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• Rauschenberg rocks up in New York

  20-05-2017 23:00
  After a successful run at Tate Modern, a career survey of Robert Rauschenbergs work comes to the Museum of Modern Art in New York (Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends, 21 May-17 September). More than 250 works in a variety of media made over six decades are part of the exhibition, which has been designed in collaboration with the artist Charles Atlas. His contribution highlights Rauschenbergs dance and performance-related work, which included the costume, lighting and set design for Glacial Deco
  
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• Creative spark: vintage matchbook art – in pictures

  20-05-2017 18:00
  
  When his daughter spotted some colourful matchbooks at a car boot sale in France, artist Aaron Kasmin was instantly enamoured. Created in America between the 30s and 60s, “feature matchbooks” were used to advertise alcohol and other products in the post-prohibition era. “They’re small, ephemeral masterpieces, and they’re just amazingly inventive,” says Kasmin. “To me they sum up reading Raymond Chandler and watching films with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren
  
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• Picture perfect: how to make an art of your investments

  20-05-2017 08:00
  
  With annual degree shows starting across the country, we look at how to find the right artist and buy works that could triple in value
  This is the time of year when budding artists around the country are busy putting the finishing touches to their final degree showpieces, the fruits of their past few years of artistic labour. Starting today, Slade School of Fine Art in London and Falmouth University in Cornwall are among the art colleges running the first of about 100 graduation shows in coming
  
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• When Goebbels Killed Arts Criticism

  20-05-2017 00:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Because this year has not brought an improvement in art criticism, I forbid once and for all the continuance of art criticism in its past form, effective as of today."
  
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