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A resin cast of a crouching man covering his mouth with a hooded cloak he was wearing before he was overcome by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is on display during the opening of an exhibition, entitled Pompeii Life in a Roman Town 79CE, in Singapore. The first exhibition of its kind in South East Asia will focus on what life was like in ancient Pompeii before its destruction by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The exhibition runs at the National Museum of Singapore from 16 October 2010 to 23 January 2011. EPA/STEPHEN MORRISON.
SINGAPORE.- The National Museum of Singapore transports visitors back 2000 years in time to experience life and death in the ancient Roman Empire. A new exhibition, Pompeii: Life in a Roman Village 79 CE reveals daily life in a city steeped in legend and mystery. Pompeii and its neighboring cities were buried—and frozen in time—after the fateful eruption of Mt. Vesuvius on August 24, 79 CE. After being forgotten for nearly 1700 years, the city was accidentally rediscovered by well-digging shepherds in 1748. Since then, its excavation has yielded extraordinary artifacts—from the rarest of art objects to the most common trinkets of daily use—and provided a comprehensive portrait of the life of a city at the height of the Roman Empire. Amazingly, archaeologists have also been able to piece together the final moments of the people of Pompeii. By pouring plaster into cavities in the volcanic ash left by th ... More |
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Sotheby's Hits Contemporary, Italian Art Targets with Combined Sales of $48.8 Million
Interno metafisico (Natura morta metafisica) by Giorgio de Chirico. Estimate: £1.6-2.5 million. Sold for 1,833,250 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON (REUTERS).- Contemporary and Italian art sales in London last week largely underlined the sense that stability was gradually returning to a market that saw values soar in 2007 and 2008 before tumbling dramatically in 2009. Sotheby's raised a combined 30.4 million pounds ($48.8 million) from its contemporary and Italian 20th century art sales on Friday, and added a further 9.7 million pounds from its contemporary day auction on Saturday. The overall tally of 40.1 million pounds was toward the top end of pre-sale expectations and roughly double the amount raised from the equivalent sales in 2009. Sotheby's called the results "remarkably strong," capitalizing on the presence of the international art world in London for the annual Frieze Art Fair and accompanying exhibitions, auctions and receptions. Two Lucio ... More | | Baltimore is the Last Stop on National Tour for Acclaimed Andy Warhol Exhibition
Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup (Tomato), 1985. Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16 in. Collection of Debbie and Mark Attanasio.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art presents the first U.S. museum exhibition to explore the late works of the iconic American artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987). On view October 17, 2010 through January 9, 2011, more than 50 works reveal the Pop artist’s energetic return to painting and renewed spirit of experimentation during the last decade of his life. This period shows Warhol in the midst of his celebrity creating more paintings and on a vastly larger scale than at any other moment of his 40-year career. Exhibition highlights include psychologically revealing fright wig self-portraits, three variations on Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper, and collaborations with younger artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat. Several of these works—assembled from national and international public and private collections, as well as the ... More | | Ground-Breaking Exhibition that Explores Picasso's Response to Degas
A man observes the painting 'La nana' (1901) (L) by Spanish artist Pablo Ruiz Picasso and the sculpture 'Young dancer', by French Edgar Degas. EPA/TONI ALBIR.
BARCELONA.- The Museu Picasso in Barcelona presents, from 15 October to 16 January 2011 the major exhibition «Picasso Looks at Degas». The exhibition is curated by Elizabeth Cowling, Professor Emeritus of History of Art at Edinburgh University, and Richard Kendall, the Clark’s Curator at Large and is organized by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown and the Museu Picasso, Barcelona, with the special cooperation of Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Throughout his life Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) was fascinated by the personality and art of Edgar Degas (1834–1917). He collected the Impressionist’s work, often re-interpreted his signature imagery, and at the end of his life created scenes that included depictions of Degas himself. ... More |
 | SLICK: The Fair for Contemporary Art Discoveries Opens Its Fifth Edition this Week in Paris
Wang Ningde, Some Days - 63, 2009 / 123 x 160cm. Courtesy galerie Paris-Beijing.
