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    Oscar Snubs Michael Moore, "Anvil!"  Nov 20, 2009
    The 15 films are: - A self-portrait by French director Agns Varda reflecting on life, art and cinema. - Anders stergaard's compilation of video footage smuggled out of Myanmar documenting the 2007 protests against the military regime, and the resulting crackdown; - Louie Psihoyos' expose of a Japanese fishing village's slaughter of dolphins; - James Stern and Adam Del Deo's behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the Broadway classic "A Chorus Line"; - Former opponents of boxing... (CBS News -- Entertainment)

    Artful Prague  Nov 20, 2009
    The gloomy wonders of Prague. (5) - By Emily Yoffe - Slate Magazine. (Slate)

    The Incredibly Beautiful Architecture of Prague  Nov 20, 2009
    "The creators of Artbreak used the book , by Mihaly Cskszentmihlyi, as a philosophical touchstone. But toward the end of the week, I sometimes felt it had been Jared Diamond's , so exhausted was I by becoming a culture vulture. Still, it was worth it to drag myself to the evening performances. One night we saw the avant-garde, five-man dance group Les Slovaks Dance Collective. In the lobby before the performance were traditional Slovak dancers, the women in dirndl skirts, the men in boots... (Slate)

    I Made a Stop-Motion Animation Movie. You Could Say It's Surrealistic.  Nov 18, 2009
    At noon, I had a misshapen but faintly recognizable self-portrait. Prague beckoned through the window, but I was happy that I'd spent the morning making something. (Slate)

    Warhols dollar bills painting fetches millions  Nov 13, 2009
    His 1965 Self-Portrait, which the artist gave to Cathy Naso, a receptionist who worked at his Factory, sold for $6. 1 million. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)

    Andy Warhol's artwork 200 One Dollar Bills sells for $43.76m  Nov 13, 2009
    In Wednesday's sale, a Warhol self-portrait given by the artist to teenage secretary Cathy Naso at his New York studio The Factory in the 1960s fetched $6. 1m (3. (BBC News -- Americas)

    Largest U.S. exhibition of M.C. Escher in history to take place in January/Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida  Nov 11, 2009
    Preparatory drawing and actual stamp of Casas Colgadas, bank notes, puzzles and a rare watercolor study for the ceramic plate that features a unique indoor/outdoor scene of Escher s studio with his self-portrait. The proof and colored woodcut for Sphere Surface With Fish. (AbsoluteArts.com)

    Alumna anaylzes media  Nov 10, 2009
    She then related Latina artist Frida Kahlo's painted self-portrait with a fashion shoot Vogue magazine did. The magazine attempted to imitate the painting in a high fashion, marketable way. (Daily Collegian, PA)

    Pam Hallandal wins 2009 Dobell Prize for Drawing  Nov 7, 2009
    Hallandal won the prize in 1996, with Self portrait and judged the prize in 1999. Born in Melbourne in 1929, Hallandal studied sculpture at RMIT and at the Central School of Art, London. (AbsoluteArts.com)

    Art illustrates death for Dobell winner  Nov 7, 2009
    She has worked solely on that theme in the five years since - apart from one self-portrait - and produced 16 works. Sticking to one theme for a long time is not new to Hallandal, who has never married. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    2009 Dobell Prize winner announced Friday Nov 6 at 11am  Nov 5, 2009
    Image credit: Virginia Grayson No conclusions drawn - self portrait. Winner of the Dobell Prize for Drawing 2008 Art Gallery of New South Wales. (AbsoluteArts.com)

    Nov Program Highlights  Nov 3, 2009
    Will Barnet, Self-Portrait, 1981,oil on canvas, ANA diploma presentation,1981. 13. (AbsoluteArts.com)

    Peter Schjeldahl: “Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection,” at the Frick.  Nov 2, 2009
    The diminutive Fragonard (less than five feet tall) charms with a swift, sweet self-portrait. A tangy pocket drama by Nicolas Lavreince epitomizes the glad erotic cynicism of the seventeen-eighties: a gent springs a kiss on a lady as her chaperone dozes and a painted portrait sulks in the shadow of a curtain. (New Yorker)

