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Persian Laver Kirman, 11ft 9in x 16ft 4in, early 19th century, from The Heartland Collection, superbly preserved in excellent condition at 200 years old, extraordinarily finely crafted with designs that appear chiseled rather than woven.
OAKLAND, CA.- Claremont Rug Company today announced the acquisition of an 85-piece collection of rare 19th century art-level Oriental rugs assembled and held by a single family over four generations. Entitled “The Heartland Treasury of Antique Art Carpets,” the collection will be available for viewing on the Gallery’s website (www.claremontrug.com) on Thursday and at the Gallery’s location (6087 Claremont Avenue) on Saturday. Assembled by two generations of an industrialist family between the 1930’s and 1970’s, the collection contains a wide gamut of connoisseur-level pieces from the major weaving centers and renowned tribal groups created during “The Second Golden Age of Persian Weaving” (circa 1800 – 1890). “This august assemblage includes a number of one-of-a-kind, art-level specimens so unique that no published examples can be found, while others are sterling renderin ... More |
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Ai Weiwei Presents New Commission in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern's Turbine Hall
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei poses for a photograph with his new installation entitled 'Sunflower Seeds'. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth.
LONDON.- Tate and Unilever today presented Chinese artist Ai Weiwei´s commission in The Unilever Series for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern (12 October 2010 – 25 April 2011). He is the first artist living and working in the Asia-Pacific region to be commissioned for the series. Born in Beijing in 1957, Ai Weiwei is one of the most prominent and influential figures in Chinese art today. In his many roles as conceptual artist, curator, critic, designer and architect, his work encompasses a wide range of challenging and often provocative activity. Ai has played a key role in the development of contemporary Chinese art over the last two decades, from his role in the radical avant-garde ‘Stars Group’ in 1979, to his collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron in designing the national ‘Bird's Nest’ stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. After living in the United States from 1981 to 1993, ... More | | Exceptional Public Exhibitions, Events and Auctions at Christie's During Frieze Week
A representative of auction house Christie's eyes a painting by US artist Andy Warhol's entitled 'Campbell's Soup with Can Opener'. EPA/YM YIK.
LONDON.- Christie’s will host an exciting series of public exhibitions, events and auctions from today until 18 October in London coinciding with the Frieze Art Fair. The leading highlights of the public exhibition are celebrated masterpieces by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Gerhard Richter, none of which has been seen before in the UK. These works will be offered at the evening auction of Post-War and Contemporary Art in New York on 10 November 2010 and have a combined value in excess of $80 million. The Post-War & Contemporary Evening Auction and The Italian Sale on 14 October at 6.30pm will offer 51 and 45 lots accordingly and will include an extremely strong section of photography, and the most important work by Damien Hirst to be offered at auction since September 2008 (estimate: £2.5 million to £3.5 million). Francis Outred, Head of Post-War & ... More | | Sotheby's to Sell Francis Bacon's Figure In Movement, Gift from the Artist to his Doctor
Francis Bacon, Figure In Movement, 1985, est. $7/10 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced the sale of Francis Bacon’s Figure In Movement, the most significant painting by the British artist to appear at auction in several seasons, in its Evening Sale of Contemporary Art on 9 November 2010 in New York. The 1985 portrait of a man twisting and writhing, demonstrates the artist’s genius in painting the human figure in motion, and epitomizes the full spectrum of his legendary artistic technique. The monumental canvas was given by Bacon to his doctor the same year it was executed and has remained in the same collection ever since. Figure In Movement returns to New York two years after it was featured in the 2008 landmark exhibition Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art which began at Tate Britain and was also shown at the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid. The painting, which has been on extended loan to Tate Britain for the past decade, i ... More |
 | British Sculptor Sir Anthony Caro OM, CBE to Exhibit at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi
British sculptor Anthony Caro poses near one of his works. EPA/Kai Foersterling.
