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Visitors contemplate the landscape painting The Solitary Oak by US artist Asher B. Durand (17961886) at the Juan March Foundation museum in Madrid, Spain. The exhibition of 140 worksoils, drawings, and prints by Durand, the first in Spain and Europe, runs from 01 October 2010 to 09 January 2011. EPA/CHEMA MOYA.
MADRID.- This exhibition of 140 works—including oil paintings, drawings and prints—is the first monographic exhibition devoted to Durand outside the United States, where he is recognized as a leading landscape painter and pioneer engraver. Through an important selection of works, the exhibition will reveal Durand’s unique genius as a landscape painter and portraitist. During his long artistic career Durand depicted the bucolic beauty of the American landscape. As many other nineteenth-century American artists and writers, Asher B Durand (1796-1886) embarked on a European tour in June 1840. In the company and friends and fellow painters, Durand left the port of New York for London with the intention of travelling to several European cities—a common interest at the time—and the sole purpose of “instruction alone.” After 170 years, almost two centuries later, Durand’s artwork returns to Europe. This time he travels alone (with the exception o ... More |
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Exhibition of Major Abstract Expressionist Paintings at Gagosian in Beverly Hills
Clyfford Still, 1955-d, Ph-387, 1955. Oil on canvas, 117 1/2 x 111 inches (298.4 x 281.9 cm). Photo: Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Gagosian Gallery presents “Masters of the Gesture”, an exhibition of major Abstract Expressionist paintings, drawings and sculptures, including works by John Chamberlain, Willem de Kooning, Sam Francis, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Mark Rothko, David Smith and Clyfford Still. The exhibition includes loans from key private and public collections. Works in the exhibition explore the range of direct, individualized gestures and dominating physicality that became the distinguishing characteristics of the Abstract Expressionist movement. Critically championed by Clement Greenberg, by the early 1950s Abstract Expressionist art was firmly established as the dominant movement in American ... More | | First Zeng Fanzhi Solo Show on the West Coast Opens at Fabien Fryns Fine Art
Zeng Fanzhi’s “Mao” and “Warhol” portraits operate on the opposite end of the scale.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Fabien Fryns Fine Art in Los Angeles presents an exhibition of works by Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi. The exhibition – consisting of 2 “Warhol” and 3 “Mao” portraits – is the artist’s, one of Chinese contemporary art’s brightest stars, first solo show on the West Coast. The exhibition opens on October 2, 2010, from 5 to 7p.m. and ends on December 4, 2010. This exhibition coincides with the launch of the new monograph “Zeng Fanzhi” published by Hatje Cantz which includes a foreword by Fabien Fryns and a text by Dr Richard Shiff. The natural inclination with an exhibition like this is to make comparisons between Zeng Fanzhi and Warhol. In Warhol’s “Mao” prints (as in his “Marilyn Monroe” and his own self portrait prints), his candied repackaging of global pop icons not only serves to monumentalize his subjects—more importantly, ... More | | LACMA Presents Eye for the Sensual: Selections from the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Collection
Michel Garnier, A Fashionably Dressed Young Woman in the Arcade of the Palace Royal, Paris, 1787. Oil on canvas, 46.4 X 3.1 cm. Collection of Lynda and Stewart Resnick. Photo: © 2010 Museum Associates/LACMA.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Eye for the Sensual: Selections from the Resnick Collection, which features more than 100 paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts from the collection of Lynda and Stewart Resnick, long-time patrons of the museum. Since the early 1980s, the Resnicks have collected in many areas ranging from European to American and modern art. This exhibition will reflect their interest in European painting, sculpture, and decorative arts from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. Eye for the Sensual is one of three inaugural exhibitions to open the new Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion, named in honor of the Resnicks’ generous donation ... More |
 | Guggenheim Presents New Site-Specific Installation Made for the Museum by Ryan Gander
Ryan Gander, A sheet of paper on which I was about to draw, as it slipped from my table and fell to the floor, 2008, 100 crystal balls, 14.9 cm each, dimensions variable overall. Courtesy Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, and Lisson Gallery, London.
NEW YORK, NY.- From October 1, 2010, to January 9, 2011, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Intervals: Ryan Gander, the third installment of its contemporary art series designed to reflect the spirit of today’s most innovative practices. For his Intervals project, Ryan Gander (b. 1976, Chester, United Kingdom) has created a new, site-specific installation for the museum’s Aye Simon Reading Room. From the utopian ambitions of the modernist movement to the overlooked details of daily experience, Gander’s work ranges across a dizzying spectrum of forms and ideas. His meticulously researched projects–which have included such diverse conceptual gestures as an invented word, a chess set, a television script, and a children’s book–engage familiar historical ... More | | On Conceptual Sketches, Controversial New York Islamic Center Looks Modern, Secular
An exterior view of the proposed Park51 community center and mosque. AP Photo/SOMA Architects.
