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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/entertainment/arts entertainment Arts en-us Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:45:59 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/entertainment/arts http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120213/en_nm/us_obama_arts nm/20120213/us_obama_arts Reuters entertainment Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:45:59 GMT Reuters - Actor Al Pacino and country singer Mel Tillis were among 17 poets, historians, organizations and others honored at the White House on Monday for their contributions to the arts or to the humanities. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120213/ap_on_en_ot/us_obama_arts_humanities ap/20120213/us_obama_arts_humanities AP entertainment Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:49:27 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120213/ap_on_en_ot/us_obama_arts_humanities"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120213/capt.59f1797784374b40a886c79fec1347c6-59f1797784374b40a886c79fec1347c6-0.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=fVdJsx.5RCB7NSWzNF1ouw--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="Country music singer Mel Tillis holds up his 2011 National Medal of the Arts after it was presented to him by President Barack Obama, Monday, Feb., 13, 2012, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)" border="0" /></a>AP - President Barack Obama on Monday honored several artists, writers and organizations for their contributions to the nation, and pledged to make the arts and humanities a priority for as long as he is in the White House.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120213/ap_on_en_ot/us_obama_arts_humanities"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120213/capt.59f1797784374b40a886c79fec1347c6-59f1797784374b40a886c79fec1347c6-0.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=fVdJsx.5RCB7NSWzNF1ouw--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="photo" title="Country music singer Mel Tillis holds up his 2011 National Medal of the Arts after it was presented to him by President Barack Obama, Monday, Feb., 13, 2012, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120210/ap_en_ot/eu_czech_havel_wax_heart ap/20120210/eu_czech_havel_wax_heart AP entertainment Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:47:45 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120210/ap_en_ot/eu_czech_havel_wax_heart"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120210/capt.69292e6e639540019bb06a0b39ba53e9-69292e6e639540019bb06a0b39ba53e9-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=PAfzc6WqvPXa6z887CROtA--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="General view of a 2-meter-tall wax heart Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, outside Prague’s National Theater. The installation is a public tribute to Vaclav Havel, made from 2.3 metric tons of wax from candles that were lit nationwide after the former president and dissident playwright died in December. (AP Photo/Ian Phillips)" border="0" /></a>AP - Two artists have used wax from the thousands of candles that Czechs lit to mourn the death of President Vaclav Havel to create a large heart honoring him.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120210/ap_en_ot/eu_czech_havel_wax_heart"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120210/capt.69292e6e639540019bb06a0b39ba53e9-69292e6e639540019bb06a0b39ba53e9-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=PAfzc6WqvPXa6z887CROtA--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="General view of a 2-meter-tall wax heart Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, outside Prague’s National Theater. The installation is a public tribute to Vaclav Havel, made from 2.3 metric tons of wax from candles that were lit nationwide after the former president and dissident playwright died in December. (AP Photo/Ian Phillips)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120209/ap_en_ot/us_beeswax_art_lerone_wilson ap/20120209/us_beeswax_art_lerone_wilson AP entertainment Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:59:13 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120209/ap_en_ot/us_beeswax_art_lerone_wilson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120209/capt.bc821d302d8f4543a237af91cda04bf3-6e9d3a43ac6542faa4700219fb7eb074-0.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=_6kUeQLNLiPclpsyglOP.w--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="Lerone Wilson, a Harlem artist who creates unique sculptural paintings with molten beeswax, listens during an interview, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)" border="0" /></a>AP - A black skillet, a heat gun, pigments and beeswax take up a corner of LeRone Wilson's art studio in Harlem.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120209/ap_en_ot/us_beeswax_art_lerone_wilson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120209/capt.bc821d302d8f4543a237af91cda04bf3-6e9d3a43ac6542faa4700219fb7eb074-0.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=_6kUeQLNLiPclpsyglOP.w--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="photo" title="Lerone Wilson, a Harlem artist who creates unique sculptural paintings with molten beeswax, listens during an interview, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120208/stage_nm/us_lucianfreud_art_show nm/20120208/us_lucianfreud_art_show Reuters entertainment Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:15:49 GMT Reuters - Britain's National Portrait Gallery launched a major show of the late figurative painter Lucian Freud's work Wednesday, showcasing the fleshy portraits which made him one of the world's most revered artists in his lifetime. