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A man looks on to the artwork 'Humanos' ('Human', 2004), by French artist Christian Boltansky that is part of the exhibition 'Haunted' at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, northern Spain. The exhibition includes photos, paintings, videos and performances to show how photographic iconography has joined to the art in the last 50 years. EPA/MIGUEL TONA.
BILBAO.- From November 6, 2010, until March 13, 2011, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will host Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/ Performance, an exhibition featuring over one hundred works by sixty different artists who examine myriad ways in which photographic imagery is incorporated into recent art, with the aim of underscoring the unique power of recording technologies and documenting a widespread contemporary obsession with accessing the past, both collective and individual. The exhibition was on display at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York until September 6 of this year, where it met with great success. In Bilbao, sixty new works will be included alongside selections from the initial presentation, some of which have never been exhibited in Spain before. Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by the history of art, by apparitions that are reanimated in recording techn ... More |
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Striking Show of 42 Works by Damien Hirst as Print Maker Opens at the Bowes Museum
Damien Hirst, Memento. Credit as per previous email: © Damien Hirst & Paragon Press.
DURHAM.- Following a £12m refurbishment, The Bowes Museum brings a global name to the Barnard Castle treasure house this autumn with the opening of Damien Hirst: Print Maker. This world class exhibition, curated by former Turner Prize judge Greville Worthington, will explore this foremost contemporary artist through his renowned print works. The striking show of 42 works, many unseen by the public, has been loaned by several northern collectors and is one not to miss. With the support of these private collectors, the Museum has drawn together Hirst’s best quality prints to form the first exhibition to re-establish a contemporary programme at The Bowes Museum. In the process of print making Hirst uses a variety of techniques to achieve his aims. Since the 1990s he has produced a range of high quality prints, often proving technically difficult and complex, exploring similar themes to those in his paintings and in ... More | | 128 Years After Construction, Barcelona's Sagrada Familia Finally Becomes a Church
Partial view inside the Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona Spain. AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti.
By: Nigel Davies
BARCELONA (REUTERS).- For decades tourists have visited the twisting spires of Barcelona's iconic Sagrada Familia church, but 128 years after construction began Catholic faithful will worship there for the first time on Sunday. Pope Benedict XVI will celebrate Mass to give his official blessing to the church designed by architect Antoni Gaudi, whose sculptural masterpieces dot the city in the region of Catalonia. The pope consecrates Sagrada Familia during a visit to northern Spain where on Saturday he joins pilgrims at the shrine to St. James, Spain's patron saint, in Santiago de Compostela. While work is not scheduled to finish for many more years on the intricate and colorful Sagrada Familia, enough has been done to welcome the pontiff, including installing last minute stained-glass windows. Jordi ... More | | Abracadabra: New Abstract Enamels by Kim MacConnel at Quint Contemporary
Kim MacConnel, 9 Rabbit, 2010, enamel on board panel, 46" x 46" x 2-1/2", 116.8cm x 116.8cm x 6.4cm. Photo courtesy Quint Contemporary Art.
LA JOLLA, CA.- Quint Contemporary Art presents Abracadabra: New Abstract Enamels, an exhibition to run in conjunction with MacConnel’s retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla. The retrospective, Collection Applied Design: A Kim MacConnel Retrospective, is the first for the artist in San Diego. This is Kim’s eighth exhibition at Quint Contemporary Art. MacConnel has worked in San Diego for the past 30 years, and has recently retired as a professor of art from UCSD. MacConnel is a seminal figure in the Pattern and Decoration movement of the seventies, but overall MacConnel’s oeuvre has surpassed being categorized. His sensibility and talent has created a unique language using color and composition. He persuades the viewer to appreciate the appeal and conceptual property of patterns and draws inspiration from ... More |
 | Reginald Marsh Drawings, Andy Warhol Prints Among Highlights of Swann Galleries' November 18 Auction
Franz Kline, Untitled, brush and black ink on paper, 1955 (detail). Estimate: $60,000 to $90,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday, November 18, Swann Galleries will conduct a two-part sale of American Art & Contemporary Art offering over 100 unique works by significant American artists followed by more than 200 prints, drawings, paintings and multiples by Contemporary European and American artists. The American Art section features works of art that were formerly in the collection of Lloyd Goodrich, an art historian who served as curator and director of the Whitney Museum of American Art. These include select works by his friend Reginald Marsh, among them In the Surf, Coney Island, brush and gray and black ink, 1946 (estimate $30,000 to $50,000), and lovely watercolors Manhattan Skyline with Brooklyn Bridge, 1929 ($12,000 to $18,000); and Battery Park, 1930 ($5,000 to $8,000). Also from the Goodrich collection are a pen-and-ink sketch by Winslow Homer of his painting, Spring: The Shepherdess of Houghton Farm, on one she ... More | | New Works by Artist Raymond Pettibon on Display in "Hard in the Paint" at David Zwirner
