The art of making money
This example of Chinese contemporary sculpture was displayed at 798 Art District in Beijing in the fall.[Photo/Provided to China Daily]
Damien Hirst SPOTS, SHARKS, MAGGOTS AND MONEY
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Miquel Barceló, Penagos Prize for Drawing 2011
Jan 11, 2012Madrid, - A jury chaired by Alberto Manzano Martos, President of the Fundación MAPFRE, and Pablo Jiménez Burillo, Director General of the Institute of Culture, and composed of Francisco Calvo Serraller, Juan Fernandez-Rubio Layos, Leandro Navarro, Estrella de Diego, Julián Grau Santos and María Dolores Jiménez Blanco has decided to award the Drawing Penagos in his 2011 edition of the creator Spaniard Miquel Barceló .
This award was created thirty years ago to pay tribute to artist Rafael de Penagos major figure in the graphic illustration in our country during the decades of the twenties and thirties. Since then, granted annually by 2008 through an open call to the public and from that year by appointment. Recognizes the careers of living artists of national or international importance have been given special importance to the drawing in their careers.
Born in 1957 in Felanitx, Barceló and his work began to enjoy global impact upon their participation in the Biennale of Sao Paulo in 1981 and subsequently consolidated the recognition in the... READ ALL
The Museum of Modern Art Announces a Retrospective of Cindy Sherman for 2012
Jan 11, 2012NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Museum of Modern Art will present the exhibition Cindy Sherman, a retrospective survey tracing the groundbreaking artist's career from the mid 1970s to the present, from February 26 through June 11, 2012. The exhibition will bring together more than 170 key photographs from a variety of the artist's acclaimed bodies of work, for which she created myriad constructed characters and tableaus. The first comprehensive museum survey of Sherman's career in the United States since 1997, it will draw widely from public and private collections, including the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition is... READ ALL
La Lanta Fine Arts Presents Michele Mikesell's First Solo Exhibition in Asia
Jan 11, 2012Bangkok, Thailand.- La Lanta Fine Arts is pleased to present "Michele Mikesell: Dichotomy", on view at the gallery from January 11th through February 22nd 2012. This will be the first opportunity in Asia to see a solo show of works by Michele Mikesell, a half Filipino-half American artist. "Dichotomy" features portraits of familiar characters together with subjects we recognize and identify with. Mikesell's work consistently travels along a general vein of the universal human experience.These realistic stylized faces placed within loosely interpreted animal shapes and costumes narrate a continued thesis of dichotomy and metaphor - comparing and contrasting human... READ ALL
