Archive for the 'About Art' Category

Monet’s Painting Sold for $80.5 million

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

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Thanks for visiting!Have you ever been to an auction? If not, you have a great opportunity to watch a record breaking painting by Claude Monet being auctioned at […]

Dale Chihuly, Frida Kahlo Exhibitions in San Francisco

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

For those of you, who live in San Francisco and Bay Area, I would like to remind: there are two major art exhibitions, which can’t be missed: Dale Chihuly at the De Young Museum and Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art.
I already wrote about Dale Chihuly in my post Dale Chihuly’s […]

Dale Chihuly’s Glass Creations in San Francisco

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

If you ever been to Las Vegas you’ve seen the dancing fountains in front of the Bellagio Hotel, which never fail to stop the throngs of people in their tracks to pause and admire the beauty, the engineering solution and the aesthetical impact of uniquely presented water, lights and music, so it affects all senses. 
 
But did […]

Banksy Strikes Again: Post Office, London, Camera

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Once again the news is About Banksy and his Graffiti Art.  
 
British graffiti artist Banksy did it again: under the cover of the night he managed to leave one of his works, believed to be the biggest one so far, on the wall of the Post Office in central London, right under the watchful eye of the […]

Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Las Vegas to Close

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Guggenheim Museum in Las Vegas is closing its doors on May 11, 2008.
 
 
Initially, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation opened two Las Vegas locations in 2001, but mere 15 months later had to close the larger one, because of shortage of funds and the luckluster attendance.
  
“Guggenheim Hermitage, a partnership between the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the […]

Buy an up-and-coming Artist’s Work and Discover a New Warhol, Picasso, Bacon

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Do you think you have an eye for art? Have you ever experienced a feeling, where you just couldn’t tear yourself off the art gallery’s window and wished you had enough money to buy the painting displayed there? Have you ever regretted of not living in France, at the rise of the expressionists movement and […]

Rare Buddha Statue Auctioned: $14.3 millions

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

One more interesting find for the art appreciating crowd and the collectors of Asian art alike, appeared briefly to be admired at Christie’s action house and was sold for a record for Japanese art sum: $14.3 millions.
 
An elegant wooden statue (believed to be 800 years old) of Buddha, bearing additional treasures entombed in its inside: […]

Bouquets to Art Report

Friday, March 14th, 2008

On Tuesday I went to see the Bouquets to Art exhibition. There was an abundance of flowers and people. I have to tell you, that not all paintings had flowers dedicated to them, and not all flower arrangements were dedicated to paintings.
 
There were many free standing bouquets and flower-accented sculpture-like fabrications, which included subjects other, […]

Painting and Flowers: Bouquets to Art

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

For those of you, who lives in San Francisco and Bay Area (or visiting next week), I’d like to remind you, that de Young Museum is presenting it’s annual (24th) event of art and flower arranging, “Bouquets to Art” 2008.
 
What is it? The show presents floral arrangements, which create allegories between paintings and the flower […]

Swiss Investment in Banksy: Garage Walls for Graffiti

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Accidental Investment Results in Occidental Graffiti Worth 1,000,000 euro  
 
I think you have to be really open minded to invite a bunch of teenagers to paint anything at all, and on a top of it to give them a free rein on creativity and promise a rave on the premises. Would you do it? You see, sometimes, […]

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