Ed Ruscha joining SFMoMA board a year after quitting MOCA. A year after Ed Ruscha joined three other prominent Los Angeles artists in resigning from the Museum of Contemporary Art's board of trustees, he has signed on to the board of another major California arts institution -- the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Ruscha has been elected to a three-year term on the SFMoMA board of trustees, a position that will allow him to influence the museum at a crucial time in its history. SFMoMA is in the midst of a $610-million renovation and expansion and has closed its central building until at least early 2016. Ruscha, a longtime Culver City resident, said in an interview that he agreed to join SFMoMA because of his admiration for the museum's work and because the museum "doesn't appear to be in any bad straits. They seem completely flush....
If they were treading water or in any sort of trouble, I wouldn't know what I could add to the picture. " TIMELINE: MOCA in flux Deitch's background as a commercial art dealer "didn't bother me so much. The Public: an inevitable end for the misguided arts centre | Art and design. It was billed as a “box of delights”, a cathedral-sized cabinet of curiosities to bring art to the people of West Bromwich “in surprising and beneficial ways”. They got the surprising bit right: just five years after opening, The Public arts centre in the West Midlands now faces closure, having been slammed by the government as “a gross waste of public money”. But perhaps the biggest surprise is that the flawed project lasted this long. Marooned on the edge of New Street, like a great tanker cast adrift, the building has been a catalogue of catastrophes since it was conceived in the 1990s as an experimental home for interactive digital art.
Intended as a new kind of art space for this ephemeral, immersive medium, it instead turned out to be a giant inflexible shed. With a riotous interior, dressed up by Will Alsop with the heady trappings of dynamic fluidity, it was in fact an intransigent container that foretold the institution’s demise in every detail of its fluorescent fabric. Louise Bourgeois (excerpt, www.artnewyork.org) David LaChapelle. 2011 Power 100 - The ArtReview Power 100. Review: Kevin Appel's 'Paintings' pack punch at Susanne Vielmetter. Kevin Appel’s new paintings are at war with themselves.
While that may be hell for the artist, it’s great for viewers: We get to watch as the talented painter goes back and forth between building taut compositions and blotting them out, leaving some shards scattered randomly and burying others under impenetrable layers of icy white paint. It’s a give-and-take drama whose quiet fury is fueled by a kind of decisiveness that brooks little compromise and takes no prisoners. At Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, each of Appel’s 11 new paintings begins as a pristine, porcelain-coated canvas onto which enlarged photographs get mechanically printed in ultraviolet inks. The photographs depict abandoned buildings, piles of rubble and other broken-down bits of detritus that Appel has shot around the Salton Sea. Viciously unsentimental, each added layer obliterates what came before it. Each of Appel’s paintings stands free of its neighbors. Five Best Internet Radio Services.
John Cage. FaceBook FB. Dorothea Tanning | Home. First Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles illustration brings $71,700 at Heritage Auctions. DALLAS, TX.- The first-ever full artwork of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird – the illustration that launched one of the most successful character franchises in history – sold for $71,700 on Friday, May 11, at Heritage Auctions in Dallas as part of a Vintage Comics & Comic Art Auction. It sold to an anonymous buyer. The drawing was consigned by Turtles Co-Creator Kevin Eastman, who drew it with Laird one night in late November, 1983. Eastman has designated an undisclosed percentage of profits from the auction proceeds to benefit The Hero Initiative, a non-profit he is active with that provides a financial safety net for comic artists and writers.
“What an incredibly exciting week this has been! “There was widespread international interest from collectors and fans of the Turtles alike,” Barry Sandoval, Director of Operations for the Comics Department at Heritage, “and the impressive price realized for this artwork is tribute to that. Contemporary art - exhibitions listing and opinion. Happy Birthday Keith Haring! (PHOTOS) Today is the birthday of Pop-street art darling Keith Haring. The artist, who mastered the rare combination of super happy and super cool, would turn 54 if he were still with us today. Haring, who was born to a cartoonist father in Pennsylvania, grew up inspired by the smile-inducing imagery of Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss. At 19 years old he moved to New York, and, inspired by the graffiti scene, began decorating the city's subways and club scenes with his signature imagery.
Haring's work, like a lit-up game of tribal Tetris, focuses on the power inherent in simple lines, colors and shapes. Soft stick figures of dogs, flying saucers and crawling babies have an intense energy to them, making it impossible for those who see them to keep a smile off their faces. Although he was condemned by some critics for being too accessible, Haring's generous images for everyone were both easy to see and easy to appreciate. Check out this slideshow of Haring's exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.
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