Alan Bean may not be the most talented painter in the world, but he’s got one hell of a hook: “the only artist to have walked on the moon.” That’s enough to get some space fans to pay out as much as $175,000 for pieces depicting his NASA experience on Apollo 12 nearly forty years [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Interstellar paintings by someone who’s actually been there
Posted in Artists, Indulgences, tagged *NSync, Alan Bean, astronaut who paints, Lance Bass, NASA, Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, space art, Space Coyboys on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
High culture on the beach, under your butt
Posted in Artists, Indulgences, tagged Alex Katz, art beach towels, Damien Hirst, Ed Ruscha, Elizabeth Peyton, Jeff Koons, Julian Schnabel, Kehinde Wiley on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The weather in New York City this past weekend was mostly beautiful- the first such weekend in over a month- and us city dwellers flooded the parks for people-watching, picnics, and to tan our Vitamin D-deficient bodies. While designer sunglasses and flip-flops were being flaunted a-plenty, their owners shamelessly laid upon stained sheets and amusement [...]
Sotheby’s impressionist/modern sale short and sweet
Posted in Auctions, News, tagged art market, Carol Vogel, Christie's, Impressionist and Modern Art, London art sales, Pablo Picasso, Samir Traboulsi, Sotheby's on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Carol Vogel of The New York Times compliments Sotheby’s on a relatively successful Impressionist and Modern sale that took place in London on Wednesday. I say “relatively” because last year’s equivalent sale brought in over $200 million; given the current economic circumstances, however, selling 27 lots in just 50 minutes for around $55 million is [...]
Saying goodbye to an artistic icon
Posted in Artists, tagged Michael Jackson, Vincent McKoy on June 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Insidious “murderabilia” art?
Posted in News, tagged "murderabilia", Garfield, outsider art, prisoner art, Richard Prince, The Tazmanian Devil, Wayne Horton on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I came across an interesting article in The Oregonian titled “Drawings signed by convicted killer Ward Weaver for sale on Internet.” While the notion of prisoner artwork historically falls into the vague genre of “outsider art,” this story highlights the phenomena of living serial killers selling their sketches and drawings through third party websites to [...]
Public event in NYC tonight featuring stellar art auction
Posted in Events, tagged art, assume vivid astro focus, charity auction, Jack Pierson, John Waters, Pride week NYC, Slava Mogutin, Thomas Dozol on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight! Here are the essentials:
Wednesday, June 24th, 6-9:00 pm, 28 Wooster Street, $20 at the door
Silent auction– 70 works donated by LGBTQ artists; there are some fantastic lots available at reasonable opening bids. To name just a few that excite me: Slava Mogutin (see above), assume vivid astro focus, Jack Pierson, Thomas Dozol (Michael Stipe’s [...]
NYTimes can’t get enough of the Met: 3 story round-up
Posted in Exhibitions, News, tagged art museum layoffs, Holland Cotter, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michelangelo's First Painting, Opicinus de Canistris, Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages, Roberta Smith, self-congratulatory blogging on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In celebration of being accepted as a volunteer tour guide at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (well, sort of, there are nine months of training before I get started; I did get fingerprinted and my ID, though!), here are the recent happenings at the Met as told by its biggest fan, the New York Times:
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Street art from this week’s protests in Tehran, Iran
Posted in Artists, Events, News, tagged A1one street artist, current art of the middle east, Iranian protest art, Islamic art, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Tehran uprising on June 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The protest images coming out of Tehran this week following the reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are nothing less than spectacular. As you’ve probably read in the New York Times, foreign journalists are quickly being expelled from Iran and much of the opposition’s organization is happening over social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Even though we, as learned [...]
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