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Have you ever noticed how Rothko always gets a bench?
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If you give yourself less than ten minutes to compile a mental list of international and regional artists who’ve dealt with guns in their work, you rack up an impressive number really quickly.
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Lately it seems the charges of offensiveness are flying around faster than a frail 80-year-old burning at the stake in colonial Massachusetts.
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POSTPONED: Before the Halloween Parties, Catch up on Some Sleep with Andy Warhol
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonIf you’ve never seen more than a still or a clip from Andy Warhol’s 1963 avant-garde film Sleep, now is your chance to experience the full 5 ½ hour epic…
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On this date in 1928, Andrew Warhola, Jr. was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Happy birthday to Andy Warhol! Sing along! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDv0SHItG-4
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Bill Camfield may have retired from teaching at Rice University in 2002 (where he had taught art history since 1969), but he hasn’t quit working. Over the years, Camfield has…
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Hollywood Agency Announces Plans to Represent Visual Artists — Guess Who?
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newtonby Cait Munro, Wednesday, February 11, 2015 United Talent Agency, the Beverly Hills-based talent agency known for representing actors like Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, and Gwyneth Paltrow announced the launch…
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Serendipity, or something more?
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Back in 1993, in what to my own mind may count as the single most inspired feat of performance art of all time, Pinoncelli had urinated into the sculpture as it lay on display in Nîmes, France.
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The official verdict is in and The University of Texas has lost its lawsuit against actor Ryan O’Neal. On Thursday afternoon, a jury found that the Andy Warhol portrait of…
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Triptychs and Disasters (Real and Painted) Make for a Record-Breaking Week
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton“The art industry is booming,” says U.S. News & World Report, “as proved by record-breaking bidding wars at auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s this week.” On Tuesday, Francis Bacon’s 1967…
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Elegance veers towards a kind of lyrical sentimentalism; beautiful, but dangerously close to a whirlpool of cliché.
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The University of Texas has now gone to a Los Angeles court in a last-minute bid to have Ryan O’Neal‘s star witnesses (Farrah Fawcett’s former costar Jaclyn Smith, friend Alana…
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Arthur Danto and Lou Reed: A Weekend of Mourning for a Couple of Warhol Champions
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonArthur C. Danto, the man who coined the term “artworld,” died Friday of heart failure at his home in Manhattan. A philosopher who became one of the most widely read…
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In 1962, only a few years after the founding of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the NASA Art Program was launched “in an effort to present NASA’s discoveries…
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Amazon Art Site Finally Launches for One-Stop Virtual Gallery-Hopping
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonAmazon.com was all over the news today since it was announced late yesterday that its founder and CEO Jeffrey Bezos is buying the iconic Washington Post for $250 million. While…
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Actor Ryan O’Neal is going to be allowed to sue Craig Nevius for defamation. Nevius told the Star tabloid and Good Morning America that O’Neal “stole” a $30 million Andy…
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On Sunday, NY Times critic Roberta Smith issued a call for museum curators to “shake up the snow globe” and mix folk art into the enervating canonical narratives found in…