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December 2008 entries
December 31, 2008
December 29, 2008
Dina Vierny, model and muse for artists Aristide Maillol and Henri Matisse
hear an interview with Dina here
Maillol's Les Trois Graces, 1938, at Tuileries Gardens in Paris
December 24, 2008
December 22, 2008
December 19, 2008
December 18, 2008
Bubble, 2008
Considered one of the most dramatic Art Projects public art piece at this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach artist Ai Weiwei has installed 100 glistening ceramic blue bubbles across a 600 sq. m area. The work took two years to create. “The individual porcelain pieces reflect the city lights and the water…Maybe the installation should rather be read as a metaphor for speculative bubbles of all kinds,”
Ai Weiwei talks about his work 'Bubble' here
December 16, 2008
Bobby Neal Adams is a photographer whose works look at the transformation of the human body
as it ages. He began experimenting with a technique he calls ‘photo surgery’ in the 1980s. this technique involves
stitching together two different images to make them appear as one. ‘Agemaps’ takes photographs of different
people as children and adults and mixes them together to create a new image.
as it ages. He began experimenting with a technique he calls ‘photo surgery’ in the 1980s. this technique involves
stitching together two different images to make them appear as one. ‘Agemaps’ takes photographs of different
people as children and adults and mixes them together to create a new image.
December 15, 2008
December 14, 2008
December 12, 2008
On november 18th, the spanish government officially presented miquel barceló’s latest art installation in the UN’s
palace of nations in geneva. The controversial work of art is a massive sculptural installation located on the domed
ceiling of the building’s newly created human rights and alliance of civilizations chamber. The work consists of
multi-coloured stalactite forms that appear to be dripping from the ceiling.
palace of nations in geneva. The controversial work of art is a massive sculptural installation located on the domed
ceiling of the building’s newly created human rights and alliance of civilizations chamber. The work consists of
multi-coloured stalactite forms that appear to be dripping from the ceiling.
December 11, 2008
Then 2008 rolled around, and I suddenly found myself living in the middle of a total disaster. My life was a total mess. I had just quit my gallery and was struggling again with my work. All of the plans that I had had for living on Easy Street were totally blowing up in my face.
- Self-Inflicted Prophecy by David Kramer
An art show that opens and closes on the same day. The show, called "Naivete" features 14 different artists and takes place this Friday between 8 and 10 p.m. at 286 Mulberry Street in New York City. Above a piece by Reka Reisinger. An image of Yosemite from her series of photographs of her cut out self-portrait shot in different environments. via
December 10, 2008
December 09, 2008
just Launched NYTimes Conversations
Sonnabend
Yossi Milo
Pace Wildenstein
Metro Pictures
Andrea Rosen
"It was an odd moment when I walked into that first gallery in Chelsea and saw a large white desk with a head poking up from the top edge of the computer screen. I took out my camera, carefully framing and exposing the scene, and the head never moved or took notice of my gaze. As I walked around that booming Chelsea neighborhood of art galleries, I began to notice a trend: at some of the biggest galleries there are giant entry desks, where the top of the head of the desk sitter is often the only other human presence. This leads me to wonder, in this digital world of email and instant messaging that supposedly makes us more connected, are we also setting up barriers to the simple eye to eye contact that affirms our humanity?" by Andy Freeberg
Belgian artist Arne Quinze has created an installation called The Sequence outside the Flemish Parliament in Brussels, Belgium. Quinze designed The Sequence for the Festival of Politics at the Flemish Parliament last month; it will remain in place for at least five years .