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• Artist Ramiro Gomez Paints Art Basel’s Behind-the-Scenes Workers

  06-12-2017 23:50 via artnews.com
  With a piece of cardboard as his floor, he is staying busy during the fair. Read More
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• Rat’s All, Folks! Trump Rat Alights in Miami

  06-12-2017 23:38 via artnews.com
  What is 15 feet tall and full of hot air? Read More
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• A Startling Decline In Admissions At London Museums

  06-12-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Between June and August 2017 a record 11.5 million overseas visitors came to the UK, up 6% on the same period last year. Among holiday-makers the increase was greater still, with 13% more choosing to spend their vacations in the UK. Despite this, a year-on-year comparison shows that visitor numbers from June to August were down at: British Museum (-3%), National Gallery (-19%), National Portrait Gallery (-41%), and Tate Modern (-37%)
  
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• ‘Existentialist in a Bikini’: Artist Dara Friedman on Her Ascendant Life and Work in Miami

  06-12-2017 23:00 via artnews.com
  In an interview, she talks about her show at the Pérez Art Museum and finding herself in Florida. Read More
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• The Science Of Art Of Science And The Creative Impulse

  06-12-2017 22:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The optimum complexity principle is just one of many examples that Wilson rallies in The Origins of Creativity, his latest plea for the grand unification of the sciences and the humanities. The two camps are often viewed as enemy combatants, or at least paisley and plaid—best kept apart—but Wilson is deeply impatient with academic partitioning. Artists, he argues, should have a grasp of basic neuroscience and how the brain evolved. Scientists must appreciate the humanities
  
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• ‘XOXO’ at Soy Capitán, Berlin

  06-12-2017 22:54 via artnews.com
  See images from one notable show every weekday. Read More
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• It Begins: A Look Around Art Basel Miami Beach 2017

  06-12-2017 22:51 via artnews.com
  Take a tour of the fair through a few dozen photographs. Read More
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• A Look Around Art Basel Miami Beach 2017 in 71 Photographs

  06-12-2017 22:51 via artnews.com
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• Scenes from Miami Art Week: Day 1

  06-12-2017 22:35 via artnews.com
  A look around some of the surrounding events that make up Miami Art Week. Read More
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• Are These The Next Models For Arts Criticism?

  06-12-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Is this caste system the future of theatre criticism? On one side a wading pool of compensated pros, on the other a swarming mass of unedited amateurs with domain names and hot takes? There must be alternatives. Luckily, new models have emerged to pick up the slack left by local media and elevate arts writing above snarky, thumbs-up-or-down consumer reporting.
  
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• Páramo Gallery Opens Space in New York’s Upper East Side

  06-12-2017 22:07 via artnews.com
  The Mexican gallery will start a residency at a Luis Barragán–designed home in Mexico City. Read More
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• How The Trisha Brown Company Is Reinventing Itself After Her Death

  06-12-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The continued growth of the company is rare, given what often happens to dance organizations after their founder dies and there is no new repertory to tour. Ms. Brown, part of an influential generation that ushered in postmodern dance — she was an original member of the experimental 1960s collective Judson Dance Theater — was a maverick.
  
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• A War Over Cuban Culture Is Playing Out In Miami

  06-12-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "At the end of September, county commissioners voted to remove $550,000 from the $4m grant promised to the Pérez Art Museum Miami (Pamm) for the current financial year. The money was allocated instead to the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora, a small institution in Coral Gables, which opened in January."
  
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• Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ is Coming to the Louvre Abu Dhabi

  06-12-2017 21:03 via artnews.com
  The buyer of the painting remains unknown. Read More
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• Egypt Is Cracking Down On Reading

  06-12-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Nothing seems to disturb Egypt’s ruling cadres more than the written word. The recent litany of bans and shutdowns, including blocking hundreds of web pages online, illustrates what Cambridge University’s Khaled Fahmy, a prolific historian of the Middle East, called “an alarmist moment of crisis,” one in which Egypt’s authoritarian state of emergency laws have turned something as simple as reading into a dangerous act."
  
