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• Peter Hujar at Fundacion MAPFRE, Barcelona

  03-04-2017 23:43 via artnews.com
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• Crayola Asks Internet To Name Its Newest Color. So What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

  03-04-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Didn’t this lesson sail into clear view after the Boaty McBoatface imbroglio? Or five years ago, when Mountain Dew solicited names for a new apple-flavoured drink? That campaign, “Dub the Dew,” was hastily aborted when the company suddenly realized it might be forced to sell a beverage dubbed “Hitler Did Nothing Wrong.”
  
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• From the Archives: James Rosenquist Defines Pop Art, in 1964

  03-04-2017 23:27 via artnews.com
  "The images are like no-images. There is a freedom there." Read More
  
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• Spring/Break to Host First Brooklyn Edition During Frieze Week 2017

  03-04-2017 23:09 via artnews.com
  Hot on the heels of a fun foray into Midtown Manhattan, Spring/Break is once again taking its show on the road. Or, more accurately, it’s taking its show across the East River to City Point, a new mixed-use development in … Read More
  
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• The Art Of Persuading You Without You Even Knowing

  03-04-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The behavioral techniques that are being employed by governments and private corporations do not appeal to our reason; they do not seek to persuade us consciously with information and argument. Rather, these techniques change behavior by appealing to our nonrational motivations, our emotional triggers and unconscious biases. If psychologists could possess a systematic understanding of these nonrational motivations they would have the power to influence the smallest aspects of our lives and the
  
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• Sotheby’s drums up German interest for Turner painting of Rhine

  03-04-2017 23:00
  
  A painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner described as one of his most important Rhine landscapes will go on display at the premises of Sothebys in Cologne to spark interest among potential German bidders before it leads the 5 July evening sale of Old Masters and British paintings in London.The 1835 painting, The Bright Stone of Honour and the Tomb of Marceau, from Byrons Childe Harolde, is expected to fetch between 15m and 25m. It is still owned by a private collector. The painting was first
  
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• Mixed feelings and a sing-along at Tate Britain’s Queer British Art show

  03-04-2017 23:00
  
  There was a distinct dearth of flamboyant garb at Tate Britains private view of Queer British Arthonourable exceptions being the young man in underpants and a feathered headdress, and the gentleman sporting a collar of pink rhinestone roses. But perhaps it was deemed unnecessary, with so many extravagant sartorial gestures to be found amidst the exhibits, whether the pink wig and diamant earrings worn by 1930s female impersonator Jimmy Slater; Vita Sackville-Wests dashing red hat as painted by
  
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• Documenta 14 artists will respond to discovery of Gurlitt art hoard

  03-04-2017 23:00
  
  Works of art made in response to the collection of Cornelius Gurlitt, the recluse discovered in possession of a hoard of suspected Nazi loot in his Munich apartment in 2012, will be shown at Documenta 14 when it opens in Kassel, Germany, in June.At least three artists are making new pieces in response to Gurlitts cache of art, which included works by Picasso, Degas, Drer and Renoir, and was seized by German police. They will be shown at the Neue Galerie, one of the exhibitions main venues.The G
  
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• Dispatches from our Man at the Antarctic Biennale: Ushuaia with Yto Barrada

  03-04-2017 23:00
  
  Friday 17th MarchTinny tannoy rise-and-shine breaks the day. Goddam 7.30 unlike my usual leisurely 11am, wearily tugged on my bombachas to breakfast in the large dining room, hub of our world, delicious big sausages and potatoes, greasy Soviet delight. Mystery of the very large Russian crew, over 40 of them, we hardly see as opposed to the One Ocean cruise team entirely Canadian and relentlessly nice in that Canadian way, shiny and efficient, buoyantly upbeat, so clean. To my delight out on dec
  
