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Goings on About Town: Art
MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES METROPOLITAN MUSEUM Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)--“Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul.” Through Sept. 20. | “Francis Bacon: A Centenary Ret...
Pop Art from the Collection of IVAM on View at Espai Municipal d'Art de Torrent
Rear Window, 1971. TORRENT.- The Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) presented in Espai Municipal d'Art de Torrent, "Pop Art of the Collecció L'IVAM al 'EMAT" curated by the Director of the IV...
Modern and Contemporary Icons Mix with the Off-Beat and Up and Coming at Phillips de Pury & Company
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Company announced the highlights of the forthcoming New York Modern and Contemporary Editions sale to be held at Phillips de Pury & Company’s Chelsea galleries on ...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
DREAM WOMAN Obsessive love takes on a whole new meaning in "Four Nights with Anna," the first film in 17 years by Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski. It concerns a weird crematory worker in a drear...
The Week Ahead: May 3-9
In the mid-1960s films for which the Hungarian director Miklos Jancso is best known, people are constantly being told where to walk and where to stand, not knowing whether their next step will be t...
Robert Delford Brown, ?Happenings? Artist, Dies at 78
Mr. Brown was a painter, sculptor, performance artist and avant-garde philosopher whose provocative works challenged orthodoxies of both the art world and the world at large.
artnet Launches Prints Sale Featuring Works by Francis Bacon, Marc Chagall, Roy Lichtenstein, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Many Other Artists
Excerpt ...in the Metropolitan Museum of New York's 2008 Jasper Johns retrospective. Other Pop artists featured in the sale are Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist and Tom We...
Cherry Pulled Off Walker's Spoonbridge
The one-ton cherry that sits atop the Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture at the Walker Art Center's Sculpture Garden will be removed Monday morning for painting.
Repainting set for Mpls. Sculpture Garden cherry
There won't be a cherry on top of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden's signature Spoonbridge for the next few weeks.
Artist Yayoi Kusama
Art. The nets and dots that dominate Kusama’s work are prefigured in the small drawings and paintings she created when still a child, and are included in the exhibition.
Saginaw art student creates a Sharpie pen taller than she is
A Sharpie pen taller than its art student creator, and accompanied by a yellow Post-It note underneath, may catch the eyes of people attending Sunday's Chocolate Lovers Benefit. Also an eye popper ...
MMoCA presents 'wicked good' art in latest exhibit
Excerpt ...Its abstract shape and skeletal Munchian figure is a severe but interesting introduction to the exhibition. âRay Gun,â by Claes Oldenburg, is a simple contrast of black and white...
Aldo Crommelynck, Master Printer for Prominent Artists, Is Dead at 77
Mr. Crommelynck was a master printmaker whose self-effacing style and virtuosic command of traditional techniques coaxed the best out of European artists including Picasso, Braque and Matisse.
John Updike: A rich run remembered
John Updike graced the United States with a body of work that resembled a wrestling match between God, the self and beauty
The almanac
By United Press International UPI Almanac for Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009.
Hawk this gem? Unconscionable
WALTHAM - The decision to close the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University and sell off its extraordinary collection smacks of panic. Panic, as everyone knows, is sometimes an appropriate response ...
John Updike: A rich run remembered
John Updike graced the United States with a body of work that resembled a wrestling match between God, the self and beauty
Today is Wednesday, Jan. 28, the 28th day of 2009 with 337 to follow.
Excerpt ...Colette in 1873; concert pianist Arthur Rubinstein in 1887; abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock in 1912; sculptor Claes Oldenburg in 1929 (age 80); actor Alan Alda in 1936...
John Updike: A rich run remembered
John Updike graced the United States with a body of work that resembled a wrestling match between God, the self and beauty
One hundred years of sculpture at the Bruce
Sculpture and people have one thing in common: We take up physical space. That means we connect to and look at sculpture differently than we view paintings or photographs, by taking in the three di...
