Dieter Roth did some art Defacing too, read this interesting artnet article here.
The image above is of Dieter Roth by Arnulf Rainer and below from Dieter Roth.

Arnulf Rainer did some art Defacing and was once one of my favorites, I am not sure why I did not think of him earlier when I started blogging about Defacing. Read more on him here.

I found some art Defacing at the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora in Lisbon.

Lucian Freud, Reflection, Oil on Canvas, 1985

Lucian Freud exhibition at Centre Pompidou is solid… see it here via vernissagetv

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L'origine du monde by Gustave Courbet

We were invited to the opening reception of See Italy and Die at the Musée d’Orsay and it was OK… but what we really liked was to walk on an empty museum without guards…(defacing was not on my head… not really!… OK maybe just a little) We stumble into some beauties by Degas and others…

Giorgio de Chirico at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris is a chilling representation of an artist’s life with his replays where he did his self forgeries to get back at critics and buyers… learn more, google.

Where else can we sit on a Le Corbusier couch and contemplate a Francis Bacon… Centre d’art Pompidou

Francis Bacon at Tate Modern was still great to see… I was very surprise not to see any Lucian Freud’s

Here are a few pics of Gerhard Richter’s artwork at a recently opened exhibition at the Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris… Some abstract paintings have titles like NETZ (Net), WEISS (White), DICKICHT (Thicket) and GESTEIN (Stone) that make discreet allusions to nature. Take a look…

Domfestner is a 20 meter high stained glass window at the Köln Dom Cathedral based on Gerhard Richter’s 1970 abstract work titled “4096 Farben” or 4096 Colors for those like me that don’t know German… this artwork features, squares of colors rendered from the color palette of a printing ink manufacturer and you can see it in a previous post. Deconstruction of iconography are the keywords here but it works refreshingly well at the church, it is one of those few places where you can see contemporary art in a Gothic church. You can see more of this window on flickr

Check out William O’brien’s artworks at World Class Boxing in Miami via dig

Koln, originally uploaded by pablogt.

Last weekend I had a nice love weekend with my girl in Koln were we visited the city (Gerhard Richter’s home town) and the Ludwig Museum where there was a Piet Mondrian exhibition with cool retrospective artworks and where it was very hard to take pictures, but I took some for the fun anyways… The museum had lots of German artists were I was able to check out my fetish artists Richter and Polke and many others. We did not buy cologne water… lol more on Gerhard Richter here, more on the museum here, see the slide show here

Someone posted Matthew Barney’s Cremaster (4 and 5) xvids on quicksilver… check it out here and here, more on cremaster here

Check out this pdf full of cool art posters by air de paris…

Back in Paris and getting busy. A friend (Brent) invited me to see an exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay of swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler of the Modernist movement known for his portraits and landscapes. I have to say I did not know this painter… but some works were interesting to me…I found it coincidental how the subject of mortality was there at the end of his life’s work… and I am worring about it now… hmmm