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• Designer digs

  03-04-2017 23:00
  
  The London-based designer Paul Cocksedge dug deep to make the furniture in his current project, Excavation: Evicted, on view at the Fondazione Luigi Rovati in Milan until 9 April (to coincide with Milan Design Week) and presented by the New York gallery Friedman Benda. At the beginning of last year, the designer was served with an eviction notice for his studio in the London borough of Hackney, and decided to explore the space he has occupied for the past 12 yearsand take some of it with himby
  
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• Banksy work cleared from vacant site and restored for public display

  03-04-2017 23:00
  
  A work attributed to the anonymous British street artist Banksy has been conserved and put on public display in Toronto by a Canadian real estate company. Known as Guard with Balloon Dog, the piece was recently unveiled at its new location in a pedestrian walkway network called the Path. The work originally appeared on the wall of a vacant building in May 2010, around the time that the artist was in town to release his film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, and has reportedly been featured on Banksy
  
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• Germany can be sued for the return of Guelph Treasure, US court decides

  03-04-2017 22:32
  
  Germany will have to defend itself in US court for the first time over art allegedly looted by the Nazis, following a 31 March ruling by a Washington, DC federal judge that denied the countrys motion to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to recover the Guelph Treasure. The case is one of the first affected by the recently enacted Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (Hear) Act, which makes it easier for the heirs of victims of the Nazi regime to file restitution claims in the US.
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• Here Are Ten Great Works Of Art That Wouldn't Have Happened Without The NEA

  03-04-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Who's to say how much the filmmakers and playwrights of today were affected by NEA-funded plays and workshops at a young age, or to what extent the creators of tomorrow will suffer by missing out on such formative experiences if the NEA is defunded? Moreover, though NEA naysayers claim private expenditure can fill that void just as ably, there's no free market mechanism to match the NEA's stated and concerted efforts to reach low-income and minority communities."
  
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• A Projection Mapping System That Transforms Dancers In Real Time

  03-04-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The University of Tokyo designed a high-speed projector that projects 1,000 frames per second — which they say is the world’s fastest. By using the projector alongside a 3D-mapping system and precise sensor tracking, the video creators were able to change the look of the dancers and the aesthetics of the video in real time.
  
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• Hungary Eyes: New York’s Elizabeth Dee Gallery Will Survey the Hungarian Avant-Garde

  03-04-2017 21:52 via artnews.com
  Little-known history of the Hungarian avant-garde in the 1960s and ’70s will come in for new focus next month at Elizabeth Dee Gallery in New York. Opening May 2 and running through until August 12, “With the Eyes of Others: … Read More
  
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• What Actors On Broadway Earn

  03-04-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "If you are a performer who is also a dance captain, your minimum salary increases by $300. If you are an assistant dance captain, it increases $150. For each principal role that you are understudying, your minimum increases $33. For every performance in which you, as an understudy, actually end up playing that principal role, you get an extra 1/8 of your weekly salary. Tony nominated lead actors normally see a $500 per week pay bump while winners can see that number cli
  
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• The Great Theatre Of "Killing" The NEA

  03-04-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Ironically, Trump is cutting the arts because it's great theater. It's such an easy target: low-hanging fruit that's also high visibility. The artists know how to put up a fuss that'll get noticed, and he'll look like a hero to that supposed rust-and-Bible-belt antiart constituency. A statement will have been made about what America does and doesn't value. If it doesn't actually happen—if the NEA survives—it won't matter. Trump's base will have already seen the show."
  
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• A New Publisher Focuses On Native American Superheroes

  03-04-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Why? Because the superhero world has a huge hole at its center. "Comics creator Jon Proudstar remembers the first time he saw a Native American character in a comic. It was Thunderbird, in the X-Men, and he was quickly killed off. Proudstar was 8 years old and he was not happy. 'And for years I just lamented about it and said one day I'll bring him back,' he says."
  
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• The Weird Public/Private Lives Of Writers

  03-04-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The line between public and private selves is different for different writers. Some are comfortable sharing many details of their lives. Neil Gaiman tells fans about his book projects, encourages people to get involved in refugee relief and tweets pictures of his wife and baby son. Other writers prefer relative anonymity. Thomas Pynchon famously doesn’t give interviews and is rarely photographed. Most writers probably fall somewhere in between."
  
