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Exhibition organizer, Martine Soria, poses for photographers next to French painter Henri Matisse's engraving 'Odalisque assise a la jupe de tulle' as she presents the exhibition 'Henri Matisse's Exhibition. The Art of Engraving' at BBK Foundation gallery in Bilbao, Basque Country, northern Spain, 14 September 2010. The exhibition, running from 14 September until 30 October 2010, features 40 Matisse's engravings. EPA/ALFREDO ALDAI.
BILBAO.- The exhibition hall of the Fundación BBK in Bilbao hosts, from today until October 30, forty prints by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) in which the French painter shows his most intimate side. For Matisse, printmaking and drawing were not a means to disseminate his work, "but to create an intimate space”, an idea that shows the parts of the exhibition, which includes two self-portraits and a portrait of his three grandchildren, as explained to the media by the curator of the exhibition, Martine Soria. "I've always thought of the picture not as an exercise of special skill, but above all as a means to express inner feelings and moods," said the painter in 1939. ... More |
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After 75 Years, Boeing Co. will Demolish Historic Plant 2
B-17E Flying Fortress airplanes are shown being built at Boeing's historic "Plant 2" in Seattle. AP Photo/Courtesy Boeing Co.
By: George Tibbits, Associated Press Writer
SEATTLE (AP).- The dilapidated factory that helped make Seattle a high-tech town is being demolished after 75 years, a casualty of time, technology and tails that grew too tall. Boeing Co.'s Plant 2, a sprawling but long outdated building between Boeing Field and south Seattle's Duwamish River, gave birth to some of the world's most significant aircraft. It was the site of Seattle's biggest disappearing act and a home to "Rosie the Riveter," women who built thousands of World War II planes. It's also where the mostly unskilled workers of a fish-and-timber town first learned the art of assembling aluminum, engines and electronics into sophisticated flying machines. As the danger of global conflict grew, Boeing opened the factory in 1936 to build the prototype for the B-17 Flying Fortress. Eventually ... More | | Ninth Edition of the Most Prestigious Art Show in the Americas Announced
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin.
MIAMI.- From December 2 through 5, Miami Beach, Florida, will host the ninth edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, the international art show. More than 250 leading galleries from North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa will take part, showing works by more than 2,000 artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. After launching last year, the Oceanfront exhibition area returns again to Art Basel Miami Beach 2010, sited in an environment designed by young architects Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem. The Oceanfront Nights program, curated by Creative Time, spotlights the cultural scenes of Berlin, Detroit, Glasgow, and Mexico City. Art Basel Miami Beach 2010 will run from December 2 through December 5, 2010, with an exclusive VIP opening on December 1. Galleries selected from 29 countries will showcase paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, photography, editions, and videos. The show’s list of participating gallerie ... More | | Dan Colen's First Major Solo Exhibition in New York at Gagosian
Dan Colen, The Sweetest Thing, 2010. Brick wall, concrete, steel, re-bar, 156 X 284 X 100 inches. Photo: Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian presents Dan Colen’s first major solo exhibition in New York. This follows his two-part exhibition “I Live There”/“An Allegory of Faith” at Gagosian Gallery Davies Street in 2009 and the surreptitious exhibition “Potty Mouth Potty War” in the bathrooms of Gagosian Gallery West 24th Street in 2006. Drawing from mass media, local environment, and subculture, Colen’s art imbues the ordinary, the disenfranchised, and the tribal with provocative new status. Working from personal experience with subjects overlooked or considered rogue and delinquent by art and society, he explores the very essence of dichotomy through risk and affect, juggling immediacy of expression with technical perfection. Slipperiness of meaning results in his painstaking reconstruction of ‘what might have been’; in paintings ... More |
 | Home of "Ice Giants" Thaws, Shows Pre-Viking Reindeer Hunts
Norwegian archaeologist Trond Vihovde (L) and colleague Elling Utvik Wammer use a GPS marker to register the location of sticks used in reindeer hunting. REUTERS/Alister Doyle.
By: Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
JUVFONNA (REUTERS).- Climate change is exposing reindeer hunting gear used by the Vikings' ancestors faster than archaeologists can collect it from ice thawing in northern Europe's highest mountains. "It's like a time machine...the ice has not been this small for many, many centuries," said Lars Piloe, a Danish scientist heading a team of "snow patch archaeologists" on newly bare ground 1,850 meters (6,070 ft) above sea level in mid-Norway. Specialized hunting sticks, bows and arrows and even a 3,400-year-old leather shoe have been among finds since 2006 from a melt in the Jotunheimen mountains, the home of the "Ice Giants" of Norse mythology. As water streams off the Juvfonna ice field, Piloe and two other archaeologists -- working in a science opening up due to climate change -- collect ... More | | Art Institute of Chicago Appoints Daniel Walker Chair of Two Departments
Walker will become the Pritzker Chair and Curator of Asian Art and the Chair and Christa C. Mayer Thurman Curator of Textiles at the Art Institute.
