Art world star gives back by buying work of the undiscovered

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Line sculptures and Loman drama: The best of L.A. arts and culture this weekend

LA Times

A huge hello to everyone who included “seeking out more of Los Angeles’ arts and culture offerings” among their 2025 resolutions. THURSDAY Four Seasons & Strauss Carl St.Clair conducts the Pacific Symphony in Antonio Vivaldi’s violin concerti and Richard Strauss’ majestic “Alpine Symphony.” 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. “Pippa Garner has satire down pat — that’s no mean feat, given …

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

Moulding artists for more than five decades

The Hindu

As you drive on East Coast Road, you will spot a signboard guiding you down a lane that opens up into a creative commune: Cholamandal artists village. The campus includes a centre for contemporary art which hosts a museum for artists involved in the Madras art movement and commercial art gallery, open air theatre, Indigo & Labernum gallery for guest …

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3 weeks, 2 days ago

American artist paints self into images of life abroad

China Daily

US artist Augustina Droze's solo exhibition Resplendent Rebirth kicks off on the first floor of Waldorf Astoria Beijing on Tuesday. Augustina Droze's solo exhibition Resplendent Rebirth kicked off on the first floor of the Waldorf Astoria Beijing on Tuesday. Born in the United States in 1981, Droze combines her personal experiences with animal and plant symbolism to create richly colored …

Chinese

1 month ago

Review: Photorealist painting finally gets due respect. MOCA shows the ‘work’ in each ‘work of art’

LA Times

In the late 1960s and early ‘70s, Photorealist painters used photographs as their subject. MOCA’s new show, “Ordinary People,” explores the underappreciated quality of the work, as well as its legacy. The show includes potent new works, including Cynthia Daignault’s provocative “Twenty-Six Seconds,” a monumental meditation of the famous Zapruder film of JFK’s murder. At the Museum of Contemporary Art, …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

A bumper crop of art is hitting the New York auction market. Will Trump help?

CNN

New York CNN — A banana duct-taped to a wall first sold in 2019 for $120,000. Alex Glauber, founder of AWG Art Advisory and president of the Association of Professional Art Advisors, told CNN that Trump’s victory is “likely to inject some vigor and momentum back into the market.” That’s because many of the former president’s policies in his first …

Art Market Trump Interest Rates Auction New York Rates

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Trade week paints a positive outlook

China Daily

ART021, another key fair for the week, sees Shanghai's art market picking up momentum. Art021, another important fair for the art week, received more than 60,000 visitors from Nov 7 to Sunday at the Shanghai Exhibition Center, where 131 galleries and institutions presented exhibitions from 43 cities in 20 countries and regions. ART021 sees Shanghai's art market picking up momentum, …

Art Shanghai Ubs

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Trade week paints a positive outlook

China Daily

ART021, another key fair for the week, sees Shanghai's art market picking up momentum. Art021, another important fair for the art week, received more than 60,000 visitors from Nov 7 to Sunday at the Shanghai Exhibition Center, where 131 galleries and institutions presented exhibitions from 43 cities in 20 countries and regions. ART021 sees Shanghai's art market picking up momentum, …

Art Shanghai Ubs Positive Outlook

1 month, 3 weeks ago

From anime to fine art: Japan's Yoshitaka Amano is celebrated with a major retrospective

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy In a career spanning more …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Why artists need to master the business of creativity

Salon

When my first viral piece hit, a story about what I called a "F**k Off Fund," a friend sent me a photo with a message: "Tell me they got your permission." It was a photo of a billboard at the Cannes film festival, part of a series imagining a better future, and it said, "In the future, every woman will …

World Work Come My Bank Account

4 months, 1 week ago

Gallerist brings Uruguayan art to Beijing

China Daily

Uruguayan curator and gallerist Diana Saravia introduces Carlos Presto’s art to guests at the opening of Games of Illusion at the Uruguayan Art Space in Beijing’s 798 art district on Aug 20, 2024. Presto's paintings are on display at his solo exhibition Games of Illusion at the Uruguayan Art Space in Beijing's 798 art district until Sept 20, offering Chinese …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Gallerist brings Uruguayan art to Beijing

