Saturday, September 3, 2011

Art news you might have missed this summer, from the New York Times

In case you didn't get a chance to read the New York Times every day this summer, here is a selection of art-related news articles and reviews from the Times, from May to August.

5/6:
Crystal Bridges Museum Receives $800 Million From Walton Family

5/12:
The Met to Take Over Whitney’s Breuer Building

5/14:
Marseille: City on the Verge of a Culture Buzz

5/19:
“Yarn bombing” seems to be having its moment in pop culture.

5/20:
‘Access to Tools’ and Whole Earth Catalog at MoMA: Empowering People of Spaceship Earth

5/25:
Alexander Melamid’s Art Healing Ministry in SoHo

5/27:
Leonora Carrington Is Dead at 94; Artist and Author of Surrealist Work

Medieval Style Files: Tailored Artistry

5/29:
Steve Rutt, an Inventor Behind Early Video Animation, Dies at 66

The Pietà Behind the Couch

6/4:
Chinese Artist Wang Jun Speaks Out After Release

6/5:
A Chronicler of the Art-Vandal Underground

Middle Eastern Artists at the Venice Biennale

6/6:
An Artist Who Gained Fame From a Work’s Disappearance

6/8:
William Toye Pleads Guilty to Fraud: For a Longtime Forger, Adding One Last Touch

6/9:
The 54th Venice Biennale, Sedate and Pumped-Up

6/10:
Maqbool Fida Husain, India’s Most Famous Painter, Dies at 95

6/11:
Georgian Artists, Doing It for Themselves

6/12:
Op-Ed: The 4-Year-Old Artist

6/13:
Claudio Bravo, Artist Who Blended Hyperrealism and Classical Elements, Dies at 74

6/14:
Ben Wilson Makes Art Out of Chewing Gum on London Sidewalks

Adam Szymczyk: Superstar Among Curators

Stereo Blindness Allows Some to See a Masterpiece

Show Highlights the Return of the Loom

6/16:
Alice Walton on Her Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

6/17:
‘Otherworldly’ at Museum of Arts and Design

El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files 2011

6/19:
From a New Generation of Artists, Vivid Canvases of Iraq’s Pain

6/21:
Spoonfuls of Medicine, Marketed for Centuries

6/22:
Artnet Has Online Art Sales Success

6/23:
Artists Investigate Identity and Boundaries in Extraterritorial Waters

6/26:
John Waters, Guest Curator at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

7/5:
Pushing Boundaries, Mixed-Race Artists Gain Notice

7/6:
Cy Twombly, 1928-2011: American Artist Who Scribbled a Unique Path

A Reunified Painting Stirs Big Thoughts in China and Taiwan

7/7:
Freed Chinese Artist Reported to Be Back at Work, Though Barred From Talking to Press

7/10:
Chicago: Laid-Off Art Teachers Turn to Their Craft to Express Themselves

Science to Art, and Vice Versa

7/13:
Revolution Dims Star Power of Egypt’s Antiquities Chief

7/14:
T. Lux Feininger, Photographer and Painter, Dies at 101

For Florence, Vasari Was a Man of All Talents

7/15:
Illustrating Damsels in Distress and Emissaries From Our Deep, Dark Ids

7/18:
Locus of Sadness in Mexico, Bathed in Light, Begins to Heal

MoMA Exhibit Shows How Technology Is Getting the Point Across

7/20:
At Two Apple Stores, Creating Art via Webcam, Secretly

7/21:
Guy Wildenstein Defends Holding Missing Art in Paris Vault

7/22:
Lucian Freud, Figurative Painter Who Redefined Portraiture, Is Dead at 88

“Ostalgia,” Art From Russia and the Former Soviet Bloc, at the New Museum

7/28:
A Gamble on Art on the ‘Redneck Riviera’ May Not Be Paying Off

7/30:
Jerome Liebling, Socially Minded Photographer, Dies at 87

7/31:
Frank Bender, ‘Recomposer’ of Faces of the Dead, Dies at 70

“Ajiaco: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul” -- Myths, Legends and Cuban Culture

8/2:
Arts Outposts Stung by Cuts in State Aid

8/3:
Guggenheim Outpost as a Pop-Up Urban Lab

8/6:
A Sarajevo Bunker Takes on New Life as Art Museum

8/7:
The Trivialities and Transcendence of Kickstarter

8/10:
Roman Opalka, an Artist of Numbers, Is Dead at 79

Controversial Art Exhibit Is Shut Down in the Philippines

8/12:
A Beijing Exhibition on Art for the 'Post-Human Era'

8/18:
Robert Breer, Pioneer of Avant-Garde Animation, Dies at 84

8/19:
‘Dialog in the Dark’ at South Street Seaport: Darkness Visible, and Palpable

8/21:
Comic Book Art Showcased in Books

8/24:
Suit Against MoMA Highlights Time-Limit Rule in Nazi Looting Claims

8/25:
American Folk Art Museum Weighs Survival Strategies

Art and Fashion in Dasha Zhukova’s Garage

8/27:
Jeanette Ingberman, a Founder of Exit Art, Dies at 59

Leonardo Mural in Florence May Be Revealed

8/28:
June Wayne, Painter and Printmaker, Dies at 93

Old Mug Shots Fuel Art, and a Debate on Privacy

Works by Asco at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The Changing Face of the Burning Man Festival

(Creative Commons photograph by Ken_Mayer)

Tim Kiser, weekend circulation assistant.

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