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A visitor looks at the Monet painting " Glycines" (1917-1920) at the Grand Palais Museum in Paris, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010. The museum presents the first restrospective exhibition in thirty years of Claude Monet's works (1840-1926). The exhibit, composed of some 200 paintings, will be open to the public from Sept. 22 to Jan 24. AP Photo/Jacques Brinon.
By: Jenny Barchfield, Associated Press Writer
PARIS (AP).- Beloved by Americans, Impressionist master Claude Monet has long been a victim of a sort of Gallic snobbishness in his native France. A new exhibition at Paris' Galleries Nationales attempts to right this historic wrong by bringing together nearly 200 pieces by the painter — from blockbuster chefs d'oeuvre reproduced in books, magazines and postcards worldwide to little-known, privately held pieces you'd never guess were Monets. Curator Guy Cogeval said "Claude Monet (1840-1926)" — the most complete Monet exhibit in France since 1980, with paintings on loan from dozens of museums and collections from Cleveland, Ohio, to Canberra, Australia — is a bid to "repatriate one of the great geniuses of French art." "We (the French) have always said, 'Monet's for an exhibit in Japan, an exhibit in the United States, but not for one in France.' But why? He's one of our great ... More |
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The Human Condition in Painting at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum
A man looks at a painting (L), entitled White Bearded Senior, by Wilhelm Leibl and a photography (R) of Fidel Castro by Roberto Salas at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne, Germany. EPA/OLIVER BERG.
COLOGNE.- Helmut Newton & Ingres, Nan Goldin & François Boucher, Paul McCarthy & Wilhelm Leibl, Jack Pierson & Bartholomäus Bruyn the Elder – these are just four of the approximately fifty unusual dialogues the Wallraf will be staging in autumn 2010. Under the title “Do or Die -The Human Condition in Painting and Photography” outstanding items from the TEUTLOFF PHOTO + VIDEO COLLECTION will meet selected works owned by the museum. At the heart of the exhibition will be the glamour and misery of Mankind. The photographs and paintings oscillate between the polarities of birth and death, happiness and suffering, confidence and despair. The direct comparison between painting and photography shows how the old picture, composition and pathos formulae have continued into the present day, a fact clearly demonstrated by the specially chosen ... More | | Sotheby's Sets Record for Any Single Print Sold at Auction
Pablo Picasso, La Minotauromachie, Etching, 1935 (detail). Estimate: £400,000 - 600,000. Sold for £1,273,250 ($1,987,416). Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- A new record has been set for any single print sold at auction with the sale of Pablo Picasso’s La Minotauromachie for £1,273,250 / $1,987,416 at Sotheby’s in London . The print eclipsed the pre-sale high estimate of £600,000 (the estimate was £400,000-600,000). Discussing the sale, James Mackie, Sotheby’s Prints specialist, said: “A new record has been set for any single print sold at auction with the sale of Pablo Picasso’s La Minotauromachie for £1,273,250. Pablo Picasso was the most important and innovative printmaker of the Modern period and he has been credited with the creation of some of the most significant works in the medium’s five-hundred-year history. La Minotauromachie is considered to be the artist’s masterpiece of printmaking. It reflects key themes of the artist and demonstrates a mastery of technique that is unsurpassed. Nearly all ... More | | Antony Gormley's New Giant Figure on the Dyke in the Netherlands
View of a huge sculpture of a crouching figure, looking out over the IJsselmeer, placed on a dam in Lelystad, The Netherlands. EPA/KOEN VAN WEEL.
LELYSTAD.- After 5 years of planning and development the city of Lelystad in the Netherlands presents the 6th Flevoland landscape project: Antony Gormley’s Exposure. Permanently sited 1 kilometer from the shore of Lelystad on the dyke that connects Friesland and Flevoland, this is the artist’s largest and most complex singular sculptural project, standing 25 meters high and weighing 60 tonnes. The work celebrates a transformation in Gormley’s attempt to evoke the body as a place, transforming his sculptural language from a defined closed surface to an open 3-dimensional drawing-in-space that maps the inner volume of the body and establishes a link between body and space at large. The mass formally associated with the monumental Angel of the North is here replaced by a transparent and porous tracery through which we can register the changing conditions of light and weather and through which an intimate ... More |
 | Newspaper's Revelation Rocks Civil Rights Photographer Ernest C. Withers' Family
Andrew Withers, son of photographer Ernest Withers, reacts to a story about his father being an FBI informant during the civil rights movement. AP Photo/Lance Murphey.
