In the build-up to the Saatchi Gallery's new exhibition, The Empire Strikes
Back: Indian Art Today, which opens on January 29, there has been much
hopeful talk about how it will revive the fortunes of the market for
contemporary Indian art. ...
No elephant dung, no glitter, no textured, collaged surfaces. It's all a bit of a shock. But do we like Ofili's new work?I'd seen some of Chris Ofili's new work in the lavish new Rizzoli book he has helped put together. Even so, after walking past so many greatest hits and old friends in the galleries at London's Tate Britain, where his latest career survey opens to the public tomorrow, I got a jolt when I walked into the final pair of rooms, filled with his most recent work. In the first, the p...
Don't Hate! Chris (1982, Calgary, Canada) what drew you into the graffiti, cartoons & children's books world? Well cartoons and childrens books were a big part of growing up, for most people id assume. That just stuck with me over the ......
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Published 26-Jan-10
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The Premiums is an annual exhibition of contemporary work by second year students studying at the Royal Academy Schools. ...
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Published 15-Jan-10
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Slate magazine reports on the new Jay-Z video for On to the Next One, in which the hip-hop artist returns to his shtick of making visual and lyrical references to contemporary art. This time it’s Damien Hirst’s For the Love of God. In the highly slick film by director Sam Brown, a replica of the diamond-encrusted skull has black paint slowly doused over it.
Jay-Z knows his art: he tweets about hanging with Gagosian, rhymes about Warhol and Basquiat and has featured works by Murakami in previous...
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Published 15-Jan-10
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By Oliver Basciano
For those raised on a diet of contemporary art and all the louche hubbub that surrounds it, entering the London Art Fair is like stepping into a malfunctioning time machine that only ever delivers you back to Cork Street circa the early twentieth century. A quick twirl of the main hall and concentration drifts away from the nicest of nice paintings on sale to the fashions, genteel gossip and guffawing of gallery staff born exclusively of Britain’s public school system, direct...
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Published 14-Jan-10
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Jeffrey Deitch, via Los Angeles Times.
One aspect of Jeffrey Deitch’s startling appointment to the director’s post at L.A. MoCA that’s undeniably positive: it’s shining a harsh light on the role played by glitz, commercialism, business savvy and showmanship in today’s art museum–not to mention the contemporary art world as a whole. The appointment of a commercial gallery director to this top Museum post has put the issue front-and-center, fueling a much-needed public debate that’s taking place i...
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Published 14-Jan-10
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Installation view Slow and Steady Wins the RacePratt Manhattan GalleryPhoto: Harry Zernike Photography
Pratt Manhattan Gallery will host the panel discussion "The Sustainability Equation: Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Fashion" in conjunction with the current exhibition "Ethics + Aesthetics = Sustainable Fashion." Guest curators Francesca Granata and Sarah Scaturro will moderate a discussion on the importance of combining sustainable practices alongside aest...
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Published 14-Jan-10
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From eerily empty clock faces to angular knots of twisted steel, Strunz creates sculptures that seem trapped in timeSculptor Katja Strunz resurrects the forward-thinking forms of modernism or minimalism, yet what she unearths bears signs of the grave. In her recent Memory Wall (2008), black cubes recalling Kasimir Malevich's famous square or Donald Judd's minimalist boxes congregate haphazardly on walls like migrating birds. While some of her works are rendered in powder-coated steel or bronze, ...
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Published 13-Jan-10
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Masterpiece saved from Nazis in 1938 to sell alongside key works by Cézanne and Giacometti. See gallery hereA rare and luminously beautiful landscape by Gustav Klimt that was crated up by its owners during the Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938 and then more or less disappeared for decades is to be auctioned in London, Sotheby's announced today.The painting – which represents a key turning point for the artist – is being sold in what the auction house says is one of the most eye-catching sales o...
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Published 13-Jan-10
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