The Arts & Culture

My Big Fat Greek Art Wedding

Seeded on Mon Jun 15, 2009 2:40 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Slaughterhouse, the new Deste Foundation space on the island of Hydra, opens tomorrow as a satellite addition to the second Athens Biennale, a much anticipated stop on the June 2009 art safari.

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Over and Over: Art That Never Stops

Seeded on Thu Jun 4, 2009 11:25 AM EDT (The New York Times)

VENICE — The Palazzo Michiel dal Brusa, a grand 14th-century pile here near the Rialto Bridge, is not exactly a place of desolation. It is filled with frescoes and lapped by the waters of the Grand Canal, and in the afternoon its cavernous first floor is suffused with...

arts, francis-bacon, diane-arbus, ansel-adams, matthew-barney, jean-michel-basquiat, louise-bourgeois, banks-violette, giacomo-balla, vito-acconci

'Artery' Exhibit Prompts an Art Attack in Arkansas Town

Seeded on Thu Jun 4, 2009 11:22 AM EDT (FOXNews.com)

Exhibit A is a painting of Alice in Wonderland, by Beth Post of Fayetteville, Ark. Titled "The Temptation of Alice," it is a rendering of the iconic children's book character alongside the...

arts, arkansas, francis-bacon, diane-arbus, ansel-adams, matthew-barney, jean-michel-basquiat, louise-bourgeois, banks-violette, giacomo-balla

If Paintings Had Voices, Francis Bacon's Would Shriek

Seeded on Sat May 23, 2009 1:29 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Francis Bacon is an artist for our time. You may love or hate his work, which is still vigorously polarizing after all these years. But more than that of any other artist who emerged at the end of World War II, his work tells us about the strengths and weaknesses of the...

arts, new-york-city, london, visual-art, art-news, contemporary-art, phil-collins, francis-bacon, artforum, cindy-sherman

Ao On Site: Banks Violette's "Not Yet Titled" at Team Gallery New York, through June 20th, 2009

Seeded on Sat May 9, 2009 1:27 PM EDT (artobserved)

From May 7th until June 20th, Team Gallery presents new work by artist Banks Violette. Last night, a crowd -among which fellow artists Dash Snow and Matthew Barney- gathered at Team Gallery and Grand Street to take a first look at the work.

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Dennis Hopper curates show in of ex-L.A. artists

Seeded on Mon May 4, 2009 2:25 PM EDT (The San Francisco Chronicle)

This little town has cast its spell on artistic outsiders ever since a broken wagon wheel in 1898 landed a couple of New York painters here, inspiring an art colony.

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Installation of art complements architecture and city skyline itself

Seeded on Sun May 3, 2009 11:55 AM EDT (Chicago Tribune)

And so we have it. The addition to the Art Institute of Chicago that has been a decade in the making will open with the first in a round of parties this week. The Renzo Piano-designed building formally will take its place in the city's architectural panorama.

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Two Works Stolen From Dutch Museum

Seeded on Sun May 3, 2009 11:51 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Masked gunmen stole two paintings from a Dutch museum on Friday, including a work by Salvador Dalí, officials said, The Associated Press reported.

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Great art gives you energy: an interview with art dealer Deborah Bell

Seeded on Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:45 PM EDT (Examiner)

Deborah Bell's office is located at 511 W 25th Street, one of the megamalls of art dealers located in Chelsea, New York City...

arts, artists, elvis, photographers, james-dean, alan-klotz, benedikt-partenheimer, bonni-benrubi, brian-clamp, charlie-grosso

Exhibitionist: The best art shows to see this week

Seeded on Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:48 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

From the hapless, lost hitchhiker to the grotesque carnival clown, Cindy Sherman has photographed herself playing a host of characters.

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Going native with billionaire collectors and bad-boy artists

Seeded on Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:26 PM EDT (The Globe and Mail)

So much for urbanization patterns, or dry tomes stuffed with statistics: For her latest project, sociologist Sarah Thornton went deep inside one of the most rarefied, complicated communities on the planet - the international art scene...

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Cuba Opens Up to the Art World

Seeded on Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:20 PM EDT (art info)

HAVANA—Cuba's 10th Havana Biennial is an overwhelming, scattered affair. For starters, like the past several editions, it's not a biennial at all, but rather a triennial, though no one has bothered to update the name.

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British Auction House to Sell Hitler's Paintings: Owner Hides Identity

Seeded on Thu Apr 9, 2009 1:32 PM EDT (chattahbox)

(ChattahBox)—A report out today, of a British auction house set to auction off 13 early works painted by Hitler, the Nazi dictator synonymous with the face of evil and responsible for the deaths of millions, including the genocide of six million Jews.

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ArtBabble Site Opens Window to World of Museums

Seeded on Tue Apr 7, 2009 4:54 PM EDT (The New York Times)

For old television shows, there's Hulu. For college lectures, there's iTunes U. And now, for videos about art, there's ArtBabble, a Web site created by the Indianapolis Museum of Art that offers videos from sources including the Museum of Modern Art and the PBS series...

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Recession forcing museums to do more with less

Seeded on Sun Apr 5, 2009 1:06 PM EDT (Newsday.com)

NEW YORK - The recession is hitting museums hard from coast to coast, forcing directors to boost admission fees, cut budgets and staff, and put ambitious projects on hold. But in a twist on the bleak economic news, museums are actually reporting an increase in attendance.

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Helen Levitt, No-Nonsense New Yorker

Seeded on Wed Apr 1, 2009 2:41 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

Helen Levitt's photographs from the 1940s of children on New York streets, perhaps the most revealing and tender studies of play ever recorded, offer few clues about the formidable person who took them.

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Romance And Celebrity In The Art World

Seeded on Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:03 AM EDT (CBS News)

(CBS) With her innovative abstract photographs, Cindy Sherman has gained a great deal of celebrity and influence within today's art world.

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Art Dealer Is Charged With Stealing $88 Million

Seeded on Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:21 PM EDT (The New York Times)

A once-prominent art dealer was arrested on Thursday on an indictment charging that he stole $88 million from investors, collectors and artists who had consigned paintings and sculpture to his Upper East Side gallery, the authorities said...

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GO SEE: Roni Horn aka Roni Horn, Tate Modern, London Through May 25th.

Seeded on Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:37 PM EDT (art we love)

Roni Horn's midcareer survey at the Tate Modern takes a while to warm up to, but give it some time and the shimmering, meditative work will begin to invite you in.

arts, london, tate-modern, jenny-holzer, lawrence-weiner, john-mccracken, rineke-dijkstra, roni-horn

Grand Exhibition Turns to Friends for Help

Seeded on Fri Mar 20, 2009 11:56 AM EDT (The New York Times)

With the opening of the Venice Biennale just two and a half months away, officials at the Philadelphia Museum of Art — commissioners of the United States pavilion this year — are scrambling to raise the money to cover the costs of their ambitious Bruce Nauman exhibition...

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Ponzi Titan R. Allen Stanford Meets the Art World: Chris Burden's Gold Frozen

Seeded on Fri Mar 20, 2009 11:48 AM EDT ()

New millennial performance artists Bernard Madoff and R. Allen Stanford long since one-upped the once-extreme antics of avant-pioneers like Marina Abramović or Chris Burden.

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Moscow Art World Feels the Pinch

Seeded on Fri Mar 20, 2009 11:46 AM EDT (art info)

MOSCOW—It seems that in the Russian capital only the inexpensive megamalls are hiring these days; they need support for the hoards of people looking for deals. But art is never cheap, and in Moscow's art world the atmosphere is one of extreme uncertainty.

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