Archive for the ‘Fine Artists’ Category
Monday, October 10th, 2011
de Kooning | MoMA
September 18, 2011–January 9, 2012
This is the first major museum exhibition devoted to the full scope of the career of Willem de Kooning, widely considered to be among the most important and prolific artists of the 20th century. The exhibition, which will only be seen at MoMA, presents ...
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Saturday, August 27th, 2011
Author: Maria Guineva
Sofia Speaking | August 26, 2011, Friday
In the eve of September 9, the date the Communist regime was established in Bulgaria in 1944, and September 7th, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Communist Dictator, Todor Zhivkov, Sofia will launch the first ever Museum of Socialist Art while ...
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Saturday, August 27th, 2011
By Tim Lopreste
Another movie with a stunning set is Match Point. Luxury interior design and Artpieces from the beginning to the end makes this Woody Allen movie a must see for art lovers. Besides the suspenseful Hitchcock like plot, I also loved that the Tate Modern, and ...
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Friday, August 26th, 2011
24 August 2011 - by ArtfixDaily Staff
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Douglas Druick was named Director of the Art Institute of Chicago on Aug. 24, 2011.
(courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago)
Douglas Druick, a 26-year veteran curator and department chair at the Art Institute of Chicago, was named its new president and ...
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Thursday, August 25th, 2011
By Tim Lorpeste for Artistshowdown
Watching "A Perfect Murder", for at least the 30th time, I thought it was about time to acknowledge the Perfect Movie Set by having Art pieces as the center piece of the love triangle suspense thriller.
"A Perfect Murder" was released in 1998 starring Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, ...
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Ivald Granato: The performer, the visual artist, the sculpturer, the engraver, the vanguard and multitasking artist. For many he is a resteless L'enfant terrible. At the age of 60, he has been active and engaged in the Brazilian and international art scene for the past 40 years. With an endless ...
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Friday, July 22nd, 2011
Tributes paid to the great artist who ‘redefined British art’
Lucian Freud, 1922–2011
Vanessa Thorpe, arts correspondent @ Guardian. co.uk
Friday 22 July 2011 00.42 BST
Lucian Freud has died aged 88. Photograph: Jane Bown
Lucian Freud, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest, most influential and yet most controversial British painters ...
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Thursday, February 17th, 2011
by WorthPoint Staff (02/17/11).
This Andy Warhol self portrait, out of public view since entering a private collection in the mid-1970s, was the top lot in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction at Christie’s on Feb. 16.
LONDON – An Andy Warhol self portrait, out of public view since entering a ...
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Saturday, November 6th, 2010
By MICHAEL WINES Published: November 5, 2010, The New York Times
BEIJING — A phalanx of Beijing police officers confined the prominent artist and activist Ai Weiwei to his north Beijing home on Friday, a move he suggested came at the behest of unnamed but powerful political figures ...
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Thursday, November 4th, 2010
by Stefan Melnyk Published November 4, 2010, Washington Square News
At one point in "Waste Land," the new documentary from "Blindsight" director Lucy Walker, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz describes the way people view art in a gallery, moving toward and then away from the painting. "You move forward, ...
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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
By Lindsay Pollock (NY); and Philip Boroff (NY) for Bloomberg in Nov 3,2010.
An Amedeo Modigliani 1917 nude sold for $68.96 million, a record for the artist, helping Sotheby’s reach its highest total for a New York Impressionist and modern art sale since May 2008.
The auction tallied $227.6 million with ...
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Monday, November 1st, 2010
Calligraphy for Qatar, Paris art week proposed for June 2011, Sotheby’s Real Estate opens in Hong Kong, and more
By The Art Newspaper | Web only
Published online 1 Nov 10 (market)
Ali Omar Ermes's "The Fourth Ode", est $250,000-$350,000
Calligraphy for Qatar
In a move designed to make in-roads into the Middle Eastern ...
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Thursday, October 28th, 2010
The barometer for the global art market may no longer be New York's autumn sales, but rather what is happening in Hong Kong and Beijing
By Anders Petterson | Web only
Published online 28 Oct 10
Poly's spring auctions set a record
The speed of the recovery in the US and European contemporary ...
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
By Tim Lopreste
From October 26th until November 27th, a group of 65 Contemporary Brazilian artists will have nearly 124 works displayed at Galeria de Arte Cidade Jardim, in São Paulo. The group show, called “Off Bienal 4”, raises attention to a top-notch art production that was left aside from the ...
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Friday, October 22nd, 2010
By Scott Reyburn, Paris :: Via Mark Beech, Bloomberg
French billionaire Francois Pinault and singer Lenny Kravitz browsed France’s largest art fair, where a $2.8 million Lucio Fontana work was among the few early big-ticket sales.
Pinault, the owner of Christie’s International, “Leon” lead actor Jean Reno, Miami collectors Don and Mira ...
