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artist stories: 34 news summaries

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  Vatican Gets Back in the Art Biz 

Project aims to revive church's role as a sponsor of the arts

Sep 13, 08 7:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Vatican was the world's biggest buyer of modern art in the days when modern art meant Michelangelo, but its influence on art has ebbed in recent centuries. The church now plans to put itself back in the forefront of the art world, Newsweek reports. A commission of critics and... More »

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Catholic Church • art • modern art • Vatican • artist • Holy See • Michelangelo

Stumbling Museum Visitor Smashes $12K Sculpture

Ceramic Costa Rican totem at summer exhibition shatters to floor

Jul 29, 08 3:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 9-foot ceramic totem was smashed to smithereens after a visitor to London's Royal Academy lost her balance yesterday and tumbled into the work, the Guardian reports. The "Five Frauleins" in the work by a noted Costa Rican sculptor now number four. Museum officials are discussing the damage with... More »

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art • sculpture • artist • London's Royal Academy • gallery • Tracey Emin

  How a
  Forger Fooled
  Vermeer-Lovers 

20th-century painter made millions and tricked a powerful Nazi

Jul 13, 08 12:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Johannes Vermeer created only a few dozen paintings in his lifetime, while other major 17th-century artists cranked out 10 times that. That helped a mediocre Dutch painter  create convincing forgeries in the 20th century, NPR reports in a look at a new book on one of art's great hoaxes and... More »

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crime • art • painting • artist • hoax • forgery • Jan Vermeer

 Blogger Keeps Quake in Focus 

Chinese graphic novelist tells stories from the disaster zone

Jun 21, 08 8:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Chinese graphic novelist determined to keep the aftermath of last month's earthquake on the front burner is using her new blog to get the message out, and fellow citizen journalists on the other side of the world are catching on. "We love you, Coco Wang," a blogger... More »

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China • Beijing • blogging • blog • artist • blogger • graphic novel • blogs • China earthquake • blog posts • Coco Wang • Earthquake Strips

Census Paints Picture of America's Artists

2M work in the arts, outnumbering doctors and lawyers

Jun 12, 08 9:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - America has an army of artists that rivals the military in size, the New York Times reports. The National Endowment of the Arts has used census figures to paint a portrait of the almost 2 million Americans making their living from artistic professions—more, the Times notes, than the number... More »

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art • artistic expression • artist • US Census • National Endowment for the Arts

OPINION

 Artists Are Making
 Junk—Literally 

Despite greenie claims, they flush chemicals, abandon art pieces

May 30, 08 8:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Beware the scruffy artists at the corner cafe—they may be serial polluters and not even know it, Laurie Fendrich writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Many painters, tree-huggers by claim, will flush chemicals down the drain, and ignore the carbon footprint of their synthetic pigments. They just... More »

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art • landfill • toxic chemicals • artist • toxic waste • environmental damage

 'Gay Last Supper' Sparks Rage 

Catholics upset over Vienna museum's painting of apostle orgy

Apr 9, 08 11:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - A tiny Vienna museum with ties to the Catholic Church has became the target of worldwide outrage after displaying a homoerotic mural depicting the Last Supper, ABC News reports. The painting, by one of Austria's most cherished artists, shows naked apostles drinking and having an orgy. It has now been... More »

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Catholic Church • art • painting • artist • Vienna • The Last Supper • blasphemy • orgy • homoerotic • apostles • Bill Maher Grid

Mona Lisa Mystery Solved

Note from Leonardo contemporary clears up mystery

Jan 15, 08 9:50 AM CST
(Newser) - The true identity of Mona Lisa has puzzled art historians for centuries. A wealthy merchant's wife called Lisa was the obvious candidate, but speculation persisted that the woman with the come-hither smile was Leonardo da Vinci's mother, his lover, or even Leonardo himself. Now German experts say they've solved the... More »

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art • painting • artist • Mona Lisa • Leonardo da Vinci

Are They Pollocks or Bollocks?

Scientist says pigments on the paintings weren't patented while artist was alive

Aug 15, 07 8:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Paintings dug out of an old Hamptons locker might light up the art world with multi-million dollar sales or prove to be utter fakes, Newsweek reports. Marked “Pollock Experiments” and dribbled in the American artist’s style, the small pictures on cardboard will be drawing crowds in Boston next... More »

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art • painting • artist • Jackson Pollock • Pollock Experiments

Painter Elizabeth Murray Dies

Adventurous artist reshaped Modernism

Aug 13, 07 8:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Elizabeth Murray, a painter whose vivid, cartoon-based work was part of a contemporary movement away from minimalism, died yesterday of lung cancer. She was 66. A leading figure in the New York art scene, Murray won a MacArthur genius grant in 1999 and enjoyed a retrospective at MoMA last year. More »

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lung cancer • art • obituary • death • painter • Elizabeth Murray • Museum of Modern Art • neo expressionist • post minimalist • MacArthur genius • MoMA • artist

Kahlo Letters Reveal Anguish Over Miscarriage

A patron kept them hidden, afraid of hurting her reputation

Aug 12, 07 8:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mexican artist Frida Kahlo reveals one of her long-held secrets in a new collection of letters published for the centenary of her birth, the Guardian reports. Titled “My Beloved Doctor,” they express her anguish over being unable to bear Diego Rivera’s child after injuries she suffered in... More »

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Mexico • letters • biography • Frida Kahlo • Diego Riviera • My Beloved Doctor • new publication • painter • artist • book

Radio Should Pay to Play, Artists Argue

Music industry wants
to start collecting AM, FM royalties

Jul 5, 07 6:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - It's time AM and FM radio broadcasters started paying for the music they play, a group of music industry types has decided. They're lobbying Congress to amend the federal law that has exempted terrestrial radio from paying artists' royalties for nearly a century, Business Week reports.   More »

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music • radio • satellite radio • music industry • Recording Industry Association of America • House Judiciary Committee • CDs • royalty • royalties • RIAA • MUSICfirst coalition • terrestrial radio • mp3 • web radio • podcast • singers • digital downloads • artist • musician

(Newser) - A New England museum will display an artist's work against his will, the New York Times reports. Swiss provocateur Christoph Büchel, who recreates environments for visitors to wander through, shut down his show at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art after a squabble over budget constraints. But the museum... More »

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contemporary art • art • Christoph Buchel • museum • artist

I Bought Andy Warhol  

Pop artist's mass-produced work climbs in price, prestige worldwide

Apr 30, 07 8:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hipsters have known it forever, and buyers are catching on: Andy Warhol is the hottest artist around. The Times reports that his sales, including a projected $35 million for a painting at Christie’s next month, are second only to Picasso's. One expert calls Warhol "the most important international... More »

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art market • art • Andy Warhol • auction • painting • pop art • artist

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