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A Christie's exhibitor stands close to an artwork entitled 'The Whirling Dervishes' depicting six Mawlawi dervishes performing a Sema dance around the circular stage of an Ottoman-era Semahane (ritual hall), by Egyptian artist Mahmoud Said during a Christie's auction house exhibition at the Jumeirah Emirates Towers in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 24 October 2010. Christies will auction International Modern and Contemporary Art at the Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel on October 26, while the watches and jewels go under the hammer the next day. EPA/ALI HAIDER.
DUBAI.- Christie’s October 26th, 2010 Dubai sale of Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art is blessed with a further selection of works from the renowned Farsi Collection, one of the most comprehensive groups of modern Egyptian art in private hands and a diverse range of 20 works from modern and contemporary Turkish artists. Michael Jeha, Managing Director of Christie’s Dubai, said: “We are delighted to have been entrusted with the great private collection of Egyptian art which has in turn attracted a wealth of individual collectors, from 15 different countries, to consign other significant works to this, our ninth sale series in the Middle East. I believe this is one of Christie’s richest sale yet in terms of its diversity and rarity.” Dr. Farsi’s private collection is recognized as the most comprehensive group of modern Egyptian art in private hands. The group of 30 works to be offered at ... More |
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Public Takes a Shine to Naked New York Statue by Colombian Artist Fernando Botero
File photo Colombian artist Fernando Botero. EPA/SZILARD KOSZTICSAK.
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Colombian artist Fernando Botero is happy with the intimate attention New Yorkers and tourists pay to his giant bronze statue of a naked Adam at an upscale shopping mall. The statue along with a nearby Eve -- both in the unmistakable Botero style of being disproportionately round -- stand in the lobby of the Time Warner Center, twin towers at Columbus Circle on the southwest corner of Central Park. Passers-by regularly handle the penis of the 12-foot- (3.7-meter-) tall bronze statue. The organ, situated about face level to an average adult, has turned a shiny gold. "Art is communication. The artist communicates with people through art. That people react to the sculpture and want to interact with it is very good," Botero said in a statement on Friday issued through his representative, the Marlborough Gallery. "That means that the sensuality of the sculpture has been communicated. The gesture of the people reinforces the gesture of the artist ... More | | IVAM Commemorates the Centenary of the Birth of Architect Felix Candela with an Exhibition of His Work
Capilla de Palmira. Photo: Armando Salas Portugal. Capilla de Palmira, Cuernavaca, 1959. Coleccion Freijo Fine Arts.
VALENCIA.- The exhibition that the IVAM and the Sociedad Estatal Conmemoraciones Culturales (SECC) dedicate to Félix Candela's work exemplifies the assimilation process involved in the dramatic experience of exile and his integration in the complex processes of modernisation and urban development in Latin American countries. His professional experience and his work in both public and private spaces show concordance and a series of achievements that mark one of the privileged moments of the imaginary associated with exile in Latin American architecture. The exhibition organised by the IVAM and the SECC to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Félix Candela's birth presents a series of photographs taken by famous photographers; plans and drawings; models of his most emblematic buildings; personal objects and a multimedia section that includes two documentaries Una ... More | | Blondes and Brunettes in Film Examined in Exhibition at Cinémathèque Française
David Lynch poses in front of the Andy Warhol print of actress Lana Turner. AP Photo/Fred Dufour.
PARIS.- Punctuated by many screening of film excerpts, Brune/Blonde focuses on film and its mythical actresses: blondes and brunettes, not to mention redheads, short and long hair, veiled or sensual. It looks at the film industry and its filmmakers seeking a form in which the body reveals itself. And it looks at films and the representation of hair, inextricably linked to desire and the intoxication of love. Emblematic of this is Kim Novak’s spiral bun in Hitchcock’s Vertigo, revisited 30 years later by David Lynch in Lost Highway. With its main elements as aesthetic as they are thematic, the exhibition is divided into five parts entitled: Myths, The History and Geography of Hair, The Gestures of Hair; Hair at the Heart of Fiction (rivals, metamorphosis, dressing up, relics), Towards Abstraction (hair as a material). At every stage of its journey the exhibition looks at classic and fringe films, films from the West and films from the East, films of the past (Buñuel, Ha ... More |
 | Site-Specific Public Art Installation By Pioneering New Media Artist Jim Campbell
Jim Campbell’s Scattered Light (2010) at Madison Square Park. Credit: Courtesy Madison Square Park Conservancy/Copyright James Ewing.
