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A photographer takes a photograph next to a painting by Spanish artist Juan Gris entitled 'Violon et guitare'. The artwork is estimated to fetch 18 to 25 million US dollars, and will be auctioned as part of Post-War and Christie's New York Contemporary Art Evening Sale 2010 in New York on 10 November 2010. EPA/YM YIK.
NEW YORK, NY.- This November, Christie's presents a spectacular line-up of fine art auctions, featuring the best examples of Impressionist & Modern and Post-War & Contemporary Art available on the auction market. Over the course of a fortnight, Christie's will offer over 850 works of art, beginning with its major Evening Sale of 85 works of Impressionist and Modern Art on November 3 and continuing with its Works on Paper and Day sales on November 4. The following Wednesday, November 10, Christie's will host its major Evening Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art with 76 items, followed by two Day sale sessions on November 11. The combined total of the full two weeks of sales is expected to achieve in excess of $500 million. Marc Porter, Chairman of Christie's Americas, commented, “This season, Christie's is the auction house of choice for virtually all of the major private collections of fine art to come to market – ... More |
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The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting, 1848-1875 at the National Gallery of Art
John Everett Millais, Mariana (small version), 1850-1851. Oil on panel. Framed: 11 x 10 1/2 in. The Makins Collection.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The first exhibition to explore the rich dialogue between Victorian-era British photography and Pre-Raphaelite painting showcases how these parallel artistic phenomena informed and inspired one another. The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting, 1848–1875 includes some 100 photographs and 20 paintings and watercolors by leading artists such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. On view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, West Building, from October 31, 2010 through January 30, 2011, the exhibition chronicles the roles photography and Pre-Raphaelite art played in changing concepts of vision and truth in representation in the Victorian era. "The Gallery is delighted to showcase the exciting relationship between Pre-Raphaelite painting and the development of early 19th-century British photography," said Earl ... More | | Shanghai World Expo Ends; Drew 72 Million Visitors; China's Biggest Tourism Event Ever
Visitors walk at the South Korean Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo site. AP Photo.
By: Elaine Kurtenbach, Associated Press
SHANGHAI (AP).- China declared its biggest tourism event ever, the Shanghai World Expo, a stunning success Sunday, after introducing a record 72 million visitors to a smorgasbord of cultures and technologies meant to illustrate ideas for urban sustainability. The massive, six-month event aimed at showcasing China's rise as a modern industrial power drew mainly local visitors, many of them ordinary folk from the provinces who flooded into the city by the tour busload-full, cramming the city's hotels, subways and other public places. They found waits of up to 10 hours for some popular national pavilions, sweltering summer temperatures, long walks and other inconveniences for what could be once-in-a-lifetime direct contact with foreign places and people. Premier Wen Jiabao praised the fair Sunday as a "splendid event" that "truly brought together people around the globe." ... More | | Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880-1900 at the Royal Academy of Arts
James Guthrie, A Hind's Daughter, 1883. Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 76.2 cm. National Gallery of Scotland.
LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts presents the first exhibition in London for over 40 years to celebrate the achievement of the Glasgow Boys, the loosely knit group of young painters who created a stir at home and abroad in the final decades of the nineteenth century. The exhibition will feature over 80 oil paintings, watercolours and pastels from public and private collections by such artists as Guthrie, Lavery, Melville, Crawhall, Walton, Henry and Hornel. Together they presented a new art, which had a major impact at home and abroad in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. The resultant works were, from c. 1880 to 1900, among the most experimental and ambitious to be produced in the UK. Taking inspiration from such French Naturalist painters as Bastien-Lepage and also from Whistler, the Glasgow Boys produced some of the most revolutionary painting in Britain, drawing praise in London, Munich, Vienna and fu ... More |
 | School of Paris Leads Bi-Coastal Sale of Modern and Contemporary Arts at Bonhams
Fernand Léger, La branche sur fond noir, 1948, 36 1/4 x 28 3/4in (92 x 73cm). Est. $600,000 - 800,000. Photo: Bonhams & Butterfields.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams announced the November 9, 2010 bi-coastal auction of Modern and Contemporary Art. Held in New York and simulcast to Los Angeles, the sale features significant examples paintings, drawings, and sculpture from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries by artists such as Bernard Buffet, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Fernand Léger, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Tom Wesselmann, Aaron Young, and Rachel Howard. Also featured is a Property from the Estates of Molly and Leon Lyon, Daniel Melnick, Myriam Schasseur and Howard C. Warren as well as noted Scottsdale, Arizona gallerist Elaine Horwich, will also be included within the auction. Highlighting the Fall sale are works from the School of Paris. Leading the offering are four paintings by Fernand Léger: Studies for the City of Light mural for the Con Edison New York World's Fair building, 1938 (est. $40,000 - 60,000); Fantaisie sur fond rouge ( ... More | | Recently Created Body of Work Titled "Year Two" by Fabian Miller at Danziger Projects
Fabian Miller, Year Two, Feldspar 1. July 2007. Oil, light, dye, destruction print. Photo: Courtesy Danziger Projects.
NEW YORK, NY.- Garry Fabian Miller was born in Bristol, England in 1957. His works are in the collections of major art museums internationally, and he is currently featured in the Victoria and Albert's much anticipated show on contemporary cameraless photography, "Shadow Catchers" (along with Susan Derges, Adam Fuss, Pierre Cordier, and Floris Neususs). One of Britain's best known contemporary photographers, Fabian Miller's work has been the subject of several monographs, including Illumine (2005), Year One (2007), and The Colour of Time (2010). Fabian Miller's earliest work explored the abstract possibilities of landscape. His minimal sky and seascapes of 1976 first brought him to the attention of the photography world and indeed pre-date similar work by Hiroshi Sugimoto by several years. He has worked without a camera since 1984 and is now best known for the purity and minimalism of his darkroom abstractions. These bold experiments in light and color continue to push the boun ... More | | LACMA Presents Most Comprehensive U.S. Retrospective of Photographer William Eggleston
William Eggleston, Untitled, c. 1970, from Los Alamos, 1965-68 and 1972-74. Dye-transfer print; 17 3/4 x 12 in. Private Collection. © Eggleston Artistic Trust, courtesy Cheim & Read, New York.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents William Eggleston: Democratic Camera—Photographs and Video, 1961–2008, the most comprehensive U.S. retrospective of the Memphis-based contemporary photographer. The exhibition traces the artist’s evolution over a five-decade-period and brings together more than 200 photographs, including his iconic images of familiar, everyday subjects in addition to lesser-known, early black-and-white prints and provocative video recordings. A key figure in American photography, Eggleston is credited with nearly single-handedly ushering in the era of color photography. His inventive use of color and spontaneous compositions have profoundly influenced subsequent generations of photographers, filmmakers, and viewers. LACMA’s presentation is the first Los Angeles retrospective of the artist in more ... More |
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Tales of Katrina Told through Museum Exhibition at the Louisiana State Museum
Musician Fats Domino's Hurricane Katrina-damaged baby grand piano is seen. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky.
By: Mary Foster, Associated Press Writer
NEW ORLEANS (AP).- The room is lit by flashlights, an escape hole chopped in the roof with an ax lying nearby. Steps away, rising floodwaters seep down a levee wall; across the way, a storm diary written in black felt marker on a housing project wall bears testimony to the hellish days after Hurricane Katrina hit. Those items and more from the monster hurricane that battered New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,600 people, are part of a stunning new exhibit opening Oct. 26 at the Louisiana State Museum — "Living with Hurricanes, Katrina & Beyond." The $7.5 million exhibit at New Orleans' French Quarter museum recounts tales of the 2005 hurricane, its chaotic aftermath and recovery. It also explores lessons Katrina taught, and the science and technology arising since to counter future storms. "We see this as a game-changer for the ... More | | Vancouver Art Gallery Launches Landmark Retrospective of American Photographer Robert Adams
Longmont, Colorado, 1979, gelatin silver print. Yale University Art Gallery. Purchased with a gift from Saundra B. Lane, a grant from Trellis Fund, and the Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund.
