Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
Edward Hopper’s 1935 painting The Long Leg to become a US Postage Stamp [AO Newslink]
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
Chelsea’s Luhring Augustine gallery establishes new storage and exhibition space on Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn [AO Newslink]
Monday, August 15th, 2011
$250,000 Rembrandt drawing stolen Saturday evening from private art exhibition at Ritz Carlton Marina del Rey in Los Angeles [AO Newslink]
Monday, August 15th, 2011
Hague government pays €1 million to heir of Jewish art dealer for painting looted by Hermann Goering [AO Newslink]
Sunday, August 14th, 2011
Architectural artist Daniel Arsham to design sets for Merce Cunningham Company’s final performance at Park Avenue Armory [AO Newslink]
Saturday, August 13th, 2011
On Friday Aug. 5th, the same woman who attacked an $80 million Gauguin work months ago dismounted and repeatedly slammed a $2.5 million Henri Mattisse work against the wall at the National Gallery in Washington and was subsequently sent to a psychiatric facility [AO Newslink]
Go See – Naples and Milan: Vanessa Beecroft at Galleria Lia Rumma in Milan and Naples, through September 11, 2011
Saturday, August 13th, 2011
Installation shot of Vanessa Beecroft’s “Performance VB70 – VB Marmi” in Milan. All images courtesy Galleria Lia Rumma unless otherwise noted.
In a sprawling gallery space in Milan, women with marbled skin mingle with marble plinths. One hundred and fifty people at a time streamed in to take in the sight of the vivid hues– green onyx, French red ochre, Portuguese pink marble, lapis lazuli, sodalite blue, macaubus light blue, and black Belgian– glowing against a white cube setting. As Roberta Smith said in a 1998 New York Times review of the artist’s work, “It’s art; it’s fashion. It’s good; it’s bad. It’s sexist; it’s not. It’s Vanessa Beecroft‘s performance art.”
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Friday, August 12th, 2011
Shepard Fairey assaulted in Copenhagen while being called an”Obama illuminati”: “I have a black eye and a bruised rib” [AO Newslink]
Friday, August 12th, 2011
Thief steals $100k KAWS work from Marc Ecko “during business hours” [AO Newslink]
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
An analysis of Ai WeiWei’s possibly censored statements to the press [AO Newslink]
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
Talk with Ryan Trecartin “the most consequential artist to have emerged since the 1980s” Thursday, August 25th at MoCA NOMI [AO Newslink]
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
New Film on Anselm Kiefer premiers at the Film Forum in New York [AO Newslink]
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Takashi Murakami and Christie’s to hold major auction in New York to benefit Japan relief efforts [AO Newslink]
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Gagosian Gallery announces ‘Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011,’ to be shown at all 11 galleries worldwide, simultaneously [AO Newslink]
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
WORKac selected to design Roman Abramovich’s New Holland Island, an art destination in St. Petersburg, Russia [AO Newslink]
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
Kalup Linzy at Lehmann Maupin, “the show’s unlikeliest darling, a black Southern-inflected, gender-bending, genre-defying video-and-performance artist” [AO Newslink]
AO Onsite – Watermill, New York: “Voluptuous Panic” Bob Wilson’s 18th Annual Watermill Center Benefit
Monday, August 1st, 2011
All photos by L. Streeter for Art Observed.
At six o’clock on Saturday evening, throngs of guests could be seen gathering at the entrance of Robert Wilson’s art compound in Watermill, New York, awaiting entrance to “Voluptuous Panic.” Patrons of the arts gather here once a year to support the foundations ongoing effort to “provide a unique environment for young and emerging artists to explore new ideas and foster their career development” (via Watermillcenter.org). Artists from over 30 different countries living at the estate as a part of the Watermill International Summer Program Residency were asked to create installations and performances overlaying the six acre estate. Guests were invited to wander the grounds and woods exploring the various installations. This year, the attending crowd fit right in with the somewhat manic works themselves; the dress code, entitled “Fearless” allowed for a very flamboyant, almost surreal flock of guests.
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Sunday, July 31st, 2011
The NYTimes on the relationship between the Met Museum and its new acquisition of the Marcel Breuer building, home to the Whitney Museum of Art [AO Newslink]
Sunday, July 31st, 2011
Gagosian Gallery quietly releases info on its representation of the visual art of recording legend Bob Dylan [AO Newslink]
Saturday, July 30th, 2011
Banksy iPhone App available for mapping all known Banksy works [AO Newslink]
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
Augmented Reality App replaces billboard ads with art, will feature street artists Ron English, John Fekner, PosterBoy, Doctor D and Ox [AO Newslink]
AO On Site – New York: Performance by Mykki Blanco & Pablo Picasso at The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, Saturday July 23rd, 2011
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Pablo Picasso plays at The Journal Gallery, all images by Stefan Idowu-Bello for ArtObserved
On Saturday night, Art Observed was on site at The Journal Gallery in Williamsburg for a night which began with a poetry reading from New York based poet, Michael David Quattlebaum Jr., (who goes by Mykki Blanco) who read from his debut book ‘From the Silence of Duchamp to the Noise of Boys.’ The poems are a personal retrospective of the author questioning his rebellious youth, which lead to him running away, and eventually finding a spiritual awakening in New York. Mykki Blanco embraced the sweltering city heat by standing bare chested in front of the crowd, wearing only a floral floor length skirt and a complimentary flower behind his ear.
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Monday, July 25th, 2011
Dasha Zhukova, partner of über-collector Roman Abramovich, head of Garage Center, Moscow, to launch fashion-art magazine in September called ‘Garage’ [AO Newslink]