Pinchuk Prize Shortlist Shortchanges Americans
Oligarch Victor Pinchuk’s eponymous Kiev-based foundation announced the shortlist for the first Future Generation Art Prize.
Last Chance to See Monet at Gagosian
Late Monet paintings, most of them depicting his garden and water lily pond, have been on view at Gagosian Gallery.
Detroit Institute of Arts to Sell Flag from Custer’s Last Stand
The Detroit Institute of Arts plans to sell a flag from the Battle of the Little Big Horn at Sotheby’s where it is estimated at $2-5 million.
Starn Twins’ Big Bambú May Travel after the Met
Since unveiling their rooftop installation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the twins Doug and Mike Starn have been deluged with invitations from organizations around the world seeking to replicate the popular piece. “It’s been amazing,” said Mike Starn, hanging out beneath Big Bambú, the bamboo structure that he and his brother designed. Interest has […]
Weston Naef Says Early Muybridge Photos Are Not by Muybridge
Modern Art Notes has an interview with Getty Museum curator emeritus of photographs Weston Naef that lays out reasons why pre-1872 photographs published by Eadweard Muybridge are likely the work of others. Naef notes that Muybridge had not learned photography when he returned to his native Britain from California in 1860. When he came back […]
Art Basel Tour by Camera [part 2]
Still wondering what was for sale at Art Basel? The fair may be closing, but for those who skipped this year it’s still useful and entertaining to see the offerings. Fortunately, art adviser Todd Levin has provided a follow-up to the first installment of his walk-through photo survey which covered the “blue chip” ground floor […]
What’s for Sale at Art Basel – Photo Survey by Todd Levin
A photo survey of offerings at Art Basel 2010.
Urs Fischer’s Magnficient Vanitas for Peter Brant
Urs Fischer art installation at Peter Brant Foundation in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Lincoln Center Arts Tours, Americans for the Arts Conference, National Trust for Historic Preservation’s New President
Across my desk… Lincoln Center Offers Art and Architecture Tours A decade ago, during a financial crunch, Lincoln Center considered selling Jasper Johns’ Numbers, a work that had graced the lobby of the New York State Theater for 35 years and had grown in value to $10-15 million. Unlike the New York Public Library, whose […]
Photo May Depict Slave Children in American South
A 19th-century photograph recently discovered in a Charlotte, NC moving sale portrays two children that may have been slaves. According to the Associated Press, it was acquired by Keya Morgan, a NY dealer and collector of Civil War-era artifacts. He paid $30,000 for an album containing the photo and $20,000 for a document dated 1854 […]
INterVIEW with LACMA Director Michael Govan [Part 3]: The Resnick Pavilion, Transforming the Campus, Rethinking Traditional Curatorial Departments, and Hot Topics in Art History
LACMA Director Michael Govan on Rethinking Traditional Curatorial Departments, Hot Topics in Art History, and Expanding the Museum.
Getty Trust president and CEO James Wood has died of natural causes
Getty Trust president and CEO James Wood has died at 69.
INterVIEW with LACMA Director Michael Govan [Part 2]: On New Media, Redefining Contemporary Art, and the Convergence of Film and Art in L.A.
LACMA Director Michael Govan on New Media, Contemporary Art, and the Convergence of Film and Art in L.A..
INterVIEW with LACMA Director Michael Govan [Part 1]: His Relationship with Eli Broad
Los Angeles County Museum of Art director Michael Govan on his relationship with Eli Broad.