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Guests walk through an exhibition space in Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)'s new Resnick Exhibition Pavilion during a press preview in Los Angeles. The pavilion, designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano, is the largest purpose-built naturally lit open-plan museum space in the world according to LACMA. It will open to the public on October 2. REUTERS/Fred Prouser.
By: Sandy Cohen, AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP).- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art celebrated the opening of its newest exhibition hall on Saturday with a glitzy party, complete with Hollywood heavyweights, art icons and entertainment by Christina Aguilera. Among the actors in the star-studded crowd were Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson, Teri Hatcher, James Franco, Joan Collins, Don Cheadle, Molly Sims and Olivia Wilde. Producers Brian Grazer and Mark Burnett and reality starlets Nicole Richie and Kim Kardashian also attended Saturday's fundraising event, which had the glamor of a film premiere and generated nearly $5 million for LACMA Museum trustee Jane Nathanson called it "the most spectacular and successful fundraiser for art in Los Angeles." Local high school students clad in colorful 18th century costumes welcomed guests to the private black-tie affair, called "The Unmasking" as it revealed the sprawling new building that broke ground in 2008. Guests we ... More |
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After Renovation, Vienna Academy of Fine Arts Reopens
A woman looks at Hieronymus Bosch's painting "The last Judgement and the Seven Deadly Sins" of the "Tryptich of the Last Judgement". REUTERS/Herwig Prammer.
VIENNA.- After its renovation and restructuring, the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts' Gallery of Paintings is now accessible to the public again. Surrounded by the artists' studios and workshops on the first floor of the Academy of Fine Arts is a world-ranking collection of European painting from the 14th to the 19th centuries. A central foyer on the second floor after plans by architect Georg Töpfer connects the existing Gallery of Paintings with the new exhibition area 'x hibit' for changing exhibitions in conjunction with the Academy's study programs. In its character as a pinacoteca - a gallery exclusively dedicated to paintings - and in its tradition, the Paintings Gallery is comparable to collections of international standing at historical academies of art such as the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan or the Galleria dell'Accademia in Venice. Unlike these, however, it still constitutes part of the organisational structure of the ... More | | British Library Posts Greek Manuscripts to Web
A woman walks into the British Library in London. AP Photo/Sang Tan.
By: Raphael G. Satter, Associated Press Writer
LONDON (AP).- One of the world's most important caches of Greek manuscripts is going online, part of a growing number of ancient documents to hit the Web in recent years. The British Library said Monday that it was making more than a quarter of its 1,000 volume-strong collection of handwritten Greek texts available online free of charge, something curators there hope will be a boon to historians, biblical scholars and students of classical Greece alike. Although the manuscripts — highlights of which include a famous collection of Aesopic fables discovered on Mount Athos in 1844 — have long been available to scholars who made the trip to the British Library's reading rooms, curator Scot McKendrick said their posting to the web was opening antiquity to the entire world. McKendrick said that London could be an expensive place to spend time poring over the Greek texts' tiny, faded script ... More | | Turkey: Gallery Attack Ignites Debate, Questions Remain
Two women seen in Istanbul, Turkey. AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta.
By: Christopher Torchia, Associated Press Writer
ISTANBUL (AP).- The gang of several dozen men with sticks and pepper spray moved methodically from one art gallery to the next, assaulting overflow crowds that had spilled into the streets during the joint opening of several exhibitions in the center of Istanbul. "You don't want us, so we don't want you," Nazim Hikmet Richard Dikbas, an artist, recalled one of the assailants saying. Hikmet was struck on the head with a club, and received several stitches at a hospital for a hairline injury. Half a dozen suspects were detained in last week's brazen attack, which has yet to be fully explained. Such outbursts of mob rage are rare and Istanbul has a relatively low rate of violent crime, but the gallery beatings highlighted Turkey's struggle to reconcile sharp differences in a society marked by extremes of rich and poor, modern and traditional, secular and Islamic, democratic and authoritarian. Once shackled by crisis and conflict, Turkey has emerged as ... More |
 | Cuba in Revolution at the International Center of Photography
Raúl Corrales, La Caballería (The Cavalry), 1960 (detail). Gelatin silver print © The Corrales Estate, Havana, Cuba. Courtesy International Art Heritage Foundation.
