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• Christo's Arkansas River project beats lawsuit but opponents may appeal

  03-01-2015 20:52
  
  ‘Rags Over the Arkansas River’ group opposes six-mile fabric installationFederal judge rejects case based on environmental and traffic claimsThe art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude – in picturesOpponents of a plan by the artist Christo to hang nearly six miles of silvery fabric in sections over the Arkansas River say the project is still a danger to fish and visitors and they are considering an appeal after a federal judge refused to intervene.Members of Rags Over the Arkansas River, also kno
  
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• Christo Arkansas River project beats lawsuit but opponents may appeal

  03-01-2015 19:37
  
  ‘Rags Over the Arkansas River’ group opposes six-mile fabric installationFederal judge rejects case based on environmental and traffic claimsThe art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude – in picturesOpponents say they may appeal after a federal judge refused to stop a plan by the artist Christo to hang nearly six miles of silvery fabric in sections over the Arkansas River.Members of a protest group, Rags Over the Arkansas River, say the project is potentially dangerous and destructive to traffic a
  
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• Skate’s Reports: Masterpieces Market Exceeds $50 Billlion in Size in 2014, Yields 4.9 Percent Average Return

  03-01-2015 15:57 via artnews.com
  Skate’s has released key performance metrics for the global art market measured by the universe of the top 10,000 artworks by auction prices (Skate’s Top 10,000). The world’s high-end art market crossed the $50 billion mark in the second half of … Read More
  
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• Tomi Ungerer: Return of the Repressed

  03-01-2015 15:15 via artnews.com
  “I’m a mixed bag and a jack of all trades,” the artist Tomi Ungerer said during a telephone interview, laughing. “I’ve done over 150 books, I write as much as I draw, and I have my sculptures and my architectural … Read More
  
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• Lyre, lyre: Bringing 'Orfeo' to the London stage

  03-01-2015 13:00
  
  “It’s quite a patchwork of talent, this particular production” says Michael Boyd about his new take on Claudio Monteverdi’s Orfeo, which looks set to be quite the opening shot in the 2015 operatic calendar. After all, it’s a patchwork made up of the very finest squares: a Royal Opera production, but taking place at Camden’s much-loved  venue, the Roundhouse, it sees the former artistic director of the RSC take the helm, with designs by long-time collaborator Tom Piper – whose �
  
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• My highlight: Goya

  03-01-2015 10:00
  
  Why 2015 is the year finally to decide whether Goya was high-minded or simply fascinated by evilCritics aren’t supposed to admit they are – in shrink parlance – “conflicted”. But with many great artists, we can’t definitively say that their grandeur is not grossness, their profundity superficiality. The uncertainty principle was formulated brilliantly in 1759, when Sir Joshua Reynolds said of Michelangelo: “I have seen figures by him of which it was very difficult to determine whet
  
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• Paris conference on the Arab world to show where there is hope

  03-01-2015 08:05
  
  A revived Institut du Monde Arabe under Jack Lang engages softly with today’s politics in the Middle East and North Africa
  
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• Untitled(I don’t want to lose you to the dark side)

  03-01-2015 01:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I wronged my wife. She wants me to do whatever it is she needs me to do so that it feels right between us. I don’t think she knows what that is and I certainly don’t know what that is. I do know that it has to do with the encroachment of my space until ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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