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Robert Frank: truth over art in photography
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By Marjan Groothuis
FOR THE HERALD
The Museum of Latin-American Art Isaac Fernández Blanco did it again. Once more they are presenting an impressive photography show, this time round over seventy pictures by Robert Frank. This Swiss photographer, born in Zürich in 1924, travelled to New York in 1947. Read More
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The colour is on the wall
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By Alfredo Cernadas
FOR THE HERALD
What first strikes the viewer’s eye upon entering the gallery is a gust of colour that pours from the walls and surrounds him/er as if he/she had stepped into an enchanted forest, to the passionate strains of a Berlioz overture. Indeed, a symphony of saturated hues (scarlet, emerald green, purple, black, ochre, most notably) vibrates on the (mostly) large canvasses. Read More
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BA’s Antiquarian Book Fair 2007 opens on Wednesday
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Out to entice antique book buyers
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By Shaké Balian
FOR THE HERALD
"When the cinema was invented people said that the end of illustrated books had come, when television was invented, they said that illustrated books had come to an end, as well as when the Internet, computers, photocopies were invented. When facsimiles of antique books were printed, they thought that nobody would buy the originals any longer. All the inventions that have sprung have not put an end to books. Books have actually turned them to their advantage, as with the Internet, which gave readers universal and democratic access to contemporary and antique books." Read More
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The National Art Gallery in Islamabad, Pakistan, which opened last month, has brought new texture to an otherwise sterile, highly planned capital
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An outpost of the arts, secured by a military dictator
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
It may be the towering black burqa-clad figures that stand at the entrance, or the brickwork, portholes and curved aluminum skylights of the building itself. Either way, the National Art Gallery, which opened last month, has brought new texture to this otherwise sterile, highly planned capital. Read More
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Italy and Getty museum sign pact on artifacts
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A dispute over a Klimt purchased in New York
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By Robin Pogrebin
The NEW YORK TIMES
A grandson of a Viennese woman who died in the Holocaust contends that a Gustav Klimt painting in the private collection of Leonard A. Lauder, the New York cosmetics magnate, was looted during World War II, and is seeking restitution. Read More
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