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Sophie Calle and Doris Salcedo win £73,000 Praemium Imperiale prizes

The Art Newspaper

The annual award, under the patronage of Japan’s Imperial Family, covers five categories including painting, sculpture and architecture

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'Venus, morning star, sweet potato': Gagosian pairs Basquiat painting with ancient Roman sculpture for new Paris show

The Art Newspaper

Exploring the theme of classical art in the American artist's work, the gallery is bringing together a 1982 canvas with a marble figure of Venus from the rarely seen Torlonia Collection

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Artists including Theaster Gates, Miranda July and Martine Gutierrez receive Guggenheim Fellowships

The Art Newspaper

Around 50 artists working across disciplines including photography, video, sculpture, painting and installation received the coveted fellowships

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Spring Sale of African American Art

Maine Antique Digest

Swann Galleries, New York City Photos courtesy Swann Galleries For its April 4 sale of African American art, Swann Galleries offered 239 lots of paintings, watercolors, prints, photography, and sculpture and featured a special evening session called “Art for Life” of contemporary works sold to benefit the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation.

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From snail-trail paintings to beaver-chewed sculptures: Castello di Rivoli’s new exhibition shows what’s possible when mankind and nature join forces

The Art Newspaper

Mutual Aid, recently opened at the Turin museum, is devoted to work humans have made in collaboration with other species

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A rarely-seen Whistler portrait and a sculpture inspired by quantum physics: our pick of the September sales

The Art Newspaper

Plus, a painting by a key figure of Modern Indian art and a newly discovered work by Ben Enwonwu

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'Refusal to be categorised': London exhibition illuminates the lesser-known works of Nicola L

The Art Newspaper

brings together paintings sculpture, collage, films and performances from across six decades Opening at Camden Art Centre, 'I Am the Last Woman Object: Nicola L.'

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