Dance and Modern Art Jul 3, 2009
German Expressionist and Der Blaue Reiter member August Macke (1887-1914) created many striking works before his untimely death in World War I. Macke s 1912 Ballets Russes captured a scene from a production staged by the vibrant Russian ballet troupe of the same name, a group which involved such dance luminaries as Sergei Diaghilev and Vaslav Nijinsky, composer Igor Stravinsky and artists Leon Bakst and Pablo Picasso to name just a few of the company s many talents. In Macke s Ballets Russes... (Suite101.com)
artnet Auctions - Recent Auction Results Show Strong Demand for Fine Art Photographs Jun 30, 2009
There was also strong demand for portraits of artists including Salvador Dali, Frank Stella and Pablo Picasso. Two 1970 portraits of Salvador Dali by Marc Lacroix sparked frenzied bidding; Dali and His Muse, Gala realized $6,053, 400% above the low estimate and Dali's Profile commanded $5,610, 370% above the low estimate. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Art.view: Hippie Picasso Jun 28, 2009
This week, the only work singled out for a guarantee specifically, an irrevocable bid , the newer, happier term used to describe a third-party guarantee was a 1969 painting by Pablo Picasso. To the relief of that anonymous guarantor, Late Picasso was one of the week s success stories. (The Economist)
Odebrecht, American Airlines and Miami-Dade County Unveil Historic JFK Airport Murals at MIA Jun 26, 2009
He studied art at the National Fine Arts School in Rio de Janeiro between 1927 and 1929, where he was inspired by the works of such international artists as Pablo Picasso and Diego Rivera. Having settled in Bahia in 1950, his works are permeated with the regions vibrant colors, multi-ethnic culture and mystic religious traditions. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Theft of Picasso sketchbook 'amateurish' Jun 18, 2009
Pablo Picasso prolific drawer. THE director of the Picasso Museum in Paris has appealed for thieves to return a sketchbook by the artist that was stolen last week in what has been called a "dumb" crime. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'Vida y Drama' works retain their feel of mass impact Jun 5, 2009
Escobedo's features are distorted, and the effect, as in the portraiture of Pablo Picasso or Francis Bacon, is suggestive of extraordinary psychic pressures. Look out, too, for the only two examples of Siqueiros's work: a monumental head portrait of his friend and patron Mois. (Boston Globe)
Grant will help Lakota artist reach global audience Jun 1, 2009
For a Pine Ridge native, it is one more step toward becoming this century's Andy Warhol, M.C. Escher or Pablo Picasso. Sandy Swallow, 59, of Spearfish is one of the artists who will take part in the year-long project of the 2009 Cultural Capital and Artist in Business Leadership Fellowships provided by First Peoples Fund, a Rapid City-based Native arts fund supporting the work of indigenous artist nationwide. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Valley painter expresses faith through art May 31, 2009
cubist experiments of Pablo Picasso. I don t want anyone to walk up to. (Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald, NC)
Museum Mile Festival 2009 in New Yo... May 29, 2009
The Thannhauser Collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early Modern art includes important works by Paul C;zanne, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Auguste Renoir and Vincent van Gogh. Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward (May 15-August 23) celebrates the 50th anniversary with more than 200 drawings, elevations, models and digital recreations of 64 projects designed by the Guggenheim's architect. (Suite101.com)
Greene: Permission to relax -- denied! May 26, 2009
on June 24, 1901, Pablo Picasso did open the first exhibit of his work. . (CNN -- US)
* Remembering a master May 23, 2009
When Chang Dai-chien (ijd) met Pablo Picasso in 1956, art critics hailed the confab as a summit between the worlds greatest living artists. Although Picasso and Chang worked in different genres, they were united by their artistic genius and the profound influence they exerted on their respective cultures. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Investors look to art for profit May 20, 2009
For example, Pablo Picasso s Boy With a Pipe was bought in 1950 for $30,000 and sold at Sotheby s in 2004 for $104 million. Oakes said the average time frame for art investing is five to seven years and investors can expect a 25 percent return on investment. (Dayton Business Journal, OH)
Phillips Collection Annual Gala Unites Washington's Notables in Support of Arts Education May 17, 2009
The Phillips Collection offers an intimate encounter with one of the finest collections of impressionist and modern American and European art, with works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Vincent van Gogh, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Claude Monet, Honore Daumier, Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery, Jacob Lawrence, and Richard Diebenkorn, among others. The Phillips Collection, America's first museum of modern art, has an active... (PR Newswire)
Travel and creativity: Expats at work May 16, 2009
Rudyard Kipling, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Paul Gauguin, Samuel Beckett and others spent years dwelling abroad. Now a pair of psychologists has proved that there is indeed a link. (The Economist)
New modern art wing lights Chicago's Art Institute May 16, 2009
The top-floor galleries begin and end with works by Pablo Picasso, demonstrating the steady march toward increasing abstraction by such artists as Piet Mondrian and Constantin Brancusi. The added space also allows display of more of the museum's surrealist collection, some of which were kept in storage. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Market fails test as Sotheby's fails to sell top two lots May 10, 2009
