Big Crowds For Art

Visitors waiting to ride down Carsten Höller’s
102-foot slide last year at the New Museum in New York

Huge lines, Big crowds and Mini stampedes to get a look at the "good stuff". A trip to a major museum feels like more like a black Friday sale at Target than an educational time at a museum. This is happening so much that a retrospective at London's Tate Modern in 2010-2011 made a few complaints on the museum's message board.  “A good exhibition sadly marred by the gross overcrowding,” read a typical response. “I shuffled along with so many others struggling to see past the backs of so many heads.” These many reaction's of many anger visitors led one art critic to name the phenomenon "gallery rage" not might be as catchy as road rage but this may endemic to our times.

But there is good news, and it’s twofold: attendance numbers at major exhibitions reveal no sign of flagging (even in a poor economy and even with higher entry fees) and museums are increasingly sensitive to visitors’ needs. Indeed, many devote serious time and personnel to forestalling meltdowns in their halls of culture

The pictures that I took on my trip to St.Thomas are truly beautiful and they might be on the site in a few days at most a week. But it was a really great trip and I hope to visit that Island again.

All In The Family

Growing up in suburban Scarsdale, New york painter Nicole Eisenman was greeted everyday of visions of mingling busy city streets, mysterious Jewish ceremonies and domestic interiors. "The covers the walls", says Eisenman of the paintings by her great grandmother, Esther Hamerman a Polish-born folk artist who had a great number of exhibitions in New York and California before her death 35 years ago.

Eisenman says she was not inspired by her grandmothers as a young artist. How ever she "came to appreciate the brilliance" of Hamerman's densely patterned works of art. Which interweave with her memories of Eastern Europe and Trinidad with scenes of her adopted cites of New York and San Francisco. So, when Daniel Belasco, cerator at the Jewish Museum in New York, included Eisenman in a 2010 exhibition called “Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism,” she did what any admiring great-granddaughter would do: “While I had his attention, I brought her up,” she says

I think this is a very nice painting showing old and new traditions. Sorry guys I am not going to be posting in the next week. I am going to be on spring break in St.Thomas and I wont have my computer with me. But I will have my phone with me and if any of you want to follow me on twitter I will be tweeting about my trip. Either follow me @AllTypeOfArt or @BloodLust60

Robert Wilson's 70th

On the special occasion of Robert Wilson's 70th birthday, last October the multitalented often underapperiated artist generated a flurry of activity. His Threepenny Opera was performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music the same month his hyperreal video ptrait of the famous dancer Roberto Bolle debuted at New Yorks's Center548 last winter. There was a show at Paula Cooper Gallery in New York devoted to Wilson’s performance pieces at his loft between 1967 and 1975, and a new film about the artist by Sacha Goldman, Rememberemember. Wilson’s Waco-Watermill- World, recently premiered at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Also helping to sum up this complicated man is his book Rober Wilson Within.In the book, Dutch fashion team Viktor & Rolf presents a tiny Wilsonian allegory about the subtle communication between an introverted frog and some water lilies that conspire to dance for him, “swaying their stems to a sudden gust of wind” and shivering “rhythmically to the sound of a sudden rain shower.” Watching this performance, “the frog smiled. How could they have guessed his thoughts?”

Hey I am going to be on a online live radio show!!!!! Its gonna start around 7:30 pacific time!! Check it out on http://werewolfradio.com/ 

Top 5 Songs This Week

1. Somebody I Use To Know by Gotye Featuring Kimbra

2. We Are Young By Fun. Featuring Janelle Monae

3. Glad You Came By Wanted

4. What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger)

5. Wild Ones by Flo Rida Featuring Sia

The Cards Never Lie

Franceso Clemente has taken the head off Edward Albee, strung up fellow artist Brice Marden by one foot andcovered his studio assistant Ricardo Kugelmas with GIANT bees. this is no crime spree but part Clement's take on tarot cards, the centuries-old game of finding the future. But what the future may behold may not be pretty.

Clemente tried his hand at readinf cards and delved into ancient writings about the practice before embarking ona series of works depicting each of the 78 tarots.I never imagined how similar the activities of reading the tarots and painting a picture are,” he says. “In both cases, there is the effort to be completely present, and at the same time, to remove completely oneself from the picture.” Placed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence last fall the images are now colleted in a book Francesco Clemente: The Tarots published by Hirmer.