NEW YORK, NY.- Madison Square Park Conservancy presents Scattered Light, a new site-specific public art installation by pioneering new media artist Jim Campbell. Marking the artist’s most ambitious public art project to date, Scattered Light features three installations of orchestrated light incorporating elements of computer programming and high-technology for a public art installation which literally lights up Madison Square Park this fall and winter. Jim Campbell’s Scattered Light will remain on view through February 28, 2011, as part of the Conservancy’s Mad. Sq. Art program. Featuring three new major public art commissions, Jim Campbell’s Scattered Light blankets Madison Square Park’s Oval Lawn with a 3-D matrix of nearly 2,000 LED lights featuring moving images. For the largest of the three commissions, which shares the name Scattered Light ... More | | Mary McCartney, Paul and Linda McCartney's Daughter, at Michael Hoppen Gallery
© Mary McCartney.
LONDON.- From Where I Stand reveals the very best work selected from Mary McCartney’s complete archive from the 1990s to date. This first solo exhibition of work at the gallery coincides with the book launch of From Where I Stand produced by Thames & Hudson. From portraits to photographs of the raw energy backstage and onstage at fashion shows, rock concerts, the theatre and ballet, as well as vignettes of the surreal and the curious, the exhibition always returns to the calm, private spaces of home and of family. Mary McCartney – Paul and Linda McCartney’s daughter – started her career as a professional photographer in 1994. Her solo exhibitions, which have been shown internationally, include Off Pointe, Playing Dress Up and British Style Observed. Mary McCartney was born in London in 1969 and started her career as a professional photographer in 1994. She has been commissioned for numerous pub ... More | | NYPL Celebrates the Career of Visionary Choreographer Alwin Nikolais in Brand New Exhibition
Crystal and the Sphere, a black light piece choreographed by Alwin Nikolais for children's audiences, as performed by the Ririe Woodbury Company. Photo: Fred Hayes, 1990. Courtesy of the Nikolais-Louis Foundation.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts celebrates the centennial of legendary choreographer Alwin Nikolais in the multimedia exhibition Alwin Nikolais’ Total Theater of Motion. Curated by dance history scholar Claudia Gitelman, this exhibition brings to light the career of one of the most versatile, innovative and influential artists of the twentieth century. Alwin Nikolais’ Total Theater of Motion will be on display from October 21, 2010 to January 15, 2011 in the Vincent Astor Gallery at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza. Admission is free. “Alwin Nikolais is an iconic figure in the world of dance,” said Jacqueline Z. Davis, Barbara G. and Lawrence A. Fleischman Executive Director for the Performing ... More |
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Old Master Drawings: Guercino, Rubens, Tintoretto at the Lady Lever Gallery
Guido Reni, Head and Shoulders of a Youth (about 1614). Black and white chalk on blue-grey paper. © National Museums Liverpool.
LIVERPOOL.- A new exhibition explores why artists have drawn over the centuries – from copying other works to making life studies – and the role of sketching in the creation of artworks. Old Master Drawings: Guercino, Rubens, Tintoretto 22 October 2010 to 2 May 2011 features 29 drawings from the Old Master collections of the Lady Lever and Walker Art Galleries. Works by some of the great Italian Renaissance and Northern European artists between 1500 and 1800 are used to examine the reasons for producing drawings. Some artists use drawing to loosen their wrists before starting painting or sculpting – rather like limbering up before taking part in sport. Others see drawings as a key part of the creative process, where ideas are expressed then retained or discarded. Others are simply doodling or amusing themselves and others. Artists use drawing as a teaching medium and several examples are in this exhi ... More | | Rare Folios from the Book of Kings Showcase Iran's Literary Masterpiece at the Sackler Gallery
Battle Between Zangaand Awkhast.From a Shahnama(Book of Kings) by Firdawsi (d.1020) Gilan, Iran. Turkomanperiod, 1493-1494. Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper. Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Intricately detailed and sumptuously painted images of kings, heroes and mythological creatures from the Shahnama, Iran’s national epic and one of the world’s greatest literary masterpieces, is on view in “Shahnama: 1000 Years of the Persian Book of Kings” at the Sackler Gallery Oct. 23 – April 17, 2011. Completed in ca. 1010 by the poet Firdawsi, the Shahnama recounts the myths, legends and “history” of Iran from the beginning of time to the Arab conquest in the 7th century. The exhibition comprises 33 paintings and objects from the 14th to 16th centuries, including folios from two of the most celebrated copies of the Shahnama in existence. “This exhibition celebrates the remarkable achievement of Firdawsi and the manuscript painting ... More | | Infinity of Nations: Art and History in the Collections of the National Museum of the American Indian
An Inuit tuilli, or woman’s inner parka. AP Photo/Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