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• Queer British Art review 1861-1967 – strange, sexy, heartwrenching | Adrian Searle

  03-04-2017 19:46
  
  From Man Ray’s portrait of Virginia Woolf to Orton’s library book collages and Noël Coward’s dressing gown, this vital survey is bursting with fascinating stories Weaving between history and gossip, private lives and public declarations, repression and celebration, the exhibition Queer British Art recounts a complicated story of sexuality and desire through work that is as often as coded and veiled as it is candid and outspoken.Related: Tate Britain celebrates 50 years of
  
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• Miami Herald Repurposes City's Best Movie Critic As A Real Estate Reporter

  03-04-2017 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In his memo announcing the move, first published by Bill Cooke's Random Pixels, Herald managing editor Rick Hirsch wrote, "Rene's assignment obviously means that he will no longer be working as a film critic. That decision is one of several coverage shifts we've made to reflect what our audience is telling us about the news they value most."
  
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• Rare Bookstores Are Becoming Rarer Than Rare Books

  03-04-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Susan Benne, executive director of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America, says the organization has about 450 members but estimates 60 percent of those do not have an open storefront, and the overall number of dealers continues to drop. Lost, too, is that dusty aura of something vanished, gone like smoke from steam engines in the American landscape. The digital age of Amazon.com, e-readers and online research has its advantages, but for parishioners of the Church of Old Book
  
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• Blood, fire and mayhem: the art of Britain’s conflicts with Spain

  03-04-2017 18:44
  
  Sabre-rattling Brexiters should look at the paintings that depict the barbaric wars between the two European nationsOne unlikely beneficiary of the rapid descent from triggering article 50 to sabre-rattling over Gibraltar is the City of London’s Guildhall art gallery, whose largest and strangest painting suddenly looks relevant again after more than 200 years. John Singleton Copley’s The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar is so vast, at nearly eight metres wide, that a spe
  
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• Why Netflix Is Getting Rid Of Ratings

  03-04-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "People rated aspirationally, but they watched situationally. Yes, you did give That Important Documentary five stars when you got around to watching it, but at the end of a trying day at the office, you more often settled on viewing some pleasing pap like “The Ridiculous 6.” This sort of virtue signaling, often undercut by divergent behavior, is everywhere — witness the discrepancies that sometimes occur between polling and actual voting in elections."
  
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• Rainbow flag to fly over Tate Britain to mark first queer British art show

  03-04-2017 18:26
  
  Tate Britain marks 50th anniversary of 1967 Sexual Offences Act with exhibition including works by Francis Bacon, Dora Carrington and David HockneyA rainbow flag is to be hoisted over Tate Britain as the gallery opens the first major exhibition dedicated to queer British art, from covert images of same-sex desire by Simeon Solomon to the couldn’t care less enjoyment of David Hockney.The gallery is marking the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, a momentous, transformative mom
  
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• Creator Of "Smash" Writes About Getting Fired From The Show

  03-04-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Let me tell you something. When Steven Spielberg calls your agent to say he is infatuated with your writing, that is a good day. The saga of what came next is so long and complicated it would take a book to write it all out. Sometimes I think of writing that book and sometimes I think that writing that book and reliving the whole thing would be somewhat akin to shooting myself in the head."
  
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• A Move To Kill The US Antiquities Act, Which Protects Historic Places

  03-04-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Representative Rob Bishop, a Republican from Utah and chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, are ramping up a campaign to strip away the president’s authority under the Antiquities Act to designate monuments. Mr. Bishop complains that it allows the federal government to “invade” and “seize” lands. But that’s not true. The act authorizes the president to protect only lands already “owned or controlled by the government of the United States
  
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• Some Ideas For The Pittsburgh Symphony To Attract New Audiences

  03-04-2017 17:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Not every traditional program needs a nonmusical draw. But I don’t think drawing connections between pieces of music — and making those connections clear to the audience — would dumb down the orchestra’s product. In fact, it may make the PSO’s programming as unique as its sound."
  
