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• You talkin’ to me?

  13-12-2016 22:00
  
  Robert De Niro tripped over a couple of names in his prepared comments awarding the artist R.H. Quaytman the Robert De Niro Sr Prize (named after the actors painter dad) at the Greenwich Hotel on 14 December. But the artist herself helpfully teed up his next line, after she accepted it. New York painters, New York artists, she said. This life is pretty intense. I dunno. Im honoured to get this prize from you. De Niro then hugged her shoulder and proclaimed: New York is the best and greatest cit
  
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• The Louvre and Unesco recreate lost and damaged world heritage sites

  13-12-2016 22:00
  Attempting to fight destruction with technology, the Grand Palais in Paris will bring four Middle Eastern World Heritage sites to life for the exhibition Eternal Sites: from Bamiyan to Palmyra. Combining virtual 3D reconstructions and 360-degree videos with archival and archaeological materials, the show will enable audiences to explore sites that have been damaged or are in danger. Organised in partnership with the Louvre, Unesco and the digital technology company Iconem, the exhibition fo
  
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• Modern art breaks free of the old borders

  13-12-2016 22:00
  
  Even as globalism appears to be going into reverse, major museums are pressing ahead with efforts to broaden the canon and internationalise art history. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York recently announced a gift of more than 100 Latin American works that will change the balance of its collections. Meanwhile, the Haus der Kunst in Munich (a non-collecting institution) is presenting one of the most important reappraisals of the post-war period.We have become habituated to seeing the hi
  
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• In defence of the demos at Lisson Gallery, where the art world debated the big events of 2016

  13-12-2016 22:00
  
  Thumbs up to Lisson Gallery and Art Review for organising the first concerted response by the London art world to the challenges and anxieties of the current climate, ramped up by the twin spectres of Brexit and Trump. This took the form of an evening of rapid-fire talks, screenings and performances titled In Defence of the Demos, which was delivered to a packed audience at the gallery by an invited line-up of artists, writers, curators and activists last Thursday (8 December).   
  
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• Hiorns’s plane is delayed

  13-12-2016 22:00
  
  The UK artist Roger Hiornss ambitious plan to bury a decommissioned Boeing 737 airliner in his home town of Birmingham is taking a little while to get off the ground. Earlier this year, representatives of Ikon Gallery, which is behind the project, said that the work was planned for summer 2017. But a spokeswoman says that Ikon is now working towards a summer 2018 launch for Hiornss Buried Aircraft. This rescheduling gives us the time needed to finalise plans for this ambitious project. Visitors
  
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• Christie’s promotes Guillaume Cerutti to chief executive

  13-12-2016 22:00
  
  It has been a busy morning at the two top auction houses. On Wednesday, 14 December, Christies announced that Guillaume Cerutti, the president of Europe, Middle East, Russia and India at Christies in London, would be taking over at CEO, effective 1 Janaury 2017. Meanwhile, Sothebys announced that Christy MacLear, the chief executive of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation since 2010, would be joining the New York auction houses advisory team.Earlier this year, Cerutti moved to London from Paris,
  
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• Carrie Mae Weems, the Oracle

  13-12-2016 22:00
  The artists and photographers Carrie Mae Weems and LaToya Ruby Frazier and the Harvard University art history professor Sarah Lewisformerly a curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tate Modern in Londoncame together in New York last Friday, 9 December for a discussion on race and visual representation. Moderated by the writer Rebecca Carroll and part of the WNYC public radio series How I Got Over: Reinventing Language Around Race, the talk touched upon topics including racist v
  
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• Smithsonian expands its folk art holdings with donation of 93 works

  13-12-2016 21:55
  
  The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC has acquired 93 works of art by 48 self-taught artists from the collection of the late Margaret Robson. Robson began collecting the work of self-taught artists in the 1980s, when few grasped the inherent value of work that was often made amid challenging circumstances and by those who lacked the agency of the mainstream art world, says Leslie Umberger, the curator of folk and self-taught art at the museum, in a press release.  Among the
  
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• Here Is the Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2017 Exhibitors List

  13-12-2016 21:14 via artnews.com
  If you have any interest in escaping the cold weather and and even bleaker political climate for a warm sunny state where 8.7 million people voted for Hillary Clinton, why not take a trip to the Art Los Angeles Contemporary … Read More
  
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• Melanie Ebenhoch at Hester, New York

  13-12-2016 21:06 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• James Cohan Gallery Now Represents the Estate of Lee Mullican