NEW YORK, NY.- Cuba in Revolution, at the International Center of Photography through January 9, 2011, covers one of the most spectacular political events of the twentieth century, the Cuban Revolution of 1959. The improbable overthrow of the dictator Fulgencio Batista by a band of young communist guerrillas and intellectuals was a momentous occasion not only politically but also creatively, changing the way we think about the power of reportage photography and the role of photojournalism in our modern society. Tracing the movement from the triumphal entry of the rebels into Havana on January 1, 1959, through the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, this exhibition shows the tremendous influence of photography in recording and encouraging the revolutionary ... More | | Sotheby's to Hold Selling Exhibition of Impressionist and Modern Art
Pablo Picasso, Jeune fille aux cheveux noirs (Dora Maar) 1939. Photo: Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- In response to the increasing interest throughout Asia and especially within China in the field of Impressionist and Modern art, Sotheby’s announced a major selling exhibition to be held this autumn. Modern Masters: Impressionism and Early 20th Century Art will comprise approximately 20 works representing many of the most important artists active in Europe from the late 19th and early 20th century and who left an indelible impression on art history, including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso and Edgar Degas, among others. The exhibition will preview in Beijing from 22-25 October 2010 and will then move on to Hong Kong from 26-28 November 2010. The works included in this exhibition are priced from US$2 million to $25 million (HK$15.6 to $195 million). “This exciting event is both a first for Sotheby's and for China,” said Patti Wong, Chairman of Sotheby's Asia. “ ... More | | On Street by German Photographer Peter Linderbergh at C/O Berlin
German photographer Peter Lindbergh poses during a press conference on his exhibition. EPA/TOBIASKLEINSCHMIDT.
BERLIN.- C/O Berlin, International Forum For Visual Dialogues, presents the exhibition On Street by German photographer Peter Linderbergh from 25 September 2010 to 9 January. Powerful and fragile, straightforward and playful, emancipated and sensual—Peter Lindbergh’s photographs are far more than artistic, coolly remote fashion photographs. His melancholy, unembellished photographs of mostly female models reveal, behind the artificial styling and makeup, an intimate glimpse of their inner essence. With subjects including Sharon Stone, Madonna, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Naomi Campbell, Jeanne Moreau, Penélope Cruz, Catherine Deneuve, and Uma Thurman, Lindbergh employs sensitivity and a reduction to the essential to find the individual behind the star cult and to present her in all her strength and fragility. Naturalism is Peter ... More |
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The Terrifying and Beautiful World of Otto Dix Arrives in Montreal
Otto Dix, Portrait of the Lawyer Dr. Hugo Simons, 1925. Tempera and oil on wood. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. © Estate of Otto Dix / SODRAC (2010).
MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting ROUGE CABARET: The Terrifying and Beautiful World of Otto Dix, the first North American exhibition devoted to Otto Dix (1891-1969), one of the twentieth century’s most important German painters. A keen observer of the world, which he viewed as “terrifying and beautiful,” Otto Dix leaves no one indifferent. Some 220 works, including about forty rare and fragile paintings, many of them painted in tempera on wood panels, large watercolours and powerful prints, illustrate his acerbic yet moving vision of the eventful era in which he lived, from World War I to World War II, from the Germany of the Weimar Republic to the rise of the Third Reich. Several complete series of prints will also be on display, including the outstanding “War” series (1924). “This is the first North American exhibition of this scope devoted to Otto Dix,” said Nathalie B ... More | | Asian Art Week at Christie's London in November
An important and very rare small guanyao baluster vase, Hu southern Song dynasty (1127-1279), 13th century. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010.
LONDON.- The continuing international appeal of Asian Art was further illustrated in the September sales in New York which realised $70.7 million; re-confirming Christie’s continued position as market leader for the category with 72 % market share. This autumn, Christie’s London Asian Art Week will run from 9 - 12 November 2010, featuring important, rare and beautiful examples with excellent provenance. The sales include: Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art on 9 November at King Street; Interiors - Juxtaposing Eastern and Western Styles on 9 November at South Kensington; Japanese Art & Design on 10 November at South Kensington and Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Textiles on 12 November at South Kensington. Christie’s Asian Art Week London commences with a remarkable array of porcelains, metal work, furniture, and organic materials ... More | | New Paintings by Matt Magee at Knoedler Project Space
Matt Magee, Red OverLook, 2009. Oil on board, 23 x 18 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Knoedler Project Space presents Matt Magee: New Paintings, an exhibition of abstract oil paintings created in 2009–2010, including a number of works from On a Clear Day, 2010, a series of 7 x 5 inch oils (painted on announcement cards for a 2005 exhibition of a 1973 series of screenprints by that title by Agnes Martin), in which the artist executes variations on the “theme” of Martin’s underlying grid. While this series points out a lineage between Agnes Martin and Magee, elsewhere his exploration of optical harmonies and patterns has been compared to Albers, Noland, and Tomaselli. And Magee, himself, acknowledges strong influence from Myron Stout and Forrest Bess. In a recent statement on his work, Matt Magee described himself as follows: Matt Magee is a scavenger and archivist and his paintings are based on systems of randomness and order. Submerged in the repetition and ... More |
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"I Speak As I Please" New Sculpture By David Buckingham
Word phrases, movie lines and famous guns.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Jonathan Ferrara Gallery presents "I Speak As I Please", new sculpture by Los Angeles artist David Buckingham in his first solo exhibition in New Orleans. As a native New Orleanian, Buckingham will explore the profound effect that growing up in the city can have on both its citizens and on those whom - for various misfortunes - it has lost. David Buckingham will bring his unique brand of metal sculpture to New Orleans for the annual Art For Arts' Sake opening of the New Orleans Arts season this October. His exhibition will feature his trademark sculptures of word phrases, movie lines and famous guns created from old, battered colorful metal reclaimed from race cars, trucks, hay balers, rice threshers, school buses and the like discovered in the High Mojave Desert. Of the new suite of works to be exhibited in New Orleans, Buckingham says: "You can't be a Louisiana boy and grow up in ... More | | Hauser & Wirth Opens an Exhibition of Works by Subodh Gupta
Subodh Gupta, Fill, 2010. Marble, 151 x 162 x 140 cm / 59 1/2 x 63 3/4 x 55 1/8 in © Subodh Gupta. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography Zürich.