China Daily

Uruguayan curator and gallerist Diana Saravia introduces Carlos Presto’s art to guests at the opening of Games of Illusion at the Uruguayan Art Space in Beijing’s 798 art district on Aug 20, 2024. Presto's paintings are on display at his solo exhibition Games of Illusion at the Uruguayan Art Space in Beijing's 798 art district until Sept 20, offering Chinese …

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5 months ago

Prateek Kuhad: It’s both a good and bad time today for music

Hindustan Times

Social media has disrupted the music scene forever across the globe. And while it has it’s pros, there’s a set of cons too, and Prateek Kuhad has identified it. Prateek Kuhad Talk to him about his take on what’s happening today, and he says, “I think it is both a good and bad time today in certain ways for music.” …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Ann Philbin: Risk-taking, made-in-L.A. arts leader

LA Times

Ann Philbin, photographed at the Los Angeles Times in El Segundo on Nov. 6. The Los Angeles art world is still reeling — eight months after the fact — from the news that Ann Philbin, longtime director of the Hammer Museum at UCLA, is retiring at the end of this year. Along with the Hammer Projects series, it has shined …

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7 months ago

Scientists and artists create live art based on groundbreaking research

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Working with artists to create paintings based on research is a …

Art London Research Work Health Check What Kind Live Art

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Vincent Namatjira says he 'paints the world as he sees it' in response to Gina Rinehart portrait controversy

ABC

In short: Archibald Prize winner Vincent Namatjira released a statement responding to reports Gina Rinehart had requested the removal of his portrait from the National Gallery. Archibald Prize winner Vincent Namatjira released a statement responding to reports Gina Rinehart had requested the removal of his portrait from the National Gallery. Archibald Prize winner Vincent Namatjira said not everyone had to …

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8 months ago

Frank Stella, artist renowned for blurring the lines between painting and sculpture, dies at 87

Hindustan Times

NEW YORK — Frank Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works are hailed as landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction art movements, died Saturday at his home in Manhattan. Born May 12, 1936, in Malden, Massachusetts, Stella studied at Princeton University before moving to New York City in the late 1950s. Over the next decade, Stella's …

New York Stella

8 months ago

Frank Stella, artist renowned for blurring the lines between painting and sculpture, dies at 87

New Indian Express

NEW YORK: Frank Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works are hailed as landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction art movements, died Saturday at his home in Manhattan. Born May 12, 1936, in Malden, Massachusetts, Stella studied at Princeton University before moving to New York City in the late 1950s. Over the next decade, Stella’s works …

New York Stella

8 months, 2 weeks ago

The rise and fall of ‘the biggest art scammer in history’ Inigo Philbrick

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. But as the lies piled up and the cash ran dry, the picture Philbrick had …

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10 months ago

Art Dubai: Taming the digital

The Hindu

The world became one in the smallest, darkest room at Madinat Jumeirah last week — and it happened because of AI. For four days at Art Dubai, Canadian-Korean digital artist Krista Kim stood inside Heart Space, an immersive installation within a mirror-panelled room with four podiums and a giant LED screen. Heart Space is the latest invention born of Kim’s …

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10 months, 1 week ago

What Dennis Rodman, Kate Moss and a 5,000-year-old Alpine iceman have in common

LA Times

Book Review Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings By Matt Lodder William Collins: 352 pages, $21.99 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Matt Lodder’s “Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Curating talent

China Daily

The creative duo of Gan Yingying and Zhou Yichen after receiving the curatorial award for photography and moving image. So, aspiring young curators, especially those working with lens-based art, rejoiced when the prestigious Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival set up the Curatorial Award for Photography and Moving Image in 2021. Co-initiated in 2015 by the Three Shadows Photography Art …

