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A visitor observes the painting 'The girl at the Seine'(1856/57)of French painter Gustave Courbet at the Schirn museum in Frankfurt Main, Germany. The artwork is a part of the exhibition 'A Dream of Modern Art - Courbet', which is under the patronage of German President Christian Wulff and French President Nicolas Sarkozy and at the Schirn from 15 october 2010 until 30 January 2011. EPA/FRANKRUMPENHORST.
FRANKFURT.- The French painter Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) ranks among the most fascinating nineteenth-century artists. He is regarded as the crucial pioneer of political realistic painting and as a revolutionary of the Paris Commune. But Courbet also had an entirely different side: he was one of the great dreamers in history. In his portraits, but also in his landscapes, drawings, and still-lifes, he depicts a world of absorption and introversion – in stark contrast to the frenzied industrialization of his age. One hundred works from eleven countries – among them loans from Stockholm, Paris, Montpellier, Los Angeles, New York, and Oslo – will present this “other” Courbet for the first time in the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt from October 15, 2010 to January 30, 2011. Curated by Professor Klaus Herding, the exhibition reveals how Courbet, from a starting point in German Romanticism, realized the visi ... More |
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Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in New York Expected to Exceed $200 Million
Joan Miro (1893-1983), L'Air, signed 'Miró' (center left), oil on canvas, 21 5/8 x 18 1/8 in. (54.9 x 46 cm.). Painted in 1938. Estimate $12,000,000 - 18,000,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Christie's announced further details of its upcoming Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on November 3. Led by significant works by Henri Matisse, Juan Gris, Joan Miró, Alberto Giacometti, Gustave Caillebotte, Georges Seurat, and Pablo Picasso, the complete sale of 85 lots is expected to achieve in excess of $200 million. Among the highlights of the sale is Property from a Distinguished Private Collection: Four Modern Masterpieces, a superb group of works led by Violon et guitare, a 1913 Cubist composition by Juan Gris (1887-1927). Widely recognized as one of the most significant Cubist still lifes to come to auction and a personal favorite of the artist himself, the painting bears a record estimate of $18-25 million. The previous record was set in November 2008 at Christie's New York with the sale of Gris’ Livre, pipe et verres of 1915 for $20.8 million. Gris painted Violon et guitare in the ... More | | Part One of Jerry Hall's Art Collection Sells For Exceptional Sum of £2.3 Million
Andy Warhol’s Dollar Sign sold tonight for £217,250 above its high estimate of £120,000-150,000. Photo: Sotheby´s.
LONDON.- The first part of the group of artworks from the collection of the world-famous American supermodel and actress, Jerry Hall, went under the hammer in Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Contemporary Art in London tonight, bringing a total of £2,336,650 - well-above expectations for the entire collection of £1.5 million. The second part of the group (the remaining eight art works) will be auctioned at Sotheby’s tomorrow. Among the six works presented for sale this evening, highlights were: • Andy Warhol’s Dollar Sign, which the artist gifted to Jerry Hall in recognition of her help with the production of his television show, Warhol TV. This sold tonight for £217,250 above its high estimate of £120,000-150,000 • Lucian Freud’s oil on canvas Eight Months Gone – an intimate portrayal of Jerry reclining eight months pregnant with her fourth child Gabriel which Freud painted after meeting Jerry Hal ... More | | U.S. Court of Appeals Confirms Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is Rightful Owner of Kokoschka Painting
Oskar Kokoschka (Austrian, 1886–1980), Two Nudes (Lovers), 1913 (detail). Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Bequest of Sarah Reed Platt. Photo: © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MA.- Yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued its decision in the case determining ownership of Oskar Kokoschka’s painting Two Nudes (Lovers) (painted about 1913). The decision affirmed United States District Judge Rya Zobel’s May 28, 2009, ruling that the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) is the rightful owner of the painting, and any claim to Two Nudes (Lovers) is time-barred. While the case was resolved on statute of limitations grounds, it is important to note that the Court of Appeals’ opinion by Judge Kermit Lipez (joined by Judges Juan R. Torruella and Paul J. Barbadoro) agreed with Judge Zobel’s conclusion that the family of the original owner of the painting, Dr. Oskar Reichel of Vienna long knew that Dr, Reichel had sold the painting in 1939 to the Jewish art dealer Otto Kallir. Kallir then brought the painting ... More |
 | Musée Rodin Presents First Henry Moore Retrospective in Paris in 30 Years
The elephant skull is part of an exhibition, entitled Henry Moore, l'atelier. Sculptures et designs'. EPA/ERROL JACKSON / HENRY MOORE FOUNDATION.
