Showing posts with label Art News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art News. Show all posts
David Hockney and Damien Hirst go head to head with solo London shows
"A small note on the posters for David Hockney's forthcoming exhibition at the Royal Academy contains a sly dig at another superstar artist about to launch a major exhibition. The note reads: 'All the works here were made by the artist himself, personally.'
In an interview with the Radio Times, Hockney confirmed that he had in mind Damien Hirst, whose £50m diamond and platinum skull will be the centrepiece of a Tate Modern exhibition in April, the first solo show of his work in a UK museum." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Guardian
On: 01/03/12
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk
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This is not a tax, says Boston’s mayor
"The Museum of Fine Arts was dismayed to learn that the city of Boston is requesting a payment of $250,000 this year under new rules for the amount that not-for-profit organisations have to pay in lieu of taxes. The city plans to quadruple the bill to more than $1m by 2016.
The steep rise in contributions is a result of the Mayor of Boston Thomas Menino’s revised Payment in Lieu of Taxes scheme, known as Pilot. The art museums, and the city’s other not-for-profit organisations owning property that is worth more than $15m, face paying a fee that is based on 25% of what they would have to pay if they were charged the city’s commercial tax." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Art Newspaper
On: 01/01/12
Website: http://www.theartnewspaper.com
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Dulwich Picture Gallery saves St Cecilia from ruin – but who painted her?
"The work was bought in 1790 by one of the gallery's founders, Noel Joseph Desenfans, under the impression it was by the Bolognese master Annibale Carracci. Bray said it was "not good enough" to be a Carracci, but whoever did paint it could have been inspired by the Carracci school.
Desenfans and his business partner Sir Francis Bourgeois, the gallery's other founder, thought they had a masterpiece and so wanted it hung prominently in the 'skylight' room of the beautiful home they shared in what is now Hallam Street, in the West End of London." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Guardian
On: 12/29/11
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk
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Louvre's Leonardo was overcleaned, say art experts
"The Louvre is facing accusations that it overcleaned a masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci, leaving it with a brightness that the Renaissance master never intended.
Two of France's top art experts have voiced their protest over the cleaning of The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne – a jewel of western art – by resigning from the Paris museum's advisory committee responsible for its 'restoration.'" [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Guardian
On: 12/28/11
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk
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Two Artists With a Shared Sense of Freedom
"It is strange that the sculptor John Chamberlain and the painter Helen Frankenthaler should have died within a week of each other — he on Dec. 21, and she on Tuesday — considering that they occupy such similar positions within the history of American art. Both emerged in the 1950s and provided crucial links between art styles, specifically helping to forge the transition from Abstract Expressionism to what lay beyond.
Both brought a new, unfettered approach to materials that pushed their respective mediums toward greater expressive freedom, unabashed physicality and a rough-edged, aggressively color-based beauty. These qualities became identifying hallmarks of American art, especially in the 1960s, but remain crucial to it even now." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The New York Times
On: 12/27/11
Website: http://www.nytimes.com
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Crystal Bridges, the Art Museum Walmart Money Built, Opens
"By just about any measure, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which opened last month in this small town in northwest Arkansas, is off to a running start. The dream-come-true of Alice Walton, an heir to the Walmart fortune, it is characterized by people both inside and outside the museum as a work in progress, with plenty of room for improvement. But there it stands, a big, serious, confident, new institution with more than 50,000 square feet of gallery space and a collection worth hundreds of millions of dollars in a region almost devoid of art museums." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The New York Times
On: 12/26/11
Website: http://www.nytimes.com
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How Smartphones Are Changing Photography: The Numbers Are In
"'There is no doubt that the smartphone is becoming ‘good enough’ much of the time; but thanks to mobile phones, more pictures are being taken than ever before,' NPD’s Liz Cutting said in a statement. In short, before smartphones hit the scene, most people found themselves without a camera during unexpected photo opportunities. But now smartphones help ensure we always have an image-capture device at hand — and they’ve trained us to take more photos." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Wired
On: 12/22/11
Website: http://www.wired.com
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Art dealers claim droit de suite levy threatens London's art trade
"'Our argument is the same as the chancellor's against the European plan for financial transaction tax,' said Anthony Browne, chairman of the British Art Market Federation, representing some 10,000 art business in the UK, and which is vehemently opposed to ARR [Art Resale Rights]. 'If [ARR] existed worldwide, you'd have a level playing field. But it doesn't.' Droit de suite – which translates as 'the right to follow' – was introduced in France to help families of artists after the first world war and is operational in most EU countries.
