art in and around South Florida
Museums: Miami Art Museum Hires Latin American Art Expert Tobias Ostrander as Chief Curator: “‘Ostrander’s position, created to address the growing institution’s needs, involves overseeing MAM’s public, education, and exhibition
Lucian Freud obituary: “Master of figurative painting who related to his subjects’ characters through stark portraiture The original, unnerving, sustained artistic achievement of Lucian Freud, who has died aged 88,
from Reuters: BEIJING | Fri Jun 24, 2011 6:34am EDT (Reuters) – No talking, no tweeting and no travel for a year — these are some of the conditions of
We send our best wishes to Ai Weiwei on his release from three months of Chinese government detention. We sincerely hope that he will be able to resume his activist
Continue readingI Went to Beijing to Interview Ai Weiwei, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
A Japanese scientist has reportedly discovered a way to create edible steaks based on proteins from human excrement. Tokyo Sewage approached Mitsuyuki Ikeda, a researcher from the Okayama Laboratory, to
Continue readingJapanese scientist makes good on Yes Men meme: synthesizing meat from human feces
This personal story is being shared here because Elisa Turner is a friend, but she is also a mother, and this story is one that I’d like to share for
(Chart courtesy of Snaap) By Carolyn Mooney (via: Chronicle) Parents, it’s OK to send your kids to art school! A national survey of 13,581 arts-school alumni found that almost three-quarters
Continue readingArts-School Grads: Rich? Don’t Count on It. Content? Quite Possibly!
Patrick Cariou wins copyright case against Richard Prince and Gagosian Judge orders that all infringing copies of Cariou’s Rastafarian photos be impounded and destroyed from The Art Newspaper: By Charlotte
Shock wave through the art market… China now ranks first, ahead of the USA and the UK According to Thierry Ehrmann, founder and CEO of Artprice, world leader in art
Street artist Thierry Guetta faces copyright infringement suit: “Los Angeles street artist Thierry Guetta rose to prominence recently in the Oscar-nominated documentary ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop,’ in which he
Continue readingStreet artist Thierry Guetta faces copyright infringement suit