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• John Akomfrah wins Artes Mundi prize and attacks UK's intolerance

  26-01-2017 23:00
  
  Artist says tone of debate on migration is bleak and frightening as he is awarded £40,000 prize in CardiffThe video artist John Akomfrah has been named the winner of this year’s Artes Mundi, the UK’s biggest prize for international contemporary art, and used the platform to berate the “bleak culture of fear and intolerance” he said had gripped Britain. The biennial award, held in Cardiff, which comes with £40,000 prize money, focuses on artists who engage with
  
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• British artist John Akomfrah wins £40,000 Artes Mundi Prize

  26-01-2017 22:59
  
  Since it was founded in Wales in 2002, the biennial Artes Mundi Prize has produced winners that live up to its title: arts of the world. Xu Bing, the first winner, hails from China, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, the second, from Finland, N.S. Harsha from India, Yael Bartana from Israel, Teresa Margolles from Mexico, while last editions recipient was the Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates. For the first time in its history, this years winner is the British artist John Akomfrah, though the themes of his wo
  
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• A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery: At KOW in Berlin, ‘The Cabinet of Ramon Haze’ Poses Questions to Art History

  26-01-2017 22:32 via artnews.com
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• Klaudia Dietewich at Slag Gallery, Brooklyn

  26-01-2017 22:14 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Old Masters collectors chase new discoveries at New York sales

  26-01-2017 22:00
  
  As a packed week for Old Masters lovers in New York drew to a close, auctions and pop-up shows alike demonstrated that the market moves quickly for acknowledged masters and A-plus examples from lesser namesbut is increasingly bifurcated between the very finest, and all the rest.
   
  In its 24 January sale of Old Master Drawings, Christies notched a total of $6.2m including buyers premium on 127 lots, a vast improvement from the $3.2m it made on 131 lots a year ago. The auction house recently
  
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• Let it pour: Rain Room to stay in Los Angeles

  26-01-2017 22:00
  
  Random Internationals Rain Room, the large-scale, interactive installation in which visitors experience an artificial downpour but never get wet, has been acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma).
  The work is a gift from RH (Restoration Hardware). In late 2015, the home-furnishing company lent the work to Lacma for an exhibition. Nearly 190,000 visitors enjoyed the immersive experience with an ecological message in its extended 15-month run at Lacma.
  The acquisition in January c
  
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• A bridge to something better: on artist-run galleries in mid-century New York

  26-01-2017 22:00
  
  The chief interest of Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952-65, an important exhibition at the Grey Art Gallery in New York, is anthropological. The 200 or so paintings, sculptures, photographs and documents by around 120 New York artists are largely unremarkable, even though some are handsome. For most exhibitions, this would be fatal, and for most of the works of art in this one it is. But this show is concerned with another kind of quality: the quality of a serious
  
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• The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation Awards Social Justice Grants to 47 New York Arts Organizations

  26-01-2017 20:12 via artnews.com
  The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation announced today the 47 grant recipients of its second annual Art and Social Justice open call. The 2017 grantees are all New York–based arts organizations whose work promotes “positive social change” that echoes the foundation’s belief … Read More
  
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• Hammer Museum Plans Renovation, Expansion, Will Grow Exhibition Space 60 Percent

  26-01-2017 17:00 via artnews.com
  It feels like not a week goes by without word coming in of a new museum, gallery, or expansion in Los Angeles. Coming across the transom today is news that the Hammer Museum is embarking on a plan to add … Read More
  
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• The Art of Renewable Youth: The Iconoclastic Roger Hiorns Wants to Make Work That Slips Through the Problem of Time

  26-01-2017 16:30 via artnews.com
  Pulverized altar stones, naked youths, jet engines filled with anti-depressants—these are just some of the exhibits in a powerful new survey of mid-career British artist Roger Hiorns at Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, England, through March 5.Hiorns is known for his … Read More
  
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• Deana Haggag Named President and CEO of United States Artists

