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A photographer takes a picture of an artwork by US abstract artist Adolph Frederick 'Ad' Reinhardt at Josef Albers Museum Quadrat in Bottrop, Germany. The exhibition on Reinhardt entitled 'Last Paintings'is on display from 26 September to 09 January 2011. EPA/JULIAN STRATENSCHULTE.
BOTTROP.- Last Paintings. Ad Reinhardt is the first European exhibition of the American artist for more than 25 years. ‘In the Beginning is the End’ was for him at once a programmatic statement and equally a rejection of the traditional understanding of painting. With his so-called ‘black’ paintings which he himself describes as the ‘ultimate paintings that can be made’, he takes up an extreme position which has been a challenge to painting ever since. Painted with supreme skill, and extraordinarily subtle in the coloration, his paintings only reveal themselves gradually. What first looks like monochrome black appears when closely observed as a color spectrum of blue, red, yellow, and intermediate shades. Ad Reinhardt is one of the most mysterious figures in the art of the 20th century. The Josef Albers Museum in Bottrop is showing some 35 works that demonstrate the process by which his art m ... More |
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| The Best Photos of the Day |  |  | THE HAGUE.- Visitors stand in front of the painting Diana and her Companions (around 1653/54) from the Mauritshuis in Den Haag, left, Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (1654/55) from the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh, center, and The Procuress (around 1656) from the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, right, in the exhibition The Young Vermeer in the Gemaeldegalerie Alte Meister Dresden, eastern Germany, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010. The Gemaeldegalerie Alte Meister has assembled all of Johannes Vermeer's surviving early works in an exhibition for the first time. Within the scope of an international museum cooperation, the Gemaeldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, the Mauritshuis in Den Haag and the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh each present three early works by Vermeer. The exhibition started on Sept. 3, 2010 and lasts until Nov. 28, 2010. AP Photo/Jens Meyer. | | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Most Acclaimed Rembrandt Portrait on Rare Display
A visitor looks at Rembrandt's painting of Jan Six. AP Photo/Arthur Max.
By: Arthur Max, Associated Press Writer
AMSTERDAM (AP).- If portraits could talk, Jan Six might have much to say about his family. The merchant, poet and civic leader, painted by Rembrandt in 1654, has watched his descendants make money, marry into Holland's best families, engage in infidelities and sometimes quarrel over their fabulous inheritance. For most of the past 350 years, he has hardly moved. Rarely has he left the family home. When the ancestral canal-side building was torn down in 1915 to broaden a road, he moved around the corner, where he is perched on the wall next to a tall window overlooking the Amstel River. Now one of Rembrandt's most celebrated paintings is on public display until Nov. 29 at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum while the 58-room Six mansion undergoes renovations. Throughout the ages in which ... More | | Seoul Auction to Offer Superlative Western & Asian Art in October
Bestiaire et Musique by Marc Chagall (estimate on request). (detail)
HONG KONG.- Seoul Auction, Korea’s leading art auction house, will hold its Modern & Contemporary Art sale on 4 October 2010 at 4 pm at Grand Hyatt Hong Kong, presenting an excellent and diversified selection of Western and Asian art. A total of 60 works by leading Western, Korean, Japanese and Chinese artists with a total estimate of HK$100 million (US$12.8 million) will be offered. Of note, collectors will be thrilled to find more striking and significant works by Western artists in this season’s sale. Misung Shim, Managing Director of Seoul Auction Hong Kong Ltd. said, “A pioneer in the market, Seoul Auction was the first auction house to offer Western masterpieces in Hong Kong. This season, we are privileged to present an even stronger and more compelling selection of works by distinguished Western Modern, Impressionist and Contemporary artists. These carefully selected works of art are truly ... More | | Sotheby's Photography Auction to Benefit George Eastman House
Bert Stern, Marilyn Monroe, from “The Last Sitting” (Diamonds), 1962. Contemporary archival pigment print mounted to board, image 20 x 24 inches, signed and dated in grease crayon. Donation of the artist and Staley-Wise Gallery. © Bert Stern. Estimate: $7,500.
