Archive for November, 2009
Tim Burton at the Museum of Modern Art (NY Times) Gift Guide: Critics Select the Best Art & Architecture Books (NY Times) A Survey Shows Pain of Recession for Artists (NY Times) Rembrandt Real and Fake at Getty Museum (LA Times) Art Review: Tomoo Gokita at Honor Fraser Gallery (LA Times) Russians are Collecting Used […]
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Tags: Art Basel, art charity, artists, Chinese paintings, French unions, Getty Museum, Hong Kong, Honor Fraser Gallery, Miami Beach, Museum of Modern Art, Paris museums, parties, party pics, recession, Rembrandt, Russia Week, Tim Burton, Tomoo Gokita
Mot du Jour: “Aquatint”
An aquatint is a type of etching that mimics the appearance of watercolor and ink washes through the use of a tone process. The technique is used to create shaded areas that range from light to dark and is most common in landscapes, portraits, and figure studies to give a sense of depth and realism. The […]
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Tags: aquatint, etching, Goya, John James Audubon, mot du jour
by Emily Waldorf The characters in Jane Austen’s brilliant novels inhabit your imagination indefinitely once you have had the pleasure of reading about their hopes and desires. Who hasn’t encountered an overly passionate Marianne Dashwood or dashing but unreliable John Willoughby? Austen’s genius talent for social satire, despite being firmly planted in the world of […]
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Tags: "A Woman's Wit", Claire Tomalin, Jane Austen, Jane Austen: A Life, Morgan Library, New York, Pride & Prejudice, Reflections on Austen, Sense & Sensibility, The Divine Jane
Art Prices (and Mood) Inch Back Up at Big Fall Auctions (NY Times) How to Conserve Art that Lives in a Lake: Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (NY Times) ‘FallMauerFall 61-89-09’: An Art Show Encompasses East Meets West: (WSJ) Robert Frank’s ‘The Americans’ Revisited at the MET (WSJ) Art Review: ‘Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years’ (LA Times) […]
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Tags: art party pics, Eli Broad, First Thirty Years, Giacometti, L'Homme qui chavire, MET, MOCA, Paris, review, Robert Frank, Smithson, Spiral Jetty, Sterling Ruby, YSL, Yves Saint Laurent
by Emily Waldorf Swiss-born, New York-based artist Urs Fischer’s current show, Urs Fischer: Margeurite de Ponty, at the New Museum features installations and constructed environments from the past two years that span three floors, which is almost the entire museum. Walking through Fischer’s show is like stepping into Alice’s Wonderland or a Surrealist painting that has morphed […]
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Tags: Marguerite de Ponty, New Museum, Urs Fischer
Warhol’s ‘Dollar Bills’ Fetches $43.7 Million at Auction (NY Times) Zaha Hadid’s Modern Lines for the Eternal City (NY Times) Some Object as New Museum Trustee Joannou Shows his Art (NY Times) MOCA Revs Up Chris Burden’s ‘Big Wheel’ (LA Times) Francesco Vezzoli Escorts Lady Gaga to MOCA’s Gala (LA Times) Christie’s Sale Brings in […]
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Tags: Andy Warhol, Artissima, Chris Burden, Christie's, Dollar Bills, Francesco Vezzoli, Joannou, Lady Gaga, Lower East Side, MOCA, New Museum, party pics, Sotheby's, Tracey Emin, Zaha Hadid
New York based artist Marilyn Minter’s sexy eight minute video, Green Pink Caviar, will be on view at The Standard, Downtown LA + Hollywood from October 21 – December 6th. The mesmerizing video depicts sensuous female lips licking vibrantly colored cake and candy decorations. Green Pink Caviar is also being shown as part of Madonna’s […]
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Tags: downtown Los Angeles, food porn commercials, ForYourArt, Green Pink Caviar, Hollywood, Madonna, Marilyn Minter, Pamela Anderson, Regen Projects, Regen Projects 11, Sticky & Sweet tour, Sunset Strip, The Standard, Tom Ford
by Caroline Newman “New Topographics: Photography and the Man-Altered Landscape,” currently at LACMA, explores the man-altered landscape through ten fascinating perspectives. This use of different viewpoints of the photographer underlines the fact that photography is an art form with it’s own characteristics, unlike the often assumed role of photography as documentary. “New Topographics” was first […]
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Tags: Dan Graham, Ed Ruscha, New Topographics, photographic landscape, Robert Smithson, Timothy O'Sullivan, Walker Evans
Degas Pastel is Highlight of a Tepid Christie’s Sale (NY Times) On the Block: Traditional Offerings, Bargain Prices (NY Times) Van Gogh’s Personal Letters Debut Online in English (LA Times) New Street Signage Coming for Downtown LA Galleries (LA Times) Psychoanalyzing Twitter at the Rubin Museum of Art (WSJ) Asian Art Worth $26 Million Lures […]
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Tags: art party pics, Brothers, Christie's, Degas, downtown LA galleries, Giacometti, Lehman, performance art, pyschoanalysis, Sotheby's, Twitter, Van Gogh
by Caroline Newman Irving Penn’s “Small Trades” is a body of work consisting of 252 images currently on display at the Getty Center until January 10, 2010. “Small Trades” is a series of portraits that meticulously explore blue-collar workers and their occupations in the 1950’s. Penn is best known for his fashion photography and his […]
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Tags: August Sander, Eugene Atget, Getty, Irving Penn, photography, platinum/palladium prints, Richard Avedon, silver gelatin prints, small trades, Vogue