Photo by Sally Coleman
Banksyland, a twenty-two-city international touring exhibition of work by the British artist Banksy just closed in Austin. Don’t worry if you missed it. Banksyland was a fine opportunity to see many of the artist’s authenticated prints, a few authenticated and many … Continue reading
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More than 100 years ago, Marcel Duchamp started an artistic revolution when he signed a urinal with “R. Mutt 1917,” gave it the title Fountain, and entered it in an exhibition of the Society of Independent Artist in New York. It … Continue reading
Georgia O’Keeffe, Apple Family – 2, 1920, Oil on canvas, 8’ x 10”, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM, Photo courtesy of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
We are accustomed to seeing works of art by Georgia O’Keeffe in prominent American museums, but there is a lot to be said for visiting the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, NM and experiencing her art on its own. … Continue reading
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It is hard to believe, but it’s true: a NFT (non-fungible token) digital artwork by Beeple entitled, Everydays – The First 5000 Days sold at Christie’s yesterday for $69.3 million. It is a collage of all of the artwork Beeple created for … Continue reading
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Here’s a nice love story for Valentine’s Day – it comes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a poem written in the 8th century in Rome that is based on a story from Greek mythology. Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with his statue … Continue reading
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Conspiracy theories have long been used as fodder for artists even before the dismissive term was coined by the CIA in 1967 in response to widespread skepticism about the Warren Commission report on the assassination of JFK. In Dr. Strangelove from 1964, … Continue reading
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Sandro Botticelli’s Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel from c. 1480, sold at Sotheby’s this past Thursday, January 28th with a hammer price of $80 ($92.2 million with the buyer’s premium). For a good article about the auction, including information about … Continue reading
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Maybe you have seen stories about the art that President Biden chose to have in the Oval Office. I am just going to take a minute to write about one of those works of art, The Avenue in the Rain by the … Continue reading
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My New Year’s resolution is to post regularly on The Art Minute, and I can find no better subject to write about than the upcoming exhibition of work by the very smart, funny, and brilliantly talented Deborah Roberts that will open … Continue reading
Edward Hopper, Office in a Small City, 1953, oil on canvas. 28” x 40”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Because of the concerted effort made by museums and galleries to remain connected to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic, there now is what seems like an avalanche of terrific content available on the internet. Generally speaking, major museums and … Continue reading
Alexander Calder, Untitled Mobile, 1963, Painted metal and wire, 29” x 57” x 24”, Photo courtesy of Sotheby’s Auction House.
Kinetic art is art that moves. Probably the best-known artist who created kinetic art was Alexander Calder (1896-1976), who made mobiles – large and small – that moved with the slightest breeze. Calder made these sculptures by suspending abstracted organic shapes … Continue reading
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So many people have written about the expansion of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City that the world may not need one more review, but I promise to keep it short. It’s great. I love it! They … Continue reading