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The May issue is out now! Writer Lynne Tillman speaks to artist Joan Jonas as she prepares for her current show at MoMA, Thomas J. Lax, Rodney McMillian and Zoé Whitley pen a survey on the iconic exhibitions at Studio Museum in Harlem, plus loads more. #frieze #Issue243
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'Ulay and I were born on the same day and met on our birthday – it was a very crazy, romantic thing.' - Marina Abramovic on her longtime companion and collaborator, Ulay (1943–2020)
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Kansai Yamamoto (1944–2020) The Japanese fashion designer, known for his collaboration with David Bowie (pictured), has died at the age of 76.
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Viral photo of Palestinian protester compared to Delacroix’s ‘Liberty Leading the People’:
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Was Lady Gaga’s ‘Artpop’ Better Than You Remember?
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‘Black women in comedy are a rising threat to the stale white standard that has too long prevailed in Hollywood.’ Candice Frederick ( @ReelTalker ) on the new comedy shows dismantling Hollywood’s white monolith, one gag at a time
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An open letter signed by over 100 leading artists argues that ‘every child should have equal access to the benefits that the arts and culture bring, not just a privileged few’
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We are devastated to learn of the death of Okwui Enwezor. One of the most important thinkers of recent decades, his curating and writing was characterised by its erudition, compassion & originality. He was a fierce believer in the power of art to change the world. #okwuienwezor
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Two thirds of GPs believe that arts engagement helps prevent ill health, a new survey has revealed
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Egon Schiele sketch discovered in thrift store
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This is Samuel Beckett in 1971, on the streets of Santa Margherita Ligure. While he fingers his sunglasses, a perfect picture of thought, on his shoulder he touts an unstructured hobo bag. The bag is by Gucci, and it was the height of chic
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Gerhard Richter to sell €1 million worth of art to raise money to buy 100 homes for the homeless
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Christian Boltanski 1944-2021⁠ ⁠ The French artist – known for his powerful artworks exploring memory and trauma – has died at 76
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The Louvre is now offering a dedicated visitor trail in response to Jay-Z and Beyonce's viral ‘Apeshit’ music video
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Protesting the art market ‘boys’ club’, artist Katharina Cibulka has overlaid a feminist message onto Vienna’s Academy of the Arts
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How curator Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) changed the course of art: A tribute to the Nigeria-born poet, critic and ‘most important curator of his generation’, who persistently bid us to open our eyes
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In pictures: who were the women of the #Bauhaus ?
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Discover the impactful monochrome works of Lee Bae at Saint Laurent's booth during Frieze Seoul 2022⁠ ⁠ #FriezeSeoul #YSL #SaintLaurent @YSL
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The forgotten women of the Bauhaus
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The Baltimore Museum sold off Rauschenberg and Warhol to fund works by artists of colour
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Revisiting Neil Kenlock: The British Black Panthers' official photographer
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Art in hospitals reduces depression and pain, research finds
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Highlights from Frieze Seoul 2022 Exploring some of the most exciting booths and projects from Frieze Seoul’s launch edition #FriezeSeoul
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Hieronymus Bosch’s art has lost none of its power to reflect the complexities of our lives
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Born in 1757 on this day - cosmic dreamer William Blake
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At Frieze Seoul, @LGUS OLED presents their latest artist collaboration with Anish Kapoor The exhibition invites spectators to engage in an in-depth appreciation of the past, present and future of Anish Kapoor’s very special work Wounds and Absent Objects #FriezeSeoul #LGOLEDART
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#FriezeRecommends - @Oniropolis recommends Radio Garden, a site and app where you can explore the world’s radio stations in real-time. You can hear what people are listening to on the Trans-Siberian railway or the edges of the Rub’ al Khali:
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Governor of Easter Island makes emotional plea for British Museum to return spiritually important sculpture
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We are saddened to hear the UK has voted to leave the EU. This will affect artists, arts funding & cultural diversity generally.
