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Lao Tzu’s Four Rules for Living By  Azriel ReShel  on Friday September 23rd, 2016 How to Live an Inspired and Peaceful Life Many centuries ago, Lao Tzu, spoke of the four cardinal virtues, teaching that when we practice them as a way of life, we come to know the truth of the universe. The ancient Chinese master said that living and practicing these teachings can open you to higher wisdom and greater happiness, as they realign you to the source and enable you to access all the powers that source energy has to offer. “When you succeed in connecting your energy with the divine realm through high awareness and the practice of undiscriminating virtue, the transmission of the ultimate subtle truths will follow.”  Lao Tzu Lao Tzu means ‘Old Master,’ and he was believed by some to be a God-realised being. The Four Cardinal Virtues are found in the Tao Te Ching, a collection of sayings expounding the principal Taoist teachings. It has 81 shor...

The leading source of art coverage since 1902. RETROSPECTIVE FRANCIS PICABIA, ART-WORLD JAILER: PHILIP PEARLSTEIN ON ‘ONE OF THE PRIME MOVERS OF MODERN ART,’ IN 1970 BY  The Editors of ARTnews  POSTED  11/18/16 4:04 PM   103     16     0     122 Francis Picabia,  Je revois en souvenir ma chère Udnie  (I See Again in Memory My Dear Udnie), 1914, oil on canvas. PHOTO: THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, JOHN WRONN; ART: ©2016 ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK AND ADAGP, PARIS/THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK, HILLMAN PERIODICALS FUND With the Museum of Modern Art in New York preparing to open a much-anticipated Francis Picabia retrospective on Monday, we turn back to the September 1970 issue of  ARTnews , in which Philip Pearlstein wrote an essay about the artist. The Guggenheim Museum had staged a Picabia retrospective in that year (MoMA’s show,  reviewed in these pages by Andrew Russeth...

RECORD-SETTING $66.3 M. DE KOONING LEADS $277.5 M. CHRISTIE’S POSTWAR AND CONTEMPORARY AUCTION, BUT SALES STILL DOWN BY  Nate Freeman  POSTED  11/16/16 12:40 AM   501     97     7     610 Willem de Kooning,  Untitled XXV , 1977, oil on canvas. Estimate: around $40 million; realized: $66.3 million. CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD., 2016 Christie’s netted a total of $277.5 million at its postwar and contemporary sale in New York Tuesday night, a haul healthily over its low estimate of $216 million, though just shy of the high estimate of $296 million. By selling 54 out of its 61 lots, the auction house secured a sell-through rate of 89 percent despite a sale that appeared, at first, to have some bloat. “I was quite surprised to see 89 percent,” Christie’s global president Jussi Pylkkanen said at the press conference following the auction, echoing the sentiment of many bidders leaving the room just days after the disruptive...