    Warhol Self-Portrait Found in Closet  Oct 31, 2009
    This photo released by Sotheby's, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009 in New York, shows a 1965 self-portrait by Andy Warhol ... (AP) Sotheby's is auctioning a self-portrait by Andy Warhol that was recently found after being forgotten in a closet in New York City for more than 40 years ... Two years later, in 1967, Warhol gave her a self-portrait inscribed to her. (CBS News)

    Warhol self-portrait up for grabs  Oct 31, 2009
    A self-portrait of Andy Warhol that sat in a closet for more than 40 years will be auctioned in New York next month ... When Warhol gave Naso the 1965 self-portrait, she watched him sign it: "To Cathy (2 years late)." ... In 2002 a Warhol self-portrait completed a year before his death was sold for more than $3m (1. (BBC News -- Entertainment)

    Books: Van Gogh's letters  Oct 30, 2009
    An amazing self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh, in words and pictures ... The resulting self-portrait has a depth that would not exist were this a collection only of images or only of words. (The Economist)

    November at the Center for Creative Photography  Oct 30, 2009
    What is unique about a photographic self-portrait. What are the advantages of working in the studio, or in the field. (AbsoluteArts.com)

    Kyffin 'inspired' drawing winner  Oct 24, 2009
    " Second prize was awarded to Dafydd Hedd ap Hywel, 31, of Aberystwyth, for his "Self Portrait. " Taking classic models as his starting point, the panel described his draughtsmanship as bold and expressive. Bookmark with: Print Sponsor SEE ALSO 07 Feb 09 | North West Wales 18 Jul 08 | North West Wales 22 Aug 07 | Wales 02 Apr 08 | Mid Wales 04 Sep 06 | North West Wales 23 Aug 07 | Wales RELATED INTERNET LINKS The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites SHARED The... (BBC News -- UK)

    A Life Remembered: Wyatt Moody  Oct 23, 2009
    Moody's mother pointed at a self-portrait he drew and said that he is known as the "Pencil Man." On the table next to his photo were stickers with the illustration of a man etched out of a pencil ... "But then I look at the picture of his girlfriend, and the self-portraits and you can see how gorgeous they are. They're toned down; they're softer," Megee said. (East Tennessean, TN)

    Photography: Robert Franks  Oct 22, 2009
    With McCarthyism still in the air, the country s preferred self-portrait resembled Norman Rockwell s covers for the Saturday Evening Post: rosy-cheeked families sitting down to a big, glistening Thanksgiving turkey. Visitors to Looking In: Robert Frank s The Americans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will quickly observe that Mr Frank s subjects are sometimes too dark to be rosy and could seldom afford a hefty bird. (The Economist)

    Kids artwork: Frame it? Box it? Toss it?  Oct 21, 2009
    A self-portrait by 9-year-old Veronica is immortalized on a coffee mug and coaster. Other creations plaster Syx's office walls and refrigerator, and fill tote bags and boxes around the house. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Home & Garden)

    To 1/10: 'Face to Face' photo exhibit  Oct 20, 2009
    There is the range of artiness, from the amateur photo to the avant-garde, such as Vik Muniz's "Self Portrait After Rembrandt," which is made of photographed chocolate sauce, smeared to look like the umbers and siennas of the Dutch painter. Another polarity concerns whether the subject is caught unaware or is preening for the lens. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)

    David and Barbara Stahl Collection is wide-ranging and captivating  Oct 18, 2009
    ller, generally thought to be less acidic with his social commentary than his contemporaries, has a 1920 woodcut self-portrait here that is built from bold lines, except for the white circles that ring his eyes. The artist glitters like a dark star; it s a strong, brutal portrait. (Boston Globe)

    "Mona Linda? Nah. How About Mona Lisa?"  Oct 17, 2009
    For example, Dutchman Johannes Vermeer painted a self-portrait called The Art of Painting. He never sold the piece, keeping it in his home until his death in 1675. (Slate)

    Scientists Try to Debunk Shroud of Turin  Oct 7, 2009
    Group Funded by Italian Atheists, Agnostics Claims Experiment "Clearly Indicates" Shroud Was Man Made. In this Aug. 12, 2000 file photo, The Holy Shroud, a 14 foot-long linen revered by some as the burial cloth of Jesus, is shown at the Cathedral of Turin, Italy. (CBS News -- Sci/Tech)

