Showing: David Benjamin Sherry – “Wonderful Land” @ OHWOW

May 17th, 2013 § Comments Off § permalink

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Wonderful Land marks David Benjamin Sherry's second solo exhibition at OHWOW and features photographs from the American Western and Southwestern states, taken with a large format, handmade, analog wooden film camera over the course of several months. The artist prints each image in his own darkroom, creating vivid and detailed images with brilliant colors. The resulting body of work is at once aesthetically beautiful and wondrous as it reminds us of how spectacular nature can be. If you will be in Los Angeles and would like to view the show in person, you better hurry, because it closes on May 17. All images: Courtesy of the artist and OHWOW

Overtime: May 6 – May 12

May 12th, 2013 § Comments Off § permalink

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More stories from the week ended May 12:
  • The provocative photography of Nobuyoshi Araki currently on display in London.
  • RIP: Taylor Mead, who died of a stroke in Denver at the age of 88.
  • Carolina Miranda writes about the fallout from a possible cancellation of MOCA's architecture show.
  • FEMA denies university’s final attempt to obtain funding to aid in replacement of flood-damaged building.
  • 9/11 museum at Ground Zero will charge for admission ($20-25), angering family members of victims.
  • Zao Wou-ki's third wife and son fighting over stockpile of paintings worth up to €500 million.
  • Activists return to protest Frieze NY's use of non-union labor.
  • Outcry in SoHo as residents rather have site for public art instead of a bike rack.
  • Honda sued by Dan Havel and Dean Ruck, artists who claim TV commercial uses their work.
  • Sixth lawsuit filed by client (Nicholas F. Taubman) against former Knoedler Gallery.
  • Joselito Vega, a house painter at a Long Island mansion allegedly stole more than $100,000 worth of art.
  • Looted dinosaur skeleton to be returned to Mongolia.
  • Gerrit van Honthorst's The Duet, which was stolen by Nazis, could fetch $2 million at Christie's auction.
  • French government begins one of its most extensive efforts ever to find the heirs and return Nazi-looted art.
  • Chris Brown's Hollywood Hills neighbors file a formal complaint regarding his graffiti art on his house.
  • Joe Lhota says he regrets tussling with the Brooklyn Museum over Chris Ofili painting.
  • Students occupy offices of Cooper president Jamshed Bharucha.
  • Sotheby's reports a loss of $22.3 million in the first quarter of 2013.
  • The long quest to prove the authenticity and authorship of a possible Caravaggio painting.
  • The Greenbox Museum, with over a million Facebook "likes", has more "likes" than Tate, Met, and Louvre.
  • National Portrait Gallery buys postcard-sized portrait of Elizabeth I for £329,000.
  • Competition underway among museums for Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo's collection.
  • Will Beijing or Hong Kong emerge as China's art capital?
  • The first European depiction of Native Americans discovered in a fresco in the Vatican.
  • Getty Museum acquires a Rembrandt and a classic scene of the Grand Canal in Venice by Canaletto.
  • The art collection in The Fine Arts Program of The Federal Reserve.
  • Arts contributes £7 to GDP for every £1 subsidised, UK report finds.
  • Steven Guttman building new art storage facility in Queens to rival spaces such as Christie's Brooklyn facility.
  • The current market for Marc Newson's work.
  • Ethan Wagner and Thea Westreich Wagner's guide to surviving Frieze NY.
  • Walter Robinson interviews Amanda Sharp about Frieze.
  • Gavin Brown on the relationship between fashion and art.
  • Benedikt Taschen still has faith in big, collectable books.
  • Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys on their love for Basquiat and collecting art.
  • Sam Falls joins the artist roster of Metro Pictures and also has some other movement as well.
  • Daniel Edwards sculpts Kate Middleton and Kim Kardashian’s unborn babies.
  • Maria Lassnig and Marisa Merz awarded with Golden Lions at La Biennale di Venezia.
  • Lincoln Center invites Aaron Curry to create 14 site-specific sculptures.
  • In-depth profile of Jeff Koons.
  • Jonathan Jones on Jeff Koons' Gagosian show.
  • In-depth profile of Paul McCarthy.
  • Ottmar Hörl hopes to stimulate debate with 500 gnome-like figurines of Karl Marx in Trier
  • Ragnar Kjartansson hangs works by Edvard Munch inside a barn at Moderna Museet.
  • Jonathan Horowitz will bring Free Store to Art Basel in Switzerland.
  • The Grumpy Cat Art Project coming to Alabama.
  • Kai & Sunny are holding an artist's talk at London's Southbank Centre on 23rd May.
  • A studio visit with Ben Eine.
  • An interview in the WSJ with Leonardo DiCaprio about the charity art auction he is organizing.
  • Kidult's "Suepreme" parody T-shirt.
  • New sculptural works from Doktor A for a show at Stranger Factory.
  • An interview with The London Police.

