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OBITUARY

 Artist Jeanne-Claude, 
 Wife of Christo, Dead at 74 

She made her mark creating giant environmental artworks with husband

Nov 19, 09 12:29 PM CST
(Newser) - Jeanne-Claude, the artist who with her husband, Christo, traveled the globe creating massive works of public art, died yesterday in New York at age 74 after a brain aneurysm. Christo and Jean-Claude first caught the public eye in the 1960s and '70s in Europe wrapping landmark buildings and bridges in... More »

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New York City • obituary • artist • Central Park • public art • Christo • Jeanne-Claude • Jeanne-Claude obituary • The Gates

 Nazi Gnomes 
 Invade German Town 

Artist pokes fun at fascism with troll exhibit

Oct 15, 09 3:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Some 1,250 controversial German gnomes giving the heil Hitler salute will greet visitors to the center of the German town of Straubing beginning today. The artist behind the gnome blitzkrieg says the installation, Dance With the Devil, is designed "to get people to think, to react," and... More »

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Germany • Nazi • artist • gnome

ART REVIEW

 Damien Hirst Paintings 
 'Shockingly Bad' 

British artist's exhibit got much hype, but only because he's famous, say critics

Oct 14, 09 1:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - “Bad boy of British art" Damien Hirst decided to put his headline-grabbing, conceptual art projects aside and return to painting. Critics, however, are not impressed with the exhibition of 25 new paintings, which opened today:
  • “There are many painters in evening classes much worse than Hirst,”
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London • art • Damien Hirst • artist • exhibition • Jay-ZTV

OPINION

 Jackson 
 Couldn't Face 
 Man in the Mirror 

He 'was most himself' when someone else

Jul 27, 09 11:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Jackson was always trying to be somebody else: he "was most himself when he was someone other than himself,” writes Hilton Als in the New York Review of Books. The need to redefine himself emerged in his thirst for fame that would let him “wrest from... More »

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art • pop music • artist • identity crisis • Michael Jackson • celebrity death

(Newser) - German prosecutors have decided a Seig-Heiling garden gnome doesn't violate the country's tough laws against Nazi imagery, the BBC reports. Artist Ottmar Hörl's creation, on display in a Nuremberg gallery, is intended to mock the Nazis rather than glorify them, officials decided. Prosecutors warned, however, that the stiuation has... More »

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Germany • Nazi • artist • gnome

(Newser) - Street artist Shephard Fairey plead guilty today to three counts of vandalism for displaying stickers and posters around Boston without permission, the Globe reports. He must pay a fine and is prohibited from carrying the tools of his trade—like wheat paste and brushes—in the county for 2... More »

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Boston • Massachusetts • vandalism • artist • graffiti • criminal trial • street art • Shepard Fairey • plea deal

(Newser) - Jasper Joffe isn’t taking his breakup well. When his girlfriend of 5 years walked out on him, the painter, who’s sold work to such heavyweights as Charles Saatchi, decided to sell not just paintings, but all his worldly possessions, the Independent reports. Every single paint brush, keepsake,... More »

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art • modern art • artist • women's issues • Jasper Joffe

 Met Bares 1st Work 
 by Michelangelo, 12 

'St. Anthony Tormented by Demons' amazed young apprentice's master

Jun 19, 09 1:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - A work believed to be Michelangelo's first painting has made its American debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Times reports. St. Anthony Tormented by Demons, a customized copy of a German print, is thought to have been painted in 1487 when Michelangelo was a 12-year-old apprentice... More »

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painting • artist • Michelangelo • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Renaissance

(Newser) - Swedes got a scare this weekend after an artist wrapped bunches of carrots with black tape to make them look a bit like dynamite, attached clocks and wires and placed them around the southern city of Orebo. Police received several concerned calls from the public about the "Bunny Project:... More »

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rabbits • police • art • Sweden • artist • bunker busting bombs • carrots • Bugs Bunny

 Picasso's 
 'Magical' 
 Château 
 to Open 

Studio, burial ground private up til now

Jun 9, 09 1:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - This summer, art fiends can visit Pablo Picasso’s final resting place for the first time—a château where “he devoted himself completely to his art,” the Telegraph reports. Picasso discovered Château de Vauvenargues in the foothills of France’s Mont Sainte-Victoire, a mountain made famous... More »

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art museum • France • art • Picasso • artist • Pablo Picasso • Jay-ZTV

 Artists Get What 
 They Want 
 by Painting It 

New York couple makes wanting an art form

Jun 1, 09 3:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - When Justin Gignac and Christine Santora wanted a pair of gold aviators, they painted a picture of the sunglasses and sold it for $243.84—then went out and bought the pair, for $243.84. The New York artists have amassed other luxuries, like dinner at Nobu, in the same... More »

