Archive for November, 2008
By Emily Waldorf In an effort to transform Qatar into an official global arts destination, the I.M. Pei designed Museum of Islamic Art recently unveiled itself. The building is an imposing, fortress-like geometric shape, with a refreshing simplicity and sense of purpose that is rarely seen in the glitzy cities of Dubai and Abu Dhabi. […]
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Tags: Doha, I.M. Pei, Museum of Islamic Art, Nicolai Ouroussoff, Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani
By Emily Waldorf I had the pleasure of visiting Enrique Martinez Celaya’s pristine Santa Monica studio last April, when he was working on the pieces for his amazing show that opened last week at L.A. Louver in Venice. Martinez Celaya is not your typical contemporary artist, having trained as a physicist at U.C. Berkeley before […]
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Tags: Enrique Martinez Celaya, LA Louver
News Links & Culture Clicks
Eternal Objects of Desire: Review of Art & Love in Renaissance Italy (NY Times) The Fine Art of Surviving the Crash in Auction Prices (WSJ) Is Art Sponsorship Going Out of Style? (ARTINFO) Scene & Heard: NY Art Party Pics (ArtForum) Best Illustrated Children’s Books 2008 (NY Times) When Modernism & Judaism Converged on the […]
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Tags: Art and Love, art market crash, art party pics, best childrens books, Chagall, Cindy Sherman, Judaism, Latin America Biennial, London Russian auctions, Modernism, Renaissance Italy, Roberta Smith, top illustrated childrens books
By Emily Waldorf Amid reports that L.A.’s MOCA is in dire financial trouble, Eli Broad announced that he is planning to open his own contemporary art museum in Los Angeles, designed to replace the apparently “cramped” offices currently housing the Broad Contemporary Art Foundation in Santa Monica, which is closed to the general public. The […]
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Tags: Broad Contemporary Art Foundation, Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Eli Broad, Gensler, lending library, Los Angeles, MOCA
By Emily Waldorf This year’s annual fall Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art sales produced the worst results in over a decade according to Carol Vogel’s article in The New York Times. Although over $600 million of art exchanged hands over the two week auction period, Sotheby’s lost a whopping $52 million from overly optimistic guarantees […]
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Tags: Andy Warhol, Carol Vogel, Christie's, Damien Hirst, Ed Ruscha, Edward Dolman, fall auctions, guarantees, Jeff Koons, Kazemir Malevich, Peter Doig, Ruprecht, Sotheby's, Takashi Murakami
By Emily Waldorf Are you in the midst of an existential crisis, seeking out your very own Eat Pray Love experience à la Elizabeth Gilbert? The New York based artist duo Sasha Bezzubov and Jessica Sucher come to the rescue with their fascinating photographs of spiritual tourism at Taylor de Cordoba. The perfect inspiration to […]
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Tags: Culver City gallery, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, Fulbright, Jessica Sucher, Sasha Bezzubov, Taylor de Cordoba, The Searchers
News Links
Call This One ‘Crisis With a Pipe’ (WSJ) Chelsea: Art Chockablock with Encyclopedic Range (NY Times) Bare Market: Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale (ArtForum) No Bailout at Christie’s (ARTINFO) The Gift of Beaujolais (WSJ) Arts New Oasis (WSJ)
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Tags: Anton Kern, Chelsea galleries, Christie's, contemporary, Dia party pics, Matthew Monahan, Qatar, Sotheby's
By Emily Waldorf Damien Hirst oversaw the art direction of hot British indie group, The Hours’, recent music video for their new single, See The Light, starring actress Sienna Miller. The rather dark video casts Miller as a mad woman, dressed in a hospital gown, wandering through a claustrophobic Hirst fantasy that takes off in a luxury boutique […]
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Tags: Damien Hirst, music video, See The Light, Sienna Miller, The Hours
By Emily Waldorf If you are curious about what goes on behind the scenes in the art world and would love to live a day in the glamorous (or not so glamorous as it turns out) shoes of a gallerina, then Danielle Ganek‘s debut novel, Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him, is for you. The […]
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Tags: Danielle Ganek, Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him, Viking