ROCHESTER, NY.- George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film is organizing a benefit auction of more than 300 items exceeding $1 million in value – fine photographic prints, books, and equipment — to take place at Sotheby’s New York on Oct. 4, 2010. For more than two years Eastman House representatives have been gathering donations from collectors, photographers, gallerists, and dealers worldwide. None of the auction items are from the Eastman House collections. Among the featured photographs donated to the benefit auction are works by artists Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Louis Faurer, Benedict Fernandez, Todd Hido, Horst P. Horst, Eikoh Hosoe, Gertrude Kasebier, Sally Mann, Nickolas Muray, Paul ... More |
 | Son in NY Dead Sea Scrolls Case: There's No Crime
Attorney Raphael Golb, right, is seen outside the courtroom. AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano.
By: Colleen Long, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP).- A lawyer charged with impersonating a Judaic studies professor online took the witness stand in his defense Monday, offering jurors a history lesson on the Dead Sea Scrolls and arguing his attempts to defend his father's lifelong research on the ancient texts weren't criminal. Raphael Golb doesn't dispute that he sent e-mails and messages under pseudonyms attacking his father's critics, but he testified his actions weren't illegal. "These blogs were about a pattern of unethical conduct in this field of study," he said. The case is about ancient history, but the accusations are quite contemporary. The 50-year-old lawyer and writer has pleaded not guilty to identity theft, criminal impersonation and other charges related to his online posts. Golb, a gaunt man with wiry brown hair, is a brainiac who graduated from Oberlin College, studied in France on a Fulbright scholarship and earned ... More | | CU Art Museum Presents Inaugural Exhibition Program
The new CU Art Museum and Visual Arts Complex designed by Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Architects (KMW) in association with OZ Architecture. Image courtesy of Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Architects. Photo by Robert Benson.
BOULDER, CO.- The CU Art Museum at the University of Colorado at Boulder presents archiTECHtonica, as part of the museum’s inaugural exhibition program. archiTECHtonica explores the trope of architecture in contemporary art and examines the aesthetic and philosophical notion of the architectonic in art. The exhibition includes painting, photography, new media, sculpture, and site specific installations. Works in the exhibition explore architectonic subjects including the relationship of technology to architecture and the utopic/distopic legacy of architectural modernism across the globe. Works also address the relationship between architecture and memory, architecture and language, and architecture and the body. CU Art Museum Director, Lisa Tamiris Becker conceived and curated archiTECHtonica in part ... More | | MoMA Announces 8th Festival of Film Preservation
J’Accuse. 1919. France. Directed by Abel Gance. Courtesy of MoMA.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents To Save and Project: The Eighth MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation, its annual festival of preserved and restored films from film archives, studios, and distributors around the world, from October 15 through November 14, 2010. This year‘s festival comprises over 35 films from 13 countries, virtually all of them having their New York premieres, and some shown in versions never before seen in the United States. To Save and Project is organized by Joshua Siegel, Associate Curator; Anne Morra, Associate Curator; and Katie Trainor, Film Collections Manager; all of the Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art. Opening this year‘s festival is Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) (1963), Luchino Visconti‘s masterpiece starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, and Claudia Cardinale, which has been restored in association with Cineteca di Bologna, L'Immagine Ritrovata, The ... More |
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Aaron Curry's Mmnktlplkt at Michael Werner Gallery
Installation image of Aaron Curry’s Mmnktlplkt. Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York.
LONDON.- Michael Werner Gallery presents Mmnktlplkt, an exhibition of new works by Aaron Curry, on view at 20 Hoxton Square through 20 October. With Mmnktlplkt, Aaron Curry disregards the confines of the traditional white cube to create an environment of complete optical immersion and confusion. Dazzling patterns cover the walls and floor of the gallery, alternately mirroring and obscuring the painted sculptures that stand, lean and hang throughout the space. The exhibition continues across the street from the gallery with two monumental sculptures installed in Hoxton Square Park. This ambitious installation brings to a new level of complexity the artist's exploration of the relationships between drawing and form, abstraction and figuration, and spaces both real and virtual. The result is a contemporary Merzbau, resounding with echoes of surrealist abstraction, Picasso and the digitized dimensions of cyberspace. Thi ... More | | American Pioneers of Color at Galerie Edwynn Houk Zur Stockeregg
Stephen Shore, US 10, Post Falls, Idaho, August 25, 1974 (detail). Image copyright Stephen Shore, courtesy the artist and Edwynn Houk Gallery.
