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A visitor looks at the work of art "Janus, 1981" by artist Arman (1928-2005) at the Centre Pompidou modern art museum, also known as Beaubourg, in Paris. The retrospective "Arman" will run through January 10, 2011. REUTERS/Charles Platiau.
PARIS.- The Centre Pompidou is to stage a retrospective devoted to Arman, one of the major figures of post-War art. The exhibition will bring together almost 120 works from leading museums and private collections to offer a new and distinctive take on Arman’s work, from the second half of the 1950s to the last years of the 20th century. A founder member of the Nouveaux Réalistes, a group that championed “new perceptual approaches to the real,” Arman developed a body of work intimately related to its own age, taking as its artistic material the manufactured products of the consumer society. In a presentation both lively and educational, the exhibition will highlight the two fundamental features of Arman’s work: the gesture, inherited from the practice of the martial arts, (through an exceptional selection of filmed records of the artist’s actions), and the object as vector of new artistic forms. The ... More |
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The Pace Gallery Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary with Retrospective Shows
Installation view of 50 Years at Pace installation image for 534 West 25th St. Photos by: G.R. Christmas / Courtesy The Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- In celebration of its 50th anniversary, The Pace Gallery presents a multi-venue retrospective of the gallery’s history highlighting the many artists, exhibitions, people, literature and ideals that have influenced its narrative over the past five decades. 50 Years at Pace brings together some of the key masterpieces that have passed through Pace’s doors, featuring loans from important public and private collections worldwide. With works spanning more than a century and a selection of rare archival materials, 50 Years at Pace sheds light on some of the landmark exhibitions and sales from the gallery’s extensive history. 50 Years at Pace is on view at 32 East 57th Street, 534 West 25th Street, and 545 West 22nd Street from September 17th through October 23rd. The exhibition is also on view at The Pace Gallery’s new location at 510 West 25th Street through October 16th. Each gallery ... More | | Amazing Horned Dinosaurs Unearthed on "Lost Continent"
Scott Sampson of the Utah Museum of Natural History.
SALT LAKE CITY, UT.- Two remarkable new species of horned dinosaurs have been found in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southern Utah. The giant plant-eaters were inhabitants of the “lost continent” of Laramidia, formed when a shallow sea flooded the central region of North America, isolating the eastern and western portions of the continent for millions of years during the Late Cretaceous Period. The newly discovered dinosaurs, close relatives of the famous Triceratops, were announced today in PLoS ONE, the online open-access journal produced by the Public Library of Science. The study, funded in large part by the Bureau of Land Management and the National Science Foundation, was led by Scott Sampson and Mark Loewen of the Utah Museum of Natural History (UMNH) and Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah. Additional authors include Andrew Farke (Raymond Alf Museum), Eric Roberts (James Cook University), Joshua Smith (University of Utah), ... More | | Work by Gerhard Richter from the Weserburg Museum to Be Offered
Gerhard Richter, Matrosen (Sailors), 1966. (detail). Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- An important painting by Gerhard Richter from 1966, Matrosen (Sailors), will be among the highlights of Sotheby’s Contemporary evening sale in New York, to be held on 9 November 2010.The painting is being offered on behalf of the Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst in Bremen, Germany and is estimated to bring $6/8 million. Matrosen (Sailors) will be shown at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong and London before returning to New York for exhibition and sale. The Museum will also sell Franz Gertsch’s Portrait of Luciano, from 1975-76 within the next year. Works by the Swiss photorealist artist are exceedingly rare and the present work is the most important work ever to appear at auction. The Director of the Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Carsten Ahrens, held a press conference in Bremen, Germany today to announce plans for the future of the Museum. Joined by Carmen Emigholz, secretary for cultural affairs of th ... More |
 | Exhibition of New Sculptures by Franz West at Gagosian in Rome
Franz West. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Rita Nowak.
