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Colombian artist Fernando Botero stands in front of one of his oil paintings during a press preview of his exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary. Fifty-three oil paintings and five small bronze statues by Botero are on display at the exhibition that runs from 30 September 2010 to 23 January 2011. EPA/SZILARD KOSZTICSAK.
BUDAPEST.- Rotund and voluptuous forms, characteristically simple and expressive figures, people, animals and objects dominate the works of Colombian-born Fernando Botero. The language of his colourful and often luminous works is understandable for all; he opens up a seemingly distant Latin American reality and transforms it into a familiar world. His works are linked by the underlying quality of universality and his use of the most elemental gestures renders his ideas of the world and its various phenomena visible. Botero is a productive artist and a leading figure of contemporary art whose works can be found in public collections in countries across the world including Japan, Russia, Germany, Finland, Italy, Colombia and the United States. A selection of the masterpieces of the last twenty years can be seen at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest between 30 September 2010 and 23 January 2011. Some sixty, mostly large o ... More |
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Exhibition Examines Return to Classicism in European Art Between World Wars
Antonio Donghi, Circus (Circo equestre), 1927. Oil on canvas, 150 x 100 cm. Gerolamo and Roberta Etro, Milan.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rising from the ruins and horror of World War I, European art and culture returned to the classical past, seeking tranquility, order, and enduring values. Artists turned away from prewar experimentalism and embraced the heroic human figure and rational organization. Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936 is the first exhibition in the United States to focus on the vast transformation in European culture between the world wars. With approximately 150 works by more than 80 artists, comprising painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, film, fashion, and the decorative arts, this thematically organized exhibition examines the return to order in its key manifestations: the poetic dream of antiquity in the Parisian avant-garde; the politicized revival of the Roman Empire under Benito Mussolini; the functionalist utopianism of International Style architecture that originated at the Bauhaus; and, ultimately, the chilling aesthetic of ... More | | Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico to Open LACMA's New Resnick Exhibition Pavilion
Installation view Olmec: Colossal Masterwoks of Ancient Mexico. Photo: © Museum Associates/LACMA.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) will present a major exhibition to debut its new Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion. The Resnick Pavilion will open to the public in October 2010 with Olmec: Masterworks of Ancient Mexico. The inaugural exhibition will highlight the diversity of the museum’s encyclopedic collection and programming, as well as the flexibility of the Renzo Piano-designed pavilion. The new 45,000 square foot building—the cornerstone of Phase II of LACMA’s ongoing Transformation—will be the largest purpose-built, naturally lit museum space in the world. The opening exhibition will showcase this vast new space with monumental, twenty-ton ancient Olmec heads. Olmec is the first West Coast presentation of massive works and small-scale sculptures produced by Mexico’s earliest civilization, which began around 1400 BC and was centered in the Gulf ... More | | Christie's in London Presents Treasures of the Islamic and Indian Worlds
William Robinson, Christie's international head of Islamic art, poses as he views a jewel encrusted Indian parrot. REUTERS/Toby Melville.
LONDON.- Christie’s Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds sale on 5 October, presents a wealth of over 400 rare and beautiful treasures of high quality and significant provenance which span the 9th to the 19th century. Setting the tone, the sale begins with 50 lots from the core of Dr. Mohammed Said Farsi’s classical Islamic Art collection. The group is led by an extremely rare Fatimid Egyptian carved wooden panel, circa 1150 (estimate: £400,000-600,000) and a late 18th century Indian emerald, ruby and diamond parrot (estimate: £400,000-600,000), which is one of seven spectacular Mughal and Deccani jewelled gold objets de vertu featured. Christie’s Dubai will offer the second sale of Modern Arab Art from the Farsi Collection on the 26th October. Magnificent highlights elsewhere in the London sale range from an exceptional 17th century Safavid velvet figural panel (estimate: ... More |
 | At Italy's Barolo Wine Museum, Visitors are Encouraged to Play with Many of the Exhibits
Bottles of Barolo wine are seen on a wall at the Barolo wine museum. REUTERS/Paolo Bona.
