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Primary Season at the Modern - color colour callure
“Missing Time Color Exercise (Reversed) No. 2.” by Mike Kelley, 2002
Can anybody say “Wheel of Fortune”…juxtapose some comic illustrations some color chips and throw in the word sex and you’ve got a winner…
Today Karen Rosenberg in New York Times reviews the latest installment at MOMA “Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today.” “Color Chart” […] -
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Saatchi Showdown - Latest Head to Head
03.03.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsCheck out the latest Saatchi Showdown head to head, but be forewarned…Mores Rabenstern’s paper collage “Searching for New Ways” certainly looks like a search and an unfruitful one at that, as he seems to have stumbled upon creating a fashion ad circa a few years ago and if there is a concept in there i’m […]
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choose your own adventure - the whitney biennial
Excerpt from the NYT [link to story]
A Biennial Bustin’ Out of the Whitney
By CAROL VOGEL
Old mattresses springs
Crates of Ping Pong balls
Gallons of Gatorade
Boxes of twigs
Fragments of sidewalk grating
A Brooks Brothers suit
Artificial hair
Rolls of colored ribbon
A white cotton tent
Nine cots
This is not a shopping list for a Boy Scout adventure but a small sampling of materials […] -
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The People’s Artist, Herself a Work of Art
Excerpt from the New York Times [link to story]
February 29, 2008
Art Review
The People’s Artist, Herself a Work of Art
By HOLLAND COTTERPHILADELPHIA — You really should come down, a friend e-mailed me this summer from Mexico City. She meant, come down for the Frida Kahlo centennial, with a retrospective at the Palacio de Bellas Artes and […]
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Seductive Rebel Who Kept It Real
Excerpt from the New York Times [link to full story]
February 29, 2008
Art Review | Gustave Courbet
Seductive Rebel Who Kept It RealBy ROBERTA SMITH
At the moment the Metropolitan Museum of Art, always a paradise of painting, is more edenic than ever. In less than four weeks it has opened three large exhibitions, each devoted to […] -
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The Terrible Toll of Art Anxiety
Excerpt From the New York Times [link to story]
February 28, 2008
The Terrible Toll of Art Anxiety
By JOYCE WADLER
TEDDY GREENSPAN is a longtime art collector who does not suffer doubt. He is a bond salesman at Libertas Partners, in Greenwich, Conn., and he and his wife, Emily, recently created an art consulting company in Bedford, N.Y., […] -
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A Silken Mountain of Forgery
A Silken Mountain of Forgery
By MILES UNGER [link to story]
IN 1957 the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, snagged what appeared to be a rare masterpiece by the 10th-century Chinese painter Guan Tong. Not only was “Drinking and Singing at the Foot of a Precipitous Mountain” a spectacular example of the monumental landscape tradition — a […] -
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A Kingdom in the Mountains Shares Its Secrets
A Kingdom in the Mountains Shares Its Secrets
By SUSAN EMERLING
Published: February 24, 2008
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WHEN American curators arrived one spring morning at Norbugang Yu Lhakang, a Buddhist temple in a remote village in western Bhutan, they found a group of monks sitting on the floor in bright robes, chanting. They had been there since 6 […] -
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A Watercolorist Who Turned His Hand to Oils of Heroic Vision
Excerpted from The New York Times
A Watercolorist Who Turned His Hand to Oils of Heroic Vision
By KEN JOHNSON
Search the history of American art, and you will discover few watercolors more beautiful than those of Charles Demuth. Combining exacting botanical observation and loosely Cubist abstraction, his watercolors of flowers, fruit and vegetables have a magical liveliness […] -
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The Abstract Desert
02.25.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsInspired by Albuquerque: Diebenkorn’s Untitled, 1950
Richard Diebenkorn/Grey Art Gallery NYU
Excerpted from the Village Voice
The Abstract Desert
Recommendations
by R.C. Baker
February 19th, 2008 12:00 AM
For pure aesthetic pleasure, it’d be tough to top the 40 paintings and drawings that California artist Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993) completed during a stint in New Mexico from 1950 to 1952. Already a skilled […]
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