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"Still life with Carnations" is viewed at the Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit. When the painting, attributed to Vincent Van Gogh, was bequeathed to the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1990, museum officials said they didn't think it was authentic. The museum was immediately suspicious of "Still Life With Carnations," an unsigned still life, and never put it on exhibit. Still, the painting was studied extensively and now will be displayed as part of a new exhibit titled "Fakes, Forgeries, and Mysteries" about how experts figure out whether art works are authentic. AP Photo/Paul Sancya.
DETROIT (AP).- When a painting attributed to Vincent Van Gogh was bequeathed to the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1990, it was met with immediate suspicion from scholars and art experts. "Still life with Carnations," an unsigned painting of flowers, was to be sold to help fund an endowment to buy modern art, said museum director Graham Beal. Instead, auction houses refused to sell it. Van Gogh specialists questioned its authenticity. And the painting remained at the museum, where despite extensive study the question of whether it was by the famed artist or an imitator remains unanswered. "It's gone into this rather unfortunate area of not being trusted," Beal said Thursday. "But as tests have shown, there's nothing in it that says this cannot be a Van Gogh. All of the paints, all of the technique, everything is commensurate with the way Van Gogh was working at that time." The painting is being displayed alongside a genuine Van Gogh ... More |
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Art Gallery of Ontario Opens the Gates to India's Royal Courts in New Exhibition
Rolls Royce Phantom II, Cassis # 188PY, “Star of India”.
TORONTO.- The splendour, luxury, and legacy of India's greatest kings is being experienced by visitors to the Art Gallery of Ontario with Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts. The Canadian exclusive, organized by London's Victoria and Albert Museum, features over 200 works spanning three centuries of history and will be on view at the AGO until April 3, 2011. "We are deeply excited to welcome our visitors to this extraordinary exhibition," says Matthew Teitelbaum, the AGO's Michael and Sonja Koerner director and CEO. "The AGO aims not only to tell compelling stories and display dazzling artwork, but also to present programming that reflects our community. With more than half of Canada's South Asian population residing in Toronto-the world's most diverse city-our hope is that this exhibition will entice visitors both new and familiar to the AGO to visit the Gallery and experience the wonder of India's legendary Maharajas ... More | | Treasures of Ancient Chinese Art Return to Public View at the Freer Gallery of Art
Ornament in the form of a human face. Longshan culture (ca. 3000'17'' B.C.E.). Jade (nephrite). Photo: Freer Gallery of Art.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Ancient jades and bronzes widely considered to be among the greatest treasures of Chinese art returned to public view at the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art Nov. 20. More than 100 works have been reinstalled in two newly renovated galleries after more than a decade in storage. Chinese jade carvings and vessels cast from bronze are some of the oldest and most aesthetically and technically accomplished works of art ever created. In the early 20th century, guided by personal taste and self-taught connoisseurship, Charles Lang Freer amassed a large number of Chinese objects that over time have come to epitomize the classic periods of Chinese art history. The reinstallation of galleries 18 (Bronzes) and 19 (Jades) represents the first phase of a three-year plan to ... More | | Exhibition at Museum of Modern Art in New York Challenges Definition of Drawing
Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Mouvement de lignes en couleurs. 1940. Colored pencil on cardboard. 14 1/8 x 11" (35.9 x 28 cm) Stiftung Hans Arp und Sophie Taeuber-Arp e.V., Rolandswerth. Photo Wolfgang Morell © 2010 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
NEW YORK, NY.- On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, on view at MoMA from November 21, 2010, through February 7, 2011, aims to challenge the conventional definition of drawing as a work on paper by exploring the radical transformation of the medium throughout the last century, a period when numerous artists critically examined the traditional concepts of drawing and expanded its definition in relation to gesture and form. The exhibition brings together approximately 300 works, many drawn from MoMA’s collection, by over 100 artists—both canonical and less well-known—from over 20 nations. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, these works relate drawing to selections of painting, sculpture, photography, film, and ... More |
 | Seoul Auction to Hold Sale and a Special Exhibition of Impressionists & Modern Masters
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Baigneuse arrangeant les cheveux, circa 1890.