Art Photography China Moving

10 months, 3 weeks ago

Curating talent

China Daily

The creative duo of Gan Yingying and Zhou Yichen after receiving the curatorial award for photography and moving image. So, aspiring young curators, especially those working with lens-based art, rejoiced when the prestigious Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival set up the Curatorial Award for Photography and Moving Image in 2021. Co-initiated in 2015 by the Three Shadows Photography Art …

Art Photography China Moving

10 months, 3 weeks ago

Curating talent

China Daily

The creative duo of Gan Yingying and Zhou Yichen after receiving the curatorial award for photography and moving image. So, aspiring young curators, especially those working with lens-based art, rejoiced when the prestigious Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival set up the Curatorial Award for Photography and Moving Image in 2021. Co-initiated in 2015 by the Three Shadows Photography Art …

Art Photography China Moving

10 months, 3 weeks ago

Curating talent

China Daily

The creative duo of Gan Yingying and Zhou Yichen after receiving the curatorial award for photography and moving image. So, aspiring young curators, especially those working with lens-based art, rejoiced when the prestigious Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival set up the Curatorial Award for Photography and Moving Image in 2021. Co-initiated in 2015 by the Three Shadows Photography Art …

Art Photography China Moving

11 months ago

How the art world excludes you and what you can do about it

NPR

How the art world excludes you and what you can do about it Enlarge this image toggle caption Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images When Bianca Bosker told people in the art world she'd be writing a tell-all about their confounding, exclusive ecosystem, "bad idea," they responded. toggle caption DIMIN Rob Dimin, another gallery owner Bosker worked for, does not …

Art World Museum Artist Think Gallery Bosker

1 year ago

It's Time To Democratize The Art World For Mexican Artists

Huff Post

Now famous for its lavish parties, celebrity sightings and deep-pocketed collectors, Art Basel Miami has evolved into a full-blown cultural phenomenon. After seven editions in hubs ― such as Miami; Marfa, Texas; and Oaxaca, Mexico ― the pandemic led Martinez to transform the platform into Anónimo Collectivo, a creative cultural agency, that she says “collaborates with brands that want to …

World Mexico Martinez Oaxaca Mexican Artists Maestro Dobel

1 year, 1 month ago

China’s top art fairs are finally back, testing appetite of the rich

Hindustan Times

China’s biggest art fairs are back in a first post-Covid test of collectors’ appetite, at a time when the economy is facing multiple headwinds. “It is true that sometimes in economic downturn, collectors can see buying certain art as a way to hedge against risk, but that can also lead to the readjustment of valuation,” said Kejia Wu, art historian …

Art China Market Chinese Shanghai Collectors Works

1 year, 2 months ago

The Alfredo Boulton exhibit at the Getty is a nostalgic dive into Venezuelan art

LA Times

The Getty Research Institute has curated a noteworthy exhibition exploring Venezuela’s many cultural dimensions through the lenses of a champion of its art. “Alfredo Boulton: Looking at Venezuela, 1928–1978” is a retrospective that takes visitors on a journey of identity, culture and transformation. Curated using the expansive collection from Alfredo Boulton’s archive, which was acquired by the Getty Research Institute …

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55 years ago

The Afrobeats star on a mission to raise the profile of African art

CNN

London CNN — It was a painting in the lobby of a Benin hotel last year that changed the way Afrobeats star Mr Eazi thought about art. And I realized that visual arts could really represent the emotions in songs.” The encounter kickstarted a desire in Mr Eazi to take listeners “beyond music,” and create a “multi-sensory experience” for his …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Artists want complete control over their public exhibitions. Governments say it’s not that simple