By: Adrian Sainz, Associated Press Writer
MEMPHIS (AP).- The startling revelation that a revered civil rights photographer also was an FBI informant who tipped investigators about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others has left his children denying he was a snitch and spurred some movement veterans to try to explain why he might have helped the feds. This was to be the season when the late civil rights photographer Ernest C. Withers would be honored for his historic work, with his photos displayed at a museum bearing his name. Instead, an investigation by The Commercial Appeal unmasked him as an informant who regularly tipped authorities about civil rights movement participants from at least 1968 to 1970. "Personally, and as a family, we do not believe what has been alleged. It still has to be proven," ... More | | Smithsonian Announces E. Carmen Ramos as Curator for Latino Art
Ramos will be responsible for acquiring artworks for the museum’s permanent collection and producing a major exhibition and catalog based on the museum’s Latino holdings for fall 2013.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum has appointed E. Carmen Ramos as its curator for Latino art. Ramos will be responsible for acquiring artworks for the museum’s permanent collection and producing a major exhibition and catalog based on the museum’s Latino holdings for fall 2013. She begins work on Oct. 12. “I am thrilled that E. Carmen Ramos is bringing her expertise and insights here to help us feature Latino artists who transform personal experiences and cultural heritage into vivid artworks,” said Elizabeth Broun, The Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. “These stories are culturally specific, but also American and universal.” Ramos is an independent curator whose most recent projects were “BLACKOUT: A ... More | | New House Record at Christie's for the Most Expensive Item Sold Online
An important and rare bronze wine vessel and cover, Fangyi late Shang dynasty, Anyang, 12th-11th Century BC. Price realized: US$3,330,500. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010.
NEW YORK, NY.- In a sign that fine art collectors are growing ever more comfortable with bidding online, Christie’s International reports that the top lot in Thursday’s sale of The Sze Yuan Tang Archaic Bronzes from the Anthony Hardy Collection sold for $3.3 million to an online bidder, setting a new house record for the most expensive item sold online. The sale price smashed the previous Christie’s online sales of $1.27 million, set in April 2008 for a Stradavari violin purchased online using Christie’s LIVE™, the company’s proprietary online bidding platform. The new record of $3.3 million was set by an American collector who competed against bidders in the saleroom and on the phone to win the rare Chinese bronze wine vessel Fangyi, from the late Shang dynasty. Widely published and extensively exhibited in museums worldwide, this striking, heavily decorated container and cover ... More |
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Sotheby's Asia Week Sales in New York Total $27,649,251
MF Husain, Cinq Sens, Sold for $782,500 (est. $500/700,000). Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Asia week series of auctions at Sotheby’s New York concluded today with the South Asian Art sale which made $7,547,250 to bring the overall total for the week to $27,649,251 well within the $ 21.9/31.2 million estimate. The sales stated on Tuesday with the Joe Grimberg Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles which brought $4,931,626 and was 83% sold by lot. The Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art sale the following day fetched $15,170,375 and South Asian Art today totaled $7,547,250 and was $72% sold by lot. Zara Porter Hill, International Head of Indian Art at Sotheby’s said: “The vibrancy of the Indian art market returned to Sotheby’s in this sale. Paintings from the 18th century to the latest contemporary art achieved exceptional prices with a number of artist records being set. The result far exceeded the low estimate and was a validation of our strategy. This focuses on carefully curat ... More | | New Works in Bronze and Steel by John McCracken at David Zwirner
Installation view of John McCracken: New Works in Bronze and Steel at David Zwirner, New York, September 16 – October 23, 2010. Photo: Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new work by American artist John McCracken, on view at the gallery’s 533 West 19th Street space. McCracken developed his earliest sculptural work while studying painting at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland in the 1960s. While experimenting with increasingly three-dimensional canvases, the artist began to produce objects made with industrial techniques and materials, including plywood, sprayed lacquer, and pigmented resin, creating the highly-reflective, smooth surfaces that he has become known for. In 1966, McCracken generated his signature sculptural form: the plank, a narrow, monochromatic, rectangular board format that leans at an angle against the wall (the site of painting) while simultaneously entering into the three-dimensional realm and physical space of the viewer. In addition to the planks, ... More | | Mark Twain: A Skeptic's Progress Opens at the Morgan Library
Photograph of Mark Twain, dated 1904 (taken the day he buried his wife) taken by Isabel Lyon. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum and The New York Public Library—which hold two of the world’s great collections of manuscripts, rare books, letters, and other items related to the life of Mark Twain (1835-1910)— present a major exhibition at the Morgan exploring a central, recurring theme throughout the iconic author’s body of work: his uneasy, often critical, attitude towards a rapidly modernizing America. Opening September 17, 2010, the exhibition coincides with the 175th anniversary of Twain’s birth in 1835 and includes more than 120 manuscripts and rare books, including original manuscript pages from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) and Life on the Mississippi (1883), as well as letters, notebooks, diaries, photographs, and drawings associated with the author’s life and work. Mark Twain: ... More |
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Largest Independent Contemporary Art Award Presents Its Nominees
A visitor stands in front of an artwork by Russian artists duo Vyacheslav Mizin and Alexander Shaburov, aka Blue Noses Group. EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV.
