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Share.. Former singer from the Talking Heads and creator of the hipster bike rack, David Byrne is bringing his latest artwork to the High Line tomorrow: “Tight Spot“, will go up on 25th Street. New York Magazine describes the installation as a “48-by-20-foot inflatable globe, pumped up against the High Line’s steel framework, like an [...]

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Share..Blake Gopnik has the scoop. One German painter focusing on 9/11 art. He writes: “Making art about 9/11 is the ultimate challenge for any artist. How do you take such an utterly iconic image and push it beyond cliché? How do you say anything at all about the attack without veering into either bellowing banality [...]

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Share.. Reuters has reported on a prospering art market in Cairo, Egypt where artwork inspired by the uprising has attracted collectors from across the globe to the city’s galleries, despite a growing threat of censorship from the military. The vacuum of power left after the overthrow of Mubarak left room for Egyptian artists to express [...]

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Share..The National Endowment for the Arts recently released a study that showed while more Americans go to the movies on a regular basis they spend more of their money on live performing arts, judging by ticket revenue, that is. Falling in between sports events and the movies as a measure of economic value, performing arts [...]

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Share..Los Angeles art museums are lagging behind those of smaller cities in annual attendance. Only the Getty Center and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, made the top-100 list in the Art Newspaper’s international survey of museum attendance. The Getty came in 33rd with its 1,205,685 visitors last year, pulling in behind the Metropolitan [...]

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Share..Three beneficiaries of Max Stern’s estate recently lambasted a German auction house for planning to sell a painting that they say was looted during the Nazi era. McGill University and Concordia University in Montreal and Hebrew University of Jerusalem insist ownership of an old work by Flem Alexander Adriaenssen (1587-1661) in the keeping of Lempertz [...]

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Share..As I recently wrote, 2010 was a huge year for art. Sotheby’s auctioned off $4.3 billion, that’s up 87% from 2009′s $2.3 billion; while, Christie’s sold $5 billion, last year, which is 51.5% more than the $3.3 from the prior year. 1,256 Warhols sold at auction last year, adding up to a combined $367 million [...]

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Share..Outstanding rarity, beauty and historical significance are among the factors which are known to drive collectors to compete furiously for art, antiques and collectibles at auctions. Sentimental value and investment purposes also motivate some buyers. Amidst a painful a global recession, the wealthiest collectors in the world sent segments of the auction market to amazing [...]

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Share..Pablo Picasso’s son and other heirs were approached by a retired French electrician named, Pierre Le Guennec, to authenticate 271 works of undocumented art, stored in his garage for decades. Guennec, who installed burglar alarms for the master of Modernism, claims that the art was a first-hand gift. The collection includes lithographs, portraits, sketches and [...]

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Share..Friday, the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia is opening its new building for a weekend of celebrations. The balcony of the $150 million museum overlooks the Liberty Bell and Independence National Historical Park – the place where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed. The setting is very appropriate as [...]

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Share..The Belger Arts Center is one of just three North American stops for Israeli ceramic artwork. Other venues include the Gardiner Museum in Toronto and the Mint Museum in Charlotte, N.C. In the upcoming exhibit there will be 37 pieces from 42 artists (five of which are collaborative pieces). The exhibit organizers say the sculptural [...]

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Share..There is something about the autumn that gets the creative blood flowing in us. We see some of this manifested in the Festival of Sukkot. As Jerusalem Post’s Jordana Horn wrote: “An international succa-building competition based in New York City has pitted famous and not-so-famous artists and architects against one another in an attempt to [...]

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Share..Of all of the places in the world to see Hellenistic Artwork, you probably would not think to check Petra, Jordan, the historic city which proudly displays rock cut architecture and a water conduits system; serenely set on the slope of Mount Hor which forms the flank of the Biblical Aravah – a large valley [...]

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Share..It was a very busy summer for Bob Dylan. The 20th century bard is no less ambitious at age 69 than he was at age 19. First off, Dylan exhibited 40 acrylic paintings and eight drawings at the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhangen, Denmark. Created between 2009 and 2010, Dylan called the works his [...]

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Share..Razia Gershon is a talented Israeli-born sculptor who has focused her artwork from an early stage, on the aesthetic possibilities of the human body. Razia, in the early part of her career, studied modern ballet under modern dance pioneer, Gertrud Krauss and classical ballet under the celebrated, late Mia Arbatova. Razia worked as a physical [...]

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