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HOPES THAT Anglo Irish Bank’s art collection could help to raise significant money for the State have been dashed by the bank’s discovery that many of the paintings “have no value” – just like its once highly rated shares.
When Anglo became the State-owned Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC), it inherited Anglo’s art collection – some 320 pieces – along with other assets and liabilities.
About one-third of the paintings have been valued as worthless – in financial, not necessarily artistic, terms – consisting of “the type of art that could be bought from the railings on Merrion Square”, according to a bank spokesman.Another 100 paintings have an estimated value each of between “€0 and €500” while there are just 100 artworks that may be worth more significant amounts. The entire collection has been valued at “less than €1 million” and more likely just €750,000.
A spokesman for IBRC said it is “actively considering options” regarding how to dispose of the art “for the benefit of the State – in the months ahead”.
Anglo’s sketchy art collection is of little cash value to the State (Irish Times)
(Photocall Ireland)
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‘Head On’ (2004) by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang interviewed at the Deutsche Guggenheim Museum in Berlin in 2006.
Ninety-nine life-sized wolves made from painted sheepskin stuffed with hay and metal wires tear headlong into a glass wall and brief unconsciousness before picking themselves up and trotting back to do it all again.
Mmf.
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By Ciara Rapple.
This is a photograph of a 3d paper design of Dublin City I made. I mainly wanted to do something about the man who saved his rabbit from the Liffey last year, because it’s lovely. So I have him diving into the Liffey to save the rabbit and then again on the bridge giving him a kiss.
Then I just wanted to frame that with different little things from around Dublin.
Bâtiment (‘Building’) by Leandro Erlich: a huge façade on the floor adjacent to an equally huge mirror. The punters are loving it.
Part of the In Perceptions exhibit at the 104 in Paris.
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U are.
Earlier this evening on the side of the Simon Community charity shop at the corner of Grantham Street and Camden Street, Dublin.
UPDATE: The work of Maser, apparently.
(Thanks Oisin)
Chilean artist Fabian Gaete Maureira paints pictures with his fingers.
Just give him a minute and he’ll knock one up for you.
More art on Fabian’s Flickr stream.
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The work of the anonymous benefactor who spent much of 2011 ‘art-bombing’ various cultural organisations in Edinburgh with intricate paper sculptures dedicated to the good work carried on therein.
Above: the first of many: an exquisite paper tree left at the Scottish Poetry Library last March; a gramophone and casket at the National Library Of Scotland in late June followed by a dragon egg at the Scottish Storytelling Centre and a diorama dedicated to Edinburgh’s Filmhouse cinema.
READ MORE: Mysterious Paper Sculptures (This Is Central Station)
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Mind = Blown
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Artist Riusuke Fukahori uses “acrylic on clear resin which is poured into containers, resulting in a three-dimensional appearance and lifelike vitality”. He also likes goldfish.
William writes:
Now this art; seriously good (skip to 0.56 if you must)