NEW YORK, NY.- This spectacular, permanent exhibition of some 700 works of Native art from throughout North, Central, and South America will demonstrate the breadth of the museum's renowned collection and highlight the historic importance of many of these iconic objects. Chosen to illustrate the geographic and chronological scope of the museum's collection, Infinity of Nations will open with a display of headdresses. Signifying the sovereignty of Native nations, these works will include a magnificent Kayapó krok-krok-ti, a macaw-and-heron-feather ceremonial headdress. Focal-point objects, representing each region, will include an Apsáalooke (Crow) robe illustrated with warriors' exploits; a detailed Mayan limestone bas relief depicting a ball player; an elaborately beaded Inuit tuilli, or woman's inner parka, made for the mother of a newborn baby; a Mapuche kultrung, or hand drum, depicting the cosmos ... More |
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Recent Work by Alan Magee at Forum Gallery's First Exhibition in Its New Location
Alan Magee, Herr Friedrich, 2010, acrylic on panel, 14 x 11 inches. © Alan Magee, courtesy of Forum Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Recent work by Alan Magee, known as one of the most accomplished and imaginative figurative painters working today, is on view at Forum Gallery from October 22 to November 20, 2010. Alan Magee: In Sight will mark Forum Gallery’s first exhibition in its new location in the historic Crown Building, 730 Fifth Avenue at 57th Street, New York City, where The Museum of Modern Art opened its first gallery in 1929. In the artist’s tenth anniversary year at Forum Gallery, Alan Magee: In Sight includes eighteen paintings as well as eight sculptures. Among the highlights of the exhibition are astonishing trompe l’oeil paintings which honor three of the artist’s heroes: Herr Friedrich, 2010, depicts Ernst Friedrich (1894-1967) who founded the Anti-Kriegsmuseum (Anti-War Museum) in Berlin in 1924 and wrote War Against War, a book published in five languages that documents, with explicit photogr ... More | | Drawing Installation, "Nature of the Pencil", by Marco Breuer at Von Lintel Gallery
Marco Breuer, Untitled (C-1031), 2010, chromogenic paper, scraped, 11 15/16 x 8 7/8 inches, unique verso. Photo: Courtesy Von Lintel Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Von Lintel Gallery presents Nature of the Pencil, a drawing installation by Marco Breuer, his fifth solo exhibition at Von Lintel Gallery. Throughout his nearly twenty-year career, Breuer has approached his work as a systematic investigation of the conditions of the photographic medium and its relationship to related media. For Nature of the Pencil—a play on William Henry Fox Talbot's seminal book The Pencil of Nature—Breuer examines and explores the intersection of photography and drawing. A number of recent photogenic drawings by Breuer provide the starting point for this chalkboard installation. These photographic prints are interspersed with wall drawings, reworked images, and notes on photography and drawing, on mark-making in general, on perception, decay, and destruction. In Breuer's work, line is the result of a physical interaction between materials and forces. Line and ... More | | Sundaram Tagore's Film "The Poetics of Color: Natvar Bhavsar" to Have World Premiere at Film Festival
In his first film, Tagore uncovers a forgotten history. Chronicling the life of an Indian artist, Tagore reveals a little-known facet of American art history.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Poetics of Color: Natvar Bhavsar, a documentary by gallerist and art historian Sundaram Tagore, will premiere at the prestigious Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council film festival, the same festival that launched Mira Nair's The Namesake, Deepa Mehta's Water, and Slumdog Millionaire, Thursday, November 11, 2010, at 9pm at the SVA Theater, 333 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011. The Poetics of Color: Natvar Bhavsar is the first and only documentary to trace the roots of Asian artists’ contributions to contemporary American art. Written and directed by Sundaram Tagore, this 60-minute film explores the life of noted Indian painter Natvar Bhavsar. Rich in visual imagery, the film opens in the vibrant village of Gothava, India, and follows Bhavsar as he journeys to New York City in the 1960s. Through the lens of one artist’s life, this documentary offers new insight into the South Asian diaspora. In his first film, Tagore ... More |
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André Kertész: On Reading at the Carnegie Museum of Art's Works on Paper Gallery
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Henri Cartier-Bresson once said of himself, Robert Capa, and Brassaï, “Whatever we have done, Kertész did first.” He was referring to André Kertész, one of the giants of 20th-century photography, whose work is featured in an exhibition at Carnegie Museum of Art this fall. André Kertész: On Reading includes photographs from the 1920s to 1970s that examine the power of reading as a universal pleasure and illustrate Kertész’s ability to capture the poetry and choreography of life in public and private moments. Balanced between geometric composition and playful observation, these glimpses of everyday people and places show how Kertész forever changed the course of photographic art. This is the first exhibition of Kertész’s photographs to be shown in Pittsburgh. “In the digital age that surrounds us, where people read from computer screens, cell phones, and electronic books of one sort or anot ... More
