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Mary Huber

Oscar Niemeyer, Architect of Brasilia Dead at 104

by Mary Huber

Dec 06, 2012
The architect was influential in the development of Brazilian modernist architecture in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, which featured graceful, flowing forms in contrast to the more angular style of the time. Niemeyer began practicing architecture in Brazil in the late 1930s and spent most of his life there, except for a period of exile from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, during the country's rule by military dictatorship... Read more

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Artes Mundi 5 Prize Goes to Teresa Margolles

by Mary Huber

Nov 30, 2012
Margolles has received worldwide acclaim for her work focusing on the experience of drug cartel-related violence and death in northern Mexico. During the 2009 Venice Biennale she had relatives of the cartels' victims mop the floors of the Mexican Pavilion with water and blood from a morgue in Mexico... Read more

Dallas Museum of Art Reattributes a Canvas to Inness

by Mary Huber

Oct 26, 2012
Texas businessman Cecil A. Keating bequeathed the unsigned painting to the museum upon his death in 1931. DMA has no record of where he acquired it or who first attributed it to Durand... Read more

Albright-Knox Plots Expansion

by Mary Huber

Oct 12, 2012
The gallery was last expanded in 1962 and needs space for its large and ever-expanding modern and contemporary art collections. "We urgently need to examine how our existing space is used to display, store, and conserve the collection, and to optimize our facilities to provide an enhanced experience for our visitors," said board of directors president Leslie Zemsky, implying that the gallery will not build an extension in the near future... Read more

Christie’s Will Offer an Yves Klein Sponge Relief in November

by Mary Huber

Sep 28, 2012
Christie's will auction off Yves Klein's Accord Bleu (Sponge Relief), formerly of the Brooklyn Museum's collection, at its Nov. 14 postwar and contemporary art sale in New York City. Christie's estimates that the relief, made in 1958, will bring between $7 million and $10 million. The world auction record for the artist is $36.7 million for Le Rose du Bleu (RE22), 1960, sold by Christie's London in June... Read more

Sotheby’s and Beijing GeHua Art Company Plan to Join Forces

by Mary Huber

Sep 21, 2012
The agreement, which the Chinese government has not yet officially approved, would greatly expand Sotheby's business operations in China, an important and quickly expanding art market... Read more

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Shepard Fairey Sentenced for Destroying Documents

by Mary Huber

Sep 07, 2012
The US District Court in Manhattan fined Shepard Fairey $25,000 and sentenced him to two years of probation and 300 hours of community service this morning for tampering with evidence related to his 2009 copyright suit. Fairey pleaded guilty to one count of criminal contempt in February for destroying and fabricating evidence. Prosecutors had asked for the maximum six-month prison sentence... Read more

Christie’s Kandinsky Could Set a Record this Fall

by Mary Huber

Aug 29, 2012
Wassily Kandinsky's Study for Improvisation 8 (1909) will be the highlight of Christie's Impressionist and modern art auction in New York on November 7... Read more

Singapore Will Not Participate in the Next Venice Biennale

by Mary Huber

Aug 28, 2012
The council released a written statement to the press explaining that they would use the time to "critically re-assess Singapore's long-term participation" in the Biennale, but gave no further explanation for the move. The NAC had not posted an announcement or further comment on its website at the time of publication... Read more

Major LA Gallery Announces Closing

by Mary Huber

Aug 15, 2012
Margo Leavin has announced plans to close her eponymous gallery in Los Angeles. A prominent gallery representing artists such as John Baldessari and William Leavitt, Margo Leavin Gallery will shut its doors to the public after September 30. It will remain open by appointment for one year before closing entirely, according to the Los Angeles Times... Read more

Amada Cruz Named Director of Artpace

by Mary Huber

Aug 14, 2012
Artpace has announced the appointment of Amada Cruz as executive director. Cruz has served as a guest curator at Artpace, the contemporary art space in San Antonio, Tex., from 1999 to 2001. Working with other curators, she chose young artists to participate in Artpace's residency program, among them Arturo Herrerra and Rebecca Holland... Read more

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Robert Hughes, 1938-2012

by Mary Huber

Aug 07, 2012
Longtime art critic for Time magazine Robert Hughes died yesterday in New York City, after what his wife, Doris Downes, characterized as a long illness... Read more

Ryan McGinley Makes a Summer Poem for Sigur Ros

by Mary Huber

Aug 01, 2012
Photographer Ryan McGinley has debuted a new video project, VarúÄ?, a short film set to the sounds of Icelandic band Sigur Rós's song of the same name. In the piece, a woman in a golden wig skips through the streets of New York. The dreamlike scene becomes more surreal as it progresses, as traffic freezes and time seems to stand still... Read more

Laurence Kardish, MoMA Veteran, to Retire

by Mary Huber

Jul 17, 2012
The Museum of Modern Art announced this afternoon that Laurence Kardish, senior curator in the Department of Film, will step down after 44 years at the museum. First appointed a curatorial assistant in 1968, Kardish has been senior curator since 1999... Read more

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