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Co-Chairman of Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art Department Worldwide David Norman introduces Claude Monet's painting "Les Demoiselles de Giverny" at a Sotheby's selling exhibition in Beijing October 21, 2010. The 21 works of impressionist and modern art's most important artists, including Picasso and Claude Monet, will be displayed in the Chinese capital and Hong Kong with prices ranging from HK$ 15.6 to 195 million (US $2-25 million). REUTERS/Jason Lee.
HONG KONG.- In response to the increasing interest throughout Asia and especially within China in the field of Impressionist and Modern art, Sotheby’s announced a major selling exhibition to be held this autumn. Modern Masters: Impressionism and Early 20th Century Art will comprise approximately 20 works representing many of the most important artists active in Europe from the late 19th and early 20th century and who left an indelible impression on art history, including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso and Edgar Degas, among others. The exhibition will preview in Beijing from 22-25 October 2010 and will then move on to Hong Kong from 26-28 November 2010. The works included in this exhibition are priced from US$2 million to $25 million (HK$15.6 to $195 million). “This exciting event is both a first for Sotheby's and for China,” said Patti Wong, Chairman of Sotheby's Asia. “ ... More |
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Spanish Minister of Culture Confirms Acquisition of Painting by Bruegel the Elder for the Prado
Spanish minister of Culture Angeles Gonzalez Sinde presents the painting 'The Wine of Saint Martin's day by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. EPA/BALLESTEROS.
MADRID.- The Minister of Culture, Ángeles González-Sinde, today presided over a plenary session of the Royal Board of Trustees of the Museo del Prado in which it was unanimously decided to exercise the option to purchase The Wine of Saint Martin’s Day, an autograph work by Peter Bruegel the Elder. The Wine of Saint Martin’s Day will join the Museum’s collections once the purchase option has been formalised for the sum of 7 million Euros at which it has been valued. On 23 September the Minister announced the discovery of this previously unknown work by Bruegel the Elder, a key figure in 16th-century Flemish painting. It was attributed to the artist by the Museo del Prado following various months of study and restoration at the Museum. The reappearance of this painting can be considered a major discovery for the history of art. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the “new Bosch” as he ... More | | After 23,358 Submissions, Mediums Collide at YouTube's Guggenheim Exhibit
Videos are displayed on the exterior of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. AP Photo/Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , Kristopher McKay.
By: Jake Coyle, AP Entertainment Writer
NEW YORK (AP).- After 23,358 submissions and countless double-clicks, the results are in for YouTube's "biennial of creative video." On Thursday night, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Google Inc.-owned video website presented "YouTube Play," an exhibit of 25 videos selected by a jury including the filmmaker Darren Aronofsky and the music group Animal Collective. The videos, which are gathered online at YouTube.com/play and will be on view at the Guggenheim through Sunday, display a curious collision of mediums. The exhibit is an attempt to curate an essentially unmanageable library of content: Some two billion videos are watched daily on YouTube. Though the exhibit can only be dwarfed by that endless, roaring ... More | | Frieze Art Fair 2010: High-Quality Gallery Presentations Attract Strong Sales
Frieze Art Fair 2010 in Regent's Park, London. Photo by Linda Nylind for Frieze.
LONDON.- At the close of the eighth edition of Frieze Art Fair, sponsored by Deutsche Bank, several galleries reported their strongest sales since the fair’s inception in 2003. Fair directors, Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover were delighted with reports of significant sales from both established galleries and from the newer galleries in the Frame section and beyond. 173 galleries exhibited over 1,000 artists at Frieze Art Fair 2010 – the largest in the fair’s history. 29 different countries were represented. Collectors from the traditional hotspots of Germany and the USA were joined by a strong showing of Asian, Latin-American, Middle-Eastern and Russian collectors.
Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover commented, ‘Overall, we feel the quality level was very high this year – with very elegant installations and presentations of
significant artworks. This translated into substantial sales, to both p ... More |
 | Canadian Artist Rodney Graham's Through the Forest at Hamburger Kunsthalle
Canadian artist Rodney Graham attends a press conference at the Kunsthalle in Hamburg. EPA/FABIANBIMMER.
