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Basel Week Miami / Streets: The London Police
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Overtime: Dec 1 – Dec 14
- Time Out reviews Sean Landers (whose painting pictured above) show at Petzel.
- RIP: Wynn Chamberlain, who died at the age of 87 due to heart failure.
- Protesters turn Eric Garner's "I can't breathe" last words into performance art.
- Two drunk students attempt to steal Emil Nolde painting from Germanischen Nationalmuseum.
- Ed Cox accidentally knocks over and destroys antique vase at an event to discuss restoration of art and artifacts.
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Megumi Igarashi arrested after trying to raise funds for construction of a kayak, using a 3D printer, inspired by her genitals.
- John Re pleads guilty to one count of wire fraud after selling forged artwork purportedly by Pollock and de Kooning.
- Andrew Shannon sentenced to five years in prison for punching a hole through a Monet painting.
- Helly Nahmad released from prison to a halfway house after serving five months of one year sentence.
- Leigh Morse may be headed back to prison for paying only a small fraction of her restitution so far.
- Three men steal 70 paintings from Puerta de Alcalá gallery in Madrid.
- James Warhola challenges The Andy Warhol Foundation's lawsuit against Agusto Bugarin over allegedly stolen painting.
- Carol Vogel resigns from New York Times.
- Fulton Ryder to close after Christmas this year.
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Larry Gagosian wins dismissal of lawsuit accusing him of tricking his friend and client Ronald Perelman.
- Helge Achenbach goes on trial for falsifying accounts of artworks and classic cars he purchased on behalf of Albrecht family.
- Mykki Blanco does not think that Klaus Biesenbach likes black people.
- Angela Strassheim's photograph of nude pregnant woman deemed “pornographic”.
- Students from Haute École d'Art de Perpignan sell themselves on eBay as a protest the impending closure of their school.
- Badlands Unlimited produces mock book covers in response to decision not to indict Darren Wilson.
- Parisians reportedly rushing to buy butt plugs in the wake of Paul McCarthy tree controversy.
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Reports state Russia gave UEFA president Michel Platini a Picasso painting in exchange for support of World Cup bid.
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Steven Murphy, the head of Christie’s, announces his resignation from the auction house. He may have been pushed out due to lot guarantees. Christie’s president of the Americas, Doug Woodham is also leaving.
- Mark Hudson and Adrian Searle criticize the Turner Prize and its winner, Duncan Campbell.
- Angelo Paratico thinks that Leonardo di Vinci's mother was a Chinese slave who was the subject in Mona Lisa.
- Doubts cast on the authenticity of the purported Leonardo da Vinci Virgin of the Rocks painting in London.
- High profile Japanese architects call for Zaha Hadid's design for Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic stadium to be scraped.
- Rome authorities declare Italian man can keep £28mil. Gauguin painting previously stolen more than 40 years ago.
- The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the growth of the art scene in Los Angeles.
- Maurizio Cattelan frolicks around LA with Ali Subotnik, visiting artists and galleries and cemeteries.
- Los Angeles Unified School District school board approves $2.5mil. in spending on arts education.
- Los Angeles Philharmonic receiving a $20mil. gift from David Bohnett.
- Canada’s National Arts Centre gets $110mil. in funds for renovation.
- Ancient Rome had graffiti on its walls too.
- Jerry Saltz's choices for the best shows of 2014 include Darja Bajacic, Kara Walker, and Katherine Bernhardt.
- Roberta Smith's top art shows of 2014 include Robert Gobert, Jeff Koons, and Darren Bader.
- Jonathan Jones’s top 10 art shows of 2014.
- Holland Cotter’s list of notable art events of 2014.
- 7-year legal battle sees return of seized Botticelli painting taken during Salander-O'Reilly bankruptcy proceedings.
- Edwin Moses has a portrait of him by Basquiat that no one has ever seen.
- One of the Elgin Marbles leaves London for the first time and are on loan to State Hermitage Museum. Greece is outraged to hear of the loan.
- Yoko Ono to receive major solo exhibition at MoMA in 2015.
- The Missouri History Museum and the Regional Art Commission are working to preserve art from Ferguson protests.
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Saint Louis Art Museum receives $5 million gift from Barbara and Andy Taylor to fund new sculpture garden.
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has reopened after a three-year renovation.
- Paul Simonon exhibits new series of paintings in Wot No Bike show at London’s ICA.
- Institute of Contemporary Art names Eva Respini its new chief curator.
- Smithsonian exhibits 3-D portraits of President Obama created by Smithsonian and USC's Institute for Creative Technology.
- Arts Council England details 27 gifts offered by private owners to British public collections.
- New York's richest artists list topped by Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, and Chuck Close.
