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• U.S. Pavilion at 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale Will Be Co-Commissioned by School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Chicago

  30-08-2017 23:38 via artnews.com
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• At the Performa Biennial in New York, African Artists Will Take Center Stage

  30-08-2017 23:15 via artnews.com
  The new platforms will make up the majority of the festival slated for November 1-19. Read More
  
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• Triennial-at-sea returns to Kent coast

  30-08-2017 23:00
  The fourth edition of the Folkestone triennial, an exhibition of site-specific public art, includes artist-organised salsa dancing lessons, a floating house in the local harbour, and a declaration by Bob and Roberta Smith that the entire town has become an art school (see below).The festive atmosphere is the result of years of investment. At the turn of the millennium, this town in Kent, in south-east England, was in a sorry state. Folkestones grandeur is not so much faded as bricked up, accordi
  
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• London exhibitions: black rights on both sides of the Atlantic and Middle Eastern spaceship diners

  30-08-2017 23:00
  Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, Tate Modern (until 22 October)What a show! Each section and, indeed, pretty much each individual in this rich but rigorous celebration of black artists working in the US in the 1960s and 1970s, could spin off into a separate exhibition in its own right. The various responses to the black civil rights movement and what it meant to be a black artist in this turbulent time range through documentary, polemic, portraiture and abstraction, presenting n
  
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• Christie's adds evening design and photography auction in London in October, raises buyer's premium

  30-08-2017 23:00
  Christies will add an extra night of auctions to its autumn calendar, introducing an evening sale of design and photography for the first time during Frieze week. On Tuesday 3 October, the auction house will also hold a new sale called Up Close, featuring masterpieces on a small scale, followed by Masterpieces of Design and Photography.
  The strength of our October sales last year, which totalled 91m overall, and the strong sell-through rate [90% by lot in the evening sale], convinced us th
  
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• Sara Rabin at Larrie, New York

  30-08-2017 22:10 via artnews.com
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• Crystal Bridges Details Plans for New Arts Venue in Former Kraft Foods Plant, Hires Director

  30-08-2017 19:24 via artnews.com
  Lieven Bertels will be in charge of the space, which is called the Momentary. Read More
  
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• Skulptur Projekte Münster Sports Extended Hours This Saturday

  30-08-2017 19:16 via artnews.com
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• Morning Links: Chief of Investments Edition

  30-08-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Mystery solved: unknown soldier was painted by his mother

  30-08-2017 13:27
  Case was among many perplexing amateur local historians and curators bought together on the Art Detectives websiteA portrait of a sad-eyed young soldier has been released from museum stores after members of the public succeeded in identifying the young officer and the heartbroken artist – his mother. However, argument still rages over the identity of a woman in a handsome black dress and whether an imposing mill building is really in Manchester, or built under much hotter skies. Continue r
  
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• Why George W. Bush won’t be painting Michelle Obama

  30-08-2017 08:32
  Former US President turned prolific portrait painter, George W. Bush, has painted faces of military veterans for his follow-up show to world leaders at the George W. Bush Presidential Centre in Dallas. Proceeds from the exhibition Portraits of Courage (until 1 October) and accompanying book goes towards supporting post-9/11 veterans and their families. The 66 portraits and a mural confirm how Bushs confidence with paint on canvas has grown since his first works were leaked online in 2013.
  
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• Hotel world: wherever you travel, the rooms are the same - in pictures

  30-08-2017 08:00
  From Cairo to Cape Town, Paris to Panama, Roger Eberhard criss-crossed the globe photographing Hilton hotel rooms for his series Standard, only to find their decor eerily similar Continue reading...
  
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• Lydia Towsey: how I discovered the Venus in me

  30-08-2017 07:00
  From Botticelli to glossy magazines, women have been idealised and misrepresented for centuries. Performance poet Lydia Towsey reveals how her own near-fatal eating disorder set her on a path to explore new ways of looking at female bodiesBotticelli’s painting of the Birth of Venus was the first female nude painted and exhibited life size, and in many ways the medieval blueprint for every covergirl to come. It was about the birth of beauty, sexuality and glamour. But what would happen if,
  
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