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NCC To Unveil Art By American Soldiers
The Army started commissioning art during World War I to record history and to keep up soldier morale. Many of those art pieces have been in an Army basement away from the public until now.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/20 11:25pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/20 11:25pm
A painter of the times
He’s not a political painter, the artist says, but his images speak powerfully of many political issues.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/19 5:20am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/19 5:20am
Is it art or is it chicken scratches?
A hot new talent is making a splash on the modern art scene — Simon the chicken.
An abstract painting by Simon, entitled Fireworks, had already garnered 63 bids by 4 p.m. Saturday with a high bid of $525.
Fireworks shows Simon's footprints in red, yellow and orange acrylic paint on a black background. The painting is signed with a blue toeprint.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/18 11:07pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/18 11:07pm
Building an Art of Virtuoso Ambiguity
The superb five-decade survey of drawings by Gerhard Richter opening at the Drawing Center in SoHo on Saturday is, without even trying to be, an event. It’s the first career overview of Mr. Richter in the United States since the much-praised “40 Years of Painting” at the Museum of Modern Art in 2002.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/10 12:50am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/10 12:50am
The Art of the BP Oil Spill
Like all disasters, the Deepwater Horizon tragedy provoked responses from the creative class — sometimes cringe-inducing, sometimes brilliant enough for MoMA. A look back at some of the best, brightest, and not so much.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/10 12:49am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/10 12:49am
Cuddling With Little Girls, Dogs and Music
Feeling a tad museum-phobic? Cowed by expanses of immaculate white walls? Whipsawed by hermetic, aloof artworks? If so, Asia Society has the cure. It is “Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool,” a homey, user-friendly exhibition that can feel like a little piece from somewhere over the rainbow.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/10 12:48am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/10 12:48am
51 arts groups in metro Detroit picked for training program
Fifty-one arts organizations in metro Detroit have been selected for a two-year arts management training program run by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/10 12:47am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/10 12:47am
Art world con artist busted for $100K scam linked to stolen $1.35M painting
An art world thief was busted Thursday for duping a Japanese investor out of $100,000 in the purchase of a since-stolen $1.35 million masterpiece.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/10 12:46am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/10 12:46am
Supermodel Sells Art
Sotheby's will sell 14 contemporary artworks from the collection of 1970s and 1980s supermodel (and former Mick Jagger paramour) Jerry Hall in London on Oct. 15 and 16. The sale is concurrent with the city's prestigious Frieze Art Fair.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/08 7:18am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/08 7:18am
Art or 'defacement'? Veterans slam mural
Is it desecration or beautification?
Artwork added to a memorial in Little Village for a Mexican-American war hero has some veterans up in arms. They are decrying what they call the defacement of a treasured site.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/07 8:00pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/07 8:00pmLinking the Past and the Present Through Art
JERUSALEM — What do Marcel Duchamp’s readymades have to do with a Chinese mandarin’s robe? And what is the link between the crowns of African kings and a synagogue in South America?
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/07 7:57pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/07 7:57pm
'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