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Topless Beatrice Arthur painting part of record $495-million auction
Did it come with a card attached that says, "Thank you for being a friend"? A 1991 painting depicting a topless Bea Arthur that was created by artist John Currin has sold at an auction Wednesday for $1.9 million. The sale was part of a larger Christie's...
Tags: Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Arts, Eli Broad, J. Crew, Arts and Culture
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Syria portrait master finds new audience
REYHANLI, Turkey — On the second floor of a nursery school in a Turkish border town, artist Nader Haj Kadour preferred talking about painting butterflies than painting Syrian President Bashar Assad. The classically trained Syrian artist pointed to...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Bashar Assad, Political Corruption, Turkey, Armed Forces
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Exclusive: Robert De Niro to examine his father's life in HBO doc
In “Silver Linings Playbook,” Robert De Niro won plaudits for playing a complicated father. Now he’ll spend some time exploring his own. In a new documentary from director Perri Peltz (”The Education of Dee Dee Ricks”), De...
Tags: Arts, Silver Linings Playbook (movie), Arts and Culture, Katie Couric, Film Festivals
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Review: Brad Eberhard's paintings explore the depths
In six new paintings, Brad Eberhard goes scuba-diving in the ocean and spelunking in caves. From the sea he returns with rapture of the deep (and perhaps a bit of decompression sickness), while the caves are filled with Plato's treacherous shadows --...
Tags: Landforms, Caves and Caverns
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For LACMA, the chance to snap up MOCA is a deal too good to shelve
Everybody loves a bargain. Here's a big one. If you were a wealthy major art collector, and for the price of one classic Jackson Pollock drip-painting or Andy Warhol's 1963 silk-screen "Eight Elvises" you could acquire a few billion dollars worth of...
Tags: Arts, Eli Broad, Museum of Modern Art, Arts and Culture, Andy Warhol
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Art review: 'Richard Jackson: Ain't Painting a Pain' shows life
If you like paint, you'll like "Richard Jackson: Ain't Painting a Pain," the artist's 40-year retrospective exhibition at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach. It's awash in the stuff. Thick, brightly colored paint oozes like mortar from...
Tags: Arts, Automotive Equipment, Politics, Lobbying, Banksy
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Richard Jackson wants to make you feel uncomfortable
The sculpture of a giant black Labrador outside the Orange County Museum of Art looks friendly, nose to the sky and tail up. But with a hind leg cocked, "Bad Dog" is designed to spray gallons of yellow paint through a powerful gear pump onto the museum...
Tags: Rentals, Arts, Sculpture, Fine Artists, Entertainment
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Michael Heizer's calling is set in stone
In early 1969, a young artist working in the Nevada desert had an idea for an epic sculpture. Michael Heizer had found a 120-ton boulder in the mountains and wanted to set it above a trench dug in a dry lake bed. Visitors would be able to walk into the...
Tags: Arts, Architecture, Empire State Building, Customs and Tradition, Sculpture
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Mark Rothko painting sells for $87 million at auction
An oil painting by Mark Rothko sold for $86.9 million at a Christie's auction in New York on Tuesday, setting a record for the abstract expressionist painter. Rothko's "Orange, Red, Yellow," which dates from 1961, was being sold by the estate of David...
Tags: Mark Rothko, Arts, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Edvard Munch, Alexander Calder
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Helen Frankenthaler dies at 83; abstract painter
Helen Frankenthaler, a New York artist whose bursts of color achieved by pouring thinned paint onto canvas from coffee cans helped point art in fresh directions after the initial post-World War II explosion of Abstract Expressionism, has died. She was 83....
Tags: Morris Louis, Museum of Modern Art, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Motherwell, Ellsworth Kelly
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John Chamberlain dies at 84; American sculptor
John Chamberlain, a prolific American sculptor whose use of crushed automobile sheet metal became his signature during a career that spanned half a century, died Wednesday in New York City. He was 84.
Reportedly in poor health, he had been working on a...Tags: Long Island, Automotive Equipment, Museum of Modern Art, Car Repair, Fine Artists
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Monster Mash: A starry night at Kennedy Center Honors
Culture MonsterPresident Obama spoke at the annual Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday and presented medals to Sonny Rollins, Barbara Cook, Neil Diamond, Meryl Streep and Yo-Yo Ma. Art experts have reclassified a painting that was believed to have been made by one of...
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