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120208/stage_nm/us_christies_auction nm/20120208/us_christies_auction Reuters entertainment Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:25:13 GMT Reuters - Christie's on Tuesday kicked off a fortnight of major London art sales with a bang, hitting or exceeding the most optimistic pre-sale expectations and extending 2011's record-breaking run into the new year. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120207/ap_on_en_mo/eu_britain_liz_taylor_s_art ap/20120207/eu_britain_liz_taylor_s_art AP topstories Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:40:16 GMT AP - Three top works from the late Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor's art collection have sold at a London auction for nearly 14 million pounds ($22 million), the auctioneer Christie's said Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120207/ap_on_en_ot/us_purloined_picasso ap/20120207/us_purloined_picasso AP entertainment Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:37:04 GMT AP - A wine steward who plucked artwork off hotel and gallery walls in a bicoastal spree admitted Tuesday to stealing a $350,000 drawing in New York, resolving charges here after serving jail time in California. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120207/stage_nm/us_art_auction nm/20120207/us_art_auction Reuters topstories Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:30:44 GMT Reuters - Works by Damien Hirst, Ed Ruscha and Roy Lichtenstein are among Post-War and Contemporary art that will be sold by Christie's at an auction next month that will also feature 45 works from the collection of Silicon Valley pioneer Peter Norton. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120206/stage_nm/us_art_stlouis nm/20120206/us_art_stlouis Reuters entertainment Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:50:43 GMT Reuters - The St. Louis Art Museum is rearranging galleries by theme rather than time period, seeking to make them more accessible to visitors as part of a $162 million expansion. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/artinfo/20110914/en_artinfo/5_possible_reasons_why_madonna_thinks_king_edward_viii_was_very_punk_rock artinfo/20110914/5_possible_reasons_why_madonna_thinks_king_edward_viii_was_very_punk_rock ARTINFO entertainment Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:38:46 GMT ARTINFO - @font-face {font-family: "Times New Roman";}@font-face {font-family: "Arial";}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: SectionAlthough the U.K.monarchy doesn't exactly conjure up images of spiked hair, loud music, andstudded leather jackets, Madonna thinks one former king is "very punkrock," according to the Daily Telegraph. When asked why she put Englishpunk band the Sex Pistols's 1977 anarchist anthem "God Save the Queen"on the soundtrack of her new film, "W.E." — a biopic about Wallis Simpson, theAmerican divorcée who captured King Edward VIII's heart — thepop-star-turned-filmed-director explained to the British broadsheet: "Ithought [Edward] was quite rebellious and cutting-edge in his point of viewabout life and about how to run the empire, and using the Sex Pistols was aperfect marriage." ARTINFOlists five possible reasons why Madonna thinks the notorious abdicator and Nazisympathizer was "punk rock": http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/artinfo/20110914/en_artinfo/photographer_charlotte_dumas_tells_the_story_behind_her_portraits_of_911_rescue_dogs artinfo/20110914/photographer_charlotte_dumas_tells_the_story_behind_her_portraits_of_911_rescue_dogs ARTINFO entertainment Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:37:54 GMT ARTINFO - Over the past decade Dutch photographer Charlotte Dumas has fashioned a promising art career around soulful, haunting portraits of wolves, Roman Army and NYPD horses, the stray dogs of Palermo and New York, and even a blind circus tiger in an attempt to show that "the state of mankind can be read and studied by the way we relate to animals." She's succeeded critically and commercially: Sofia Coppola and the late Alexander McQueen are among many luminaries who've collected her emotive work. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/artinfo/20110909/en_artinfo/inside_dasha_zhukovas_garage_clyfford_still_museum_preview_fashion_and_art_get_it_on_and_the_weeks_other_top_art_stories_ artinfo/20110909/inside_dasha_zhukovas_garage_clyfford_still_museum_preview_fashion_and_art_get_it_on_and_the_weeks_other_top_art_stories ARTINFO entertainment Sat, 10 Sep 2011 06:39:08 GMT ARTINFO - The most-talked-about stories on ARTINFO, September 5-9: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/artinfo/20110805/en_artinfo/to_kick_off_the_year_of_damien_hirst_gagosian_will_blanket_the_world_with_the_artists_spot_paintings artinfo/20110805/to_kick_off_the_year_of_damien_hirst_gagosian_will_blanket_the_world_with_the_artists_spot_paintings ARTINFO entertainment Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:18:39 GMT ARTINFO - In 2012, the year of the Mayan apocalypse, an outbreak of spots is going to spread across the world. And Damien Hirst is to blame. