Spalding Nix, associate member of the American Society of Appraisers and proprietor of Spalding Nix Fine Art & Antiques, discusses infamous works of art and the daring criminals that steal them. Nix reveals how this criminal enterprise has become an international multi-billion dollar industry, third only to global drug and arms trafficking.
Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
15 November, 2013
Artbank Sturgeon Magazine
Watch the Four Corners feature on the launch of Artbank, featuring an interview with founding Director, Graeme Sturgeon. It originally aired on ABC TV, 23 August 1980. Here
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Thirty three years later, Artbank has launched a bi-annual art magazine and website named after Sturgeon.
"The launch of Australian government art rental agency Artbank’s new biannual (sic) magazine, Sturgeon, is a major milestone for the organization (sic), which functions as a platform for the support and promotion of contemporary Australian art through its art rental program as well as through commissioned artworks. " and "To complement the magazine, Artbank have launched a great new website (sturgeonmagazine.com.au) that features article previews, additional web-only content, and information on upcoming issues. "
http://www.sturgeonmagazine.com.au/archive/
20 September, 2013
Warhol and Candy : Robert Hughes
This interview featuring Andy Warhol and Candy Darling is narrated by Robert Hughes.
02 May, 2013
Cigdem Aydemir
Cigdem (pronounced 'Chidem') Aydemir is a Sydney based Australian artist of Turkish Muslim heritage. Like a number of other artists she addresses the wearing of the Burqa and the issues facing contemporary Muslim women but she does it with a quirky Australian humour that is uniquely her own.
http://www.cigdemaydemir.net/artworks.html
See Video Showcase of works (2011 - 2012) here
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"Cigdem Aydemir's Bombshell video challenges the viewer's prejudices by featuring the artist wearing a black burqa that leaves only her eyes visible.
Aydemir's outfit billows around her outstretched legs as ominous clouds move behind her. The sound of thunder or possibly bombs can also be heard.
Its a "re-creation of the iconic scene in which Marilyn Monroe stands above a subway vent from The Seven Year Itch"
Aydemir said the video explored the image and idea of the burqa as a possible terrorist threat. ''It's menacing but very beautiful at the same time,'' she said.
Aydemir's Bombshell will be announced on Thursday as the winner of the $10,000 emerging artist award of the Redlands Art Prize. The Redlands Art Prize is at the National Art School gallery in Darlinghurst from May 3 to June 1
full article here
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/monroe-as-undercover-agent-takes-top-spot-20130501-2it9z.html
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"Cigdem Aydemir's Extremist Activity is a series of performances that explore body politics, feminism and Islamophobia, in particular the idea of the Niqab and Burqa being a security threat. These performances, documented in both in video and photography, are about reclaiming body-space. The forms worn on the body (or rather the body worn on the forms) create and exaggerate voids whilst also parodying the proper concealment, or disclosure, of that space. Extremist Activity explores the concept of the body as an occupied space and creates a dialogue between the viewers (both in and out of the gallery) and their perceptions of this culturally, historically and politically significant garment and the women who wear them.'
full article here
Cigdem Aydemir talks about her upcoming show at A-M Gallery 28 March 2012 from A-M Gallery on Vimeo.
Performance and Q&A with Cigdem Aydemir as part of her show ‘Extremist Activity’ at A-M Gallery, Newtown, on 31 March 2012 from A-M Gallery on Vimeo.
Article about "Extremist Activity" here
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"the Newtown mural of a woman in a full-face Muslim covering with a strike symbol over her face and the words ''Say No to the Burqa'' is the subject of an anti-discrimination complaint.
Cigdem Aydemir, 27, a Muslim, artist and high-school art teacher, said she felt ''completely offended and insulted'' when she saw the mural pop up in her neighbourhood."
full article here
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/complaint-lodged-over-burqa-mural-20101125-18967.html
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Hair / Veil (2011) from Cigdem Aydemir on Vimeo.
09 November, 2012
Mona Lisa Curse
The Mona Lisa Curse
Documentary by Australian writer and critic art Robert Hughes
part 1 of 6
Documentary by Australian writer and critic art Robert Hughes
part 1 of 6
15 April, 2012
Art Market Documentary
From the BBC, this documentary explores the world of the art market with particular reference to recent activity. It covers price manipulation and other tactics. Featuring Damien Hirst, Sotherbys, White Cube and other major players.
