Archive for the ‘collecting’ Category
By Emily Waldorf Have you ever felt intimidated by hanging artwork yourself and thought that you needed to hire a professional installer? It is actually surprisingly straight-forward to hang your own artwork as long as you do your homework beforehand and use extra special care. Plus, there is no time like a recession to learn […]
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Tags: All The Best, Apartment Therapy, Domino, frame art, hang art, Homekeeping Handbook, how to, Kate Spade, Martha Stewart, Peak of Chic, recession, rock star, Style Court
Culture Clicks
The 3rd India Art Summit (NY Times) Colbert Portrait, with Art World Input to be Sold at Auction (NY Times) Dispute Over Jewish Archive Derails Russian Art Loans to US (NY Times) Google’s Art of Technology (WSJ) VIP Art Fair Gets Negative Press as Top Works Go Unsold (Bloomberg) What Artists Think About When […]
Filed under: art fairs, collecting, contemporary art, dealers, Los Angeles, museums, party pics, travel, Uncategorized | 55 Comments
Tags: Damien Hirst, Davos, football, Google, Houellebecq art novel, India Art Summit, Jeff Koons, VIP Art Fair
Culture Clicks
Shepard Fairey and the A.P. Settle Legal Dispute (NY Times) Mark Landis, Prolific Art Forger (NY Times) MET Costume Institute Gets $10 Million from Jonathan and Lizzie Tisch (WSJ) Billionaires Reveal Treasures as Asian Painters Edge Picasso in Singapore (Bloomberg) How Offensive is Damien Hirst’s Diamond-Encrusted Baby Skull? (LA Times) Art Review: California Biennial at […]
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Based loosely on the Goldilocks story, Jennifer Rubell’s installation consists of forty crock pots of porridge, brown sugar, and raisins. The installation is the ninth time she has staged a breakfast at The Rubell Family Collection and this year it breaks through the back security wall of the collection, inviting guests, like the three bears, […]
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Tags: Art Basel Miami Beach, food installation, Jennifer Rubell, Rubell Family Collection
Works are selling at Art Basel Miami Beach but the buzz of years past has dissipated, leading to a less crowded fair where galleries can do business and collectors can peruse with slightly less fanfare. According to The New York Times, the blue-chip galleries Gagosian, David Zwirner, Pace and Andrea Rosen are all making sales and […]
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Tags: Art Basel Miami 2010, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Jeffrey Deitch, Larry Gagosian
There has been a flurry of press coverage hailing Los Angeles as the new capital of the art world. From Lauren A.E. Shuker’s article,”The L.A. Art Boom,” in The Wall Street Journal to Elizabeth Khuri Chandler’s article in C magazine, “Art on the Move,” the word on the street is that after decades of setting the stage, […]
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by Kelly Boyd The problem of how to display art while minimizing damage to the work is one that is confronted by museums and collectors alike. The impulse share art with others is a common one that plays out on various scales across the world. From the largest museum to the smallest personal collection, people […]
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Tags: art conservation, art lighting, art temperature, contemporary art
Warhol Still Relevant
by Caroline Newman Prism LA is currently featuring an impressive suite of Andy Warhol’s black and white paintings, highlighting his timeless critique of consumerism, politics, and religion. Approximately 35 black and white paintings by Warhol from the late 1980’s are on display. All works are done in Warhol’s signature high contrast style, but some contain […]
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Tags: Andy Warhol, Black & White, Prism Gallery
F.B.I. Art Sleuth, Now Author of ‘Priceless’ (NY Times) Review: Yves Klein Retrospective at Hirshhorn Museum (NY Times) TV Review: ‘Work of Art: The Next Great Artist’ on Bravo (LA Times) Art Review: ‘They Have Not the Art to Argue with Pictures’ at Cherry & Martin (LA Times) Lehman Looks to Sell More Art (WSJ) […]
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Tags: Cherry and Martin, FBI art, Hirshhorn Museum, Jackie-O, Kurt Cobain, Lehman art, Paris Hilton, Priceless, Tate Modern, Yves Klein
Louise Bourgeois, Influential Sculptor, is Dead at 98 (NY Times) Creative Dialogue Between 3 Sculptors in West Chelsea (NY Times) A Gathering of Women with Cameras at MoMA (NY Times) Interview: Marina Abramovic Talks about Her Current at MoMA (WSJ) Art Review: Alice Neel Portraits Shine at L.A. Louver (LA Times) What Jeffrey Deitch Should […]
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Tags: Alice Neel, AOL, Chuck Close, LA Louver, Louise Bourgeois, MaMA, Marina Abramovic, Phillips, Segalot