Qatar has purchased Cézanne’s The Card Players for more than $250 million, the highest price ever paid for a work of art.

The artist Christo wants to stretch fabric over the Arkansas River as part of a massive art exhibition. But now a group of University of Denver law students are joining in on the fight to put a stop to it before it ever starts.

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  • Hou Hanru

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    Hou Hanru is Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs and Chair of the Exhibitions and Museum Studies program at the San Francisco Art Institute.  A prolific writer and curator, Hou is a consultant for several cultural institutions internationally and a correspondent for various journals on contemporary art.  Hou curated the 10th International Istanbul Biennial in 2007 and the 10th Lyon Biennial in 2009.  He is one of the first curators and thinkers to examine postmodern issues of nomadic identity, hybridity, globalized mobility and artists living in the diaspora. 

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