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...It’s tempting to call it the German director’s best film since last Wednesday, when his 3D documentary portrait of the painter Anselm Kiefer premiered....
...As foreign minister, de Villepin commissioned Kiefer to make a major work in the cellars of the Quai d’Orsay. “But I moved to the Ministry of the Interior two months later, so it never happened.”...
...The exhibition, which toured to Paris’s Musée d’Art Moderne last year, now arrives in London, generously laid out at Thaddaeus Ropac’s Ely House in Mayfair....
...An object I’d never part with is a small Giambologna bronze Venus holding the tools of architecture. I’ve had it for several years and I want to be buried with it....
...calls it Portugal’s answer to Montauk — which thanks to its spectacular beach has lately become fashionable with architects, artists and designers, among them Philippe Starck, Vincent Van Duysen, Anselm Kiefer...
...When I say this is reminiscent of Kiefer Sutherland’s experience in 24, “That was something we aspired to,” Advani says....
...I’d rather have the art than the money.’ And thank God some people think that way.” It’s hard to imagine a better example of big art meeting big money than Gagosian’s house....
...Ochoa Foster may not have visited Nietzsche’s rock before but I’d bet my Zoom account she’s read his books....
...immediately of the warehouse full of 20th-century furniture she had spent the past 15 years amassing – among which are original, historic designs by Ettore Sottsass and Caccia Dominioni – and knew she’d...
...“That means we’d have to undertake a mass cull of content globally to stop them being visible to Australians — we’d have to remove all foreign newspapers, bloggers, YouTube citizen reporters, but also sports...
...“We’d never worked in fashion but we went in McKinsey-style, where Dan had been employed, to figure out what would work.”...
...I’d been braced for a quiet interview....
...This year Mourgue d’Algue has filled it with a selection of artists, including Alan Schmalz, who recently won Switzerland’s Kiefer Hablitzel prize awarded to artists under 30, and Anina Troesh, whose textiles...
...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is Anselm Kiefer....
...It is not a market, in fact, like any other: you cannot substitute one Anselm Kiefer for another, like a share in BT. You cannot sell at volume....
...Pablo Picasso’s “Les Femmes d’Alger” was sold for $179.4m, the most expensive artwork ever auctioned....
...Has artist Anselm Kiefer ever wanted some help with lighting?...
...Viewed head on, the ensemble briefly possesses a brutal, anti-sublime lyricism in the vein of Anselm Kiefer....
...As Marino orders an espresso, the maître’ d arrives with an enormous pink dome of cotton candy on a plate....
...Considering that White Cube is showing Kiefer in Hong Kong, and both Gagosian and Ropac are launching their new spaces in Paris with Kiefer, it seems difficult not to believe that many artists might be overstretching...
...In October, he opened France’s biggest commercial art gallery in Pantin, just outside Paris’s Boulevard Périphérique, with shows of Anselm Kiefer and Joseph Beuys (both end January 27)....
...The process has archaic trappings: Le Brun waves a two-sided wand, with X for “no” or “D” for “doubtful” – the best result at the first stage – over each submission....
...And collectors engage with the scale of large works such as Anselm Kiefer’s [Kiefer’s museum-quality ‘Il Mistero delle Cattedrali’ show at White Cube closed last week] – we sold to private and public collections...
...A moment of quiet horror takes, literally, the characters’ breath away: “It’s stealing some of our atmosphere,” explains Dunst’s science-boffin brother-in-law (Kiefer Sutherland)....
...They might sidle from one place to another … SS: They’d go to Chez Georges … AG: They’d go to their place, wherever it might be....
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