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• ‘A Poet*hical Wager’ at MOCA Cleveland

  14-12-2017 22:53 via artnews.com
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• The Sweet Spot: Chris Sharp, Andrew Berardini Prep Fruit-Themed ‘Lulennial’ in Mexico City

  14-12-2017 22:33 via artnews.com
  About two dozen artists are on tap for the big show. Read More
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• Pottering around on homemade besoms | Brief letters

  14-12-2017 20:12
  Cathedral attendances | Light in St Ives | Harry Potter gifts | 24 Hours from Tulse HillIn his defence of the UK’s state religion (Letters, 14 December), the bishop of Bedford was keen to point out that the National Secular Society’s 7,000-10,000 members would fill two or three of the Church of England’s 42 cathedrals. He should be so lucky. The C of E’s own statistics say those 42 cathedrals get 37,000 people attending services a week – that’s an average of u
  
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• Alison Cole Named Editor of the Art Newspaper

  14-12-2017 18:34 via artnews.com
  She is currently a critic for the Arts Desk and the Independent. Read More
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• With $750,000 Grant, Minneapolis Institute of Arts Starts Up Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts

  14-12-2017 17:34 via artnews.com
  Another grant, from the Ford Foundation and the Walton Foundation, will be put toward a diversity and inclusion initiative. Read More
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• With $750,000 Grant, Minneapolis Institute of Art Starts Up Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts

  14-12-2017 17:34 via artnews.com
  Another grant, from the Ford Foundation and the Walton Foundation, will be put toward a diversity and inclusion initiative. Read More
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• Here’s the Exhibitor List for Art Brussels 2018

  14-12-2017 17:02 via artnews.com
  Some 146 galleries will show at the fair's 50th-anniversary edition. Read More
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• Morning Links: Cement-Mixer Christmas Songs Edition

  14-12-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Minor White's vanished America – in pictures

  14-12-2017 08:00
  In 1937, this son of a book-keeper and dressmaker moved from Minnesota to Portland, where he chronicled soon-to-be demolished 19th-century buildings – developing a vision that would influence countless photographers to comeIn the Beginning: Minor White’s Oregon Photographs is at Portland Art Museum until 21 October 2018
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• Magic touch: when museums get family exhibitions right

  14-12-2017 04:29
  Future Park at the Powerhouse Museum taps into demand for museums to host playful, interactive, high-tech exhibitionsWhen my kids were aged two and four and three-quarters, I took them to a Tatsuo Miyajima exhibition, Connect With Everything, at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art.“What a good idea!” I thought at the time, an educational but fascinating encounter with numbers and lights and cool Japanese installation art. I was so wrong.Continue reading...
  
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• 'High-status' portrait of bearded woman bought by Wellcome Collection

  14-12-2017 01:01
  Science and medical foundation identifies condition as rare congenital endocrine condition known as Ambras SyndromeOn 15 September 1657 the diarist John Evelyn had a conversation with an intelligent, cultured German woman, dressed in the height of fashion, who played beautifully to him on the harpsichord. She also had “a most prolix beard, & mustachios, with long locks of haire growing on the very middle of her nose, exactly like an Island Dog.”The Wellcome Collection in London h
  
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