ZURICH.- Hauser & Wirth opened its new Zurich space with an exhibition of works by Subodh Gupta, including monumental new sculptures and the ‘Cosmos’ paintings, first shown at PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine. Gupta’s ideas take shape in a variety of different media, such as steel, bronze, marble and paint. Materials are encountered for their aesthetic properties and as conceptual signifiers carrying a wealth of connotations. The mass-produced utensils that have played such a prominent role in Gupta’s art offer an ambiguous symbolism: whilst they are seen by those in the West as exotic and representative of Indian culture, to those in India they are ubiquitous items, used daily in almost every household. Gupta harnesses these ... More | | Political Design in Asia and Europe on View in Stuttgart
Pracha Suveeranont, Vote No to Draft Constitution Campaign, 2007. Courtesy: Pracha Suveeranont.
STUTTGART.- With the exhibition Re-Designing the East: Political Design in Asia and Europe, held from September 25, 2010 to January 9, 2011, the Württembergischer Kunstverein is highlighting critical and resistive design practices in (Eastern) Europe and (South/Eastern) Asia from the nineteen-eighties through the present. Of particular focus is the role of both design and designers in the context of sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural upheaval. Re-Designing the East is based upon a cooperation between the Württembergischer Kunstverein, the Trafó Gallery in Budapest, the Wyspa Institute of Art in Gdansk, and the Total Museum in Seoul. The exhibition comprises six sections, each of which has been developed by different curators from Europe and Asia. Since the early nineteen-nineties, ... More |
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Exhibition of Works from the Collection of the MMK Opens
FRANKFURT.- MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt possesses one of the largest collections of international contemporary photography world-wide. Since its foundation in 1991, MMK has collected photography, according it an equal status to painting, sculpture, drawing, film and video installations. The Collection strategy has always focused on the image itself, not only in connection with the respective artist’s oeuvre as a whole, but also in regards to the specific image’s exemplary qualities and photographic expression. The presentation from the Collection is entitled The Lucid Evidence and is the first of two presentations with which the MMK will be publicly showcasing its important holdings. “There are series and groups of works from a total of 23 artists on show – their works cover the various genres of photography from the late 1950s through to the present. The focus of the show, which is made u ... More
29th Sao Paulo Biennial Opens in Brazil
SAO PAULO.- Organized by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, the 29th edition of the São Paulo Biennial is rooted in the idea that it is impossible to separate art from politics. By procedures and means that are distinctive to it, art constantly questions and interrupts the sensorial coordinates by which one perceives and inhabits the world, thus inserting themes, subjects and attitudes that did not fit there before. This curatorial platform takes into account two related facts. Firstly, the evidence that, as traditional paradigms of sociability (at both local and global level) have been called into question in the last few decades, art has affirmed itself as a privileged medium for both apprehending and reinventing reality. Secondly, the recognition that this process has brought art and politics together to the point of almost non-distinction, thus underscoring the urgent need to emphasize the difference between art an ... More
Exhibition of Works on Paper at Marianne Boesky Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery presents an exhibition of works on paper by Barnaby Furnas, Jim Nutt and Eduardo Paolozzi. This grouping of works highlights the artists’ intricate processes of mark making, lines, patterning, fragmentation, and at times vibrant use of color. Each artist imbues his work with themes borrowed from popular culture of their respective times, as well as influences of Surrealism, Cubism, and Pop. Eduardo Paolozzi is best known as a pioneer of the Pop Art movement in Britain in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Similar to Furnas and Nutt, Paolozzi was fascinated by popular culture, and as a European especially that of America. He created scrapbooks of cutouts from magazines, comics and advertisements, as well as packaging from processed food, ... More
Shay Kun's First Solo Exhibition with Benrimon Contemporary Opens
