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September 2009 entries
September 30, 2009
September 29, 2009
September 25, 2009
September 24, 2009
Two armed robbers stole a Magritte painting, titled "Olympia,"
from a small museum in Brussels around 10 a.m. this morning.
The 1948 nude is a portrait of Magritte's wife, and is valued at
around $1.1 million. link
September 23, 2009
A committee put together by Brandeis University to examine the future of the Rose Museum recommends it remain open but does not take a stand on the sale of its art work. They also suggest more efforts should be placed on fulfilling Brandeis’s educational mission. No acknowledgment that the sale of artwork directly undermines this objective is noted. via
Sarah Goodridge (1788–1835), Beauty Revealed, 1828 Watercolor on ivory
The Boston portraitist Sarah Goodridge painted this intimate self-portrait for the statesman Daniel Webster in 1828, the year of his first term as U.S. Senator. Their association is documented in forty-four letters that Webster wrote to Goodridge between 1827 and 1851. Webster sat for her at least twelve times over two decades, and she visited him in Washington, D.C.—the only time she is known to have left Boston. This provocative twist on the traditional lover’s eye miniatures so popular in London demonstrates the artist’s command of nuances of light and shadow and glowing tones captured through the use of transparent washes of watercolor on ivory. via
September 22, 2009
September 21, 2009
September 18, 2009
September 17, 2009
September 15, 2009
Aaron Young, Greeting Card 10a, 10 panels 4x8' each
The making of this piece was staged as a performance: plywood panels were laid out to cover a 72 x 128 foot area of the floor, then stained and painted with layers of yellow, pink, orange, and red, covered with a final coat of jet black before a team of bikers rallied on its surface for 7 minutes. Created in the dark with only the bike headlights illuminating the action, the ear-blasting revving of the engines and toxic clouds of exhaust smoke gave the effect of a rock-concert extravaganza, placing abstract painting in the realm of hard-core spectacle or extreme sport. link
September 14, 2009
September 12, 2009
PARKing Day
Sept 18th
PARK(ing) Day is an annual, one-day, global event where artists, activists, and citizens collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spots into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public parks. link