Overtime: April 29 – May 5

May 5th, 2013 § Comments Off § permalink

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More stories from the week ended May 5:
  • An in-depth look at JR's studio.
  • RIP: Channa Horwitz.
  • MOCA architecture show, funded by Getty, could face cancellation due to financial issues.
  • Sequestration temporarily closes parts of Hirshhorn, African Art Museum, and Smithsonian Castle.
  • MBW's Sid Vicious works, based on Dennis Morris photo are "not transformative", breaks copyright.
  • Collector files lawsuit against Sotheby's saying it sold him Nazi-looted artwork.
  • Canadian government funds research on Holocaust-era art provenance project.
  • Peter Doig's parole officer claims to own early Doig painting that the artist refuses to acknowledge as his work.
  • Plans to install Katharina Fritsch's giant blue cockerel in Trafalgar Square causes controversy.
  • Charles Ray's Boy With Frog to be removed in Venice, replaced with reproduction of former lamppost.
  • A sudden weather change is being blamed for popping Paul McCarthy's huge inflatable poop sculpture.
  • The perils and censorship involved with being an Iranian cartoonist.
  • Some clients pull works out of Christie’s Fine Art Storage Services’ warehouse after Superstorm Sandy.
  • Sotheby’s will be opening a gallery for private sales close to its branch in London.
  • ArtNet Statistics indicate exceedingly strong market for female artists.
  • Merton Simpson's Flatiron gallery being evicted, son says, due to mismanagement.
  • Dr. Simon Ottenberg gifts 145 works of art to Newerk Museum's collection of African art.
  • LACMA draws up ambitious plans for a $650-million new look, designed by Peter Zumthor.
  • MoMA announces that for remainder of May, it is offering free admission to the first 100 visitors on Tuesdays.
  • The Brooklyn Museum acquires Black Block by El Anatsui.
  • Mao portraits left out as Andy Warhol exhibition opens at Shanghai's contemporary art museum.
  • New Met European painting galleries mean fewer blockbusters, gift shops.
  • British Museum's £135m extension is on time and on budget, say curators. Will open next March.
  • Louvre opens a new series of exhibitions by contemporary artists with Michelangelo Pistoletto.
  • Artists turn Bosnia nuke bunker into art gallery.
  • Irish businessman Bill Condon launches Asian art prize called Multitude Art Prize.
  • Jay Jopling and White Cube celebrate twenty years in the business.
  • Saloua Raouda Choucair finally receives international recognition for her work at the age of 97.
  • John Lennon artwork goes on display in LA at Westfield Century City mall.
  • Carol Bove installs her sculptures on undeveloped stretch of the High Line between West 30th & 34th Streets.
  • Marina Abramovic tries her hand at ballet.
  • Maya Lin’s new memorial, exhibited at Pace Gallery, is a city.
  • George Lucas named a finalist to create new museum in San Francisco.
  • Ivan Lendl has world’s most complete collection of Mucha original posters and will display them in Prague.
  • The story of Saddam Hussein's sculptor Natiq al Alousi.
  • ArtInfo has 25 Questions for Sara VanDerBeek.