MOSCOW.- The “Kandinsky Prize” established by “ArtChronika” Foundation in 2007 in the very short period became the independent institute of development, support and motivation of the modern Russian art. It became possible due to the Jury’s objectivity and professionalism and also the high level of the Prize organization. ArtChronika Cultural Foundation launches the major annual exhibition of the Kandinsky Prize nominees. The exhibition will be on view September 17- October, 13, 2010, at the Moscow Central House of Artists. The exposition and design is – Andrei Erofeev, architecture – bureau Bernaskoni. This year, the Kandinsky Prize, established by the ArtChronika cultural foundation in 2007, presents the works of its nominees for the fourth time. The interest of the participants in the Prize never decreased, not only has the quantity of the applications grown each year, but geography coverage ... More | | Dr. Michael W. Schantz Appointed to Serve as Executive Director of The Heckscher Museum of Art
Dr. Schantz was the Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia for more than 25 years.
HUNTINGTON, NY.- – Dr. Michael W. Schantz has been appointed to serve as Executive Director of The Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, New York by the institution’s Board of Trustees effective November 1, 2010. Judith A. Jedlicka will continue in her role as Interim Executive Director through the end of her contract. Dr. Schantz was the Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia for more than 25 years. Dr. Schantz has extensive knowledge of all aspects of museum operations, from exhibitions to educational programs to fund-raising and community relations. He is a Board member of the Senior Artists Initiative in Philadelphia and has served as Chairman of the Philadelphia Mayor’s Art Advisory Board, a Board member of the Chestnut Hill Community Association and a Board member of Historic Northwest Coalition in Philadelphia. ... More | | Virtual Fire by Thyra Hilden and Pio Diaz to Rage in the Colosseum for Art
Installation artists Thyra Hilden and Piuz Diaz pose before staging an art installation "City on Fire" in Rome. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi.
