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| ARTINFO - The United Kingdom is the featured country at this year?s Korea International Art Fair, (KIAF) and perhaps that?s why works by Damien Hirst, who surely is Britain?s most famous contemporary artist in Asia, seemed to be everywhere. Even at the booth of the venerable PYO Gallery ? whose president, Mi Sun Pyo, is head of the Galleries Association of Korea ? a Hirst "Spin" painting has taken pride of place, seeming a little off-key beside the cool minimalism of the paintings by Lee Ufan, which provide the booth?s still center. |
| ARTINFO - Though artist Faith Ringgold is perhaps best known for delighting American schoolchildren with her lusciously illustrated 1991 masterwork of a children?s book "Tar Beach," her first public commission was actually designed for another audience: female prisoners eating in the cafeteria of the Rikers Island prison in New York City.
Now that incarcerated work, the 1971 "For the Women?s House," is being released after a tumultuous stretch for a show at the Neuberger Museum of Art, in Purchase, New York. |
| ARTINFO - "Tonight, I?m announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended," President Obama declared last week. Seven years after the United States-led invasion of the country, the war is officially over. In the U.K., however, the debate over Britain's involvement in the conflict is as fractious as ever: the government?s "Iraq Inquiry" has been severely criticized, and former Prime Minister Tony Blairs newly published autobiography, "A Journey," has triggered angry protests. |
| ARTINFO - A Kennedy Center Honor, which the Kennedy Centers website likens to a knighthood in Britain, is the ultimate reward for a person?s ?lifetime contribution to American culture.? This year those contributions included outlaw country music, "Yesterday," uplifting car giveaways, and scintillatingly vibrant choreography. |
| ARTINFO - As a reminder that the looting of Iraq's heritage has hardly been restricted to the militant thieves who pillaged the Iraqi National Museum after the 2003 American invasion, the United States has repatriated a group of objects, some of which were apparently taken as war booty, and others that reflect the region's history of artifact smuggling. This step, by all accounts, is only a small one in what will have to be a concerted international effort to undo the work of all kinds of opportunistic raiders. |
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