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Thanks to Annika Olsen of Artnet News Online for the Headline.

“The Three Carracci”, founders of an inspirational art school in Bologna Italy in the 16th Century. Annibale Carraci the elder of the three brothers was the driving force behind the school and also a very influential artist. His style championed “naturalism” and was influenced by Northern Italian Renaissance painters like Titian.

This style became popular in genre paintings in later periods and though Rembrandt and Carracci could never have met; being separated by land and time. Rembrandt owned some pieces of Carracci or at least attributed to Carracci and would have known his work. Rembrandt had many influences.

Sadly, as with everything, but more particularly progress in Art, the past is sometimes forgotten and Annibale Carraci’s work in developing his school as well as producing some very memorable “naturalistic” paintings along with developing the methods of producing them perhaps have been overlooked. His visceral style and techniques certainly persists in modern painting today and there is strong evidence that he influenced the great masters of Europe, maybe even Rembrandt.

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Thanks to Chi Chi Izundu,Olivia Davies and Will Dahlgreen of BBC Online News for the Headline.

The article even uses the phrase that I’m very fond of promoting , follow the money , wherever it ends up is the motivator or motivation for criminal activity if such behaviour occurred.

What puzzles me is that the two key aides, Richard Kahan and Darren Indyke who incidentally have rarely been photographed in public have gone about their business as book-keepers to the wealthy receiving large amounts of funds from the Epstein Estate apparently to pay off some of the victims but also to take significant salaries in their role of administrators of the estate.

They are like faceless nameless bankers who facilitated transactions for Epstein’s business’s. The business’s were legitimate; they claim; on the whole, providing in some cases domestic staff for rich clients and each business paid their taxes as necessary which they accomodated. One small fly in the ointment may have been cashing cheques at various banks so as not to attract the suspicion of money laundering. So were they money laundering?

Well there you go , we all wonder how the rich do what they do, without aides they wouldn’t be able to do anything. Would they?

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Thanks to Kelly Ng and BBC News Online for the Headline

Singapore is a land-scarce country with more than 8,300 people jostling for each (square?)kilometre. Dance studios are expensive , so budding dancers have got used to practising their moves on a public walk way in a train station which very innovatively has floor to ceiling mirrors that reflect the dancers and thus enable them to perfect their “moves”.

It isn’t really unreasonable for normal commuters to complain, to be honest , art is fine , but to have art thrust upon you when all you are trying to do is get through your day can be irritating. The Landowners have frosted the mirrors and so the dancers cannot practice and have had to find another quieter area, with the same big mirrors which unfortunately is less atmospheric.

However, the article is more about how Singapore sees itself, is it too organised?

Should it loosen the controls on use of public areas. I’m not so sure, when there is little space you have to consider everyone needs, obviously don’t waste space but at the same time ensure people’s welfare by having spaces that they can use and are beneficial to everyone, not just dancers.

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