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The canvas in question, one of four known variations of the Black Square, painted in the early part of the last century, would likely fetch at least $20 million at Sotheby's or Christie's. The last Malevich to be sold, Suprematist Composition, was auctioned in New York last May...
Why? The press-shy officials at Russia's Ministry of Culture insist this is a matter of national heritage. Malevich's works must remain in their homeland, they say, arguing that the state would never grant an export license for any Malevich canvas. Perplexed Malevich experts at home and abroad...
The tale that ensued is worthy of Gogol. A man in his 20s and dressed in a track suit arrived at the bank carrying a bag. He apologized for being late-he had stopped off to buy fishing line. "But as soon as he opened that bag and unrolled the...
"Whenever there is a change in administration, we engage in a broad canvas in hopes of renewing our stock of people with policy experience," he said.
Out of such obsessiveness emerge images of seemingly effortless beauty. Zhang shows us the unedited six-and-a-half-minute sequence from the Mongolian shoot, a scene so breathtaking it will no doubt earn a place in the cinematic pantheon. Dazzling in red costumes against a pale yellow sun, the...