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• The Artist Responsible for That Incredible Portrait of Beyoncé Is Awol Erizku

  01-02-2017 23:59 via artnews.com
  As you may have heard, Beyoncé is pregnant with twins. The superstar made the announcement in a photo posted on Instagram this afternoon. Since that news broke, many have been wondering who is responsible for the remarkable snap. The answer: the … Read More
  
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• Uffizi to show more female artists

  01-02-2017 23:00
  
  The Uffizi Galleries in Florence will show more work by female artists starting this spring, as one of the worlds oldest art museums seeks to redress a historic gender imbalance in a long-term initiative. An exhibition aiming to revive the reputation of Suor Plautilla Nelli (1523-87), a nun who is Florences first-known female Renaissance painter, is due to open at the Uffizi on 8 March (until 30 April) to coincide with International Womens Day. Two weeks later, the Uffizis sister museum across t
  
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• Sisters doing it for themselves: Uffizi to show more female artists

  01-02-2017 23:00
  
  The Uffizi Galleries in Florence will show more work by female artists starting this spring, as one of the worlds oldest art museums seeks to redress a historic gender imbalance in a long-term initiative. An exhibition aiming to revive the reputation of Suor Plautilla Nelli (1523-87), a nun who is Florences first-known female Renaissance painter, is due to open at the Uffizi on 8 March (until 30 April) to coincide with International Womens Day. Two weeks later, the Uffizis sister museum across
  
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• The deep clean: behind the scenes at Blenheim Palace

  01-02-2017 22:00
  Blenheim Palace, the 18th-century English estate that is the family seat of the dukes of Marlborough and was the birthplace of Winston Churchill, is treated to a deep clean each winter. In 2017, for the first time, the palace is open to the public all year round and, until 8 February, visitors can take a special tour to find out what goes on behind the scenes to keep the 187-room stately home in shipshape condition.
  Karen Wiseman, the palaces head of education, anticipates that the tourswhich ar
  
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• Public Art Fund to light up New York

  01-02-2017 22:00
  
  The New York-based Public Art Fund celebrates its 40th anniversary this year with a series of new commissions, beginning on 5 February with Commercial Break (until 6 March). The digital shows will expand the funds pioneering 1980s exhibition Messages to the Public, in which 70 artists, including Jenny Holzer, David Hammons, Alfredo Jaar and the Guerrilla Girls, created 30-second animations that were displayed on an 800 sq. ft screen in Times Square, disrupting the flow of advertisements.Th
  
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• Object lessons: Francis Newton Souza

  01-02-2017 22:00
  
  F. N. Souza, Man and Woman Laughing (1957)
  DAG Modern, India Art Fair, New Delhi, 2-5 February
  Price $8MFrancis Newton Souza posed with this oil on masonite painting on the cover of the catalogue of his exhibition at Londons Gallery One in 1957. Painted during what many believe was Souzas golden decade, it used to be in the collection of Harold Kovner, an American who acquired several of Souzas works over a four-year period by paying him a monthly stipend.
  
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• It's time the art market got tough on fakes

  01-02-2017 22:00
  
  With the Knoedler trial still fresh in peoples minds and an Old Master forgery scandal linked to works attributed to Cranach and Hals among others recently uncovered, the question of how to reduce the number of fakesof everything from Ming vases to post-war paintingscirculating on the market is more urgent than ever. At the annual art-crime symposium held in November at New York University, participants agreed that the culprit was the markets notorious secrecy. But discussions revealed deep div
  
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• India Art Fair opens under new ownership deal

  01-02-2017 22:00
  
  The India Art Fair opens its doors to the public today, 2 February, under a new ownership deal. As of last September, the Swiss-based MCH Group, which owns the Art Basel franchise, now has a majority stake (60.3%) in the fair. One of the first ports of call for MCH in Delhi is an overhaul of the India Art Fairs website and the development of an app. Theres infinite opportunity for art fairs to evolve in the digital age, says Moenen Erbuer, the recently appointed head of design and use
  
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• How US museums are celebrating Black History Month, coast to coast

  01-02-2017 22:00
  
  Museums around the United States have organised exhibitions and special events throughout February to celebrate Black History Month. If you were disappointed by the American presidents comments yesterday, turn to one of these venues instead.The National Museum for African American History and Culture in Washington, DC celebrates Black History Month for the first time on the National Mall with a series of programmesincluding two film screenings, a symposium, a chamber performance and book signin
  
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• Hockney’s early prints make London debut ahead of Tate retrospective