Overtime: April 22 – April 28

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More stories from the week ended April 28:
  • Financial Times interviews and profiles George Condo.
  • RIP: former L.A. Times art critic William Wilson dies at 78. He suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
  • Heirs of Baron Mor Lipot Herzog can now sue Hungary over Herzog's art collection looted during WWII.
  • Michael Little arrested for allegedly selling counterfeit Chihuly art.
  • Francois Pinault will donate two looted bronze relics from his collection to the Chinese government.
  • Cleaning lady pleads guilty in $3M theft of Benjamin Franklin Houdon bust made when he was alive.
  • Artwork from seven New York galleries fail to arrive in time for VIP opening of Art Brussels due to snafu.
  • The Helly Nahmad Gallery in Manhattan reopened a week after it was raided by U.S. agents.
  • Richard Prince wins appeal against Patrick Cariou over Canal Zone images.
  • Greece pulls two ancient nude male statues from exhibition in Doha after Qataris insisted on veiling them.
  • Jori Finkel covers MOCA gala, which includes an appearance by a fake Jeffrey Deitch, for LA Times.
  • David Shrigley, Tino Sehgal, Laure Prouvost, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye are this year's Turner Prize nominees.
  • Kate Middleton to honor The Art Room, which uses art to build self-esteem, self-confidence of young people.
  • UK Culture Secretary says art must make case for public funding by focusing on economic, not artistic, value.
  • Tate Modern to have a show of Matisse's later works. They will also have Hamilton, Polke, Malevich exhibitions.
  • A museum dedicated to Mark Rothko has opened in his Latvian hometown.
  • MOCA acquires massive Ryan Trecartin video installation that was in his Any Ever exhibition.
  • The Barnes Foundation increases ticket prices more than 22%, from $18 to $22, for most hours of the day.
  • Sotheby's business development chief George Bailey has started his own "middle market" auction firm.
  • Paddle8 Vanguard auction features works by Nate Lowman, Tauba Auerbach, Dash Snow, among others.
  • NY bracing for $1bil spending spree next month when Sotheby’s and Christies hold their major spring auctions.
  • The art market took a hit in the first quarter as sales volume fell 7% compared to 2012, according to Artnet.
  • Walter Robinson writes about Fulton Ryder, the new Half Gallery location, and Lucien Smith's work.
  • Warhol Foundation selling rare and vintage signed and unsigned Warhol posters on Fab.com.
  • The Rubells will focus on contemporary Chinese art in their next exhibition for the 2013 Art Basel Miami Beach.
  • Andy Warhol's former studio and residential townhouse in Carnegie Hill up for sale for $5.8 million.
  • Amanda Ross-Ho's public art project for MCA Chicago Plaza Project announced.
  • Jonathan Jones asks Is Ai Weiwei still an artist?
  • REVOK, FAITH47, ASKEW1, and MODE2 are among artists that have designed wine bottle labels for Fin Bec.
  • Calvin Klein Collection collaborating with Ellsworth Kelly on a special project combining fashion and art.
  • PMc Magazine has some questions for Kenny Scharf.
  • Christopher Knight reviews Urs Fischer's MOCA show.
  • Daily Mail interviews, profiles, and has images of Tracey Emin.
  • Steve Wood's long stored photographs of Andy Warhol to go on view.
  • A list of Ten Things Walter Robinson Owns and Loves.
  • DJ Hennessy Youngman, aka Henrock Allah, aka Jayson Musson puts together a CVS Bangers mix.
  • George W. Bush says his new painting hobby has changed his life. Bill Clinton speaks about Bush's paintings.
  • An interview with Kelsey Brookes.
  • New bicycle helmet released by KAWS to benefit the New Museum.
  • A review of Allison Schulnik's show at the Laguna Art Museum.
  • A step by stop look at Scott C. and his process.
  • A new commission painting revealed from Greg Simkins.
  • Pharrell pays a visit to Daniel Arsham's studio.
  • Hypebeast Spaces features Yone and his studio.
  • Cai Guo-Qiang profiled by the Smithsonian.
  • Faile showing Dublin some love.
  • Designboom interviews Aakash Nihalani.

