“Since 1977, when Cindy Sherman first exhibited her “untitled film Stills” of fictional B-movie starlets, she has surrendered herself to photographic portraits of nearly every female archetype imaginable. So completely does the artist disappear into her subjects—disheveled fashion victims, art-historical icons, tragic dowagers, manic clowns, Beverly Hills housewives—that it’s hard to believe they are all the same woman.” by Linda Yablonsky for the Wall Street Journal (2/26.2012)
“Emin brought a lot of the bias on herself. When she first rose to notoriety, as part of a group of artists including Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, and Jake and Dinos Chapman, who would come to be known as the YBAs (Young British Artists), Emin certainly lived up to her reputation.”
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PHOTOGRAPHY'S ANGEL PROVOCATEUR
"At many points throughout this dense, often exciting show, which opens on Sunday, we are confronted by an artist with an urgent, singularly personal vision, who for the past 35 years has consistently and provocatively turned photography against itself." By Roberta Smith for the New York Times
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A groundbreaking ceremony marks the onset of construction for the bayfront science museum in Miami that’s to open in 2015
Left, the “Elegy” painting that the dealer Julian Weissman bought from Glafira Rosales and sold to an Irish gallery that later demanded its money back; right, Motherwell’s “Spanish Elegy (Alcaraz) XV,” from 1953, which is part of the catalogue raisonné sponsored by the Dedalus Foundation.
Published: February 22, 2012
The Munch Museum/The Munch-Ellingsen Group/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. This version of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” dated 1895, will be up for sale at Sothebys in May
"It has adorned everything from mugs and t-shirts to key chains, anti-George Bush campaign buttons, inflatable dolls and iPad covers. Now a version of Edvard Munch’s celebrated painting “The Scream’’ will be up for sale at Sotheby’s in New York on May 2nd, the auction house announced on Tuesday morning. Officials there estimate it could bring more than $80 million." -- Carol Vogel for the NY Times (2/21/2012)
