The Van Gogh Museum of Amsterdam made available online all of the 902 letters from and to Van Gogh, richly annotated and illustrated, with new transcriptions and translations. A fascinating trip to the creative process of the artist!... more
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Vandals Attack Banksy Work Up for Vote -
A neighborhood council had been holding a vote to determine whether to keep the piece on display... more
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The Brooklyn Museum celebrated its new rock and roll photography exhibition Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present with a Blondie concert... more
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Winslow Homer watercolours are on display in rare exhibition at the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield, MA, including his important painting The New Novel shown in the 1877 AWS annual exhibition... more
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In Cape Dorset, a younger generation of Inuit artists is pushing past Arctic wildlife and mythological creatures. Lisa Paul reviews the new exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa revealing just how much Inuit art and life has changed... more
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Pioneering Research Project on Acrylic Paints - Findings Revealed. The Tate AXA Art Modern Paints Project (TAAMPP), has now been completed, providing vital information for conservators and artists about the properties of acrylic-based paints... more
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San Francisco-based Artist, Teacher and Activist, Wendy Testu, talks about galvanizing one community around its social and environmental history through a youth-created art installation... more
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"Damien Hirst's paintings reveal everything that's wrong with contemporary art," says British critic Jonathan Jones, "coldly ignore traditions of painting, drawing and sculpture"... more
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Artist Stephen Wiltshire looks at his subject for a few moments and then not only renders it in accurate detail, but with a loose and vibrant line. This week he went to New York and took a 20-minute helicopter ride. Now he's buckled down a the Pratt Institute making a panoramic drawing of the entire city - from memory. more
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The Glenn Gould Foundation is a registered charity embracing the future, celebrating brilliance, unlocking creativity and transforming lives through the power of music and art. Dr. Jose Antonio Abreu, founder of El Sistma in Venezuela will receive it's 8th prize... more
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2012 Cultural Olympiad: British Style! includes a pair of 10m-high crocheted lions for Nottingham and a floating island from Svalbard, Norway among 12 art commissions celebrating the London Olympic Games... more
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Lawrence Weschler discusses new drawings that David Hockney has been making with the Brushes application on his iPhone. The video clip is amazing. Take the few minutes to view it... more
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Taubman Museum of Art awarded the 2009 International Architecture Award from hundreds of submissions received from architectural design firms in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas... more
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“We didn’t expect a dead fair,” said dealer Iwan Wirth, of Hauser & Wirth, with branches in London, Zurich and New York. “But we didn’t expect it to be as lively as it is”… more
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ARTISTS take your mark,... get set,... GO! to the ARTWORKInternational website to learn about the $12,000 grant available to any visual artist, at any age, any stage, in any medium, from any country or background… more
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The Brain that Changes Itself, based on the best-selling book by Toronto psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Norman Doidge, presents a strong case for reconsidering how we view the human mind... more
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Obama Stacks Arts and Humanities Committee With Bold-Faced Names -
Among the 25 new appointees are Sarah Jessica Parker, Anna Wintour, Teresa Heinz Kerry, Edward Norton, and Thom Mayne... more
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Lehman Art Collection Beats Estimate at Auction -
Bidders competed fiercely for some lots, driving the sale's total up to $1.35 million... more
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Celebration or Send-Up? - Rob Pruitt’s First Annual Art Awards toasted and roasted the art world. The artist has always seemed to want us to laugh with him... more
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"Dolls" are an interesting subject of history, geography, politics, aesthetic and culture of the eras they represent. The stunning collection of the late W. Richard Wright made believers of cynics at Skinner's Marlborough (MA.) Gallery auction... more
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Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante - This enormous group painting by Chinese artists Dai Dudu, Li Tiezi and Zhang An after Leonardo was done in oil in 2006. Check out the list of famous people depicted and click on individual portraits for facts & faces... more
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Ever had a yen to be an art Juror? Well, Diane Smyth confesses how it really was on judging photographic "portraits with a stress on the individual..." for the National Portrait Gallery in London... more
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The 3,500-year-old limestone-and-stucco bust of Queen Nefertiti has been in Germany since 1913, but now Egypt wants the fragile object to be returned home... more
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Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009) pushed the design of America's urban space, including San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C. and the base of Yosemite Falls... more