    Time to shine: 89-year-old Brevard artist featured at museum  Oct 4, 2009
    Take a look at the self-portrait of Mildred Richardson when she was 66. The eyes tell it all: determined, unrelenting. (Florida Today)

    Art.view: Against the odds  Oct 4, 2009
    The sculptural self-portrait, which comes in a relatively large edition of ten, was estimated at 180,000 to 250,000, but two phone bidders drove the minor work up to the major price of 493,000 ... Not only does he produce many sculptural self-portraits, he regularly works with , a photographer, to create images of Cattelan a socially awkward joker that keep his face in circulation. (The Economist)

    Tiny tots destroy serenity of the surreal  Oct 3, 2009
    If the child could talk, which conversation do you think it would prefer: Darling, would you like to focus your still-forming eyes on the Self-portrait with Raphaelesque neck. Notice the nuances of stroke, the way Dali's eyes seem to lock on to you. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)

    Van Dyck portrait could fetch 3m  Sep 30, 2009
    A self-portrait by Anthony van Dyck, owned by the same family for nearly 300 years, is expected to fetch up to 3m when it goes to auction ... The self-portrait will be part of Sotheby's Old Masters sale in December. (BBC News -- Entertainment)

    Artist equals record with three wins in portrait prize  Sep 25, 2009
    The Tasmanian's self-portrait The Old Painter, which depicts the Mexican icon Our Lady of Guadalupe floating above the artist, garnered her third Geach win - a tie for the record - in 30 years of entering. The award, chosen from 328 entrants, was held last night in the National Trust's S. H. Ervin Gallery, at Observatory Hill, in The Rocks and coincided with the gallery's reopening after a three-month upgrade that has resulted in improved entry for visitors, an enhanced art showroom, an expanded... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    ‘The Cantabrigians’ shares a few residents’ favorite things  Sep 25, 2009
    Photographer On a table beside Baden stands a frame containing a digitally animated montage of 360 images from Baden s self-portrait project. The heap of pill bottles represent illness, since I had a pretty serious battle with cancer at one time, he says. (Boston Globe)

    Rona Pondick is fluent in confluences  Sep 23, 2009
    The merging of a saint s head with Pondick s monkey, which is also a self-portrait, prompts even more delicious connective nuances. The suffering woman/monkey and the serene saint become aspects of a single being, shifting from the realm of the symbolic into the juicier realm of what it s really like to be human. (Boston Globe)

    Chalk it up to talent, fun  Sep 21, 2009
    After filling their first square with pink, green, purple and blue hearts, the girls planned to tackle a self-portrait that Flewelling drew of the two. She is playing a guitar and Persinger is singing. (Sioux City Journal)

    High expectations for Rembrandt  Sep 19, 2009
    It is one of only two works known to have been painted by the Dutch artist in 1658, the other being a Self-Portrait in New York's Frick Museum. It was last seen in public in 1970 at the Rembrandt After 300 Years exhibition in Detroit. (BBC News -- Europe)

    A tale of two collections  Sep 18, 2009
    The modern part of the Kushner collection includes three colorful Red Grooms lithographs and a powerful self-portrait (lithograph) of Jim Dine ... Works by Alex Katz include a self-portrait and a striking silkscreen of a spruce tree in vivid colors. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)

    Dylan to show artwork in Denmark  Sep 17, 2009
    Dylan painted the cover of his 1970 album Self Portrait ... The star used one of his paintings for the front cover of his 1970 album Self Portrait. (BBC News -- Europe)

    * Major Van Gogh exhibition coming to Taipei museum  Sep 17, 2009
    A man holds up a reproduction of Self Portrait by Vincent van Gogh in front of reproductions of Cypress Against a Starry Sky, right, and the Garden of the Asylum in Saint-Remy during a press conference in Taipei on Tuesday to promote the Van Gogh: the Flaming Soul exhibition, which will open at the National Museum of History on Dec. 11 ... Other Van Gogh masterpieces to be displayed will include Self Portrait and Cypress Against a Starry Sky. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)

