Only Make-Believe Nov 16, 2009
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Elizabeth Kolbert: Is there a quick fix for the climate? Nov 10, 2009
SuperFreakonomics and climate change : The New Yorker (New Yorker)
David Denby: “The Messenger” and “The Box.” Nov 10, 2009
Arshile Gorky s life and works. Peter Hessler discusses Chinese artists for hire. (New Yorker)
Ariel Levy: Why is feminism still so divisive? Nov 9, 2009
Feminism and Gail Collins s When Everything Changed : The New Yorker. Post, Esther Peterson, Restless (1997), Memories, Cindy McCain, Billie Jean King, Conservatives, Betty Friedan, Miss America Pageant, Republican Party, Susan Brownmiller, NOW (National Organization for Women), Bob McDonnell, Gloria Steinem, Social Movements, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Shriver Report, Identity Politics, Traditional Family, Comprehensive Child Development Act, Walter Mondale, (Pres. (New Yorker)
Arshile Gorky: The Shape Shifter Nov 2, 2009
The Liver is the Cock's Comb, 1944 Estate of Arshile Gorky / ARS, N.Y. ... Is there another life in American art to compare to Arshile Gorky's. (Time.com)
Read Indepth Article Oct 22, 2009
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective - Philadelphia Museum of Art - absolutearts ... "Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective" 2009-10-21 until 2010-01-10 Philadelphia, PA, USA ... Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective celebrates the extraordinary life and work of Arshile Gorky (about 19041948), a seminal figure in the movement toward abstraction that transformed American art. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective Oct 22, 2009
Additional funding is provided by the Dadourian Foundation, The Robert Montgomery Scott Fund for Exhibitions, the Locks Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Hirair Hovnanian and other Friends of Arshile Gorky, a group of generous individuals ... IMAGEDark Green Painting, c. 1948 Arshile Gorky, American (born Armenia) Oil on canvas 43 3/4 x 55 1/2 inches (111. (AbsoluteArts.com)
What will happen to the reputation of Hyman Bloom, one of Boston’s most celebrated artists? Oct 11, 2009
The artist as a young man Hyman Bloom s life was too idiosyncratic to be called emblematic, but it bore striking resemblances to those of Mark Rothko and Arshile Gorky, artists who also came to the United States from Eastern Europe and Russia. Bloom was born in 1913 in Brunoviski, a village in Latvia. (Boston Globe)
Gorky collection finds unusual home in Whistler House Museum Sep 26, 2009
Two untitled works by Arshile Gorky show the artist was experimenting with the various styles and idioms of his modernist predecessors ... But through one historical quirk and another, a small museum in Lowell that commemorates the birthplace of James McNeill Whistler is now in the possession of almost 30 early paintings, drawings, and prints by Arshile Gorky, the Armenian-born progenitor of American Abstract Expressionism ... But you can ponder them to your heart s content as you take in... (Boston Globe)
Jobs cut, hours reduced at Fresno Art Museum Aug 14, 2009
Recent notable touring exhibits that have visited include a 2006 show devoted to Armenian artist Arshile Gorky and an exhibition of work by Maynard Dixon that closes Sunday. But there are some who get it confused with its bigger downtown cousin. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Madoff Investor's Art Dealer Revealed; Earned $26.5 Million in Rothko Sale Aug 14, 2009
Two other Pollocks were sold to MoMA, along with works by and Arshile Gorky. Heller donated a major Barnett Newman painting. (Bloomberg -- US)
Art.view: Carving reputations Apr 19, 2009
Even the stairwell is crowded with paintings by friends, among them Willem de Kooning and Arshile Gorky. Hundreds of pieces of his African art collection that are not being auctioned, stand on furniture and crowd illuminated cases. (The Economist)
Getting a leg up on the art world Mar 7, 2009
Asher Edelman is a corporate raider turned gallerist whose Armory wares include rare pieces by Arshile Gorky, Giacometti and Kazimir Malevich. "If you look at the history of art as an investment from Greek and Roman times to the present, there's no time that it didn't outperform other investments in depression, recession or inflation," says Edelman. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Landscape painting shaped the direction of art for a century, then all but vanished. What happened? Mar 1, 2009
The great abstract painters of the mid-20th century - the so-called New York School, which included Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock - were all heirs to the genre who, in a certain sense, helped push it to its breaking point. Gorky and Rothko are known for their emphatically non-representational paintings, but their art evolved within the landscape tradition, so even their late work, which initially appears totally abstract, eventually reveals important vestiges... (Boston Globe)
Philadelphia exhibit shows Cezanne's lasting power Feb 26, 2009
Cezanne's influence is clear in the juxtapositions, whether in the still-life watercolors of Stieglitz circle modernists Charles Demuth and Marsden Hartley, the portraits of Matisse and Picasso, or the landscapes of Georges Braque and Arshile Gorky. In addition to the visual correlations, visitors also will get a sense of Cezanne's pre-eminence through the artists' own words placed next to some of the artwork. (Yahoo News)
Appreciate environment with art Feb 21, 2009
Two World War II abstract painter emigres were German-born Hans Hofmann and Armenian Arshile Gorky. Hofmann felt he brought the landscapes home in his mind, while Gorky stated that he did not paint in front of, but from within nature. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