CHICAGO, IL.- Following an international search, the Art Institute of Chicago announced the appointment of Daniel Walker as the head of two curatorial departments at the museum. Effective October 18, 2010, Walker will become the Pritzker Chair and Curator of Asian Art and the Chair and Christa C. Mayer Thurman Curator of Textiles at the Art Institute. A distinguished scholar, writer, and curator of textiles as well as Islamic art, Walker has held previous positions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Textile Museum in Washington, DC. With the recent opening of the Alsdorf Galleries devoted to Indian, Southeast Asian, and Islamic art and the upcoming openings of both the renovated galleries for textiles and the Weston Wing for Japanese art, Walker joins the Art Institute at a critical moment of expansion and re-presentation of the historical and contemporary cultural production ... More | | The Menil Collection to Publish Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonné
Jasper Johns Corpse 1974‐1975 (detail) Paintstik, ink and pastel on paper 42 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches Photographer: George Hixson The Menil Collection, Houston, Bequest of David Whitney Art © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
HOUSTON, TX.- The Board of Trustees of the Menil Collection and Menil Director Josef Helfenstein are pleased to announce a plan to publish the Catalogue Raisonné of the Drawings of Jasper Johns. The catalogue is being prepared under the auspices of the Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center, by agreement with the artist, with lead funding provided by Louisa S. Sarofim, Chairman of the Menil Board. Bernice Rose, Chief Curator of the Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center, who will guide the publication as Chief Editor, has assembled a group of distinguished scholars and technical experts to collaborate on the project. Before joining the Menil, Ms. Rose was Director of Special Exhibitions at New York’s PaceWildenstein Gallery (1993‐2007) and Senior Curator of Drawings ... More |
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First Major Museum Exhibition of Works by Elad Lassry Opens in St. Louis
Elad Lassry, Tomatillos, 2008. C-Type Print, 14.5 x 11.5 inches, framed. Courtesy of the artist and David Kordansky Gallery.
ST LOUIS, MO.- The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents a new exhibition by Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist Elad Lassry. Featuring recent and new works, this exhibition is the artist’s first major museum monograph in the United States. Lassry’s intimately framed photographs slip effortlessly between genres and iconographies, capturing plastic still-lives, uncanny publicity portraits, collages, animals, and landscapes. Thoroughly familiar and blank at the same time, his images move beyond the simple category of “photography” and instead ask us to revisit the perceptual experience of a picture. Duplicating and then cloistering his subjects within saturated fields of color, excised from their original context, Lassry attends to the singularity of his subjects, while also immersing them in their own formal properties. While clearly depicting specific objects, people, animals, or places, the ... More | | Global Positioning System? Mapquest? Not for Fans of Hand-Drawn Maps
"Ingrid Burrington's missed connections" from the upcoming book "Here to There: A Curious Collection from the Hand Drawn Map Association,". REUTERS.
By: Randall Mikkelsen
BOSTON (REUTERS).- As high-tech mapping services such as Garmin, Google and MapQuest make finding directions easier than ever, a new movement has revived interest in maps made by hand, as a route toward personal expression. Ingrid Burrington plotted encounters between strangers in New York City that were noted on the "missed connections" personals section of Craigslist, a website for classified listings. Marilyn Murphy mapped the sites of her stomach injections to treat juvenile arthritis - a practical guide for her next shot as well as a testament to her illness. Scott Schuldt used methods and instruments of old surveyors to chart his rambles in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and plots them in the folksy, primitive scale of strides to the inch. These maps and hundreds ... More | | Bonhams Launch Irish Art Department with First Sale in February
Bonhams Irish Art Department is headed by Penny Day. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams will hold its first sale of Irish Art on 9th February 2011 in New Bond Street, marking the end of the company’s long-standing association with Adams Auctioneers in Dublin. After twelve years of working jointly on Irish Art auctions, Bonhams and Adams have decided to hold separate sales. Bonhams Irish Art Department is headed by Penny Day, also a Senior Specialist in the 20th Century British Department at Bonhams. She joined 20thCentury British & Irish Art at Bonhams in 2006, following a year with Christie’s British & Irish Art division. Although combining these two disciplines successfully, it is her particular passion and focus on developing Irish art within the company that has led to tangible results over the last few years. Penny holds a B.A. Hons Degree in History of Art from Trinity College Dublin and a Diploma in Fine & Decorative Art from The Institute of ... More |
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Bonampak Lineage Might Have Come from Plan de Ayutla, Chiapas
Restoration work is underway in structures 11 and 12 in Plan de Ayutla archaeological zone. Photo: DMC INAH/ H. Montano.
