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People stand near the Alexei Bogoliubov painting 'On the Eve of the Celebration, Santa Maria della Salute, Venice' during Sotheby's pre-sale exhibition in Moscow, Russia, 20 October 2010. The next Important Russian Art and Impressionist Modern Art Evening Sale will be held in New York, USA, 04 November 2010. EPA/SERGEI ILNITSKY.
MOSCOW.- Sotheby’s presents the inaugural sale of Important Russian Art in New York on 4 November 2010, alongside the major autumn auctions of Impressionist & Modern Art. The sale includes select works by many of the greatest names in 20th-century Russian art. Highlights from the sale will be on view in Moscow 21-23 October before returning to New York for the sale and exhibition, opening 28 October. The Important Russian Art sale is led by Aleksey Kravchenko’s Indian Fairytale, the most important work by the artist ever to appear at auction (est. $1/1.5 million*). This iconic masterpiece definitively speaks to Kravchenko’s place in art history as one of the most dramatic and romantic painters and colorists of his time. The St. Petersburg Academy invited the artist to travel to India and Sri Lanka in 1913, an exotic one-year journey that provided a wealth of subjects and inspiration for his fantastical canvases ... More |
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Unseen "Favourite" Portrait of Wellington Set to Be a Major Draw at Thomas Lawrence Exhibition
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington by Thomas Lawrence. Private Collection of Sir Robert Ogden CBE.
LONDON.- A rarely-seen portrait of the Duke of Wellington from a private collection and commissioned by one of his closest female friends is set to be a big draw at the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition devoted to the Regency artist Sir Thomas Lawrence, which opens on Thursday 21 October. Apart from a two-month exhibition in Bristol in 1951, the portrait has never been seen in public. The portrait – which shows Wellington in civilian clothes rather than military attire – is widely held to be one of the artist’s most celebrated paintings. It is also one of the most successful and revealing portraits by any artist for whom the Duke sat. It comes as close as any to penetrating Wellington's aura of heroism and capturing the essence of the man. Commissioned in 1820 by Wellington's close friends the diplomat Charles Arbuthnot and his wife Harriet, whom he had met in Paris in 1814, the portrait was exhibited ... More | | Prefabricated Architectural Designs by Jean Prouvé Inaugurate Gagosian's New Project Space in Paris
Jean Prouvé, Façade panel with porthole windows, 1950. Aluminium, bois et verre, 295 x 91 x 7 cm. Provenance : Ecole, Bouqueval, France. Courtesy Galerie Patrick Seguin.
PARIS.- On October 20, 2010 Gagosian Gallery will open in Paris. An exhibition of Jean Prouvé’s prefabricated architectural designs will inaugurate the new project space on the second floor of the gallery. Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) is widely acknowledged as one of the twentieth century’s most important and influential designers whose wide-ranging oeuvre combined bold elegance with economy of means and strong social conscience. Working as a craftsman, designer, manufacturer, architect, teacher, and engineer, his career spanned more than sixty years, during which time he produced prefabricated houses, building components and façades, as well as furniture for the home, office and school. The exhibition focuses primarily on Prouvé’s prefabricated structures of the late 1940s and ... More | | Hitler Becomes Major Berlin Tourist Attraction, more than 10,000 Visitors Walk in Since Opening Friday
A man walks in front of photographs showing dictator Adolf Hitler. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch.
BERLIN (REUTERS).- "Hitler and the Germans," an exhibition in Berlin's German Historical Museum which investigates the society that created Hitler, has seen more than 10,000 visitors walk through its doors since opening Friday. Rudolf Trabold, a spokesman for the museum, said there were 4,000 visitors to the exhibition on the first day alone. People visiting the exhibition said they had waited as long as 1-1/2 hours to get in. Ravi Nair, a 73-year-old Indian visitor, said: "I had to queue for about an hour but it was worth it. The exhibition should help people in democratic countries realize that their vote is very valuable." Trabold said Hitler and the Germans was so popular because it was "the first exhibition to explain how a man who lived on the margins of society for 30 years, in Vienna's men's hostels, could become an almost mythical leader of the German people. "We are all affected by Hitler, so it speaks to all of ... More |
 | Museums Escape the Worst in Spending Review, will Only Face a 15 Percent Funding Cut
Planned extensions to the Tate Gallery and British Museum (above) in London were also safe.