One hundred years of sculpture at the Bruce
Sculpture and people have one thing in common: We take up physical space. That means we connect to and look at sculpture differently than we view paintings or photographs, by taking in the three di...
Innovations in the Third Dimension: Sculpture of Our Time at The Bruce Museum
GREENWICH, CT.-
Art gifts adding to d'Harnoncourt's legacy
In moments of sorrow, some like to send flowers.The museum world sends art.Starting just weeks after the death in June of Philadelphia Museum of Art director Anne d'Harnoncourt, the museum began re...
Pop Goes the Art Show
Kindly keep your Campbell's Soup kegger out of here, please.
Art gifts adding to d'Harnoncourt's legacy
Excerpt ...Matisse; a Frank Stella painting from Museum of Modern Art president emerita Agnes Gund; and a colored-pencil drawing by Claes Oldenburg given by friend of four decades Marion Boulto...
The Almanac -- weekly
Today is Monday, Jan. 26, the 26th day of 2009 with 339 to follow.The moon is new. The morning stars are Mars, Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn. The evening stars are Venus, Uranus and Neptune.Those bor...
Artist with link to Miami public artwork dies at 66
Coosje van Brugge, the Dutch artist who in collaboration with her husband Claes Oldenburg created the public art sculpture Dropped Bowl with Scattered Slices and Peels for Miami-Dade, died on Jan. ...
Artist with link to Miami public artwork dies at 66
Coosje van Brugge, the Dutch artist who in collaboration with her husband Claes Oldenburg created the public art sculpture Dropped Bowl with Scattered Slices and Peels for Miami-Dade, died on Jan. ...
Artist with link to Miami public artwork dies at 66
Coosje van Brugge, the Dutch artist who in collaboration with her husband Claes Oldenburg created the public art sculpture Dropped Bowl with Scattered Slices and Peels for Miami-Dade, died on Jan. ...
Artistic link
Canadian artist Lee Goreas, 43, calls the works in his current exhibit -- opening Saturday in Hallwalls -- “humorous and ludicrous hybrids.”
Today: H -13 /L -22
Something's been nagging me, art historically. Spread in the high halls of Washington's art museums is a broad and permanent semi-official survey of the 20th century, and it's got a hole in it. Som...
Coosje van Bruggen, art lecturer, dies at 66
Coosje van Bruggen, a senior lecturer at the School of Art from 1996 to 1997, renowned for the colorful large-scale sculptures she created with her husband, artist Claes Oldenburg ’50, died on Satu...
Artist Coosje van Bruggen, who with her husband designed the “Shuttlecocks” sculptures at the Nelson, has died
Coosje van Bruggen, one of the collaborators who made Kansas City’s most adored lawn into a badminton court, has died.
Artist Coosje van Bruggen, who with her husband designed the “Shuttlecocks” sculptures at the Nelson, has died
Excerpt ...and artist was known for the colorful, oversized public sculptures she created in collaboration with her husband, Claes Oldenburg. Most notably in Kansas City, they designed the larg...
Coosje van Bruggen, sculptor of public structures, dies at 66
The critic, art historian and artist was known for the colorful public sculptures she created around the world with her husband, the artist Claes Oldenburg.
Art Historian, Critic, Artist and Wife of Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen, Died at 66
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, 1986. Photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe. NEW YORK, NY.- Art historian, critic, artist and wife of Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen , died on Saturday in L...
Coosje van Bruggen, Sculptor, Dies at 66
Ms. van Bruggen was a critic, art historian and artist known for the colorful public sculptures she created around the world with her husband, the Pop artist Claes Oldenburg.
Artist Coosje van Bruggen, 66, Dies
Excerpt ... LOS ANGELES -- Coosje van Bruggen -- an art historian, writer and curator whose partnership with her husband, artist Claes Oldenburg, turned ordinary objects into startling monument...
