• November 28, 2007

    Date posted: November 28, 2007 Author: jolanta

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    Pricey "Vampire"; Secret Clock Work Upheld

    International Top News

    Pricey "Vampire"

    A number of prints by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch earned record prices at an Oslo auction, with a version of his Vampire earning more than $2 million, the auction house said Wednesday. Thirty-five out of 36 Munch works sold Tuesday evening were sold for a total of 55 million kroner ($10 million), Hans Rickard Elgheim of Grev Wedels Plass Auctions told AFP. (Artinfo, November 28, 2007)
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    Secret Clock Work Upheld

    It is one of Paris’s most celebrated monuments, a neoclassical masterpiece that has cast its shadow across the city for more than two centuries. But it is unlikely that the Panthéon, or any other building in France’s capital, will have played host to a more bizarre sequence of events than those revealed in a court last week. Four members of an underground "cultural guerrilla" movement known as the Untergunther, whose purpose is to restore France’s cultural heritage, were cleared on Friday of breaking into the 18th-century monument in a plot worthy of Dan Brown or Umberto Eco. (Emilie Boyer King for The Guardian, November 28, 2007)
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    Openings and Art Events on Thursday, November 29

    New York City:

    — "Machine Learning," 6-8pm @ The Painting Center  thepaintingcenter.org
    — Mala Iqbal, "Washed Away" @ P.P.O.W  www.ppowgallery.com 
    — Christopher Wilmarth @ Betty Cuningham Gallery  www.bettycuninghamgallery.com 
    — "Antiques & Fine Art at the Armory" @ The Park Avenue Armory  www.questroyalfineart.com 
    — "Pulling Strings: Art that Moves – the World of Flexitoon" @ The Bendheim Gallery – Greenwich Arts Council  www.greenwicharts.org 
    — "Should Art Abolish Art?" lecture, 7-8pm @ ZONE:chelsea Center for the Arts  www.zonechelsea.org 
    — Leon Ferrari, "Serie de Errores and Other Works" @  Cecilia de Torres, Ltd. www.ceciliadetorres.com 
    — Michael Kenna, "New York/ New Work," 6-8pm @  Robert Mann Gallery  www.robertmann.com 
    — "TBD Group Show" @ Anna Kustera Gallery  www.annakustera.com 
    — Tom McGrath @ Zach Feuer Gallery (LFL)  www.zachfeuer.com                               

    National:

    — Gabriel Orozco, "Inner Circles of the Wall" @ Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX www.dallasmuseumofart.org 
    — "Big Ideas, Small Works: Miniature Sculptures and Maquettes," 5:30pm @ Sculpturesite Gallery, San Francisco, CA  sculpturesitegallery.com 
    — Der Ligner @ Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA  www.raykophotocenter.com 
    — "B(.)(.)biemania" @ Good Vibrations, San Francisco, CA  www.breastfetishist.com 
    — Toychestra & The Crank Ensemble, 8pm @Luggage Store  www.bayimproviser.com/luggagestore 

    Art Fair and Biennial Reminders from Art Fairs International

    — PragueBiennale3, May 16 to Sept 16, Prague, Czech Republic
    — Edinburgh Art Festival, July 26 to Sept 2, Edinburgh, Scotland
    — Art Nocturne Knocke, Aug 4 to 15, Knokke–Heist, Belgium
    — DigiFestival, Aug 15 to Sept 15, Florence, Italy
    — Helsinki Festival, Aug 17 to Sept 2, Helsinki, Finland
    — Montreal World Film Festival, Aug 23 to Sept 3, Montreal, Canada
    — ANTI Contemporary Art Festival, Aug 31 to Sept 30, Kuopio, Finland
    — The Mercosul Biennial, Sept 1 to Nov 17, Porto Alegre, Brasil
    — 10th Istanbul Bienniale, Sept 8 to Nov 9, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey
    — Time–Based Art Festival, Sept 9 to 18, Portland, USA
    — The Athens Biennial, Sept 10 to Nov 18, Athens, Greece
    — 20/21 British Art Fair, Sept 11 to 16, 2007, London, UK
    — Bienniale de Lyon, Sept 17 to Jan 6, 2007, Lyon, France

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