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Photography by Bert Stern - Hamptons Art Hub
Three days with Marilyn Monroe in June 1962 gave photographer Bert Stern (1929 - 2013) more than memories--the fortuitous photo assignment led to a series of images that became iconic. They were also the last formal poses of Monroe, taken six weeks...
Posted In: Exhibitions on 2.21.2015
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Luc Tuymans Case Illustrates the Failure of Europe's Copyright Laws
Belgian artist Luc Tuymans, known for his paintings that rework existing photographic source material, has been found guilty of plagiarism in a European court for using a copyrighted photograph as the inspiration for an artwork. It's rare that...
1.27.2015
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The Museum of the future is here. By robinson Meyer for The Atlantic
Some things belong in a museum. But at the Smithsonian's recently reopened museum of design, a team has been rethinking what a thing is in the first place. Very soon, every visitor to the Cooper Hewitt, the Smithsonian's recently reopened design...
Posted In: Museums on 1.27.2015
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Meet the women redefining street art - Roland Henry for The Guardian
If there is a gender disparity in the art world, it is all the more acute in street art. While some claim the physical danger of working outdoors makes women reluctant to participate, artists like Swoon, Vexta, ELLE and Maya Hayuk have battled...
Posted In: Art News on 1.8.2015
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15 minutes of fame - NY Times by Stephen Heyman
As the auction season draws to a close, Andy Warhol remains king of the global art market. Over the past decade, Warhols have generated more than $3 billion at auction - including $560 million so far this year. That is already the artist's...
12.13.2014
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Hunt Slonem with his parrot Perky and samples from his collection with Lee Jofa's Groundworks. Photography by Frédéric Lagrange. In Fine Feather (By Deb Schwartz)
Just a glimpse of his Manhattan studio makes it clear: The painter Hunt Slonem-the creator of a new line of fabrics, wallpapers, and rugs for Lee Jofa's Groundworks brand-is a devout maximalist. Pictured above with his parrot Perky and samples from...
11.28.2014
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Alvin Langdon Coburn at Fundacion MAPFRE - Curated by Pam Roberts. Works from MoMA, Metropolitan Museum, Internationational Museum of Photography, Royal Photographic Society Colletion and Janet Lehr.
ALVIN LANGDON COBURN: MODERNIST & MYSTIC13th December 2014 - 15th February 2015 Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882-1966), a photographer from the age of eight years old, was a perfectionist and an innate craftsman. He mastered the complexities of...
Posted In: Museums, alvin langdon coburn on 11.22.2014
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UK Planning Inspector Blocks "Unexceptional" Frank Lloyd Wright House (By Laura C. Mallonee)
The construction of the first Frank Lloyd Wright house in the UK has been officially derailed by planning officials who just can't see what all the fuss over Wright is about, Architect's Journal reported. The plan was dreamed up by Dr. Hugh Petter,...
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It Was Hip to Be Square 'Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection,' Starring Picasso and Braque (By Roberta Smith)
In the five years before World War I, Cubism stopped Western art in its tracks, turned it upside down and inside out, and set it on multiple paths to abstraction. Now, a century on, this dynamic style is reshaping the Metropolitan Museum of Art,...
10.30.2014
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The renovated Picasso Museum, closed since 2009 for renovation, finally reopened on Saturday in the Hôtel Salé, a Baroque 17th-century mansion. Cre With Self-Portrait of a Lifetime, Picasso Returns to Paris Pedestal - The Picasso Museum Reopens in Paris (by Holland Cotter)
PARIS - "Give me a museum and I'll fill it," Pablo Picasso reportedly said. Whether he did say it or not, it sounds like him, serial overproducer. And in a gray, leaf-drifting October here he's as good as his word. The Picasso Museum, which closed...
10.30.2014
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