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How David Bowie and William Boyd Hoaxed the Art World
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in ArtOn April Fools’ Day, 1998, the crème de la crème of the New York art scene gathered for a party in the studio of Jeff Koons. David Bowie played host, and while a Who’s Who of the art crowd mingled over canapés and cocktails, the mastermind behind what would be (perhaps over-zealously) dubbed “the biggest…
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Paul Éluard and Max Ernst’s Les Malheurs des immortels (1922)
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in ArtIn 1921, the French poet Paul Éluard and his Russian wife Gaya travelled to Cologne where they met the artist Max Ernst, one of the pioneers of the city’s flourishing Dada movement. This encounter marked the start of a tumultuous ménage à trois, which saw Ernst leave his wife and child in Germany to set…