Metallica star sells $13m artwork Nov 14, 2008
Page last updated at 15:08 GMT, Thursday, 13 November 2008. Jean-Michel Basquiat's boxer surpassed its pre-sale estimate. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
No buyer for a Bacon as New York art sale ends Nov 13, 2008
Richter's "Abstraktes Bild (710)," the sale's top lot, also beat its estimate as did Basquiat's "Untitled (Boxer)." Records for Paul McCarthy and Robert Irwin were also broken. But five straight lots including three Warhols and a Richter with values as high as $15 million went unsold. (Reuters)
The character of light: Lighting designer encourages creative thinking Sep 10, 2008
He has worked with internationally famous visual artists James Turrell and Robert Irwin, and he had an association with Andy Warhol. But he says his "major contribution" was helping to develop the energy code followed by all commercial lighting designers, known as the ASHRAE/IES Standard 90, during the energy crunch of 1975. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Albright-Knox adds varied collection of works Jul 17, 2008
The acquisition enhances the museum's existing holdings of artists Dan Flavin, Robert Irwin, Sol LeWitt, Anne Truitt and Robert Therrien, some of which were gifted to the gallery in 1980 by Seymour Knox Jr.. Other pieces from the Italian industrialist's collection have been sold or donated since the early 1980s to such museums as the in Los Angeles, the in New York and other museums around the world. (Buffalo Business First, NY)
All their eggs in one basket May 10, 2008
Southern Exposure includes pieces by relatively well-known artists such as Ed Ruscha, Bill Viola, James Turrell, Chris Burden, Robert Irwin and Vija Celmins, as well as works by younger-generation figures such as Glenn Kaino or Kota Ezawa. As is so often the case with such surveys, the overall impression belongs to the category of "not bad". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Southern Exposure Mar 21, 2008
Some of the artists are well-known internationally: Robert Irwin, Vija Celmins, Ed Ruscha and Bill Viola. Others, such as Ezawa, Glenn Kaino and the Torolab collective from Tijuana - the Mexican city on the other side of the border from San Diego - are relative newcomers. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
''Birth of the Cool'' showcases artists with designs on the future Feb 29, 2008
She has curiously left out several artists who defined cool when they showed at LA's legendary Ferus Gallery in the 1950s, such as Robert Irwin and Larry Bell. Still, these painters fit. (Boston Globe)
Pincus on art Dec 24, 2007
Robert Irwin: Primaries and Secondaries Oct. 18, 2007; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, downtown ... Robert Irwin: Primaries and Secondaries, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego downtown, Oct. 21-Feb ... But that is precisely what happened to me on a day in early October when the lights first went on for Robert Irwin's Light and Space, the newest work in his first retrospective exhibition in 14 years. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Norman Zammitt, 76; Southland artist Nov 24, 2007
His interest in capturing light and space related his work to that of such artists as Larry Bell and Robert Irwin, Eliel said. At the same time, his precision and a preference for sleek surfaces related his creations to the art of Billy Al Bengston, among other California artists who rose to prominence in the 1970s, Eliel said. (Los Angeles Times)
The age of wonder Oct 22, 2007
Robert Irwin's spent a lifetime 'capturing lightning in a bottle'; MCASD's 'Primaries and Secondaries' captures his life in art ... One word matters more to Robert Irwin than any other: wonder ... NANCEE E. LEWIS / Union-Tribune Robert Irwin, whose new museum exhibition is his biggest in 14 years, stands in an empty gallery that now houses work created for the show. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Robert Irwin: Still at play with the powers of perception Oct 13, 2007
Walking through a nearly empty museum with Robert Irwin, an artist known for making artwork that barely registers as being there, is an unsettling experience. Could the fluorescent lights overhead be an early Irwin work, recalling the time he transformed a room at the Museum of Modern Art in New York by replacing the lights and stringing a wire across a wall. (International Herald Tribune)
Richard Pousette-Dart's abstract affinities Aug 21, 2007
His affinities range through a host of texture-mad stipplers, from Charles Burchfield to Alfred Jensen and Jess to Ralph Humphrey and Robert Irwin. Pousette-Dart's art exemplifies the exultation of material that courses through much American painting. (International Herald Tribune)
Resiliency is built into LACMAs redesign Mar 28, 2007
Surrounding BCAM like a wreath or a playful chokehold will be a palm garden by Robert Irwin, who proved with his garden at the Getty Center that he is hardly shy about confronting architectural celebrity. And just in front of the BP structure will be Jeff Koons' "Train," a massive artwork that includes a 70-foot locomotive dangling from a 160-foot crane. (Los Angeles Times)
San Diego's shock of the new Feb 11, 2007
The first to use it will be Southern Californian Robert Irwin, who has a retrospective on MCASD's advance calendar. He will be able to take the train to the studio from his home in northern San Diego County. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Whiff of the new as modern art museum expands in San Diego Jan 25, 2007
San Diego-based light artist Robert Irwin will be the first artist to break in the space, which still held only a large flat-panel TV and an Eames lounger set as the museum prepared to open to the public over the weekend. With the debut of the expanded space, the museum changed its admission policy, raising the price of a ticket from 6 to 10, but the new ticket will allow visitors unlimited entry for a week to the new downtown gallery, an older exhibit space the museum maintains in a trolley... (North County Times)
Going down to the crossroads Jan 22, 2007
(The internationally acclaimed Robert Irwin, a Del Mar resident with long-standing ties to the museum, is the first artist-in-residence. He's preparing for a major exhibition the museum plans to open in October. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
MCASD; A landmark arrival Jan 15, 2007
There is also an artist-in-residence studio in the Jacobs Building and the first person to occupy it will be the pioneering light and and space artist Robert Irwin, who will present a major exhibition at the museum in October. For Davies, the challenge will be to create a balance that makes sense between downtown and La Jolla, now that the museum has a major presence in both parts of town. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Lyric Opera S.D. changes schedule Jan 15, 2007
It includes works by several major contemporary artists, including Robert Irwin, Bruce Nauman, Jenny Holzer and Alexis Smith. People have found it (the brochure) to be incredibly useful, says Stuart Collection director Mary Beebe. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