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entertainment • Barack Obama • art • painting • charity • artist • Jay-ZTV • Justin Gignac • Christine Santora

Iranian Female Artist Hanged Amid Uproar

Execution follows retracted confession
for alleged murder

May 3, 09 8:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - International supporters yesterday criticized the execution of an Iranian woman for a murder allegedly committed when she was a juvenile, despite a 2-month stay of execution ordered less than 3 weeks ago, the Telegraph reports. Her lawyer wasn’t notified 48 hours before the hanging, as is required. Delara Darabi’... More »

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Iran • execution • capital punishment • painting • hanging • artist • confession • murder charges • Delara Darabi

 Turner Prize Nods 
 Include Crystal Cave 

Four artists up for $36,000 art prize

Apr 28, 09 9:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - A diverse quartet of artists has been nominated for this year's Turner Prize, one of the art world's most visible awards. Two artists from London and two from Glasgow are up for the UK prize, which comes with a $36,000 purse. They will exhibit their work, which runs the... More »

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United Kingdom • art • Tate Gallery • awards • artist • Turner Prize

 Obama Poster Artist Arrested

Shepard Fairey was on his way to DJ at his exhibition's opening

Feb 7, 09 10:29 AM CST
(Newser) - Shepard Fairey, the hot graphic designer and street artist behind the Obama "Hope" poster, was arrested yesterday on two outstanding warrants as he arrived at the opening for his new exhibition at a Boston museum, the Boston Globe reports. He's accused of tagging two Boston locations with graffiti, the... More »

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Obama 2008 • arrest • artist • campaign • hope • Shepard Fairey


 Art World Still 
 Divided on Wyeth 

Some call him modern; others, 'corny Americana'

Jan 17, 09 9:32 AM CST
(Newser) - Andrew Wyeth divided the art community throughout his life, and little seems to have changed with his passing yesterday. While many in the field call him one of the most important 20th-century American artists, others insist his mode of realism makes him more of an illustrator than a serious painter,... More »

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art • painting • critic • painter • artist • Andrew Wyeth

obituary

 Painter Andrew 
 Wyeth Dead at 91 

'Polarizing' Pennsylvanian known for 'Christina's World'

Jan 16, 09 9:56 AM CST
(Newser) - Andrew Wyeth, a painter both celebrated and scorned in the art community, has died at 91 at his home outside Philadelphia. In his paintings, the “polarizing” figure depicted a rural America of fallow fields, faded colors, and weather-beaten people, writes Michael Kimmelman in the New York Times. He was... More »

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art • obituary • Pennsylvania • painting • artist • Andrew Wyeth

 Want Free Art? Get A Tattoo 

Canadian artists trade artworks for flesh space

Dec 20, 08 2:10 PM CST
(Newser) - A growing number of Canadian artists are giving away art to fans who are willing to wear it permanently, the Globe & Mail reports. The art buffs get free prints and a tattoo, while artists put their work out there on human flesh. "When I say 'this is by... More »

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Canada • art • body art • tattoos • artist • tattoo artists

 Louvre May Have Found New Leonardo Sketches

Three drawings found on back of painting

Dec 18, 08 1:49 PM CST
(Newser) - Curators from the Louvre have discovered three sketches on the back of Leonardo da Vinci’s oil painting "Virgin And Child With St Anne" that may be by the master himself, the AFP reports. Museum workers noticed two barely visible sketches, of a horse’s head and a human... More »

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France • art • painting • artist • The Louvre • Leonardo da Vinci

Thicke's Blue-Eyed Soul Hits Big Across Racial Divide

Hollywood-raised Canadian R&B star proud his fans are 'mostly grown black women'

Sep 29, 08 3:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a society that says white men can't dance, Robin Thicke has surmounted the race barrier: His single, Lost Without U, topped Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for 11 weeks last year, outperforming songs by Beyonce, Usher, and Alicia Keys. "Eighty or 90% of my fans are... More »

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music • race • African Americans • Billboard Music awards • artist • musician • Robin Thicke • R&B

Scientists, Artists Dominate MacArthur 'Genius' Grants

25 innovators receive this year's $500 prizes

Sep 23, 08 2:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Of the 25 recipients of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius award," 13 are scientists and eight are artists, the New York Times reports. This year, they are “people working on the very edge of discovery and people at the edge of a new synthesis,” says the... More »

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New Yorker magazine • innovation • MacArthur genius • artist • MacArthur Foundation • scientist

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