| Vatican Apostolic Library Reopens to Scholars After Three-Year and $11.5 Million Restoration
| | | | A view of the Sistine Hall, part of the Vatican Apostolic Library, Vatican City, Monday, Sept. 13, 2010. The Vatican's Apostolic Library is reopening to scholars following a three-year renovation to improve its cataloguing and security measures.The library, which houses one of the world's best collections of illuminated manuscripts, opens its doors Sept. 20. Details will be announced Monday at a press conference. The library was started by Pope Nicholas V in the 1450s with an initial 350 Latin manuscripts. By the time Nicholas died in 1455, the collection had swelled to about 1,500 codices and was the largest in Europe. AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito. By: Nicole Winfield, Associated Press Writer
VATICAN CITY (AP).- The Vatican's Apostolic Library is reopening to scholars following a three-year, euro9-million ($11.5- million) renovation to install climate-controlled rooms for its precious manuscripts and state-of-the-art security measures to prevent theft and loss. The library, started by Pope Nicholas V in the 1450s, houses one of the world's best collections of illuminated manuscripts. It includes the oldest known complete Bible, dating from about 325 and believed to have been one of the 50 bibles commissioned by Emperor Constantine, the first Christian Roman leader. It reopens its frescoed halls to scholars Sept. 20. Library officials took pains to note that the renovation work was completed on time a rarity in Italy but also an acknowledgment of the inconvenience the three-year closure caused many scholars who had to suspend their research while its collections of tens of thousands ... More | | Picasso Graphics Museum Celebrates 10th Anniversary, Changes Name
Olivier Picasso, painter Pablo Picasso's grandson, stands in a door of the Picasso Museum in Muenster. EPA/FRISO GENTSCH.
MUNSTER.- The Pablo Picasso Graphics Museum, Münster celebrated its 10 anniversary on 7 September 2010. The Museum celebrated its first major anniversary with the special exhibition "Pablo PicassoIn the Artist's Studio", a Museum party on 11 September 2010 and a new name. "This is a day for stock-taking, and I find that this museum has exceeded all hopes and expectations", said Dr. Rolf Gerlach, President of the Sparkassenverband Westfalen-Lippe and chairman of the board of trustees of the museum. He noted that the Sparkassenstiftung Graphikmuseum, the body responsible for the museum, had achieved one of its primary goals. "We wanted to make the Westfalen-Lippe region more attractive culturally, and the number of visitors shows that we have succeeded. Gerlach summarized the achievements of the past 10 years: ... More | | Roman Bronze Helmet, Found with a Metal Detector, to Be Offered at Christie's
The Crosby Garrett Helmet dates from the late 1st-2nd Century A.D. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010.
LONDON.- The auction of Antiquities on 7 October at Christies South Kensington will offer an exceptional survival from Roman Britain discovered by a metal detectorist. Discovered in Cumbria, in May 2010, the Crosby Garrett Helmet dates from the late 1st-2nd Century A.D. and is one of only three comparable examples ever to have been discovered in the United Kingdom complete with face-mask in the last 250 years. It will be on public display for the first time at the King Street salerooms from 14 September and again at South Kensington from 2 to 6 October before being offered at auction on 7 October where it is estimated to realise £200,000 to £300,000. Georgiana Aitken, Head of Antiquities at Christies, London: This helmet is the discovery of a lifetime for a metal detectorist. When it was initially brought to Christies and I examined it at first-hand, I saw this extraordinary face from the past ... More | | Yul Brynner's Photographic Oeuvre Shown for the First Time
Ingrid Bergman on the set of "GoodBye Again", France, 1960. Photograph by Yul Brynner.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lehmann Maupin presents YUL, Yul Brynner: A Photographic Journey, on view at 201 Chrystie Street, September 12 25 2010. YUL is an exhibition comprised of 70 works celebrating the release of the book by the same title, which presents Brynners photographic oeuvre for the first time. Brynners reputation as one of the twentieth centurys most charismatic and versatile actors is irrefutable, but his talent as a photographer has been relatively unknown and unacknowledged, until now. The four-volume book, published by Edition 7L and edited by Brynners daughter Victoria Brynner, comprises a selection made from 8,000 images and press cuttings, and includes forwards by Ingrid Sischy, Stefano Tonchi, Martin Scorsese and Bruce Weber. Brynners subjects are some of the most pivotal figures of cinematic and stage history. His talent lies in capturing these people at ease, particularly ac ... More | | Tom Leighton "Appropiation of Space" Opens at Cynthia Corbett Gallery
Tom Leighton, Beijing Canopy 2, 2010. C- Type Digital Print, Perspex mounted, 122 x 122 cm / 48 x 48 in. Photo: Courtesy Cynthia Corbett Gallery.