Overtime: April 15 – April 21

April 21st, 2013 § Comments Off § permalink

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More stories from the weekend ended April 21:
  • Ugo Rondinone's giant human-shaped stone sculptures go up at Rockefeller Center.
  • Helly Nahmad gallery raided and family charged with international gambling and money-laundering operation.
  • Spanish court sends Chinese businessman, art dealer & fraud/money laundering suspect Gao Ping back to jail.
  • Ai Weiwei + Serge Spitzer collaborative sculpture damaged when elderly woman tripped and fell into the work.
  • €1million stolen gold egg recovered near French-Swiss border during a routine police roadblock.
  • Student who killed chicken as part of a performance piece may face charges.
  • North Korean ambassador to China uses occasion of art exhibition in Bejing to attack the United States.
  • South Street Seaport Museum will continue being open another three months, but long-term outlook dire.
  • Lynn Orr sues San Francisco's Fine Art Museums, saying her firing was unjust.
  • Despite protests and petitions, Istanbul University's art collection auctioned for less than it cost to acquire.
  • Plans for Anthony McCall's Column abandoned after 15 months of failed attempts to make it materialize.
  • Obama’s budget proposal for coming fiscal year would boost federal arts spending 10% over current number.
  • MOCA says it has hit $75-million mark for endowment and names donors.
  • Tate Modern has 80% of what it needs for funding of new expansion after The Wolfson Foundation's £5mil gift.
  • National Gallery of Art acquires artwork by Artschwager, Haacke, Dijkstra & Ruscha for its collection.
  • The Museum of Modern Art has acquired several major works by Lynda Benglis for its collection.
  • Smithsonian and National Archives adjusting summer hours because of budget cuts due to sequestration.
  • No censorship - curator of the Abu Dhabi branch of the Louvre says no artistic subjects are off limits.
  • Egon Schiele: The Beginning, first study to focus on the early works of the artist, to be released this month.
  • More of an emphasis on art put into this year's Coachella.
  • Connie Butler, curator at MoMA, has been named a co-curator of the 2014 Hammer Made in LA biennial.
  • Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead will be shown to public at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit on May 11.
  • Urs Fischer works with 1,000 volunteers on giant collaborative clay project with locals for his MOCA show.
  • ICA's Barry McGee exhibition tour video.
  • Never-before-seen David LaChapelle photo of Angelina Jolie with horse goes up for auction at Christie's.
  • LACMA spends $3mil. on new acquisitions for the museum, including $1mil. African Gwan sculpture.
  • Mei Moses' 2012 sale-pairs generated an average compound annual return of 6.7% versus 6.8% for S&P 500.
  • Miniature artworks being sold from vending machines in Leeds for £1 in attempt to make art more accessible.
  • Bumblebee, Shepard Fairey, and Banksy artwork part of Herb & Dorothy of Omaha's collection.
  • John Baldessari's art project using a human cadaver could still happen one day.
  • Sneak peak of David Choe and Esteban Oriol on Anthony Bourdain's new show Parts Unknown.
  • Hsin-Chuen Lin's instructional YouTube videos gain popularity and has a growing following.
  • Washington Post’s art and architecture writer Philip Kennicott wins Pulitzer Prize for criticism.
  • Prince Charles's watercolors receive poor reviews.
  • Bette Midler, as well as Madonna and Sister Wendy Beckett auction artwork to help benefit worthy causes.
  • Interview with Leonardo DiCaprio about his interest in art and his upcoming fundraising auction.
  • How to bake a Mondrian cake.