  01-02-2017 22:00
  
  Just a few months shy of his 80th birthday, the British artist David Hockney and his early etchings become the focus of a show in London that coincides with his much-anticipated retrospective at Tate Britain (9 February-29 May). The Complete Early Etchings 1961-64 at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert (3 February-10 March) in Londons St Jamess charts the rise of Hockney during his formative years whilst he finished his formal education at the Royal College of Art (RCA), began a professional career and won
  
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• Anri Sala turns abandoned Japanese house into sonic space

  01-02-2017 22:00
  
  The Albanian artist Anri Sala has converted an abandoned house on the island of Teshima, off the west coast of Japan, into a large-scale installation. The ambitious site-specific piece, entitled All of a Tremble, incorporates music boxes decorated in the same pattern as the wallpaper in the property and a video showing footage of a shakuhachi (Japanese flute).Sala received the commission to work on Teshima after winning the tenth Benesse Prize at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. The Japanese c
  
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• ‘Condo: Arcadia Missa & VI, VII’ at Arcadia Missa, London

  01-02-2017 20:52 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• The Legacy of the Radically Experimental Arakawa Heads to Gagosian

  01-02-2017 20:07 via artnews.com
  The estate of Arakawa, the mononymous painter, sculptor, and proto-conceptualist who blurred boundaries so fully that even architecture and poetry could align in his work, is now represented by Gagosian Gallery. Early plans for the partnership will focus on photographing and cleaning decades’ … Read More
  
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• Nari Ward Wins $100,000 Vilcek Prize for Immigrant Artists

  01-02-2017 19:46 via artnews.com
  Imman Issa, Meleko Mokgosi, and Carlos Motta awarded Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise Read More
  
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• Glasgow School of Art's ashes turned into artworks to fund rebuild

  01-02-2017 19:42
  
  Artists including Grayson Perry and Anish Kapoor create pieces using debris from Mackintosh building gutted by fire in 2014Some of the biggest names in art, from Grayson Perry to Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley, have created artworks from the ashes of Glasgow School of Art to help raise funds for the building’s restoration.The school was gutted by a fire in May 2014, and as part of an appeal towards resurrecting the historic Mackintosh building, artists were sent the charred remains and as
  
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• Time’s up for Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum’s loan agreement with Carmen Cervera

  01-02-2017 19:19
  
  The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid has reached an impasse: the loan agreement of the collection of the 73-year-old baroness Carmen Cervera, the widow of the industrial tycoon Hans Heinrich von Thyssen-Bornemisza who died in 2002, came to an end on Monday, 30 January, without a replacement in place. The future of 429 works in the collection worth a combined 750mincluding pieces by Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Degas, Gauguin, Rodin, Matisse and Picassois now in limbo.Cervera has threatened to pull
  
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• Sotheby’s Hires Wall Street Vet to Head Private Sales

  01-02-2017 18:45 via artnews.com
  America in 2017 is not a bad time to be a Wall Street lifer. Not only can you go from foreclosing on 90-year-old women with 27-cent payment errors to having the Republican party suspend committee rules in an attempt to … Read More
  
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• Artoon by Pablo Helguera, February 2017

  01-02-2017 18:19
  
  See related story: Pope Francis appoints Vatican Museums' first female directorFor more Artoons click here to see our online collection
  
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• Inhaling and Exhaling: Marjorie Welish’s Abstract Paintings at Art Gallery 3 Urge Us to Reconsider What We See

  01-02-2017 17:38 via artnews.com
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• Inhaling and Exhaling: Marjorie Welish’s Abstract Paintings at Art 3 Gallery Urge Us to Reconsider What We See

  01-02-2017 17:38 via artnews.com
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• Douglas Dreishpoon Hired as Director of Helen Frankenthaler Catalogue Raisonné

  01-02-2017 17:34 via artnews.com
  There’s nothing like a little bit of catalogue raisonné news to lift one’s spirits, with the promise it offers of intense scholarship on an artist’s complete works and a luxurious tome devoted to the same. And so it is with … Read More
  
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• Artists from Muslim-majority countries deal with chaos from 'absurd' travel ban

  01-02-2017 17:28
  
  Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi and acclaimed musician Rahim AlHaj are among the singers, film-makers and comedians whose plans are thrown in disarray“Dear Mr AlHaj,” reads the letter crowned with its majestic White House letterhead and ornate signature by Barack Obama.“Folk and traditional arts are fundamental to our nation’s rich creative history, bridging differences and revealing our common humanity.” The letter continues: “I hope you take pride in the ways yo
  
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• The Sigmund Freud Collection at the Library of Congress Has Been Digitized

