Articles tagged "visual arts"

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Artist part of boom in Obama Art

by 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...

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Guerrilla graffiti artist keeps identity a secret while mocking the establishment

by 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...

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Vernon Fisher is enjoying the life of an artist

by 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...

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Vernacular Art

by 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...

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A world-class district for Beijing art - if not its artists

by 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...

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Hot art market tempts museums

by 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...

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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...