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• Lakes of mercury and human sacrifices – after 1,800 years, Teotihuacan reveals its treasures

  24-09-2017 19:52
  When archaeologists found a tunnel under Mexico’s ‘birthplace of the gods’, they could only dream of the riches they would discover. Now its wonders – from jewel-eyed figures to necklaces of human teeth – are being revealed to the worldIn 2003, a tunnel was discovered beneath the Feathered Serpent pyramid in the ruins of Teotihuacan, the ancient city in Mexico. Undisturbed for 1,800 years, the sealed-off passage was found to contain thousands of extraordinary treasu
  
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• Architect defends treatment of workers at Louvre Abu Dhabi

  24-09-2017 17:15
  Jean Nouvel dismisses ‘old question’ over exploitation, saying conditions were better than for some in Europe The French architect Jean Nouvel has defended his Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi, a massive domed complex that opens in November, from accusations it was built by exploited and abused migrant workers.The building opens on 11 November, 10 years after the Paris museum signed an unprecedented £663m deal to allow Abu Dhabi to use its name for 30 years and borrow 300 works from
  
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• Land of tassels, swags and sash windows: a swipe at Britain's pseudo-Georgian wonderland

  24-09-2017 16:00
  It’s cheap, boring, shoddy and everywhere. But now artist Pablo Bronstein has turned his love-hate relationship with Britain’s ‘pseudo-Georgian’ architecture into a delightful showFibreglass porches, panelled garage doors and uPVC sash windows have rarely been celebrated in the hallowed halls of the Royal Institute of British Architects, but then Pablo Bronstein isn’t your usual suspect for an exhibition at the Portland Place pile. “I like to think it’s
  
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• Swastika Spray-Painted on Nicole Eisenman’s Outdoor Sculpture in Münster

  24-09-2017 14:53 via artnews.com
  The vandalism occurred in the run-up to a contentious German election. Read More
  
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• El Greco to Goya review – tears, shackles and anguish in dark dramas from Spain

  24-09-2017 13:27
  Wallace Collection, London
  Ecstasy and self-loathing abound in this show of masterpieces and an exquisite selection of other paintings from the ‘best place to see Spanish art in Britain’‘The best place to see Spanish art in the UK,” says Xavier Bray, director of the Wallace Collection in London, “is the Bowes Museum.” This remarkable institution in Barnard Castle, County Durham, exists because of the philanthropic instincts of its founders, John and José
  
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• Lost Rubens portrait of James I's 'lover' is rediscovered in Glasgow

  24-09-2017 12:28
  Painting of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, thought to have been a copy, is identified as original after 400 yearsA long-lost portrait of perhaps one of the most famous gay men in history by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens has been found in Glasgow. The portrait showing George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham, thought to have been James I’s lover, had been hanging in a Scottish National Trust property and was believed to be a copy of the lost original, which had been missin
  
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• Lubaina Himid: the Turner prize nominee making black lives visible

  24-09-2017 10:00
  The favourite to win this year’s Turner talks about the quest for belonging in her work – and being the oldest artist ever shortlistedI n a tranquil corner of Preston, Lancashire, there is a modest Georgian terrace with a handsome park below it and a river – the Ribble – running alongside it. It is here that the artist Lubaina Himid has lived for more than 20 years. She is, at 63, being celebrated as the oldest Turner prize nominee since the prize, in a belatedly sensible
  
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• Jasper Johns: Something Resembling Truth review – poetry to prose

  24-09-2017 09:00
  Royal Academy, London
  Jasper Johns’s first British show in 40 years captures both his brilliance and decline into self-parodyFlag is magnificent: a vision of glory in blood red, deep blue and the white of whipped waves. Each star on this spangled banner has a different character – pristine, ungainly, hiding beneath the brushstrokes – and the stripes are all rich impasto, heavily worked as a Rembrandt. The sheer grandeur of Jasper Johns’s 1967 masterpiece, which opens this
  
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• Basquiat: Boom for Real review – restless energy

  24-09-2017 09:00
  Barbican Art Gallery, London
  Self-portraits rub shoulders with party polaroids in a retrospective that exudes immediacy and charm
  Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) is the archetype of the doomed young artist, dead at 27 of a heroin overdose. A film in Boom for Real shows him walking through Manhattan, a hot young star with a sax and a beautiful face, his fame as the secretive graffiti artist Samo (Same Old Shit) already behind him. He is not yet 20.This retrospective – his first here, surpris
  
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• Inside my art gallery home | Kate Jacobs

  24-09-2017 07:00
  Art sets the tone in each room of this home, a gallery with a difference. Kate Jacobs is given a private view
  When Jemma Hickman launched the bo.lee gallery in Bath nine years ago, her choice of artists was intuitive. “I would ask myself, would I want to hang this piece in my own home?” she says. This proved to be a prescient principle as, having brought the business to London in 2012, she decided to look for a space that was a home and gallery in one.This decision was partly down to
  
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