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"Vampire II" by Edvard Munch, which is expected to fetch ₤400,000-₤600,000 (US$620,000-920,000) is seen in the foreground as a gallery technician straightens another print at Sotheby's in London September 13, 2010. These prints, along with other rare and important prints, will go on auction in London this Thursday. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s autumn sale of Modern and Contemporary Prints will take place on Thursday, 16 September, 2010 and will offer collectors a broad selection of works spanning the twentieth century. Prior to the auction, the sale will be on public exhibition at Sotheby’s New Bond Street galleries beginning 12 September. The 176 lots are expected to realise in the region of £5.3 million. Taking centre stage is the group of prints by Pablo Picasso from a Private European Collection, comprising 58 lots (23-81) and estimated to realise in excess of £2.5 million. Three of Picasso’s greatest prints will spearhead this section and these are Le repas frugal (lot 23; est. £120,000-180,000), La Minotauromachie (lot 27, est. £400,000-600,000) and La femme qui pleure (lot 28, est. £500,000-700,000). Each of these works is singularly ... More |
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MoMA Exhibition Explores Design and the Modern Kitchen
Helene Haasbauer-Wallrath, Swiss, 1885-1968. Die Praktische Küche (The Practical Kitchen). Poster for an exhibition at the Gewerbemuseum Basel, 1930. Lithograph, 35 1/2 x 50" (90.2 x 127 cm). Printer: W. Wasserman, Basel. Gift of Jim Lapides and the Architecture & Design Purchase Fund 142.2010.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen, an exhibition that examines the kitchen and its continual redesign as a barometer of changing aesthetics, technologies, and ideologies, from September 15, 2010, through March 14, 2011. Comprising almost 300 works drawn from the Museum’s collection, including design objects, architectural plans, posters, photographs, archival films, prints, paintings, and media works, the exhibition’s centerpiece is an unusually complete example of the iconic ―Frankfurt Kitchen,‖ designed in 1926–27 by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and recently acquired by MoMA. In the aftermath of World War I, about 10,000 of these kitchens ... More | | Gabriel Orozco Presents an Expanded Version of His Show at Centre Pompidou
The artwork 'Horses Running Endlessly' (wood, 1995) by Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco is seen. EPA/GEORGIOS KEFALAS.
PARIS.- This outstanding exhibition is Gabriel Orozco’s first at the Centre Pompidou, and the first opportunity to see his work in Paris since his exhibition “Clinton is Innocent” at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1998. Orozco, who lives in Paris for several months a year, has been closely involved in developing the project, helping to design, together with Centre Pompidou curator Christine Macel, an exhibition of more than 80 works that offers an overview of his career from the beginnings to today. It offers an opportunity to see drawings, photographs, paintings and sculptures from collections public and private in France and abroad, many of which have never been seen in this country before. This exhibition at the Centre Pompidou follows shows at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Kunstmuseum, Basel; another will follow ... More | | Karl Lagerfeld's Photos on Display at Maison Europeene de la Photographie
French actress Vanessa Paradis visits German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld's exhibition. AP Photo/Francois Mori.
By: Jenny Barchfield, Associated Press Writer
PARIS (AP).- He's an uncontested master with a pen and sketchbook, on which he's been rattling off blockbuster ready-to-wear and haute couture collections for decades. But Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld is also gifted with a camera. A new Paris exhibition showcases the gamut of Lagerfeld's photography, from his commercial work for Chanel to celebrity portraits for magazines to more experimental landscapes and architectural pieces. The show — which kicked off Tuesday with a star-studded and Champagne-soaked opening at the Maison Europeene de la Photographie — brings together about 300 of the designer's shots and is billed as the largest-ever exhibit of his photographs. Lagerfeld first took up photography in 1987, and the show, ... More |
 | Platinum Prints & Classic Snaps by Elliott Erwitt at Magnum Print Room
Glamorous movie star Marilyn Monroe (New York, 1956). © Elliott Erwitt/Magnum Photos.