By: Svetlana Kovalyova
BAROLO, ITALY (REUTERS.- When you walk up the stairs of the imposing medieval castle which now houses a new wine museum in the picturesque Italian town of Barolo, you don't need to worry about the prospect of monotonous lectures on the history of winemaking. You are going to have fun, its creator says. "Wine has a quality to bring people together, it has a convivial dimension," said Francois Confino, the Swiss-born museum and exhibition designer. "The fact of getting a little tipsy provokes something in the mind that makes people feel well together and I hope this is translated here somehow," he told Reuters at the museum opening. Visitors are encouraged to play with many of the exhibits: peddle a merry-go-round which represents changing seasons or set in motion old-style "teatrini" -- mobile doll theatres where scenes related to wine are enacted. Music accompanies visitors as they walk through 25 rooms of the ... More | | Royal Ontario Museum Announces Second Year of Terracotta Warriors Exhibition Tour Not Proceeding
"Terracotta Soldier". ©Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau and the Shaanxi Cultural Heritage Promotion Centre, People’s Republic of China, 2009.
TORONTO.- The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), organizer of the Canadian tour of The Warrior Emperor and China’s Terracotta Warriors exhibition, announced that the out-of-country loan of Terracotta artifacts from China is unable to be extended beyond one year to Canada. As a result, the museums that planned to exhibit the artifacts during the second year of the tour, Calgary's Glenbow Museum and the Royal BC Museum will be unable to do so. The exhibition will travel as planned to Montreal’s Museum of Fine Arts to a highly-anticipated opening in February 2011, as this scheduled stop is within the one-year time frame. The Warrior Emperor and China’s Terracotta Army is achieving record attendance levels in Toronto, and an equivalent reaction was expected for subsequent western Canada venues. The Shaanxi Cultural Heritage Promotion Centre, People’s Republic of China, however has confirmed a one-year limit on the trave ... More | | National Portrait Gallery Presents Portrait of Charles M. Schulz by Yousuf Karsh
Charles Schulz, by Yousuf Karsh (detail). Chromogenic print, 1986. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Estrellita Karsh in memory of Yousuf Karsh ©1986 Estate of Yousuf Karsh.
WASHINGTON, DC.- A photograph of “Peanuts” creator Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) was presented to the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in a ceremony for invited guests Oct. 1. The event recognizes the cartoonist’s impact on millions of people worldwide and coincides with commemorations surrounding the 60th anniversary of “Peanuts.” The 1986 photograph, created by acclaimed portraitist Yousuf Karsh, is the Portrait Gallery’s first image of the famed cartoonist. In the image, Schulz is at his drawing board with pen in hand. Before him is a partially completed “Peanuts” full-page comic featuring the perennially popular story line in which Lucy snatches the football away from Charlie Brown and sends him hurtling through the air. The photograph, with the accompanying original comic strip, is on view to the public in the museum’s “New Arrivals” exhibition. “ ... More |
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Donors Endow Curatorship at Princeton University Art Museum; Laura M. Giles Appointed
Laura M. Giles has held the position of curator of prints and drawings at the Museum since December 2000.
PRINCETON, NJ.- Laura M. Giles, an internationally recognized scholar of Italian Renaissance and Baroque drawings, has been appointed as the first Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Princeton University Art Museum (PUAM). Giles has held the position of curator of prints and drawings at the Museum since December 2000. "Heather and Paul Haaga's generosity will advance and support important new scholarship and increased public access surrounding one of the Princeton University Art Museum's richest and most historic holdings," said James Steward, Museum Director. With more than 15,000 works spanning six centuries of Western art, this world-renowned collection includes major drawings and watercolors by artists ranging from Bernini and Tiepolo to Turner and Winslow Homer, superb impressions of Old Master prints by Dürer, Rembrandt, and Goya, and pastel masterpieces by ... More | | Guggenheim Foundation and BMW Group Announce a Major New Global Initiative
Atelier Bow-Wow (Tokyo). Architect for the first BMW Guggenheim Lab © Atelier Bow-Wow.
NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Armstrong, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum, and Frank-Peter Arndt, Member of the Board of Management, BMW AG, today announced a long-term collaboration that will span six years of program activities, engage people in major cities around the globe, and inspire the creation of forward-looking concepts and designs for urban life. The initiative will engage a new generation of leaders in architecture, art, science, design, technology, and education, who will address the challenges of the cities of tomorrow by examining the realities of the cities of today. An innovative movable structure that travels from city to city, the BMW Guggenheim Lab will bring together ambitious thinkers from around the globe and will be a public place for sharing ideas and practical solutions to major issues affecting urban life. There will be three different BMW Guggenheim Labs, each with its own arc ... More | | Tatiana Trouvé Creates a New Installation in the Main Gallery at South London Gallery
Untitled, from the series Intranquillity, 2010. Paper on canvas, cork, copper, varnish, burn mark, 240x153cm. Photos: Andy Stagg. Courtesy Perrotin, Paris; Johann Koenig, Berlin; Almine Rechs, Brussels; Gagosian, New York.
LONDON.- Tatiana Trouvé’s work spans drawing, painting and sculpture, often brought together in precisely-scaled architectural installations which suggest the possibility of underlying narratives. Trouvé was winner of the prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2007, has exhibited widely internationally, including at the Venice Biennale, and had a solo show at the Centre Georges Pompidou in 2008, yet this is her first major solo show in the UK. For the South London Gallery she creates a new installation in the main gallery incorporating three interlinking spaces interspersed with drawings and sculptural objects. From 1997, for nearly a decade, Trouvé worked on the construction of her Bureau d’Activités Implicites (Bureau of Implicit Activities), a continually evolving set of architectural modules capturing and translating her daily experience ... More |
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Just a Click Away: Italian Masterpieces from Uffizi Gallery in Florence Go Online
Enlarged details of Caravaggio's 'Bacchus'. AP Photo/Haltadefinizione.
ROME (AP).- Imagine being so close to Botticelli's Venus that you can see the strands of her blond hair, the shades of pink in her cheeks, the cracks in the centuries-old paint. That sensation is now just a click away. This week, an Italian company put online high-resolution images of "The Birth of Venus" and five other masterpieces from the Uffizi gallery in Florence, including works by Caravaggio and Leonardo da Vinci. By zooming in with the click of a mouse, the smallest details can appear — even ones that aren't typically visible when viewing artworks at the distances required by museums for security. Mario Resca, a Culture Ministry official who worked on the project, says it's like looking at a painting "with a giant magnifying glass." In Caravaggio's "Bacchus," for example, the trace of a tiny self-portrait that the artist painted in the wine jug becomes detectable, as do the wine bubbles on the rim of the ... More | | Mint Museum Opens New Facility that Increase Museum's Space by More than 60 Percent
Mint Museum Uptown designed by Machado and Silvetti Associates. Photo by Jeff Clare.
CHARLOTTE, NC.- October 1st marks a transformative moment for The Mint Museum. The debut of the new Mint Museum Uptown – one year prior to the institution’s 75th anniversary – will bring together the Mint Museum of Art and the Mint Museum of Craft + Design under one roof, double the permanent collection on view, and hone the institution’s ability to attract and organize major traveling exhibitions. “The debt-free completion of the Mint Museum Uptown and the Levine Center for the Arts during a time of economic upheaval is a testament to Charlotte’s unwavering commitment to the arts and its long tradition of philanthropy,” said Executive Director Dr. Kathleen V. Jameson. “The scope of this ambitious cultural project is going to transform the way Charlotte lives and catapult the Mint to national and international ... More | | Twenty-Five Years After His Death, André Kertész Gets Exhibition at Jeu de Paume
Tour Eiffel, Paris, 1933, André Kertész Épreuve gélatino-argentique. Tirage d’époque, 23,8 x 17,8 cm. Courtesy Stephen Daiter Gallery.
