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A woman eyes the work 'Wedding'(1918) by Marc Chagall at Bucerius Art Forum in Hamburg, Germany. Some 150 paintings, drawings and prints of Chagall are on display in the exhibition 'Marc Chagall. Life Lines' that examines the special relationship between the painter and his wife Bella in light of his artistic work from 08 October to 16 January 2011. EPA/ULRICH PERREY.
HAMBURG.- In the fall of 2010, the Bucerius Kunst Forum is showing around 150 works by Marc Chagall (1887 – 1985). Entitled Marc Chagall. Lifelines, the exhibition presents numerous paintings, drawings and prints by Chagall from the collection of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, which can be seen for the first time in Germany. The museum holds major works from the collection of Ida Chagall, the artist’s daughter, as well as many other collectors. For the exhibition at the Bucerius Kunst Forum, the collection of the Israel Museum has been complemented by selected works from German and European collections. The exhibition Marc Chagall. Lifelines examines the way in which personal experiences found their way into Chagall’s art. At the center of the exhibition is Chagall’s love for his wife Bella, which characterized his life and can be seen as a central theme in his many images of lovers. This area is ... More |
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Record-Breaking Hollywood "Legends" Auction Held by Julien's Auctions in Macau
A Catherine Walker burgundy velvet ball gown worn by Diana, Princess of Wales. AP Photo/Julien's Auctions.
MACAU.- The Hollywood “Legends” auction was successfully conducted by Julien’s Auctions at the Ponte 16 Resort Hotel, Macau (“Ponte 16”) today. Ponte 16 is the venue sponsor for this first auction held by Julien’s Auctions in Asia, which has attracted buyers and collectors of Hollywood and Rock n Roll pop culture artifacts from around the world. 435 auction items were sold during the 11-hour auction, bringing in a total of US $3.2 million. The auction was conducted in two sessions featuring stage costumes and collectibles from a number of superstars and celebrities. Items auctioned in the first session included the personal belongings of Princess Diana, Bruce Lee, Marilyn Monroe and The Beatles, as well as an assortment of pop culture artifacts from Hollywood Blockbuster movies. Meanwhile, items of Michael Jackson (“MJ”), The Jackson 5, Madonna and ... More | | John Lennon's Son Julian and First Wife Cynthia Unveil Monument on Anniversary
Julian Lennon, son of the late Beatle John Lennon, stands with his mother Cynthia in front of the John Lennon peace monument in Liverpool, northern England October 9, 2010. REUTERS/Stringer.
LIVERPOOL (REUTERS).- John Lennon's son Julian and first wife Cynthia unveiled a monument to the late singer Saturday, the 70th anniversary of his birth, and said the time for mourning the former Beatle was over. The presentation of a $350,000 18-foot structure, designed to promote peace, was one of several events being held around the world to celebrate one of pop music's most influential singers and songwriters who was murdered in New York in 1980 at the age of 40. Internet search site Google paid tribute to Lennon with a hand-drawn logo and mini-video based on his hit "Imagine." Manhattan planned a benefit concert and Lennon's widow Yoko Ono was to perform alongside their son Sean as the Plastic Ono Band in Reykjavik. Cynthia, 71, and Julian Lennon, 47, looked on in Lennon's ... More | | Museum of Modern Art Complements Abstract Expressionist Exhibition with "On to Pop"
Andy Warhol, Gold Marilyn Monroe,1962. Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 6' 11 1/4" x 57" (211.4 x 144.7 cm). Gift of Philip Johnson © 2010 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Complementing the exhibition Abstract Expressionist New York, in the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser gallery on the fourth floor, is the installation On to Pop, which showcases a selection of Pop Art highlights from the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection. In 1955, the influential critic Clement Greenberg published the essay “American-type painting,” which hailed the abstract, non-referential imagery and monumental scale of Abstract Expressionist canvases as the most advanced form of painting then practiced. That same year, the 25-year-old artist Jasper Johns painted an American flag. This familiar, iconic emblem belonged to the world of everyday things. Rendered in wax encaustic and ... More |
 | Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool Acquires Albert Moore's Study for A Summer Night
The drawing is reunited with an accompanying preparatory watercolour and the final oil painting, both from the gallery’s permanent collection.
