Art
June 04, 2011
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Magic veils of light are the artistic and architectural essence of Venice, so ILLUMINations is an apt title for the 54th Biennale. You certainly can't accuse this year's Venice Biennale of ignoring the history of the city that has twinkled on the Venetian lagoon since the early middle ages.
June 04, 2011
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People who take things into their own hands and try to operate outside the institutional grid deserve our gratitude. So hats off to the organizers of “Greater LA,” a sprawling survey of recent art from Los Angeles arrayed in an immense, unrepentantly raw SoHo loft.
June 02, 2011
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A single line thrown onto a canvas. Simple blocks of colour. A clutter of squiggles. Should you be sauntering past the wall of abstracts at a museum this summer, a cynical thought may swiftly follow: “My kid could have done that. Heck, a monkey could've done that.”
June 02, 2011
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NEW YORK, NY.- Celebrating a defining moment for the premier institution of modern and contemporary American art, and a landmark achievement in the public-private revitalization of downtown Manhattan, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the City of New York today broke ground for the Whitney’s new museum building on Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District.
June 02, 2011
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Market ups and downs have affected the value of many artworks. Insurance experts explain why—and how—to keep appraisals current.
June 02, 2011
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As all the talk of record prices demonstrates, contemporary art has soared in value over the last 10 years, outperforming stocks as an investment and drawing attention to possible bonanzas to be found in the market.
But not all boats have lifted with the tide.
June 02, 2011
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Milan: Branch 00200 of UniCredit — Italy’s largest bank by assets — is unlike any other. Sure, transactions are made: money is deposited, checks are cashed, bills are paid. But for some visitors to this bank in Milan’s central Piazza Cordusio, interest is calculated using cultural, not financial, parameters.
June 02, 2011
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EBay founder Pierre Omidyar is known for the "venture philanthropy" of his Omidyar Network, which has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to support micro-finance, governmental transparency, and social media in developing countries.
June 02, 2011
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NEW YORK, NY.- In conjunction with the opening of their Modern Masters exhibition, Hammer Galleries has created an interactive virtual tour highlighting both the exhibition and their gallery space.
June 02, 2011
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James Franco's debut at the Venice Biennale has been postponed so that he can 'fully realise' his vision for his art installation about James Dean.
June 02, 2011
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A Chinese masterpiece split 360 years ago is to be restored and displayed in TaiwanBy Clifford Coonan in Taipei.
June 02, 2011
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LONDON.- Bonhams are to sell the remarkable, only known surviving copy of the film ‘Zepped’ in their Entertainment Memorabilia auction on Wednesday 29th June at Bonhams Knightsbridge.
June 02, 2011
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High above Rio de Janeiro's beachside neighbourhoods is Cantagalo, one of the many favelas clinging to the city's hillsides.
June 02, 2011
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A scheme to restore an art deco pavilion on a Victorian pier has been awarded a £1.68m grant.The Grade II-listed building on Penarth Pier has been closed since the 1990s.
June 02, 2011
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A preparatory drawing by Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti for his lost commission "The Battle of Cascina" is expected to fetch 3-5 million pounds ($5-8 million) at auction on July 5.
June 02, 2011
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LONDON.- An exceptional portrait by Boris Kustodiev will be among the highlights of London's June 2011 Russian week. Painted in 1911 while Kustodiev was undergoing treatment in the Swiss resort town of Leysin, this intimate portrait of his daughter Irina was included in the 1912‐1913 World of Art exhibition in St Petersburg, Moscow and Kiev, as well as the Baltic Exhibition in Malmö in 1914.
June 02, 2011
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Gandharan Buddha will be on show at the British Museum until mid-July. An anonymous art dealer passionate about Afghan heritage has teamed up with the British Museum in an effort to buy and repatriate a spectacular antiquity believed to have been looted from the Afghan national museum in Kabul during the 1990s.
June 02, 2011
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Edouard Manet is having his first major retrospective in France since 1983 at the Musée d'Orsay. The exhibition, "Manet, the Man Who Invented Modernity," on view through July 17, shows how the painter's work was interpreted during his lifetime as he moved between classical tradition and a completely novel way of representing reality.
June 02, 2011
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Revisiting and recasting the master's work, from Cubism through Guernica to the Mosqueteros of his old age, new generations of artists are discovering Picasso all over again.
June 02, 2011
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HONG KONG.- Christie’s concluded its Hong Kong Spring Evening and Day sales of Asian 20th Century and Contemporary Art on 29 May, 2011, totaling HK$761,514,250/ US$97,854,581. The sales were 82% sold by lot and 94% sold by value.
June 02, 2011
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HONG KONG.- Christie’s presented in Hong Kong one of George Stubbs’ most important works at the Old Master and British Paintings Evening Sale on 5 July 2011 in London.
June 02, 2011
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TORONTO.- Jackson Pollock. Mark Rothko. Robert Motherwell. Joan Mitchell. Franz Kline. Lee Krasner. Willem de Kooning. These are just a few of the legendary 20th-century artists whose artwork is now on view at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in an unprecedented international exclusive.
June 01, 2011
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In addition to his talents for creating comedy, writing books and playing the banjo, Steve Martin possesses an eye for art. But he apparently did not detect a forged painting that was in his collection for almost two years and was probably created by a ring of criminals who have been duping art buyers for decades, according to the German police.
June 01, 2011
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The exhibition 'Without a Visible Future Fayum's Portraits + Adrian Paci' was held at the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid, Spain, 30 May 2011. The exhibition features thirteen Fayum mummy portraits, commonly painted in this Egyptian region during the Roman occupation between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD, alongside the Albanian artist's video Centro di Permanenza temporanea.
June 01, 2011
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Six months after opening the Art of the Americas Wing, the museum keeps tweaking, adding pieces, and thinking big.
June 01, 2011
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A stolen 14th-century panel painting depicting the Virgin Mary with a child has been recovered at a Kentucky art museum, which agreed Monday to return the piece to Italian authorities.
June 01, 2011
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Many scholars believe that the Pietà created by Michelangelo for Vittoria Colonna is a drawing, right, now in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. But Antonio Forcellino, a Michelangelo expert, believes the artist gave Colonna a painting: the one owned by Martin Kober, left.
June 01, 2011
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Journalist Wen Tao and three other close associates of Ai Weiwei "vanished entirely" in wake of artist's disappearance.
June 04, 2011
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SAN FRANCISCO — On a recent nothing-special weekday afternoon, a Balinese gamelan concert was in progress in the Asian Art Museum: clanging gongs, pulsing drums, jazzy flutes, the whole real heavenly thing, with musicians settled cross-legged on a fabric-draped platform and a rapt crowd of museumgoers, many quite young, on benches, folding chairs and the floor.