Galerie de tableaux en très haute définition | C2RMF. JR launches global street art project. Can art change the world? Just possibly. Or at least it may just be able to change the way that certain parts of it look. Coming soon to a wall near you: a vast, black and white, billboard-sized print of a face – which could be yours, your mother's, your child's or a total stranger's. It's the latest and most spectacular project of the French street artist, JR: one of the biggest global art projects ever attempted, a public art initiative conceived on a truly monumental scale. For the project which JR is calling Inside Out, and which he launched on Wednesday at TED2011, he's seeking collaborators from all across the world.
He is asking people everywhere to supply him with photos, which he will then return, blown up to billboard-sized prints. The project won him this year's TED prize the prestigious award previously given to Bono, Bill Clinton and Jamie Oliver, which involves being given $100,000 and "One Wish To Change The World". Anish Kapoor. Top 10 of 2009: Entertainers Who Moonlight as Artists.
Singer and sometime-painter Beyoncé, with husband Jay-Z, at Art Basel Miami. Courtesy BeyonceWorld.net In the spirit of my Los Angeles beat, I present to you the most exciting art world interlopers to come out of Hollywood in 2009: 10. Sylvester Stallone is making a comeback, and I’m not talking about Rocky XIV. The media has been all over “Sly” since he presented a group of paintings at Art Basel Miami earlier this month. Though he has been painting for over 30 years, the show mounted by Gmurzynska Gallery marked first public exhibition of Stallone’s art, and his squiggle-encrusted canvases were snapped up to the tune of $50,000. Sylvester Stallone poses with one of his paintings at Miami Basel, Dec. 2, 2009. 9.
Jane Seymour at her easel, 2009. 8. 7. 6. Lady Gaga photographing the London Papparazi April 17,2009. 5. 4. 3. M.I.A. with Li'l Wayne at the 2009 Grammy Awards. 2. Pharrell Williams feat. 1. General Hospital's Franco (James Franco) and Maxie (Kirsten Storms), 2009. Cézanne. How Political Was Picasso? by John Richardson. Picasso’s work abounds in paradox, as did his religious and political beliefs, not to mention his love life. All the more reason to look skeptically at the exhibition “Picasso: Peace and Freedom,” which started out at the Tate Gallery’s Liverpool branch, is currently at the Albertina in Vienna, and will end up at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark. Lynda Morris, who has masterminded the show, makes much of the period following World War II when Picasso, who had joined the Communist Party in 1944, painted works that reflected Party propaganda. But as the art historian Gertje Utley has shown, many of the works in the exhibition, such as The Rape of the Sabines, are not “programmatic statements,” as the exhibition catalog claims, but testify to Picasso’s “life-long fear and horror of armed conflict.”1 The two wall panels depicting war and peace that Picasso painted in the Communist-inspired Chapel de la Guerre et la Paix in Vallauris, France, are far too large to travel.
Contemporary art exhibition listings. Art might - seulement de l'art. 100 Most Important Art Works of the 20th Century, page 1. Albrecht Dürer: Portrait of the artist as an entrepreneur. 98 Pages. Saatchi's scathing portrait of the art world: 'Vulgar, Eurotrashy, masturbatory' | Art and design. Charles Saatchi, the most important British art collector of his generation, has launched an incendiary attack on the buyers, dealers and curators who populate the contemporary art world and concluded that many of them have little feeling for art and cannot tell a good artist from a bad one.
Writing in today's Guardian, Saatchi paints a scathing picture of the contemporary art world and says that being a buyer these days "is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar". He says: "It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, hedgefundy, Hamptonites; of trendy oligarchs and oiligarchs; and of art dealers with masturbatory levels of self-regard. " Saatchi described the Venice Biennale, scene of the world's biggest contemporary art jamboree, as a place where these people circulate "in a giddy round of glamour-filled socialising, from one swanky party to another".
"Do any of these people actually enjoy looking at art? " But Saatchi says he finds the new art world toe-curling. Jonathan Jones.