PARIS.- Twenty-five years after his death, André Kertész (1894–1985) is today a world-famous photographer who produced images that will be familiar to everyone, but he has yet to receive full recognition for his personal contribution to the language of photography in the 20th century. His career spanning more than seventy years was chaotic, and his longevity was matched by an unwavering creative acuity that rendered difficult an immediate or retrospective understanding of his work. This exhibition attempts to provide for the first time a broad and balanced view of Kertéz’s work, presenting new elements and bringing together, for the first time also, a large number of period prints (two thirds of the 300 photographs on show). Both the exhibition and the accompanying catalogue were ... More |
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Scottish National Portrait Gallery Invites Public to Put Themselves in the Picture
EDINBURGH.- The National Galleries of Scotland will this week launch a new initiative, which will give members of the public the chance to show their own favourite images alongside the national collection. From this week, the public can contribute their own images to Portrait of the Nation, as part of the fund-raising campaign for the ambitious £17.6m project to transform and redefine the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Put Yourself in the Picture will allow people to upload their favourite photograph and to add a personal caption, using a dedicated feature on the National Galleries’ website at www.nationalgalleries.org/yourpicture. Aiming to bring together as many of the faces of Scotland as possible (along with pictures of our supporters from across the globe), Put Yourself in the Picture will have a prominent place in the refurbished Portrait Gallery, in recognition of the people who have hel ... More
Sotheby's to Offer Important Fine & Decorative Arts From the Hascoe Family Collection
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s announced that we will offer property from the Hascoe Family Collection, assembled by Norman and Suzanne Hascoe over years of passionate collecting. The Collection is highlighted by its important American furniture and Czech modernist art, which will anchor dedicated sales in New York and London, respectively. In addition, the Hascoes’ spectacular residence on the waterfront in Greenwich, Connecticut is currently being offered by Sotheby’s International Realty. Norman and Suzanne Hascoe are remembered for their buoyant, cheerful and energetic spirit, easily inspiring friendships all over the world, and for their shared dedication in their quest for objects of beauty and cultural significance across a wide spectrum. Their discerning eye and passionate focus is reflected in a wonderful waterfront home in Greenwich, CT filled with a collection built from the finest examples of the art and ... More
MFA Houston to Present Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs in October 2011
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) will host Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs, an acclaimed exhibition featuring more than 100 artifacts, most of which had never been shown in the U.S. prior to this tour. The exhibition opens October 13, 2011, and will be on view through April 15, 2012. Visitors will have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to view the spectacular treasures, more than half of which come from the tomb of King Tutankhamun. These include the golden sandals that were found on the boy king´s mummy, a gold coffinette that held his stomach, golden statues of the gods, his rings, ear ornaments and gold collar. "This exhibition is a landmark event for Houston," said Dr. Peter Marzio, director of the MFAH. "I am thrilled that the MFAH will bring these extraordinary treasures here, and that Houston is among the few cities, along with Vienna, Atlanta, Denver and Toronto, that have had the p ... More
Ancient Tree to Help Turn Jericho into Tourism Hub
JERICHO (AP).- With a giant trunk and boughs towering 60 feet high, a gnarled sycamore near Jericho's main square has long been touted as the very tree that the hated tax collector climbed to get a glimpse of Jesus. Now it's taking center stage in a plan to transform this ancient desert backwater into a tourism hub. The tree, once tucked obscurely away on a side street, is a featured attraction of a Russian-funded museum complex to be unveiled this month as part of Jericho's 10,000th birthday celebrations. At the Oct. 10 launch of yearlong festivities, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will outline ambitious plans for Jericho, a Jordan Valley oasis that bills itself as the world's oldest and lowest-lying town, at some 780 feet below sea level. "This is to promote Palestine as a destination," Palestinian Tourism Minister Khouloud Daibes said of the venture, which includes a resort to be built on the shores of the nearby Dead Sea. The Palestinians even hope for an airport in the ... More
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