Unlike more abstract forms of criticism, which seem to place the work of art in a vacuum, Ms Showalter's is grounded in the lived lives of her subjects, for whom she provides vibrant biographical sketches.
"Unfortunately, the collectors, buyers and sellers of works of art have traditionally paid little, if any, attention to the provenance of a work of art in terms of its ownership history, " Korte told CNN.
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As an instrument of calligraphy and painting, the seal is a work of art in itself.
For example, he cited a 13th-century crucifixion triptych from the collection sharing the same exhibition space with Damien Hirst's "The Kingdom of the Father, " a three-panel work of mounted butterflies loaned by the Broad Art Foundation in Santa Monica.
So taken with our enthusiasm are the owners, mother, father and son, that chocolate work of art after chocolate work of art is paraded in front of us: my favourite are the nuts and screws that actually work.
In the event of a conflict of interest involving a Panelist and a work of art under review, the Panelist does not participate in the discussion and is excused from the meeting.
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Examples of her work reside in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and New York's Met.
Peter Barnet, the Met's curator in charge of medieval art and the Cloisters, said he had been hoping for some time to bring in a work of contemporary art that complemented the Cloisters' setting and collection.
The result: provenance, one of the most significant factors in valuing and in researching a work of art, will often be lost.
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An announcement is expected in a matter of days on whether the National Galleries of Scotland has been successful in its campaign to buy the 16th century work of art.
He sees this period as a turning point in the work of each artist and in the history of art, and he chronicles every day, sometimes every hour, of their life together.
The power brick is a work of art in itself, barely bigger than an iPod.
Before I get accused of living offline in the last century, the area I think social product opinions can work very well is in the difficult art of selecting a gift for a friend, family member or colleague.
By restaging compositions from celebrated paintings (the majority of them in the permanent collection of the local Aberdeen Art Gallery), her work moves beyond the surface struggle and the issues around the changing topography.
In July, a yearlong retrospective of Christenberry's work opened at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, while the Aperture Gallery in New York is hosting an exhibit of his photographs through August.
Ikkan Art displays the work of international artists in four or five exhibitions a year.
It was only a grant at the end of his life from the Museum of Modern Art in New York that enabled him to work on (though not complete) the Merzbarn.
She seems to have a hard-won clarity about her life her childhood in Ireland on her father's 110-acre Galway estate, her youth in New York City's glamorous '70s fashion scene, her nearly two decades in Los Angeles with Nicholson, and her time with Graham, living in the house he built for them in Venice Beach, his most intimate work of art.
The book is as beautiful as its recipes, including about 200 photos in its 304 pages, and is a work of art, published by Flammarion and distributed in the US by Rizzoli.
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Ms. Brickman once planned to join the Peace Corps or work in photography, which she studied for a year at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.
The sale to an anonymous buyer is a landmark moment for the London art market and establishes a record price for any Post-War work of art sold at auction in Europe.
Johnson bought most of his art in 1998, when he learned that a significant body of work, the Barnett-Aden collection, was for sale by the Florida Education Fund, along with the building where the art was housed, the National Museum of African American Art, in Tampa.
Her work now hangs in museums around the world, including Ms. Walton's Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark.
Her celebrations might need some work but Yu's pedigree in the noble art of fencing is indisputable.
At a recent conference on the future of the arts in a digital world the opening night panel was asked to name a digital art work that had impressed them.
Mister Cartoon's art work graces the skin of some of the biggest names in music today.
Johnson and his team work with computer scientists to look at the current state of the art in hardware, software, and algorithms, as well as the research coming up.
Casting your home in the right light is like creating a work of art.
However, in the past, much of our work was more art than science.
It's difficult for results-oriented American sports fans to grasp, but for many soccer fans, the object of the game is never simply to win but to win beautifully and to play a role in the evolution of the game as an organic work of art.
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