PARIS.- This exhibition of the work of English sculptor Henry Moore (1898 – 1986), is the first Moore retrospective in Paris for more than 30 years. In order to recreate the unique atmosphere of Moore’s studios at Perry Green, England (now home to The Henry Moore Foundation), this autumn the Musée Rodin displays more than 150 sculptures, two outdoor monumental works, around 50 drawings and three sketchbooks, as well as bone fragments, shells, pieces of wood and found objects of all kinds that the artist collected both during his own walks in the countryside, and as gifts from colleagues and friends. The exhibition follows Moore’s career from 1930 until the beginning of the 1980s. It includes an exploration of dialogues between sculptor and found object. His early ... More | | Lust and Vice: The 7 Deadly Sins from Dürer to Nauman Opens at Kunstmuseum Bern
Carl Rabus, Die Gefrässigen (Völlerei), 1938. Öl auf Leinwand, 128 x 98 cm. Schlossmuseum, Murnau.
BERN.- Together the Kunstmuseum Bern and the Zentrum Paul Klee are presenting a collaboratively organized exhibition on the seven deadly sins. The show comprises artworks from 11 centuries – from the 11th century until today. Through the captivating juxtaposition of old with contemporary art, the exhibition traces how the meaning of the seven cardinal sins shifted over centuries, bringing its audience to ponder on the relevance notions of sin still have for us today. Due to the fact that both museums closely cooperated to realize this show, we are not only able to present works from our own holdings but, additionally, highly eminent loans. The exhibition is divided into eight sections distributed over both museum buildings. Following an introductory section showing series of the deadly vices, the sections devoted to superbia (pride/vanity), invidia (envy), ira (wrath), and ... More | | Lost Manuscripts from the Sistine Chapel to be on View in the United States for First Time
The codices were looted from the Vatican by Napoleon’s armies and then rescued by the dynamic Archbishop of Toledo, Cardinal Francesco Antonio José de Lorenzana y Buitrón.
DALLAS, TX.- On January 23, 2011, the only remaining set of codices from the Sacristy of the Sistine Chapel will be on display at the Meadows Museum as part of the exhibition The Lost Manuscripts from the Sistine Chapel: An Epic Journey from Rome to Toledo. Featuring 40 codices that range in date from the 11th to the 18th century, the collection represents some of the finest illuminations ever discovered, and follows the trajectory of an exciting and significant time at the Vatican and Sistine Chapel. The codices were looted from the Vatican by Napoleon’s armies and then rescued by the dynamic Archbishop of Toledo, Cardinal Francesco Antonio José de Lorenzana y Buitrón, who gave them to the Biblioteca Capitular de Toledo for safekeeping. For 200 years the codices all ... More |
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Sotheby's October Evening Sales of 20th Century Italian Art and Contemporary Art Total $48.8 Million
Sotheby’s sale of 20th Century Italian Art this evening achieved the highest-ever total for a sale in this category. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- This evening, Sotheby’s Sales of 20th Century Italian Art and Contemporary Art, brought a combined total of £30.4 million/$48.8 million (Est. £22.3-30.5 million*) - substantially more than in the equivalent sales last year (£20 million). Commenting on the 20th Century Italian Art Sale results, Claudia Dwek, Co Chairman Sotheby’s Italy, said: “We are delighted with the results of this evening’s sale. The auction achieved the above-estimate sum of £17 million representing the highest ever total for a sale in this field staged by Sotheby’s. While the majority of lots were acquired by Italian collectors, the sale saw activity from clients across the globe, including from the Far East. These strong results and healthy sell-through rates testify to Sotheby’s leadership in this field.” Discussing today’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale, Alex Branczik, Director, Contemporary Art, Sotheby ... More | | Tate Modern's "Sunflower Seed" Exhibit by Ai Weiwei Closed to Visitors as Health Risk
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei poses with his art installation 'Sunflower Seeds' in London. AP Photo/Lennart Preiss.