Associated Press

PHOENIX — If things had gone as originally planned, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum would be launching its fall exhibition Friday. “Mesa’s intent is to emerge stronger out of this postponement, and we need to take our time to ensure we are putting the right processes in place,” the city said in a statement. I said, ‘OK, I’ll switch them out.” …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Review: Two rewarding MOCA permanent collection exhibits map L.A. art — and the museum’s limits

LA Times

In 1976, when he was 30, David Lamelas moved to Los Angeles. The result is one fulcrum for “Mapping an Art World: Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s,” a show that is one of two rewarding current exhibitions drawn from the celebrated permanent collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art. In a way, that’s the ultimate subject of “Mapping …

Art World Museum California Artists Los Angeles

1 year, 4 months ago

Grayson Perry on popularity, pottery and class: ‘I still enjoy looking for discomfort in the faces of the overeducated’

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Like it hasn’t occurred to the artist that anyone …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Pedro Pascal artist ‘would love’ Hollywood star to return to Margate exhibition

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A local artist said it would be “very special” if …

Love Exhibition Star Artist Course Gallery Pedro Pascal

1 year, 5 months ago

‘We can’t pay our rent.’ Actors on the picket line reveal harsh reality of trying to make it in Hollywood

LA Times

Of the thousands of striking film and television actors who are members of SAG-AFTRA, vanishingly few will ever see their name on the marquee of a multiplex or listed at No. “You have a few megastars that are really raking it in,” says Greenquist, who recently played the late tennis announcer Bud Collins in the film “King Richard.” “But there …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Are millennial buyers re-shaping the art market?

The Hindu

A blue bubble-gum blowing Freida Kahlo encased in a 12-inch, pristine white frame; or a time-travelling ‘art astronaut’ donning Van Gogh’s famously teal-coloured ‘Almond Blossom’ except in vivid pink hues holding a balloon; or a melded cross-section of comic book covers and film posters: are these India’s answer to pop art? “A small number of young collectors spent significant amounts …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Review: A Getty show of Giacomo Ceruti’s 18th-century paintings reveals much about our modern wealth gap

LA Times

The unconventional 18th-century Italian Baroque painter Giacomo Ceruti, who is not well-known, is a strange amalgam of two usually separate artistic traditions. Ceruti’s brushwork adds an unexpected note of luxuriousness to “Beggar”, a picture of a bearded, gray-haired man adorned in clothing made of a staggeringly complex patchwork. Getty curator Davide Gasparotto, who organized the exhibition, is careful to note …

Genre Man Painting Getty Hand Paintings Portrait

1 year, 5 months ago

The ‘cheerleaders’ of the art world

The Hindu

Art auctions aren’t unlike the stock market. Expanding the oeuvre “I think it is important as a collector to not just go ‘wide’ by buying lots of art from various artists, but also to go deep and follow an artist’s journey,” says Natasha Jeyasingh, curatorial lead for digital art platform TheUpsideSpace. The commitment and synergy of the many stakeholders — …

Art India Indian Work Artists Chopra Artist

1 year, 6 months ago

Why aren’t more artist x artisan collaborations acknowledged?

The Hindu

Waswo X. Waswo’s solo booth at the 2023 India Art Fair caused a bit of a stir. While his intent — to incorporate the traditional arts, which have become craft because of repetition without innovation, into contemporary art — is encouraging, he shares that “if the traditional artists begin imitating our innovations and supplying replicas of these paintings, then this …

Art Painting Artists Artist Works Artisan Artisans

1 year, 6 months ago

A renegade who used the past to envision the future

China Daily

Shaded Dwellings among Streams and Mountains by Dong Qichang, in which the painter was "breaking down pictures in the same way that the cubist did", to quote curator Joseph Scheier-Dolberg. "The compositions are a little bit outrageous — they feel very unstable, very broken-down," the expert of ancient Chinese painting and calligraphy reflects. And that's why Scheier-Dolberg has included this …

