Marilyn Manson takes on the role of fine artist, a Velazquez parades as basement junk, and Louis Vuitton purses and porn are reconfigured into fine art with varying results. This week in art news: Come as you’re not!
1. Ukranian Billionaire Selects Art-Prize Nominees
Victor Punchuk’s PinchukArtCentre announced the nominees for his Read More
On Oct. 8, virtually the entire Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will be given over to 200 paintings and drawings by 47-year-old,Naples-bornFrancesco Clemente for a retrospective that museum curators have been preparing for several years. Mr. Clemente’s sensual work has been a mainstay of the neo-Mannerist revival of interest in rich Renaissance-style art. The artist, who Read More
If we stay here, they will feel they have to stay until we are finished,” explained Carolina Herrera on a Friday afternoon (read: half-day) at her Seventh Avenue office. “Would you mind lunching at Balthazar?”
Mrs. Herrera’s car was waiting downstairs. Her brief appearance on the sidewalk caused quite a stir in the garment center. Read More
Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