By: David B. Caruso, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP).- Conceptual sketches of the Islamic center planned two blocks from ground zero envision a futuristic-looking building wrapped in a honeycomb of abstract shapes, with a core containing far more space for secular pursuits than religious worship. The renderings, some of which were posted on the project's website this week, are preliminary, but they project the development team's desire to build something cosmopolitan and fun on a site now known only for controversy. "I don't think that once this thing gets built, anyone will be picketing," said Sharif El-Gamal, the project's developer. Groundbreaking for construction is probably two to three years away, "or hopefully sooner," El-Gamal told The Associated Press. The largest part of the building — four of 16 floors — would be taken up by a sports, fitness and swimming center. Another full floor ... More | | Paintings and Mixed Media Works Comprise Joyce Kozloff's Exhibition at DC Moore Gallery
Joyce Kozloff, The Middle East, 3 Views III: The Fight for Northern Pakistan, 2010. (Triptych, right panel), 2010. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 72 x 72 inches. Courtesy DC Moore Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery presents Joyce Kozloff: Navigational Triangles from October 2nd to October 30th, 2010. Long before Google Maps or GPS, seafarers used navigational triangles to pinpoint their location and to chart their course in relation to celestial bodies and the earth’s poles. This exhibition comprises paintings and mixed media works that expand upon this concept and continue the artist’s longstanding engagement with cross-cultural issues. Migration, commerce, and conflict course through Kozloff’s art as she captures the cyclical nature of history while preserving the resonance of specific events. Geographic regions reappear through lenses of the past, present, and future, with implications from one piece informing the next. Several works, including the tondo Revolver and the 18-foot-long triptych Middle ... More |
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"Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen" Opens at Kent State University Museum
Costumes worn for publicity photos for Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
KENT, OH.- After a series of sold-out pre-opening events, Kent State University Museum opens its highly anticipated exhibition “Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen” on October 2, 2010. The exhibit, which closes Sept 4, 2011, showcases the screen legend’s performance clothes, which include stage and film costumes spanning Miss Hepburn’s career, as well as apparel she wore for publicity purposes. Katharine Hepburn is universally recognized among the greatest actresses of all time. She was nominated by the Motion Picture Academy a record 12 times in the best leading actress category and won four Oscars -- for Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967). The Lion In Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981). This record has never been equaled. “Katharine Hepburn has had a profound impact on American popular culture and fashion, and has influenced generations of women,& ... More | | Amon Carter Museum Showcases a Special Documentary Photography Exhibition
Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), Manhattan Bridge Looking Up, 1936. Gelatin silver print. The Art Institute of Chicago, Works Progress Administration Allocation, 1389.1943.
FORT WORTH, TX.- On October 2, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art presents American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White. This special exhibition explores the work of three of the foremost photographers of the twentieth-century and the golden age of documentary photography in America. American Modern will be on view through January 2, 2011; admission is free. Featuring more than 140 photographs by Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), Margaret Bourke-White (1906–1971) and Walker Evans (1903–1975), American Modern was co-organized by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art and the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine. The exhibition is the result of a unique partnership between three curators: Jessica May and Sharon Corwin of the Carter and Colby, respectively, and Terri ... More | | Totonaca Mural Paintings Restored: Salts that Blocked Visibility were Removed
The mural paintings were created by the ancient Totonaca groups between 800 and 1200 AD in Building 1 at the area known as Tajin Chico, in the archaeological site. Photo: Sinhué Medina/INAH.
MEXICO CITY.- After 3 years of restoration, the 30 meters long mural painting at El Tajin Archaeological Zone, in Veracruz, nearly 1000 years old, recovered their colors and iconography to be enjoyed by the general public. The mural paintings were created by the ancient Totonaca groups between 800 and 1200 AD in Building 1 at the area known as Tajin Chico, in the archaeological site. The murals presented deterioration and crumbles produced by salts and were painted on floors, walls, steps, rafters and niches; the completely decorated dwelling might have been occupied by a high-rank character. It was in 2007 when specialists of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) began the rescue and conservation of the paintings, coordinated by restorer Dulce Maria Grimaldi. Calcium carbonate salts were ... More |
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Velázquez: The Painter of Painters, a Film by Didier Baussy-Oulianoff, will Be Available on DVD
Velázquez: The Painter of Painters - A Film by Didier Baussy-Oulianoff.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kultur announces the DVD release of Velázquez: The Painter of Painters will be available on DVD October 26, 2010 for a suggested retail price of $19.99. Although he left a legacy of little more than one hundred canvasses, Velázquez has exerted an enormous influence on other painters, particularly over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Manet declared him "the painter of painters." Between August 17 and December 30, 1957, Picasso locked himself away with a copy of Las Meninas (Maids of Honour) and painted 40 variations on the picture, and Francis Bacon was obsessed with Velázquez's portrait of Innocent X. Las Meninas is widely considered to be the masterpiece of masterpieces and the enigma it presents has provoked endless speculation about what it reveals about Velázquez and his artistic intentions. This film touches on the debate and reveals how scientific examination ... More | | Brian Griffin Returns to Birmingham for His First Major Retrospective in His Birth City
Margaret Thatcher, 10 Downing Street 1986.