ZURICH.- For its inaugural exhibition, Galerie Edwynn Houk Zur Stockeregg presents AMERICAN PIONEERS OF COLOR, a collection of modern and vintage prints by Stephen Shore, Joel Meyerowitz, and William Eggleston, widely acknowledged as the early masters of color photography in the United States. Their pioneering use of color in the 1970s was a bold departure from the long established tradition of black and white photography, which had dominated the medium from its inception, and laid the foundations for contemporary photography today. Although the technology to produce color prints was widely available as early as the 1940s, for many years black and white remained the only accepted medium for fine art photography. Serious photographers held color in low esteem, seeing it as the language of the family snapshot, the tourist postcard or the consumer ... More | | Is Maurizio Cattelan Giving Business the Finger in Milan?
Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan (r) during the inauguration of his artwork middle finger in front of the Stock Exchange building in Milan. EPA/MILO SCIAKY.
By: Antonella Ciancio
MILAN (REUTERS).- A marble sculpture of a cut-off hand with the middle finger stuck up has gone on display in front of the Milan Stock Exchange, provoking a lively debate in Italy's financial capital. The 11-meter high installation, called "L.O.V.E." and unveiled for the first time in Milan, is part of a retrospective dedicated to the Italian contemporary artist Maurizio Cattelan, whose provocative works include a sculpture of Pope John Paul being hit by a meteorite. "(Cattelan's works) call our times into question, offering themselves as a mirror, however cracked, of our present," said Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, Milan's commissioner for culture, in a statement. Cattelan drew protests in Milan in 2004 with his installation of three baby puppets hung on the branch of an old tree. A protester ... More |
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Kara Walker to Be Honored at Brooklyn Museum
Artist Kara Walker speaks after being honored at the Glamour Women of the Year awards in New York. AP Photo/Jason DeCrow.
BROOKLYN, NY.- Artist Kara Walker, best known for iconic cut-paper silhouettes that address such highly charged themes as race, gender, sexuality, and repression, will be honored at the eighth annual Women in the Arts luncheon on Thursday, November 4, 2010. Proceeds from the event, which is organized by the Brooklyn Museum's Community Committee, a volunteer organization, will benefit the many artistic and cultural programs offered by the Brooklyn Museum and its Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. The program will begin at 11 a.m. with an introduction by Museum Director Arnold Lehman, followed by a conversation between Kara Walker and Catherine Morris, Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. The program will conclude with the presentation of the 2010 Women ... More | | Sanaugavut: Inuit Art from the Canadian Arctic
Davidee Ningeoak (Iqaluit, Qikiqtaaluk region, Nunavut), Head 1962. Purchased 1962.
OTTAWA.- Today, the National Gallery of Canada presents – as a world exclusive and for the first time in Asia – Sanaugavut: Inuit Art from the Canadian Arctic, an exhibition of masterpieces from the NGC’s Inuit art collection. Organized by the NGC with the National Museum and the National Museum Institute in New Delhi, India, Sanaugavut is a result of the first collaboration between the two institutions, providing an opportunity to build a cultural bridge between two nations with very different cultures. The exhibition is on view at the National Museum in New Delhi until January 2, 2011. “Sanaugavut is an excellent introduction to Inuit art, and it is with great pleasure that we are offering the Indian public the chance to see an exhibition that represents a remarkable chapter in Canadian art history,” said NGC Director, Marc Mayer. “Inuit artists are recognized throughout the world for their remarka ... More | | Forced Labor: The Germans, the Forced Laborers, and the War
A woman eyes an exhibit at the special exhibition 'Forced Labour. The Germans, the Forced Labourers and the War'at Jewish Museum in Berlin. EPA/WOLFGANG KUMM.