VANCOUVER, BC.- The Vancouver Art Gallery launched Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs, an exhibition of the life work of eminent American photographer Robert Adam. The retrospective is on display at the Gallery until January 16, 2011, the first stop in an international tour of North America and Europe. Over the past four decades photographer Robert Adams has come to be widely regarded as one of the most original and significant chroniclers of the western American landscape. The first large-scale exhibition of Adams’ work to be presented in Canada, Robert Adams: The Place We Live traces the artist’s longstanding engagement with the degradation of the environment in the face of suburban development. “The Vancouver Art Gallery is honored to have been selected as the first venue for the international tour ... More | | LACMA Debuts the First North American Retrospective of German Artist Blinky Palermo
Blinky Palermo, Blaue Scheibe und Stab (Blue Disk and Staff), 1968. Private Collection. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964–1977, on view October 31, 2010 through January 16, 2011. The exhibition comprises more than seventy works by the German artist, whose reputation as one of the foremost postwar painters has been long established in Europe. This encompassing exhibition will introduce American audiences to all four principal categories of work Palermo produced during his highly influential career, including many works that have never before been shown in the United States. Curated by Lynne Cooke and organized by Dia Art Foundation and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard), the exhibition will be coordinated at LACMA by curator of contemporary art, Franklin Sirmans. "Palermo‘s experiments with color, form, material and space were groundbreaking forty years ago, and today they continue to astound with their poeti ... More |
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Westphalian Expressionism Subject of Exhibition that Opened Today at Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Peter August Böckstiegel, Selbstbildnis, 1913. Öl auf Leinwand, 48 x 36,5 cm, Peter-August-Böckstiegel-Stiftung, Werther © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2010.
BIELEFELD.- In 1902, when Karl Ernst Osthaus founded the Folkwang Museum in Hagen, opening up his collection to the public, modernism moved into Westphalia. With it arose Westphalian Expressionism, which, by the 1930s, had established a style all its own, blending rural traditions and modern city life, and made an important contribution to German modernism. While the artistic paths of native Westphalians August Macke and Hermann Stenner took them from their homeland to the Rhineland and Stuttgart, Christian Rohlfs came from Schleswig-Holstein, at the invitation of Osthaus, to a studio in Hagen. With a circle of artists that included Wilhelm Morgner and Eberhard Viegener, Soest became a center of Westphalian modernism, attracting many artists with its medieval appearance. In ... More | | dOCUMENTA (13) Announces Curatorial Team and Process for 100 Day Event in 2012
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Photo: Thomas Rosenthal.
KASSEL.- During a press conference held this week in Berlin at the Hebbel Theater / HAU 1, dOCUMENTA (13) announced: dOCUMENTA (13) is a series of artistic acts and gestures that are already taking place as well as an exhibition that will open on June 9, 2012, and that will run for 100 days. dOCUMENTA (13) does not follow a single, overall concept but engages in conducting, and choreographing manifold materials, methods, and knowledges. Questions of personal and collective emancipation through art emerge in the process of making dOCUMENTA (13) by thinking through a number of composite ontologies that generate paradoxical conditions of contemporary life and artistic production. These include: • participation and withdrawal as simultaneous modes of existence today; • embodiment and disembodiment, and their mutual dependency; • rootedness and homelessness, as a dual condition of subjecthood; • proximity and ... More | | Old Master, Modern & Contemporary Prints Sell Strong at Bonhams & Butterfields' October Auction
Signed in pencil and titled Counted Out, First Stone, 1921, this George Bellows lithograph from the edition of 11 is estimated at $10/15,000. Photo: Bonhams & Butterfields.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Old Master, Modern & Contemporary prints came to auction at Bonhams & Butterfields on Tuesday, October 26, 2010, bringing more than $1.9-million and setting multiple auction records during a simulcast sale between the auctioneer’s two California salesrooms. Picasso linocuts were of interest to an international pool of bidders. The auction’s top seller was Femme au Chapeau, 1962, signed and annotated by Pablo Picasso. The work sold above its estimate, bringing $48,800. Additional imagery of women by the master garnered above estimate prices as well: Petite Tête de Femme couronnée sold for $45,750 and Femme au Chapeau à Fleurs blossomed to bring $36,600. A rare textile by Picasso, Le peintre et son modèle, c. 1970, an Aubusson ... More |