PARIS.- The latest edition of SLICK – the fair for contemporary art discoveries – welcomes you from October 21 to 24, 2010, on the esplanade between Paris’ Museum of Modern Art and the Palais de Tokyo – a space that has never before been used in this capacity. For this fifth edition, 43 French and International galleries will present the emerging art scene. 40% of these are international, representing 14 countries. And 21% are part of a new sector of the fair, Slick-Orient. Since its inception in 2006 and as complementary to the FIAC, SLICK has become known as a space for discovering the emerging scene. A real springboard, the fair provides a spot for young galleries on the international scene. Several of the galleries formerly presented at SLICK are now exhibiting at the FIAC, such as: Schirman and de Beaucé gallery, Bertrand Grimont gallery, Sémiose gallery, Lucile Corty gallery, ACDC gallery. The ... More | | Coveted Collection of American Muscle and Classic Cars Up for Auction in Georgia
1949 Oldsmobile 88 Convertible Street Rod. Estimate: $100,000-$125,000 US. Darin Schnabel ©2010 Courtesy of RM Auctions.
BLENHEIM, ON.- One of the world’s premier muscle car collections will cross the auction block in Georgia next month as RM Auctions presents The Milton Robson Collection, a single-vendor sale to be held in Gainesville, November 13. The result of over 25 years of careful acquisition by lifelong ‘car guy’ Milton Robson, the Robson Collection features a remarkable series of low-production and ultra-high specification Detroit muscle cars, along with a series of iconic fifties and sixties classics, and a superb selection of Henry Ford’s original flathead V8s. A total of 55 vehicles from the collection, along with a range of memorabilia will be offered ‘without reserve’. “RM is honored to have been entrusted with the presentation of the Milton Robson Collection,” says Ian Kelleher, RM Auctions. “Milt Robson is a passionate car guy ... More | | Old Photos found in an Old Diary Reveal Tale of Japan and Jews of World War II
A diary owned by Japan Tourist Bureau employee Tatsuo Osako is displayed during an interview in Tokyo. AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi.
By: Jay Alabaster, Associated Press Writer
TOKYO (AP).- The young man's monochrome portrait is at least 70 years old, the whites all faded to yellow, but it is still clear he had style. His hair is slicked down, eye arched, suit perfect with matching tie and handkerchief. He also had the good fortune to escape Europe in the early days of World War II. The photo, a gift to the man who helped him escape, is one of seven recently discovered snapshots that cast light on a little known subplot of the war — even as Germany sought to seal Jewish Europeans in, a small army of tourism officials from its main ally, Japan, helped shepherd thousands away to safety. "My best regards to my friend Tatsuo Osako," is scrawled in French on the back of the picture, which is signed "I. Segaloff" and dated March 4, 1941. ... More |
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Previously Unseen Images by Photographer Nadav Kander on View at Flowers
Nadav Kander, Yibin IV, 2007. Copyright Nadav Kander. Courtesy of Flowers.
LONDON.- Nadav Kander made several voyages along the course of China’s Yangtze River, travelling up-stream from mouth to source over a period of three years. Previously unseen photographs from the resulting body of work – ‘Yangtze - The Long River’ - went on display at Flowers from 14 October 2010 to coincide with the publication of a monograph comprising the complete series. Using the river as a metaphor for constant change Kander attempted at every stage of the journey, to relate and reflect the consequences of the incomprehensible and seemingly unnatural development in modern-day China. The journey begins at the coastal estuary, where thousands of ships leave and enter each day, and moves past renowned suicide bridges, coal mines and the largest dam in the world – The Three Gorges Dam. Further inland we encounter Chongqing - the fastest-growing urban centre on the planet. ... More | | Major New Exhibition Dedicated to the Master of Surrealism at The Modern Masters Gallery
Salvador Dalí, Buste de Femme Retrospectif. ©I.A.R Art Resources ltd.
