Selling a medical image Jul 17, 2008
The enchilada red Ricardo Legorreta-designed structure is filled with stunning works of art, including large scale pieces by Dale Chihuly, Fernando Botero and Sebastian. Appropriate then that the San Antonio Public Library Foundation celebrates Contemporary Art Month with another Literary Feast, this time with its selected book, "Art at Our Doorstep.". (San Antonio Business Journal, TX)
What's springing up at botanical gardens Mar 5, 2008
Through May 31, the garden hosts a show of works by sculptor Fernando Botero, pop artist Roy Lichtenstein and Dale Chihuly, known for his colorful glass art. Grand Rapids, Mich. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Artist Ana Maria Pacheco's work bears silent witness Feb 29, 2008
One can also trace connections to the subjects (war, torture) and the Expressionist styles of painters Leon Golub, Stanley Spencer, Max Beckmann, and Fernando Botero, whose recent "Abu Ghraib" paintings depict bound, tortured, and sexually humiliated prisoners. Pacheco's installation is all the more visceral since you walk among her figures and they catch your eye, implicating you in the violence because you, like all the others, witness it and do nothing to stop it. (Boston Globe)
Magnificent Missing Masterpiece Feb 18, 2008
A sculpture by Fernando Botero, ''Mujer Fumando,'' from 1986 was sold for $1. 6 million to a private collector from South America, setting a world record for a sculpture by the artist. (Forbes)
Rufino Tamayo Nov 24, 2007
Among the Tamayos donations are works by Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko and Fernando Botero to name a few. Prior to these bequests, Tamayo had founded the Rufino Tamayo Museum in his native Oaxaca. (Suite101.com)
Tamayo painting found in dumpster sells for more than $1M Nov 22, 2007
6 million for Mujer Fumando (Woman Smoking), a sculpture by Colombian artist Fernando Botero. $457,000 for a 1945 drawing, The Garden, by the late Cuban Amelia Pelaez, a record for a drawing by a female Latin American artist. (CBC News)
7 statues by Colombian artist Botero stolen in Italy Oct 24, 2007
Burglars broke into a foundry in Tuscany over the weekend and made off with seven bronze statues by Colombian artist Fernando Botero, officials said Tuesday. The works are worth 3. (International Herald Tribune)
ARTSingapore 2007: Visual artfest to invite worldwide masters, freshers Sep 16, 2007
Notables Chua Ek Kay, American Andy Warhol and American Fernando Botero will respectively be representing the Singaporean Cape of Good Hope gallery, the South Korean Insa gallery and the American Robinsons Art gallery during the event. Meanwhile, Chinese Chen Wenling, Wang Jinsong, Zheng Delong, as well as Indonesians Agus Suwage, Astari Rasjid, Pintor B. Sirait and Titarubi will be among artists representing the Indonesian Vanessa Art Link's galleries both in Jakarta and Beijing, China. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Iraq inspires surge of protest art Sep 9, 2007
In November, the huge cycle of paintings inspired by the torture scandal at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, by the Colombian figurative painter Fernando Botero, will be seen together for the first time at the American University Museum in Washington. It is one of a number of recent works dealing with Abu Ghraib, including a series of giant photographic reconstructions by the controversial West Coast artist Clinton Fein. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Abu Ghraib art could have a home Sep 1, 2007
VISUAL ART: A collection of work by Colombian artist Fernando Botero about Abu Ghraib may be permanently housed at the University of California Berkeley. The controversial images were shown at the university last winter and Botero has offered to donate all of them 25 paintings and 22 drawings of bound, bloodied and blindfolded naked prisoners. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Letters to the Editor Aug 30, 2007
Editor - I read with gratitude that acclaimed artist Fernando Botero is considering donating his powerful paintings and drawings of Abu Ghraib prisoners to UC Berkeley ... Editor - How convenient that Fernando Botero's searing paintings of U.S. torture at Abu Ghraib should find a home here at Cal where the man who wrote the legal justifications for those atrocities and the Cheney-Bush autocracy - John Yoo - can reflect upon them when not teaching at Boalt Hall Law School. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Artist donates Abu Ghraib art to UC-Berkeley Aug 30, 2007
-- Colombian artist Fernando Botero is set to donate a collection of his graphic images of Abu Ghraib prison detainees, valued at $50 million, to University of California-Berkeley after an exhibit of the controversial images on campus earlier this year. The 47 paintings and drawings depict explicit images of naked, contorted bodies being attacked by dogs and brutally beaten prisoners being hanged, said Harley Shaiken, director for the Center for Latin American Studies, which hosted the exhibit... (U-Wire.com)
ARTSingapore 2007 to Boost Visual Arts Market in Region Aug 17, 2007
Some big names this year: Affandi, Andy Warhol, Anthony Lister, Arie Smit, Chua Ek Kay, Eric Chan, Farhad Hussain, Feng Zhengjie, Fernando Botero, Guo Jin, Justin Lee, Lee Yong Deok, Liu Ye, Ngugen Xuan Manh, Parvathi Nayar, Prajakta Potnis, Ruan Xiaojie, Shibu Natesan, Sigma Polke, Sobodh Gupta, Srihadi, Tang Zhigang ,Soedarsono, Yayoi Kusama, Yue Minjun, Zao Wouki, Zhang Xiaogang, Zheng Delong, and Zhou Chunya. Given the increasing number of millionaires in Southeast Asia today, art collecting... (PR Newswire)
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Medellín, a former drug battleground, is reborn Aug 16, 2007
Art has also flourished, led by a native son, Fernando Botero, frequently referred to as Latin America's most important living artist. In 2000, he donated 137 of his works to the Museum of Antioquia (Carrera 52 No. 52-43, 57-4-251-3636; www. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
