Photographic exhibition titled “Garden of Eden”, by Andrzej Maciejewski, will be presented in The Camerawork Gallery in Portland Oregon, from August 20th to September 23rd, 2011.

Andrzej Maciejewski – Garden of Eden: Still Life with 4024(USA), 4025(USA), 4049(Honduras), 4410(USA) and 4026(USA).

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In this photo released by the The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands on Tuesday, June 21, 2011, shows a self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh dated 1887. The van Gogh museum says another one of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings previously thought to be a self-portrait actually depicts his brother, Theo. Museum spokewsoman Linda Snoek says the portrait was made in 1887 while the pair lived together in Paris, a lesser-known period of Van Gogh’s life, since the bulk of information about the famously troubled painter is derived from letters he sent to Theo. The painting has long been in storage, but goes on display at the museum in Amsterdam Tuesday as part of an exhibition on the painter’s time spent in Antwerp and Paris in 1885-1888.

The Van Gogh Museum said Tuesday its experts now believe one of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings previously thought to be a self-portrait actually depicts his brother, Theo.

If true, it would be the only known painting of Theo, although Vincent made several sketches of his brother, who supported him financially and was his lifelong confidant and friend. “People have often thought it was funny that there were no portraits of Theo, given that they were so close,” said museum spokeswoman Linda Snoek.

She said the portrait was made in 1887 while the pair lived together in Paris — a lesser-known period of Van Gogh’s life, since the bulk of information about Vincent is derived from letters he sent to Theo.

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A Christie’s employee poses for a photograph with artist Andy Warhol’s “Self-Portrait” at Christie’s auction house. The piece, which was estimated to fetch in excess of $30 million (18.4million pounds), sold for $38,442,500 in New York on May 11, 2011.

The market for important works by Andy Warhol, the reigning king of Pop, continued to reach new heights at Christie’s New York tonight, as bidders chased two iconic self-portraits by the artist, setting a new world auction record for a Warhol portrait in the process.

Continue reading — Andy Warhol’s First and Last Self-Portraits Fetch a Combined $66 Million at Christie’s

The Escape Ladder 1940 – from the Constellations series

Joan Miró has long been presented as Surrealism’s child: its painter of innocence, of simplicity, joy and whimsical charm. Perhaps that is why this Tate show is Britain’s first large-scale exhibition of his work in half a century: in the art-world, pain equals importance, and Miró just doesn’t seem serious enough.

This would have been a good starting-point, for joy and simplicity are surely worth examining.

Evidently not. Instead the 150 works here have been chosen to illustrate a surprising thesis: that Miró was, covertly, a political painter. The pictures cluster roughly in three groups: during the First World War and just after, on the artist’s first trip to Paris; during the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War; and around the 1968 uprisings.

The first section is the most unexpected and most rewarding. Seven of the nine images are from collections in six different cities, and the other two are privately owned: exhibiting them together is a major coup for the Tate.

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Andy Warhol’s “Self-Portrait” is pictured in this undated handout photo. The Andy Warhol self-portrait purchased in 1963 for $1,600 on an installment plan is poised to fetch $30 million or more when it hits the auction block at Christie’s in May. The four-panel acrylic silkscreen depicting the pop artist wearing a trench coat and sunglasses, is being sold by the family of Detroit collector Florence Barron.

An Andy Warhol self-portrait purchased in 1963 for $1,600 on an installment plan is poised to fetch $30 million or more when it hits the auction block at Christie’s in May.

“Self-Portrait,” a four-panel acrylic silkscreen depicting the pop artist wearing a trench coat and sunglasses, is being sold by the family of Detroit collector Florence Barron.

Barron first commissioned Warhol to paint her portrait, but changed her mind and suggested the young artist depict himself, telling him, “Nobody knows me … They want to see you.”

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Two Tahitian Women by Paul Gauguin. The painting, on display at the National Gallery of Art, was attacked by a woman visitor on April 1

A painting at the Gauguin exhibit at the National Gallery was attacked last week by a gallery visitor, provoking considerable commotion, according to other museum visitors and gallery officials.

Screaming “This is evil,” a woman tried to pull Gauguin’s “Two Tahitian Women” from a gallery wall Friday and banged on the picture’s clear plastic covering, said Pamela Degotardi of New York, who was there.

“She was really pounding it with her fists,” Degotardi said. “It was like this weird surreal scene that one doesn’t expect at the National Gallery.”

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