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• Lubaina Himid Wins the 2017 Turner Prize

  05-12-2017 22:56 via artnews.com
  The prize comes with £25,000, or about $33,500. Read More
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• Rule change frees Turner prize from wearisome focus on the new | Adrian Searle

  05-12-2017 22:50
  It is odd to have a Turner prize show that relies more on the past than the present, but for many viewers Lubaina Himid’s art will be a surpriseIt feels inevitable that Lubaina Himid should win the Turner prize for 2017, a year in which she has had concurrent solo shows at Modern Art Oxford and Spike Island in Bristol and a significant presence in The Place is Here, a travelling exhibition about Black British art in the 1980s, beginning at Nottingham Contemporary. There, her 1987 tableau A
  
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• ​Lubaina Himid becomes oldest artist to win Turner prize

  05-12-2017 22:49
  Himid, 63, also the first woman of colour to win, is praised by judges for addressing ‘difficult, painful’ issuesLubaina Himid, an artist who makes theatrical, witty and challenging works that address colonial history, racism and institutional invisibility, has won the 2017 Turner prize.Himid is both the first woman of colour to win and, at 63, the oldest winner in the prize’s 33-year history, after it dropped its upper age limit of 50. Related: Lubaina Himid: the Turner prize
  
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• On View at the Pérez Art Museum Miami: A Hard-to-Acquire Njideka Akunyili Crosby Gifted in Tribute

  05-12-2017 22:41 via artnews.com
  Among its materials are fabric from Nigeria and a picture of Grace Jones. Read More
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• Luis Agosto-Leduc and Jesús ‘Bubu’ Negrón Win the Queens Museum’s $30,000 Visible Award

  05-12-2017 22:25 via artnews.com
  The award is given annually to socially engaged projects around the world. Read More
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• ‘We Have a Blessed Location’: Bass Director Silvia Karman Cubiñá on the Miami Museum’s Grand Reopening

  05-12-2017 22:21 via artnews.com
  After renovations, a local institution makes an encore debut. Read More
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• At the Bass Museum, a Quick Poetic Message

  05-12-2017 21:43 via artnews.com
  A John Giorno classic has been installed at the same time as an exhibition by his partner, Ugo Rondinone. Read More
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• Art Basel Miami Beach Rejiggers Booth Arrangements at Fair Amid Convention Center Renovations

  05-12-2017 21:29 via artnews.com
  There might be some surprises in store for longtime fairgoers.Read More
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• Peter Freeman, Inc. Now Represents Charles LeDray

  05-12-2017 20:36 via artnews.com
  The artist was the subject of a traveling museum survey in 2010. Read More
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• 'I don’t like art but I liked this': Hull gives mixed verdict on Turner prize

  05-12-2017 18:41
  Show is thought-provoking for some, a bit tame for others, and might bring ‘London luvvies’ to this year’s UK City of CultureThere can be few people in Hull who have seen the Turner prize show more times than David Thompson. A retired engineer and self-declared art ignoramus, he has visited the exhibition at the Ferens Gallery 12 times since it opened at the end of September – six times as a City of Culture volunteer and six off his own bat. “I don’t like art,
  
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• Frank Stella Takes to the Sky

  05-12-2017 18:19 via artnews.com
  It's an advertisement—a delightful one. Read More
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• Guggenheim Foundation Adds Gail May Engelberg to Board of Trustees

  05-12-2017 17:33 via artnews.com
  She had been on the foundation's board from 1997 to 2006. Read More
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• Martin Soto Climent at Atlantis, Marseille, France

  05-12-2017 17:27 via artnews.com
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• Andy Warhol Museum Names Clark Crowley-Bunyard as Advancement Director

  05-12-2017 17:12 via artnews.com
  He will help with fundraising as well as accessibility and inclusiveness. Read More
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• Preview Art Basel Miami Beach 2017, Part 2

  05-12-2017 16:00 via artnews.com
  The fair will bring together more than 268 galleries from 32 countries. Read More
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• Mexico City’s Material Art Fair Will Sport New Venue, Enlarged Exhibitor List for 2018 Edition

