Fine Art

Readers might remember the plan to sell the painting The Soler Family by Picasso in Liège (January 1989-March 1990) or, more recently in the spring of 2012, the suggestion, though with little media coverage, made by the alderman for Culture in the city of Tournai at the time, to sell off one of the two Fantin-Latour paintings at the Musée des Beaux-Arts - News Items / Threats to heritage, Deaccessioning, Master of the Virgo inter Vergines

The Beaubourg Circus is finally over. Alain Seban had once stated that "the structure of the 'Centre Pompidou mobile' which he [had] set up [was] 'not expensive'". Today he explains that the experiment is ending "for lack of funding needed to pursue the activity" ! We have a hard time understanding how an "inexpensive" project can fail due to budget restrictions - Editorial / a_la_une, Aimless Exhibitions, Paris, Musée national d'Art moderne, Museum relocations

Lectures & Gallery Talks | Gallery Conversations Kathryn Chiong In conjunction with the exhibition Wait, Later This Will Be Nothing: Editions by Dieter Roth

Lectures & Gallery Talks | Gallery Conversations Kathryn Chiong

Film Screenings & Events Jungfrukallan (The Virgin Spring)1960. Sweden. Ingmar Bergman. 88 min. In the Film exhibition An Auteurist History of Film

Lectures & Gallery Talks | Gallery Conversations Alison Burstein

Film Screenings & Events Jiao dai (Tape)2010. China. Li Ning. 120 min. In the Film exhibition Chinese Realities/Documentary Visions

Film Screenings & Events Wo hai you hua yao shuo (When Night Falls)2012. China. Ying Liang. 70 min. New York premiere In the Film exhibition Chinese Realities/Documentary Visions

"The remaining whiff of Orwell, whose five years at various stations in Burma as an officer of the Imperial Police Force ended here in 1927, is a spacious two-story wooden house with fireplaces and a once-elegant staircase."...

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