Posts Tagged ‘Warhol’

C.A.N. Condensed

Monday, July 19th, 2010
David Walsh in front of Fernando Botero's "Leda and the Swan"

David Walsh in front of Fernando Botero's "Leda and the Swan"

• Tasmanian art collector David Walsh plans to open a museum in 2011 on his estate to showcase his uniquely macabre collection of art. Dubbed The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), the 6000 square meter space is entirely underground, situated in an excavated cliff. The works represent three different areas – Antiquities (Egyptian mummies and Roman mosaics), Australian modernists (Sidney Nolan, Charles Blackman, John Brack), and international contemporary art from the likes of Christian Boltanski and Damien Hirst. Check out The Art Newspaper for a full article and interview with Walsh. • Cleveland’s Museum of Contemporary Art will move to a new building and location near the entrance of the Uptown project, an urban zone being revitalized through government spending on recreation and shopping. The new building will give the institution 11,000 square feet of increased space, and has been described as a “four-story faceted gem clad in tinted and transparent glass and shiny black stainless steel.” Read more here.
Warhol's "Portrait of Dennis Hopper"

Warhol's "Portrait of Dennis Hopper"

• Pieces from the renowned contemporary art collection of late actor Dennis Hopper will hit the auction block at Christie’s Post-War & Contemporary sales in New York on November 10-11. Included will be important works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Claes Oldenburg, and Andy Warhol (Portrait of Dennis Hopper, 1971). Click here to read more about the sale.

C.A.N. Condensed

Monday, June 14th, 2010
Andy Warhol, "Shadows I"

Andy Warhol, "Shadows I"

• On June 18 the Brooklyn Museum will debut Andy Warhol: The Last Decade, the first US exhibition to focus on the final chapters of the artist’s forty-year career. Included will be Warhol’s translation of da Vinci’s Last Supper, self-portraiture, and examples of his return to abstraction in the Oxidations and Shadows series. Read more at Art Knowledge News. • The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is teaming up with YouTube to find the most innovative and exceptional talent in the realm of online video with YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video. A jury of experts in the arts and entertainment fields will select up to twenty video works to be simultaneously presented at the Guggenheim in Berlin, Bilbao, and Venice. Check out the full story at ArtForum.
 "Bench Around the Lake" by Jeppe Hein, at 100 Acres.

"Bench Around the Lake" by Jeppe Hein, at 100 Acres.

• SITE Santa Fe, a not-for-profit contemporary arts organization, will open their Eighth International Biennial on June 20. Titled The Dissolve, the biennial will survey “a striking creative development found in contemporary art: the synthesis of the handmade with the high-tech.” 26 works by 30 international artists will be shown, alongside early 20th century historical animations. Go to e-flux for more. • Next week will see the opening of 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park, an outdoor collection of temporary, site-specific works located on the grounds of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Unlike the objects inside the museum, these works invite the public to touch, climb upon, and generally experience them in a physical manner. Read a full review at NYTimes.com.