Jeanne-Claude, artist and wife of Christo, has died. Their creative collaboration produced over 50 years of “wrapping” projects, such as the Reichstag in Berlin (1995) and more recently “The Gates” in Central Park in New York (2005). The couple had been working toward completing “Over The River” and “The Mastaba“. via the LA Times
ARTMargins is an online journal devoted to Contemporary Central and East European Visual Culture. Founded in 1999 and published three times a year, it is managed by staff at The Hungarian University of Fine Arts and University of California, Santa Barbara – our own Sven Spieker is the Editor. There are wonderfully diverse articles on…
Irving Penn, who started as fashion photography contributor at Vogue in 1943 and successfully crossed over to art photography, has died. A full obituary is here at the LA Times. The exhibition Irving Penn: Small Trades is on at the Getty Museum until January 10, 2010.
ARTstor’s Digital Library has added more than 4,600 additional images from the Larry Qualls Archive of contemporary art. This most recent release includes images from New York City gallery exhibitions during Summer & Fall 2002 and Winter & Spring 2003. The most current release brings the number of available Qualls Archive images to more than…
Christo and Jeanne-Claude‘s project Over the River (with links here and here), where the artists drape material over parts of the Arkansas River in Colorado, is facing stiff opposition. The group, calling themselves Rags Over the Arkansas River (ROAR), is protesting the project over environmental, commercial and recreational issues. via denverpost.com UPDATE (19 May 2011):…