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– THE BIG STORY –
Did you know that Louvre is currently showing the first exhibition of American art ever to be displayed at the Paris museum? That’s right, the institution that was founded in 1791 as a democratic art showcase—by a revolutionary assembly inspired by America’s own revolution—is currently presenting a (very small) show of work by the transcendentalist Hudson River School painters Thomas Cole and Asher Durand. Called New Frontier: American Art Enters the Louvre, the show was sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art in partnership with Atlanta’s High Museum (a Louvre partner) and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, whose founder, Walmart heiress Alice Walton, famously purchased a Durand masterpiece from the New York Public Library in 2005. It’s amazing to think what a little money can do.
– QUOTE OF THE DAY –
“I remember looking at advertising in those terms, and thinking, ‘The clothes the woman’s wearing are really similar to the stripes and the patterns that are in the car she’s laying across, and that’s making you confuse the woman and the car and making you want to buy the car because you want to f*** the woman.’ And then I thought, ‘How can I do that in art?’” – Damien Hirst on his strategy of using psychology in his art to “trick people,” one of the many pieces of wisdom collected in a book of the artist’s quotes to be published in April to coincide with his Tate Modern retrospective
– MUST READ –
Painter Andrew Masullo’s Rise – Once fired from a gig as a Whitney Museum secretary, the artist has returned to the institution in style as one of the stars of the current Biennial, where his sensitive, thoughtful abstractions evidence a pictorial language all his own, though in a way that recalls artists like Tomma Abts or Thomas Nozkowski. (NYT)
The 20 Best Artist Websites – Artinfo rounds up a bunch of the most thought-through, engaging artist websites, from Internet art pioneer Jodi‘s HTML labyrinth to Tauba Auerbach‘s freaky neo-neo-geo design. (Artinfo)
See British Artists in Their Natural Habitats – A new book called Sanctuary: Britain’s Artists and Their Studios offers glimpses of some of the U.K.’s best-known artists in their work environments, with photographs of everyone from Jenny Saville to the now-venerable Peter Blake. (Guardian)
Shepard Fairey Takes on 1984 – The Situationist-influenced street artist has partnered with Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s production company to bring Orwell‘s premonitory masterpiece to the big screen, so expect the Ministry of Truth’s propaganda posters to be particularly well done. (LAT)
– ART MARKET –
Cindy Sherman Photo Could Break Record, Again – Market watchers say the artist’s centerfold-style Untitled #96, featuring the artist lying on a tiled floor in a bright orange sweater, could break the $4.3 million record for a photo at auction when it hits Christie’s on May 8 (another print of the photo sold for $3.9 million last year, and that was before Sherman’s MoMA retrospective). (WSJ)
Asia Week Auctions Bring in $140.4 Million – The sales bonanza in New York was led by the sale of Chinese artworks, with Sotheby’s making $61.8 million in four auctions, Christie’s taking in $69 million over seven sales, and Bonham’s earning $5.8 million in three. (Bloomberg)
The Craze for Clyfford Still – Judd Tully, aka The Master, takes a look at the acerbic Abstract Expressionist painter’s market, which got a dizzying boost last year when a few of his paintings made an exceedingly rare appearance at auction, selling for $61.7 million at Sotheby’s. (Forbes)
When Market Reports Meet Sunday Styles – Lucky, lucky Guy Trebay gives an impressionistic dispatch from the deluxe TEFAF art fair in Maastricht for the Sunday New York Times section, which essential means that there are urbane comments from wealthy socialites, comments on handbags, and lots of multimillion-dollar price tags (so not really all that different from what you’d find in the Art Newspaper). (NYT)
– IN & OUT –
The estate of husband-and-wife collectors Vance E. Kondon and Elisabeth Giesberger has given a $40 million gift of art to be shared by the San Diego MOCA and the San Diego Museum of Art, with the work ranging from Schiele and Klimt to Franz Kline and Piero Manzoni. (LAT)
The Morgan Library and Museum has named Joel Smith its first-ever curator of photography, recruiting the Princeton University Art Museum specialist as part of an institutional updating that included the hiring of its first Modern and contemporary drawings curator in 2006. (Artforum)
The New York State Supreme Court ruled that the National Arts Club could not terminate the membership of its very odd former leaders, O. Aldon James Jr. and his twin brother, John, and the two reputed hoarders celebrated with a drink at the historic club’s bar. (NYT)
Kathryn Gustafson was won the 2012 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. (Press Release)
New Yorker cartoonist Al Ross, whose instantly recognizable gag drawings helped define the magazine’s humor for more than 60 years, has passed away at age 100. (NYT)
