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Art Industry News: Meet Ememem, the Mystery Street Artist and ‘Pothole Knight’ Who Turns Broken Streets Into Colorful Mosaics + Other Stories
Artwork Market News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the artwork environment and art current market. Here’s what you need to have to know on this Monday, September 12. Want-TO-Read Antiquities Collector Maintains Innocence, Even as U.S. Problems Warrant for Arrest – Lebanese vendor, collector, and previous pharmacist Georges Lotfi is wished in the United States amid allegations of trafficking looted antiquities. In a new job interview, he denies the prices and suggests his “big mistake” was befriending Matthew Bogdanos, the head of the New York District Attorney’s Art Trafficking Device, “who turned against me.” (The Art Newspaper) Digicam in Palestine Broadcasts to International…
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France’s answer to Banksy: the anonymous street artist filling potholes with colourful mosaics | Street art
Last year, the studio of the Lyon-based artist known as Ememem received an urgent call from an architectural firm close to the city’s Place Sathonay. Someone was in the process of dismantling a mosaic he had installed on the pavement in front of their offices. By the time he arrived, the culprit had fled with half of it. That artwork may have partially disappeared, but many of Ememem’s other creations remain dotted throughout the municipality’s streets… some 350 and counting. Over the past six years, he has made a speciality of filling divots and potholes with multicoloured mosaics made from tiles of different sizes and different hues, arranged in striking…
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