PARIS.- The Kneeling Fauness, a major work in marble by French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), is to be put up for sale at Cornette de Saint Cyr’s Impressionist and Modern Art auction organised at Drouot-Montaigne, Paris, on Wednesday July 6th, 201…
Biennale de Lyon
Une Terrible Beauté Est Née / A Terrible Beauty Is Born 2011 Biennale de Lyon 15 September – 31 December 2011 Preview: 13-14 September 2011 www.labiennaledelyon.com/art Curator: Victoria Noorthoorn Artistic director: Thierry Raspail The title of the next Biennale de Lyon, A Terrible Beauty Is Born, is a verse from the poem Easter, 1916 written […]
Picture Industry (Goodbye to All That) at Regen Projects
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Twentieth Century debates over the “politics of representation,” the autonomy of art, or art’s capacity for “critique” still linger like disgruntled spirits on the hunt for living bodies to inhabit. At first, contemporary art looks va…
Iraq’s Artists Reflect Pain, Trauma of the War and Uncertainty
BAGHDAD (AP).-
Iraq’s artists are using their work to try to process the
turmoil
since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, and what they are producing
shows a
profound anger over their country’s traumas and uncertainty over
its
…
Iraq’s Artists Reflect Pain, Trauma of the War and Uncertainty
BAGHDAD (AP).- Iraq’s artists are using their work to try to process the turmoil since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, and what they are producing shows a profound anger over their country’s traumas and uncertainty over its future. They have a lot to deal …