LONDON (REUTERS).- Museums breathed a sigh of relief after escaping the worst of the government spending cuts announced on Wednesday, but reductions in funding for other sectors of the arts were significantly higher. Chancellor George Osborne said museums would face a 15 percent funding cut over the next four years, and, crucially to the sector, free admission to museums and galleries would be preserved. Planned extensions to the Tate Gallery and British Museum in London were also safe. "The outcome of the Spending Review for national museums is better than we had feared and we would like to thank ... Osborne for acknowledging that museums are a front line service for millions of people," Tate said in a statement. "We particularly welcome the announcement that free admission to national museums will continue." Michael Dixon, chairman of the National Museum Directors' Conference, also recognized that the long-awaited announcement was better than some had feared, but added that a ... More | | New Large-Scale and Single Continuous Installation by Roxy Paine at James Cohan Gallery
Roxy Paine, Distillation, 2010. Stainless steel, glass, paint, pigment. Dimensions variable. Photo: Sheila Griffin. Copyright the artist. Courtesy James Cohan Gallery, New York/Shanghai.
NEW YORK, NY.- For Roxy Paine’s fourth solo exhibition at James Cohan Gallery, the gallery presents the artist’s new large-scale installation Distillation (2010). A single continuous piece, the artwork begins at the gallery’s front door and pierces its walls to travel all the way through the space to the back offices. The sculpture is Paine’s newest addition to his stainless steel Dendroid series, which includes Maelstrom, featured on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Roof Garden in 2009. Roxy Paine’s monumental new work Distillation becomes a metaphor for the artist's mental process. Paine re-examines alchemical methods to create a meditation on mystical industrialism. If the process of distillation is an attempt to find purity, the sculpture Distillation demonstrates the impossibility of that goal. An apt analogy can be found in Hilary Mantel’s writing on the alchemic practice in her 1989 ... More | | Swiss Archaeologists Find 5,000-Year-Old Door, One of the Oldest Ever Found in Europe
A 5,000-year old door that archaeologists in the Swiss city of Zurich have found and may be the oldest ever found in Europe. AP Photo/Hochbaudepartment Zurich.
ZURICH (AP).- Archaeologists in the Swiss city of Zurich have unearthed a 5,000-year-old door that may be one of the oldest ever found in Europe. The ancient poplar wood door is "solid and elegant" with well-preserved hinges and a "remarkable" design for holding the boards together, chief archaeologist Niels Bleicher said Wednesday. Using tree rings to determine its age, Bleicher believes the door could have been made in the year 3,063 B.C. — around the time that construction on Britain's world famous Stonehenge monument began. "The door is very remarkable because of the way the planks were held together," Bleicher told The Associated Press. Harsh climatic conditions at the time meant people had to build solid houses that would keep out much of the cold wind that blew across Lake Zurich, and the door would have helped, he said. "It's a clever design that even looks good." The door was part of a ... More |
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Exhibition at the Meadows Museum in Dallas Gives Sneak Peek at George Bush Archives
Items from the President George W. Bush Library are on display at the Meadows Museum in Dallas. AP Photo/LM Otero.
By: Jamie Stengle, Associated Press Writer
DALLAS (AP).- A new exhibit will give the public it's first glimpse into the archives of former President George W. Bush, including the bullhorn Bush used when he visited ground zero days after Sept. 11 and the pistol taken from Saddam Hussein when he was captured. "I think they'll really love some of the interesting items like the bullhorn," said Alan Lowe, director of the George W. Bush Presidential Library. "There's such an emotional connection with these objects that I think people will have because they'll remember those points in history: remember what they were doing on 9/11 or the war in Iraq. They'll remember the day Saddam was pulled out of that spider hole." The free exhibit, "Breaking New Ground: Presenting the George W. Bush Presidential Center," opens Saturday and runs through Feb. 6 at the ... More | | Exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery Focuses on Cézanne's Paintings of Card Players and Pipe Smokers
Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), The Smoker, c.1892. Oil on canvas, 91 x 72 cm. The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.