Raymond Pettibon, No Title (For getting a...), 2010. Pen, ink, and gouache on paper, 33 x 25 5/8 inches, 83.8 x 65.1 cm. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York and Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new works by Raymond Pettibon, on display at the gallery’s 533 West 19th Street space. Raymond Pettibon’s work embraces a wide spectrum of American “high” and “low” culture, from the deviations of marginal youth to art history, literature, sports, religion, politics, and sexuality. Taking their points of departure in the Southern California punk-rock culture of the late 1970s and 1980s and the “do-it-yourself” aesthetic of album-covers, comics, concert flyers, and fanzines that characterized the movement, his drawings have come to occupy their own genre of potent and dynamic artistic commentary. This exhibition takes its title from basketball terminology: used to describe a player moving within the rectangular and usually painted area below the net, “hard in the paint” indicates the difficulty in scoring from this ang ... More | | Sales of Russian Art at Sotheby's Total $14.4 Million, Important Russian Enamels and Fabergé Sold
A man stands in front of painting of Alexandre Iacovleff 'Un Groupe de Lamas'. EPA/SERGEI ILNITSKY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s autumn 2010 auctions of Russian Art in New York brought a total of $14,397,064. The day began with an inaugural sale of Important Russian Paintings that achieved $10.6 million and set several new auction records. The highlight of the sale was a monumental canvas by the Socialist Realist painter Yuri Pimenov that sold for $1,538,500, more than double the high estimate and a record
for the artist at auction. The paintings auction was followed by a sale of Important Russian Enamels and Fabergé from a New York Private Collection that brought $3.8 million, led by a Fine and Massive Russian Gilded Silver and Shaded Enamel Large Wedding Kovsh, retailed by Ovchinnikov, Moscow, circa 1900 that sold for $518,500, well above the presale estimate (est. $200/300,000). The sale of Important Russian Art brought a total of $10,586,500, within the presale estimate of $8.7/12.6 ... More |
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DC Moore Gallery to Represent Mark Innerst and Opens First Exhibition with the Artist
Mark Innerst, All the Above, 2010 (detail), Oil on panel, 15 ¾ x 19 ¾ in. Photo: Courtesy DC Moore Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery announces that it is beginning its representation of Mark Innerst with an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper inspired by New York City, Philadelphia, and the beaches of Cape May, New Jersey. A full-color catalog with an essay by Michael Duncan is available. Innerst transforms the urban landscape, investing it with a deeply resonant beauty and complexity. New York and Philadelphia appear alternately majestic, immense, and serene, as endless stretches of buildings morph into skyward-shooting lines or stacked, layered blocks of color. In work such as All the Above, the city appears organic and fluid, unfolding from within. Vanishing points slip off-center, crowded out by buildings that curve overhead and sweep downward to street level, where human activity is reduced to blurs of light and movement. Paintings of the beaches ... More | | Imperial War Museum North Exhibits a New Sculpture by Renowned Contemporary Artist Gerry Judah
Gerry Judah’s new piece, entitled The Crusader.
MANCHESTER.- The huge work of art is the first exhibit visitors will see on entering the Museum’s Main Exhibition Space. Gerry Judah’s new piece, entitled The Crusader, has been created in direct response to contemporary global conflict. It reflects on modern day wars but also resonates with the history of world conflict, showing how war has and continues to shape lives. This makes it a powerful and thought-provoking piece at Remembrance. This striking, snow white sculpture comprises a seven metre, three-dimensional structure covered with a web of war torn buildings. The setting in Imperial War Museum North’s landmark building – designed to represent a globe shattered by conflict - is fitting as Judah’s work is a reaction to the Museum’s architecture, as well as its and themes of war and conflict. The Crusader is the culmination of five years of engagement with conflict in which Judah has create ... More | | First Solo Gallery Exhibition at Luhring Augustine of New Work by Artist Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry, Pillow, 2010. C-print with painted frame. Edition of 5 and 2 artist's proofs, 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches (36.83 x 29.21 x 3.81 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Luhring Augustine presents its first solo exhibition of new work by Elad Lassry. This exhibition features photographs as well as unique works, and also debuts a 35mm film. Throughout his oeuvre, Lassry is persistent in his exploration of the status of the picture in the 21st century. His visually complex pictures are at once present and elusive, familiar and alien. Lassry investigates the opposing pictorial realms of the analog and the digital to create a tension that unfolds within the photographic space. In his staged photographs, collages made from found material, and intimately crafted films, Lassry employs seemingly mundane subject matter such as publicity shots, portraits of animals, nondescript landscapes, and still lifes of vegetables. The artist liberates each image from its existing visual history by negating ... More |
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A 2,000-Year-Old House in the Ancient Roman City of Pompeii Collapses Officials Said
People stand by debris in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. AP Photo/Franco Castanò.
