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Those are objects kept or collected because of their historical interest, especially those associated with memorable people or events, like the Queen.

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in a fishing expedition, or in a search or investigation undertaken with the hope, though not the stated purpose, of discovering information, you became submerged during days in a green valley without any form of virtual or mobile communication.

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«A RUMOUR, spread by means of repetition it becomes through the multitude of communication mediums a reality.

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Sometimes we get in the right train. Sometimes we get their too early and get into a different train.'

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I am still asking myself if I did really done this this Sunday...

Art market continuing recovery

The Post-War & Contemporary Art sale held last Wednesday, September 14th, by London Christie's, in South Kensington, achieve a final figure of £2,882,100 ($4,524,897/€3,317,297) for 176 lots (264 lots were on sale). "A considerable increase on the equivalent sale in September 2010, resulting in a record year for the category at Christie’s South Kensington saleroom - £6,221,400 for the two annual sales combined", said Darren Leak, Christie's Specialist and Head of Sale. Cildo Meireles (b. 1948), Jogo de Velha Serie C 8A (Tic-Tac-Toe Serie C 8A), 1997 (estimate £60,000-£80,000), achieved the second highest price for the artist at an auction. The installation composed by yellow wooden rulers arranged into nine squares on masonite went for £181,250 ($284,563/€208,619), for a South American private. Meireles' painted four X's in black and five O's in an identical yellow on each square. Like so many other pieces this is a political work, it «visually engages the viewer through the visual tension between the daubed markings and the details of the rulers ... The X's almost appear like targets and themes from his earlier political works are discernable. With the rulers one cannot help seeing the oppressive force in the need to measure and corral.» Jan Fabre (b. 1958), The Battle in the Hour Blue, 1989 (estimate £12,000-£18,000), was bought by an European trader for £169,250 ($265,723/€194,807), also the second highest price for the artist at an auction. The sales to be held during Frieze Art Fair, in London, next month, and the upcoming season in New York, in November, would clearly indicate if the art market for Post-War and Contemporary art is in a continuation of the recovery, since the 2009 crisis, or, instead, owners may hold off selling, with obvious impacts on auctions results and on the market liquid capacity.

On the previous day, at the Rockefeller Plaza (New York), Christie's held an auction dedicated to South Asian Modern & Contemporary Art , which was flooded by works by the recently deceased Maqbool Fida Husain (b. 1915, died in London on June 9). Twelve paintings and one watercolour by the Picasso of India counted for almost 60% ($4,222,750) of the final sales ($7,375,775), from over more than one hundred lots on sale. The artist dead clearly influenced the developments in, and the
competitiveness of, the art market towards his work.

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Even with sunny intervals Sunday is a day to do what we don't do during a working week. It is a day to celebrate - obviously, not in a religious way, to indulge oneself in moral decorum, but to enjoy oneself through festivities involving unrestrained dancing, drunkenness, laughing and singing. So we woke up quite early, smelled the roses, and the coffee.

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Partly Cloudy with thundery shower forecast for 15:00

Re-photographing Greenwich 2011

Old Royal Naval College Greenwich © Greenwich Heritage Centre

Red Parrots, Watercolour on 640 gsm Arches paper

Four o clock, on a Thursday afternoon! Central London, beside the Royal Albert Hall. Three young gallery assistants help to unload paintings and photos from a van parked in front of the Royal College of Art. Inside, a botanical watercolour and a nude oil on canvas, both at Jonathan Cooper Park Walk Gallery – with a £14k price tag –, rub shoulders with drawing (rising from £500), prints and photographs (£250 upward), and other small and large paintings, which occupy two levels of the RCA. The 20/21 British Art Fair, which has opened on the previous day, is a more modern (figurative) than contemporary (conceptual) art fair. This rather local (national) commodity selling place presented idyllic visions, and occasional thought-provoking art pieces, ranging from the beginning of the twentieth century into present day. A familiar scene occurs when one of the individual character strolling from stand to stand, says «I would rather buy that one over there. It looks more unrealistic». Apart from the wording, I have almost felt being at home, as when walking through the wide obnoxious aisles of the perfidious Contemporary Art Fair, Arte Lisboa.

