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Art News - Friday, June 4 |
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+A
bastion against cultural obscenity
The Guardian Arts - UK
In a speech delivered at Burlington House
last night, the critic Robert Hughes calls
for a revitalised Royal Academy to defend
art against the degrading power of the wealthy
collectors
+Sheikh
Saud’s London spending spree
The Art Newspaper - UK
A team of London agents working for the Sheikh
bought 350 of the top lots in last months’
Islamic sales, spending well in excess of
£15 million. The objects are all destined
for the Museum of Islamic Art under construction
in Doha to the designs of I.M. Pei, the Chinese-American
architect coaxed out of retirement by Sheikh
Saud.
+Art
blaze blamed on nearby break-in
The Guardian Arts - UK
The fire which ripped through Momart's east
London art-storage warehouse last week destroyed
all but two of the works housed in it.
Momart said the fire began after a burglary
at another building on the same industrial
estate.
+Sorry
About the Dead Cow...
Reuters - London
British artist Damien Hirst, who uses dead
animals in his work, promised to apologize
for a "mix-up" Thursday, after a
rotting cow was left outside his studio over
a long holiday weekend.
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+Biennale
of Sydney 2004 Opens Today
artdaliy.com
Biennale of Sydney 2004 will showcase work
by leading international artists which will
challenge audiences to think and feel. On
Reason and Emotion is Curator Isabel Carlos’
theme for Sydney’s 14th Biennale.
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Art News - Friday, May 28 |
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+Art
world reels as losses mount
Sydney Morning Herald - Australia
The fire that consumed the Momart warehouse
in east London is likely to have destroyed
a vast swathe of British art spanning the
past half century, including more than 50
major works by the great abstract painter
Patrick Heron.
+A
new international role for the Whitney
The Art Newspaper - UK
When he took over as director of the Whitney
Museum of American Art last November, Adam
Weinberg vowed to revamp the administrative
and curatorial structure of the museum. In
recent weeks he has appointed his senior team
and is now unveiling his strategy to carve
a new international role for the institution.
+Thinking
of buying art online? Maybe don't.
Circa Art Magazine - Ireland
Seems there's no end of gullible art buyers
out there in online-auction land. A Dutchman
was duped out of US$135,805, buying a fake
Richard Diebenkorn through auction heavy-weight
eBay back in 2000. And yesterday a Californian
man received the very first conviction for
online art fraud and was sentenced to almost
four years in prison.
+Phoenix
Art Museum receives $3 million gift
The Arizona Republic- USA
The Phoenix Art Museum has received a $3 million
gift, its largest ever, to build a sculpture
court and support education programs. The
gift, from the Dorrance Family Foundation,
comes amid a $33.2 million capital and endowment
campaign by the museum.
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+The
Islander: Elements in art
The Islander - USA
Natural Elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water
is an exhibit featuring 32 works by local
artists at the new Rookery Bay Learning Center,
300 Tower Road. The center is next to the
Comcast building off State Road 951 in East
Naples.
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Art News - Friday, May 21 |
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+Catalans
fight for custody of Dalí's Great Masturbator
The Guardian Arts - UK
It may seem an unlikely symbol of national
pride, but The Great Masturbator, a
painting by the eccentric Spanish surrealist
Salvador Dalí, was at the centre
of a tug-of-war between Catalan separatists
and a Madrid museum yesterday.
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+Scheme
loan will make art affordable
icWales - UK
MORE people will be able to buy art and
crafts on interest-free credit in Wales.Culture
Minister Alun Pugh has revealed that the
Collectorplan loan scheme is to be boosted
to more than £1m annually after securing
a £500,000 loan from the Principality
Building Society.
+Beauty
gets its own political party in Italy
The Art Newspaper - UK
“Aesthetics first, ethics second”
is the slogan of Italy’s new political
party, the Party of Beauty, founded
in April by former Under Secretary of State
for the ministry of culture, Vittorio Sgarbi.
+DNA
twist in battle for £285m art estate
The Guardian Arts - UK
Tests support Italian family's claim that
art connoisseur Sir Harold Acton had illegitimate
half-sister
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+"Mixed
Pickles" offers true taste of art
Xinhuanet - China
BEIJING, - When German artist Robert
Haas decided on the title "Mixed
Pickles" for their joint exhibition,
the two Chinese artists participating
in the show were amused but actually didn't
see how the title had any connection to
their show of oil paintings.