LONDON.- The photographs of Tom Leighton engage with urban landscape. By digitally altering photographs Leighton tries to deconstruct and retranslate the cities that we inhabit. Creating fictional landscapes allows him to ignore the constraints of possibility and logic. However as much as he pulls apart and constructs his unique urban views, he aims to create a believable view of the world, which verges on the surreal but remains rooted in reality. Leighton finds that city architecture & infrastructure makes the urban environment a seasonless‟ place. My photographs are akin to a memory of a place - a distorted, reconstituted reality - by creating areas of ambiguity, I play with the brain‟s capacity to ignore or falsely correct what doesn‟t initially make sense. Frequently I try to leave the viewer of my work floating from an all seeing‟ elevated dreamlike perspective they become ... More | | Origins and Mysteries of the Inca's Gold Explored at Pinacothèque de Paris
A Gold Pectoral from the Lambayeque region of Peru (900BC-1400AC). This work of art is part of an exhibition entitled 'The Incas' Gold' that opens to the public on 10 September 2010 until 6 February 2011. EPA/JOAQUIN RUBIO ROACH. By: Marc Restellini
PARIS.- The Inca empire is among one of the greatest in history. In one hundred years, an ethnic group with obscure origins, settled in the Cusco valley, undertook a series of conquests that nothing seemed capable of stopping: it was to dominate an immense space, from Ecuador to Chile, from the high plateaux of the Andes to the desertified plains on the Pacific Coast. However that flamboyant civilization is rarely acknowledged as the equal of the great Western empires, from Alexander to Napoleon. To remedy this injustice, the Pinacothèque de Paris is suggesting, within the context of its great Civilizations exhibitions (The Soldiers of Eternity, The Dutch Golden Age) to provide a new approach to this brilliant empire, its origins, and its mysterious relationship with gold. When the Conquistadores ... More | | Sotheby's Announces Third Offering From The James S. Copley Library
Overton Johnson and William H. Winter, Route Across the Rocky Mountains, with a Description of Oregon and California (detail). Est: $12/18,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys New York will present the third offering of rare books and manuscripts from the illustrious James S. Copley Library on October 15, 2010. The eight-part sale commenced on April 14th and extends through April 2011; this segment will highlight an important group of documents, pertaining to the growth of the Western states and Mexico. Mr. Copley was a well-known newspaperman and philanthropist in San Diego, and a substantial section of the sale reflects his particular interest in the early history of California. These manuscripts cover the settlement of the West from just after the incursion of the Spanish into California to Lewis & Clarks expedition, through the Gold Rush and beyond, said Selby Kiffer, Senior Vice President and Senior Specialist in Sothebys Books and Manuscripts department. It includes the most significant ... More | | Art of the 1980s: A Düsseldorf Perspective at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
Ludger Gerdes Baubild Böcklin, 1983 2 tlg.; Skulptur: Holz, Plexiglas, Farbe; Wand: blaue Wandfarbe Skulptur: 150 x 200 x 200 cm; Wandfläche variabel Copyright: Ludger Gerdes / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2010 Courtesy: Galerie Ute Parduhn, Düsseldorf.
DUSSELDORF.- The exhibition Auswertung der Flugdaten throws a spotlight on the art of the 1980s from a Düsseldorf perspective. Featured are works by 10 internationally recognized artists who emerged from the milieu of the Düsseldorf Art Academy. The presentation is supplemented with a selection of works by seven artists from various countries having shared attitudes, aims, and working approaches. On view are nearly 70 sculptures, installations, and photographs, including multi-part works, by Richard Deacon, Katharina Fritsch, Andreas Gursky, Reinhard Mucha, Thomas Schütte, Jeff Wall, and others. The 1980s have often been misjudged as conservative or artistically sterile. In reality, the decade was characterized by radical upheavals. The east-west conflict was gradually defused, and the contours of the era of globalization emerged with ... More | | Gallery's Detective Work Shows Two Portraits Painted at the Same Time
The Phoenix portrait. Queen Elizabeth I attributed to Nicholas Hilliard, oil on panel, circa 1575. © National Portrait Gallery, London.
