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A man poses for a photograph in front of Pablo Picasso's painting "Reclining Nude with Necklace" at the Albertina Museum in Vienna September 21, 2010. The major exhibition "Picasso: Peace and Freedom" bringing together over 150 works by Picasso from across the world will be presented at the Albertina from September 22, 2010, to January 16, 2011. REUTERS/Herwig Prammer.
VIENNA.- The exhibition Picasso: Peace and Freedom shows the twentieth century’s most important painter from a hitherto almost unknown perspective: in cooperation with Tate Liverpool, the Albertina presents Pablo Picasso as a politically and socially committed artist, thereby questioning the common image of this genius of a century. Assembling some two hundred exhibits from more than sixty international collections, the exhibition illustrates within a historical review and in chronological order how Picasso responded to the war and its atrocities in his art. The exhibition’s scope ranges from Picasso as a history painter and his key motif of the Dove of Peace – one of the most important symbols of hope and the most famous emblem of the Peace Movement – to his still lifes, which contain subtle and hidden commentaries on global events, as well as hints of Picasso’s political attitude. In 1944, Picasso jo ... More |
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Sotheby's Sale of Lehman Brothers Collection Totals $12.3 Million
Untitled 1 (detail), by US artist Julie Mehretu. Est: $600,000 - 800,000. Sold for: $1,022,500 (£652,562) (€767,285). Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s sale of selected works from the distinguished Neuberger Berman and Lehman Brothers Corporate Art Collections brought a total of $12,277,751 today, reaching the high estimate ($8/12 million). Seventeen auction records were set for artists including Julie Mehretu and Glenn Ligon, and the sale was 83% sold by lot with more than half of those works bringing prices above their high estimates. “This collection was put together with great care and foresight,” said Tobias Meyer, Sotheby’s Worldwide Head of Contemporary Art and lead auctioneer at today’s sale. “They were very well informed and bought from artists often at the early stages of their careers, before they had broken out and whom they recognized would have enough talent to ensure long term reputations.” Mr. Meyer continued: “While the Lehman name certainly attracted a great deal of attention, the people who bid today ... More | | New Book Shows More than 100 Unpublished Marilyn Monroe Photos
Actress Marilyn Monroe is seen in one of the previously unpublished photos of her in Alberta, Canada taken in the summer of 1953. REUTERS/The Estate of John Vachon/Dover Publications, Inc.
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- A collection of more than 100 previously unpublished photos of Marilyn Monroe can be seen for the first time in a new book "Marilyn: August 1953." The book, published this week by Calla Editions, features digitally restored black and white images taken during the summer of 1953 of a then 27-year-old Monroe. The photos were shot by John Vachon, on assignment for LOOK magazine in Alberta, Canada, where Monroe was filming "River of No Return" with Robert Mitchum. An injured ankle prevented Monroe from filming, allowing Vachon to have several days to shoot the Hollywood icon. Only three of photos from the sessions were published in an October 1953 LOOK story. The book will feature photos of Monroe and then fiance, baseball legend Joe DiMaggio snuggling. Vachon is thought to be the only photographer the pair formally posed for. In another of the pictures, ... More | | New Photographic Series by Taryn Simon at Gagosian
Taryn Simon, “Nesting dolls with Disney characters, Snow White (counterfeit)”, 2010. © Taryn Simon. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents “Contraband,” a new photographic series by Taryn Simon. Simon’s photographs chronicle contradictory aspects of American identity while exposing the veiled mechanisms of society. Contraband expands on the earlier series An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar (2007), which explored the covert intersection between private and public domains. For five days in November 2009, Simon lived at John F Kennedy International Airport, which processes more international passengers than any other airport in the United States. The exhaustive pace at which she photographed paralleled the twenty-four hour rhythm by which goods move across borders and time zones. Contraband includes 1075 photographs of over 1000 items detained or seized from passengers and from express mail entering the U.S. from abroad. Simon used a labor-intensive, forensic photographic procedure to document ... More |
 | Works by "New Topographics" Pioneer on View at the Art Institute
Lewis Baltz, Morgan Hill, 1968 (detail). Gift of Lewis Baltz. © Lewis Baltz.
CHICAGO, IL.- Lewis Baltz (b.1945) is one of the most prominent representatives of the "New Topographics" movement, which changed the direction of American photography in the 1970s and has had a formative impact on every generation since. However, Baltz's innovations began already in the 1960s. The Art Institute of Chicago has organized the first survey ever of Lewis Baltz's inaugural body of work, the Prototypes (c. 1967-1973). The exhibition also puts on view for the first time in 12 years Ronde de Nuit, a monumental work of the early 1990s. Lewis Baltz: Prototypes/Ronde de Nuit--on view in the Modern Wing's Bucksbaum Gallery (G188) from September 25, 2010 through January 9, 2011--features 42 Prototype works, including several that have never before been published or exhibited. This is Baltz's first solo exhibition in the United States in more ... More | | First Retrospective in Germany of Paul Graham at Deichtorhallen
British photographer Paul Graham presents his works at the Deichtorhallen. EPA/FABIAN BIMMER.
