Art world does makeover of American dream (Reuters)
Reuters - There is no easy fix to the foreclosure crisis in the U.S., but the art world is offering one possible remedy. View full post on Yahoo! News: Arts
Contemporary art world turns to Turner Prize (Reuters)
Reuters - Britain's Turner Prize, one of the world's top contemporary art honors, is awarded later on Monday, and for only the second time in its 27-year history the ceremony will be held outside London. View full post on Yahoo! News: Arts
Prix Mobile award seeks stars of the web art world (Reuters)
Reuters - A new global art-prize competition for pictures created using a mobile device opens on Friday to any competitor bold enough to subject their work to scrutiny by a jury. View full post on Yahoo! News: Arts
Art world fears “big chill” as Frieze Week begins (Reuters)
Reuters - Will Chinese buyers ride to the rescue? Will the super-rich decide painting and sculpture is a better investment than volatile stocks or risky debt? View full post on Yahoo! News: Arts
LA puts “PST” time stamp on art world (Reuters)
Reuters - A city once thought to have less culture than a bowl of yogurt, Los Angeles is challenging that notion with an epic exhibition, "Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980."
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LA painter’s bank on fire work heats up art world (AP)
AP - Alex Schaefer is the hot Los Angeles artist of the moment, thanks to a couple of oil-on-canvas works showing banks burning down. View full post on Yahoo! News: Arts
Arkansas museum showcases World War II Japanese American art (Reuters)
Reuters - For decades, Mable Rose Jamison Vogel hauled trunks of art and documents -- bits and pieces of a remarkable chapter in American history -- around the country whenever she moved. View full post on Yahoo! News: Arts
To Kick Off the Year of Damien Hirst, Gagosian Will Blanket the World With the Artist’s Spot Paintings (ARTINFO)
ARTINFO - In 2012, the year of the Mayan apocalypse, an outbreak of spots is going to spread across the world. And Damien Hirst is to blame. View full post on Yahoo! News: Arts
Anselm Kiefer’s World of Devastation Is Captured in the Documentary “Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow” (ARTINFO)
ARTINFO - If Pompeii hadn't been excavated, if the towns and villages on the Western Front hadn't been rebuilt after World War I, and if the site of the World Trade Center had been left as it was after 9/11, they might partially resemble the ruins Anselm Kiefer constructed in the South of France. Moving from Germany in 1993, Kiefer took over the 35 hectares of the industrial wasteland La Ribaute, near Barjac, and turned the atelier into a sprawling Gesamtkunstwerk, or "total work of art," consisting of 47 buildings, an amphitheater, bridges, caves, an underground labyrinth that invoke the guts of the Pyramids or the gas chambers of the Nazi concentration camps. In the concrete rooms, he installed artworks — twisted strips of metallic film, a dormitory cast in lead, a child's garment decorated with shards of glass, and other totems of catastrophe. View full post on Yahoo! News: Arts
Gustave Le Gray Sails Away With a World Auction Record for Nineteenth-Century Photography (ARTINFO)
ARTINFO - At Rouillac's photography auction on Saturday in Vendôme, France, an image by Gustave Le Gray set a world record for a 19th-century photograph when it fetched €917,000 ($1,305,000), including the buyer's premium. After a fierce bidding war, a Houston oil magnate won the beautifully composed seascape, beating out one bidder from France and another from an unspecified oil-producing state. View full post on Yahoo! News: Arts