ROME.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of new sculptures by Franz West. Belonging to the generation of artists exposed to Actionist and Performance Art of the 1960s and 70s, West instinctively rejected the traditionally passive nature of the relationship between artwork and viewer. In the seventies, he began making a series of small, portable, mixed media sculptures called Adaptives (Passstücke). These "ergonomically inclined" objects become complete as artworks only when the viewer holds, wears, carries or performs with them. West has continued to explore sculpture in terms of an ongoing dialogue of actions and reactions between viewers and objects in any given exhibition space. His amorphous and highly endearing sculptures transform public spaces into sociable aesthetic environments while his furniture designs and subversive collages further challenge the boundaries between art and life. In this exhibition ... More | | Old Master, Modern & Contemporary Prints Highlight Auction at Bonhams
Still Life with Liz, from Portfolio 90, 1993, is a screenprint by Tom Wesselmann, signed in pencil and numbered 82/90, expected to bring bids of $15/20,000. Photo: Courtesy Bonhams & Butterfields.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams & Butterfields, international fine arts auctioneers, has established a reputation as a preeminent source for Fine Prints, each auction attracting collectors and setting record prices for rare impressions. The firm’s next offering is scheduled for October 26, 2010, the sale to be simulcast between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Works on offer include Old Masters, 19th century and Modern prints, and Contemporary prints and multiples. Marque lots of the Fall sale include several Pablo Picasso linocuts, works by Warhol, Chagall, Bacon, Dubuffet and Lichtenstein, and Edward Ruscha’s 1966 screenprint Standard Station, for which the auctioneers recently set an auction world record. Signed in pencil, dated, and annotated 'trial proof,' the Ruscha print is estimated at $60/80,000. Strong ... More | | Major Guillermo Kuitca Retrospective Opens Sperone Westwater's New Building
For its inaugural exhibition at 257 Bowery, Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of new paintings by Guillermo Kuitca. Photo: Nigel Young Foster + Partners.
NEW YORK, NY.- For its inaugural exhibition at 257 Bowery, Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of new paintings by Guillermo Kuitca. This is Kuitca’s eighth solo show with Sperone Westwater. Kuitca’s new paintings developed from a series he first showed in 2007, when he represented Argentina at the Venice Biennale. While the subject of the canvases in Venice was by and large abstraction itself, in this new group Kuitca mixes the abstract with compositional motifs of his own past series. Alongside his pictorial explorations of light and shadow, color and construction, and the transparency of planes, Kuitca incorporates elements of past series such as fragmented maps, architectural floor plans, and thorns. Some works, such as Untitled (2009), are monumental in scale, while others like Philosophy for Princes I ... More |
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An Exhibition of Works on Paper by 8 Contemporary Artists at Jill Newhouse
Louisa Waber (American, b. 1956), Untitled, June 2010. Gouache, pen and ink and pastel on paper, 5 5/8 × 4 3/8 inches (14.2 × 11.0 cm). Signed and dated verso.
NEW YORK, NY.- Karen Wilkin is a well-known curator and critic specializing in modernism. A regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal and the New Criterion, she is Contributing Editor for Art for the Hudson Review and the author of monographs on Giorgio Morandi, Hans Hofmann, Stuart Davis, David Smith, Anthony Caro, and Helen Frankenthaler. Ms. Wilkin has organized numerous exhibitions internationally. She teaches in the MFA program of the New York Studio School. “The eight artists in this exhibition seem united only by their common interest in working on paper. Yet all base their work on perception (in the broadest sense) translated into a range of mark-making and radically differing degrees of reference. Some tend towards abstraction, some towards dream imagery, some towards identifiable configurations. None resorts to the literal or the arbitrary. For all, ... More | | Prehispanic Roadway Explored by Archaeologists in Xochicalco
The study of the nearly 240 meters-long ceremonial road broadens the research area of the site located in the Mexican state of Morelos. Photo: DMC.INAH. M MARAT.
