3:AM Magazine (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Via Disorientations, the brilliant Robert Hughes dissects Damien Hirst: The presence of a Hirst in a collection is a sure sign of dullness of taste. What serious person could want those collages of dead butterflies, which are nothing more than replays of Victorian decor? What is there to those empty spin paintings, enlarged versions of the [...]
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
LAS VEGAS.- The Las Vegas Art Museum will soon close the exhibition Las Vegas Collects Contemporary. This exhibition features works of contemporary art on loan from Southern Nevada's most important privately held fine art collections. Artists featured in the show include Jean-Michel Basquiat, Uta Barth, Dan Flavin, Andreas Gursky, Michael Heizer, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Donald
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Documentary looking back at New York's 'downtown scene' of the late 1970s, which spawned the likes of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and filmmaker Jim Jarmusch. Rating:2
NOTCOT.ORG (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa has been celebrated and ridiculed- by world-famous artists such as Fernando Botero, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Rene Magritte, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and many others.
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
MUNICH.- For one of the most extensive and important collections of modern art the Brandhorst Collection, which is part of the distinctively organized Udo and Anette Brandhorst Foundation the Bavarian state government has commissioned the construction of a museum in Munich. On an area adjacent to the Pinakothek der Moderne, the winners of the contest in December 2002,
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
NEW YORK.- Twenty-five years ago, Andrée Putman revolutionized the world of style. Her innovative design for Morgans, the world's first boutique hotel, ushered in a new approach to luxury: it became sleek, minimal, contemporary. For its 25th anniversary, Morgans will be re-imagined and updated by the "High Priestess of Style, as the press has dubbed her, for a September 10 re-launch in
Entertainment - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
A painting by late U.S. artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, which hung in the rock band U2's Dublin studio for years,...
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
A painting owned by rock group U2 has sold for more than £5 million at auction.
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 14/06/2008
LONDON - SOTHEBY’S forthcoming Contemporary Art Evening Sale will be highlighted by Jean-Michel Basquiat’s early masterpiece, Untitled (Pecho/Oreja), 1982-83. The work will be offered on Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 and comes from the joint collection of Irish rock band U2. It is estimated at £4-6 million. The painting was first spotted by U2's bassist Adam Clayton at the Robert Miller Gallery in New York....
The First Post (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
Chris Martin, lead singer of Coldplay, whose album Viva la Vida is out this week, has told Rolling Stone magazine of the insecurities he feels because his wife, Gwyneth Paltrow…
Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
Today's news item about U2 putting up for auction some tripe - a "masterpiece" of course - by Jean-Michel Basquiat ( CLICK ) offered a link to In pictures: Art's record-breakers (17 May 2007). It looks more like a Rogues' Gallery than art. Even the Banksy is one of his worst. Damien Hirst's Four Elements (shown) is the best of a very bad bunch! Click the title link to be dismayed.
PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
Irish rockers U2 are expecting to cash in on a painting by late artist JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT - they are auctioning off the artwork with an estimated price tag of $8 million (£4 million). Basquiat completed Untitled (Pecho/Oreja) in 1983 - five years before he died of a drug overdose (88). The painting was spotted by U2 bassist [...]
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
Irish rockers U2 are selling a painting by American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat valued at up to $12 million, Sotheby's auction house said Thursday.
ximblr.com (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Richard Neutra, the architect, is not the sort of figure you think of as having much to do with artists like Damien Hirst and Jean-Michel Basquiat. But there he was last Tuesday night, at Christie’s, as Lot 42, right before Hirst’s “I’m in Love for the First Time” and Basquiat’s “Untitled (Car Crash).” Not Neutra [...]
Afrigator (Free subscription) | 28/05/2008
Is it the need to reconcile the technological and the human, tradition vs. modernity, civilization vs. primitivism, the seemingly mutually exclusive past and present that gives the culture created by africans all over the diaspora its vitality (soul) and its universality? Whatever, but as the sampling of the media i have been consuming in the last couple of weeks shows, the results are always interesting....
