Archive for May, 2009
My Dream is for Sale; Buy It For Me: Collector’s Committee at LACMA (NY Times) A Scarcity of Goods Hovers Over Art Market (NY Times Global) ‘HomeBase IV’: At A Clinic, Artists Reflecting on Home (NY Times) Great Performances – Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Opera (WSJ) Christie’s Bests Sotheby’s With $102.7 Million Sale […]
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Tags: Art Chicago, Berlin, Christie's, Collector's Committee, Frick, galleries, HomeBase IV, LACMA, Metropolitan Opera, party pics, pop art, Ross Bleckner, Sotheby's, Tracey Emin, Warhol and Watts, White Cube
If you haven’t yet seen Zadok Ben David’s exhibition, Blackfield, at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, you should run right now to see it before it closes on May 16th. It is one of those rare shows that simply blows you away on a visceral level. The installation in the main gallery is comprised of over 12,000 […]
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Tags: Blackfield, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, wunderkammer, Zadok Ben David
MOCA Fresh Auction
By Hayley Miner Tonight was the first preview night of MOCA’s FRESH auction at the Geffen Contemporary. Over 320 works of art were offered for sale, some donated by the artists, others by various galleries from around the world. The five immense walls were installed beautifully with works above a ledge where bright red and […]
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Tags: auction, Catherine Opie, Cinco de Mayo, Ed Ruscha, Geffen Contemporary, Jennifer Steinkamp, Los Angeles, Mark Ryden, MOCA Fresh, Raymond Pettibon
An exciting traveling exhibition highlighting a decisive moment in Aboriginal art just opened at UCLA’s Fowler Museum, Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya. Focusing on the birth of Papunya art in 1971-72, the exhibition shows works from a group of Australian Aboriginal men who transferred their sacred ceremonial designs to masonite boards in the […]
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Tags: Aboriginal Art, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Fowler Museum, Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, Papunya artists, UCLA, Wandermelon
In Los Angeles, Art That’s Worth the Detour (NY Times) $80 Million? Try a Tenth of That. Art’s New Numbers (NY Times) Shrinking the art of Selling Fine Art: Auction Catalogues Thinning (NY Times) Gallerist David Zwirner on the Art Crash (WSJ) LACMA Curator Lynne Zelevansky to Head Carnegie Museum (ARTINFO) Art in the Time […]
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Tags: art crash, auction catalogues, Carnegie Museum, Chelsea galleries, Damien Hirst, David Zwirner, facebook, LACMA, MACO, Mexico City, party pics, PinchukArtCentre, swine flu