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...Whether the defendant thought to invoke Gordon Matta-Clark’s severed house or Ai Weiwei’s smashed Han Dynasty urn remains unknown....
...The stylistic variety is dizzying, but the presiding spirit is that of the writer Georges Bataille, the surrealist renegade and guru of perverse eroticism....
...In a similar comment on the then-controversial construction of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Matta-Clark cut circular holes out of two 17th-century Parisian buildings as part of the city’s 1975 biennial...
...Leading the sale was Francis Bacon’s “Portrait of George Dyer Talking” (1966), estimated “on request” at £30m and which made £42.2m....
...Rousse or Gordon Matta-Clark than from anything Chinese....
...The inland road is also the best way of reaching the south-east, the island’s chichi side, where Re Giorgio (King George) as he is affectionately known, resides in his supersized dammuso overlooking the...
...‘George Condo: Mental States’ runsuntil May 8; www.newmuseum.org...
...But there is, as it happens, a whole other avant-garde tradition of attacking buildings as an artistic act: Gordon Matta-Clark used to cut holes in them, or literally cut them in half....
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