| The Immortal Alexander The Great: The Myth, The Reality, His Journey, His Legacy
| | | | Journalists attend the preview of an exhibition, entitled The Immortal Alexander The Great, at the Hermitage Amsterdam, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The exhibition opens to the public from 18 September 2010 until 18 March 2011. EPA/TOUSSAINT KLUITERS.
AMSTERDAM.- No other king from antiquity has such a powerful appeal to the imagination as Alexander the Great (356-323 BC). Nor other king has been so often cited and depicted as an example. The exhibition The Immortal Alexander the Great will be on view from 18 September 2010 until 18 March 2011 in the Hermitage Amsterdam, with over 350 masterpieces, including the famous Gonzaga cameo from the State Museum the Hermitage in St Petersburg. This is the first time that any Dutch museum has devoted an exhibition to Alexander the Great, his journey to the East, and the influence of Hellenism. The exhibition spans a period of almost 2500 years. In the Hermitage Amsterdam, the immortal Alexander will be brought to life for six months. Alexander was born in 356 BC as the son of King Philip II of Macedonia. In boyhood he was taught by Aristotle, who would be an abiding influence on him. At twenty years of age Alexander succe ... More | | Galerie Van Der Planken Presents Colorful Photographs by Liesje Reyskens
Liesje Reyskens, Fairytopia : 100x70 cm lambda/diasec ed. 8.
ANTWERP.- Colour, contrast, originality, sensuality and innocence characterize the work of this talented young photographer. Liesje Reyskens is a graduate of the Media and Design Academy KHLIM in Genk, Belgium. She completed her studies in 2007 with great distinction based on her autonomous photography project. Liesje participated in the Canvas Collection competition twice, with positive results. Interest in her photography grew and resulted in exhibitions at galleries in Holland. She has completed several assignments for glossy magazines, the City of Genk, design platform Limburg and Z33 Centre for Contemporary Art and Design. Liesje Reyskens profiles herself as a contemporary photographer with an international style. Her pictures are often an intriguing mix of realism and fantasy. For a long time she predominantly worked with non-professional models but that is changing. She continues to look for young, quite inexperienced models. Liesje aims ... More | | Two Icons of Pop Art Featured at Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Andy Warhol, Coca-Cola [4] Large Coca-Cola, 1962, 81 5/8 x 56 7/8 in. Est. $20/25 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Two icons of the Pop Art movement will be found on the front and back covers of the catalogue for Sothebys Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 9 November 2010 in New York Andy Warhols Coca-Cola [4] Large Coca-Cola (est. $20/25 million) and Roy Lichtensteins Ice Cream Soda (est. $12/18 million). Both works date to 1962, a watershed year that heralded the beginning of Pop art, and illustrate the essential role that popular culture and consumerism in post-World War II America played in the movement, evidenced by the selection of soda pop as the subject matter in each case. Both monumental masterworks were included in key, early exhibitions of Pop art in 1963 and neither has appeared on the market in several decades. They will be shown at Sothebys in Hong Kong and London before returning to New York for exhibition and sale. Many factors resulted in the advent of Pop art, includ ... More | | 6th Liverpool Biennial Celebrates a Decade of Bringing New Art to the UK
Jamie Isenstein, Empire of Fire, 2010 © Jamie Isenstein. Photo courtesy Roger Sinek, Tate Liverpool 2010.
LIVERPOOL.- Touched at the 6th Liverpool Biennial celebrates a decade of bringing new art to the UK through curatorial collaboration. Conceived as a sculptural happening, Tate Liverpools exhibition features on-going live interventions and appearances by artists, performing objects, as well as installations and sculptures to be explored by visitors. Since the emergence of challenging and rebellious artistic strategies in the 1960s, international artists have questioned the idea that visual art should be static, sanctified, and viewed from a distance. Touched at Tate Liverpool, curated by Peter Gorschlüter, makes reference to this period in art history to explore the ways in which contemporary artists continue to respond to and build upon these ideas. The exhibition opens with Embryology 1978-80, a sculptural installation by Magdalena Abakanowicz (Poland). One of her best known and most striking works, Embryolo ... More | | Design for Phase 1 of The Glasgow School of Art Redevelopment Unveiled
Night View, North Elevation from Dalhousie St; Views up Dalhousie and Scott St from Sauchiehall St. Photo: Courtesy of Stephen Holl Architects.
