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An art fair with a difference
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An email with the tag line "The art fair for people who hate art fairs" was bound to get our attention (and it did). The press release for the Bloomsbury Art Fair which takes place this summer in London (6-8 July, Goodenough College in Mecklenburgh...
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31 Votes
Portrait of a limelight junkie
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Christopher Simon Sykes is clear about the status of his biography of David Hockney. As he writes in the acknowledgements: “The rules were simple. He would talk to me in his time, not mine, and would authorise the book, but not endorse it.” Sykes...
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45 Votes
Break the silence over fakes
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The press has recently been full of reports about forgeries. In Europe, fakes by Wolfgang Beltracchi have embarrassed a number of experts and collectors. In the US, a painting purportedly by Jackson Pollock that was sold for $17m is the subject of a...
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23 Votes
Argentina’s new arts district is built “from scratch”
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The Cuban artist collective Los Carpinteros is showing three new large-scale installations at Buenos Aires’s Faena Arts Centre in May as part of their award for winning last year’s Faena Arts Prize, Latin America’s biggest award for visual artists....
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Urs Fischer, the reluctant interviewee
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Urs Fischer draws on the humble stuff that surrounds him: fruit, cats, chairs and candles are recurring motifs in his work. Transformation and entropy are both themes and techniques; at last year’s Venice Biennale, he received acclaim for three,...
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16 Votes
Material gains
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The growing field of technical art history has reached an important new height with the publication of this volume, a compendium of papers presented in September 2009 at London’s National Gallery. Collaborations between curators, conservators and...
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