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For $250 million....

Qatar Purchases Cézanne’s The Card Playersfor More Than $250 Million, Highest Price Ever for a Work of Art

With this landmark score, the tiny, oil-rich nation joins a massively exclusive club: only five Card Players exist, and the other four are in world-class collections such as the Musée d’Orsay and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The purchase is just the latest bid in Qatar’s effort to become an international intellectual hub.

What would you do with $250 million?

1 Cezanne


10 decent sized mansions in the Hamptons

100 upper-middle class family homes in Beijing

1000 Ferrari 458 Italia Coupes in Rome


10,000 Ducati 1199S motorcycles in Paris

100,000 complete high school educations including accommodation, 
food and healthcare in Lhasa, Tibet

5,000,000 milking goats in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

50,000,000 egg-laying chickens in Dhaka, Bangladesh

iconografia religiosa (adaptada)

by mark ryden

BAUHAUS, ART AS LIFE

A Practice for Everyday Life (APFEL) has worked with architectural studio Carmody Groarke on the exhibition design for Bauhaus: Art as Life which opened at the Barbican Art Gallery this week in London...

The show contains over 400 works from the most prestigious and extensive Bauhaus collections in the world and looks to provide and in-depth exploration of the school's 14 year history, focusing on the lives of its students and staff and the community they created.

Together Carmody Groarke and APFEL have, they say, designed "an architectural installation of elemental forms that both compliments and enhances the exhibition's contents." As a result, the Barbican Art Gallery has been physically rearranged to create a bespoke viewing experience for its visitors.

Graphically, the show's design has been informed by Bauhaus principles of colour, structure and typography, with brightly coloured walls, bold panels and super graphics conspiring to draw together exhibits, themes and ideas. The typeface used throughout the exhibition, FF Bau by Erik Spiekermann, is a contemporary revival of Breite Grotesk, a letterpress face largely used within the Bauhaus itself.

"Designing an exhibition about the Bauhaus is every graphic designer's dream, but it's also a daunting challenge," APFEL's Kirsty Carter told us of the project. "It already holds such a vivid visual presence in the public consciousness, and this makes it very difficult to design for a Bauhaus exhibition and create something that feels original," she continues. "Our approach was to start with a really intensive research project, looking into all aspects of the Bauhaus and its rules, and then reinterpreting them in an exhibition context - aiming for a design that felt true to the spirit of the school without resorting to pastiche or parody.

"We have looked to the Bauhaus' wall painting workshops in choosing the exhibition colour scheme, studied its principles of typography when designing titles, labels and captions, and taken cues from its exhibition design work when designing the structure of the show itself. The Bauhaus: Art as Life exhibition is as much about celebrating the Bauhaus's occupants and their community as it is the iconic works they created, and we have tried to provide a similar sense of human context and character through the exhibition design."

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Green Pink Caviar

"I was shooting stills of models with long tongues swirling and sucking bakery products from under a pane of glass. I wanted to make enamel paintings along the idea of painting with my tongue. My makeup artist shot some short videos just to see how it would look. The low definition videos looked so good that later we made plans to do a professional high definition video. I have made both billboards and produced a commercial advertising a 1989 painting show so this made sense as a next step.Green Pink Caviar seems to have a life of its own."

- Marilyn Minter

In Green Pink Caviar Marilyn Minter continues her interest in blurring the boundaries between fine and commercial art. Co-opting advertising genres and related spaces, she takes on a new platform to direct her first video. The eight minute high definition video, Green Pink Caviar (2009) is a lush and sensual voyeuristic hallucination. Filmed with macro lenses, the video was inspired by a photo shoot where Minter directed her models to lick brightly colored candies while she shot photos from underneath a glass plate. The models' tongues mixed the colorful sugar with saliva, slurping and pushing color across the glass surface to simulate painting. Driven by her fascination with the body, Green Pink Caviar sets the stage for chance to happen.

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Marilyn Minter