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Fat lady sings for Beryl Cook, the painter who loved loud society 2008-05-31 20:49:45 Britain has lost one of its best-loved
artists, the painter Beryl
Cook, who has died at her home in Plymouth at the age of 81. She had been suffering from cancer for some time but, typically reticent, had kept it all but a secret.1 Vote(s)
Photographs by Helmut Newton on View at Weserburg Museum fur Moderne Kunst 2008-05-31 20:46:27 Helmut Newton
-Photographs covers the wide spectrum of this revolutionary specialist in fashion- and nude-photography. In addition to the large-format, life-sized Big Nudes, for which Newton derived inspiration from police-investigation photos of the RAF terrorists,1 Vote(s) Read more:Helmut
, Museum
Gustav Klimt: is his art worth 135m? 2008-05-31 20:37:44 The rule book on Gustav Klimt was torn up and rewritten in the summer of 2006, when word leaked out that the cosmetics magnate Ronald S Lauder had just paid $135m for Klimt's golden portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, making it the most expensive painting in history.1 Vote(s)
Museum of Wildlife Art seeks more humans 2008-05-31 04:50:35 The National Museum
of Wildlife Art -- a low-slung, reddish flagstone building hugging a hillside along the highway north of this ski town -- was designed to fit in with its surroundings. The 51,000-square-foot museum succeeded better than expected,1 Vote(s) Read more:humans
Museums wrestle with preserving art that's not made to last 2008-05-31 04:48:46 "Artworks that contain everything from chocolate syrup to exotic Amazon fruits to television tubes and radio transistors often present daunting challenges for museums, collectors, and artists themselves when it comes to preserving their art for future generations... The issue is taking on urgency 1 Vote(s)
Painting Bought For Just 50p Sells For 35 000 2008-05-30 04:23:24 "A Scot who picked up a painting on impulse at Glasgow's Barrowland market for 50p in the 1970s was celebrating yesterday after it sold at auction for nearly £35,000. The oil painting, by leading 19th century Canadian artist Cornelius David Krieghoff, was snapped up in seconds at Lyon and Turnbul1 Vote(s) Read more:Painting
Russians bring home the Bacon 2008-05-30 04:21:33 "The Russian billionaire now bestrides the art world just as the American tycoon did a century ago, with limitless resources and limited taste, provoking precisely the same combination of awe, envy, snobbery and quiet admiration."1 Vote(s) Read more:Russians
, Bacon
Parks reject Yeo's genitalia deck chair 2008-05-29 05:47:31 The controversial portrait painter Jonathan Yeo's design for a deck chair for London's parks has been reject
ed on the grounds that it is too pornographic.1 Vote(s) Read more:Parks
Thieves snatch bronze from 7 Ottawa-area monuments 2008-05-29 05:44:33 "Bronze plaques, medallions and other pieces worth $25,000 have been stolen from seven Ottawa
-area monuments in the past two months, mostly in the city's core."1 Vote(s)
Classical Realism: Antidote to 'Novelty Art' 2008-05-29 05:42:55 If large precincts of the art world are still in thrall to 'novelty art,' there is also a vital and increasingly prominent current of artistic practice seeking the rehabilitation of aesthetic canons and plastic techniques that were pioneered in the Renaissance and promulgated in the studios1 Vote(s) Read more:Realism
, Novelty
Huntington Art Gallery's grand plan 2008-05-29 05:40:36 In an age of ever-expanding mega-museums, the restored gallery, which holds an exceptional collection of European art, stands out as a thoughtful alternative to high-design gigantism. When it comes to the essential character of an art museum, after all, there is a sweet spot between intimacy1 Vote(s) Read more:Huntington
, Gallery
Allpaintings iGoogle Gadget 2008-05-28 20:19:10 Allpaintings Art Portal has developed a gadget to put random and daily images at iGoogle homepage.
This Gadget
displays an image and also the name of the artwork and the name of the author.
If you click the image, you will go to the image at our gallery, where you can find interesting informa1 Vote(s)
Holocaust historians blast MFA stance in legal dispute 2008-05-28 12:29:10 "Holocaust
historians are criticizing the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for its stance in an escalating legal
dispute over the ownership of a valuable 1913 painting. The work, Oskar Kokoschka's "Two Nudes (Lovers)," has hung at the MFA almost continuously since 1973."1 Vote(s)
New York gallery owner arrested for serving drinks 2008-05-28 12:08:20 An East Hampton art gallery owner was led away in handcuffs Saturday after she refused to stop serving drinks at an opening bash for a celebrity photo exhibit. As about 200 startled guests looked on, Ruth Kalb - generally known as Ruth Vered, after her gallery's name - was arrested
2 Vote(s) Read more:New York
Artists seek royalties for 70 years from grave 2008-05-28 12:06:40 "Britain's artistic community is battling against leading auction houses and dealers to bring in a law forcing the payment of a royalty on artists' works for 70 years after their deaths -- in line with writers and musicians. Most auction houses and dealers are opposed to the law -- claiming that2 Vote(s) Read more:Artists
Street Art At The Tate - Where's Banksy? 2008-05-27 11:45:24 The exterior walls of Tate Modern have been covered with six towering works of Street
Art, all around 15 metres high. Each is by one of the world's leading international street artists but there's one figure who is glaringly absent - the most famous one of them all. Where's Banksy?1 Vote(s)
This is not porn, say Henson's models 2008-05-27 11:41:37 Zahava Elenberg was 12 when she posed for a series of dark and evocative photographs taken by Bill Henson.
More than 20 years later she still has vivid memories of working with the artist, but "absolutely no regrets".1 Vote(s) Read more:models
Police Raid, Confiscate Art In Sydney Gallery 2008-05-27 11:41:25 "Police
raided the Roslyn Oxley Gallery
in Paddington, in inner-city Sydney
, on Friday after a complaint from a member of the public, seizing 20 of Henson's photographs, some of which include naked images of a girl and boy aged 13 and 12.1 Vote(s)
Thieves steal 'priceless' Bill Reid artwork 2008-05-27 11:34:52 Several priceless gold works of art by legendary Haida artist Bill Reid have been taken from the University of B.C.'s Museum of Anthropology in a daring theft.2 Vote(s)
ArteLista.com 2008-05-27 11:30:46 painting, oil on canvas, landscape, sunset.3 Vote(s)
Blogger: Blog introuvable 2008-05-27 11:30:44 paintin, oil on canvas, 53x50cm, 120 euros, chimpanzee abandoned2 Vote(s) Read more:Blogger
Attention, a4Blue Boya4 Fans: Slow Down 2008-05-26 04:00:22 "Now, as Mr. Murdoch prepares to reopen the Huntington mansion on Wednesday after a three-year shutdown and a $20 million renovation, his goal is just the opposite: to slow down the crowds by offering different points of interest."1 Vote(s)
Roman Abramovich sets record art transfer 2008-05-26 03:56:38 "While Abramovich is better known for studying the sometimes patchy form of the players he buys, experts say that the $120m (£61.4m) buying spree suggests that he has found a new enthusiasm. His inspiration is likely to be his model girlfriend Daria "Dasha" Zhukova,2 Vote(s) Read more:Roman
, transfer
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