HAMBURG.- Canadian artist Rodney Graham’s (*1949) exhibition entitled Through the Forest provides insight into the development of his complex body of work. The exhibition brings together close to 100 works, dating between 1978 and 2010. They come from important private and public collections in Europe and North America. Graham’s interdisciplinary work embraces a variety of media: books, video, sculpture, painting, installation and music. His use of appropriation allows him to pay tribute to some important artists, writers, philosophers and pop musicians, though not without respectfully and ironically demystifying their undoubtedly substantial influence and offering us a new take on the worlds they describe. The roots of Graham’s work, which is influenced by 1970s Conceptual art and its way of thinking, lie in the adaptation of literary models. ... More | | ARCOmadrid_2011 Committee Selects a Total of 141 Galleries for Its 40th Edition
Wayne Thiebaud. Little Deli 2001 oil on canvas.122 x 91.4 cm. Photo: Courtesy Faggionato Fine Arts.
MADRID.- During the meeting held on October 4th and 5th last, the ARCOmadrid Organising Committee selected a total of 141 galleries for its General Programme and ARCO 40. These will be joined by a further 38 galleries who will be featuring in the various curated sections—Focus Russia, Solo Projects: Focus Latin America, and Opening: New European Galleries. On Thursday November 18th, following the meeting of the Appeal Committee scheduled for the beginning of the month at which the list will be finalised, IFEMA will hold a press conference to present the galleries exhibiting at the fair’s 30th edition, taking place in Madrid from February 16th to 20th 2011. The most notable new feature for the upcoming edition is the reduction in the number of galleries taking part, with the idea of creating a more compact event suited to the current moment in time, while at once creating a space more conducive to exchange and profe ... More | | Philantropist and Arts Patron Announces His Significant Bequest to the Art Gallery of New South Wales
Giovanni Battista Salvi, called Sassoferrato, The Virgin in Prayer, after 1640. Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 34.5 cm.
SYDNEY.- Kenneth Reed today announced his intention to bequeath to the Art Gallery of New South Wales a substantial collection of old master paintings, Italian Maiolica and European 18th-century porcelain. Numbering over 70 items in total the Ken Reed bequest will represent a most significant addition to the gallery’s European collection said Edmund Capon, Director, Art Gallery of New South Wales. Mr Reed, a Sydney-based retired lawyer, has been a collector of European fine and decorative arts for some 25 years. He says that he was inspired by visits as a child to the Art Gallery of New South Wales where his father used to take the family on Sunday afternoons. The Art Gallery is to receive 25 old master paintings, 25 pieces of 18th-century porcelain and 22 pieces of 16th-17th century Italian maiolica. Some of the pictures could have been specifically selected to complement those already in the Gallery’s col ... More |
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First Major United States Retrospective of the Work of Paul Thek Opens at the Whitney
Untitled (Four Tube Meat Piece), 1964, from the series Technological Reliquaries. Wax, metal, wood, paint, glass, plaster, rubber, resin, and glass, 16 1/8 x 16 ¼ x 5 3/8 in. Kolodny Family Collection© The Estate of George Paul Thek; courtesy of Alexander and Bonin, New York. Photo: Orcutt & Van Der Putten.
NEW YORK, NY.- An artist who defies classification, Paul Thek (1933-1988), the sculptor, painter, and creator of radical installations who was hailed for his work in the 1960s and early 70s, then nearly eclipsed within his own short lifetime, is the subject of an upcoming retrospective co-organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and Carnegie Museum of Art. Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective, the first major exhibition in the United States to explore the work of the legendary American artist, debuts in the Whitney’s fourth-floor Emily Fisher Landau Galleries, from October 21, 2010 to January 9, 2011; it travels to Carnegie Museum of Art, from February 5 to May 1, 2011, and then to the Hammer Museum, Los ... More | | Hirshhorn Museum in Washington Presents Major Guillermo Kuitca Retrospective
Guillermo Kuitca, “Planta con juego de pelotas,” 2000. Collection Cetie Nippert Ames.
