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Christies 11 May evening sales of Post-War and Contemporary Art and The Michael Crichton Collection, were led by Jasper Johns Flag, which sold for $28642500, and broke the world record for the artist selling at auction. The iconic work, completed by Johns 1966, was purchased by Michael Crichton over thirty years ago from the artists own collection. The late Crichton, best-selling author of Jurassic Park and creator of the hit television series ER, was an acclaimed writer on Johns and wrote the catalog for the artists 1977 retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. The Collection, which included other significant works by Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, and Mark Tansey, totaled $93323500, becoming one of the most significant Post-War and Contemporary Art collections ever sold at auction.
BrooklynPapers.comFairey art fellow — Obama's 'Hope' maker to speak at the Brooklyn MuseumBrooklynPapers.com... which is part of a Manhattan exhibition called “May Day,” uses bold, colorful portraiture to honor individuals he admires, including Jasper Johns, ...and more »
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New York Daily NewsStreep would like to thank the (arts) academyThe Associated Press... been named an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an elite club that includes Toni Morrison, Stephen Sondheim and Jasper Johns. ...Meryl Streep Bursts Into Tears After Induction AnnouncementThaindian.comall 191 news articles »
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Colourful artist, sculptorMontreal GazetteBrodkin branched into painting with hot pigmented wax - a technique, called encaustic, embraced by Jasper Johns. Brodkin suffered traumatic brain injuries ...and more »
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Showing a Couple's Eye for Art (and Money)New York TimesBut he'd come late to this movement, and when he saw the Jasper Johns show at Castelli, he knew right away that this art was the art he wanted — art that, ...
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Richard Serra and the materiality of sculptureSan Francisco Chronicle... San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1995, Richard Serra re-created a landmark work of 1969 that he first executed in Jasper Johns' New York studio. ...
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Madman, Perhaps; Survivor, DefinitelyNew York Times... bought a couple of early Warhols for $75, snapping up other masterworks from the likes of Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns and Jean-Michel Basquiat. ...and more »
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Sale of Crichton collection in MayTheDay.comAmong the highlights is Jasper Johns' "Flag." Christie's auction house says the pop art American flag has never been on the public market. ...Author's art collection estimated at $75 millionVictoria Times Colonistall 14 news articles »
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Fey, Phillippe, Sidibe are 'SNL' hosts for AprilTriValley CentralBut he also left a 20th century art collection that features some of pop art's best known artists, including Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and Claes ...and more »
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Boston GlobeNY sale of Crichton's art collection set May 11-12The Associated PressAmong the highlights is Jasper Johns' "Flag." Christie's auction house says the pop art rendition of the American flag has never been on the public market. ...Crichton art on auction blockChicago Sun-Timesall 168 news articles »
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Planting a Johns 'Flag' in a Private CollectionNew York TimesLess than two months before Christie's will be selling one of Jasper Johns's signature “Flag” paintings, the hedge fund billionaire Steven A. ...Cohen Pays $110 Million For Famed PaintingFINalternativesall 3 news articles »
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This is a shaky lo-fi vid featuring the fabulous light show that accompanied Gong on the 2009 touring. Should have had a tripod !!! The light show was created by Jasper Johns, audio mix by David Id, music by Gong.
A group of AP Art History students bare the days work of unveiling their installation piece entitled, "On target" (inspired by Jasper Johns.) ... art history jasper johns rock and roll three acts on target our inner secrets desires.
Jasper Johns Number Jumble
Realistic computer simulation of Jasper Johns' Flag painting waving in a 15 knot wind.
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Aboy born in Centralia, Washington, would
grow up to be one of the most important and revolutionary
choreographers in American history. He would change the course of
modern dance and win all the awards, from the MacArthur Grant to the
French Légion
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The Stranger
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/remembering-merce/Content?oid=1974160
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... While [Johns] was working on a project with Edward Albee, he told me this joke using his high ecclesiastical voice. [He goes]: 'This turtle was walking along and it was robbed by two snails. The turtle called the police, and when they asked him [what happened],...
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While [Johns] was working on a project with Edward Albee, he told me this joke using his high ecclesiastical voice. [He goes]: 'This turtle was walking along and it was robbed by two snails. The turtle called the police, and when they asked him [what
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mediabistro.com
http://www.mediabistro.com/unbeige/funny/james_rosenquist_reveals_jasper_johns_jokester_123316.asp?c=rss
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Have you ever seen a lightbulb being made? It is a long, fast dance
of glittering, breakable parts: legs of glass and filament arms
shuttled around shakily, doll versions of Charlie Chaplin in the gears,
finally tested and transformed into dazzling,
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The Stranger
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-dancer-at-the-lightbulb-factory/Content?oid=1930115
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Jasper Johns' light bulbs came from comic strips. They remain a constant that pops up in his sculpture, prints, paintings and drawings. is a survey of their appearance from 1957 to 1976, in 17 prints and six sculptures, at the Henry Gallery.
