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• A great contemporary, visionary artist has left us

  

  Jan Oberg

  

  Claes Oldenburg obituary

  The Guardian - Charles Darwent

  Had the ideas of Claes Oldenburg been realised, Piccadilly Circus would have had as its hub not a 19th-century sculpture of Eros but a cluster of 8m-high orange lipsticks or a skyscraper-sized pair of women’s knees. Both projects were imagined for the site by the Swedish-American artist and …

• This is perverse - event the argument: "the absolute pinnacle of American Pop and the promise of the American Dream encapsulating optimism, fragility, celebrity and iconography all at once." Didn't Marilyn commit suicide?

  

  Jan Oberg

  

  Warhol's Marilyn at Auction with $200m Estimate | Barnebys Magazine

  barnebys.co.uk - Daniela Neri

  An iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol goes on sale in May at Christie's with an estimate of $200 million (£151 million), the highest …

• A sad story indeed. But also an example of how wars destroy people.

  

  Jan Oberg

  

  Russian guard who doodled on $1m painting speaks out: ‘I’m a fool, what have I done!’

  theartnewspaper.com - Sophia Kishkovsky

  A security guard who is charged with drawing eyes on an avant-garde painting by Anna Leporskaya at the Yeltsin Centre in Ekaterinburg last December …

• Very important words about the perverted art industry world

  

  Jan Oberg

  

  A Return to Sincerity in the Art World: A Review of Michael Albert’s No Bosses

  nobossesbook.com

  by Jerry Fresia Michael Albert’s new book, No Bosses: Building a New Economy for a Better World is a book that ought to have wide appeal among visual …

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  Jan Oberg

  

  Maybe China's most talked-about artwork in 2021...

  5iz-china.com

  “Momentary Ownership”, the graduation art project of Zou Yaqi, student at Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts is a movie compilation of how she …

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  Jan Oberg

  

  'Van Gogh's Life Was Made for a Novelist': Author Martin Bailey on the Artist's Mysterious Last Days—and How He Really Died

  artnet.com - Sarah Cascone

  Bailey is the author of the new book 'Van Gogh's Finale: Auvers and the Artist's Rise to Fame.' Many of us know the story about the end of Vincent Van …