Dong

1 year, 6 months ago

A renegade who used the past to envision the future

China Daily

Shaded Dwellings among Streams and Mountains by Dong Qichang, in which the painter was "breaking down pictures in the same way that the cubist did", to quote curator Joseph Scheier-Dolberg. "The compositions are a little bit outrageous — they feel very unstable, very broken-down," the expert of ancient Chinese painting and calligraphy reflects. And that's why Scheier-Dolberg has included this …

Dong

1 year, 7 months ago

Paedophiles, abusers… and selfish mothers? Why cancelling artists is half the problem

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “What place can there be in such deplorable conditions …

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1 year, 9 months ago

The market for Picassos may be about to turn

Hindustan Times

Artists rarely create more than 5,000 works over a lifetime. But in the midst of what one commentator calls the “Picassopalooza” around the 50th anniversary of the artist’s death, dealers and auction houses are nervous that the long bull market may be about to turn. An employee works poses with an artwork entitled 'Fillette au bateau ' by Pablo Picasso, …

Art Auction Picasso Picassos

1 year, 9 months ago

Drawing inspiration from the mountains and the power of the crowd

Live Mint

Artists often create in solitude, in personal studios or a dedicated space where there is little distraction and disturbance. “Barriers come down and artists can talk about their work far more comfortably than if they were to make an appointment to meet a peer or a critic in their formal workspace,” said Anirudh Chari, the curator of Chitrashaala, since its …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Commentary: Now hiring! Low-profile art world family seeks personal assistant

LA Times

Did you hear about that so-called worst job ever that’s gone viral? The one posted by an anonymous New York-based “Art World Family” seeking an employee to help run a household staff that includes “chef, nannies, landscapers, dog walkers, housekeeper, contractors, and building managers”? For our Art World Family, this means my husband, me and — well, I guess that’s …

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1 year, 10 months ago

New York ‘art world family’ sparks backlash with personal assistant job ad

The Independent

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1 year, 10 months ago

The Take: The faces of Frieze Los Angeles’ buzzy 2023 opening

LA Times

The Frieze Los Angeles art fair kicked off Thursday morning with an early VIP breakfast at the Museum of Flying. “And, of course, always seeing new artists and what’s hot and happening in the art world is exciting.” Racquel Chevremont stands in front of work by artist Emil Lukas at the Frieze art fair on Thursday. And that’s what I’m …

Art Work Focus Venice New York Artists Los

1 year, 11 months ago

What did Monet, Goya and Matisse have in common? Their late work was among their best

LA Times

On the Shelf Last Light: How Six Great Artists Made Old Age a Time of Triumph By Richard Lacayo Simon & Schuster: 384 pages, $35 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. The former Time magazine art critic’s latest book, “Last Light: How Six Great Artists …

Art Light Work Young Artists Old Old Age

1 year, 11 months ago

Art | Agents of change: six women artists discuss their canvas and worldview

The Hindu

A couple of years ago, Laurence des Cars was named the head of Louvre. As Priya Khanchandani, head of curatorial at The Design Museum in London, says, “We have a long way to go, but there are more opportunities than before for a positive change, and untold stories to tell, which makes the arts sector a dynamic place to be …

Art India London Women World Change South Asia

2 years ago

Artist Sonika Agarwal's exhibition explores the unity of science and divinity, light and dark

Firstpost

Artist Sonika Agarwal has been working in the field for the past 15 years. Her primary mediums include oil and acrylics on canvas, as well as charcoal and watercolors on paper Art has always been a medium to let out and artist Sonika Agarwal knows how to start the year by stirring cosmic energies through her artworks. A collection of …

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2 years ago

‘Copying is part of the process’: NFN Kalyan on AI and art

The Hindu

“AI in art represents a democratisation of process,” says No-First-Name Kalyan, a Miami-based artist. Besides investigating NFTs, he has recently started creating on Midjourney, and his AI experiments — especially a sci-fi ‘History of India’ series, where he envisions what would have happened to India if it had been occupied by aliens rather than the British — has become extremely …

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