My Individual Reading Part 2

The narrator came to Paris where He found out that Mr. Strickland was in a poor hotel. After speaking with him, the teller understood that Charles Strickland would never return to his family again because he sought to become an artist . The narrator returned to London and told Mrs. Stickland about his trip. At first she did not believe in it but then  she put up with that, and began to work as a typist. After 4 years  the narrator decided to visit Mrs. Stickland to say goodbye. To his surprise he found out that she had a prosperous printing office. In paris he met his old friend Dirk Stroeve who arranged a meeting for the narrator and Charles Strickland.

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"Sale of 'stolen' Banksy mural cancelled at 11th hour"

 

This article is called "Sale of 'stolen' Banksy mural cancelled at 11th hour". It discusses the controversial auction of a Banksy mural that disappeared from the wall of a north London. Slave Labour, a spray-painted artwork depicting a child making union flag bunting and seen as a critical social commentary on last year's diamond jubilee, was expected to sell for about $700,000 (£460,000) in a sale of street and contemporary art in Florida. Alan Strickland, a Haringey councillor, wanted their art work was returned and was not sold. Claire Kober, the leader of Haringey council, wrote to Arts Council England and the mayor of Miami, Tomas Regalado, to ask them to intervene to stop the sale but it appears the decision to withdraw the item came from the gallery owners in consultation with their lawyers. The FBI refused to confirm reports they were asked to investigate. Several hours after the conclusion of the auction, the auction house issued a brief statement claiming it had persuaded the owners of the two Banksys to pull them from the sale. There were many problems and critics have accused the auction house of dealing in stolen property but thut insisted earlier in the week that the consignor, who he described as a "well-known collector", was the rightful owner and that the sale was legal. Banksy himself has not commented on the Slave Labour furore, but has previously condemned those who have tried to sell his artwork, speaking out before the proposed sale of five of his pieces at a 2011 auction in New York. None found a buyer. And after lengthy proceedings auction in US halted after Haringey residents campaigned for artwork to be returned to shop it was removed from

I was impressed  by this article very much because I did not know how people in England defended their art works even on the walls of conventional streets.

 

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/feb/23/banksy-missing-mural-auction-stopped

 

 

 

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Cultural highlights

The article told us about different cultural highlights. First we can read about Dmitry Gutov’s latest exhibition “A Genius Is in Need of Orgies".  Each sculpture depicts an explicit scene if looked at from the right angle. Gutov told Moskovskiye Novosti that he has always been interested in the erotic and that this is one of the good things about being an artist. The museum under the huge “Rabochy i Kolkhoznitsa” statue near VDNKh hosts a major exhibit devoted to Soviet realism. In the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts there are new picture by 17th century Flemish masters Jan Brueghel. A major exhibit of one of Russia’s most famous artists, Pavel Pepperstein, opens this week at the Grinberg Gallery. And at the end of the article we have some information about “Calendar Girls" who have set their sights on Moscow.


http://www.themoscownews.com/arts/20130211/191225666/Cultural-highlights.html

Pleasure reading list


Year I Term I - Arthur Conan Doyle "The Hound of the Baskervilles"

Year I Term II - Jane Austen "Sense and Sensibility"

Year II Term III - Lauren Weisberger "The Devil Wears Prada"

Year II Term IV -  W. Somerset Maugham "Theatre"

Year III Term V - William Golding " Lord of the flies"

Year III Term VI -W. Somerset Maugham " The Painted Veil"

My Individual  Reading Part 1


The narrator was a writer, who was invited to the Strickland's house for a lunch. Mrs. Strickland often made such lunches, as she liked the company of writers.It was unimportant that Mrs. Strickland had a strange husband and two children. He was fascinated by this woman. They became friends and a young writer spent a lot of time with Mrs. Strickland. Soon the narrator was introduced to Mr. Strickland in one of the dinners.When the summer has come the Stricklands left London. When they returned there was one problem in Strickland's house because the narrator found out that Charles Strickland left the family and went to Paris. Mrs. Strickland asked the narrator to go to France to convince her husband to return home and he couldn't reject.