  05-12-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  The fifth edition with feature 75 galleries and, as is tradition, a special project by the New York bar Beverly's. Read More
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• Carnegie International Named First W.A.G.E.-Certified Biennial-Style Show

  05-12-2017 15:05 via artnews.com
  It is the second museum-related venture that the activist group has approved. Read More
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• Queer|Art Names Inaugural Recipient of Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant

  05-12-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  The $5,000 prize has gone to the Los Angeles–based artist and filmmaker Fair Brane. Read More
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• Morning Links: Prescient Peter Doig Edition

  05-12-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• William S. Smith Takes the Helm at Art in America

  05-12-2017 14:01 via artnews.com
  He has been on staff at the magazine since 2013. Read More
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• Nicole Berry Gives First Interview as Director of Armory Show, Lays Out Vision for Fair as ‘Place for Serious Exchange’

  05-12-2017 14:00 via artnews.com
  The fair's Focus section will take on technology and the body, and a new Curatorial Summit will address cultural sensitivities. Read More
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• From Tidal to Trump University: the museum that remembers major failures

  05-12-2017 13:00
  The Museum of Failure covers everything from flopped movies to disastrous food products, celebrating the missteps that many have decided to forget For your viewing pleasure, downtown LA’s new Museum of Failure has gathered together some of history’s most ill-conceived ideas. There’s the Shared Girlfriend, a $45-a-day rental sex doll that the Chinese company Taqu launched in September – and recalled just two days later, due to a government backlash – which sits right
  
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• Juana Gómez's embroidered family photos – in pictures

  05-12-2017 08:00
  Chilean artist Juana Gómez uses weaving and embroidery to explore themes of genealogy, mythology and biology in her own female lineageJuana Gómez: Distaff is at Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, until 22 December
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• Juana Gómez's embroidered family photos – in pictures

  05-12-2017 08:00
  Chilean artist Juana Gómez uses weaving and embroidery to explore themes of genealogy, mythology and biology in her own female lineageJuana Gómez: Distaff is at Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, until 22 December
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• 'I've turned the tables on Peter Sutcliffe': artist Mo Lea on why she finally drew her attacker

  05-12-2017 07:00
  Mo Lea was an art student when she was attacked by the Yorkshire Ripper. Instead of telling anyone, she began to draw. The artist explains why returning to those disturbing images decades on has been like ‘opening a grave’In October 1980 Mo Lea sat in a pub in Chapeltown, Leeds, planning her 21st birthday party. At the end of the evening, her friends went one way and she went the other “to catch the bus back to my little flat”. An arts student at Leeds University, she was
  
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• Wynyard station’s Interloop: a rare win for public art in a city that can leave you cold | Alex McKinnon

  05-12-2017 05:41
  Sydney underground station’s repurposed wooden escalators are a charming anachronism in a city too eager to bulldoze its own historyIt is extraordinarily difficult to make people stop in busy train stations. A virtuoso violinist can be playing a masterpiece on a $3.5m Stradivarius and most people will be so intent on making their train they won’t even slow down.So it says something about Wynyard Station’s new artwork, Interloop, that people stop in their tracks mid-rush hour to
  
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• Gene Sherman: 'Fashion is misunderstood, a lot of people still think of it as shopping'

  05-12-2017 01:36
  The academic and former gallery proprietor wants to bring serious thinking about fashion to the public through her new centre for culture and ideasGene Sherman doesn’t shop for clothes in the way most people shop for clothes. Sure, she’ll pick up a T-shirt every now and then, but when she wants something substantial, it has to meet certain criteria. It should be black, avant garde and created by a particular Japanese designer. And it must be interesting enough to replace one of the 3
  
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• Knight Foundation Awards $2.5 Million in Public Art Project Grants

  05-12-2017 01:00 via artnews.com
  The 43 winners will execute projects around South Florida. Read More
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• Knight Foundation Awards $2.5 M. in Public Art Project Grants

  05-12-2017 01:00 via artnews.com
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• Sea Rise With Threaten Major Archaeological Sites

  05-12-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "While climate change imperils humanity’s future, it also imperils its past. A new study out in PLOS One quantifies that in alarming detail: Just in the southeastern United States, a sea level rise of one meter would inundate thousands of archaeological sites, from Native American settlements to early European colonies."
  
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