The artist’s major arcana consist of 22 recognizable trumps: watercolor portraits of Clemente intimates such as Terence Koh (as the Devil), Philip Glass (the Judgment), Fran Lebowitz (Justice), and Diane von Furstenberg (the Force), who is shown calmly prying open the jaws of a lion. The minor arcana, divided into four suits (wands, cups, disks, and swords), encompass both portraiture and more abstract symbols

Im Sorry

Hey guys sorry i have not been posting I have been working on some art projects and i have not had enough time please bear with me I promise I will be posting alot more!

The Queen: Art and Image

Justin Mortimer's painting The Queen

An anarchy to some, a keeper of a precious heritage to others,  Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has inspired diverse artist to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Celebrating her 60th year on the throne, the national portrait gallery In London has brought together 60 portraits by photographers and artists ranging from Lord Snowdon and Andy Warhol to Lucian Freud and Kim Dong-Yoo.

The exhibition “The Queen: Art and Image,” opened at he Notational Museum Cardiff February 4 and the National Portrait Gallery on May 17, following stops in Edinburgh and Belfast last year. Through representations of Elizabeth, it charts a course across recent British history and art, against a backdrop of the realm’s shrinking empire, social upheaval, and the Internet revolution

The Stolen Turners

Also recovered, Turner’s Light and Color.
Both works were on loan to the Schirn Kunsthalle

On the night of July 28,1994, after Schirn Kusnsthalle in Frankfrut had closed for the night, a security guard was grabbed by a masked man. A second man handcuffed him and bound his eyes with tape. The thugs pushed him into the closet and told him to keep quiet. The masked men took two paintings Shade and Darkness and the Evening of The Deluge and Light And Color both by J.M.W Turner, they also took a painting by Casper David Friedrich. The Turners had been lent for an exhibition by Tate Gallery in London. The Friedrich belonged to the Kunsthalle Hamburg.

Another guard who was unable to reach his colleague by radio set off the gallery's alarm. The two masked criminals ran through the delivery entrance and escaped in a stolen car. Nearly nine years later, and after the Tate had shelled out almost $5 million for legal fees, travel expenses and expenses for information leading to the recovery of the Turners, The paintings were back on the walls in London.

The story of the investigation takes up the major part of Art Theft and the Case of the Stolen Turners by Sandy Nairne, who coordinated the recovery. He was then director of programs for the Tate and is now director of London’s National Portrait Gallery. Nairne also explores other famous thefts, speculates about why thieves steal well-known works of art that cannot be sold, and raises ethical questions relating to fees and payments in art-recovery operations.

Sports Being Illustated

Harold Edgerton's stroboscopic photograph
Football Kick, 1938

Creator David Little says his inspiration for "The Sports Show," at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts came when he saw a Paul Pfeiffer exhibition at the hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. “I walk into this completely spare gallery with just these beautiful wood floors and barely perceptible speakers around the room, and the sound of this crowd,” he says. “Without being corny, it was one of those spine-chilling moments.” Little had just discovered The Saints, 2007 sound and video about the 1966 World Cup battle between Western Germany and England. A video played footage of one English soccer player running around while the audio put the audience in the middle of what was happening.

It was really primal, in the way that sports becomes this ritualistic, political event,” says Little.. There was only one microphone on the pitch at the actual game, so Pfeiffer outsourced the cheering coming from the crowd to the Philippines. Philippines, filling the actors with Red Bull and firing them up with video of Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao. He then had them chant, “We won the war.”

Are Comics Art?

Guy Richards Smit, The New Adventures of
Grossmalerman #1, 2008

If you turn to page 26 of Gary Panter's 2004 graphic novel Jimbo in Purgatory and you'll by an arrangement of cow women in go-go boots quoting lines from Michelangelo sonnets. Instead of linear storytelling, Jimbo presents Characters reciting poetry and literature also they recited heavy metal song lyrics.

Over the last couple of years the boundary between fine art and comics have been growing increasingly thin. In 2002, original panels from ChrisWare's comic book Jimmy Corrigan The Smartest Kid on Earth a meditation on longings and isolation were featured in the Whitney Biennial. Four years later the Hammer Museum of Contemporary Art In Los Angles collaborated on a seminal exhibition of 15 groundbreaking artistscalled “Masters of American Comics.” In 2007, the Museum of Modern Art in New York opened “Comic Abstraction,” which looked at how fine artists have employed elements of comics’ visual language.

I think that art is maybe not the finest arts but i defiantly think that  it is art, because it takes a long time to create these comics the one i talked about above took over 3 years to make. So tell me what you think either in the comments or on twitter @AllTypeOfArt.

