Archive for the ‘contemporary art’ Category
An interview with the artist by Emily Waldorf Munich-born, Los Angeles-based artist Alexandra Wiesenfeld’s inaugural show at Gallery KM includes six large-scale oil on canvas paintings and eight drawings, depicting human and animal figures in surreal dimensions that examine the inner workings of the human psyche. In this body of work, Wiesenfeld gives us a glimpse […]
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Tags: Alexandra Wiesenfeld, artist interview, Gallery KM
Culture Clicks
. Cindy Sherman at MoMA and Elizabeth Peyton at the MET (NY Times) Anna Nicole Reimagined at Covent Garden is Success (NY Times) Review of Lynda Benglis at the New Museum (NY Times) Dark Rebel in a Tahitian Paradise: Gauguin at the National Gallery of Art (WSJ) Gagosian Buys Warhol Portrait in $99 Million Auction (Bloomberg) […]
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Tags: 104, Andy Warhol, Anna Nicole, Cindy Sherman, Elizabeth Peyton, Gauguin, LACMA, Paris, Phillips, Steve Martin
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 […]
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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
The Buzz in Basel: Art, Alive and Well and Selling Briskly (NY Times) Bettina Korek’s Art Basel Exclusive (Huffington Post) Art Review: ‘Andy Warhol, The Last Decade’ at Brooklyn Museum (NY Times) A Late-Period Windfall for French Art Duo: Selling the Lalannes (WSJ) Portrait of the Young Artist as Movie Star: James Franco (WSJ) MOCA […]
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Tags: Art Basel, Boone Collection, Doug Aitken, James Franco, Lalanne, Michael Smith, Mike Kelley, MOCA, Warhol The Last Decade
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