A day at the Imperial War Museum

A day at the Imperial War Museum
LONDON: Sitting outside, in a summer afternoon, on a bench, at the local park. With a cup of tea on one hand and a sandwich on the other, I see a middle age couple enjoying their time. She reads further more, about the house they have just visited, while he sits there, enjoying blitz of sun and a fresh breeze blowing at his face. After some time they stand up and leave. Leaving behind nothing more than empty seats.
On the same afternoon a friend asked me, «why did the second war happen, after the first? Wasn’t the first enough!?»
- The first was for political reasons; the second was for economical reasons. Although, both fall within the same category, they're two completely different events resulting from two distinctive lines of thought – said I.
- I want to see the Falklands War – they said, and then they leave.
Overwhelming! Is how much of the times life is. It takes us to planes and places, which we would never expect to be taken.

Honestly, this is the kind of dumb comment people make after drinking a few bottles of wine! - Why can we all just get along?

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After meandering through the vast network of entertainment venues around the round-about at elephant & castle the Round About emerges on west side. «The prison cells are a site for shows, projects and available to hire, the old fingerprint room is a pop up charity fundraising bar», The Old Police Station (New Cross) «is an open-ended curatorial proposal» developed by a group of artists, in which we can find artist Anthony Gross. Occupying a ground floor room inside the Old Royal Naval College campus (Greenwich), more precisely on the way to the Queen Anne Court, The Stephen Lawrence Gallery «aims, through its programme, to enable people of different viewpoints and backgrounds to encounter, explore, test and question the practice of artists in an informed and confident way».

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In sociology, anthropology and cultural studies researchers engage in a systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions. One condition is the study of subcultures within a predetermined larger culture, that is, the analysis of a group of people often having beliefs or interests (whether distinct or hidden) at variance with those of the larger. In London we have a diverse ethnic and wealthy world of cultural mix, as the one we can find in China Town or in Little Portugal, through the Caribbean Carnival, at an African Safari or in the Girls Courtyard and many others subcultures, which differentiates them from the larger culture to which they belong.

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a form in which a given passage appears in a particular edition of a text.

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British Beauty

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We normally tend to see atomic bombs, of the type dropped in the Japanese city of Hiroshima at 8.15am on 6 August 1945 by B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, in movies at the cinema – ten years in to remembering 9.11

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A warm English day in the city of London. Today: a perfect combination of silver shadows dancing between pawns of light sensible salts, with occasional rain, i.e. a summery weather. Tomorrow: Sunny Intervals

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«... at the centre of the intellectual, social, political and ecclesiastical world of his day and his Diary has long been recognised as the most extensive and historically informative record of one of the most momentous periods in English history.» ...
The Diary of John Evelyn

Talking Galleries

MACBA to hold the first edition of Talking Galleries. The 1st International Meeting of Gallery Directors brings together 25 leading figures on the worldwide contemporary art scene in Barcelona. The MACBA Auditorium will be the venue for Talking Galleries, the 1st International Meeting of Gallery Directors, which will take place in Barcelona on 19, 20 and 21 September 2011.

Organised by La Fabrica Barcelona and designed by Llucià Homs, Talking Galleries will welcome some of the top international gallery directors, as well as curators, collectors, art critics, art centre directors and other key figures in the industry to debate and explore current issues on the international gallery scene.

Each and every one of the 25 speakers from 11 countries has been chosen for their extensive experience in the industry and, more specifically, for their knowledge and expertise in the fields covered by the discussion panels to be held over the three days of debate:

Panel A: Gallery directors’ new role in the art market

• Casey Kaplan, Casey Kaplan Gallery (New York)
• Claes Nordenhake, Galerie Nordenhake (Berlin, Stockholm)
• Emilio Álvarez, Galería Àngels Barcelona and Co-director of Loop (Barcelona)

• Moderated by Ann Demeester, Director, De Appel Arts Centre (Amsterdam)

Panel B: The gallery industry and the economic downturn

• Georgina Adam, Journalist at the Financial Times (London)
• Robert Tornabell, Professor of International Banking and Finance at ESADE (Barcelona)
• Soledad Lorenzo, Galería Soledad Lorenzo (Madrid)

