Conservators from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston called upon the services of nuns from Kathmandu, as well as Tibetan and Taiwanese specialists in silk brocades and Japanese fabricators of gilt-bronze decorative ornaments for an ambitious, two-year…
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Glitz and six-inch heels at the Dubai art fairs last month; high-cost international art in Doha with the Takashi Murakami show, previously in Versailles, where it was paid for by Qatar’s ruling family. The noise in the western media has been about…
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Question by dolphinsilversea01: How does art created for a dictator differ from art created for a freely elected leader?
Our political world is surrounded by art and images we put together with different meanings, (eg: a good leader). Leaders have used artwork to persuade us in many ways for many many years.
How does art created for a dictator differ from art created for a freely elected leader? In what was is it the same?
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Answer by Efnissien
Well, you could argue that in a democratic state there’s a higher chance of unflattering art being produced. While under a dictator, unless you have a death wish, artwork tends to be an idealised form!
The recently closed gallery Knoedler & Company has been accused of selling another fake modernist painting in a second lawsuit filed on 28 March in Manhattan Federal Court.
Domenico De Sole, the chairman of Tom Ford’s fashion firm, and his wife…
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The Art Newspaper Russia launched in Moscow this week, with events in the Italian Garden at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and the Italian Embassy. Nicolas Iljine, who is VP of international development at Tom Krens’s Global Culture Asset…
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The Art Newspaper Russia launched in Moscow this week, with events in the Italian Garden at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts….
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This CD-ROM focuses on the elements and principles of design and then connects them with the world around us. Students will travel into paintings and explore how they were put together.
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The ghost of the American icon Marilyn Monroe haunts a new video by the artist Philippe Parreno, which is due to be shown at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel this summer (10 June-30 September). In the work, we see the world through Monroe’s eyes as…
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In an interview with the artist at opening of his show at the Hayward Gallery in London (until 13 May 2012), David Shrigley, known for his comical cartoons, talks about how it feels to be accepted by the art world establishment….
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The Robert Rausch-enberg Foundation is intending to increase the scale of its operations dramatically over the next 15 years. By then, it will be one of the largest grant-making bodies for the visual arts in the US, distributing as much, if not…
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