The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that its Costume Institute’s “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty” exhibition, which closed yesterday, was the eighth most popular in the museum’s history, ranking it alongside the enormously popular King Tut, Pablo Picasso and Vincent Van Gogh shows.
A new documentary on German Neo-Expressionist Anselm Kiefer takes a cue from its portentous subject and eschews the genre’s typical style of narration and biography in favor of a solemn meditation on Kiefer’s artistic practice.
In a city where every artist has a band, it’s not much of a surprise that street artist Chris Johanson is debuting his “Quiet Music Festival” in Portland, Ore., Aug. 12-13, 2011, at the Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center.
Convicted Rhode Island art dealer Rocco DeSimone, who was sentenced to 16 years a couple of weeks ago for a $6 million scam defrauding investors, is now claiming poverty in the hopes of avoiding the $2.2 million preliminary forfeiture order that’s expected.
