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Ignacio Galan, chairman of Spanish power company Iberdrola, gestures beside the painting "Adan y Eva" by German Renaissance artist Albert Dürer during its presentation after a long restoration process at Madrid's El Prado Museum November 24, 2010. REUTERS/Sergio Perez.
MADRID.- The Museum is once again displaying the magnificent pair of paintings of Adam and Eve (1507) by Albrecht Dürer, following two years of intensive restoration to their pictorial surfaces and supports. The work on the two panels has benefited from the participation of a team of international experts, jointly co-ordinated by the Prado and the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles. The latter institution funded the restoration of the delicate panels on which the two paintings are executed, leading to the development of an ingenious technical solution in order to stabilise them. To draw public attention to the complex process of restoration carried out on both panels, they are now on show in a space other than their usual gallery, with a special installation sponsored by Iberdrola as their first project within the collaborative agreement signed today with the Prado for sponsorship of the Museum’s restoration programme. ... More |
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"An Excellent Year": 14th Edition of Paris Photo Turned the Spotlight on Central Europe
A man visit the Paris Photo exhibition, in Paris, France. The annual international art fair of photography marked its 30th anniversary. EPA/LUCAS DOLEGA.
PARIS.- Paris Photo 2010: the best edition in 14 years “An excellent year,” “splendid 14th edition,” “one of the best editions ever seen.” These were some of the headlines in the press hailing the success of the 14th edition of Paris Photo which closed on Sunday 21st November. The 14th edition of Paris Photo turned the spotlight on central Europe – Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia – and included 106 exhibitors from 25 countries. Some 38,000 visitors came to the fair, compared to 40,150 in 2009, a slight decrease in number owing to the fact that there was no late night opening this year. Sales took off Transactions went at a sustained pace and most exhibitors reported a better volume of sales compared to 2009. Some achieved results that were described as “exceptional,” “astonishing,” “miraculous,” by the gallery owners themselv ... More | | Masterpieces by Felix Vallotton to Take Centre Stage in Sotheby's Zurich Swiss Art Sale
Cuno Amiet, Still Life. Öl auf Leinwand Unten rechts monogrammiert und datiert 99, 50,5 × 50,5 cm. CHF 600’000–800’000/€ 448’000–600’000. Photo: Sotheby's.
ZURICH.- This autumn, Sotheby’s Zurich auction of Swiss Art on 6 December will celebrate Félix Vallotton in a sale bringing together masterpieces by the Swiss master. Estimated between CHF 9.3 and 12.9 million, the 133- lot sale will also be spearheaded by works by eminent representatives from the 19th and 20th centuries’ Swiss art production, including Giovanni Giacometti, Cuno Amiet, Albert Anker and Ernest Biéler. Commenting on the exceptional quality of this autumn sale, Urs Lanter, Sotheby’s Director and Swiss art expert, Sotheby’s Zurich declared : “It is a huge honour to bring to auction for the first time major works by Vallotton, some of them unknown until now, which represent an undeniable enriching of our understanding of the artist’s creative process. The solid result of our June sale – one of the strongest ever in this category – has underlined the appetite for fresh-to-the ... More | | Comedian Steve Martin Novel "An Object of Beauty" Probes New York Art World
"Object of Beauty," which hit bookstores on Tuesday, tells the story of an alluring and ambitious art dealer named Lacey Yeager.
By: Daniel Trotta
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Steve Martin glides from acting to music to writing so fluidly that he gives the impression it all comes easily to him. Martin admits "a certain kind of ease" with writing fiction, as exemplified in his new novel "An Object of Beauty" from Grand Central Publishing, but only now does he feel that way, at age 65, years removed from the "wild and crazy guy" who burst into show business as a stand-up comedian in the 1970s. "Object of Beauty," which hit bookstores on Tuesday, tells the story of an alluring and ambitious art dealer named Lacey Yeager who climbs from the basement at Sotheby's auction house to open her own gallery in the Chelsea section of New York. "If I had tried to write it 20 years ago, I would have suffered. I suffered a long ... More |
 | British Museum to Manage Portable Antiquities Scheme, as Exciting New Finds Go on Display
Ed Vaizey handles the Nether Stowey hoard. Photo: Courtesy The Portable Antiquities Scheme.