  13-12-2016 20:55 via artnews.com
  James Cohan Gallery announced today that it will now be representing the estate of the postwar abstract artist Lee Mullican. Mullican is best known for his abstract style, which departed from his Abstract Expressionist painters on the East Coast because he … Read More
  
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• Ahead of Retrospective, Jasper Johns Painting and Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné Will Be Released in 2017

  13-12-2016 20:30 via artnews.com
  There’s still more than three years before the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum host a joint Jasper Johns retrospective, in 2020, but today brings some exciting Johns developments: the Wildenstein Plattner Institute will issue a catalogue raisonné of … Read More
  
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• Illuminating Twilight: Simon Starling Riffs on Yeats at the Japan Society

  13-12-2016 20:08 via artnews.com
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• ‘It’s Important to Be Specific About What We Mean by Change’: A Talk With Andrea Fraser

  13-12-2016 15:24 via artnews.com
  Andrea Fraser has spent 30 years analyzing the systems and structures of the art world—often through performance and, more recently, through psychoanalytic work with groups. Currently the subject of a traveling retrospective organized by the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Gulf Labor Edition

  13-12-2016 15:17 via artnews.com
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• Fake or fortune: is this lost Leonardo da Vinci drawing the real deal?

  13-12-2016 14:20
  
  A drawing owned by a French doctor is thought to be a lost work by Leonardo da Vinci – it bears all the hallmarks of one of history’s greatest creative mindsMiracles do occur. People walk into auction houses with an old bit of art that has been in the attic for centuries and it turns out to be a masterpiece. It has just happened, apparently.A drawing of Saint Sebastian that a French doctor brought to the Paris auction house Tajan is now thought to be a lost work by Leonardo da Vinci.
  
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• Independent New York Releases 2017 Exhibitor List

  13-12-2016 13:00 via artnews.com
  As the art world begins to go dark in preparation for the coming new year—may it be better than 2016—here’s some news to help you get your calendar in order.Independent New York, which takes place each year during Armory Week in New York, is … Read More
  
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• Oscar Wilde portrait to have first UK exhibition

  13-12-2016 12:00
  
  Painting by US artist Robert Goodloe Harper Pennington was presented to writer and wife, Constance, as wedding gift
  A full-length portrait of a young, dapper and confident Oscar Wilde, painted as a wedding present for his doomed marriage to Constance, is to be exhibited in the UK for the first time.Tate Britain announced that the painting, which has been in Los Angeles since the 1920s, is to be a star of its major 2017 show, Queer British Art 1861-1967. Continue reading...
  
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• Portrait of Oscar Wilde to return to UK for first time in nearly a century

  13-12-2016 11:30
  
  A portrait of the writer Oscar Wilde, which had to be sold off after he was accused of gross indecency, is to return from America for the first time in nearly a century. It will be displayed at Tate Britain, in an exhibition called Queer British Art 1861-1967, which opens in April.Robert Harper Pennington, an American artist who painted the full-length portrait (1881), gave it to Wilde and his wife Constance as a wedding present in 1884. It was the couples most prized possession, hung above the
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.12.16

  13-12-2016 10:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  The National Gallery: Blazing More New Trails Last year about this time, I praised the National Gallery in London for creating and publicizing an “Angel Trail” of artworks in its galleries that include portrayals of angels–for the Christmas season. This year, I’m ... read more AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2016-12-12 Four Dances Mingle As […]
  
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• The art-punk firestorm of the Rivington School – in pictures

  13-12-2016 08:00
  
  A new book documents the wild energy of the Rivington School, a collective of New Yorkers who carved an industrial niche out of the rapidly gentrifying 1980s art scene Continue reading...
  
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• Study: Fewer Of Us Suffer Information Overload - Does This Mean We're Tuning Out More?

  13-12-2016 04:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  It's been almost a given for decades that increasing noise and distraction of the modern world has more people feeling like they're on information overload. In the age of the ubiquitous smartphone it's only seemed to get worse. For artists, floods of distraction have proved difficult to cut through. But a new survey from Pew […]
  
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• Former Williamsburg Music Venue Zebulon To Open New Space In Los Angeles

  13-12-2016 00:26 via artnews.com
  Between 2004 and 2012, the Williamsburg cafe and concert venue Zebulon was a beloved hub for New York’s jazz, experimental, and indie music community. The venue’s run not only followed alongside the development of a scene but also a neighborhood—at its … Read More
  
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• First Look At A Massive New Project For LA's Arts District

  13-12-2016 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The risk — as with all of the projects emerging from BIG’s huge and increasingly busy office — is that the project, in final form, won’t quite make the leap from clever and opportunistic to something more architecturally powerful or profound."
  
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