Author Archives: jolanta
Visitor Attacks Gauguin Painting
National Gallery Visitor Attacks Gauguin Painting04.04.11 A painting in the Paul Gauguin exhibit at the National Gallery was attacked last Friday by a visitor in a rare and unusual incident that provoked considerable commotion. Screaming “This is evil,” a woman tried to pull Gauguin’s Two Tahitian Women, 1889, from a wall and banged on the […]
Synoptic Pictures
Beirut Paola Yacoub BEIRUT ART CENTER Jisr El Wati, off Corniche an Nahr. Building 13, Street 97, Zone 66 Adlieh. February 10–April 15 The Beirut- and Berlin-based artist Paola Yacoub is best known for her collaborations with the French artist and architect Michel Lasserre. Since 2000, they have produced numerous projects that place […]
The Sum of All Colors
Churner and Churner is pleased to announce the gallery’s inaugural exhibition: “No Man’s Land” by Joianne Bittle. “No Man’s Land” brings together two series of Bittle’s work: a recently completed group of paintings of jackrabbits (2008-2011) and the first of a series of portable dioramas. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in New […]
Liang Weizhou: A Painted Perspective
Furthering a long tradition of pictorial photographers and photo-realistic painters, Liang Weizhou’s photographic works illustrate new possibilities found between painting and photography. As evident in several of his surrealist and expressionist paintings from the early 1990s, Liang Weizhou has regularly explored the visual and conceptual relationship between painting and photography in his personal life and […]
Soumaya Museum: Move over, Mr Getty
Carlos Slim, the world’s richest man, today opens the Soumaya Museum in Mexico City, which will house his mind-blowing collection of art. Juan Carretero visits It was no small party in Mexico City the other evening. What else would you expect when the host is Carlos Slim Helu, the richest man in the world by […]
No Man’s Land
Churner and Churner is pleased to announce the gallery’s inaugural exhibition: “No Man’s Land” by Joianne Bittle. “No Man’s Land” brings together two series of Bittle’s work: a recently completed group of paintings of jackrabbits (2008-2011) and the first of a series of portable dioramas. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in New […]
No Man’s Land
Churner and Churner is pleased to announce the gallery’s inaugural exhibition: “No Man’s Land” by Joianne Bittle. “No Man’s Land” brings together two series of Bittle’s work: a recently completed group of paintings of jackrabbits (2008-2011) and the first of a series of portable dioramas. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in New […]
Resurrection
RESURRECTION: A NIGHT OF POETRY, PERFORMANCE AND VISUAL ART Saturday April 26, 2011 from 6 to Midnight, Performances start at 8pm $5.00 DONATION CASH BAR RESURRECTION is a Multimedia Performance Poetry by New York City’s Latin@ avant-garde elite, incorporating spoken word, dance, music, visual effects and art exhibit. Presented by The Organization […]
Pricy Lichtenstein
Lichtenstein Drawing Acquired for $10 Expected to Achieve over $1,000,000 at Christie’s Roy Lichtenstein’s “Drawing for a Kiss V.” The 6 by 6 inch graphite and wax drawing will be auctioned May 11, 2011. AP Photo/Christie’s Images Ltd 2011. By: Ula Ilnytzky, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP).- The invitation to a 1960s “happening” was intriguing: […]
