Jenny Holzer‘s Protect Protect exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art is guarded with hawk-like security– it took sneaky iPhone work to take this quick detail shot of her 2008 piece Purple. The bright, happy colors are in sharp contrast to the seriousness of the scrolling text; much of the language in the exhibit [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Museums and collectors stocking up on Chicago Stock Exchange remnants
Posted in Auctions, News, tagged architecture, art market, Chicago Stock Exchange, Christie's, Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan, design, elevator panels, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The New York Times reports that architectural artifacts from the old Chicago Stock Exchange building are increasingly becoming hot commodities on the auction block. Museums, including the Met and the Seattle Art Museum, have acquired and are prominently displaying these treasures- attractive for both their aesthetic and historical appeal- in their permanent collections. Check out the full article and [...]
(Legal) heat turns up on Warhol Foundation
Posted in Artists, Economics, News, tagged Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol Foundation, art market, Christie's, Joe Simon-Whelan, lawsuits and art, Lemon Marilyn Monroe, Sherman Anti-Trust Act on May 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Thanks to Donn at The Art Law Blog for keeping me abreast of developments in Joe Simon-Whelan’s lawsuit against the Andy Warhol Foundation…I’d forgotten about this since the story broke last year! A federal judge has issued an opinion that allows a significant portion of the lawsuit to move forward. From The Art Newspaper: The complaint alleges that [...]
No plans for Friday evening? Support the arts + free drinks
Posted in Events, tagged Brooklyn, Eponymy, NY, Randall Scott Gallery, Shen Wei, spring cleaning art party, The Humble Arts Foundation on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If I didn’t have a going away party to attend, I’d totally be at the Humble Arts Foundation & Eponymy Spring Cleaning Art Party and Sale. Eponymy 466 Bergen Street Brooklyn, NY 11217 Date: Friday, May 29, 2009 Time: 6pm – 10pm RSVP required: rsvp@shopeponymy.com Free Drinks 20% off storewide sale 30% – 50% off [...]
iPhone art? New Yorker thinks so
Posted in Artists, Tips, tagged 20x200 prints, art, Brushes, iPhone applications, Jorge Colombo, New York City street scenes, New Yorker cover on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Veteran artist Jorge Colombo created this week’s cover of The New Yorker with the iPhone application Brushes. The short article about the cover is fantastic– the application, which is available for $4.99 on iTunes, allows Colombo to draw in the dark with ease and work on busy New York City streets without drawing attention to himself (“most pedestrians assume he’s [...]
Moon dust photography for science and art
Posted in Artists, News, tagged Apollo space missions, Carol and Christopher Kiely, Gary Greenberg, Lehigh University, NASA, photography, science and art on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The last man-led mission to the moon was in 1972. It’s no wonder, then, that the limited amount of lunar dust brought back to Earth by the six Apollo missions is kept under tight restrictions by the United States government and experimented on by very few scientists. A really neat story out of The Maui [...]
Art perks of the Oval Office
Posted in News, tagged art, art in the White House, Beauford Delaney, Berkeley No. 52, Obamas and art, Richard Diebenkorn, The National Gallery of Art on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As if you needed another reason to love the first family, the Wall Street Journal reports: The Obamas are sending ripples through the art world as they put the call out to museums, galleries and private collectors that they’d like to borrow modern art by African-American, Asian, and Hispanic and female artists for the White [...]
Kinsey Institute has a gallery!? Love it!
Posted in Indulgences, News, tagged Erotic Art from Iran to Japan, Indiana University, penis sculpture, sexuality in art, The Kinsey Institute Gallery on May 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Need a reason to travel to Indiana? Yes, you do. And I think thinly-veiled penis sculptures might be just that reason. Today I discovered that the world-famous Kinsey Institute, which conducts research on sex, gender and reproduction, is home to a gallery! Granted, it’s only open two hours a day on weekdays but they organize [...]
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective opens at Met
Posted in Exhibitions, tagged art, Francis Bacon, George Dyer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, painting on May 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s like Francis Bacon week on The Amateur Art Collector! A big retrospective of his opened at the Met yesterday, but to surprisingly little buzz in New York as far as I can tell. There’s also a related lecture tomorrow at 6pm that’s free with museum admission. Here’s the official website and blurb: The first [...]
ART HK 09 review from NYTimes / Bacon for flavor
Posted in Events, Indulgences, News, tagged Ben Brown Fine Arts, Daniel Craig, Francis Bacon, George Dyer, Hong Kong International Art Fair, Love is the Devil, Tilda Swinton on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The trusty New York Times recaps the Hong Kong International Art Fair, which ended this past Sunday. Check it out here. The article specifies that two Francis Bacon portraits offered by Ben Brown Fine Arts were a big draw at the event. I point this out because I finally saw Love is the Devil last [...]
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