A concept by the artist John Baldessari to display a human cadaver as a work of art could one day be realised, a leading curator believes, despite a recent failed effort to find and display a dead body within the strict legal framework surrounding…
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As contemporary art collectors, curators and art advisers piled into the VIP opening of Frieze London yesterday, there was a sense of déjà vu, because quite a few people had made their way to the rather more stately opening of Frieze Masters, the…
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After more than a year’s delay, some of the works of art loaned by more than 100 artists to the third World Festival of Black Arts and Cultures (Fesman) have been returned to their owners. However, another group of art is still blocked in Senegal…
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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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Today, 20 March, is the 90th birthday of Irina Antonova, the director of Moscow’s Pushkin Museum. She has served there for 67 years, joining it one month before the end of the Second World War.
“It was August 1945”, she remembers: “The works of…
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On the day the endgame of the euro area began, only hours after Italian debt markets came under heavy attack, and at the very moment that the New York Stock Exchange was plummeting more than 3%, Sotheby’s evening sale of contemporary art on 9…
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