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07/21/2010
Fourth plinth shortlist announced for London Olympics.
From The Guardian: Contenders given a month to produce models as they vie to replace Yinka Shonibare's giant ship in a bottle on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth and have their work showcased during the 2012 London Olympics.
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07/21/2010
David Cameron presents Barack Obama with graffiti art.
From BBC: A painting by a graffiti artist was among the official gifts to Barack Obama from David Cameron on his first trip to Washington as prime minister. The work, Twenty First Century City, and Mr Obama continued the art theme by presenting the Camerons with a signed lithograph by pop artist Ed Ruscha.
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07/20/2010
"Committing masterpieces?" Picasso, Chagall Forgery Ring Jailed in France.
From ARTINFO: A French court sentenced 12 men for an elaborate art con in which they sold almost 100 forged paintings by the likes of Pablo Picasso as part of a billion-dollar art scam.
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07/20/2010
Painting found in Rome could be work of Baroque master Caravaggio.
From Artforum: A painting found in Rome may be the work of Baroque master Caravaggio and has captivated art critics with its resemblance to other works by the artist, the Vatican’s newspaper, said Osservatore Romano.
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07/19/2010
Bureaucracy meets art: enviromental impact of Christo's Colorado River project.
From New York Times: A comprehensive study highlighting the environmental impact of Christo's project to cover the Colorado River has been released, much to the artist's satisfaction.The environmental review analyzed “temporal considerations,” specifically the timing of the phases of construction and operation of the artwork.
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07/19/2010
Michelle Obama Celebrates Design Awards with White House Ceremony.
From ArtDaily: The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum announced First Lady Michelle Obama will celebrate the 2010 National Design Awards Wednesday, July 21, with a White House ceremony for the winners and finalists of the awards.
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07/18/2010
Federal Judge upholds art vendor crackdown.
From Artdaily: A federal judge in New York City has upheld new regulations seeking to cap the number of art vendors allowed in Manhattan's busiest parks.The city administration has said the parks have become too crowded, but the lawsuit argued that farmers market and holiday commercial vendors create more congestion in the parks than the artists.
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07/18/2010
New public art officially unveiled on Valencia Street.
From SFGate: In the artwork "Valencia Street Post," officially unveiled on Valencia Street Thursday, the word "post" is meant to be a pole, news or postmodernism. Or it could just be a place to stick up missing cat fliers. San Francisco artist Michael Arcega, said he came up with the design after noticing how public spaces in the Mission, like storefronts and telephone poles, become canvasses for community expression.
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07/17/2010
High Art: Dope might be damaging works of art stored in the basement of the Vancouver Art Gallery.
From Art Newspaper: The gallery is apparently a well-known meeting point for pro-marijuana events. Gallery director Kathleen Bartels, who aims to relocate the museum to larger premises elsewhere in the city, told Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail that the works are protected.
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07/17/2010
Vogue for Treating Art as Stocks in Chinese contemporary art market.
From Artinfo: In the latest sign that money is continuing to flow rapidly into the Chinese contemporary art market, a financial corporation has gone public with China's first openly traded art portfolio, on the Shenzhen Cultural Assets and Equity Exchange (SZCAEE). The art portfolio comprises 12 paintings by contemporary artist Yang Peijiang. As the artworks are traded by Artvip profits are dispersed to shareholders.
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07/16/2010
Sarah Palin memorialized by British artist Jonathan Yeo's Porn Art.
From ARTINFO: As part of the "Porn in the U.S.A." exhibition at the London-based Lazarides Gallery's L.A. pop-up space, British artist Jonathan Yeo will unveil another series of provocative collages. Instead of oil, the former Alaskan governor's face is rendered with images of pubic hair, lace panties, and engorged reproductive organs of both sexes. "They're not insults, per se," Yeo told ARTINFO. "They're just comments on people who trade off their morality and sexuality."
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07/16/2010
The smile remains a mystery, but French scientists say they have cracked a few secrets of the "Mona Lisa."
