Cartoonist Barry Blitt, who drew the controversial New Yorker magazine cover depicting Barack Obama and his wife Michelle as fist-pumping terrorists, is shocked by the outcry caused by his sketch. “I think the idea that the Obamas are branded as unpatriotic [let alone as terrorists] in certain sectors is preposterous,” Blitt says. Read more.
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Monet Water Lily Painting Sells for Record $80M
Posted in Business, Culture, Finance, News, art, tagged art, auction, christie's, Claude Monet, impressionist, painting, record price, Water Lily Pond on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Claude Monet’s impressionist painting, Water Lily Pond, was sold at auction by Christie’s for a record $80 million on June 24. The large-scale impressionist painting is the most expensive work of art ever sold in Europe by Christie’s. Read more.
Nude Painting of Obese Woman to Fetch Record Price
Posted in Culture, News, art, tagged Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, Christie’s, Lucian Freud on May 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
They say beauty’s in the eye of the beholder. The same can be said about art. A 1995 painting of a nude obese woman sleeping on a sofa is expected to set a record price for a work done by a living artist when it’s auctioned off Tuesday evening. Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, which was painted [...]
Whitney Adds Stunning Satellite Museum
Posted in Culture, art, tagged museum of american art, museums, renzo piano, whitney museum on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Renowned Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano, has been tapped by the Whitney Museum of American Art to build a stunning new museum building in the heart of New York’s Meat Packing District. The Whitney released detailed plans today for the new, six-floor, 185,000-squarefoot building. It will be located in downtown Manhattan. Read More.
