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Art Review | Pipilotti Rist: Tiptoe by the Tulips (or Stretch by the Apples)
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21/11/08 05:08 AM
New York Times
“Pour Your Body Out,” a site-specific installation by the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, is arguably the first project to humanize the atrium of the Museum of Modern Art.
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Inside Art: Auction Slump Has Silver Lining for MoMA
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21/11/08 05:05 AM
New York Times
After the recent drop in auction prices, artworks that were once out of reach for museums have suddenly become affordable again.
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Art Review | 'Art and Love in Renaissance Italy': Eternal Objects of Desire
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21/11/08 05:03 AM
New York Times
“Art and Love in Renaissance Italy” at the Metropolitan Museum promises romance, desire, expensive gift items and possible sex in the land of Romeo and Juliet and delivers on all counts.
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Art Review | 'Beyond Babylon': Global Exchange, Early Version
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21/11/08 05:02 AM
New York Times
“Beyond Babylon,” a big, prescient, concentration-taxing exhibition, is the latest in the museum’s illustrious line of panoramic archaeological shows.
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Art in Review
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21/11/08 03:16 AM
New York Times
Martín Ramírez at the American Folk Art Museum, “I Am a Man” at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Zaha Hadid at Sonnabend and more.
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Eli Broad's art collection needs a home, so he'll build it
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20/11/08 12:40 PM
ArtReview News
By artreview.comA new headquarters that philanthropist Eli Broad aims to build for his Broad Art Foundation would include a 25,000-square-foot museum for exhibiting his collection, the foundation's director said on Wednesday. That exhibition space would be about half as large as the $56-million Broad Contemporary Art Museum, which opened nine months ago at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.The Broad Foundation (now based in 1927-vintage headquarters in Santa Monica, left) functions as a "lending library" for its collection of 2,000 works of post-World War II art, sending them to museums around the world that request pieces for exhibitions.The new headquarters would supply what now is lacking at the foundation's current building: galleries where visitors could see rotating shows drawn from the collection and a storage component designed not just to warehouse the entire trove but also to double as an easily accessible research facility.In a new building, curat
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New London night spot is artist's Höller's latest installation
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20/11/08 12:17 PM
ArtReview News
By artreview.comCarsten Höller, whose slides at Tate Modern were tested by thousands of visitors two years ago, today presents his new art installation in London: a bar, restaurant and nightclub.Located in an old Victorian warehouse in the north London district of Islington, The Double Club is a part-Congolese, part-Western space, with equal focus on the visual arts, music, food, and drink of each culture.The restaurant at 7 Torrens Street, London, is overseen by Mourad Mazouz, founder of London restaurants Momo and Sketch and opens tomorrow. See www.bloomberg.com for full story.
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L.A. MOCA scrambles to raise money
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20/11/08 11:58 AM
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By artreview.comThe Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, has gone into crisis mode, and director Jeremy Strick is seeking major support from donors, the Los Angeles Times reports. In an interview this week, Strick did not rule out the possibility of a merger with another institution or sharing the museum's nearly 6,000-piece collection to alleviate some of the pressure. MOCA's federal tax returns show that the during Strick's nine years as director, the museum has dipped into its savings to help pay for routine operating costs. Earlier in this decade, MOCA had already spent a $20 million reserve of unrestricted funds, and by mid-2007, it had borrowed $7.5 million from its restricted accounts, which hold money designated by donors for specific uses. Although Strick would not disclose the most recent figures, he did acknowledge that the economic crisis has worsened the museum's financial state.Whereas the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which is partly cont
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Who's who in the Armory Show 2009
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20/11/08 11:50 AM
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By artreview.comFor all the whispering about the downturn in the art market, and what effect it may have on the fair circuit, one fair seems to be sitting pretty: The Armory Show. The New York mainstay announced its list of exhibitors for 2009 today, and the news (so far, at least) looks good. The exhibitor total is up from 160 last year to 222 this year, with the greater part of that increase thanks to the 63 inaugural participants — all first-timers — in the new section dedicated to modern art, to be housed on Pier 92. See www.artinfo.com for full story.
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Guernica-like Mexican mural sells for $6.8 million
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20/11/08 11:46 AM
ArtReview News
By artreview.comA giant Mexican mural with sprawling elongated figures reminiscent of Pablo Picasso's Guernica fetched $6.8 million in a sale of Latin American art that fared comparatively well in a tough economic climate.Spanning 45 feet in length, the mural, America, by Rufino Tamayo, sold in frenetic bidding which included several art museums, Sotheby's said.Total sales of Latin American art at the auction house reached $16.8 million on Tuesday night."In these rocky times, we're absolutely delighted that there was very fierce competition for certain works," said Carmen Melian, Sotheby's chief Latin American specialist."The works that didn't sell, they will sell quite well in a couple of years when the economy turns around," she added. See www.reuters.com for full story.
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Eli Broad Plans Another Art Space
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20/11/08 06:06 AM
New York Times
Eli Broad, the philanthropist whose gift financed a new contemporary-art building this year at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is planning to build another exhibition space for his vast collection.
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