Museum Nerd (@museumnerd)

lalouver:

Celebrating painter Alice Neel, who was born on this day in 1900. This 1968 portrait of Richard Gibbs is a favorite of ours, so much so it graced the cover of the booklet we produced for her 2010 solo exhibition here at L.A. Louver.

In her portraits, Neel strived to portray more than her subject’s mere physicality, but their inner life as well. In her words: “I become the person for a couple of hours, so when they leave and I am finished… I have no self.”

To learn more about Alice Neel and her works, please visit our website.

IMAGE: Alice Neel, Richard Gibbs, 1969, oil on canvas, 64 x 50 in. (162.5 x 127 cm), © The Estate of Alice Neel

artruby:

Bruce Nauman […]

On View at Hauser & Wirth London

Run from Fear, Fun from Rear, (1972)

This guy was smiling until he found out Brooklyn Museum wanted to get rid of him!

NY Times: Brooklyn Museum Finds Some Problematic Gifts Can’t Be Returned

“Museum: Third Gallery” by Rui Tenreiro on Tiny Showcase.

More info on Rui’s website: http://www.theculturefront.com/books/museum/

aureliomadrid:

(feb. 12, 1978)
“I got up at 9:47 a.m.”
on kawara

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The (S) Files 2011 - BRIC Rotunda Gallery, a set on Flickr.

El Museo did the best (S) Files show yet this time around. Here’s my visit to @BRICarts.

Saw and loved these at the NADA art fair in Miami Beach. Your picture is better than mine, Blake.

blakegopnik:

DAILY PIC: Disposable cameras, given to 24 artists to do with as they please, then offered for sale for $1,000 each – with no instructions for what the buyer should do with the camera, its film or the images on it (if any). This project, by W/ (pronounced “with”) of New York and on view at the NADA art fair, was one of my favorite works at this week’s artfest in Miami Beach. It poked fun at the obsessive act of shopping and choosing that art fairs are all about, and short-circuited any normal connoisseurial impulse. Buyers were simply asked to put themselves in the artists’ hands, and trust that good would come of it. If I were to buy one of these signed cameras, I’d keep it unopened, allowing hope and potential to rule the day.

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.

Stephanie Tillman, ladies and gentlemen. Stephanie Tillman. h/t @blackvon & @felixsalmon.