Art Critic, Sculptor Coosje van Bruggen Dies At 66
Coosje van Bruggen, a critic, art historian and sculptor who collaborated with her artist husband Claes Oldenburg on his giant sculptures of mundane objects, has died. She was 66. A spokeswoman for...
Van Bruggen, sculptor and critic, dies at 66
Excerpt ...ANGELESâCoosje van Bruggen, a critic, art historian and sculptor who collaborated with her artist-husband Claes Oldenburg on his giant sculptures of mundane objects, has died. She ...
Sculptor Coosje Van Bruggen Dead At 66 [Art In America]
Excerpt ...married the Pop artist Claes Oldenburg in 1977. The two artists frequently collaborated on large-scale public sculptures (including "Flashlight", left). Although van Bruggen and Olde...
OBITUARIES
Excerpt ...Times. LOS ANGELES -- Coosje van Bruggen -- an art historian, writer and curator whose partnership with her husband, artist Claes Oldenburg, turned ordinary objects into startling mo...
Coosje van Bruggen: 1942-2009
Excerpt ...the weekend Coosje van Bruggen, Claes Oldenburg's wife and collaborator, died at their home in L.A. Van Bruggen was a Dutch born art historian and a curator at the Stedelijk Museum i...
Free Library celebration of Calder banners
Excerpt ...office towers opposite City Hall in 1975 and went on view there the following year, along with the now-famous Clothespin by Claes Oldenburg and Jean Dubuffet's Milord la Chamarre - a...
Coosje van Bruggen, Sculptor, Dies at 66
Excerpt ...and artist known for the colorful public sculptures she created around the world with her husband, the Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, died on Saturday in Los Angeles. She was 66 and had...
Long-lost Calder banners back on display in Philly
A series of enormous banners designed by Alexander Calder are back on display for the first time since they went missing in the 1980s and were feared destroyed.
Long-lost Calder banners on display in Philadelphia
Excerpt ...want a general on a horse,' " recalled Robert Weinberg, Wolgin's attorney. "He told them, 'No. You're getting a clothespin.' " Claes Oldenburg's now-famous Clothespin was erected as...
On the Go in the District
The Scene Punch Club, Back for Round 2 Last week's debut of this weekly speak-easy-style party at Warehouse -- intended to spotlight punch as the new "craft cocktail" -- featured a hot-spiced wine ...
Quincy Public Library to host series presenting artistic view of U.S. history
The Quincy Public Library will present a free, eight-week American Visions video lecture series moderated by Carol Nichols, an instructor at John Wood Community College and Culver-Stockton College ...
Des Moines kids express inner Warhol
The Des Moines Art Center gave a crash course in pop art to kids in two groups on Dec. 30.
It's the holidays, want to do anything?
Excerpt ...the Embarcadero and down Third Street for views of some of San Francisco's best pieces of outdoor sculpture. "Cupid's Span" by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen remains that art...
Ackland's 'Circa 1958' exhibit examines year of transition in American art
Fifty years ago the Ackland Art Museum first opened its doors with almost no collection of its own and small exhibitions. Today, the museum highlights just how far it has come with its most ambitio...
Sculpture That Asks You to Set a Spell
The core of Franz West?s oeuvre, on display at the Baltimore Museum of Art, includes eccentrically shaped, modestly scaled abstract sculptures with crusty surfaces.
Guy Ben-Ner's take on kids and adults makes 'Adaptation' at Henry a family affair
Guy Ben-Ner and Eve Sussman are the heights in "Adaptation" at the Henry, but there are no depths. Everything is worth watching or watching part way through, to soak in its strange atmospherics.
Temple University to offer $150K fine arts prize
Temple University will begin offering a fine arts prize worth $150,000 to the winner of a juried competition.
Temple University to offer $150K fine arts prize
Temple University will begin offering a fine arts prize worth $150,000 to the winner of a juried competition.
Temple University to offer $150K fine arts prize
Temple University will begin offering a fine arts prize worth $150,000 to the winner of a juried competition.
