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Since graduating from the Slade School of Fine Art last year, Katie Paterson has had solo shows at the Matthew Bown Gallery, ROOM, and Modern Art Oxford, and spent a month moongazing in Japan. Her recent works include Earth-Moon-Earth, the transmission of Beethovens Moonlight Sonata to the moon and back – resulting in fragmented composition being transmitted on a self-playing grand piano and Vatnajökull – a live phone line to an Icelandic glacier. Both works were first presented at Patersons MFA degree show in 2007 and restaged at her acclaimed solo show at Modern Art Oxford this year. Forthcoming exhibitions include Albion, London and New York; Tsekh Gallery, Kiev, and Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009.

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The Art Of The Steal 2009 – Official HD Movie Trailer (In theaters: February 26, 2010) A celebrated selection of the Sundance, Toronto, New York and AFI Film Festivals, Don Argotts gripping documentary THE ART OF THE STEAL chronicles the long and dramatic struggle for control of the Barnes Foundation, a private collection of art valued at more than $25 billion. A riveting look at the divisive politics of powerful institutions, the film is an un-missable investigation of the one of the art worlds most fascinating controversies. In 1922, Dr. Albert C. Barnes formed a remarkable educational institution around his priceless collection of Post-Impressionist and early Modern art, located just five miles outside of Philadelphia. At its inception, the citys cultural elite had scorned the collection as horrible, debased art, but soon times and tastes changed. Now, more than 50 years after Barnes death, a powerful group of moneyed interests have gone to court for control of the art, and intend bring it to a new museum in Philadelphia. Standing in their way is a vocal group of Barnes former students, and Barnes will, which contained strict instructions stating the Foundation shall always be an educational institution, and the paintings may never be removed. Will they succeed, or will a mans will be broken and one of Americas greatest cultural monuments be destroyed?

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Genre: Adventure/Modern Art About the video: Some games are hard to describe – The Void is a good example. Is it a shooter? An adventure? Is it a game at all or is it somekind of modern art? The russian project is like a strange picture, bizarre, hard to understand, a strange journey into the human after-death-experience. You find yourself dead, only your soul is left in the cold and frightening void, a sphere somewhere between life and death. Youll see some typical scenes in the video. Game info: The Void is played from a first-person perspective. All game actions are done by drawing glyphs on screen using the mouse. When drawing a glyph, time slows down to allow the player to carefully draw it. Typical game actions are talking to npcs, fighting predators or Brothers, collecting plants and growing gardens. Collected Lympha of color cannot be used directly to draw and must be processed in the hero’s Hearts first into Nerva. The color inside Hearts also acts as the hero’s health and character stats. There are 7 colors at the player’s disposal — Silver, Gold, Violet, Azure, Crimson, Amber and Emerald – each one having its own properties while inside the players hearts and how they affect the void when used; for example, Emerald soften the blows from the predators and brothers while inside you, but when used in the void it incites jealousy in the Brothers, making them more prompt to rip hearts you have open in the Sisters. Enjoy the video

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Dawn French & Jennifer Saunders play 2 nice, little, old ladies on a tour of a London museum. They wander around either bewildered or confused through ostentatious modern art until they finally find the exhibit they were searching for… the cafe. From the episode ‘Easter Special 2002′ of the BBC show French & Saunders.

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