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...
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....
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...
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
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
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
KPCC Jason Shelowitz — also known as Jay Shells — is the New York-based artist behind the Rap Quotes project. For the past few years, Shells has been traversing New York City, posting red and white street signs with location-specific rap quotes, in an effort to make...
As the Los Angeles Aqueduct celebrates its 100-year anniversary this month, many art institutions and organizations are showing support in their exhibition programming. Grand Central Art Center (GCAC) in downtown Santa Ana erected a monumental installation in...
UNFRAMED An exciting thing happened today: we launched our new Art + Technology Lab at LACMA. The Lab is an experiment in bringing artists and technologists together to develop projects that we plan to share with the public here at the museum. . . . READ MORE
Perez Hilton Talk about embarrassing! Sean “Diddy” Combs was at Art Basel in Miami on Wednesday last week, when he got mistaken for Kanye West!!! Jeffrey Deitch, an art dealer and collector, walked up to Diddy at the event and said, “Hi Kanye…” . . . READ...
NewsOne New York Source: Artfcity via Danielle Young on BPNEXTArtist named Meg Webster is showcasing “Food Stamp Table” at Miami’s Art Basel in the Paula Cooper Gallery and the minimalist art comments on something we already know--people living on food stamps have it...
BloombergHollywood producer Brian Grazer, the Oscar winner who has collected art for more than a decade, made his first trip to the Art Basel Miami Beach fair yesterday.He chatted with entertainer-entrepreneur Sean John Combs, music producer Jimmy Iovine and Google...
Page Six Monica Warhol's next project: Kim Kardashian. The cousin of the famous pop star has painted several celebrities, like rapper Flo Rida (right)Photo: Film Magic (left) and Monica Warhol (right)The one thing that not even Kanye West can buy? A Warhol painting of...
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