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• More Than 60 Artists Will Participate in Sharjah Biennial 13

  06-12-2016 23:08 via artnews.com
  Today, the Sharjah Art Foundation announced the list of more than 60 artists participating in what it is terming “Act I” of the next Sharjah Biennial, number 13, which runs March 10–June 12, 2017. Those artists are:– Noor Abuarafeh – Lawrence … Read More
  
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• ‘Humanity uprooted’: Noguchi Museum marks 75th anniversary of Japanese American internment

  06-12-2016 23:00
  
  In the winter of 1942, the artist and designer Isamu Noguchi was living in the Hollywood guesthouse of the film star Ginger Rogers while working on a marble bust of her that is now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. But he put down his chisel for a while after US President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 in February 1942, which led to the internment of around 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast.
  As a resident of New York, Noguchi, who
  
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• Top art stories from a memorable 2016

  06-12-2016 22:00
  
  The year began with Iran and the West tentatively resuming cultural relations after the nuclear deal brokered by US President Barack Obama; the Belgian artist Wim Delvoye was quick to make a splash in Tehran with a solo show. It ended with an exhibition in Berlin of works of Modern art from Tehran being postponed until the New Year. The possibility that the works by Pollock, Rothko and Bacon, among others, bought before the 1979 Iranian Revolution, would one day come to Washington, DC, receded w
  
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• Remember Pearl Harbor: exhibition commemorates 75th anniversary of attack

  06-12-2016 22:00
  
  On the morning of 7 December, 1941a date which will live in infamy, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt described ita surprise Japanese military attack on Pearl Harbor, a US Naval base in Oahu, Hawaii, killed 2,403 Americans and jolted the United States into entering an international war on two fronts. To mark the anniversary this year, the Museum of World War II in Natick, Massachusetts, near Boston, has staged the exhibition The 75th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor: Why We Still Remember (until 7
  
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• Mapplethorpe Foundation honoured by HIV/Aids non-profit

  06-12-2016 22:00
  
  In May 1988, ten months before he died of complications of HIV/Aids at the age of 42, the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe established the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to protect his work and to raise funds for research on the disease. This evening, 7 December, the Aids research and activism non-profit Acria will honour the foundations efforts at its annual holiday fundraising dinner in New York. Acria is also holding an online fundraising auction that ends tonight at 10:30pm, hosted by Paddle
  
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• Arise Sir Michael: illustrious gathering at Gagosian to celebrate the dubbing of Michael Craig-Martin

  06-12-2016 22:00
  
  Few individuals have had such a far-reaching influence on the UK art scene as Michael Craig-Martin, who yesterday (8 December) was knighted for his services to the arts. As a hugely important and famously supportive teacher at Goldsmiths art school, he was a major influence on the YBA generation of Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Sarah Lucas, Michael Landy and Co. And during his time as Tate Trustee between 1989-99 he was also crucial to the success of Tate Modern.
  Elected a Royal Academician in 2006,
  
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• Golden ‘King Bibi’ Netanhayu statue is knocked down – video

  06-12-2016 19:12
  
  A gilded statue of Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is toppled after appearing in Rabin Square on Tuesday. Tel Aviv residents queued for selfies but Netanyahu’s ministers denounced the guerrilla art installation. Sculptor Itay Zalait, the work’s creator, wanted to test the limits of freedom of expression in Israel King Bibi for a day: golden Netanyahu statue is toppled
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• Theo Triantafyllidis at Sargent’s Daughters, New York

  06-12-2016 19:05 via artnews.com
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• Michael Gove's anti-Turner prize tweets are childishly prejudiced

  06-12-2016 19:01
  
  The former education secretary has dubbed the work of Turner prize winner Helen Marten ‘modish crap’ – and championed his own blinkered version of post-Brexit art historyOh, it quite takes one back to the good old days when Kim Howells, once upon a time Labour arts minister, remarked of the 2002 Turner prize shortlist that it was “cold, mechanical, conceptual bullshit”. That verdict was delivered, quaintly, via a comment card pinned to the wall of the Tate, back whe
  
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• Michael Gove's anti-Turner prize tweets are childish

  06-12-2016 19:01
  
  The former education secretary has dubbed the work of Turner prize winner Helen Marten ‘modish crap’ – and championed his own blinkered version of post-Brexit art historyOh, it quite takes one back to the good old days when Kim Howells, once upon a time Labour arts minister, remarked of the 2002 Turner prize shortlist that it was “cold, mechanical, conceptual bullshit”. That verdict was delivered, quaintly, via a comment card pinned to the wall of the Tate, back whe
  
