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Jaša

Jaša

<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">JA&Scaron;A</span><span style="font-weight:bold;"> (Ja&scaron;a Mrevlje-Pollak) </span><span>at age 43 is one of the most prolific and influential contemporary European visual artists of his generation. He trained at the Academy in Venice (Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia), where he graduated in 2004 with distinction and where he continues to teach. He has been featured in numerous publications, including </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Modern Painters, The Art Newspaper </span><span>and</span><span style="font-style:italic;"> Art in America. </span><span>Based in Ljubljana and New York, his work has been exhibited around the world, including at Frieze London and New York and at the Venice Biennale. Learn more at</span><span><a href="http://www.noahcharney.com" style="text-decoration:none;"></a></span><span><a href="http://www.jasha.org" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">www.jasha.org</span></a></span><span>. </span></p><p></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Noah Charney </span><span>is an internationally best-selling author of more than a dozen books and a professor of art history specializing in art crime. His novel, </span><span style="font-style:italic;">The Art Thief, </span><span>was a bestseller in five countries and is translated into 17 languages. His </span><span style="font-style:italic;">The Art of Forgery, Stealing the Mystic Lamb </span><span>and </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Slovenology </span><span>were international bestsellers. His book </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art </span><span>was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. </span></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;"><span>He appears occasionally as a television presenter, with shows for BBC, National Geographic, among many others, and is in demand as a speaker, having been a finalist to be a TED Fellow and with recent talks at the National Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is currently writing a television series for HBO Europe, and writes regularly for the Guardian, the Washington Post, Salon, the Observer, and many other top magazines and newspapers. <br /><br />Trained in art history at The Courtauld Institute, Cambridge University, and University of Ljubljana, Charney has taught for many years, for Yale and Brown University, and in Cambridge, Florence, Rome, and Ljubljana. Charney is now a professor of art history at the American University of Rome and at University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, where Charney has lived for many years.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>