The top two lots, by Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti, failed to sell. The $61. (Business Report, South Africa)
Picasso, Giacometti works fetch $7.7M each in NYC May 7, 2009
NEW YORK - Pieces by Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti sold Wednesday for more than $7 million each at an auction of impressionist and modern art, showing that collectors still are willing to spend despite the global recession, the Christie's auction house said. Story tools. (Anchorage Daily News)
No buyer for Pablo Picasso painting at NYC auction May 6, 2009
NEW YORK - A Pablo Picasso painting of his young daughter and an Alberto Giacometti sculpture of a cat, each estimated to sell for $16 million to $24 million, failed to find buyers at auction Tuesday as the art world struggles with the global financial crisis. Story tools. (Anchorage Daily News)
State Theatre to show Picasso drama May 1, 2009
After international success in Australia, My Name is Pablo Picasso -- written by a local playwright -- will make its official debut at the State Theatre this weekend ... Gage said on the 100-year anniversary of Pablo Picasso's birth in 1981 she was granted a playwright residency at an Australian theater. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Absinthe and the Arts Apr 30, 2009
Other artists who were known absinthe drinkers include Paul Gauguin and Pablo Picasso, who completed at least three works featuring the drink. Absinthe and the Literati. (Suite101.com)
* Plus ça change ... Apr 29, 2009
Ottinger was in Taipei this month to organize and open Arcadie, a joint exhibit by the Pompidou Center and the TFAM that features works by major modernist artists such as Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Georges Braques and Henri Matisse. Arcadie (Arcadia) is on display at TFAM, galleries 1A and 1B. The museum is located at 181, Zhongshan N Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (x_s_Tq181) until July 12. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
NYC spring art auctions will be smaller Apr 28, 2009
Both houses are offering exceptional works by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Max Ernst, Piet Mondrian and David Hockney, but there are fewer star quality works because "sellers are reluctant to sell to this market because they don't think they will get the best price," Nash said. Sotheby's president, Bill Ruprecht, acknowledged that the shortage of works coming to market was affecting the business. (AZCentral -- Business)
Art.view: Carving reputations Apr 19, 2009
Pablo Picasso is the most famous of them. Jacob Epstein was another well known artist-collector. (The Economist)
Virginia Deknatel, collector of art, museum benefactor Apr 18, 2009
"Frederick Deknatel taught at Harvard for some 40 years, where he became the William Door Boardman professor. His writings on the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch were among the first significant assessments in English of his work.With her husband, Mrs. Deknatel began collecting works by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Klee, Eugene Delacroix, and Emile Nolde. Mrs. Deknatel also purchased sculptures by Henry Moore, prints and drawings by Jasper Johns, along with prints and... (Boston Globe)
A meeting of the minds in 'Picasso at the Lapin Agile' Apr 17, 2009
Pablo Picasso, who is on the verge of creating his famous painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," also wanders into the bar, stumbles into Einstein, and is quickly drawn into a duel over which man is more important. The battle of wits leads to a series of conversations about sex, creativity, science, and art. (Boston Globe)
Art, Genius and Madness Exhibit in ... Apr 12, 2009
Guernica (tapestry) by Pablo Picasso, 1976. Self-portrait with a red scarf, by Antonio Ligabue, 1956. (Suite101.com)
An Inspired Career Apr 12, 2009
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were mid-course in the collaboration that produced so-called analytic cubism, a manner of fracturing pictorial architecture that would echo a half century into the future. Before he left Paris in 1914, Chagall had seen the infamous first staging by Serge Diaghilev of Igor Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Athletes cash in fame to open business doors, OK Apr 12, 2009
Mason's works are often abstract, drawing inspiration from Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock. "I like when people say 'oh, it looks like my kid could have done that,'" Mason said with a laugh. (OregonLive, OR -- Business)
Art museums pin hopes on high tech Apr 7, 2009
At The Baltimore Museum of Art, people can stand at a touch-sensitive flat screen for a virtual tour of the apartment and artwork of sisters Claribel and Etta Cone, who assembled a grand collection of pieces from Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh. At the Brooklyn Museum, two laptops with Web cams record videos of people talking about race in relation to the exhibition "The Black List Project" to be broadcast on YouTube. (MSNBC -- News)
Baltimore museum puts art under the big top Mar 25, 2009
BALTIMORE Curators at the Baltimore Museum of Art knew they were getting an early Pablo Picasso masterpiece, "The Acrobat Family," in a rare loan from the Goteborg Museum of Art in Sweden. Building a show around the picture turned out to be easy. (Yahoo News)
Baltimore Museum of Art features circus-themed Picasso work Mar 25, 2009
Most of the art depicting circus life focuses on the skill that could be found "on the fringes of bourgeois society." The striking contrast between the untamed, provincial circus life and the rigid nature of the industrial revolution evolved into a peculiar fascination for artists such as Pablo Picasso, Jules Cheret, Otto Dix, Max Pechstein and Ferdinand Leger-whose works, along with several others, are on display at the exhibit ... The following room features a variety of etches and oil... (The Loyola Greyhound, MD)
Czanne in their DNA Mar 20, 2009