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Gerhard Richter to sell €1 million worth of art to house the homeless
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Andy Warhol loved Christmas!⁠ ⁠ Image: Mick Rock, Andy Warhol as Father Christmas, embracing Truman Capote, c.1980⁠ ⁠ #AndyWarhol #HappyHolidays
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A part-time art dealer has found an Egon Schiele drawing in a charity shop in Queens, New York. It has been valued between USD$100,000 and USD$200,000
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The Venice Issue is out now – an essential guide to the 59th Biennale To get your copy and find out more, hit the link #Frieze #VeniceBiennale
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Nearly 90% of internships in the arts are unpaid, new study finds
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William Blake’s baffling, tempestuous visions at London’s @Tate Britain
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Remembering David Bowie on what would have been his 74th Birthday. In 2016, Michael Bracewell wrote that ‘his power found a personal truth in millions of people, and moved them, even changed their lives’. ⁠
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Visiting art galleries makes you happy, new study finds
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Jennifer Higgie on how the mirror’s mass production changed the course of art history – and liberated women artists
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It wasn’t just men who illuminated manuscripts in the Medieval era. Meet the women artists who contributed to art history in the Middle Ages. #FriezeArchive
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Doctors encouraged to prescribe art lessons to cure loneliness
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Petra Costa’s timely, Academy Award-nominated documentary about Brazil’s backslide into dictatorship, ‘The Edge of Democracy’, reveals some uncomfortable home truths in the US
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Susan Rothenberg (1945–2020)⁠ ⁠ As a pioneer, she extended the boundaries of painting—especially for other women artists. #susanrothenberg
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Ai Weiwei @aiww says his Beijing studio has been razed by authorities. ‘What you have been told and what appears in front of your eyes can never be clearly explained. That’s the character of an authoritarian society,’ he told us:
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A viral photo of a Palestinian protester has been compared to Delacroix’s ‘Liberty Leading the People’. The image of a young shirtless protester clutching a Palestinian flag has drawn art-historical comparisons.
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🎄Merry Christmas! Image: Shirazeh Houshiary, 'Christmas Tree', suspended from @Tate Britain ceiling in 2016. Photo by Joe Humphreys⁠ #ShirazehHoushiary #HappyHolidays
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Countering male art history, Madrid’s @museodelprado devotes a show to female renaissance trailblazers
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We’re listening...
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what if i suddenly debut my art career at "frieze new york"
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Lubaina Himid #turnerprize winner thanks many people in her acceptance speech and finishes by saying ‘I love to show off and dance into the early hours’ - we’re glad she did (and continues to do so) Congratulations! (PS She was frieze cover artist Jan/Feb this year)
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Paint and perception collide in the work of late Surrealist Dorothea Tanning
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We’re sad to hear of the passing of art critic and curator Douglas Crimp. Listen to him remembering the New York art world of the 1970s. #FriezeArchive
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The comedian’s aggressions are meant to produce pleasure, but often result in arguments and criticism
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50 Years of Land Art
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Christo (1935-2020) ‘The work of art is a scream of freedom.’ The artist, known for his large-scale public sculptures, has died at the age of 84.
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It's a wrap on this year's edition of #FriezeLA . Thank you for coming to this year's fair, see you in 2025!⁠ ⁠ Global Lead Partner - @DeutscheBank #FriezeLA #Frieze #FriezeWeek
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Mariama Attah, Anna Frances Douglas and Jeremy Millar revisit John Berger’s famed television series and book
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How Italy’s art institutions arose from the pandemic
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On the recurring appearance of the mask in art
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Artist John Baldessari is the latest in a line of cultural icons honoured with a guest appearance on #TheSimpsons
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Anna Halprin (1920-2021) The US experimental dancer and choreographer has died at the age of 100. In 2016, Ross Simonini spoke to Halprin about movement, healing and improvisation
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What role did women filmmakers play in the early days of cinema?
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The largest mural in Europe by Keith Haring has been hidden for 30 years in an old storage depot – until now
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We are very sad to hear that the great feminist art historian Linda Nochlin has died aged 86.
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David Lynch is set to send Twin Peaks into virtual reality, it has been announced. Players will follow in the footsteps of Dale Cooper, attempting to break out of the nightmarish Red Room
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg was deeply moved by the sense of balance and musicality in the works by Josef Albers that hung in her chambers
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Philosopher Paul Virilio (1932–2018): @mckenziewark pays tribute to the French cultural theorist, who called our era one of ‘dromocracy’: the reign of speed
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#FriezeRecommends @RuffneckRefugee recommends Omega Rising (1988), a documentary by Elimina D. Davis exploring the interior and spiritual lives of Rastafarian women across Jamaica and Britain, produced by the Ceddo Film and Video Workshop collective.