HAMBURG.- The House of Photography at Deichtorhallen Hamburg is presenting in cooperation with the Museum Folkwang the first retrospective in Germany of the British photographer Paul Graham (b. 1956) with 11 major work complexes produced since 1981. With about 145 images, the exhibition shows a representative selection of his work. Graham’s work belongs to the tradition of social documentary photography, which was founded by Bill Brandt in England after the second world war and continued by photographers such as Chris Killip and John David. In dealing with it and with American photography from the 60s and 70s, Graham developed an innovate artistic work whose view is directed uncompromisingly at social reality. Paul Graham lives in New York. His latest series, American Night and A Shimmer ... More | | Berlin-Based Artist Andy Hope 1930 Opens "On Time" at Metro Pictures
Andy Hope 1930, Nova Nomad, 2010, acrylic on aluminium, wood frame, 86 5/8 x 78 3/4 inches, 220 x 200 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Metro Pictures.
NEW YORK, NY.- For his season opening exhibition at Metro Pictures, the Berlin-based artist Andy Hope 1930 presents ON TIME, an exhibition of painting and three-dimensional forms that channel the evidence of art as a ghostly manifestation in a paranormal time and space. Central to the exhibition are the "Time Tubes" that are seen as minimal sculptures, two boxes that support a tapered horizontal box with one open end. A picture frame is mounted on one end of the tube, suggesting that this is where one looks through the frame into infinite blackness. The experience of both seeing what is physically present yet encountering unidentifiable space, like an extension of Malevich's black squares, inverts Renaissance perspective so the perspective is a concrete object and the flat ... More |
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Autumnal Inspiration from Cole to Wyeth at the Hudson River Museum
Jack Stuppin, Olana Forest, 2009. Oil on Canvas 35 1/4 x 40 1/4 inches. Courtesy of ACA Galleries, New York.
YONKERS, NY.- The fall landscape and paintings of its trees in full glory is often regarded as uniquely American. On September 25, the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, opens Paintbox Leaves: Autumnal Inspiration from Cole to Wyeth, which includes nearly 100 paintings from major museums and private collections and examines the narrative of the American artist’s fascination with autumn. It was the Hudson River School painters who began the tradition of seasonal landscape painting, developing the notion of an American terrain enhanced by autumn color and the emotional response it provokes. But, while autumn landscapes celebrate color and bounty, they also foreshadow the bleakness of a winter to come, acting as scenic memento mori. There is one season when the ... More | | Exhibition on Fashion and Photography of the 1990s at MMK
Corinne Day, Kate Moss, Sommer of Love, 1990.
FRANKFURT.- Not in Fashion. Fashion and Photography of the 90s is the title of the new special exhibition at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst. As the title already indicates the focus here is not on the glamorous fashion world of the rich and the beautiful. On the contrary, the show at MMK presents an anti-movement that in the 1990s consciously ran counter to the images of prêt-àporter, haute couture and the mainstream fashion magazines. Especially in the first half of the decade, designers, stylists and photographers dedicated themselves to giving fashion strong roots in society not just as an industry with a feeling for the zeitgeist, but as an artistic form of expression and as a “politics of the body”. Thus, fashion in the 1990s covered substantially more than the latest collections brought out by the in-labels. The pictures in MMK shed light behind the glittering scene of the cat walk. ... More | | James Turrell at Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels
James Turrell, Untitled, 2010. Transmission Hologram, 152,4 x 96,52 x 1,27 cm. Courtesy of Almine Rech Gallery.
BRUSSELS.- For the first time, Almine Rech Gallery in Brussels is presenting a solo exhibition by James Turrell. Born in Los Angeles in 1943, James Turrell lives and works in Arizona. From 1967 he presented his first "Projection Pieces" at the Pasadena Art Museum. These pieces are "revolutionary" and have been received as such in this time, sparking controversy. They are the first works that use light as a material in itself to be understood and "sculpted." These works lay foundations that are entirely new in the history of Art through the use of light not as an element used for reflecting or lighting up an object or subject on a certain day or defining shadow and light in the tradition of pictorial studies of depiction from the inception of Western painting, but instead ... More |
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Autry National Center Presents Siqueiros in LA: Censorship Defied
David Alfaro Siqueiros, Marcha Revolucionaria (Revolutionary March or Protest), 1935 (detail). Pyroxylin on copper. Collection of Palm Springs Art Museum; Gift of the Estate of Herbert E. Toor. David Alfaro Siqueiros Estate/SOMAAP.
