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Tanja Schwarze, OLDENBURG, GERMANY...
...purple rectangle hovers at the top of the canvas dripping color like a pair of wet blue jeans, has a classic simplicity that suggests Mark Rothko or even Henri Matisse. For years, critics have been mentioning Majerus in the same sentence as contemporary giants like Ellsworth Kelly, Claes Oldenburg, Sigmar Polke, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol - if only because he stole shamelessly from them. Majerus "quotes, spits out and recycles modernism," enthuses Mudam director Marie-Claude Beaud. "His painting seems to be cultivated, sensitive and trashy all at the same time...
...that 66% of respondents approved of Schröder's cancellation, a stance that varied only marginally among voters of the Christian Democrats, the Greens, or Schröder's own Social Democrats. "He gets what he wants: a big headline," says Karl-Heinz Nassmacher, a political scientist at Oldenburg University. "He's just using opportunities, and that's what a good politician is supposed...
...former President of the Board of Overseers Richard E. Oldenburg ’54 says the development office discourages fundraising in the arts, where less money is generally directed anyway. “There’s always such a battle for donations in these areas,” he says. “It’s up to the development department to allow us [to fundraise] which they’re often not that eager...
...service as an Overseer I was appointed to be the liaison with the Office for the Arts. What I have tried to do since, perhaps pushily, is expand that role into general arts advocacy. Of course there are and have been other Overseers similarly impassioned: I think of Dick Oldenburg, the former head or the Museum of Modern Art and of American Sotheby’s and last year’s president of the Overseers, who was no mean arts advocate himself, especially in the visual arts...