LIVERPOOL.- As the end of the British summer approaches Study for A Summer Night, an exquisite drawing by English painter Albert Moore (1841-93), goes on display for the first time at the Walker Art Gallery from 13 October to 10 December 2010. The drawing, acquired for the gallery with assistance from the Art Fund charity, is reunited with an accompanying preparatory watercolour and the final oil painting, both from the gallery’s permanent collection. Seen together for the first time all three give a fascinating insight into Moore’s working methods and his constant experimentation. The drawing was the earliest in the series (1884-6), followed by the watercolour (1890) with the final oil finished and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1890. Moore laid down the ideas in the initial sketch and used the watercolour to mark up a grid so that he could size up the study to oil painting dimensions. The works revea ... More | | Exceptional Private Collections to Highlight Christie's October Sale of 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe
A George III Ebony-Inlaid Mahogany Secretaire Library Bookcase. Attributed to Thomas Chippendale, circa 1765. Estimate: $700,000 - 1,000,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010.
NEW YORK, NY.- This autumn, Christie’s announced details of 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe including Oriental Carpets on October 21-22, a two day sale featuring over 600 treasures from the 16th to the 19th centuries. From rare and important forms of craftsmanship, the sale offers superb examples of European and English furniture, ceramics, carpets, and decorative works of art showcasing the variety and luxurious forms of design. This spectacular sale will be the most valuable 500 Years sale yet held in New York, with a value in excess of $12 million. The selection of English furniture in the sale is one of the greatest to appear in years at Christie's New York. Many of the selections are attributed to top-tier cabinet-makers of the 18th century and emanate from noble houses for which they were likely originally commissioned. Leading the sale is a stunning George III ebony ... More | | 70-Year Retrospective Highlights African, Caribbean and American Iconography
Loïs Mailou Jones, The Water Carriers, Haiti, 1985. Acrylic. Courtesy of the Loïs Mailou Jones Pierre-Noël Trust.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Museum of Women in the Arts presents Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color, the first major retrospective surveying Jones’ wide array of subjects and styles. Loïs Mailou Jones is on view October 9, 2010, through January 9, 2011. “It is a privilege to posthumously honor this iconic Washington artist who left her mark on generations of Howard University graduates and had such stature in the national art scene from the 1930s to the 1990s,” said NMWA Director Susan Fisher Sterling. The myriad themes explored by Loïs Mailou Jones (1905-1998) over the impressive length of her career makes for a dynamic exhibition of more than 70 works, including paintings, drawings and textile designs. The retrospective begins with her early textile designs and sketches from the Harlem Renaissance. After graduating from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, at a time when racial and gen ... More |
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Rediscover Renowned Masterworks of Early Photography at the Phillips Collection
Frederick Evans, Wells Cathedral: Stairway to Chapter House, 1903. Gelatin silver print. George Eatman House collections.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The photographs of the pictorialist movement are among the most spectacular works of art in the medium’s history. This October, The Phillips Collection brings over 120 of these celebrated images to Washington, D.C. with the exhibition TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945. The exhibition, drawn from the George Eastman House Collections, chronicles pictorialism from its inception through its impact on photography today. The Phillips is the final stop on the international tour of the critically acclaimed exhibition, organized by George Eastman House and Vancouver Art Gallery. It is on view from Oct. 9, 2010 through Jan. 9, 2011. Like impressionism, which challenged the traditions of painting, pictorialism strove to expand the possibilities of photography beyond the literal description of a subject. Abandoning the camera’s ability to produce images in sharp detai ... More | | "The Last Newspaper" Exhibition at the New Museum Inspired by the Ways Artists Respond to the News
Allen Ruppersberg, Screamed from Life, 1984. Silkscreen. Courtesy the artist and Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum presents “The Last Newspaper,” a major exhibition inspired by the ways artists approach the news and respond to the stories and images that command the headlines. The exhibition animates the Museum with signature artworks and a constant flow of information-gathering and processing undertaken by organizations and artist groups that have been invited to inhabit offices within the museum’s galleries. Partner organizations use on-site offices to present their research, engage in rapid prototyping, and stage public dialogues, opening up the galleries as spaces of intellectual production as well as display. For visitors, “The Last Newspaper” is a unique site of dialogue, participation, and critical thinking, posing new possibilities for a contemporary art museum experience. Co-curated by Richard Flood, Chief Curator of the New Museum, and Benjamin Godsill, Curatorial Associat ... More | | Artist Didier Marcel Exhibits at the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
Sans titre (Champ de blé aux corbeaux), 2009. Vue d’exposition au Mudam Luxembourg © Andres Lejona – Courtesy Mudam et Galerie Michel Rein.
