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

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

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

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

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. 

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

'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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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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