Resale Conflicts

Mark Grotjahn's Untitled 

The intense debate over artist resale rights in the U.S just moved up a notch. Many art observers around the world were surprised to learn that big time Los Angles art collector Dean Valentine agreed to pay resale royalties to artist Mark Grotjahn in order to settle a lawsuit. Grotjahn, who has many paintings that have been over a million dollars at auction, sued Valentine early 2010, after the collector resold several of Grotjahn's works at a profit without the state-mandated 5% royalty,according to court papers.

Under the terms of the California Resale Royalty Act or the CRRA an artist is entitled to five percent of the amount of sale whenever a work of fine art is resold and either the seller resides in California or the sale takes place in California.

After months of legal wrangling, during which the case was shifted from state to federal court, and then ultimately remanded back to state court, Valentine agreed to pay the royalties, plus interest, as well as a portion of the attorney fees incurred by Grotjahn. The settlement amount totaled just over $150,000. Of this, roughly $70,000 was allocated to address royalty fees while approximately $85,000 was for Grotjahn’s legal fees

Of course the collector was wrong he took someones painting made copies of it and sold it and gave 0 amount of revenue to the artist. Leave a comment down below telling me who was right in the situation.

Top 5 Songs This Week

1.What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) By Kelly Clarkson

2.Set Fire To The Rain By Adele 

3. Give Me All Your Luvin'

4. Turn Me On David Guetta Featuring Nicki Minaj

5.Somebody That I Used To Know By Gotye Featuring Kimbra



L.A Art



Lili Lakich’s Vacancy/No Vacancy, 1972, is in the show

"Doin’ It in Public: Feminism

and Art at the Woman’s Building," at Otis College of Art and

 Design, part of "Pacific Standard Time."

 Claremout, California, is not exactly the place that jumps to mind ad the place with cutting edge cents of art production. In the far eastern frindge of Los Angles County, it is well known for its liberal-arts colleges and downtown area. But for a long time beguinning the late 1960's specifically in Ponmona College was at the center of some high art making. It was there that james Turrell unvield his first pieces and Chris Burden propelled lit matches at a naked woman in one of his performances. It was at Pomona College that Micheal Asher remade tje school gallery by RIPPING out the building's front entrance.

“Very broadly, one could state that Pomona, between 1969 and 1973, had the most radical art program, not only in California, but probably in the U.S”  says Rebecca McGrew, senior creator at the Pomona College of Museum of Art. Yet for decades, Pomona has ended up as a footnote in artists’ biographies. Such is the nature of the L.A. landscape: its vastness and impenetrability
 can keep even the most outrageous events veiled in obscurity. But not for much longer.

Dressed Up

Yves Saint Laurent’s
evening ensemble Tribute to Vincent van Gogh, 1988
, in the Paris show, which will open in Denver next month

As more and more art museums put high fashion into there showcases there staff are finding ways for presenting, funding and connecting it to their missions. " I don't know much about fashion," Denver Art Museum director Christoph Heinrich admits. But that has not stopped him from bringing an Yves Saint Laurebt retrospective to the museum. The Show which originated  at the Musee De Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris in 2010 will open in Denver on March 25, 2012. Like many museum directors Heinrich has found himself won over by the world of fashion and design. At least in this case and willing to clear out galleries of beautiful paintings and sculptures to make room for ball gowns and cocktail dresses.“When I saw the YSL show in Paris,” he says, “I was just blown away by the colors, the textures, the simple cuts that were reduced but at the same time very elegant. When I walked through the show, it felt very much like walking into a painting.”

Is fashion art? This seems to be a question now a days I believe so but I do not absolutely do NOT think they should be clearing out beautiful paintings and sculptures for skimpy cocktail dresses. Hey but that is my opinion leave a comment below telling me yours. Or tweet me on twitter @AllTypeOfArt

Parking In California

When Ed Ruscha was taking pictures of gas stations and parking lots in the 1960s. California car culture was considered American individualism.Now when you go to a parking space in L.A., you can put your credit card in, so it already puts you into a grid,” says artist Warren Neidich. “You can actually go online and see where parking spaces are available. It’s part of the information grid. The parking space has changed.”

But Los Angeles parking spots have been seeing a lot more revelry of late, thanks to a yearlong project put together by Neidich and Elena.