GLASGOW.- The plans for Phase 1 of The Glasgow School of Art re-development were released yesterday. Designed by Steven Holl Architects (New York) in partnership with JM Architects (Glasgow) and Arup Engineering, the new building will replace the Foulis Building and Newbery Tower on Renfrew Street opposite the Mackintosh building, and significantly refurbish the Assembly Building which houses the Students Union. Steven Holl Architects with JM Architects and Arup were appointed last September following an international competition to design a new building for the Art School which would enhance significantly the teaching, learning and research facilities available to GSA students and staff as well as providing access to new publicly accessible spaces including exhibition galleries and the Simon ... More | | Harland Miller's "I'll Never Forget What I Can't Remember" at Galerie Alex Daniels
Harland Miller 'Incurable Romantic Seeks Dirty Filthy Whore' watercolour on paper 160 x 130 cm. Photo: Courtesy of Galerie Alex Daniels - Reflex Amsterdam and Harland Miller.
AMSTERDAM.- The artist and writer Harland Miller is known for his large-scale, playful reworkings of Penguin book covers. Miller takes much-loved book jackets of classic works by Hemmingway, Fitzgerald, Edgar Allen Poe and others as his starting point. By rendering them in oils at poster size with quirky new titles, he transforms them into contemporary, often satirical commentaries on life and literature. As with Californian artist, Ed Ruscha, it is words that set the tone in Millers work. Whether ironic, nostalgic, or downright cheeky - Dirty Northern Bastard, by DH Lawrence, or Im so Fucking Hard, by Hemmingway - the titles demythologise and amuse in equal measure. Although a dedicated wordsmith, Miller is an irrepressibly painterly artist too: the bands of orange, or blue or green either side of the books title that make a Penguin ... More | | ARCOmadrid Kickstarts Its International Promotion in Sao Paulo
The opening date has been planned for 21st September in Brazil , coinciding with the Sao Paulo Biennial.
MADRID.- Sao Paulo, Moscow , Paris , Miami and Lisbon are the stopovers for ARCOmadrid, the International Contemporary Art Fair, on its promotional tour of its upcoming 30th event, to be held from 16th to 20th February 2011 in Madrid . A new feature of the plan drawn up by the art fair for its international promotion is the direct involvement of the Madrid City Council through Promoción Madrid, its city marketing agency, which will be lending its support to ARCOmadrid for the fairs 30th anniversary, in recognition of its key role in the citys cultural offer and as a particularly interesting asset for international contemporary art collectors and professionals. The opening date has been planned for 21st September in Brazil , coinciding with the Sao Paulo Biennial. The Spanish restaurant of Sergi Arola, one of the most prestigious chefs in the world, has been chosen to host the presentation of t ... More | | Phillips de Pury & Co. Announces 20th Century Master Prints from the Dreier LLP Collection
Jasper Johns, Cicada, 1981, estimate: $ 20,000/30,000. © Jasper Johns. Image courtesy of Phillips de Pury & Company.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Company announced highlights from the sale of the Dreier LLP collection as part of the November Modern and Contemporary Editions auction. The Dreier LLP collection of 20th Century Master Prints places emphasis on blue chip artists of the 1970s and 1980s and will feature over 40 lots in the single owner section of the catalogue. The Dreier LLC collection was professionally curated and shows a striking array of some of the best examples of American printmaking anchored by three of Matisses most elegant aquatints. We are honored to be offering such important works this season. Kelly Troester and Cary Leibowitz, co-directors Phillips Editions Department. The earliest works in the collection are three of Henri Matisses most important thick line images of model Nadia Sednaoui - Grand Masque (Claude Duthuit 800), Nadia aux cheveux lisses (D. 805) and Nadia au ... More | | Drawings Attributed to Francis Bacon at Werkstattgalerie in Berlin
A mass of evidence has emerged to show that he not only did draw, but drew prolifically. By: Edward Lucie-Smith
BERLIN.- As everyone interested in Bacons work knows, Bacon many times, and often vehemently, denied that he made any use of drawing. This is contradicted however by an early interview with the critic David Sylvester (Bacons most frequent interlocutor), which is preserved on film. In it, Bacon admits that he does draw, but coyly says that puts his drawings aside and doesnt look at them, when the moment comes to paint a picture. Yet, since Bacons lonely death in Madrid in 1992, a mass of evidence has emerged to show that he not only did draw, but drew prolifically. When he died, for example, a canvas he had just begun was found in his Reece Mews studio in London. On it was a masterly full-scale drawing for the composition he intended to paint. Numerous scraps of paper with drawings on them, some mere scribbles it is true ... More | | Wide Range of Artistic Activities at the Schirn Kunsthalle's Playing the City 2
At the Schirn Kunsthalle, Swiss artist Clarina Bezzola ties together parts of clothing she collected from random strangers on the street. EPA/FRANKRUMPENHORST.
