Art

Possible New Leonardo Drawing, "Profile of the Bella Principessa," Found

AP | Posted 10.14.2009 | World


TORONTO (AP) - A new portrait by Leonardo da Vinci may have been discovered thanks to centuries-old fingerprint and palm print. Peter Paul Biro, a Mo...

New Da Vinci Painting Discovered, Experts Believe (VIDEO)

Posted 10.13.2009 | World


***SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO*** By ROB GILLIES, Associated Press Writer TORONTO - Art experts believe they have identified a new Leonardo da Vinci -- in...

Sand Castle Celebrating Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Win Created In India (VIDEO)

Posted 10.12.2009 | World


An artist in India celebrated President Obama's award of the Nobel Peace Prize by building a massive sand sculpture of Obama's face next to a Nobel Pr...

Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne: Recession-Friendly Art Featured On New York City Streets

The New York Observer | Katharine Jose | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York


There is now a large bronze apple on the median of Park Avenue at 52nd Street, just west of the Seagrams building. The apple is large enough to notice...

An Elegy for Magazines

Brian Alexander | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media


Brian Alexander

A good magazine is a combination of stories, photos, drawings, opinions, reporting, whimsy, humor. It is an art that is not reproducible nor replaceable by any other medium.

Canstruction Builds Art For Food Banks

Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 10.13.2009 | Impact


Architects, engineers, and students in 130 cities are competing this fall to design and build giant sculptures made entirely from cans of food. Canstr...

France To Return "Stolen" Egyptian Art After Louvre Row

AP | ANGELA CHARLTON | Posted 10.09.2009 | World


PARIS — France's culture minister agreed Friday to return five painted wall fragments to Egypt after a row over their ownership prompted the Egy...

Van Gogh's Letters Show The Artist "Was Not A Hysterical, Irrational Man: He Was Very Methodical"

AP | TOBY STERLING | Posted 10.08.2009 | World


AMSTERDAM — While Vincent van Gogh has become almost as famed for his troubled mind as for his paintings, a new exhibition in the Van Gogh Museum se...

Reading The Pictures: Artful New Attack Meme: Obama's "Indecision"

Michael Shaw | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics


Michael Shaw

2009-10-08-20091008RuschaWhiteHousethumb.jpgAre the Republicans and the media finally discovering a critique that hits Obama at the core of his personality?

Afghanistan: Thousands Of Stolen Artifacts Returned (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 10.07.2009 | World


About 2,000 stolen artifacts were returned to Afghanistan and unveiled at the National Museum in Kabul on Tuesday, the New York Times reports. The art...

Egypt Cuts Ties With France's Louvre Museum Over 'Stolen Artifacts'

AP | PAUL SCHEMM | Posted 10.08.2009 | World


CAIRO — Egypt's antiquities czar took his campaign to recover the nation's lost treasures to a new level on Wednesday by cutting ties with one o...

Gao Brothers, Beijing Artists, Stay One Step Ahead Of Censors With Headless Mao Statue

nytimes.com | JIMMY WANG | Posted 10.06.2009 | World


BEIJING It's not the kind of sculpture of Chairman Mao you typically see in China. He's on his knees as a supplicant, confessing; his body language a...

"Young Archer": Michelangelo Statue To Be Acquired By Metropolitan Museum Of Art

AP | Posted 10.05.2009 | New York


NEW YORK — A marble statue widely attributed to Michelangelo is being loaned to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art by the French governm...

Edward Burtynsky Oil Exhibit: Examining Our Crude Oil Consumption

Posted 10.05.2009 | Green


The Edward Burtynsky Oil exhibit is on display now until December 13, 2009 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. This exhibit features l...

Short Films, Live Score

Rufus Lusk | Posted 10.01.2009 | New York


Rufus Lusk

Rachel Blackwell and Jesse Gelaznik show new video and film work at the 92Y TriBeca this Friday on the presence and absence of ritual in contemporary life and the universality of death.

Mighty Movie Podcast: The Script That Kills: Austin Peck on The Blue Tooth Virgin

Dan Persons | Posted 10.02.2009 | Entertainment


Dan Persons

A TV writer tries his hand at a feature film. His friend reads the script, thinks it's an ungodly mess of muddled symbolism and Freud 101 anxieties. "Be honest," the writer says.

Did Jackson Pollock Secretly Write His Name In His Mural?

artnewsonline.com | Kate Taylor | Posted 09.30.2009 | New York


Among the reasons that people continue to be fascinated by Jackson Pollock's paintings is their Rorschach quality. Viewers have perceived many things ...

Will Ryman: A New Beginning in Full Bloom

Ashley Van Buren | Posted 11.24.2009 | New York


Ashley Van Buren

Seeing Ryman's art is a bit like walking up and down the grid streets of Manhattan, surrounded by buildings in various states of completion -- an architect's work, like an artist's, on display for all to see.

Damien Hirst Has No Assistants

Peter Owen Nelson | Posted 11.24.2009 | Style


Peter Owen Nelson

As an art collector, I can no longer stomach these exaggerated claims about the contemporary artist Damien Hirst.

Mighty Movie Podcast: These Moments in Time: Michael Almereyda on Paradise

Dan Persons | Posted 11.23.2009 | Entertainment


Dan Persons

Michael Almereyda is no stranger to toying with film form. His latest documentary, the deceptively free-form Paradise, is an affecting -- dare I say, paradisiacal -- experience.

Artist As Citizen: Judge Our Climate Contest

Richard Reiss | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green


Richard Reiss

Over the summer, we set a couple of dozen creative students the task of describing the risk from climate change, as framed in the most recent IPCC and MIT reports.

"Reinventing Ritual" at the Jewish Museum

Oliver Noble | Posted 11.22.2009 | New York


Oliver Noble

Reinventing Ritual is a bold conversation about the Jewish future. Who would have thought it would have happened on the Upper East Side?

Women in Hip-Hop: The B-girl Be Festival

Lauri Lyons | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment

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Lauri Lyons

When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.

Culture Zohn Off the C(H)uff: Sasha Nicholas Makes Sense of Georgia O'Keeffe

Patricia Zohn | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York


Patricia Zohn

2009-09-18-chuff_okeefe_fp.jpgAn exclusive conversation with a curator of the Whitney Museum O'Keeffe exhibition sheds light on the intimate letters of the passionate power couple of art.

International Art on Governors Island: Watermill Center teams with Dutch for performance festival

Lauren DiGiulio | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York


Lauren DiGiulio

Throughout this month, Governors Island plays host to the Dutch government-sponsored New Island Festival, a two-week art extravaganza featuring provocative theater, installation, and music events.