Posts Tagged ‘News’
May 22, 2013, 2:06 pm
In 1948 a decree signed by Joseph Stalin closed the State Museum of New Western Art, a Moscow institution housed in the former mansion of modern art collector Sergei Shchukin, for showing art that was deemed bourgeois and not in line with state-sanctioned Soviet Realism. The museum’s collection was eventually split between the State Hermitage Museum and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, but a recent plea from the director of the latter, Irina Antonova, asking Vladimir Putin to reopen the Museum of New Western Art ignited a feud with her colleague at the Hermitage, Mikhail Piotrovsky, which has been diffused with news that the old institution will reopen strictly as a web-based entity, Russia Beyond the Headlines reports. (more…)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, News, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Russia, State Hermitage Museum, Western Art Museum
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May 22, 2013, 1:12 pm
Celebrity chef, outspoken foodie, and Savannah resident Paula Deen will be the subject of a new museum in her hometown of Albany, Georgia, if a group led by her ex-husband Jimmy Deen and local aspiring politician B.J. Fletcher have their way. The future Paula Deen Museum would be housed in the greatly-loved gourmand’s childhood home, which was recently purchased by a group who support the museum project, the Albany Herald reports. (more…)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, Jenny Drumgoole, News, Paula Deen, Paula Deen Museum, Videos
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May 22, 2013, 12:04 pm
On VIP day of the inaugural edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong, the fair’s aisles were filled with some fittingly important collectors — including Guy Ullens, Roman Abramovic and Dasha Zhukova, Uli Sigg, and Budi Tek — as well as supermodel Kate Moss, L.A. MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch, and West Kowloon Cultural District director Michael Lynch. In addition to the bold-faced names, the fair’s first hours — whose best booths we’ve selected here — saw a slew of major sales for European and American galleries, as well as a strong showing by local dealers and galleries from Latin America. (more…)
Tags: Art Basel Hong Kong, Art Fairs, Benjamin Sutton, Jeffrey Deitch, Kate Moss, News, Uli Sigg
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May 21, 2013, 5:24 pm
The 2013 edition of the Lyon Biennale, titled “Meanwhile, Suddenly…And then,” brings together 52 artists — including Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch, Dan Colen, Yoko Ono, Tom Sachs, and the Bruce High Quality Foundation — engaged in the exploration of storytelling. When the 12th Lyon Biennale opens in September, visitors will see that pride of place has been given to those artists who used ingenuity to undo “mainstream narrative codes.” (more…)
Tags: Bruce High Quality Foundation, Dan Colen, Gunnar B. Kvaran, Jeff Koons, Lizzie Fitch, Lyon Biennale, News, Rozalia Jovanovic, Ryan Trecartin, Tom Sachs, Trisha Baga, Yoko Ono
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May 21, 2013, 5:10 pm
Glafira Rosales, a Long Island art dealer at the center of a scandal involving sales of purported fake paintings by Abstract Expressionist masters, was arrested in Long Island today and charged with filing false tax returns and failing to disclose a foreign bank account to the Internal Revenue Service. The charges were announced by U.S. attorney Preet Bharara, Toni Weinrauch, special agent in charge of the New York field office of the IRS criminal investigation division, and George Venizelos, the assistant director of the FBI’s New York office. (more…)
Tags: Art, Knoedler Gallery, News, Rozalia Jovanovic
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May 21, 2013, 3:40 pm
Internet-famous critic/artist Hennessy Youngman has finally dropped his much-anticipated sequel to the virally popular “CVS Bangers.” (more…)
Tags: Alanna Martinez, Art, CVS Bangers, Hennessy Youngman, Music, News
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May 21, 2013, 11:01 am
While the Whitney Museum won’t move into its new Renzo Piano-designed home in the Meatpacking District for another two years, the museum is beginning its pre-move makeover with a new graphic identity debuted today on the museum’s website. The new, sparse design, by the Dutch design firm Experimental Jetset, replaces the museum’s previous identity, designed by Pentagram’s Abbott Miller in 2000. (more…)
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May 21, 2013, 10:11 am
Artists! Are you tired of making work fettered by all the rules of normal physics and conventional logic? Well then have I got an art contest for you! From now through June 12, denizens of the new-ish virtual universe of Cloud Party can sign up to compete to build the best work of art. The contest organizers have pledged $1,000 to the victor, and yours truly has signed on to both judge the contest and — as an added bonus — write an essay about the winner. (more…)
Tags: Ben Davis, Cloud Party, Contests, News
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May 21, 2013, 8:52 am
Though Frieze Week didn’t prove to be the bonanza of Art World Missed Connections we had hoped for — quite the contrary, in fact — we’re back on track this week with two items, one pertaining to a glitzy museum event on the Upper East Side, the other unfolding at an opening way Downtown. Let’s start off with the latter, which involves a young man who was not a fan of Joe Bradley’s new show at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise. (more…)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Joe Bradley, Ke$ha, Metropolitan Museum, Missed connections, News
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May 21, 2013, 8:17 am
San Francisco’s foremost art museum is doing its best to get on a likely competitor’s good side. At an October 24 dinner ceremony SFMOMA will give George Lucas — whose plan to build the billion-dollar Lucas Cultural Arts Museum celebrating “the art of storytelling” in the city’s Presidio Park is one of three shortlisted proposals — its 2013 Bay Area Treasure Award. The prize, which is bestowed annually by SFMOMA’s foremost fund-raising affiliate, the Modern Art Council (MAC), recognizes visual art pioneers based in the Bay Area. (more…)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, George Lucas, News, Prizes, SFMOMA
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