Art and Archaeology: Latest Features
Seen: 27 December 2008
Paris
Marie Antoinette's
Estate Le Petit Trianon Reopened After Makeover
The 5.3 million
euro renovation of the French queen's private estate in the park of the
Château of Versailles has attracted more attention and visitors than the
controversial Jeff Koons-Versailles
Seen: 22 December 2008
Phoenix,
Arizona
Desert Botanical
Garden Hosts Glass Artist Dale Chihuly
The exuberant glass artist
manages (mostly) to avoid gilding the lily in an installation that
contrasts his Vegas-style showmanship with the subtle beauty of Arizona's
unique desert botanicals.
News: 4 December
2008
Montreal
Nathalie Bondil Honored by French
Government
The director and chief curator of the Montreal Museum of
Fine Arts was awarded a French insignia for her curatorial achievements of
exhibitions on Alfred Hitchcock, Cuban art and history, Picasso's erotic
art, Catherine the Great and Yves Saint Laurent.
News: 2 December 2008
London
Mark Leckey Wins
Turner Prize 2008
In today's product-oriented, celebrity art market
the £25,000 prize is not a princely sum. But the incessant mainstream
media echo throughout the world is priceless for the winner.
News: 1 December 2008
New
York
A
New Michelangelo Book You Can Never Download
Only thirty-three
copies of Michelangelo: La dotta mano will be published worldwide
with each commanding a price of 100,000 euros ($125,000).
News: 22 November 2008
New
York
Discovery
in Turkey Shakes Up Ideas About Body and Soul
Archaeologists in
southeastern Turkey have discovered an Iron Age funerary slab that
provides the first written evidence in the region that people believed the
soul was separate from the body.
Exhibition Review: 26 October
2008
London
British Museum's
Hadrian Exhibition: Empire Repeats Itself
Imperial
overstretch, financial bailouts, media manipulation, war in Mesopotamia,
and even (olive) oil: Hadrian's Rome looks eerily modern.
Exhibition Review: 18 October 2008
New
York
The Art of Barck
Obama
Would Joe the Plumber be able to look past their subject
matter and appreciate these photographs as art? Or is the Leica Gallery’s
exhibition more about content than creativity?
Comment: 25 September
2008
Paris
Parisian Women, How Do
They Do It?
"These women with their big doe eyes bubble over with
fun," writes Hugh Hefner of Bunny Club fame. "They are sophisticated with
that Parisian chic and touch of eroticism mixed with indifference which
makes them unique."
Comment: 7 September 2008
New
York
Debate: Who
Owns Antiquity?
Alan Behr in New York replies to Dr. Kwame Opoku in
Vienna who questioned Mr. Behr's assessment of James Cuno's new book,
Who Owns Antiquitiy?
News: 5 September
2008
Venice
Steve McQueen Wins
2008 Gucci Group Award
British artist Steve McQueen received the
award during the 65th Venice Film Festival for his direction of
Hunger.
Reader Comment: 21 August 2008
New
York
A Plea for Fair and
Equal Treatment
Dr. Kwame Opoku, a retired legal adviser
in Vienna, Austria, responds to Alan Behr's review of James Cuno's new
book, "Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient
Heritage" (Princeton University Press).
Book Review: 14 August 2008
New York
A Humanist Plea for
Free-Ranging Antiquities
Should antiquities be returned to
the countries where they were found, or are they the property of all
mankind? A review of James Cuno's new book, 'Who Owns Antiquity? Museums
and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage'.
Art Market
New
York
Cybermarketing the
Famous, Well-Dressed and Nude
Alan Behr on a new virtual art
gallery that sells images by established photographers in the fields of
art, fashion and celebrity photography.
Comment
Boston, Massachusetts
Anish Kapoor and the "Moment of
Becoming"
Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art
presents an exhibtion that - quite literally - blurs the boundaries of art.
News: 28 June 2008
Paris
Photojournalist Wins
Photographer of the Year for Afghanistan Picture
'The Valley'
Images of wars, natural disasters, gorilla murders, child marriages,
hi-tech advertising, glamour and strippers competed for the top prize in
Paris.
Exhibition
ReviewParis
Vlaminck: A Wild Beast Roams the
Senate
"I'm the suburban genius, the working-class painter",
Vlaminck proclaimed. "I like to paint everything around me". Which he
did.
Comment
Paris
The Art and Legacy of Yves
Saint Laurent
The public perception of Yves Saint Laurent
as true great artist was vital to both the designer's and Pierre Bergé's
legacies.
News
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.
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Mictlantecuhtli Detail.
© Michel Zabé / AZA.
Reproduction authorized by the
Instituto Nacional de Antropología
e Historia
The Aztec
World
on view at The Field Museum in Chicago
26
October 2008 - 19 April 2009
Photo courtesy of The
Field Museum
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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