MEXICO CITY.- Recent explorations conducted by experts from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) point out that Plan de Ayutla Archaeological Site, in Chiapas, could have been the political center where the lineage that founded Bonampak originated,more than 1,400 years ago. This hypothesis is based on interpretation of inscriptions at different monuments. The archaeological zone that will be open to public before 2012, according to the compromise of President Felipe Calderon, could have been in Prehispanic times one of the legendary cities didentified by epigraphic as Sak T’zi or Ak’e. The first hypothesis regarding Plan de Ayutla identity points out that it might have been Sak T’zi, city that between 600 and 800 AD struggled with Maya metropolis of Tonina, Piedras Negras and Yaxchilan, informed archaeologist Luis Alberto Martos. The site located in Ocosingo municipality “is key to unders ... More | | Christie's New York to Offer Extraordinary Collection of Unique Daguerreotypes
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, Rome. T. de la concorde. Ent. Inter., 1842 (detail). Daguerreotype. Estimate: $45,000-65,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s presents A Historic Photographic Grand Tour: Important Daguerreotypes by Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey in an exclusive sale this fall. The auction, featuring 74 daguerreotype photographs, hails from a private collector and will be offered at Christie’s New York on October 7, 2010. The sale is expected to achieve in excess of $2 million. For decades, the name of Girault de Prangey had been a source of intrigue to scholars and collectors of early photography. A naturally gifted artist, de Prangey was born into a patrician French family in 1804. He applied to daguerreotypes the same passion and expertise he held for art and specifically Islamic architecture— eventually becoming one of the earliest masters of the medium. The daguerreotype was the first practical photographic process. Employing mercury vapors and asphaltum, it fixed the optical image from a ... More | | New York City Exhibit Captures Photographer's Vision of the City
Two Towers -- New York. Photo: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington.By: Ula Ilnytzky, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP).- A new exhibition of photographs by Alfred Stieglitz offers a view of New York City at the turn of the 20th century through the eyes of one of the world's most celebrated photographers. "Alfred Stieglitz New York" at the Seaport Museum New York features 39 vintage photographs, many shot from the windows of his midtown-Manhattan apartment and galleries. It opens on Wednesday and runs through Jan. 19, 2011. It is the first time these works are being shown together since 1932 when Stieglitz showed them at An American Place, a gallery he operated from 1929 until his death in 1946, said the exhibition curator Bonnie Yochelson. The photographs cover the periods from 1893 to 1916 and 1930 to 1935, contrasting Stieglitz's images of Old New York with later images of the city as it emerged as a great metropolis. Stieglitz, whose second ... More |
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Scholars to Present New Findings on Henri Rousseau's Media and Methods
HOUSTON, TX.- An extraordinary gathering of art historians, curators, and conservationists will gather in Houston on Saturday, October 2 to present and discuss new research into the work of Henri Rousseau. The afternoon symposium – to be held at Jones Auditorium on the University of St. Thomas campus, located two blocks east of the Menil Collection – is free of charge and open to the public. Born in 1844, the French painter is perhaps one of the most misunderstood of modern artists. Although some of Rousseau’s pictures are among the most famous and beloved of their era (and of art-history classes), debate has abounded for decades about the artist’s methods, techniques, media, and intentions. To this day some consider Rousseau a grandfather of Surrealism, others a precursor of Cubism – while still others have positioned him as the leader of a school of modern primitives. Long acknowledged as a key figure in ... More
Israel Museum Awards Michal Heiman First Shpilman International Prize
JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, has selected artist Michal Heiman to receive the first Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography. Created in partnership with the Israel Museum, the new biannual prize aims to catalyze and support international research projects exploring theoretical and practical issues in photography. Ms. Heiman was selected from a pool of thirty-five finalist candidates from nine countries by a jury of leaders in the field—including Peter Galassi, Chief Curator of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Marta Gili, Director of the Jeu de Paume, Paris. Ms. Heiman will receive $40,000 to support her newly conceived project investigating the contribution of art to psychoanalysis, and vice versa. Michal Heiman (b. 1954) is one of the most prolific artists in Israel today, presenting exhibitions of photography, painting, installation, and video, drawing on her extensive ... More
First Solo Exhibition by Michael Patterson-Carver in London at Timothy Taylor Gallery