- Drawing by EH Shepard of Pooh with Piglet and Christopher Robin sells for £314,500 at Sotheby's.
- Sotheby’s sells Turner’s Rome, from Mount Aventine painting for $47.4mil. at auction.
- New investment analysis of collectibles shows that classic cars are vastly outperforming the art market.
- Peter Lik photograph reportedly sells at private for $6.5mil. Jonathan Jones provides commentary on the sale.
- Buyers in China are increasingly looking to buy work by artists from overseas.
- Texte Zur Kunst writes about art flipping, Art Rank, Stefan Simchowitz, and Bert Kreuk.
- Amazon to offer flexible pricing model for its art and collectibles section.
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Brennan & Griffin gallery expands presence to Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn.
- Art Miami announces Art Miami New York art fair, to be held during Frieze week.
- Marion Maneker discusses the growth and shift in the world of art collecting and compares it to the popularity of Chipotle.
- Andrew Goldstein talks to Heather Flow about her advisory and the art market.
- Maria Brito's advice for new collectors looking to acquire art.
- The New Yorker has a extensive profile of Hans Ulrich Obrist.
- GQ profiles and interviews Van Hanos, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Sam Moyer, and more.
- In-depth profile of the Helnwein family (Gottfried, Mercedes, Ali..).
- Drunken Shepard wins Turnip Prize with her work Ewe Kip.
- Mark Flood interview with Leo Fitzpatrick.
- Camille Norment will represent Norway at the 2014 Venice Biennale.
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Jeff Koons designs cover for Brian Grazer’s book, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life.
- Marilyn Minter discusses Plush, her book featuring female pubic hair.
- Nate Freeman visits Dan Colen's show at Walter de Maria's former studio.
- Tracey Emin's design of Brittania statuette unveiled.
- Profile of Ben Eine, who is collaborating with Louis Vuitton and making limited edition sculptures.
- NYTimes writes about Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, a film about J. M. W. Turner.
- Marina Abramovic plans to start filming Seven Deaths project next summer, playing the role of Maria Callas.
- Texte Zur Kunst releases a limited edition print by Alex Israel.
- Release of Visionaire 64 ART John Baldessari, Platinum Edition containing 30 works, a Platinum print, and Galaxy Note 4.
- Grey Area's limited edition pool toys, including ones by Jen Stark, FriendsWithYou, and more.
- Candice Tripp releases Monkey Bone silk scarf on sale at her site.
- Prescription Art releases new Carl Cashman limited edition screen print.
- Swizz Beatz to start a members club, free of fees, for artists in New York.
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Basel Week Miami ’14 / Streets: Nychos
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Overtime: Miami Beach Art Fair Week Edition
- MdM x PK Shop pop-up opens at Soho House Miami Beach during fair week.
- RIP: Delbert "Demz" Rodriguez, who died at the age of 21 after being hit by a police car in Wynwood during a chase. There may have been a cover-up by police.
- Kalan Sherrard arrested after pulling fake penis from his pants at Art Basel Miami Beach protest.
- Silver Pablo Picasso plate stolen from Leslie Smith Gallery's booth at Art Miami.
- About 65 pilots and a handful of flight attendants protest Netjets' "corporate greed" during Art Basel Miami Beach.
- #Ferguson2Miami protests during fair week blocks traffic on Miami freeways.
- Artists and activists organized vigil in Miami during fair week to protest Michael Brown and Israel Hernandez killings.
- Artnet takes a look at the best private art collections in Miami.
- Andrew Goldstein interviews Rosa de la Cruz, of the de la Cruz Contemporary Art Space.
- Christian Viveros-Fauné on how art fairs are affecting the creation of artwork.
- The fairs through the eyes of Franklin Sirmans, Chief Curator of Contemporary Art at LACMA.
- Kenny Schachter writes about his experience in Miami during Art Basel.
- and 's experience in Miami during fair week.
- Felix Salmon's thoughts on Art Basel Miami Beach.
- Sandy Rower's top 5 artwork picks at Art Basel Miami Beach.
- Martha Otero's picks for art at Art Basel Miami Beach.
- Andrew Goldstein's picks for the top ten artworks at Art Basel Miami Beach. Goldstein's choices for emerging artists to watch at NADA and Untitled.
- Judd Tully's sales report from Art Basel Miami Beach.
- Eileen Kinsella's sales report from Art Basel Miami Beach.
- Art in America's sales report from Art Basel Miami Beach.
- Blue chip art reported to sell well at Art Basel Miami Beach.
- Artnet's 10 Ridiculous But True Rules For Navigating Art Basel in Miami Beach.
- Paddle8's 8 memorable moments from Art Basel Miami Beach week.
- Forbes writes about Art Basel Miami Beach.
