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...subway walls. The real things, so emblematic of Vienna's embrace of early 20th century Art Nouveau, attract tens of thousands of art lovers to the city each year. So it was with genuine dismay that Austrians woke one morning last week to discover that five of the artist's best-known works housed in the Belvedere Palace - including the famous golden portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the painting's original owner - were suddenly no longer theirs. After a seven-year legal battle, an Austrian arbitration court ruled that the paintings, valued at $150 million, were the property...
DIED. JIM GARY, 66, globally popular artist known for massive yet graceful dinosaur sculptures made from the vividly painted parts of junked cars; after a brain hemorrhage; in Freehold, N.J. Gary's T. Rexes--with oil pans for heads and leaf springs for ribs--delighted kids as well as curators, including those at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, where he had an acclaimed solo show...
Despite its glass towers, sophisticated downtown eateries and swish nighttime skiing, Vancouver still has a frontier-town feel, and you can sense the culture clash in the work of artist Brian Jungen. On display in Jungen's hometown solo show at the Vancouver Art Gallery until April 30 are works ironically recasting mass-produced objects into indigenous artifacts, such as Indian masks constructed from basketball sneakers, as well as a sculpture that transforms cheap plastic chairs into a whale skeleton. Jungen, who was raised on Dane-zaa Indian land north of the remote logging town of Fort St. John, British...
...achieve a more beautiful world if we dare not imagine it? Take the following thought experiment: the world is a big block of marble, and you are its sculptor, wishing to carve it into a stunning sculpture. You have your tools all ready to go, but like any great artist, what must you do before you even make that first cut on the stone? You need to have a vision for your final product; without one, you risk cracking—if not entirely shattering—the piece of marble before ever realizing your masterpiece. Too often, I fear...
Despite its glass towers, sophisticated downtown eateries and swish nighttime skiing, Vancouver still has a frontier-town feel, and you can sense the culture clash in the work of artist Brian Jungen. On display in Jungen's hometown solo show at the Vancouver Art Gallery until April 30 are works ironically recasting mass-produced objects into indigenous artifacts, such as Indian masks constructed from basketball sneakers, as well as a sculpture that transforms cheap plastic chairs into a whale skeleton. Jungen, who was raised on Danezaa Indian land north of the remote logging town of Fort St. John, British Columbia...