Johns,
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ArtsJournal
http://www.artsjournal.com/anotherbb/2009/07/at-the-henry-jasper-johns---li.html
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Avant-garde
choreographer Merce Cunningham, credited with continually
reinventing dance through his complex and pioneering works,
passed away Sunday night in his sleep at his Manhattan
apartment. He was 90.
Throughout his
career, Cunningham
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The Advocate
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AdvocatecomDailyNews/~3/uzzl36URfz0/news_detail_ektid101550.asp
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Choreographer and dancer Merce Cunningham was hailed yesterday as a revolutionary artist who remade the very definition of dance.
Mr. Cunningham – who was still working as he marked his 90th birthday in April – died on Sunday at his Manhattan home of
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Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/famed-choreographer-merce-cunningham-dies-at-90/article1232899/
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Legendary dancer/choreographer Merce Cunningham died today. I photographed Merce Cunningham for the first time, on July 3, 1989, just over 20 years ago. My friend Bill Katz had asked me to shoot Merce, John Cage and Jasper Johns, together, for the
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Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-greenfieldsanders/merce-cunningham-an-origi_b_245662.html
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Hopefully, what you put on your walls (besides paint) should do more than just match the couch — it should make a statement about who you are. For years, the paintings that adorn the walls of the White House have remained more or less the same:
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Mental Floss
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/28893
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COLUMBIA, SC.- An installation of the work of
pioneering Pop artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg opens at the
Columbia Museum of Art on July 18 and runs through October 4. JJ/RR Jasper Johns
and Robert Rauschenberg: 20th Century Masters in
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Art Knowledge News
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2009-07-10-21-43-11-pioneering-artists-jasper-johns-and-robert-rauschenberg-at-columbia-museum-of-art.html
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Not that you really need one, but here are at least three great reasons to visit the Greenville County Museum of Art: get away from the July heat, see nationally and internationally renowned collections, and attend the annual Community Day on Saturday,
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GreenvilleOnline.com
http://greenvilleonline.com/article/20090712/ENT01/90710011/1056/rss05
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Images surfaced yesterday of the Damien Hirst -designed TREK bike that Lance Armstrong will be riding in the eighth stage of the Tour de France bike race next week. The bike, like most things Hirst is attached to, is impressive, and the graphics look
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Complex
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With every new administration comes a new era and with it, a new art collection to reflect the shifting sands of American cultural politics. In the Clinton years, it was a frothy portrait of Mamie Eisenhower clad in a pink debutante ballgown that took
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The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/obama-brightens-up-the-white-house-1731274.html
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Giorgio Mordandi was not easily distracted. When fascism wreaked havoc in his
country and for decades after, he painted the same cluster of bottles, plates and tins in his studio. For
each small painting he found a rhythm, as if each were a universe
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ArtsJournal
http://www.artsjournal.com/anotherbb/2009/07/target-practice-painting-under.html
The audio is a cutup of a performance by John Cage of a cutup of Jasper Johns' writing. ... "john cage" "jasper johns" cutup poetry
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SEATTLE, WA.- Organized by the Seattle Art
Museum (SAM),Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-78 is an
international, historical survey of the assaults that painting
endured in the years following World War II,
documenting why artists felt
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Art Knowledge News
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/seattle-art-museum-sam-opens-target-practice.html
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TORRENT, SPAIN - The Valencian Institute of Modern
Art (IVAM) presents in Espai Municipal d'Art de Torrent, "Pop Art of the
Collecció L'IVAM al 'EMAT" curated by the Director of the IVAM, Consuelo Ciscar
and Javier Ferrer director EMAT, which will be
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Art Knowledge News
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/pop-art-from-the-collection-of-ivam.html
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"Abstract Comics" goes on sale June 29
If the question of what precisely defines a comic book is complex, the question of what makes an abstract comic book is certainly more so. Drawing from the worlds of abstract painting, narrative comics, and other
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Comic Book Resources
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=21505
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On Friday, Jasper Johns celebrated his 79th birthday. Readers Molly and Corrine both requested a post on the renowned American artist who is best known for his works featuring targets, maps, and American flags. Shown above are his famous “False Start” (
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Mental Floss
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25720
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...Friday, Jasper Johns celebrated his 79th birthday. Readers Molly and Corrine both requested a post on the renowned American artist who is best known for his works featuring targets, maps, and American flags. Shown above are his famous “False Start” (1959)...