- NADA imports Surf Club in Montauk’s chef, menu, DJ’s, local-favorite bands, and personal trainer to Miami.
- Dan Duray visits the Instagram panel during Art Basel Miami Beach.
- New York Observer attends the Freeman and Lowe performance during Art Basel Miami Beach.
- Sergei Tcherepnin is the winner of 2014's Artadia/NADA Award prize, which includes a $4,000 unrestricted grant.
- Scott Indrisek writes about the Miley Cyrus performance during Art Basel Miami Beach.
- Jeffrey Deitch compares Miley Cyrus' artwork to Mike Kelley's.
- Billboard reports on the celebrity sightings in Miami.
- Princess Eugenie visits Art Basel Miami Beach.
- Beyonce wanted at Gavin Brown's booth at Art Basel Miami for Instagram pic in front of works featuring her portrait.
- What Leo, Diddy, Usain, Drake, and other celebrities were up in Miami Beach during Art Basel.
- Usher collects art, does stuff in Miami, like charge his phone through a woman's vagina.
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Streets: Blu (Rome)
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Overtime: Dec 15 – Dec 21
- Michael Rey and Amy Feldman 2-person exhibition opens at Freddy.
- RIP: Jeffrey Vanchiro aka KORN, who died at the age of 38 after falling out of 2nd-story window.
- LAPD arrests Raul Espinoza after he attempts to sell stolen art and recover 9 paintings.
- Three staff members of Uzbek State Arts Museum receive prison terms for selling artwork and replacing with forgeries.
- Experts gather in Berlin to discuss ways to help Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Afghanistan and others protect cultural property.
- Charles Saatchi suing former employee Rebecca Wilson for £300,000.
- Mute calls for a boycott of the Zabludowicz Foundation.
- Peter Lik's reported sale of $6.5mil. photograph viewed with skepticism.
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Franck Davidovici accuses Jeff Koons of stealing the idea of Fait d'Hiver from his advertisement.
- Helge Achenbach admits to some of the allegations he is charged with in court.
- Rosie O'Donnell pulls anti-Israel artwork from her website shop.
- Will the fall in Russian currency affect the art market?
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Navajo and Hopi tribes travel to France to oppose sale of sacred Native American, Eskimo and pre-Colombian artefacts.
- Group of anonymous artists take responsibility for hanging cardboard images of black lynching victims at UC Berkeley.
- Virtually punch a Monet in a gallery setting.
- Julien Frydman to leave his post as head of Paris Photo in late January 2015.
- Richard Dorment's choices for the five worst shows of 2014 include Matthew Barney and Marina Abramovic.
- Christina Rees thinks that right now might be the worst time ever to be an artist.
- Why people like having sex with artists.
- Boat with containers covered in JR wrapped art saves immigrants at sea.
- Artnet has a list of its picks for The Art World Winners and Losers of 2014.
- Aram Moshayedi and Hamza Walker named as curators of Hammer Museum's Made in LA 2016 biennial.
- Museo Tamayo has had to add security staff and guides to keep up with the number of visitors to popular Kusama show.
- Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery share its entire collections online.
- The Guggenheim in search of readers for On Kawara performance in the museum.
- Barbara Lee gifts Institute of Contemporary Art 43 works by 25 international female artists.
- Crocker Art Museum acquires Kris Kuksi's “Churchtank Type 9″ sculpture.
- Virginia Museum of Natural History receives donation of over 230 taxidermy works from Gregory Speck.
- Carolina A Miranda writes about Art + Practice, which will bring art and social services to Leimert Park.
- Artsy showcasing 21 museums and foundations in France in educational feature promoting French cultural heritage.
- Jerry Saltz' list of The 14 Best Museum Shows of 2014.
- Issues you should consider before donating art.
- Sindika Dokolo assembling collection of African art which he hopes to display one day in museum in Luanda.
- Tate Archive puts online 52,000 letters, photographs and sketchbooks belonging to great 20th-century British artists.
- India and Pakistan will be united at the Venice Biennale in 2015 in an official joint presentation at the Palazzo Benzon.
- 8 Museum Directors Reveal Their Favorite Works of Art.
- Vulture provides us with a look at pubic hair in the history of art.
- Beast Jesus a boon for tourism in town of Borja, Spain.
- Did Leonardo da Vinci paint the Mona Lisa twice?
- Ronald Lauder reportedly is the seller of record $4.5mil. Noguchi table sold to Alice Walton.
- Regen Projects celebrates its 25th year anniversary in Los Angeles.
- Exhibition A interviews Jessica Silverman.
- How do you determine which art works have long-term as opposed to short-term-only value?
- Gold rush in Cuban art now that US normalizes relations with Cuba? Kelly Crow also thinks so.