  01-02-2017 15:38 via artnews.com
  Coming in at the nick of time, Americans now have online access to all of the papers of pioneering psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. That’s right, all 20,000 of the good doctor’s personal correspondence and notes can now be enjoyed from the comfort of your home.Here’s … Read More
  
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• Master Meets Apprentice: A Collaboration Between Students and a Private Collection at the New York Academy of Art

  01-02-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  Last spring, Laura Skoler, an art collector and founding board member of both the New Museum in New York and the Daniel and Florence Guerlain Foundation in Paris, visited the New York Academy of Art to talk to students about … Read More
  
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• We cannot celebrate revolutionary Russian art – it is brutal propaganda

  01-02-2017 15:02
  
  The Royal Academy is showcasing Russian art from the age of Lenin – but we must not overlook that his regime’s totalitarian violence rivalled nazismIt was a bizarre moment. I was visiting New York’s Museum of Modern Art for the first time, revelling in Duchamp and Brancusi, Cezanne and Schwitters. Then I came across a room that felt like a pious shrine, a white reliquary containing models of unbuilt architecture, posters for a failed utopia. This was MoMA’s homage to the
  
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• Morning Links: Icelandic Troll Edition

  01-02-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Art world reels from Trump’s immigration ban

  01-02-2017 12:19
  
  Artists and curators working with Middle Eastern and Iranian art have spoken of the chilling effect of the US travel bans on their work. New rules and worsening attitudes, along with continued issues with financial controls, threaten to close off growing cultural exchanges between artistic communities between New York and Tehran, they warn.Two Iranian artists, confused about their status as green card holders and worried about not being readmitted to America, called off plans to travel from the
  
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• Trolls take over Icelandic pavilion at the Venice Biennale

  01-02-2017 11:48
  
  The Icelandic artist Egill Sbjrnsson has turned to two fictional trolls to stage his exhibition in Icelands pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale (13 May-26 November). Sbjrnsson, a musician who also makes animations and videos, will unveil Out of Controll in Venice at the Spazio Punch space on Giudecca island. The trolls, gh and Bgr, will create the content for the show, the artist stresses. Stefanie Bttcher, the director of Kunsthalle Mainz, is the pavilions curator.The project will also have a
  
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• 19th-century female artist finally gets credit for works in Canadian gallery

  01-02-2017 11:00
  
  Gallery learned Caroline Louisa Daly was rightful artist behind Prince Edward Island watercolours after her great-grandson raised doubts For nearly half a century, Caroline Louisa Daly’s sketches and watercolours have graced the walls of one of the largest galleries in Atlantic Canada – but until recently they were always mistakenly attributed to two male artists. Continue reading...
  
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• 19th-century female artist finally gets credit for works attributed to men

  01-02-2017 11:00
  
  Gallery learned Caroline Louisa Daly was rightful artist behind Prince Edward Island watercolours after her great-grandson raised doubts For nearly half a century, Caroline Louisa Daly’s sketches and watercolours have graced the walls of one of the largest galleries in Atlantic Canada – but until recently they were always mistakenly attributed to two male artists. Continue reading...
  
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• Bosch and Bruegel review – more gripping than a thriller

  01-02-2017 10:00
  
  Two master painters of the macabre and the mundane come together in Joseph Leo Koerner’s frightening, fascinating studyHieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder work like antagonistic muscles in the imagination, pulling with and against each other. Bosch is a painter of medieval hellfire whose fantastical creations exceed our nightmares. Bruegel, most memorably and wonderfully, shows us a recognisable world where children lick bowls clean, bagpipers draw breath and harvesters stre
  
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• Coney Island, baby! The romance of mid-century New York – in pictures

  01-02-2017 08:00
  
  With their carefree joy tempered with moments of poignancy, Harold Feinstein’s shots of ordinary New Yorkers helped kickstart the street photography boom Continue reading...
  
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• Tulsa Artist Fellowship Now Accepting Applications for 2018 Class

  01-02-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Awarding up to 30 new fellowships totaling over $1 million in stipends, fellows will receive free housing in the Brady Arts District and free workspace, if applicable. Applications for the 2018 TAF are due on March 1, 2017, and fellows will be announced on June 15, 2017George Kaiser Family Foundation’s national artist fellowship program – the Tulsa Artist Fellowship (TAF) – is welcoming its second class of artists and is accepting visual artist and writer applications for its t
  
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• Why Is London's National Theatre Abandoning Classic Plays?

  01-02-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Michael Billington: "Rufus Norris has made clear that he wants the National to more visibly represent the nation at large: if that means more work by women and greater racial diversity, I am happy to fling my hat in the air. But that need not – indeed should not – mean an almost total severance with the past."
  
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