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• ‘Postcards from America’ at Celaya Brothers Gallery, Mexico City

  02-10-2017 23:05 via artnews.com
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• Ford Foundation Awards $1.5 M. to ‘Art of Change’ Fellowships for Work on Freedom and Justice

  02-10-2017 22:04 via artnews.com
  Fellowships were awarded to 25 recipients from a variety of creative fields. Read More
  
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• Swinging London: Superflex Places Pendulums, Playgrounds in Tate Turbine Hall

  02-10-2017 21:07 via artnews.com
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• Frieze Bans Big Bags From Fair

  02-10-2017 20:52 via artnews.com
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• Sotheby’s Presents Packed Preview in London Ahead of Frieze Week Sales

  02-10-2017 19:59 via artnews.com
  On the block are works by Twombly, Basquiat, and Damien Hirst. Read More
  
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• Vern Blosum, Semi-Fictional Artist Who Slyly Parodied Pop, Dies at 81

  02-10-2017 19:01 via artnews.com
  Recent research has revealed that the artist did not exist, or at least not completely. Read More
  
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• Dalí/Duchamp review – surreal bromance between art's odd couple

  02-10-2017 18:42
  Royal Academy, London
  With their dirty jokes, sly puns and decadent eroticism, these subversive provocateurs have more in common than you might think – but there’s no doubt who was the greater artistIn a note on a piece of scrap paper, Marcel Duchamp explained why he adopted the name Rrose Sélavy for his female alter ego, who gazes out from a sultry black and white photo taken in the 1920s. The name of his drag persona is, he explains, “an easy pun”. Rrose Sé
  
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• A Church of His Own: Andres Serrano on His Provocative ‘Torture’ Series and Keeping the Faith

  02-10-2017 18:28 via artnews.com
  Photographs of harsh imprisonment are now on view at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York. Read More
  
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• One Two Three Swing! by SUPERFLEX review – no escaping gravity in the Turbine Hall

  02-10-2017 18:08
  Tate Modern, LondonAfter Olafur Eliasson’s weather and Carsten Höller’s slides, the Danish collective have filled the Turbine Hall with swings. It’s a playful, welcoming space, but no world-changing work of art
  Filling the Turbine Hall, SUPERFLEX’s Hyundai commission is a swinger’s paradise. No, not that kind of swinger, although in the age of audience participation and relational aesthetics, anything is possible. Galleries and museums have always been good for
  
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• Christie’s in London Installs Damien Hirst Work With Live Fish, Thanks to ‘Assistance from Aquatic Experts’

  02-10-2017 17:37 via artnews.com
  The piece in question is expected to sell for as much as £1.8 million, or about $2.39 million. Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Missing Matisse Cut-Outs Edition

  02-10-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Softer: Jenny Holzer review – Blenheim Palace becomes a house of LED horrors

  02-10-2017 14:41
  Blenheim Palace, WoodstockThe testimonies of soldiers writhe through LEDs looped around heroic Churchill statues and censored military documents collide with aristocratic portraits as the American artist captures the brutality of warGeneral John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, first Prince of Mindelheim, first Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, has become a monster. Tentacles sprout around his stone bust in the library of Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. Along these sturd
  
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• ¿Habla arte? How LA art galleries are reaching out to Spanish speakers

  02-10-2017 14:24
  Art spaces in the city where almost 40% of the population speak Spanish are moving toward bilingual exhibitions and workshops – and feeling the benefitThe Los Angeles metropolitan area is home to more than 4 million Spanish speakers, almost 40% of the population, and the US is on track to be the largest Spanish speaking country in the world by 2050. Despite these statistics, bilingualism has historically been a contentious issue, especially in California, where English-only education in pu
  
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• In full swing: Tate's Turbine Hall turned into adult playground

  02-10-2017 14:05
  Tate Modern installation One Two Three Swing! uses three-person swing to combat social apathy through collective actionTate Modern’s vast Turbine Hall has been turned into a playground with visitors encouraged to make new friends and, literally, get on a swing.Less active visitors can lie on a carpet and be hypnotised by a large mirrored ball swinging from the ceiling. “We’ve made sure the carpet is very thick so it is extremely comfortable, you can rest,” said Rasmus Nie
  
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• By bowing to the braying internet mob, the Guggenheim forgot its purpose | Rupert Myers

  02-10-2017 12:38
  The New York museum should be standing up for boldness and artistic expression, not withdrawing artworks at the first sign of online hysteriaPerhaps it is because we are so comfortable in the west, so blase about the culture we live in and intellectually fattened by the freedoms that we enjoy, that so many of us have just stopped thinking clearly. Why would New York’s Guggenheim Museum collapse under the pressure of a few animal rights protesters this week? Half a million petitioners whing
  
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• 'I can get my soul out of prison': the art made by Guantánamo detainees

  02-10-2017 08:15
  Ode to the Sea, an exhibition in New York City, features work by prisoners who say the water – which they could hear but not see – symbolizes quiet and freedomGiant is a model ship with four masts, ornate rigging, and portholes whose windows open to reveal the cities of Jerusalem, Mecca, and Medina. Its creator, Moath al-Alwi, lives within earshot of the ocean, but cannot see the waves, let alone enter the water.Al-Alwi is a prisoner at the US detention facility at Guantánamo
  
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• One small step: world's first welcome mat for aliens unveiled in Australia

  02-10-2017 04:46
  If there is extraterrestrial life out there, why haven’t we found any yet? Perhaps it’s because we never invited them in
  The planet’s first cosmic welcome mat – here to welcome extraterrestrial life to the Adelaide Convention Centre and the 68th International Astronautical Conference – seems comically small and slightly askew. It’s not that the mat itself is small: it’s standard doormat size, perhaps a bit larger. But conference venue entrances are built
  
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