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‘Black people work from the position of “we”’: an interview with Carrie Mae Weems
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Germany plans arts budget boost of $356 million; says ‘culture is the foundation of a democratic society’
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Ai Weiwei says Chinese authorities demolished his Beijing studio without warning. ‘What you have been told and what appears in front of your eyes can never be clearly explained. That’s the character of an authoritarian society,’ he told us:
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David Bowie as art school #Frieze30
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‘Blake emerges here in an unfamiliar guise – that of the struggling artist, forced to work multiple, precarious jobs.’ @FiggyGuyver reviews a William Blake retrospective at @Tate Britain
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Sean 'Diddy' Combs revealed as the buyer of Kerry James Marshall’s record breaking painting
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The painter’s largest retrospective to date, at Tate Britain, cements her place as one of Britain’s most inventive and compelling living artists
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A photograph of a young Palestinian protester in Gaza, clutching a Palestinian flag and wielding a slingshot has gone viral on social media, with many making art-historical comparisons, including to Eugène Delacroix’s ‘Liberty Leading the People’
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Meet the anti-capitalist Netflix fighting the YouTube wars. @lizpelly on @means_tv
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A photo of an awestruck 2-year-old girl looking up at Amy Sherald’s painting of Michelle Obama at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC, has gone viral @NPG
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Sean Burns speaks to the artist about the current protests in her home country and how the art world can better act in solidarity with the insurgents
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‘The bird looks beautiful, but it is very strong.’ Artist Yahon Chang explores the complex tension between East and West with expressive calligraphic painting. Watch him discuss his recent Bauhaus-inspired performance in New York as part of #Performa 19
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Happy 90th Birthday to Gerhard Richter! Richter is marking the occasion by curating an exhibition of his work in Dresden, the city he was born. The exhibition is on show until 1 May at @skdmuseum Photograph by David Pinzer #HappyBirthday #GerhardRichter
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From the High Line Plinth to the Whitney Biennial and the Guggenheim, Simone Leigh’s sculptures celebrate the architecture of the Black female body
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Belgian museums are protesting Facebook’s inability to distinguish Rubens’ Baroque nudes from pornography
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The painter’s largest retrospective to date, at Tate Britain, cements her place as one of Britain’s most inventive and compelling living artists
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Yves Klein’s blue revolution at Blenheim Palace: ‘right at home in the ostentatiousness and pomp of its baroque interiors’
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In pictures: real and imagined beasts from the Medieval world. See the full exhibition at @GettyMuseum , Los Angeles.
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With men still dominating auction sales, Yayoi Kusama is set to break new record with an early painting estimated at $7–10 million ahead of Sotheby’s sale in New York
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Jennifer Higgie: ‘Artemisia Gentileschi left behind around 57 major paintings, many of which feature a woman as a powerful, often violent, protagonist: victorious, whatever life has thrown at her.’
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The photographer speaks to Afua Hirsch about capturing the energy of Ghanaian independence in Accra and the swinging sixties in London
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With the sad news of the passing of Betty Woodman, aged 87 – the first living female artist to have a retrospective @metmuseum – revisiting her interview with our deputy editor Amy Sherlock where she talked about ceramic histories and modern painting
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In the third episode of ‘The Thing’, the Throbbing Gristle member and multimedia artist @coseyfannitutti discusses her beloved cornet which has become a lifelong companion. Directed by Peter Strickland and conceived by @edithbrow
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A tour of Frieze Masters at Frieze Seoul Nathan Clements Gillespie ( @followaginger ), Director of Frieze Masters, introduces rare maps and works by Egon Schiele and Park Hyunki #FriezeSeoul #FriezeMasters
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How a Google spreadsheet broke the art world’s culture of silence
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NFTs are rapidly impacting visual culture, we explore what this shift could mean for power relations within the art world
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Congratulations to Simone Leigh on becoming the first Black woman to represent the US at Venice Biennale. Leigh will create the US pavilion exhibition in 2022. Read @xaymacans ’s 2019 profile on the artist here.
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Ron Gorchov (1930-2020) ‘I stop painting when it feels alive, as though the painting is still going on. My works are like characters in my life; they have a personality just as real as characters in a novel. ’ #RIP
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The late artist’s touring retrospective arrives at the Baltimore Museum of Art, showcasing her colourful, large-scale abstractions
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An out lesbian in the 1920s, Nancy Morris threw hermaphrodite parties with the Bloomsbury Set and smoked opium with Jean Cocteau – but her story has largely been forgotten
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Olafur Eliasson's creation in Vejle, Denmark, responds to the tides and surface of the water: both artwork and architecture
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The late artist’s touring retrospective arrives at the Baltimore Museum of Art, showcasing her colourful, large-scale abstractions
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