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...Museum of Online Museums www.coudal.com/moom.php This elegantly-designed portal links to established museum and gallery sites such as those run by the Museum of Modern Art, The Bauhaus Archive and The Art Institute of Chicago. It will also introduce you to countless other online collections, from Van Gogh's letters to Chinese postage stamps to Manhole Covers of the World. For more, go to the MoOM Annex...
...pieces in the show. One is an early work, Still Life with Pitcher; the other, Street in the Midi, was not acquired by Olivier Senn but by his son Edouard. Hélène Senn-Foulds recalls that when her grandfather was offered a Vincent Van Gogh, he bought it on condition that the gallery retain the painting and let him know as soon as its value had doubled. Senn kept only the pieces he loved. The collector got to know many of the artists whose work he acquired. On one occasion, Monet wrote to Senn asking...
Record prices and million-dollar sales have become so common-in the art world that no one took much notice when Christie's, the prestigious international auction house, announced in 1981 that it had sold three paintings by the Impressionist masters Degas, Gauguin and Van Gogh for a total of $5.6 million. But earlier this month Christie's U.K. chairman, David Bathurst, admitted that he had lied about selling two of the paintings...
...that? As a rule, art grabs the popular imagination in either of two ways. One is to offer crescendos of feeling, real or simulated. That explains the long lines for any show billed "Van Gogh" or "Pollock." And in the '80s that partly explained the otherwise inexplicable fame of Schnabel, whose big, slapdash canvases seemed contrived for no greater purpose than to proclaim his muscular intention to proclaim muscular intentions. The other route an artist can pursue is to borrow from readily understood sources in pop culture. That would describe Basquiat's graffiti-derived gestures and Koons' life-size renditions...
Terror Tactics THE NETHERLANDS In a procedural hearing in the case against Mohammed Bouyeri, the alleged killer of controversial filmmaker Theo van Gogh, judges were told that Bouyeri twice ignored Van Gogh's pleas for mercy. Prosecutors said that Bouyeri first shot Van Gogh dead, then slit his throat, and that the gruesome slaying was intended to terrify the Dutch population. Bouyeri, who faces charges ranging from murder to impeding democracy, waived his right to attend the court. His trial is expected to start before the summer...