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It’s a family affair for McArthur Binion
The Chicago-based painter is one of 11 children, born and raised in Macon, Mississippi, at a rural address known simply as Route One, Box Two
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Brooklyn Museum’s rush to celebrate Rodin
“The Brooklyn Museum is hustling to become the greatest, new, 200-year-old discovery on the planet,” said the museum’s director Anne Pasternak
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Chicago’s bawdy night in Brooklyn
Feminists take that stage for the Sackler Center First Award at the Brooklyn Museum
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Showing Christian charity
Some art is Made to Be Destroyed
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Ashley just wants to have fun
The Bali-based artist Ashley Bickerton has his first US survey at the Flag Art Foundation
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Smells like Marina spirit
Abramovic’s show in 2020 at London’s Royal Academy of Arts will mark the first time a woman has been the subject of a retrospective at the prestigious institution
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Getting high with JFK
Teenagers in California’s Coachella Valley have found a creative way of “engaging” with the art on view at Desert X
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Taking the alphabet by the horns
Rarely is an instrumental concert as visually exciting as it is aurally, but that was the case at the Darmstadt Ensemble’s quirky recent performance
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El Hanani, quickest on the draw in SoHo
For nearly half a century, Jacob El Hanani has been composing obsessively detailed drawings using a Rapidograph pen, typically employed by architects
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Storage wars in the Lower East Side
The conceptual artist Aaron Flint Jamison caused a stir last month when he decided that for his solo exhibition at Miguel Abreu Gallery he would show only works in the gallery’s storage
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Never mind the bollocks
The British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood may have helped bring punk into the mainstream, but lately she’s been busier making the mainstream look punk
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Nitsch plays the other kind of organ
The 79-year-old Viennese Actionist Hermann Nitsch is legendary for his decades-long exploration of religious rituals and violence
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On the side of the angels
Vittorio Scarpati made a series of bold drawings in a New York hospital before he died of Aids, which also claimed the life of his wife, the writer and actress Cookie Mueller. Teeming with “piles of angels”, Scarpati’s drawings are being shown for the first time in 25 years in London this month
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Austrian court rules in favour of Franz West’s family in legal battle over estate
Any remaining art and the profits from works sold to be turned over to the artist’s young children, court rules
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Exhibitions mark 30th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster
Shows in Prague and Chicago expose the fallout of the world's worst nuclear accident
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Crowdfunding captures the art world’s imagination
Big-name artists and institutions are using Kickstarter to fund their projects
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Armory week brushes downbeat sentiments aside to ring up sales
The Armory Show and New York’s satellite fairs prove US market is holding up
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Art selfies prove distracting for all ages
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BP sponsorship off, but legal pressure is still on
NewsAttendance
What six artists learned from career-defining shows
From Joana Vasconcelos' tampon chandelier at Venice to Elmgreen & Dragset's wishing well in Berlin, exhibitions do not just provide learning experiences for audiences
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Long battle rages over Franz West’s estate
Zwirner and Gagosian galleries are embroiled in the feud between the Austrian artist’s archive and foundation in the wake of his deathbed decision
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The importance of being an artist’s assistant
Memories of Warhol, Rauschenberg and Jack Goldstein, among others, inspire exhibition
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The rest of the past month at a glance, March 2016
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One-stop shop for art businesses launched online
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Museum of Modern Art jettisons controversial elements of expansion
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Do Ho Suh: the fabric of life
As shows of his work open at opposite ends of the US, the nomadic Korean-born artist explains how his coloured cloth installations reflect his transient existence
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Meet the five surprising arts figures behind the Republican presidential candidates
As the race to the White House heats up, we look at the unlikely advisers that back the leading contenders
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Breach of trust? Artists try to block sales of works given as gifts
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Setback for artists over resale royalties
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Is Lady Gaga the face of 21st-century Dada?