• Moderated by Carlos Urroz, Director, ARCOmadrid (Madrid)
  

Panel C: The future of art fairs

• Victor Gisler, Mai 36 Galerie (Zurich)
• Noah Horowitz, Director, VIP Art Fair (New York)
• Pierre Huber, Galerie Art & Public (Geneva)

• Moderated by Carles Guerra, Chief Curator, MACBA (Barcelona)

Panel D: Gallery directors as collectors

• Helga de Alvear, Fundación Helga de Alvear (Cáceres)
• Boris Vervoordt, Galerie Axel Vervoordt (Antwerp)
• Paul Maenz, Galerie Paul Maenz (Berlin)
• Luise Faurschou, Faurschou Foundation (Copenhagen, Beijing)

• Moderated by Estrella de Diego, Curator and Professor of Contemporary Art History (Madrid)

Panel E: Boosting a gallery’s international scope

• Janelle Reiring, Metro Pictures Gallery (New York)
• Gregor Podnar, Galerie Gregor Podnar (Ljubljana, Berlin)
• Silvia Dauder, Galería ProjecteSD (Barcelona)

• Moderated by Guillermo Romero Parra, Galería Parra & Romero (Madrid)

Panel F: Analysis of emerging markets: Focus on Brazil

• Eduardo Brandão, Galeria Vermelho (São Paulo)
• Ricardo Resende, Director, Centro Cultural de São Paulo (São Paulo)

• Moderated by Carlos Durán, Galería Senda and Codirector of Loop (Barcelona)

The opening session will also be attended by Ferran Mascarell, Catalan Minister of Culture; Fèlix Riera, Director of the Catalan Institute for Cultural Industries (ICIC); Jaume Ciurana, Deputy Mayor for Culture, Knowledge, Creativity and Innovation at Barcelona City Council; Bartomeu Marí, Director of the MACBA; Alberto Fesser, member and Director of Projects at La Fabrica; and Llucià Homs, the driving force behind the Talking Galleries project.

Photo: © Jonathan Monk. Waiting for famous people (Leo Castelli), 1997. Courtesy of the artist and the Nicolai Wallner Gallery, Copenhague

23rd Visa pour l'Image-Perpignan

Visa d'or winners awarded during the 23rd Visa pour l'Image-Perpignan, International Festival of Photojournalism.

Visa d'Or Magazine : Feature Award 2011 Olivier Jobard (Sipa Press pour Paris Match) : For his report «Zarzis-Lampedusa, the odyssey of hope.» Since last January, Tunisians have been trying to cross over to Europe, via the Italian island of Lampedusa on makeshift trawlers. © Olivier Jobard (Sipa Press pour Paris Match). Courtesy Visa pour l'Image-Perpignan 2011

Visa d'Or Magazine : News Award 2011 Yuri Kozyrev (NOOR pour Time) : For his story «On Revolution Road». When the wave of protest began to wash over the Arab world, Yuri Kozyrev went to Egypt, Barhrain and Libya. © Yuri Kozyrev (NOOR pour Time). Courtesy Visa pour l'Image-Perpignan 2011

Visa d'Or Magazine : Daily Press Award 2011 International Herald Tribune : For his report on Japan in March 2011, Shiho Fukada spent several weeks documenting the consequences of the earthquake and tsunami. He also covered the evacuation of civilians from Fukushima. © International Herald Tribune. Courtesy Visa pour l'Image-Perpignan 2011

Visa d'Or Magazine : Humanitarian Award of ICRC 2011 Catalina Martin Chico (Cosmos) : For her report on the “Yemeni Revolution”. Every week there have been clashes, with the death toll increasing. But the people of Yemen have not given up. © Catalina Martin Chico (Cosmos). Courtesy Visa pour l'Image-Perpignan 2011

VISA D'OR MAGAZINE : 2011 AWARDS : Ed Ou (Getty Images) : for his report on child soldiers in Somalia - City of Perpignan Young Reporter's Award; Ilvy Njiokiktjien : for her project on Afrikaner Teenagers in post-Apartheid South Africa - Canon Female Photojournalist Award; La Zone by Bruno Masi (Journalist) and Guillaume Herbaut (Photographer) : This web documentary was co-produced by Agat Films & Compagnie and lemonde.fr - France 24-RFI Web Documentary Award.

