| | The Prado Offers a Clear Appreciation of the Evolution of Rubens’ Style in New Exhibition
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A woman walks past in front of Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens's artworks 'The Rape of Europe' (L), 'Adam and Eve' (C) and 'Equestrian portrait of king Phillip II' (R) during the presentation of the exhibition 'Rubens' at Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, 04 November 2010. The exhibition, running from 05 November 2010 until 23 January 2011 and features 90 Rubens' artworks belonging to Prado Museum. EPA/FERNANDO ALVARADO.
MADRID.- The Museum’s Rubens galleries are temporarily closed for re-modelling as part of the Prado’s “Second Extension” plan. As a result, and over the course of more than two months, the Museum is inviting the public to enter into the vibrant artistic universe of this great and highly prolific Flemish painter through an innovative type of display of its important holdings of autograph works by Rubens and works by his studio. In addition, it is the first time for a decade that all these paintings, which constitute one of the core groups within the Museum’s collections, can all be seen on display together at one time. The Prado houses the largest and one of the world’s finest collections of works by Rubens, an artist whose extremely extensive oeuvre is now divided between numerous different institutions. In order to help the visitor to become truly immersed in the world of Rubens and to grasp ... More |
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19th Century Masterpiece by by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Brings a Record $35.9 Million at Sotheby's
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s The Finding of Moses (detail) had been estimated to sell for $3/5 million. Photo: Sotheby´s.
NEW YORK, NY.- Today at Sotheby’s in New York, The Finding of Moses, a 19th century masterpiece by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, sold for a remarkable $35,922,500, more than seven times the presale high estimate of $5 million*. The monumental canvas was sought-after by three determined bidders who battled for nearly eight minutes. Soon after auctioneer and Vice Chairman Benjamin Doller opened the bidding on the spectacular painting, it quickly rose to more than $20 million in a battle between two clients participating by phone. Suddenly, a new bidder in the room entered the fray, raising a paddle for $23.5 million. After several more minutes the painting sold to one of the original phone bidders for an extraordinary $35.9 million, a new record for the artist at auction. The previous record for the artist had in fact been set by this exact painting when it was sold in 1995 for $2.8 million. The painting was included in a sale ... More | | Sub Aquatic Archaeologists Discover Four Complete Skulls of Extinct Animals in a Cenote
The skull of a several thousand year old bear found in a lake in Yucatan. EPA/University of Yucatan.
MEXICO CITY.- Four complete skulls and jaws of a species extinct in America, Arctotherium, that lived during the Pleistocene and disappeared 11,300 years ago, were found by sub aquatic archaeologists in the bed of a cenote in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. These are the only specimens of their type found until now in this region of the country, and add up to the list of Prehistorical fauna located inside this kind of water bodies, which before glaciations were dry caves. Sub aquatic archaeologist Guillermo de Anda Alanis, from the Yucatan Autonomous University (UADY), who conducts this research as part of the project authorized by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) “El Culto al Cenote en el Centro de Yucatan” (Cult to Cenote in Central Yucatan) since 2007, announced the details of the discovery at the International Congress American Cultures and their Environment: Perspectives from Zoo Archae ... More | | Art Gallery of New South Wales Announces that Suzanne Archer Wins the 2010 Dobell Prize for Drawing
Suzanne Archer was awarded $25,000 for winning Australia’s most important prize for drawing.
SYDNEY.- It was announced today at the Art Gallery of New South Wales that Suzanne Archer is the winner of the 2010 Dobell Prize for Drawing for her work Derangement. Suzanne Archer was awarded $25,000 for winning Australia’s most important prize for drawing. This year there were 635 entries, of which 45 are included in the exhibition. The subject of the winning drawing is a self-portrait of the artist in her studio. At either side of the central form of her face are some of the objects she has gathered there – a desiccated kangaroo and a sculpture of a horse’s head the artist made from wood found in the nearby bush. It is part of a larger body of work that has arisen from drawings Archer made of animals at the Veterinary Science laboratories at Sydney University in 2004, as well as of skulls and bones collected near her bush studio, and from a developing awareness, arising out of her relationship wi ... More |
 | Art Gallery of Ontario Announces Toronto-Based Artist Kristan Horton Wins $50,000 Grange Prize
Kristan Horton (Canadian), Orbit: Doorknob, 2009, chromogenic print, 135 x 102cm. Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto. © 2010 Kristan Horton.