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Art News - Friday, May 7 |
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+The
world's most expensive piece of art ... a
£58m Picasso painting
The Guardian Arts - UK
A masterpiece by Pablo Picasso, painted
in 1905 when he was just 24 years old, last
night became the most expensive piece of art
ever sold when it went under the hammer at
Sotheby's in New York for $104m (£58m).
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+Picasso
Still Going Strong as First Auction Week
Ends
New York Times - USA (free registration
required)
Picasso certainly is the flavor of
the week," said Nancy Whyte, a private
dealer, as the gavel fell on the final lot
of Sotheby's sale of Impressionist and modern
art last night.
+Revealed:
secret battle 'anarchist' Picasso lost to
become French
The Guardian Arts - UK
French police kept Pablo Picasso
under surveillance for nearly 40 years -
and when the Spanish-born painter applied
for citizenship the authorities could not
decide whether he was an anarchist or a
communist so they ruled him undesirable
just in case.
+A
Record Picasso And the Hype Price Of Status
Objects
WashingtonPost.com - USA
As almost everyone has heard by now, a 1905
Picasso called "Boy With a Pipe"
sold Wednesday night for a record-breaking
$104.2 million, topping the $82.5 million
paid for a van Gogh in 1990. (Though in
inflation-corrected dollars, the van Gogh
still wins out by several million. And in
inflation-corrected ducats, Renaissance
tapestries might still count as the most
expensive pictures ever: They could cost
more than a major battleship.)
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+Picasso
album from 1970 on display for first time
detnews.com - USA
NEW YORK -- From simple pen and ink drawings
of nude women to a colorful and elaborate
felt pen and ink drawing of two men ogling
a nude woman, a sketchbook that was filled
in a week reveals the obsessive nature of
a mature Pablo Picasso at work.
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Art News - Friday, April 16 |
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+Palace
stops sale of Queen's sketch for first corgi
The Guardian Arts - UK
Buckingham Palace stepped in yesterday to
prevent a Shropshire auctioneer selling one
of the Queen's more unusual autographs - a
sketch drawn more than 45 years ago of a gravestone
inscription for her first corgi.
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+Healing
the world with art
Independent.co.uk - UK
David Khalili is a billionaire collector
on an epic scale. In a rare interview, he
tells Martin Gayford that he hopes his unique
pieces can bring people together.
+Artists
recycle trash into art for Earth Day celebration
The Digital Collegian - USA
Local artists have given old objects new
lives and a fresh dose of meaning for the
10th Annual Recycled Art Show at the Art
Alliance, 818 Pike St., Lemont.
+The
art of pricing
CS Monitor - USA
LOS ANGELES – Artist Candice Gawne
says she and her husband recently sat down
at the kitchen table to get back to basics:
How much should she be asking for her delicate
glass and neon sculptures?
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+Art
exhibit aims to celebrate gifts of God's
creation
The Islander - USA
The disciples of Jesus Christ included Matthew,
John, Simon Peter and Thomas. But in the
eyes of Charlotte Finnegan, a disciple of
Jesus can be a clown with a red nose and
floppy shoes who makes children laugh.
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Art News - Friday, April 2 |
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+Emin
patches up school quilt row
The Guardian Arts - UK
The artist Tracey Emin is breaking with tradition
by attempting to resolve, rather than make,
controversy. After demanding the return of
an artwork she made with a group of eight-year-old
pupils, Ms Emin has now told the school it
can keep it - and has offered to pay the cost
of a frame.
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+Are
the culture wars over?
The art Newspaper- UK
President Bush has proposed funding increases
for several US federal arts programmes.
Although these increases are relatively
modest and they are subject to the approval
of Congress, the proposals are in themselves
significant, signalling the end of the culture
wars of the early 1990s, when Congress threatened
to abolish the National Endowment for the
Arts (NEA) for funding works of art that
conservatives deemed objectionable to taxpayers
+From
'Pong' to high art
AZCentral - USA
Three decades after "Pong" ricocheted
into popular culture, video games are bouncing
into the rarefied world of fine art.
+Unveiling
a new work of art
Baltimore Sun - USA
Abstract paintings line the newly polished
floors of the gallery like players waiting
for an assignment from their coach. At the
moment, however, she has a lot on her mind.
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+Face
of a thousand generations wins Archibald
SMH - Australia
Craig Ruddy's hands told an eloquent story
of their own as he was announced as the
winner of the 2004 Archibald Prize yesterday.
White-knuckled
and tense, they wrestled with each other
as he got up to make his speech. Clasped
together tightly afterwards, they formed
a fragile chest-level barrier against the
crush.
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