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• The Golden Age Of TV Is More Like A Sweatshop Age For Its Writers

  03-04-2017 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's a perfect storm of causes, and one is prestige TV. "Shorter seasons are the new norm, with many series consisting of 10 or fewer episodes on cable and streaming — less than half the length of traditional seasons on network shows. That has put writers in a financial crunch since many have exclusivity clauses that prevent them from working on multiple shows per season."
  
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• What's The Problem With Bingeing On S-Town, The New Show From The People Who Brought Us Serial?

  03-04-2017 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With the full show getting released at the same time - like a Netflix dump - "it induces a sense of sudden, ephemeral ubiquity, at least within a certain cultural bubble. Conversations about the show will burn hot for a few weeks around its release, and if you don’t immediately start binge-listening, you’ll miss the social experience of it."
  
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• German government steps in with €1.2m to buy looted Kirchner painting

  03-04-2017 15:50
  
  The German government has stepped in with 1.2m to enable the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen to buy back a painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner that was looted from a Jewish family during the Second World War.  The painting, The Judgement of Paris, is a key picture in Kirchners oeuvre and a jewel in the museums collection, Germany's culture minister Monika Grtters says in a statement. It is to be especially welcomed that the city of Ludwigshafen and the Wilhelm Hack Museum succeeded
  
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• Why Do Cartoon Characters Only Have Three Fingers? [VIDEO]

  03-04-2017 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Disney animators say, "It's simply economy of line. Dropping one finger makes a huge difference."
  
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• Ikutaro Kakehashi, The Man Behind The Roland Drum Machine And Synthesizer, Has Died At 87

  03-04-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The drum machine he developed, the TR-808, "had a lasting impact on pop music since its launch in 1980." And Roland synthesizers "formed the bedrock to the sound of a range of electronica and dance acts including Aphex Twin, Portishead, Boards of Canada, the Prodigy."
  
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• The N.E.A. Will Honor Jazz Masters In 2017, But Will This Be The Last Time?

  03-04-2017 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  To put it mildly, "a thread of anxiety is likely to run through the proceedings at the Kennedy Center in Washington."
  
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• When Reshelving Books Turns Into Philosophical Ruminations On The Nature Of The World (And It Always Does)

  03-04-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is the problem: "Every organizational schema is a doomed attempt to blanket chaos with order, and only more so the grander its ambitions. It may be possible to draw a sensible line delineating science from nature, art from design, autobiography from memoir, or war history from American history from Native American history, but to do so is to suggest that any one exists independently from the other. The clear lines bleed and become wobbly."
  
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• Morning Links: Giacometti Chocolate Edition

  03-04-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  James Rosenquist, 1933-2017The Pop Art giant James Rosenquist died Friday after a long illness. Here’s Andrew Russeth’s obituary. [ARTnews]Jerry Saltz contributed a remembrance as well, saying that Rosenquist “extended art into the hyperspace of culture and brought more of the culture … Read More
  
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• Secrecy And (Rather Salacious) Revelations At The Met

  03-04-2017 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The New York Times claims that one of the reasons for Met director and chief executive Thomas Campbell's resignation is a "a yearslong erosion of respect for his authority and judgment within the Met," partly due to "a close personal relationship between Mr. Campbell and a female staff member" in the digital media department.
  
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• Hyperallergic's April Fool's Article Is Once Again The Best Thing Ever: Airbnb'ing The Met

  03-04-2017 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  But is this ACTUALLY a bad idea? Hm. "The announcement comes after reports that the Upper East Side museum, which was the second-most-visited in the world last year and had a budget of roughly $300 million, is facing a budget shortfall of $10 million. Now, as it looks to capitalize on its collection in unconventional ways, the Met is hoping it can replicate the kind of viral success the Art Institute of Chicago enjoyed recently with its Vincent van Gogh-themed Airbnb partnership."
  