LONDON.- Paul Cézanne’s famous paintings of peasant card players and pipe smokers have long been considered to be among his most iconic and powerful works. This landmark exhibition, organised by The Courtauld Gallery in London and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is the first to focus on this group of masterpieces. Described by Cézanne’s early biographer, Gustav Coquiot, as being “equal to the most beautiful works of art in the world”, this is a unique opportunity to enjoy these remarkable paintings in unprecedented depth. The exhibition brings together the most comprehensive group of these works ever staged, including three of the Card Players paintings, five of the most outstanding peasant portraits and the majority of the exquisite preparatory drawings, watercolours and oil studies. Cézanne’s Card Players stand alongside his Bathers series as the most ambitious and complex figurative ... More | | Important Russian Enamels and Fabergé from a Private New York Collection at Sotheby's
Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna: A Presentation Gilded Silver and Enamel Bread and Salt Dish, Lyubavin, St. Petersburg , circa 1902. Est. $80/120,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s New York auction of Important Russian Enamels and Fabergé from a Private New York Collection on 4 November comprises a group of over 80 items painstakingly assembled over decades of collecting. The sale offers several works with noble provenance, including a wedding kovsh that was by tradition presented by Emperor Nicholas II and a bread and salt dish given to Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna for her wedding, and also features a unique group of parasol and cane handles. The items will be on exhibition beginning 28 October, and together are estimated at $1.7/2.5 million. Important works by Feodor Rückert are led by A Fine and Massive Russian Gilded Silver and Shaded Enamel Large Wedding Kovsh, retailed by Ovchinnikov, Moscow, circa 1900 (est. $200/300,000). In this magnificent and rare kovsh, Rückert sums up the key ... More |
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"No New Thing Under the Sun" Explored in Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts
Seb Patane, Mdlle Adeline Genee, 2006. Ink on printed paper. Courtesy Maureen Paley, London.
LONDON.- No New Thing Under the Sun will open in the Tennant Gallery this October. The exhibition will bring together selected historical pieces from the Royal Academy Collection together with works by contemporary artists. Around 50 works spanning the last 500 years will be featured. Inspired by the Biblical book of Ecclesiastes, this exhibition is about time, transience, and human vanity; about the grandeur of life, and the inevitability of death. Though not a religious or dogmatic show, the exhibition is a response to the scripture and aims to evoke the book’s mood. In offering a pause for consideration and reflection on the human condition, the exhibition will allow viewers to connect with the sorts of simple truths that are overlooked in our hectic world, and ends by suggesting a sense of simple joy at being alive in the here and now. Mixing together exhibits by contemporary artists with carefully selected dr ... More | | New Museum Presents "Free," An Exhibition Exploring How the Web Has Expanded Our Cultural Space
Trevor Paglen, PAN (Unknown; USA-207), 2010. C-Print, 48 x 60 inches (121.9 x 152.4 cm). Courtesy the artist; Altman Siegel, San Francisco; and Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne.
NEW YORK, NY.- Today, culture is more dispersed than ever before. The web has broadened both the quantity and kind of information freely available. It has distributed our collective experience across geographic locations; opened up a new set of creative possibilities; and, coextensively, produced a set of challenges. This fall, the New Museum presents “Free,” an exhibition including twenty-three artists working across mediums—including video, installation, sculpture, photography, the internet, and sound—that reflects artistic strategies that have emerged in a radically democratized cultural terrain redefined by the impact of the web. “Free” will propose an expansive conversation around how the internet has affected our landscape of information and notion of public space. The philosophy of free culture, and its ... More | | Rare and Exceptional Works Lead Christie's Classical and Modern Chinese Paintings Sale
Lin Fengmian (1900–1991), Girl. Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper, 91 x 67 cm. Estimate: US$ 645,200–774,200. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010.
