Modern Artists

Art review: 'John Baldessari: Pure Beauty' @ LACMA As an artist, John Baldessari has worked in the gap between paintings and camera images for the last 45 years. Visit the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's big retrospective of his marvelous rummaging around in that fissure and two things come into focus. First, the gap is a strange and often very funny place to be.

Visit a garage sale in, say, the boondocks of Maine and you might come across a vinyl record of “ping-pong percussion”--a gem of a find for its comedic value alone. But the album’s songs will most likely pale in comparison to Zimoun ’s “Sculpting Sound” installation--a work composed of 80 cotton balls, which, rigged up to tiny DC motors, rhythmically bounce off cardboard boxes. The combined effect is an entrancing mechanized soundscape that resembles the rushing of a distant creek. A Soundscape Built From Bouncing Cotton Balls And Cardboard Boxes [Video] | Co. Design

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Last month, residents of (and visitors to) Melbourne’s Federation Square were invited to crawl through a vast network of semi-transparent tubes suspended nearly 20 feet in the air. A Maze Of Tunnels Made Only Of Packing Tape, Suspended In Mid-Air | Co. Design

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Misu

Francis Alÿs A Story of Deception

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Shea Hembrey: How I became 100 artists

By KELLY CROW Over Oscar weekend in late February, art dealer Larry Gagosian held a private lunch at the $15.5 million home he recently bought in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles. The Larry Gagosian Effect

“Hey, Larry.” Alberto Mugrabi was having a drink in the lobby at Claridge’s Hotel when his cell phone flashed to tell him Larry Gagosian was calling. It was June 2009, and they were in London for a week of auctions. Gagosian and Mugrabi are among the richest and most powerful figures in the art world, though the two function differently. The Trials of Art Superdealer Larry Gagosian

In 1999, he bought Munch’s Madonna for $11 million. In 2004, he bought Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living for $8 million. In 2006, he bought a Pollock for $52 million. Edge and the Art Collector

In 1993, CBS 60 Minutes journalist Morley Safer ruffled a few feathers in the art world with a piece called “Yes…But is it Art?” The program featured works made up of things like vacuum cleaners, empty canvases–even a can of human feces, which the artist had labeled “Merda d’artista.” On Sunday, Safer returned with a report on the excess and hubris of the international art market. Art for the One Percent: 60 Minutes on the Excess & Hubris of the International Art Market

Damien Hirst Beautiful Bleeding Wound Over the Materialism of Money Painting , 2005

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Richard Prince RICHARD PRINCE Self Portrait , 1973–2013 Chromogenic print 40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm) Ed. of 2

Interactives | Exhibitions | 2001 | Alberto Giacometti

Rudolf Stingel - March 4 - April 16, 2011

Rudolf Stingel - Artwork - The Saatchi Gallery

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Tate Modern | Past Exhibitions | Donald Judd

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Charles Saatchi: the man who reinvented art | Art and design | The Observer I am probably the only person who can truly say that Charles Saatchi saved my life. During the holidays in 1986 I worked as a gallery assistant in Charles's Boundary Road gallery in northwest London, during the installation of the Richard Serra and Anselm Kiefer exhibition. I got to drill the holes for hooks in the back of the wooden supports of Kiefer paintings.

Janet Echelman is an American artist specializing in public art installations and sculpture . She graduated from Harvard University in 1987 with Highest Honors in Visual Studies. Janet Echelman

CREMASTER

THE CREMASTER CYCLE For the uninitiated, "The Cremaster Cycle" is a series of loosely-connected films: a set of five art movies, (rather than arthouse movies), written, produced and directed by New York artist Matthew Barney.

Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool is the first major New York exhibition of the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara (born 1959), and features more than one hundred works ranging from his early career in the 1980s to his most recent paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, and large-scale installations. As one of the leading artists of Japan’s influential Neo Pop art since the 1990s, Nara is well known for his depictions of children and animals. Nara’s cute, though often menacing, children and animals are so readily associated with popular culture, particularly manga comics and animation, that viewers may neglect to contemplate his evocative imagery in depth. Yoshitomo Nara Nobody's Fool | Asia Society.org

Yoshimoto Nara