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?”

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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.

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

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.

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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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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'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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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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