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Visitors look at "Nuria's White Head" by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa displayed at the Grand Palais in Paris, Friday Oct. 22, 2010 during the Paris FIAC, International Contemporary Art Fair, which runs from Oct. 21 to 24, 2010. AP Photo/ Francois Mori.
PARIS.- The 37th edition of FIAC takes place from October 21st through October 24th at the Grand Palais, the Cour Carrée du Louvre and the Tuileries Garden. Located in Paris’ most prestigious and emblematic sites, infused with its history and cultural life, FIAC’s continuous commitment to the highest standards of quality and the synergies it has developed with Paris’ prestigious art institutions, have made it one of the art world’s premier international events of the autumn calendar. In a spirit of continuity, FIAC reaffirms the grounding principles on which its identity is founded: commitment to a broad focus that leads it to privilege a balanced panorama of modern, contemporary and emerging art; receptivity to a diverse range of artistic practices as demonstrated by the outdoor projects in the Tuileries Garden, an ambitious programme of artists’ performances, and – for the first time this year ... More |
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Magnificent Tibetan Rugs and Ritual Utensils Now on View at Metropolitan Museum
Ascetic Master, probably a Mahasiddha Tibet, 17th century. Brass with pigment. H. 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm); W. 3 in. (7.6 cm); D. 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm) Purchase, Florence and Herbert Irving Gift and funds from various donors, 2004.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rugs and Ritual in Tibetan Buddhism, an installation dedicated to ritual practice in Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism, explores the role of the ritual objects that were employed by its practitioners in pursuit of spiritual enlightenment. Comprising 30 tantric ritual rugs and utensils—including knives, vessel, fire-offering ladles, ritual staff, daggers, offering table—the installation illustrates an esoteric Buddhism that flourished in Tibet from its beginnings in the eighth century through to the 20th century. While many of the objects on view—depicting gruesome images such as exposed brains in skull cups and flayed human skins—may be shocking to those unfamiliar with the meaning and purpose of Tibetan religious art, the deployment of these objects celebrates the power of detachment from the corporeal body that advanced Buddhist practitioners strive to attain. The ... More | | New Paintings and Works on Paper by Thomas Nozkowski at Pace Gallery's Newest Exhibition Space
Thomas Nozkowski, Untitled (P-66), 2009 (detail), oil on paper, 22-1/4" x 30" (56.5 cm x 76.2 cm) Photo by: Kerry Ryan McFate/ Courtesy The Pace Gallery © Thomas Nozkowski, courtesy The Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Thomas Nozkowski presents new paintings and works on paper at Pace’s newest gallery, 510 West 25th Street, New York City, from October 22 through December 4, 2010. The exhibition is his second at The Pace Gallery and the seventy-third solo show of his career. Thomas Nozkowski: Recent Work features twenty oil-on-panel paintings made over the past two years, each presented alongside a smaller drawing variation. In the works on paper Nozkowski ruminates on alternative directions that he could have taken with each painting, resulting in a dialogue that provides insight into the artist’s process. For over thirty years, Nozkowski has produced richly colored, small-scale abstract paintings, yet his extensive vocabulary of organic and geometric forms means that rarely are any two of his pictures alike. Instead, within the self-imposed restrictions of his working method—abstract oils painted with a sm ... More | | First Solo Museum Show Devoted to Kurt Schwitters Since 1985 Opens at the Menil Collection
Kurt Schwitters, Merz 1926, 3. Cicero, 1926. Paint on wood nailed on wood, 26-7/8 x 19-5/8 x 3-1/8 inches. Sammlung NORD/LB in der Niedersächsischen Sparkassenstiftung, Sprengel Museum Hannover. Photo: Michael Herling / Aline Gwose, Sprengel Museum Hannover © ARS New York.
HOUSTON, TX.- The new Menil exhibition, KURT SCHWITTERS: Color and Collage, examines one of the 20th century’s most enduring figures of the international avant‐garde. Schwitters (1887‐1948) worked at the edges of Germany’s revolutionary art and intellectual movements in the tumultuous wake of the First World War. In the summer of 1919 he created the term “Merz” to describe his unique process of dismantling the established boundaries and hierarchies that existed between the fine arts. Employing equal parts philosophy and artistic process, Schwitters sought to unite all forms of art as a means to developing a new aesthetic for the chaos of modern living. Organized by the Menil Collection in cooperation with the Kurt und Ernst Schwitters Stiftung at the Sprengel Museum Hannover, KURT SCHWITTERS: Color and Collage marks the first U.S. ... More |
 | Brooklyn Museum Inaugurates Purchase Fund for Acquisition of pre-1945 African American Art
Robert S. Duncanson (American, 1821-1872), Dream of Arcadia after Thomas Cole, circa 1852 (detail). Oil on canvas, 24 X 42 in. Charlynn and Warren Goins, promised gift to the Brooklyn Museum.