LONDON.- New scientific detective work has revealed that two renowned 16th century portraits of Queen Elizabeth I belonging to two different galleries were painted on wood panels from the same tree. The portraits were first associated with Hilliard in 1933, and the new findings support the attribution as it is now known that both portraits were painted in the same studio. The paintings of Elizabeth I, known as the Phoenix' portrait and the Pelican' portrait, will be shown together for the first time in more than 25 years, for one week only, at the National Portrait Gallery from 13 to19 September 2010 as part of the Making Art in Tudor Britain project led by Dr Tarnya Cooper. The two portraits of Elizabeth I (1533-1603) were painted when the queen was in her early forties, almost half way through her reign. Their names derive from the jewels worn by the queen at her breast in each picture: in one a phoenix and in the o ... More | | Medal Awarded to Carpathia Crew for Rescue of Titanic Survivors to Sell
RMS Carpathia a bronze commemorative medal & original box. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- One of the bronze medals presented to the crew of RMS Carpathia, following their heroic rescue of 705 survivors of the stricken Titanic on April 15 1912, is to be sold at Bonhams as part of The Marine Sale on 28 September 2010. Estimated at £2,000 4,000, the medal is inscribed: Presented to the Captain Officers and Crew of RMS Carpathia in recognition of gallant and heroic service From the Survivors of the SS Titanic April 15th 1912. RMS Carpathia was the first ship to reach the survivors lifeboats, having received an emergency transmission from the Titanic when it hit an iceberg at 11.40pm on April 14 1912. Diverted from her passage, RMS Carpathia came to the rescue of 705 passengers and took them to safety in New York. On arrival, the Officers and Crew were presented with medals by one of the saved First Class passengers, Margaret (Molly) Brown, to commemorate the rescue: Captain Rostron received ... More | | Strong Group of Works by The Glasgow Boys to Open Sotheby's London Sale
A Montmartre Nightclub by John Duncan Fergusson, est. £150,000-250,000. Photo: Sothebys.
LONDON.- Sothebys London sale of Scottish Pictures on Wednesday, 29 September, 2010, will bring to the market a superb selection of works spanning over a century, from the Glasgow Boys through the Scottish Colourists, to modern works by living artists. The 152 lots are expected to bring in the region of £2.4 million. Speaking about the sale, Michael Grist, Sothebys Scottish Pictures Specialist, comments: Sothebys continuing dominance in the Scottish paintings market in recent years was confirmed in April this year, when we set a new auction record for an artwork by a Scottish Colourist, an achievement that is a testament to the quality and international appeal of these wonderful pictures. This season we have assembled a striking selection of works, not only by this group of artists, but others too, including the Glasgow Boys whose long overdue exposure has been boosted by the current retrospective exhibi ... More | | "Notorious & Notable" Fashion Exhibit Pays Homage to New York Style Icons
Evening gown worn by Isadora Duncan, ca. 1912. Cream chiffon tunic-style gown with chenille-like design of gold roses on fabric. Label: Paul Poiret. Paris. Museum of the City of New York, Bequest of Mary Fanton Robert, 62.119.3 By: Jan Paschal
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Fashion may be for followers but style is original is the message of a new exhibit which gives a glimpse into the closets of 81 women who made their mark on Manhattan. "Notorious & Notable: 20th Century Women of Style," which opens Tuesday during New York Fashion Week, includes fashions and jewels worn by glamorous newsmakers such as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. "We're not saying who is notorious and who is notable," said Judith Price, president of the National Jewelry Institute, which collaborated on the exhibit. "We're leaving that up to the beholder." But she added that the exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York honors "women who put their thumbprint on New York fashion." In addition to fashion icons, the exhibit ... More | | Bay Area Artist Nellie King Solomon Exhibits at Brian Gross Fine Art
Nellie King Solomon, Hooker's Green Rings 1, 2010, acrylic and mixed media on mylar, 96 x 96 inches. Photo: Courtesy Brian Gross Fine Art.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Bay Area artist Nellie King Solomon opened an exhibition of new paintings at Brian Gross Fine Art. Continuing the artists exploration of movement and chance through energetic, gestural abstractions on mylar, these dramatic new works reflect Solomons experiences of great western landscapes, interior and exterior terrains, [and] the shock of unabsorbed events. The exhibition continues through October 30, 2010. In her recent work, Solomon explores vibrant new color palettes in magenta, fluorescent orange, and Hookers green. Working on a large table and using custom-made glass trowels, the artist applies pigment to thick sheets of mylar in broad, sweeping gestures. Bold, deliberate strokes merge with Solomons signature pours and drips, while large, opaque areas give way to thin, iridescent skim coats. An intentionally ... More | More News | New Works by Christof Mascher at Galerie Michael Janssen BERLIN.- Galerie Michael Janssen presents new works by Christof Mascher. Alley Cat is the second solo exhibition of the artist in the gallery. Born in Hanover in 1979, he studied at the College of Fine Arts in Braunschweig with Walter Dahn until 2009. On display are new works on wood, drawings on paper and a shadow play installation. His paintings and drawings are characterized by contradictions and ruptures. Fully painted elements stand next to unfinished ones, the gestural next to the ornamental and the abstract next to the representational. Ethereal remains of landscapes are either still under construction or already threatened by destruction. Mascher works on visual worlds in which nothing seems to make sense and therefore are open to all possibilities. Mascher processes influences from different sources; he is influenced by popular culture, such as scenarios from adventure games from the late 1980s, as well as ... More
