French tycoon tops art power list

French tycoon tops art power list
Esther Addley
The Guardian
14 Oct 2006

It features collectors, museum directors, artists, an internet search engine and — at its very top — a French tycoon who made his billions in fashion retail and now spends them on Venetian palaces and pickled cattle. ArtReview magazine’s annual list... read more...

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Do we really need a course in happiness?

Do we really need a course in happiness?

Hindustan Times
02 Oct 2006

AS IF having George W. Bush as a graduate student wasn’t enough to tarnish its reputation, Harvard is offering a psychology course in happiness. Readers will not be surprised to find that in the touchy feely world of dumbed down Americana the course is... read more...

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Car batteries, clay nipples, reality TV and art from the future . . .

Car batteries, clay nipples, reality TV and art from the future . . .

The Guardian
03 Oct 2006

Weird and incomprehensible objects, machines of unknown purpose, mystifying slogans and unprovable propositions: it must be Turner prize time again. All of the above, and much more, are to be found in Mark Titchner’s peculiar arrangements of the... read more...

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