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• Lost to History: The Hammer’s ‘Made in L.A. 2016’ Presented an Uneven Slate of Globe-Trotting Artists and Homegrown Talent

  06-12-2016 16:56 via artnews.com
  Last winter in Los Angeles, city residents and their thirsty gardens eagerly awaited El Niño, the influx of warm ocean waters that brings the rain to the desert. But once again the rain did not come. After years of drought—clear … Read More
  
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• Momart hosts eye-catching fundraiser for Sightsavers

  06-12-2016 16:21
  
  The British art handling company Momart launched its annual artist-designed Christmas card at the Groucho Club last night. Instead of the traditional card, however, the London-based artist Paul Fryer created a Christmas bauble emblazoned with an all-seeing eye, with limited edition box sets auctioned off for charity. The artist's obvious enthusiasm for the fundraising project came in an additional, specially-designed Christmas tree, which became the star lot of the evening. All proceeds from th
  
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• School of Presentation: David Salle on Art Direction and Its Discontents

  06-12-2016 15:51 via artnews.com
  The following is an expanded version of a lecture delivered in the early 2000s.When I was a kid of seven or eight, there was a TV show called Ripley’s Believe It or Not! I remember being particularly impressed by one … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Dear Ivanka Edition

  06-12-2016 14:42 via artnews.com
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• 'King Bibi' Netanyahu statue attacked by Israeli culture minister

  06-12-2016 12:25
  
  Erection of golden statue of Israeli prime minister in Tel Aviv square criticised amid ‘culture war’ with artists over state fundingA gilded statue of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, erected in a Tel Aviv square and dubbed “King Bibi” by its guerrilla-artist creator, has caused bemusement from passersby and condemnation from the country’s culture minister. Sculptor Itay Zaliet told reporters on Tuesday he had placed the 13ft-tall effigy of Netanyahu
  
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• King Bibi for a day: golden Netanyahu statue is toppled

  06-12-2016 12:25
  
  Tel Aviv residents queue for selfies with work condemned as ‘expression of hatred’, then accept invitation to knock it downThe nickname King Bibi for Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long been in circulation. It refers to his reputed imperial tendencies, his political gifts and his taste for fine living.Now the conceit has been given a new currency via the sudden – if brief – appearance of a large golden statue of Netanyahu in Tel Aviv’s most fam
  
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• Helen Marten wins Turner Prize

  06-12-2016 11:39
  
  Helen Marten was announced the winner of the Turner Prize at Tate Britain last night (6 December) for her poetic and enigmatic work that reflects the complexities and challenges of being in the world today, according to the judges.
  Accepting the 25,000 award, which the 31-year-old artist said she would share with the other nominees, Marten warned against the ever more precarious global outlook. She referred to the stripping of arts from school syllabuses and the ever prominence of alt-right gro
  
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• Helen Marten wins Turner prize, securing second award in a month

  06-12-2016 09:41
  
  Chair of judges praises 31-year-old artist, who recently won Hepworth prize, for baffling sculptural work which ‘reflects the condition of the world’Helen Marten has sealed her position as one of the UK’s most exciting young artists after being named the winner of the 2016 Turner prize, her second big award in the space of a month.The 31-year-old artist, who was born in Macclesfield, was presented with her £25,000 prize by the writer Ben Okri at a ceremony at London&rsquo
  
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• Helen Marten wins Turner prize, securing second big award in a month

  06-12-2016 08:35
  
  Chair of judges praises 31-year-old artist, who recently won Hepworth prize, for baffling sculptural work which ‘reflects the condition of the world’Helen Marten has sealed her position as one of the UK’s most exciting young artists after being named the winner of the 2016 Turner prize, her second big award in the space of a month.The 31-year-old artist, who was born in Macclesfield, was presented with her £25,000 prize by the writer Ben Okri at a ceremony at London&rsquo
  
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• Dream logic: Pavel Banka's surreal abstractions – in pictures

  06-12-2016 08:00
  
  Czech photographer Pavel Baňka conjures a world of enigmatic beauty with his lustrous portraits and geometric arrangements Continue reading...
  
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• Untitled(i constantly want to die for love like john keats and to seek refuge in technology.).)

  06-12-2016 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  does amanda have a migraine? she has one when we have sex. she has one when we have dinner. she has one at board meetings. she has two assistants. they are in their late twenties. they both have black hair. katie, the one with a boyfriend in l.a., is tall and beautiful. she wants to have a baby with her boyfriend. she has dated mostly cyclists. amanda is going to put them up in a hotel in bend. they will talk about everything. they will sleep in a queen size bed. they will kiss and fuck each oth
  
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