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This week in art news: Anish Kapoor storms Versailles, PJ Harvey turns her music into public art, and the Broad Museum's façade is revealed to be very disappointing.
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I See Pretty Things at Design Miami
MIAMI BEACH — It was refreshing to wander around a Miami fair that doesn't appear to have a fear of pretty things. In the design world, unlike the art world, beauty isn't considered a dirty word, so, wandering through the aisles of the 2013 Design Miami fair, I could see an obvious affection for bea
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Castello di Ama: Contemporary Masters in the Tuscan Countryside
SIENA, Italy — At the bottom of a small grotto that could easily pass for something from the medieval era there stands a small, shadowy, and delicate Carrera marble fountain that kneels in a shallow pool of water.
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Is the World's Largest Permanent Sculpture a Monument to Our Times?
LONDON — What will the future think of the world when they look back on the marks we have left? Will it be with the same reverence with which we gaze on the Acropolis hill and the Parthenon that sits upon it as a symbol of civilization and democracy or something less forthcoming?
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Another Gangnam Style: When Memes Make You Hate Them
I think it's happened: I've hit my Gangnam Style limit with this new video by Anish Kapoor and his cohorts in museums and galleries (not to mention random offices and people) around the world.
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Required Reading
This week … Warhol's Headline works, a 2003 interview with Sol LeWitt, Twitter paintings by Evan Roth, Kapoor & Isozaki partner for an inflatable concert hall, world's earliest Christian inscription is identified, Gagosian's Madison Ave shop closes, NY pics from 1974, color TV spots from the 1960s a
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India’s About to Explode in Contemporary Art
In 2011, India moved from the classification of “developing” country to that of being a "newly industrialized." This upgrade was made along Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, Philippines, Brazil and China, all of which have economies showing promise towards becoming “developed.” Perhaps as a sa
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Anish Kapoor Snubs China, Supports Ai Weiwei
Today in putting your money where your mouth is: famed British artist Anish Kapoor has rejected an offer to show his work at the National Museum of China in Beijing in protest of Ai Weiwei's ongoing arrest and detention. This, plus Chinese artists arrested for mounting a protest exhibition and the U