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Monday, October 18th, 2010
The Brazilian contemporary artist Fernando Ferreira de Araujo is having a solo art show, Humanscapes, at the Brazilian Post Office Cultural Center - Centro Cultural Correios. The Brazilian Post Office Cultural Center is located in Recife City, the capital of Pernambuco state, at Av. Marquês de Olinda, 262. The exhibit ...
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Monday, October 18th, 2010
They're young, well-connected and passionate about art. Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld, crown prince of the glamorous 'gallerists', talks to Charlotte Philby
Saturday, 16 October 2010
Once, the chances of a 25-year-old man – even if he was well-connected and stylishly-dressed – forging a successful career on the international art ...
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Sunday, October 17th, 2010
Biography
by Fiammetta Griccioli (study tour Brazil)
Eduardo Berliner (1978) is a Brazilian artist who has studied graphic design in Brazil and has obtained his Masters of Arts in Type design from the University of Reading (U.K.), in 2003. Now he works as an artist and a professor. ...
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Seven galleries from South and Central America at the main fair as interest in region’s art grows
By Charlotte Burns | From Frieze daily edition, 13 Oct 10
Published online 13 Oct 10
Cuban Los Carpinteros' "Reading Room", 2010, at Fortes Vilaca (E8) (Photo: Sara Eckholm)
LONDON. While Europe and the US are ...
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Fired up by the 2010 Frieze Art Fair, London’s the place to be this weekend for lovers of art. No matter what your taste, the UK capital is sure to have something for every art fan. Museums, galleries, auction houses, fairs and art institutions are ...
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Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
THE NEW BRAZIL TAKES OFF AT THE MET The VIII Annual Gala Benefit was a tremendous success! (09/2010)
"THE NEW BRAZIL" was celebrated on a high note by almost 500 people who joined at the Met in support of social projects in Brazil.
The unforgettable evening was led by Nizan Guanaes, ...
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Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
By Kira Cochrane :: The Guardian, Tuesday 12 October 2010
Article history
Temporary shops and restaurants were once a way for artists to subvert empty urban spaces. Now, they're just as likely to be part of a corporate marketing strategy
A vintage pop-up ...
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Monday, October 11th, 2010
The Michigan-born, Los Angeles-based artist talks about recreating his childhood home for Artangel’s first US public art project
By Ruth Lopez | Web only
Published online 11 Oct 10 (News)
Kelley's "Mobile Homestead" in front of Detroit Central Station, built in 1913, abandoned in 1988
CHICAGO. Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead, a recreation of ...
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Monday, October 11th, 2010
By Mark Brown, arts correspondent guardian.com.uk on Monday 11 Ovtober 2010
Figure in Movement, a gift to the artist's friend and GP, expected to fetch at least £4m in Sotheby's sale
Francis Bacon's Figure In Movement. Photograph: Sotheby's/PA
A Francis Bacon painting of a tortured cricketer twisting and ...
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Sunday, October 10th, 2010
"The Onion," a C-print by the performance artist Marina Abramovic. London-based Lisson gallery will be showing the work at the Frieze Art Fair, previewing on Oct. 13. Lisson will be selling a variety of works by Abramovic at the fair, ranging in price from 30,000 euros ...
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Saturday, October 9th, 2010
"Balloon Flower (Blue)" (1995-2000) by Jeff Koons. It is being offered for auction from the corporate art collection of the German luxury car-maker Daimler AG at Christie's International in New York on Nov. 10. The pre-sale estimate is $12 million to $16 million. Source: Christie's Images ...
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Friday, October 8th, 2010
Klimt lawyer’s fee funds museum
New space for Los Angeles Holocaust centre opens in October
By David D’Arcy | From issue 216, September 2010
Published online 8 Oct 10 (Museums)
E. Randol Schoenberg escorts Maria Altmann an exhibition at Lacma of paintings by artist Gustav Klimt that were looted by the ...
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Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
Studios and exhibition spaces are part of the so-called “Ground Zero mosque”
By Marisa Mazria Katz | From issue 217, October 2010
Published online 6 Oct 10 (News)
The city is divided over the plans
NEW YORK. While politicians and some clergymen continue to rail against the so-called “Ground Zero mosque”, ...
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
Garbage and garbage pickers are the subjects of Vik Muniz's work.
by Barbara Pollack
Portrait of picker and cook Leide Laurentina da Silva in Muniz's Rio studio.
VIK MUNIZ/COURTESY VIK MUNIZ STUDIO
Conceptual artist Vik Muniz is known for using peanut butter and jelly, toy soldiers, or cast-off furniture to re-create ...
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Sunday, September 26th, 2010
Organized by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, the 29th edition of the São Paulo Biennial hails the exhibition’s title, There is always a cup of sea to sail in – a line taken from Brazilian poet Jorge de Lima’s major work Invenção de Orfeu [The invention of Orpheus] ...
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
But the new British culture minister insists the government is not walking away from the arts
By Martin Bailey | From issue 216, September 2010
Published online 3 Sep 10 (News)
Art in the blood: Ed Vaizey, son of art historian Marina Vaizey, is having to make tough decisions on cultural funding
See ...