ROME (AP).- A 2,000-year-old house in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, which was once used by gladiators to train before combat, collapsed Saturday, officials said. The site was closed at the time and nobody was injured, but the collapse underscored a controversy over the poor state of Pompeii, one of Italy's main tourist attractions. The office of Pompeii's archaeological superintendent said the collapse occurred Saturday at around 6 a.m. (0500 GMT). Attendants opening the site saw the collapse about an hour later. The house, called by the Latin name "Schola Armaturarum Juventis Pompeiani," was closed to the public, and could only be seen from the outside, and it was not considered at risk of collapse, officials said. Situated on Pompeii's main street, the site was quickly cordoned off. Antonio Varone, director of Pompeii's excavations, told the ANSA news agency that officials were trying to "preserve up to the last fragment of the 'Schola Armaturarum.'" There was no official ... More | | Chinese Avant-Garde Artist Ai Weiwei Under House Arrest, Not Allowed to Travel to Shanghai
Beijing police officers confined the prominent artist and activist Ai Weiwei to his north Beijing home. EPA/ANDY RAIN.
By: Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press
BEIJING (AP).- Chinese avant-garde artist Ai Weiwei said Saturday that he has been placed under house arrest to prevent him from attending a party commemorating the forced demolition of his newly built studio in Shanghai. Ai, who has become known as much for his social activism as his art in recent years, was planning to fly to the Chinese financial hub for Sunday's celebration, but people he suspects were police told him Friday that he would not be permitted to leave his Beijing home. Speaking by telephone, Ai said the men refused to identify themselves and it wasn't clear who gave the order to detain him. On Sunday afternoon, three men in plainclothes were ensconced in a minivan with no license plates that was blocking the entrance to Ai's home in an artists colony on the eastern edge of the city. "I'm under house ... More | | Laura Lynch Named Director of Education at the Nassau County Museum of Art
Laura Lynch brings extensive experience in art education and administration to her new responsibilities at NCMA.
ROSLYN HARBOR, NY.- Karl E. Willers, Ph.D., Director of Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA), announced that Laura Lynch has been appointed the museum’s Director of Education. She begins her new position at the Museum on November 8, 2010. Lynch brings extensive experience in art education and administration to her new responsibilities at NCMA. For 10 years she served Queens Museum of Art (QMA) in a variety of roles, including and most recently as the senior manager of school, youth and family programs. At QMA, she created and implemented programs for children, schools, educators, and family groups and also was responsible for a program of encouraging English language proficiency in ESL students using visual literacy. At NCMA Lynch will oversee all public educational programming for adults, children and school groups and all aspects of the museum’s educational ... More |
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Simon Patterson's First Solo Exhibition in New York Since 1993 at Benrimon Contemporary
NEW YORK, NY.- Benrimon Contemporary presents Anthology, Simon Patterson’s first solo exhibition in New York since 1993. The exhibition is a survey show including recent works as well as works from the classic ‘Name Paintings’ series, begun in 1987, and ‘Black-list’ series from 2006. Photographs from ‘Landskip’, a series of unique photographs, begun in 2000, are also be included, along with videos, works on paper, Cousteau in the Underworld of 2010, and The Great Bear, of 1992, the artist’s signature piece, a reworking of the London Underground Map. Patterson is a multi-disciplinary artist whose works incorporate his interest in history, language and words, and familiar systems of classification, which the artist challenges and subverts while allowing the viewer to make his or her own connections. Patterson is most well known for The Great Bear, 1992, where he re-invents the Londo ... More
Bonhams to Sell East Anglian Paintings with American Links
LONDON.- Bonhams are to sell East Anglian paintings with East American connections in their East Anglian View auction in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on Thursday 2nd December 2010. Flatford, Ipswich, Dedham, Needham, Yarmouth have something in common. They are all Massachusetts locations which have a namesake town or village in East Anglia – an area north of London comprising the counties of Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire. Many of the early American settlers came from these parts and no doubt named their new American settlements out of nostalgia for their home towns. What else do these places have in common? They are all locations depicted in paintings to be sold in Bonhams ‘East Anglian View’ auction. This annual sale was established a decade ago and celebrates the rich artistic heritage of this corner of England. East Anglia has traditionally been England’s artistic heartland and artists from ... More
