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• Young artist and architect picked for Antarctic voyage

  03-12-2016 14:00
  
  A young artist from Japan and an architect from Germany will join an expedition to Antarctica for a new interdisciplinary biennial that is due to set sail in March 2017. Sho Hasegawa and Gustav Dusing were chosen by the Antarctic Biennales jury, which met in Miami Beach this week. Jurors included the leading curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist of Londons Serpentine Galleries, the architect Hani Rashid, the director of the Sharjah Art Foundation, Sheikha Hoor al-Qasimi, and the Russian artist Alexander P
  
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• Why is the Turner prize failing to engage with politics?

  03-12-2016 14:00
  
  With the arts under pressure, the Turner should bring audiences into contact with work that reflects the political realities of our times. Instead, it’s playing it safeLet’s begin with the inherent art prize problem. If, after the succession of 20th-century avant gardes, anything can be considered contemporary art, but there are no universally agreed criteria by which such work might be objectively assessed, how can prizes for the so‑called “best” in the field justi
  
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• Unseen Basquiats make debut in Miami

  03-12-2016 14:00
  
  A controversial collection of more than 30 works created by Jean-Michel Basquiat when he was homeless and possibly using drugs are on public display for the first time, at the X Contemporary satellite fair (until 4 December). The group of paintings, drawings and collages was created between 1979 and 1981 in the Manhattan apartment of Basquiats friend Lonny Lichtenberg, a well-known drug dealer also known as Neptune, King of the C (cocaine).
  Al Diaz, the curator of the show, who was part of the
  
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• MoMA to celebrate East Village’s Club 57

  03-12-2016 14:00
  
  The legacy of Club 57, the East Village nightclub-cum-alternative space in the basement of a Polish churchwhere artists such as Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat fuelled their creative energies during the Reagan yearsis to be explored in a show at New Yorks Museum of Modern Art. The actor and visual artist Ann Magnuson, another club stalwart, will be a guest co-curator of the show, due to open in October 2017. As well as partying hard, the artists subverted the dominant conser
  
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• Let's talk about sex, Madonna's Miami mission, and more Miami gossip

  03-12-2016 14:00
  
  Lets talk about sex
  Do you need to go into therapy? If you have issues, confront them at Design Miami, where a psychotherapists studio, kitted out in luscious pink furniture and Kama Sutra wallpaper, is prompting visitors to reveal their innermost thoughts and desires. Designers Alberto Biagetti and Laura Baldassari have even hung a saucy mirror in the spacecalled No Sex in Miami, it looks like an opticians alphabet chart. But the main draw is a pair of bewitching analysts, bedecked in pink, who
  
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• Basquiat versus the NYPD

  03-12-2016 14:00
  
  In September 1983, deeply shaken by the fatal beating of his friend and fellow street artist Michael Stewart while under arrest, Jean-Michel Basquiat went to Keith Harings studio at 600 Broadway and scrawled his reaction directly onto the wall. The painting, which Haring named Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart), depicts two ruddy-faced NYPD officers wielding bright orange batons in the face of a black figure.
  At the time, Basquiat said it could have been me. Michaels death was so traumat
  
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• Australian start-up lets you buy art on credit

  03-12-2016 14:00
  
  Art Money, the Australian start-up that offers collectors interest-free loans to buy art, is expanding its footprint in the US by teaming up with the New Art Dealers Alliance (Nada) fair in Miami. The company currently offers loans of up to $30,000 but will probably go up to $50,000 soon, says Art Moneys founder, Paul Becker.
  Potential collectors can sign up online (subject to a minimum 10% deposit and a credit check) so they are ready to go when they see something they love, Becker says. The l
  
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• Today's AJBlog Highlights 12.02.16

  03-12-2016 05:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Making Christmas Music Rifftides activity is about slow a bit. Rehearsals and performances for the Yakima Jazz Sextet with the Yakima Symphony Orchestra begin this afternoon. If you are in the area, concerts are at 4:00 p.m. Saturday ... read more
  AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-12-02Children’s books It’s an evergreen story: great books are removed from a school’s library because a few parents have complained about their being unsuitable for children. Today it&r
  
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• What Happens If We Price Out Culture We Like

  03-12-2016 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Without public access, a culture becomes dead, an inert shell that serves as a shill for profit, while too rarefied and remote to thrive. The quaestores of modern times use health, religion, and access to sports and art just like those of the Middle Ages used salvation: to exploit people by pricing what they value too high."
  
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