Modern Art NotesTyler Green's modern & contemporary art blogTuesday links- July 1, 2008 Bring-you-a-smile story of the day: Building owner removes major public mural by depositing it in dumpster. Art scenesters converge on said dumpster.Do you own art that belongs to Brigham Young University In the fictional matter of public art titans Chris Burden (LA + NYC) vs. Olafur Eliasson (NYC), I declare the winner to be Burden by KO. (As a result, the judges' scorecards don't matter.)Reconsidering brutalismJames Wagner, who finds more cool New York art than anyone I know, visits Andrew...http://www.artsjournal.com/man/2008/07/tuesday_links_8.html The two Sarah Steins at SFMOMA, part II- July 1, 2008 Yesterday I started talking about how a nice installation at SFMOMA reveals that Matisse's 1916 portrait of Sarah Stein and its related drawing (at right) mark the end of Matisse's cubist period and his transition to what was next. The Stein painting is up all the time; the drawing isn't.It appears to be derived from Matisse's greatest cubist portrait, a 1914 painting of his daughter, Marguerite (identifiable by the black band around her neck, a legacy of a childhood surgery). The most...http://www.artsjournal.com/man/2008/07/the_two_sarah_steins_at_sfmoma_1.html |