Posts Tagged ‘art’
On Sunday, May 16, 2010, from 10am – 2pm, the Hammer Museum is holding its exciting inaugural Kids’ Art Museum Project (K.A.M.P.) featuring a family friendly day of interactive art-making workshops led by an impressive roster of L.A. artists. All proceeds of the event benefit Hammer Kids’ free public programs. All of the projects are […]
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Tags: art, art projects, Breckin Meyer, Edgar Arceneaux, Elliott Hundley, Hammer Museum, Hilary Swank, Jodie Foster, K.A.M.P., kids, kids programming, Laura Owens, Los Angeles, Mark Grotjahn, Soo Kim
Portraits of Alice Neel’s Legacy of Realism (NY Times) From William Furlong and Audio Arts, a New Book (NY Times) Paris Journal: Chatter of Swindles and Scames at Drouot (NY Times) Art Dealer Admits Lying to FBI Over Faked $2 Million Picasso (WSJ) Critic’s Notebook: What L.A. Might Ask of Eli Broad (LA Times) Hammer […]
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Tags: Alice Neel, art, Audio Arts, David Zwirner, Drouot, Eli Broad, Elizabeth Peyton, Hammer Museum, Honor Fraser, LACMA, Picasso, realism, Robert Lazzarini, scandal, Souren Melikian, William Furlong
A trip to Jerusalem is not complete without a visit to the Israel Museum, the largest cultural institution in the State of Israel. The museum was founded in 1965 and houses over 500,000 biblical and Holy Land archeological objects, including the Dead Sea Scrolls and a fascinating Second Temple Era model of Jerusalem. The most […]
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Tags: art, Billy Rose Art Garden, Israel, Israel Museum, museums, sculpture
Art Imitating Lunch at the Venice Biennale (NY Times) ArtHamptons: Twice As Much Art as Last Year (NY Times) Where Art Meets Social Networking Sites (NY Times) Live-Tweeting from “Summer Scoops Live”: Cai Guo-Qiang and Shen Wei (WSJ) Michael Jackson Portrait by Warhol Offered for $800,000 Minimum (Bloomberg) Sarah Jessica Parker on Bringing Art to […]
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Tags: Andy Warhol, art, ArtHamptons, Black Acid Co-op, Cai Guo-Qiang, Deitch Projects, Gareth Harris, Grosvenor, Jeff Koons, live-tweeting, Michael Jackson, OCMA, Sarah Jessica Parker, Serpentine, Shen Wei, social networking, The Moving Image, Twitter, Venice Biennale
‘Futurism’ at Tate Modern: The Futurists’ Futile Chase After Motion (NY Times) In Venice, Peter Greenaway Takes Veronese’s Figures Out to Play (NY Times) This Summer, Some Galleries Are Sweating Their Survival (NY Times) ‘Your Bright Future’ at LACMA (LA Times) Christie’s Resumes Cutting Jobs After May N.Y. Auctions Decline (Bloomberg) Judge Slams MoMA, Guggenheim […]
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Tags: art, Art Basel, Bright Future, Christie's job cuts 2009, Christie's layoffs, Futurism, galleries closing, Guggenheim, Holocaust, LACMA, London, MoMa, Nicolas Trembley, Obamas, Peter Greenaway, secret agreement, Tate, Venice, Veronese, White House, Whitney
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
Previously published on Decorati.com By Emily Waldorf Profits are down at Sotheby’s and Christie’s, but business in their private sales departments has doubled. Selling privately is very attractive now since it is quick, confidential, and avoids the inherent production costs and time delay of selling at auction. Carol Vogel wrote an article in The New […]
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Tags: Alexander Calder, art, Cy Twombly, Damien Hirst, de Kooning, Gerhard Richter, Jeff Koons, private, Robert Ryman, sale, Takashi Murakami, top tips
Putting the Art in Artichoke by Suzanne Lenzer Few vegetables hint at spring as intensely as artichokes. Yes, asparagus is up there, and of course the first ramps do their part, but these tightly clenched buds are the ones that declare it in a commanding sort of way. To me these thistles are the ones […]
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Tags: art, artichokes, braised, California artichokes, lemon, olive oil, pancetta, parmesan
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
By Emily Waldorf Natvar Bhavsar’s mesmerizing exhibition, Rang, just opened at the Beverly Hills Sundaram Tagore gallery and is well worth a visit. Bhavsar’s large scale paintings are bold, bright, beautiful and reminiscent of the abstract expressionists and color field painters of yore but with an undeniably original Indian influence. In order to achieve his signature […]
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Tags: art, Beverly Hills, contemporary, Guggenheim, Indian, Natvar Bhavsar, Sundaram Tagore