LONDON (AP).- An art exhibition involving 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds has been closed to visitors because it is generating dust that is a potential health hazard, the Tate Modern gallery said Friday. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei filled a giant hall at the London gallery with a 1,000 sq. meter (10,000 sq. foot) carpet of the imitation seeds, hand-crafted by thousands of artisans in China over a two-year period. Visitors were invited to walk across the surface when the show opened earlier this week. But the gallery said Friday that the "enthusiastic interaction of visitors" was releasing a "greater than expected level" of ceramic dust. It wasn't clear whether the seeds were breaking or simply being worn down. "Tate has been advised that this dust could be damaging to health following repeated inhalation over a long period of time," the gallery said in a statement. "In consequence, Tate, in consultation with the artist, has ... More | | Major Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum Redefines the Role of Female Pop Artists
Martha Rosler, Vacuuming Pop Art, 1967-72 (detail). Photomontage, 20 x 24 inches. Courtesy of the Artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York.
BROOKLYN, NY.- The first major exhibition to explore in depth the contributions of female Pop artists, Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968, seeks to expand the definition of classic Pop art and re-evaluate the role of the women who worked alongside the movement’s more famous male practitioners. It features more than fifty works by Pop art’s most significant female artists and includes many pieces that have not been shown in nearly forty years. The exhibition will be on view in the Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art and in the adjacent fourth-floor Schapiro Wing galleries. Although radical social changes were taking place in America in the 1960s, the female Pop artists of the time remained largely unacknowledged by the contemporary art critics and academics. Relegated ... More |
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Works in 2, 2½ & 3 Dimensions by Acclaimed British Artist Tom Phillips at Flowers
Tom Phillips, Alas 1998. Plaster, 6 x 5¼ x 8 in. Photo: Courtesy Flowers.
NEW YORK, NY.- Flowers presents a survey exhibition by acclaimed British artist Tom Phillips titled Tom Phillips Works in 2, 2½ & 3 Dimensions. The show will run from October 8th through October 30th. The exhibition showcases the artist’s fascination with the definitions of and relationships between objects, text and images. Phillips uses mixed media such as mud, hair, wire, collage and orange peel to create works which reference various literary and philosophical geniuses. In Beckett Again 2010, an oil on palette work, Phillips splits the final quote from the famous Samuel Beckett novel, The Unnamable: “I can’t go on, I’ll go on.” Each half is placed on opposite sides of the palette allowing the viewer to choose a phrase to ponder upon entering and leaving the gallery. Ludwig Wittgenstein’s provocative assertion, “The limits of my language are the limits of my world,” is spelle ... More | | Louvre Offers an Overview of Russian Contemporary Art Featuring Works by Twenty Artists
Avdei Ter-Oganyan, Radical Abstractionism, n°7, 2005. Impression sur toile, 150 X 100 cm chaque. Collection PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm.
PARIS.- Following the major exhibition “Holy Russia: Russian Art from the Beginnings to Peter the Great” in spring 2010, the Louvre hosts a second event in honor of the Year of Russia in France. Turning its focus to present-day Russia, the museum offers an overview of Russian contemporary art, still little known in France. This exhibition in the Louvre’s annual “Counterpoint” series features works by some twenty artists and artist collectives: AES + F Group, Yuri Albert, Blue Noses, Erik Boulatov, Alexander Brodsky, Olga Chernysheva, Dubossarsky and Vinogradov, Dmitri Gutov, Emilia and Ilya Kabakov, Alexei Kallima, Komar and Melamid, Valery Koshlyakov, Yuri Leiderman, Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina, Diana Machulina, Andrei Monastyrsky, Pavel Pepperstein, Avdei Ter-Oganian ... More | | Tate Acquires New Works by Emerging and Leading International Artists at Frieze Art Fair
Jimmie Durham, (born 1940, American), Dans plusieurs de ces forets...Cardboard, wood, bone, Mexican Coca Cola bottle, aluminum, steel, glass, and text, 85 x 67 x 110cm. Gallery: kurimanzutto, Mexico City.