WASHINGTON, DC.- For more than 30 years Guillermo Kuitca (Argentinean, b. Buenos Aires, 1961) has forged a distinctive path as an artist, creating visually compelling works that reflect his intense and often ambivalent relationship to his primary medium: painting. “Guillermo Kuitca: Everything, Paintings and Works on Paper, 1980–2008,” on view Oct. 21–Jan. 16, 2011, presents over 45 canvases and 25 works on paper, spanning the artist’s career. The exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s work in the United States in more than 10 years and is co-organized by the Hirshhorn, Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y. and Miami Art Museum in Miami, Fla. Douglas Dreishpoon, chief curator at Albright-Knox, is the organizing curator, and the presentation at the Hirshhorn is coordinated by Evelyn Hankins, associate curator. With the opening of this retrospective, the museum is launchi ... More | | Scultura III Presented by Tomasso Brothers Fine Art at The Otto Naumann Gallery
Benedetto da Maiano (1442-1497), Madonna and Child with the young St John the Baptist. Polychromed stucco relief, in original frame, 83 x 63 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- A tender depiction of the Madonna and Child with the young St John the Baptist by Benedetto da Maiano (1442-1497) is among the major pieces of European sculpture presented by Tomasso Brothers Fine Art in their third annual New York exhibition, Scultura III, at Otto Naumann, 22 East 80th Street, from Thursday 21 to Sunday 31 October 2010. This beautifully preserved stucco relief not only retains most of its original polychrome decoration but is also in its original frame, and has an asking price of $225,000. Benedetto da Maiano was one of the most accomplished marble sculptors in 15th century Florence , whose work influenced such High Renaissance artists as Andrea Sansovino and Michelangelo. Da Maiano was associated with Antonio Rossellino and continued his tradition of fine marble carving for chapels, tombs, pulpits and portrait-busts. Narrative reliefs were ... More |
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Christie's to Offer a Selection of Items from the Marylebone Cricket Club Collections
Katharine Lloyd, The Young Cricketer – Portrait of Lewis Cage, After an original by Francis Cotes R.A. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced a major event in bibliographical history – the sale of a selection of items from one of the world’s most famous sporting establishments, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). The auction of Sporting Books at South Kensington on 17 November 2010 will offer a unique opportunity to own a prestigious piece of cricketing history presenting a carefully curated selection of 100 lots. Estimates range from £500 to £40,000, and the collection as a whole is expected to realise over £300,000. All lots to be offered at Christie’s are duplicate items from the collections, and proceeds will be used by MCC to sustain and care for the core collections and facilitate further strengthening through acquisitions. Curator of MCC Collections, Adam Chadwick comments, “MCC Collections continue to attract an increasing number of admirers and in 2009 we set a record having welcomed ... More | | Special Installation by Dan Colen at Colette in Paris During the Week of FIAC 2010
Dan Colen, En Grève, 2010. Dimensions variables, 30 vélibs. Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery. Photo : Thierry Depagne.
PARIS.- Gagosian Gallery and Colette present ‘En Grève’ (On Strike), a special installation by Dan Colen at Colette in Paris during the week of FIAC 2010. At Colette, ‘En Grève’ is Colen’s use of the ubiquitous velibs of Paris. Applying pressure to the mass availability and implicit trust embedded in the system of public transportation, Colen has realized an absurd, vaudevillian gesture which functions both as sculpture and event. This site-specific work will occupy the space for seven days, after which, the bicycles will return to their principal function, circulating throughout the city of Paris, carrying the spirit of their time as Dan Colen’s artwork with them. Dan Colen liberates and exasperates the familiar. With an acute, even transcendental sensitivity to that which is hiding in plain sight, Colen excavates unchartered ground in the slippery discussion begun with Marcel Duchamp’s Rea ... More | | Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Sale to Be Led by a Major Mark Rothko Painting
Mark Rothko, Untitled, signed and dated 1955 on the reverse, oil on canvas, 91⅝ x 69 in. 232.7 x 175.34 cm. Est. $20/30 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 9 November 2010 Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale will be led by a major 1955 Untitled painting by Mark Rothko which has been off the market for over 40 years (est. $20/30 million)*. The auction also includes major works by many of the leading artists of the 20th and 21st centuries including Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Gerhard Richter, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg among others. All the works will be on view from 5 November with selected highlights on exhibition from 29 October. The powerful yellow, orange and white canvas of Rothko’s Untitled dates from a period in which the Abstract Expressionists had achieved long-awaited critical acclaim for their dealer exhibitions and were now the subject of solo shows at major museums. Paintings by Rothko and his greatest contemporaries from this time now rank among the most ... More |
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Harvard Art Museums Announce Traveling Exhibitions of Works by Lyonel Feininger
