An Ill-Fated Masterpiece Brings Together China and Taiwan (ARTINFO)
ARTINFO - After several months of diplomatic talks, the Zhejiang Provincial Museum in Hangzhou announced its decision yesterday to loan the painting Broken Mountains, one of two remaining fragments of Yuan Dynasty painter Huang Gongwang's "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains," to Taiwan’s National Palace Museum, which holds the other section of the painting. A joint exhibition to mark the historic reunion of the two pieces, which have been separated for 350 years, is now scheduled to run from June through September of 2011 as an unusually warm cultural exchange between China and Taiwan.
Franz Kline's Rather Large Liquor Bill (ARTINFO)
ARTINFO - The Abstract Expressionists liked to drink. For Pollock, that passion abetted his demise; for Rothko, it provided fuel for his creative process. When Franz Kline ordered alcohol from John Heller’s Liquor Store in Greenwich Village on December 31, 1960 — presumably for a New Year’s Eve Party — he seemed to have been expecting some big drinkers: his total bill was more than $274.
Schiele's "Wally" Shown in New York, with a Clear Conscience (ARTINFO)
ARTINFO - Egon SchieleÂs notorious Nazi-looted "Portrait of Wally" has had a dramatic run in New York, having been seized by federal authorities after being loaned to MoMA for a show in 1997. Now that the decade-long restitution case between the Austrian Leopold Foundation and the heirs of the work's original owner, Jewish collector Lea Bondi Jaray, has been settled, the work has gone on view at another New York institution, the Museum of Jewish Heritage — only this time, with a clear conscience.
Sotheby's Sales Figures Suggest Big Rebound for Asian Art Market (ARTINFO)
ARTINFO - Is the Asian art market experiencing a stronger rebound from the recession than any other art-market sector? There seems to be a very strong indication that the answer is yes, or at least that is what the sales figures at Sotheby’s, the world's leading publicly-traded auction house, suggest.
Leaning Tower of Pisa No Longer at Risk of Collapse (ARTINFO)
ARTINFO - The Leaning Tower of Pisa is no longer leaning quite so perilously, according to Italian engineers and scientists who say the medieval landmark's ever-increasing tilt has been stabilized. Although the tower will never be brought fully upright — which would diminish its appeal, anyway — two decades of work by the Committee for the Safeguard of the Leaning Tower has finally solved the 800-year riddle of what was causing the World Heritage Site's
mysteriously incline to the north.
New "Fair Use" Rules Promise Open Season in Academia (ARTINFO)
ARTINFO - It may be the dead of summer, the doldrums of the academic calendar, but multimedia professors — and potentially artists — have plenty of reason to party thanks to new "fair use" rules issued by the U.S. Copyright Office that allow the legal decryption and projection of excerpts of copyrighted material for educational purposes. In addition to meaning that college students will be treated to a great deal more feature-film content in the future, the changes also serve to clear consciences — or, more to the point, any hints of liability — for art students looking to creatively play with copyright-protected multimedia.
Architect Rafael Vi񯬹 Chosen for New Edward Kennedy Institute (ARTINFO)
ARTINFO - Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly has been selected to build the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, a planned educational facility that will abut the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on the campus of the University of Massachusetts, Boston. The $60 million project, scheduled to break ground this fall, will include a 44,000-square-foot building with two stories of space for an exhibit hall detailing the politician's storied life and 46-year senate career, a re-creation of his senate office, an oral history archive, and educational facilities.
Are Purported Ansel Adams Negatives Worth $200 Million? (ARTINFO)
ARTINFO - Rick Norsigian, the school maintenance worker who claims to have purchased 65 glass negatives created by photographer Ansel Adams at a garage sale 10 years ago, has returned to the spotlight, after a team of photography experts that he hired authenticated the works and pricing them at a hefty $200 million. Descendants of Adams, however, are not as confident about the find, telling press that the images of Yosemite and other national parks don’t look like the master’s work.
The Art and Design of "Mad Men": An Appraisal (ARTINFO)
ARTINFO - The fourth season of AMCÂs drama "Mad Men" premiered on Sunday, and watching it — as more people did than ever before in the show’s history — was a highly pleasurable aesthetic experience, one that bathed viewers in a kind of hazy comfort. Because despite little clear advancement to the plot, the new episode brought an amplification of that thing at which "Mad Men" already excelled — that same thing that Tom Ford brought to "A Single Man," and which Luca Guadagnino offers in "I Am Love": the imbuing of everything from the fashion, to the architecture, to all aspects of the art and
design with an undeniable, inescapable, meticulous aesthetic seductiveness.
Dom P鲩gnon Drinks to Warhol in New Campaign (ARTINFO)
ARTINFO - It's a mark of how much Andy Warhol's reputation has matured — indeed fermented — since his amphetamine-fueled days as the art world's cipher and high society's indulgence that Dom Pérignon has hitched its latest promotional campaign to the artist. The venerable champagne company has introduced a new limited-edition collection of three bottles created by Central Saint Martin's Design Laboratory that pay tribute to Warhol through labels that evoke the sometimes garish colors of the artist's Pop masterpieces, from his famed "Death and Disaster" (look at that red) to his more venal commissioned portraits.
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