From prized 'Clothespin' art to arts prize
Jack L. Wolgin, the man who commissioned the iconic Clothespin sculpture across from City Hall, once again is poised to make his mark on the city's arts landscape, this time by endowing an unpreced...
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Hôtel Le A Paris: Full Review
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Excerpt ...classic Seventies chic. Mechiche is a devotee of 'minimalism lite'. Hybert's work is a very French intellectual hybrid of Claes Oldenburg and Cy Twombly, coloured by Morris Lewis. An...
Office for Contemporary Art in Norway shows "Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?"
Excerpt ...Cecilia Edefalk, Leif Gabrielsen, Marianne Heske, Sanja Ivekovic, Erkki Kurenniemi, Lee Lozano, Babette Mangolte, Gunvor Nelson, Claes Oldenburg, Carolee Schneemann and Erró, Yvonne ...
Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?
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The party dress code
'Things go better with a little bit of razzamatazz," sang Jarvis Cocker back in the mid 1990s, and he might as well have been referring to the party season.
Western Springs students create pop art
Field Park Elementary School in Western Springs added an explosion of color to its normal, manila painted gym walls this week, courtesy of its own students.
Modern and Renaissance Italian art gains favour in Berlin - Feature
Berlin - Nothing remotely links the Florentine Renaissance busts of Baccio Bandinelli with the minimalist paintings and sculptures of present day Turin artist Gianni Piacentino. But by an art coinc...
Schafer: Happy Birthday Stan the Man, Can Someone Finally Rid Us of Your Ugly Statue?
Excerpt ...Claes Oldenburg leave an enlarged nasty on your lawn. I dig the Musial statue for what it is. The other regret, and I hate to say this, because it feels like blasphemy even to me, is...
Mapping an Imagined Order, Page by Page
An exploration of a mind?s landscape and its symbolism, sometimes under hypnosis.
Obamarxism
This stencil was spotted near Cupid's Span (Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, 2003). We feel that Senator Obama’s surname is a boon for stenciling sloganeers, who are no doubt tired of the li...
Obamarxism
This stencil was spotted near Cupid's Span (Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, 2003). We feel that Senator Obama’s surname is a boon for stenciling sloganeers, who are no doubt tired of the li...
Jim Dine Debuts New Sculpture and Poetry Inspired by Objects in the Getty Museum
LOS ANGELES, CA.-
A Room of One's Ownership
Collecting is a deeply private act, almost shameful. Years ago, the sense of guilty hoarding was palpable in a 60 Minutes profile on John Quentin Feller, an expert in antique porcelain who lifted h...
A Room of One's Ownership
Excerpt ...ways of thinking about Grooms. One room is dedicated to other major figures in Pop Art and related figurative styles: Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist and others. Thes...
Pop art's bold imagery on display at Zimmerli
NEW BRUNSWICK — They are now universally celebrated artists, but in the 1960s they were pioneers in a new era known as proto-pop and pop art.
Unilever Series: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Excerpt ...domestic spaces. The animal-related forms of sculptures by Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen have mutated, growing...
Masters' artworks assembled at Dutch museum for unique exhibit
THE HAGUE (AFP) - Vermeer, Rembrandt, Matisse and Picasso: 125 works by some of the world's most celebrated artists have been assembled in Amsterdam for a unique homage to the Netherlands' oldest a...
After London's Frieze Fair, setting out, again, to ponder these troubling times
If the 2008 Frieze offered a glimpse of a plush, moneyed art world that may soon be history, the outlying shows still going on about London mostly seem to make palpable the challenges and anxieties...
After London's Frieze Fair, setting out, again, to ponder these troubling times
Excerpt LONDON: It's something of a London tradition: the scrum of events, exhibitions and gallery shows timed to coincide with the Frieze Art Fair in Regent's Park. That is true this year as w...
Letters to the Editor:
The proof that McCain lacks judgment is his choice of running mate—Sarah Palin. Probably the only thing worse for the nation than George Bush is Miss Corruption.