"The Great Contemporary Art Bubble" in seven parts
"The Great Contemporary Art Bubble" in seven parts
08 April, 2012
Remembering Louise Bourgeois
Remembering Louise Bourgeois
Tracey Emin, Artist, London
Jerry Gorovoy, Louise Bourgeois's longtime assistant, New York
Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Moderator | Ulf Küster, Curator, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
Suzi Gablik
Paradigm Spinning: Artists as Agents of Social Change
March 14, 2001
Suzi Gablik artist, art critic, cultural philosopher [homepage]
Suzi Gablik departs from what she calls "the faded ethos of modernism," and explains why she sees artists as agents of social change. This lecture is part of the Arts in Education Program's John Landrum Bryant Lecture Performance Series.
http://forum-network.org/lecture/paradigm-spinning-artists-agents-social-change
Linda Nochlin
Cosponsored by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art/USA (AICA: International Association of Art Critics) presents the second annual lecture addressing current issues in the world of art criticism. Vist http://www.newschool.edu/vlc and http://www.veralistcenter.org
This year's distinguished critic, Linda Nochlin, is the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Professor Nochlin addresses the issue of how the goals of art criticism differ from those of art history.
AICA was founded after World War II to promote professional art criticism as essential to winning widespread understanding and support for contemporary art.
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Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
by LINDA NOCHLIN
text here
http://www.bakeru.edu/faculty/adaugherty/wc/module5/artists.html
29 September, 2011
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28 September, 2011
Google, Books & Copyright
On September 12 this year, the Authors Guild in the USA, the Australian Society of Authors, the Quebec Union of Writers and a number of individual authors filed suit against a partnership of five American universities and research libraries (the same universities involved in the Google Books case), over what the plaintiffs described as “one of the largest copyright infringements in history”. [1]
According to the Complaint [2]: “The Universities have directly caused millions of works that are protected by copyright holders to be scanned, stored in digital format, repeatedly copied and made available online for various uses. These actions not only violate the exclusive rights of copyright holders…but, by creating at least two databases connected to the Internet that store millions of digital copies of copyrighted books, the Universities risk the widespread, unauthorised and irreparable dissemination of these works.”
full story
full story
23 August, 2011
Subject Index - June/July 2011
The Aviary
Printmaking
Artists / Exhibitions
Venice
Theory
National Gallery CutbacksNew Media
Oddstream Festival - Nijmegen
Urban Art Graffiti
Graffiti - Libya
Upfest 2011 - Bristol UK
LAB ART Opening - LA
More MOCA LA II
Urban Art Graffiti
Graffiti - Libya
Upfest 2011 - Bristol UK
LAB ART Opening - LA
More MOCA LA II
13 June, 2011
Dutch Art Cutbacks
Exract from petition.
... it is incomprehensible for a government which wants to prepare its citizens for a promising future to decide to remove the part of the social system which guides the public in this respect. The extremely hard approach adopted in relation to the sector of the visual arts (a reduction from 53.5 million to 31 million) is not supported in this memorandum by either logical or factual arguments.
Amongst other things, the Secretary of State has decided:
- to halve the budget of the Mondriaan fund;
- to drastically reduce the number of presentation institutions in the BIS from 11 to 6. The institutions which are no longer in the BIS cannot go to the Mondriaan fund either, and therefore have no chance of survival;
- to no longer provide any subsidy for art magazines;
- to put a complete stop to the government subsidy for functions which are now carried out by biennial Manifesta, SKOR | Stichting Kunst en Openbare Ruimte (Foundation for Art in Public Spaces), the sectoral institute Premsela, Virtual Platform, the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk);
- to put a stop to financing post-academic education for artists in the Ateliers, Rijksakademie voor beeldende kunsten (Royal Academy for Visual Arts), European Ceramic Work Centre and the Jan van Eyck Academy;
to only support the continued development of 50 visual artists who have proved themselves as top talents in the next four years;
- to halve the individual basic stipends and working grants for artists, and to COMPLETELY stop the present subsidies which serve to provide an income.
The direct and immediate effects of these measures for the PUBLIC which wants to see and experience contemporary art are catastrophic:
The makers, producers and artists form the basis of the cultural infrastructure. After all, with no artists, there is no art. No subsidies or insufficient subsidies for artists to focus professionally and full time on creating work means that there will be no innovative work.
No post-academic education means there will be no growth of new artists who excel and can represent the Netherlands abroad. Removing this function will immediately lead to a reduction in the provision of Dutch presentation institutions, so that the Netherlands will lose its competitive position. This will result in the total impoverishment of the art market in the Netherlands and to a weaker position of the Dutch galleries on the international art market.
A minimal number of presentation institutions means that the new art will not find its way to the public and will remain locked up in studios and warehouses. The Dutch and international public in the Netherlands will not be able to see any innovative art.
