http://www.articleheaven.net en-us editorial@articlealley.com Panel discussions in museums can be tedious excursions into failed utopias. The problem is that your typical artist is selfish by nature, only interested in hearing the sound of his or her own voice. Meanwhile, curators believe their true calling is acade... http://www.articleheaven.net/hennessy-youngman-art-thoughtz-at-the-chicago-mca-by-pedro-vlez-2395421.html 02nd December 2011 Dealer/blogger and self-created minor art-world phenomenon Ed Winkleman and his comrade-in-arms Murat, known on Winkleman’s blog as "Bambino," visited me in the hills of Westchester last weekend. New Yorker features writer Eric Konigsberg joined us for di... http://www.articleheaven.net/winklemania-up-close-by-charlie-finch-2389134.html 15th November 2011 After those Tanglewood concerts, culture-vulture visitors to the Berkshires typically include a day trip to the Clark Art Institute on their itinerary, where they are guaranteed a museum visit without peer. This summer, the earnest, now distinctly graying... http://www.articleheaven.net/camille-pissarro-the-idealist-impressionist-by-alexandra-anderson-2389129.html 15th November 2011 With the dread day of September 8 looming on the horizon, when hundreds of New York galleries open simultaneously, to be followed by the craziness of Performa later in the fall, punctuated daily (now) by absurdist Ryan Trecartin films at MoMA PS1, lock... http://www.articleheaven.net/the-art-carousel-whos-tzara-now-by-charlie-finch-2389127.html 15th November 2011 Choosing the right photography college can seem overwhelming at first. However, we will show you exactly how to turn one of the most important decisions of your life into an easy and sound process. Firstly, you should think carefully about your particu... http://www.articleheaven.net/find-best-schools-for-photography-2375120.html 14th October 2011 Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens and getting temporary shelter from the storm. These mentorships and collaborations end up helping sh... http://www.articleheaven.net/build-an-art-family-tree-by-jerry-saltz-2354101.html 22nd September 2011 Cy Twombly, a giant of post-war American art, died at 83 on July 5, 2011. Along with Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, he moved painting beyond the heroic domains of Abstract Expressionism. Where his predecessors worked in brawny swaths of paint, Twom... http://www.articleheaven.net/thinking-between-his-legs-by-jerry-saltz-2354099.html 22nd September 2011 It’s difficult to make a calibrated and semi-nuanced case in favor of a prominent artist who’s just died. Opinions at that moment -- and we have one here with the passing of Cy Twombly -- tend to fall emphatically either in the direction of praise (Twombl... http://www.articleheaven.net/the-writing-on-the-wall-by-peter-plagens-2354098.html 22nd September 2011 Michael Werner ranks among the most influential gallery owners in the world. Together with artists such as Georg Baselitz, Markus Lüpertz, A.R. Penck and Jörg Immendorff, he assisted in bringing international acclaim to new German art, which today is repr... http://www.articleheaven.net/i-wanted-my-own-hierarchy-2354097.html 22nd September 2011 Clubs, groups, corporations and organizations have long used custom patches in order to come up with an identification scheme, as well as to share whatever interests that they may have in common. As of today, there has been a spike in the number of co... http://www.articleheaven.net/the-benefits-of-using-custom-patches-2338788.html 23rd August 2011 Embroidered Scout patches are well-known symbols for the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts of America. These troops over the years have done a lot of work to improve the community and children’s abilities to survive in nature, and one of the biggest features of ... http://www.articleheaven.net/what-is-the-purpose-of-embroidered-scout-patches-2307947.html 06th July 2011 In the last five years, at the big New York auctions of contemporary art in May and November, Christie’s New York had the higher sales figure seven times out of ten. So it is again this week, as Christie’s evening sale of contemporary art on May 11, 2011,... http://www.articleheaven.net/art-market-watch-return-of-the-rich-2273495.html 10th June 2011 On May 10, 2011, the American Folk Art Museum -- that beloved, bedeviled museum on West 53rd Street -- confirmed what many of us had feared for years. Facing a crippling debt and low attendance, the museum (or rather, its board of directors) has decided t... http://www.articleheaven.net/architecture-killed-the-folk-art-museum-by-jerry-saltz-2271289.html 09th June 2011 Andy Warhol is the measure of the contemporary art market. In 2010 alone, 1,646 works by Warhol were sold at auction, ranging from the exotic Liz Taylor homage from 1962, Men in Her Life, which went for $63 million, to a label from a can of Campbell's chi... http://www.articleheaven.net/art-market-watch-andy-warhols-mao-2271230.html 09th June 2011 “Elegant” is the word for the work of American sculptor John Storrs (1885-1956). His Stone Panel with Black Marble Inlay (1920-21) has the grace of a ballet dancer, with upward thrust and elongated planar shape that recall both the human figure and majest... http://www.articleheaven.net/john-storrs-machineage-modernist-by-nf-karlins-2271206.html 09th June 2011 “Traditional” and “organic” are the two main types of shampoos and conditioners available in the stores. While traditional hair care products have the advantage of being generally cheaper than organic shampoos and conditioners, the latter have been pr... http://www.articleheaven.net/what-to-look-for-when-buying-organic-shampoo-2252653.html 27th May 2011 It must be remembered that the detention of Ai Weiwei is but part of a multipronged strategy by the Chinese Communist Party to stifle and kill dissent of all kinds in China. At the moment, for example, Chinese troops are forcibly removing all monks betwee... http://www.articleheaven.net/art--politics-how-to-destroy-the-chicoms-by-charlie-finch-2218545.html 09th May 2011 "Spectacle is what Jeffrey Deitch does,” explained one visitor to "Art in the Streets," Apr. 17-Aug. 8, 2011, the long-awaited survey of graffiti and street art at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. Indeed, the notion of "spectacle" only begin... http://www.articleheaven.net/moca-los-angeles-art-in-the-streets-by-hunter-drohojowskaphilp-2218535.html 09th May 2011 SOFA New York, Apr. 14-17, 2011, at the Park Avenue Armory, has long been famous as a platform for predominantly mainstream craft, featuring a predictable ubiquity of glass. For 2011, however, the fair has gotten considerably hipper. Now found at the 14th... http://www.articleheaven.net/sofa-new-york-deco-arts-and-design-by-brook-s-mason-2218521.html 09th May 2011 That thundering you hear is the sound of the art market stampeding to Dallas this weekend, on the occasion of the third edition of the Dallas Art Fair, Apr. 8-Apr. 10, 2011, which brings more than 60 dealers to the 55,000-square-foot Fashion Industry Gall... http://www.articleheaven.net/dallas-art-fair-money-is-bigger-in-texas-2218471.html 09th May 2011 I started out last Saturday at Salomon Contemporary for Meghan Boody's 47th birthday party, congratulating Linda Yablonsky on her stirring reportage from Tokyo for Artforum and comforting Meghan's son Toby, whose pet frogs she commandeered for the centerp... http://www.articleheaven.net/new-art-a-day-at-the-races-by-charlie-finch-2218451.html 09th May 2011 Famespot, founded by its CEO Bobby James Fournier, began development mid 2010 and was launch to the public fully on January 1st 2011 The website http://www.myfamespot.com was Developed for the sole purpose of assisting those promoting their talent in conn... http://www.articleheaven.net/famespot--entertainment-social-network-2090038.html 04th March 2011