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• Steph Wilson wins Taylor Wessing photography prize with striking portrait

  12-11-2024 21:00
  
  National Portrait Gallery announces £15,000-winning portrait that conveys atypical image of motherhoodA portrait documenting an unconventional and “imperfect” example of motherhood has won one of the world’s most prestigious photography prizes.The National Portrait Gallery has named the British photographer Steph Wilson as winner of the 2024 Taylor Wessing photographic portrait prize for her portrait Sonam. The photographer, who works between London and Paris, wins £
  
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• ‘He painted with a fury for life’ – how Frank Auerbach put lust and sorrow into every brushstroke

  12-11-2024 18:51
  
  Saved from the Holocaust, this supremely modern painter captured the devastation of postwar Britain as if its wounds were his own – but he ultimately found salvation in painting
  • Frank Auerbach dies aged 93
  • I’ll die with a brush in my hand: Frank Auerbach – a life in picturesWhen I found out Frank Auerbach was dead I thought once more of the heartbreaking story of his parents Max Auerbach and Charlotte Nora Borchardt, who saved his life by putting their child on a
  
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• I’ll die with a brush in my hand: Frank Auerbach – a life in pictures

  12-11-2024 18:15
  
  Born in Berlin in 1931, Frank Auerbach dedicated himself to his work 364 days a year, capturing himself and his surroundings in vivid works. The great painter once told the Guardian he hoped to keep painting until his final breath
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• Huge Art Forgery Enterprise Busted By Italian Police

  12-11-2024 14:06 via apnews.com
  
  “The seizures in Italy, France, Spain and Belgium netted 2,100 fake works attributed to more than 30 famed artists, including Andy Warhol, Amedeo Modigliani, Banksy, Pablo Picasso, Joan Mirò, Francis Bacon, Wassily Kandinsky, Henry Moore and Gustav Klimt,” potentially worth €200 million. – AP
  
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• So. THAT Happened. Now What?

  12-11-2024 14:00 via artsjournal.com
  Regardless of the elections, the issues haven’t changed for US nonprofit arts organizations. But the stakes are higher than ever.
  Life can happen just about anywhere. (Photo by svklimkin from Pixabay)
  It’s been a week since election day, and rather than discussing that process, let’s take a moment to congratulate whichever ones of us survived the last couple of years. We may not last through the next four, but at least we’ve gotten this far. And that, dear friends, i
  
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• Frank Auerbach, leading figurative painter who fled Nazis, dies aged 93

  12-11-2024 13:18
  
  Saved by a sponsorship that took him from Berlin to London as a child, the artist later fell in with Soho’s artistic crowd including Francis Bacon and Lucian FreudFrank Auerbach, the artist who arrived in Britain as a Jewish refugee fleeing Hitler’s Germany and went on to become one of the most significant figurative painters of the postwar era, has died aged 93.Over a career spanning seven decades, the British-German artist was known for his portraiture, as well as street scenes of
  
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• Director of Communications – Sarasota Performing Arts Foundation

  12-11-2024 06:37 via artsjournal.com
  About the OpportunityThese are exciting times in Sarasota as the Foundation is currently leading the vision to build a new world-class Sarasota Performing Arts Center in a public-private partnership with the city of Sarasota and in collaboration with the Bay Park Conservancy and Van Wezel Hall. The Foundation is seeking an experienced Director of Communications to lead all messaging, public relations, communications for this transformational new project.The next Director of Communications will b
  
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