Overtime: April 8 – April 14

April 14th, 2013 § Comments Off § permalink

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More stories from the week ended April 14:
  • A provocative suspended installation by Korean artist Bohyun Yoon.
  • After Hours 2: Murals on the Bowery, will start April 25, with work by Craig-Martin, Schutz, Owens, et
  • RIP: Zao Wou-ki, who died at age 93. He suffered from dementia and weak health.
  • RIP: Daniel Reich, who took his own life at the age of 39.
  • Virginia woman fights ownership dispute of Renoir painting she claims to have purchased for $7 at flea market.
  • Terrence Riggins charged with stealing $20k Picasso etching from a North Stamford man in 2010.
  • Panel decides museum should return Kokoschka to heirs of Alfred Flechtheim, a dealer persecuted by Nazis.
  • Europe's second-most important art forger, Robert Driessen, is stuck in Thailand and wants his story told.
  • Judge dismisses lawsuit against DIA, which was being sued for denying free admission to Faberge exhibition.
  • Auction involving sale of Native American art and artifacts goes on despite objections from Hopi tribe.
  • Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland's largest museum, lays off 14 employees, which is about 9% of staff.
  • Louvre closes temporarily after staff walkout over increasingly aggressive pickpockets plague the museum.
  • National Brukenthal Museum to partially close due to financial problems. Museum's manager asked to resign.
  • MoMA to demolish twelve-year old American Folk Art Museum building.
  • UK judgment classifies Reynolds painting as “wasting asset” allowing it to escape capital gains tax.
  • Larry Gagosian organizes public art exhibition at the Seagram Building for Pratt students affected by fire.
  • David Geffen donates $25 mil to academy film museum at LACMA and will have theater there named after him.
  • Leonard A. Lauder pledges billion-dollar modern art collection to Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • Museum art exhibits from around the world to come to a movie theater near you.
  • Stedelijk Museum announces major gift of 60 works, donated by Paul Andriesse.
  • Bob and Roberta Smith organize Art Party Conference to discuss cuts and education and have all-night party.
  • Venice Biennale collateral events (48 of them) announced.
  • CA bill would dedicate $75 mil/yr from state's general fund for the CA Arts Council — up from current $1 mil.
  • Qatar reportedly buys Picasso’s Child with a Dove, a blue period work, from descendants of Lady Aberconway.
  • Christie's to sell Number 19, the most important work by Jackson Pollock at auction in the last two decades.
  • Patti Smith's exhibition at Cincinnati's Contemporary Art Center (CAC) will be a Robert Mapplethorpe tribute.
  • Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective (1972-1987), show focused on Chicano artists, to travel to Mexico.
  • Nude Men: From 1800 to the present day exhibition to travel to the Musée d’Orsay in September.
  • Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse rooftop gym transformed into art space.
  • Market for African-American art still cool despite interest from major museums and other institutions.
  • Steve Cohen's Manhattan penthouse is on the market. Pics include his art collection.
  • Eric Fishl writing a tell-all book about his part in the 80's art world.
  • Jeff Koons illustrates a poem by Matthea Harvey on the pleasure and peril of opening up.
  • Thomas Ruff's exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery involves 3D technology.
  • LA Times covers Takashi Murakami's new movie Jellyfish Eyes and talks about his B&P show.
  • Portrait of Francis Bacon's lover, Peter Lacy, painted by Bacon after he died, to be auctioned at Sotheby's.
  • Eric Yahnker's Star of David Lee Roth available as a limited edition (300) t-shirt.

Preview: Gregory Euclide @ Martha Otero Gallery

April 12th, 2013 § Comments Off § permalink

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Opening this Saturday (April 13th) in West Hollywood is Gregory Euclide's first solo exhibition with his West Coast gallery Martha Otero. The artist will present fresh work consisting of landscape relief paintings along with a series of porcelain-coated steel specimens painted with Japanese sumi ink. Euclide uses a range of media to create his signature immersive landscape pieces, including both components found in nature and also artificial ones as well. This duality of nature-made versus man-made reflects his highlight of the environmental friction of man's imperialistic usage of land with the damage created in making his own artificial products. Take in all the artist's architectural fine art works before the show ends on May 11. Discuss Gregory Euclide here.

