Art and Archaeology: Latest Features
News: 15 Mai 2008
Paris
Découverte d'un buste de Jules
César à Arles
Ce buste en marbre du fondateur de la cité romaine
d’Arles constitue la plus ancienne représentation aujourd’hui connue de
l'empereur romain.
News: 30 April
2008
New York
George W. Bush Stamped "Idiot King" First-Class Forever
As
the U.S. Post Office raises stamp prices, the official USPS Forever Stamp
may be selling out, but it will never be as memorable as the George W.
Bush 'Idiot King' stamp from Houston artist David
Krueger
Art Market: 18 April 2008
New York
Copyright Law vs. Art
and the Papal Censor of the Kissing Nun
"Naughty priests and nuns have been in the literature
about as long as there have been priests and nuns, but even an image of a
simple, albeit ecclesiastic kiss can have enough originality to be
protected under copyright law," writes Alan Behr in New York.
Comment: 11 April 2008
New York
Glam Slam, Luxe Redux:
Current Trends in Interior Design
Design consultant C. Davis
Remignanti offers his view on current trends in home decor and reveals the
only timeless rule you should ever follow for achieving good design.
Travel Tip: 5 April 2008
London
Last Chance ! Doris Salcedo:
Shibboleth
In an attempt to address a long legacy of racism and
colonialism that underlies the modern world, Colombian artist Doris
Salcedo has created a subterranean chasm that stretches the length of the
Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern in London.
News
San Francisco
Gilbert & George Kick Off U.
S. Tour at the de Young Museum
Some 50, and occasionally shocking,
pictures by the eccentric British duo will be on view in San Francisco,
Milwaukee and New York.
Commen t
New York
Daniel Edwards' Barbaro
Sculpture: Reader Response
Jane Fieberts of Monroe, CT , offers a
thoughtful, impassioned response that reminds us that there are some whose
interest in the Barbaro story, and in the humane treatment of horses and
other animals, is much more substantial and legitimate.
News
San Francisco
Oprah Winfrey Statue
from Daniel Edwards: New American Idol? Prehistoric Venus? or Just
Fat?
Sculptor Daniel Edwards makes Oprah into a modern-day Goddess
figure-- but may have lost control of his image.
News
New York
With Barbaro and Oprah
Sculptures, Edwards Baits Media
Sculptor Daniel Edwards is back
with new celebrity tributes to Barbaro, the late racehorse champion, and
talk show queen Oprah Winfrey.
Book Review
New York
Sympathy for Europe's Biggest
Loser
Alan Behr in New York on Eric D. Weitz's new book about
life, art, sex and politics during the Weimar Republic.
Book Review
New York
The Warhol Economy
Alan Behr
on Elizabeth Currid's new book about how fashion, art and music drive New
York City.
Book Review
New York
Two-Minute Art: The New
Kitsch
Alan Behr reviews two new photography books: Marilyn
Minter and Charlie White's Monsters.
Book Review
Paris
Vincent Van Gogh, Painted with
Words: The Letters to Emile Bernard
A new book and an exhibition
offer an intimate look at the life and creative process of the legendary
Dutch painter through the letters van Gogh wrote to his friend and
colleague Emile Bernard.
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Francesco di
Ferdinando I de' Medici
Tiberio Titi, 1597
The Splendour
of the Medici: Art and Life in Renaissance Florence
on view at the
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest until 18 May 2008.
Interview
Tokyo
The
Beautiful and Disturbing Art of Fuyuko Matsui
Culture journalist C.B. Lidell talks to
the rising Japanese art star Fuyuko Matsui about her painting, her dark
and troubled mind and Japan’s ghostly past.
Interview
Bangkok
Steve
McCurry: Capturing the Face of Asia
On a photo shoot in Thailand, the award
winning photojournalist Steve McCurry talks to culture journalist C.B.
Liddel about his new book and his many years working in Asian
countries.
Comment
Kassel, Germany
Documenta 12
"If
this is the best the contemporary art world has to offer, I, for one, am
fearful for the future of civilization", writes culture journalist Peter
Kupfer from Kassel, Germany.
Interview
Paris
Afghan
Treasures in Paris: Saved from the Taliban, But Not Quite Ready for
America
Jean-François Jarrige, President of the National Asian Art
Museum in Paris speaks openly about the rampant looting of archaeological
artifacts in Afghanistan, as well as the priceless objects that escaped
the Taliban's deliberate destructiveness and are now on view in Paris.
Exhibition Review
London
The Golden Age
of Couture
Shine Anthony Dharan reviews the blockbuster
exhibition in London that seeks to put London's fashion from the "Golden
Era" on par with that of Paris.
Profile
London
Oleg Yanushevsky: Iconic Russian Artist Finds Asylum in
London
The prominent St
Petersburg artist and curator Oleg Yanushevsky had to flee Russia because
of repeated threats and attacks on his life and art work. He is the first
contemporary Russian artist to win asylum because of cultural
persecution.
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