LOS ANGELES, CA- The Autry National Center sheds new light on one of the world’s most influential artistic developments of the 20th century—and bring attention to a critical but little-known moment in the growth of the Los Angeles cultural scene—when it presents the new exhibition Siqueiros in Los Angeles: Censorship Defied from September 24, 2010 to January 9, 2011. Organized by the Autry National Center in partnership with Legacy & Legend Productions, with loans of artworks and materials from major public and private collections throughout the United States and Mexico, this groundbreaking exhibition focuses on a turning point in the career of David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974), an artist who is world-famous (along with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco) as one of the three great Mexican mural painters of the 20th century. During the course of a seven-month stay in Los Angeles in 1932, Siqueiros painted th ... More | | MFA Houston Announces First Carlos Cruz-Diez Retrospective
Carlos Cruz-Diez, Chromosaturation, 1965/2004 (detail). Three chromo-cubicles (fluorescent light with blue, red, and green filters) The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of the Cruz-Diez Foundation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2009.464 © 2010 Carlos Cruz-Diez / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
HOUSTON, TX.- Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time features more than 150 works from the artist´s wide-ranging career, culled from the Cruz-Diez Foundation collection at the MFAH, and major private and public collections around the world. For more than five decades Carlos Cruz-Diez (b. 1923) has intensively experimented with the origins and optics of color. His wide-ranging body of work includes unconventional color structures, light environments, street interventions, architectural integration projects and experimental works that engage the response of the human eye while insisting on the participatory nature of color. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Cruz-Diez Foundation, Houston are organizing the first large-scale retrospective of this pioneering Franco-Venezuelan artist. Carlos ... More | | Superb Selection of Drawings by Edgar Degas at the Morgan
Edgar Degas, Self-Portrait in a Brown Vest, 1856. Oil on paper, mounted on canvas. Bequest of John S. Thacher, 1985.
NEW YORK, NY.- Edgar Degas (1834–1917), founding member of the Impressionist group who was distinguished by his Realist tendencies, is renowned for his vigorous images of dancers, performers, and theater scenes in paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. Throughout his career, he used drawing in dynamic and varied ways to explore these recurring subjects. The exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum opened September 24, 2010, and features some twenty exceptional drawings by Degas, along with two of his sketchbooks, demonstrating the iconic artist’s characteristic daring and inventiveness. The show includes works depicting quintessential Degas subjects—from his earliest portraits of himself, family members, and friends to his later intensive studies of dancers and performers. Degas: Drawings and Sketchbooks is on view through January 23, 2011, in the Morgan’s Clare Eddy Thaw Gallery. “As a medium, dr ... More |
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Jane Hammond: Fallen and Jae Ko: Paper Open at the Taubman Museum of Art
ROANOKE, VA.- The Taubman Museum of Art announced that its new fall exhibitions, Jane Hammond: Fallen and Jae Ko: Paper, open to the public yesterday. Fallen is a large scale contemporary war memorial that recognizes the American troops killed in the Iraq war and occupation. Hammond honors each solider killed by inscribing their name on an individual and unique photograph of a leaf. Hammond worked meticulously to perfect the shape, color, thickness, and three-dimensionality of each photograph. Those leaves are then installed on a low pedestal as part of her ongoing installation. Hammond received her inspiration from a dream in 2004, one year after the initial invasion, and the work premiered in 2005 with 1,511 leaves. Hammond has since continued to add to the work of art, creating leaves for every additional solider that dies. Fallen will open at the Taubman with more then 4,200 leaves ... More
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Presents Vernon Fisher: K-Mart Conceptualism
FORT WORTH, TX.- Vernon Fisher: K-Mart Conceptualism is organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Museum’s chief curator, Michael Auping. The exhibition will be on view from September 25, 2010 through January 2, 2011. Marla Price, the director of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, announces the forthcoming exhibition Vernon Fisher: K-Mart Conceptualism. The exhibition, including approximately 35 works, is a survey of paintings, sculptures, and installations spanning the late 1970s to the present, including many of the artist’s best-known works, drawn from public and private collections in the United States and Europe. Born in 1943 at Fort Worth’s Harris Hospital, Vernon Fisher is one of Texas’s most internationally recognized artists. He has lived and worked in Fort Worth since ... More
Multiple Record Prices at Swann Galleries' Auction