- Frieze New York 2015 exhibitor list released.
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Sotheby’s sale sets record for a photographs auction, totaling $21,325,063.
- Burt Reynolds successfully sells his collection of fine art and other items at Julien's Auctions.
- Scott Indrisek's Semi-Affordable Holiday Gift Guide for Art and Design Lovers.
- Eric Garner and Michael Brown killings prompt resurgence in political art.
- Huffington Post's list of 15 artists to watch in 2015.
- ArtStack wins Sferiq Award for Digital Innovation in Art.
- 10 artists discuss their thoughts on the #artselfie.
- Christopher Knight's list of the best art shows of 2014.
- Paper Magazine's list of 9 New York-Based Street Artists to Watch.
- Alec Soth's favorite photobook of 2014 is DIE MAUER IST WEG! by Mark Power.
- Artsy's picks for The Top 10 Artists Under 35 in 2014 and its choices for 15 Artists to Watch in 2015.
- George W Bush's advice to painters.
- Catherine Opie shoots ads for Portlandia.
- Sean Lynch to represent Ireland at the 2015 Venice Biennale.
- Pavel Pepperstein awarded Kandinsky Prize, which includes €40,000 in cash.
- Video profile of Daku, a street artist in India.
- Interview with Nick Darmstaedter on occasion of his new exhibition.
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Jake and Dinos Chapman show us what Christmas looks like when you're dying.
- NPR profiles Richard Estes.
- How Wassily Kandinsky's synaethesia changed art.
- An interview with Jacques Villeglé.
- Mademoiselle Chocolat sells Paul McCarthy Santa with butt plug and butt plug chocolate sculptures.
- Jamian Juliano-Villani limited edition print available from The Third Rail.
- PUSH 12-color screen print available from Art Heist.
- Gary Taxali limited edition print released by Dynamo Editions.
- Matthew Barney dating Sheryl Crow?
- Stephen Colbert commissions JR piece on rooftop of studio and pretends to be Banksy.
- 24 celebrities reveal artwork that they'd want to own.
- Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick recreate famous artworks at their office during work.
- Jerry Saltz looks at the best art tattoos of all time.
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Basel Week Miami ’14: Wunderkammern @ SCOPE
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Art Focus: Pez –“The Magic of Christmas” Series
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Streets: Ludo (Hong Kong / Shanghai)
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Overtime: Dec 22 – Dec 28
- Mark Bradford talks about his work.
- RIP: Rafael Ramos, aka POTE BBK, who died at the age of 40 after being shot.
- RIP: Jane Bown, who died in her home at the age of 89 after a recent fall.
- Sheik Saud bin Mohammed Al-Thani's family being sued for his debt accrued while buying stamps.
- Safety of Michelangelo's David statue a concern as over 250 small tremors rattle Florence.
- A list of the most controversial depictions of Jesus in art.
- A look back at the angriest debates in the world of architecture for 2014.
- Tate ordered to reveal BP sponsorship details in court case brought by environment activists.
- Laws regulating import and export of important cultural objects to be revamped following a series of acquisition scandals.
- Hyperallergic's list of the 20 most powerless people in the art world in 2014.
- Those who were naughty in 2014.
- Artnet's list of The 10 Biggest International Art Scandals of 2014.
- Philip Glass and other artists donate works to be sold to raise money in fight against NYU expansion.
- A guide to what you must see in Amsterdam.
- The Art Newspaper's seven new art words.
- Artinfo's list of the top Instagram posts of 2014.
- LA Weekly's choices for the 10 Best L.A. Art Experiences of 2014. And its choices for the 10 Best L.A. Street Art Murals of 2014.
- Hyperallergic's picks for the ten best exhibitions across the United States in 2014.
- The Edsel & Eleanor Ford House sold a Paul Cézanne painting in 2013 to a private buyer for $100mil.
- The Smithsonian’s federal appropriation is increased by $14.5mil. for fiscal year.
- Christopher Knight on why museum admissions should be free.
- International museum franchises - yay or nay?
- Eileen Kinsella writes about the biggest year ever for auctions.
- How the booming art market is affecting how art is made and sold.
- Artnet has a list of the top 50 female artists at auction. It also has a list of the top 20 art world women of 2014.
- Artnet's list of the most expensive European artists at auction in 2014.
- Five major collectors reveal their artwork wishlists.
- Artnet's list of the most admired art dealers of 2014.
- Observers list of five young galleries to watch in 2015.
- How to spot artwork that could have value.
- John Waters to exhibit Kiddie Flamingos, a kids, rated-G version of Pink Flamingoes, at his Marianne Boesky show.
- Harmony Korine has two exhibitions coming up.
- Profile of Ben Noam and his move to LA.
