Modern Art News
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Gary Garrels, the highly sought-after curator who has helped raise the profile of the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and beyond, is jumping ship, it was reported today. The Hammer snagged Garrels, 56, from the Museum of Modern Art in New York ...
Publ.Date : Fri, 16 May 2008 15:03:00 GMT
Forty-four years ago, artist Robert Rauschenberg had a show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It consisted of 34 drawings on the subject of Dante's Inferno. It changed my life. Rauschenberg died this week, at 82, at the top of his field ...
Publ.Date : Fri, 16 May 2008 20:25:00 GMT
Thomas Struth, National Gallery 1, London, 1989, Cibachrome print. Space is power. That's the revelation of "Ringling Retro: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection," one of the best advertisements for the merits of the new wing at ...
Publ.Date : Sat, 17 May 2008 05:58:00 GMT
In a closely watched test of the concept of selling a house as art, a restored modernist home in Palm Springs, Calif., fetched $15 million this week at Christie's prestigious evening sales -- a record for a home sold at an art-house auction. Christie ...
Publ.Date : Sat, 17 May 2008 04:10:00 GMT
S tanding on an artificial island off Doha’s harbour, Qatar’s new Museum of Islamic Art looks like a leftover from an epic Atlantean production. It has that stage-set flatness, and that odd cocktail aesthetic of ancient past, postmodern and off ...
Publ.Date : Sat, 17 May 2008 07:59:00 GMT
The Woman of the Flask tells the story of two men who escape their troubled homeland of Iraq in search of a better life and end up in Switzerland. Adam, the main character of the story, packs with him a flask shaped like a female body, which he found ...
Publ.Date : Fri, 16 May 2008 23:38:00 GMT
NEW YORK -- Alanis Obomsawin is having a very good month. Two weeks ago, the native Canadian documentary filmmaker paid a visit to the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, where she was honoured with the Governor-General's Performing Arts Award for ...
Publ.Date : Sat, 17 May 2008 08:14:00 GMT
Magnificent palaces, mosques and markets are Istanbul's most obvious attractions. But while revisiting the city, Linda Cookson instead faced seawards – and found a world of surprises on the waterway that divides East and West By six o'clock in the ...
Publ.Date : Sat, 17 May 2008 11:34:00 GMT
When I was growing up in north Wales in the 1970s, the only place you could see modern art was on television. That was where I first encountered the art of Robert Rauschenberg, who has died aged 82. It was while watching a glass box in our lounge ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 15 May 2008 06:07:00 GMT
The art work of John Lennon is no stranger to these parts -- this weekend's free exhibit at Del Mar's Flower Hill Promenade marks at least the eighth time his work has been displayed in San Diego County since 1988. The former Beatle, who was shot to ...
Publ.Date : Fri, 16 May 2008 17:12:00 GMT
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