-- Showtime: The musical "Ray Charles Live!," which first appeared at the Pasadena Playhouse in 2007, will open on Broadway in November with a new title, "Unchain My Heart, the Ray Charles Musical," a book by Pulitzer winner Suzan-Lori Parks and Sheldon Epps, artistic director of the financially troubled playhouse, at the helm. (Los Angeles Times)
-- Super sleuthing: Scientists hope to use DNA technology to solve one of the art world's great mysteries: what happened to ...
In photographs and, more recently, films, Judy Fiskin has for more than 30 years looked into the deep, perhaps bottomless chasm between the art world and the rest of the world. Witty and poignant, her work succeeds in part because it never grants a privilege to one side over the other. She plainly lives in both, and the art world and the rest of the world are both revealed to be irrevocably nuts.
At Angles Gallery, "Guided Tour" is her latest film, an 11 1/2-minute journey through a p...
THE HAGUE.- The Mauritshuis is displaying ten exceptional portraits of Arnhem?s Craeyvanger family until 16 January 2011. The paintings are the only known series of portraits of the members of a single family - father, mother and eight children - to have survived from the seventeenth century. The series? existence was relatively unknown until the paintings came up for auction in 2009. A private collection has lent the works to the Mauritshuis, where the unique ensemble are on display to the publ...
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Ai Weiwei is first artist from Asia Pacific to create installation in Tate’s Turbine Hall
Ai Weiwei, Remembering 2009, 2009
Prominent Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will be the next artist in the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall for the Unilever series (12 Oct 2010-25 Apr 2011). He will be the first artist from the Asia-Pacific region to undertake an installation there.
In the past year, Ai Weiwei has created the installations Remembering 2009, a memorial to schoolchildren who were victims in the 2008 Sic...
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Emilio Chapela, Digital Degradation, 2009, polyptych of 50 / inkjet on paper. Courtesy of EDS Galeria/Mexico City.
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If we think of an artist whose work analyzes our technological, media and internet-based society in a critical and challenging manner, the name of young Mexican artist Emilio Chapela Perez (1978, Mexico City) easily comes to mind. Communication, interpretation, and translation are key concepts in an original artistic practice that both formally and conceptually revolves ...
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The Rise of Victorian Paintings Pt. 3 – artmarketblog.com
Henry Herbert La Thangue's Leaving Home
Following the sale of the Koch collection in 1993, the next major sale of a collection of Victorian paintings came in 2003 when the Forbes collection was auctioned by Christie’s over a two day period. The Forbes collection, considered one of the 20th century’s most important collections of Victorian art, was put together by Malcolm and Christopher Forbes of the Forbes Magazine family. Malco...
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Online Auction to Benefit Exhibition Programming
Bid now through March 18 on nearly 200 works from the exhibition Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum. ...
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Art+Auction provides highlights works to look for at the famed photography show. ...
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LONDON.- Curators of the National Portrait
Gallery's new exhibition The Indian Portrait 1560-1860 - which opens on
March 11th - will reveal a six-foot, seventeenth-century life-size portrait
of the Emperor Jahangir which they claim is the largest painting to come from
the Mughal empire. Jahangir holding a globe, dating from 1617, is
opulently painted in gold and watercolour on cotton and includes relief
jewellery. Apart from its appearance in an auction-house catalogue in 1995,
the ep...
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Corey Haim, star of many 1980s teen comedies who was best known for his roles in "'Lucas'":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phXMs5yn76Y and "'The Lost Boys',":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMJXY3lYaSc has died from an apparent drug overdose. He was 38. Haim battled with drug abuse for most of his life.
"The Los Angeles Times":http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/ktla-corey-haim-obit,0,1628364.story reports that "Haim died at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday of an apparent accidental overdose, according to th...
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