Book Soup Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the late 1950’s when America was looking at New York as the art capital of the world, Los Angeles was doing things their own way – for instance The Ferus Gallery. Started by visionary Walter Hopps and artist Ed Keinholtz with Art dealer Irving Blum jumping in the second half of its history, the Ferus was responsible for introducing artists Robert Irwin, Ed Ruscha, Larry Bell and Wallace...
New Jersey Poets and Poetry (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Gerald Stern at the Lambertville Public Library this Sunday 11/15 Gerald Stern at the Lambertville Public Library tomorrow, Sunday November 15th, 3 – 5 pm. Reading from his recently released book: "What I Can't Bear Losing: Notes from a Life". – a series of separate essays, almost a memoir. There is an essay about Stern's friendship with Allen Ginsberg, one on Andy Warhol, one...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The sale of his 1962 painting “200 One Dollar Bills” for $43.7 million on Wednesday confirmed yet again that Andy Warhol was the daddy of the contemporary art world.
The WOW Report (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
This 1962 seven-and-a-half-foot-wide Andy Warhol silkscreen 200 One-Dollar Bills was sold at Sotheby's in New York last night to an anonymous bidder for $43.8 million, three times its estimate and 100 times the $385,000 that previous owner Pauline Karpida paid for it in 1986. Its very first owner (after Warhol), art collector Robert C Scull, bought it in '62 directly from Warhol's dealer while the...
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
-- Worth a fortune: Andy Warhol's 1962 painting "200 One Dollar Bills" has sold for $43.8 million at a Sotheby's auction, helping the auction house to beat estimates for the evening. (Art Info) -- Moving up: Penelope Curtis has been...
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
NEW YORK - A painting by pop artist Andy Warhol, "200 One Dollar Bills," brought $43.8 million at auction, more than three times its highest presale estimate of...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
It would be too strong to say that Harper Simon's gorgeous debut album is false advertising for his live shows, but anyone expecting him to sound like the record was probably disappointed Wednesday night at the Andy Warhol Museum. Simon's debut sounds like a long-lost solo album by his father Paul, with flowing melodies, poetic lyrics and Harper's breezy delivery. But that polish wasn't there, maybe...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Sotheby's successful contemporary art sale on Wednesday in New York included $43.76 million for a graphic work in silkscreen ink and pencil on canvas by Andy Warhol.
PGH is a City (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
People often talk about the legacy of Pittsburgh as its long-dead rich benefactors or its old buildings or its steel or even Andy Warhol. My favorite Pittsburgh legend, though, is August Wilson . Until I moved to Pittsburgh, I had no idea who he was. Though I'd walked by the August Wilson Theater on Broadway, I hadn't given its name a thought. Then, I went to see "Two Trains Running" at the...
BLDGBLOG (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
[Image: The multiple-shadow casting cube by Niloy Mitra and Mark Pauly]. Spotted via New Scientist is this amazing new computer model that allows designers to create objects based on the multiple and highly specific shadows those objects will cast when lit from different angles. Seen above is one, relatively mundane example of the technology, by Niloy Mitra and Mark Pauly : three paintings by Andy...
Curbed (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
[PriceUpper at the Dusenberry estate, via Corcoran ] 1) Late ad legend Phil Dusenberry's North Haven home thudded onto the market in late October to the tune of $18 million. But instead of making like the market and PriceChopping, it upped its price today to $25 million . The listing for the 6,800-square-foot, 5BR, 6.5BA home advertises its pool, positioned so that the resident won't have to look...
Woodland Pattern (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
& Joe Amato Once an Engineer $24.95 Arthur C. Danto Andy Warhol $24.00 Nona Willis Aronowitz & Emma Bee Bernstein Girl Drive $19.95 & Restocks from Godine/Black Sparrow: Don't have $150 for the Collected Larry Eigner? Larry Eigner Windows/Walls/Yard/Ways $14.95 Larry Eigner Waters/Places/A Time $12.95 & John Wieners Cultural Affairs in Boston $15.00 John Wieners Selected Poems $15.95...
Onward State (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Polaroid cameras may have been discontinued, but their pictures still hold a legacy. The Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy program was started by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in 2007. The program, which donated 28,500 of Warhol’s Polaroids to various educational institutions, was designed, in the foundation’s own words, “to provide even greater [...]
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Andy Warhol would have appreciated the gesture: On May 23, 1989, as student protests raged, Lu Decheng and two other men hurled 30 paint-filled eggs at the immense portrait of Mao Zedong that dominates Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. But in Deng Xiaopeng’s China, poli-art stunts weren’t mere blog fodder: The gag stranded Lu in prison for almost a decade, cost him his wife...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
"So we take our hats off today to New York's Museum of Modern Art for its ability to have a chuckle at its own expense. The institution has tweeted a recent blog post featuring a rejection letter that the museum sent to Andy Warhol in 1956."...
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art and you | 09/10/2008
A few months ago, Audi launched its new car. The TV ad miraculously succeeded in reminding not only of Andy Warhol but also of Andreas Gursky and Katarina Fritsch... http://www.art-and-you.com/article_203_artvertising_10.html
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