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum is inaugurating a new collecting initiative that will focus on the acquisition of works by African American artists that were created between the mid-nineteenth century and 1945. In the first three years, the Museum is seeking to raise a minimum of $500,000 for this ongoing dedicated purchase fund, together with gifts of works of art. The project has already received $100,000, with an additional $100,000 to be given as a matching grant, from Museum Trustee Saundra Williams-Cornwell and her husband, Don Cornwell. Additionally, the promised gift of a major painting, Dream of Arcadia after Thomas Cole (1852) by Robert S. Duncanson, has been given by Museum Trustee Charlynn Goins and her husband, Dr. Warren Goins. Ms. Cornwell and Ms. Goins are both initiators of ... More | | Esteemed Director, George S. Bolge, to Retire from Boca Raton Museum of Art on a High Note
George S. Bolge, Executive Director, Boca Raton Museum of Art.
BOCA RATON, FL.- Paul W. Carman, President of the Board of Trustees of the Boca Raton Museum of Art, has announced the retirement of George S. Bolge, Executive Director of the Museum, effective June 30, 2011. Carman stated that, in the near future, he will form a committee to begin the search process for Bolge’s successor. Bolge, a decorated Vietnam veteran, began his museum career in South Florida in 1970, when he was hired as Executive Director and, during his tenure, was instrumental in the creation of the new Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale (now known as Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale/Nova Southeastern University.) He served as its chief executive until 1988, and remains Director Emeritus for this Broward-based arts organization, which is regarded as one of the most celebrated museums in South Florida. In 1995, Bolge was hired, once again, to build a major arts institution, this time in Boca Raton. The Boca Rato ... More | | Julian Schnabel Polaroids: Beyond Infinity and Grandview Exhibited in the UK for the First Time
Julian Schnabel, Untitled (Julian and Mickey), 2008. © Julian Schnabel / Courtesy Bernheimer Fine Art Photography.
LONDON.- U.S. film maker and artist Julian Schnabel has ventured into the realm of photography in his latest exhibition, "Polaroids: Beyond Infinity and Grandview." The London display of a few dozen photographs, personally chosen by Schnabel from his collection of several hundred, is being shown at the Colnaghi gallery in Old Bond Street. "I didn't intend to show these pictures at all," said Schnabel. "I've just been working on collecting them over the past eight years. They're more satisfying to me than normal photographs, where you are so detached from the subject." The collection centers around Schnabel's world -- many of the pictures are of the interior of his New York home, the extravagant Palazzo Chupi which he designed and decorated. "I think it shows a painter's life," he added. "If one wanted to see what Julian made, or what paintings ... More |
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High Receives Gift of 90 19th-Century American Paintings and Sculptures from West Foundation
William Wetmore Story (American, 1819 1895), Cleopatra, 1878. Marble. Gift of the West Foundation in honor of Gudmund Vigtel and Michael E. Shapiro.
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art today announced that it has received a major gift of 90 paintings and sculptures from the Atlanta-based West Foundation’s nineteenth-century American collection. The donated works include 49 paintings and 41 sculptures, establishing the High as a major resource for nineteenth-century American art. The gift enriches the High’s collection of American Art with important works including landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church and Jasper Cropsey, portraits by Rembrandt Peale and William Sydney Mount, and sculptures by Hiram Powers and Chauncey Bradley Ives. Beginning October 29, the newly-acquired paintings and sculptures will be on view within the permanent collection galleries on the second and third floors of the Stent Family Wing. “Building a strong collection of American art has been an institutional priority for the High, and this recent gift has significantly diversified and enha ... More | | Powis Castle Acquires John Singer Sargent Charcoal Portrait with Help from the Art Fund
John Singer Sargent, Portrait of the Hon. Violet Lane Fox, Baroness Darcy de Knayth, Countess of Powis c.1910-1914.
LONDON.- A unique portrait by celebrated American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) has been bought by Powis Castle. Portrait of the Hon. Violet Lane Fox, Baroness Darcy de Knayth, Countess of Powis c.1910-1914, by Sargent was bought with the help of a £25,000 grant from the Art Fund towards a total of £50,000. The charcoal drawing depicts Countess Violet, the wife of the 4th Earl of Powis, with her hair piled up in the fashionable bouffant style of the time, looking expectantly towards her left. A gauze scarf wrapped around her neck adds style and grandeur to her pose. Violet is drawn as a strong individual and a true Edwardian Aristocrat reflecting her independent and persuasive character. Portrait of the Hon. Violet Lane Fox, Baroness Darcy de Knayth, Countess of Powis had been part of a private collection until it was bought for public display by National Trust owned Powis Castle. Stephen Deuchar, ... More | | Exhibition of Impressionist Gardens at the National Galleries of Scotland Delights 100,000 Visitors
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Woman with Parasol in a Garden, c.1875-76. Oil on canvas: 54.5 x 65 cm. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Photo © Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza , Madrid.
