Breakfast With Lucian

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Click Here to Read:  ‘Breakfast With Lucian’ presents an eye-popping portrait of Freud, the painter  The artist Lucian Freud — Sigmund’s grandson — was father to countless children and canvases during his messy, selfish and fascinating life, Review of ‘Breakfast With Lucian by Geordie Greig,   Reviewed By Heller McAlpin on October 17, 2013

Lucian Freud’s ghosts laid to rest with Vienna show

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Click Here To Read:  Lucian Freud’s ghosts laid to rest with Vienna show on the Malaysian Insider website on October 8, 2013.

David Dawson, who worked with British painter Lucian Freud at Freud’s studio and home for over 20 years, talks as he stands in front of his photographs of the artist during an interview with Reuters at the Sigmund Freud museum in Vienna yesterday. – Reuters pic, October 8, 2013.

Diego Rivera’s “Battle of Detroit”

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Click Here to Read: The working class and the Detroit Industry murals at the DIA: Diego Rivera’s “Battle of Detroit” By Tom Mackaman and Jerry White on The World Socialist Web Site on  October 3, 2013.

Demonstrators on Miller Road outside of the Rouge Plant flee as teargas and bullets are released on them by Dearborn Police and Ford Servicemen during the 1932 Ford Hunger March [Source: Reuther Library]

The politics of cultural destruction: The Rape of Europa

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Click Here to Read: The politics of cultural destruction: The Rape of Europa By Nancy Hanover   on the World Socialist Web Site on September 27, 2013.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Self-Portrait as a Soldier (1915). His work was labelled “degenerate” in 1933. In 1937 the Nazis sold or destroyed 600 of his paintings. His first solo show in the US took place at the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1937. He committed suicide in 1938.