LONDON.- Elliott Erwitt is one of the most respected Twentieth Century photographers. This Autumn, a set of editioned 30”x40” platinum prints from four of Erwitt’s best known images will be available for purchase in the UK for the first time at Magnum Print Room, London. Shown in the context of a broader selection of fine photographs drawn from Erwitt’s distinguished career, the selection includes photographs of racial segregation in North Carolina (1950), a kiss reflected in the wing mirror of a car (California, 1955), glamorous movie star Marilyn Monroe (New York, 1956), and one of his best loved pictures of the relationship between man and dog, Felix, Gladys and Rover (New York, 1976). Launched at this year’s Rencontres d’Arles in July, the four platinum prints were produced in May 2010 using cutting edge technology. Erwitt’s archive includes classic photojournalism and film star portra ... More | | Exhibition of Works by Inner Circle of Max's Kansas City Artists Opens
Mick Jagger, 1972. Photographed by Anton Perich. Courtesy Anton Perich and Steven Kasher Gallery, NYC.
NEW YORK, NY.- Steven Kasher Gallery inaugurates its 2010/11 season with the exhibition Max's Kansas City, on view September 15th through October 9th. It will feature over 150 vintage and limited edition photographs, and monumental sculptures and paintings by the inner circle of Max's artists, including John Chamberlain, Forrest Myers, Larry Zox, Neil Williams, and Andy Warhol. A highlight will be Myers's recreation of his famous laser/jukebox installation. The exhibition will launch Max's Kansas City: Art, Glamour, Rock and Roll (Abrams Image, 2010), a vibrant chronicle of the famed venue. The book will feature luminous photography by Bob Gruen, Anton Perich and others, and writing by Lou Reed, Lenny Kaye, Danny Fields, Lorraine O'Grady, and Steven Watson. It is edited by Steven Kasher. There has never been a more exciting collision of art, ... More | | Crystal Bridges Announces Works by Warhol, Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein, Standing Explosion (Red), 1966, Porcelain enamel on steel, 38 x 25 x 30 in. (96.5 x 63.5 x 76.2 cm).
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has acquired two stellar examples of Pop art by the artists who defined and shaped the movement. Dolly Parton (1985), painted late in Andy Warhol’s career, expressed his life-long fascination with celebrity and glamour in a dazzling homage to the Queen of Country Music. In Standing Explosion (Red) (1966) Roy Lichtenstein translated one of his signature comic book motifs into a burst of three-dimensional form. Both works capture the dazzling energy of American consumer culture while employing mechanical processes and materials, a hallmark of the Pop art movement. With her big hair, purple eye shadow and vivid red lips, Dolly Parton embodies the glamour that makes her a worthy successor to the pantheon of iconic superstars immortalized by Warhol in the 1960s. Characteristic of his celebrity ... More |
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The Turner Prize Goes to BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in 2011
A Tate Britain staff looking over British artist Richard Wright's Gold Leaf painting on display at Tate Britain in London. EPA/ANDY RAIN.
LONDON.- Tate and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art are delighted to announce that The Turner Prize will be presented at BALTIC in 2011. In 2007 the Prize was staged at Tate Liverpool as a curtain-raiser to Liverpool being European Capital of Culture in 2008. Following its success there, it has been decided that the Prize will be presented at Tate Britain and at a gallery outside London in alternate years. The first non-Tate venue outside the capital will be BALTIC in Gateshead. Each year the prize is judged by an independent jury. Chaired by Penelope Curtis, Director Tate Britain, the jury for The Turner Prize 2011 comprises: Katrina Brown, Director, The Common Guild, Glasgow; Vasif Kortun, Platform Garanti, Istanbul; Nadia Schneider, Director, Kunsthaus Glarus; and Godfrey Worsdale, Director, BALTIC. The four shortlisted artists will be announced ... More | | Drawings and Three-Dimensional Objects by Al Taylor at David Zwirner
Installation view. Photo: Glenn Steigelman © 2010 The Estate of Al Taylor; courtesy of David Zwirner, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner exhibits a selection of drawings and three-dimensional objects by Al Taylor. On view at the gallery’s 519 West 19th Street space, the exhibition presents a comprehensive exploration of two series: Rim Jobs, from 1995, and Sideffects (sic.), which includes works that span from 1995 to 1997. While he began his studio practice as a painter, in 1985 Taylor devised a uniquely innovative approach to process and materials that encompassed two-dimensional drawings and three-dimensional objects. Taylor ultimately sought to expand the possibilities of vision by creating new ways of experiencing and imagining space, and his work provides the viewer with an insight into the artist’s thinking and his investigations of perception across several dimensions. Taylor saw no distinction between his three-dimensional works and his drawings, even going so far as to dismiss the term “sculpture” al ... More | | Warner Bros. Presents Gift to Smithsonian; New Digital 3-D Theater
Warner Bros. Sketch (detail).