NEW YORK, NY.- Benrimon Contemporary presents Exfoliation, Shay Kun’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, which features seventeen new paintings by the artist. Kun recreates nineteenth-century Hudson River School landscapes and combines them with contemporary imagery such as military men, killer whales, skydivers, and hot air balloons. These contemporary motifs invade the pristine landscapes creating a socio-political, cultural, or environmental dialogue within the works. Kun is most recognized for his painting Now More Than Ever. Reminiscent of an Albert Bierstadt landscape, Kun skillfully juxtaposes nature with man-made objects. An old, rusted and dilapidated car is overtaken by a grassy forefront while deeper into the work a hot air balloon floats on its side in the water. Humans are noticeably absent from the work yet their presence can still be felt from these artificial objects. The viewer may look at the w ... More
Sotheby's 40th Anniversary Wine Sale Smashes Pre-Sale Expectations Achieving £2,412,194
LONDON.- Sotheby's London 40th Anniversary Wine Sale concluded with a staggering total of £2,412,194, (US$3,787,145), far above a pre-sale estimate of £1,644,850-£2,061,620. All four sessions saw competitive bidding on the 'phone, online and in the room and the sale was 99% sold-by-value and 98% sold-by-lot. Interest in the sale was international and buyers came from across the globe, with those in the Far East bidding into the night to secure their chosen bottles. This two-day landmark auction was held to celebrate 40 years of spectacular wine sales at Sotheby's and follows an extremely successful first-half of 2010 for Sotheby's worldwide wine sales. The very successful is testament to forty years of dedicated expertise at Sotheby's wine department, and marks the start of the new season, which features a sale in New York tomorrow and four sales in Hong Kong this October. Serena Sutcliffe, MW, Worldwide Head of Sotheby's Wine ... More
Last Exhibition on which Louise Bourgeois Collaborated Opens
THE HAGUE.- The new cultural season at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag opened with an exhibition on artist Louise Bourgeois, who died on 29 May this year. The exhibition confronts her work with that of Hans Bellmer and is being held in cooperation with the Nationalgalerie Berlin. It is the very last exhibition on which Bourgeois collaborated in person. The confrontation of her work with that of Surrealist artist Bellmer appealed strongly to her. Director Benno Tempel: ‘Despite her advanced years, Louise Bourgeois’ death came as a surprise. She carried on working with amazing energy right to the end and she was heavily involved in the preparations for this show.' The work of both Bourgeois and Bellmer is heavily influenced by childhood experiences. In both cases, the relationship with a dominant father is an especially important factor. Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911. Her father was a high-handed, authorit ... More
Bonhams Offers a Piece of the Russian Imperial Winter Palace
LONDON.- A striking, circular table originally placed in the Golden Drawing Room in the Winter Palace, the main residence of the Russian Imperial family in St. Petersburg, will be sold in the Russian Sale at Bonhams New Bond Street on 1st December. Estimated at £150,000 - £200,000, the intricate design and range of materials, from coral to onyx and turquoise, reflects the legendary opulence of the Russian Empire. The table was originally commissioned as a gift for the Empress Alexandra, the wife of Tsar Nicholas I and the table became part of the original furnishing of the Imperial Winter Palace. The table was then placed within the Golden drawing room, which was used by the future Empress Maria Aleksandrovna, and was renowned as the most lavishly decorated room in her personal suite. The Golden Drawing Room was ... More
The University of Vermont's Fleming Museum Brings Christo to Burlington
BURLINGTON, VT.- The University of Vermont's Fleming Museum opened a special exhibition featuring original drawings, sculptures, and collages by the celebrated artistic duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude. In addition to bringing this retrospective of their careers to Burlington, the Museum will also offer a unique opportunity to hear the artist Christo lecture about past and current projects. Opened on Tuesday, September 21, the exhibition, Christo and Jeanne Claude: The Tom Golden Collection includes over 125 original works and photographs that trace the artists' impressive careers from 1972 to the present. "This is an extraordinary opportunity for our community to experience one of the most engaged, and engaging artists of our time," said Fleming Museum director Janie Cohen, "In the course of realizing their remarkable projects around the world over the last 35 years, Christo and his late partner Jeanne-Claude have accomplish ... More
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