Removing an institution such as SKOR means that the presence of art in public spaces -- democratic and by definition "anti-elitist", because it is accessible to everyone free of charge -- will decline.
Closing an institution such as NIMk means that a valuable, partly digital heritage -- video art and film art and media art -- will become fragmented and will no longer be accessible to the public.
The innovative part of the field of the visual arts, which also determines the international image of the creative Netherlands, cannot survive without a financial injection from the state.
the petition: http://petities.nl/petitie/bezuinigen-op-cultuur-zonder-alle-feiten-nooit
(source Netbehaviour)
National Gallery Cutbacks
Australian Printmaking exhibition cancelled.
The federal efficiency dividend (cost-cutting)
The NGA needs to save 1.5 per cent of the $31.5 million a year it receives from the federal government. (that's $472,500 ed)
While management of the Canberra art gallery has a careful policy of not commenting on how the 1.5 per cent dividend is affecting its operations, under questioning in Senate estimates, director Ron Radford said staff numbers would be reduced by almost 10 per cent, equivalent to 20 positions.
... the deputy secretary of the department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Richard Eccles, said the gallery's financial woes were not entirely a result of the efficiency dividend.
"It would not be right to assume the full impact of the changes Dr Radford is outlining are attributed solely to the efficiency dividend," Mr Eccles said.
Indigenous Art
Dr Radford said the annual $1.2m running cost of the gallery's new indigenous art wing -- which opened last October -- was an expense it didn't have before.
Cuts
Dr Radford said: "Travel and other areas have been severely cut for the next year; touring exhibitions have also been reduced but not as dramatically."
He named three of the five cancelled shows as the National Indigenous Art Triennial, postponed until next year, an Australian printmaking show and a Roy Lichtenstein exhibition, which "will not happen until much later".
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Canberra's National Museum of Australia has also shed 20 staff, reduced the number of shows it will hold in future years and said the exhibitions it does hold will be staged for longer.
source
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see also: the WA government invests $6million to import an overseas collection for exhibition in Perth.
http://printaustralia.blogspot.com/2011/06/wa-museum-moma.html
The federal efficiency dividend (cost-cutting)
The NGA needs to save 1.5 per cent of the $31.5 million a year it receives from the federal government. (that's $472,500 ed)
While management of the Canberra art gallery has a careful policy of not commenting on how the 1.5 per cent dividend is affecting its operations, under questioning in Senate estimates, director Ron Radford said staff numbers would be reduced by almost 10 per cent, equivalent to 20 positions.
... the deputy secretary of the department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Richard Eccles, said the gallery's financial woes were not entirely a result of the efficiency dividend.
"It would not be right to assume the full impact of the changes Dr Radford is outlining are attributed solely to the efficiency dividend," Mr Eccles said.
Indigenous Art
Dr Radford said the annual $1.2m running cost of the gallery's new indigenous art wing -- which opened last October -- was an expense it didn't have before.
Cuts
Dr Radford said: "Travel and other areas have been severely cut for the next year; touring exhibitions have also been reduced but not as dramatically."
He named three of the five cancelled shows as the National Indigenous Art Triennial, postponed until next year, an Australian printmaking show and a Roy Lichtenstein exhibition, which "will not happen until much later".
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Canberra's National Museum of Australia has also shed 20 staff, reduced the number of shows it will hold in future years and said the exhibitions it does hold will be staged for longer.
source
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see also: the WA government invests $6million to import an overseas collection for exhibition in Perth.
http://printaustralia.blogspot.com/2011/06/wa-museum-moma.html
12 June, 2011
Venice - Vernissage
Preview and Press Conference
Vernice e conferenza Stampa alla 54 Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte di Venezia Intervento del Presidete Paolo Baratta, il Direttore Bice Curiger e il Ministro della Cultura Giancarlo Galan. Nel video vengono mostrate alcune Opere del Padilione Italia durante la Vernice del 1 giugno 2011. Video di Leonardo Orlandi - CINIT Cineforum Italiano. Source
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From Vernissage TV
http://www.vernissage.tv | First impressions of the 54th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy. This year, the exhibition's curator is Bice Curiger, the title of the show is Illuminations. The Venice Biennale is one of the world's most important art events.
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On the second day of the Venice Biennale Preview, we had a look at the Central Pavilion in the Giardini
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11 June, 2011
My Name in Lights - Stedelijk
From June 1 to 26, the Stedelijk continues its commitment to bringing international artists to Amsterdam for the Holland Festival, exploring the relationship between the visual and performance arts.