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
THE DESIRE FOR FORM—O DESJO DA FORMA: NEOCONCRETISMO AND CONTEMPORARY ART FROM BRAZIL
AT AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE, BERLIN | SEPTEMBER 3 – NOVEMBER 7, 2010
by David Rhodes, The Brooklyn Rail
In late 1950s Brazil, amid cultural, social, and economic upheaval, changes were registered by new forms of literature, music, and visual ...
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
United Creators curated the art show on the two futuristic and predominant 7.5 x 15 ft large screen installations ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
"I am my own person and reject culturally implemented or constructed scenes or trends, whether they be found in the realm of music, art or politics. If the cultural milieu were the sea, these constructed trends would be born underwater, only to float to the top and be swallowed whole ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Q: When did art first caught your attention?
A: I am quite sure it all began when I one day just decided to stop listening to my teacher. It simply felt better to stare out the window and pay attention to all the events taking place outside. My textbooks became the ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
"Painting allows my subconscious perceptions to register graphically, similar to the way they do in dreams. I have come to see painting as a developing solution to the unconscious. If I allow myself enough freedom , painting goes beyond the formal and aesthetic into a dialogue with the psyche."
Joe Goodwin
June 2008 - Featured ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
"Just like in his painting series, Fernando's photographs bring a new perspective to every image and everyone's imagination. You are invited to be more than a beholder, you are drawn to become part of his world." Heather Barker - Transart Editor.
Ferreira de Araujo's Solo show in Miami - Crossroad, The ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
The Babi Yar massacre is considered to be "the largest single massacre in the history of the Holocaust", yet most people are unaware of this genocide.
Babi Yar is the name of a ravine in the northwestern section of Kiev. A. Anatoli described the ravine as "enormous, you might even say ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Barbara Agreste was born in Pescara, in central Italy, in 1971 and lives and works in London. She attended the Art Lyceum in her hometown, and then moved to Milan to attend a scenography course in the Academy of Arts. Not happy with the cultural atmosphere that surrounds her in ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
March 2008 - Featured Artist
::Portfolio:: :: Q & A :: ::Cindy Jackson ::
Cindy is presently developing a project called “REQUIEM for Babi Yar” - A proposal for a monumental sculptural environment to honor all those who perished in the Babi Yar ravine. The Babi Yar massacre is considered to be ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Born: 1960Education:
B.S. Webster University
B.F.A. Art Center College of Design
A.A.S. Southern Illinois University "Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our greatest interest is with things human." Cindy Jackson uses figurative sculpture is as a way of connecting with the outside world. "My desire is to make art that ...
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Vera was born in southern Brazil, where she completed her BFA and MFA degrees and started her artistic career. Art is her passion and since the 90s she has been showing her artwork in several group and solo exhibitions. In addition, she’s contributed to community projects aiming social consciousness. She ...
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Max Miller was born in 1980 to a family of artists and craftsmen. His early years were characterized by his family constantly moving among various locations throughout North Carolina and Texas. Without any steady playmates, drawing became his chief activity. Max's parents would bring home reams of discarded paper, which he ...
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Over the past 25 years Mark Bennion (b.1948 Seattle, Washington) has developed a unique painting process, which he calls fresco. Using oil, plaster and paper on a panel on canvas, his work shows a contemporary edge and a pallet of it own, yet it seems like we are looking at fragments ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
b. 1962 in Brazil. Lives and works in New York City.
Artist Statement:
“I’ve been paiting for almost 18 years. Painting, to me, is basically an intuitive process, I always find myself guided by intuition and led by emotion. As opposed to wide and long heavy brush strokes, I used to have, I ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Artist Statement:
“At its core, my work is about the duality of existence: positive/negative, male/female, physical/spiritual and the dynamics that occur when they converge or mix like the spirituality of sex or the effects of time on people and things. Yet it’s the unexpected that I find most compelling about painting. ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Born in Bavaria in 1944, the son of a Berlin film maker and a dealer of Oriental Antiquities, Stefan Beltzig attempted at first to turn his back on theartistic milieu in which he was raised, dropped out of school and joined a circustroop as an acrobat. After leading the life ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Sam Dolman was born in Scunthorpe North Lincolnshire, where he lived until he was 18. He then moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne to study Accountancy, where he spent the next four years. After graduating it soon became apparent that figures were not the life for him. Following a year in Leeds and ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Born 1954, Wroclaw, Poland. Lives and works in Wroclaw. Members of The Association of Polish Artist and Designers.1980 - 1983 University Adam Mickiewicz, Poznan1980 - 1985 University of Wroclaw1994 - 1995 Graphic Practice on Academy of Fine Arts Wroclaw.
Artist Statement:
”My mind has always perceived painting as a process in which ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Work with abandoned places and desolate spaces, Mie Olise work is primarily painting, as well as building models of wood and cardboard and sometimes sowing. Also trained as an architect she is interested in constructions, perspectives, scales. Often spaces left by human beeings.Artist Statement:“I find the uncannyness of discovering a ...
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