LONDON.- The Fund, now in its 8th year, enables Tate to acquire works by emerging and leading international artists from London’s Frieze Art Fair. This year the fund is a total of £120,000. Each year, prominent international curators are invited to work alongside Tate curators, Ann Gallagher, Head of Collections (British Art) and Frances Morris, Head of Collections (International Art) to select works. This year the guest international curator is Professor Daniel Birnbaum, Director Designate of the Moderna Museet, Stockholm. He will be accompanied by Helen Legg, Director of Spike Island, Bristol as Observer. The Fund is organised by Outset which was founded in 2003 as a philanthropic organisation dedicated to supporting new art. The charity ... More |
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New Installation of Work by Contemporary Artist Alinah Azadeh at the National Portrait Gallery
LONDON.- Chasing Mirrors: Portraits of the Unseen is a new installation of work by contemporary artist Alinah Azadeh and a collective of young people from Brent, Barnet and Ealing who share an Islamic heritage. Opening on 15 October 2010, the installation will explore the ‘unseen' inner self through non-figurative portraiture. British-Iranian artist, Azadeh, has worked extensively with textiles, objects and texts to communicate individual narratives within her large-scale installation work. This new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery will use objects wrapped in cloth, texts written or spoken by the collective, colour and mirroring as a means of portraying aspects of the inner self. The exhibition is the second of a three-year project at the Gallery made possible through funding from John Lyon's Charity. The project takes its starting point from the absence of figurative ... More
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Presents Marjolijn Dijkman: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
BERKELEY, CA.- The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) presents Marjolijn Dijkman: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum/MATRIX 234. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is an ongoing photographic archive of more than 9,000 images, which attempts to rethink existing representations of our physical world. Initiated in 2005, Dijkman’s project takes its name from the first modern atlas, Abraham Ortelius’s 1570 publication the “Theater of the World.” Relying on equal parts fact and imagination, Ortelius’s atlas gave form and shape to distant countries, illustrated similarities in urban planning, and provided a visual interpretation of connections between places across land and water. Dijkman’s atlas of images, comprised in this MATRIX exhibition as well as on her website and in several publications, ... More
'Happy Birthday, Mr. President': 1962 JFK Birthday Cake Decoration Readies for Public Auction in Dallas
DALLAS, TX.- What is easily one of the most extraordinary pieces of JFK-related memorabilia, and hence 20th Century Pop Culture, ever to surface — the Presidential Seal cake side decoration from President John F. Kennedy's May 29, 1962 birthday cake, will be sold at public auction in Dallas on Nov. 17. This piece is an unlikely survivor from the famous night Marilyn Monroe famously sang "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to JFK at Madison Square Garden (MSG) as the giant cake was brought in with great fanfare. The side decoration, which carries a pre-auction estimate of $5,000+, is being offered as part of Heritage Auction Galleries' November Grand Format American & Political Memorabilia Auction, taking place in-person at the company's Dallas headquarters, as well as live online at HA.com/Historical. The auction features an important selection of John F. Kennedy items assembled to mark the 50th anniversary of his 1960 election, i ... More
Altered Images Depict Horrors of Pollution
By: Bernd Debusmann Jr.
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- A Hungarian economist turned artist is using digitally manipulated photographs that create almost apocalyptic imagery from real life to promote environmental awareness. Suzanne Nagy's series of photographs entitled "Polluters" features altered images that are embedded in an epoxy solution to create a three-dimensional effect. All of the pieces are based around photographs she has taken, and all create similar effects through the lighting and elements she includes. Through her work, Nagy, 63, wants to draw attention to the environmental damage caused by pollution. "I'm always looking for a subject with a message involved. Pollution was something I really got interested in -- in 2004 when we learned for the first time that renewable energies are going to be the future, and so many new things are going on," she explained in an interview. "It's very important for me that my work is documentary. I wanted to do something frightening and r ... More
Recovered Monet to Go Back on View in Poland
WARSAW (AP).- A Polish museum director says a Claude Monet painting stolen from his museum 10 years ago and finally recovered earlier this year is going back on public view. Wojciech Suchocki, director of the National Museum in Poznan, says that, starting Sunday, vistors will again get to see the French impressionist painter's "Beach in Pourville." The work dates to 1882 and depicts a sea lapping against a beach in pastel blues and greens. It was stolen in 2000 by a thief who cut the painting from its frame. The thief left fingerprints at the scene, however. He was arrested in January and is now serving a three-year prison sentence. Suchocki said Friday that the painting required painstaking conservation work. ... More
Woman Pleads Not Guilty in Colorado to Art Damage
FORT COLLINS (AP).- A Montana woman accused of taking a crowbar to controversial artwork for religious reasons pleaded not guilty Friday in Colorado. Kathleen Folden, 56, a truck driver and grandmother from Kalispell, Mont., declined to comment during a court appearance, where she learned she would stand trial in January. She is charged with one count of criminal mischief, a felony which carries a penalty of between two and six years. Folden was arrested Oct. 6 in the Loveland Museum/Gallery after witnesses said she used a crowbar to smash glass shielding a print by Stanford University professor Enrique Chagoya. The print at issue, one of several copies of the work, includes figures cut out from a comic book, including a head resembling Christ and a skeleton with a pope's hat. Critics said the work depicted Jesus engaged in a sex act, but Chagoya said the work has been mischaracterized and doesn't show Christ. He said the work is a collage, and the controversial panel was aimed ... More
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