Collectors, Dealers & Art World Professionals Invited to Attend Art Law Day 2010 at NYU
NEW YORK, NY.- Judith Bresler, Withers Bergman, LLP, and her colleagues announce Art Law Day 2010, organized for attorneys, appraisers, dealers, collectors and everyone with an interest in the legal aspects of collections management. Topics to be covered include: “Expert Opinions and Liabilities”; “If Mediation's So Great, Why Isn't It Used More?”; “The Complexities of Art Insurance Claims”; “IRS Updates” and “An Interpretation of USPAP Guidelines.” The conference is $200 and open to the public with advance reservations. Speakers include Judith Bresler, Withers Bergman LLP; Richard A. Altman, Law Offices of Richard A. Altman; James S. Martin, Orion Analytical, LLC; John P. Barrie, Bryan Cave, LLP; Thomas R. Kline, Andrews Kurth, LLP; Judith Prowda, Sotheby's Institute of Art; Christopher Marinello, Art Loss Register; Elayne E. Greenberg, St. John's University School of Law; Steve Pincus, DeWitt Stern Group; Dorit Straus, Chubb ... More
Chinoiserie-Themed Show to Fill Fort Mason Center's Festival Pavilion
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The 29th San Francisco Fall Antiques Show Benefiting Enterprise for High School Students will be held October 28–31, 2010, at the Festival Pavilion of Fort Mason Center. Over 60 carefully-vetted new and returning dealers will present a superb array of thousands of best-in-class decorative and fine art objects. Evoking this year’s theme, Chinoiserie: Rococo to Eco, guests will be greeted by a dramatic, two-story, gilded pagoda entrance created by acclaimed architect Andrew Skurman. The San Francisco Fall Antiques Show is the oldest and most prestigious international antiques fair on the West Coast. Each year, the Show features an extraordinary range of fine and decorative arts, representing all styles and periods including American, English, Continental, and Asian furniture, silver, ceramics, glass, jewelry, rugs, textiles, paintings, prints, and photographs. Returning exhibitors include Kevin Conr ... More
Art Cops Seize Contemporary Wing at New Orleans Museum of Art for Fall Exhibition
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) presents the first solo exhibition of Generic Art Solutions (G.A.S.) entitled Déjà Vu All Over Again: Generic Art Solutions, on view in the second floor Frederick R. Weisman Galleries through February 13, 2011. G.A.S. is a New Orleans-based collaboration of Tony Campbell and Matt Vis. The duo have been blending history and humor with critique for the past 10 years. London-born Campbell and Virginia-born Vis have exhibited in New York, London and New Orleans. They have toured nationally and internationally as the "Art Cops" or "International Art Police," distributing citations as a form of artistic critique. There will be an inspection of NOMA by the International Art Police on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 6 p.m. Déjà vu All Over Again: Generic Art Solutions refers to the frustration in Louisiana that disasters seem to repeat themselves. The exhibition features many mediums incl ... More
In Process: Most Ambitious Art Installation Ever Attempted at Monterey Museum of Art
MONTEREY, CA.- "This is the most complex installation we've ever attempted at the Museum," says Monterey Museum of Art Chief Curator Marcelle Polednik of the execution of artist Ingrid Calame's site-specific wall drawing at the Monterey Museum of Art-La Mirada. The MMA's new exhibition season opens Saturday, October 30, 2010 and it's all-hands-on-deck to complete the work. A preview party with Ingrid Calame will be held Friday, October 29th, 6-8 pm. Ingrid Calame a premier contemporary artist created the large-scale, site-specific drawing that will exist for the duration of the exhibition, after which it will be painted over. She completed the drawing on sheets of paper pricked with tiny holes (cartoons). The paper was then attached to the gallery walls and "pounced" (beaten on the paper by hand) with dry pigment. The holes in the paper permit the pigment to seep through, thereby transferring the drawing from the paper ont ... More
German Architects Get Creative with Portable Storage, Transform a Subway Stop into a Mini Opera House
KANSAS CITY, MO.- If you've ever taken a subway ride, you're familiar with what goes on at the underground stops. It's no different in Germany—unless you get off in the Ruhr District between Mülheim and Essen. That's where German architecture firm raumlaborberlin got creative with portable storage units. "When we heard about the opera lodge these German architects created we were fascinated—but at the same time not surprised. We're continuing to see new and different uses for portable storage units," said John Finnessy, CMP, Executive Director of the National Portable Storage Association (NPSA), a nonprofit membership association dedicated to the advancement of the portable storage industry. "By transforming shipping containers into an open air outdoor theater, though, these architects have taken creativity to new heights." The Eichbaum Opera uses the architecturally modified containerized shipping as a working space for its artists. Passersby can sit and watch the pe ... More
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