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Lawyers dismiss Park West libel case

January 18th, 2010

A defamation case against two London lawyers who are suing the Michigan-based Park West Gallery over their purchase of a set of Salvador Dalí prints was dismissed last month, after a panel of three attorneys in Michigan assigned the case a value of $0.00. The panel, whose recommendations are non-binding, said the gallery should pay $347,900, around half the money they are seeking, to settle the couple’s suit against the gallery (The Art Newspaper, February 2009, p45).

The gallery withdrew its libel case against Sharon Day and her husband, Julian Howard, voluntarily. But according to Park West Gallery’s attorney Rodger Young of the firm Young & Susser, the gallery does not accept the panel’s other recommendations, so the case will proceed to trial later this year.

The story began in December 2007 » Read more: Lawyers dismiss Park West libel case

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Shaun Gladwell on life in Afghanistan

January 18th, 2010

Shaun Gladwell, the Australian multimedia artist who represented his country at the 2009 Venice Biennale, and who has just returned from being an official war artist in Afghanistan, told The Art Newspaper that his experiences were “inspirational” and will inform his next body of work.

Gladwell was speaking on his return from Oruzgan province, where he lived and worked for three weeks alongside Australian soldiers in October 2009. He says he will spend the next six months in his Sydney studio, working to “digest” his experiences while in the field. “I’m cherishing [the trip], and starting to analyse what’s taken place at this particular time,” he said.

Before settling back into his studio to work with the raw photographs and moving images he shot in Afghanistan, Gladwell returned to » Read more: Shaun Gladwell on life in Afghanistan

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Stedman has high hopes for Canvas Collection Art

January 18th, 2010

At the tender age of 12 Natchez native Bob Stedman had already chosen what was to be his lifelong career. It was then that Stedman took the job as an artist’s apprentice under a German immigrant.

“He taught me more about art when I was 12, 13, 14 and 15 years old than I ever would have learned in college,” Stedman said.

Thanks to the tutelage of that German artist, Stedman learned a lot about art — including how to grind pigment and how to manufacture his own paintbrushes.

After high school Stedman moved to Memphis to become a pictorial painter. He hung off the sides of buildings to paint such things as 20-foot tall » Read more: Stedman has high hopes for Canvas Collection Art