Gustav Klimt

The Week In Art

Posted 05.26.2012

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This week we saw a, exciting mix of historical greats and new technology. We celebrated a master's anniversary, revisited the Paris red light district...

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Gustav Klimt's Spectacular 150th Anniversary

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Symbolism, New York Art Exhibitions, Video, Neue Galerie, The Kiss Klimt, Slideexpand, Pre-Raphaelite, Adele Bloch-Bauer, Sigmund Freud, Gustav Klimt, Painting, Klimt, Vienna, Arts News

This year marks the 150th anniversary of Gustav Klimt's birthday, and museums around the world are celebrating the Austrian Secessionist's work. You c...

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The True Tale Behind Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece

AP | By JONATHAN LOPEZ | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Austria, Art, Anne-Marie O'Connor, True Stories, Austrian Art, Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, Painting, Portraits, Arts News

-- "The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, `Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer'" (Knopf), by Anne-Marie O'Connor: In 1907...

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A Pomegranate & Billy Jack: Conversations with Once's Marketa Irglova and honeyhoney

Mike Ragogna | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Donny Osmond, The Swell Season, Suzanne Santo, Glen Hansard, Iron & Wine, Marketa Irglova, Justin Beiber, Marie Osmond, Dirty Projectors, Gustav Klimt, Wrath of Khan, Bob Dylan, The Simpsons, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Tom Laughlin, Billy Jack, Nahid Hagigat, John Carney, Jon Stewart, Fleet Foxes, Kiefer Sutherland, Ben Jaffe, Luke Lewis, Once, Honeyhoney, Beginners, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

According to Marketa Irglova, her latest album is a direct result of her making a conscious decision to make music.

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PHOTOS: Architecture For The City Bird

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 12.29.2011

Read More: Mies Van Der Rohe, Brooklyn, Dwelling Units, Daniel Libeskind, Xam Bot, Urban Ornithologist, Gustav Klimt, Street Art, Feeding Units, Street Artist, Steven P. Harrington, Humorist, Designer, Graff Writer, Engineer, Victor Horta, Social Activist, Biomimicry, Archtecture, Santiago Calatrava, William McDonough, Environmentalism, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jaime Rojo, Social Activism, New York City, Architect, Eero Saarinen, Le Corbusier, Art in the Streets, Non-Dwelling Units, Razzel Dazzel, Environmentalist, Xam, X Charles & Ray Eammes, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Xam-Bot, Arts News
Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington

Architect to the urban aviary set, Street Artist XAM is one rare bird. Averaging one per week over the last year, the California born former graffiti ...

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Painting Stolen By Nazis Expected To Sell For $25 Million

Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Symbolism, Austria, Sotheby's New York, Lodz Ghetto, Holocaust, Salzburg Austria, Nazis, Symbolist Art, Poland, Nazi Repatriation, Gustav Klimt, Landscapes, Sotheby's, Landscape Painting, UK Arts, Museum of Modern Art Salzburg, Arts News

After a tremendous journey over the past few decades, Gustav Klimt's landscape, "Litzlberg on the Attersee," has found itself on the auction block and...

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Kia Makarechi

Vienna In NoLIta

HuffingtonPost.com | Kia Makarechi | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Pop Up, Pop-Up Stores, Tourism, Austria, NY Events, Openhouse Gallery, Cafe Sacher, Austrian Tourist Office, Pop-Up, Velazquez, Gustav Klimt, Klimt, New York Events, New York, New York News

If you keep your head down while walking down Mulberry Street in the boutique-laden depths of NoLita this week, you might miss it. But for those pl...

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WATCH: 500 Years Of Artists Paint Women

Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Edouard Manet, Kazimir Malevich, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Philip Scott Johnson, Rene Magritte, Gustav Klimt, Anders Zorn, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Morphing, Animation, Henri Matisse, Arts News

New to us at HuffPost Arts, Philip Scott Johnson's "500 Years Of Female Portraits In Western Art" is intriguing in its ability to trace how representa...

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Street Art, Orgies & Car Crashes: The Work Of Miss Bugs

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Miss Bugs, Nyc, Hannah Hoch, Stanley Kubrick, Picasso, Brooklyn, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Brooklyn Street Art, Mel Ramous, Gustav Klimt, Kurt Schwitters, Warhol, Jaime Rojo, Banksy, Man Ray, Steven P. Harringon, Takashi Murakami, Leonardo De Vinci, Brooklynite Gallery, Keith Haring, David Lynch, Mc Escher, Shakespeare, Vera Lehndorff, UK Arts, Arts News
Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington

A stunningly horrendous car crash. A windshield smashed in by a wooden stump. A shard of white light cutting sharply through a smoke cloud which rises...

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Record Sale Of Schiele Work Brings London Auction Total To $155M

Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Egon Schiele, Austria, Art, Art Auctions, Modern Art, Pablo Picasso, Gustav Klimt, Painting, UK Arts, Sotheby's, Christies, Claude Monet, Arts News

Last week in London a sale of just 35 lots brought in $155 million (97 million pounds) for Sotheby's. The highest selling piece was a townscape, "Hous...

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The Ten Best Love Poems Ever Written In Honor Of Valentine's Day 2011

James Scarborough | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Henri Rousseau, Jennifer Reeves, W.H. Auden, Lisa Adams, Cristina Barroso, Paul Gauguin, Gustav Klimt, Joan Miro, Stephen Vincent Benet, Robinson Jeffers, Andre Breton, Pablo Neruda, Jan Van Eyck, A.E. Housman, Georges Seurat, Slidepollajax, Theodore Roethke, E.E. Cummings, Amedeo Modigliani, Lord Byron, William Butler Yeats, Arts News
James Scarborough

Mindful of Paul Valery's painfully true contention that "Love is being stupid together," how about ten poems and ten paintings that celebrate the art of being stupid together? Come on, just this once.

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AUCTION NEWS: Round-Up Of Christie's Record Auctions In 2010

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol, Art Auction, Christie's Auction House, Slideshow, Post War and Contemporary Art, Art Auctions, Pablo Picasso, Alberto-Giacometti, Asian Art, Christie's, Gustav Klimt, Jasper Johns, Amedeo Modigliani, Arts News

The art market has spoken: the first half of 2010 has been a success for Christie's. Worldwide sales have been up 46% compared to the same period last...

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Gust

AP | VERONIKA OLEKSYN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art Gallery, The Secession, Klimt, The Secession Vienna, Vienna Sex Club, Art, Gustav Klimt, Austria, Vienna, element6, World News

VIENNA — In the name of art, an Austrian landmark is encouraging visitors to confront their sexual inhibitions by having them walk through a swi...

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RIP Alexander the Great

Daria Shualy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 12" Boots, Platform Shoes, Sense of Fashion, London Fashion Week, Alexander McQueen, Fashion, British Fashion, Rip, High Fashion, Antoni Gaudí, Charles Darwin, Le Corbusier, Gustav Klimt, Frank Gehry, Hundertwasser, Style News
Daria Shualy

Tthe thing I do love about high fashion is the extent to which it is art. And in this aspect, for me, no one was more of an artist than Alexander McQueen.

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