BIRMINGHAM.- Leading British photographer and film-maker Brian Griffin returns to Birmingham for Face to Face, his first major retrospective in his birth city. Face to Face takes place in two adjacent locations in Birmingham’s Colmore Business District. A large-scale outdoor retrospective showcases Griffin’s portraiture over the last 38 years, including many of his most prominent portraits of leading musicians, politicians and celebrities. Two accompanying indoor exhibitions feature Griffin’s award-winning series’ Team and The Water People. Brian Griffin said: “I am a boy from the Black Country born in Birmingham. For that reason the city has always been close to my heart and it is an honour to be given this retrospective”. Known for the extraordinary composition and lighting of his portraits, Griffin’s distinctive style was developed during his early career as a staff photographer at Management Today. Joining the magazine in 1972, Griffin’ ... More | | First U.S. Retrospective of the Work of Belgian Contemporary Artist Luc Tuymans Opens at Chicago's MCA
Luc Tuymans, The Nose, 2002; oil on canvas; 11 ¾ x 9 ½ in (29.9 x 24.1 cm); Collection of Jill and Dennis Roach; © Luc Tuymans; photo by Ben Blackwell; courtesy David Zwirner, New York.
CHICAGO, IL.- The first U.S. retrospective of the work of Belgian contemporary artist Luc Tuymans -- and the most comprehensive presentation of his work to date -- is on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago from October 2, 2010 through January 9, 2011. Jointly organized by SFMOMA and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Luc Tuymans features approximately 75 key paintings from 1978 to the present and reunites works from important series as initially set out by the artist, thus restoring intended dialogue among the works. This retrospective is co-curated by Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director of the MCA, and Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston, and the Chicago presentation is coordinated by MCA Pamela Alper Associate Curator Julie Rodrigues Widholm. Luc ... More |
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The Poetic of Written Space: Handwriting and Calligraphy at Correr Museum in Venice
VENICE.- Part of the educational activities proposed by the Fondazione Musei Civici Veneziani, and in particular the international workshop “The art of handwriting” which is in its second edition this year (at Correr Museum and Biblioteca d’Arte and Storia Veneziana, 1-8 October 2010), the exhibition focuses on the unique theme of writing. Curated by Monica Dengo and Monica Viero, the exhibition is divided into four sections that range from sixteenth-century treatises to contemporary works on paper. They all have in common the practice of writing by hand, as an image, and bundle of written marks as a means of communication. The sections: • The historical section : manuals from the 1500s to letters and documents from the 1900s from the Correr Museum Library, as examples of the particular use writing had over the years in both the private and every day sphere. • The contemporary section: artworks on paper and artist's books by contemporary artists ... More
New Tour at the Frick Art & Historical Center: Mourning Customs in the Victorian Era
PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Frick Art & Historical Center presents a new thematic tour of Clayton, the restored late-19th-century home of the Henry Clay Frick family, to be offered during the months of September and October. Mourning Customs in the Victorian Era is the second in a series of four new tours designed to provide visitors multiple ways to connect to Pittsburgh history and to find personal meaning in the stories that are told. Loss of friends and loved ones was an all-too-common occurrence during the Victorian era. Appropriate social behavior was highly prized, and rules for behavior were written about extensively in etiquette books. Social cues given through one’s dress, black or white wreaths on front doors, black borders on calling cards, and many other ways were an important part of the process for those in mourning and those paying their respects. The tour, Mourning Customs in the Victorian Era, will i ... More
Sale of the Magnificent Cellar of Marcus D. Hiles Realised a Total of US$6.4 Million
HONG KONG.- Robert Sleigh, Sotheby’s Head of Wine, Asia, “Sotheby’s Hong Kong saleroom was filled to capacity today as we completed our eighth consecutive 100%-sold wine auction in Asia in the last 18 months. What was most exciting about this sale was to see the way in which Asian buyers widened the range of wines they pursue as they enthusiastically responded to Burgundy, Rhône, California, Australia and Madeira offered in the Magnificent Cellar of Marcus D. Hiles. Whether building cellars, buying for drinking, entertaining or investing, Asian collectors continue their domination of the worldwide auction market for wine.” Serena Sutcliffe, MW, Sotheby’s Worldwide Head of Wine, commented, “Lovers of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti produced all the fireworks in today’s sale as the largest and most important collection of this classic, blue-chip Burgundy ever sold in Asia came to the auction block ... More
Historic Mirrors from the Setting of Brideshead Revisited to Sell at Bonhams
LONDON.- Two important George II carved giltwood mirrors, part of a set of four commissioned for Castle Howard in Yorkshire, the stately home featured in the 1981 TV series and the 2008 film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited, are to be sold at Bonhams' Fine English Furniture and Works of Art sale on 3 November 2010. Probably designed for Henry, 4th Earl of Carlisle (1694-1758) by John Vardy and showing the influence of his colleague William Kent, the mirrors have attracted a pre-sale estimate of £100,000 – 150,000. Having passed by descent from Henry, 4th Earl of Carlisle through five generations, the mirrors were bought by a London dealer, Lionel Harris Junior, in 1929. Three year later, in September 1932, Harris was contacted by the leading furniture historian and advisor R. W. Symonds, who had been employed by Francis A Lauder to find a pair of mirrors for Bowden Hall in Derbyshire. Due to the depress ... More
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