    HOMEMergers & acquisitions  Sep 14, 2009
    "This collection really wasn't intentional - it just kept growing." The collection now includes seascapes, a portrait of a reclining woman she bought for $10, a male portrait she calls Narcoleptic Leo, and a friend's self-portrait. "I had a portrait-painting party for my birthday one year, and my friend Tom painted a corner of his face - his chin, actually," she says. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Intriguing mix in '10 x 10 x 10' exhibition  Sep 6, 2009
    In his "Self Portrait" (2009) Percher shows himself reduced to folded arms - they look as marooned as lobster claws - on a meeting room table. The exhibition will make your head spin, but in a good way. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Book fest features famous authors  Sep 4, 2009
    On Sunday, Sept. 13, at 3 p.m. an encore presentation of Ashbury s Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, a reading in six voices, will be presented. The staged reading is produced and directed by Jim Paul of the Ancram Opera House. (Hudson Register Star, NY)

    At MIT, art collection is more than numbers  Sep 4, 2009
    Above: Vincent Van Gogh's self-portrait can be seen at the Harvard Art Museum in Cambridge. LOG IN TO COMMENT. (Boston Globe)

    Exhibit demonstrates Hans Hofmann’s unparalleled legacy  Aug 25, 2009
    Among Hofmann s students in Provincetown were Lee Krasner, who is represented in this exhibition by a small and haunting self-portrait in pencil, and Robert De Niro (the actor s father), whose muscular and vigorous study of a seated male nude is the strongest (the most intense, concentrated, and convincing) of many similar efforts in the show. But really the key work here is by Blanche Lazzell, the modernist who moved to Provincetown in 1915 and was already an esteemed artist when she began to... (Boston Globe)

    Trash to treasures: Holmen class has children making art from garbage  Aug 15, 2009
    Peighton, a budding artist, also added a self-portrait and picture of her cat. She s starting 4-year-old kindergarten this fall and is really excited about it, Swackhamer said. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)

    Eyeing P-town’s place in American art  Aug 5, 2009
    It hangs near one of the only figurative works in the show, Lester Johnson s vigorous Self-Portrait in Studio (1969). The artist wields his brush, backed by a chorus of his signature male idols, broad-shouldered and stony-faced. (Boston Globe)

    Unplugged: MF Husain  Aug 2, 2009
    - Husain has a six-feet-high self-portrait of himself in his house, painted as James Bond, wearing a hat with a gun and the words 007 across it (it was painted in 2007). - In his own words, he lives 10 minutes at a time. (India Times, India)

    Artist opens show at Altavista Area YMCA  Jul 25, 2009
    She even has a self-portrait. All total, Thompson has about 20 pieces in the show. (Altivista Journal, VA)

    Stretching the boundaries beyond paint on canvas  Jul 24, 2009
    National Youth Self Portrait Prize 2009 encouraging young people to embrace self portraiture and its expressive possibilities, now showing at the The National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. Yuko NarushimaJuly 24, 2009. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    * [ART JOURNAL] Acts of devotion  Jul 22, 2009
    It is the same only more so in Peytons gamine self-portraits ... The other is a version of Delacroixs formidably hieratic self-portrait in the Louvre, all high collar and prim moustache, which Peyton crops into a sepia close-up thus removing the French painters remoteness and edging him closer to photo-real presence. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)

    Burliss: Back to my future  Jul 22, 2009
    A nameless current ripples through me as we pass Williams Hall where atop the fire escape I took my oatmeal box/pinhole camera self-portrait, and Old Mill where as a college freshman I tried writing on for size. We walk past Royall Tyler Theatre, I point out the spot in front where I bought bagels (heavy on the peanut butter) on bitter Vermont mornings, and then toward the new Davis Building housing the campus bookstore. (Boxford Tri Town Transcript, MA)

    Edward Steichen exhibits showcase breadth of photographer’s career  Jul 19, 2009
    Above: Edward Steichen s Evening Shoes by Vida Moore (left) and Self-Portrait With Photographic Paraphernalia ; below: portrait of actor Gary Cooper ... Self-Portrait With Photographic Paraphernalia, from 1929, could be a visual calling card - an advertisement for himself - with its stark lighting, forthright display of apparatus, casual pose, sense of genial merriment, and, most important, of course, its effectiveness. (Boston Globe)

