Thanks to Artkrush for bringing this Washington Post article and the work to my attention. Not being a Klimt scholar, though definitely an admirer, I’m interested to hear that Beethoven Frieze (1902), the permanent, too-racy-for-early-20th C.-audiences work at Secession, gets a contextual reboot by Swiss artist Christoph Büchel.
The idea of moving a local sex club, […]
While not contemporary, the story about the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa is a fascinating episode of greed, conspiracy, secrets, lies, and more lies. An excerpt from the upcoming book, The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection, by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler appears in the May issue of Vanity […]
New York-based French artist Michel Auder will open his first Berlin solo show titled Heads of the Town today, Friday, February 6 at Aurel Scheibler. Borrowing liberally from his friend, the poet Jack Spicer, Auder interprets the title My Vocabulary Did This to Me to produce new work that “remains self-referential in its treatment of […]
Following last week’s news regarding several New York art institutions and their personnel shakeups, the NYTimes reports, both factually and critically, that “Thomas P. Campbell, 46-year-old English-born tapestries curator, [is] to succeed Philippe de Montebello as director and chief executive”of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
No one should be stunned or surprised that the Met’s selection […]
Rindy Sam, the French artist who was arrested for planting a crimson kiss on an all-white Cy Twombly canvas, has been ordered to pay 1,500 euros to the painting’s owner, as well as a symbolic £1 to Twombly himself.
The painting is worth about $2.8 million and the prosecution claimed that 30 different products have been […]
Rindy Sam claims that planting a luscious lipstick kiss on an all-white Cy Twombly painting was “an artistic act provoked by the power of art.” As her case goes to trial, the 30-year-old French artist will have to defend her swoon against a prosecution that wants her to pay a fine of 4500 euros (about […]
You should already know about Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years, the massive retrospective at the MoMA that opened June 3rd. Anyone and everyone has been nattering about it, but as the buzz subsides, what you have left is the cold, contemplative grandeur imposed on you by one of the last living and compelling late Modernists.
You […]
Join me at The New School this afternoon for a talk by my artistic heroes, Gilbert & George:
Legendary British duo Gilbert & George will discuss their remarkable artistic and personal collaboration over the last thirty-five years, from their early performance pieces to their large-scale photomontages, which have attracted both fierce controversy and enormous acclaim. This […]
Alan Riding from the NYTimes reports:
PARIS, Feb. 28 — Two important paintings by Picasso estimated by the police to be worth a total of about $66 million have been stolen from the Left Bank home of his granddaughter Diana Widmaier-Picasso, the authorities announced Wednesday.
Paris police officials said the two oils, “Maya With Doll†from […]
