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...
The Daily Mail French artist Laure Prouvost has been named winner of this year’s Turner Prize for a video of a tea party. The £25,000 award was presented by Irish actress Saoirse Ronan at a ceremony in Londonderry, Northern Ireland last night. Miss Prouvost’s video,...
The Daily Mail Ryan O'Neal snatched an Andy Warhol portrait of his ex-lover Farrah Fawcett from her home shortly after she died, even though he knew it was not his, it was claimed this week. But as a long-awaited trial opened in Los Angeles, a lawyer for the veteran...
Michael Landy is hardly the kind of artist you would expect to see named artist in residence at London’s National Gallery. For one thing, he’s a charter member of the Young British Artists made famous by Damien Hirst’s legendary "Freeze" exhibition. Known for their...
New York Observer “I’ve been coming here for years. It’s always been a great place where people will get together for art and peace and positive vibes,” said Rhonda Elhosseiny, gazing up at one of the exuberantly graffitied walls of 5Pointz, the Long Island City...
Brooklyn Banksy for Sale in Miami www.telegraph.co.uk/ A broken heart and a graffiti-covered car door will be the first two pieces from street artist Banksy's New York series to go up for public sale next month in Miami. The sale by an artist whose pieces have gone...
Reuters When news of a hidden trove of Nazi-looted art in Munich came to light this month, an 87-year-old man in a quiet retirement community in New Jersey straightened a copy of a Rembrandt self-portrait hanging on his wall, completely unsurprised. The picture is a...
Paolo Soleri’s eyes sparkled from under bushy eyebrows, deep-set in a grizzled face; they projected intelligence tinged with a spark of irony. When I met Soleri (who died in April) the first time, back in 2000, he could at times appear weary, like a man called upon to...
It is tempting—though not entirely accurate—to report that this past spring and summer, Paul McCarthy’s new work made a big splash in new york. First we had “Paul McCarthy: Sculpture” at Hauser & Wirth in Chelsea: an exhibition noted for several large, complex,...
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