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• Chto Delat at Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City

  17-01-2018 22:27 via artnews.com
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• Anderson Ranch Executive Director Nancy Wilhelms to Step Down in Late 2018

  17-01-2018 21:11 via artnews.com
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• Laura Owens Designed iMessage Stickers for the Whitney—All for Free Download

  17-01-2018 21:09 via artnews.com
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• Here’s the Exhibitor List for the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair’s First Marrakech Edition

  17-01-2018 20:11 via artnews.com
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• Welcome return of School Prints loan scheme | Letters

  17-01-2018 19:43
  Memories from Professor Terry Gifford of the personal picture loan service run by Sheffield City Art GalleriesIt is good to see that schools in Wakefield will benefit from a renewed School Prints loan scheme from the Hepworth Wakefield (Editorial, 15 January). As a secondary school teacher in Sheffield during the 1970s and 80s our classrooms and corridors were loaned brilliant visual resources by Sheffield City Art Galleries under the directorship of the late Frank Constantine. But more remarkab
  
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• Designers (and Erstwhile Gallerist) Prem Krishnamurthy and Chris Wu on Wkshps, Their New Design Studio

  17-01-2018 17:26 via artnews.com
  The outfit has projects on deck with David Zwirner, the Carnegie International, and the first "anti-Trump hotel." Read More
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• Bridget Riley review – a blast of pure psychedelic energy

  17-01-2018 16:58
  David Zwirner Gallery, London
  In her new show Recent Paintings 2014-2017, the great shapeshifter rediscovers the hallucinogenic power of her youth, with dizzying works that turn perspective inside outTo walk into Bridget Riley’s exhibition of new works – everything here, with a couple of exceptions, has been created in the last four years – is to see a mighty brain fizzing away with ideas that blow away all the sentimental cobwebs from art. Riley is a philosopher who is interes
  
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• Betty Woodman obituary

  17-01-2018 15:45
  Artist whose reinvention of the vessel helped raise ceramics into a significant art formThe ceramic artist Betty Woodman, who has died aged 87, was known for her highly original baroque forms and use of vivid colour. Her work was increasingly sculptural in her later career as she became absorbed by the relationship between structure, surface and colour in expressive hybrid objects and installations. “Painterly” would be an apt description of her fluent and opulent art, one that broug
  
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• Morning Links: Paula Cooper Gallery Turns 50 Edition

  17-01-2018 15:30 via artnews.com
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• The Bayeux tapestry: is it any good?

  17-01-2018 13:45
  The epic portrayal of the Norman invasion of 1066 is bound for Britain. But does it really live up to its reputation as a great work?If you want to know why the Bayeux tapestry truly matters, why it is one of the world’s great works of art and not just a corny bit of British heritage, the place to start is not the famous scene of Harold getting it in the eye at the Battle of Hastings, or even the wondrous image of Halley’s comet that was embroidered 600 years before Halley, but a far
  
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• The Bayeux Tapestry – historic, yes, but is it any good?

  17-01-2018 13:45
  This majestic tapestry depicting the Norman invasion of 1066 is more than a fascinating record of British history – it’s one of the most powerful depictions of war ever createdIf you want to know why the Bayeux Tapestry truly matters, why it is one of the world’s great works of art and not just a corny bit of British heritage, the place to start is not the famous scene of Harold getting it in the eye at the Battle of Hastings, or even the wondrous image of Halley’s comet
  
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• Eight artworks inspired by mental health problems

  17-01-2018 11:03
  The Perspective Project hosts art, poetry and writing with the aim of ending stigma and providing an outlet for those with mental health problems. The 24-year-old founder, Mark Anscombe, is already sharing the work of over 30 artists from around the UK, US and Canada, all of whom have various mental health issues. The project accepts submissions in any form, and people can submit anonymously Continue reading...
  
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• Reconstructing An Ancient Board Game (Now There's A Challenge For You)

  17-01-2018 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Imagine you find a Monopoly board and a handful of street cards plus one little tin hat and a little tin shoe, nothing else," says game historian Ulrich Schädler. Reporter Natasha Frost looks at some games from the ancient world - and at the ways scholars try to figure them out.
  
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