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Mental Floss
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This was a real dilemma: either try to forget how much my new painting might be worth, hang it on the wall and break into a cold sweat every time I looked up at it; or spend a small fortune on fortifying my house with new locks, burglar alarms and CCTV
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Daily Mail - UK
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Some art museums around the country will always project the unseen presence of Boston art collector, philanthropist, and dealer Mildred (Schiff) Lee, particularly the galleries exhibiting works of 20th-century abstract artists.
While not an artist, her
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Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2009/05/15/mildred_lee_at_89_leading_patron_of_art_museums?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Obituaries
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Let's just say, it didn't hurt that the two paintings at the start of the Museum of Art's blockbuster exhibition were of guys in their swim trunks, and the people on the audio guide jumped in talking about homosexuality and nipples.
"Cezanne and Beyond,
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Philly.com
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The books offered in this auction were acquired by West Coast collector Mel Ritter over several decades. Forty-six of his exemplary livres dartiste formed the basis of an exhibition at The University of Arizona Museum of Art in 2006. Now the entire collection is being sold at Swann. The genre of books designed and illustrated by fine artists took shape in 20th-century France and blossomed into a vibrant art form throughout Europe and beyond. The modern masters of art featured in this sale include Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, and Pablo Picasso. The publishers who championed their work and produced some of the most exquisite livres in the collection include Maeght, Gallimard, Tériade, and Louis Broder, among others. Modern and contemporary variations of the artist-illustrated book are well represented with works by Patrick Caulfield, Jim Dine, David Hockney, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Carlos Mérida, Robert Motherwell, and Antoni Tápies. Surrealists like Enrico Baj, Jose Luis Cuevas, Max Ernst, and Roberto Matta appear throughout the catalogue, as do American artists like Leonard Baskin, Fritz Scholder, Ben Shahn, and Bernard Solomon. Beyond traditional livres dartiste there are fine publications by such distinctly American presses as Arion, Brighton, Gehenna, Cheloniidae, Pennyroyal, and the popular Limited Editions Club. Ritters sense of humor and love of whimsical constructions and bindings can be seen in works by ...
Jasper Johns loves to be in his box and play with his stick and then to chase the red dot on the floor
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Celebitchy aims to be a friendly, welcoming site where people can discuss entertainment stories and current events in a lighthearted, safe environment without fear of harassment, excessive negativity, or bullying. Different opinions,
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In love with her husband and the art he studied as a Harvard professor, Virginia Herrick Deknatel began collecting decades before the field grew to be as expensive and competitive as it is today.
"She grew up in an era when the art world wasn't the big
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Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2009/04/18/virginia_deknatel_collector_of_art_museum_benefactor?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Obituaries
Perry Ellis gives Jasper Johns a tongue bath, making sure he looks as handsome as ever ... "Jasper Johns" "Perry Ellis" cat bath tongue "cat tussel" "black cat" "white-black cat" "reverse tuxedo"
Management of the Festival was taken over by the Sundance Institute, a non-profit organization, in 1985. In 1991 the Festival was officially renamed the Sundance Film Festival, after Redford's character The Sundance from the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Many famous independent filmmakers, including Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, Steven Soderbergh, James Wan, Edward Burns and Jim Jarmusch had their big break at Sundance. "Dialogue en ...
Management of the Festival was taken over by the Sundance Institute, a non-profit organization, in 1985. In 1991 the Festival was officially renamed the Sundance Film Festival, after Redford's character The Sundance from the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Many famous independent filmmakers, including Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, Steven Soderbergh, James Wan, Edward Burns and Jim Jarmusch had their big break at Sundance. "Dialogue en ...
Management of the Festival was taken over by the Sundance Institute, a non-profit organization, in 1985. In 1991 the Festival was officially renamed the Sundance Film Festival, after Redford's character The Sundance from the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Many famous independent filmmakers, including Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, Steven Soderbergh, James Wan, Edward Burns and Jim Jarmusch had their big break at Sundance. "Dialogue en ...
Management of the Festival was taken over by the Sundance Institute, a non-profit organization, in 1985. In 1991 the Festival was officially renamed the Sundance Film Festival, after Redford's character The Sundance from the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Many famous independent filmmakers, including Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, Steven Soderbergh, James Wan, Edward Burns and Jim Jarmusch had their big break at Sundance. "Dialogue en ...
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With record stores coast-to-coast battered by a staggering decrease in the sale of CDs and record companies battling for their very existence, the members of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers will have lots to discuss when NARM holds
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San Diego Union Tribune
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/apr/05/lz1a05artnews183951-recording-merchandisers-conven/?arts
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