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Hey NYC! Our SFMOMA Blue Bottle pastry chefs are taking your city by storm, popping up in MoMA and beyond. Get the whole scoop on their blog!
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Who’s seen Economics in Art at MOCAK in Krakow? Show is structured around issues such as value, ethics, and market forces.
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Modern Art Desserts
We sat down with Caitlin Freeman, pastry chef and author of Modern Art Desserts: Recipes for Cakes, Cookies, Confections, and Frozen Treats Based on Iconic Works of Art.
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Keith Haring
This 1982 work by Graffiti artist Keith Haring was, in fact, created with Day-Glo orange and green!
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Happy Birthday Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper, born on this day in 1936, wasn’t just an Academy Award-nominated actor, director, screenwriter, and notorious bad boy. He was also a visual artist who created acclaimed photographs, paintings, and prints.
Unsurprisingly, Hopper’s photographs have a casually cinematic quality to them, especially when he focused on his famous friends and fellow artists—such as portraits of James Rosenquist, Roy Lichtenstein, and Andy Warhol.
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The Anish Kapoor opening reception in Berlin’s Martin Gropius Bau
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At the opening of Anish Kapoor’s world of impressions, illusions and color at Berlin’s Martin Gropius Bau
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When in Paris, spending a few minutes here is a must (at Jardin des Tuileries)
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Time’s Pace
Susan Weil has been at the center of the New York art world since the 1950s. She came of age as an artist in the postwar period, studying under Josef Albers at Black Mountain College, alongside Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Cy Twombly. An innovative and influential member of the New York school, Weil embraces serious and playful elements in her work.
Now, New York’s Sundaram Tagore Gallery debuts her crumpled, cut, and refigured compositions. Incorporating wood veneer, painted Plexiglas, and various collage materials, Weil deconstructs and reconstructs images. Her dynamic assemblages hover between the abstract and concrete, and between painting and sculpture.
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Gallery hopping in Paris (at Galerie Christian Berst)
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Rainy days in Paris are a perfect time to get lost in the Louvre (at Musée du Louvre)
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Stopping Time
Capturing time is something that has fascinated photographers since the formal invention of the medium in 1826. Eadweard Muybridge’s pioneering magnum opus, Animal Locomotion (1884–1887), set the benchmark for those photographers, scientists, and inventors, who finally realized that stopping time with a camera was within reach.
We’re very excited to present Stopping Time: Capturing the Photographic Second, an inspiring sale on artnet Auctions, featuring the work of innovators such as Harold Eugene Edgerton, Berenice Abbott, and Gjon Mili, as well as Contemporary artists such as Adam Fuss and Matthew Pillsbury. -
Spotlight: Venice
Here’s another reason to visit Venice this year (as if we needed more convincing!). Taymour Grahne Gallery is celebrating the Middle Eastern Pavilions—Next year, the New York-based gallery is having solo show with three of the artists participating in the 55th art extravaganza: Mohammed Kazem, Camille Zakharia, and Tarek Al Ghoussein.
Dubai-born artist Mohammed Kazem, who is part of the “second generation” of Emirati Contemporary artists and a protégé of Hassan Sharif, is representing the UAE. This year will mark the third time the UAE has been represented at the Venice Biennial and the first time it is presenting a solo show in its pavilion.
Camille Zakharia is one of the artists representing Bahrain this year. His work, Coastal Promenades, was part of the Bahrain Pavilion for the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, for which Bahrain received the Golden Lion award.
Artist Tarek Al Ghoussein has been tapped to represent the National Pavilion of Kuwait. The pavilion will be housed in Palazzo Michiel, a historic palazzo in Venice’s Cannaregio sestiere!
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China Guardian
As one of the most anticipated sales of the Chinese auction season, China Guardian concluded its 5-day spring auction of Fine Art, antiques, and jewellery yesterday in Beijing, with a combined total of 2.57 billion RMB (418.5 million USD). The result is close to a 25% increase from the same time last year, giving the market hope of a slow revival after a year of correction in 2012.
Check out some of the top selling lots.
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Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons just unveiled his first large-scale New York City appearance in 10 years. The unrivaled event of the spring art season, his shows at David Zwirner and Gagosian, are a roaring success!
We’re featuring the man of the moment in our Contemporary Art online auction.