    David Omar White; created murals, alternative comic strip; at 82  Jul 17, 2009
    At Claremont, he became a protege of the artist Henry Lee McFee, and Mr. White s self-portrait was accepted for a national competition of student work by the Addison Gallery in Andover. In 1952, he joined the merchant marine and served for a year. (Boston Globe)

    Panhandle artist turns trash into treasure  Jul 13, 2009
    Only from a distance does the uneven array of plastic and metal begin to blend into a vivid, 8-foot-by-16-foot depiction of a self-portrait of Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh with a bandaged ear and pipe ... A crowd watches Friday as an 8-foot-by-16-foot depiction of a self-portrait of Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh is unveiled in Martinsburg, W.Va ... artist David Heatwole viewed up close look like an abstract mosaic, but viewed at a distance the work shows a famous self-portrait of Dutch artist... (The Herald-Mail Online)

    Some day my plinth will come  Jul 8, 2009
    After the first few hours on Monday the self-portrait appeared to show a mosaic of polite rule-breakers, exhibit-ionists with a social conscience and slightly inept publicans. The rule-breaking began five minutes before the official inauguration of the project. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    Art.view: Happy days for some  Jul 5, 2009
    Consigned by Jane Holzer, an American collector, the small sculptural self-portrait is designed to look down from a high ledge and comes in an edition of ten (each with different clothes and hair styles). It was estimated at 180,000 to 250,000, but two covetous phone bidders drove the price up to 493,000. (The Economist)

    Edible Dreams Creates Artistic Custom Cakes, Baked Goods  Jul 4, 2009
    This artist and baker is famous for his cartoon cakes, Statue of Liberty replica, movie- and music-themed edibles, wedding cakes, birthday cakes, self-portrait cakes, iPod design cakes, sports cakes, special occasions, 3-D cakes, traditional, unique and much more. "I want my customers to have what they want," Ed told Voices. (Voices, CT)

    Restoration of Michelangelo's Vatican frescoes  Jul 4, 2009
    The restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Vatican's Pauline Chapel may have produced a special prize - a previously unknown self-portrait of the artist. Chief Vatican restorer Maurizio De Luca said Thursday that the face of a man on horseback in the artist's "The Crucifixion of St. Peter" could well be the artist, though he told AP Television News that nobody will ever know "with absolute certainty that the face is Michelangelo's.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)

    Womb With A View  Jul 4, 2009
    WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA)--Most of us have heard of Van Gogh's "Self-Portrait." Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" and Monet's "Waterlillies." But "baby bump art?". They say pregnant women glow. (W-USA News, DC)

    Painting of man on horse may be Michelangelo  Jul 3, 2009
    Possible self-portrait discovered during restoration of Sistine Chapel ... It contains two Michelangelo frescoes; one, "The Crucifixion of St. Peter," may contain a self-portrait ofMichelangelo ... VATICAN CITY - The restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Vatican's Pauline Chapel may have produced a special prize a previously unknown self-portrait of the artist. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)

    ENCOURAGING ART: Claflin professor named S.C. Arts Commission Fellow  Jun 29, 2009
    "My subject matter is I reference history and historical figures and events. That's what really motivates me to make the work that I make."I use the self-portrait to explore and question relationships that construct African-American identity and subjecthood," Howard said. "As a black male in a largely white culture, I want to capture feelings of domination, subordination, oppression and suppression that are a part of my experience. At the same time, especially as it relates to issues of race, it... (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)

    Mt. Gilead reception honors artist  Jun 26, 2009
    Although he hadn t planned to have a gallery in Mt. Gilead, the space at the front of his studio has turned into a gallery, hung with a self-portrait, portraits of his grandchildren and the street people of Charlotte, and up close details of his favorite landscapes. Although he admits to some culture shock after moving to Mt. Gilead and for a while frequent trips back and forth to the big city, he now is more at home, traveling to Charlotte mainly for weekly church services and visits to family... (Troy Montgomery Herald, NC)