LONDON.- Culture Minister Ed Vaizey confirmed that the future funding of the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) has been secured with a reduction of 15% in real terms over four years. From April 2011 it will be managed directly by the British Museum. Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, said: ‘Following the Spending Review settlement we will wish to maintain the integrity of the Portable Antiquities Scheme as much as we can. Bringing both the PAS and the administration of the Treasure Act together under the management of the British Museum will ensure an effective and efficient mechanism for dealing with archaeological finds made by the public, which also complements the work of curators, conservators and others at the museum’. Ed Vaizey said: ‘The PAS has been crucial in ensuring the most important archaeological finds found by the public are recorded to advance knowledge and so the past can be ... More | | Sotheby's London Sees Strong Prices for Spanish, Scandinavian, Orientalist and Greek Art
Hermann Corrodi, The Galata Bridge, Constantinople, oil on canvas. Estimate: £80,000 - 120,000. Sold for: £187,250 (€220,824). Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s sale of 19th Century European Paintings in London today (which included works by Spanish, Orientalist, German, Austrian, Scandinavian and Symbolist artists) brought a total of £11,166,050 (€13,168,101), a figure comfortably within pre-sale expectations of £8.6-12.8 million. • Spanish Painting: The top-selling lots of the sale overall were two outstanding beach scenes by the Spanish master, Joaquín Sorolla. Depicting children by the sea, both works were painted over the summer of 1904 on Cabañal beach, Valencia , a favourite location of the painter. El Pescador sold for £3,065,250 (against an estimate of £2-3 million) while Niños en la playa brought £1,945,250 (above the estimate of £1-1.5 million). Seven works by the Spanish artist were presented in total and all sold very well. • The Scandinavian Sale: This session of the ... More | | Julian Lennon to Show Portrait and Landscape Photographs at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center
Musician Julian Lennon attends a screening of "Extraordinary Measures" hosted by The Cinema Society in New York. AP Photo/Evan Agostini.
MIAMI (AP).- Julian Lennon, son of late Beatles legend John Lennon, is showing off what he can do with a camera. An exhibit called "Timeless" features about 30 of Lennon's hand-signed portrait and landscape photographs and will run Dec. 1-5 at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. Prints of his photographs will sell for about $3,500 each, with a portion of the proceeds to go to the White Feather Foundation that he launched to further environmental and humanitarian causes. Lennon, 47, said Tuesday in a telephone interview from France that the exhibit will include photographs he took of the rock band U2, but those won't be sold because those might be used for an upcoming U2 album. He said those taken in a photojournalism style show the reality of his subjects. "I am not going to do anybody any favors by covering the truth, but ... More |
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Survey Exhibition of Important Paintings by Peter Saul at Haunch of Venison in New York
Peter Saul, Vacation Anxiety, 2010 (detail), acrylic and oil on canvas, 78 x 96 in. (198.1 x 243.8 cm.) © Peter Saul. Photo: Courtesy Haunch of Venison.
NEW YORK, NY.- Haunch of Venison Gallery is showing a survey exhibition of paintings by Peter Saul curated by Chris Byrne through January 8 2011. Twenty important paintings from the span of the artist's career are exhibited alongside a selection of new works made especially for the exhibition. Early sketchbooks and a collection of the artist's correspondences and personal artifacts are also exhibited. A catalogue with introductory essay by Eric Fischl accompanies the exhibition. The exhibition features significant works from each decade of Saul's celebrated career. Highlights include: 'Typical Saigon' (1968), Saul's response to the atrocities of the Vietnam War; 'Oedipus Junior' (1983), a shocking self-portrait in which the artist simultaneously pierces his eye with a paintbrush and castrates himself; 'Columbus Discovers America' (1992-1995), which rejects ... More | | Bonhams in London Sell Hoffmeister Collection of Royal Meissen Porcelain for £3 Million
Black and Gold-Striped service plate. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- The auction of ‘The Hoffmeister Collection of Meissen Porcelain Part III’ took place today (24.11.10) at Bonhams, New Bond Street and made £790,560, selling 81% by lot and 71% by value. This brings the total for the three sales of finest collection of Meissen porcelain to £2,988,120. The top selling lot today was an extremely rare Meissen plate from the ‘Black and Gold-Striped’ service circa 1735 which is believed at one time to have been in the possession of Baron de Zoubaloff in Moscow. The plate sold for £48,000. Other top lots include a Meissen circular dish circa 1735 (£48,000), a very rare Meissen armorial teabowl and sauce from the service for the Elector Clemens August of Cologne circa 1735 (£48,000) and a Meissen teapot and cover from the service for Pope Benedict XIV circa 1743 (£45,600). Each of the three sales saw pieces returned to the descendants of the families they were created for. ... More | | Property from the Collection of Charles Ryskamp to Be Offered During Old Masters Week