BONDI.- Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi announced that one of the most important sculptors in the world, Sir Anthony Caro OM, CBE, will be part of the 2010 exhibition which runs from 28 October to 14 November on the spectacular Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk. Made possible thanks to the generous support of Transfield Holdings, a long time sponsor of Sculpture by the Sea, Caro's sculpture Erl King will be on one of the exhibition's prime locations in the sandstone lookout at the end of the south Bondi headland overlooking the ocean. Caro said of his inclusion in the exhibition "I went to Australia in 1971 and liked the place very much. I found the people forward-looking and energetic. There was an atmosphere of 'can-do'. Visually it was unexpected and beautiful. We went to Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Alice Springs and Darwin. While in Sydney I saw the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House. I met many Australian arti ... More | | RM Auctions Vintage Motor Cars of Hershey Event Posts $8.8 Million in Total Sales with 100% of all Lots Sold
Top sale honors went to a majestic and well-documented 1929 Duesenberg Model J Convertible Coupe. Photo: Darin Schnabel ©2010 Courtesy of RM Auctions.
HERSHEY, PA.- RM Auctions, the world’s largest collector car auction house, achieved a successful 100% sell-through rate at its Hershey, Pennsylvania sale last week, with all 297 lots presented exchanging hands for a total of $8.8 million in sales. Highlighted by a wonderful series of Brass Era automobiles, the two-day sale saw over 140 vehicles, joined by a selection of vintage motorcycles and automotive-themed memorabilia, cross the auction podium before a packed house, with all lots finding new homes. Bidders in the room were joined by those on the phone and via the Internet, with interest received from 18 countries around the world, including as far away as Argentina, Turkey and Australia. Top sale honors went to a majestic and well-documented 1929 Duesenberg Model J Convertible Coupe, J194, from the ... More | | Darker-than-Usual Turn with Sunday's Episode of 'The Simpsons' with Opening by Graffiti Artist Banksy
The opening sequence of the "MoneyBart" episode. AP Photo/Fox.
By: Frazier Moore, AP Television Writer
NEW YORK (AP).- The always clever and often subversive opening sequence for "The Simpsons" took a darker-than-usual turn with Sunday's episode, depicting the animation process for the Fox cartoon series as sweatshop drudgery performed by an exploited Asian underclass. Created by the street artist and activist Banksy, the sequence began with the sight of hometown Springfield covered with graffiti — and tagged by Banksy himself. Then, when the Simpson family gathers on their living room couch, that image becomes a reference shot for legions of workers in the grim industrial complex where they paint cartoon cells and churn out Simpsons merchandise (including Bart dolls stuffed with the fur of kittens tossed into a wood chipper, and DVDs whose center holes are punched by a forlorn-looking unicorn's horn). The entire enterprise ... More |
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Miami International Art Fair, a New Unique Art Fair Model for the 21st Century
The fair will host 65 prestigious international dealers.
MIAMI, FL.- Miami Beach will once again become a gathering place for art lovers across the globe. International Fine Art Expositions (IFAE) announces the Miami International Art Fair (MIA) will return January 14th-17th, 2011 to Miami Beach Convention Center, with a private preview evening January 13th. International Fine Art Expositions (IFAE), and MIA Associate Director Aldo Castillo, have designed the fair to be a catalyst for the finest galleries and dealers to access the South Florida market and has established cultural partnerships with museums, universities and other art-related institutions to ensure a fully integrated fair with innovative curatorial projects and an extensive lecture and panel series. MIA 2011 is inaugurating a unique new model for the Miami art community, combining carefully selected contemporary and cutting edge galleries with a strong curatorial program aimed at supporting the Miami art commun ... More | | Exhibition "Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and Archaeology" at National Museum in Denmark
Queen Margrethe of Denmark at the opening of an exhibition on her own lifelong interest for archaeology. EPA/KELD NAVNTOFT.
