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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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 | Queen Victoria's taste for titillating art exposed
Telegraph - February 15th, 2010 20:52
She is portrayed as a repressed and melancholy widow who spent much of her life clad in black. But a new art exhibition will challenge this traditional view of Queen Victoria by revealing her as a passionate, open-minded woman. Opening March 19 at the The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, the show demonstrates that the queen favoured images featuring plenty of naked flesh, while her husband's taste ran prudish in comparison...Read more | |
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 | Banksy lampoons art market with more than his art
Bloomberg - February 16th, 2010 04:47
Banksy, the British street artist whose paintings have fetched as much as $1.9 million at auction, keeps his identity secret to avoid prosecution for graffiti. He introduced his debut film at the Berlin Film Festival via video message in a hooded sweater, his voice disguised. “Exit Through the Gift Shop” is his “film about a man who tried to make a film about me,” Banksy says. The story he tells is hilariously outrageous....Read more | |
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 | ArtDubai aims to sell the best in a dubious situation
Daily Star - February 16th, 2010 03:01
Enthusiasm and criticism rule as the countdown begins for the fourth edition of the Emirati entrepot’s yearly art fair. Scheduled for March 17-20, ArtDubai is luring in international exhibitors with price-reduced booths. Among the value-adds for visitors to the show, an unveiling of new artwork selected for the Abraaj Capital Art Prize, the Global Art Forum, and non-commercial curated exhibitions.Read more | |
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 | Pennsylvania folk art heavy with hearts
Philadelphia Inquirer - February 16th, 2010 05:01
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, with its great permanent collection of regional folk art, anchored by a priceless group of objects donated by Titus C. Geesey between 1953 and 1969, includes striking 18th-c. pieces emblazoned with hearts. View a slideshow of Pennsylvania German dower chests, frakturs, and more artworks decorated with heart-shaped emblems, emotional imagery reflecting major life events such as marriages and births...Read more | |
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