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Naming an exhibition of young French artists "Dynasty" would seem to suggest a suggest a cynical or sarcastic likening of its content to the children of the 1980s. The current group exhibition in…
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Anselm Kiefer's (b. 1945) work brings to mind ruins and monuments, canvases coated with crumbling impasto, lead, tar and straw to depict the rich, mythical mnemonic layers of tragedy and regeneration…
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A New Promised Art
Parisian house Pierre Bergé & Associé seems determined to introduce the nation of France to Israeli contemporary art, through a series of multiple efforts: On May 6, the house held France's first ever…
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"Not every building is a dwelling," wrote philosopher Martin Heidegger to suggest that if home is where the heart is, it doesn't fit just anywhere. Dwelling and the often alienated response to archite…
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The Studio of Lucian Freud
In 1987, Lucian Freud was given a retrospective at Paris's Centre Pompidou. And then he was gone. Despite his popularity in salerooms, the painter went missing from France's contemporary art scene for…
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Florence Ostendes Tale of Two Cities
Paris and London are separated by no more than a tunnel—but the lack of communication, if not interest, between the two art capitals is noteworthy. Tracey Emin and Xavier Veilhan on each end have show…
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Siu Lan Ko Critiques the French Work Day
In spite of plummeting temperatures, the Quai Malaquais on Paris' left bank, home to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, was full this past Sunday morning. An eclectic mix of students, tourists and locals frene…
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Let Them Have Art The Affordable Art Fair
From February 5–8, the second edition of the Affordable Art Fair opened in Brussels, Belgium. Launched in London in 1999 by a former wine merchant, Will Ramsay, the fair claimed to liberate art of its…
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Sturtevants Matchy-Matchy Retrospective
Sturtevant's current retrospective at Paris' Museum of Modern Art, quirkily, appropriately called the "The Razzle Dazzle of Thinking," salutes a career-long repudiation of the authenticity that has re…
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Rainer Fetting and Christian Schoeler On the Male Figure
A generation apart, German artists Rainer Fetting (b.1949, Wilhelmshaven) and Christian Schoeler (b.1978, Hagen) both work in the rarified territory of painting expressionistic figurative paintings of…
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