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A man eyes posters advertising for luxury train trips dating around 1900 on display in the exhibition 'Taking the Train through Europe' at Folkwang Museum in Essen, Germany, 05 November 2010. Three new exhibitions are on display at Folkwang Museum from 06 November on. EPA/JULIAN STRATENSCHULTE.
ESSEN.- From November 6, 2010 to 16 January 2011 the Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, is showing three new exhibitions of the departments of Photography, Drawings and the German Poster Museum. With the exhibition Celebrity Design – Edward Steichen, the Fotografische Sammlung is dedicating a solo exhibition to the well-known American photographer Edward Steichen (1879–1973) for the first time. The core is formed by a donation of 65 photographs by Joanna Steichen, which the Museum Folkwang in Essen received in 1983, exclusively in Germany. In the center are Steichen’s fashion photography and photographs of prominent people from the 1920/30s, made mainly for celebrated Condé Nast magazines like Vogue and Vanity Fair. The photographs mostly show American actors and actresses such as Alla Nazimova, Lillian Gish and James Hackett. Famed people from art, sport and politics are represented by Henri Matisse, Frank ... More |
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First Week of Excavation Reveals Exceptionally-Preserved Ice Age Ecosystem
The Ziegler Reservoir excavation site near Snowmass Village, Colo. AP Photo/Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Rick Wicker.
SNOWMASS VILLAGE.- Denver Museum of Nature & Science excavation crews discovered two additional Ice Age mammal species at a fossil dig site at Ziegler Reservoir near Snowmass Village, Colorado on Thursday. The first find was a humerus, or upper arm bone, of a giant ground sloth. The second discovery was a small deer-like animal. The total number of mammal species found at the dig site now totals five: Columbian mammoth, American mastodon, Ice Age bison, giant ground sloth, and the yet to be identified deer-like animal. When combined with the well-preserved plant matter, insects, and invertebrates found at the site, the excavation is revealing an exceptionally-well preserved Ice Age ecosystem. "It is truly uncommon to get all parts of a fossil ecosystem preserved in one place," said Dr. Ian Miller, the Museum's curator of paleontology and chair of the Earth Science Department. "Instead of having just a piece of the ecosystem to ... More | | The Robert Devereux Collection of Post-War British Art Totals $7.6 Million at Sotheby's
The Robert Devereux collection showcased the exceptional talent of British artists over the last 60 years. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- The two-day sale of The Robert Devereux Collection of Post-War British Art at Sotheby’s in London concluded this afternoon having realised a remarkable total of £4,730,101 / US$7,603,489 - a figure well above the pre-sale expectations of £2,409,250-3,550,750. The three selling sessions of 329 lots in total established an overall sell-through rate of 95% by lot as well as a clutch of new artist records. Proceeds from the sale will go towards The African Arts Trust, a charitable organisation that Robert Devereux - a former partner in Richard Branson’s Virgin Empire - is in the process of establishing to support the arts in Africa. All three sales saw buyers - both established and new to Sotheby’s - out in force and at least half of the works that were sold achieved prices that were in excess of their high estimate. There were multiple bidders on the majority of the lots, with bids coming from all over th ... More | | New Paintings by Colorado-Born Artist John Currin Presented at Gagosian Gallery
John Currin, Constance Towers, 2009. Oil on canvas, 40 x 27 in.© John Currin. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents new paintings by John Currin. Currin’s depictions of the female figure enchant and repel, often in equal measure. Labeled as mannerist, caricaturist, radical conservative or satirist, Currin continues to confound expectations and evade categorization. While his meticulous and virtuosic technique is indebted to the history of classical painting, the images themselves engage startlingly contemporary ideas about the representation of the human figure. With inspirations as diverse as Old Master portraits, pin-ups, and mid-twentieth century B-movies, Currin continues to paint ideational yet challengingly perverse images of female subjects, from lusty nymphs to more ethereal feminine prototypes. With his uncanny ability to locate the point at which the beautiful and the grotesque are held in perfect balance, he continues to produce subversive portraits of idiosyncratic women in convent ... More |
 | ARTISSIMA 17: The International Fair of Contemporary Art in Turin Introduces a Host of New Features
A visitor looks at a sculpture at the International Fair of Contemporary Art, Artissima 17, in Turin, Italy. EPA/TONINO DI MARCO.
