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Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
ArtfixDaily / June 27th, 2010
The High Museum of Art will host “Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century,” the first major retrospective in the U.S. in more than 30 years of one of photography’s most original and influential masters. On view from February 19 through May 29, 2011, the exhibition comprises more than 250 ...
Sotheby's scores with Polaroid Collection
ArtfixDaily / June 22nd, 2010
The Sotheby's sale of 1,200 photographs from the collection of bankrupt Polaroid Corporation whipped up $12.47 million, well past its $10.7 million high estimate. Self-portrait photographs by artists were among the works soaring past estimates. Andy Warhol's image of himself with ...
June Auctions: 10 hot lots
ArtfixDaily / June 14th, 2010
A dazzling array of artwork is coming to the auction block this June. Sellers are seemingly confident that the upper level of the market is steady and ready for top tier works of art to be sold. "The best of the best" in all categories is in high demand. So far, 2010 has seen the world record ...
MOCA exhibition now a tribute to Dennis Hopper
ArtfixDaily / June 1st, 2010
On Saturday, actor, director, and artist Dennis Hopper passed away at age 74. As ARTFIXdaily wrote last Friday, his artwork will be showcased in the upcoming retrospective "Dennis Hopper Double Standard," curated by artist-film director Julian Schnabel as the debut exhibition under new Museum of ...
Tate Modern going global with acquisitions
ArtfixDaily / May 25th, 2010
A decade after its inception, Tate Modern has displayed some 880 new acquisitions, both gifts and purchases. In a press release, Britain's bastion of modern and contemporary art states that it will continue to aggressively pursue new artworks from regions other than Europe and North America. ...
Shelburne Museum rolls out 11 new summer exhibitions
ArtfixDaily / May 24th, 2010
From luminist marine paintings to Ogden Pleissner sporting art, New England landscapes by Jay Hall Connaway to Victorian crazy quilts, Vermont's venerable Shelburne Museum, which touts its many "collections within collections," has organized a near-dozen diverse exhibitions for the summer ...
Irving Penn photos sold-out at Christie's auction
Artinfo / April 15th, 2010
A large collection of photographs owned by Irving Penn’s assistant Patricia McCabe soared to $3.85 million this week, with 70 lots earning 100 percent sell-through rates by lot and by value, at Christie's in New York. The top lot of the collection was Penn's striking 1977 ...
'Ansel Adams: Early Works' exhibit a circulating crowd-pleaser
/ April 14th, 2010
Ansel Adams once said, "Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter." This quote belies the fact that Adams hiked in the wilderness for days in search of scenery and labored in the darkroom day and night to yield "a good crop" of about one dozen ...
Cartier-Bresson photographs are a 20th-century 'world diary'
Reuters / April 11th, 2010
From portraits of modern artists to scenes of everyday life, "Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century" includes about 300 powerful photographs, the majority on loan from the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris. The exhibit, which opened at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) on Sunday, is ...
Annie Leibovitz gets help with her debts
Montreal Gazette / March 9th, 2010
Photographer Annie Leibovitz has turned to a private equity firm to help restructure her enormous debt load. Last summer the celebrity photographer narrowly averted foreclosure after she missed a payment deadline for her $24 million loans owed to Art Capital Group. Her properties and archives ...
Defunct museum sued for trying to sell Ansel Adams collection
associated press / March 4th, 2010
The son of famed photographer Ansel Adams is suing California's Fresno Metropolitan Museum to keep the bankrupt museum from selling six works by his father. He says the sale would violate a donation agreement. Museum officials have been talking to various auction houses about selling ...
The modernist photographs of Irving Penn
Guardian / February 22nd, 2010
In his famously bare and basic studio, Irving Penn captured many 20th-century icons with a masterful mixture of austerity and playfulness. Alfred Hitchcock, for instance, was portrayed in profile on a mound of grey carpet, looking both plump enough to burst out of his suit and absurdly ...
An artist's Kodak Brownie snapshots capture reality of South
Washington Post / February 13th, 2010
William Christenberry, who is 73, has been one of Washington's most important artists for something like 40 years, working as a painter, fine-art photographer, sculptor and installer of found things. But the best way back to the origins of all his varied work, and to the heart of what it means, ...
PREVIEW: photo l.a. 2010
ARTFIXdaily / January 3rd, 2010
On view from January 14 to 20 is an array of stunning photographic works in LA's longest running art fair at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Browse highlights from photo l.a. 2010 in this exclusive ARTFIXdaily photo gallery including works by Hu Li, Julie Blackmon, and Qiang ...
"Who Shot Rock & Roll" at Brooklyn Museum: Photographers who shaped the legends
The Brooklyn Paper / October 27th, 2009
Brooklyn Museum’s massive new fall show, “Who Shot Rock & Roll,” is a sprawling and captivating look at the last 60 years of American popular music as seen through the lens — or, more accurately, the lenses — of some of the world’s greatest photographers. An entire section devoted to ...
Irving Penn: The giant of photography dies at 92
LA Times Arts / October 7th, 2009
He began as a fashion photographer, but crossed the chasm that separated commercial and art photography. His works are considered icons. Irving Penn, a grand master of American fashion photography whose "less is more" aesthetic, combined with a startling sensuality, ...
Weekend Getaway: City of Lights is aglow with art and fashion
New York Times / October 1st, 2009
During Fashion Week, Paris teases with fun art exhibitions. The Pompidou Center just opened “The Subversion of Images: Surrealism, Photography, Film,” a collection of almost 400 works by the photographers Man Ray, Hans Bellmer and Claude Cahun alongside various artists. Acte2galerie has a ...
Sotheby's Sale of Naked Icons: Big-name photographers, supermodels spice-up auction
Luxist / September 28th, 2009
NEW YORK - On October 9th, Sotheby's will stage a stunning sale of photographs including several nude portraits of supermodels, with work from the likes of Chuck Close, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton and more. One of the top lots is a series of six full frontal nudes of Kate Moss by Chuck ...
'The World in Black & White': National Geographic offers photographs from its archives
NPR 2 / September 15th, 2009
Perhaps National Geographic is feeling wistful in its old age: it has recently decided to not only dust off some treasures from its vaults, but also — for the first time — to offer a limited series of photographs and illustrations for purchase. New York's Steven Kasher Gallery is showing the 150 ...
Life's Work at Stake: Loan deadline is up for Annie Liebovitz
NY Times / September 8th, 2009
NEW YORK - The photographer Annie Leibovitz’s $24 million loan was due Tuesday, but by the end of the work day, it appeared that little had happened between her and her lender. Although Sept. 8 was widely reported as Ms. Leibovitz’s day of reckoning, the day when she might have to file bankruptcy ...