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Jan. 12, 2012

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	James Franco to Play Robert Mapplethorpe James Franco is set to make yet another foray into the art world (and another role as a gay man). The Hollywood Reporter announced today that the Tribeca Film Institute has given a $15,000 grant to documentarian Ondi Timoner to make a narrative feature about Robert Mapplethorpe with Franco playing the late photographer of the sexual underworld. more

	Anti-Immigrant Author Targeted at Berlin Biennale Czech artist Martin Zet is waging war against the 2010 best-selling book Germany is Destroying Itself by German author Thilo Sarrazin. For an installation at the seventh annual Berlin Biennale, Apr. 27-July 1, 2012, Zet is amassing as many copies of the anti-immigrant book as he can find -- ideally 60,000, or about 5 percent of the total print order -- after which he plans to have the anti-immigrant screed pulped. more

	Nudes -- in Lingerie -- at the Musée d’Orsay Young women running through a museum in their underwear? A fever dream, perhaps -- or a cheeky promotion in Paris, where, on Jan. 9, 2012, the French lingerie company Etam sent a trio of long-gammed models in black stilettos and belted french coats into the Musée d’Orsay, where they stripped down to their skivvies among the world’s most celebrated collection of Impressionist masterpieces. more

	15 Art Fairs in January After a mere 18 fairs in Miami at the beginning of December 2011, you might think the art market would take a break for January 2012. If you thought that, however, you would be wrong. more


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