TURIN.- Artissima 17, the International Fair of Contemporary Art in Turin, will be held from Friday 5 to Sunday 7 November 2010 under the artistic direction of Francesco Manacorda. This event, the first to be directed by Manacorda, will be introducing a host of new features. First of all, it will be held in spectacular new premises: the Oval, a pavilion of unique architectural design, which was built for the 2006 Turin Olympic Winter Games. Located in the Lingotto Fiere area, the Oval covers 20,000 sq.m., with natural lighting provided by over 15,000 sq.m. of continuous glass walls. It is the ideal venue for Francesco Manacorda’s project, which this year will be bringing together all the various aspects of the Fair in a single place. And this is the second new feature of Artissima 17: the cultural programme with all its many events ... More | | The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston Announces Two New Curatorial Appointments
Jenelle Porter, Photo: Aaron Igler.
BOSTON, MA.- Jill Medvedow, director of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) announced today the appointment of Jenelle Porter as senior curator, effective January 2011, and Pedro Alonzo as adjunct curator, effective immediately. “These appointments come during a period of great energy and growth at the museum as the ICA continues to evolve in its waterfront home and our curatorial ranks expand,” said Medvedow. “Both Jenelle and Pedro share our commitment to connecting audiences with the joy and inspiration that contemporary art provides. Jenelle’s intellectual rigor, art historical knowledge, and curatorial experience will make a tremendous contribution to Boston’s cultural landscape. Through a series of pivotal exhibitions, Pedro has established himself as one of the foremost curators of urban and street art—a field the ICA brought to world attention with our Shepard Fairey exhibiti ... More | | Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin Presents a Unique Project by Carsten Höller: SOMA
Reindeers stand inside the installation of Belgian-born artist Carsten Hoeller at the Museum fuer Gegenwart. AP Photo/Gero Breloer.
BERLIN.- As of November 5th, the Nationalgalerie at the Hamburger Bahnhof presents a unique project by Carsten Höller: SOMA. In search of Soma the artist creates a three dimensional, living picture. His protagonists are unusual museum guests: reindeers and canary birds, mice and flies. On the quest for another world, Carsten Höller follows the origin of Soma, a mythical libation of the Indo-Germanic Vedas from the 2nd millennium BC, with his installation at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart. Soma helped to gain enlightenment and access to the divine sphere, to bring fortune and victory. The passed on descriptions suggest, that a plant delivered the core ingredient, its identity is still unknown. From a botanic, ethnologic and etymologic point of view it could have been the fly agarics. ... More |
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Exhibition Explores the Fascinating World of Contemporary Canadian Art at the National Gallery of Canada
Steven Shearer, Geometric Mechanotherapy Cell for Harmonic Alignment of Movements and Relations, 2007–2008, polished plastic, metal bolts, black paint, speakers, transducers, and amplifiers, 232.4 × 213.4 × 213.4 cm with base. Purchased 2009. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. © Steven Shearer. Photo © NGC.
OTTAWA.- More than 80 of the most innovative and ambitious works created by artists across Canada are highlighted in the National Gallery of Canada's (NGC) inaugural Canadian Biennial exhibition It Is What It Is: Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art. Reflecting the depth and diversity of contemporary Canadian art, these works are drawn from acquisitions made over the past two years for the NGC's collections of Indigenous and Contemporary art as well as for the Canadian Museum of Canadian Contemporary Photography (CMCP). Together they reveal the unique ways contemporary Canadian artists are tackling the state of the world through their art, and how they are selecting interdisciplinary modes ... More | | German Artist Hans-Peter Feldmann Named Winner of Eighth Biennial Hugo Boss Prize
Hans-Peter Feldmann. Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York, and the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and HUGO BOSS AG announced last night that German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann has been named the winner of THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2010. Feldmann is the eighth artist to win the biennial honor, which was established in 1996 to recognize significant achievement in contemporary art. The prize carries an award of $100,000 and is administered by the Guggenheim Foundation. A jury comprising a distinguished international panel of museum directors and curators selected Feldmann from a group of six short-listed artists, which included Cao Fei, Roman Ondák, Walid Raad, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. An exhibition of the prizewinner’s work will be on view at the Guggenheim Museum from May 20 through September 5, 2011. “First conferred 14 years ago, THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE now ranks among the most prestigious awards in the world ... More | | Sprüth Magers Present "Recalling Frames", an Exhibition of New Work by David Maljkovic
David Maljkovic, Recalling Frames, 2010. © Courtesy the Artist and Sprüth Magers Berlin London.
