The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announce that the museum has been awarded a $375,000 grant from the Getty Foundation for the implementation of its first online collection catalogue, featuring works by Robert Rauschenberg in the museum’s permanent collection. Robert Rauschenberg, Collection, 1954–55; oil, paper, fabric, wood, and metal on canvas; 80 x 96 x 3 1/2 in. (203.2 x 243.84 x 8.89 cm); Collection SFMOMA, gift of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson; © Estate of ... Read More
“Looking for P James” by Darren Burnham, published by Global Adjustments, is a refreshing book which gives insights of old Madras and New Chennai. Painting an affectionate and sometimes irreverent look at Chennai, the book talks about the city that we think we know and love so well. Complimenting the book, Darren Burnham made a flamboyant entry at the event dressed in South Indian ethnic attire and driven in a classic red car. “The book “Looking for P. James”, was release by Dr V ... Read More
Martin Gayford has been art critic of the Spectator and the Sunday Telegraph. He is currently chief European art critic for Bloomberg and lives in Cambridge with his wife and two children. “Constable in Love” is a romantic story about John Constable — one of the grand masters of English painting, fell in love with Maria Bicknell, granddaughter of a Suffolk country neighbour, Dr. Rhudde. The story begins with the description of Constable — his achievements and his family ... Read More
As Banksy winds up his residency at the Bristol Museum with crowds running round the block since it opened, a new book celebrating the astonishing success of the International Street Art scene has been published. These days it seems like it’s all big business, with the Hollywood glitterati embracing it. Brangelina spent £1m on a Banksy; and Jude Law, Christina Aguilera, Dennis Hopper and Keanu Reeves have all been seen at shows. However, Untitled keeps a firm grip on what’s happening on ... Read More
Children, landscape, lovers—these subjects are almost as common to the photographic lexicon as light itself. But Sally Mann’s take on these iconic themes, rendered through both traditional and esoteric processes, is anything but common. Astonishingly original both in image and technique, Mann’s work consistently challenges the viewer: in her hands, experiences drawn from daily life are rendered both disquieting and sublime. Now, having studied relationships between parent and child, ... Read More
Somewhere between the mid-1990s and mid-2000s, art dealers in New York reinvented themselves and changed the title of their occupation to ‘gallerist’,” writes Caroll Michels in the 6th edition of How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist: Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul, published in June 2009 by Henry Holt and Company. “The new title arrived with a set of rules regarding who can use the title and who cannot. . . Although the new title is pretentious and a less-than-subtle ... Read More
For the first time and marking UBERMORGEN.COM ‘s 10-year anniversary, a critical examination of the complete body of work of the artist duo lizvlx and Hans Bernhard is presented in the form of a 200 page book, which includes more than 200 color pictures. A highly varied assortment of critics, curators, and artists reflect on UBERMORGEN.COM’s border crossings in the channels of global mass media and on their radical actions above the abyss of the international art scene. It is ... Read More
In an authentic and unadorned way, these photos tell of a country that no longer exists, yet remains preserved in these images. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Ostzeit presents photo series by the best chroniclers of the German Democratic Republic, culled from the first-class inventory of the Ostkreuz Agency. Founded on the concept of authorship in 1990 by photographers fromBerlin and Leipzig, the agency was named after a Berlin train station. Anyone wanting to enter East ... Read More
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