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ART. ALL THE GOSSIPS
Saatchi Gallery evicted by judge

Photo: The Gallery opened on London's South Bank in
April 2003.
The owners of the building which
houses Charles Saatchi's art collection have won a High
Court battle to evict him. A judge upheld the claim
by Japanese company Shirayama Shokusan that the London
Saatchi Gallery had continually breached the term of its
lease. The judge said Danovo, the firm which runs the
gallery, had shown "deliberate disregard" of the owners'
rights. The breaches included putting works in areas for
which they had not paid rent and offering a two-for-one
ticket deal.
The judge ordered the gallery, which is
considering taking the case to the Court of Appeal, to
pay damages totalling £9,750 for using rooms and moving
works of art into areas not included in its lease.

Photo: Damien Hirst's work has been exhibited at the
Saatchi Gallery.
Ticket disputed. The collection
includes works by modern artists Marc Quinn and Tracey
Emin. Shirayama Shokusan took the action jointly with
Cadogan Leisure Investments, which manages County Hall,
the South Bank building which once housed the Greater
London Council. The claimants said the gallery also
erected advertising signs without permission outside the
gallery. Cadogan said the ticket price deal breached the
lease because the rent calculations were based on a set
entrance fee. Judge Sir Donald Rattee upheld the claim
that Danovo had forfeited the lease. He admitted his
ruling would have an effect on visitors to the gallery
and the 80 staff who worked there. Mr Saatchi did not
attend court to give evidence about his allegations that
his staff had been harassed by the landlord and owner.
He is planning to move his main artworks to a new
gallery in Chelsea. Jit Chauhan, managing director of
landlord Cadogan, said the company was "delighted" with
the case's outcome. "We have had a difficult time
attempting to deal with Mr Saatchi and his staff and are
relieved that the gallery will be leaving County Hall,"
he said. London Mayor Ken Livingstone condemned the
court's decision, calling the move "a disgrace". "The
gallery opened up many parts of County Hall that had
remained restricted to the public for far too long and
was an excellent addition to London's thriving South
Bank," he said.
Russians unveil radiator monument
Energy
workers in Russia have marked the onset of the country's
severe winter - with a monument to the world's first
radiator.
Photo: The design is based on the winning entry in a
photo competition.
The sculpture, of a cat lying on a
windowsill over a heater, was unveiled at a power
station in the city of Samara, south-east of Moscow.
Russians say the device was invented in St Petersburg
150 years ago. Wednesday's ceremony came at the start of
Samara's cold season, when central heating goes on
throughout the city.
The sculpture was crafted by local artist
Nikolay Kuklev, who used the cat to create an impression
of cosiness and comfort. "It is a monument to warmth, a
monument to something that brings warmth and comfort.
What could be better than that, particularly in winter?"
he told NTV television in January.
The
local energy company held a competition for the best
photo of a cat enjoying the warmth of a radiator, and
the winner served as a prototype for the sculpture. It
is commonly claimed that the Romans invented central
heating, but the Samara company did some research which
it said showed the radiator itself first appeared in
1855 in the then Russian capital, St Petersburg. Its
inventor, an ethnic German of Italian origin named Franz
San-Galli, named it the "hot box" and patented it in
Germany and the US. Its Russian origins were later
forgotten.
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