Happy Tuesday: Let Doobie Brothers roll while you check out these public art projects. These two are my favorites, but see what you like with the full article here.
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Monthly Archives: May 2014
corcoran no-more-coran
The Corcoran Gallery, near the White House, will be merging with the George Washington University and the National Gallery. Sooo, basically all my favorite things coming together…this is like the artistic equivalent of me shopping with Ryan Gosling while eating a Zero bar.
peggy guggenheim
Brace yourself. Another international family drama stews in the art world.
The Guardian reported two of Peggy Guggenheim‘s grandchildren are going against the Foundation for traduce, my new favorite word. Bai, slander.
The avid art collector, niece to Solomon Guggenheim, was able to keep her collection safe from German hands by fleeing to Paris during World War II. She designed Jackson Pollock‘s first exhibition in 1950.
And while it’s just ANOTHER situation of pitting family members against the foundation, this post is more interesting for its movie trivia:
- Peggy Guggenheim in 2000’s Pollock was played by the wife of Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams. If you build it, am I right?!
- Her dad, Benjamin Guggenheim, was on the Titanic. He’s is the old man ordering a BRANDY in his FINEST SUIT when the whole darn glass ceiling caves in at the end. Spoiler: Didn’t end well.
I digress. Here’s hoping Peggy’s collection can continue as a whole. I mean, I trust everything a woman does who can pull this look off. EVERY SINGLE THING.
the window
Henri Matisse’s “The Window” is one of more than 1,700 works in the Detroit Institute of Art’s collection that, if private collectors get their way, may go up for auction at a high-end garage sale.
I’ve already watched the “Art of the Steal,” and I know it didn’t end well for the Barnes. Here’s hoping someone with 816 million lying around can buy the works and give them back to the DIA. And then call me.
Michelangelo’s “Moses” was going to be a part of Pope Julius II’s tomb with more than 40 statues. Dream big, Julius: the final tomb was scaled way back, and only has 6 sculpted figures.
Moses was completed after Julius died. The horns may come from a mistranslation by Saint Jerome, meaning shining light. Basically the equivalent of a misused autocorrect. Way to go, Jerome.
It’s circling the art world this week Andy Warhol’s work, “White Marilyn,” sold for $41 million. His other work, “Race Riots,” went for nearly $63 million. I get excited when I find deals at consignment shops. This is like the OPPOSITE.
Other artists auctioned that night included Francis Bacon, Mark Rothko, and Alexander Calder. The Christie’s sale saw the auction house’s highest total for a night. Insert money stack emojis here.
picture in picture (in pictures)
Macaulay Culkin has been making waves today about this picture-in-picture t-shirt:
Get with the times, man. This stuff has been happening in painting for YEARS and YEARS.
Dali did it.
Manet did it.
Petrus Christus did it.
Thanks for getting on board, Kevin McCallister.
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