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Luxist (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Architecture lovers and foodies come together in a new package that combines a private tour of the P hilip Johnson Glass House site in New Canaan, Connecticut with a three-course dinner at the Four Seasons Restaurant in New York. This exclusive package is available for $400 per person and includes a two-hour tour with access to five Johnson-designed structures - Glass House, Painting Gallery, Sculpture...
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Top ART News (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
PARIS -- A rt aficionados have gathered in "The City of Light" this week for the 36th annual FIAC ("Foire internationale d'art contemporain"), the most prestigious contemporary art fair in France. Following on the heels of London's Frieze Art Fair last week, Paris' FIAC is hoping to capitalize on the momentum of this year's reported upswing in art sales achieved at the Frieze....
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Luxist (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The big money's in Paris this season . Last night, a $24 million painting by Pablo Picasso of his mistress, Marie-Therese Walter, was put on reserve at the VIP preview of the Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain . The FIAC is France's largest art fair, and it follows the Frieze Art Fair in London. The French fair hopes to capitalize on Frieze's momentum, where dealers indicated that sales were...
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arkitectoniq (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
» 3200 Darnell St, Fort Worth, TX - (817) 738-9215 [ map ] The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (widely referred to as The Modern) was first granted a Charter from the State of Texas in 1892 as the "Fort Worth Public Library and Art Gallery", evolving through several name changes and different facilities in Fort Worth. The mission of the museum is "collecting, presenting...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Renoir in the 20th Century, an exhibition focusing on the last three decades of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s career, until his death in 1919. The exhibition presents approximately 80 paintings, sculptures, and drawings by Renoir, interspersed with select works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Aristide Maillol, and Pierre Bonnard,...
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The Eastside View (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
J UST FOR THE hell of it, and because Marcel Duchamp's final work Given: 1st the waterfall; 2nd the illuminating gas is in the news these days, and because I'm working up thoughts on Duchamp for an exhibition to open next month at the Slaughterhouse in Healdsburg, here's a short piece I wrote about after seeing the Duchamp centennial exhibition in Philadelphia in 1987. I apologize to those who know...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
The pope plans to meet up to 500 artists from around the world in November as part of efforts to turn the page on the Vatican's sometimes troubled relationship with the contemporary art world. The Vatican said the gathering, to be held at the Sistine Chapel on 21 November, was intended as the first step towards a "new and fertile alliance between art and faith". The director of the Vatican...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
Bagdad, Iraq - It was presented as a coup for the Iraqi authorities – the seizure of a stolen Pablo Picasso from a village hawker who had no idea that his loot was priceless.Tuesday's raid by the Iraqi army's special forces unit in a town south of Baghdad was also seen as a diplomatic success , a rare chance for Iraq to mend a bridge burned by Saddam Hussein in 1990 when his forces returned...
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Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
Iraqi security forces have secured a purported Pablo Picasso painting believed stolen from a Kuwaiti museum during the 1990 invasion, the Times of London reports. Only it’s probably not a Picasso. “It bears absolutely no relation to any Picasso that I can think of,” says one expert. Iraqi forces obtained ...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
DURHAM, NC.- Pablo Picasso's lifelong relationship with writers and the ways language affected his work is the focus of a unique exhibition coming to the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. “Picasso and the Allure of Language” includes 60 works created by Picasso between 1900 and 1969, four years before his death at age 91. The Nasher Museum is the second and final venue for the exhibition,...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 07/17/2009
"Picasso's cold war career as a highly political painter, peace campaigner and tireless fundraiser for leftwing causes will be revealed in an exhibition at Tate Liverpool next spring that will include letters from world leaders, including Nelson Mandela and Ho Chi Minh, as well as a telegram from Fidel Castro congratulating the artist on being awarded the Soviet Union's international peace prize."...
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Art News Blog (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
Art crime is big business with an estimated $6 billion in losses annually! Here's a list of the FBI's Top 10 art crimes at the moment.. Iraqi Looted and Stolen Artifacts - The significant Statue of Entemena was recovered in 2006 but there are still many pieces missing. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft - Thieves stole as much as $300 million worth of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
"A painting by Claude Monet and one by Pablo Picasso sold for 12.1 million pounds combined ($20 million) at Christie's International in London last night as the auction market for Impressionist art contracted 74 percent. Christie's 44-lot sale tallied 37.1 million pounds with fees, just above the low estimate of 36.85 million pounds, based on hammer prices."...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
A sketchbook containing 33 drawings by Pablo Picasso, estimated to be worth between $8.4 million and $14 million, has been stolen from a Paris museum, officials said Tuesday. Thieves seized the crayon drawings, dated 1917 to 1924, from a first-floor exhibition room of the Picasso National Museum in central Paris sometime between Monday and Tuesday. Two paintings by Picasso estimated to be worth a total...
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