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SFMOMA’s creative confections
Web onlyPublished on-line 11 Mar 10
The prize for most creative café offerings goes to SFMOMA, where visitors can stop off at its Rooftop Coffee Bar to sample some of its artist-themed pastries. Treats include a cunningly composed Mondrian Cake with striking blocks of red, blue and yellow separated ...
Myra mistaken
Web onlyPublished on-line 10 Mar 10
The illustrious Sir Norman Rosenthal, former exhibitions secretary at London’s Royal Academy (RA), has revealed that his Spanish father-in-law mistook Marcus Harvey’s infamous image of Moors Murderer Myra Hindley (a portrait created from the handprints of children, shown in the RA’s “Sensation” exhibition of ...
Rights battle over Polaroid sale
Former judge urges artists to go to court over original contracts before June auction
By Charlotte Burns | From issue 211, March 2010Published on-line 9 Mar 10 (market)
Instant art snaps: Polaroid pics by Lucas Samaras, Chuck Close and Andy Warhol are up for sale
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Name that painting
Web onlyPublished on-line 9 Mar 10
Hold Your Horses Marilyn!
Have art historical references become the new brand-name-dropping? First rapper Jay-Z stuffed the video for his recent hit “On to the Next One” with art star shout-outs, including a black diamond encrusted skull suspiciously similar to Hirst’s.
Artistic vision
Web onlyPublished on-line 5 Mar 10
The audience of the inaugural Robert Rosenblum lecture at the Guggenheim on Wednesday enjoyed the sparkling repartee of Norman Rosenthal and Jeffrey Deitch as they reminisced about their friend, the late scholar-curator, who expanded the art history canon to include academic kitsch such as ...
Valley girl makes good
Web onlyPublished on-line 5 Mar 10
Visitors to the Armory have been stopped in their tracks by a buff bronze Adonis chomping on a cigar on White Cube’s stand (P94/901), with rippling biceps, tattoos galore—and prominent pudenda. The transgendered statue by Marc Quinn (Buck with Cigar, 2009) is ...
Invasion of the bodywatchers
Web onlyPublished on-line 4 Mar 10
Gormley’s Event Horizon is coming to NY
It’s a bird, it’s a plane… no, it’s Antony Gormley, times 31. New York’s skyline is about to be invaded by the same lifesize bronze casts of the British artist that caused no tiny alarm when ...
Survival of the fittest? NYC fairs multiply despite recession
With a record number of concurrent events taking place during this year’s Armory Show, galleries and artists are competing for attention
By Charlotte Burns and Gareth Harris | From Armory daily edition, 3 Mar 10Published on-line 3 Mar 10
Armory Show executive director Katelijne ...
Shaq’s in the paint
Web onlyPublished on-line 3 Mar 10
Legendary basketball star Shaquille O’Neal has scored a slam-dunk in the art world with his self-curated, self-referential exhibition “Size DOES Matter”, now at the Flag Art Foundation on West 25th Street. The Cleveland Cavaliers giant loomed massive at a special viewing on ...
The Elton and Gary shower saga
Web onlyPublished on-line 1 Mar 10
Hume’s marble work, The Adoration of the Magi, 2006
UK singer Elton John’s plans for an in situ piece designed by Brit artist Gary Hume for a shower room at home did not, at first, proceed smoothly.