This time, it will involve a 30 meter-wide LED screen.
"Iconic American conceptual artist John Baldessari is looking for people, who want their name in lights, but just for 15 glittering seconds. Your Name in Lights reflects the changing cult of celebrity in modern society and recalls Andy Warhol's prediction that in the future everyone will have their 15 minutes of fame."
Curator of Exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum, Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen ... researching the shortlist of potential artists to work with ... discovered Baldessari’s YOUR NAME IN LIGHTS. It was part of the Sydney Festival and it fit exactly what the Stedelijk was after. The high level of audience participation was too good to pass up. Baldessari agreed to bring it to Amsterdam, the only other time the work is planned to be on display.
YOUR NAME IN LIGHTS will occupy a transitional space between the institution’s walls and the public square. The large LED screen blurs the boundaries between the two. In return, members of the public get to add their name to be displayed right on the side of the museum.
full info at Sydney Festival
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JOUW NAAM / YOUR NAME: BLAKKBYRD
zal 15 seconden schitteren om / will be screened for 15 glittering seconds on:
Dinsdag, 14 juni 16:16:20 / Tuesday, 14 June 4:16:20 PM CET
New Time
16:16:20 Tuesday June 14, 2011 in converts to
00:16:20 Wednesday June 15, 2011 in Sydney
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Watch live streaming video from yournameinlights at livestream.com
http://www.yournameinlights.nl/
more info at the Stedelijk Museum
http://journal.stedelijk.nl/2011/05/behind-your-name-in-lights/
10 June, 2011
WA Museum & MoMA
"The Australian cultural scene has achieved a milestone: the Art Gallery of Western Australia has secured a deal with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) for a historical exhibition featuring the works of the greatest artists of all time."
"The Modern Masters exhibition will be the first of six exhibitions showcasing MoMA's collection, with subsequent shows drawing works from each of the museum's curatorial departments, including design and photography.
The WA government allocated $6 million in the recent budget to help with underwriting the cost of the exhibition."
Cultural cringe. This would have been acceptable if it included MoMA presenting six US exhibitions of Australian art. Instead we have Australian funds being used to market MoMA's already overexposed collection when we should be spending those monies to market our grossly impoverished Australian art overseas.
The exhibition entitled Picasso to Warhol: Twelve Modern Masters, is set to open for viewing next week and will feature up to 100 works from MoMa's distinguished collection. ... This ... exhibition is made possible by the Art Gallery's head Dr. Stefano Carboni, who has previously worked for the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art. source
If only Mr Carboni had used his contacts to tour six Australian exhibitions overseas. He's missed an opportunity to also make WA's collection "distinguished".
"This is certainly demonstrating Perth and WA is right up there internationally and we're not just seen as being important in relation to economic development and the development of our resource sector," Mr Day told AAP.This simply re-inforces the insignificance of Australia's presence in the international arts community. WA is perceived as a colonial client whose population can be exploited as consumers. Were it seen as an equal partner the terms of the agreement would reflect this and the US government would be financing a tour of six exhibitions of Australian Masters. Not disclosed was the cost to MoMA or the amount of sponsorship from Ernst & Young in bringing these works to Perth.
MoMA's collection is not so much " the works of the greatest artists of all time" as the greatest marketed works of all time, and the Australian population is paying.
Under a deal struck with the MoMA, the WA State gallery will become the only Australian venue to host the exhibitions twice a year, effectively setting up a branch of the famous New York art museum in the Perth Cultural Centre until the end of 2015. Source
And are we also setting up a branch of WA State Gallery in New York?
The Art Gallery of Western Australia and Ernst & Young today announced Ernst & Young will become the Principal Series Sponsor for the Great Collections of the World series, in a three- year agreement that will run from July 2011 through to June 2014. The new sponsorship agreement elevates the firm’s Gallery sponsorship to sole Principal Series Sponsor for the Great Collections series during the next three years. .... Ernst & Young Perth Managing Partner, Michael Anghie, said Ernst & Young’s increased sponsorship followed the success of the Peggy Guggenheim: A Collection in Venice exhibition which drew thousands to the Gallery, and was part of the firm’s ongoing commitment to support world-class exhibitions touring Perth. Source gallery media release
Minister's media release
The question is how much revenue will the gallery earn from ticket sales and what proportion of revenues will be retained in Australia. There is the potential to move tons of gift shop mechandise, all promoting the MoMA collection.