TORONTO.- After a forty-day public vote, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and Aeroplan announced that Toronto-based artist Kristan Horton is the winner of The Grange Prize 2010. The $50,000 prize is Canada’s largest photography prize, also granting $5,000 to each of the runners-up, and is the only major Canadian art prize whose winner is chosen by the public. “Photography captures our imaginations and transcends borders,” says Matthew Teitelbaum, the Michael and Sonja Koerner director, and CEO, Art Gallery of Ontario. “The Grange Prize exists to showcase the best in international photography and to engage the public in a conversation about why photography matters. No better is this exemplified than in the outstanding work of Kristan Horton and our three finalists, and I congratulate them all on their accomplishments.” Works by all four finalists — Americans Josh Brand and Leslie Hewitt, and Canadians ... More | | Artists and Fashion Icons will Gather in New York to Honor the Winner of the Hugo Boss Prize
Cao Fei, Whose Utopia, 2006. Color video, with sound, 22 minutes. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Purchased with funds contributed by the International Director’s Council and Executive Committee Members.
By: Andrew Belonsky
NEW YORK, NY.- Organized in conjunction with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Prize honors contemporary artists picked by an independent jury, and represents the culmination of the company's deep commitment to artistic endeavors. "We want to demonstrate that we're supporting art, particularly contemporary art, and show our engagement with art. We take it quite seriously," explained Dr. Hjördis Kettenbach, head of art sponsorship at Hugo Boss. "We want to be known as a supporter of the arts. And the Prize is a great way to show that." With its founding in 1995, the biennial Hugo Boss Prize rapidly became one of the international art world's most illustrious awards, and past winners include French ... More | | Rare Mary Cassatt Painting on View at the Mint Museum Randolph Due to Long-Term Loan
Mary Cassatt, Portrait of Madame X Dressed for the Matinée, 1878. Oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 31 7/8 inches. Collection of Charlotte and Philip Hanes. L2010.82
CHARLOTTE, NC.- Visitors to the Mint Museum Randolph will soon have the unique opportunity to view an early masterpiece by American painter Mary Cassatt. The painting, Madame X Dressed for the Matinée (1878), comes from the collection of Charlotte and Philip Hanes of Winston-Salem, N.C., who have generously placed it on long-term loan at the Mint. “We are delighted to share this masterpiece with both The Mint Museum and our fellow North Carolinians,” said Philip Hanes. “According to one Cassatt scholar, Madame X was among the artist’s favorite works and was likely painted while Cassatt was working closely with her mentor, Edgar Degas.” Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she became the only American artist (and one of only five women) to exhibit alongside ... More |
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London's Iconic Canary Wharf Has Scooped a Prestigious International Award for Its Public Art Programme
The Award, which focuses on achievements of the past three years, recognises the work of Canary Wharf Group plc.
LONDON.- London's Canary Wharf has won the Christie's award for best corporate art collections and programs handed out at the 2010 International Art & Work Awards in Barcelona on Thursday. The prize, which focuses on the last three years, recognized what the judges called Canary Wharf Group's "sophisticated approach to integrating art into the landscaping and the buildings on their shopping and business district in London." George Iacobescu, chief executive of CWG added: "We are very pleased our efforts to bring character, culture and color to a previously derelict part of London have been recognized as among the world's best." Canary Wharf, now a major financial district in London, is home to over 90,000 workers and features around 60 permanent art works by 45 artists in public spaces. Also shortlisted for the Christie's award were Banca Monte dei Paschi ... More | | Art World Gathers in Abu Dhabi for the Opening of the Second Edition Abu Dhabi Art 2010
Abu Dhabi Art’s selection of exhibitions highlights its holistic approach to presenting art.
