Archive for June, 2008
This has to be the coolest place to live ever. Architectural designer Eric Clough embedded the New York City Apartment of the Klinsky-Sherry Family with clues, puzzles, hidden compartments, coded poems, and even a secret soundtrack. Definitely the ultimate house for the mistery solver!.
Art Basel the largest art trade show int he world opens tomorrow. From the press release:
The world’s premier international art show for Modern and contemporary works, Art Basel features nearly 300 leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa. More than 2,000 artists, ranging from the great masters of Modern art to the latest generation of emerging stars, are represented in the show’s multiple sections. The exhibition includes the highest-quality paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations, photographs, video and editioned works.
Opens throught June 8, take a look at the online catalog.
The Indianapolis Museum of Art plans to announce that it has acquired a trove of work and correspondence by Weegee, the New York photographer whose visceral pictures became a template not only for artists like Diane Arbus but also for much of the uncomfortably close tabloid imagery that exists today.
The photos were found in [...]
4 priceless works of art stolen in 2007 were recovered by the french police near Marseille. Ten people involved in the robbery have been arrested. Among the works recovered is “Falaises pres de Dieppe,” (Cliffs near Dieppe) painted by Monet in 1897, pictured above.
Through December 30, Damien Hirst presents the sculpture “End Game”:
From the museum’s press release:
End Game, a sculpture completed in 2004 by British artist Damien Hirst (b. 1965), is now on view at the MFAH, in its first public showing in the United States. The work, a loan from local collectors Jereann and Robert Chaney, is [...]
