Entries Tagged 'Art News: International' ↓

TRIBUTE to Swiss Art Dealer Ernst Beyeler

Tomorrow, Sunday, February 28, in Toronto, the Canadian Art Reel Artists Film Festival will host the first tribute to the legendary Swiss art dealer and founder of Art Basel, Ernst Beyeler, who died Thursday at his home, aged 88.

img_ein_02.jpg
Ernst Beyeler in his gallery office, 22 May 1982. Image: beyeler.com

Continue reading →

$40 Million Dollar Warhol Marks The Return of the Market

Apparently, the art market has returned.

popup.jpg
Andy Warhol’s 200 One Dollar Bills. Image: nyt.com

After a year of caution on the part of collectors, recent sales in New York and London have shown a dramatic return.  The other day, Sotheby’s New York sold Andy Warhol’s huge 1962 canvas 200 One Dollar Bills for $43.7 million (U.S.) – more than triple its pre-sale estimate.

Continue reading →

News: Terence Koh Gets Married!

Like any celebrity worth his salt, erstwhile Canadian bad boy artist-provocateur Terence Koh has gone and gotten married. In his mother’s wedding dress. In the Hamptons.

True to his reputation, he went for extra drama, adding $50 worth of tulle for a 30-foot train to the dress.

img_0667.jpg
Newlywed Terence Koh. Image: suprememanagement.com

Interestingly, Koh has turned the wedding into a piece of performance art. By parodying the ritual with all best intentions, he’s managed to demonstrate how, for many, grand weddings have become pure spectacle.

Continue reading →

Art on Television

We heard the rumours, we knew it was just a matter of time…before another art-themed reality tv series hit the airwaves.

This time, Sarah Jessica Parker is producing, not that that makes it seem any less like the typical, American-idol style competitive program.

13 artist contestants will compete for a gallery exhibition, a cash prize and a sponsored national tour.

Continue reading →

Branded Culture: The Abu Dhabi Louvre

France sells the Louvre’s illustrious name to the UAE for $555 million as Abu Dhabi begins construction on the Jean Nouvel designed museum.


Jean Nouvel’s design for the Louvre in Abu Dhabi. Image: pushpullbar.com

Read Carol Vogel’s article in today’s New York Times, HERE.

Despite the fact that France may have prostituted herself, the curator’s mandate is to create a “universal spirit”, embodied by groupings such as a sculpture of Christ, a Buddha and a Koran in close proximity.

Continue reading →

An Idea for (Homeless) Artists

In THIS post from several days ago, we wrote about an artist who had created a blanket made up of American dollar bills as a response to the economy.

A more interesting - and useful - idea for artists is outlined in this Wall Street Journal article - click HERE - that identifies an age old trend currently being revived among America’s most destitute cities…Cleveland, Detroit.


Image: austinchronicle.com

Artists are moving into cheap neighbourhoods that nobody else wants, where they are picking up properties for as little as a few thousand dollars:

“Artists have become the occupiers of last resort,” said Robert McNulty, president of Partners for Livable Communities, a Washington-based nonprofit organization. “The worse things get, the more creative you have to become.”

Continue reading →

News: Peter Zumthor wins Pritzker Prize

The Swiss architect (and VoCA favorite) Peter Zumthor has won the Pritzker Prize for excellence in “talent, vision and commitment” by a living architect.


Zumthor’s stunning Therme Spa in Graubünden. Image: mimoa.eu

Read the full article HERE

NEWS: John Baldessari, Yoko Ono win Venice’s Leone d’Oro

The 53rd Golden Lion awards for Lifetime Achievement will be awarded to Yoko Ono and John Baldessari at the opening of the Venice Biennale in June.


The unbelievably fabulous Yoko Ono. Image: arstechnica.com

Curator Daniel Birnbaum says: “Yoko Ono and John Baldessari have shaped our understanding of art and its relationship to the world in which we live. Their work has revolutionized the language of art and will remain a source of inspiration for generations to come.

Continue reading →

Charles Saatchi Strikes Again: Best of British

After he launched Stuart, a social networking and portfolio showcase site for artists, and just when we were wondering what Charles Saatchi would get up to next, we’re entirely unsurprised by what he’s done. He’s launching a sort of Big Brother-slash-American Idol for emerging artists.

The world of young contemporary art(stardom) is already a circus by any measure, so why not declare it such with a reality television show?


Collector, ad man and UK celebrity Charles Saatchi. Image: artespain.com

Of course, it’s not the first art-related reality show. In 2006, New York dealer Jeffrey Deitch launched Artstar on Gallery HD, a specialty 24-hour channel devoted to the visual arts. Click HERE for the website and HERE for the New York Times’ take on the show.

Continue reading →

The Prado Masterpeices: Up Close and Personal

From Art Daily: The Museo del Prado and Google are today presenting the project “Masterpieces from the Prado on Google Earth”, which will allow users to see details invisible to the naked eye of 14 of the Museum’s masterpieces. Las Meninas, Gentleman with his Hand on his Breast and The Three Graces are among the paintings that have been photographed and which can now be seen on Google Earth by activating the buildings layer in 3d and clicking on Prado.


An upclose image of “Descent of Christ from the Cross” by Dutch Renaissance painter Rogier van der Weyden. Image: nationalpost.com

Check it out HERE