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Bath 13521300250

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YANG QIAN

Bath 13521300250, 2003

Oil on canvas.

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Posted November 12, 2009

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Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids at The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke

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Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids at The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

November 12, 2009 - February 21, 2010

"Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids" provides insight into the artist who sought to capture the world like a camera. The exhibition includes about 250 Polaroids and 70 silver gelatin black-and-white prints taken by Warhol from 1970 to 1987, many of them on public view for the first time.

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Posted November 12, 2009

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Medusa Marinara

Vik Muniz (Brazil), "Medusa Marinara". 43 1/2 by 55 inches. Cibachrome print ed. PA 1 of 2, 1998.

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Posted November 12, 2009

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Andy Warhol's Iconic 200 One Dollar Bills from 1962 Sells for $43,762,500 at Sotheby's

NEW YORK, NY - Tonight at Sotheby's in New York, Andy Warhol's monumental masterpiece, 200 One Dollar Bills, brought a remarkable $43,762,500, soaring past the pre-sale estimate of $8/12 million. Competition was fierce. Auctioneer Tobias Meyer opened the bidding at $6 million and was immediately met with an almost unheard of response - a bid of $12 million, twice his opening bid. Five more bidders raised their paddles before the winning bid was cast by an anonymous purchaser bidding on the telephone (...)

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Posted November 11, 2009

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The Church of the Future

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A video remix of The Phil Donahue show by Javier Alberto Morales and John Michael Boling, with music by Jerry Goldsmith of The Omen.

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Posted November 11, 2009

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A.R. Penck

Ralf Winkler, alias A.R. Penck

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Posted November 9, 2009

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Kurt Schwitters: Citizen of the World | Escape Into Life

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Kurt Schwitters, Blue Bird (1922)

To say that Kurt Schwitters was an amazingly versatile artist and anticipated much is such an absurd understatement that the remark is almost dada,” wrote Walter Hopps in 1962, and it’s no less true today. The art of assemblage in particular is inconceivable without him, but his ideas reached into graphic art, architecture and theater as well, and he wrote all manner of texts, including short urban tales parallel o today’s flash fiction craze. The following is a brief homage to Kurt Schwitters . . .

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Posted November 9, 2009

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