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When they got married it was agreed to live on one salary and use the other to buy art. Now they are donating most of it, worth millions of dollars, to the National Gallery in Washington D.C. and to 50 museums in 50 states. An amazing interview with the couple (Herb and Dorothy Vogel)... more
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Sculptor Ruth Duckworth passed away on October 18th. This year we’ve lost Andrew Wyeth, Michael Jackson, and Irving Penn, artists that signify the end of an era. But Ruth held special significance ... more
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Toronto International Art Fair Oct 23-26--not only for buyers. Canadian Art Magazine helps art lovers by reviewing six big contemporary exhibits including the RBC Painting Competition winners... more
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Sydney, Australia: From light-filled environments to walk-in kaleidoscopes, the work of Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson examines the intersection of nature and science, exploring the boundary between organic and artificial... more
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Latin American art is no longer just "folk"--try "fusion!" Artwork from Diego Rivera's murals to Marco Tulio's magical realism reveal changes in culture, showing from coast to coast in the US... more
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Tired of wearing the same old lampshade on your head? Here’s a fashion forward idea that requires your artistic skills AND a green idea to save the environment at the same time! Recycle old tapes… more
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts presents “The Louvre and the Masterpiece” exploring the change in definition of a “masterpiece” over time. Exhibition features 62 works drawn from the Louvre’s collection, spanning 4,000 years. Opens Oct. 18... more
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The Vancouver Biennale 2009-2011 inspires Yue Minjun's "A-Maze-ing Laughter" and Sean Cranberry's blog: "The problem with art is that it always seems to come into our lives from out of nowhere, like a surprise party"... more
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MoMA and P.S.1 Tackle Global Warming -
The museums have picked four teams to study ways to protect the city from the effects of global warming... more
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A Marathon Tribute for Merce Cunningham -
Company members and alumni gathered for a tribute performance for the late choreographer at the Park Avenue Armory on Wednesday night... more
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The Best of Performa 09 - until relatively recently, performance art was imagined to be a minority interest, even among the art crowd...that is no longer the case. Here's a tiny sampling of the 2009 performance art biennial's massive offering of events... more
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After long delay, Zagreb's first new museum in over a century will open in December showing Croatian and international works, but contemporary collections in southeastern Europe will still remain under-represented... more
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Finger painting used to be the province of the preschooler. Now adults do it. Doodlers do it. Serious artists do it, like pop art master David Hockney. They do it--as we do nearly everything these days--with an iPhone application... more
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A GUIDE TO ART MUSEUM WOMEN: Check out role models that humourist Polly Frost suggests might apply--like Simone de Beauvoir as "Curator," Fanny Hill as the "Benefactor," Arianna Huffington as "Fund Raiser" or Sister Wendy as the "Docent"... more
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France Approves Wide Crackdown on Net Piracy setting global precedent for other countries to follow promising to convert copyright cheats into customers of legitimate online music, movie and other media services.. more
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According to critic Ben Lewis, Frank Auerbach's post-war London building-site paintings puts him on the front line of important and powerful European art (see Courtauld Gallery exhibition)... more
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View slides of the unique Staged Stories: Renwick Craft Invitational 09 presenting the work of ceramic artist Christyl Boger, fibre artist Mark Newport, glass artist Mary Van Cline, and ceramic artist SunKoo Yuh at the Smithsonian... more
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Israel: Going against trends to dump representational and figurative art in her landscapes, artist Efrat Galnoor says, "...you have to think completely abstract. And the more you can think abstract, the more you can be realistic"... more
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Danielle LaPorte says Muses... like to be respected. Dis' your muse and she'll stop dropping by. She's righteous. Genius is like that. In an interview with Neil Young, Charlie Rose asks about his muse... more
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Strasbourg, Germany: The European Studio Glass Art Association presents the works of contemporary artists using Glass as the main medium, attracting participants from Europe, Africa, America or Asia... more
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Art Factory - Peter Hessler talks about China's art industry and a group of artist who create western style art for export: New Yorker, Audio Slide Show... more
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Got $200,000 lying around? Seigneur, c'est vous, je vous reconnais is Rouault’s famous painting from his series, Miserer, and it’s for sale at Sotheby’s. Many old masters are being offered at their November 4 Impressionist sale… more
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David Hockney, at 72, with hearing aids in both ears, remains lively, gregarious and enthusiastic — especially when it comes to looking at the world, thinking about the world and making art out of what he sees... more
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Conceptual art has fought hard for its place as investment. Denis Dutton compares the work that is being done today, to that of Duchamp and even of prehistoric artists, in assessing whether contemporary conceptual art has investment value... more
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