HONG KONG.- Further to the success of Seoul Auction’s Hong Kong sale in October 2010 – in which Marc Chagall’s Bestiaire et Musique set a record as the most expensive painting by a Western Modern artist ever sold in Asia – Seoul Auction is delighted to announce its forthcoming Hong Kong sale to take place on 29 November at the Himalayan Suite, Pacific Place Conference Centre. Seoul Auction will also hold a special private sales exhibition of Impressionists & Modern Masters in Greater China (Taipei, Beijing, Hong Kong) and Seoul in November, featuring an array of major works by some of the most important masters of the late 19th and early 20th century including Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Marc Chagall and Pablo Picasso. The jewel of this special exhibition is Renoir’s Baigneuse s’arrangeant les cheveux painted circa 1890. Misung Shim, Managing Director of Seoul Auction Hong Kong Ltd. ... More | | Mix of Unseen Images and Work Selected from Previous Series by Artists at Stills Gallery
Mark Kimber has created quintessential summer images in his Yorke Peninsular series where light, water and human activity act together to define mood. Photo: Courtesy Stills Gallery. © Mark Kimber.
SYDNEY.- In SEASON10 Stills Gallery is featuring a mix of unseen images and work selected from previous series by each artist, with an emphasis on summer and celebration. Narelle Autio’s Seaweed Stacks is an intriguing image of sculptural seaweed forms on the beach near her home. The coast and water has been an ongoing inspiration for Autio, as is evident in her 2006 series celebrating bodies spontaneously at play beneath the surface of the water. Trent Parke is represented with gems from a current work in progress, The Black Rose, which is about coming to terms with the interconnectedness of past, present and future. Also showing will be favourites from The Christmas Tree Bucket series. In her new images In Lieu, Like A Bird Now and The Ravellor, Pat Brassington continues her fascination with the ... More | | Danish-Vietnamese Artist Danh Vo Conquers x-rummet at the National Gallery of Denmark
Danh Vo (f. 1975), Where the flavors are. Photo: Anders Sune Berg, 2010. Used cardboard, gold.
COPENHAGEN.- A gilt cardboard box and a used Mercedes engine. The internationally acclaimed Danish-Vietnamese artist Danh Vo conquers x-rummet at the National Gallery of Denmark with a subtly humorous exhibition that links personal history with wider cultural and political issues. The exhibition "Hip Hip Hurrah” marks Vo’s first solo representation in Denmark. Danh Vo was born in Vietnam in 1975. At the age of four, he and his family fled the post-war chaos of their native country in a homemade boat. Their intention was to go to the USA, but a Danish freighter discovered them in the Pacific, picked them up and took them back home to Denmark. As a refugee and immigrant Vo is an eternal traveller, voyaging through the conditions that have shaped and make up his identity. This also applies to his works, which build their poetic – and at times peculiar – significance ... More |
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Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney Presents Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life 1990-2005
Annie Leibovitz (American, b. 1949), Patti Smith with her Children, Jackson and Jesse, St. Clair Shores, Michigan 1996 (detail). Photograph © Annie Leibovitz.
SYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art and Events NSW present the exhibition Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life 1990–2005. The exhibition opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art on 19 November following a record-breaking tour in the US and Europe. Hugely popular among critics and art-lovers alike in museums from New York to London, Paris and Berlin, the exhibition is expected to attract large crowds in Sydney. The Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Elizabeth Ann Macgregor said “We are thrilled to be presenting this important exhibition by one of the world’s most celebrated photographers. It offers Australians a rare opportunity to see a world-renowned collection of images, from famous public figures to intimate family portraits.” Annie Leibovitz is without a doubt one of the most celebrated photographers of our time. The exhibition brings together almost 200 iconic images ... More | | The Work of Alex Katz Travels to North Wales as Part of 2010 Artist Rooms Tour
20 paintings spanning his career make up the Alex Katz ROOM in the ARTIST ROOMS collection.
LLANDUDNO.- The work of influential contemporary American painter, Alex Katz, comes to North Wales as part of the 2010 national tour of ARTIST ROOMS, a new collection of modern and contemporary art held by Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. The exhibition at Mostyn in Llandudno runs from Saturday 20 November 2010 to Saturday 12 March 2011 as part of ARTIST ROOMS On Tour with the Art Fund. 20 paintings spanning his career make up the Alex Katz ROOM in the ARTIST ROOMS collection. Especially for this exhibition, they are accompanied by a freestanding work, Green Table, created by the artist in 1996, and lent by Anthony d’Offay. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1927, Alex Katz has been painting for over half a century and his highly coloured works are instantly recognizable. With a few brushstrokes and key use of colour he conveys the complex feelings of human nature in his portraits and the changing moods of nature in hi ... More | | Beautiful Evidence: Christie's in New York to Offer the Library of Edward Tufte
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Sidereus nuncius magna, longeque admirabilia spectacula pandens. Venice: Tommaso Baglioni, 1610. Estimate: $600,000-800,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010.
