Arts & Design
| Freitag, 21.11.2008, 07:58 Museum Review | The National Museum of American History: America’s Attic, Ready for a Second Act When the National Museum of American History reopens, it may begin to shed its reputation as one of the more cramped and confounding corners of the Smithsonian Institution. |
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| Freitag, 21.11.2008, 07:35 Endowment Drying Up, a Museum Seeks Help Faced with a severe financial crisis, officials of the Museum of Contemporary Art have had talks about a possible joint venture or merger with several other Los Angeles institutions. |
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| Freitag, 21.11.2008, 06:09 Antiques: The China Trade, Portrayed in Porcelain Kentshire Galleries is hosting a selling exhibition of Chinese export porcelain in its Manhattan shop at 700 Madison Avenue, at 62nd Street. |
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| Freitag, 21.11.2008, 06:08 Art Review | Pipilotti Rist: Tiptoe by the Tulips (or Stretch by the Apples) “Pour Your Body Out,” a site-specific installation by the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, is arguably the first project to humanize the atrium of the Museum of Modern Art. |
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| Freitag, 21.11.2008, 06:05 Inside Art: Auction Slump Has Silver Lining for MoMA After the recent drop in auction prices, artworks that were once out of reach for museums have suddenly become affordable again. |
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| Freitag, 21.11.2008, 06:03 Art Review | 'Art and Love in Renaissance Italy': Eternal Objects of Desire “Art and Love in Renaissance Italy” at the Metropolitan Museum promises romance, desire, expensive gift items and possible sex in the land of Romeo and Juliet and delivers on all counts. |
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| Freitag, 21.11.2008, 06:02 Art Review | 'Beyond Babylon': Global Exchange, Early Version “Beyond Babylon,” a big, prescient, concentration-taxing exhibition, is the latest in the museum’s illustrious line of panoramic archaeological shows. |
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| Freitag, 21.11.2008, 05:49 A Piece of Cleveland With a New York Accent Hundreds of artifacts are being prepared for the opening on Tuesday of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC, a $9 million branch of the Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. |
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| Freitag, 21.11.2008, 04:16 Art in Review Martín Ramírez at the American Folk Art Museum, “I Am a Man” at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Zaha Hadid at Sonnabend and more. |
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| Donnerstag, 20.11.2008, 06:16 Pact Will Relocate Artifacts to Italy From Cleveland The Cleveland Museum of Art has agreed to hand over 13 ancient artifacts and an early Renaissance cross to Italy after long negotiations. |
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| Donnerstag, 20.11.2008, 06:05 Jan Krugier, Dealer in Modern Art, Dies at 80 Mr. Krugier survived two years in Nazi concentration camps and went on to become a highly regarded dealer of work by artists like Picasso, Morandi, Balthus and Giacometti. |
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| Donnerstag, 20.11.2008, 00:32 Eli Broad Plans Another Art Space Eli Broad, the philanthropist whose gift financed a new contemporary-art building this year at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is planning to build another exhibition space for his vast collection. |
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| Dienstag, 18.11.2008, 08:37 Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies Ms. Hartigan was a second-generation Abstract Expressionist whose gestural, intensely colored paintings often incorporated images drawn from popular culture. |
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| Dienstag, 18.11.2008, 08:22 At Meeting, Smithsonian Practices New Openness The Smithsonian Institution held the first public board meeting in its 162-year history on Monday. The first question: “Why did you not all resign?” |
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| Montag, 17.11.2008, 07:23 Arts, Briefly: LeWitt Retrospective After months of drafting and painting work by a team of 65 artists and art students, the exhibition “Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective” is ready for the public. |
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| Montag, 17.11.2008, 06:31 In Faltering Economy, Auction Houses Crash Back to Earth Recent art auctions seemed to signal a new era in sales, one that featured the return of the seasoned collector and more-sober business practices. |
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| Sonntag, 16.11.2008, 11:04 Visions of the Holocaust, and of an Artist’s Joys A retrospective of the work of Arbit Blatas brings together brightly colored landscapes, portraits and stage designs with bronze bas-reliefs that he cast as memorials to the Holocaust. |
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| Samstag, 15.11.2008, 06:43 From Ashes, Reviving a Place of Wild Dreams A February fire destroyed most of Deyrolle, the legendary taxidermy store in Paris, but the shop’s supporters vow to rebuild. |
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| Samstag, 15.11.2008, 06:06 A Budding Ambassador for Latin American Art Estrellita Brodsky combines the connections of an arts philanthropist with the scholarly perspective of a graduate student to raise the profile of Latin American art. |