WASHINGTON, DC.- Warner Bros. Entertainment has made a $5 million donation to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to establish a new theater to present the history of American film. The gift will enable the museum to transform its 46-year-old auditorium into a modern theater with 3-D capability. The auditorium will be renamed the Warner Bros. Theater when it opens next year. The existing 270-seat Carmichael Auditorium will become a film theater with the installation of new technology, including digital 3-D projection. The theater will also have equipment to showcase films still in their original 35-mm reel format. The Warner Bros. Theater will be used for lectures, symposia, concerts and other programs and events as well. In recognition of the gift, the Smithsonian will rename Carmichael Auditorium the Warner Bros. Theater when it opens. Leonard Carmichael, the seventh Secretary of the Smithsoni ... More |
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First Solo U.S. Exhibition for Italian Designer Antonio Pio at Industry Gallery
Ray Chair © Antonio Pio Saracino, courtesy Industry Gallery.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Industry Gallery opened Nature / Data, the first solo U.S. exhibition for New York‐based Italian designer and architect Antonio Pio Saracino. The exhibition, which runs through October 30, 2010, premieres two new designs, feature work created mostly during the past year and introduce two large‐scale models of triumphal arches representing Italian emigration to North and South America. The works in the exhibition are executed in plywood, metal, carbon fiber and synthetics and abstract from natural forms such as molecules, leaves, blossoms, and crystals. Nature / Data features eleven different chair designs, including two newly created for the exhibition: Riccio, a chair with a smooth interior and spiky exterior; and Molecular Bench, a baroque, steel‐framed work covered with molecule‐shaped recycled wool. The other nine designs, most created within the past ... More | | Miami's Museum Park Sees First Signs of Development
The new Miami Art Museum at Museum Park © Herzog & de Meuron, visualization by Artefactorylab.
MIAMI, FL.- Following years of planning and widespread anticipation surrounding the transformation of Miami’s Bicentennial Park into a new Museum Park, work crews have begun an environmental remediation process that will prepare eight acres of land on the park site for vertical construction. The remediation process marks a crucial first step toward the development of new buildings for Miami Art Museum and Miami Science Museum. The remediation process, managed by Suffolk Construction Company and John Moriarty & Associates of Florida, Inc., is slated for completion by the beginning of November 2010. Museum Park’s remediation will be funded by the City of Miami Omni Community Redevelopment Agency (Omni CRA). That allocation followed the ... More | | Pele's Final International Match Worn Shirt from 1971 to Sell at Bonhams
Pele's final international match worn shirt from 1971. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- The shirt worn by the legendary Brazilian footballer Pelé in his final international appearance for Brazil versus Yugoslavia on 18 July 1971 is to be sold at Bonhams, Chester as part of its Sporting Memorabilia sale on 20 October 2010. It has attracted a pre-sale estimate of £8,000 – 10,000. Widely regarded as the greatest footballer of all time, Pelé retired from international football when he was still a top player. He had completed 111 appearances with an international scoring record of 97 goals. At the end of his final game, which was played in Rio de Janeiro’s Macarana Stadium, he swapped his shirt with Yugoslavia’s number six, Dragon Holcar, confirmed in a statement by Holcar that accompanies the lot. The shirt was subsequently displayed in a cafe in Split, Croatia for over twenty years. ... More |
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Competitive Bidding Drives Prices Past Estimates at Saffronart's Autumn Online Auction
NEW YORK, NY.- Saffronart, the world’s largest online fine-art auction house, concluded its Autumn Online Auction on September 9th, 2010 with more than half the lots selling above their higher estimate. The auction achieved a total of $6.4 million, reaffirming the strength of the Indian art market. The two-day auction of Modern and Contemporary Indian art was marked by top prices for several modernists. S.H. Raza garnered great interest with ‘Bhartiya Samaroh’ selling for $905,000. Competitive bidding saw Jogen Chowdhury’s ‘Couple I - Man and Woman’ selling for more than double its estimate at $354,583. The sale also witnessed strong prices for notable works such as the ‘Last Howl from the Cross’ by F.N. Souza which sold for $345,000 and M.F. Husain’s ‘Untitled’ work which sold for $287,500. Leading contemporary artist Subodh Gupta’s ‘Untitled’ work sol ... More
Roman Signer: Four Rooms, One Artist Opens at Swiss Institute
