Painting a la mode

The Village Voice;  December 4, 2002 ;     700+ words ......protecting-the ones who think theirs was the last...understood the medium. Painting is one of the greatest...your teeth into. "Painting as Paradox" is no...and a polemic to think about. When the chewing...graphics, or landscape painting. Think Gary Hume, Inka Essenhigh...

Cleaning revives painting of Easton: Restorer came to admire the city...

Morning Call (Allentown, PA);  April 20, 2006 ;     700+ words ......to tell the trees were in bud. The exact date of the painting is not known, but some historians believe it was completed...before 1905, the year the first inn burned down. But the painting has been restored almost to its original beauty by...Marlton, N.J., the conservator, has treated selected paintings ...

Painting Is Dead

The Washington Post;  November 21, 1993 ;     700+ words ......discovery gave the painting process opportunities...invention. Just think how repetitive...of advancing painting in the '90s. I don't think painting can make it alone...disinterest in painting and the rejection...thrill-seekers. But I think it runs deeper...

Painting Sold

NPR All Things Considered;  May 6, 1998 ;     700+ words ......he's able to achieve in a painting like this that makes it seem...dramatic? BROOME: Well, I think he had a great love for the...absolutely not. I don't think -- I don't believe my name is even on the painting. ADAMS: Oh, really? Why is that? BROOME: Oh, I think it's distracting. I ...

The Knack: How To Value A Painting By Philip Hook, A Senior Director Of...

The Independent - London;  April 27, 2001 ;     528 words ......ARE definite criteria that determine the value of a painting. At the moment at Sotheby's we have an unusual case of a painting which hasn't been seen for around 100 years. It's part...Gallimard lent it for exhibition between 1891 and 1895. The painting is part of a series of 23, 15 of which are on ...

Painting Earns Its Stripes.

The Nation;  February 21, 2000 ;     700+ words ......inferior, equal or superior to painting. The texts in which the issue...The sculptor was an artisan-think of the fact that sentencing...in Jan Vermeer's The Art of Painting, recently on loan to the National...artist, shown from behind, is painting the Muse of History, using...since the place where ...

Misjudging the landscape; The art world didn't embrace a local family's...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  December 15, 2004 ;     684 words ......rid of it. Nobody's jumping up and down about it. The painting's museum-worthy size - 5 feet by 3 feet - may have...individual buyers, Susanin said. He doubted that the painting having been restored played into the final sale price...quoted because he had not personally inspected the painting. The art ...

First things forst: What's on our mids this week: Is painting dead...

The Scotsman;  June 10, 2006 ;     302 words ......stared in horror at the first daguerrotype: "From today, painting is dead," he proclaimed. It died again when Marcel...Our own Adrian Wiszniewski took a pop at it in 1999. "Painting is dead," he said, shortly after staging an exhibition entitled On The Death of Painting: A Celebration. Although, it ...

Cook Discovers Stolen Painting

Albuquerque Journal;  September 2, 2004 ;     700+ words ......including the loss of a $500,000 Georgia O'Keeffe painting taken in December from the state Museum of Fine Arts...Galleries through an unlocked rear door and removed the painting from a display case, according to a police report...the gallery, according to police. In addition to the painting by Sharp, ...

Painting's worth is in the eye of the beholder.

Post-Bulletin (Rochester, MN);  December 21, 2006 ;     700+ words ......history. It's a beautiful painting. It's one of our prize pieces...intention Huelsbeck says the painting and the debate it has stirred...argues that the power of the painting comes from its ability to...willingness to be looked at. I think there is a sort of vulnerability...wouldn't be as ...

Experts fear stolen da Vinci was damaged; (pounds) 30m painting ripped...

The Sunday Herald;  June 20, 2004 ;     700+ words ......an insurance payment of only (pounds) 3.2m for the painting because his (pounds) 400m art collection was not insured for its full value. Theories put forward that the painting was stolen by a gypsy family which has been implicated...knew the area well," said the art expert source. "A painting like this ...

The Saturday Essay: The bewildering pleasure of looking at paintings I...

The Independent - London;  April 10, 1999 ;     700+ words ......visit to the Accademia in Venice, where I saw the real painting for the first time four years later, I made a startling...one exception: I left out the man. My memory of the painting was of the woman, the child, the landscape, the ruins...My obliteration of this man is a commentary on the painting, on ...

Painting comes down as art show ends

Arlington Heights Post (IL);  May 15, 2003 ;     570 words ......class. Loeffler said the breast was included in the painting as a symbol of feminism. "I was not trying to shock...in herself." Sievert said she would have allowed the painting to be displayed unrestricted in a part of the school...for its Display of Cultures event, and she felt the painting was not fit ...

Harley painting stolen from Cedarburg center Theft is the second in...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  June 22, 1998 ;     519 words ......it was a work valued at $50. According to Smith, his painting is worth about $2,600. "This was unfortunate," Teske said. "It (the painting) represents such an effort of time and creativity....recovery are slim. Police have no suspects, and the painting was taken between the evening of June 6 and the ...

MFA says it didn't offer truest picture of Monet painting's past.

The Boston Herald;  December 1, 1998 ;     631 words ......seum's decision to include the painting in the blockbuster show...stating that despite the painting's troubled history the public...owner is located. I don't think there is any blame here...a press conference. This painting has been exhibited (widely...will be taken to remove the painting ...