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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, September 29, 2009
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 | Sharing Andy's Art: Michelle Obama visits Warhol Museum with G20 spouses
Journal-Sentinel - September 28th, 2009 18:16
PITTSBURGH - While their husbands were off attempting to address the world's problems, Michelle Obama and the G20 spouses lunched at the 7-story Andy Warhol Museum. The museum holds the largest collection of work by Warhol, a Pittsburgh native. Some of the spouses donned aprons and tried Warhol's technique of silk-printing "Flowers" on bags as a souvenirs. The White House posted this photograph of the group admiring the Marilyns.Read more | |
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 | Master Forger's 'Fake' now Deemed Real: A Dutch masterpiece emerges, possibly from Vermeer's home
The Independent - September 28th, 2009 17:27
LONDON - He made his name as the world's most ingenious art forger. So when the Courtauld Institute of Art was presented with a copy of a Dutch Golden Age painting by the arch-counterfeiter Hans van Meegeren, the gallery's director accepted the work as a fake of the highest order. Now, 50 years after The Procuress was deemed a forgery – albeit a brilliant one – it has proved to be a genuine 17th-century painting of the Dutch Golden period and may even have hung in ...Read more | |
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 | Sotheby's Sale of Naked Icons: Big-name photographers, supermodels spice-up auction
Luxist - September 28th, 2009 17:41
NEW YORK - On October 9th, Sotheby's will stage a stunning sale of photographs including several nude portraits of supermodels, with work from the likes of Chuck Close, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton and more. One of the top lots is a series of six full frontal nudes of Kate Moss by Chuck Close taken in 2003, estimated at $100,000 - $150,000. A relatively tame image of Nadja Auermann by Irving Penn from 1994 is also a relative bargain at $6,000 - $9,000Read more | |
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 | New Video: Artists recall birth pains of contemporary Chinese art
Reuters - September 28th, 2009 08:10
HONG KONG (Reuters Life!) - Just over 30 years ago, not long after the death of Mao Zedong, a group of young Chinese artists staged an exhibition that pushed back on a decade of tyranny and helped pave the way for Chinese art's global rise. Artwork was hung outside Beijing's National Art Gallery in 1979, as artists demanded artistic freedoms. Perhaps the best known of these dissidents is Ai Weiwei whose works sell for millions now in New York art galleries and global auction halls. ...Read more | |
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