It was implemented to 'harmonise' art markets in Europe. But with London as the main modern and contemporary fine art European capital with 58% of trade, the UK cried foul, warning it would be disproportionately damaged." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Guardian
On: 12/22/11
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk
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The Droit De Suite Dilemma (And Why It's Just A Bad Idea)
"Just as droit de suite – the requirement that artists receive royalties on secondary sales of their work – is about to go into effect in the UK, the US Congress has introduced its own droit de suite bill, which would require payment of a seven percent fee on resales above $10,000. As described in The Art Newspaper, 'The Equity for Visual Artists Act of 2011, would set aside 7% of the price for works resold for more than $10,000 at major auction houses, such as Christie’s and Sotheby’s, with half the proceeds going to the artists and half to non-profit art museums.'
Good news? Or bad?" [Read Full Article]
Published by: Forbes
On: 12/21/11
Website: http://www.forbes.com
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Fayetteville Museum of Art board ready to dissolve organization
"Board members for the Fayetteville Museum of Art plan to quietly dissolve their 40-year-old organization as early as this week, an official said Monday.
Mac Healy, the board president, said the organization has paid all its debts including a bank loan with this month's sale of the 7.5-acre campus behind Eutaw Village Shopping Center.
The property, including the empty museum building, sold for $250,000, according to Cumberland County land records." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Fay Observer
On: 12/20/11
Website: http://www.fayobserver.com
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La Plaza stumbles as push for national museum gains foothold
"Television's highest-earning actress and a San Francisco art museum chief are two of the key figures in the bid to establish a new museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., devoted to the history and culture of American Latinos.
But Eva Longoria, who will rally public support for a bill in Congress to create the museum, and Jonathan Yorba, chairman of the museum-lobbying group that picked her, also played key roles in the creation of a problem-plagued Los Angeles museum and cultural center focused on the contributions of Mexican Americans in Southern California." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Los Angeles Times
On: 12/19/11
Website: http://www.latimes.com
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Hearings Shed Light on Pollock Dispute
"Two former Knoedler employees testified about the refund for a work attributed to Jackson Pollock during hearings in Manhattan as part of a federal lawsuit brought by a London collector, Pierre Lagrange, who bought another disputed Pollock paintings.
In his suit against Knoedler and Ann Freedman, the gallery’s former president, Mr. Lagrange is demanding back the $17 million he paid in 2007 for that painting, “Untitled 1950.” A forensic examiner for Mr. Lagrange recently declared the work a fake. On Nov. 30, one day after receiving a copy of the forensic report, the 165-year-old gallery closed." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The New York Times
On: 12/16/11
Website: http://www.nytimes.com
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EU art tax criticised by dealers
"'Droit de suite' provides artists - or their heirs within 70 years of their death - with a percentage of the re-sale price of their work.
The 70-year limit was introduced in 2006, but the UK delayed it till 2012.
Dealers complain that it has created a competitive disadvantage as countries such as China and the US do not pay it." [Read Full Article]
Published by: BBC News
On: 12/18/11
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk
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Lawmakers Propose Royalties Be Paid to Artists on Resale
"It’s the dream of every art collector to buy a painting from a little-known artist for $100 and later sell it for $1 million. But how does that artist feel? Some think it unfair that artists typically do not directly benefit when a particular work escalates in value, and a bill introduced Thursday by Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York, and Senator Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin, seeks to redress that." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The New York Times
On: 12/15/11
Website: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com
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Modern Women Artists in Turkey Meet Their Trailblazing Counterparts
"'Dream and Reality,' a show at the Istanbul Modern art museum, pairs 'nearly forgotten' painters from the Ottoman era with some of the most intriguing artists in Turkey today.