COPENHAGEN.- The Danish queen Margrethe II is not only a queen, she is also passionately interested in the past and archaeology. Life-size photographs and the queen’s voice guide visitors through the exhibition. The queen has been on archaeological digs since she was a teenager in Denmark and also abroad – in Italy at the end of the 1950s with her grandfather King Gustav VI of Sweden, in Nubia prior to the building of the Aswan Dam, and not least as an archaeology student at Cambridge. The Danish queen, a descendent of one of the oldest monarchies in the world, has always been interested in history and art, not only in the country she rules, but also throughout the world. Her family tree stretches way beyond Denmark’s borders. She is, for example, the great-great grandchild of Queen Victoria. Margrethe II has a strong interest ... More | | New Museum Brings Lessons of Genocide to New Generations of Mexicans
A woman looks at pictures of Cambodia's genocide victim displayed at the Memory and Tolerance Museum in Mexico City. AP Photo/Miguel Tovar.
By: Molly O'Toole, Associated Press Writer
MEXICO CITY (AP).- A new museum is bringing the lessons of the Holocaust and its grim cousins to new generations of Mexicans — and reminding them that the intolerance that feeds genocide can even grow close to home. The five-story glass and concrete building inaugurated Monday beside Mexico's Foreign Relations Department takes visitors through chilling displays on the Nazi Holocaust and how it was seen from Mexico, then continues through other horrors, including the slaughters of Armenians, Tutsis and Sudanese. It moves toward the very borders of Mexico as well: the 36-year civil war in neighboring Guatemala, where government forces exterminated scores of Mayan Indian villages during a bloodbath that cost some 200,000 lives and ... More |
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America's Most Venerable Art Fair to Return with 70 Expert Art Dealers Held at the Park Avenue Armory
Richard Long, Untitled, 2008. China Clay with acrylic medium and Paint on wood 86 5/8 x 49 ¼ inches. ⓒRichard Long, Courtesy James Cohan Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Art Show, the country's longest running national art fair, opens its doors in New York on March 2, 2011. Now in its 23rd year, The Art Show brings together museum quality exhibitions of art ranging from cutting-edge, 21st century works, to museum-quality pieces from the 19th and 20th centuries. Organized by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) to benefit Henry Street Settlement, the fair's commitment to curatorial expertise and diversity is ever-present in the show's conception, presentation, and execution. The range and excellence of The Art Show will include 67 returning ADAA galleries and 3 first time exhibitors. New galleries, Debra Force Fine Art, New York; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; and Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, will join ... More | | Second Cycle of Exhibitions for Espai 13 at Fundació Joan Miró Opens with Marcus Coates
Marcus Coates, Dawn Chorus, 2007. Courtesy of Kate MacGarry, London and Workplace Gallery, UK.
BARCELONA .- The Fundació Joan Miró presents Implicit Sound, the second cycle of exhibitions for Espai 13 curated by multidisciplinary artist TRES. The title of the project not only stresses its connection with the previous Espai 13 cycle, Explicit Silence, but also reflects visual artists’ growing interest in using sound in their work. The five participants in this project are all eminently visual artists who use sound in an implicit fashion, i.e. by including sound in their work though not necessarily as the main component. Their preference for installations suggests a form of art without any limitations in terms of expressive resources, where the transformation of space tends to be a central aspect. Implicit Sound is not therefore in essence a cycle on sound, and even less so one on sound art. It is a visual arts cycle that aims to express our interest in a form of sound hidden or contained in pieces by certai ... More | | The Christian Stein Collection: A History of Italian Art at the Valencian Institute of Modern Art
Over one hundred masterpieces of postwar Italian art are now on view at IVAM.