MEXICO CITY.- A Prehispanic roadway that leads to a temple built atop Coatzin Hill, in Xochicalco is being explored by archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). The study of the nearly 240 meters-long ceremonial road broadens the research area of the site located in the Mexican state of Morelos. Labors began in July 2010, thanks to the 1 million MXP inversion provided by the Temporary Employment Program (PET) developed by INAH and the Social Development Secretariat (SEDESOL). The ancient paved roadway that leads to the top of La Bodega or Coatzin Hill, to the east of the monumental Prehispanic city of Xochicalco was cleaned from weed. An unexcavated temple is found there, with features similar to those of the Feathered Serpent Pyramid. Archaeologist Marco Antonio Santos, director of Xochicalco Archaeological Zone, informed that 17th century ... More | | Stockholm Based Artist Cecilia Edefalk Exhibits at Gladstone Gallery
Cecilia Edefalk, "Weeping Birch", September 17 - October 23, 2010. Installation View: Gladstone Gallery, New York. Photo: David Regen, © Cecilia Edefalk. Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery presents their first exhibition with Stockholm based artist Cecilia Edefalk. Through her somber combinations of painting, light projection, video, and cast bronze sculpture, Edefalk’s poetic logic provides a network of repetitions, reproductions, and doubling, that probes the uncertain nature of historical memory, time, and the signifying power of light. Often remarking upon her own process-oriented practice, Edefalk’s scenarios carve out haunting exchanges between past and present, where unexpected connections unfold with sudden clarity. Elegantly asserting the material function of each medium, Edefalk elucidates her rigorous synthesis of the formal and theoretical into a larger, overarching investigation of the paradigmatic dualities that shape the thematics at play within ... More |
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Doris Lee Celebrates Life's Small Pleasures at D. Wigmore Fine Art
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Doris Lee, Cup and Feathers, 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches, oil on canvasboard. Photo: Courtesy D. Wigmore Fine Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- Doris Lee (1905-1983) Celebrates Life’s Small Pleasures highlights the artist’s career from 1936 through the 1950s with 42 works. Visitors to the exhibition will see a full range of Doris Lee’s subjects - landscapes, genre scenes, still lifes, portraits – in oil, gouache, pastel, and collage. Lee’s style developed through a unique fusing of Regionalism, folk art, and abstraction. Her subjects came from everyday small pleasures experienced in New York City, Woodstock, Florida, and her travels through the South. Born in Aledo, Illinois, Doris (née Emrick) Lee was educated in Illinois, graduating from Rockford College in 1927. Lee first studied art in Italy and France before studying at the Kansas City Art Institute with Ernest Lawson in 1929 and at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco in 1930 with Arnold Blanch, who she later married. Lee returned ... More | | New York's Frick Museum Director, Anne L. Poulet, to Retire Next Year
Director Anne L. Poulet; photo: Christine A. Butler.
NEW YORK, NY.- Margot Bogert, Chairman of The The Frick Collection, announces that Director Anne L. Poulet will retire in the fall of 2011, following a remarkable tenure. “The Board of Trustees is deeply indebted to Anne Poulet for her leadership of The Frick Collection and accepts her retirement with enormous regret. Having served the institution with great distinction, commitment, and wisdom, Anne leaves the Frick—both the museum and the library—with a brilliant and multi-faceted legacy and a glowing and solid future. Principal among the long list of achievements associated with her leadership is a strong program of critically acclaimed exhibitions and publications, which provided visitors with new perspectives on artists and media represented in the collection and, in many cases, those complementary to it. Anne made remarkable acquisitions, by both purchase and gift, while maintaining an unwavering focus ... More | | Sale of Exploration and Travel at Christie's Achieves $2,590,380
Adrian Raeside from Canada, holds a photograph of his grandfather Sir Charles Seymour Wright and great-uncle Thomas Griffith Taylor. AP Photo/Matt Dunham.
LONDON.- The sale of Exploration and Travel including the Polar Sale realised £1,650,975 / $2,590,380 / €1,944,849 and was sold 85% by value and 79% by lot. The top lot was Herbert George Ponting's three master albums of contact prints from the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13, which fetched £169,250 / $265,553 / €199,377. Nicholas Lambourn, Director of Exploration and Travel and Julian Wilson, Specialist, Books: Today’s auction saw bidding from 18 different countries, including significant Canadian interest. Lot 32 demonstrated that, once again, Christie’s is setting world records for this ethnographic book – Christie’s New York sold the Hauck copy in June 2006 for $144,000 and at South Kensington in 2005 for £72,000; today this record was broken again. This copy had unusually large, fresh samples of tapa ... More |
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National Portrait Gallery Unveils a "Gothic" Portrait of Isabella Blow
