December 2010
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Dec 29th
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The hidden history of China in photos
(CNN) — Photography is flourishing as an art form in China but a collection of rare early photographs reveal the country’s long history with the medium. Daguerreotypes and photographs from the period between 1840 and 1911, which up till recently have not been widely collected or displayed, show a country undergoing vast change, caught between its ancient traditions and...
Dec 24th
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Dec 22nd
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Dan Flavin's light installions are not art - so...
Call that art? No, Dan Flavin’s work is just simple light fittings, say EU experts Brussels reclassifies Dan Flavin’s sculptures in ruling that means they will be liable to 20% VAT THE GUARDIAN It is a question that has dogged the contemporary art world since Duchamp put a urinal in a gallery: but is it art? When the lights were switched on at a Dan Flavin retrospective at the Hayward...
Dec 21st
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Dec 18th
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