Middle Eastern Art In America

Kezban Arca Batibeki's Hairy Tale 2011, mixed media,

embroidery and collage on canvas

The New York market for contemporary art from a wide range of Middle Eastern countries has been rapidly expanding in recent years. The growing ranks of  successful Middle Eastern artists have been increasing. Galleries and fairs provide a rough estimate to measure the growth of the market.

The number of people who came to the last  Dubai art fair which is held each year reached a total of 20,000 people attending surpassing the 2010 total of 18,000 people and the 2009 total of 14,000 people. organizers said. The 2011 edition also saw 60 museum groups in attendance.

It is good to see the art industry get a little more multicultural. I am going to be guest blogging for my friend in about a week fore now and I will keep you updated on that. If you want to be even more updated about what I am doing follow me on twitter @AllTypeOfArt

Most Inspirational Video You Will Ever See

Very inspirational poem. He explains why he loves Jesus and hates religion. He shows us that religion might not be correct all the time. He shows you not to mask yourself and say your a good Christan because you go to church. I would recommend this video to everyone and anyone. Please check it out it will change your life.

The Best Young Arists

In less than one decade Kehinda Wiley has come to enjoy the kind of art-world acclaim most young artist only dream of. He operates out of three studios one in New York one in Beijing and one in Senegal. His larger than life portraits sell for up to 250,000 dollars and have been bought by major collectors as well as institutions like Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Walker Art Center. He has had nine solo shows and major overviews at the Brooklyn Museum and the Studio Museum in Harlem he reached allot these great achievements before he reached the age of 33.

This is amazing what this young man has done he has changed art forever. Because sometimes when people think of art they think it is too hard to get into and that you have to have a bunch of years under your belt before you become famous. But Mr.Wiley has broken that barrier. He has reached a part of career that some of the older artists will not even come close too.

Top Five Songs This Week

1. Set Fire To The Rain By Adele

2. Good Feeling by Flo Rida

3. Sexy And I Know It By LMFAO




4. We Found Love By Rihanna Featuring Calvin Harris

5. Turn Me On David Guetta Featuring Nicki Minaj

VIP Fair Gets 1 Million Dollars In Funding

Screen Shot Of The Fair

On the day before it's second annual run (Feb 3-8) organizer of the VIP Art Fair, Which is the first ever virtual art fair is being held entirely online. Announced new funding and management appointments. Organizers of the fair announced the closing of the first round of funding by two well known international investors, Selmo Nissebaum  (Brazilian Art Collector) who is a partner in Personale Investimentos and Phillip Keir (a media and arts specialist and founder of NextMedia). Together the invested a total of 1 MILLION dollars into the fair.

I think this online fair is awesome because maybe you really want to see the fair but it is on the other side of the globe and you might not have enough money for a trip, You don't have to buy a plane ticket or a bus ticket or a train ticket you can see the entire fair from your computer. Also if you are a artist in the fair you will get more recognized. Because maybe 1,000 people might see your painting in a regular fair but in the online fair the numbers keep going on and on and on for the amount of views you could get. I think the investors are smart to invest into something like this.

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The White Horse Stalled At The Gate

Model of the sculpture The White Horse

Sitting in a London studio among remnants of past projects the topic arises to make a 170-foot high White horse sculpture in Kent County but the project is on hold as they are trying to raise the £12 million to make the sculpture. “It was ‘hooray,’ and then the credit crunch happened,” Wallinger says. Asked if he thinks whether The Whit Horse will reach the finishing post. At first he hesitates then says I’m a half-full, half-empty glass it varies. I would hope it would, but I’m prepared for disappointment.”

Even though he is a very respected painter, Wallinger much prefers to work in mediums that accepts the viewer interaction. And his sometimes outlandish art reflects political news, religious views and historical preoccupations. For Sleeper he spent ten nights in a BEAR suit prowling around Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie and in the Turner Prize for State Britain, a re-creation of an antiwar campaigner’s 141-foot-long protest camp outside London’s Houses of Parliament. 

A Trove To a Brillant Artist

The Walker Art Center first brought the Merce Cunningham Dance Company to Minneapolis in 1963 for a performance of the choreographer's Antic Meet (1958). For this Cunningham had Robert Rauschenberg design and make the set pieces and costumes which were hand painted tank tops with a tattoo-style eagle holding an American flag in its beak and white scrunched-up parachutes for dresses that bounced to the slapstick effect as the dancers went through there routine. 