HONG KONG.- Christie’s Hong Kong will hold its Fall sales of Fine Chinese Modern Paintings and Fine Chinese Classical Paintings and Calligraphy on 30 November at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. These sales will showcase over 350 rare and exceptional works from the Chinese masters, valued in excess of HK$260 million (US$34 million). Chinese calligraphy and paintings are among the most culturally rich and meaningful art forms and encapsulate the history of Chinese culture. The Fine Chinese Classical Paintings and Calligraphy sale will feature important works by artists spanning both Ming and Qing Dynasty (15th-19th Century), including Ming Dynasty calligraphers and painters such as Wang Duo, Ni Yuanlu, Huang Daozhou and Lan Ying, as well as important Qing artists such as BaDa ShanRen, Hua Yan and ... More |
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November Sunset Estate Auction to Feature Jewelry and Handbags from the Estate of Maria Helen Smith
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams & Butterfields announced the November 14-15, 2010 Sunset Estate Auction featuring Property from the Estate of television and business pioneer, Maria Helen Smith. The two-day sale will include a robust selection of vintage and designer handbags, ties, luxury goods and jewelry once owned by Smith. The couture items will be offered together with select furniture, decorative arts and Asian Works of Art from the Smith estate in the San Diego community of Rancho Santa Fe, California. Maria Helen Smith was born July 4, 1921, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was a pioneer in the arenas of broadcasting, business and real estate. Over the course of her career, Smith paved the way for women in television, radio and corporate ventures. She was one of the first women in the United States to own a television station as well as one of the first female inductees to the Oklahoma Broadcasters Hall of Fame. Highlights from ... More
George Best 1968 European Cup Winner's Medal Fetches £156,000 at Bonhams
LONDON.- The 1968 European Cup winner’s medal awarded to the legendary Northern Irish football player, George Best (1946-2005), sold for a staggering £156,000 today (20 October) at Bonhams, Chester, as part of the Sporting Memorabilia sale. The medal, which had attracted a pre-sale estimate of £90,000 – 120,000, was presented following Manchester United’s 4-1 victory over Benfica, Portugal, when Manchester United became the first English team to win the European Cup. The medal was among 13 awards presented to George Best during his illustrious football career put up for auction at Bonhams by the Executors of Best’s estate. The proceeds from the sale of the items, which totalled an impressive £200,000, will go to Best’s sister, Barbara McNally. Top prices were also paid for a replica of this European Cup Winner’s medal, which was made for Best by the Professional Footballers’ Association when ... More
Hal Foster to Be Awarded 2010 Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute today announced that critic, author, editor and educator Hal Foster will receive the 2010 Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing on November 19 in New York City. Established in 2006, the Clark Prize recognizes individuals whose critical or art historical writing has had a significant impact on public understanding and appreciation of the visual arts. The Clark Prize celebrates excellence in arts writing that conveys complex ideas in a manner that is informed, insightful, and accessible. In awarding this honor, the Clark raises awareness of the importance of writing that bridges scholarly and popular interest in the arts and seeks to encourage support for this type of writing among publishers, editors, and the public. The prize will be presented to Foster by Glenn D. Lowry, Director of the Museum of Modern Art, a native of Williamstown and a graduate of Willi ... More
Dallas Museum of Art Celebrates the 25th Anniversary of the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection
DALLAS, TX.- This November marks the 25th anniversary of the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection at the Dallas Museum of Art. In 1985, the Museum received more than 1,400 works from the private art collection of Emery Reves – including impressionist, post-impressionist, and modern paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, and decorative arts objects – donated by the Wendy & Emery Reves Foundation, Inc. on behalf of Wendy’s late husband Emery. With this gift the Museum’s collections of late 19th- and early 20th-century European art and European decorative art were transformed. To house the remarkable collection, the DMA opened a 16,500-square-foot wing in 1985 designed by the Museum’s architect, Edward Larrabee Barnes, to recreate five rooms from Villa La Pausa, the home of Wendy and Emery Reves in the south of France. The wing presents the entire Reves Collection, featuring important works by ... More
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