EDINBURGH.- The National Galleries of Scotland announced that the blockbuster exhibition Impressionist Gardens has ended its hugely successful run on a high note, with total visitor figures of nearly 100,000. Extended opening hours allowed almost 17,000 people to see the exhibition in its final week at the National Gallery Complex in Edinburgh, and the show attracted an average daily attendance of 1,250 over its 78-day run, from 31 July to 17 October. In total, there were 99,509 ticketed visitors to Impressionist Gardens, making this ground-breaking exhibition the third most successful in the Galleries’ history. The exhibition has comfortably surpassed its ambitious target of 80,000 visitors and the entire print run of the catalogue has sold out. Impressionist Gardens brought together around 100 spectacular paintings, by artists such Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Manet and Sisley, from ... More |
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Hugh Tracey's African Music Recordings Now on Display in Johannesburg
A woman looks at photos, part of the Hugh Tracey exhibition, at the Origins Center in Johannesburg. AP Photo/Denis Farrell.
By: Eric Naki, Associated Press Writer
JOHANNESBURG (AP).- Hugh Tracey came to southern Africa in the 1920s to become a tobacco farmer but ended up compiling the largest known archive of traditional African music, recording performers from Congo to Zimbabwe over nearly five decades. Now hundreds of CDs featuring Tracey's recordings are on exhibition in South Africa along with traditional instruments he collected from across the continent, from Malawian gourd resonators to ingalaba drums played in Uganda. The Hugh Tracey archives are a valuable resource that could contribute to dignity and restoration of African culture, said Luvuyo Dontsa, an arts and culture professor at Walter Sisulu University in South Africa. "White colonialists saw our music as being heathen and they tried to ... More | | The Art Institute Delves into Richard Hawkins's Third Mind for Major Retrospective
Richard Hawkins, Dragonfly 2, 2009 (detail). Oil and pencil on paper, 17 ¼ x 20 ½ inches. Courtesy of Greene Naftali Gallery, New York.
CHICAGO, IL.- The first U.S. survey exhibition of artist Richard Hawkins (b. 1961)—whose works are making a crucial contribution to contemporary art—will premiere at the Art Institute of Chicago this fall. Richard Hawkins: Third Mind, on view October 22, 2010, through January 16, 2011, consists of more than 80 objects, including books, collages, drawings, paintings, and sculptures that span his twenty-year career. The exhibition is installed in two spaces in the museum: the Modern Wing’s Abbott Galleries (G182–184) as well as the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries. Since the early 1990s, Richard Hawkins has become one of the most important figures living and working in Los Angeles, first and foremost as an internationally recognized artist and also as curator, writer, and teacher. His work is emphatically diverse and resists easy classification. Hawkins’s ... More | | Field Museum Presents Exhibition that Reveals Art and Science Behind Prized Mineral: Gold
This delicate, crystallized gold specimen was found in Leadville, Colorado. © Denis Finnin / AMNH.