FRANKFURT.- Following last years success, the exhibition project Playing the City 2 once again presents a wide range of artistic activities in public space, involving the city and its inhabitants in a variety of ways. Through 26 September 2010, central Frankfurt sees new actions taking place daily, from performances to installations to guerrilla actions. At the heart of the project lies an intense debate about public space and the participatory turn within contemporary art. Around 20 collaborative and participatory works have been planned, some specially conceived for the project, by Nina Beier, Clarina Bezzola, Julien Bismuth, Clegg & Guttmann, Cosalux, Christoph Faulhaber, For Use / Numen, Swetlana Gerner, Jördis Hille, Christoph von Löw, Josef Loretan, Jan Lotter, Annika Lundgren, Lee Mingwei, Ivan Moudov, Anny and Sibel Öztürk, Paola Pivi, ... More | | Sotheby's to Sell Important and Rare Manuscript Dedicated to The Sultan of Brunei
The manuscripts opening double-page frontispiece shows distinctive stylistic characteristics decorated in yellow, orange and green. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- This autumn, Sothebys will offer an important and rare Quran manuscript dated 1660 and dedicated to The Sultan of Brunei. The manuscript will form part of the sale of A Princely Collection Treasures from the Islamic World which take place in London on Tuesday, 5 October, 2010. Estimated at £60,000 80,000, the Quran is remarkable not only for its royal dedication, its named scribe, place of origin and its early date, but also for the important light it sheds on artistic and decorative styles in the region of South East Asia. Only two further Qurans copied at Kota Batu have appeared at auction in the last 12 years. The colophon reveals that it was copied by a scribe called Hashim bin Muhammad al-Brunawi (from Brunei) in the kingdom of Kota Batu, which was the old capital of Brunei. An inscription at the end of the colophon dedicates the manuscript to our lord the Sultan. The rei ... More | | Airan Kang furthers her Digital Book Project at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
Each of Kangs unique book covers are modified appropriations of the original covers rather than an exact replica.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery presents Airan Kang: Light Reading. Not only is this the artists first solo exhibition in New York, but also her first solo endeavor in the United States. Kangs artistic lexis centers on book-shaped sculptures fashioned out of resin and LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes). For nearly a decade she has been both personifying and objectifying discourse and our concepts of knowledge by simulating libraries, bookstores, and reading rooms. Made with LED devices that emit colored lights programmed to continually change in brightness, hue and intensity, each book in this exhibition conflates material and ephemeral depictions of knowledge to realize the pluralistic spaces of our imagination. For this exhibition, Airan Kang furthers her Digital Book Project. This virtual world was created as an homage to specific books that are her current sources of inspiration. Kang trav ... More | | Intensely Colorful Works by Phillip Maberry and Scott Walker at Maloney Fine Art
Phillip Maberry and Scott Walker, Camo, 2010. 22 x 18 x 13. Photo: Courtesy Maloney Fine Art.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- For more than twenty-five years Phillip Maberry and Scott Walker have created one-of-a-kind ceramic sculpture, reliefs and objects for gallery and museum installations as well as having fulfilled numerous residential and commercial commissions. Best known for their eccentric, intensely colorful style associated with the Pattern and Decoration" movement, Maberry and Walker's most recent body of work, titled "Pool Toys" continues the investigation of constructed figurative forms. Utilizing color and design, articulated in the artists' characteristic playful manner where their emphasis has always been on modern interpretations of past decorative styles, their work is infused with an optimistic spirit. The "Pool Toys" effect clever spatial gambits within compressed, deceptively simple interplays of surface ornamentation and sculptural articulation. Although the artists work in the time-honored ceramic tradition, they are ... More | More News | Bronx Museum Receives Gift of 25 works from Emilio Sanchez Foundation BRONX, NY.- The Bronx Museum of the Arts is one of four museums selected by the Emilio Sanchez Foundation to receive a gift of paintings and drawings by the internationally renowned artist, as well as an archival database of Sanchezs works, photographs, and documents, to add to their permanent collections. The Bronx Museum, NY, received a selection of 25 oils, watercolors, and drawings from Sanchezs extensive Bronx series completed in the late 1980s. The series comprises urban landscapes depicting the Bronx as well as archival photographs and documents. This acquisition supports the Museums mission to present and collect works by artists for whom the Bronx has been critical to their artistic practice and development. Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, IN, received eight oils, watercolors, and ink drawings from the Foundation, in addition to a master set of 137 prints. A selection of these art ... More