Pablo Picasso saw C;zanne's "Madame C;zanne in Red Armchair" in a posthumous exhibit of C;zanne's work in 1907. Twenty-five years later, he painted "The Dream (Marie Therese)," with his subject posed similarly in a red chair. (NJ.com -- Times)
Barbados artist visiting WSU Mar 19, 2009
But Ramsey couldn t quit thinking about Pablo Picasso. Ras Akyem-I Ramsay, an internationally renown artist from Barbados, demonstrates some of his favorite painting techniques Tuesday outside of the Lourdes Dining Hall on Winona State s West Campus. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Steve Martin backs 'adult content' school production of his play Mar 16, 2009
Written in 1993, the play depicts a meeting between a young Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein in a Parisian bar in which they get into a discussions on the superior merits of art or science. Wrong impression. (BBC News -- Americas)
Cubism: Early Twentieth-Century Art... Mar 11, 2009
Pablo Picasso is the figurehead most often associated with Cubism s greatest achievements. French artist , however, done with Fauvism, was more responsible for the movement s genesis. (Suite101.com)
Historical farce performed Mar 11, 2009
The play Picasso at the Lapin Agile combines an imaginary meeting between painter Pablo Picasso and physicist Albert Einstein at a Parisian bar called the Lapin Agile (nimble rabbit) and a cast of interesting and odd secondary characters ... Soon an attractive young woman, Suzanne, enters the bar and relates that she's waiting to meet Pablo Picasso, modern painter and man about town. (Grants Cibola County Beacon, NM)
Not in My Backyard Mar 11, 2009
Just like Pablo Picasso was moved to paint his classic mural-sized painting after the Nazis savagely bombed the city of Guernica in Spain in 1937, Lorraine Hansberry penned A Raisin in the Sun because of real events, violent and noble. The true story that inspired the play occurred in 1937 when Lorraine Hansberrys father, the successful Chicago businessman Carl Hansberry, purchased a house restricted to whites by racial covenant in Chicago. (Slate)
Owners put expensive art works up for cash Mar 10, 2009
Works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol are among the pieces collectors have leveraged in recent months. The Metropolitan Opera put up two famed Marc Chagall murals in its lobby as collateral, and renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz recently borrowed $15 million against her entire collection of images. (MSNBC -- Business)
As economy tanks, art put up for collateral Mar 7, 2009
Works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Andy Warhol are among the pieces collectors have been leveraging in recent months. The Metropolitan Opera put up two Marc Chagall murals in its lobby as collateral. (AZCentral -- Business)
Philadelphia exhibit shows Cezanne's lasting power Feb 26, 2009
He has been called a catalyst to cubism Pablo Picasso dubbed him "my one and only master" and a forerunner of abstract art. "Our purpose is first to display the continuing vitality of Cezanne as an artistic resource five generations on," Rishel said. (Yahoo News)
YSL art sale breaks new records Feb 25, 2009
By contrast, a much anticipated Pablo Picasso work, the highest in the collection - Musical Instruments on a Table - flopped. Bidding fell short of the 25 million euro guide price and the piece was withdrawn unsold. (Ninemsn)
* Records tumble as Yves Saint Laurent art collection sold Feb 25, 2009
By contrast, the much anticipated Pablo Picasso work Musical Instruments on a Table flopped. Bidding fell short of the 25-million-euro guide price, the biggest in the collection, and the piece was withdrawn unsold. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Winston-Salem, N.C., is good for art lovers Feb 19, 2009
Located in the Scales Fine Arts Center at Wake Forest University, the gallery features works by Pablo Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Keith Haring. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 1-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Rose Art Museum a reminder there are many hidden gems Feb 15, 2009
But many of the best art collections are tucked away in universities - at Williams College, for example, where you can find work by Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper; and Tufts University, which has pieces by Henry Moore and John Singer Sargent; and Smith College, where you can see paintings by Pablo Picasso and Georges Seurat. The Davis Museum, at Wellesley College, is a beauty. (Boston Globe)
Dada and surrealist masterpieces make US stop Feb 13, 2009
The works by artists such as Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso and Man Ray will make their only U.S. appearance at the Cincinnati Art Museum beginning Sunday. The collection surveys two of the most significant art movements of the 20th century through more than 200 works including paintings, sculptures, collages, photographs and film drawn from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. (Yahoo News)
How an alleged con preyed on the BCE deal Feb 12, 2009
Court filings allege Mr. Dreier used money from the phony sales to buy yachts and properties in New York and the British West Indies, as well as dozens of pieces of art, including works by Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. He also bought 9,294 shares of Nortel Networks, which is in bankruptcy protection. (Globe and Mail)
Baltimore Museum exhibit on circus art Feb 10, 2009
The museum exhibit, "A Circus Family: Picasso to Leger," runs through May 17, with prints, drawings, paintings, sculptures and books by Pablo Picasso, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Fernand Leger, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse and other artists. The works range from Toulouse-Lautrec's 19th-century circus posters to Picasso's portraits of circus families, done in 1904 and 1905 in Paris, to lithographs from Leger's 1950 book "Cirque." Tickets are required to see the show. (Yahoo News)