Curators of centenary exhibition on the movement want to baptise the pop star in a pool
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Art and maths: New book says they are closer than you think
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Fischli and David Weiss's Manhattan mural has motivational manifesto
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Crowdfunding offers small investors the lure of big art
Financing model is better known in the tech world
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The robots are coming
Artists turn to precision engineering as production costs for delivering an industrial aesthetic plummet
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Pictures artist gets comeback show at Petzel
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Sad but true: study finds depression does not inspire artists’ best work
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Artist's immigrant performance axed
Untitled fair organisers cancelled it just hours before it was set to take place
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Miami exhibition confronts gun violence
Show’s message reinforced by California shootings
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The price tag of contemporary art is just the beginning of what it will cost you
The Art Preservation Index wants collectors to know that much art today is made from materials that will deteriorate fast
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Art schools offer online tuition for all
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Guerrilla Girls take aim at ‘cartels of collectors’
Feminist art activists plan “anti-billionaire” campaign to highlight discrimination, which kicks off in Minneapolis
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Artists donate works to help pay for their Drawing Center shows
Non-profit gallery has turned to artists as "philanthropic community has become less supportive"
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Houston show looks at racial injustice from a white perspective
The Abolitionists to include controversial installation about Michael Brown shooting by artist Ti-Rock Moore
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Mick and Keith’s sticky fingers painting goes up for sale
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Double vision: the grey area of ar tistic appropriation
US copyright law is no longer fit for purpose as courts are forced to make artistic judgements in “fair use” cases
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Slow and steady wins the race at Expo Chicago
Without the hustle of New York, Miami and London, this fair has built a reputation for considered collectors and talent-seeking curators
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US election 2016: which of the presidential frontrunners gets the arts?
Our guide to who’s running for the White House and what they have funded—or cut
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Expo Chicago: Art goes above and beyond the gallery walls
The fair’s fourth edition will have works hanging from the ceiling, public art around the city and the first Greater Midwest Curatorial Forum
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Supreme Court judge questions need for art trade regulation
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Miami U-turns on hedge funder’s private museum after media savaging
City promises to clear any hurdles to allow Florida collector Bruce Berkowitz to share his art with the public
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Residency programme extends its global reach, from Beijing to Brooklyn
Davidoff Art Initiative sends contemporary artists from the Caribbean to Europe, Asia and the US
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Below-the-radar art graduates feature in New York show
Artists chosen by former Whitney director come from across the US
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Artists add their voices to US resale royalties debate
New York panel pits lawyers against practitioners
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Exotic seasoning, but nothing too foreign: Rachel Corbett on the Triennial Bruges
The newly revived exhibition has some nice work on view, but is far better-behaved than its avant-garde past
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Experts identify top six scandals amid boom in art crime
As new challenges emerge, tighter regulation is needed, they tell New York conference
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Why should collectors get all the breaks?
Artists seek similar tax incentives for donating works to museums and auctions
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New York design dealer branches out into contemporary art
Albertz Benda, a new 2,000 sq. ft space, to focus on emerging and mid-career artists
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Fear of censorship fuels debate over cash from oil industry
Companies accused of dictating museums’ programmes in return for support
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Hoteliers become curators as reproductions create market niche
Trend towards licensing works for use in the hospitality industry can offer a new income stream for artists
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Pruitt brings flea market back to Venice Biennale
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Director brings African art fair to Brooklyn
ArchiveJeff Koons
Koons at cutting edge with giant stone mills: The techniques behind his creations
Koons' sculptures may look like child's play, but behind the play-doh is a long and complicated process
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New culture war takes root in US as major news outlet censors art
Artists say they are under pressure to tone down their work after Associated Press removes images of controversial pieces
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Larry Warsh explores buyers’ behaviour in new book
The avid collector is trying to understand why acquiring art can be such a compulsion
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Warhol to be studied in medical school
The initiative aims to help doctors improve their observation skills
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New York family at war in legal dispute over sale of multi-million-dollar Reinhardt
Court told that abstract work said to be of “no value” was resold for up to $10m just months later at Art Basel
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‘Poor door’ opens to let in new collectors as galleries reach out to a wider market with souvenirs and branding
From limited-edition works to T-shirts and tote bags, galleries are diversifying to suit the market