Tag: Basquiat, Jean-Michel

At Tiffany’s Flagship, Luxe Art Helps Sell the Jewels

Now that tickets to the Museum of Modern Art are priced at an astonishing $30 apiece, you could be forgiven for timing your visits carefully, making sure that they count. So, let’s say you find yourself in Midtown Manhattan with an hour or two to spare, and you are yearning for some culture. Perhaps you […]

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After Fake Basquiats, Orlando Museum Faces ‘Severe Financial Crisis’

It was just days before Christmas, but Cathryn Mattson, the executive director of the Orlando Museum of Art, sounded anything but festive. During a specially called meeting, she addressed several trustees and influential donors, confronting the fallout from the institution’s last 18 months. “We are in a severe financial crisis,” she explained, according to a […]

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A Fantasy That Comes With a Price Tag

What happened to fun? In the clinical white of the gallery, art can be forbidding, aggrieved, elite, academic. Shouldn’t it also, sometimes, be joyous? The collaborators behind Luna Luna thought so. This was the amusement park staged in Hamburg, Germany, in 1987, where nearly 30 professional artists including Basquiat, Hockney and Dalí designed the rides. […]

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Where the Ferris Wheel Is by Basquiat and the Carousel by Keith Haring

audience report Luna Luna, an art carnival that appeared in Hamburg in 1987, then vanished, has been resurrected in Los Angeles. You can wander there, but the rides are verboten. Text by Lauren Herstik Photographs and Video by Chantal Anderson The lights dimmed and a Ferris wheel designed by Jean-Michel Basquiat began turning in time […]

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