VALENCIA.- This exhibition, organised by the IVAM and the Museo Cantonale d'Arte in Lugano, presents for the first time in Spain a selection of over one hundred masterpieces of postwar Italian art from one of the most important and internationally prestigious art collection of gallery-owner Margherita Stein. In the best tradition of gallery-owners cum collectors, Stein chose the works that she felt passionate about rather than those that would further the art trade. This was a passion that she dedicated her whole life to and which earned her the staunch friendship of the artists whom she dealt with for more than forty years. The exhibition, thanks to the extraordinary collection of works that comprise it, documents crucial moments in the development of contemporary art with a view to reflecting the complexity of the historical-artistic moment and the constant evolution of the language ... More |
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China's Ten Thousand Springs Pavilion Goes to Flushing Town Hall
FLUSHING, NY.- Flushing Town Hall hosts “Within The Emperor’s Garden – The Ten Thousand Springs Pavilion,” a highly detailed 1:5 scale model of the classic Wan Chun Ting pavilion found within Beijing’s Forbidden City. Handcrafted using red sandalwood – a cherished material in Imperial China, it is a stunning example of traditional Chinese carving. This major exhibition was organized by the Smithsonian Museum’s Conservation Institute, with the assistance of the China Red Sandalwood Museum, and the Savannah College of Art and Design, and is supported by Flushing Bank, Cathay Bank, and Crystal Window and Door Systems. The pavilion will be on view for one year at Flushing Town Hall, and the community is invited to receptions, related exhibitions, community events, and education programs throughout the year. “Within the Emperor’s Garden” begins October 16, 2010. The commun ... More
Rare Nude Study by Czech Photographer Frantisek Drtikol to Sell at Bonhams
LONDON.- A rare and beautiful example of a Nude Study by the pioneering Czech photographer, Frantisek Drtikol, celebrated for his daring and radical depiction of the female form, is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its Photographs sale on 16 November 2010. The study is an excellent example of the photographer’s later, more stylised compositions in which geometric decoration and shadow played a key part. It has attracted a pre-sale estimate of £25,000 – 30,000. Another top lot is a photograph by Nick Brandt, the director of Michael Jackson’s music video Earth Song, entitled Cheetah and Cubs, Masaai Mara, 2003. Estimated at £8,000 – 12,000, the picture is the result of Brandt falling in love with Tanzania while filming the music video for Michael Jackson’s Earth Song in 1995. Highlights also include a group of 13 pictures depicting post-war France by the French photographer Willy Ronis ... More
Artistic Installations to be Shown in Recently Discovered Labyrinth Beneath London's Waterloo Station
LONDON.- Lazarides Gallery presents their collaboration with The Old Vic Tunnels. Staged within the recently discovered labyrinth beneath London’s Waterloo station, ‘Hell’s Half Acre’ will be a ground-breaking series of installations launching 12th October 2010. Bringing the vision of Steve Lazarides to one of London’s most arresting performance spaces, the maze of tunnels will be converted into a large-scale evocation of Dante’s literary masterpiece Inferno. Visitors will explore the nine circles of Hell through the contributions of artists including: George Osodi, Antony Micallef, Polly Morgan, Jonathan Yeo, Conor Harrington, Christian Lemmerz, Vhils, Paul Insect, Mark Jenkins, Boogie, David Choe, Doug Foster, Zak Ové, Todd James, Ian Francis and many more... Artists will provide their own interpretation of hell with ... More
Europeana Opens Virtual Exhibition Space
THE HAGUE .- Europeana, Europe's digital library, museum and archive, has launched two online exhibitions that explore highlights of art and literature – Reading Europe and Reshaping Art Nouveau. Reading Europe: European culture through the book showcases the full texts of 1,000 of Europeana's most fascinating books, from medieval cookbooks to 18th century English bestsellers. Many literary masterpieces can be found in their earliest printings, including Don Quixote in the first Spanish edition and Dostoyevsky's The Idiot in the first Russian edition. Visitors can browse richly decorated manuscripts and discover compelling historical works like Jammers Minde – the fascinating 17th century autobiography of a King's daughter and her 22-year imprisonment in Copenhagen's infamous Blue Tower. Reading Europe offers a unique opportunity to view literary gems in 32 languages, from Albanian to Yiddish. It was commissioned by European ... More
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