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In this photo released by the The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands on Tuesday, June 21, 2011, shows a self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh dated 1887. The van Gogh museum says another one of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings previously thought to be a self-portrait actually depicts his brother, Theo. Museum spokewsoman Linda Snoek says the portrait was made in 1887 while the pair lived together in Paris, a lesser-known period of Van Gogh’s life, since the bulk of information about the famously troubled painter is derived from letters he sent to Theo. The painting has long been in storage, but goes on display at the museum in Amsterdam Tuesday as part of an exhibition on the painter’s time spent in Antwerp and Paris in 1885-1888.Weird Art News - Funny News
Categorized art news posts from the Art News Blog Weird Art news at Art News Blog is a listing of all the posts that have discussed strange news, funny art reports, or silly posts about art. Food Art - Jelly Beans and Chocolate - I seem to be coming across a lot of food art lately. Wacky stuff, like portraits made with jelly beans (thanks to Helly).
My nieces and nephews are currently hunting easter eggs, including a few creepy talking Easter eggs that are willingly disclosing their location to the the little egg hunters who are scouring the... Earlier this week the 'Call for Entries' for The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012 was published. The Prize was established in 1994 to promote excellence in drawing practice in the UK and is now the... I like the idea that beauty and holiness are the apologia for Christianity. The beauty of Christianity needs to shine out more; this is where the celebration of the liturgy becomes central. And the...
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The climate of reform that swept the corporate world in the wake of the Enron and other corporate scandals is spreading to the not-for-profit sector, with Congress and State attorneys general seeking stiffer legislation regulating charities. The unexpurgated version of the death of Captain Cook, presenting a more realistic version than the familiar heroic scene, has been rediscovered more than 220 years after the deaths of both the explorer and the artist. The Foundling Museum, which re-opened in June after refurbishment, is a living link with the Foundling Hospital, an 18th-century initiative that brought the worlds of philanthropy, art and music together to create a unique institution dedicated to the care of children If it's Mexican art, it must depict strong, noble peasants at work in the fields. Or, perhaps Australian art - surely, that will mean Aboriginal handiwork. Native American art means clay pots and elegant rugs.
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December 16, 2010 update If you missed the silent auction last night, come by and visit! We still have small works available from all the artists shown we have shown here at 571 Projects over the past year - for under $1,000 - until Saturday. 571 Projects' first-ever silent auction was a great success, and happy collectors will be taking home their new acquisitions.org - The First Art Newspaper on the Net
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA co-curator, Dr. Victoria Lyall, shows a 1,540 lb serpent stone sculpture with polychrome, from Cholula, Puebla, Mexico (AD 900-1200), that is part of the new exhibit: "Children of the Plumed Serpent: The Legacy of Quetzalcoatl in Ancient Mexico." The exhibit is an exploration of the ancient kingdoms of southern Mexico and their deity: “Quetzalcoatl,“ the human incarnation of the Plumed Serpent, and is being shown in LACMA's Resnick Pavilion Los Angeles from April 1 through July 1.
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A hell of a noise greets vistors to the current exhibition Mounir Fatmi : Oriental Accident at the gallery Lombard Freid Projects in New York. Even at the opening reception of the Mounir Fatmi’s exhibition the talk of the guests couldn’t drown out the noise. The source of the violent sound is an ornate Persian rug on which speakers are placed that play recordings from the demonstration in the Maghreb during the Arab Spring revolution. Mounir Fatmi was born in 1970 in Tangier, Morocco.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 Art Critic Hilton Kramer, 84 "Admired for his intellectual range and feared for his imperious judgments, Mr. Kramer emerged as a critic in the early 1950s and joined The Times in 1965, a time when the tenets of high modernism were being questioned and increasingly attacked.
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Jean-Luc Moulène ’s yearlong exhibition “Opus + One” comprises three distinct modules dispersed throughout the vast building. The most beguiling of all is the large gallery of objects titled “Opus,” 1995–. Resting on the floor, hanging from the ceiling, and placed on tables that are so delicate they nearly float in space, thirty-five sculptures––made across the span of sixteen years––fill the cavernous space. The materials, though crude, never quite give themselves away; Lycra resembles liquid glass, water hoses twist and torque into perfect ellipses, and fiberglass takes on the appearance of dehydrated cartilage. No bigger than the human body, or what the human body might be able to cradle, these opuses are propositions rather than determinations, each with its own unique set of terms and conditions. The +1 suffix in the exhibition’s title alludes to this endlessly additive equation, which not only begins at zero, but replicates at the most comprehensible pace possible.
The soup de jour for galleries (not so much in museums, though) when it comes to avoiding all wall labels of any kind leaves me, well, speechless. I’m all for giving art an opportunity to work on my soul, but eventually I want some information to work with- a title, a name, the media. Please! When it comes to teaching with contemporary art, it’s important to remember we’re always modeling and teaching, even through our displays and school exhibits.
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Banner showing the painting which might be hidden behind the Vasari wall in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio. Photograph: Dario Thuburn/AFP/Getty Images Leonardo da Vinci's painting The Battle of Anghiari was his greatest work: a fearsome, disturbing vision of war. It was the only time he got commissioned to do a painting whose dark, dissonant theme allowed him to translate the strange images of grotesque faces and machines of war that proliferate in his notebooks into the grandeur of a mural.Tom Sachs and Kanye West at the opening of SPACE PROGRAM: MARS. All photos on site for Art Observed by Elene Damenia. Tom Sachs takes New York City to Mars in his new immersive installation at the Park Avenue Armory, SPACE PROGRAM: MARS. For four weeks, the artist and a crew of thirteen will enact various missions and rituals as if on Mars, albeit a world of faux space suits, space ships, and craters, constructed of plywood, found junk, and several trips to the hardware store. At Tuesday night’s opening preview, guests sipped ‘Astronaut Sunrise with Mars Salt Rim’ and ‘Vader Piss,’ including the likes of Kanye West, Julian Schnabel, Nate Lowman , and Hanna Liden , with Bill Powers manning the Indoctrination station.