CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
Art collectors and philanthropists Vivian and David Campbell have pledged an additional $4 million to the Art Gallery of Ontario, raising their total support to the Toronto gallery's renovation to $5 million.
News & Observer (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
What does it take to make a uniquely memorable concert? Merely fine musicians, talented soloists and a knowledgeable leader, all committed to their tasks.
Eyeteeth: A journal of incisive ide (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Lowbrow Thomas Struth ? Tourists at Pisa doing their thing .
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
NEW YORK.- NEW YORK.- Christie's announced three important sales during its Photographs Week at Rockefeller Center this October. With viewings for all sales open to the public from October 9 -13, the three distinct sales will present collectors with the finest photographs from many of the 20th and 21st century's most important and influential artists. The combined total for all
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
LEIPZIG.- From 2008 to early 2010, the GfZK is dedicated to the topic of private commitment to art. Eleven private individuals and companies have been invited to present their activities in the form of exhibitions. Those involved are given carte blanche', i.e. it is left entirely up to them how they interpret the assignment and with which curators they want to work. In return, they cover all
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
By Madhusree Chatterjee New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) Can a photograph simultaneously convey a sense of distance and proximity? If it’s been taken by a student of prominent German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, it most certainly can - as is evident at an exhibition underway here. For Indians, who are viewing the works of the Becher [...]
Junk for Code (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
I know little about contemporary German photography apart from the work of Andreas Gursky and the landscape work of Michael Reisch. My impression is that photography in Germany is booming. What I do know that in the 1920s and early ‘30s German photography was dominated by two distinct approaches to...
The Guardian Art blog (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
Beginning a new series on the state of online photography collections, I discover that Britain has a lot to learn
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 03/24/2008
German photography has had an enormous impact in America in the past two decades, but the success of Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, and Thomas Ruff has eluded Michael Schmidt, who is having his first solo show in a New York gallery, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, at the age of sixty-two . . .
TABlog (Free subscription) | 02/27/2008
The retrospective of Taikan Yokoyama’s paintings at the National Art Center, seen on National Foundation Day make for an interesting picture to “watch”.
PhotoshopNews (Free subscription) | 12/19/2007
Source: Newsweek Written by Perter Plagens How is that even remotely possible? The medium certainly looks alive, well and, if anything, overpopulated. There are hordes of photographers out there, working with back-to-basics pinhole cameras and pixeled images measured in gigabytes, with street photography taken by cell phones and massive photo “shoots” whose crews, complexity and expense resemble [...]...
Idol Chatter (Free subscription) | 12/04/2007
This weekend the New York Times launched their Style Magazine "T" online and it's pretty fantastic. Their theme for the holiday issue, interestingly enough, is "Art and Soul." The articles include a gorgeous slideshow of photographs by Thomas Struth of...
View on Canadian Art (Free subscription) | 11/29/2007
Scott McFarland, Orchard View, Early Spring; Rubus discolour, Prunus nigra, Prunus serrulata, 2004. Image: monteclarkgallery.com In her review of the New Photography 2007 exhibition at New York's MoMA, the New York Times ' Martha Schwendener had this to say about Vancouver artist Scott MacFarland's work: Mr. McFarland's picture of a young family watching a keeper feed porcupines at the Berlin Zoo could...
Art News Blog (Free subscription) | 11/14/2007
After seeing the Sotheby's auction fizzle out last week, I thought record prices might have become a rare event. Of the 76 works on sale, 20 failed to find buyers, including this wheat field painting (pictured) by Vincent van Gogh . But a Christie's auction in New York has blown my theory of an auction slowdown out of the water. Among the artists that set new records for their work were Richard Prince,...
Dexigner Design Portal (Free subscription) | 09/20/2007
The Metropolitan Museum will inaugurate the Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography on September 25, 2007, establishing for the first time a gallery dedicated exclusively to photography created since 1960. With high ceilings, clean d