LONDON.- Timothy Taylor Gallery presents the first solo exhibition by the American artist Michael Patterson-Carver in London. On display in the gallery’s Viewing Room, the show will feature recent works on paper. Born in 1958, Patterson-Carver's life and career have been shaped by his exposure as a young child to the US civil rights movement. His art and life are now inseparable. Taking a frank look at the political realm, Patterson-Carver’s work often represents well-known world leaders and people in power as well as ordinary men and women in their desire for change through direct action and demonstrations. The power mongers are mocked through caricature, while ordinary folk are depicted with grace and respect. By giving form to, and poking fun at, the failure of world leadership and the disastrous effects of hypercapitalism, his drawings are a form of sympathetic magic, channeling the desire or power t ... More
Major International Collaboration Yields Never Before Seen Forbidden City Treasures
SALEM, MA.- When the last emperor of China, Puyi, left the Forbidden City in 1924, the doors closed on a secluded compound of pavilions and gardens deep within the palace. Filled with exquisite objects personally commissioned by the 18th-century Qianlong (pronounced chee'en lohng) emperor for his personal enjoyment, the complex of lavish buildings and exquisite landscaping lay dormant for decades. Now for the first time, 90 objects of ceremony and leisure - murals, paintings, furniture, architectural and garden components, jades and cloisonné - will be on view at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts. The Emperor's Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City will reveal the contemplative life and refined vision of one of history's most influential rulers with artworks from one of the most magnificent places in the world. A model of international cooperation, the exhibition was organized by the Peabody Essex ... More
Art Detroit Now Presents Detroit Gallery Week
DETROIT, MI.- Detroit Gallery Week, Art Detroit Now’s third annual event, will run from Monday, Sept. 27 to Sunday, Oct. 3 in 16 metro Detroit cities. Thousands are expected to attend contemporary art openings, exhibitions and demonstrations at local galleries, museums and non-profit organizations that will showcase metro Detroit’s contemporary art and artists. A central theme of this year’s event is architecture and space. Cranbrook will hold a lecture on Tuesday night, Sept. 28 by 2012Architecten, a Rotterdam-based architectural office that utilizes the contextual potential for design, and Wayne State will host a reception and symposium on Thursday night, Sept. 30 centered on their exhibition “Fabrications.” On Friday night, Oct. 1, 13 venues in Midtown’s Cultural Center, including Detroit Artists Market, Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) and Charles Wright Museum of African American Hist ... More
Transport: A Major Thematic Exhibition by Marc Newson at Gagosian
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents “Transport”, a major thematic exhibition by Marc Newson that brings together for the first time all of his major designs and realized products for transport and human locomotion since 1999. “Transport” will premiere Aquariva by Marc Newson, Newson’s reinterpretation of the famous leisure speedboats produced by the iconic Italian boatmaker Riva. Drawing on the contemporary Aquariva and its predecessor of the 1960s, the glamorous Aquarama, Newson has infused the classic model with his streamlined and forward-looking style using ideas imported from his innovative work in automotive and aerospace design. These include the use of phenolic textile composite -- a durable laminate made from linen and resin that made its first appearance in Newson’s furniture designs in 2007 -- in place of traditional mahogany for the deck; anodized aluminum for discreet hooks, cle ... More
Chinese Emperor's Seal Expected to Make Millions at Bonhams
LONDON.- A stunning piece of China’s Imperial history – a seal personally commissioned by the Qianlong Emperor (1711-1799) - will be the highlight of Bonhams Sale of Fine Chinese Art on November 11th in London. The perfect four centimeter square jade seal bearing the inscription `Zi Qiang Bu Xi’, (‘Self-Strengthening Never Ceases’) is closely linked to the Emperor’s 80th birthday celebration which coincided with the 55th year of his reign and is an iconic reminder of China’s golden age. The history and provenance of this artefact speaks both of a simple and elegant personal aesthetic as well as the stamp of Imperial power. In his article on the seal, Guo Fuxiang, a curator at the world famous Palace Museum in the Forbidden City in Beijing, a world authority on Imperial history, writes: “The reason this inscription was chosen for the seal is revealed in the Emperor’s personal comme ... More
Bonhams & Butterfields to Offer the J.D. Collection of Saint-Gaudens $10 Eagles
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams & Butterfields announced the September 20, 2010 auction of Rare Coins, Medals and Banknotes featuring the J.D. Collection of Saint-Gaudens $10 eagle coins. The Collection, which is comprised of approximately 30 highly sought after gold coins, date from 1907 to 1932. Though not a complete set, a majority of the coins from the Collection are in Choice to Gem Uncirculated condition and are graded by the both major numismatic entities, NGC and PCGS. Nearly all of the coins have been off the market for many years, and will be eagerly sought by collectors. Part one of the J.D. Collection, a rare and complete set of Gem Mint State $2.50 Indian Head quarter eagles, were successfully sold by Bonhams & Butterfields in early 2010. Augustus Saint-Gaudens was an Irish-born American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts movement who embodied the ideals of the "American Renaissance." Raised in New York City, he traveled to ... More
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