By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN Published: November 30, 2010 BERLIN — The past still thrusts itself back into the headlines here, occasionally as an unexploded bomb turning up somewhere. Now it has reappeared as art. Marg Moll’s “Dancer,” from around 1930, is one of the found works in the “Degenerate Art” show at the Neues Museum in [...]
Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg was born in 1929 in Stockholm, Sweden. The son of a Swedish Consul General, he came to Chicago in 1936. After finishing his studies at Yale University, New Haven, he started to work as a reporter. In 1952 he attended a course at the Chicago Art Institute, published drawings in several magazines and [...]
LOUISE BOURGEOIS- Birthday
Louise Bourgeois Quotes Louise Bourgeois created “Maman”, the giant spider currently being assembled outside the National Gallery of Canada. When I went there today, the spider only had five legs, and was hanging from a crane. A second crane was there, presumably, to attach the legs. * * * “My childhood has never lost its [...]
Elie Nadelman, Birthday
Born into a middle-class Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland, Elie Nadelman was encouraged to study art and music from an early age. During his early twenties, he spent time in Munich, where the important collection of early classical Greek sculpture in the city’s Glyptothek museum made a deep and lasting impression. By 1904, he was [...]
Marc Quinn’s blood portrait
Each portrait is made with 10 pints of the artist’s blood. Quinn says he will continue to make a new version every five years The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is hoping to buy Marc Quinn’s Self, a frozen sculpture of the artist’s head, made out of his own blood. Quinn produces a new version every [...]
Wanted: buyer for Hitler’s statue
A sculpture by Fritz Röll, once owned by the Führer, was rejected by Sotheby’s but is now being offered by a private dealer A sculpture bought by Hitler in 1939 was offered for sale by London dealer Simon Wingett for £150,000 ($233,000) last month. The marble work, by Fritz Röll (1879-1956), was to have been [...]
Julian Opie
Well, yet another artist I have discovered, Julian Opie. I really enjoyed browsing his website and looking at the simplicity of his work. You can have some fun with some screensaver downloads he lets you take and if you are interested in seeing his works on exhibition then he will be showing in the following: [...]
Revealed: Art Institute of Chicago Gauguin sculpture is fake
The Art Newspaper revealed today that a Gauguin sculpture bought by the Art Institute of Chicago ten years ago and described by the museum as a major rediscovery and one of its most important acquisitions of the last 20 years, is a fake. The work was made recently in the north of England. Last [...]
Top 7 Movies on Art and Artists
Here are the top seven movies on art and artists, my pick of course, although I would have some difficulty where to put Pollock and Frida, as I think I may have been a little tight. They probably belong a lot further up. I do also like ‘Girl with the Pearl Earing’ but I think [...]
Hitler’s Art
Before amassing his fortune with the enormous royalties from the publication of his hugely popular Mein Kampf, Hitler earned a living by using his artistic skills to produce paintings that were sold to the public or used for postcards. Hitler was a great student of the fine arts and studied music, opera, painting, sculpture, and [...]
