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A woman walks by French artist Paul Gauguin's artwork 'Aha oe Feii? (What! Are You Jealous?)', at the Gauguin: Maker of Myth exhibition, at the Tate Modern, in London, Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010. AP Photo/Katie Collins/PA.
By: Mike Collett-White
LONDON (REUTERS).- French painter Paul Gauguin gets his first major exhibition in Britain for over 50 years this week, and early reviews suggest it was worth the wait. Two newspapers have given the show five stars, including the Times' Rachel Campbell-Johnston who described "Gauguin: Maker of Myth" at London's Tate Modern gallery "the show of the year." Organizers say they have come up with a "fresh and compelling" look at the master of modern art, concentrating on his approach to storytelling and how myths and fables were central to his work. "Gauguin is an artist who created his own persona and established his own myth as to what kind of a man he was," Tate director Nicholas Serota said in an introduction to the show. "That is highly relevant when you come to think about an artist like Damien Hirst, or even Gilbert and George ... it is something that seems very current." ... More |
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Francis Bacon Painting Shown Alongside Artist's Favorite Work
Francis Bacon (1909-1992), Untitled (Crouching figures), c.1952, oil on canvas, 147.3 x 132.2 cm. The Estate of Francis Bacon, courtesy of Faggionato Fine Arts, London.
LONDON.- The Estate of Francis Bacon has generously placed an important painting by the artist on loan to The Courtauld Gallery. Untitled (Crouching Figures), c.1952, went on display from yesterday and will initially be presented alongside Honoré Daumier’s Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, c.1870, in recognition of Bacon’s admiration for Daumier’s masterpiece. When James Thrall Soby, curator at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, was researching his book on Francis Bacon he contacted Harry Fischer, director of Marlborough Fine Art, the artist’s dealer. Fischer was able to give him some fresh insight into Bacon’s artistic taste and favourite works, noting: “He considers Daumier’s Don Quixote and Sancho Panza and El Greco’s View of Toledo to be amongst the greatest paintings in the world...”. Bacon knew Daumier’s ... More | | Victoria & Albert Museum at Dundee Designs Unveiled
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DUNDEE.- Six stunning designs for the V&A at Dundee project will be unveiled at an exhibition in Abertay University library this Wednesday (29 September). The 'V&A at Dundee - Making it Happen' exhibition features work from the six shortlisted teams of world-class architects and designers who have put forward outstanding ideas for a landmark building that will house the V&A at Dundee and dominate Dundee’s waterfront. The six shortlisted companies who feature in the exhibition are: • Delugan Meissl Associated Architects • Kengo Kuma & Associates • REX • Snøhetta • Steven Holl Architects • Sutherland Hussey Architects. Sir Mark Jones, Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, expressed his excitement at the quality of the architects’ response to the brief by saying, “Fantastic designs from brilliant architects! Its great to see that the competition for the V&A at Dundee has attracted such a strong international response.” ... More | | Anish Kapoor: Turning the World Upside Down in Kensington Gardens
Artist Anish Kapoor is seen reflected in his installation 'C-Curve' 2007, part of his new exhibition entitled 'Turning the World Upside Down', in Kensington Gardens. AP Photo/Dominic Lipinski.
LONDON.- A major exhibition of large scale outdoor sculptures in Kensington Gardens by acclaimed London-based artist Anish Kapoor, presented jointly by The Royal Parks and the Serpentine Gallery, opens today. The free exhibition showcases a series of major recent works never before shown together in London. Constructed from highly reflective stainless steel, the giant curved mirror surfaces will create illusory distortions of the surroundings and will be visible across large distances, creating new vistas in this famous and much-loved setting. The sculptures are sited to contrast and reflect the changing colours, foliage and weather in Kensington Gardens. Despite their monumental scale, the works appear as pure reflection of their surroundings: the sky, trees, water, wildlife and changing seasons. The distortions ... More |
 | Virginia Museum Announces Important Picasso Exhibition
Portrait of Dora Maar by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973), oil on canvas, 36¼ x 25 9/16 in. (92 x 65 cm). Musée National Picasso, Paris.
RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced the most important exhibition in its history, Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris. VMFA is the exclusive East Coast venue for the exhibition’s seven-city international tour. The exhibition, which will be on view from February 19 through May 15, 2011, is co-organized by the Musée National Picasso, Paris and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Tickets are available now. Drawn from the collection of the Musée National Picasso in Paris, the largest and most significant repository of the artist’s work in the world, this exhibition represents works produced during every major artistic period of Pablo Picasso’s eight-decade career. It includes 176 works from Picasso’s personal collection – art that he kept for himself with the purpose of shaping his own legacy. ... More | | Ai Weiwei's Zodiac Heads/Circle of Animals at the Sao Paulo Biennale
The twelve Zodiac Heads/Circle of Animals by Ai Weiwei.
SAO PAULO.- Ai Weiwei’s Zodiac Heads/Circle of Animals installation opened at the 29th Sao Paulo Biennale in Brazil. The Biennale opened on September 25th and drew large crowd of art aficionados from all across the globe. The Zodiac Heads/Circle of Animals is the centerpiece of a global, multi-year touring exhibition that will be presented in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The 29th São Paulo Biennial is curated by Moacir dos Anjos and Agnaldo Farias and a team of guest curators from various backgrounds: Fernando Alvim, Rina Carvajal, Yuko Hasegawa, Sarat Maharaj, and Chus Martinez The title of the this years Biennale, "Há sempre um copo de mar para um homem navegar (There is always a cup of sea to sail in)" was inspired by a line by the poet Jorge de Lima (1895 - 1953) in his work Invenção de Orfeu (1952). The concept of this year's São Paulo Biennial is based ... More | | Laurie Anderson Says Museums Losing Cachet to Web
Laurie Anderson sees a new online trend in the art world that has galleries and museums in a tailspin. EPA PHOTO/KEYSTONE/LAURENT GILLIERON.
By: Christine Kearney
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Laurie Anderson sees a new online trend in the art world that has galleries and museums in a tailspin: the power of the Web to distribute art. The performance artist and voice of America's cultural fringe says websites such as YouTube are now recognized as a means to put art in front of mass audiences, challenging traditional routes such as physical museums, art galleries and theaters. "If you want to make a movie or work of art, you don't need to get past that curator...you just make it, put it up and there it is, in the world, just as if it were hanging on the wall at MoMA," she told Reuters, referencing New York City's Museum of Modern Art. Anderson, whose new show "Delusion" opened in New York City last week, recently ... More |
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Yinka Shonibare Creates a Work for the Campaign Against Cuts
Each week the work of a different artist, created in response to the campaign, will be released.
LONDON.- A striking new work by Fourth Plinth artist Yinka Shonibare was unveiled today as part of the campaign supported by over 100 leading British artists against the government’s proposed funding cuts of the arts. The artist’s work shows a slash across a piece of brightly coloured African fabric with the caption: Stop Cutting. Yinka Shonibare MBE has become well known for work that explores issues of race and class through the media of painting, sculpture, photography and, most recently, film. He often uses African fabrics to explore issues about identity and culture in contemporary society. He was a Turner prize nominee in 2004 and he was awarded an MBE, a title that he has added to his professional name. His commission for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, Nelson's Ship in a Bottle, was installed in May this year and in June a major new public art work covering the gable end of a thirteen-storey tower block, commissioned by the South London Gallery to celebr ... More | | "Persistence of Memory" to Join Dalí Exhibition at the High
Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory,” 1931 (detail), oil on canvas, 9½ x 13 inches (24.1 x 33 cm), The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2010 Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
ATLANTA, GA.- On November 16 Salvador Dalí’s iconic Surrealist painting “The Persistence of Memory” from The Museum of Modern Art, New York, will join the highly successful exhibition “Salvador Dalí: The Late Work.” The exhibition brings together many works from Dalí’s later career as well as several works of art not seen in the United States since the 1950s. The exhibition will be on view through January 9, 2010. “‘The Persistence of Memory’ represents Dalí in ways few paintings have for other artists,” said exhibition curator and Dalí scholar Elliott King. “It’s no exaggeration that this ‘10 x 14 inches of Dalí dynamite’ is the image that made him a celebrity, setting the stage for all the art and antics that followed.” Painted in 1931, “The Persistence of Memory” is widely recognized as one of Salvador Dalí‘s most famous ... More | | Masterworks by Fontana and De Chirico Lead Sotheby's Auction
Interno metafisico (Natura morta metafisica) by Giorgio de Chirico. Estimate: £1.6-2.5 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- On Friday, October 15, 2010 Sotheby’s annual 20th Century Italian Art Sale will showcase the work of many of Italy’s foremost Modern, Post-War and Contemporary artists, including Marino Marini, Giorgio de Chirico, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni and Alberto Burri. Sotheby’s, the only auction house to have staged a dedicated sale in this category each year since pioneering auctions in this collecting field in 1999, has achieved sell-through rates by lot of 88.5% and 90.9% respectively for its 2008 and 2009 auctions in this category, and the forthcoming auction is estimated to realise in excess of £12million, more than double the pre-sale estimate of last year’s 20th Century Italian Art Sale. The highlight of the forthcoming sale is without doubt Concetto Spaziale, Attese, a splendid and rare example of Lucio Fontana’s (1899-1968) widely celebrated Tagli series. Monumental in scale (125 by ... More |
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Park Avenue Armory Announces First Full Artistic Season
Peter Greenaway´s Leonardo´s Last Supper: A Vision by Peter Greenaway. Photo: Courtesy Luciano Romano/Change Performing Arts.
