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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Monday, February 15, 2010
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 | Renoir's influential late period work at LACMA
Los Angeles Times - February 14th, 2010 23:24
With subjects like his estate in the south of France and portraits of the family nanny---with and without her clothes on---the late work of Auguste Renoir offers an intimate look at the great Impressionist's surroundings and companions. A traveling exhibition, now at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, reveals why "you have to look at these as if they were by a new painter named Renoir, not the Renoir you think you know."Read more | |
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 | It was a stunning work of art – so why is the Wall hanging in a Las Vegas loo?
Guardian - February 14th, 2010 22:30
The greatest artwork of the 20th century was 100 miles long and nearly 12ft high. A multitude of hands took 13 years to make it. They had to work fast to evade the border police, for they were working inside the perimeter of East Berlin. Until recently, no concerted attempt was made to document the wall. Now, German documentary film-maker Hartmut Jahn has traced fragments of the wall as far as a men's room in a Las Vegas casino and a floating restaurant in Maine...
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 | Gauguin's 'Nevermore' voted Britain's most romantic painting
Telegraph - February 14th, 2010 23:57
The Courtauld Gallery's painting of a Tahitian girl reclining on a bed, against a background of a raven on a ledge and two figures in conversation, won a poll conducted by The Art Fund charity. A shortlist of five paintings from British collections by artists including Samuel John Peploe, Jan van Eyck, Nicolas Poussin and Titian, were selected by celebrities. About 2,000 people voted, placing the Paul Gauguin first in the 'Romantic' category...Read more | |
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 | An artist's Kodak Brownie snapshots capture reality of South
Washington Post - February 14th, 2010 05:00
William Christenberry, who is 73, has been one of Washington's most important artists for something like 40 years, working as a painter, fine-art photographer, sculptor and installer of found things. But the best way back to the origins of all his varied work, and to the heart of what it means, is through a series of scrappy little snapshots that Christenberry made in the 1970s as he toured and contemplated Hale County, Ala., where his family is from.Read more | |
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