  26-01-2017 16:00 via artnews.com
  United States Artists announced today that Deana Haggag will be its new president and CEO. She officially begins her time at USA on April 3.Since 2013, Haggag has been the executive director of the Contemporary, an itinerant kunsthalle in Baltimore … Read More
  
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• Preview the 2017 Art Los Angeles Contemporary Fair

  26-01-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  The eighth edition of Art Los Angeles Contemporary opens Thursday, January 26, and runs through Sunday, January 29. The fair, which returns to the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, brings together 61 national and international exhibitors. Among the highlights are … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: The Christo Says No Edition

  26-01-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Christo cancels artwork to protest Trump – but we need his vision

  26-01-2017 14:23
  
  The legendary land artist has wrapped up a Colorado installation after decades of planning in disgust at Donald Trump. But artists must allow their work itself to be the dissenting voiceChristo, the renowned Bulgarian-born wrapper of islands, parks and other landmarks has become the latest artist to protest against Donald J Trump’s presidency. Christo became a US citizen in 1973, and has been working for 20 years to develop one of his most ambitious projects – and that’s saying
  
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• Venice Biennale: Mark Bradford and Xavier Veilhan projects revealed

  26-01-2017 12:35
  
  The Los Angeles-based painter Mark Bradford will launch a community-based programme during the 57th Venice Biennale this summer for Italian prisoners, enabling both male and female offenders to re-enter society.
  According to ArtForum, Bradfords socially engaged project will coincide with the artists presentation at the US pavilion (Tomorrow is another Day; 13 May-26 September) organised by the Baltimore Museum of Art, which will include new works. The Process Collettivo scheme involves setting
  
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• Venice Biennale 2017: Mark Bradford and Xavier Veilhan projects revealed

  26-01-2017 12:35
  
  The Los Angeles-based painter Mark Bradford will launch a community-based programme during the 57th Venice Biennale this summer for Italian prisoners, enabling both male and female offenders to re-enter society.
  According to Artforum, Bradfords socially engaged project will coincide with the artists presentation at the US pavilion (Tomorrow is another Day; 13 May-26 September)organised by the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis Universitywhich will include new works. The
  
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• Christo cancels Over the River project in protest against Trump

  26-01-2017 04:47
  
  The artist Christo has pulled the plug on his Over the River project, which would have covered 42 miles of the Arkansas River in silver fabric for 14 days, as part of a protest that significantly raises the bar for other artists opposed to the presidency of Donald Trump.
  I came from a Communist country, Christo, who was born in Bulgaria and became an American citizen in 1973, told the New York Times. I use my own money and my own work and my own plans because I like to be totally free. And here
  
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• 'Just don't stare': a night of nudity and dancing at the art gallery

  26-01-2017 02:23
  
  Sydney Dance Company collaborates with a naturist society for a world-first all-nude event in Australia. But be careful where your eyes fall“Here?” I ask. “We undress here?” The man beside me already has his pants off. His name is Matt and he got a head start while the Sydney Dance Company’s artistic director, Rafael Bonachela, gave a welcome speech on lower level one of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. As Bonachela talked Matt had removed his sneakers and stuffe
  
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• ‘We Want to Exploit All Our Resources and Just Pump It in Here’: Simon Lee on Opening His First Full-Fledged Gallery in New York

  26-01-2017 01:33 via artnews.com
  The New York outpost of Simon Lee Gallery, which opens its inaugural show tonight, is in Tillinghast House, a Queen Anne-style terra cotta building on the Upper East Side that was built for Met trustee William H. Tillinghast in 1882. It seems an … Read More
  
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• A Literary Magazine Produced By Homeless People

  26-01-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Writers Group, as it’s known in the community, is a space for the homeless writers of downtown Boston (“homeless, transitional, or recently housed” is the rubric), and we meet every Tuesday morning at 9:30, in the basement of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul on Tremont Street. Out of Writers Group comes The Pilgrim, a literary magazine that I’ve been editing for the last five years. Large chunks of The Pilgrim are summoned into being, conjured from the chaos-state of pot
  
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