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An auctioneer scores a book deal, a museum receives a $70 million gift, and Sotheby’s announces the sale of an extraordinary work by Lucian Freud — this and more in this week’s news.

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Lucian Freud, "Head on a Green Sofa (1960-61)" Estimate: 2,500,000-3,500,000 GBP. Courtesy of Sotheby's.

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This week marks the 26th edition of the London Art Fair, ‘the UK’s largest fair for Modern British and contemporary art. Over five days, 128 galleries will display more than 1,000 artists from the last century to the present day. Here are our five standout features of the Fair.

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“Nature provides us astonishment that is beyond our imagination. We may be shaken by its power, be struck with awe and praise the inscrutable beauty simultaneously,”

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Tokujin Yoshioka, "Rainbow Church," 2010. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.

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Lutz Bacher is one of the most enigmatic artists working today. She rarely gives interviews and is rarely seen in public. Moreover, Lutz Bacher isn’t her actual name at all.

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Lutz Bacher, "Ape," 2009, Plastic, fake fur, foam pellet stuffing, 104 x 71 x 60.9 cm, Courtesy the artist // Galerie Buchholz, Köln / Berlin // Greene Naftali, New York

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Just three years after her death, it is still difficult to fully assess and appreciate the vast scope of Louise Bourgeois’ artistic career. 

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Louise Bourgeois, "I Give Everything Away," Installation View, The Fruitmarket Gallery, 2013. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth and Cheim & Read Photo: Ruth Clark.

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The holiday season was a much-needed break for many people, but the art world never slows down. Here’s our round up of the most interesting art news from the past two weeks.

Pablo Picasso's "L’Homme au Gibus (Man with Opera Hat)." ©Succession Picasso 2013. Courtesy of Sotheby's.

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With works by Miro and Hirst up for sale, the art auction market is sure to heat things up this winter. 

See our top 5 picks in ARTPHAIRE: http://www.artphaire.com/5-contemporary-art-auctions-watch-winter-2014/

Damien Hirst, "UPLIFT" signed in English and dated 2008 on the backing board, framed butterfly and household gloss on canvas. 15.24 by 15.24 cm.; 6 by 6 in. Estimate: 150,000 — 250,000 HKD. Courtesy of Sotheby's.

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"If an artist can tell me clearly what they’re hoping to achieve and I understand it, then I can help or attempt to help them realize it.  There’s a lot of trust and friendship involved in my favorite relationships."

-Paul Kasmin on the ideal artist/gallerist relationship

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Image: Walton Ford, “I don’t like to look at him, Jack,” 2011, watercolor, gouache, ink, pencil on paper mounted on aluminum panel, 108 x 144 x 7/8 inches. Image courtesy of the artist and Paul Kasmin Gallery.

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It’s no surprise that famed postmodern architect Rem Koolhaas has called Baghdad-born, Pritzker-prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid “a planet in her own inimitable orbit.” To Frank Gehry she’s a “force of nature.”  In sum, she has an all-encompassing, forceful worldview that has helped her overcome obstacles in her chosen profession: namely, that she’s an Arab female in an industry governed by white men.

Read more in ARTPHAIRE: http://www.artphaire.com/zaha-hadid-brings-curves-serpentine/

Serpentine Sackler Gallery © 2013 Luke Hayes

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The Shenzhen Biennale consists of partnerships with a series of institutions from around the world: Victoria & Albert Museum, MAXXI, OMA, Droog Design, International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo, MIT, MoMA, and The Berlage. Curated by the architecture historian and editor Ole Bouman, the event’s focal point is an astonishing building: the Guangdong Float Glass Factory.

Read more in ARTPHAIRE: http://www.artphaire.com/worlds-biennale-urbanism-arrives-shenzhen-hong-kong/

©Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture Organizing Committee Photographed by Zeus Photography

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KAWS talks to ARTPHAIRE about his unique show at PAFA  in Philadelphia where 60 of his works are on display alongside the museum’s permanent collection.

Read more in ARTPHAIRE: http://www.artphaire.com/kaws-pafa-gallery-intervention-exhibition-philadelphia/

Image: KAWS @ PAFA installation view, at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, October 12, 2013-January 5, 2014. Courtesy of the artist.

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From prize announcements to future museum openings, there was plenty of holiday cheer in this week’s round up of contemporary art news.

Read more in ARTPHAIRE: http://www.artphaire.com/artphaire-art-world-round-december-18-2013/

Charline von Heyl "Carlotta," 2013 Oil, acrylic, and charcoal on canvas, 208.3 x 193 cm Courtesy the artist and Friedrich Petzel, New York.

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Ninety-nine replica animals constructed with precise attention to detail surround a watering hole. Both predator and prey form one harmonious ring with a single aim—survival. Tigers, giraffes, and pandas all drinking together continue Guo-Qiang’s fixation on the circle of life. They conjure sentiments of living together on one planet, and lure his work back down from the heavens into an earthly realm.

Read more in ARTPHAIRE: http://www.artphaire.com/serene-world-cai-guo-qiang-arrives-australia/

Cai Guo-Qiang China b.1957 Heritage 2013 99 life-sized replicas of animals, water, sand, drip mechanism Installed dimensions variable Commissioned for the exhibition ‘Falling Back to Earth’, 2013. Purchased 2013 with funds from Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Diversity Foundation through and with the assistance of the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation Photograph: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art

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It was also a great opportunity to see the rise of Modern China from the ground level. There’s a marked difference every time I return to China. Everything is constantly in flux. Everything from food to music to even how people respond to you as a black man walking down the street. It’s a constant source of anxiety because you never know what’s going to be waiting for you when you return.

- Kehinde Wiley

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Kehinde Wiley, “Carry Out the Modernisations of the Fatherland” 2007, courtesy of the artist.

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In the wake of Art Basel Miami Beach, this week’s round-up highlights the announcement of the Turner Prize, a record-setting Norman Rockwell auction and exciting curatorial and museum news.

Read more in ARTPHAIRE: http://www.artphaire.com/artphaire-art-world-round-december-11-2013/

Norman Rockwell’s "Saying Grace," cover illustration for the Saturday Evening Post, 24 November 1951, Courtesy of Sotheby's.

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"Street casting in America is a lot different than street casting in countries outside of the industrial complex.  In New York or Los Angeles, you’ll stop people in the streets, and they have this kind of, “Well, of course you found me” moment, you know?  It almost feels like, they were waiting for their moment of fifteen minutes of fame, there is this kind of post-Paris-Hilton, just-add-water, celebrity moment."

-Kehinde Wiley

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Kehinde Wiley, "Officer of the Hussars," 2007, Oil on an enamel on canvas, 72 x 60 inches, Courtesy of Kehinde Wiley Studio

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At Andrea Rosen, many of Meckseper’s cases and reflective canvases will be on display, offering a glittering array of works well worth a trip to Rosen’s pristine white gallery space.

Read more in ARTPHAIRE: http://www.artphaire.com/glittering-array-works-josephine-meckseper-view-new-york/

Josephine Meckseper, " Untitled (On the Genealogy of Morality)" 2013 Inkjet print on canvas 94 x 70 inches (238.8 x 177.8 cm). Courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery.