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'The American': An Abstract, Angst-Filled Art Thriller
The paranoid thriller The American is spare, solemn, uninflected. It's like Camus' The Stranger and all of the pulp novels in the '50s and '60s, French and American, that cribbed its existential outlook.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/01 7:57pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/01 7:57pm
Which City Has The Best Street Art - LA, NYC, or London? (PHOTOS)
Each city has its own style in every respect -- food, society, culture, and... street art. Street art, a tamer name for graffiti artists whose work has garnered the respect of fanatic art-lovers and simple city-dwellers alike, can refer to urban artists, graffiti artists with a reputation, video artists, and even those whose work has graced white gallery walls.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 08/31 7:57pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 08/31 7:57pm
Downtown Palo Alto to be transformed into art festival this weekend
Downtown Palo Alto will be overrun with artists this weekend and everyone's invited to join them. According to organizers of the 29th annual Festival of Arts, about 300 artists will converge on University Avenue for the event, which is expected to draw more than 100,000 attendees. The festival will be held today and Sunday between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 08/28 6:01am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 08/28 6:01am
The thieves had it easy in Cairo art heist
The thieves who made off with van Gogh's 'Poppy Flowers' in a daytime Cairo art heist weren't met with alarms or guards. The head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities said Egypt would create a central security office.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 08/25 6:37am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 08/25 6:37am
Picasso Show Makes the Met’s Top 10
Pablo Picasso, you still got it! The Metropolitan Museum of Art said on Tuesday that its recent exhibition of works by that 20th-century titan of creativity was its seventh highest-attended show in the museum’s history.
1 comment | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 08/19 3:29am
1 comment | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 08/19 3:29am
'Conan' painting by late Pa. artist goes for $1.5M
PHILADELPHIA - A 1971 painting by fantasy artist Frank Frazetta has sold for $1.5 million, two months after the Pennsylvania artist's death.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 07/23 11:00pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 07/23 11:00pm
Target helps kids thrive this summer with music, art opportunities for free
This past weekend, Target held their first-ever Target Arts & Wonder Free Family Event in 30 cities across the country, providing kids and families the chance to explore and learn about art in a fun environment for free.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 07/20 6:09pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 07/20 6:09pm
Princess Diana's family sells Rubens painting
(Reuters) - A painting by Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens, put up for auction by the aristocratic family of the late Princess Diana as part of a clearout sale, sold on Tuesday for 9 million pounds.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 07/07 5:23pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 07/07 5:23pmArt show could land curators in Russian prison
MOSCOW - The curators of an art exhibit that mixed religious icons with sexual and pop-culture images face up to three years in prison in a case that is testing the tolerance of Russia’s government and its dominant church.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 07/07 5:20pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 07/07 5:20pm
Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of Lucas & Spielberg
More than 50 Rockwell paintings and drawings collected by the two filmmakers.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 07/03 6:48am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 07/03 6:48am
Cleveland Museum Marks Another Project Milestone
The Cleveland Museum of Art has reached a milestone in its eight-year, $350 million expansion and renovation with new galleries for its Greek, Roman and early Christian and Byzantine treasures.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/25 8:17pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/25 8:17pm
Twilight Screenwriter: “Is it High Art? No. But It’s Not Trying to Be.”
Meet Melissa Rosenberg, the screenwriter to blame/thank for Twilight scripts. Turns out she’s quasi-skeptical about the whole thing. Regarding teen romance: “I’ve done it to death,” she tells The Wall Street Journal—pun, we’re going to guess, unintended.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/23 4:54pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/23 4:54pm
Art installation brings 60 pianos to the streets of New York City
On Monday morning, New York City added a new sound to its usual cacophony of honking cars and taxis, groaning buses, and screeching subways: 5,280 tinkling piano keys.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/23 4:52pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/23 4:52pm
YouTube Videos To Become High Art at the Guggenheim
Are your YouTube videos so good they deserve to be in a museum? Thanks to a partnership between Google and the Guggenheim Museum in New York your you stand, at least, a remote chance.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/14 5:38pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/14 5:38pm
Turning unwanted weeds into works of art
Seth Goldstein untwists a vine of Oriental Bittersweet, noting the scars left on the tree from the invasive vine. This outing in Bethesda is part of an effort by Goldstein and his wife Paula Stone to turn the pernicious weed into art. They scour local parks and other land for Oriental bittersweet, free the trees from it and then turn the vines they've collected into sculptures.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/11 7:38pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 06/11 7:38pm