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• Doris Day Thought She Was Turning 93, But Turns Out She's 95

  03-04-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This news "is a birthday surprise to even the star herself, who has long pegged her age to a 1924 birthdate that would make her 93. ... A copy of Day's birth certificate, obtained by The Associated Press from Ohio's Office of Vital Statistics, settles the issue: Doris Mary Kappelhoff, her pre-fame name, was born on April 3, 1922."
  
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• Portland Composer Kenji Bunch Takes On A Challenge: A Full-Length Story Ballet

  03-04-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Bunch, speaking of Eugene Ballet Artistic Director Toni Pimble: "There were times when I’d play what I had for her, and she’d say, 'That’s great, but I’m going to need probably twice that length, because of the time it’s going to take people to get off the stage.'"
  
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• Tate chairman Lord Browne writes impassioned personal account for Queer British Art show

  03-04-2017 13:33
  
  The outgoing chairman of Tate, John Browne (Lord Browne of Madingley), has written an impassioned foreword drawing on personal experiences for the catalogue of Queer British Art 1861-1967, which opens this week at Tate Britain in London (5 April-1 October). The exhibitionwhich includes works by Francis Bacon, Claude Cahun and Angus McBean, among othersmarks the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality in England and Wales. Browne, the former chief executive o
  
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• Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art will shine a light on Baltic and Nordic artists

  03-04-2017 12:44
  
  The 2018 art calendar has a new additiona major new biennial due to take place in Riga, Latvia, in June next year which, say the organisers, will include a significant proportion of works by artists born or based in the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The new Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art is organised by the non-profit Riga Biennial Foundation. Its founder is Agniya Mirgorodskaya, who previously worked in the Russian art department at Christies. The Greek-
  
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• No smoke without fire: Documenta 14 unveils first work in Kassel

  03-04-2017 12:35
  
  After months of secrecy, the public is finally being given its first glimpse of Documenta 14's exhibition programme with the unveiling of a work in Kassel, Germany. The installation by the Romanian-born, Berlin-based artist Daniel Knorr marks the beginning of the prestigious quinquennial contemporary art exhibition, which this year is split between the cities of Athens and Kassel. It kicks off in Athens on 8 April (until 16 July) and in Kassel, where it was launched in 1955, on 10 June (un
  
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• 'Critics says Pop artists love their subject matter. Bullshit!' Remembering James Rosenquist

  03-04-2017 12:24
  
  In late 2003, the artist James Rosenquist who died on 31 March aged 83, told us about seeing his large-scale works return to New York for a retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, which later travelled to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. He recalled first seeing Old Masters at the Art Institute of Chicago and earning a living in New York in the late 1950s painting billboards before he achieved success translating the imagery and scale of American advertising into memorable works on canvas, in
  
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• 'Critics say Pop artists love their subject matter. Bullshit!' Remembering James Rosenquist

  03-04-2017 12:24
  
  In late 2003, the artist James Rosenquist who died on 31 March aged 83, told us about seeing his large-scale works return to New York for a retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, which later travelled to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. He recalled first seeing Old Masters at the Art Institute of Chicago and earning a living in New York in the late 1950s painting billboards before he achieved success translating the imagery and scale of American advertising into memorable works on canvas, in
  
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• Is Brad making art with Mr Houseago?

  03-04-2017 09:52
  
  The movie star Brad Pitt is apparently busy making a sculpture in collaboration with the British artist Thomas Houseago. Mail Online reports that Brad has stepped away from the spotlight to spend time creating a sculpture under the direction of his friend [Houseago]. Pitt has been spotted leaving the artists studio in Los Angeles, according to the UK newspaper, where he has been working for up to 15 hours a day (Houseago, known for his monumental, figurative sculptures, is travelling and un
  
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• Clint, Christ and crocodile capitalism: the satirical collages of Ion Barladeanu

  03-04-2017 08:00
  
  The homeless Romanian artist creates punchy mash-ups of pop culture and political comment Continue reading...
  
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