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• Art on your sleeve: famous views get shirty – in pictures

  26-11-2016 18:00
  
  In 2009, Berlin-based photographer Fabian Schubert and artist Hank Schmidt in der Beek went on a hike in the Austrian Alps. They had planned to paint the landscape, but, says Schmidt in der Beek: “Confronted with the immenseness of the mountains and the littleness of my canvases I decided to paint what was nearest to me instead of what was far afield.” Thus the series Self-Portrait Landscape was born: in places where Cézanne, Hockney, Monet painted masterpieces, Schmidt in der
  
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• Berlin forced to postpone show of Tehran's Modern art

  26-11-2016 11:50
  
  An exhibition at Berlins Gemldegalerie of highlights of the Modern art collection of Tehrans Museum of Contemporary Art will not open in December as the Berlin museums authority hoped after it learned that the 60 paintings chosen for the high-profile cultural exchange had not been allowed to leave the Iranian capital. A diplomatic coup brokered as Iran opens up to the West now hangs in the balance.Berlin was to be the first foreign host of the collection assembled under the auspices of the last
  
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