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...moving back to Europe, where on a whim she bought an unfinished Venetian palace, nicknamed Palazzo Nonfinito, she staged Pollock's first Italian show in 1950. By then Life magazine had already posed the question, "JACKSON POLLOCK: IS HE THE GREATEST LIVING PAINTER IN THE UNITED STATES?" But her life as a collector was not quite complete. From the '50s on, she moved past Pop and Minimalism to focus on the more quirky kinetic works of Germans Mack and Uecker, only now being properly appreciated. "The Zero Group works exemplify how Peggy was evergreen," Rylands says. "She continued buying...
...Emily Jacir's Material for a Film, 2005, the New York-based Palestinian artist presents various "documents" surrounding the 1972 assassination of activist Wael Zuaiter by Mossad agents in Rome as an absorbing artistic picture puzzle. At center stage are the letters of Zuaiter's friend, Sydney-born painter Janet Venn-Brown, who helps bring him to life for a film never shot in an art work that haunts the mind...
...Rudi Mantofani, Yunizar and Handiwirman Sahputra leading the way (Yunizar and Handiwirman's paintings have sold for over $50,000). According to Deddy Kusuma, owner of one of Indonesia's largest collections, some works by the group have appreciated by 10 times in the past year alone. Established painters are also benefiting from the surging interest. Nasirun, a well-known but reclusive 42-year-old painter in Bantul, Central Java, is currently selling paintings to overseas collectors sight unseen-such is the demand for his work...
...artistic traditions as they are eager to remake them. Tokyo's Museum of Contemporary Art identified the trend with its 2006 exhibition No Border: From Nihonga to Nihonga, which showcased talents like Matsui and Kumi Machida, whose idiosyncratic ink portraits of macabre toylike figures are the product of supreme painterly skill. You could call these painters "neo-nihonga," a term popularized by the album-cover designer turned fine artist Hisashi Tenmyouya, whose brilliantly colored acrylic paintings tweak symbols of Japanese nationalism and culture. They may be diverse in style, theme and personality, but what these artists have in common...
...activists who believe that as acts like Colorado's give gay and lesbian couples the opportunity to showcase their worth as partner-parents, the laws will help erode resistance to same-sex matrimony. "We now have a better chance to prove people's fears wrong," says Allen, 39, a painter. Ellen Kahn, family project director at Washington-based Human Rights Campaign, one of the nation's largest gay civil rights organizations, agrees. "It definitely makes it easier to make the argument that gay marriage would bolster family life," she says...