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by Caroline Newman Irving Penn’s “Small Trades” is a body of work consisting of 252 images currently on display at the Getty Center until January 10, 2010. “Small Trades” is a series of portraits that meticulously explore blue-collar workers and their occupations in the 1950’s. Penn is best known for his fashion photography and his […]
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Tags: August Sander, Eugene Atget, Getty, Irving Penn, photography, platinum/palladium prints, Richard Avedon, silver gelatin prints, small trades, Vogue
By Lauren Dickinson Either a weekend getaway by plane from Barcelona, or a road trip if you want to see the country and watch the landscape change, the Basque region of Spain and France has it’s own unique charm, from the greenness of the pines, rainy climate, and language switch to Euskara. Bilbao is unmissable […]
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Tags: Basque Country, Bilbao, Eskara, Guggenheim, Hotel des Jardins De Bakea, Jenny Holzer, Michelin star, pintxos, Txacoli
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
Pakistani Art at Asia Society (NY Times) Painting the Ancient, Invisible Dream: Aboriginal Art (NY Times) All the Books You’ll Never Catch on a Kindle (NY Times) Hollywood Justice: The Roman Polanski Drama (WSJ) The Artist and the Director: Takashi Murakami and Kirsten Dunst (WSJ) Fleshy Nudes Abound in Paris Show of Late Renoir Works: […]
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Tags: Aboriginal Art, Amazon kindle, Asia Society, Blum & Poe, Hollywood, Kindle, Kirsten Dunst, Pakistani Art, Paris, Renoir, Roman Polanski, show, Takashi Murakami, William H. Johnson Foundation for the Arts
America, Captured in a Flash by Robert Frank (NY Times) Art Among Friends is Up for Sale (NY Times) The Angel in the Architecture: Kandisky at the Guggenheim (NY Times) Behind Duchamp’s Door at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (WSJ) Hockney, Wolfe, Mailer Draw Themselves in Quirky Portraits Sale (Bloomberg) Kapoor Fires Canon, Makes Mess […]
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Tags: Anish Kapoor, Christie's, David Hockney, Guggenheim, Kandisky, Korean art, LACMA, Marcel Duchamp, Norman Mailer, Pacific Design Center, Paris, party pics, Robert Frank, Royal Academy, top 5 museum shows
Pop! An Empty Shop Fills with Art (NY Times) A Modern Artist Who Welded Both Pen and Brush (NY Times) ‘Personal Meditations’ on the Koran: Sandow Birk (NY Times) The Travails of Plein Air Painting (WSJ) His Pictures Belie Lofty Words: Jean Luc Mylayne (WSJ) Van Gogh Hysteria, Kapoor’s Toothpaste Cannon: Autumn Art Picks (Bloomberg) […]
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Tags: 81st birthday, Andy Warhol, art philanthrophy, Eli Broad, Hammer, Jean Luc Mylayne, Kapoor, plein air, results, review, Second Nature, Sotheby's, UCLA, Van Gogh
Frescoes 101
by Emily Waldorf In light of the fascinating current Pompeii exhibition at LACMA, Pompeii and the Roman Villa, I thought it would be interesting to delve into frescoes. Many people know what frescoes look like but few know how they are made. There is a common misconception that frescoes are made with oil-based paint when […]
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Tags: buon fresco, Christopher Knight, frescoes, houses, LACMA, lime mortar, Los Angeles Times, murals, Pompeii, Pompeii and the Roman Villa, Pompeii brothels, review, Roman Art, Westside
Previously published on ForYourArt.com by Emily Waldorf After taking in European 18th century painters at the Wallace Collection and Impressionist and Modern masters at the Courtauld Gallery, walking into the Saatchi Gallery’s current exhibition, Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture, is a breath of fresh air. Housed in the Duke of York’s building on the […]
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Tags: Aaron Young, Abstract America, Agathe Snow, Amanda Ross-Ho, American Abstraction, Amy Sillman, Chelsea, Courtauld Gallery, Dan Walsh, Elizabeth Neel, Guerra de la Paz, Jedediah Caesar, King's Road, Mark Grotjahn, Phillips de Pury, Saatchi Gallery, Sterling Ruby, Wallace Collection
Gourmet Paris, the Remix
By Emily Waldorf Many people have preconceived notions about French food. They think it is too rich, too precious, and served by rude waiters that present them with a heart palpitatingly expensive bill, when they really would have rather had Italian. Members of the anti-French cuisine camp have most likely either fallen prey to tourist traps […]
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Tags: Fauchon, gourmand, Grande Epicerie du Bon Marche, Hediard, L, L'As du Fallafel, L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon, Le Timbre, Paris, Patricia Wells, Pierre Herme, rue des Rosiers, top places to eat, top restaurants, Ze Kitchen Galerie