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Art Crime and Punishment

Posted in Indulgences, News, tagged , , , , , , on July 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »

While touring the Vatican a few years ago, my friend Whitney and I ruminated about a scheme to quickly pay back our student loans: take a miniature Mother and Child from any one of the dark hallways within the labyrinthian complex and sell it on the black market (i.e. eBay).  And who would stop us, [...]

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Louvre Abu Dhabi…really?

Posted in Exhibitions, News, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on June 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I’m going to make a very rough metaphor, bare with me.  Someone pompous once said that “you can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can’t take the Midwest out of the boy.”  Similarly, the nouveau riche United Arab Emirates throws money at massive international projects to put themselves on the map (and [...]

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Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective opens at Met

Posted in Exhibitions, tagged , , , , , on May 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »

It’s like Francis Bacon week on The Amateur Art Collector!  A big retrospective of his opened at the Met yesterday, but to surprisingly little buzz in New York as far as I can tell.  There’s also a related lecture tomorrow at 6pm that’s free with museum admission. Here’s the official website and blurb: The first [...]

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ART HK 09 review from NYTimes / Bacon for flavor

Posted in Events, Indulgences, News, tagged , , , , , , on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The trusty New York Times recaps the Hong Kong International Art Fair, which ended this past Sunday.  Check it out here. The article specifies that two Francis Bacon portraits offered by Ben Brown Fine Arts were a big draw at the event.  I point this out because I finally saw Love is the Devil last [...]

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