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Up for Bid at Scope Hamptons (Artlog's Sat Event Featured) - Thank you NY Sun for the press for Sat's Event - which is nearly full. When fairgoers bid at the Scope Hamptons auction, they won't be raising their paddles for a painting by Damien Hirst or Takashi Murakami. They'll be bidding on something potentially far more valuable: wisdom.
Nish / about 14 hours ago / Bookmark / Flag
Sarah Thornton, Seven Days in the Art World - Early on in the often breezy travelogue about seven major art-world events, the author is seated at a glitzy auction at Christie’s New York. She recalls first the comment of an unnamed auction-house specialist who has described capricious collectors as "of-the-moment people who have a very plastic approach to their collection," and then a remark by a collector who likened choosing an auction house for one’s art sales to deciding on a plastic surgeon. "You want to go with someone you can trust."
Nish / about 14 hours ago / Bookmark / Flag
The Glass House
In this video RISD president John Maeda narrates a visit to Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan, CT. Maeda shares his impressions and talks about how it relates to his thoughts on simplicity. Meanwhile, we explore the site (there are actually several buildings on the property in addition to the Glass House), shot over a couple picture perfect spring days. (Thanks to Unbeige for bringing to our attention)
Nish / 1 day ago / Bookmark / Flag
Finding the Fab in Prefab - “Home Delivery” at MoMA recounts the history of mass-produced shelter as a shaggy tale of standardized cottages and eccentric prototypes elaborated with hyperrational lunacy. Here is Thomas Edison’s proto-Levittown of concrete mansionettes. There are Frank Lloyd Wright’s drawings for houses that could have been largely factory-made but never were. Visitors can walk through one of Lustron Corporation’s steel-walled locker homes from the forties. The space age brought fantasies of taking shelter in roving capsules such as David Greene’s Living Pod, a modern nomad’s tent shaped creepily like a giant heart. Buckminster Fuller makes an appearance with his Wichita House, a reminder to go see the Whitney’s full-bore tribute.
Nish / 2 days ago / Bookmark / Flag
A Crash Course in Glittery Celebrity Culture - Germany has long been funny about celebrity, which makes the show, "Pigozzi and the Paparazzi" at the Helmut Newton Foundation a particularly fascinating and revealing exercise.
Nish / 2 days ago / Bookmark / Flag
Pop Art Is Alive: Classics and Modern Artworks - As a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s, pop art aims to emphasize the nature of things popular in our daily routine. This post presents 75 outstanding examples of classic and modern pop art.
Nish / 2 days ago / Bookmark / Flag
List of the world’s most active collectors - ARTnews presents the 200 most active art collectors in the world. The top 10: Leon /Debra Black, Eli/Edythe Broad, Steven Cohen, Henry Kravis/ Marie-Josee, Ronald/Jo Caroline Lauder, Francois Pinault, Victor Pinchuk, Mitchell Rales, Carlos Slim Helu and Sheikh Saud al-Thani.
Nish / 3 days ago / Bookmark / Flag
American Idol for Art - it's happening on Bravo - It was just a matter of time before an art reality show so prepare youselves for American Idol for Art. . . It appears to be happening on Bravo spearheaded by Sarah Jessica Parker's production company. Aspiring artists compete to produce various styles of artwork, including painting, sculpting, etc., which is then judged by a panel of experts.
Nish / 3 days ago / Bookmark / Flag
Artist Turns Garbage Bags Into World's Greatest Balloon Animals - Using only tape and garbage bags, Harris creates giant inflatable animals that become animated when fastened to a sidewalk grate (VIDEO).
Nish / 5 days ago / Bookmark / Flag
Brooklyn Store Celebrates The Art Of Graffiti - Alphabeta is a new Brooklyn-based community art space that also sells graffiti art materials.The store is a single room on Greenpoint Avenue in Brooklyn. It features a larger outdoor space where murals can be painted on high walls and painted over and over again. Inside, there are racks of T-shirts, spray-painted hats and boxes of deadstock sneakers that were popular with graffiti and hip-hop artists in the 1980s and 90s.
Nish / 7 days ago / Bookmark / Flag
Art Auctions on Cruise Ships Lead to Anger - Auctioning “fine art” on cruises, often to first-time bidders, has become big business — but some customers say they did not get what they bargained for.
Nish / 8 days ago / Bookmark / Flag
Graffiti: Street art – or crime? - A group of south London graffiti artists were jailed last week for up to two years for defacing public property. Yet as they begin their sentences, their work is to be championed by a New York gallery.
Nish / 8 days ago / Bookmark / Flag
After Nature & Younger Than Jesus @New Museum
After Nature, a group show covering three floors at the New Museum on Bowery, opens to the public on Thursday, July 17th. The show is described as as "a hallucinated panorama of a world on the verge of disappearance." One would not have thought an exhibit on environmental ruin could be so fun... I particularly liked Maurizio Cattelan's headless horse (above), Zoe Leonard's barren tree, Berilinde De Bruyckere's rotting body and Eugene Von Buenchenhein's colorful explosions.
Coming to the New Museum in October is a survey of Elizabeth Payton's work and a retrospective of Mary Heilmann.
In exciting news for the Artlog artist community, in the Spring of 2009, the New Museum will host an international triennial for emerging artists entitled "Younger than Jesus."
Nish / 9 days ago / Bookmark / Flag
Bomb art explodes notions of peace and security - Robert Wilhite has reproduced "Fat Man," the nuclear bomb that the United States dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, 63 years ago. "I wanted something the opposite of heavy," Wilhite said. "I wanted it really light and transparent. I wanted something people would react to. I want people to think about their own values: 'It's beautiful, but wait a minute -- this is a weapon of mass destruction.' "
Nish / 9 days ago / Bookmark / Flag
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