NEW YORK, NY.- Park Avenue Armory announced today its first full season of cultural programming, comprising productions of visual art, dance, theater and music that are conceived and performed “outside the box” of conventional theaters and museums. Dedicated to presenting works that cannot be realized in traditional institutions, Park Avenue Armory’s season will include monumental, immersive installations by visual artists Peter Greenaway and Ryoji Ikeda; Tune-In, a contemporary music festival featuring new music ensembles curated by and including eighth blackbird, the New York premier of Inuksuit by John Luther Adams and a new site-specific commission by Sympho; a six-week residency by the Royal Shakespeare Company in a full-scale Shakespearean theater built inside the Drill Hall; and free ... More | | Ron Terada: Who I Think I Am at The Hayward Gallery Project Space
This exhibition is the first solo exhibition of Terada’s work in London. Photo: Roger Wooldridge.
LONDON.- This autumn, the Hayward Gallery Project Space presents an exhibition of work by Canadian artist, Ron Terada. Terada is a well known figure in his home country with a wide ranging conceptual practice that includes painting, signage, photography, interventions, books and music. His work often draws from past art historical figures and popular culture to evoke nostalgic and sometimes familiar narratives while ruminating on aspiration and failure. This exhibition is the first solo exhibition of Terada’s work in London and features the ‘Jack’ paintings, a series of sixteen monochromatic canvases, concerned with the life and times of the Canada born, California raised artist Jack Goldstein. Goldstein was among the first generation of artists to emerge from Cal Arts and was considered one of the most promising artists from the post-conceptual period alongside Richard ... More | | Scaasi: American Couturier at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Arnold Scaasi, John French, 1961. Image courtesy of Ernestine Carter Collection/Fashion Museum - Bath and North East Somerset Council. Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MA.- Arnold Scaasi has dressed them all—from Broadway actresses and Hollywood stars to the ladies who lunch and America’s First Ladies. Epitomizing the “lifestyles of the rich and famous,” his custom-made clothing evokes the height of elegance and craftsmanship from the late 1950s to the present. In celebration of the acclaimed fashion designer and his recent gift to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), of more than 100 outfits (to complement the MFA’s acquisition of his archive), the Museum presents Scaasi: American Couturier, from September 25, 2010, to June 19, 2011, in the Loring Gallery. The exhibition showcases 28 of Scaasi’s fabulous outfits and explore his professional relationship with four women from among his extensive clientele, ... More |
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Getty Museum Head of Preparation Bruce Metro Retires Following 30-plus Year Career
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bruce Metro, Head of Preparation at the J. Paul Getty Museum, will retire at the end of September following 31 years at the Getty. Metro joined the Getty Museum in 1979 and, over the course of his career, has been responsible for the realization of over 400 exhibitions at the Getty Center and the Getty Villa, as well as countless permanent collection gallery installations and reinstallations. Metro, who began his career at the original Getty Museum in Malibu, played a critical role working with the architect and the contractor on the design, construction, and installation of the Museum at the Getty Center, which opened in 1997, and in the renovation of the Villa Museum in Malibu, which reopened in 2005. Under his guidance, the Museum has become a recognized leader in packing, crating, moving, and installing works of art, as well as in earthquake protection for the permanent collection. Acting Museum Director Davi ... More
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Sets a New Attendance Record