Overtime: April 1 – April 7

April 7th, 2013 § Comments Off § permalink

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More stories for the week ended April 7:
  • Ryan Mcginley's Blue Falling is the April HIGH LINE BILLBOARD in NY, presented by High Line Art.
  • RIP: Pasha P183, known as the Russian Banksy has died at age 29. Cause is unknown.
  • Tate removes Graham Ovenden prints after artist found guilty of indecency with a child and indecent assault.
  • As a result of the economic crisis gripping Spain, more of its artists are moving to the United States.
  • Chelsea's future in question after New York flood map is redrawn - insurance costs to spiral up.
  • Bavaria refuses to return Picasso painting, lost during Nazi persecution of Jews, to Felix Mendelssohn's family.
  • Karl Walther painting owned by Hitler sells for €22,000 at auction in Germany.
  • £29 million Raphael drawing barred from leaving UK via temporary export ban as British buyer sought.
  • BBC's Fake or Fortune appeals to find missing Vuillard painting last sold on eBay.
  • Hopi Indians of Arizona ask federal officials to help stop auction of 70 sacred masks in Paris next week.
  • Jennifer Pawluck arrested for Instagram photo of street art featuring Ian Lafreniere with a bullet in his head.
  • Nic Coury detained for photographing Naval School from public street.
  • NY Landmarks Conservancy working to save collection of WPA murals at landmarked Bronx Post Office.
  • Madonna selling Léger painting ($5-7mil) from her collection in order to benefit education initiatives for girls.
  • Art.com to compensate street artists whose work is featured in photographic images they sell.
  • Taylor Mead in a battle with his new landlord in the LES over his rent-stabilized apartment.
  • Udo Kittelmann slams Ai Weiwei choice for national pavilion, saying other artists will be "overshadowed".
  • Hirst catalogue listing all spot paintings since 1986 will reveal that there are around 1,400 of them.
  • Russian, Indian, and other international billionaires are joining top U.S. museum boards.
  • The Albertina shipped almost a hundred works by Albrecht Dürer to the National Gallery of Art for exhibition.
  • MoMA to host “Soundings: A Contemporary Score” its first big show devoted exclusively to sound art.
  • Four New York City museums are joining Google's online Art Project.
  • The 10 museums in the running for the Art Fund Museum of the Year award and a £100,000 prize announced.
  • Visitors will now be able to see Donald Judd's 101 Spring St house by making a appointment.
  • Michigan State University Museum gets $1.9 million gift to create the first endowed curatorship.
  • UK survey discovers that more than a third of youths don't know who Renoir is.
  • A look at creative artist-in-residence programs taking place in hotels around the world today.
  • Doyle New York hosting the second annual Street Art Auction.
  • ArtInfo's April Fools' 6 Superstar Artists Under 6 list.
  • LA Weekly's April Fools' story - MOCA to Merge with Pinterest.
  • Hyperallergic reports on Banksy's sad clowns and MoMA's celebrity programming for its April Fools' jokes.
  • Pipilotti Rist has been named the winner of this year’s Zurich Festival Prize, which includes $50,000.
  • Ben Davis looks at Basquiat via his current Gagosian exhibition.
  • Profile of Marcel Dzama, who was once turned down for a job at Walmart.
  • NYTimes catches up with Barry McGee. Caleb Neelon gathers words from twenty people about Barry McGee.
  • $1.5 millio public sculpture by Roxy Paine coming to San Francisco.
  • Adele buys herself some Warhol butterflies.
  • International Center of Photography will honor Jeff Bridges for his work in photography at its annual gala.

