Art News
Hi all,
Sorry for the radio silence, but, when it rains it pours! This should take a while to get through. I’ve missed some big events but it was too daunting to backtrack. I can breathe a sigh of relief, my Google reader is back to a manageable level. I hope everyone has a great rest of their week and weekend
• Hirst is seeing spots: Roberta Smith doesn’t care for them; they confuse journalists; he’s kind of a jerk in interviews; and in response to all the hatred… Gogo made buttons
• Earliest version of the Mona Lisa found in the Prado
• George Clooney Nazi Art Heist Movie. Did that get your attention?
• Fly through a nicely produced virtual tour of the new Whitney
• Another reason not to have cavernous museum spaces; nowhere for protesters to hang banners!
• New PMA director on the right track with Strauss
• CNN gives a succinct picture of copyright law and some of the pitfalls it faces today
• We are still finding out what effects Cariou v. Prince will have on the art world. Most reports are chilling
• For those who saw the remains of the Beach Boys performing at the Grammys, here is a sad tale of them suing a emerging artist
• Exhibition in Florence looks at the parallel worlds of world finance and art in the renaissance
• How Art, oil and cigarettes are all commodities
• The WSJ gives a top 10 tips for starting to collect
• Ed Ruscha has succeeded at art, now onto modeling!
• China gets its fifteen minutes of Warhol
• Environmental law students raise the (appropriately-sized) banner against the Christo Colorado project
• A new museum opens in France dedicated to Jean Cocteau
• Werner Herzog Really Doesn’t Like Chickens
• The mystery of a missing Warhol
• Monet finally realized that if you’re going to make it in the art world you have to have a website
• Yale Daily News reports that an art history professor moved his class to a room with no wifi
• Why do artists think that animal cruelty (real or perceived) is okay to call art?
• The NGA hangs their third American painting by an African American in the galleries. It’s new too!
• Conservators are dusting off that nuclear physics knowledge to make new roads for identifying art
• The Walters is at it again, a show curated by the public
• Finally, the natural history museum in NYC is using its planetarium for something useful, a giant video game!
• Slightly related: NASA uses technology to reach the public, pretty amazing stuff!
• A nice little video interview with Ellsworth Kelly
• Help an artist kick start their career on kickstarter
• The (English) National Portrait Gallery’s Director gives a smashing overview of the Freud show in this video
• Mr. Green is upset that no art museums were game for a Super Bowl wager
• A video tour of a German couple’s dungeon apartment filled with their contemporary art collection
• Look what life is like when sculpture doesn’t have positive role models growing up, they end up on the street doing unspeakable things
• The people that attacked Hide/Seek tried to go after our girl Gertrude. Thankfully they got lazier this time around
• The Met cleans up its front yard
• An in-depth look at the making of Ai Weiwei’s sunflower seeds
• Ai’s documentarian goes the distance for her work
• Woah, Jackson Pollack would have been 100 a few weeks ago… and maybe people will stop asking “is it art?” in the next 100 years
• A nice write-up of Chris Martin’s painting show
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