LONDON.- Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers present ‘Recalling Frames’, an exhibition of new work by David Maljkovic. The title of David Maljkovic’s solo exhibition can be understood in relation to his current body of work but also indicates a recurring theme in his artistic practice: recalling ideas from the past and analysing their impact on the present. He introduces places, their architectural structures and their underlying concepts in modified pictorial arrangements as a means of determining their current potential. Maljkovic creates these reconstructions by applying the technique of collage to the media of photography and film: by crossfading between different time levels, he also gives them a fictional dimension that transforms them into sites for an alternative future. In the context of Maljkovic’s exhibition, ‘Recalling Frames’ specifically refers to the extraction of single frames ... More |
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SFMOMA Appoints Robert W. Lasher as New Deputy Museum Director, External Relations
Lasher brings significant experience and an outstanding record of achievement in fundraising, nonprofit board governance, and strategic management.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announced the appointment of Robert W. Lasher as the museum's deputy director, external relations, a newly created position. Starting on November 1, 2010, Lasher will supervise a new External Relations division, overseeing the museum's Development Department and Marketing and Communications Department. He joins SFMOMA's two current deputy museum directors, of curatorial affairs and of administration and finance, serving under Director Neal Benezra on the museum's senior leadership team. Lasher brings significant experience and an outstanding record of achievement in fundraising, nonprofit board governance, and strategic management. His work in arts, scientific, and higher education institutions demonstrates a proven record of organizational transformation that is directly relevant to this new role at SFMOMA. ... More | | New National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia Celebrates Jewish Life
Museum at dawn, October 2010. Photograph by Jeffrey Holder.
PHILADELPHIA (REUTERS).- Albert Einstein's pipe, Irving Berlin's piano and Jonas Salk's test tubes are just a few of the historic items in a new museum that celebrates Jewish life in America. The National Museum of American Jewish History, which is in a new building that sits in the heart of Philadelphia's historic Independence Mall, opens on November 26. It traces the history of Jewish Americans from 1654 -- when the first permanent Jewish community began in New Amsterdam -- to the present day. It is also the first museum to present the history of American Jews, focusing on themes such as immigration, assimilation and the maintenance of cultural and religious identity in a country where the strictures of Jewish life in the Old World no longer applied. "The American Jewish experience is enormously important to the grand sweep of Jewish history," said Michael Rosenzweig, the museum's president. "It has not been well told, and we ... More | | Model of Former Nazi Castle Headed to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
The U.S. ambassador to Austria William C. Eacho III looks at a model of Hartheim Castle. AP Photo/Lilli Strauss.