Amendments Toughen Anti-Fraud Arts and Crafts Law ZUNI, NM (AP).- Zuni silversmith Tony Eriacho stands behind tables of American Indian jewelry and crafts that are not what they seem. He picks up a necklace of Indian-style fetish animals made in the Philippines; dangles an earring with colored stones made of plastic; explains that what looks like solid turquoise is glued-together dust of turquoise and other rocks; uses a magnet to pick up beads supposedly made of silver, which isn't magnetic. What bothers Eriacho isn't just that these objects look like something they're not. It's that too often, they're fraudulently marketed as authentic, a violation of federal law. Falsely suggesting goods are Indian- or Alaska Native-made could be harder to get away with now that Congress has approved changes to the 1990 Indian Arts and Crafts Act. The revisions, approved in July as part of the Tribal Law and Order Act, allow all federal law enforcement officers, not just the FBI, to investigate suspected violations. That includes officers wo ... More
Inverness Museum and Art Gallery Exhibits Work of Acclaimed American Artist INVERNESS.- Major drawings by Ed Ruscha, one of the most influential and pioneering American artists of the past half-century, will be touring Highland art galleries from September as part of Artist Rooms, the important new public collection of international post-war and contemporary art that national fundraising charity for works of art, the Art Fund is helping to tour across the UK. Artist Rooms is jointly owned and managed by National Galleries of Scotland and Tate on behalf of the nation. Following the success of 2009, 18 museums and galleries across the UK in 2010 are showing 25 Artist Rooms exhibitions and displays from the collection created by the curator and collector, Anthony dOffay, and acquired by the nation in February 2008. Artist Rooms on Tour with the Art Fund supported by The Scottish Government has been devised to enable this collection held by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland, to reach and inspire new audiences across the country, particularly ... More
Poppy Sebire in London Presents Group Exhibition "Dark Nature" LONDON.- The tendency for contemporary art to reference the darker side of the human psyche as a response to our troubled times has been prevalent in recent years and has led to many artists referencing imagery that has a direct relationship with death, gothic aesthetics and apocalyptic themes and that has often felt contrived and superficial. The group of artists presented in Dark Nature, on view at Poppy Sebire through October 17, 2010, references those dark themes with a singularity that suggests their relationship to their world is far from a pose. This is work that has a quietness and subtlety and whose near obsessive qualities suggest it could be made in a bedroom whilst listening to Sabbath albums
. backwards. That is not to say there isnt a knowingness in this work. It is there, and seems to be hard won by constant exploration and the marriage of their chosen mediums with the intensity of the s ... More
Jan Knap's Simple and and Refined Works of Art at Zonca & Zonca MILAN.- Zonca & Zonca present a solo show by Jan Knap. The exhibition presents, for the first time to the public, twenty medium and small sized paintings which have been especially commissioned for the show. Knaps work is simple. It is so refined that it appears elementary. Immediate and apparently understandable. His work is mental rather then sentimental and arises from a philosophy that envisions a universe constituted by beauty, harmony and goodness and in which the Greek notion of ó ó (kalòs kai agatòs) is perfectly represented. The Platonic doctrines are reflected in the closed and classical fifteenth century forms that evoke the past as well as the present, through its revision from a contemporary perspective, suspending the paintings intimate and daily scenes in time. Jan Knap paints the universe of his dreams and his desires: an earthly paradise where children and married c ... More
Oxfam Discovery to Be Offered at Christie's this September LONDON.- Christies announced that they will offer a pair of rare 19th century photo albums by Esteban Gonnet entitled Recuerdos de Buenos-Ayres, which was discovered in an Oxfam shop in Newcastle upon Tyne. A very rare and early account of Argentine landscapes in the 19th century, the albums are being offered by Oxfam with an estimate of £3,000-5,000. Caroline Ingram, Volunteer at Oxfam, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne -I have been volunteering at Oxfam for six years now and have never had a find to compare to this! As I am a keen photographer, I selected these albums to research from a selection of other books and began investigating. After a quick online search I discovered that the National Library of Argentina houses albums entitled Recuerdos de Buenos-Ayres and the list of photographs they contain is almost identical to those in the albums I had ... More
High to Transfer Art and Books to the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art recently transferred 21 works by 14 Georgia artists from its collection to The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA). In addition, the High has transferred more than 700 duplicate publications from its archives to a new reference library currently under development by MOCA GA. The publications focus on modern and contemporary art and art from around the world. Scholars, curators, art historians, educators, artists and the public will have access to this new library. "The High is delighted to now include MOCA GA in our repertoire of international and regional collaborations," said David Brenneman, the High's Director of Collections and Exhibitions. "Through the transfer of these works to MOCA GA, whose mission celebrates the contemporary art of Georgia, we are excited that Atlanta and regional communities will have greater access to view and study these artists and their work." "This co ... More
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