In 1975 Frank Stella executed twenty-eight graph-paper drawings, which were converted into Foamcore maquettes, and, in 1976, to a series of large-scale aluminum reliefs known as the Exotic Birds. With the Exotic Birds, in the words of William Rubin, “we enter fully [Read More]
Daily Archives: January 15, 2010
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Baltimore—The Walters Art Museum and the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute at The Johns Hopkins University announce a collaboration to pioneer a new approach to investigating the neural basis of the human aesthetic experience. On view January 23–April 11, 2010, Beauty and the [Read More]
New Arrivals: Works from the Collection features more than twenty-five works of art, the state’s art museum will introduce a selection of recent additions to its collection, most on view for the first time. Representing a variety of mediums – including painting, [Read More]
Essentially, everything in my work is about a process of description. My attitude towards repetition has to do with the cumulative effect of continuous applications of line and color. If we focus on that, and see them as crystallized into patterns or [Read More]
Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale and the auction of The Art of the Surreal will take place on 2 February 2010 at 7pm with a pre-sale estimate of £56,505,000 to £80,805,000. The leading highlights include Gitane by Kees van Dongen [Read More]
On Wednesday, February 3, 2010, Sotheby’s London will offer for sale one of the most important landscapes by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) ever to have appeared on the market. Titled Kirche in Cassone (Landschaft mit Zypressen) (Church in Cassone – Landscape with Cypresses), [Read More]