The Daily Checklist
– LACMA Honors Scorsese and Hockney: LACMA has announced that it will honor Martin Scorsese and David Hockney at its third annual Art+Film gala, which is co-chaired by LACMA trustee Eva Chow and actor Leonardo DiCaprio. Bagging Scorsese is a bit of surprise,...
– Basquiat Musical Broadway-Bound?: The life of tragic '80s art star Jean-Michel Basquiat has already been made into a movie; now it may be heading for the Great White Way. Later this month a private reading of a new Basquiat musical ...
– Secret Michelangelo Wall Drawings Found: A set of charcoal wall drawings by Renaissance master Michelangelo has been discovered in a tiny secret underground chamber beneath a chapel in a Medici basilica in Florence where the artist spent...
– Franco on the Power of Cross-Dressing: For his new collaboration with video art great Douglas Gordon at Pace's London location, artist-actor-renaissance man James Franco cast himself in the role of Marion Crane (originally played by Janet Leigh) in a...
– Judge Suggests Cocktail Therapy in Bitter "Popeye" Suit: Lawyers for Larry Gagosian are asking for billionaire Ronald Perelman’s lawsuit against the gallery to be dismissed. The case started in September 2012 when Gagosian sued...
– New Lights for Mona Lisa: The Louvre has amped up the wattage on its shining star, unveiling a new lighting system for Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" this week that features 34 adjustable LED bulbs custom-designed by Toshiba, which is in the midst of...
– Aussies Seize Obscene Justin Bieber Collage: Austrialian police recently seized works by 25-year-old artist Paul Yore depicting children with sexual objects from an exhibition titled "Like Mike" at St. Kilda's Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts in...
– Communist Paper Picks Pin Into Inflatable Duck Craze: Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman's 54-foot-tall yellow inflatable duck in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour has proved popular — so popular that property developers in Hangzhou, Wuhan, and Tianjin...
– Vatican Revamps Patronage Program: The Holy See just made its Venice Biennale debut, but that's only phase one of an ambitions contemporary art takeover. On Saturday, cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, the president of the Pontifical Council for Culture,...
– Marc Quinn Brings Pregnant Nudes to Venice: The YBA Marc Quinn, known for making popsicle self-portraits from his own blood and for giving the British Museum a golden statue of Kate Moss, has not one but two new works at the Venice Biennale featuring nude,...
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May 17, 2013
