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• Creative Time Raises Protest Flag by Nari Ward

  14-08-2017 22:41 via artnews.com
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• Creative Time Raises Flag by Nari Ward

  14-08-2017 22:41 via artnews.com
  The work is currently flying at five locations around the United States. Read More
  
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• De Kooning painting stolen from Arizona museum was hanging in New Mexico couple’s bedroom

  14-08-2017 22:24
  A New Mexico couple had a stolen De Kooning painting hanging in their bedroom, the local newspaper Silver City Daily Press reports. Woman-Ochre, which was taken from the University of Arizona Museum of Art 30 years ago, resurfaced this month when a New Mexico antiques dealer acquired it as part of an estate sale. When the good Samaritan realised what it was, the painting was swiftly returned to the university.According to the museum, the theft took place at 9am on 29 November 1985, when a man a
  
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• New York gives Trump a ratty welcome

  14-08-2017 22:20
  Scurrying fast on the heels of the Trump chicken that popped up in Washington last week, an inflatable rat modelled on the likeness of Donald Trump with "a comb-over, unsightly eye bags, a long rat tail, confederate flag cufflinks and Russian Federation lapel pin" appeared in New York on Monday ahead of the US Presidents visit to his hometown. The work, inspired by the omnipresent labour union protest symbol, is the creation of the artist Jeffrey Beebe and was realised by the Chelsea gallery Br
  
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• Christina Graham at Brethren Gallery, New York

  14-08-2017 20:00 via artnews.com
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• Here’s the 2017 Outsider Art Fair Paris Exhibitor List

  14-08-2017 19:09 via artnews.com
  The fair opens in the French capital on October 19. Read More
  
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• William Turnbull, the artist who would never name-drop

  14-08-2017 17:42
  Sculptures and paintings by William Turnbull (1922-2012) as well as extracts from the artists sketchbooks, which have been recently discovered and catalogued, go on show this autumn at Londons Offer Waterman gallery (29 September-3 November). The artists son, Alex Turnbull, says that the show grew out of a two-year-long clearance of the house in Camden Square where his late father and mother, fellow artist Kim Lim, lived and worked. Discoveries were being made right up the final day. We have al
  
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• To Space and Back: Tom Sachs and His Triumphant Failure to Make Shoes Fit for Mars

  14-08-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  After a "Space Camp" training program on Governors Island, the artist made a case for object equality. Read More
  
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• Morning Links: When Murakami Met Kanye Edition

  14-08-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  At the MoviesThere’s a new biopic about Touko Laaksonen, the artist who is known as Tom of Finland. This review says that the film “certainly doesn’t water down Laaksonen’s distinctive aesthetic, nor does it downplay the role of this unassuming … Read More
  
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• 9 Art Events to Attend in the New York Area This Week

  14-08-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• 'Art helped me tell my story': brain injury survivors share self-portraits

  14-08-2017 11:33
  Making Faces, an exhibition of work by artists exploring identity after a traumatic brain injury, is running at the Southbank Centre in London until 23 August 2017 Continue reading...
  
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• ‘London Museum of Photography’ to open in capital’s East End

  14-08-2017 11:25
  An ambitious new photography venue called the London Museum of Photography is due to open in the UK capital close to the Whitechapel Gallery. The new space in the East End will be run by the Swedish organisation Fotografiska, which founded a privately-run museum of photography on the waterfront in Stockholm in 2010.The gallery will occupy the new White Chapel Building located close to the Whitechapel Gallery. According to Derwent London, the property investment company that owns the building, F
  
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• Kusama gets own museum in Tokyo

  14-08-2017 10:17
  Fans of Yayoi Kusama, the queen of the polka dot, will soon be able to pay homage to the octogenarian Japanese artist in her very own museum. The five-storey Yayoi Kusama museum will open on 1 October in Tokyos Shinjuku ward, according to the official website for the new institution, which gives details of the inaugural show and admission prices (1,000 yen). The launch exhibition has the rather cryptic title, Creation is a Solitary Pursuit, Love is What Brings You Closer to Art (1 October-2
  
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• New York's Fashion Institute of Technology redesigns its art market Master’s programme

  14-08-2017 06:39
  The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), part of the State University of New York, has revamped its Masters programme in art market studies in an effort to better reflect the realities of the evolving art market, and to make the programme more accessible and inclusive, says Natasha Degen, the departments chair. Coming on the heels of Mayor Bill de Blasios first cultural plan, which dictates that future funding for the citys museums and arts institutions will be determined by the diversity of
  
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• FIT redesigns its art market Master’s programme with the aim of diversifying the field

  14-08-2017 06:39
  The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), part of the State University of New York, has revamped its Masters programme in art market studies in an effort to better reflect the realities of the evolving art market, and to make the programme more accessible and inclusive, says Natasha Degen, the departments chair. Coming on the heels of Mayor Bill de Blasios first cultural plan, which dictates that future funding for the citys museums and arts institutions will be determined by the diversity of
  
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• Emma Hack artwork - in pictures

  14-08-2017 01:01
  Artist creates geometric illusions using naked models Continue reading...
  
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