LONDON.- The Modern Masters Gallery presents a major new exhibition dedicated to the master of Surrealism, Salvador Dalí, ‘Vision of a Genius’. This new exhibition running until February 28th, 2011, is to be held at the gallery which is located on Cork Street, in the heart of Mayfair, London’s famous fine art quarter. The exhibition consists of a grouping of Dalí artworks in three-dimensions and a rare, never seen before in the UK, collection of paintings, drawings and watercolours. Amongst the three -dimensional artworks on show are three iconographic sculptures from the 1960s. These are, ‘The Shoe, Surrealist object with a Symbolic Function’, and the striking ‘Buste de Femme Retrospectif’ (originally dating from 1933), including bread, ants, inkwells, and corn, all decorating a milliners bust. The first Buste de Femme was exhibited in Paris alongside artworks by Paul Eluar ... More | | Archaeological Work in Copalita Indicates that Population might have Reached more than 2,000
Ceramics used in domestic activities. Photo: DMC INAH/M. Marat.
MEXICO CITY.- The recent opening to the public of the Bocana del Rio Copalita Archaeological Zone in Huatulco, Oaxaca, represents the beginning of a new age in restoration and research, which will eventually provide new data regarding the hierarchy that dominated this Prehispanic city, that might have lived there. More than a decade of investigations in this place located 10 kilometers away from Huatulco Bay have allowed to determine that its first dwellers were families and small communities that settled in the Oaxaca Coast; it was until 500 BC that the locality became clearly defined, which lasted until 400 or 500 of the Common Era. According to Raul Matadamas Diaz, director of Bocana del Rio Copalita Archaeological Project and researcher at the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), studies conducted indicate that population ... More |
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Ordinary Madness Mines the Carnegie Museum of Art's Rich Holdings of Contemporary Art
Barry Le Va, On Corner - On Edge - On Center Shatter (Within the Series of Layered Pattern Acts), 1968-1971, twenty sheets of glass. Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery Fund.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art presents Ordinary Madness, an exhibition that mines the museum’s rich holdings of contemporary art to suggest an unsettling observation: that the ordinary is in fact laced with the contradictory, uncanny, and surreal. On view are a wide array of works that engage the everyday from various vantage points, illuminating the bewildering experiences we subconsciously accept as part of our daily lives. At the heart of the exhibition are the strengths, quirks, and unique history that comprise the museum’s collection of contemporary art. “Ordinary Madness came together from my desire to present a series of comparisons across media and art historical categories that would articulate how artists engage with everyday experience, and the way art can be used as a powerful tool ... More | | Pinta, Latin American Modern and Contemporary Art Show Announced at Pier # 92
Teresa Aninat & Catalina Swinburn, "In God We Trust", 2009. Performative Photo, 90 X 135 cm. Courtesy of Galeria Isabel Aninat, Santiago.
NEW YORK, NY.- The PINTA, the unique Latin American Modern and Contemporary Art Fair in New York, opens on November 12th at its new premises on Pier 92 at the Hudson River. After three successful editions in New York and a first in London last June, PINTA consolidates its position as a leading art fair in two world capitals, establishing new strategies in the Latin American art market and its diffusion, and becoming an essential part of the art world calendar. This year, three sections will be presented at PINTA NY: the Galleries space, the Solo Exhibitions space, and the Art Projects Space, with selections by curator Pablo Leon de la Barra. 50 select art galleries from the United States, Europe, and Latin America will present museum-quality works representative of abstract, concrete, neo-concrete, kinetic and conceptual art, as well as of other contemporary art movements ... More | | Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Presents Retrospective "Urban China: Informal Cities"
Courtesy Urban China / underline office / Jiang Jun.
