“A Sparkling Marilyn for Rihanna: The singer has commissioned artist Claire Milner ($157, 621.80 USD)to produce a custom portrait of the Hollywood legend using 65,000 Swarovski crystals. “I tried to show the glitter of the public life and the sadness in Marilyn’s eyes,” said the artist. “Because of who Rihanna is everything had to be done through her interior decorators. But they told me afterwards she loved it.” Bling dies hard. [Minute 15]”
Photo Credit: Claire Milner © 2012
Jeffery Dietch + Pharrell Williams @ Miami Art Basel 2011.
I have to make an effort to be @ Miami Art Basel every year starting 2012 + Art Basel 2013…I’ve waited way too long.
Photo Credit: Neptunes
Carrie Mae Weems
(c) Kwesi Abbensetts:
Who is the joke and who is the Joker?
Am I really of “Post-Black-ness”? Is that my new heritage?
“Post-black art is a phrase that refers to a category of contemporary African American art. It is a paradoxical genre of art where race and racism are intertwined in a way that rejects their interaction. I.e., it is art about the black experience that attempts to dispel the notion that race matters. It uses enigmatic themes wherein black can substitute for white.[1] Some suggest the term is attributable to the 1995 book The End of Blackness by Debra Dickerson.”
(Source: kwesiabbensetts, via tobia)
Public/Private | The Evolution of Museum Missions-12/2/11 Art Basel Miami
Panelists:
Margarita J. Aguilar, Executive Director, El Museo del Barrio, New York
Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Beatrix Ruf, Director, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich
Moderator | András Szántó, Author and Consultant to arts and philanthropic organizations, New York
Black Nouveau Riche and Post-Huxtable collector Sean “Diddy” Combs recently purchased a Tracey Emin wall sculpture from Lehmann Maupin for $45,000 during Miami Art Basel 2011. -Art Info + ABMB
images via: Sean John + Getty Images
Los Angeles billionaire Eli Broad is passing on Damien Hirst these days but chasing after abstract paintings by rising star Mark Bradford.
-via WSJ
“The biggest issue for arts organizations of color is that they have been overly reliant on foundation and government funding,” he said. Such groups “really need more individual donors, not just foundation donors.”-Michael Kaiser, president of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
*Note: the article uses the broad term diversity to suggest ethnic diversity.