- Holiday greeting cards made by well-known artists.
- Derek Blasberg talks with Agnes Gund.
- Tully Arnot's Lonely Sculpture is an artwork that surfs Tinder mechanically on its own.
- Artnet's list of the top 10 digital artworks of 2014.
- A look at the ten greatest feasts in art history.
- Artnet's list of its favorite art books of 2014.
- Tauba Auerbach's Diagonal Press webstore opens.
- The Posters store has timed-edition prints by Nate Lowman, Wyatt Kahn, Paul Wackers, and others.
- Cristiano Ronaldo statue includes camel toe.
- Known Gallery's show featuring Chief Keef.
- The celebrity art projects, performances, and ventures of 2014.
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Basel Week Miami ’14 / Streets: Case (Miami)
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Rewind: Dec 1 – Jan 1
- The official trailer for Pixadores (via Hyperallergic).
- An interview with Rone.
- A feature on Push's mural in Downtown LA
- Some footage from the Takashi Murakami show at the Gagosian in New York.
- Protestors arrested at Art Basel 2014 Miami Beach.
- The conservation of MOCA's Rothko paintings.
- Jel Martinez's stylistic forms of erasure.
- A look at the mural by The London Police at Villa Bagatelle in Miami.
- Abraham Brody: The Violinist is Present / Interview.
- Some footage of the Daniel Arsham show in Miami at Locust Projects.
- Marina Abramovic's Sleeping Exercise for Art Basel Miami Beach.
- Ludo - The Chaos Theory.
- Vernissage TV's video summary of Art Basel Miami.
- Video of Aryz working on a mural in Bilbao.
- Ericailcane & Bastardilla in Berlin.
- Lucien Smith at a TEDx talk.
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Overtime: Dec 29 – Jan 4
- Mitchell-Innes & Nash's three-person show with Jo Baer, Anne Neukamp, and Diane Simpson.
- Family sues Majestic Collection Fine Art Gallerie after sculpture kills their toddler.
- Elana Pritchard illustrates her experience in jail and with the legal system.
- 14-year-old girl in Hong Kong arrested for drawing chalk flowers on a wall at protest site.
- Tania Bruguera arrested three times in two days in Cuba.
- Authenticity in use of Tracey Emin's bed in My Bed piece questioned. Others think it doesn't matter.
- Wife of Jean-François Bauret accuses Jeff Koons of plagiarizing her husband's work.
- Gallery 63 Antiques accused of selling a Rockwell forgery.
- Wales had plans to hide art treasures in underground tunnels if a civil or nuclear emergency arose during the 1980s.
- The unveiling of The Broad's facade reveals that actual construction not as good as rendering.
- Jonathan Jones asks why the poor are not depicted in art today.
- Play-Doh makes a toy that looks like a penis.
- The rise of narcissism in art in 2014.
- The mutual admiration and rivalry between Picasso and Dali.
- The 15 most bizarre, wild, and weird art stories of 2014.
- Scott Indrisek's top ten worst art world moments of 2014.
- Harvey Weinstein issues a challenge to Banksy.
- Andrew Goldstein talks about the art bubble.
- Christian Viveros-Fauné's list of the 50 most exciting artists of 2014.
- WOAH's top 12 Los Angeles art picks for 2014. Connie Butler also has her LA top choices. Paris, LA's LA culture's top 10.
- Ben Davis' list of The Most Important Art Essays of the Year.
- 8 under-the-radar shows that Artinfo is looking forward to in 2015.
- Artists talk about their favorite films of 2014. And choose their favorite art exhibitions of 2014.
- Roberta Smith's views on some of the art-related films that came out in 2014.
- New York City art life still lively and vibrant.
- Damien Hirst's art complex in south London will open in 2015 and have free admission.
- Artwork from Myron Kunin's collection goes on loan at Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
- A look at the institutions in New York undergoing expansion in 2015.
- Bloomberg looks at the blue chip sales numbers of 2014.
- A look at the record purchases at auction in 2014.
- Georgina Adam's art market predictions for 2015.
- Cuba prepares for a boom in demand for its art and artists.
- A look at the upcoming Los Angeles art fairs.
- The Indian art market still struggling to recover.
- List of the 10 best European art fairs of 2014.
- Adeline Ooi hired by Art Basel for Asia Director Post.
- Profile of Anne Anka and a look at how she built her art collection.
- Anselm Kiefer visits Cern, Europe's particle physics center.
- Anish Kapoor to have 2015 solo show at Versailles.
- Obey Clothing interviews James Jean.
- The Standard interviews Liu Bolin.
- A Q&A with Jordan Wolfson.
- Financial Times interviews Luc Tuymans.
- Interview with David Ostrowski.