Witness To War Mar 1, 2007
REVIEW / A look back at the Vietnam War gives artists no peace (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
"Torture, Human Rights & Terrorism" Panel UCB, Feb. 26 Feb 27, 2007
WHAT: "Torture, Human Rights and Terrorism," a panel discussion sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley's Center of Latin American Studies in conjunction with the center's exhibit of Abu Ghraib paintings by famed Colombian artist Fernando Botero. WHEN: 4 p.m., Wednesday, March 7. (University of California Newswire, CA)
Bogot to Botero, highway distress to horseback Feb 11, 2007
So he did his research at the Botero Museum, which houses the private collection of Fernando Botero (1932-), the country's best-known artist. Ryan later wrote a paper comparing a Botero work with a Claude Monet on display there. (Boston Globe)
Spinning yarns `out on a limb' Jan 27, 2007
Paris-based VIM International, which organizes art events in Europe and opened a space in the Design District a year ago, is showing The Studio of Botero, some 60 photographs that 72-year-old Spanish photographer Felipe Ferr; took of the Colombian painter-sculptor Fernando Botero at work. Ferr; spent three years, from 1973 to '76, taking photographs of Botero while the artist worked in his studio at 13 rue Monsieur le Prince. (The Miami Herald)
A museum that'll stay in move-in condition Jan 27, 2007
A giant cat by Fernando Botero stands by the swimming pool. Pop paintings by Roy Lichtenstein grace the lanai. (Los Angeles Times)
Crying out for exposure Jan 25, 2007
Satirical spin: This piece by Hamir Soib entitled Gajah Depan Mata Tak Nampak is the artists sarcastic lashback to MAS acquisition of two works by South American artist Fernando Botero and another by Boteros Greek artist wife, Sofia Variat, at the discounted prices of RM1. 14mil, RM342,000 and RM75,000, respectively. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
S.F. vs. N.Y. -- framing a debate that just won't die Jan 21, 2007
Several contemporary artists have tried to evoke the grotesqueries of war: Leon Golub (1922-2004), in his imaginary portraits of mercenaries, and more recently Fernando Botero, in a series of paintings and drawings reinterpreting the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, near Baghdad. Some of the Boteros will come to UC Berkeley later this month. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Botero Abu Ghraib art exhibit UCB, Jan. 04 Jan 5, 2007
WHAT: An exhibit at the University of California, Berkeley, of 24 paintings and 23 drawings from the provocative Abu Ghraib collection by Colombian artist Fernando Botero that depict the torture of Iraqi prisoners at the infamous Iraq prison. Botero is considered Latin America's best known living artist and is among the best known artists in the world today. (University of California Newswire, CA)
Cross-ing into Christmas Dec 22, 2006
One of Zane Levitt's favorites is a four-foot weathered wooden cross adorned with blue daisies that's placed among tile work of The Lady of Soledad, a ceramica angel whose candlelight shines through star cutouts, pieces by Sabado Vazquez Carmona whom Rowena Levitt likens to a Mexican Picasso and pieces by Colombian painter Fernando Botero, an artist famous for inflating all his figures, including Christ. In addition to the crosses, Your House carries a number of rosaries. (Wood River Journal, ID)
This food chain is hard to stomach Nov 25, 2006
As Fernando Botero recently demonstrated in his paintings of Abu Ghraib prisoners, aestheticizing ugliness can endow the subject with a power unavailable through more conventional means of documentation, such as a snapshot or newspaper story. The distributors of "Our Daily Bread" have opened the film the day after Thanksgiving rather than the days preceding, a compassionate exercise in holiday-release strategizing that should give turkey-sated viewers another reason to be thankful. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Latin American art totals $17 million at auction Nov 22, 2006
A self-portrait of the Colombian artist Fernando Botero, known for painting his subjects fatter than they really are, went for $1. 06 million, more than double the $500,000 estimate. (Newsday -- State)
Life, ripe and robust: Exhibits sift and savor it Jul 31, 2006
In this exhibit, the rotund fruit and coffee pot in the 1967 Untitled Still Life by Fernando Botero may not look quite like a Botero, but it foreshadows the artist's comically bloated figure paintings of later years. Not every work seems to fit in the context that MAM senior curator Peter Boswell has set for this show. (Miami.com, FL -- Entertainment)
Millipede may join WSU art Comment Apr 21, 2006
" The new sculpture will become part of the Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection on campus. The collection includes more than 70 works by 50 artists, including Auguste Rodin, Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, Fernando Botero and Luis Jimenez. In his designs for the work, Otterness was also inspired by its proximity to two other important pieces in WSU's outdoor sculpture collection -- the large mosaic mural "Personnages Oiseaux" by Joan Miro on the face of the Ulrich Museum building, and Andy... (Kansas.com, KS -- Entertainment)
Sotheby's Holdings, Inc. Announces 2005 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results Mar 8, 2006
" Year to Date 2006 Sales Worldwide sales to date have been exceptional, highlighted by the Impressionist and Contemporary sales in London and Old Master Paintings sales in New York. The London Impressionist and Modern Art sales led the market last month with a total of $155.9 million, up 50% from the prior year, with the evening sale recording its highest total ever for an Impressionist sale at Sotheby's London. The top lot of the sale was the rare Tahitian work Deux Femmes by Paul Gauguin... (PR Newswire)