CHICAGO, IL.- This fall, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, presents Urban China: Informal Cities, an exhibition that draws parallels between how cities across the globe, from Chinese cities to Chicago, grow and transform. This retrospective of the only magazine devoted to issues of urbanism published in China, marks Urban China’s first U.S. commission. With its unique multidisciplinary inquiry into the rapid state of change in China -- employing diagrams, photographs, texts, and archive of artifacts and images -- Urban China has become a databank recording the fastest urbanization in history. Utilizing a network of correspondents and collaborators around the world, Urban China has become a research network, think tank, documentary archive, and tool for artistic production and urban activism. For the interactive Chicago presentation, the magazine's visionary language of display explodes out from the pages o ... More |
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21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, KY Voted #1 Hotel in U.S. Again
LOUISVILLE, KY.- For the second consecutive year, 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky has been selected as the #1 hotel in the United States and #6 in the world in the prestigious Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards. The awards appear in the November issue and are the results of the Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice survey. This year nearly 26,000 individuals participated in the voting, evaluating more than 10,000 properties and destinations worldwide. 21c is the only U.S. hotel to be ranked as one of the world’s top ten hotels in the 2010 poll, beating out luxury brands such as Mandarin Oriental and Ritz Carlton. The rankings are based on the quality of rooms, service, food and dining, location and overall design. “We are humbled that travelers from around the world have given us this honor for the second year in a row,” said Steve Wilson, Founder and CEO. “This award tells me tha ... More
Stuart Shave/Modern Art Presents the First Solo Exhibition of Nasreen Mohamedi's Work in London
LONDON.- Stuart Shave/Modern Art presents an exhibition of works by Nasreen Mohamedi. This is the first solo exhibition of Mohamedi’s work in London. Nasreen Mohamedi was born in Karachi (then India) in 1937 and raised in Bombay (now Mumbai), passing away in 1990. Mohamedi travelled to London and attended St. Martin’s School of Art from 1954 – 1957, returning to India in 1958. In the decades that followed Indian independence, Mohamedi came to establish her voice as a key component in the development of Indian modernism, for which she is regarded as one of the leading artistic voices of her generation. Mohamedi’s creative output was not prolific. Her body of work is modest, spare, and restrained – yet characterised by a total and coherent commitment to the languages of abstraction. Until recently little-known outside her home country, Mohamedi’s unique and singular body of work is now belatedly e ... More
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is Showcasing a Selection of Works from the H+F
ROTTERDAM.- H+F Fashion on the Edge Foundation, an initiative by collector Han Nefkens, collects unusual fashion items and takes part in projects that explore the boundaries of fashion. In 2010 H+F Fashion on the Edge Foundation entered into a five-year agreement with Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen to monitor future developments at the interface of fashion and art, with a focus on non-western designers. As part of the agreement, purchases are being made and various events are being staged: a biennial H+F Fashion Award and an annual presentation. All the purchases will be housed in the museum as long-term loans. This autumn H+F Fashion on the Edge Foundation is putting together a modest presentation of four recent purchases from fashion designers Hussein Chalayan, Klavers van ... More
Largest Commissioned Sol LeWitt Scribble Drawing is Completed
BUFFALO, NY.- An ambitious installation of the largest commissioned scribble drawing by American artist Sol LeWitt, a pioneer in the development of Minimalism and Conceptual art in the 1960s and 1970s, has been completed at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The stairwell that connects the Gallery’s 1962 Knox Building and 1905 Albright Building, has been dramatically transformed by the work. The drawing, named Wall Drawing #1268: Scribbles: Staircase (AKAG), conceived2006, executed 2010, will remain on view indefinitely. The installation has taken sixteen artists, working seven hours per day, a total of fifty-two days to complete, and its scribble marks of varying density cover more than 2,200 square feet of space. Gallery Director Louis Grachos began discussing the monumental commission with the artist in 2006. Just before the artist’s death in 2007, LeWitt envisioned the work specifically for the Albright-Knox ... More
Moore College of Art & Design Presented 2010 Visionary Woman Awards to Wendy Ewald, Judith Leiber and Ann Tem
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Moore College of Art & Design presented its 2010 Visionary Woman Awards to photographer and educator Wendy Ewald, couture handbag designer Judith Leiber and art historian and curator Ann Temkin. Ewald, Leiber and Temkin accepted the Visionary Woman Award at a gala on Thursday, September 30 at the College. The gala, attended by 280 guests raised $313,000, with proceeds going to support the Visionary Woman Scholarships. Since 2003, the Award has become a signature event at Moore each fall. In 2005, the College designated proceeds from the Visionary Woman Awards benefit Visionary Woman Scholarships. Since then, 24 four-year scholarships have been awarded. Ewald's Literacy Through Photography program engages students, artists and teachers throughout the world. Leiber is a renowned couture handbag designer. Curator Temkin is the first woman to hold the Marie-Josee and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Scul ... More
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