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World Record: Picasso’s Nude, Green Leaves and Bust sells for $106.5 Million at Christie’s

admin — Sun, 09 May 2010 17:37:22 +0000

Christie’s May 4 Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale achieved a total of $335,548,000. The auction was highlighted by the runaway success of Pablo Picasso’s Nude, Green Leaves and Bust from the Collection of Mrs. Sidney F. Brody, which sold for a record $106,482,500, breaking the previous world record for any work of art sold at auction. The Evening Sale portion of the Brody Collection also achieved the highest total for a single-owner sale offered at Christies New York, surpassing the landmark sale of the Collection of Victor and Sally Ganz in 1997.

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Linda Gallery Contemporary Chinese Art

admin — Sun, 09 May 2010 17:37:21 +0000

Linda Gallery, established in 1990, specialises in contemporary Chinese art and Indonesian paintings. Being an active player in the industry for more than a decade, the gallery has held numerous exhibitions, featuring works by famous Chinese Contemporary artists, Indonesian maestros, Indo–European artists, as well as other South East Asian artists.

The gallery is dedicated to the promotion of contemporary visual art. With a network of 3 galleries and 1 museum in key cities of Asia, we aim to bring arts beyond the boundaries of nation and culture and expose our clients to different varieties of works. We are actively positioning the gallery as one of the leading galleries in the region.

*We will be having an exhibition on the 7th of July 2007 on Yan Bo’s works.

Please visit us at www.lindagallery.com

Thank you very much

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Contemporary Chinese ink paintings by Zhou Jun – 水墨画家周俊

admin — Sun, 09 May 2010 17:37:17 +0000

Modern art by Zhou Jun: http://zhoujun.eu – All pictures are copyright Zhou Jun 周俊 – Please visit the website for info, exhibitions (recently in Cologne, Germany) and better quality images of the ink paintings with themes like monochrome landscapes of the beginning of times, portraits (women, children and [old] men), flowers, animals (fishes, birds, etc.), also abstracts, very colorful or less so. Many contain Chinese calligraphy too. Be on the lookout for the painter’s name stamp in red. Seal paste is used to place it on a carefully chosen spot completing the composition.
BTW for Mandarin try: http://hensho.eu/chenglun

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Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova & Robin Rhode

admin — Sun, 09 May 2010 17:36:53 +0000

An Exhibition of 3 fresh new artists who deal with street culture at the Nasher Museum of Art.
The artists in “Street Level” explore the ways that cultural territories are defined and space is transformed in urban environments. For Bradford, Cordova and Rhode the streets of Los Angeles, Lima, Miami, New York, Cape Town, Johannesburg and Berlin act as sources of inspiration. They share a common interest in found materials and artistic gestures such as sneakers thrown over a telephone wire, stripping cars, spontaneous shrines and piles of discarded objects, that help build a gritty foundation for their art.
Street Level is the first show at the Nasher Museum to be organized by curator of contemporary art Trevor Schoonmaker.

http://www.nasher.duke.edu

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Andrew Nichols Art for Sale – October Gallery

admin — Fri, 07 May 2010 06:19:55 +0000

1St Annual Harlem Fine Art Show Poster and More

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Artist panel discussion on Form & Story

admin — Fri, 07 May 2010 06:19:54 +0000

University Museums hosts a moderated panel discussion between four contemporary artists: Steve DiBenedetto, Angela Dufresne, Hanneline Røgeberg and Erling Sjovold. These artists convey narrative content in their work through a synthesis of representational subject matter and the materiality and application of their medium.

Their work is on view at the Harnett Museum of Art, January 21 to May 15, 2009 in an exhibit, Form & Story: Narration in Recent Painting. The exhibit was organized by University of Richmond Museums and curated by N. Elizabeth Schlatter, Deputy Director and Curator of Exhibitions, University Museums.

Artist bios:

Hanneline Røgeberg (Norwegian, born 1963) re-writes body/self and social/sexual relations and explores and exploits the relationship between the surfaces of her subjects—skin, hair, and fur—and the surfaces of her paintings on canvas or paper.

In the works by Angela Dufresne (American, born 1969), the materiality of the paint is both immediately obvious and yet at times incredibly diaphanous, but the specificity and confidence in the representation combined with the detailed titles suggest an authenticity beyond question.

The paintings of Erling Sjovold (American, born 1961) explore and re-invent the sense of place. In each of his works, he plays with spatial relationships and perspective to construct a scene or window into a world that is immediately recognizable while possessing a heightened sense of reality. Sjovold is a faculty member in the art department at the University of Richmond.

Steve DiBenedetto (American, born 1958) creates intensely complex compositions that mirror the dense narrative constructs of his protagonists, an octopus and a helicopter. Of all four of the artists, DiBenedetto has created the most contrived narratives, yet he also has the most fluid, free-form application of paint, relying on the mediums inherent qualities to provide an additional harrowing layer of violence.

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Abstract Original Art Paintings by Fanny Osteen

admin — Fri, 07 May 2010 06:19:50 +0000

Pink Cell phone, is a crazy song, but me loves it:P

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ABSTRACT & CONTEMPORARY ART – 2008 by KARDIF / Art abstrait et contemporain

admin — Fri, 07 May 2010 06:19:47 +0000

Abstract art 2007-2008

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On Modern and Contemporary Ethiopian Art, 2001

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 22:17:02 +0000

Tefera Gedamu of ETV and Essey G Medhin
Modern Ethiopian Art and Identity
Traditionally and formally trained artists
Contemporary Ethiopian painting contribution
Contemporary Art and Ethiopian Artists
Modern Art and Ethiopian Modernists Art, 2001.

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Painting Process/Process Painting, MoMA, Chuck Close, 1 of 2

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 22:16:40 +0000

Excerpt from the public program Painting Process/Process Painting, featuring artists Chuck Close and Carroll Dunham.

Held in conjunction with the exhibition, What Is Painting? Contemporary Art from the Collection.

Part 1 of 2; edited for time.

For more information about the exhibition, please visit http://www.moma.org/exhibitions.php?id=5139. For a full audio recording of the presentation as well as the conversation with Chuck Close, Carroll Dunham, and curator Anne Umland, please visit http://www.moma.org/audio or the ThinkModern podcast in iTunes.

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