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Abramovic MOCA Gala Performance Denounced As Exploitation
Yvonne Rainer writes to MOCA condemning Abromavic’s planned performance in which underpaid actors are objects of titillation and humiliation...
Girl and Guinea Pig Scoop Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize
Jooney Woodward wins 2011 National Portrait Gallery photographic prize for image of young girl and her petA photograph of a 13-year-old holding her...
The Future Queen of the Screen Helen Carmel Benigson
Paul Carey-Kent Interviews Rising Art Star Helen Carmel BenigsonBenigson’s new solo show, to be followed soon by a retrospective at the...
David Boyd Controversial Australian Artist Dies Aged 87
David Boyd, the artist who courted controversy with his works depicting the suffering of Australia’s indigenous peoples, has died in Sydney at 87...
Art Battles Veteran Trauma
Veteran charity Combat Stress uses art to successfully treat post-combat disordersArt therapy is being deployed by Combat Stress – the biggest...
Kate Moss Portrait To Sell For Big Bucks At Bonhams
Portrait of Kate Moss set to be sold at Bonhams next week for £18,000, alongside famous images by Robert Maplethorpe and David LaChapelleA...
Future Map Reveals London Artists Of the Future
30 graduates from University of Arts London selected for Future Map 11 exhibition as next big thingThe final exhibitors for Future Map 11 –...
Calder Mobiles Confiscated From Local Frenchman As Counterfeits
Alexander Calder mobiles brought to Paris for valuation by local Frenchman seized by Calder Foundation as fakesFrench authorities have seized a...
Clyfford Still Leads Abstract Expressionist Revival
1949 Work sells for staggering $61 million At Sotheby's in New YorkSotheby's New York has announced a record price achieved for the US Abstract...
Karla Black Biennale Bags For Glasgow Charity
Turner Prize nominee Karla Black swaps plastic bags for linen, in aid of The Glasgow Project RoomThree hand-painted, signed linen bags created by...
Ai Weiwei Harassment Bill Paid In Paper Airplanes
$800,000 flown and thrown to Ai Weiwei to help him pay harassment tax billChinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, has received more than $800,000 from...
Warhol and Lichtenstein See Christie’s Reversal Of Fortune
$247.6m sale total at Christie’s makes up for last week’s auction in which even work by Degas failed to find a buyerWe speculated...