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Meet the Turner Contenders

By Jillian Steinhauer
This year's shortlist includes three women, one Brit, and no one working in traditional media. Full article
VOICES

Curator’s Voice: Marco Livingstone on Paula Rego

By Robert Ayers

The curator discusses Rego’s passionate, figurative works, and shoe-horning more than a hundred of them into a Washington museum.
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VOICES

Curator's Voice: David Zwirner on the Collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs

By Robert Ayers

In ARTINFO's first feature podcast, the gallerist talks about the history and significance of the standout contemporary collection, highlights of which are on view in New York.
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VOICES

Curator’s Voice: Paola Antonelli on “Design and the Elastic Mind”

By Pierre Alexandre de Looz

The MoMA curator explains how designers are like mirrors — and earthworms.
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DISPATCH

Fake Art and Patriotism in Russia

By Valentin Diaconov

ARTINFO’s Moscow correspondent reports on the opening of the first foreigner-owned gallery in Russia, corruption in the market, and conflicts between state and individual interests.
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DISPATCH

South Africa Sees Shifts in Power

By Sean O'Toole

With several deals, moves, and personnel changes in the works in its leading galleries and museum, South Africa’s contemporary art scene is in a kind of limbo.
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LETTER FROM...

A Bunker Reborn

By Oliver Basciano

ARTINFO takes you inside the newest addition to Berlin’s contemporary art scene.
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VOICES

Curator’s Voice: Richard Meyer on “Warhol’s Jews” at the Jewish Museum

By Robert Ayers

Warhol’s “vulgar” portrait series gets a second look.
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VOICES

Curator's Voice: Adam Szymczyk on the Berlin Biennial

By Eva Scharrer

Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours.
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Letter from...
A Bunker Reborn
ARTINFO takes you inside the newest addition to Berlin’s contemporary art scene.
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Letter from...
Artists' Vote
As Russia’s “democratic” presidential election approaches, five exhibitions in Moscow show that artists can voice opposition more effectively in the gallery than in the polling station.
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The Rise of Fitzrovia
The galleries moving to London’s new contemporary art hub hope to create a neighborhood where the commercial nous of the West End meet the curatorial passion of the East.
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Can MoCA Shanghai Save Itself?
When it opened in 2005, the privately funded museum was heralded as a groundbreaking venue for contemporary art in a city where staid, government-run institutions dominate. More than two years later, these promises remain largely unfulfilled.
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The Perm Anomaly
This little-known Russian city is attracting art-world celebrities from Krens to Markin. Is Perm the next Bilbao?
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More than Movies
Visual art offerings at the Sundance Film Festival indicate that cinema and contemporary art are getting closer to sharing co-star billing.
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Betting on the Big Easy
Former New Museum curator Dan Cameron wants to recast New Orleans as a global center for contemporary art.
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The Fall and Rise of Buenos Aires
The city is still recovering from 2001’s economic collapse, but its artists are doing better than most.
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Art Rocks
Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell brought student work from the Art Institute of Chicago to this year’s festival.
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Fairy Tales in the Open Air
Margery Gordon discovers marzipan taco trucks, disembodied opera singers, and words written in the sky at Sculpture Projects Muenster.
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Collecting

Sotheby’s Contemporary Sale Smashes Records

A stunning group of postwar masterpieces from a storied German collection and a terrifying Francis Bacon triptych powered the house to its highest auction tally in history.

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