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• Scenes from Miami Art Week: Weekend Edition

  11-12-2017 23:45 via artnews.com
  At NADA Miami, Art Basel Miami Beach, and Design Miami, as well as a pop-up show, an impromptu performance piece, and parties around town. Read More
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• Turner prize win shows art can flourish up north | Letters

  11-12-2017 20:17
  My friend and former colleague Jill Morgan was an early champion of feminist and POC artists including Lubaina Himid, writes Derek HortonThe award of the Turner prize to Lubaina Himid, as well as being a welcome step away from “the wearisome focus on the new” (Comment, Adrian Searle, 6 December), also focuses attention on the unfashionable north of England. One of her earliest supporters was my friend and former colleague Jill Morgan. For a decade from 1981 Jill was curator of Rochda
  
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• Lyon's festival of lights – in pictures

  11-12-2017 16:51
  Lyon’s Fête des Lumières is the world’s largest visual arts festival. It takes place every year around 8 December for four nights. The festival attracts millions of visitors from all over the world to see the visual creations by artists. This year there are 76 installations Continue reading...
  
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• Lyon's festival of lights - in pictures

  11-12-2017 16:51
  Lyon’s Fête des Lumières is the world’s largest visual arts festival. It takes place every year around 8 December for four nights. The festival attracts millions of visitors from all over the world to see the visual creations by artists. This year there are 76 installations Continue reading...
  
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• Duffy Ayers obituary

  11-12-2017 16:25
  Gifted portrait painter and member of the famous school of art based in the Essex village of Great BardfieldThe painter Duffy Ayers, who has died aged 102, was the last survivor of the lively and distinguished community of artists who lived and worked in the Essex village of Great Bardfield from the 1930s to the 60s, and which included Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden, John Aldridge and Michael Rothenstein.Duffy was a gifted portrait painter within a quiet realist tradition, but her best work was i
  
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• Morning Links: Otis Redding Edition

  11-12-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Scuffles break out as artworks removed from Catalan city's museum

  11-12-2017 13:16
  Police clash with protesters in Lleida as 44 works of art at centre of dispute between Catalonia and region of Aragón are removedScuffles broke out between police and demonstrators after hundreds of people gathered outside a museum in the Catalan city of Lleida to protest against the removal of 44 works of art that have been at the centre of a long-running dispute between Catalonia and the neighbouring region of Aragón.
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• New portrait painting of Prince Philip highlights links with Denmark

  11-12-2017 01:01
  Artist Ralph Heimans says he hopes his work, showing Duke of Edinburgh at Windsor, portrays his ‘unique character’Wearing a menacingly friendly smile and the blue sash of the order of the elephant, Denmark’s highest-ranking honour, the Duke of Edinburgh stands in the grand corridor of Windsor Castle in a new portrait unveiled on Monday.It was painted in the year Prince Philip announced his retirement from formal public engagements at the age of 96, and will be on display in a m
  
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