    Hilton Als: David Adjmi on household race relations.  Jun 22, 2009
    A black gay feminist intellectual trying to escape her past, Blanche is the least convincing of Adjmi s characters, which is surprising, given that she is Adjmi s de-facto self-portrait. Like many artists, Adjmi felt like something of an outsider in his own community. (New Yorker)

    A half-century buying spree  Jun 20, 2009
    Naturally, there's a high proportion of Australian paintings among the society's purchases - among them Charles Conder's An Impressionist (1889), George Lambert's Holiday In Essex (1910) and Sidney Nolan's Self Portrait (1943). The society encourages the participation of younger generations in building the gallery's collection through Contempo, which raises money for contemporary works. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    PHOTO GALLERY: Linden students demonstrate the value of art in the curriculum  Jun 16, 2009
    5th grade Maori Tattoo Line Pattern Self-Portrait during the Linden School art show ... Sixth-grader Nicholas Hames, who has been drawing since he was three, found that adding elements of cubism to his warm and cool color self-portrait was challenging. (Malden Observer, MA)

    O-W student takes top honors in art competition  Jun 6, 2009
    Smoak's prismacolor pencil drawing, titled "Self Portrait with Classmates," will be displayed on Capitol Hill for the next year in the corridor that connects the Capitol building with the U.S. House of Representatives offices. "The entries this year showcased the work of some of the most talented young artists from the Sixth Congressional District," Clyburn said. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)

    'Vida y Drama' works retain their feel of mass impact  Jun 5, 2009
    There's a great self-portrait by Rivera, his eyes sagging, his double chin bulging like a pocket of air trapped in a rolled up sleeping bag. And there are two superb self-portraits by J. (Boston Globe)

    Self perception  Jun 4, 2009
    Three Connecticut-based artists have a lot to say at the Brickbottom Gallery exhibit "Commentary/Herself." Jennifer Knaus, June Bisantz, and Rachel Siporin combine self-portrait, narration, and a feminist tongue-in-cheek voice to explore contemporary social and political issues. The exhibit shows the similarities in the artists' work, despite their different processes. (Boston Globe)

    Kindergarteners’ Eyes Opened to the World of Art by Dedicated Teacher  Jun 2, 2009
    Inspired by Mona Lisa, Van Gogh s self-portraits and Matisse s Woman in a Hat, each child painted a self-portrait. In addition to painting and drawing, the children learned to weave and made pottery from clay. (South County Chronicle, VA)

    A New Norm - Michele Liebler  Jun 1, 2009
    William Zimmer, writing in The New York Times, characterized her work by remarking, "looking outward is something of a leitmotif." He described her tense, frontal Self-Portrait in the Studio as "compelling.". Eileen Watkins, writing in Star Ledger, called Liebler a "soulful" painter who "has a particular gift for giving inanimate objects personalities.". (AbsoluteArts.com)

    Selected Portraits by Ilya Repin  May 31, 2009
    Like many artists, Repin painted self-portraits throughout his career, with most showing the fairly serious, guarded expression of a man who prefers observing to being observed. A self-portrait done in 1915 seems more revelatory, though, perhaps because it features Repin actively working in his studio ... In his 1915 self-portrait, Repin reaches toward the canvas with his right hand, but the left hand holds a brush. (Suite101.com)

    Stair Galleries Auction House to Offer Important Works by Donray  May 30, 2009
    Additionally, The Prestige Financial Center, an investment services firm in Manhattan, acquired several early pieces by Donray, including a self-portrait. According to esteemed art critic and author, Donald Kuspit, the artists work reveals a verve, an energy, a dynamic surging gesture, violent movement, an overall vividness and vitality that places Donrays paintings among the most interesting of what might be called post-modern expressionist painting. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    MFA wins legal claim to valuable painting  May 30, 2009
    It is a self-portrait with Alma Mahler (wife of the composer Gustav Mahler), with whom the artist had an affair. In recent years, other Kokoschka works have sold at auction for as much as $1 million. (Boston Globe)

    Filmmaker's Antitrust Suit Against Andy Warhol Foundation to Go Forward  May 30, 2009
    In 1989 Simon-Whelan purchased a relatively little-known Warhol self-portrait for $150,000. A few years ago, he decided to sell his painting, but there was a snag: An art authentication board established by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts twice declared the self-portrait a fake, even though the painting had previously been authenticated by the foundation itself ... "Simon-Whelan has brought this class action antitrust suit in order to bludgeon a charitable organization into... (Law.com)

