The Independent (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
There have been many pretenders to the Pop art crown worn by Andy Warhol. Forget Damien Hirst or Jeff Koons. An unlikely contender has stepped forward to claim the throne. It is Tim Burton, the film director and animator whose darkly surreal vision has created modern fairy tales such as Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Beetlejuice.
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The Château de Versailles, with its wedding cake buildings, Rococo fountains, toylike hedges, and figurative gilded lilies, is a fairytale come to life, with little sense remaining of its storied and sometimes turbulent history. Bringing the grounds and buildings of the palace into the present is French artist Xavier Veilhan, whose large-scale installations form a contemporary counterpoint to...
Luxist (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
On Nov. 10 Christie's in New York will auction off an epic 15-ft. wide Jean-Michel Basquiat painting as part of its Post-War and Contemporary Art sale. The painting is expected to fetch up to $12 million. Brother Sausage (detail above), painted in 1983 and featured on the cover of Basquiat's catalogue raisonné , is a cartoon strip-like composition of six panels hinged together to form a narrative...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Whether we know it or not, the work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens is the basic, fundamental image most Americans have in mind when they think of public monuments. "[H]ow different … from contemporary artists such as Claes Oldenburg, Richard Serra, and Jeff Koons, who make public sculptures but whose art is essentially private in nature."...
In Memory of Our Feelings (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
For Future Breakups It became clear earlier that this was no time to be happy I know you think the stage extends everywhere but this is Fishtown and we're in a parking lot and the sky just went on strike it's been without a contract since March you recognize the horizon from the broken churches where only the locks work and we keep swearing at each other in our graffiti about it being over, about it...
Luxist (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Ukraine is about to get a new contemporary art center. Victor Pinchuk is shooting to make Kiev a major art destination, so the wealthy art collector is creating a new center that will be larger than the existing PinchukArtCentre, which was the first private contemporary art center in the former Soviet Union and has had more than 830,000 visitors since its doors swung open in 2006. Pinchuk, a steel...
ARTCO (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
On October 29th Artist Rob Pruitt presented The First Annual Art Awards at The Guggenheim Museum in association with White Columns and realized together with Calvin Klein Collection. MC'd by the Delusional Downtown Divas, Pruitt conceived the event as a performance-based artwork modeled after Hollywood awards ceremonies. Nominees in nine categories included artists, curators, critics, and gallerists,...
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Artist and provocateur William Powhida - who once predicted the post-boom odds of fellow contemporaries like Dash Snow - has issued a challenge to the New Museum on Bowery in his latest piece, which graces the cover of this month's Brooklyn Rail. As an emerging artist in New York, Powhida's satires of the art world cognoscenti hit close to home, and the skewering of the only museum in town that puts...
Modern Marie (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
I am in love with this photoshoot from Glamour's November issue. The incorporation of Jeff Koons' sculptures with the electric colored clothing is genius. What is even more awesome is that these sculptures were featured at Versailles not to long ago :)
Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
New York-based artist William Powhida, who frequently satirizes art world figures and conventions in his art, has taken on the New Museum's "suicide" in his latest work. Excerpted above, Powhida's drawing details "How the New Museum Committed Suicide with Banality," and includes James Wagner, Lisa Phillips, Marcia Tucker, Jeff Koons, and plenty of others who are somehow engaged...
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Performa 09’s opening dinner — think Viking feast meets soup kitchen with champagne — crowded 700 people into the former Dia Foundation space in Chelsea on Friday. Jennifer Rubell (daughter of contemporary-art collectors Don and Mera Rubell, niece of Studio 54–founder Steve) organized the fête in line with the bacchanalia breakfasts she holds every year for Art Basel Miami...
Curbed LA (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Vanity Fair 's profile of Wallis Annenberg reveals that the philanthropist doesn't think much of that smoke-belching Jeff Koons train planned for LACMA, even though she personally paid for the $2 million exploratory grant on the project. Part of her quote: “I personally think Los Angeles deserves a much finer icon than a train hanging from a crane." But she has nothing but praise for LACMA...
le petit oiseau (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
No carboot sales for me this weekend due to inclement weather forecasts, so I, very wisely, managed to steal away for an hour on Friday to go to my favourite junk shop and it proved very fruitful indeed. Okay, so some of the things I bought are a bit odd, but no worse off for that. Shall we have a look? Then you can decide for yourselves.. First up is this groovy jig-saw-ish game, called Car Capers,...
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
A very marketable artist Heir to Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp, Jeff Koons, born in 1955 in York (Pennsylvania), popularized a new genre, neopop. Champion of monumental kitsch, he was disparaged even more for turning art into an investment property. A few years before photographer David LaChapelle, the former Wall Street trader ...
Top ART News (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
NEW YORK, NY -- T here are dozens of award shows honoring actors and musicians, and now artists are finally being recognized for their creative achievements. On Thursday evening, stars including Kylie Minogue , Julianne Moore , James Franco and Mary-Kate Olsen , were at the Guggenheim Museum for a Hollywood-esque awards ceremony - The First Annual Art Awards . Conceived by artist Rob Pruitt , The...
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