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A visitor watches a photograph called "Brigite Bardot" (1959), right, and "Beatles portfolio" (1967) by late U.S photographer Richard Avedon at Christie's auction house in Paris, Thursday Nov.18, 2010. More than 60 photographs for the Avedon Foundation will be auctioned next Saturday. AP Photo/Jacques Brinon.
By: Crystal Becerril, Associated Press
PARIS AP.- A model in a silk Dior gown, posing with elephants. The psychedelically colored faces of the Beatles. A soot-covered coal miner. Christie's in Paris will auction some of Richard Avedon's most prized photographs Saturday to raise money for the foundation set up by the influential American portrait and fashion photographer before his death in 2004. The more than 60 photographs are expected to raise $6 million. The auction represents the largest collection of Avedon's work to reach market. Highlights of the sale include a rare portrait of Pablo Picasso, a photograph of Andy Warhol posing with youths — some naked — as well as the largest ... More |
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art Announces Acquisition of 3,000 Works by Paul Strand
A visitor passes in front of the picture 'Blind Woman' by US photographer Paul Strand (1890-1976). EPA/Alberto Estevez.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art today announced that it has acquired, through several gifts and a purchase agreement with the Aperture Foundation, the core collection of photographs by Paul Strand, one of the pre-eminent photographers of the 20th century. Through the generosity of philanthropists Lynne and Harold Honickman, Marjorie and Jeffrey Honickman, and H.F. “Gerry” and Marguerite Lenfest, the Museum has received as partial and promised gifts 1422 images from The Paul Strand Archive at the Aperture Foundation, as well as 566 master prints from Strand’s negatives by the artist Richard Benson. The Museum has also entered into an agreement with the Aperture Foundation to purchase an additional 1276 photographs. As a whole, this acquisition comprises more than 3000 prints and lantern slides, including the finest examples of every image in the Archive. Together with ... More | | MoMA Announces Exhibition of Picasso's Iconic Guitar Sculptures From 1912-1914
Pablo Picasso, Guitar. Céret, March 31, 1913, or later. Cut-and-pasted newspaper, wallpaper, paper, ink, chalk, charcoal, and pencil on colored paper, 26 1/8 x 19 1/2" (66.4 x 49.6 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Nelson A. Rockefeller Bequest.
NEW YORK, NY.- Picasso: Guitars 1912–1914 will focus on Pablo Picasso’s cardboard and sheet-metal Guitar sculptures, and the incandescent period of material and structural innovation these sculptures bracket in the artist’s long career. The exhibition will be on view in The Museum of Modern Art’s Special Exhibitions gallery from February 13 through June 6, 2011. Bringing together some 70 closely connected collages, constructions, drawings, mixed-media paintings, and photographs assembled from over 30 public and private collections worldwide, the exhibition situates Picasso’s modest yet revolutionary Guitars within his broader studio practice between 1912 and 1914. The exhibition is organized by Anne Umland, Curator, with Blair Hartzell, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum ... More | | Prehispanic Decapitated Ballgame Player Sculpture Discovered by Archaeologists in Mexico
The life-size finding took place during research work conducted for the opening to public visit of the ceremonial site in 2012. Photo: DMC, INAH. H. Montano.
