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German museum under fire for ceding control of exhibitions to dealers and collectors

Leipzig’s Gallery of Contemporary Art (GfZK) is facing strong criticism for hosting a series of exhibitions which gives dealers, collectors and corporate art collections complete freedom to display their works as they wish. Chris Dercon, the director of the Haus der Kunst in Munich, describes the initiative, entitled “Carte Blanche”, as “exactly the kind of thing that we do not need in public galleries”.

The GfZK, which is a public-private partnership, receives much of its funding from public sources. It has now ceded curatorial control of half of its galleries until 2010.

Other German museum directors surveyed by The Art Newspaper have expressed disquiet at the exhibitions which will give commercial galleries such as Leipzig’s Dogenhaus and Eigen + Art the free run of the...

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LOS MUSEUS SON FUENTE DE CONOCIMIENTO,
NO DE ESPECTÁCULO.

Lo que Nicholas Penny (1949) defiende -que el museo debe ser un lugar para la cultura y no para el espectáculo-, choca con la rentabilidad de las exposiciones masivas. La recuperación del papel pedagógico de los museos que anuncia puede ser tachada de elitista, pero nadie diría lo mismo si habláramos de depurar el uso de los hospitales. Penny, que fue comisario de pintura renacentista durante 12 años en la National Gallery, que hoy dirige, descubrió, colgada en las paredes del castillo de Alnwick, Madonna of the pinks (Virgen de los claveles), de Rafael. Y está convencido de que quedan otras obras por desenmascarar. También puede suceder lo contrario, dice, que de las paredes de los museos pueden colgar goyas falsos. Pero es optimista. "Si descubrimos que un gran cuadro no es de Goya, estaremos descubriendo también a otro gran artista". Pasó por Madrid para...

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CITIES FOR LIVING

..."Citizens protested, and conservation societies fought throughout Europe for the old idea of what a city should look like, but the modernists won the battle of ideas. They took over the architecture schools and set out to ensure that the classical discipline of architecture would never again be learned, since it would never again be taught. The vandalization of the curriculum was successful: European architecture schools no longer taught students the grammar of the classical Orders; they no longer taught how to understand moldings, or how to draw existing monuments, urban streets, the human figure, or such vital aesthetic phenomena as the fall of light on a Corinthian capital or the shadow of a campanile on a sloping roof; they no longer taught appreciation for facades, cornices, doorways, or anything else that one could glean from a study of Serlio or Palladio. The purpose of the new curriculum was to produce ideologically driven engineers, whose representational skills went no further than ground plans and isometric drawings, and who could undertake the gargantuan “projects” of the socialist state: shoveling people into housing estates, laying out industrial areas and business parks, driving highways through ancient city centers, and generally reminding the middle classes that Big Brother was supervising them.But a later generation rebelled against the totalitarian mind-set of the modernists"...

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LEITURA A NÃO PERDER,
SOB NENHUM PRETEXTO.

It was a wedding straight out of Sex and the City: a rehearsal dinner looking out over the Eiffel Tower from the Trocadero, a garden ceremony and dancing reception in a grand château outside Paris, topped off by a private fireworks display. The groom was a thirtysomething American lawyer with friends in high places, the bride a dark-eyed designer with social sheen, and the guest list a mix of family and what Noël Coward once called Nescafé Society.

But the real cynosure of the occasion last August was the smiling, snowy-haired man who is the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral he attends, the 42nd president of the United States, Bill Clinton. He had come to the City of Light with the motley crew that constitutes some of the post-presidential rat pack to celebrate the marriage of Douglas Band, the man who for the last decade has been his personal aide, gatekeeper, enforcer, and—more recently—counselor in the multifarious business, philanthropic, and political dealings that keep Clinton restlessly circling the globe.

Also in attendance was Ron Burkle, the California supermarket billionaire and investor who is Clinton’s bachelor buddy, fund-raiser, and...

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