ABU DHABI.- Top art professionals, collectors, artists and connoisseurs have arrived in Abu Dhabi for the grand opening of the second annual Abu Dhabi Art. This unique platform for regional and international Modern and Contemporary art brings together the art world’s most recognised names right on the crossroads of the ancient silk route, where east and west meet - Abu Dhabi. Organised by Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC) and the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture & Heritage (ADACH,)this year’s event features a series of groundbreaking exhibitions, a boutique art fair made up of prestigious and innovative galleries, workshops, talks and debates, signifying Abu Dhabi’s emergence as an important hub for the exploration of new aesthetic experiences. Abu Dhabi Art is a fundamentally new concept – an arts platform composed of myriad elements, never before combined in such an environment. Audie ... More | | Memories of Yorkshire on Walls of James Mason's Swiss Home for Sale at Bonhams
There have been several exhibitions of his work following his death in December 2009. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Yorkshire born James Mason never forgot his roots even in his Swiss retirement. The pictures of Yorkshire he surrounded himself with, by the Yorkshire artist Peter Brook, will be sold by his estate at Bonhams Chester sale on November 16. James Mason was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire in 1909. He had no formal training as an actor, but won roles in British films from the mid 1930s, and starred in many from the 1940s onwards, as well as appearing in many Hollywood films. His major films included ‘Julius Caesar’ (1953), ‘A Star is Born’ (1954), ‘North by North West’ (1959), and in 1984 he appeared as the lord of the manor in ‘The Shooting Party’ (1985). His work took him away from Huddersfield, but through his family connections and friends he retained strong links with his hometown. In 1969 James Mason was introduced to Peter Brook by the actor Rodney Bewes, when they were filmin ... More |
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John Singer Sargent Exhibition at Adelson Galleries Explores Impressionist Period
John Singer Sargent, By the River, 1888 or 1889. Oil on canvas, 31 x 25 inches, Private collection.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sargent and Impressionism – an exceptional selection of landscapes and interiors painted by John Singer Sargent – will be on view at Adelson Galleries from November 4 through December 18, 2010. Culled from museum and private collections in the United States and abroad, the exhibition’s 28 oil paintings, three watercolors and one ink drawing date from 1883 to 1889. Known as the artist’s Impressionist period, Sargent spent the years immediately following the Madame X scandal withdrawing from Paris to immerse himself in a new social setting in England. With few portrait commissions to occupy him, this was a period when Sargent pursued stylistic experimentation and furthered his relationship with Claude Monet. The exhibition catalogue includes a significant essay, Sargent, Monet…and Manet, which discusses 17 newly-published letters written by Sargent to Monet, touching upon Sargent& ... More | | MoMA to Celebrate Master Filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci with a Complete Retrospective of His Cinematic Career
The Last Emperor. 1987. China/Italy/Great Britain/France. Pictured: Richard Vuu. Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art and Cinecittà Luce, Rome, present the cinematic oeuvre of Bernardo Bertolucci, with all new prints, December 15, 2010, through January 12, 2011. One of the most revered living masters of contemporary cinema, Bertolucci will be present to introduce the opening night screening of The Conformist (1970), a film that has deeply influenced American filmmakers as diverse as Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. The retrospective will also present the US premiere of a rare documentary by the director, Oil (1967), which was restored by Eni and Cineteca Nazionale and re-discovered at the 2007 Venice Film Festival. At the age of twenty-one, Bernardo Bertolucci debuted at the Venice Film Festival with his first film, La commare secca (The Grim Reaper) (1962); he has subsequently won every award and accolade there is to aspire to in the world of film. Tirelessly experimental ... More | | Dates Announced for First Ever Exhibition of Internationally Renowned Artist Anish Kapoor in India
Dismemberment, Site I, 2003-2009. PVC and steel, 25 metres x 84 metres (west end: 25 x 8 m, east end: 8 x 25m) The Farm, Kaipara Bay, New Zealand. Photo: Jos Wheeler. Courtesy: the artist. © Anish Kapoor.