By: Veronika Oleksyn, Associated Press
VIENNA (AP).- A model of an Austrian castle where the Nazis murdered about 30,000 people — including many who were mentally ill or disabled — is headed to a U.S. museum. Hartheim Castle was one of several notorious institutions that Adolf Hitler and his regime turned into the main venues for what they called "euthanasia" and where individuals who did not meet their ideals were gassed or given lethal injections. William C. Eacho III, the U.S. ambassador to Austria, formally received the replica of the castle, located in the northern Austrian village of Alkoven, on Friday. It will now go on permanent loan to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. "The model reminds us of what can happen when society loses its moral compass and forgets the intrinsic value of human life," Eacho said during a ... More |
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150 Years Ago, Lincoln's Election Set March to War
By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- With the wounds of a hard-fought political campaign still raw, the country was sharply divided by the time the election was finished. It was 150 years ago Saturday: President Abraham Lincoln was elected amid the rising tensions that led to the Civil War. The anniversary of Lincoln's election kicks off nearly five years of events by the National Park Service and others marking the Sesquicentennial of the war between North and South. "We're trying to say it's more than battles," Park Service tourism chief Dean Reeder said of the Civil War commemorations. Lincoln's election helps frame the context of what would come, he said. Coming on the heels of this year's polarizing elections, the anniversary echoes the nation's fractious mood back then. "I think a lot of people will notice it was a contentious election in 2010, and it was a way contentious election in 1860," Reeder said. A century and a half ago, in a nation already torn ... More
Bonhams to Sell Portrait of Napoleon by His Valet and Friend
LONDON.- Bonhams are to sell a near-contemporary portrait of Napoleon painted by his valet and close companion Louis-Joseph-Narcisse Marchand in the British & Continental Pictures auction in Knightsbridge on 30 November 2010. Marchand (1791-1876) was Napoleon Bonaparte’s valet and friend. He became an Imperial servant in 1811 and remained faithful to Napoleon after his abdication and was rewarded with promotion to main valet. While Napoleon was on his deathbed he bestowed the title of Count on Marchand, which was confirmed by Napoleon III in 1869. He kept extensive memoirs which provide historians with detailed and personal insights into the life of the Emperor as well as a sober and moving account of his death. The pen and ink wash portrait is dated 1832, measures 11.5 x 9.5cm and gives an intimate view of Napoleon. It is estimated at £400-600. Veronique Scorer, of Bonhams Knightsbridge comments, “It is very exciti ... More
My Father's House: The Architecture of Cultural Heritage at the Brunei Gallery
LONDON.- Featuring work by five emerging Middle Eastern artists and three UK photographers – including Winner of the World Press Photo of the Year 2007 Tim Hetherington – the exhibition uses large-scale photography, audio-visual media and film to examine how the built environment reflects the people, the community, society and the nations of the Gulf States and Arabian Peninsula. Each of the artists has focused on an individual sphere of investigation and specific countries in the Gulf States and Arabian Peninsula. Commissioned by the British Council, My Father’s House approaches the subject of cultural identity from the inside out. The exhibition hopes to remind its audiences to look at the spaces they inhabit, and engage in the debate about development of their built environment, to ensure that it reflects a true sense of their personal and communal identity. My Father’s House has been touring in the Middle East since February 2009 and has been displayed ... More
Army Colonel's Collection Led by Exceptional Chinese Jade Design of Cabbage and Crickets
AUSTIN, TX.- With Asian art currently dominating the headlines in nearly every antiques trade publication, the timing is 10 out of 10 for Austin Auction Gallery’s Nov. 21 sale featuring a superb 38-lot collection of early Chinese jade. Amassed primarily in the 1970s by a U.S. Army colonel posted in Japan and later Vietnam, the collection contains purchases made during the officer’s extensive travels throughout the Orient. “The colonel and his wife had a great appreciation for Asian cultures, and collecting jade and ivory carvings, wood carvings and other Asian art became a lifelong hobby,” said Ross Featherston, owner of Austin Auction Gallery. “Among the countries they visited while living in Asia were China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia and Nepal. The pieces they acquired were displayed and enjoyed for many years.” The most intriguing entry in the sale is a 19t ... More
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Gives $50 Million in Grants to the Smithsonian Institution
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian Institution has received $50 million in grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support three new programs: $30 million for broadening access to the Institution through a Youth Access Endowment, $10 million for the four consortia identified in the Smithsonian's Strategic Plan and $10 million in fall 2009 for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The $30 million endowment gift will support programs for children in grades K-12 now and in the future. The youth access initiative will enable Smithsonian museums and research centers to use their vast resources and expertise to reach underserved students in school districts around the country. The Smithsonian will build on existing programs that use interactive websites, online conferences, distance learning and games to reach new audiences in innovative ways. Last year, interactive online conferences on Abraham Lincoln a ... More
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