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The Arts Seen in NYC (Pierre Cardin Is Totally Brilliant Edition)
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town the other weekend to spend some time a-museuming and say, it was swell. After navigating the usual midtown Manhattan mishegas to get to our usual hotel, we took the … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Dürer, Andrew Carnegie, Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection, Basquiat’s “Defacement”: The Untold Story, Be Seen: Portrait Photography Since Stonewall, Berthe Morisot, Brooklyn Museum, Cai Guo-Qiang, Carrie Mae Weems, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Edvard Munch, Elizabeth Cleland, Francisco Goya, Franz Kline, From Expressionism to Surrealism: Highlights of Modern Art from the Collection, Garry Winogrand: Color, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Guggenheim Museum, Henri Matisse, James McNeill Whistler, Jenny Holzer, Jewelry for America, Joan Miro, Joseph Beuys, Julie Mehretu, Käthe Kollwitz, Louis Armstrong House Museum, Louise Nevelson, Mark Rothko, Max Ernst, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, New York Times, Non-Brand, Pablo Picasso, Paul Chan, Peter Plagens, Pierre Cardin: Future Fashion, Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance, Rembrandt to Picasso: Five Centuries of European Works on Paper, Richard Prince, Roberta Smith, Sport and Leisure: Sailing on the Sound, The Bauhaus Spirit at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Vasily Kandinsky, Vincent Van Gogh, Wadsworth Atheneum, Wall Street Journal
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The War of Art in NYC’s Auction Houses
It’s auction season for the arterati, and yesterday’s New York Times was the Antietam of tony gavel houses in the Big Town. There was, for instance, this Christie’s ad in the A section: Which sends us to this video presented by Loic … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, Antietam, Bonhams, Christie's, Christopher Martin, Frederick Carl Frieske, Gary Gardner, If I Live, Jean-Michel Basquuiat, Jeff Koons, John Currin, Loic Gouzer, Mark Rothko, New York auction houses, New York Times, Richard Prince, Sotheby's, the arterati, The Garden Chair
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WSJ Left Hand, Meet WSJ Right Hand
Apparently, Wall Street Journal editors don’t read their own paper. Last week the Journal ran an op-ed piece about ripoff artist Richard Prince getting busted for appropriating other people’s work (specifically “[the] book ‘Yes, Rasta,’ by French photographer Patrick Cariou, … Continue reading