Express yourself on Saturday, October 4, at Art Response’s silent protest event. Bring a canvas (whatever that may be), your creative materials, and a posse.
At 11 am on October 4th, 2008 ART RESPONSE!® will be hosting its first public art project. We are calling on the art community in and around the Brooklyn area to […]
September 23rd, 2008
Categories: Protest, Brooklyn, New York, Participatory, Painting . Author: lynette c . Comments: No Comments
The NYTimes’ Carol Vogel has been able to squeeze three days worth of coverage (Day one, two & three) regarding the exclusive Sotheby’s London auction of Damien Hirst works titled, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever. The 223 works were all bought by the auction’s close for a grand total of $200.7 million, exceeding estimates and […]
September 17th, 2008
Categories: Retrospective, Auction, British, Power players, Art Star, Celebrity . Author: ian l.c.v. . Comments: No Comments
In case you hadn’t heard, the 2008 CONFLUX Festival begins tomorrow:
Starting September 11th, over one hundred local and international artists will transform New York City streets into a laboratory for exploring the urban environment at the Conflux Festival. Located in Greenwich Village at the Center for Architecture (a.k.a. Conflux HQ), the four-day event includes art […]
September 10th, 2008
Categories: Protest, Environmental, Urban, East Village, Festival, New York, New Media, Participatory, Technology, Opening . Author: ian l.c.v. . Comments: No Comments
Following last week’s news regarding several New York art institutions and their personnel shakeups, the NYTimes reports, both factually and critically, that “Thomas P. Campbell, 46-year-old English-born tapestries curator, [is] to succeed Philippe de Montebello as director and chief executive”of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
No one should be stunned or surprised that the Met’s selection […]
September 10th, 2008
Categories: History, British, Profile, Business, Museum, New York, Masters . Author: ian l.c.v. . Comments: No Comments
The NYTimes reports that The Museum of Modern Art has finally found a successor to John Elderfield, chief curator of sculpture and painting:
[Ann] Temkin assumes the curatorial post, considered the most prestigious in the field of Modern art, as MoMA gears up for its second growth spurt in less than a decade[…]
In addition to the […]
September 3rd, 2008
Categories: Sculpture, Power players, Profile, Business, Museum, New York, Painting . Author: ian l.c.v. . Comments: No Comments