PARIS.- Here Didier Marcel, whom we know as a romantic model-maker – to quote Jérôme Mauche – takes us for a stroll. More exactly a stroll through the exhibition venue. Fortunately everything we see is a mix of the fake and the very fake, as in the case of Mother Nature and our media-mediated relationship with her. Didier Marcel borrows from reality and sculpts from life. Whether the imprint is taken from the living or the mineral, and whether the model itself is artificial, the choice hinges systematically on a highly personal rapport with the banal: with everything that's ordinary and invisible, everything that merges with the landscape. For the ARC Marcel has come up with something like the last stage of a work in progress, the bit you only get to see on opening day. From one project to another there's an ongoing something or other, a kind of attempt at documenting reality, some endlessly renewed Sisyphean ... More |
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Exhibition of Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection Opens in Spain
Cuban artists Marco Antonio Castillo (L) and Dagoberto Rodriguez Sanches (R) of the Cuban art group Los Carpinteros pose for the media in front of their artwork, entitled Cold Phase of the Disaster 2005. EPA/J.L CEREIJIDO.
GIJON.- Passages. Travels in Hyperspace is an exhibition drawn from the collection of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary that is conceived as a stroll, an excursion through an interior landscape of sorts. Rather than projecting a linear course through the space, this wandering fosters a contemplative state of consciousness and enriches the experience of each work as well as of the exhibition as a whole. Coined by the American cultural critic Fredric Jameson, the term hyperspace describes a new spatial typology, producing perceptual and sensory shifts that affect the eyes and body. Public space, for instance, is usually arranged according to specific rules so as to enable a sense of orientation informed by convention. Changing those rules ... More | | New de Young Museum Celebrates 5th and 40th Anniversaries of the Union with the Legion of Honor
de Young Museum, Dorothy and George Saxe Gallery. © Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- This year the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco celebrate two important anniversaries: the 5th anniversary of the new de Young Museum and the 40th anniversary of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. This celebration is bolstered by the remarkable, record-breaking five-year attendance figure at the de Young: 8.1 million visitors, making it one of the highest profile museums in the country and a local phenomenon. Five years ago in October the de Young Museum reopened in a state-of-the-art building designed by Herzog & de Meuron with Fong & Chan Architects on the site of the original museum, which was founded in 1895. Director John E. Buchanan, Jr., says of the de Young, “Our proudest moments come from watching how the building is used—both by the staff in creatively installing exhibitions and presenting public programs, and by ... More | | Chagall Mosaic & Moran Painting Among Major Gifts & Acquisitions for National Gallery of Art
A woman poses for a photograph on the steps of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, USA. EPA/MATTHEW CAVANAUGH.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art has received an extraordinary bequest of 19th- and 20th-century prints, drawings, and illustrated books by artists ranging from Edouard Vuillard to Alex Katz from the late Evelyn Nef, who passed away in December 2009. The gift from the collection she built with her late husband John Nef is composed of 31 drawings, 46 prints, 25 volumes, and a monumental mosaic. In addition to the Nef bequest, a number of significant works of art have recently entered the Gallery's collection. They include paintings by Pieter Soutman, Adam van Breen, Gilbert Stuart, and William Stanley Haseltine; a sculpture by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse and a large medallion by Jean-Baptiste Daniel-Dupuis; contemporary works by Nancy Graves, James Rosenquist, Nam June Paik, and Sean Scully ... More |
