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Juries and Prizes

Jury’s in, but what about the public? … Richard Wright, winner of the 2009 Turner prize. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian Our culture is turning into one long awards ceremony. Last week alone...

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Shopping Spree

Pills are placed into the Damien Hirst artwork Lullaby Spring which has been bought by the Qatari royal family. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP The tiny emirate of Qatar has become the world’s...

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Art Marketing Trends: Away from Traditional Galleries?

The traditional gallery model is in decline, according to a new report by the non-profit dealers’ federation Cinoa (Con­féd­ération Internationale des Négociants en Oeuvres d’Art), which found that...

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A Year of Losses

Cy Twombly This year saw profound losses to the world of art. Richard Hamilton, Cy Twombly and Lucian Freud all died. They won’t make any more work. Their creativity belongs to the past now. We can’t...

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Occupy Whitney

A screengrab of the Whitney Biennial hoax webpage. Photograph: guardiannews.com This week, the Whitney Museum in New York City gives over most of its exhibition space for its 2012 Biennial, showcasing...

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Ai WeiWei on China’s Contemporary Art Scene

What are we to make of a show that calls itself Art of Change: New Directions from China? I don’t think it’s worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art – there were no old...

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Women Only

Floor work … artist Helen Frankenthaler at work in her studio in 1969. Photograph: Ernst Haas/Getty Images Seattle Art Museum has done a striking thing. It has removed all works by modern male artists...

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Economic Impact of Pacific Standard Time

They really know how to put on a show: PST opening celebrations at the Getty Center last year Pacific Standard Time (PST), the Getty-funded collaboration of southern California’s institutions, is...

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Enough Already?

VIPs, exhibitors and members of the press get the party started at the Raleigh Hotel, which hosted the Art Basel Miami Beach welcome reception last night. Exactly one year ago, the collector, dealer...

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New Venue: The Dairy

Frank Cohen and Nicolai Frahm, owners of the Dairy gallery in Bloomsbury. Two leading collectors have transformed a former dairy in the heart of London into a vast gallery that will compete with the...

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Nice Work if you Can Get It (Not so much actually…)

‘We coloured in Gilbert and George’s penises for eight hours a day’ … Jake and Dinos Chapman. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian ‘It was hard labour by any measure,” says Jake Chapman, recalling...

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From the Dark Side

“Untitled” by Jackson Pollock was one of the forged works. How imitations of the most heralded Abstract Expressionists by a complete unknown could have fooled connoisseurs and clients remains a...

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Glass Ceiling? Still a Question

Strokes of genius … Bridget Riley at the press preview of her Flashback exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Photo: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Is there a glass ceiling for...

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Rosenquist Goes Galactic

James Rosenquist’s “Sand of the Cosmic Desert in Every Direction” (left), and “Quantam Universe,” 2012. Courtesy Richard L. Feigen & Company, New York In April 2009 a forest fire destroyed [James...

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