Archive for the ‘art criticism’ Category
At $106.5 Million, a Picasso Sets an Auction Record (NY Times) Getty Foundation to Help Restore the Ghent Altarpiece (NY Times) Review of ‘Emily Dickinson’s Garden’ at New York Botanical Garden (NY Times) Heard & Scene: Costume Institute Gala at the Met (WSJ) Art Review: Carroll Dunham at Blum & Poe (LA Times) Getty Boss […]
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Tags: Blum & Poe, Carroll Dunham, Christie's, Emily Dickinson, Getty Foundation, Ghent Altarpiece, Met Costume Institute Gala, New York Botanical Garden, party pics, Picasso record, Turner Prize
Portraits of Alice Neel’s Legacy of Realism (NY Times) From William Furlong and Audio Arts, a New Book (NY Times) Paris Journal: Chatter of Swindles and Scames at Drouot (NY Times) Art Dealer Admits Lying to FBI Over Faked $2 Million Picasso (WSJ) Critic’s Notebook: What L.A. Might Ask of Eli Broad (LA Times) Hammer […]
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Tags: Alice Neel, art, Audio Arts, David Zwirner, Drouot, Eli Broad, Elizabeth Peyton, Hammer Museum, Honor Fraser, LACMA, Picasso, realism, Robert Lazzarini, scandal, Souren Melikian, William Furlong
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
At 94, Carmen Herrera is the Hot New Thing in Painting (NY Times) Beyond the Mobiles, Alexander Calder: Printmaker (NY Times) Old Master Auctions: Looking for Gems when the Going Gets Tough (NY Times) The Rabbi and Frank Lloyd Wright: Beth Sholom Synagogue (WSJ) Soulages, Black Prince of Abstract Art, is Feted in Paris Show […]
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Tags: Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol Foundation, Beth Sholom synagogue, Carmen Herrera, Christopher Knight, Claremont Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright, old master auctions, Pierre Soulages, Watts Towers
A Bold and Modern White House (NY Times) Luring Artists to Lend Life to Empty Storefronts (NY Times) Tomi Ungerer: A Perpetual Outsider with a Museum of his Own (NY Times) Freehand Gallery Clears Space for a Craft Study Center (LA Times) Charles Burchfield: A Master of American Modernist Watercolor (LA Times) Cezanne’s Influence Over […]
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Tags: art party pics, Asia Society, Carol Sauvion, Damien Hirst, Freehand Gallery, Frieze Art Fair, Pakistani artwork, pop-up gallery, Tomi Ungerer, White House art
For Art Lovers, Basel Doesn’t End at the Fair (NY Times) A More Serene Venice Biennale (NY Times) Den Mother to the Louche and Famous: Francis Bacon (NY Times) The Intersection of Islam, America, and Identity (NY Times) The Art World’s Olympics: Venice Biennale (WSJ) Exhibitions Axed as Recession Bites (Art Newspaper) Review: Pae White […]
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Tags: 1301 PE, America, Art Basel, Francis Bacon, Islam, Los Angeles, MET, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pae White, party pics, Venice Biennale
New Yorker Cover Art, Painted with an iPhone (NY Times) Art Review: If Paintings Had Voices, Francis Bacon’s Would Shriek (NY Times) Peter M. Brant Displays A Taste For the Moderns in Greenwich (NY Times) At Paris’ Pompidou Center, the year of the Women (LA Times) Hirst’s Pills, Twombly Squiggles Boost $67 Million New Museum […]
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Tags: art, Art HK, budget cuts, Cy Twombly, Damien Hirst, Dia Art Foundation, Eli Broad, Greenwich, iPhone, MOCA, New Museum, Paris, Peter Brant, Pompidou Center, The New Yorker, Venice Biennale, White House
By Laura Gatewood Born in 1953 in South Africa, Marlene Dumas has resided in Amsterdam for almost all of her career, yet the social imprint of being raised a white woman in the midst of apartheid has been a consistent force behind her art. An exploration of how this and other existential questions have resonated […]
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Tags: Marlene Dumas, Measuring Your Own Grave, South African artist
If you bring up the work of Dale Chihuly at a cocktail party, you are bound to be met with energetic praise from his devoted followers or pained looks and eye rolls from his critics. I have found that people either love or hate the intricate, multi-colored blown glass and have yet to meet someone […]
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Tags: Bellagio, Dale Chihuly, de Young, Fiori di Como, handblown glass, John Buchanan