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Harvard Art Museums present two traveling exhibitions devoted to underexplored aspects of the work of Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956), one of the major figures of European modernism. Lyonel Feininger: Drawings and Watercolors from the William S. Lieberman Bequest to the Busch-Reisinger Museum highlights an important recent acquisition of a stunning group of drawings and watercolors from the collection of the legendary curator. Lyonel Feininger: Photographs, 1928–1939, assembled primarily from Harvard University’s Houghton Library, is the first to explore the artist’s little-known photographic work. Drawing on vast but largely untapped resources and new research, the two exhibitions and their accompanying catalogues examine the aesthetic and intellectual dimensions of Feininger’s achievements within each of these distinct media. Many of the works included have never before bee ... More
Chazen Celebrates Major Milestone in Machado and Silvetti Expansion
MADISON, WI.- This fall, the Chazen Museum of Art celebrates a major milestone in its expansion with the completion of the new building's external construction. The program will more than double the gallery space for the presentation of the Museum's collection—as well as a dynamic roster of temporary exhibitions—when it opens in October 2011. Designed by Machado and Silvetti Associates, the $43 million addition, on a site adjacent to the current facility, will enhance and pay homage to the Museum's original Harry Weese–designed building. The two structures, connected via a gallery bridge, will frame a section of a new north-south pedestrian mall running through the heart of the university's east campus, strengthening the Museum's role as a hub for the arts on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus and a leading regional art museum. The expansion of the Museum, which is home to a collection of more than 19,000 works, will ... More
Erie Art Museum to Open New "Green" Facility in October 2010
ERIE, PA.- The Erie Art Museum will open the doors of its newly expanded $10 million facility, becoming the first building in the City of Erie to attain Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification. The building, designed by EDGE Studio of Pittsburgh, led by principal Anne Chen, will open to the public for free on its inaugural weekend October 23 & 24, 2010. Achieving Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification is a particular challenge for art museums given the standards for art preservation. The new Museum facility boasts many environmentally friendly features such as energy-efficient heating, cooling, and lighting systems, a comprehensive waste stream control system, and a storm water management system that will return most of the rain falling on the complex to the water table, instead of the sewer system. The building will get a vegetated green roof in the spring of 2011. The Eri ... More
Mystery Giver Leaves $10,000 in World Trade Center Donation Box
NEW YORK (AP).- An anonymous benefactor in New York City stuffed $10,000 in cash into a 9/11 donation box at the World Trade Center. Joe Daniels, president of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, tells the New York Post that officials found 99 $100 bills and five 20s in the box on Tuesday night. The box hangs on a wall at the 9/11 memorial preview site. Memorial officials believe the money was slipped into the box sometime between 5 p.m. — when the box was last checked — and 7 p.m., when the preview site closed. Officials believe the donation was made by a single person. They say the bills were crisp and unfolded, appearing to have been recently withdrawn from the bank. Daniels said officials would love to know the donor's name so they could say thank you. ... More
Culture Secretary Launches Plus Tate, a Major New Collaborative Arts Initiative
LONDON.- Plus Tate, a major new national initiative for the visual arts involving Tate and 18 of the UK's most dynamic arts institutions, was launched on 21 October at Tate Modern by Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt. Joining together to exchange ideas, knowledge, skills and resources, as well as programmes and collections, the Plus Tate partners, along with and facilitated by Tate, will broaden and deepen engagement in modern and contemporary art across the country. The full list of partners announced is as follows: Arnolfini, Bristol; BALTIC, Gateshead; Cornerhouse, Manchester; firstsite, Colchester; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; Grizedale Arts, Cumbria; The Hepworth Wakefield; Ikon, Birmingham; Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; mima, Middlesbrough; Mostyn, Llandudno; Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, Penzance; Nottingham Contemporary; The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney; Towner, Eastbourne; Turner Contemporary, Margate; Whitworth Art ... More
Stunning New 100-Foot High Sculpture Installed on Nepean Point in Ottawa
OTTAWA, ON.- A monumental new sculpture now graces one of Ottawa’s most picturesque skylines, thanks to a partnership agreement between the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) and the National Capital Commission (NCC). At 30.5 metres high, One Hundred Foot Line by critically-acclaimed contemporary artist Roxy Paine, is his most ambitious sculpture to date in terms of upward scale. It is also the first acquisition by the Gallery of Paine’s work and represents a significant addition to its collection of Contemporary Art. The realization of this installation has been almost two years in the making and confirms the Gallery’s commitment to presenting more contemporary art in public spaces. One Hundred Foot Line is located on Nepean Point, a park owned by the NCC and which is just behind the Gallery. The sculpture was purchased in 2010 following the selection of a location that would offer the greatest number of vantage p ... More
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