A hand-painted unitard from Summerspace, 1958



Now two years since Cunningham died at the age of 90 and after five decades of supporting his works of art through many hardships he finally received a trove of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's set pieces, costumes, painted backgrounds and props made in collaborations with artists such as Rauschenberg, John Cage, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, and Roy Lichtenstein, as well as some younger artists such as Ernesto Neto, Charles Long, Daniel Arsham, and Rei Kawakubo.

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The Three Musicians

From the distance looks and dark expressions the Trio would not be my first choice to have at a party. The Three Musicians is a popular masterpiece. It has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art for over half a century! Almost always on view you cant miss this masterpiece. In 1944 it was painted and it has stayed at the Museum of Modern Art since then.

Léger is the least recognized of the three founding Cubists. Picasso and Barque being the earlier creators. Léger’s Cubist works present traditional subjects such as still life, landscape and the figure.The Three Musicians, with its larger-than-life figures, is odd. “It is perhaps something apart,” Léger said.

I really do love this piece because it lets you think. Like what is the background of the trio and what have they done in there lives. By there expressions it makes them look like they have maybe killed someone or done something of that sort.The artist makes you feel that they are not just musicians. But everyone sees things differently post a comment below telling me what you see.

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Top Five Songs This Week

 1.  Set Fire To The Rain Adele

                     

 2. Good Feeling By Flo Rida (This Weeks Favorite)

3. Sex And I Know It By LMFAO

 

4. We Found Love By Rihanna Featuring Calvin Harris

5. Someone Like You By Adele

Alice Walton's Way

 Fitting the new Crystal Bridges Museum into the taxonmy of American art museums has been pretty diffcult. Fianced by Walmart heiress Alice Walton the project has inspired to be called " a muesum that will demand attenion on a GLOBAL scale" and "a fig leaf for corporate greed and raw exploitation." Now the doors are open to the public.

The muesum which opened in November stands within a 120-acre park in Bentonville, Arkansas. Bentonville who has a population of 35,000 people is Alice Waltons childhood home. The location where her fathers Sam Waltons first five-and-dime store and now the site of Walmart's headquaters. The city maintains a picturesque small town.

What the public can expect to see, according to art historian John Wilmerding, who has served as one of Walton’s primary advisers, is a collection that ranks “in the top half dozen of American-art museums, maybe higher.”

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'Droit de Suite' Debate

On both sides of the Atlantic the issue of artists' resale rights have jumped into conversation again. As of the start of 2012 the U.K which in 2006 adopted a resale royalty law for living artists in 2006, expaned that law so it applies to artists deceased 70 years or less. Dealers and autioneers are going to be closely watching the effect it has on sales in the year to come, expetically since the new application will apply to far more sales which also are likely to be of higher average value.

Jussi Pylkkänen president Chistie's Europe said "extension of the artists'  resale right to deceased European artist's."

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The Artist as Philantropist



Shepeard Fairey's The Future is Unwritten, 2011 is the
first in the "Artist as Activist"

In the after math of the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina, in August 2005 Representatives of the New York based Mitchell Foundation reached out the arts community in a huge effort to help. After talking with individual artists and arts-organization leaders the

foundations executive director said "we realized that returning to the studio and finding a way to continue work following the flood was a major challenge for New Orleans artists.

In September 2005 The foundation mad its first emergency grants to artists since then more than 3 million dollars in grants have gone out to artists in need all over New Orleans.

I think this is a great thing these people are doing. Helping out artist in need to get jobs in doing what they love. In the economy these days it is really hard to find a job with good pay that you actually like and a job where people can be home with there family rather than traveling.

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Top Five Songs This Week

1. I Care By Beyonce

2. You Da One By Rihanna

3. Sexy And I know It LMFAO

4. Domino By Jessie J

And My Personal Favorite This week Coming At 5. Ray Charles By Chiddy Bang

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Southern Comforts

Robert Gwathmey's 1962, oil on
canvas, sold for an artist's record of $72,000 at auction

On November 17 a sale of American Art At the Swann Galleries set a new all time new record for work by social realist painter Robert Gwathmey. Mr.Gwathmey is most famous for his depictions of African American Life in the South. Prologue II, an oil canvas sold for 72,000 meeting the estimate of 60,000/90,000. The previous artist record of 33,350 dollars was set in 1995. The Prologue II more than doubles that.

Why I think this piece of artwork is so loved by people is because it is a honest depiction of the hardships the slaves had to endure. It shows the ugly past of America and what we have done to overcome and not go back to our old ways of slavery.  

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