Archive for January, 2010
Despite Assurances, Met Finds Artworks Aren’t Restored Overnight (NY Times) Questions Over Fixing Torn Picasso (NY Times) For Tapestry, One More Renaissance (NY Times) How Art Affects the Brain (WSJ) A Cultural Agony in a Nation Where Art is Life (LA Times) A Gleaming New Showcase for the Acropolis (LA Times) Christie’s Sees Art-Market Recovery […]
Filed under: antiques, art law, art market, auctions, collecting, New York | 2 Comments
Tags: Acropolis, Berlin Museum, Christie's, Haiti, iPad, MET, Sotheby's, tapestry, torn Picasso
In Europe, Arts Ask for Alms (NY Times) Making Art Out of an Encounter (NY Times) Online, It’s the Mouse that Runs the Museum (NY Times) Scorsese, Govan Talk Film Preservation and Hint at Future Collaboration (LA Times) Critic’s Notebook, MOCA Begins to Roll Out Future Exhibition Plans (LA Times) A Renaissance at the V&A […]
Filed under: art conservation, art fairs, art law, art market, celebs, collecting, contemporary art | 1 Comment
Tags: David LaChapelle, film, Fontana, Govan, Jeffrey Deitch, Klein, LACMA, Mapplethorpe, MOCA, Norton Simon, Patti Smith, Photo LA, Scorsese, Shepard Fairey, V&A
Art for Haiti Silent Auction
Art for Haiti, a silent auction organized by eleven Los Angeles art galleries will be held this evening at the Mandrake from 7pm-9pm. All funds raised are 100% tax-deductible and will go directly to the Red Cross relief efforts in Haiti. Opening bids will be starting as low as $100 and bidding in the sale […]
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Tags: Art for Haiti, art galleries, Haiti, Los Angeles, Mandrake, Red Cross
MOCA has named New York City art dealer Jeffrey Deitch as it’s new director. It is a controversial and exciting choice because it blurs the line between the academic museum world and commercially driven art market. Currently, no other major U.S. museum is overseen by a former gallery owner and Mr. Deitch certainly doesn’t fit […]
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Tags: Deitch Projects, Jeffrey Deitch, MOCA, new director
A New Boss and a Jolt of Real World Expertise: Jeffrey Deitch (NY Times) Artists Miffed Over Rothschild Foundation’s Missing Grant Money (NY Times) For China’s Western Expatriates, Creative Lives of Plenty (NY Times) Drawing Distinctions: Rembrandt at the Getty (WSJ) Director of Getty Museum to Step Down (WSJ) Deitch’s Contract Has Safeguards Against Conflict […]
Filed under: collecting, contemporary art, dealers, London, Los Angeles, museums, New York, Paris, party pics | 1 Comment
Tags: China expatriates, Getty, Jeffrey Deitch, Louvre, Mark Rothko, MOCA, Rembrandt, Rothschild Foundation
Sport Becomes Art
by Caroline Newman For those who are interested in both sports and photography this is the show to see! Currently on display at The Annenberg Space for Photography is the exhibit “Sport” containing photographic works from Walter Iooss and Neil Leifer. Both Iooss and Leifer propel the genre of sports photography into a whole new […]
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Tags: Annenberg Space for Photography, Michael Jordan, Michelle Kwan, Mohammed Ali, Neil Leifer, sports photography, Tiger Woods, Walter Iooss
Photo LA 2010 January 14 – 17, 2010 – includes over 25 international and domestic galleries specializing in photography as well as an array of LACMA sponsored lectures – Opening night reception on January 14th benefits the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at LACMA Santa Monica Civic 1855 Main Street Santa Monica, CA 90401-3209 Fine Art […]
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Tags: art fairs, FADA, Los Angeles 2010, Los Angeles Contemporary, Photo LA 2010
Depending on the Culture of Strangers: Holland Cotter Reviews Past Decade (NY Times) Make Room for Video, Performance and Paint: Roberta Smith Reviews Last Decade (NY Times) Small Museum Captures a Rare Chagall Featuring Nazi Figure and Christ (NY Times) Thanks to Love and Money: From the Private Collections of Texas (NY Times) Art Thieves […]
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Tags: art forgeries, Chagall, computer program, Hirst, Kenneth Noland, Koons, Smithsonian, Texas private art collections
As part of an art exchange program between the Frick Collection in New York and the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, French artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’ stunning portrait, Comtesse d’Haussonville, 1845, is being shown for the first time in California. The temporary exhibition includes two related preparatory drawings and is on view through January 25, 2010, […]
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Tags: Comtesse d'Haussonville, fashion, Frick Collection, Ingres, Norton Simon, portrait