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• As Fires Spread Across Los Angeles, Museums and Galleries Close

  06-12-2017 19:56 via artnews.com
  More than 150 buildings and homes have already been destroyed by the fire. Read More
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• A cross word: Turner prize winner Lubaina Himid's Guardian headline mashups

  06-12-2017 19:17
  The artist takes issue with how the Guardian uses images of black people – so she recrafts its pages with graphic images of her own. Her curator explains the subtle power of these worksLubaina Himid takes pages from what she calls “our liberal paper” and paints across them. She investigates, each time, with colour and a sophisticated graphic touch. It is a patchwork of intervention: many of the original elements are left alone, exposing unwitting cultural habits and expectation
  
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• Turner prize winner Lubaina Himid: 'I have more things to say – this gives me the chance'

  06-12-2017 19:14
  The oldest artist ever to win the prize talks about turning Guardian pages into art, being forced out of London, and how she’ll be spending the prize money on funding her friends – and buying really fancy shoesThe Guardian headline mashupsLubaina Himid is bright-eyed and ferociously on the ball the morning after winning the Turner prize. Perhaps one advantage of being the oldest-ever winner, as the headlines baldly put it (she is 63), is the ability to receive the award with immense,
  
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• From Matisse to Picasso: the best works by artists over 60

  06-12-2017 19:01
  As the art of 62-year-old Turner prize winner Lubaina Himid shows, age melds wisdom and recklessness to remarkable effectThere’s a magic elixir than can keep you for ever young. It’s called being an artist. Yesterday, 63-year-old Lubaina Himid won the Turner prize, making her the oldest winner of the award – but that’s nothing.Louise Bourgeois was in her 80s when she created a terrifying giant spider that was the start of a creative roll still sparking with perverse thril
  
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• Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland to Launch $50,000 Toby’s Prize

  06-12-2017 18:06 via artnews.com
  The biennial juried prize comes with recognizes an artist. Read More
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• Liza Dracup's best photograph: a barn owl hit by a lorry

  06-12-2017 17:42
  ‘At first, I kept quiet about my method. I liked to hear people guess. But I actually put it in a scanner’The label attached to this barn owl says: “Found dead on front of lorry, on run from Edinburgh to Bradford on 1 November 1974.” Because the owl had kept so many of its feathers, it probably hit the lorry later in the journey, nearer to Bradford. It’s part of the natural sciences collection of Bradford Museums. You could walk past the building and never know it w
  
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• #MeToo has reached the art world. Don’t think it’s running out of steam | Peter Bradshaw

  06-12-2017 17:35
  New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art may be right in refusing to remove a Balthus masterwork. But it is right that we are having this debateIs #MeToo entering a late phase? We might be settling into a stage in which quite a lot of men in media and showbusiness – but no other area of life – are being shamed into “stepping away” from their lucrative and prestigious jobs, but without revealing their payoffs or getting their collars felt. And there is danger of a new b
  
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• ARTnews’s Complete Art Basel Miami Beach 2017 Coverage

  06-12-2017 17:21 via artnews.com
  A continuously updated list of ARTnews's articles about the scene in Miami this week. Read More
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• Exactly What Kind of Trash Is on View at the Untitled Fair?

  06-12-2017 16:55 via artnews.com
  To make a Gordon Matta-Clark piece, students cleaned up Hurricane Irma's mess. Read More
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• Bring Into Focus: At the ICA Miami, a Series of Jewel-Box Shows

  06-12-2017 16:52 via artnews.com
  Works by Chris Ofili, Senga Nengudi, and Robert Gober shine. Read More
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• Preview NADA Miami 2017

  06-12-2017 16:00 via artnews.com
  The fair will bring together more than 100 galleries from 16 countries.Read More
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• Morning Links: Colgate-Brand Lasagna Edition

  06-12-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
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• Hammer Museum Receives $200,000 Grant from Ford Foundation

  06-12-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  The funds will be used to support public programming. Read More
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• Guggenheim Museum’s Middle East Exhibition Goes to Milan, Marking the End of MAP Initiative Shows

  06-12-2017 14:46 via artnews.com
  The survey will open in Italy in April 2018. Read More
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• A Look Around Miami Galleries, From the Pop-Up Spaces of Out-of-Towners to Local Stalwarts

  06-12-2017 14:41 via artnews.com
  Among the offerings are shows by Derrick Adams, Nancy Davidson, and Tschabalala Self. Read More
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• New York art museum refuses to remove painting of girl after 'voyeurism' complaint

  06-12-2017 02:16
  Petition calls for Metropolitan Museum of Art to replace Therese Dreaming by Balthasar Klossowski, which shows girl with her underwear visibleNew York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has refused to remove a 1938 painting by the artist known as Balthus that depicts a young girl in what some are saying is a sexually suggestive pose.The painting , entitled Therese Dreaming, shows the girl sitting on a chair leaning back with her underwear visible. The late Polish-French artist, born Balthasar Kl
  
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• Daniel Buren’s ‘Les Guirlandes’ Festoons Art Basel’s ‘Public’ Sector With Flags and Music

  06-12-2017 00:12 via artnews.com
  The work was previously staged at Documenta 7.Read More
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