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The Art Angle Podcast: The Radical, Viral Artworks That Defined the 2010s

December 31, 2019
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Welcome to the Art Angle, a podcast from Artnet News that delves into the places where the art world meets the real world, bringing each week’s biggest story down to earth. Join host Andrew Goldstein every week for an in-depth look at what matters most in museums, the art market, and much more with input

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Here Are the 8 Absolute Worst Works of Art We Saw in 2019, as Chosen by the Artnet News Staff

December 31, 2019
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WORST ART OF 2019 Sometimes we come across an artwork so profound, so thrilling, so completely beautiful that it lingers fondly in the mind for years to come. Other times, we look at something and think, “Whoa… that stinks.” Like, big time. Here are some of those 2019 duds, as chosen by our writers and editors. Thomas Heatherwick’s

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As Abstract Pioneer Wassily Kandinsky Was Breaking Down Barriers in Painting, He Was Also Writing Experimental Poetry. Read It Here

December 31, 2019
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“Seeing” Blue, Blue got up, got up and fell. Sharp, Thin whistled and shoved, but didn’t get through. From every corner came a humming. FatBrown got stuck—it seemed for all eternity. It seemed. It seemed. You must open your arms wider. Wider. Wider. And you must cover your face with red cloth. And maybe it

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The 100 Works of Art That Defined the Decade, Ranked: Part 3

December 31, 2019
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This is the third part of a series looking at the art of the 2010s. The first two parts are here and here.   50. Fictilis, Museum of Capitalism (2018) A view of the Oakland exhibition of the Museum of Capitalism. Photo by Cinque Mubarak, courtesy Museum of Capitalism. An authentically viral project, based on

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The 100 Works of Art That Defined the Decade, Ranked: Part 2

December 30, 2019
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This is the second part of a series looking at the art of the 2010s. The first part is here.   75. Pierre Huyghe, Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt) (2012) Pierre Huyghe’s, Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt) (2015). Courtesy of MoMA. Originally created for the immensely well-liked Documenta 13 in 2012, and becoming one of the images most associated with

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Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon Were Irritable Sitters, But Painting Each Other’s Portraits Taught Them Valuable Lessons About Art

December 30, 2019
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This was the first portrait from the life that Bacon attempted; that’s to say, the first to enter the oeuvre. It was done at the Royal College of Art where, for a year or so, Rodrigo Moynihan gave Bacon the use of a studio. [Lucian] Freud expected to have to be there, to make his

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Here Are the 10 Best Works of Art We Saw in 2019, as Chosen by the Artnet News Staff

December 30, 2019
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BEST ART OF 2019   Sometimes you see a show or an artwork that you can’t forget. Below, our editors pick the most memorable, exciting, and enchanting examples they saw this past year.   Gretchen Bender’s Total Recall (1987) in “So Much Deathless” at Red Bull Arts, New York Gretchen Bender, Total Recall (1987) on view in “Gretchen Bender:

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Appeals Court Greenlights Ex-Artforum Employee Amanda Schmitt’s Lawsuit Against the Magazine—But Lets Knight Landesman Off the Hook

December 27, 2019
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Former Artforum employee Amanda Schmitt has found partial success in an appeal filed against the magazine in a closely watched case that amounts to the first public legal action related to the #MeToo movement in the art world. A New York appeals court has reversed a lower court’s dismissal of two of Schmitt’s four claims against Artforum.

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The 100 Works of Art That Defined the Decade, Ranked: Part 1

December 27, 2019
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“Best of” lists are always at least half frauds. After all, no one can really see all the movies or read all the books in a year, let alone a decade—but at least film critics or literature critics are debating things that offer the same experience no matter where you are. The nature of art

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These Were the 15 Most Popular Artnet News Stories of 2019, From Finding Salvator Mundi to One Very Expensive Penny

December 27, 2019
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Amid the many, many changes the art world underwent in the past year, some things remained the same. Not unlike in years past, controversies dominated the headlines, while little splashes of fun have always drawn audiences. Whether in anger, astonishment, laughter, or sheer surprise, our readers have flooded to our coverage. Here are the 15

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