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Legacy is Foundation of Pennsylvania & American Auction at Freeman's
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freeman’s announced the upcoming Americana and 5th Anniversary Pennsylvania Sale auctions, to be held November 20 & 21. The sales, which will contain 462 and 275 lots respectively, will highlight the best in American craftsmanship with objects that herald from extraordinary American families. To see the exhibition of works is to see centuries of history and legacy in one room. Many of the works, including the Edward Duffield Tall Case Clock (illustrated) and David Deshler’s Chippendale Chairs, are native to Philadelphia, having belonged to prominent Philadelphia citizens since their creation. The Tall Case Clock was crafted by Edward Duffield, a founding member of the Philadelphia Philosophical Society and friend to Benjamin Franklin. In addition, the auction will feature an outstanding collection of Shaker Furniture, originally collected by Julia C. Spring in Maine. Twenty six Samplers (i ... More
Hereford Photography Festival 2010 Celebrates 20th Anniversary
HEREFORD.- 2010 marks the 20th anniversary of Hereford Photography Festival. The longest running annual photography festival in the UK, Hereford Photography Festival has presented a broad range of international photography since 1990. This year, the Festival builds on its strong history of showing work by groundbreaking and leading photographers such as Martin Parr, Rankin and Wang Qingsong, with a major retrospective, new commissions, a series of exhibitions and more. The festival started with a launch weekend of exhibitions, talks, workshops and a conference, this year’s festival is bigger than ever and encompass the city and local area. Entry to all exhibitions is free. Twenty photographers who have shown work at the Hereford Photography Festival in the past 20 years have been asked to lend examples of their current work to form this timely retrospective. The photography on display will include works by internation ... More
Major Exhibition Curated by Snøhetta Architects Presents New Nordic Art and Design
NEW YORK, NY.- An exhibition of contemporary Nordic art and design opened at Scandinavia House on October 29, 2010. Nordic Models + Common Ground: Art and Design Unfolded is organized by The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF), New York, in collaboration with Norsk Form—The Foundation for Design and Architecture in Norway. The first in a series of programs celebrating ASF’s centennial, the exhibition is curated by the internationally renowned architecture firm Snøhetta. Nordic Models examines a diverse selection of works, including architecture, product design, fine art, graphic design, fashion, and photography by thirty-five emerging and established artists and designers. In so doing it offers a compelling look at contemporary Nordic art and design, highlighting shared practices and ideas and their global impact. All of the Nordic countries— Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden—are represented. American-Scandinavian Foundation President Edward P ... More
The Katonah Museum of Art Presents Mapping: Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art
KATONAH, NY.- Maps; from Rand McNally to TomTom, they give peace of mind when setting out into unfamiliar terrain. This fall, let your GPS guide you to 134 Jay Street where the Katonah Museum of Art presents Mapping: Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art. On view from October 3, 2010 through January 9, 2011, this moving exhibition expands the boundaries of mapping as a practical means for way-finding, transcending the physical act of travelling from points A to Z. For more information about the Museum, call (914) 232-9555, ext. 0 or visit www.katonahmuseum.org. Commenting on the upcoming exhibition Neil Watson, Executive Director of the KMA said, “With Mapping: Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art, curator Sarah Tanguy has organized a vibrant up-to-the minute exhibition that digs into the Zeitgeist of many contemporary artists - those who dig into and reveal the multiple meanings, issues, and relevance of mapping a ... More
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