NEW YORK, NY.- On December 2, Christie’s is pleased to offer Beautiful Evidence: The Library of Edward Tufte, a superb sale comprised of nearly 200 rare books, including major works in the history of science, statistical graphics, 20th-century artists books, and Edward Tufte artworks. Formed over the past thirty years, this important and rare collection documents his research, scholarship, writing, design and artwork, from the 15th through the 20th centuries. Highlights include: Colonna, Francesco (1433-1527). Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, ubi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse docet atque obiter plurima scitu sanequam digna commemorat, in Italian. Venice: Aldus Manutius for Leonardus Crassus, December 1499. The first edition of the most celebrated illustrated printed book of the Italian Renaissance. Estimate: $400,000 ... More |
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Important Items from the Hanoverian Royal Family to Be Sold in Arms and Militaria Auction
A rare and important North European Armet (peaked helmet) dating from 1500 and converted to funerary use in England in 1677 is expected to fetch £25,000-30,000.
LONDON.- An historically important collection from the Hanoverian Royal Family – the ancestors of today’s British Royal Family – will be offered in an auction of Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria in London on Wednesday, December 8 2010. The sale will be held at midday by Thomas Del Mar Ltd (in association with Sotheby’s) at his saleroom at 25 Blythe Road, W14. The collection, which is estimated to fetch in the region of £250,000 comprises 100 items such as armour, swords and halberds of the early renaissance as well as sporting guns, spears, swords and accoutrements from the Royal hunt. Among the highlights will be several items relating to George IV including a pair of 15-bore Hanoverian percussion sporting guns, which are estimated at £5,000-8,000; while an 18-bore example is expected to fetch £4,000-6,000 and a German 20-bore cape rifle is estimated at £3,000-5,000. Thomas ... More | | Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami Presents Bruce Weber: Haiti/Little Haiti
Keren Love Francois, Golden Beach, Florida 2010 - Copyright © Bruce Weber 2010
NORTH MIAMI, FL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami presents Bruce Weber: Haiti/ Little Haiti from November 19, 2010 through February 13, 2011. This extraordinary exhibition of photographs of Miami’s Haitian community by celebrated photographer Bruce Weber is part of MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Series and includes approximately 75 photographs taken by Weber from 2003 to 2010. Bruce Weber: Haiti / Little Haiti is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami and is curated by MOCA Executive Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater. In 2003, The Miami Herald published a magazine supplement of Bruce Weber's photographs of Miami's Haitian community. The photographs were Weber’s response to an unjust U.S. immigration system in which Haitian men, women and children were detained indefinitely unlike refugees from other countries who were typically released to family or friends while awaiti ... More | | Poppy Sebire Launches the Gallery's New Permanent Home in Southwark with New Exhibition
James Aldridge, Altar, 2009. Acrylic on Canvas, 200 x 175 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Poppy Sebire Gallery.
LONDON.- The New Chapter brings together all of Poppy Sebire's artists in one show for the first time to launch the gallery's new permanent home in Southwark. It's a celebration of four individuals who have forged the gallery's identity to date, and a bold statement of its ambitions for the future. The new space, All Hallows Hall, is a stunning, high-ceilinged, vaulted Victorian church hall that sits in one of London's most creatively vibrant and historically fascinating areas. After a first year of innovative, attention-grabbing pop-up shows in a variety of central London locations, it offers a chance for the gallery to change gear, and start to build something bigger. James Aldridge's paintings on canvas are influenced by imagery from natural history field guides, Renaissance landscapes, John James Audubon's watercolours and heavy metal album covers. Inky backgrounds, washes, and soft smoky areas of paint are offset ... More |
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Laumeier Unveils New Blind Maquettes with Support From Lighthouse for the Blind - Saint Louis
ST. LOUIS, MO.- Laumeier Sculpture Park unveiled six new blind maquettes offering enhanced interpretation for visitors of all abilities. With financial and evaluative assistance provided by the Lighthouse for the Blind – Saint Louis , Laumeier has created a series of six maquettes (cast scale models) including five sculptures and a topographic orientation map of the Park. The recently completed maquettes are the second phase of a new Wayfinding Initiative at Laumeier designed to improve the visitor experience and the interpretation of the Park’s sculptural, historical and natural elements. Laumeier and the Lighthouse for the Blind worked together to evaluate existing interpretation and collaboratively designed these new interpretive tools that make cultural experiences more inclusive. Each bronze maquette is sited atop a concrete and aluminum base that provides interpretive text panels in both printed English and Br ... More
