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NewsvineNYPD: Do Not Worry About The Naked Rooftop People
ArtsJournal : Visual Arts: 1 day ago
Antony Gormley is putting 27 life-size figures on rooftops and ledges of Midtown Manhattan buildings. "About the same time that the first figure was placed atop a four-story building at 25th Street and Fifth Avenue on Tuesday, the Police Department ... ...read article
Antony Gormley is putting 27 life-size figures on rooftops and ledges of Midtown Manhattan buildings. "About the same time that the first figure was placed atop a four-story building at 25th Street and Fifth Avenue on Tuesday, the Police Department ... ...read article
His Work Too Expensive, Artist Offers Print Subscriptions
ArtsJournal : Visual Arts: 1 day ago
Philadelphia artist Andrew Jeffrey Wright "has launched a low-cost subscription series for fans who pay a yearly fee for what he has to offer. Beginning in January, his 'patrons' have been getting one of every colorful screen print he produces for ... ...read article
Philadelphia artist Andrew Jeffrey Wright "has launched a low-cost subscription series for fans who pay a yearly fee for what he has to offer. Beginning in January, his 'patrons' have been getting one of every colorful screen print he produces for ... ...read article
Bauhaus Still In Our House After All These Years
ArtsJournal : Visual Arts: 1 day ago
The school itself lasted only 14 years, spent in three different cities. Yet its teachers included some of the great names of 20th-century art and design (Gropius, Kandinsky, Schlemmer, Mies Van Der Rohe, Klee). And its ideas are all round us: "Go ... ...read article
The school itself lasted only 14 years, spent in three different cities. Yet its teachers included some of the great names of 20th-century art and design (Gropius, Kandinsky, Schlemmer, Mies Van Der Rohe, Klee). And its ideas are all round us: "Go ... ...read article
There Are 8 Million Sketches In The Naked City
ArtsJournal : Visual Arts: 2 days ago
Or there will be, if a 27-year-old artist completes his self-appointed "mission to sketch every person in New York City, all 8,363,710." He "had only just dropped anchor in a studio apartment the size of a city bus when he began the dogged pursuit of ... ...read article
Or there will be, if a 27-year-old artist completes his self-appointed "mission to sketch every person in New York City, all 8,363,710." He "had only just dropped anchor in a studio apartment the size of a city bus when he began the dogged pursuit of ... ...read article
$150M Brody Collection Up For Auction
ArtsJournal : Visual Arts: 2 days ago
"One of the most vaunted private art collections in Los Angeles, highlighted by a prized Picasso nude and including works by Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, Georges Braque, Edgar Degas and Edouard Vuillard, is expected to fetch more ... ...read article
"One of the most vaunted private art collections in Los Angeles, highlighted by a prized Picasso nude and including works by Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, Georges Braque, Edgar Degas and Edouard Vuillard, is expected to fetch more ... ...read article
Has Caravaggio Dethroned Michelangelo?
ArtsJournal : Visual Arts: 3 days ago
"Caravaggiomania ... suggests that the whole classical tradition in which Michelangelo was steeped is becoming ever more foreign and therefore seemingly less germane, even to many educated people." Meanwhile, Caravaggio "exemplifies the modern ... ...read article
"Caravaggiomania ... suggests that the whole classical tradition in which Michelangelo was steeped is becoming ever more foreign and therefore seemingly less germane, even to many educated people." Meanwhile, Caravaggio "exemplifies the modern ... ...read article
Artes Mundi Artists Are International, Little-Known
ArtsJournal : Visual Arts: 3 days ago
"There was no sight of a light being turned off and on at the preview opening of the fourth Artes Mundi prize exhibition in Cardiff. This was big subject art tackling subjects from post-communist social order to consumerism and globalisation. The ... ...read article
"There was no sight of a light being turned off and on at the preview opening of the fourth Artes Mundi prize exhibition in Cardiff. This was big subject art tackling subjects from post-communist social order to consumerism and globalisation. The ... ...read article
Ole Scheeren, Who Designed CCTV Tower, Splits From Koolhaas Firm
ArtsJournal : Visual Arts: 4 days ago
"Ole Scheeren - who is considered one of the top Asia-based architects for his work on high-profile buildings such as the CCTV tower in Beijing - is stepping down from his role as partner in Rem Koolhaas' Office for Metropolitan Architecture to ... ...read article
"Ole Scheeren - who is considered one of the top Asia-based architects for his work on high-profile buildings such as the CCTV tower in Beijing - is stepping down from his role as partner in Rem Koolhaas' Office for Metropolitan Architecture to ... ...read article
On Auction: Vasari Archive Of Renaissance Treasures
ArtsJournal : Visual Arts: 5 days ago
"On sale will be the archive of the man credited with being the father of Western art history: Giorgio Vasari, whose Lives of the Artists chronicled the lives of the painters and sculptors of the Renaissance. The documents include 17 letters from ... ...read article
"On sale will be the archive of the man credited with being the father of Western art history: Giorgio Vasari, whose Lives of the Artists chronicled the lives of the painters and sculptors of the Renaissance. The documents include 17 letters from ... ...read article