PARIS (REUTERS).- Steve Rosenblum is known as the chairman and one of the founders of French online retailer PIXmania, one of the dotcom era success stories. What fewer people know is that Rosenblum, 36, is also an enthusiastic art collector. After yea…
France’s PIXmania Founder Displays Art Collection
By: Dominique Vidalon
PARIS (REUTERS).- Steve Rosenblum is known as the chairman and one of the founders of French online retailer PIXmania, one of the dotcom era success stories. What fewer people know is that Rosenblum, 36, is also an enthusiastic ar…
France’s PIXmania Founder Displays Art Collection
By: Dominique Vidalon
PARIS (REUTERS).- Steve Rosenblum is known as the chairman and one of the founders of French online retailer PIXmania, one of the dotcom era success stories. What fewer people know is that Rosenblum, 36, is also an enthusiastic ar…
Whitney Site-Specific Installation Designed by Barbara Kruger Now On View
NEW YORK, NY.- Barbara Kruger designed the third Whitney site-specific installation at 820 Washington Street on the corner of Washington and Gansevoort Streets. Kruger is producing a dramatic intervention that addresses the viewer with powerful and eni…
American Artist Barbara Kruger to Appropriate Art Gallery of Ontario Facade
TORONTO.- The Art Gallery of Ontario’s Dundas Street façade is about to get a new look. In partnership with Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, the AGO has commissioned renowned American artist Barbara Kruger to create a large-scale public installation to be displayed along the Gallery’s signature glass skirt, which spans an entire city block between McCaul and Beverley Streets. The installation will respond to CONTACT’s theme for 2010, “Pervasive Influence,” which considers how photography informs and transforms human behavior, especially via the medium’s connections to mass media, advertising, consumerism, and propaganda. Kruger’s installation, on view from May 1 through August 30, marks the first time the AGO has exhibited artwork on the exterior of its newly transformed Frank Gehry–designed building. “The AGO is committed to making great works of art accessible to everyone, and t