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February 2009 entries
February 28, 2009
February 27, 2009
Dasha Shishkin, Zach Feuer Gallery
February 26, 2009
February 25, 2009
Robert Sagerman, oil on canvas, at Margaret Thatcher Projects
Art Pawnshop
Last fall, Annie Leibovitz, the photographer, borrowed $5 million from a company called Art Capital Group. In December, she borrowed $10.5 million more from the same firm. As collateral, among other items, she used town houses she owns in Greenwich Village, a country house, and something else: the rights to all of her photographs.
-more in the NYTimes
February 24, 2009
February 23, 2009
Philip Guston, Painting (1954)
William Bouguereau's "Alma Parens (The Motherland)," from 1883
Martin Kippenberger's "Portrait of Paul Schreber (designed by himself)"
A few images of the art and antiques from Yves St. Laurent and Pierre Berge’s collection to be offered up at an auction by Christie’s this evening in Paris. To read more about the event
February 22, 2009
February 20, 2009
this is a Mellotron
In Mellodrama: The Mellotron Documentary, filmmaker Dianna Dilworth takes measure of the many players in the story behind these unruly sound machines, whose very existence ultimately shaped much of popular music. The film is a study in the unpredictability of innovation, and how each extension of the same technology can conflict with the intentions of those that came before it. Read an interview with filmmaker here
February 11, 2009
February 10, 2009
February 09, 2009
February 08, 2009
February 07, 2009
February 06, 2009
February 04, 2009
Beijing-based Yue Minjun is one of the most important artists of the Chinese avant garde movement, Cynical Realism. Minjun’s work is characterized by a signature laughing figure which serves as a portrait of the artist. Upon greater inspection the smiling faces contain fear, animosity, and a sense of discomfort that is a product of facing reality in contemporary times.