Contemporary Art News
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Donald Fisher, the founder of Gap Inc., decided to give up on efforts to create a contemporary art museum at a building in San Francisco's Presidio, a spokesman for the Fisher family announced Thursday. Fisher, a San Francisco ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:26:00 GMT
Los Angeles - Santa Barbara, CA - What happens when contemporary art meets surfboard wax? Avid surfers and contemporary artists Sean Anderson (http://www.seananderson.com) and Benjamin Anderson (http://www.benjaminanderson.com) in collaboration with ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:37:00 GMT
ITHACA - Thanks to a collaboration among the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, a curatorial organization called the Working Relationship, the Ithaca Renting Company and other landlords, vacant storefronts on the Commons have been transformed into temporary ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:06:00 GMT
Remember that "confidence report" from London-based ArtTactic that I wrote about here several days ago? Most of the study, which involves interviews with key participants in the art market, was behind a pay wall, and I was able to give you only a few ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:32:00 GMT
He will always have to his credit, the defining role he played in shaping Indian contemporary art. I knew him well and one of the earliest paintings I collected was his work. He was reclusive and avoided the limelight despite all the worldwide fame ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:04:00 GMT
A former Italian restaurant in the heart of London's Covent Garden has become the latest venue for a "pop-up" contemporary art gallery. Impromptu exhibitions have been opening all over the city, as artists make the most of a glut of empty commercial ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:14:00 GMT
Gap founder Donald Fisher and his family have decided to abandon their efforts to build a contemporary art museum at the Main Post of San Francisco's Presidio, The Chronicle has learned. In calling off an effort that began with acclaim but turned ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:21:00 GMT
IT IS a glimpse of what might have been. In 1997 a bold new design for the extension of Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art by the Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa was picked from a field of seven eminent architects. It was a ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:25:00 GMT
One of the nation's largest modern art museums, the MCA offers thought-provoking art created since 1945. Its permanent collection includes work by Franz Kline, Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons. It highlights surrealism of the 1940s and '50s, minimalism of ...
Publ.Date : Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:09:00 GMT
LONDON — The art market jauntily jumped the last of the most dreaded hurdles laid in its path on Tuesday evening. To the considerable delight of many professionals, Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Sale, seen by market pundits as the most ...
Publ.Date : Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:53:00 GMT
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