Fwd: ExterTournament

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> From: Evgeny Steiner <[email protected]>
> Date: November 5, 2010 7:30:12 AM EDT
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [SEELANGS] SEELANGS: Fwd: ExterTournament
> Reply-To: "SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and  
> Literatures list" <[email protected]>
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Many of you possibly know about floods of forgeries in the Russian
> Avant-garde art market. Often the situation is aggravated by the  
> rivalry (or
> perhaps business competition) of different specialists who claim the
> exclusive expertize on this or that artist. As a result of such a  
> claim, the
> whole exhibition of Alexandra Exter in France was declared as formed  
> of
> forgeries and arrested in 2009. In the forwarded letter sent by a  
> colleague,
> I found a not so usual way to solve the dispute: a joust. I guess it  
> might
> be interesting to follow.
>
> Heraldically yours,
>
> E. Steiner
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Patricia Railing <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 12:51 PM
> Subject: ExterTournament
> To: [email protected]
>
>
> 2 November 2010
>
> Dear Friends and Colleagues,
>
> Yesterday, 1 November, I challenged Andréi Nakov to a Joust of the  
> Pen. It
> is announced on my new website
>
>   *http://www.patriciarailingwrites.net
> *
> as the ALEXANDRA EXTER TOURNAMENT.
>
> Please pass this on to everyone you know who is interested in the  
> Russian
> Avant-Garde.
>
> With kind greetings,
>
> Patricia Railing
>
>
>
> -- 
> Dr Evgeny Steiner
> Professorial Research Associate
> Japan Research Centre
> SOAS, University of London
> Brunei Gallery, B401
> Russell Square
> London WC1H 0XG
> United Kingdom
>
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