MEXICO CITY.- A Prehispanic sculpture that represents a beheaded ballgame player was discovered by archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) at El Teul Archaeological Zone, in Zacatecas, one of the few Mesoamerican sites continuously occupied for 18 centuries. The life-size finding took place during research work conducted for the opening to public visit of the ceremonial site in 2012. The quarry dates from 900-1100 of the Common Era and evidence determines that the sculpture was created beheaded, maybe to serve as a pedestal for the heads of sacrificed players of the ritual ballgame. The cylindrical sculpture with a 52 centimeter diameter is 1.97 meters high and weighs nearly a ton, and was located in the southeast area of the Ballgame court. Fragments of a similar sculpture were found in the northern extreme, so it is possible to find a pair of similar sculptures ... More |
 | Phillips de Pury Announces Two Senior Appointments in Photographs Department
Louise Proud. Photo: Courtesy of Phillips de Pury & Company.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Company announced two senior appointments in the Photographs Department. Vanessa Kramer has been appointed Worldwide Head of Photographs. She will assume her new role effective immediately, overseeing both the creative and business aspects of a united global department. She also continues to be Head of Photographs, New York. Throughout her five years with Phillips de Pury, and especially during her year and a half overseeing the New York team, Vanessa's energy and dedication have resulted in an ever-expanding profile for the department. Louise Proud has been appointed Head of Photographs, London. In her time as a Senior Specialist, Louise's outstanding performance and leadership abilities have helped to expand Phillips de Pury's position as an important player in the European photographs market, and we look forward to continuing growth in the field. Vanessa Kramer has been with Phi ... More | | Exhibition Reveals Artist's Passionate Commitment to His Carefully Defined Practice
Sol LeWitt, Color Bands, 2000 (detail), linocut on paper. Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Gift of the artist, 2001 © The LeWitt Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- When the Walker Art Center opened its new Edward Larrabee Barnes–designed building in 1971, it ushered in exciting new possibilities for exhibiting and collecting the art of its time. The Barnes building, with its sweeping, rectangular galleries and white terrazzo floors, was one of the first U.S. museums designed to showcase sculpture and other works that abandoned the pedestal to be shown directly on the floor, resulting in a more direct relationship between viewer and object. Many of these works were made by artists associated with American Minimalism and Conceptualism, two areas in which the Walker was steadily building its collection. As a major figure in both movements, Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) was one of the first artists whose work graced the Barnes building. LeWitt and the Walker enjoyed a relationship that ... More | | Sculptural and Textile Works by Wolfgang Joop at Galerie Michael Schultz
Artist and designer Wolfgang Joop poses for a photograph next to his artwork 'Good Morning Monday'. EPA/BRITTA PEDERSEN.
BERLIN.- With the artistic work of Wolfgang Joop, Galerie Michael Schultz presents an aspect of this creative multi-versatile genius which is still less heard of, as opposed to his world fame as a designer. For more than ten years now, the artist who completed his studies of fine arts at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig has also been involved with sculptures. His complete body of work stands out due to intuition and the ultimate manual perfection. They achieve this in quite different genres of fine and applied arts, always with the same precision that characterizes his works so distinctly. For Joop’s thinking in terms of gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) this applies to fashion just as it does for expressing myths, poetry and death. The sculptural and textile works shown here, within their strong material opposites, forge a unit in themselves, at first glance by their weight. Although, the ... More |
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Internationally Acclaimed Abstract Artist, Nathan Oliveira, Dies in Stanford at Age 81
Nathan Oliveira maintained an abiding concern with the abstracted human figure for over fifty years. Photo: Leo Holub, courtesy DC Moore Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- One of the leading American artists of the twentieth century, Nathan Oliveira maintained an abiding concern with the abstracted human figure for over fifty years, in a body of work unconstrained by the dictates of representational art. In his paintings, watercolors, monotypes, and sculptures he consistently approached abstraction by creating variations of the figure in ambiguous, often mysterious space. Through its universality and hint of the eternal, his work explores aspects of human presence and consciousness across a range of different media. Oliveira died at his home in Stanford, California, on Saturday, November 13. The cause was related to pulmonary fibrosis, according to DC Moore Gallery, which represents the artist. Born in Oakland in December 1929 to Portuguese immigrant parents, Oliveira graduated ... More | | Robert De Niro Sr. Prize Created to Honor American Artists for Achievements in Painting
Robert De Niro stands next to a painting executed by his father, Robert De Niro Sr. AP Photo/Starpix, Dave Allocca.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Estate of Robert De Niro Sr. announced the creation of The Robert De Niro, Sr. Prize, which will honor an outstanding mid-career American artist with an annual award of $25,000 for achievements in painting. The announcement was made this evening by Robert De Niro, Tribeca Film Institute Board Co-Chair, along with Megan Fox Kelly and Jeffrey Hoffeld, advisors to the estate, at a reception held at De Niro’s father’s studio in New York City. The Robert De Niro, Sr. Prize, which will be administered by the Tribeca Film Institute, has been established to recognize an American artist whose work over a considerable period of time has made a significant contribution to the field of painting. The prize honors the career and legacy of accomplished painter De Niro, Sr. A selection committee of distinguished individuals in the art world will be appointed annually to nominate and select three finalists and the prize recipient. The ... More | | Dinosaur Egg Found by the Real Indiana Jones Hoes on Display at World Museum in Liverpool
A scale model of the Oviraptor egg with baby.