CHICAGO, IL.- One of the rarest and most highly prized minerals in the world is on display in a dazzling, comprehensive exhibition at The Field Museum (October 22 – March 6, 2011). Gold, the exhibition, explores the historical fascination with this enduring symbol of wealth, beauty, and power. One of the most wide-ranging exhibitions ever on this valued mineral, Gold features a dramatic array of 560 extraordinary geological specimens and cherished objects from around the world – 57 natural specimens, 147 culture-based pieces, 329 coins, and 28 gold bars and ingots – and presents the intriguing scientific and societal story behind this cherished metal. In one gallery, visitors step into a 300-square-foot room completely covered in a mere three-ounce piece of gold flattened to exquisite thinness. Gold objects holding great significance to Chicagoans will also be on display including the White Sox championship ... More |
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New Collaborative Agreement Between the Museo del Prado and the Japanese Media Group Yomiuri Shimbun
MADRID.- The Museo del Prado and the Japanese media group Yomiuri Shimbun today signed a collaborative agreement relating to the organisation of the exhibition Goya: light and shade. Masterpieces from the Museo del Prado. It will be held from 22 October 2011 to 29 January 2012 at the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo. This is the third exhibition that the Prado has held in Japan in collaboration with Yomiuri Shimbun, the most important media group in Japan. The exhibition will be curated by Manuela Mena, Chief Curator of Spanish 18th-century Painting and Goya at the Museo del Prado, and José Manuel Matilla, Head of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Museum. Once again, the Museum will bring an important group of works to Japan, on this occasion comprising a significant selection of paintings, drawings and prints by Francisco de Goya, the artist most fully represented in the Museum and among those most admi ... More
Phillips de Pury & Company Announces Highlights from Its London Photographs Sale
LONDON.- Phillips de Pury & Company announced the highlights of the forthcoming London Photographs sale on the 3rd November 2010. The London Photographs department, a leader in the European market, will offer a full range of exciting works from diverse genres and movements integral to 20th and 21st century photography. The sale consists of 192 lots with a low estimate of £1,088,900 and a high estimate of £1,546,600. “‘The sale for me really encompasses the versatility of photography in every way from the idea of what it is as a medium, the purposes it has served and how it is evolved and fed existing arenas. It is punctuated by the recognizable greats as well as pushing forward the new and exciting photographic practitioner in to the
London market.”Lou Proud, Senior Specialist Photographs, London. The Photographs department continues to offer pivotal works by Peter Lindbergh the work Naomi Campbell, Lind ... More
Italian Art Deco Treasure Unearthed in Scotland to Sell at Bonhams
LONDON.- A ceramic sculpture which sat for years unrecognised in a family house in Edinburgh has been identified as a master work by the Italian Art Deco designer Sandro Vacchetti. It will be offered for sale at Bonhams ‘Design from 1860’ auction in London on 17 November (est £8,000–10,000). The sculpture, known affectionately to the family as, `Buttercup and Daisy,’ shows a sauntering, bare-breasted woman in stylish flared oriental print skirt leading a large tiger-like creature. It was brought into Bonhams Edinburgh office for valuation and sent to London for further research. Director of 20th Century Decorative Arts, Mark Oliver said, “When I heard I was to receive a sculpture from Scotland called ‘Buttercup and Daisy’ I imagined two highland cows. I was delighted when it turned out to be such a stylish example of Vacchetti’s work.” The true title of the piece is `Le Due Tigri ... More
Major Exhibition Showcases mima's Art Fund International Acquisitions
MIDDLESBROUGH.- Drawing in Progress is a new exhibition opening at mima, The Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. The show represents a unique collection of some forty post-war American drawings, all acquired through our £5 million Art Fund International scheme. The exhibition will run from 25 November until 20 March 2011. Thanks to the Art Fund´s support, mima has been developing this significant strand of its collection since 2007 in partnership with The Drawing Center, New York. This will be the first time the works have collectively been put on display in the UK. All the works have been acquired through Art Fund International, which was set up in 2007 as a way of helping UK museums and galleries to build outstanding collections of international contemporary art. mima is one of five museums to have been allocated £1 million. Because of the scheme, mima has been able to carefully research and acquire what now stands as o ... More
Harry Potter Props, Costumes on Display in Seattle
SEATTLE (AP).- A few lucky visitors first are invited to try on the sorting hat, which compliments them on their bravery, intelligence or cunning. Then, a few steps down a dark corridor, you are surrounded by a cloud of steam. Ahead is the train station, where the Hogworts Express has just arrived. You have entered "Harry Potter: The Exhibition," a showcase filled with the imagery evoked in J.K. Rowling's seven-part series about an orphan named Harry who discovers he is part of a mostly hidden magical world. The traveling museum show opens in Seattle on Saturday. What Harry Potter fan hasn't wanted to sit for a bit in a giant chair at Hagrid's cottage, watching to see if the dragon's egg shaking and rattling on the table is going to open? The show also give fans a chance to test their Quidditch skills and see up close the beautiful gowns the actors wore to the Yule Ball in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." Costumes and props from the seven movies are in Seattle for an exhi ... More
Exhibition Brings Together Masterpieces by Carl Beam, Who has Been a Vital Force in Contemporary Art in Canada
OTTAWA, ON.- Carl Beam was a vital force in contemporary art in Canada. At the vanguard of a new and assertive First Nations art discourse, his art builds intellectual and philosophical bridges between cultures. His powerful works explore the space between Indigenous and other cultural views of our collective “place” within the universe/cosmos. Personal, even self-referential, his work also shows his awareness of communal and global concerns. Until January 16, 2011, the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) presents Carl Beam, an exhibition bringing together fifty of the most outstanding works of this contemporary Canadian artist of Anishinaabe descent who passed away in 2005, including five pieces acquired this year by the Gallery. Covering his complete career from the late 70s to 2004, the exhibition sheds light on his investigations into the metaphysical aspects of Western and Indigenous cultures, while powerfully illus ... More
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