Archive for March, 2009
“I Am So Excited to Be Talking to You!” Opens This Friday at Denizon Design Gallery in Culver City
We live in an age of texting and twittering and over saturation with logos, slogans, and billboards. So it is only natural that both emerging and established artists are grappling with layered meaning in language and texts. Gagosian Gallery’s Lauren McCaffrey and Allyson Spellacy are co-curating a groundbreaking group exhibition of over 25 artists’ language-inspired, […]
Filed under: artist projects, collecting, contemporary art, Los Angeles | 2 Comments
Tags: Aaron Rose, Allyson Spellacy, Bruce Nauman, Christy McCaffrey, Culver City, Denizon Design Gallery, Gagosian Gallery, George Stoll, I am so excited to be talking to you!, LA art weekend, Lauren McCaffrey, Pacific Dissent Company, Sian Foulkes, Stephanie Dearmond, Thomas McCaffrey, Tom Sachs
Architecture Review: Reinventing America’s Cities: The Time is Now (NY Times) Picasso Biographer John Richardson Discusses Picasso Show at Gagosian (NY Times) Roberta Smith Reviews James Castle Shows in New York (NY Times) Cuba’s Alternative Art Scene (WSJ) The Strange Tale of a Chinese Emperor’s French Prints (IHT) Getty Museum Ads Try Hip Humor to […]
Filed under: Asian Art, celebs, collecting, contemporary art, dealers, galleries, Los Angeles, modern art, museums, New York, non profit spaces, party pics, photography, reviews | Leave a Comment
Tags: AIPAD, Art Dubai, art scene, Cuba, Dasha Zhukova, dealers, Francois Pinault, Gagosian, gala, GCCC, Getty, James Castle, John Richardson, KROQ, Moscow, Obama photo exhibition, party pics, Picasso, REDCAT, Souren Melikian, YouTube
By Emily Waldorf The latest financial scandal to unravel in the face of the recession involves a well-known Upper East Side art dealer who supported a lavish lifestyle through a high-end gallery. Lawrence B. Salander sold paintings he didn’t own to multiple buyers, cheating investors, collectors, and artists to to the tune of $88 million. […]
Filed under: art law, art market, collecting, dealers, New York | 8 Comments
Tags: art crime, art world Ponzi scheme, Bernard Madoff, Salander, Salander O'Reilly
ArtsÉtoile.com is delighted to announce that our contributor, Suzanne Lenzer, will be writing a weekly column called “Amuse Bouche: Weekly Musings on Food & Life,” every Thursday. With a degree from the Institute of Culinary Education and working side by side with The New York Times‘ Mark Bittman, as a food writer and stylist, Suzanne is a […]
Filed under: epicurean, Paris | 1 Comment
Tags: Chez Panisse, Chocolate & Zucchini, Clotilde Dusoulier, David Lebovitz, Edith Piaf, France, Institute of Culinary Education, Le Jour du Macaron, macaron, macaroon, Madeleine Peyroux, Paris
East in the Eye of This Beholder: Kamrooz Aram’s New Orientalism (NY Times) Getty Ex-Curator, Marion True, Testifies in Rome Antiquities Trial (NY Times) Graffiti Artists Hold Panel With Old Nemeses in Blue (NY Times) Stories Found in the Streets: Paul Graham at MOMA (WSJ) A Victorian Novel Set in Stone: British Houses of […]
Filed under: art fairs, art market, celebs, collecting, contemporary art, museums, New York, old masters, Paris, party pics, San Francisco | 1 Comment
Tags: Andy Warhol, Asia Week, David Kusin, Getty antiquities trial, Grand Palais, Kamrooz Aram, Marion True, orientalism, party pics, Paul Graham, Rubens, SF MoMA, William Kentridge
Listening to artists describe the emotional impact of other artists’ work on their own work is fascinating. This educational BBC video is a wonderful window into Louise Bourgeois’ work through the eyes of hot British contemporary artists. Tracey Emin is particularly eloquent on the subject of Louise Bourgeois.
Filed under: contemporary art, education, modern art | 2 Comments
Tags: Alan Yentob, Antony Gormley, BBC video, contemporary art, interview, Louise Bourgeois, Stella Vine, Tracey Emin
Optimism and Jitters at Maastricht (NY Times) A Wounded Museum Feels a Jolt of Progress: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (NY Times) Asian Arts, From Robes to Porcelains, Have Their Annual Jamboree at Asia Week (NY Times) Getty Gives in to Recession (ARTINFO) Late Frank Lloyd Wright House Up For Sale (ARTINFO) Armory Show 2009 Roundup […]
Filed under: architecture, art fairs, Asian Art, collecting, contemporary art, dealers, galleries, London, Los Angeles, modern art, museums, New York, old masters, party pics | 1 Comment
Tags: Armory 2009, Asia Week, CAA, Damien Hirst, Frank Lloyd Wright house, Getty, Haunch of Venison, Hoxton Square gallery, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Kiev Museum, Maastricht, Pinchek, porcelains, portfolio, recession, Serpentine, Yvon Lambert
Putting the Art in Artichoke by Suzanne Lenzer Few vegetables hint at spring as intensely as artichokes. Yes, asparagus is up there, and of course the first ramps do their part, but these tightly clenched buds are the ones that declare it in a commanding sort of way. To me these thistles are the ones […]
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Tags: art, artichokes, braised, California artichokes, lemon, olive oil, pancetta, parmesan