NEW YORK, NY.- Seven of the top 10 lots in Swann Galleries’ September 16 auction Scenes of the City: Prints, Drawings & Paintings of New York 1900 – 2000 were by Martin Lewis, and all of them set auction records. Lewis’s Shadow Dance, drypoint, 1930, depicting a bevy of lovely young women in cloche hats, walking down the street lit from behind so that the outlines of their figures show through their sheer dresses, sold for $50,400—an auction record for any work by the artist. Shawna Brickley, Works on Paper Specialist at Swann, said, “We are very happy with the results of this sale, Swann’s first prints auction devoted entirely to images of New York City. We are especially pleased to have set an artist record for Martin Lewis.” Other record-setting Lewis highlights included the drypoints Stoops in Snow, 1930, $33,600; Winter on White Street, 1934, $28,800; and Arc Welders, 1937, which ap ... More
Dallas Museum of Art Presents "Encountering Space"
DALLAS, TX.- On September 25, the Dallas Museum of Art presents Encountering Space, an exhibition exploring how artists shape and define space in their work, in its acclaimed Center for Creative Connections (C3). Featuring 11 key works drawn exclusively from the DMA’s encyclopedic collections—ranging from an ancient Peruvian clay vessel to Alberto Giacometti’s modern sculpture Three Men Walking—Encountering Space invites visitors of all ages to think about their own experiences in space and about how art defines space in both two and three dimensions. This experience can elicit strong physical and emotional reactions in the viewer. Encountering Space is the second exhibition presented in the DMA’s Center for Creative Connections, an interactive and innovative learning environment at the heart of the Museum’s galleries where museum-goers can explore their own creativity and ... More
The Norton Simon Museum Presents an Artwork by John Cage
PASADENA, CA.- The Norton Simon Museum presents an installation of Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel, an artwork by American composer and artist John Cage (1912–1992). Created in 1969 as a tribute to artist Marcel Duchamp, Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel is a multiple comprised of five components: four Plexigrams and one lithograph, all with randomly placed text and images. This innovative work, with its captivating construction and endless interpretation by the viewer, has not been on view at the Museum since 1970. John Cage made an impact on many artistic disciplines—theater, dance, poetry, visual art and musical composition. His first forays into art involved music, and he is arguably best known for 4'33" , first performed in 1952. Cage composed a musical performance in which well-known pianist David Tudor sat at the piano in silence for four minutes and thirty-three seconds. By including noise a ... More
Vibrant Watercolors by Alfred Jacob Miller Capture Spirit of the Early American West
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Vibrant and masterful mixed media works on paper by the artist Alfred Jacob Miller, depicting the American West inspired by a six-month expedition in 1837, is on view in Romancing the West: Alfred Jacob Miller in the Bank of America Collection, an exhibition that opens this fall at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., then travels to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2011. Baltimore native Alfred Jacob Miller (1810–1874) was one of the first American artists to paint the “Far West,” considered at the time as exotic and distant by people living in the East. Bank of America’s 30 sheets, which have not been on view to the public since 1964, feature poetic images of the stunning landscape of early America, the daily life of Native Americans and mountain men, and the exotic wildlife and fauna he observed. Miller traveled in 1837 with a ... More
Exhibition at Kahmann Gallery Highlights 10 Years of Martien Mulder's Work
AMSTERDAM.- The work of New York based fine art photographer Martien Mulder (1971, NL) will be represented by Kahmann Gallery from September 2010. The exhibition “From Blue To Blue” highlights 10 years of personal work. Mulder’s colorpalette is very specific, and some of her photographs could be considered monotones. This gives them a quiet strength. She is a minimalist, but her images are sober in a warm and accessible manner. She enjoys pointing her lens at many different subjects in search for the same result…a calm delicately abstract representation of them. Martien Mulder’s photographs reflect her travels, her movements and her life. Her images are a search for the calm, uncluttered beauty she finds in her personal surroundings. Her subject matter is endless and of great variety, since she travels with her always alert eye, and could stumble upon anything… anywhere. This variety in cont ... More
Peru Collective Connects Young Artists with Buyers
LIMA (REUTERS).- A three-day fair at an upscale hotel is showcasing the work of contemporary Peruvian artists to a growing legion of middle class art collectors and enthusiasts with money to spend. Desenfranquiciados Colectivo, curators of Peru's youthful, anti-establishment art scene, chose a luxury hotel for the event that aims to change the art market in Peru. The show features the work of 45 Peruvian artists, including photographs, paintings, sculptures, lithographs and illustrations, each on sale for $500 or less. "The goal of Desenfranquiciados is to make art more accessible to the public and to buyers as well as artists, particularly young artists," said Nicolas Figari, an abstract photographer and one of the collective's lead organizers. For the past two decades Lima's art world has been controlled by a small group of family-owned galleries with little interest in contemporary art, according to Figari. "It's run by 20 or 30 galleries and it's not easy for a young artist ... More
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