Guest-curated by Ellen Taubman, the former head of Sotheby's American Indian and tribal art department, "Changing Hands" departs from the usual museum surveys of Indian art by focusing solely on work that is innovatively contemporary.
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"I wanted to put the art in the hands of homeless people" he told the BBC.
Years ago I set out to purchase museum-quality ancient art from private hands, to care for it, study the works, keep them in trust and display and lend them.
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Reiki, the Japanese art of laying on hands, is based on the notion that an unseen, life-giving source of energy flows through our bodies.
On display at the launch party are a few of the most elaborate (but silent) designs, framed on the wall as works of art, including the "hands" bikini.
It's a new dawn, it's a new day, down at the ICA. What was once one of the world's hippest hang-outs - where the in-crowd would go to shake hands with the zeitgeist, where Pop Art was born, where Stravinsky, TS Elliot and Yoko Ono would hang out, where news was broken - is having a reincarnation after years of decline.
The watch has a dial with oversized Roman numerals and sword hands, Cartier mainstays since the days of Art Deco.
Now that art is moving inexorably back into the hands of the artists themselves, whole new universes of creativity are opening up.
It's an extreme case but it highlights a very real dilemma for every neophyte collector who's thinking about hiring an art adviser: Are you putting yourself in the hands of someone who's going to treat your walls the way a shady auto mechanic treats your alternator?
In 1970 came the laying on of hands: a one-man show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
As a student he started an art collection that eventually became one of the finest in private hands.
You could pay a fortune to a public relations agency skilled in the art of crisis management--or you can take triage into your own hands.
On an office wall is a work of art given to him by an aging friend with "too much time on his hands, " Slim says.
We need to retain our heritage and the best way to do that is to try and make sure that the best African art -- modern, contemporary and even old -- is kept in the hands of Africans.
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