Forgers, Thieves and Fumblers: Recent Art News Roundup Corrals Juicier Bits
The juiciest art-related headlines are about everything but art: this week professional conservators shame amateur art restoration in the Art Newspaper in the wake of the “Beast Jesus ” phenomenon, Vanity Fair lavished thousands of words on Wolfgang Beltracchi, a romatic German art forger, and the NY Times reported on an important theft from the [...]
Tuesday Art Market Report: Richter/Clapton Celebrity Sale Sets Record, Warhol Market Flabby Fearing Foundation Sell-off
From the Wall St. Journal: Eric Clapton’s painting by Gerhard Richter, “Abstract Painting (809-4),” sold at Sotheby’s contemporary art evening auction in London on Friday for $34.2 million—more than anyone has ever paid at auction for a work by a living artist . . . meanwhile, pop icon Andy Warhol had a bumpy night. Christie’s [...]
THE MENIL CONNECTION
Celebrating the legendary de Menil years of the Rice Museum and Rice Media Center. The Menil Collection’s 25th anniversary this year has had me thinking a lot about its importance in my life and in the cultural landscape of this city. It has also made me think about the much-longer-than-25-years history of John and Dominique [...]
Warhol Museum to Release San Diego Surf, 40+ Years Later
Filmed in 1968 in La Jolla California, Andy Warhol’s previously unfinished film San Diego Surf will be released by the Andy Warhol Museum. The movie was shot on 16 mm film by Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol, and features Superstars Viva, Taylor Mead, Louis Waldon, Joe Dallesandro, Tom Hompertz, Ingrid Superstar, and Eric Emerson, plus [...]
Life Imitates Art Imitating Life: Warhol-Inspired Soup Cans On Sale at Target
Campbell’s began selling a new limited-edition line of Warhol-themed cans of tomato soup on September 2 at most Target stores across the country. The cans, priced at 75 cents, replace on the shelves the iconic imagery Warhol appropriated fifty years ago as high art. Retailwire.com sees the promotion as part of Target’s ongoing rollout of [...]
Everybody Loves Andy- And Now Everybody Can Help Pay For Him!
Houston’s CAMH is branching out into crowd funding: a new indiegogo campaign to raise $32,000 to bring glitter-panda painter Rob Pruitt’s shiny statue of Andy Warhol to Houston in September for a year-long visit. According to CAMH Director Bill Arning, who outlines the CAMH’s proposal in a three-minute promotional video,”once he gets here, I think [...]
Laura Lark Loves You #3: Something About Mary
Questions? Comments? Opinions? Send them to Laura Lark Loves You: lauralark@glasstire.com (or leave your message below) Mary asks, If you could describe and suggest a daily routine (things to read, do, act, etc) what would you suggest? Also, what type of resources (advice) would you suggest in trying to figure out how to market [...]
Make it Houston: notes on street art
Tumbleweeds We don’t have New York’s density, or Chicago’s architecture, or Los Angeles’ mythologized spaces. We don’t have San Francisco’s prices, Aspen’s lack of oxygen, Austin’s lack of pigment, and San Diego’s pact with the weather gods. We should not understand as deficiencies what is simply not part of the city’s make-up. This sprawling, congested [...]
what is there to see?
In his written interviews, Warhol often ceded control completely to the interviewer. A prominent example of this is his most quoted interview, Gretchen Berg’s 1966 text “Andy Warhol: My True Story.” It’s popularity may be due in part to its exceptional coherence. Berg edited her questions out and wrote the whole thing as one, long [...]
Art Marketing Pioneer Thomas Kinkade Dies Unexpectedly at Age 54
Thomas Kinkade, the marketing pioneer who discovered that, with proper context, reproductions of paintings could be sold for original painting prices without actually breaking the law, (at least as far as his customers went; his company’s deceptive dealings with its franchisees were the issues in lawsuits that cost his company millions) has died unexpectedly at [...]
uh, no
The blank “uh” we hear before Andy Warhol’s responses was typical of his interview style but hardly ever appears in his published interviews as it was most likely edited out by the interviewers and/or editors. In the video above, the “uh” seems to represent a sort of passive resistance to the aggressive tone of the [...]
The Singularity of his Absence
Statements made by artists are often regarded as the key to understanding their work. Art critics look to artists to set the theoretical framework surrounding their art; art historians use artists talking about other artists to establish chains of influences or schools of artmaking; and exhibitions use artist quotes on introductory labels or videos of [...]
Similar but Different #27: Glitter!
“In a world where proving yourself is everything”… I present Similar but Different #27: Glitter! Mariah Carey Oliver Herring “After its scheduled run, Meulensteen (formerly Max Protetch) took down their Oliver Herring show last week to the delight of neighboring gallerists. Many were complaining that Herring’s bags of glitter were the cause of stray glitter [...]
Another Warhol squabble goes to court: portrait of Texas art dealer Shaindy Fenton in tug of war
A squabble over a $350,000 Warhol painting has entered a Philadelphia courtroom, pitting dentist Neil Balick against his nephew over the ownership of a portrait of his sister, the late Fort Worth art dealer and socialite Shaindy Fenton, who died in 1994. Fenton’s son, Robert Fenton, says Balick only borrowed the Warhol, and is suing [...]