropical garden and historic home was built by David Fairchild, a botanist and plant explorer who ran the US Department of Agricultures Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction, founded in 1898. His office scoured the globe for fruits, vegetables and grains that could expand the US farming and food industry. Fairchild brought many of these specimens to what was original
  
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• How Anselm Kiefer used Nazi horrors to confront the origins of the Third Reich

  02-12-2016 14:00
  
  Regeneration
  Until 13 august 2017
  Nova Southeastern University Art Museum, Fort LauderdaleA survey of the German artist Anselm Kiefer is due to kick off Regeneration, a new series at the Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale that examines artists responses to the Second World War. The exhibition features around 50 artist books, works on paper, paintings and sculptures from 1969 to 2013, drawn from the collection of the Palm Beach-based hedge fund manager Andrew Hall a
  
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• Drag Queens, alien robots, BBQ and beer, plus more Miami gossip

  02-12-2016 14:00
  
  Lady Bunny, alien robots, BBQ and beerWednesday evening marked the public opening of Public, Art Basel in Miami Beachs annual sculpture garden in Collins Park. Visitors took refreshments from Rob Pruitts Stretch, Grill and Chill (2016), a vintage white limousine ingeniously converted into a barbecue at one end and a beer cooler at the other. (Crisps could be had by reaching into one of the windows.) The normally peaceful park was transformed into a raucous scene by Naama Tsabars Composition 18 (
  
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• Robert Rauschenberg at Tate Modern — ‘irresistible’

  02-12-2016 13:59
  Before Hirst, before Emin, came the US artist’s ‘Combines’, created out of fragments of the actual world
  
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• Wild animals, YBAs and Aussie impressionism – the week in art

  02-12-2016 13:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Australian and Mancunian varieties of impressionism are unveiled this week, along with the beautiful scientific art of Franz and Ferdinand Bauer – plus the rest of the week’s art happeningsAustralia’s Impressionists
  This is, if nothing else, an unexpected angle on the birth of modern art, following such painters as Tom Roberts and John Russell in their quest to emulate Monet and bring the light of impressionism to Australia. Hey, it worked with French wine – why not Frenc
  
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• Tate Britain decks the halls with festive tree

  02-12-2016 13:06
  
  The Christmas countdown has begun at Tate Britain in London, which returned to its tradition of festive artists commissions on 1 December. Iranian-born sculptor Shirazeh Houshiary has suspended a Christmas tree over the sweeping spiral staircase in the rotundathe gallerys first since 2011, when work began on its 45m makeover by architects Caruso St John. Forgoing the usual baubles and tinsel, Houshiary has turned her tree upside down and covered its roots in gold leaf to take earth back to heav
  
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• Stars and stripes? Whatever: six times artists subverted the American flag

  02-12-2016 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From Dread Scott’s supreme court showdown to Jasper Johns’ series of homemade renditions, artists have been using Old Glory to convey ideas about the country it represents for decadesIn a now famous tweet revealing, yet again, his tenuous grasp on the US constitution, Donald Trump suggested that anyone daring to burn a US flag should be stripped of their citizenship. Never mind that the US supreme court ruled on that very act in 1989, deeming it protected free expression under the fi
  
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• Art History A-level back on the curriculum

  02-12-2016 12:03
  
  The British artist Jeremy Deller declared that yesterday was a good day for art and culture following an announcement that art history will remain on the English college curriculum. Thanks to a campaign by leading figures in the art world, including Deller himself, the English exam board, Pearson, will introduce a new art history A-level from September 2017. The move comes after widespread protest from the art community following the announcement by the London-based AQA exam board that it was a
  
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• Rose Wylie’s Brazil Nut Choc: a rebel watercolour without a cause

  02-12-2016 11:59 via theguardian.com
  
  The critic-riling octogenarian artist from Kent continues to paint whatever takes her fancyRose Wylie’s little chocolate brazil nut is round, shiny and appealing. However, it’s also a provocation, a rebel watercolour likely to rile any traditionalist critics who might condemn her work as worthy of a four-year-old – as Brian Sewell once did. Continue reading...
  
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• Artist to disappear into Puerto Rican rainforest

  02-12-2016 10:00
  
  Many artists are committed to their craft, but few have gone as far as the Puerto Rican artist Papo Colo. Next month, Colo plans to disappear into El Yunque tropical rainforest and live off the land in silence for 400 days as part of a new performance, Procesin-Migracin. This performance is forcing my thoughts to play, my body to talk to itself and to other forces that inhabit it, he says.The work marks a return to Puerto Rico for the artist, who moved to New York in the 1970s and co-founded th
  
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• Three to See: Miami

  02-12-2016 09:46
  
  The Rubell Family Collection has a unique place in the landscape of the art world. While it remains a strong Miami institution in its own right, market-makers and hangers-on, as well as intellectuals, follow the familys movements. Just about everyone wants to know what the Rubells have been up to, and this week they can find out. The main show this season, High Anxiety (until 25 August), features works from Don and Mira Rubells recent, prolific art buying. The Rubells have acquired 407 works si
  
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• John Singer Sargent's watercolours set for rare London exhibition

  02-12-2016 08:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Eighty works from 30 lenders are coming together at Dulwich Picture Gallery next year, showcasing the Edwardian painter’s ‘fluency and sensuality’The first major exhibition of watercolours by the Anglo-American painter John Singer Sargent – better known for his swagger portraits of Edwardian beauties, worthies and rogues – will be shown at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London next spring.Unlike his portraits, which often show his subjects in sombre – if expen
  
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• Dirty laundry: washing line art highlights South Africa's rape epidemic

  02-12-2016 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Installation features used knickers said to illustrate number of attacks that take place against women each dayThousands of pairs of used knickers have been hung above the streets of Johannesburg as part of an installation to raise awareness about the country’s record rates of rape.Devised by two sexual assault survivors, the installation consists of washing lines 1,200 metres long displaying 3,600 pairs of pants – matching the number of rapes estimated to occur on a daily basis, acc
  
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