Hugely popular painter Andrew Wyeth dies at 91

Sunday, 18^th January 2009

Jasper Johns: Light Bulb Opens at Museum of Contemporary Art in ... (San Diego, US)
On view January 18 through May 10, 2009. A traveling exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Jasper Johns: Light Bulb focuses on Johns's first sculpture, Light Bulb I (1958), a recent gift to MCASD. The exhibition will bring together for the first time Johns' light bulb sculptures and related drawings and prints, including several drawings and modified prints from the artist's collection that have never before been exhibited.
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Hugely popular painter Andrew Wyeth dies at 91 (Chadds Ford, Philadelphia, US)
Wyeth's watercolor and tempera landscapes and portraits made him one of America's best loved artists. He remained a figurative painter who prospered even in times when the genre was deemed passe. Andrew Wyeth, whose realistic yet often melancholy paintings of rural Pennsylvania and Maine made him one of America's most popular living artists, and whose 1948 landscape "Christina's World" was one of the 20th century's most famous artworks, died Friday. He was 91.
Los Angeles Times

For Wyeth, Both Praise and Doubt (Chadds Ford, Philadelphia, US)
Many in the art world rushed to praise Wyeth, who died on Friday at 91, as one of the most significant American artists of the 20th century. But as ever, plenty of others lumped him with Norman Rockwell as a mere illustrator, and dismissed his most famous painting, "Christina's World," as a "mandatory dorm room poster." Kathleen A. Foster, the senior curator of American art and director of the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, said, "There is no question that there has been a polarization of opinion" about Wyeth and his work.
New York Times - United States

The art market: A tent, a rollercoaster and a merry-go-round (Global)
The fashion-art overlap that was such a feature of the contemporary art boom has come to a screeching halt, at least chez Chanel, the French fashion house. The firm sank a vast sum (millions of euros, said the French press; "no comment" said Chanel) into Mobile Art, a huge Zaha Hadid-designed futuristic bubble-tent to show artworks inspired by the Chanel quilted bag. Among the creators were Yoko Ono, the Russian Blue Noses, Korean Lee Bul, Indian Subodh Gupta and Japanese Nobuyoshi Araki.
Financial Times - London,England,UK

LACMA Presents First US Exhibition of Contemporary Korean Art in ... (Los Angeles, US)
Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea features a generation of artists who have emerged since the mid-1980s--some well-known and others on the brink of such recognition--all of whom work on the cutting-edge of international art trends and within a distinctly Korean context: Bahc Yiso, Choi Jeong-Hwa, Gimhongsok, Jeon Joonho, Kim Beom, Kimsooja, Koo Jeong-A, Minouk Lim, Jooyeon Park, Do Ho Suh, Haegue Yang and the collaborative, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (family names are in bold). 
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