Jun 29, 2011
Ai Weiwei, the artist and government critic who emerged last week from nearly three months in police custody, has been asked to
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Posted: Jun 28, 2011
Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has a warning for cultural institutions that have come to rely on regular government funding: don't count on it.
Flaherty delivered the message Tuesday shortly after announcing $500,000 in support for this year
Published online 28 Jun 11
london. Christie's post-war and contemporary auction tonight broke the mould: it sold above its high estimate (once premium was included), no longer a regular occurrence in this market. The 65 lots brought in £78.8m (est £
Roland Sledge, a 65-year-old lawyer for an oil and gas company in Houston, is no art world habitué. He began collecting prints and works on paper a little more than a decade ago, focusing on Abstract
While it is not uncommon to stand in line for hours to get tickets to see a great concert or our beloved Canucks, waiting
How do you stage an international art show with work from 100 different artists? If you're Shea Hembrey, you invent all of the artists and artwork yourself -- from large-scale outdoor installations to tiny paintings drawn with a single-haired brush. Watch this funny, mind-bending talk to see the explosion of creativity and diversity of skills a single artist is capable of.
About Shea Hembrey
Shea Hembrey explores
Abstract Expressionist New York
At the Art Gallery of Ontario
Until Sept. 4, 317 Dundas St. W., Toronto; ago.net
In his 1917 essay Mourning and Melancholy, Freud argued that melancholy was a non-reaction
BASEL—Despite trumpeting a new globalism with first-time gallery inclusions from Lebanon, Thailand, and Hungry, Art Basel remains a desperately parochial European affair with a smattering of top
