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• Tate Britain celebrates 50 years of gay freedom

  01-04-2017 22:14
  
  This week an exhibition opens of ‘queer’ art whose specific perspective was not always recognised or acceptedIt is not just the beauty of art, it turns out, that lies in the eye of the beholder, but also its “queerness”. Tate Britain is preparing its first show dedicated to “queer art”, a term long understood by art historians but which still has the power to bring the museum-going public up short. Does queer art, some ask, refer to a specific school of protes
  
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• James Rosenquist, pop artist who painted the famous F-111, dies aged 83

  01-04-2017 22:04
  
  Pioneer of pop who painted immense F-111 canvas and followed a different path to Warhol and Lichtenstein died in New York on Friday, his family saidThe artist James Rosenquist has died, it was announced on Saturday. He was 83.With Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Rosenquist was a pioneer of pop art, the 1960s movement that made high art out of flat, bright representations of everyday items and images, often plucked from advertising and media. Such works proved immensely popular and helped to ch
  
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• James Rosenquist, Who Channeled America’s Heady, Hollow Postwar Exuberance, Dies at 83

  01-04-2017 19:59 via artnews.com
  In 1961, James Rosenquist decided to quit his job as a billboard painter in New York. It was time to focus exclusively on his art, he decided. Also, two of his colleagues had recently been killed after falling while on a … Read More
  
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• James Rosenquist, Key Figure in Postwar Painting, Dies at 83

  01-04-2017 19:59 via artnews.com
  James Rosenquist, one of the cornerstones of Pop art, died yesterday at his home in New York, according to reports. He was 83. The artist, who was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, in 1933, came of age in the 1960s with … Read More
  
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• Modern tribes: the art gallery show-off

  01-04-2017 09:00
  
  Slow down darlings, I think the kind gallery man thinks you’re going to spill your drinks on the nude with poppiesMind that lady, Ned, with your felt pen, excuse me he’s four, he was focusing on the paintings, he literally reveres Vanessa Bell, don’t you Ned, yes, of course you can lie down here. Shall we copy this lovely portrait, what do we think the lady’s doing? Yes, well done Ned, she could be on her iPad, actually I think that pink bit is sewing and her name was Vir
  
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• 'Difficult to sell': garden variety ram-raid nets million in precious Maori paintings

  01-04-2017 06:49
  
  Portraits by Czech artist Gottfried Lindauer taken from Auckland gallery where they had been left on display behind glass front windowTwo paintings of Maori leaders that are together worth nearly NZ$1m have been stolen in Auckland in a ram-raid on an auction house where they were left on display in the front window.New Zealand police said the theft occurred at 4am on Saturday. The portraits done by Gottfried Lindauer in 1884 were taken from inside the glass window at the International Art Centre
  
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• Art Media Holdings CEO Vincent Fremont Completes Term, Will Remain Advisor

  01-04-2017 00:13 via artnews.com
  Art Media Holdings, LLC, the parent company of these pages, announced today that Vincent Fremont will be stepping down after completing his term as CEO. While continuing to serve in a senior advisory role for the company, which publishes ARTnews, … Read More
  
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