LONDON.- A cacophony of stuffed animals dramatically spot-lit onto a wall to form a portrait silhouette of the late fashion icon Isabella Blow has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery. It goes on display at the Gallery tomorrow and a talk about the work will be given there by the artists at 7pm as part of the Gallery’s Late Shift programme (23 September 2010). The unusual portrait made of 15 taxidermy animals (including birds, a rat and a snake), wood and fake moss, together with a heel from one of Blow’s own Manolo Blahnik shoes and her trademark lipstick, is a vivid combination of sculpture, installation and light projection. In the resulting silhouette of a head, Isabella Blow appears to be wearing one of the extraordinary hats designed for her by Phillip Treacy, which often featured taxidermy. The artists were fascinated by what they saw as Blow’s gothic quality and chose ... More
Ashmolean Receives 1 Million Visitors to the New Museum Since It Reopened
OXFORD.- On Tuesday, 21 September 2010, at 4.23pm, Mrs. Diane Thomas, a primary school teacher from Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, became the 1 millionth visitor to the Ashmolean Museum since it reopened to the public on 7 November 2009. Mrs. Thomas came to the Ashmolean with her daughter, Laura Rolf, to see the new exhibition The Pre-Raphaelites and Italy. She was welcomed at the main entrance by the Museum’s Director, Christopher Brown, who presented her with some gifts, including 1 year’s membership to the Friends of the Ashmolean, 2 complimentary exhibition tickets, an Italian meal for 2 in the Ashmolean Dining Room, and a book about the history of the Ashmolean. Christopher Brown, said, “We are absolutely thrilled that there has been such a wonderful public response to the new Ashmolean and we are delighted to ... More
ArtsWave Launches, Building on Success of Fine Arts Fund
CINCINNATI.- Today marks the launch of ArtsWave, an organization dedicated to connecting people through the arts, advancing the vibrancy of our community with the arts, and supporting the arts and culture in greater Cincinnati. Formerly known as the Fine Arts Fund, the board of trustees voted today to relaunch the organization with a new and more broadly defined mission, along with a new name. This transformation into ArtsWave is an outgrowth of several years of research into the many ways in which the arts act as a catalyst for a more vital city and region, dramatically enhancing our quality of life. ArtsWave’s leadership is motivated by the knowledge that arts and culture has a positive ripple effect on the community as a whole, across a wide spectrum of interests, lifestyles, and locations. “The arts create lively places where we like to spend time, visit, live, and work,” said Mary McCullough-Hudson, President of ArtsWave. “Our change of mission is based ... More
Detroit Institute of Arts Participates in High-Tech Treasure Hunting Game
DETROIT, MI.- In conjunction with the Detroit Institute of Arts' (DIA) Inside|Out project, the DIA has launched a high-tech treasure hunting game on www.geocaching.com. To play the game, called Geocaching, players use a GPS device to locate containers hidden outdoors, called geocaches, and then share the experience online. The Inside|Out project has brought framed reproductions of 40 of the DIA's most famous works to the streets and parks of Wayne, Macomb, Oakland, and Washtenaw counties. At eight of the Inside|Out locations, players can find geocaches containing fun treasures like free admission tickets, stickers, temporary tattoos, post cards, and other DIA giveaways. Those who complete the series by visiting all eight locations will receive a special prize at the last location, the DIA. The special prize will be available through Tuesday, Nov. 30. The museum choose Geocaching as a fun way to further engage the community in ... More
Lost Language Unearthed in a Letter Found in Peru
By: Emily Schmall
LIMA (REUTERS).- Archaelogists say scrawl on the back of a letter recovered from a 17th century dig site reveals a previously unknown language spoken by indigenous peoples in northern Peru. A team of international archaeologists found the letter under a pile of adobe bricks in a collapsed church complex near Trujillo, 347 miles north of Lima. The complex had been inhabited by Dominican friars for two centuries. "Our investigations determined that this piece of paper records a number system in a language that has been lost for hundreds of years," Jeffrey Quilter, an archaeologist at Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, told Reuters. A photograph of the letter recently released by archaeologists shows a column of numbers written in Spanish and translated into a language that scholars say is now extinct. "We discovered a language no one has seen or heard since the 16th or 17th century," Quilter said, adding that the language appears to have been ... More
Portland Museum of Art's $3 million Gift from Emily Eaton Moore is Allocated
PORTLAND, ME.- At today’s Board of Trustees meeting, the Portland Museum of Art determined that the proceeds from the major gift of $3 million given to the Museum from the family of Emily Eaton Moore will be allocated as follows: $1 million to create the Emily Eaton Moore and Family Fund for the Collection for the acquisition and maintenance of art; $1 million to create an investment fund to support the Museum’s general operations; and $1 million to the Winslow Homer Studio campaign to ensure the ongoing educational, curatorial, and maintenance of the Studio. In addition, the fourth floor gallery in the Charles Shipman Payson Building will be named the Emily Eaton Moore and Family Gallery. Given to the Museum in June, this is one of the largest gifts made to the Museum in the last 10 years. “This allocation of funds from Emily Moore’s gift is our way of honoring Emily’s legacy,” said Museum B ... More
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