Madoff Investor's Art Dealer Revealed; Earned $26.5 Million in Rothko Sale Aug 14, 2009
Heller donated a major Barnett Newman painting. His clients included Norton Simon, and Frederick R. Weisman, he said. (Bloomberg -- US)
Design teams can enter Rising Tides contest May 13, 2009
There's "Stele I," Ellsworth Kelly's 18-foot high orb of weathered steel against the east wall of the garden and, maybe 10 feet to west, "Zim Zum I" by Barnett Newman - a pair of 8-foot-high folded metal panels, like staircases set on their sides, that from the garden's enclosed pavilion resemble a line of rectangles. Then there's the installation popping up in the distance: One Rincon, the 64-story condo tower poised in controversial isolation near the Bay Bridge. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Gerhard Richter. Abstract Paintings Mar 3, 2009
Abstraction was considered to be the most appropriate means of artistic self-expression and the aspired-to 'pure' representation of representational techniques developed into subjectivism and high pathos for artists such as Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman. Post-war artists, however, had experienced the collapse of a civilization; they made use of abstraction's vocabulary in order to paint themselves free of their despair in their age's circumstances. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Vermont painter George Tooker made waves in the art world Mar 1, 2009
"Gradually Tooker's themes became less explicitly social and more frankly spiritual. His light, in paintings like "Woman with Oranges" (1977), and "Embrace of Peace II" (1988), came to be suffused with warm oranges and yellows that seem not just to reflect light but to generate it from within.Certainly, there is something anachronistic about Tooker's work. There always was. To be painting in egg tempera in the painstaking manner of Piero della Francesca just as Pollock was treating the canvas as... (Boston Globe)