Pop art's bold imagery on display at Zimmerli
NEW BRUNSWICK — They are now universally celebrated artists, but in the 1960s they were pioneers in a new era known as proto-pop and pop art.
Exhibit documents artistic career of Christo and Jeanne-Claude
It's not hard to understand why. The two veteran New York artists (who go by their first names) work on an almost unprecedented scale, creating massive outdoor works that attract millions of
London?s Annual Frieze Fair Spawns Provocative Action on Its Fringes
It?s something of a London tradition: the scrum of events, exhibitions and gallery shows timed to coincide with the Frieze Art Fair in Regent?s Park.
Pop art's bold imagery on display at Zimmerli
NEW BRUNSWICK — They are now universally celebrated artists, but in the 1960s they were pioneers in a new era known as proto-pop and pop art.
Comment: 'Berkeley Big People' invites mockery
Emeryville artist Scott Donahue's sculpture "Berkeley Big People," dedicated over the weekend, scores a new black eye on the already battered face of public art in the Bay Area. Unlike that other n...
Comment: 'Berkeley Big People' invites mockery
Emeryville artist Scott Donahue's sculpture "Berkeley Big People," dedicated over the weekend, scores a new black eye on the already battered face of public art in the Bay Area. Unlike that other n...
Comment: 'Berkeley Big People' invites mockery
Emeryville artist Scott Donahue's sculpture "Berkeley Big People," dedicated over the weekend, scores a new black eye on the already battered face of public art in the Bay Area. Unlike that other n...
Comment: 'Berkeley Big People' invites mockery
Emeryville artist Scott Donahue's sculpture "Berkeley Big People," dedicated over the weekend, scores a new black eye on the already battered face of public art in the Bay Area. Unlike that other n...
Art: London’s Annual Frieze Fair Spawns Provocative Action on Its Fringes
Excerpt ...Mooreâs âSheep Piece.â By contrast, Maurizio Cattelanâs âFelix,â a giant skeleton of a cat, is all there, in detail. Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggenâs âApple C...
Comment: 'Berkeley Big People' invites mockery
Emeryville artist Scott Donahue's sculpture "Berkeley Big People," dedicated over the weekend, scores a new black eye on the already battered face of public art in the Bay Area. Unlike that other n...
Harvard Art Museum Receives $45 Million Donation From Pulitzer Group, Plans to Expand and Renovate
By Geoff Edgers THE BOSTON GLOBE Fifty years ago, when Emily Rauh Pulitzer worked as an assistant art curator at Harvard University, she knew the buildings housing the university’s vast art collect...
Comment: 'Berkeley Big People' invites mockery
Emeryville artist Scott Donahue's sculpture "Berkeley Big People," dedicated over the weekend, scores a new black eye on the already battered face of public art in the Bay Area. Unlike that other n...
Comment: 'Berkeley Big People' invites mockery
Emeryville artist Scott Donahue's sculpture "Berkeley Big People," dedicated over the weekend, scores a new black eye on the already battered face of public art in the Bay Area. Unlike that other n...
Comment: 'Berkeley Big People' invites mockery
Excerpt ...discredited the statuary conception of sculpture. Consider two examples of local public art that do make that recognition. Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's "Cupid's Span" (2...
Cheekwood wants visitors to see Red
A new exhibit offers insight into the artistic tickers of Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong.
Cheekwood wants visitors to see Red
Excerpt ...I was very passionate about that, being able to choose the artists. I was actually the first person to show Oldenburg, Claes Oldenburg's work, in New York." Oldenburg's Soft Saxophon...
A Pulitzer prize for Harvard museum: $45m and 31 major works of art
Fifty years ago, when Emily Rauh Pulitzer worked as an assistant art curator at Harvard University, she knew the buildings housing the university's vast art collection needed renovation. Now she's ...