Overtime: March 25 – March 31

March 31st, 2013 § Comments Off § permalink

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More stories from the week ended March 31:
  • Steven A. Cohen purchases Picasso's Le Rêve for $155 million from Steve Wynn.
  • Nicole Klagsbrun to close New York gallery after 30 years in the business.
  • 20x200 has been offline for months and some collectors still have not received prints they ordered long ago.
  • Historic Berlin Wall section featuring some classic murals, removed with police guard protection amid protests.
  • Joseph J. Lhota has no regrets when looking back at his campaign to remove Ofili piece from Sensation show.
  • The glass ceiling may still exist in the art world as sexism persists.
  • Array of friends, family and staff of Merton Simpson at odds over his estate of African art after his passing.
  • Investigators still working tirelessly to recover artwork stolen during Gardner Museum heist.
  • Collector claims Sotheby's fraudulently sold him Nazi-looted painting from the collection of Hermann Goering.
  • Clemens Sels Museum agrees to pay $9,000 to keep Ringelnatz painting lost as owner fled the Nazis.
  • Marc Weinstein's Shea Stadium Beatles photos, taken by using a fake press pass, sells at auction for £30,680.
  • Replica paintings of Goya's Witches in the Air forged for Danny Boyle's Trance film.
  • Kristian von Hornsleth found guilty of copyright infringement over pornographic collage.
  • Russian photographer illegally climbs Egyptian pyramid to follow dreams and take photos.
  • Neighbors are not thrilled with Thierry Ehrmann's art making, claiming it depreciates real estate values.
  • Adam Parker Smith's show featuring artwork he has stolen from artists' studios.
  • Basquiat's ex-girlfriend Alexis Adler reveals major trove of his unseen works. Book and exhibition to come.
  • William F. Ruprecht, Sotheby's CEO, earned $6.3 mil. in 2012, down 10% from a year earlier, as profits fall 37%.
  • Artangel commissions (including Christian Marclay) five three-minute soundscapes to be broadcast on Radio 4.
  • MOCA aiming high in its recent fundraising efforts and has pushed endowment pass $60 million. Soros and Lopez each donated and talks with LACMA may still be alive, according to Deitch.
  • Paul Schimmel may join Hauser & Wirth as they open a Los Angeles location.
  • Boston's Museum of Fine Arts sends its collection of Japanese masterpieces on a 15-month tour of Japan.
  • DMA announces $17 mil. gift from Marguerite Steed Hoffman to support acquisition of pre-1700 European art.
  • British Museum sells record 50,000 advance tickets for Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum.
  • Rhode Island’s existing tax-free art business zones would be extended under legislation recently submitted.
  • Gerhard Richter photorealist painting to test the auction market for these works.
  • An article all about artist assistants.
  • Is George W. Bush getting a solo exhibition with Gagosian Gallery? Jerry Saltz thinks he should get a show at the Whitney.
  • Julian Schnabel making a comeback bid.
  • Tamar Harpaz has been named winner of the $8,000 2013 Wolf Fund Anselm Kiefer Prize for young artists.
  • Joel Shapiro sculpture installed at the nearly completed American consulate in Guangzhou, China.
  • Diane Arbus's daughter, Amy Arbus, has two shows coming up.
  • Tilda Swinton is sleeping (as performance art) at surprise days and times at MoMA. Jerry Saltz's take on it. James Franco watches Swinton sleep.
  • Shinique Smith visits Charles White Elementary as part of LACMA On-site in partnership with LAUSD.
  • Craig and Karl's take on Victoria and Albert's David Bowie Is exhibition.
  • PBS features and interviews Alec Monopoly.
  • Tania Kovats seeks help in order to make sculptural artwork that collects water from all the world’s seas.
  • Profile of John Axelrod, who is a serial collector. Could he really be done?
  • Interview with Perry Rubenstein, in which he discusses the scene in Los Angeles.
  • David Zwirner profiled by The NYTimes.com.
  • Kerri Lisa, a star of Gallery Girls, curates M.L.B. Fan Cave Art Gallery in Manhattan. First show features MBW.
  • The Onion takes on Robert Mapplethorpe.

Streets: Bumblebeelovesyou – “Walk the Dog” (Hollywood)

March 27th, 2013 § Comments Off § permalink

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Bumblebee's street work oftentimes deals with serious issues, such as youth homelessness and environmental awareness. His most recent mural though, a 8'x40' piece located on the corner of Melrose and Spaulding in Hollywood, CA, is of a more whimsical and personal sort. Walk the Dog combines the artist's childhood past times and hobbies of yo-yoing and skateboarding. As winter transitions into spring, be reminded of how much fun you had during spring break with no school and endless hours with your four-legged best friend and your favorite toys.  Check out more images (courtesy of the artist), such as prep, process, and other detail shots... Discuss Bumblebee here.