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Saatchi - chinese Art

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:49:33 GMT

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Revolution at the new Saatchi Gallery

Saatchi’s new gallery, a huge home for his great passion for Chinese art, reestablishes his importance to modern art

Rothko in London

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:02:20 GMT

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Mark Rothko in a whole new light

History paints Rothko as modernism’s martyr - unavoidably tragic - but a startling Tate show suggests we’ve had him wrong all these years

Kunstmakt N.Y.

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:51:22 GMT

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Noch nicht auf den Hund gekommen

Erste Anzeichen der Finanzkrise beim Kunstmarkt während der New Yorker Asia Week

Christian Schaernack

In New York City geht die nackte Angst um. Wie in Schockstarre verfolgen die Amerikaner, wie die Fundamente ihres Wohlstands durch die gewaltigen Fliehkräfte der kollabierenden Finanzmärkte weggefegt zu werden drohen. Derweil zieht der Hurrikan, der an der Wall Street seinen Anfang nahm, tiefe Furchen durch die gesamte Stadt. Die Luxusboutiquen sind gespenstisch leer, die Tische der teuren Restaurants bleiben unbesetzt, Manhattans Immobilienmarkt – lange immun gegen die Krise im Lande – kippt.

Zeng Fanzhi: «Mask Series». Das Bild erzielte bei Sotheby's 1,08 Millionen Dollar. (Bild: pd)

Trianon

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:41:16 GMT

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La spectaculaire restauration
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La totalité des espaces intérieurs est désormais restaurée et remeublée dans l'ambiance de l'époque de Marie-Antoinette.

Damien Hirst

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:34:50 GMT

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Thursday September 18, 2008

Visual Arts

Hirst makes £95m in Sotheby's sale

Amy Tan

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:09:01 GMT

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Music Review | 'The Bonesetter’s Daughter'

3 Generations of Chinese Women Find Voice in Opera

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

Published: September 14, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO — Opera is a form of total theater, so writing and producing one is always a collaborative process. But “The Bonesetter’s Daughter,” by the composer Stewart Wallace, with a libretto by Amy Tan, based on her best-selling 2001 novel, may set a new standard for operatic collaboration.

Zheng Cao, left, and Qian Yi in the San Francisco Opera production of "The Bonesetter’s Daughter."

Amy Tan

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:24:01 GMT

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Music Review | 'The Bonesetter’s Daughter'

3 Generations of Chinese Women Find Voice in Opera

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

“The Bonesetter’s Daughter,” by the composer Stewart Wallace, with a libretto by Amy Tan, based on her best-selling 2001 novel, may set a new standard for operatic collaboration.

Jeff Koons in Paris

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:22:31 GMT

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Découvrez l'exposition «révolutionnaire» de Jeff Koons dans le joyau de la monarchie française, à Versailles, jusqu'au 14 décembre.

H.I.V. in Africa

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:54:40 GMT

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Zimbabwe Lifts Ban on Aid Groups, but Its Effects Linger

A 17-year-old H.I.V. patient in a rural Zimbabwe hospital. The suspension of aid operations deprived more than a million people of assistance, aid donors said.

Zimbabwe lifted an almost three-month-old ban on the work of aid groups on Friday.

Tattoo-China

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:52:23 GMT

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Slowly, tattooing is overcoming an ancient stigma in Beijing.

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OLYMPIC SPIRIT Tattoo parlors have attracted many during the Games. More Photos >

Although every Chinese child is taught the legend of Yue Fei, a 12th-century general whose mother tattooed “serve the country with utmost loyalty” on his back, tattoos were considered disreputable in China for centuries. Imperial courts tattooed criminals’ faces before sending them into exile. By the 1949 revolution, the tattoo was the favored mark of crime syndicates and subsequently condemned by the Communist Party. Today, tattoos remain taboo for many of China’s elder generation, which sneers at the sight of a sun or lotus inked on the back of a trendy neighbor.

Ditko

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:54:58 GMT

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From Spider-Man to Ayn Rand

He split with Lee and Marvel in 1966. By then, he’d fallen under the spell of Ayn Rand and Objectivism, and started producing an endless string of ham-fisted comics about how A is A and there is no gray area between good and evil and so on. “The Hawk and the Dove,” for instance, concerns two superhero brothers who … oh, you’ve already figured it out. Ditko could still devise brilliantly disturbing visuals — the Question, one of his many Objectivist mouthpieces, is a man in a jacket, tie and hat, with a blank expanse of flesh for a face — and his drawing style kept evolving, even as his stories tediously parroted “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead” at the expense of character, plot and ultimately bearability.

Enceladus X

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:15:02 GMT

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Exquisite close-ups of fissures on a tiny frozen moon of Saturn will provide the latest clues in solving the riddle of how a 310-mile-wide ice ball could possibly be shooting geysers of vapor and icy particles.

Enceladus

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:00:10 GMT

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The NASA spacecraft Cassini has taken razor sharp close-ups of Enceladus, which has jumped to near the top of the list of potential places for life in the solar system.

By KENNETH CHANG

NASA Has Its Closest Look at Geysers on Saturn Moon

Peter Saul - Bush at Abu Ghraib

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:04:43 GMT

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Peter Saul's "Bush at Abu Ghraib," 2006; acrylic on canvas 78 x 90 inches (198.1 x 228.6 cm); Hall Collection.

What is the appropriate venue for art that stirs together John Wayne Gacy and Angela Davis, Mickey Mouse and Ethel Rosenberg, Stalin and Willem de Kooning, Basil Wolverton and George W. Bush, and spikes the broth with prickly references to capitalism, Communism, homophobia, feminism, Black Power, racism, pedophilia and art-world politics, and last but not least, to the aging, decaying, self-lacerating artist himself?

Photo: Image courtesy of the Orange County Museum of Art

Peter Saul

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:01:25 GMT

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Peter Saul's "Cold Sweat," 1999; acrylic on canvas, 55 x 66 3/4 inches (140.3 x 169.5 cm); private collection, New York; courtesy David Nolan Gallery, New York.

Such images — Rembrandt’s late self-portraits are not all that far away — have increased in number as Mr. Saul has grown older. Yet his work continues to look youthfully of the moment. And for young artists he is, for several reasons, a worthy role model.

He has kept himself more or less clear of the art world, so owes it nothing. He has also kept clear of fashion and, with scant critical encouragement until recent years, has gone his own masterfully realized hideous-hilarious way. And that way has been based on taking a fundamentally facile genre, Surrealism, and loading it with purposeful, critical content.

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Saatchi - chinese Art

Revolution at the new Saatchi Gallery

Rothko in London

Mark Rothko in a whole new light

Kunstmakt N.Y.

Noch nicht auf den Hund gekommen

Erste Anzeichen der Finanzkrise beim Kunstmarkt während der New Yorker Asia Week

Trianon

La spectaculaire restauration du Petit Trianon

La totalité des espaces intérieurs est désormais restaurée et remeublée dans l'ambiance de l'époque de Marie-Antoinette.

Damien Hirst

Visual Arts

Hirst makes £95m in Sotheby's sale

Amy Tan

Amy Tan

3 Generations of Chinese Women Find Voice in Opera

Jeff Koons in Paris

Koons, un artiste sulfureuxchez le Roi-Soleil

H.I.V. in Africa

Tattoo-China

Ditko

Enceladus X

Enceladus

NASA Has Its Closest Look at Geysers on Saturn Moon

Peter Saul - Bush at Abu Ghraib

Peter Saul

La spectaculaire restauration
du Petit Trianon

Koons, un artiste sulfureux
chez le Roi-Soleil