    Warhol collector's monopoly suit gets green light  May 29, 2009
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    LEGO Artist Nathan Sawaya  May 26, 2009
    Another piece in the exhibit is Sawaya's self-portrait. Rain features a large blue raindrop and a large black raindiop on a white background in a brown frame made from LEGO bricks. (Suite101.com)

    Renzo Piano adds onto Art Institute of Chicago  May 26, 2009
    Piano has provided elegantly proportioned galleries to accommodate special exhibitions and canonical gems of the AIC's modern and contemporary collection, which include Willem de Kooning's "Excavation" (1950), Henri Matisse's "Bathers by a River" (1909-17), a cluster of sculptures by Constantin Brancusi and a 1937 self-portrait by Max Beckmann. The special-exhibition galleries open bracingly with the one-venue show "Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works, 2000-2007" (through Sept. 13). (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)

    British Artist John William Godward  May 24, 2009
    The male figure in Godward s 1889 is perhaps a self-portrait, however, and one of the few personal traces of Godward s quietly intense life. Sources. (Suite101.com)

    • Kids can learn from historic artists at CSI  May 22, 2009
    They will make five different projects, including a Matisse-style pencil holder, a Mondrian wall hanging, a Picasso-style pitcher, an abstract Kandinsky plate and your very own Kahlo-style self portrait. This class will be held 9-11 a.m. Monday through Friday June 8-12 at Hands On, 147 Shoshone St N, Downtown Twin Falls. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)

    Van Gogh's landscapes finally get their due  May 20, 2009
    A self-portrait showing him with the bandaged head is reproduced in the exhibition catalog. Attesting to his relapse into depression is the last of 20 Arles pictures, "Landscape Under Stormy Sky," with ominously threatening clouds. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)

    Art judge takes novel approach  May 17, 2009
    Ward Hulbert's photograph, "Alex's Boat," is a poignant look at the Combs estate in Halibut Cove, with Alex's self-portrait seen in the background. It's not only a warm reminder of the artist but a comment on our shared temporal nature. (Anchorage Daily News)

    Phillips Collection Annual Gala Unites Washington's Notables in Support of Arts Education  May 17, 2009
    It also includes landscapes, a rare self-portrait, and a selection of etchings on paper that reveal his exceptional mastery of the medium. ABOUT THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION. (PR Newswire)

    New Orleans' 'Katrina Generation' struggles with drugs and depression  May 14, 2009
    New Orleans - Months before her death, 16-year-old Madeleine Prevost was hard at work on a high school art project, a self-portrait she did not share because it, like the subject, was a work in progress. The painting now hangs in her mother's New Orleans home, and in some ways it is a portrait of more than just a single girl. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)

    Year in review  May 11, 2009
    Drawings, paintings (self-portrait by Noah Gonci of the Morse School, below), photos, digital, and mixed-media masterpieces by students in grades K-12 will be on view in the upper and lower galleries of the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center all month. The joint venture between the latter and the Cambridge Public Schools has been around for more than 20 years, and you can be a part of the celebration on May 21 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. at a gallery reception. (Boston Globe)

    America: Losing its identity, or in transition?  May 6, 2009
    America is a self-portrait of freedom that expands beyond the spectrum of races, colors and religions. Friends of mine ask me if we are losing our American Identity. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)

     Top Bay artists often underappreciated in life  May 5, 2009
    His self-portrait chronicle of his losing struggle with cancer stands as the most pitiless self-reflection in American art. No label - neither sculptor, painter, conceptual artist nor architect - adequately fits David Ireland (b. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)

    Self-constructive tendencies  May 2, 2009
    One of the images in the show, "7/16," which won the top award at the 2006 "Alaska Positive" photo exhibition organized by the museum, is a self-portrait that shows Mehner's unusual beard, half dark and half light due to a birthmark, and, he says, a visual representation of his mixed heritage. "Blood Quantum," another work on display, was inspired by Mehner's Bureau of Indian Affairs ID card. (Juneau Empire)

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