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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, December 08, 2009
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 | Painter of evanescent frescoes wins U.K's top contemporary art honor
Reuters - December 8th, 2009 01:19
Richard Wright seems an oddly sedate choice for a prize normally associated with the enfants terribles of conceptual art. Damien Hirst won the Turner Prize in 1995 with a pickled cow. Wright's exhibition piece at Tate Britain is a baroque-style painting in gold leaf, which progresses in geometric swirls across an entire wall. His work has the ephemeral beauty of a glistening spider's web, and is on display until Jan. 3, 2010, when it will be painted over...Read more | |
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 | Old Masters set to break records in London
Bloomberg - December 8th, 2009 06:06
Works by Rembrandt, Raphael and Van Dyck are being offered for record prices in London this week at Old Master auctions that may raise as much as 81.1 million pounds ($133 million). Among a diminishing supply of great Old Masters on the market is a previously unrecorded portrait by Peter Paul Rubens (low estimate: 4 million pounds), at Sotheby's. Barbara Piasecka Johnson, the Johnson & Johnson heiress, is selling Rembrandt’s 1658 “Portrait of a Man With Arms Akimbo” ...Read more | |
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 | Louvre aims to spread culture to mining town, desert island
AP - December 7th, 2009 21:45
It's an abandoned coal mining site in a depressed corner of northern France that was pummeled by the two world wars. Soon, a branch of the Louvre Museum will rise up on this unlikely site. The (EURO)150 million ($226 million) museum in Lens, France, to open in 2012, was inaugurated this week. Another Louvre branch, designed by Frank Gehry, is under construction on an island off Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates...Read more | |
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 | Inge Morath, in living color
Guardian - December 8th, 2009 00:14
Looking at this picture – the scarlet signage on an Edward Hopperesque scene of urban America – it's hard to understand why photographer Inge Morath's work in colour has been hidden for so long. Morath – the first woman to become a full member of the Magnum agency, in 1955 – took pictures on both types of film, but Magnum co-founder Henri Cartier-Bresson preferred black-and-white. Now "First Color," by Inge Morath, published this month by Reidel, ...Read more | |
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