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Art Of The Day Weekly

#243 - from 26 January 2012 to 1 February 2012


Ceremonial mask in jade mosaic, La Rovirosa, Quintana Roo (Mexico), late Classic period, 17.5 x 16 cm. INAH Center, Quintana Roo, Chetumal. © Photo Martirene Alcantara/INAH (exhibition at Pinacothèque de Paris).

IN THE AIR

2012, the end of the world, or not #

PARIS – This is the question that has millennium fans and the followers of Nostradamus awake at night. Will our word come to an end as predicted by the Maya astrologists and is repeated to us in fine? Prior to the possible end of the world, foreseen for the Winter solstice, we will at least have had the right to see the exhibition on the Maya jade masks which [Read]

EXHIBITIONS

Rediscovering strange Wildt #

FORLI (Italy) – Finally, he has been rediscovered! An artist known by certain aficionados, but unheard of by numerous art amateurs, [Read]

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AUCTIONS

The charge of the 250 000 soldiers #

PARIS – All boys used to play with led soldiers in another era – but not so today. In our day of over-abundance, the deluge of brigadiers, [Read]

ARTIST OF THE WEEK

Eko Nugroho, an urban symphony #

He is well known in his country, but while his reputation still needs to be made here it is growing elsewhere: he just enjoyed a personal [Read]

OPENINGS OF THE WEEK

26 January 2012 - PARIS - Galerie Emmanuel Hervé #

A series of paintings using only the colour yellow, dated 2005-2006, by an artist faithful to abstraction.

BOOKS

Another Louvre #

The Louvre, its 35 000 objects shown (and over 400 000 in the reserves), its 60 000 m2 of exhibition rooms, its 8.8 million visitors [Read]

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