GLASGOW.- Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880-1900 at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum opened on 9 April 2010 and ran until 27 September 2010, attracting over 120,000 visitors as well as wide critical acclaim. The exhibition has set a new record for the number of visitors to an art exhibition at Kelvingrove, smashing the previous record of 103,000 visits to a display of work by Van Gogh in 1948. Comprising around 100 oil paintings and 50 works on paper, this was the first major exhibition devoted to this influential group of artists since 1968, and the definitive display of Glasgow Boys work, both celebrating the group and reviewing its legacy. All the important artists associated with the group, including James Guthrie, EA Hornel, George Henry, Joseph Crawhall and Arthur Melville were represented. Works from Glasgow Museums' collections sat alongside other major pi ... More
Photos of Gandhi on Momentous Day in Indian History for Sale at Bonhams
LONDON.- Photographs of Mahatma Gandhi taken on 7 August 1942, one of the most momentous days for Indian Independence, are for sale at Bonhams India and Beyond sale in London on 5 October 2010. It was on 7 August that Gandhi addressed the opening day of the historic All India Congress Committee at the Gowalia Tank Maidan in Mumbai (then known as Bombay) and launched his call for non violent protest against British rule. “I stick to the principle of non-violence as I did before. If you are tired of it then you need not come with me. At the time when I am about to launch the biggest fight in my life, “ he said, “there can be no hatred for the British in my heart.” The following day, 8 August, the Congress overwhelming backed the formation of the civil disobedience Quit India Movement rallied by the Gandhi’s famous cry of “Do or die”. The morning after that its leaders were arrested and jailed. ... More
Frieze Art Fair Launches Free iPhone App
LONDON.- Frieze is launching a free iPhone and iPad app this autumn. The company’s first mobile app will be an invaluable tool for collectors, curators and general visitors to the 2010 Frieze Art Fair (14 – 17 October). The Frieze Art Fair iPhone/iPad app is sponsored by Deutsche Bank, the fair’s main sponsor. Frieze Art Fair is one of the world's most important and influential contemporary art fairs. Taking place annually in London's Regent's Park the fair regularly attracts over 60,000 visitors. The key features of Frieze Art Fair’s app include an interactive map of the fair and ‘Art Finder' a comprehensive search filter enabling visitors to navigate and browse the exhibited art works on their own terms by selecting specific media and size, as well as work priced under £5,000. The ‘Favourites’ section will act as a notebook and give users the opportunity to keep a record of artists, ... More
AIA Selects Four Projects for National Healthcare Design Awards
WASHINGTON, DC.- The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) have selected the recipients of the AIA National Healthcare Design Awards program. The AIA Healthcare Awards program showcases the best of healthcare building design and healthcare design-oriented research. Projects exhibit conceptual strengths that solve aesthetic, civic, urban, and social concerns as well as the requisite functional and sustainability concerns of a hospital. Jurors for the 2010 National Healthcare Design Awards include: John Pangrazio, FAIA, (Chair) NBBJ; Ruth Benefield, Seattle Children's Hospital; Paul Bentel, FAIA, Bentel & Bentel; Mary-Jean Eastman, FAIA, Perkins+Eastman; Kirk Hamilton, FAIA, Texas A&M University; Marlene Imirzian, AIA, Marlene Imirzian & Associates, Architects and Ray Pentecost, FAIA, Clark Nexsen. Three healthcare facilities were selected in three separate categories; Category A: - built, les ... More
Kohl's Donates More than $2.7 Million to Milwaukee Art Museum
MENOMONEE FALLS, WIS.- Today Kohl's Department Stores announced a more than $2.7 million donation over three years to the Milwaukee Art Museum that will continue the successful Kohl's Art Generation program launched in 2008 as well as create new programs for kids and families. Building on the $1 million contribution from Kohl's in 2008, this donation is the largest gift to an education initiative in the Museum's history. The donation comes from the Kohl's Cares(R) cause merchandise program, which sells special items, including plush toys and books, and donates 100 percent of the net profit to benefit children's health and education initiatives nationwide. One of Wisconsin's premiere destinations for art and culture, the Milwaukee Art Museum serves more than 300,000 visitors each year and is nationally recognized for its art education programming. The onsite Kohl's programs will be free with admission to all Museum attendees and school groups. "Kohl's and the Milwaukee Art Museum ... More
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