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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
Wednesday, December 2 at 7pm: Andrew Holder lecture: Drop It Like It’s Fake: Architecture and the Necessity of Faux Science Thursday, December 3 at 7pm: MediaSCAPES & Center For Visual Music present an evening of Immersive & Expanded Cinema of Visual Music Wednesday, December 9 at 7pm: Eric Owen Moss Construction Manual, 1988-2008: Conversation with Eric […]
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Tags: California Institute of Architecture, lectures, SCI-arc
Warhol’s ‘Dollar Bills’ Fetches $43.7 Million at Auction (NY Times) Zaha Hadid’s Modern Lines for the Eternal City (NY Times) Some Object as New Museum Trustee Joannou Shows his Art (NY Times) MOCA Revs Up Chris Burden’s ‘Big Wheel’ (LA Times) Francesco Vezzoli Escorts Lady Gaga to MOCA’s Gala (LA Times) Christie’s Sale Brings in […]
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Tags: Andy Warhol, Artissima, Chris Burden, Christie's, Dollar Bills, Francesco Vezzoli, Joannou, Lady Gaga, Lower East Side, MOCA, New Museum, party pics, Sotheby's, Tracey Emin, Zaha Hadid
At MoMa, ‘Permanent’ Learns to Be Flexible (NY Times) Prints that Shine Anew: Cassavetes, Bergmann, and More at MoMa (NY Times) Banks Hoard Troves of Art (NY Times) John Singer Sargent’s Sea Fever at the Corcoran Gallery of Art (WSJ) Timothy Corrigan Says it’s a Great Time for Wallpaper (WSJ) Kinky Dolls, Glass Tears Adorn […]
Filed under: contemporary art, design, film, Los Angeles, modern art, museums, New York, Paris, party pics, photography | 1 Comment
Tags: Bergmann, Cassavetes, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Genesis, John Singer Sargent, Kandinsky Prize, MOCA, MoMa, museum gala, National Design Awards, party pics, R. Crumb, Timothy Corrigan, wallpaper
Nancy Spero, Artist of Feminism, is Dead at 83 (NY Times) Artists Salute Undersung Multitasker: Ron Warren (NY Times) David Hockney’s Long Road Home (NY Times) Signs of Life in London’s Art Market (WSJ) Sun King’s Ego, Lust Are Celebrated in Versailles Exhibit (Bloomberg) Dutch Financier to Auction $40 Million Paintings: Art Buzz (Bloomberg) Art […]
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Tags: art market, Cristof Yvore, David Hockney, feminism, Fine Art & Antiques Show, LACMA, London, Louis XIV, Luis Melendez, Michael Kohn, Museum of Art & Design, Nancy Spero, party pics, Ron Warren, Sun King, Versailles
[vodpod id=ExternalVideo.783125&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] T. C Boyle sat down with the editor of the The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus, to discuss “The Women,” his new novel about Frank Lloyd Wright, told from the point of view of the women who loved him. Mr. Boyle has authored more than twenty works of fiction and lives […]
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Tags: architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright house, love life, Montecito, New York Times book review, Sam Tanenhaus, T. C. Boyle, The Women, women
by Emily Waldorf Sterile glass and concrete cubes are the first thing that come to mind when thinking of typical spaces for exhibiting contemporary art. This is not the case in Paris, where contemporary art exhibitions are often displayed in classical hôtels particuliers alongside paintings and sculpture that spans the centuries. A hôtel particulier is […]
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Tags: best Paris museums, Confess all on video, Daniel Buren, Gillian Wearing, Hotel Salé, La Coupure, musée Cognacq-Jay, musée Jacquemart-André, musée Maillol, musée Picasso, musée Rodin, Paris, Paris museum gems, Picasso Museum, Rodin museum, Secrets and Lies, small Paris museums, Trauma
Koons and a Sailor Man in London (NY Times) Sketch to Stage: Modern Designs for Theater and Opera at Morgan Library (NY Times) Artist Dash Snow Dead of Drug Overdose (ARTINFO) Decoration, Trompe l’Oeil, and Soft Porn at ArtHamptons (ARTINFO) Bon Jovi, ‘Real Housewives,’ Few Buyers Attend ArtHamptons (Bloomberg) Art Dealer Lawrence Salander Indicted for […]
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Tags: ArtHamptons, Black Acid Co-op, Bon Jovi, Chelsea, Dash Snow, Deitch Projects, drug overdose, Jeff Koons, Lawrence Salander, Morgan Library and Museum, opera, Real Housewives, Serpentine, theater
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
Los Angeles Antiques Show
Previously published on ForYourArt By Emily Waldorf A Benefit for P.S. Arts Organized by the Antiques Dealers Association of California (ADAC), the Los Angeles Antiques Show opened on Wednesday, April 22 for a star-studded collector’s preview and party benefiting P.S. Arts. The event was held at Santa Monica’s Barker Hanger and was attended by a mix of art and antique […]
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Tags: antiques, Carlyle, celebs, Edith Weber Fine Antique Jewelry, Habite, LeBreton, Los Angeles Antiques Show, Noho Modern, party pics