Marc Restellini (Pinacothèque) vs le Louvre : le choc des cultures via @flavorwire

Flavorwire fait un point sur la rivalité Restellini / le Louvre, et sur la guerre des chiffres,

700 000 visiteurs pour L'Age d'Or Hollandais à la Pinacothèque,
410 000 pour Rivalités à Venise au Louvre.
A lire aussi, un article de The Independent sur Restellini.

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Jeff Koons collectionneur, un bel article du NY Times

L'article est ici

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Posted 2 days ago

New Topographics: changing the landscape of photography

View full picture gallery in the Guardian

   

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Posted 4 days ago

Met Guards are true artists : article, slideshow and new magazine via @art_news

A group of Met guards, including Mr. Hoffmeister, is stepping into the spotlight with a new art journal called Sw!pe Magazine: Guards’ Matter, and an accompanying art exhibit, which runs through Sunday at 25CPW, a gallery at 62nd Street and Central Park West. Sw!pe, a reference to the process of clocking in and out for work, was planned and financed by current and former guards.

NY Times article: 
Slideshow: 
and Sw!pe Magazine: 

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Posted 5 days ago

Today: Idea 80, Invent a new color and name it (Rob Pruitt) #contemporaryart #followart

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Cartier-Bresson, first major retrospective in the U.S. in more than 30 years

The Museum of Modern Art will present Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, the first major retrospective in the U.S. in more than 30 years of one of photography's most original and influential masters, from April 11 through June 28, 2010. The exhibition comprises 300 prints from 1929 to 1989, at least one fifth of them previously unknown to the public, and focuses on the most productive decades of the 1930s through the 1960s. Also included is a generous selection of original issues of Life, Paris Match, and other magazines in which many of the pictures first appeared.

Read in Art Daily

   

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Posted 1 month ago

Ron Mueck, ex puppet maker, major artist

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35796

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Posted 1 month ago

Admirable réalisation de Ron Arad, le Design Museum de Holon sur le point d'ouvrir

The Condé Nast Traveller Innovation and Design Award for Culture Presented to Design Museum Holon in Israel, designed by Ron Arad 01 May 2009 -  23 August 2012

The construction of Design Museum Holon, the highly anticipated creation by Ron Arad Architects will be completed during winter 2009. Significant in so many ways, the sweeping arcs in multi-coloured hues will be Ron Arad’s first ever commercial architectural project and is also the realization of a 16 year regeneration programme in the city of Holon, just out of Tel Aviv.

In 2004, Ron Arad Associates were invited by the Municipality of Holon to create a new Design Museum in Holon, envisaged as an international hub for innovation in the field of design. Ron Arad was briefed to design a structure that would be iconic and thus, could be featured on a postage stamp. After five years of construction, the museum, a fluid circular structure built with neutral tones of steel, is currently under construction and is scheduled to be inaugurated in the beginning of 2010.

Design Museum Holon accommodates two primary galleries and a number of diverse alternative exhibitions spaces in-between. As well as creating a leading creative arena for the field of design, Design Museum Holon will create an encompassing design experience for the general public, while seeking enriching dialogue between designers, curators and the audience. They aim to play a key role in changing the perception of the design- environment- community relationship by examining the holistic impact design has on urban spaces, using the city of Holon as a case study internationally.

The city of Holon, outside Tel Aviv, has been going through a regeneration programme for the past 16 year under the direction of its mayor, Motti Sasson, and the municipality managing director, Hana Hertsman who has initiated the project. Ms. Hertsman said: “Not only does this award acknowledge the incredible design of the architecture by Ron Arad, but also highlights the role of design and culture in Holon’s day to day life. We are turning the city of Holon into an entirely open gallery, in which art is accessible and available for all.”

EDITOR’S NOTES:

Ron Arad:
Since his career began in 1981, Ron Arad has exhibited at many major museums and galleries throughout the world. 2009 is a significant year for Arad with the completion  of Design Museum Holon, an unprecedented turn out to his retrospective at Centre Pompidou in Paris, and an exhibition in July at the MoMA New York, which is scheduled to move on to the Stedelijkn Museum in Amsterdam.

Design Museum Holon:
The Design Museum Holon accommodates two primary galleries and a number of diverse alternative exhibitions spaces in-between. As well as creating a leading creative arena for the field of design, Design Museum Holon will create an encompassing design experience for the general public, while seeking enriching dialogue between designers, curators and the audience. They aim to play a key role in changing the perception of the design- environment- community relationship by examining the holistic impact design has on urban spaces, using the city of Holon as a case study for the entire world.

Le site du Musée : http://www.dmh.org.il/default.aspx

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Posted 1 month ago

Damien Hirst

Picture by AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky.

NEW YORk, NY.- Gagosian Gallery will present "End of an Era", an exhibition of new paintings and sculpture by Damien Hirst. 

The exhibition takes its title from the central sculpture in the exhibition, a severed bull's head with golden horns and crowned with a solid gold disc. Suspended in formaldehyde and encased in a golden vitrine, this totemic sculpture acts as a powerful coda to The Golden Calf (2008). End of an Era proffers a sacrificial head, here dismembered from the majestic body of the earlier sculpture. While The Golden Calf symbolized the worshipping of a false idol, with End of an Era (2009) Hirst demystifies the biblical tale and, by extension, debunks his own myth-making. 

Also included in the exhibition is Judgement Day (2009) a thirty-foot long gold cabinet filled with close to 30,000 manufactured diamonds. A series of photorealist paintings of famous diamonds including The Golden Jubilee (2008) The Agra (2006) and The Premiere Rose (2006) are shown together here for the first time. 

Having recently announced the end of the various series for which he has become known over the last twenty years, including the spot, spin and butterfly paintings, Hirst also makes reference with the exhibition's title to the seachange in his own work. 

Damien Hirst was born in 1965 in Bristol, UK. Solo exhibitions include "The Agony and the Ecstasy", Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples (2004); "A Selection of Works by Damien Hirst from Various Collections", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2005); "Damien Hirst", Astrup Fearnley Museet fur Moderne Kunst, Oslo (2005); "For the Love of God", Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2008); "No Love Lost", The Wallace Collection, London (2009) and "Requiem", Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev (2009);. He received the DAAD fellowship in Berlin in 1994 and the Turner Prize in 1995. An exhibition of the artist's private collection, 'Murderme', was held at Serpentine Gallery, London in 2006. His work is included in important public and private collections throughout the world. 

Hirst lives and works in London and Devon. 

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Posted 1 month ago

Man Ray, Vermeer, Newton, Chanel, Bourdin etc. Artistic Barbies, I like the Newton one, not sure about Mona Lisa... (via @florencedesruol)

Après la Barbie Lady Gaga, une galerie de Barbies inspirées par Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, Vermeer ou Godard

                   

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Posted 1 month ago