Forbes Magazine names the top corporate art collections, exploring the intentions and purposes behind these corporate acquisitions. With the criteria that “the best collections use art to improve lives and to educate,” UBS, Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, and JPMorgan Chase are among the top corporations of Forbes’ list.
Jeffrey Deitch defends the art-historical significance of the exhibitions he’s staged as director of Los Angeles MOCA amid recent criticism that he caters too strongly to a commercial audience. “What we’re doing here now, it’s on the most serious level,” says Deitch, “It’s as good as any museum in the country.”
NPR takes a trip to a humble Pennsylvania cemetery to visit the grave of Andy Warhol on what would have been his 84th birthday.
An image of Gerhard Richter‘s “Ema”, part of an exhibition currently at the Pompidou Center, was censored by Facebook, sparking a debate on art and internet filters. The image has since been re-posted.
Turner Monet Twombly – Gallery View
The lives of Joseph Mallord Turner (1775-1851), Claude Monet (1840-1926) and Cy Twombly (1928-2011) almost perfectly overlap each other, pulling a thread through 200 years of art history. Drawing on the lineage of these three artists, the Tate Gallery of Liverpool and the Moderna Museet of Stockholm have partnered to exhibit Turner Monet Twombly: Later Paintings, an exhibition that explores the stylistic conversation between the three great artists, removed from the linear timeline in which their work has traditionally been viewed.
Along with other British notables interviewed in The Guardian, Grayson Perry discusses what the various names for the ‘evening meal’ indicate about an individual’s social class. The artist, who often centerpieces the discussion of social class divides in his art, claims that “the word supper implies a subtle rebuke to the aspirational classes who are gauche enough to hold dinner parties at home.”
Yayoi Kusama to cover condo construction site in the Meatpacking District with ‘Yellow Trees,’ a familiar black and yellow design that was prominently featured in an advertising campaign for her current exhibition at the Whitney. Part of the Urban Canvas project, the costly installation opens this week and will remain on the West 14th Street building facade until September 30th of this year.
Frank Stella, New Work (Gallery View)
Open since May, Freedman Art is in New York is currently showing a collection of new work by acclaimed painter, sculptor and printmaker Frank Stella that explores the artist’s long-standing interest in the work of composer Dominico Scarlatti and his approach to musical composition.
110 Front Street, The Basilica Hudson. All on-sight photos by Anna Corrigan.
The New Art Dealers Alliance non-art fair art fair took place this past weekend in Hudson, New York. 48 galleries were represented by a single piece chosen to feature in the show.
Benjamin Degen’s structure holding his paintings Moon Watch and Rock Made Luminous
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Desi Santiago’s mass 2 (2012), image: Aniko Berman for Art Observed
On Saturday, July 28th, the Watermill Center hosted The Big Bang, its 19th Annual Summer Benefit. Held on the performance art center’s expansive Southampton grounds, the event commenced with cocktails for over 1,200 guests, all of whom were invited to explore over twenty site-specific performances and installations scattered throughout the center’s indoor and outdoor spaces, as well as to bid in a silent auction featuring works by Marina Abramovic, Sandro Chia, Shirin Neshat, Dennis Oppenheim, Terry Richardson, Will Ryman, Spencer Tunick, and Aaron Young, among others. A tented dinner for over 650 guests followed, including a live auction led by Simon de Pury, where works by artists such Michelangelo Pistoletto, Anselm Reyle, and Willem de Kooning were offered. Inclement weather threatened the evening, with unwelcome downpours impeding the guests’ ability to view the outdoor works. Nonetheless, the event raised more than $1.5 million for the center, which has actively promoted the creation and dissemination of performance art since its founding by leading “theater artist” Robert Wilson in 1992.
Guests in front of Paul McCarthy‘s Butt Plug (2012)
Stephen Colbert interviewed Jeff Koons on the ‘Colbert Report.’ Introduced as the “world’s most expensive birthday clown,” Koons discussed the importance of an arts education, while explaining some of his own art to the late-night host.
A missing Roy Lichtenstein painting, estimated at $4 million, was discovered in a Manhattan warehouse. ‘Electric Cord’ was last seen 42 years ago when its owner, Leo Castelli, sent the piece out to be professionally cleaned.
Rineke Dijkstra, Coney Island, NY, 1993. All images courtesy of the artist and the Guggenheim collection, NYC.
Since the early 1990s, Rineke Dijkstra has been creating photographic and cinematic portraits that expose, examine, and celebrate humanity. It is a rare occurrence when one bears witness to the complexities and nuances of life epitomized in a fleeting gesture or facial expression. It is even more rare to capture these gestures or expressions on camera. Dijkstra’s work is devoted to a fascination with these possibilities found within the miracle of physical embodiment.
Senior HSBC bank manager Michael Foreman was identified as the man who fell to his death from a Tate Modern balcony last week.
ArtInfo released the second part of its “The 50 Most Exciting Art Collectors Under 50.”
Christian Marclay‘s ‘The Clock’ has returned to New York for viewing at the David Rubenstein Atrium in Lincoln Center. The 24-hour art video is a compilation of thousands of clips from all periods of cinema. With no beginning or end, the film incorporates short clips that correspond precisely to the time when the visitor is viewing the film. Every shot features either an image of a timepiece or a discussion about the time of the day.
Courtesy of Pace Gallery, Alexander Calder’s Tripes (1974), a 19 foot tall steel sculpture, will be on display at the St. Pancreas Renaissance Hotel in London. This sculpture coordinates with both the London Olympics and Pace’s expansion to London.
Terence Koh, my mother destroyed me and still the tea that is the hope of my ship (2012)
This summer, Chinese-Canadian artist Terence Koh brings his unique brand of sculptural performance to The Fireplace Project in the high-society woodlands of Easthampton. Koh’s “yes pleased” will run through August 12 and features the eerie and erotic minimalism that has shaped his career from its beginnings, when the artist moonlighted under the monicker asianpunkboy.
Former MOCA Chief Executive Charles E. Young has called for the removal of museum director Jeffrey Deitch following a tumultuous month that included the resignation of long-time curator Paul Schimmel and artists John Baldessari, Catherine Opie, Barbara Kruger and Ed Ruscha. In an email to donor and influential board member Eli Broad, Young concluded that “I will do anything I can to try to right the MOCA ship, but nothing will work, in my mind, without a new Captain/Director.”
Martin Creed’s Olympic-specific work, entitled Work No 1197, All the Bells in a Country Rung as Quickly and Loudly as Possible for Three Minutes occurred this morning at 8:12 in the morning to herald the opening of the games.
Gardar Eide Einarsson – Sorry If I Got It Wrong, But Something Definitely Isn’t Right (Gallery View)
Currently on view at the Team Gallery’s space on Grand Street New York City is an exhibition of new work by Gardar Eide Einarsson, showcasing the Norwegian’s multidisciplinary scope, and confrontational approach to exhibition. In this most recent show, Sorry If I Got It Wrong, But Something Definitely Isn’t Right, the artist explores the intricately connected systems of political dissent currently at play on the global stage.
Tracey Emin‘s ‘The Central line’ design released as the 16th cover of the London Underground Tube Map.
Image courtesy Wien Belvedere
Franz West, the iconic Austrian sculptor who was known for bucking trends, has died at age 65. Mr. West resided in Vienna, and according to his family, had been enduring a long battle with liver disease when he finally succumbed on Wednesday.
Image courtesy the Public Art Fund
