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Fast Company (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
St. Louis has tried everything to invigorate its urban core: Revitalizing its riverfront entertainment district, luring residents downtown with converted-warehouse lofts, a new baseball stadium. But maybe all they needed to do was plant a garden. Citygarden , a sculpture garden that unfurls like a rippling green carpet leading to the Gateway Arch has done more than just add a swatch of color to downtown....
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Luxist (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
The painting shown above, a 1968 watercolor by American artist Jim Dine, has an interesting story. The work was originally commissioned by Capitol Records for a Beatles album which was never made because the Beatles left Capitol and formed the Apple Records label. The graphite and watercolor on vellum lot of five works depict individual toothbrushes labeled for each member of the band The pieces,...
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Top ART News (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
PARIS -- A rt aficionados have gathered in "The City of Light" this week for the 36th annual FIAC ("Foire internationale d'art contemporain"), the most prestigious contemporary art fair in France. Following on the heels of London's Frieze Art Fair last week, Paris' FIAC is hoping to capitalize on the momentum of this year's reported upswing in art sales achieved at the Frieze....
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Luxist (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
The big money's in Paris this season . Last night, a $24 million painting by Pablo Picasso of his mistress, Marie-Therese Walter, was put on reserve at the VIP preview of the Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain . The FIAC is France's largest art fair, and it follows the Frieze Art Fair in London. The French fair hopes to capitalize on Frieze's momentum, where dealers indicated that sales were...
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Holy Land (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
I really like MC Hyland's three poems in the latest Slant. Great pacing and lots of beautiful images and phrases like "Then winter came on, scratchy/ with stars" and "Seasons/ fell away, creaking on the doorjambs." All in all a quite dreamy effect. Choreographed and ballet-like. That being said it's strange that I'm going to quibble with the titles (Ballet Mécanique (i),(ii)...
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Bingo 770 (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
A second auction of art works once belonging to Yves Saint Laurent will be held in November. The main part of his huge collection, including modern art, Old Master pictures and drawings by artists like Picasso, Fernand Leger and Miro, was sold earlier this year in Paris. This first auction of treasures belonging to Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge raised more than 370 million euros becoming the biggest...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
William Theophilus Brown: 90, painter who studied with Parisian masters Fernand Leger and Amedee Ozenfant, took part in the early postwar heyday of the New York art scene before moving west and helping to define the regional style known as Bay Area...
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MooPig Wisdom (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
"So, You Want to be a Celebrity?" Another MooPig Cut\Paste Series Pat. Pending and a life of Litigations by Pat Darnell and the Hedy Lamarr Fan Club Frequency-Hopping Spread-Spectrum Invention Avant garde composer George Antheil, a son of German immigrants and neighbor of Lamarr, had experimented with automated control of musical instruments, including his music for Ballet Mecanique, originally...
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CR Blog (Free subscription) | 18/05/2009
1957 poster for Fernand Leger show at the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum ( blanka.co.uk ) The International Society of Typographic Designers has just announced a new series of lectures, the first of which is quite the coup: Wim Crouwel on 3 June...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
NEW YORK CITY - The Impressionist and Modern Art Works on Paper and Day sales took place today at Christie's NY (May 7 2009) and realized a combined total of $20,659,000/ £13,772,800 / €15,417,314, with a sell-through rate of 90% by value. The top price of the day was achieved for Fernand Léger’s Le cinq de trèfle, 1947 which achieved $1,112,500/ £741,667/ €830,224....
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 21/03/2009
PARIS.- An uncommonly lively and engaging character, Calder made his art into a continuous party, a party attended by his many friends, among them Joan Miró, Jean Cocteau, Man Ray, Fernand Léger and Piet Mondrian. Trained as an engineer, he was the inventor one of the most innovative and audacious forms of twentieth-century sculpture – the mobile, given its name by Marcel Duchamp....
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Gatochy's Blog (Free subscription) | 01/03/2009
Kandinsky , On White II , 1923. Click image for 510 x 620 size. 3 + after the jump. El Lissitzky , Proun 19D , 1922. Fernand Léger , The Smokers , 1912. Paul Klee , In the Current Six Thresholds , 1929. Click image for 571 x 573 size.
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Mid Atlantic Art News (Free subscription) | 15/02/2009
Museum Circus A Circus Family: Picasso to Léger, on view at The Baltimore Museum of Art February 22–May 17, 2009, features more than 80 prints, drawings, paintings, and books by Pablo Picasso, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Fernand Léger, and other European artists fascinated by the extravagant spectacle of the circus and the bohemian lives of the performers outside the ring. This special...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 23/01/2009
In the 1920s, the painter Fernand Léger saw a creative potential in cinema – in its ability to "isolate the object or the fragment of an object and to present it on the screen in close-ups of the largest possible scale. Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic...
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Brookston Beer Bulletin (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Today’s work of art (& beer) is decidedly more modern, with bold colors and an abstract vision. Still Life With A Beer Mug, by the French artist Fernand Léger, was painted around 1921. Léger is generally considered a cubist painter, like Pablo Picasso, who’s probably the most famous cubist. He was born in France and [...]
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