Works by Ryan Leigh, Sam Knowles and Nick Bailey at Simon Oldfield Gallery LONDON.- The work of Ryan Leigh, Sam Knowles and Nick Bailey joins a current phenomenon in contemporary art that is marked by its investigation into the means and processes that comprised scientific and theoretical thought in a time before the disintegration of the meta-theory. Base Metal sees each artist rationalizing his interest and rooting his approach in logic, while using the tools of science and alchemy (or the ideas that frequently frame them) as a means of expression. Gold leaf interventions, everyday and scientific apparatus, and highly finished textbook drawings on graph paper that have been fused with contemporary techniques such as digital manipulation dominate: and while the scale of the works may sometimes be small, the idea behind is strong and clearly articulated. This exhibition refers not only to mankinds need to believe in something greater, but also raises questions in regard to his vision of himself and role within the world, w ... More
Elements, Objects and Groupings by Jean-Pascal Flavien at Galerie Michel Rein PARIS.- This exhibition at galerie Michel Rein brings together part of an ensemble of elements, objects and groupings, from small cubes to the large volume of the Two Persons House currently being built in a garden in the Lapa quarter of Sao Paulo. This house lays out a relationship between two people, two selves, A and B, two spaces, intertwined together. The house constructs this relationship or bipolarity in the design of the space, the space itself marked by two colours, red and blue. For these two people, living in this house would be what Maurice Merleau-Ponty calls the power to let yourself be undone and redone by an actual other". The house is made up of several discontinuous elements or grouping of elements. There are three types which are principally differentiated by their size. They could be described as static, mobile and ephemeral. The principal of cubes and allotments creates equiv ... More
Exhibition Presents Photographs of José A. Figueroa's "Other" Life in Cuba LOS ANGELES, CA.- Couturier Gallery presents Mis 60 / My 60s, an exhibition of prominent photographer José A. Figueroas images of the barely-remembered other life in Cuba of the 1960s, the social everyday existence not portrayed by Revolutionaries, military outfits or arms. The forty photographs document quotidian life that paralleled the customs and styles prevalent elsewhere in the world, from mod and hip fashion to signs of flower power and free love. The exhibition began September 11th (through October 16), with the Artists Reception, lecture and book signing that will take place Sunday, Sept. 19th. José A. Figueroa (Havana, 1946), has covered uninterruptedly, as photographer, more than four decades of the life of his nation Cuba. Due to his age, social background and training, he is part of a transitional generation that was, at the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in ... More
The Biography and Complete Catalog Raisonné on William Bouguereau Out this Week PORT READING, NJ.- This Herculean effort starting in 1978 by Ross and Mark Walker and 15 years later with the addition of Damien Bartoli, has lead to commencing a complete rewriting of 19th Century art history as academic artists lead by Bouguereau are seen increasingly to have complimented the work of celebrated writers of the day (like Balzac, Hugo and Stendhal) who focused on exposing the plight of the sick, the poor, and the less fortunate and the codifying of Enlightenment ideals respecting human rights, liberty, democracy and "all men are created equal". Especially important is the formerly suppressed seminal role that Bouguereau played (with Rudolph Julian) in opening up the Paris Academies and Salons to women artists, one of many facts that reverse the villainous role that had been taught about him previously. Since 1968 the prices for Bouguereau's paintings have doubled every 3 to 4 years climbing fully 1000 times (100,000%) for solid examples of his work sold at major ... More
80 Coloured Ink Paintings Made by Josephine King at Riflemaker LONDON.- Josephine King (b.1965, London) shows self-portraits that describe the trauma caused by the artists own extreme bi-polar disorder, in Life So Far, her debut solo exhibition at Riflemaker from 13 September. Riflemaker presents 80 coloured ink paintings made by King over the last five years. These full-length portraits, and often distressing texts that frame them, express some of the confusion and isolation of her illness. Yet, rather than being depressing, the work is intimate and inspiring. The paintings fuse the decorative aspect of Kings previous ceramic work with bleak subject matter - melancholia, drug abuse, destructive relationships. The painting style is intensely colourful, almost Fauvist, featuring the artist in a variety of starched and patterned clothing often holding a 'prop' a knife, pills, a tube of paint. The poster-like composition of Kings paintings p ... More
Columbia University Buys 1st Amendment Crusader's Papers NEW YORK (AP).- Columbia University has acquired the papers of publisher and First Amendment crusader Barney Rosset. The New York school announced Monday its Rare Book & Manuscript Library would be home to Rosset's letters, manuscripts and other documents. It paid an undisclosed price for the collection. The 88-year-old Rosset fought successfully for the uncensored releases of such racy classics as D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer." Authorities who seized a copy of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" mailed from Paris to New York in 1954 charged Rosset with promoting "indecent and lascivious thoughts." Rosset won the case on appeal. He was arrested and taken before a grand jury when trying to publish "Tropic of Cancer." But the jury refused to indict. Other writers Rosset published include Samuel Beckett, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. ... More
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