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Miami Art Museum Names Rubén A. Rodríguez and Walid G. Wahab to its Board of Trustees
MIAMI, FL.- Miami Art Museum, a modern and contemporary art museum located in downtown Miami, FL, has elected Rubén A. Rodríguez and Walid G. Wahab to its board of trustees. Rodriguez, executive vice president of ship operations for Carnival Cruise Lines, and Wahab, president of Wahab Construction,will help guide Miami Art Museum’s community programs, donor support and planning for the new and expanded, Herzog & de Meuron-designed facility at Museum Park, which is scheduled to open to the public in 2013. “Ruben Rodriguez and Walid Wahab are extraordinary community leaders and business men,” said Gail Meyers, president of the Miami Art Museum board of trustees. “Building a new museum requires the dedication of a committed group of supporters, and we’re fortunate that these outstanding new board members will help shape a bright future for Miami’s art community.” As the executive vice pre ... More
Sunflower Castle Painting Acquired by Historic New England
BOSTON, MA.- The Historic New England recently acquired a painting by New England artist Gertrude Beals Bourne (1868-1962). The beautiful watercolor depicts Gertrude Beals Bourne’s studio, created for her by her husband, architect Frank Bourne, in “Sunflower Castle,” their house on Boston’s Beacon Hill. The Bournes moved in right after their marriage in 1904 and lived there until 1962. Known for painting gardens and Colonial Revival architecture, Bourne’s work was shown at such venues as the Boston Art Club, the New York Water Color Club, the American Water Color Society, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the National Gallery of Art. The vast collections of Historic New England's Library and Archives provide important documentation for New England's cultural and architectural history. Its holdings include photographs, architectural drawings, manuscripts, ephemera, prints and engravings, artwo ... More
Jan Krugier Gallery in New York will Transfer Its Operations to Geneva
NEW YORK, NY.- The Jan Krugier Gallery will close its offices in New York and transfer its operations to Galerie Krugier & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland. The closing will occur at the end of the year. Tzila Krugier explains, "I have decided to center the Krugier company in Geneva where I live and where the family's business has been conducted since 1962. Of course we will continue to be very active in New York and in the United States. Our clients here will continue to be very important to us, and our relationships with galleries and dealers, developed over the past 40 years, will be preserved and made even stronger. But I have decided that the most efficient and effective way to conduct our business is to consolidate all operations in Geneva.” The Jan Krugier Gallery of New York has been a fixture in the art world for decades. It specializes in 19th century, 20th century and contemporary art and original prints. It frequently ... More
Third Successful Year of Artist Rooms: The Art Fund Grants Funding for 2011 Tour
LONDON.- Building on the outstanding successes of the ARTIST ROOMS tours in 2009 and 2010, which have seen over 60% of the ARTIST ROOMS Collection shown at institutions across the UK in the first two years, with 377 works lent in 2010 alone, National Galleries of Scotland and Tate announced plans for 2011. The tour in 2011 will include venues in Dumfries, Hull, Kendal, Kilmarnock, Leeds, Llandudno and Orkney and 23 ROOMS will open in that year. The Art Fund, the national fundraising charity for works of art, also announced today that, for the third year running, it is sponsoring the UK tour with funding of £250,000 including funds set aside for regional galleries to spend on promotional, community and educational activities. Nineteen venues will show ARTIST ROOMS exhibitions and displays in the new programme for 2011 from the collection created by Anthony d'Offay and acquired by the nation in February 2008. A further two venue ... More
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