LIVERPOOL.- An 80 million-year-old dinosaur egg goes on display, heralding the arrival of Dinomania! – the first appearance in Europe of a 14-ft long T Rex coming to roam around World Museum. Visitors can meet Rex the juvenile Tyrannosaurus Rex for four days of free prehistoric hysterics 2 – 5 December 2010. The animated dinosaur has been a sensation in the United States and Australia where it has given thousands of people the opportunity to see a walking, moving T Rex. To get visitors in the mood, a dinosaur egg goes on display for the first time in decades at World Museum. It is one of 25 eggs laid by an Oviraptor – a small dinosaur that lived in Mongolia. The nest was discovered by renowned palaeontologist Roy Chapman Andrews in 1923. Andrews was a flamboyant explorer said to have inspired the Indiana Jones film character played by Harrison Ford. Dinomania! features the T Rex making regular appea ... More |
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Frank Gehry-Designed Mississippi Museum Highlights Sculptor George E. Ohr
A visitor looks at photographs of George E. Ohr in the African American Art Gallery of the Ohr-O'keefe Museum of Art. AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis.
By: Sheila Byrd, Associated Press
BILOXI (AP).- He was known as Biloxi's "Mad Potter," a wild-haired man who spun curious creations on his pottery wheel at the turn of the 20th century. George E. Ohr was dismissed by local folks as an eccentric during his life, but his ceramics are considered to be the first of American abstract expressionism. Nearly 100 years after his death, Ohr's art and the museum designed for it by Frank Gehry have become the latest post-Hurricane Katrina feat in a region still bearing scars from the killer storm. The $21 million first phase of the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art opened this month. The museum is signature Gehry — curving brick staircases, geometric roof lines and undulating buildings. Gehry's Ohr pods — towering, twisted metal hulls jutting from the ground — are in stark architectural ... More | | Rare Works by Irving Penn and Robert Frank Featured in Swann Galleries' Auction
David Goldblatt's Prostitute, Fordsburgh, Johannesburg, silver print, 1975 ($12,000 to $18,00).
New York.- Swann Galleries’ auction of Important Photographs & Photobooks on Thursday, December 9 offers some extraordinary works ranging from early photographic albums of exotic locales, to edgy contemporary works that challenge the viewer. Early highlights include issues 12-21 and 38 of Camera Work, the photograph magazine created by Alfred Stieglitz, containing images by Edward Steichen, Stieglitz and Alvin Langdon Coburn among others, New York, 1905-08 and 1912 ($25,000 to $35,000); the Stieglitz photogravure The Hand of Man, an image of a locomotive spewing black exhaust, circa 1902 ($20,000 to $30,000); and albums with images of China, Hawaii, Japan and the Middle East. There are also many Native American portraits by Edward S. Curtis, as well as Alexander Gardner’s Lakota and Oglalla tribesmen Lone Horn, Pipe, Grass and Young Elk from the Laramie series, albumen print, 1868 ($7,000 to $10,000). ... More | | Retrospective of the Works of One of the Most Important Photographers of Our Time
Havana. Ministry of Industry. Ernesto Guevara (Che), during an exclusive interview in his office © René Burri / Magnum Photos.
