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Jeanne-Claude, 74, American artist and resident of New York City, died suddenly November 18, 2009 as a result of of complications due to a ruptured brain aneurysm.

Christo is deeply saddened by the passing of his wife, partner and collaborator and is committed to honor the promise they made to each other many years ago: The art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude will continue.

Christo is dedicated to completing their current works in progress: Over The River, Project for the Arkansas River, State of Colorado, and The Mastaba, Project for the United Arab Emirates, as Jeanne-Claude would wish.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude met in Paris, France in November, 1958, sharing the same date of birth and have worked together for 51 years creating temporary works of art.

Henry-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno / L’enfer d’Henri-Georges Clouzot
Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea, 2009, France, 94m

Reassembling 15 hours of rushes not seen since 1964, Serge Bromberg resurrects the surviving footage of filmmaker Henri-Georges Clouzot’s aborted 1960’s experimental film L’Enfer. World famous for his classic nail-biters The Wages of Fear (1953) and Diabolique (1955), Clouzot was France’s most successful genre filmmaker when he decided to enter the modernism sweepstakes, going up against Resnais, Antonioni, and the nouvelle vague—as well as his acknowledged rival Alfred Hitchcock—with an ultra-subjective psychological thriller predicated on a middle-aged man’s paranoid suspicions concerning his young wife (Romy Schneider, unforgettable in blue lipstick). Shooting the same scenes over and over, Clouzot was unable to finish his would-be magnum opus; as these characters disintegrated, so did their creator. Combined with interviews of several people who worked on the film, Inferno tells a story of madness and delusion even more haunting than the one intended.

A physically ingenious piece of movement-theatre, performed by Rigal in an enclosed space, only 3m by 2.20m. Originally commissioned and staged at The Gate Theatre, 2008.

For his first large-scale solo presentation in an American museum, Urs Fischer has taken over all three of the New Museum’s gallery floors to create a series of immersive installations and hallucinatory environments.

This summer Alice Apley and David Tames collaborated as embedded documentarians with Sharon Dunn on her installation, “Dragonflies and Angel Wings” as part of the 2009 Bumpkin Island Art Encampment.

The encampment is currently documented in an exhibition currently on view at Studio Soto at Thompson Design Group, 35 Channel Center St, Boston, MA 02210 which runs through October 31, 2009. More details including gallery hours are available on the Berwick Institute

Documentary filmmaker Patrick Johnson www.journeymanstudios.com joined the artists for the duration of the project, documenting their art and experiences for the five days on Bumpkin Island.