artnet: pacegallery: Pace is honored to present an exhibition of recent paintings, prints, and tapestries by Chuck Close.  The exhibition will include never-before-seen oil portraits of artists and friends, such as Cindy Sherman, Paul Simon, Kara Walker, and Philip Glass.  We invite you to join us this Thursday, October 18th from 6 to 8 PM at 534 West 25th Street. © Chuck Close, Courtesy Pace Gallery This looks fantastic! 
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Pace is honored to present an exhibition of recent paintings, prints, and tapestries by Chuck Close.  The exhibition will include never-before-seen oil portraits of artists and friends, such as Cindy Sherman, Paul Simon, Kara Walker, and Philip Glass.  We invite you to join us this Thursday, October 18th from 6 to 8 PM at 534 West 25th Street.

© Chuck Close, Courtesy Pace Gallery

This looks fantastic! 

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The Stolen Work

Seven priceless artworks by artists including Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, and Lucian Freud were stolen from the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam last night. 

Flip through the album to get a visual of what was ruthlessly stolen from the Dutch museum. 

blakegopnik: DAILY PIC:  “Five Doors II”, painted in 1967 by Gerhard Richter, sold at auction on Oct. 11 for a paltry $3.5 million, compared to a Richter abstraction from 1994 that sold the next day for $34.2 million, setting a record for any living artist.   I wrote about the Richter record on today’s Daily Beast, and argued that the abstraction fetched its price because it was so much less challenging that Richter’s earlier figuration, while still bearing his august name. (Although I’ve since found out it’s a kind of fake record: A Lucien Freud sold for more while he was alive, but because he has since died, that sale is being ignored. That is, the auction houses are defining the record as being for an artist alive now rather than for an artist alive at the time of the sale of his or her work.) What I left out of my Beast piece was any discussion of “Five Doors” as a work of art. Several expert sources, speaking like old-fashioned connoisseurs, dismissed it as weaker than Richter’s landmark photo-based paintings of the 1960s. I guess I can’t go to bat for “Five Doors” as a masterpiece, but I do think that its very oddness will some day have museums eager to have it, as an example of the range of Richter’s early experimentation. The late, sort-of-record-breaking abstraction is too much like other Richters of its moment to be especially preferred over them. (Image courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2012) For a full visual survey of past Daily Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive. The Daily Pic, along with more global art news, can also be found on the Art Beast page at thedailybeast.com.
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DAILY PIC:  “Five Doors II”, painted in 1967 by Gerhard Richter, sold at auction on Oct. 11 for a paltry $3.5 million, compared to a Richter abstraction from 1994 that sold the next day for $34.2 million, setting a record for any living artist.   I wrote about the Richter record on today’s Daily Beast, and argued that the abstraction fetched its price because it was so much less challenging that Richter’s earlier figuration, while still bearing his august name. (Although I’ve since found out it’s a kind of fake record: A Lucien Freud sold for more while he was alive, but because he has since died, that sale is being ignored. That is, the auction houses are defining the record as being for an artist alive now rather than for an artist alive at the time of the sale of his or her work.) What I left out of my Beast piece was any discussion of “Five Doors” as a work of art. Several expert sources, speaking like old-fashioned connoisseurs, dismissed it as weaker than Richter’s landmark photo-based paintings of the 1960s. I guess I can’t go to bat for “Five Doors” as a masterpiece, but I do think that its very oddness will some day have museums eager to have it, as an example of the range of Richter’s early experimentation. The late, sort-of-record-breaking abstraction is too much like other Richters of its moment to be especially preferred over them. (Image courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2012)

For a full visual survey of past Daily Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive. The Daily Pic, along with more global art news, can also be found on the Art Beast page at thedailybeast.com.

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Photography by Martin Klimas

Photographer Martin Klimas was born in 1971 in Lake of Konstanz, Germany. In his pictures Klimas breaks recognizable objects so they become something else, and stops us just at the moment of transformation. The aspect of destroying is not the most important one in his work. Let’s say it is a catalyst to unleash and study this transformation. The hardest part of his work is to smash so many figurines until he finds one that truly is showing him something new. He is in that sense a sculptor, but he has only a 5000th of a second to build his sculpture.

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Apex Predator Shoe by Mariana Fantich and Dominic Young

British artists Mariana Fantich and Dominic Young have re-interpreted the classic Oxford shoe by replacing the rubber soles with 1,050 teeth dentures. The “Apex Predator Shoe” visually addresses the parallels between social evolution and evolution in the natural world. Nature as model or nature as a threat. These shoes are designed for predators with no predators of their own, residing at the top of their food chain.

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