From Associated Press: French researchers studied seven of the Louvre Museum's Leonardo da Vinci paintings, including the "Mona Lisa," to analyze the master's use of successive ultrathin layers of paint and glaze - a technique that gave his works their dreamy quality. Specialists from the Center for Research and Restoration of the Museums of France found that da Vinci painted up to 30 layers of paint on his works to meet his standards of subtlety.
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07/15/2010
The National Endowment for the Arts is to announce a $250,000 grant to help San Francisco.
From SFGate: NEA gives $250,000 to bring art to Mid Market. The money will go toward a $1.2 million city project to rejuvenate the seedy stretch of the city's main thoroughfare running from UN Plaza to Sixth Street and create a thriving arts and cultural district.
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07/15/2010
U.S. returns 11 oil paintings taken during World War II from Pirmasens, Germany.
From ArtDaily: In a ceremony at the Goethe Institute in Manhattan, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) displayed some of the 11 oil paintings that were taken by a U.S. serviceman from a Pirmasens air raid shelter after the allied invasion of Germany in 1945. The paintings, several by a hometown artist, are on their way home to Pirmasens Museum in Germany.
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07/14/2010
Mickey Mouse with Nazi symbol ignites Polish anger
From Associated Press: A huge outdoor art poster that blends Mickey Mouse's image with that of a swastika and a nude woman's body is causing a stir in Poland.The poster, which went up in June in the western city of Poznan just steps from a synagogue, is an Italian artist's take on what he calls the "horrors" of the American lifestyle and is one piece of artwork in a contemporary art exhibition opening in the fall.
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07/14/2010
Eli Broad Offers $7.7 million Not $1, For LA Museum Site
From Los Angeles Times: In addition to his new offer on a 99-year lease on public land in downtown Los Angeles where he can build an art museum, the billionaire already has promised to pay the full construction cost of up to $100 million and provide a $200-million endowment that would yield an estimated $12 million a year to cover the museum's operating expenses.
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07/13/2010
Italian Graffiti Artist Acquitted on technicalities.
From ArtForum: A judge in Milan has acquitted a celebrated graffiti artist of defacing public property, a case that drew attention because Milan’s city hall had pressed its legal action at the same time that it had been sponsoring exhibitions featuring his art.
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07/13/2010
SFMOMA has released its shortlist of architects under consideration to design its much-anticipated expansion.
From ARTINFO: Notably absent from SFMOMA’s list are many of the name-brand architects — the so-called starchitects, like Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry — behind many of the largest and most controversial museum projects over the past decade. Since announcing expansion plans last year, officials at SFMOMA have emphasized their desire to build a relatively conventional building, favoring functionality over a flashy design.
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07/11/2010
Spain beats The Netherlands 1-0 to win the 2010 World Cup.
From Yahoo News: Spain won the World Cup for the first time on Sunday, Andres Iniesta netting in extra-time to see off Holland 1-0 in Johannesburg and hand the Dutch their third final loss. With just four minutes of extra-time remaining, substitute Fernando Torres slid over a cross from the left which was partially cleared as far as Cesc Fabregas and his pass found Iniesta lurking in the area. The Barcelona star promptly set his sights and fired past Dutch keeper Maarten Stekelenburg.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100711/ts_afp/fblwc2010nedespwin
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07/09/2010
Millionaires are buying more art, as distrust of markets fuels growth in passion investments.
From the Art Newspaper: The number of millionaires in the world grew by 17% last year and, with financial markets still in flux, art has emerged as the most popular category of “passion investment” according to Capgemini’s Ileana van der Linde who managed the research. “The World Wealth Report 2010 surveyed 1,200 wealth managers who represent 150,00 clients across 71 countries, and found that the world’s wealthy dedicate around a third of their overall holdings to passion investments. Over a quarter of those surveyed, 29.8%, said art was the top choice of passion investment for financial gain, said Van der Linde.
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Millionaires-buy-more-art-than-ever/21117
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