- Martin Bruckner turns his 3 year-old daughter's sayings into art.
- Rob Pruitt's Instagram series of artist and celebrity look-a-likes.
- New York Times profiles Stefan Simchowitz and takes a look at a day in his life.
- Andrew Goldstein interviews Mark Landis.
- 50 artists from Singapore that you may want to know about.
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Lina Selander to represent Sweden at the Venice Biennale in 2015.
- Timothy Spall learned to paint so he could play the part of J.M.W. Turner in film.
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Recap: RVCAloha x POW! WOW! 2014
Photo credit: Brandon Shigeta.
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Interviews: Heath West
Arrested Motion (AM): How would you describe the artworks that you are making?
Heath West (HW): Lately, I’ve been calling them ‘non-paintings’—because that’s a literal thing itself—there’s no paint involved whatsoever. There is staining, but not painting. I also favor ‘wall-works’, as that’s another literal reading, which favors the Cartesian Z-axis, and their architectural nature is inspired by wall sections, with the layering of different materials for spatial effects.
AM: The works you've been creating so far varies a lot in mediums, concept, techniques, etc. What is the connection between all of them, if there is one?!
HW: The concept is the same throughout, in fact. The philosophical driving force is to frame the spatial relationships of material properties. How one views the work, from varying points of view, the image in the picture will shift as one moves around it. The idea of a distance/light/movement relationship between the viewer and the work, weaves through every piece.
AM: Your formal education is mostly architecturally focused - how did you end up making art?!
HW: I arrived at architecture from art history. I took numerous studio and art history courses in school, but it was never my sole focus. I eventually decided to go for an M.Arch (when I graduated in 2009, in the heart of the recession, I wondered why I did this), but studying art never went away. I always studied it as a release from architecture.
Architecture is a very difficult, slow-moving profession. Art moves fast. To put it another way - it’s a lot quicker to make something under the umbrella of Art, than it is under the one of Architecture. To have both in operation is to keep the visual ideas within a personal balance. Le Corbusier was adamant about this. Sol Le Witt worked as draftsman for I.M. Pei before branching off into art, and today there are people like Oscar Tuazon and Nick van Woert who have a background in architecture, which is quite visible and human about their work.
AM: How much of your producing process is constructing, planning, building, and how much involves classic art making methods?
HW: It’s safe to say that I use zero classic art making methods. Planning is a major part of the process, indeed, but making is my favorite, for sure. Once all the materials are gathered and ready, and when it’s time to construct and build—that’s the best part—thinking through materials.
AM: What are your weapons of choice, tools you are using when creating works?
HW: Electric drill, hammer, staple gun, pliers, various fabrics, stains, and hardware.
AM: Are you present in every step of the creating process, or do you just give out your directions to people that do the work?
HW: I’m present in every step. The pine stretcher bars are off-the-shelf, and I send my designs to the printer for the grids on fabrics, but I’m there every step of the way, from beginning to end.
AM: If yes, that requires a lot of craftsmanship, when did you master all those skills?
HW: Architecture school. Making models of all sorts, construction details to urban sites, with woods, metals, foams, papers…trial and error. A lot of errors, in fact, which seems to be the best way to learn anything.
AM: The works you created for this show are pretty similar in concept but quite diverse with their final appearance. What were the main ideas behind these works?
HW: How layering various materials, fabrics, metallic mylar, plastic screening (which I associate as a heavy-fabric) can achieve the same material-based philosophy, that light and space (and time!) are principals of experiencing the work.
AM: We noticed you like to play with the framing of the works. Where did you come up with this idea?
HW: For obvious reasons, when starting a new piece, I found myself starting with the frame. But then I started to think how could the frame be the work itself, or a prominent compositional element of the work. And who else is activating this is contemporary art, and how are they doing it? People like Rebecca Ward, Antoine Donzeaud, and Alex Hubbard among others, all visually activate the structural frame of the work. As did Sigmar Polke, and the Support/Surfaces group. So the point of departure was a nod to both history and the contemporary, in the direction of forming my own language with the material components.
AM: Do you print your own fabrics used for these works?
HW: I am designing and printing my own fabrics, but I also shop at the local giant fabric store, where you’re spoiled for choice. But I stay within generic, ubiquitous grids. There’s one fabric that’s a black grid on a polyester/spandex blend, which I’ve been meaning to go get more of, the stretch of it is great, you really feel the tension in the material.
AM: What is the usual sequence of creating one of these pieces? Do you sketch everything first, or does it depend on the materials, fabrics you have access to?
HW: Planning, organizing, and sourcing materials takes a lot time. I’ll sketch out some color combinations before applying the stain onto the wood. But in general, I like to dive into the work and make it happen. Sure, mistakes happen, but that’s part of the process. I don’t want to the work to be too polished, or too perfect, because then it’ll lose some of the human aspect of it. Like a beauty mark, blemishes of process can be charming.