NEW YORK, NY.- Swiss Institute presents one of the rare solo exhibitions of Roman Signer in the United States. The renowned Swiss artist (*1938, lives in St. Gallen) will create a series of new works, installations and videos that typically include near-scientific experiments with humorous side effects. Even though many of the works by Roman Signer do not deal with explosions, but rely on water, wind, sand, electricity, and fire, people tend to remember the experiments that blow up. All of Signer's actions are carefully choreographed. As well as working in his studio, which he calls his lab, Signer often takes off to the Swiss mountains to conduct larger experiments. "I'm no scientist," he maintains, "I'm a tinkerer." Many of his happenings are not for public viewing, and are only documented in photos and film. This exhibition at the Swiss Institute is ... More
World-Renowned Architectural Firm Pelli Clarke Pelli to Design New University of Iowa Auditorium
IOWA CITY.- Progress toward building a new Hancher facility has taken a significant step forward with the University of Iowa’s recent selection of world-renowned Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects to design the building. The selection has been reviewed and approved by the Office of the Board of Regents, State of Iowa. Pelli Clarke Pelli, based in New Haven, Conn., was founded in 1977 and is led by architectural legend César Pelli and his longtime partner Fred Clarke. The firm has designed many of the world’s tallest and most recognizable buildings, including the World Financial Center in New York, which surrounds the space where the World Trade Center once stood; the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and the International Finance Centre in Hong Kong. The firm’s portfolio also includes academic buildings, libraries, performing arts centers, museums and research centers. Its arts center projects include the North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Charl ... More
Invincible WW2 Fighter Pilot's Medals for Sale at Bonhams
LONDON.- A WW2 pilot, who was shot down twice and lost his fingers, miraculously survived a third plane crash into the sea of Gibraltar as he was being flown out of Malta on a stretcher. He was only one of three survivors and lived to tell the tale, whilst going on to have a highly successful career in the Royal Air Force. Ten medals including the Distinguished Service Order and Distinguished Flying Cross belonging to Group Captain A.H Donaldson will be offered in the For Valour: British Gallantry and Collector’s Medals sale at Bonhams Knightsbridge on the 29th September. They are estimated to sell for £15,000 – 20,000. Other items within this lot include log books from April 1934 to October 1942 as well as his flying helmet which was damaged in action. The helmet has featured in various newspaper cuttings, which have also been kept in his log books. During Captain Donaldson’s later career he trained Spitfire crew ... More
Table Commissioned by East Indian Royalty Headlines Austin Auction's Sale
AUSTIN, TX.- An extraordinary mahogany “Beau Brummel” dressing table fit for a princess has swept into the spotlight of Austin Auction’s Sept. 25-26 Estate Auction. The circa-1930 triple-mirrored dressing table is of the highest-quality construction and is fitted with a key-lock safe and exquisite 30-piece Art Deco vanity set of sterling silver and cut glass. The well-marked table and its accessories were crafted by the premier London firm Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co. Ltd. Each hallmarked vanity accessory is finely enameled and adorned with an Islamic moon-and-star motif as well as one of three images of a regally attired gentleman believed to be Asaf Jah VII, Mir Osman Ali Khan, the Nizam of Hyderabad (1886-1967). In a Feb. 22, 1937 cover story in Time magazine, His Exalted Highness, The Nizam of Hyderabad was reputed to be the richest man in the world, with a fortune of $2 billion. Among those ... More
Turmoil in Tibet: Early 20th Century Images at Bonhams
LONDON.- An album of important photographs taken during the controversial British Mission to Tibet in 1903-04 is for sale at Bonhams Travel and Exploration, India and Beyond sale in London on 5 October (£10,000-15,000). The album can be traced to a member of the Mission – Lieut. William Pyt Bennett - and is believed to be the first with such a provenance to appear at auction. The photographer was John Claude White, a Political Officer in the Indian state of Sikkim, and joint leader of the expedition with Major Francis Younghusband. Officially the mission’s purpose was to settle a border dispute between Sikkim and Tibet but it turned into a full scale invasion with the aim of establishing a strong British presence and, crucially, thwarting Russian ambitions in the area. At the village of Guru the expeditionary force killed around 700 lightly armed Tibetan monks in a show of force which, some have claimed, bordered o ... More
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