VIENNA.- René Burri was born in Zurich in 1933. From 1959, as a member of Magnum Photos, he travelled to the scenes of innumerable world events. "The camera has always been a magic wand for me, giving me access to places where I could try new experiments," Burri has said. He not only captured key moments in history, but also documented daily life in countries such as Brazil, China, Palestine, Vietnam and Germany. His portraits of such celebrated personalities as Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Muhammad Anwar as-Sadat, Le Corbusier and Alberto Giacometti are counted among the iconic images of the 20th century. "Many of the images we remember from the second half of the 20th century are photographs taken by René Burri. Many people ... More |
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The Utah Museum of Fine Arts Presents salt 2: Sophie Whettnall
SALT LAKE CITY, UT.- The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) presents salt 2: Sophie Whettnall, the second in the museum’s new series of exhibitions showcasing innovative art from around the world. salt aims to reflect the international impact of contemporary art today, forging local connections to the global, and bringing new and diverse artwork to the city that shares the program’s name. Organized by Jill Dawsey, UMFA acting chief curator and curator of modern and contemporary art, the second salt installation opens on November 18, 2010 and will remain on view through February 27, 2011 in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building at the University of Utah. The exhibition is located in and around a newly designed black box gallery on the UMFA’s first floor. Featured artist Sophie Whettnall (b. 1973) traveled from Brussels to Salt Lake City to personally install three works: a video, a video installation, and a ... More
The Royal Academy of Arts Announces Cindy Sherman as Honorary Member of the Royal Academy
LONDON.- Cindy Sherman was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, 1954. She studied art at Buffalo State College (1972–6), concentrating on photography. Her photographs are portraits of herself in various scenarios that parody stereotypes of woman. A panoply of characters and settings are drawn from sources of popular culture: old movies, television soaps and pulp magazines. While the mood of Sherman's early works ranges from quiet introspection to provocative sensuality, there are elements of horror and decay in the series from 1988–9. Her work has been the subject of countless major international exhibitions including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1997), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (1997–2000); the Serpentine Gallery, London and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (2003), and the Jeu de Paume, Paris (2006), Kunsthaus Bregenz, ... More
Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad Named Next Director of the Schomburg Center For Research in Black Culture
NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Public Library (NYPL) announced today that Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, a scholar of African-American history from Indiana University, has been selected as the next Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, effective July 2011. Dr. Muhammad will succeed Howard Dodson Jr., who last year announced his plan to retire after more than 25 years of leadership, having cemented the Schomburg as the world’s leading repository on the global Black experience. The appointment was made by Library President Dr. Paul LeClerc after the unanimous recommendation of a nine-member search committee. (A complete list of committee members follows.) “The entire committee enthusiastically supports and is delighted with the choice of Khalil Muhammad,” Search Committee Co-Chairmen and Library Trustees Gordon J. Davis and Henry Louis Gates Jr. said in a joint statement. “We are confident t ... More
The Unilever Series: turbinegeneration is Awarded UNESCO Patronage
LONDON.- Tate and Unilever have announced that UNESCO has granted its patronage to The Unilever Series: turbinegeneration, Tate Modern’s international schools project. Patronage is UNESCO’s highest form of endorsement and is granted to demonstrate the organisation’s support of an exceptional activity. Sponsored by Unilever, turbinegeneration is a unique educational programme that brings together schools from across the world to explore contemporary cultural issues and to exchange their work online. The Unilever Series: turbinegeneration began in 2009, devised with artist Roy Smith, in order to establish partnerships between schools and colleges in different countries. Tate provides a project pack each year, containing activities inspired by the annual Unilever Series commission in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. This initiates an ongoing dialogue between the two schools, so they can work together to further exp ... More
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