Pulitzer widow donates art, $45M to Harvard art museum
The Harvard Art Museum has received a gift of 31 works of art and $45 million US from Emily Rauh Pulitzer, a former assistant curator and longtime benefactor.
Pop art's bold imagery on display at Zimmerli
NEW BRUNSWICK — They're now universally celebrated artists, but in the 1960s they were pioneers in a new era, known as proto-pop and pop art.
Lives Frozen for Contemplation
Excerpt ...meanings in the work of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, or the playing-with-our-sensibilities Pop Art of Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and others. But Segal found his voice else...
The Unilever Series: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Opens at Tate Modern's Turbine Hall
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster TH.2058 2008 © Dominque Gonzalez-Foerster. Photo: Tate Photography. LONDON.- Tate Modern unveils the latest commission in The Unilever Series.
What to say about … Tate Modern's new Turbine Hall installation
You've been wondering how Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster would fill the cavernous Turbine Hall for Tate Modern's ninth Unilever commission.
Fanciful premonition meets art gags
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster's conceit is that the future will bring us permanent rain and that, somewhat less plausibly, this will make all the public sculptures dotted about our cities grow.
Tate Modern unveils the new Turbine Hall installation (6 pictures)
October 13 2007: Tate Modern today unveiled the latest in its series of Turbine Hall commissions - one of the most terrifying challenges in contemporary art, if also one of the most prestigious.
Cleveland's public art hot spots
A giant trumpet player, sculpted in concrete, towers over the intersection of Buckeye Road and East 118th Street, blasting his horn while an imaginary breeze blows his tie in the wind. Created by P...
Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Acquires Harry Shunk Photographic Archive
NEW YORK, NY.- On the anniversary of Harry Shunk’s 84th birthday today, the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation is honored to announce it has just acquired the entire photographic archive of renowned photo...
Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Acquires Harry Shunk Photographic Archive
NEW YORK, NY.- On the anniversary of Harry Shunk’s 84th birthday today, the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation is honored to announce it has just acquired the entire photographic archive of renowned photo...
The Big 10 college towns for tourists
Don't fall into the college travel trap. When visiting on campus or traveling with them to choose a college, you needn't be relegated to a dingy motel or dining on pizza.
The Big 10 college towns for tourists
Don't fall into the college travel trap. When visiting on campus or traveling with them to choose a college, you needn't be relegated to a dingy motel or dining on pizza.
The Big 10 college towns for tourists
Excerpt ...Garden. Some of the larger-than-life works include David NashÂs ÂStanding Frame, left, and ÂSpoonbridge and Cherry by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. (Christopher Reynolds ...
The Big 10 college towns for tourists
Excerpt ...Garden. Some of the larger-than-life works include David NashÃs ÃStanding Frame,à left, and ÃSpoonbridge and Cherryà by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. (Christopher Reyn...
Guests travel across the pond to WXIN reporter's wedding
WXIN (Channel 59) reporter Kate Williams and Chris Vaulter of Creative Street Media Group tied the knot last week in a celebration that involved family and friends from here and abroad.
Exhibit introduces visitors to donors, collection
Despite its often cutting-edge nature, the art world is still old-fashioned in many lovely ways. Some of those include doing business on a handshake, and the acceptance of one's word that a transac...
'Paris Portraits'
Ken Silver says no one has ever done it before. That is, until now. A modern art authority who is the adjunct curator of art at The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Silver unveils his latest project at t...
Exhibits
Tools in Motion, 65 works of 20th-century art that represent tools and hardware from the collection of hardware industry pioneer John Hechinger. Included: sculptures, photographs and paintings by s...
Galleries selling foreign art pin hopes on Sunday auction
Woxart will offer Damien Hirst in auction, among others. The Woxart auction house is preparing its first big auction of international contemporary art which will take place in Prague on Sunday.
Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now at The Bronx Museum
Sze Tsung Leong, New Street, Shijicheng, Landianchang, Haidian District, Beijing, 2004. Digital C-print mounted on aluminum in white maple frame, 72 x 90 in. © Sze Tsung Leong, Courtesy Yossi Milo ...
