• November 20, 2007

    Date posted: November 20, 2007 Author: jolanta

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    Hirst Big Spender; "Lady" Stripped

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    Hirst Big Spender

    Damien Hirst may have lost his title as the most expensive living artist at auction to Jeff Koons in New York last week, but he can still claim to be not only the richest artist in the world but also the one who spends the most on art.  Bidding anonymously by telephone last Wednesday, he splashed out $33 million (£15.9 million) at Sotheby’s on a 14in by 12in self-portrait by Francis Bacon – easily a record for a small painting by Bacon, and surely one for an artist buying at auction.  (Colin Gleadell for Telegraph, November 20, 2007)
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    "Lady" Stripped

    After unlocking the secrets of the Mona Lisa, a French scientist has turned his all-seeing "multispectral" camera on a lesser-known Leonardo da Vinci muse in Poland: the Lady with an Ermine.  Engineer and inventor Pascal Cotte virtually strips away centuries of sometimes sloppy restoration work to provide a digital image of a painting as it may have left the artist’s studio, an abiding question among art historians and art lovers about such masterpieces. (Artinfo, November 20, 2007)
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    Openings and Art Events on Saturday, November 17

    New York City:

    — Marc Séguin, "Dissidence" @ Envoy  www.envoygallery.com 
    — "Crooked Mirror" @ Envoy  www.envoygallery.com  
    — “Champions Week” @ CODA Gallery  www.codagallery.com  
    — “Still Moving: The Seventh Seal,” 1:30pm @ Museum of Modern Art  www.moma.org 
    — “Iberoamérica: That’s the Way We Are:  The Last Bandoneón,” 6pm @ Museum of Modern Art  www.moma.org
    — “Iberoamérica: That’s the Way We Are:  Step Forward,” 8pm @ Museum of Modern Art  www.moma.org                              

    International:

    — Keith Tyson, “Studio Wall Drawings” @ Haunch of Venison, London, UK www.haunchofvenison.com  
    — James Hopkins @ Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK www.maxwigramgallery.com  
    — "Trunk 07 The Nordic Art Video Festival" @ Cinema Regina, Ostersund, Sweden  www.trunk-video.com  
    — “Fusion Now! More Light, More Power, More People,” Group Show @ Rokeby Gallery, London, UK www.rokebygallery.com 
    — “Applied Arts, Glass and British Collectible Ceramics,” auction @ Bonhams, Cheshire, UK  www.bonhams.com  
    — “Olly and Suzi,” Group Show @ Eleven, London, UK www.elevenfineart.com  
    — “Subasta Esp. de Libros Codices Velasco,” Group Show @ Louis C. Morton, Mexico City, Mexico www.lmorton.com/en/index.asp  
    — “Delicious” @ Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France www.ropac.net  
    — Bram Bogart @ Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK www.jacobsongallery.com      — Irving Penn, “Flower Power” @ Hamiltons Gallery, London, UK www.hamiltonsgallery.com       

    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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