by Marc | Mar 28, 2008 | Blog
An exhibition at the San Francisco Art Institute’s (SFAI) Walter And McBean Galleries has been suspended after the gallery received over 3000 emails from students, faculty, and community members in protest. Don’t Trust Me is French artist Adel...
by Duncan | Mar 20, 2008 | Blog
Finally, after a six month wait, it is here… The audio from the 2007 Stone Summer Theory Institute: Is Art History Global? This will be a series of six or seven 2-4 hour excerpts from the week-long event. In advance of the second iteration “What is an...
by Christopher Hudgens | Mar 20, 2008 | Blog
Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall and Andy Warhol were among artists whose works were counterfeited by seven people indicted for two art-fraud schemes that reaped a combined $5 million. Those charged include three Europeans and residents of New York, Florida and Illinois,...
by Christopher Hudgens | Mar 20, 2008 | Blog
Here is a visual breakdown (view image full size) of key indices in relation to the state of violence, oil production, death rate, phone subscriptions, prison population & most interestingly the electricity production. The most interesting measurement is when you...
by Christopher Hudgens | Mar 19, 2008 | Blog
A newly discovered wooden sculpture of a Buddha that had religious objects sealed in its torso for 800 years sold for $14.3 million, setting a world record for any Japanese work of art, Christie’s auction house said. The seated figure of Dainichi Nyorai, or the...
by Christopher Hudgens | Mar 19, 2008 | Blog
Chairman of the cosmetics company Estee Lauder; Leonard A. Lauder is giving $131 million US to the Whitney Museum of American Art. The gift is the largest donation in the institution’s history, with about $125 million going towards the New York museum’s...
