WALL STREET JOURNALBy Sameer ReddyNEW YORK - Building an art collection often requires cultivating relationships with a global network of dealers, but now, a steadily growing genre of online ventures is seeking to streamline the process for both beginners and established collectors, facilitating keyboard-click access to fine art. [High End] With high-profile investors and advisers—Art.sy aims to become a Pandora for fine art; The art-marketing site Paddle8, provides guest-curated "virtual exhibitions" accompanied by dossiers on participating...
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
USA TODAY SWEDEN - Scientists hunting for an elusive sub-atomic particle say they've found "intriguing hints" that it exists, narrowing down the search for what is believed to be a basic building block of the universe. The Higgs boson — popularly referred to as the "God particle" — is more likely to be found in the lower mass or energy ranges of the massive atom smasher being used to track it down, physicists from two independent research teams said Tuesday. [link]...
THE NEW YORKER NEW YORK - Sotheby’s mounts a sale of Judaica on Dec. 14, which includes such highly prized items as a lush Isidor Kaufmann painting of a young woman gazing mournfully at the viewer (“The Newlywed”) and a set of eighteenth-century German Torah finials. A sale of Israeli art the same day features a series of three oil paintings by Marc Chagall depicting synagogue interiors (an atypical subject for the artist) in Jerusalem, Vilna, and Safed. (York Ave. at 72nd St. 212-606-7000.) [li...
THE GUARDIAN By Jonathon Jones"The Crowning of Thorns" Courtesy of owner Kunsthistorisches MuseumI've waited a long time for a decent book on Caravaggio to come along. Unable to translate the shock of his images into prose, authors either sensationalise his life story in ways so crass as to be irrelevant, or retreat into reconstructions of his networks of patronage that are so dull they make you wonder why you ever felt seduced by his art in...
Monday, 12 December 2011
USA TODAYBy Douglas StanglinAFP/Getty Images by Kim Jae-MyungKOREA - Despite warnings from Pyongyang, South Korea says it will light three giant Christmas trees along the North Korean border. North Korea has warned South Korea of "unexpected consequences" if it goes thrugh with its plans, the BBC reports. Pyongyang has accused Seoul of using the trees to spread the Christian message to people inside Noth Korea. A government official said Seoul will...
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