Cool art wraps up summer
Bill Schmidt’s “View of Solomons,” one of the paintings included in McBride Gallery’s upcoming “The Best of the Chesapeake” exhibit, which opens Sept. 14.
Sibling's September Swap
Growing up in the rural Fulton, IL area, Brent E. Houzenga, 25, and his older sister, Heather, 29, always shared their creative and drawings with one another. Even though they are both "all grown u...
Pop Art and After: Prints and Popular Culture Opens at Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
NEW BRUNSWICK.- Since Andy Warhol’s Campbell Soup can images first appeared in the 1960s, Pop Art has remained a pervasive force in contemporary art.
Art stopper
AS Nevada activists, scientists and politicians keep hammering away at the federal bureaucracies that seem hell-bent on turning part of Nevada into the country's atomic scrap heap, an unexpected al...
The Akron Art Museum Presents Unveiled: Recent Acquisitions from the Museum's Collection
Sandy Skoglund, Body Limits, 1992, Cibachrome print, 35 7/8 in. x 28 in., Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Gift of the Monaghan-Shebairo Family 2006.46.
Art stopper
AS Nevada activists, scientists and politicians keep hammering away at the federal bureaucracies that seem hell-bent on turning part of Nevada into the country's atomic scrap heap, an unexpected al...
A Tarnished Jeff Koons
Excerpt In an act of self-congratulation and loyalty, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art is commemorating its 1988 first survey of the work of Jeff Koons with a retrospective of about 60 work...
David Gahr
David Gahr, who has died aged 85 at his home in Brooklyn, New York, was a photographer loved as much for himself as for the immediacy of his sometimes iconic work.
Akron Art Museum exhibit to showcase photography
Excerpt UPDATE: 11:21 AM, Monday, August 25, 2008 "Body Limit," a photograph by Sandy Skoglund utilizing lots of bacon, is among 19 diverse artworks included in "Unveiled: Rec...
Dudes, This Cupcake is SO Not in San Francisco
Excerpt Ah, Visa's at it again: Valleywag's Jackson West asks if this cupcake is, indeed, situated in downtown San Francisco as suggested by this ad campaign. (Or rather, as suggested by unsubs...
10 ways to play hooky, St. Paul
Excerpt You can’t spend all your time at Xcel Energy Center. Here are a few compiled by staffers at the St. Paul Pioneer Press to help you explore the sites beyond the X. Unless otherwise indic...
Associazione Arte Sella is the Enemy, Flickr is the Enabler -- Public Art Wants to Be Free
Excerpt I was disappointed today to receive an email from one of my Flickr contacts Davide Bedin. According to Bedin he recently received the following email message from Flickr: "We have recei...
Tore Hoven has become the prime holder of SAM's institutional memory
Excerpt When Tore Hoven started working at Seattle Art Museum in 1968, the only security system was the staff on hand that day. And imagine this: For opening receptions, he used to go around th...
Putting the tiger in your tank on a diet
Excerpt Tucked into a nook in the new Pacific Theatres at the Americana at Brand in Glendale, underneath an Art Deco sign that teased “Arcade,” sat a lonely Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga “Class of 1981″ m...
Peabody Essex Museum hosts ~ Wedded Bliss: The Marriage of Art and Ceremony
Excerpt SALEM, MASS.- The Peabody Essex Museum unveils Wedded Bliss, The Marriage of Art and Ceremony, a wide-ranging exploration of the wedding as artistic inspiration across cultures, lifesty...
Habitats | Lincoln Center: Sacrificing Space for Scenery
Excerpt “IT’S a view with an apartment,” said Mark Del Vecchio of his home on the 42nd floor of a beige brick behemoth near Lincoln Center. Indeed, the panorama, which stretches from the Statue...
