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• ‘The Hoerengracht’ hits London

  
  HUCK magazine — Authority: 444
  Ed and Nancy Kienholzs The Hoerengracht will be displayed at the National Gallery in London from November 18 - February 21 . The controversial display allows visitors to walk through a disturbing replication of Amsterdams Red Light District complete with glowing windows, mysterious doorways and garish ...
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• Ricky Swallow @ NGV

  
  Melbourne Art & Culture Critic — Authority: 418
  I liked Ricky Swallow’s art from the first exhibition that I saw. It was one of Ricky Swallow’s first solo exhibitions: “The Lighter Side of the Darkside” at Grey Area Art Space in 1998 the year after he graduated from the VCA. The exhibition was very funny. It combined record players, themes of space ...
  4 days ago

• Naughty Stuff: Amsterdam Red Light District Exhibition

  
  Unusual News, Naughty Picture And Really Weird Stuff — Authority: 129
  Britains National Gallery is going to display a naughty stuff work of art called "The Hoerengracht", or in Dutch it means "Whores Canal". This is its first contemporary art installation, by recreating a street scene from Amsterdams Red Light district. In fact this naughty stuff was made in the 1980s by the ...
  4 days ago

• Ed Kienholz “The Hoerengracht” At The National Gallery

  
  SLAMXHYPE — Authority: 644
  The National Gallery in London have brought famed American artist Ed Kienholz’s ‘The Hoerengracht’ to London for the first time.  The life-size, walk-through recreation of Amsterdam’s red-light district with brick walls, glowing windows and mysterious doorways of Amsterdam’s claustrophobic streets and ...
  5 days ago

• Trustee’s Art on His Museum’s Walls Raises Flag

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  From left, Lietta Joannou, Jeff Koons, Dakis Joannou and Justine Koons in a 2003 photograph. Mr. Joannou has been collecting Mr. Koonss art since before Mr. Koons was an art star.
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• Kate Connolly on National Gallery installation of Amsterdams red light district

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Kate Connolly on the National Gallerys installation of Amsterdams red light district, The Hoerengracht Kate Connolly
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• Inside the Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas

  
  Hackpacker — Authority: 408
  This weekend I went to the first workshop at Melbourne s brand spanking new Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas . Its the jewel in the crown of UNESCOs City of Literature and, based on the construction work going on out the front, theres a bit more polishing before its fully open to the public. Even still its up ...
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• "Botticelli" @ The Städel Museum

  
  Les cahiers d'Alain Truong — Authority: 153
  Sandro Botticelli, Idealized Portrait of a Lady (Simonetta Vespucci), 1480. Mixed technique on poplar, 82 × 54 cm. Inv. No. 936. Städel Museum FRANKFURT.- The Städel Museum will show the first monographic exhibition on Sandro Botticelli (1444/45–1510) in the German-speaking world from 13 November 2009 to ...
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• How much is that body in the window?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Ed Kienholzs widow and collaborator, Nancy Reddin Kienholz, talks to Kate Connolly as she prepares to show their masterwork installation The Hoerengracht at Londons National Gallery Nancy Kienholzs house is in an obscure neck of the woods, to say the least. After a long drive to her hometown, Hope, Idaho, the man at ...
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• Red light special

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  See Hoerengracht, an art installation by Ed and Nancy Kienholz which captures Amsterdams red light district in the 1980s Kate Connolly Andy Duckworth
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• The changing of the addresses in London

  
  Louise Penny — Authority: 126
  beautiful, bright, mild day - temps 13 Stunningly beautiful day. Wed planned to meet up with Mike and Dom and have brunch together but plans changed so we walked down to the Duke of York Barracks and had coffee at the Patisserie Valerie there...were planning to do breakfast but the waitress kept yelling at the other ...
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• “Herb & Dorothy”

  
  Wanderlust — Authority: 443
  You don’t have to be a Rockefeller to collect art. This is the incredible true story of a postal worker and a librarian who built a world-class art collection. As the first DVD to be released under the Arthouse Films label, New Video proudly presents “HERB & DOROTHY.”  This film tells the extraordinary ...
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• Buildings of the The National Mall

  
  Kathika Travel Website — Authority: 138
  The National Mall is especially these days as the location where the massive crowd formed to see the inauguration of President Barrack Obama.  Over forty years ago, it was famous for a similar occasion when people gathered there to hear Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech.  The mall is also home to a ...
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• Get a David Hoffos for 30 Bucks - Just in time for the Holidays!

  
  Unedit my heart — Authority: 125
  One of the promising art things that is happening this week is the opening of David Hoffos Scenes from the House Dream at the National Gallery of Canada . Hoffos makes such amazing, must-be-experienced-in-person installations, so its nice to see him get a serious exhibition there. But in browsing around for info on ...
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  HitchcockBlonde — Authority: 107
  I’m strewn across the towel rail, starkers. Arms outstretched, one knee arched and tummy sucked in for maximum ribbage. Sodden hair turned from Blonde to dark and suitably rattailed. Eyes closed, head lolled onto chest, profoundly piteous expression of transcendent pain. Footsteps. Door. Laden pause. Faintest of ...
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• The Execution of Lady Jane Grey

  
  Deconlabel — Authority: 447
  The Execution of Lady Jane GreyThe Execution of Lady Jane Grey was a painting by Paul Delaroche, which tell us about Lady Jane Grey was Queen of England for just 9 days until she was driven from the throne and sent to the Tower of London to be executed.Jane became queen after the death of [...]
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• VoCA Recommends: David Hoffos at the National Gallery of Canada

  
  View on Canadian Art — Authority: 418
  David Hoffos: Scenes from the House DreamNational Gallery of Canada, Ottawa6 November 2009 – 14 February 2010David Hoffos, Scenes from the House Dream: Barnett Newman, 2004 Detail of diorama.Image: canadianart.ca“I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to ...
  2 weeks ago

• The ‘real’ Satyajit Ray - caught on camera

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  By Maitreyee BoruahBangalore, Oct 29 (IANS) He took Indian cinema to the world stage. But very few know that Oscar-winning film director Satyajit Ray while being a perfectionist was almost an “autocrat” when it came to filmmaking, right from scripting to camera handling to direction.A rare series of photographs ...
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• Mamphela Ramphele to Deliver the Helen Suzman Memorial Lecture

  
  NB — Authority: 131
  On the evening of Tuesday, 3 November, the Helen Suzman Memorial Lecture will be presented by Dr Mamphela Ramphele, author of Laying Ghosts to Rest , on the theme of “Integrity of Public Life”. The lecture, which is hosted by the Helen Suzman Foundation , will start at 6:30pm, and will take place in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Slideshow: The Obamas Taste in Art

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 149
  James Gardner, formerly the architecture critic of the New York Sun , now writes on culture for several publications.  It must be nice to be the president. In addition to having helicopters, jumbo jets, and motorcades, you get to rifle through the cellars of the National Gallery and the Hirschhorn for artistic ...
  2 weeks ago

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