Medal from Charge of the Light Brigade Offered at Bonhams
LONDON.- A Crimea Medal awarded to George Flowers of the 17th Lancers, who was killed in the Charge of the Light Brigade of 1854 will be offered by Bonhams in the Coins, Medals and Banknotes sale at Knightsbridge on December 15th. The medal is estimated to sell for £8,000 – 10,000. The Charge of the Light Brigade, made famous by Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem, was a doomed charge by the light cavalry against the Russian artillery, in the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War. It became a symbol of both heroic failure and devotion to duty. Nearly half the men in the charge, including George Flowers, were killed or wounded. The Crimean War was the first time that reporters and photographers captured the events in a way that had never happened before. This brought the story of the Charge of the Light Brigade to the public’s attention only three weeks after it had happened and eyewitness accounts of the charge in the ... More
Guillotines, Scalpels and Ant Farms Provide Unique Opportunity To Reveal Unexpected Views into Architecture
LONDON.- From the surgeon’s scalpel to Madame guillotine, the slice can reveal a secret order, uncover hidden structures and open new views. The Slice, a new exhibition at the Architectural Association School, will explore the relationship between the external and what lies within by examining the peculiar traditions that link visibility to the swift saw. The convention of the architectural cross-section here finds its parallel in the physical sectioning of anatomical specimens. The exhibition is made up of models, apparatus, and objects encouraging the voyeur to look beyond surfaces, delve deeper to explore hidden structures and provide fascinating insights across disparate fields and historical moments. Items on display include: A silver medal commemorating Joseph Ignace Guillotin, as President of Paris Academy of Medicine, by J.P. Droz, French, 1809: Guillotin was opposed to the death penalty and hoped that a more humane and less painful method of execution would be th ... More
Getty Conservation Institute Awarded National Science Foundation Grant to Study Ancient Greek Pottery
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a collaborative group of California scientists from the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI), The Aerospace Corporation, and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) at Stanford $495,723 over three years to investigate the chemical and physical makeup of Attic pottery—long considered to be the pinnacle of ancient ceramic craftsmanship. The collaborative partnership received the grant as part of the NSF's SCIART program which seeks to fund projects at the intersection of science and art. Attic pottery, the iconic red-and-black figure pottery produced in ancient Greece from the 6th to the 4th centuries B.C., required immense precision to produce, and the means by which craftsman created these vessels is still not completely understood. Led by Karen Trentelman, a conservation scientist at the GCI, along with GCI scientist Marc Walto ... More
Notable D.C. Chefs Create Art-Inspired Birthday Cakes for the Phillips Collection's 89th Anniversary
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Phillips Collection kicks off its yearlong “90 Years of New” celebration on January 15 and 16, 2011, featuring free admission, the newly renovated Phillips house, special art installations, interactive tours, complimentary champagne, and a display of birthday cakes by some of the finest chefs working in Washington, D.C. Celebrity chefs, including 701’s Melanie Parker, 1789’s Travis Olson, Blue Duck Tavern’s Peter Brett, Cake Love’s Warren Brown, Hook’s Heather Chittum, Restaurant Eve’s Rebekka Baltzell, caterer Susan Gage, and a pastry chef from Equinox, among others, will create work-of-art cake designs that capture the spirit of The Phillips Collection and celebrate its 90-year milestone. They will be on display in the museum for one weekend only, when visitors can vote for their favorite cake by donating $1 in support of The Phillips Collection’s e ... More
Critically Acclaimed Gallery Renovations Continue with Two Major Fall Projects
NEW YORK, NY.- Over the past four years, The Frick Collection has renovated its galleries and public spaces through a succession of critically acclaimed initiatives. Availing itself of advances in lighting technology, the Frick has improved dramatically the illumination of its paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts. Following a three-month closure, the Boucher Room recently reopened to the public, having been refurbished and relit, the first such extensive treatment of this jewelbox of a gallery in almost thirty years. The long West Gallery—home to masterpieces by Rembrandt, Hals, Turner, and Vermeer, as well as Renaissance bronzes and furniture and considered by many to be the centerpiece of the museum—is undergoing the first substantial relighting since the Frick opened to the public seventy-five years ago. While an upgrade of existing auxiliary lights occurred more than twenty years ago in this gallery, the 2010 ... More
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