AM: Some of the works are more about their construction than the actual image or appearance, what is your view on those works?
HW: The frame pieces question the materiality of the frame itself as a means of expression. If I stay within the constraint of ‘not painting’, what can I do to it? I use a brand of stain that comes in every color of the rainbow, some of them being incredibly bright, and I love how they accentuate the grains of the pine, emphasizing properties of the material. I also don’t use any glue, making hardware the clear choice for attaching the pieces together. Coming from architecture, I love the tectonics of a building, where you can see how it’s put together. This is my approach to making the frame pieces, to make each one a tectonic space, as opposed to any foregrounded image.
AM: Your work symbolize some interesting theories about enframing, screens, folds, etc, could you tell us more about it?
HW: These ideas come from philosophy, from Martin Heidegger, and more specifically, from Gilles Deleuze. Heidegger used the term enframing as means “to reveal the real,” and Deleuze used the frame in his reading of film, as a means of spatial composition, a geometric way of balancing the picture. Deleuze also wrote about the fold, but without needing to recite or quote of his works, his ideas are incredibly influential to me personally, and if we include ’screens’ in both their material, literal sense, and in their subjective, selective sense, we see how each term in an anecdote for action.
Another book which I’ve been reading is titled Thought in the Act, by Erin Manning and Brian Massumi. In addition to his own books, Massumi was also the translator of A Thousand Plateaus, by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, from French into English, so there is a lot of Deleuzian thought to his writing. Thought in the Act is about the artistic process, how it’s visual philosophy, and how thinking through material or through movements of the body, as in dance, have resounding impacts on meaning, and reading. Deleuze’s books on cinema are similar, where he describes the psychology of camera angles, making the image or the characters ominous or distorted. So, by my reading, I incorporate these concepts when working. I’m not a writer (my dad is), I’ve always been drawn to the visual language.
AM: Do you have any major concepts you're planning for the future?
HW: To keep making, to keep my work moving forward. To refine construction techniques, and material selections.
AM: What are your plans for the coming year?
HW: To invest in some new hardware. I’m pricing a few saws right now, and I’ve already located the materials for the next works I want to make. They’ll be variations on the same themes that I’m working with, but with some minor tweaks here and there.
Photo credit: Michael Bhichitkul.
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Basel Week Miami ’14 / Streets: Swoon
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Art Focus: Odeith
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Je Suis Charlie (Part II)
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Overtime: Jan 5 – Jan 11
- Profile of Helmut Lang, who is now strictly a artist and sculptor.
- RIP: June Harwood, who died at the age of 81.
- 12 killed in terrorist attack at Charlie Hebdo due to satirical cartoons. Artists respond to the tragedy. Why the massacre will make art stronger.
- Violence against cartoonists sadly a common thing throughout history.
- Bennett von Vertes confesses to killing another man.
- What happens to private museums if the founder dies?
- George Rodrigue painting stolen from wall of Rodrigue Gallery, but it is later found.
- Russian government's clampdown on free speech, other events prompt members of Russia’s art world to leave country.
- France may plan to sell some of its state-owned artwork.
- Chinese demand for late-period Picasso paintings may be skewing its market.
- DIA director Graham Beal to retire from the museum in June.
- Tania Bruguera resigns from Union of Cuban Writers and Artists and returns award given to her by the communist government. She is told by official from Cuba's Ministry of Interior not to return for the Havana Biennial.
- Report finds that labor issues persist in Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island cultural mega-development.
- Why artists may not like the current art market.
- How artists might be displaced by gentrification of the Tenderloin.
- David Cameron has yet to sit for an official portrait for the Parliamentary Art Collection.
- NY's Department of Cultural Affairs to measure diversity at city’s museums and performing arts groups.
- Ben Davis lists 30 Art-Writing Clichés to Ditch in the New Year.
- Christopher Glazek annotates his New York Times article on Stefan Simchowitz.
- A list of 10 places in Los Angeles to draw nude models.
- Streetcraft L.A. helping turn graffiti artists and taggers into commercial artists.
- Patreon crowdfunded $10mil for artists in 2014.
- Gates Foundation utilizing artwork in an effort to encourage vaccination.
- The most-searched artists on eBay in the United States by state.
- Preparations now under way for first Antarctic Biennale.
- Paddy Johnson's predictions for the digital art world in 2015.
- Bob Colacello examines the competition between the Met and MoMA.
- Fred Tomaselli: The Times at OCMA will be the artist’s first West Coast museum exhibition.
- About 40 exhibitions of Andy Warhol's work will be shown in university art museums and institutions in 2015.
