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If you tried to guess who was the best-selling artist of all time, the first names that would come to mind might be van Gogh or Picasso. But a moment's reflection tells us that the world doesn't work like that. A more considered answer might be Charles Schulz or Matt Groening - Messrs Peanuts and Simpsons respectively. The truth could hardly be more different or more surprising, at least according to the publisher HarperCollins, which says the world's bestseller is a Swiss religious artist by the name of Annie Vallotton.
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"Humans, Machines and Body Parts" represent three new chapters in the incessant artistic production of Atelier van Lieshout. Body Parts are enormous sculptures that reproduce internal organs of the human body; the change in scale is stupefying, educating the viewer about the wonders of the human body. The hand of the artist seems to withdraw; the reproduction is instantaneous and faithful, offering pleasure in the beauty that is revealed. After a monumental liver, almost the last outpost of interior beauty, one encounters another dimension: a room populated by stylized white little men - almo
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Berlin appears today as a place in which the civil and political traumas of the separation of the city into two parts for long decades are still visible, alongside however traces of previous greatness. The historic remains of the city survive alongside the crumbling parts or unbuilt on areas, or those recently built on, signs of an international architecture that leaves a profound mark in the city incarnated in the new complex of Potsdamer Platz. The city lives in a space-time dimension made of imperceptible layers that are overlaid one upon the other creating a mix of past and present that r
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Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
The first in a planned series of triennial shows, this exhibition highlights the work of 60 creative talents working in visual art, design, fashion, new media, and architecture. Relationships between works will create the "crossing" or meeting place of diverse viewpoints.
Through April 11.
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Opens February 12
Kemi and Rovaniemi, Finland
These arctice towns hosts this exhibition of environmental art that replaces the familiar, permanent materials of art and architecture with the unusual, ephemeral element of water in its frozen form.
Through March 31.
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