LONDON.- The British Council, in association with the Lisson Gallery London and the Indian Ministry of Culture will present the first ever major exhibition in India of works by the internationally renowned artist Anish Kapoor at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi from 28 November 2010 – 27 February 2011 and the Mehboob Film Studios, Mumbai from 29 November 2010 – 16 January 2011. The exhibition is sponsored by Louis Vuitton. Organised across two sites, each exhibition will focus on a different strand of the artist’s practice and together will form one of the largest and most ambitious exhibitions of the artist’s work ever to be shown. It will feature a selection of sculptures and installations spanning the breadth of his career, from early pigment-based works of the 1980’s, to his most recent wax installations. Both exhibitions will feature works ... More |
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The Power of the Muse in Photography: Glamorous, Beautiful & Famous Faces
LONDON.- The London Photographs sale at Christie´s on Friday 26 November encapsulates the power of the muse in visual culture over the last 60 years. The auction comprises over 150 works, with landmark images of fine art photography and a dedicated section celebrating icons of fashion; from Norman Parkinson through to Terry Richardson. Famous faces continue to captivate, inspire and delight globally, symbolising glamour, beauty and intrigue. The sale features works from the private collections of James Danziger and following the 100% sold works from the Norman Hall Collection in May, 39 further celebrated vintage prints from the 1940s, 50s and 60s will be offered. Estimates range from £1,500 to £80,000. The Norman Hall Collection showcases the original ‘Malboro Man’ with Leonard McCombe’s Portrait of Texas Cowboy Clarence Hailey Long, 1949, for Life Magazine (estimate: £4,000-6,000). This image was the inspira ... More
Egypt: Archaeologists Unearth 3,400 Pharaoh Statue
CAIRO (AP).- Egypt's antiquities chief says archaeologists have unearthed the upper half of a red granite statue of a powerful pharaoh who ruled nearly 3,400 years ago. Zahi Hawass says the statue was discovered on Thursday at the site of the funerary temple of Amenhotep III, one of the largest on the west bank of the Nile in the southern temple city of Luxor. The statue portrays Amenhotep III with the falcon-headed sun god Re-Horakhti and exhibits the expert craftsmanship of ancient Egyptian artisans. Hawass said in a statement Thursday the statue was found during a routine excavation carried out by an Egyptian team of archaeologists. Amenhotep III was the grandfather of the famed boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun. ... More
Historic Mirrors from Setting of Brideshead Revisited, Castle Howard, Make £120,000 at Bonhams
LONDON.- Two George II carved giltwood mirrors, which were 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, sold for an impressive £120,000 yesterday (3 November 2010) at Bonhams. The mirrors were part of the Fine English Furniture and Works of Art sale, which realised a total of £1,341,216, with 78% sold by value. Designed for Henry, 4th Earl of Carlisle (1694-1758) by John Vardy and showing the influence of his colleague William Kent, the mirrors had passed by descent through five generations, before being 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 depressed eco ... More
Ruling Says Fisk can Sell Part of Art Collection
By: Kristin M. Hall, Associated Press
NASHVILLE (TN).- A Nashville judge has ruled that Fisk University can sell a share of its Stieglitz art collection, but said the bulk of the proceeds must go to an endowment for the display of the artwork. To fend off bankruptcy, the historically black university wanted to sell a 50 percent stake in the collection for $30 million to the Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas. But the ruling issued Thursday by Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle said Fisk could keep only $10 million for the university and the rest would go into an endowment to support the display of the artwork donated by the late painter Georgia O'Keeffe. Lyle's ruling said her plan meets O'Keeffe's wishes to have the art in Nashville and provides support for the display even if Fisk closes. ... More
Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida Receives Major Gifts and Support in Honor of Its 20th Anniversary
GAINESVILLE, FL.- The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida set a goal of adding 20 new gifts of art to each of the museum’s collecting areas—African, Asian, modern and contemporary art, and photography—in its 20th anniversary year. Longtime patrons and new friends honored the museum by surpassing that goal and giving more than 350 works of art since Jan. 2010. The Harn also held a benefit party, “20 Candles: Come As You Art!” on Oct. 8, to support exhibitions and programs, which raised more than $150,000. At the event, current Director Rebecca Nagy announced that Harn founding museum and Emeritus Director Budd Harris Bishop and his wife Julia have made a gift to support the work of the museum at the director’s discretion. In honor of their gift a gallery space has been named The Julia C. and Budd H. Bishop Gallery. The gifts and funds raised in honor of the museum’s 20th annive ... More
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