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A man walks across the basement of the Pinter Gallery storing portraits of Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin before their auction in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. More than 200 pieces of communist era relics were found by the Hungarian government in various ministries and state warehouses and will be sold in early December to benefit the victims of last month's red sludge disaster.

The album that John Lennon signed for Mark Chapman hours before the fan killed the former Beatle is up for sale at over £500,000.The Double Fantasy LP was signed by Lennon as he left his home at the Dakota building in New York City on December 8th 1980. When he returned five hours later with his wife Yoko Ono from a recording session he was shot dead by Chapman.

 

A 1,800 Year Old Bathing Pool was Discovered Beneath a Miqve by Israeli Archaeologists. Workers of the Israeli Antiquities Authority work at an excavation site in Jerusalem's Old City, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Israeli archaeologists preparing the ground for a new Jewish ritual bath in Jerusalem's Old City say they have made a coincidental discovery: an 1,800 year-old-swimming pool built by the same Roman legion that destroyed the ancient city's hallowed second Jewish Temple.

 

LONDON.- Lisson Gallery presents an exhibition of new works by Ceal Floyer. Floyer's clarity of thought and the elegantly concise presentation of her ideas resonate through all areas of her practice. The deceptive simplicity of the work is informed by Floyer's particular sense of humour and an awareness of the absurd. Through subtle interventions with everyday objects such as rubbish bags filled with air, cash register receipts or a Tammy Wynette song, Floyer uses double-takes and shifting points of view to force the viewer to renegotiate their perception of the world.

MILAN.- Federico Luger presents "times2," Franklin Evans' second solo exhibition at the Gallery. In this project, Evans moves forward with his research on time and repetition with an installation that, as in previous shows, will include painting, installation and drawing, and a diversity of materials. The show features pairs of works in which each part of the pair will force a consideration about the other. An example of this is the installation on the floor with press releases in the same fashion of the one included in "Greater New York" at MoMA P.S.1, (originofmcurrentmind). In "Times 2", Evans plans to install a photographed version of originofmcurrentmind that will be divided in two.

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