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 [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Shepard Fairey’
February 16, 2009
Culture Clicks™: Your Weekly Art News Roundup
Exclusive to Damien Hirst’s new retail store, “All You Need Is Love,” 2007, ed. of 50, $12,000. Could the timing for a new commercial art space be any worse? NY Times: Art in Two Germanys Often Spoke the Same Tongue NY Times: The Boom is Over. Long Live The Art! NY Times: Edvard Munch: So [...]
February 11, 2009
Street Artist Shepard Fairey Files Lawsuit Against AP
By Emily Waldorf Street-artist Shepard Fairey filed a pre-emptive lawsuit against The Associated Press, requesting that he be protected from copyright infringement in his use of a news photograph as the starting point for his famous poster of President Obama. The photograph was taken by freelance photographer Mannie Garcia, who, to complicate matters even further, [...]
February 9, 2009
Culture Clicks: Your Weekly Art News Roundup
WSJ: Art World Jitters Ahead of Contemporary Art Auctions WSJ: Elizabeth Peyton’s Portraits from Napoleon to Kurt Cobain LA Times: The Annenberg Space for Photography NY Times: USC Film School’s Historic New Look NY Times: Unusual Shaper of Talent, Nicola Vassell of Deitch Projects NY Times: Red Carpet at the 2009 Grammy Awards ARTINFO: [...]