BERLIN.- Over 20 million men, women, and children were taken to Germany and the occupied territories from all over Europe as "foreign workers," prisoners of war, and concentration camp inmates to perform forced labor. By 1942, forced laborers were part of daily life in Nazi Germany. The deported workers from all over Europe and Eastern Europe in particular were exploited in armament factories, on building sites and farms, as craftsmen, in public institutions and private households. Be it as a soldier of the occupying army in Poland or as a farmer in Thuringia, all Germans encountered forced laborers and many profited from them. Forced labor was no secret but a largely public crime. The exhibition "Forced Labor. The Germans, the Forced Laborers, and the War ... More |
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Artist John Bock Defies Logic at CAC Malaga
MALAGA.- The Contemporary Art Centre of Málaga is presenting Nöle, the first solo exhibition by the German artist John Bock to be held in Spain. It comprises a selection of films and video installations, some of which have been specially made for the Centre’s Space 2. These works convey the unconventional, at times chaotic spirit of this creative figure who is considered to be one of the most influential members of a generation that includes Jonathan Meese and Matthias Weischer, both of whom have already been the subject of exhibitions at the CAC Málaga. Bock’s work is notable for its theatrical, performative nature in which nothing is what it seems and whose distinctive character makes it difficult to locate within any specific discipline. John Bock’s work reveals the influence of Viennese Actionism, 20th-century avant-garde art and the work of artists such as Paul McCarthy or ... More
First Comprehensive Solo Exhibition in Europe for Tobias Madison Opens
MUNICH.- Through November 21, Kunstverein München offers the first comprehensive solo exhibition in Europe, Do It To Do It, of upcoming Swiss artist Tobias Madison (*1985, Basel). While giving access to the early stages of Madison’s emerging oeuvre, this exhibition features a selection of works that are as fragmentary in form and content as a group show. As it happens, Madison does not work alone; he has become the inspirational driver of numerous intellectual and material collaborations that map out an intelligent system of self-sufficiency and accessibility. With each of these collaborations Madison touches upon alternative and unexpected streams of cultural production. Hence, he establishes an artistic identity that celebrates a poetry of ambiguity within cultural conventions of taste, value, utility and trade. The artefacts, videos and installations by Madison serve all these different qualifications in one ... More
Sunday Art Fair to Be Held in London at the P3 Ambika Space
LONDON.- For the first time this October SUNDAY art fair will be held in London at the P3 Ambika space on Marylebone Road. Taking place from 14th to 16th October, SUNDAY is an international, gallery-led art fair showing a selection of 20 young galleries, exhibiting work by over 60 international artists at the fore of emerging talent. SUNDAY is organised by three of the participating galleries: Limoncello (London), Croy Neilsen (Berlin) and Tulips and Roses (Brussels) and sponsored by the Zabludowicz Collection. Among the artists on show will be: Jesse Ash, Edwina Ashton, Francesco Barocco, Michael Bauer, Luca Bertolo, Armin Boehm, Wolfgang Breuer, Pavel Büchler, Sophie Bueno-Boutellier, Liudvikas Buklys, Nicolas Ceccaldi, Alejandro Cesarco, Kit Craig, David Diao, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Chris Evans, John Finneran, Zipora Fried, Aurélien Froment, Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Dagmar Heppner, Andy Holden, Judith Hopf, Takaa ... More
MFAH Opens Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Arts of China Gallery October 17
HOUSTON, TX.- The Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Arts of China Gallery will open to the public on Sunday, October 17, providing a permanent space of three adjoining rooms to showcase the museum´s growing collection of Chinese artwork. Stunning examples of ancient and contemporary art will be displayed side by side in an innovative juxtaposition. Objects in the gallery will range from Zhou and Shang bronze ware, ceramics, and painting and calligraphy to video and installation pieces. This gallery will also feature the first of four permanent, site-specific works for the Asian galleries by major contemporary artists. A monumental landscape by Cai Guo-Qiang, created in Houston just prior to the gallery´s opening, will line the walls of the largest of the three rooms. The design and materials in the gallery were chosen to reflect a distinctively Chinese aesthetic. To direct people to the new gallery during opening week, a banner will hang in Cullinan Hall featuring a calligraphic depi ... More
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