GETTY IMAGES GRANTS FOR EDITORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY - on September 2nd, Getty Images announced the winners of the 2011 grants: Liz Hingley for «a very poor family in England, the Jones family»; Joan Bardeletti for work on homosexuals in Africa; Walter Astrada for work dealing with violence against women; Alvaro Ybarra Zavala with his subject on Colombia; and Stanley Greene for «e-waste».

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While in the Southeast London, a “boisterous concoction of blue-collar aesthetics and intermittent hipsterim”. Three art spaces working and one of them I bump my eyes into a close door.

BEARSPACE's «artists are selected for their response to contemporary culture, philosophy, with a conceptual and narrative framework to their work». SE8 is a «gallery space dedicated to installation art by contemporary emerging and established international artists». Paul Marks // ARCH «is an artist lead gallery, project space and art supplies shop housed in 2 railway arches under the main line train station in the heart of Deptford». theAgency «continuously nurtures emerging art», it ongoing focus «is the support of innovative practice, showcasing event based performance, sound art and electronic media parallel to» the normal exhibition programme.

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«in a democracy what are you doing»

Numerous contemporary artists deal with memories of modernism as built ideology and visions for a new utopia, and memories of postmodernism as its oxymoron, positions that critically assess the legacy of modernism, the failure of political ideals. in a democracy what are you doing by privatizing infrastructure? You are disengaging politics from the market. You are taking away the last weapon that a poor man has, which is his vote (found image, foam, earring, and Marlboro box, 2010) is part of a set composed by sixteen found images – in a derivation between collage and sculpture – about human debris. Vincent Troia incorporate found images (damaged paper materials, dirtied textile scraps, and other street sourced findings and fold them into various polyhedral shapes) to produce collages/phrases as if they were condensed poems that reflect the history and present of their hometown. Accommodated in a white space in Deptford High Street, between a deserted prayer store and a thriving building supplier, the works describe the private emotions of a particular urban environment – Deptford is well know for its vibrant street market, and South East London is becoming a hub for the arts and music scene, attracting both artists and collectors –, while contributing to discern the contemporary visual disorientation through its own contradictory terms.

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A reason to smile is when someone smile uniquely at you...

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Cinema, like life and a great book, is a great stage for growth and personal development. They can reveal a lot of life and people behaviour; make us perceive what is not; hide behind layers of emotions what is exposed in front of us. Any, draws on experiences, real or from other kind they become a reason to say or do something that no one before had the courage to say or do.

«My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.»

in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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Do you remember one of Interpol’s music video? a vibrant-colourful-scenic-integration with nature; fire that burns a cabin; the band is inside; red, green yellow planes through the forest; the one in where one feels like being at home, submerged by an overexposed picture, where everything becomes magnified. The song goes along these lines: "It's way too late to be this locked inside ourselves / The trouble is that you're in love with someone else / It should be me. Oh, it should be me / Sacred parts, your get aways / You come along on summer days / Tenderly, tastefully / And so may, we make time / Try to find somebody else / This place is mine." The photographs by Ellie Davies remind me of that music clip.

A Woman on a Bus

A woman on a bus
LONDON: One young woman come on the bus with her little girl and a buggy with her new born boy. She’s waiting in the wing, imposing her three years old personality towards her mom - decided to stay still two seats behind. An attitude reflecting her’s personal viewpoint and giving her an outside perspective on to her family enclosed familiar space. The young infant, instead, laying down in the buggy with his big and brown eyes marking a silver haired head just looked to the most similar sibling in front of him. Rambling Who are you? Can you come here and explain me, please! Would you like to join in on my trip! While, the mom, she, like all genesis, had her attention focus on the children safety, while trying to find an address on the Internet through her mobile and making sure that they did not pass the bus stop.
When we were entering the bus golden coins where flowing out from her pockets!