- Museum of Fine Arts opens time capsule from 1795.
- Profile of the El Segundo Museum of Art.
- LACMA to lend more than 130 pieces of Islamic art to The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture.
- Berkeley Art Museum acquires artwork by Andrew Schoultz and Penelope Umbrico.
- Detroit Institute of Arts reaches its pledge to raise $100mil. over 20 years for city.
- British Museum's request to borrow work from Museum of Cycladic Art may be affected by Parthenon Marbles tension.
- Reviews of the Jeff Koons retrospective at Centre Pompidou.
- Quiiky, a gay travel company, starting sexuality-themed tours of the Vatican.
- Marina Picasso selling an estimated $290mil. worth of her grandfather's artwork.
- Sotheby's and Christie's increase guarantees on auction prices, despite risks.
- Sotheby's to auction Claude Monet's Le Grand Canal, which is estimated to sell for £20–30mil.
- How the sale of a Paul Cézanne reflects the current realities of the overall art market.
- Steve Lazarides consigns some of his Banksy works to Bonhams.
- Paddle8 to sell the only copy of the new Wu-Tang Clan album.
- Issues of Charlie Hebdo receiving enormous interest on eBay.
- Vito Schnabel taking over Bruno Bischofberger's gallery space in St. Moritz.
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Glenn Horowitz Bookseller to open new gallery called Rare, across from MoMA.
- Liz Craft and Alex Freedman answer some questions about Paramount Ranch.
- 1:54, fair that focuses on contemporary art from Africa, will make its New York debut during Frieze NY.
- Jerry Saltz and Marion Maneker writes about Stefan Simchowitz.
- Simon de Pury talks about his experience and imparts some advice.
- Q&A with Steve Turner.
- Interview with Mark Flood about his gallery and collecting.
- Collector's interview with Ryan Kortman.
- Jamian Juliano-Villani, Jacolby Satterwhite, Catharine Ahearn, and Gaia are among those in Forbes' 30 Under 30 list.
- Modern Painters' list of 24 artists to watch.
- May Hands is Desktop Residency artist #35.
- Bill Powers interviews Jonas Wood.
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Jayson Musson has new web series called Adventures of Jamel.
- Aram Moshayedi interviews Alex Israel.
- Profile and interview with Sean Scully.
- Scott Indrisek looks at Rascal House at Half Gallery.
- Interview with Doug Rickard, who is now working with YouTube videos.
- Sean Kelly Gallery now represents Hugo McCloud.
- Takashi Murakami reveals his favorite Art Forum cover. He also invites his Instagram users to his Gagosian show for a #InstaMeet.
- Andy Warhol's Batman film Batman Dracula.
- NY Times writes about Rene Ricard.
- Interview with William Wegman.
- Erwin Recinos' photographs of Los Angeles from the past 5 years of his work.
- Shy guy Chris Shaw "discovered" after being posted on Humans of New York.
- Creative Capital announces over $4,370,000 in grants to 2015 Creative Capital awardees in art categories.
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Ivan Grubanov to represent Serbia at 2015 Venice Biennale.
- Larry Sultan's work now on exhibition at LACMA.
- Kara Walker limited edition pitcher available from Artware Editions.
- Cindy Sherman limited edition tray available from Sundance Institute.
- Cali Thornhill Dewitt prints available in white and black.
- Madonna uses images of historical icons with their faces wrapped in bondage to promote her album.
- Brad Pitt sports nail art in public appearance.
- PJ Harvey turns recording performance of her next album into art piece.
- City Lit offers new class on selfie photography.
- Restaurant review of Larry Gagosian-owned Kappo Masa.
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Streets: World Roundup (Oct 13 – Jan 12)
ROA for the WallCome project to paint on the streets of Schmalkalden in Germany. Photo via StreetArtNews.[/caption]
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Herakut in Miami. "I Dreamt I Was A Human. It Was A Nightmare!" painted with the help of students of the “HERE´S HELP – Recovery Through Education” program.[/caption]
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Petro and Slak for the festival "Objects of Nature" in Kotka, Finland. Via Graffart.[/caption]
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Augustine Kofie for the Le Mur Paris Project in Paris. Via Savage Habit.[/caption]
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Hopare in Paris, France - "Music For The Eyes". Via StreetArtNews.[/caption]
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Whoam Irony - "Burn" in London. Photo via Mashkulture.[/caption]
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El Mac for the Los Muros Hablan Street Art Festival in Puerto Rico. Photo via StreetArtNews.[/caption]
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Reka in San Francisco. Photo by Colin M. Day via Hi-Fructose.[/caption]
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D*Face in Las Vegas for Life Is Beautiful. Photo by Birdman.[/caption]
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