Willem Dafoe will play Vincent Van Gogh in a new biopic directed by Julian Schnabel, centered around the artist’s time in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France.  “This is a film about painting and a painter and their relationship to infinity. It is told by a painter. It contains what I felt were essential moments in his life, this is not the official history – it’s my version. One that I hope could make you closer to him,” Schnabel says.
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The Guardian has a piece analyzing the implications for last week’s auction sales in New York, and what the record-setting Basquiat piece holds for the broader health of the art market. The piece points to continued growth among Asian collectors, and hints that a market recovery might be on its way.
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John Baldessari welcomes the LA Times into his studio this week, as he prepares for a series of new exhibitions, and continues to make new works.  “I’m just messy, I don’t put things away,” he says of his cluttered studio. “I don’t throw things away in my mind, either; I keep them there.”
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