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...Bakewell’s continuing enthusiasm was extraordinary, I say, for someone who had once interviewed Marcel Duchamp, the father of conceptual art, who was born 134 years ago....
...One thinks of those recluses — Marcel Proust, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson — whose sensitivities were so inflamed by interaction that they walled themselves up in their chambers and muffled out the world...
...Perhaps he was thinking of the J Edgar Hoover Building, the FBI HQ a block away from the Trump International Hotel. The chunky concrete building has always been unpopular....
...is a giant red-and-white die propped on a rock, “The Misthrown Dice” (2017) by Gilles Barbier, while opposite stands a thickly indented blue wall, apparently in concrete but in fact in resin, by Didier Marcel...
...Among the most substantial discoveries are fragments from an early comédie lyrique entitled Diane au bois and his unfinished Edgar Allan Poe opera La Chute de la Maison Usher, performed in their original...
...– so much so that Marcel often styles my shows too....
...It’s also a little surprising not to see Washington, DC’s J Edgar Hoover Building here, the FBI headquarters where the aesthetic and the purpose somehow seem to find a perfect match....
...Aged 16, Tuymans encountered, in Ghent, Raeburn’s portrait of Alexander Edgar, Scottish landowner and Jamaican plantation owner, and “what shocked me then and still does is the blue of the eyeballs”....
...Marcel Proust manages to make an appearance, too, peeping over the top hats....
...A high point here, connecting Wilson’s British and European collections, is an edition of a 1967 collaboration between Hamilton and the elderly Marcel Duchamp on a version of “The Oculist Witnesses”....
...“It was terrible,” says farmer Enrique Reyes. “Everyone was getting sick. It felt like the plague.”...
...One artist doing good business at Arco was Amaya González Reyes with Pilar Parra & Romero gallery, in the solo project section....
...This exhibition on the theme of Edgar Allan Poe, curated by the writer and painter Harland Miller, is an example....
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