Articles tagged "visual arts"![]() NewsArtist part of boom in Obama Artby Colleen Mastony [Chicago Tribune (MCT)][11.Feb.08] :. The posters and stenciled graffiti appeared one night out of nowhere, slapped by unseen hands on street corners and boarded buildings around the city. Each poster bore the image of a... ![]() NewsGuerrilla graffiti artist keeps identity a secret while mocking the establishmentby Tom Hundley [Chicago Tribune (MCT)][4.Dec.07] :. LONDON—We don’t know his real name, or what he looks like, or where he will strike next. But recent sales figures from London galleries and auction houses give new meaning to his chosen... ![]() NewsVernon Fisher is enjoying the life of an artistby Gaile Robinson [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][17.Aug.07] :. FORT WORTH, Texas—In 1981, Vernon Fisher hit an artist’s trifecta. His paintings were included in three extremely important museum exhibitions—the Whitney Biennial and exhibits at... Marginal UtilityVernacular Artby Rob Horning[6.Aug.07] :. This past weekend I went to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, to see a Joseph Cornell retrospective, which I found extremely inspirational. In the galleries, I was torn by competing... ![]() NewsA world-class district for Beijing art - if not its artistsby Tim Johnson [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][2.Jul.07] :. BEIJING - A gritty, moribund industrial zone of Beijing has come alive as China’s premier center of contemporary art and culture, its galleries and restaurants drawing comparisons to bohemian... NewsHot art market tempts museumsby Stevenson Swanson [Chicago Tribune (MCT)][27.May.07] :. NASHVILLE, Tenn. - To sell or not to sell? That is the question that an increasing number of museums and other cultural institutions are facing as a white-hot art market makes the paintings and... National Gallery photo exhibit looks at ‘Paris in Transition’by Chuck Myers [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)][19.Apr.07] :. WASHINGTON - In the early 1850s, French Emperor Napoleon III charged urban planner Baron Georges Eugene Haussmann with an important task: Transform outmoded Paris into a modern urban metropolis. The... |
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