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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Philadelphia, PA - When the artist, Hans Burkhardt (b. 1904 Basel, Switzerland - d. 1994 Los Angeles) left New York late in 1937, after nearly nine years of sharing Arshile Gorky's studio, he brought to Los Angeles the largest holdings of Gorky works by his friend and mentor , outside Gorky's own holdings. Burkhardt was the first to introduce Gorky's work to other artists and curators in L.A. and...
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
NEW YORK - Three generations of Wyeth artworks will be auctioned next week, including 14 oil canvases N.C. Wyeth used to illustrate Robinson Crusoe.
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Blog Absolute Point (Free subscription) | yesterday
Francisco Paco Rodriguez November 24, 2009 (Chicago, IL)- The family of fallen Chicago boxer Francisco “Paco” Rodriquez have announced that through organ donation, Paco’s tragic death will save the lives of at least eight people, including his own uncle. “We just … see more. See also: francisco rodriguez | teon kennedy | francisco rodriguez boxing | [...]
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Fabric Workshop and Museum will present a multi-site exhibition of the work of Cai Guo-Qiang, one of the most prominent contemporary artists on the international art scene. Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms consists of a poetic meditation on the passing of time , memory, and memorializing. One of the artist’s signature “explosion events,”...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Fabric Workshop and Museum will present a multi-site exhibition of the work of Cai Guo-Qiang, one of the most prominent contemporary artists on the international art scene. "Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms" consists of a poetic meditation on the passing of time, memory, and memorializing. One of the artist's signature “explosion...
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Die Gestalten (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Exhibition in Philadelphia The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents a multimedia exhibition of works from Dutch überdesigner Marcel Wanders. Created specifically for the museum, the installation showcases the designer's favorite projects over the last 20 years, including prototypes, personal editions and objects never before exhibited. Using shifting video images, light and sound, Marcel Wanders:...
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I Hate Generic (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Many gowns aim for the appearance of grace, fluidity and movment. Rihanna's dress, at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards , seems to be going for a stop-motion effect. Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 , by Marcel Duchamp. Anyone else see the resemblance? When Duchamp debuted this painting, critics loathed it and said it looked like "an explosion in a shingle factory." But, it turned out...
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California Literary Review (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
The people of that ancient nation had been decimated in the opening genocide of modern times, victims of Turkish aggression during the First World War. "Who now remembers the Armenians?" Adolf Hitler exclaimed, as he and his Nazi lieutenants planned the Final Solution. The answer can be found lining the walls of the masterful exhibition in Philadelphia. Arshile Gorky remembered. "I shall...
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Forgive me, readers, for I have sinned. Whenever I've gone by Titian's great "Venus With a Mirror," sitting topless in the Renaissance rooms at the National Gallery of Art, or Canova's marble "Naiad," lounging a floor below in the no-kini of a classical goddess, carnal thoughts have come to me.
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Bingo Blast (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
It is not easy to come across a unique gift idea, in particular when a lot of people already seem to have pretty much everything they need and want. If you are interested in Novelty Gifts then you might consider getting a Rocky Balboa Bathrobe. Rocky Balboa Bathrobe Here is a short description of the Rocky Balboa [...]
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Authentic Art DC (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The second season of the Baltimore-based Contemporary Museum’s New Art Dialogue Series, a forum for discussion of contemporary art in Baltimore, will begin Wednesday, November 11 at 7 p.m. with Carlos Basualdo, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The lecture is held in collaboration with the Maryland Institute College of Art, and [...]
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The Compass Rose (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Emmet Gowin [1941-] was originally a student of Harry Callahan's, and the presumed association seems apt, judging from the work alone. From the beginning, Gowin displayed the same reverential regard for family and a self-contained, attentive interest in immediate surroundings that had characterized his master's oeuvre. His first major monograph, Emmet Gowin Photographs [Philadelphia Museum of Art,...
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ShoppingBlog.com (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Fiskars , a global supplier of consumer products for the home, garden and outdoors, celebrates its 360th year of business in October. Fiskars is most well known for its iconic orange-handled scissors. The scissors are part of the permanent design collection in the Museum of Modern Art in New York as well as the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Nearly one billion pairs have been sold worldwide since their...
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Looking Around (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Arshile Gorky had one of the most singular careers in American art — a decades-long, almost self-annihilating immersion in the work of a few painters he revered, and then an explosion in the early 1940s into an art that was entirely his own. From now through January 10 there's a terrific new Gorky retrospective [...]
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Pearlblossom Highway (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
AERIAL 6/7 Originally uploaded by Michael_Kelleher AERIAL 6/7 Rod Smith, Editor I think I bought this at Talking Leaves...Books, but I am not sure. I may have bought it for one of Charles Bernstein's classes. It's a reminder of how good a well made, thoughtfully designed, and carefully edited book actually feels in one's hands. Flipping through it again I am struck mostly by its physical presence....
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