BloombergFlipping has picked up as wealthy collectors chase paintings by emerging artists with the goal of reselling them quickly for a profit, a strategy some advisers say may be a sign that the contemporary art market is taking on characteristics of a financial...
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TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT: INSTITUTION, IMAGE, IDEOLOGY
Starting this Sunday, the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles is admission free. And the free-for-all will have a new exhibit that tells viewers they can take it or leave it.Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology is the first large-scale exhibition to...
Rene Ricard, Art Arbiter With Wildean Wit, Dies at 67
New York Times“I’ve never worked a day in my life,” Rene Ricard, then 32, wrote in an essay for The New York Times Op-Ed page in 1978. “If I did it would probably ruin my career, which at the moment is something of a cross between a butterfly and a lap dog.”.. ....
Art Matters Names Grant Recipients
New York-based nonprofit foundation Art Matters has announced its grant winners for artists who are working on socially engaged projects. And the winners are . . . Claudia Alvarez Support for travel to Mexico City for research at Museo Nacional de Antropología and the...
Shia LaBoeuf Seeks LA Gallery Space
DefamerShia LaBeouf is sending messages to "every" gallery in LA, desperate for space. In his message he writes:I am in need of a performance space in Los Angeles I'm looking to put on a show. Your gallery is perfect. My plan is to repent in the way of...
Teen killer George Zimmerman’s Red Period
The WireGeorge Zimmerman goes Shepard Fairey for his latest piece of 'Art' which goes on sale tomorrow.. . . READ MORE
“Racist Chair” outrage on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
The GuardianRussian socialite, Dasha Zhukova, sparks outrage with 'racist chair' photograph where she is pictured sitting on a contorted, near-naked mannequin of a black woman. . . READ MORE
Adventures in art-market commodification, enhanced hammer edition
Reuters: FELIX SALMON“Business art” has arguably come to be the dominant form of art in our time. Today, this juggernaut of commodity-based art drives not only the way art is made, but also the way it’s promoted, marketed, sold, and, ultimately, understood both by...
The Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program application deadline set for March 31
Well known by artists as the "Gift of Time", the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program was established in 1967 to provide gifted studio based visual artists with the unique opportunity to concentrate on their work in a supportive, collegial environment for a whole year....
Elaine Wynn revealed as buyer of world’s most expensive painting
AFA NewsThis past November, Francis Bacon’s triptych ‘Three Studies of Lucian Freud’ sold for $142 million at Christie’s in New York, making it the most expensive painting ever sold at auction. Rumors swirled after the buyer’s name was not immediately revealed, with...
Philippe Vergne named MOCA Director
Hollywood ReporterVergne is the second Dia head to helm a major Los Angeles institution --Michael Govan, current head of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), is a Dia directorial alum as well. . . . READ MORE
Shoulda Coulda Woulda! Cooper Union Free Pass Over
ReutersCooper Union will officially start charging its undergraduates tuition, after the Board of Trustees rejected a 54-page report compiled by a Working Group of alumni, staff, students and trustees that outlined a plan to keep the school free.. . . . READ MORE
Larry Clark Sells Snapshots for $100 Each
New York TimesLarry Clark’s lurid portraits of teenage sex, violence and drug taking hang at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, and can sell for tens of thousands of dollars. Now, Mr. Clark, as a kind of thank you to the fans who have made...
Katy Perry to Guest Curate Madonna’s Art for Freedom Project
Billboard Madonna has tapped Katy Perry as guest curator for Art for Freedom, her online public art project that encourages artists to submit videos, music, poetry and photographs to express their take on freedom. . . . READ MORE
México Inside Out
Surveying advanced art from Mexico City during the last quarter century, “México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990” includes the work of 22 artists, mostly in their 30s and 40s, and one collective. The fact that several artists are not native Mexicans demonstrates...
Liz Goldwyn: Renaissance Woman
New York TimesThe Gala in the Garden, a benefit given every October by the Hammer Museum here, draws a reliably motley cross section of this city’s art, fashion and film tribes. While those contingents mingled last fall on the museum’s third-floor balcony with some of...
The Getty and Google Unleash Free Art — And Your Creative Potential
WiredJust a couple months ago, The Getty quietly released 5,400 new, high-resolution (800dpi) images from its Getty Research Institute for public use. But here’s the revolutionary part: They did it without fees or restriction. To put this in perspective: Not one of...
Damien Hirst artworks stolen in London gallery heist
CNN London (CNN) -- Two works by British artist Damien Hirst worth $54,000 have been stolen from a London gallery.The pieces -- prints of colored spots, signed by Hirst -- were taken from the Exhibitionist Gallery in Notting Hill in the early hours of Monday...