ROME (REUTERS).- Raging fire will appear to consume Rome's ancient Colosseum in a dramatic art spectacle over the next few nights aimed at igniting debate on the fragility of Europe's cultural heritage sites. For artists Thyra Hilden and Pio Diaz, engulfing the vast Roman amphitheatre in virtual flames will be the culmination of a long-running project using video projections of wild fires to make landmark buildings appear to be burning. "We wanted something to symbolize destruction and creation at once. We wanted to question whether something should exist or not and what the heritage means to us," said Diaz. "What would happen if you destroyed a museum or building, is the culture gone? Do we need to build it again or do we have the same culture as we had before?" he asked, as images of flames were projected from the Colosseum's entrance arches ... More |
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Ellen Lesperance Named 2010 Betty Bowen Award Winner
SEATTLE, WA.- The Betty Bowen Committee, chaired by Gary Glant, has announced Ellen Lesperance as winner of the 32nd annual Betty Bowen Award, which comes with an unrestricted cash prize of $15,000. A selection of Lesperance’s work will be on view at the Seattle Art Museum beginning October 21, 2010. Eli Hansen was awarded the PONCHO Special Recognition award in the amount of $2,500, and Barbara Sternberger was selected to receive the Kayla Skinner Special Recognition Award in the amount of $2,500. Five finalists chosen from a pool of 350 applicants from Washington, Oregon and Idaho, including Chris Engman and Emily Gherard, competed for the $20,000 in awards. Lesperance, Hansen and Sternberger will receive their awards and discuss their work at a public award ceremony on Thursday, October 21 from 6-7 pm in the Plestcheeff Auditorium at SAM downtown. A public reception will follow from 7- 8 pm in SAM’s Arnold ... More
Copy of Annie Leibovitz's 'John and Yoko' Up for Auction
NEW YORK (AP).- A copy of Annie Leibovitz's famous photo of a nude John Lennon with a clothed Yoko Ono is going up for auction in New York City. The photo was taken just hours before Lennon was shot in December 1980 and appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. It's one of 40 copies and is expected to bring $10,000 to $15,000 at Swann Auction Galleries on Oct. 19. The photo is being sold by a private collector and is not part of Leibovitz's highly publicized settlement over her debts and rights to her own work. ... More
Famed Mechanical Musical Instrument Collection to BE Auctioned at Bonhams
NEW YORK, NY.- On October 7th, Bonhams New York will present a special auction devoted to Vintage mechanical musical instruments and automata. Featuring a number of rare turn-of-the-century orchestrions, including $4 million of property from the famed Mark Yaffe Collection, this sale is cause for huge excitement in collecting circles. An orchestrion is a generic name for a machine that plays music and is designed to sound like an orchestra or band. For inside the magnificent cases, real working musical instruments are played entirely by machine. Orchestrions are most often operated by means of perforated paper rolls. In some cases these mechanical musical machines can also be operated by book music made from thick panels of cardboard held together with canvas. Orchestrions reached the height of their popularity in the early1920's during the advent of the Jazz Age, with popular German and other European makers such as Hupfeld, ... More
Peter Blum Gallery Shows Works of Art by Matthew Day Jackson
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Blum presents the exhibitions The Tomb at the Soho gallery and In Search of at the Chelsea gallery. Both shows opened on Thursday, September 16th. This is Matthew Day Jackson’s second one-person show with the Peter Blum Gallery. At the Soho gallery, Jackson presents an installation entitled The Tomb—a large scale work derived from the Tomb of Philippe Pot. Attributed to Antoine LeMoiturier, in the collection of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the Tomb of Philippe Pot is considered one of the masterpieces of the Burgundian style of the late 15th century. Jackson replaces the eight hooded monks who carry Pot’s effigy with astronauts that are rendered from scraps of wood and plastic. They are then compressed into a block and cut with a CNC (computer numerical control) process. The astronauts shoulder a steel and glass box that holds a skeletal structure based upon Jackson’s own body. ... More
Rare Chinese Woodblock Prints on Display at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Visitors to the Chinese painting galleries at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will see rarely viewed 17th-century Chinese woodblock prints that are the world’s earliest true color prints. Cultivating Nature: Printmaking for Painting in 17th Century China, which runs through Feb. 6, features two albums made from color woodblock prints using a technique that involved multiple woodblock printing in multiple steps. The albums were created to serve as manuals, giving instruction in how to create Chinese paintings using brush and ink. The pages in the albums are superb works of art in their own right. Ling-en Lu, assistant curator of Chinese art and curator of the exhibition, first researched the prints and explored the artistic achievement for a paper to the 2007 Southern Graphics Council Conference ... More
Rare Arcimboldo Painting Acquired by the National Gallery of Art
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art has acquired the Four Seasons in One Head (c. 1590), a rare and important masterpiece by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, on the occasion of the exhibition Arcimboldo, 1526 -1593: Nature and Fantasy, on view in the East Building, September 19, 2010 through January 9, 2011. The artist's delightfully bizarre heads have been frequently copied and imitated. The Four Seasons in One Head is one of fewer than 20 examples by the master in existence. The purchase, which was made possible by the Gallery's Paul Mellon Fund, makes this work the only undisputed painting by Arcimboldo in a public collection in the United States. The painting was presented publicly for the first time in the 2007-2008 Arcimboldo retrospective held at the Louvre, Paris, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. "No one who has ever seen one of Arcimboldo's amazing heads—in a museum, a surrealist spoof, or a commercial advertisem ... More
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