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• Jarman award winner Jasmina Cibic: ‘Europe is collapsing in front of our eyes’

  23-11-2021 20:00
  
  The UK-based Slovenian artist, who witnessed the former Yugoslavia fall apart and felt the ‘ground shatter’ after Brexit, talks about the right’s anti-cultural onslaughtThere is a seam of dark humour whenever the Slovenian artist Jasmina Cibic is preparing to show her work in certain European countries. “They’re firing so many museum directors,” she says, with a brittle smile, “so we had this joke, that my show was going to be the last one for that direc
  
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• Fire, flood and frozen goldfish: Our Silver City 2094 reveals Nottingham’s future – review

  23-11-2021 19:00
  
  Nottingham Contemporary
  Maps and ancient curses sit alongside peculiar sculptures, dystopias and sci-fi in this astonishing and hopeful exhibition that travels to the end of this centuryA strange form hovers above a plinth. Suspended between the natural and the manufactured, like a suspiciously geometric meteor, unaided by wires, it wobbles in the air as I get up close. Hidden magnets power this unearthly levitation, one of several enigmatic works by Revital Cohen and Tuur van Balen in Our Silve
  
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• Invisible Threads: the rituals and symbolism of childhood – in pictures

  23-11-2021 17:30
  
  Invisible Threads examines the daily rites and symbolism of the everyday life of photographer Natalie Grono’s two daughters.‘In Childhood, somewhere between the creative world of fantasy and the sacred, are moments that give birth to love and fears. My daughter’s continuous dance between light and shadow creates an invisible thread with one another and the places and landscapes they inhabit,’ Grono says.The exhibition can be seen at the Head On photo festival in Sydney Co
  
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• This French Town Has An Art Library That Lends To Residents. Turns Out It Also Has A €3 Million Gerhard Richter

  23-11-2021 14:00 via news.artnet.com
  
  For decades now, the town of Saint-Priest (in metro Lyon) has been acquiring works for its residents and businesses to borrow from the artothèque. One of those works, bought in 1988 for 100,000 francs (roughly $41,000 in 2021), was Richter’s Abstraktes Bild 630-2. – Artnet
  
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• Lubaina Himid review – jolly postmodern pop art made me long for a slap in the face

  23-11-2021 10:00
  
  Tate Modern, London
  Himid’s paintings, soundworks and sculptures are haunted by historical pain, fizzing with colour – and too polite by farThose wags at Tate Modern! They spend 21 years telling you figurative painting is dead: 21 years of film projections, dance and guys screaming on monitors. Then they give an old-school figurative painter a retrospective and tell us this is what modern looks like now.Lubaina Himid’s exhibition in the museum’s Blavatnik Building, where
  
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• Magritte: A Life by Alex Danchev review – a man of mystery

  23-11-2021 08:00
  
  This insightful biography of the surrealist painter contends that to his peers he was a hero and outsider who resisted symbolic readings of his artUnlike his surrealist contemporaries, René Magritte tended to keep Freud at a distance from his work – though few artists offer as much scope for armchair analysis. Speaking in 1961, he observed that “psychology doesn’t interest me. It claims to reveal the flow of our thoughts and emotions. Its efforts are contrary to what I k
  
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• Apply by Jan 15 for IU’s M.A. in Arts Administration

  23-11-2021 05:09 via artsjournal.com
  Built to deliver practical, in-demand skills and real-world experience working with arts organizations, the O’Neill School’s M.A. in Arts Administration at Indiana University creates opportunities to learn from practitioners in the field and master innovative ways to support artists.The MAAA program is designed to develop critical skills in leadership, policy, and management so that you can help organizations evolve and move into the future.What sets the O’Neill MAAA apart?A r
  
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• Brit Awards Scrap Male/Female Categories

  23-11-2021 00:01 via bbc.com
  
  Artists like Sam Smith and Will Young had previously called for the change, saying the current system excludes non-binary artists. – BBC
  
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