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| Samstag, 15.11.2008, 05:51 Architecture Review | Art Gallery of Ontario: Gehry Puts a Very Different Signature on His Old Hometown’s Museum The famed architect’s renovation of the Art Gallery of Ontario, his first commission in his native city of Toronto, balances exuberance with restraint. |
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| Freitag, 14.11.2008, 23:19 The Exile’s Palette A biography of Marc Chagall explores his impulses, his art and his complicated relationship with Russia. |
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| Freitag, 14.11.2008, 21:00 Style: The Big Picture Garrett Finney is helping to design a rover that will comfortably house two people in the absolute discomfort of outer space. |
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| Freitag, 14.11.2008, 19:22 What Is Art For? The poet, philosopher, translator and scholar Lewis Hyde has spent his life trying to figure that out — and became a literary cult figure in the process. |
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| Freitag, 14.11.2008, 17:33 Architecture: Saving Buffalo’s Untold Beauty For all its historic value, Buffalo’s architecture has for decades seemed strangely frozen in time. |
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| Freitag, 14.11.2008, 08:57 Special Galleries Issue: On, and Off, the Wall If you’re just looking, great art doesn’t cost a dime. Four art critics of The New York Times have canvassed the prime gallery neighborhoods to offer a field report. |
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| Freitag, 14.11.2008, 07:30 Phillips Sale Totals Less Than Half the Low Estimate Results at Phillips de Pury & Company on Thursday proved dreary, with about 40 percent of the art unsold and those works that did sell going for a fraction of their estimates. |
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| Freitag, 14.11.2008, 06:21 Art: Mapping an Imagined Order, Page by Page An exploration of a mind’s landscape and its symbolism, sometimes under hypnosis. |
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| Freitag, 14.11.2008, 05:54 Museum and Gallery Listings Selective listings from art critics of The New York Times. |
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| Freitag, 14.11.2008, 04:57 Art: SoHo: Provocations, Reflections and Abstractions From historic to spanking new, intimate to spectacular and minimalist to surrealistic, the art on view in the galleries of SoHo and the lower West Side covers a lot of territory. |
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| Freitag, 14.11.2008, 04:57 Upper East Side: Linger (Quietly) for a While The Upper East Side is a quieter, more idiosyncratic experience to Chelsea. Older work by blue-chip artists is the norm, and even possible to find a museum-quality show without the museum admission charge. |
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| Freitag, 14.11.2008, 04:57 Art: Lower East Side: Art Shoehorned Amid Charm Among the art neighborhoods of Manhattan, the Lower East Side is by far the most picturesque. With its synagogues, tenements and graffiti, it’s a visual event whether you’re visiting galleries or not. |
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| Freitag, 14.11.2008, 04:56 Art: Chelsea: Art Chockablock With Encyclopedic Range Chelsea currently provides an ever-humbling, close to encyclopedic survey of the possible modes of art-making and art-showing. |
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| Freitag, 14.11.2008, 02:50 Antiques: Some Rare Finds at the Modernism Fair This year there are many showstoppers at “Modernism: A Century of Style and Design, 1905-2005,” including works from Frank Lloyd Wright, Christopher Dresser and Vasarely. |
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| Freitag, 14.11.2008, 02:44 Inside Art: Palestinian-American Wins Hugo Boss Prize This year’s winner is Emily Jacir, who produces photographs, videos, sculpture and drawings that address themes of belonging and displacement as they relate to Palestinian identity. |
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| Donnerstag, 13.11.2008, 06:09 Exploring Old Rome Without Air (or Time) Travel Google Earth has embraced a frontier dating back 17 centuries: ancient Rome under Constantine the Great. |
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| Donnerstag, 13.11.2008, 04:48 Mixed Results for Contemporary Art Sale at Christie’s Of the 75 works on the block, nearly 0ne-third failed to sell, including a 1964 self-portrait by Francis Bacon. |
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| Mittwoch, 12.11.2008, 06:35 Sale Plans Hit Haven for Women in the Arts The home of Pen and Brush, a century-old former club in Greenwich Village devoted to female artists and writers, is for sale. |
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| Mittwoch, 12.11.2008, 04:37 A Dreary Night for Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s In a salesroom overflowing with collectors, Sotheby’s barely managed to sell $125.1 million worth of contemporary art on Tuesday night. |
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| Montag, 10.11.2008, 18:07 Art: Once Inspired by a War, Now by the Land The designer of the Vietnam memorial is finding that her three career strands are related. |
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| Sonntag, 9.11.2008, 08:32 ArT: Yesterday’s Pristine Vistas, Frozen in Time In a new exhibition, aesthetic explorers document the Arctic that was. |
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