In 1995 the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts “set up an authentication committee to pass judgment on artworks attributed to him. Since then several large artist-endowed foundations have adopted the same policy. None have aroused the kind of controversy and ill feeling the Warhol authentication board attracted almost from the start.”
Tag: 06.20.13
Could 3D Printing Makes Copies Of Great Sculptures As Easy To Get As Prints Of Paintings Are Now?
Speaking of endless reproducibility … Artist Cosmo Wenman “has been casing some of the world’s great sculptures for at-home replication, photographing them from every angle in plain sight inside the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Louvre in Paris, the Tate Britain, the British Museum and a few others.” He uses the images to construct digital files from which a 3D printer can produce quite respectable copies.
Report: Surge In Audience Willingness To Pay For News
“The data indicate, on average, 10% of people have paid for news in some digital form – about one-third higher than last year.”
Why Mobile Devices Won’t Kill Movie Theatres
“People are social animals and I don’t think they want to be chained to their couches, mobile devices and tablets. They want to go out.”
Why Pedro Almodóvar Returned To Sex-Filled Screwball Comedy
“My films developed into something more dark and somber in the last years. I don’t know why. I guess I’m growing, aging. It’s life. But this film has a tone that was very familiar to me in the 1980s. And when I was writing it, I almost forgot that I’m an older man. It was a good feeling, feeling younger. But it’s not the same as it was, because I’m not the same, and the world’s not the same.”
‘The Stoned Fox’ Is Russia’s New Internet Sensation
A stuffed toy – “sitting cross-legged, with a vacant stare on its face” – put up for sale on eBay by a young London artist has been adopted by Russian Photoshop wizards, “popp[ing] up in famous Russian paintings, riding the metro or taking instructions from a soccer coach. … Often, the images use the fox’s bizarre appearance to poke fun at figures of authority, a modern version of Soviet-era humor aimed at the powerful.”
What, Exactly, Is Going On With The Andy Warhol Foundation?
In short: A board authenticating pieces of art it had previously declared fakes, lawsuits, countersuits, and possible reasons for the Foundation’s decision to sell all of its Warhols.