Archive for the ‘London’ Category
Why University Museums Matter (NY Times) Contemporary Indian Art Gives Fresh Spin to Yale School of Art Gallery (NY Times) Recession-Related Closures Rock Chelsea Galleries (ARTINFO) Party Pics: Dan Graham at MOCA, BMWs and Beyond (ARTINFO) Crowds Mob Exhibition of Yves Saint Laurent Collection (ARTINFO) Party Pics: Andrew Berardini at Dan Graham’s Opening at […]
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Tags: Andrew Berardini, BMW art cars, Chelsea galleries, contemporary Indian art, crisis, crowds, Dan Graham, Frick, Gatsby, London graffiti artist, MOCA, Norton Simon, old masters, Oscar Night, Red Carpet fashion, Yale School of Art Gallery, Yves Saint Laurent
Exclusive to Damien Hirst’s new retail store, “All You Need Is Love,” 2007, ed. of 50, $12,000. Could the timing for a new commercial art space be any worse? NY Times: Art in Two Germanys Often Spoke the Same Tongue NY Times: The Boom is Over. Long Live The Art! NY Times: Edvard Munch: So […]
Filed under: Asian Art, auctions, collecting, contemporary art, galleries, London, Los Angeles, modern art, museums, New York, Paris | 4 Comments
Tags: Art in Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures, art market, Christie's, Damien Hirst, LACMA, Other Criteria, Phillips, Pierre Berge, retail store, Shepard Fairey, Sotheby's, YSL sale, Yves Saint Laurent
By Emily Waldorf I was browsing through Suzanne’s Files, one of my favorite lifestyle resources, and stumbled across a wonderfully helpful and well-vetted list of museum gems from across the globe that I wanted to share with ArtsEtoile readers. A museum gem is a smaller scale collection, frequently housed in the original collector’s or artist’s […]
Filed under: decoration, design, education, London, Los Angeles, modern art, museums, New York, old masters, sculpture, travel | 1 Comment
Tags: Boston museums, Florence museums, hidden museums, Los Angeles museums, museum gems, New York museums, Rome museums, Suzanne's Files
By Emily Waldorf Though auction houses have never been known to be particularly generous with employees, the art market downturn has exacerbated the industry’s tendency towards thrift. According to Bloomberg, Sotheby’s has fired 60 employees since December, including a rising star auctioneer and a 35 year Impressionist and Modern art veteran. Apparently, the layoffs have […]
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Tags: art, Bloomberg, Christie's, Impressionist, layoffs, Modern, Sotheby's
Here’s How to Rescue a Museum on the Brink (NY Times) What Recession? London Gets New Contemporary Spaces (The Art Newspaper) All’s Not Fair in Miami (WSJ) Modern Art Showcase Expands, Hoping to Revitalize a London Area (NY Times) Rosa Martinez on Anish Kapoor’s ‘Islamic Mirror’ (ARTINFO) From Mexico, with Love and Violence (NY […]
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Tags: Art Basel Miami, Art Basel party pics, art slump, culture clicks, Daniel Gúzman, Harris Lieberman, London modern art showcase, MOCA, Roberta Smith, weekly arts news summary
By Emily Waldorf Damien Hirst oversaw the art direction of hot British indie group, The Hours’, recent music video for their new single, See The Light, starring actress Sienna Miller. The rather dark video casts Miller as a mad woman, dressed in a hospital gown, wandering through a claustrophobic Hirst fantasy that takes off in a luxury boutique […]
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Tags: Damien Hirst, music video, See The Light, Sienna Miller, The Hours
Gwyneth Paltrow’s Culture Picks
By Emily Waldorf If you are a Gwyneth Paltrow fan, you will be excited to learn that she has started a new lifestyle newsletter called GOOP: Nourish the Inner Aspect, covering all sorts of fun topics such as health, nutrition, beauty, fashion and culture with an A-list twist. This week she zeroes in on the […]
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Tags: culture picks, Elizabeth Peyton, exhibitions, GOOP, Gwyneth Paltrow
By Emily Waldorf If you happen to be in London for the Frieze Art Fair, you should schedule a visit to The National Portrait Gallery’s concurrent exhibition: Annie Leibovitz: A Photographers Life 1990-2005. Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, the exhibition features over 150 of Leibovitz’ photographs, including her well-known images of celebrities, politicians, and the […]
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Tags: A Photographer's Life, American Vogue, Annie Leibovitz, British Vogue, Brooklyn Museum, David Bailey, Demi Moore, Frieze Art Fair, London, Portrait Café, Susan Sontag, The National Portrait Gallery
By Katie Enna Damien Hirst’s latest antic has been all the talk of the auction world this past week. His exhibition “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever” and subsequent sale on Monday and Tuesday at Sotheby’s in London made auction history. Historically auction houses have been secondary dealers, respecting the contemporary galleries who sell an artist’s […]
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Tags: Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, Christie's, Damien Hirst, Gagosian, Haunch of Venison, Jay Jopling, Sotheby's, White Cube