A lot to post – it may all come in one go. I have just come from one of the Sunday talks at the Auckland Art Gallery that are happening while the Rita Angus exhibition is on. Today’s speaker was Principal Conservator, Sarah Hillary giving an illustrated account of her research into the diverse range [...]
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Posted in Art Books, art, art theory, artist, film, tagged Academy Cinema, An Artist's Life, Auckland Art Gallery, Gaylene Preston, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jill Trevelyan, Martha Gellhorn, Marti Friedlander, Rita Angus, Sarah Hillary on September 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mystery of the rotting shark
Posted in art, art theory, artist, tagged Andy Warhol, Christie's New York, Constantin Brancusi, Damien Hirst, Don Thompson, Gonzalez-Torrez, Guggenheim, he $12 Million Stuffed Shark, he Curious Economics of Contemporary Art and Auction Houses, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Pablo Picasso, Saatchi, Sotheby's, Steve Cohen, William de Kooning on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday Apr 25, 2009 By Chris Barton NZ Herald
In 2000, a work known as Lover Boys, comprising 355lb (161kg) of individually wrapped blue and white candies piled in a triangular shape in the corner of a room, came up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York. It was by the “very branded” artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres, [...]
The Auckland Art Fair
Posted in art, art theory, artist, tagged Auckland Art Fair, Colin McCahon, Don Thompson, Oaia & Clouds on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Visited the Auckland Art Fair last night, I’ll need to go back and take another good look as I seemed to skim past everything, trying to take it all at once – the main purpose of last evening was the lecture by Don Thompson, ‘The curious economics of contemporary art’, author of The $12M Stuffed [...]
The Elements of Color
Posted in art theory, painting, tagged color theory, Johannes Itten, The Art of Color, The Elements of Color on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I looked for this book or it its parent when I was recently in England, at Foyles. But the only one I saw was it’s ‘parent’ The Art of Color, but too expensive for what was left on my credit card.
A foray into a local secondhand book shop when I came home and I found [...]
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