THE ART OF LIVING

8 MAY 2009

May 2nd - May 8th: Con Artist: The Story of Mark Kostabi, 2009 Turner Prize Shortlist, and Il "Tempo del Postino" at Art Basel

This week: Con Artist: The Story of Mark Kostabi; Introducing the 2009 Turner Prize Shortlist; " Il Tempo del Postino" takes to stage at Art Basel; A Newly Discovered Leonardo; Review of Kendell Carter at Sandroni Rey and more...

  • Con Artist: The Story of Mark Kostabi Con Artist screens Saturday as part of the Tribeca Film Festival. Mark Kostabi is a whole bunch of things - above all, perhaps, a cautionary tale. Celebrated in the 1980¹s as Warhol's heir apparent (or bastard child, take your pick) he gobbled up fame and money for production line paintings that he was happy to call "trash." While his shamelessness made plenty of people squirm, many saw Kostabi as a vivid, ballsy art-world critic. From artinamericamagazine.com
  • Introducing the 2009 Turner Prize Shortlist LONDON—The announcement of the Turner Prize shortlist, made yesterday by Tate Britain, is always a much-talked-about event in the art world, annually garnering strong opinions and outspoken criticisms. (Image Courtesy Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Köln/Berlin) From ARTINFO.com
  • A Newly Discovered Leonardo? A curator believes that he has discovered a new work by Leonardo da Vinci hidden within a seven-part panel attributed to the Renaissance sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio. From ARTINFO.com
  • Compass in Hand Opening at MoMA Photos from the opening of "Compass in Hand: Selections From the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection," a show of works on paper organized by MoMA associate curator Christian Rattemeyer. From artinamericamagazine.com