Australia's position as an international art force is largely dependent on its ability to participate equally on the world's stage. Of the dozen or so major art fairs, such as Art Basel next week, there is little, if any, participation by Australian artists and galleries. If you dig deep you may find the odd Australian artist represented by an overseas gallery, or the odd gallery making a one-off appearance. $6million would have gone a long way to address this inadequacy.
Until Australia starts participating on equal footing in all venues, it will continue to be an overlooked non-influential minor player. The monies invested on imported art would be better spent on exports.
03 June, 2011
Venice - ILLUMInations
An interview with Bice Curiger, the Director of the 54th International Art Exhibition "ILLUMInations", Venice Biennale 2011
Introduction
http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/exhibition/curiger/
Bice Curiger is an art historian, critic and curator of international exhibitions. Her curatorial activity at Kunsthaus Zurich parallels her important work in the publishing sector. In 1984, she cofounded the prestigious art magazine “Parkett”, of which she is editor-in-chief. She has been publishing director of London Tate Gallery’s magazine “Tate etc” since 2004.
The exhibition ILLUMInazioni – ILLUMInations will be laid out in the Central Pavilion in the Giardini and in the Arsenale, forming a single itinerary, featuring 83 artists from all over the world, including 32 young artists born after 1975, as well as 32 women artists. The director asked four participating artists to create “parapavilions”, architectural and sculptural structures erected in the Giardini and the Arsenale to house the works of other artists.
As usual, the Exhibition will be paralleled by 89 National Participations, a record for the Art Biennale (they were 77 in 2009), housed in the historical Pavilions in the Giardini, in the Arsenale, as well as in other locations around the city. The Padiglione Italia in the Arsenale, organized by the Ministry for the Cultural Heritage and Activities together with PaBAAC – General Direction for landscape, fine arts, architecture and contemporary art, will be curated by Vittorio Sgarbi. The countries that will be participating for the first time will be Andorra, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Haiti. Other countries will be participating after a long period of absence: India (1982), Congo (1968), Iraq (1990), Zimbabwe (1990), South Africa (1995), Costa Rica (1993, afterwards with IILA), Cuba (1995, afterwards with IILA). There will be 37 Collateral Events arranged by international organizations and institutions, that will set up their exhibitions and initiatives in various locations around the city on the occasion of the Biennale.
“La Biennale di Venezia is one of the world’s most important forums for the dissemination and illumination of current developments in international art – Bice Curiger stated. The title of the 54th International Art Exhibition, ILLUMInations, literally draws attention to the importance of such endeavours in a globalized world. As the biggest and oldest Biennale, la Biennale di Venezia has always been buoyed by an international spirit, and even more so now in an age in which artists themselves have become multifaceted, discerning migrants and cultural tourists”.
“ILLUMInations emphasizes the intuitive insight and the illumination of thought that is fostered by an encounter with art and its ability to sharpen the tools of perception – the director underlined. While the last Biennale ‘Making Worlds’ highlighted constructive creativity, ILLUMInations will focus on the ¢light’ of the illuminating experience, on the epiphanies that come with intercommunicative, intellectual comprehension. The Age of Enlightenment also resonates in ILLUMInations, testifying to the enduring vibrancy of its legacy”.
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On the occasion of the 54th Exhibition, three online competitions will be launched through the website www.labiennalechannel.org:
· ILLUMInations – Photography: the best photograph of the Exhibition (competition open only to accredited photographers)
· ILLUMInations – Essay: the best critical essay on the Exhibition
· ILLUMInations – Video clip: the best video about the Exhibition
02 June, 2011
Venice - Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of SAudi Arabia participates in the Venice Biennale 2011 with the exhibition, "The Black Arch"
The Black Arch has been created through a profound collaboration between Shadia and Raja Alem. It is very much about a meeting point of the two artists; of two visions of the world; from darkness to light, and of two cities – Mecca and Venice. The work is a stage, set to project the artists’ collective memory of Black - the monumental absence of colour - and physical representation of Black, referring to their past. The narrative is fueled by the inspirational tales told by their aunts and grandmothers, and are anchored in Mecca, where the sisters grew up in the 1970s.
From a Press release
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The Saudi project is less overtly political in content. Saudi Arabia, joining the Biennale for the first time, is to be represented by an installation titled “The Black Arch.” It is the work of two women, Raja Alem, a writer, and her sister, Shadia Alem, a visual artist. The work, the artists say, is an attempt to bring together their city, Mecca, and Venice through an abstract sculpture onto which the artists will project images and sounds of the two cities.
“This participation in the Biennale is revolutionary,” Shadia Alem said in an e-mail. “I hope this peaceful revolution continues.”
full article
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/26/world/europe/26iht-M26C-VENICE.html
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