The Saint Louis Art Museum opens its new David Chipperfield-designed wing next month. The addition provides the museum with 30 percent more gallery space than it has now, 21 new galleries in all, including new galleries for special exhibitions. (The museum’s former special exhibitions space has been converted into European painting, sculpture and works on paper [...]
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts offer hands-on internships for recent high school graduates, college students, and graduate students. Each of the two non-profit arts institutions offers its own unique array of departments to which prospective interns may apply. Show More Summary
Karlie Kloss hits the red carpet at the 2013 Met Gala held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday (May 6) in New York City. The 20-year-old model wore a Louis Vuitton dress paired with a Monique Pean necklace and was joined by fellow Victoria’s Secret model, Chanel Iman, who wore a J. Mendel [...]
The French luxury brand comes out with the latest in their Art of Packing video series.
This is terrifically exciting: The Modern Art Notes Podcast is going back on the road for a live-audience taping! Join us at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis on Saturday at 11am for a taping with “Donald Judd: The Multicolored Works” curator and former Chinati Foundation director Marianne Stockebrand.
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French fashion house Louis Vuitton takes luxury shopping to a whole new level, bringing “together the Louis Vuitton values of the art of travel, savoir-faire and creativity” with the opening of its first German Maison. Housed in the storied Residenzpost… Louis Vuitton Opens Its First Maison In Germany is a post by Fritz Radtke on Highsnobiety.
It’s the first of May, which means that it’s May Day, International Worker’s Day, and you may as well watch the Bee Gees perform this. It also means that lots of art spaces and museums are getting ready to open their first round of summer shows. In solidarity, I present to you my (rather long) [...]
French luxury brand Louis Vuitton is back with another chapter of tips and tricks “The Art of Packing”, now including the new Zephyr. Watch the videos below, but if you have more time, or you are in desperate need for good packing tips, play with the interactive site here. The post Louis Vuitton Presents the Art of Packing 2 appeared first on Luxuryes.
Louis Vuitton is back with another chapter of “The Art of Packing”. Traveling is great, but packing is usually not as much fun, therefore some solid guidance on how to efficiently put together your suitcase, while keeping your clothing in… Louis Vuitton Presents the Art of Packing 2 is a post by David Fischer on Highsnobiety.
Espace Louis Vuitton features an exhibition featuring the works of some of Singapore’s top artists. Titled ‘Landscape Memories’, the exhibition runs from April 24 till September 2013. Read the rest of the story at: Landscape Memories: Espace Louis Vuitton Art Exhibition
The Hip Hop Chess Federation is a unique organization based in the SF Bay Area that brings together young people for events featuring hip hop, chess and martial arts. It sounds like an unlikely combo until you take a closer look at the...Show More Summary
As with movies, the art of magic relies on seamless illusion. Since we know we’re not really seeing the things we think we’re seeing — George Clooney, for instance, isn’t really a casino-robbing mastermind, and David Copperfield didn’t really make an airplane just vanish into thin air — it’s up to the artists to put on [...]
Name: Mary Sprague
Profession: Artist and Art/Art History professor (retired)
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Size: 4500 square feet
Years lived in: 27 years; owned Mary's home and studio is an aggregation of 50 years of art. An active and longtime member of the St. Show More Summary
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Artist Benton Jew has worked on not one but three Hulk movie projects: Ang Lee's Hulk, Louis Leterrier's The Incredible Hulk, and a never-made film that with a script by Jonathan Hensleigh. Jew has shared artwork he created for those projects, including a mockup of Billy Crudup as Ang Lee's hulk. Read more...
Sacred Destinations and Journeys Along The Way by artist Louis M. Brill is a photo book about lumia, an early form of light projection art that was invented by Thomas Wilfred in the 1920s. Wilfred developed a series of color organs that allowed him to create lumia light shows before live audiences. Only a handful [...]
The ghost of Pruitt-Igoe looms large in St. Louis. The 33-building public housing complex, designed by Minoru Yamasaki (who was also the architect of the World Trade Center) and completed in 1954, has long fascinated architectural historians and enthusiasts alike. Designed in accordance with Le Corbusier’s utopian “Towers in the Park” vision, its demolition began [...]
The New American Paintings, 2013 MFA Annual, Issue #105, is expected to hit newsstands across the US sometime in mid-April. The juror for the MFA Annual was Dominic Molon, Chief Curator, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri. The MFA Annual is one of our most highly anticipated issues. It contains artists that have recently completed their Masters [...]
The poll this week is pretty straightforward — pick your two (2) favorite institutions in the Metropolitan Zoological Park and Museum District. Here are the five institutions, as listed on the ZMD website: Saint Louis Art Museum The Saint Louis Art Museum is rated as one of the principal art museums...
Bonhams announced its Fine European Furniture, Decorative Arts and Garden Ornaments auction, March 18 at Bonhams in San Francisco, achieved over $1.59 million. Hitting the highest note of the sale was a Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted...Show More Summary