The common thread? All are women.
Levent Calikoglu, chief curator for the Modern, said by e-mail last week that female artists 'have a very important, critical and pioneering position in the Turkish art world. One of the objectives of the show was to render this visible.'" [Read Full Article]
Published by: The New York Times
On: 12/14/11
Website: http://www.nytimes.com
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Art treasures leave UK as museums struggle to mount competitive bids
"The committee that recommends export bars on art and cultural treasures to allow money to be raised to keep things in the UK announced decidedly mixed results. With less public money available, museums and galleries struggling with budgets and fundraising were simply not able to mount viable bids for seven cultural treasures, which will all now go abroad. On the plus side, four items worth more than £3.7m were saved, including a magnificent silver wine cistern and an important William IV cabinet." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Guardian
On: 12/13/11
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk
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Damien Hirst prepares to unleash another blizzard for buyers
"For his latest art-market venture, the British artist has teamed with his longtime U.S. dealer Larry Gagosian to supply all 11 Gagosian galleries worldwide with shows of his well-known "Spot" paintings, which feature grids of dots painted in different colors. All exhibitions, including Beverly Hills, New York, London and Hong Kong, will take place simultaneously Jan. 12 to Feb. 18." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Los Angeles Times
On: 12/10/11
Website: http://www.latimes.com
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The law vs scholarship
"The news that a leading scholar felt constrained by legal advice from giving a full opinion on a group of drawings attributed to Francis Bacon highlights a growing fear among experts that they might be sued for giving their opinion.
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'Many experts are reluctant to give their opinion in public because of the threat of legal action, which is in fact quite remote,' says Karen Sanig, the head of art law at Mishcon de Reya, London. 'This perception is having a freezing effect on scholarship. It has [become] increasingly obvious as a problem over the past six months, partly due to the coverage of authentication issues in the press.' With the prices of 20th-century art rising so strongly over the past decade, it is little surprise that these disputes have become so heated." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Art Newspaper
On: 12/08/11
Website: http://www.theartnewspaper.com
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Search. Appreciate. Buy.
"Building an art collection often requires cultivating relationships with a global network of dealers, gaining an understanding of the art galaxy's internal politics, attending respected art fairs and auctions and, most importantly, educating oneself on the art of the art deal (or paying someone else to make the decisions).
It's intimidating turf to novices, even those who think they know what they like, but don't necessarily know if their paintings, sculptures, photographs and multimedia installations will appreciate in value.
But now, a steadily growing genre of online ventures is seeking to streamline the process for both beginners and established collectors, facilitating keyboard-click access to fine art." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Wall Street Journal
On: 12/10/11
Website: http://online.wsj.com
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Art.sy’s ‘Genome’ Predicts What Paintings You Will Like
"Cleveland and a team of art historians have spent the past year studying thousands of works and compiling a list of their distinct and measurable elements. The result is the Art Genome, composed at present of more than 550 'genes': attributes of fine art that range from the simply factual (the medium, the color palette) to the undeniably subjective (the 'movement' a work falls into, or its “subject matter”). Using these attributes, Art.sy’s recommendation engine can evaluate a piece on the fly and suggest relationships with other works, presenting those results on any device—even, eventually, a phone.
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By teasing out traits in artworks that link them together aesthetically and historically, Art.sy can draw on buyers’ own taste to suggest other works to them, in some cases circumventing (if not entirely dispensing with) the choices put forward by gallerists and critics. On Art.sy, a would-be collector can select a work of art and get presented with a range of 'similar' work, much of it for sale. And what this will represent in practice is not just more products to buy but—potentially—future geniuses to coronate." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Wired.com
On: 11/23/11
Website: http://www.wired.com
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