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2010 In Art
The year 2010 in art involved various significant events. Events *February 3 – The sculpture ''L'Homme qui marche I'' by Alberto Giacometti sells in London for £65 million, at this time a new world record for a work of art sold at auction. *February–March – Artist Michael Landy hosts the ''Art Bin''. *March – Lawrence Salander, the former proprietor of the now closed Salander/O'Reilly Galleries pleads guilty to 29 felony counts of grand larceny and in August is sentenced to six to eighteen years in prison. *March 3 – The New Museum in New York sparks controversy with Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection by deciding to exhibit works from the private collection of one of its trustees. *May – MAXXI the new and first Italian national museum of contemporary art designed by architect Zaha Hadid opens in Rome. *May 4 – ''Nude, Green Leaves and Bust'' a 1932 painting by Pablo Picasso is sold at Christie's for $106.5 million. There are more th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of Assemblage (art), constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the Proto-Cubism, proto-Cubist ''Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'' (1907) and the anti-war painting ''Guernica (Picasso), Guernica'' (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War. Beginning his formal training under his father José Ruiz y Blasco aged seven, Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent from a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Chow
China Eiko Chow (born 15 April 1974) is a British-born American actress and model. Early life and education Chow was born in London to restaurateur Michael Chow and his wife, model/designer Tina Chow (). Her paternal grandfather was the Peking Opera's Zhou Xinfang. Her paternal aunt is actress and former "Bond girl" Tsai Chin. Her maternal aunt is the artist Adelle Lutz. Through Lutz's 1987 marriage, her uncle is David Byrne. Her parents left London for New York in 1980, when she was 5 years old. They then relocated to Los Angeles in 1985. Her mother, who was born in Ohio, was of German and Japanese ancestry and her father is Chinese. She has a younger brother, Maximilian (b. 1978). Her parents divorced in November 1989. In 1992, Chow's mother Tina died of AIDS. The same year, Chow's father married Eva Chun, a Korean fashion designer.Morris, Bob. 20 December 2011. In February 2019, her father married his fourth wife, Vanessa Rano, who is 49 years his junior. She attend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Saltz
Jerry Saltz (born February 19, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American art critic. Since 2006, he has been senior art critic and columnist for ''New York magazine, New York'' magazine. Formerly the senior art critic for ''The Village Voice'', he received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2018 and was nominated for the award in 2001 and 2006.Parmiggiani, Sandro (February 2011).Il 90% dell’arte è pessima, il 9% buona, l’1% favolosa (e forse resterà) (review of Italian edition of ''Seeing Out Loud''; in Italian). ''Il Giornale dell'arte''. No. 306. ilgiornaledellarte.com. Retrieved 2018-07-20. Saltz served as a visiting critic at School of Visual Arts, Columbia University, Yale University, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the New York Studio Residency Program, and was the sole advisor for the 1995 Whitney Museum, Whitney Biennial. Saltz is the recipient of three honorary doctorates, including from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008 and Kan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965) is an American actress and television producer. In a career spanning over five decades, she has performed across several productions of both Sarah Jessica Parker filmography, screen and stage. List of awards and nominations received by Sarah Jessica Parker, Her accolades include six Golden Globe Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards. ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine named her one of the Time 100, 100 most influential people in the world in 2022. Parker made her Broadway debut at the age of 11 in the 1976 revival of ''The Innocents (play), The Innocents'', going on to star in the title role of the Broadway musical ''Annie (musical), Annie'' in 1979. She made her first major film appearances in the 1984 dramas ''Footloose (1984 film), Footloose'' and ''Firstborn (1984 film), Firstborn''. Further films followed in the 1990s, including ''L.A. Story'' (1991), ''Honeymoon in Vegas'' (1992), ''Hocus Pocus (1993 film), Hocus Pocus'' (1993), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Next Great Artist
''Work of Art: The Next Great Artist'' is an American reality competition show that aired on the cable television network Bravo, in which up-and-coming artists compete for a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum and a cash prize of $100,000. The show was produced by Pretty Matches Productions and Magical Elves Productions, the same company that created ''Project Runway'' and ''Top Chef''. The series premiered on June 9, 2010. ''Work of Art'' was renewed for a second season in September 2010 which began on October 12, 2011. Seasons Season 1 (2010) Contestants : Age at the time of filming. : City of residence at the time of filming. Contestant progress : John had his book cover published by Penguin Books; he did not receive immunity. : Beginning with this episode, the winners no longer received immunity. : (WINNER) The artist won ''Work of Art: The Next Great Artist.'' : (RUNNER-UP) The artist was a runner-up for the season. : (WIN) The artist won that episode's challenge. : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bravo (US TV Channel)
Bravo is an American basic cable television network, launched on December 8, 1980. It is owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division of Comcast's NBCUniversal. The channel originally focused on programming related to fine arts and film. Since the 2000s, its has focused heavily on reality series targeted at 25-to-54-year-old women and the LGBTQ community at large. Its former sister channels are Nickelodeon and IFC, which are currently owned by Paramount Global and AMC Networks, respectively. , Bravo is available to approximately 70,000,000 pay television households in the United States, down from its 2013 peak of 95,000,000 households. History Launch and early programming Bravo originally launched as a commercial-free premium channel on December 8, 1980. It was originally co-owned by Cablevision's Rainbow Media division and Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment; the channel claimed to be "the first television service dedicated to film and the performing arts". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June 9
Events Pre-1600 * 411 BC – The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy. * 53 – The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia. * 68 – Nero dies by suicide after quoting Vergil's ''Aeneid'', thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors. * 721 – Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse. * 747 – Abbasid Revolution: Abu Muslim Khorasani begins an open revolt against Umayyad rule, which is carried out under the sign of the Black Standard. *1311 – Duccio's Maestà, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy. * 1523 – The Parisian Faculty of Theology fines Simon de Colines for publishing the Biblical commentary ''Commentarii initiatorii in quatuor Evangelia'' by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples. * 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to describe and map the Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Matisse
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual arts, visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a drawing, draughtsman, printmaking, printmaker, and sculpture, sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. The intense colourism of the works he painted between 1900 and 1905 brought him notoriety as one of the Fauvism, Fauves (French language, French for "wild beasts"). Many of his finest works were created in the decade or so after 1906, when he developed a rigorous style that emphasized flattened forms and decorative pattern. In 1917, he relocated to a suburb of Nice on the French Riviera, and the more re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 20
Events Pre-1600 * 325 – The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church. * 491 – Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed '' Augusta'' is able to choose her successor for the Byzantine throne, after Zeno (late emperor) dies of dysentery. * 685 – The Battle of Dun Nechtain is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated. * 794 – While visiting the royal Mercian court at Sutton Walls with a view to marrying princess Ælfthryth, King Æthelberht II of East Anglia is taken captive and beheaded. * 1217 – The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke. * 1293 – King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Estudio de Escuelas de Generales in Alcalá de Henares. * 1426 &n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