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/artinfo/20110805/en_artinfo/take_a_walk_with_warhol_celebrate_the_pop_icons_birthday_with_a_tour_of_his_favorite_new_york_city_haunts artinfo/20110805/take_a_walk_with_warhol_celebrate_the_pop_icons_birthday_with_a_tour_of_his_favorite_new_york_city_haunts ARTINFO entertainment Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:17:43 GMT ARTINFO - Andy Warhol moved to New Yorkfrom his native Pittsburghin 1949 and before long became one of the Big Apple’s most iconic citizens,advertising the city’s grittily experimental sensibility to the world throughworks like "Empire" and "Chelsea Girls." He was also head over heels in lovewith New York, and now it’s possible to view the city through his eyes — justin time for what would have been his 83rd birthday, on August 6 — with"Andy Warhol's New York City: Four Walks Uptown to Downtown," a newbook by Thomas Kiedrowski that traces the artist footsteps across 80 sites hedoted on. Some are no longer inexistence (others are never-realized), but most are still around —  meaning that you can pretend to be part ofthe Factory gang, meandering around Manhattan with Andy to lunch at the Odeonin Tribeca, shop at Bloomingdale's, and attend openings at the Upper EastSide's Leo Castelli gallery.The beginnings of the book came about when friends askedKiedrowski what he wanted to do during his first visit to New York. Unlike most tourists, he didn'twant to check out Times Square or see theStatue of Liberty. Instead, he pulled out a piece of paper containing a list ofaddresses of buildings having to do with the Pop artist: the Silver Factory on East 47th Street,the White Factory at Union Square,and the townhouse on the Upper East Side whereWarhol lived with his mother. Kiedrowski eventually moved to NewYork, continuing to map out Andy's New York, and making a career out of hisobsession by offering tours to Warhol sites in the city. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/artinfo/20110802/en_artinfo/20_million_walmart_gift_makes_crystal_bridges_museum_free_for_visitors_forever artinfo/20110802/20_million_walmart_gift_makes_crystal_bridges_museum_free_for_visitors_forever ARTINFO entertainment Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:43:56 GMT ARTINFO - How will Alice Walton's megalithic Crystal Bridges museum attract art aficionados to its scenic (read: backwoods) location of Bentonville, Arkansas? Well, making admission free is one strategy. A newly announced $20 million sponsorship gift from Walmart, a company founded and owned by the Walton family, will pay for all Crystal Bridges visitors, forever. Take that, MoMA and your new $25 ticket price! http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/artinfo/20110802/en_artinfo/before_the_paparazzi_see_celebrity_portraits_by_hollywoods_original_photographers_at_the_national_portrait_gallery artinfo/20110802/before_the_paparazzi_see_celebrity_portraits_by_hollywoods_original_photographers_at_the_national_portrait_gallery ARTINFO entertainment Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:43:04 GMT ARTINFO - Beforetoday's Internet-induced era of celebrity overexposure, paparazzi abundance, and tabloid proliferation, there was a time when film studioscontrolled the public's perception of their actors and actresses through the use ofin-house portrait photographers. London's National Portrait Gallery pays tributeto that period with "Glamour of the Gods: Hollywood Portraits," an exhibition of 70 vintage photographsfrom 1920 to 1960, on view until October 23. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/artinfo/20110802/en_artinfo/capitalism_unclothed_art_provocateur_zefrey_throwell_on_overthrowing_wall_street_with_his_naked_army artinfo/20110802/capitalism_unclothed_art_provocateur_zefrey_throwell_on_overthrowing_wall_street_with_his_naked_army ARTINFO topstories Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:42:07 GMT ARTINFO - New Yorkers pride themselves on their blasé — nothing will phase a well-trained city pedestrian. But artist Zefrey Throwell's urban intervention turned even the most stoic of heads: those of Wall Street traders. Throwell's "Ocularpation: Wall Street" saw 50 performers strip down and mime different Wall Street-related professions (traders, yes, but also janitors, secretaries, and everything in between) in a critique of the financial industry, a piece inspired by the plight of the artist's mother, a 60 year old woman who lost her retirement savings in the economic crash, and was forced to come out of retirement to look for a job. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/artinfo/20110728/en_artinfo/anselm_kiefers_world_of_devastation_is_captured_in_the_documentary_over_your_cities_grass_will_grow artinfo/20110728/anselm_kiefers_world_of_devastation_is_captured_in_the_documentary_over_your_cities_grass_will_grow ARTINFO topstories Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:24:37 GMT ARTINFO - If Pompeii hadn't been excavated, if the towns and villages on the Western Front hadn't been rebuilt after World War I, and if the site of the World Trade Center had been left as it was after 9/11, they might partially resemble the ruins Anselm Kiefer constructed in the South of France. Moving from Germany in 1993, Kiefer took over the 35 hectares of the industrial wasteland La Ribaute, near Barjac, and turned the atelier into a sprawling Gesamtkunstwerk, or "total work of art," consisting of 47 buildings, an amphitheater, bridges, caves, an underground labyrinth that invoke the guts of the Pyramids or the gas chambers of the Nazi concentration camps. In the concrete rooms, he installed artworks — twisted strips of metallic film, a dormitory cast in lead, a child's garment decorated with shards of glass, and other totems of catastrophe. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/artinfo/20110728/en_artinfo/caught_in_flight_see_cirque_du_soleil_founder_guy_laliberts_photographs_from_outer_space artinfo/20110728/caught_in_flight_see_cirque_du_soleil_founder_guy_laliberts_photographs_from_outer_space ARTINFO entertainment Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:23:27 GMT ARTINFO - Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté is certainly used to flights of fancy, but this one was more unusual than most: a "poetic social mission" in space, on board the International Space Station. He documented the experience in a series of extraordinary photographs, which are gathered in "GAIA," just published by Assouline.