Designers Teach Glass (and Themselves) New Tricks
Excerpt Summer hadn’t quite arrived in the city over the Memorial Day weekend, but in the garden of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, on upper Fifth Avenue, it was several hundred degr...
Art Review: Unwrapping the Secrets of Ordinary Objects
Excerpt KATONAH, N.Y. Almost every day since 1972, the German artist Peter Dreher has painted a small picture of the same simple water glass on a white table in a white room. Two of those exemp...
Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) exhibits 'Artists in Depth'
Excerpt Chicago, IL - During its forty-year history, the MCA has distinguished itself with groundbreaking exhibitions that have contributed substantially to the evolving history of contemporary...
What's the point of public art?
Excerpt An artist's impression showing the possible scale of an art installation for Ebbsfleet Landmark Commission "Is public art a waste of space?" On the day that designs for a huge new publ...
The Day the Lights Went On
Excerpt Left, the 1964 original; right, a view of the re-created Dan Flavin. Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are lik...
Art: At the Ready When Artists Think Big
Excerpt A stainless-steel Moon by Jeff Koons, weighing more than a ton. Carlson & Company produced the sculpture in an edition of five. Jeff Koonss Balloon Dog being installed at the Met. WHE...
News: New Pornos, Andrew Bird Play Sculpture Garden
Excerpt The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden-- adjacent to the Twin Cities' Walker Art Center-- is one of the more beautiful spots in the Midwest (that picture doesn't really do it justice). Featur...
Ask Curbed SF: Destructoporn at Cupid's Span?
Excerpt In need of guidance, oh wayward one? Turn to the oracle that is the Ask Curbed SF inbox. We'll burden the masses with your problems, and they, our all-knowing readers, will command thee...
MGM MIRAGE Unveils $40 Million Fine Art Program at CityCenter
Excerpt Ambitious Public Art Program To Feature Groundbreaking Works By International Artists Including Maya Lin, Jenny Holzer and Nancy Rubins LAS VEGAS, March 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MG...
'Collar and Bow' statue draws a suit
Excerpt Giant sculpture lies in fragments in Irvine while a $6-million action against artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen and others proceeds in a courthouse near its intended Disney...
Peabody Essex Museum unveils ' Wedded Bliss ' ~ The Marriage of Art & Ceremony
Excerpt Salem, MA - The Peabody Essex Museum unveils Wedded Bliss,The Marriage of Art and Ceremony, a wide-ranging exploration of the wedding as artistic inspiration across cultures, lifestyles...
Best in Show: Spoiler Alert, "The Masked Portrait," and Amanda Ross-Ho
Excerpt Man, maybe we do need Obama. For sure, we need change—something, anything, because it's nasty out there, cold, with a slashing Chelsea wind. Everything I responded to this week was blea...
Today is Monday, Jan. 28, the 28th day of 2008 with 338 to follow.
Excerpt Those born on this date are under the sign of Aquarius. They include Canadian Prime Minister and statesman Alexander MacKenzie in 1822; Cuban revolutionary and poet Jose Marti in 1853; ...
Kuleto readies latest S.F. restaurants
Excerpt As construction was wrapping up on Pat Kuleto's two new restaurants opening on San Francisco's Embarcadero later this month, it was decided that an olive tree would grace the piazza tha...
Kuleto readies latest S.F. restaurants
Excerpt As construction was wrapping up on Pat Kuleto's two new restaurants opening on San Francisco's Embarcadero later this month, it was decided that an olive tree would grace the piazza tha...
Dade shares new vision for troubled art program
Excerpt The mystery of Miami's missing art remains unsolved, but help is on the way for the rest of the collection. Beset by missing works and poor maintenance, Miami-Dade County's Art in Publi...
Photographs By JoAnn Verburg At Walker Art Center
Excerpt More than 70 photographic portraits, landscapes, and still-lifes, anchored by the diptychs and triptychs that have become St. Paul-based artist JoAnn Verburg's signature, will be on vie...