The Phillips Collection Joins Forces with The George Washington University
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Phillips Collection, America’s first museum of modern art, and The George Washington University are jointly organizing art history courses, artist visits, post-doctoral fellowships, and an internship program, all at the Phillips’s Center for the Study of Modern Art and GW’s Foggy Bottom campus. These pooled resources, creativity, and expertise will enhance the capacity of the museum and university to offer a range of innovative, interdisciplinary learning opportunities for GW students and the public. “In joining forces with The George Washington University, the Phillips gains as its valued partner D.C.’s largest institution of higher learning,” says Phillips Director Dorothy Kosinski. “The Phillips is thrilled to count such a well-respected and globally connected Washington institution among its creative collaborators.” Adds Klaus Ottmann, director of the ... More
Museums Unite to Chronicle Post-War LA Art Scene
LOS ANGELES, CA.- More than 60 California cultural institutions are coming together to tell the story of the birth of the Los Angeles art scene, in the largest such collaboration ever undertaken in the region. Southern California museums and university programs such as the Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Chicano Studies Research Center will take part in the 2011-2012 event, titled "Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A 1945-1980", organizers said on Thursday. Each of the institutions will make a contribution to the story of art and social change in Los Angeles through simultaneous exhibitions and programs. "What began as an effort to document the milestones in this region's artistic history has expanded until it is now becoming a great creative landmark in itself," said Deborah Marrow, interim president of the J. Paul Getty Trust, which has initiated the event through grants totaling $10 milli ... More
Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum is Hoping to Save Unique Zodiac Settle Designed by William Burges
LONDON.- Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum is hoping to save a unique zodiac settle designed by 19th century architect William Burges. A settle is a wooden day-bed or bench. This particular piece is highly valuable and is subject to a temporary export bar until 20 December, put in place by Culture Minister Ed Vaizey. Following the decision, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum was identified as the most appropriate UK institution to mount a fundraising campaign to raise the £800,000 necessary to acquire the settle for public collections. We've offered £150,000 towards the acquisition. The settle (1869-70) is an ornate seat or bench that combines the form of an Italian Renaissance day-bed with a castellated canopy inspired by the English Gothic. It is made from painted, stencilled and gilded wood, decorated with rock crystal and slips of vellum. The central panel, painted by Burges' collaborator Henry Stacey Marks, features the sun on a throne, surrounded by the da ... More
The Getty Announces Gift by Dr. Richard A. Simms in Memory of James N. Wood
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty announced a gift of seven drawings to the J. Paul Getty Museum, including a pastel by the important Czech artist Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957), and eleven prints by the preeminent painter and printmaker James Ensor (Belgian, 1860-1949) to the Getty Research Institute. The works comprise a gift from Dr. Richard Simms of Los Angeles, who has been a generous supporter of the Getty and its programs for nearly a decade, and have been donated by him in memory of James N. Wood, the late President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust. Deborah Marrow, Interim President and CEO said, "The Getty is extremely grateful to Dr. Simms for his active role on the GRI's Collections Council, as well as his generosity as a lender and a donor. In 2003, he gave an etched version of Ensor's masterpiece, Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1888 to the Getty Research Institute and his 2010 gift in honor of Jim Wood enhances both the ... More
Ancient Skulls Mailed to Brigham Young University
PROVO (AP).- The Utah state archaeologist has determined the age of three mystery skulls mailed to Brigham Young University. KSL-TV reports the skulls were determined to be from about 1100 to 1300 A.D. That fits with the early suspicions of investigators that the skulls might be ancient artifacts. The skulls will be turned over to Utah's Native American leaders. The skulls were delivered to BYU's history department last month in a box labeled with a Montana return address. University police say they don't know why the skulls were sent to BYU. ... More
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