Louis Carrogis (Called Carmontelle), Portrait of the Chevalier de Lézay, est. $8/12,000, Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s will offer drawings, furniture and decorations from the private residences of museum director and art collector Charles Ryskamp on 25 January 2011, as a highlight of Old Masters Week in New York. Mr. Ryskamp served as Director of The Pierpont Morgan Library, now The Morgan Library & Museum, and the Frick Collection for a combined total of nearly 30 years, helping to make both institutions among the most prestigious museums in New York City. He began buying drawings at auction at age 13, and his collection has since been the subject of exhibitions at The Morgan Library & Museum and the Yale Center for British Art. Works from the sale will be on exhibition beginning 20 January, and are being sold for the primary benefit of Princeton University, where Mr. Ryskamp began his academic career. Charles Ryskamp had an extraordinary impact on both the arts and society in New York City. ... More |
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PULSE Contemporary Art Fair Announces Exhibitors and Programming for 2010 Miami Edition
Skylar Fein, Black Lincoln for Dooky Chase, 68" x 44", acrylic on plaster and wood, 2010. Photo: Courtesy Jonathan Ferrara Gallery.
MIAMI.- PULSE Contemporary Art Fair announces the exhibitors and programming for its 2010 Miami edition. The sixth edition of the fair – the first under new Director Cornell DeWitt – offers a blend of 82 leading and emerging international galleries alongside the hallmark program of original cultural projects for which the fair is renowned. PULSE Miami 2010 also introduces a new focus on the city and culture of Miami, and an unprecedented emphasis on the visitor experience, foremost through its exhibitors and programming, but also via new culinary partners and social opportunities. “PULSE consistently achieves success by presenting a first class roster of galleries on a scale that is manageable, and in a setting that is comfortable. Our core exhibitors, who could show in any fair the world, recognize this and it keeps them coming back” DeWitt explained. Joining such long-running PULSE veterans ... More | | Rare Vintage Photograph by Roger Fenton Saved for Bradford's National Media Museum
Pasha and Bayadère is widely regarded as one of Fenton’s finest works.
LONDON.- The Art Fund has helped Bradford’s National Media Museum buy a rare vintage photograph by acclaimed British photographer Roger Fenton (1819 – 1869). Pasha and Bayadère depicts a dancing girl (bayadère) performing for the enjoyment of a high ranking official (pasha), who watches her intently. Seated on the floor on the left hand side of the Pasha, a musician plays a stringed instrument. The exotic tableau was taken in 1858. It captures the contemporary fascination with the Orient and is part of a series of photographs Fenton took after an expedition during the Crimean War. Despite appearances, it is not a documentary image taken by Fenton during his travels. The work is in fact a carefully staged tableau photographed in Fenton’s north London studio using costumes, props and a hired model. Fenton himself appears as the Pasha. The musician is played by the English landscape painter Frank Dillon. Pasha and ... More | | Christie's Sales of Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art to Offer an Impressive Array of Rare and Important Works
One of a pair of Cloisonne enamel double crane censers of Yongzheng reign is displayed during a Christie's press preview in Hong Kong. EPA/YM YIK
HONG KONG.- Christie’s Hong Kong Fall sales of Important Ceramics and Works of Art will take place on December 1 at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. With three important single-owner sales and numerous important collections presented during this day-long series, collectors will be treated to a wide range of unique objects across multiple categories. Together these auctions offer approximately 400 works of ceramics, glass, lacquer, bamboo, Imperial furnishings, Buddhist art, cloisonné and jade carvings with a combined estimate in excess of HK$555 million (US$71 million). Among the many renowned single-owner collections presented this season is For Imperial Appreciation: Fine Chinese Ceramics from the Greenwald Collection, a superb private collection featuring exquisite Ming and Qing Imperial porcelains. Gerald Greenwald has been a passionate collector of Chinese ... More |
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20th Century Modern Design from the Museum of Modern Art Coming to Atlanta Next Spring
ATLANTA, GA.- Since its inception in 1929 The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), has been at the forefront of recognizing pivotal moments of radical change in twentieth-century design through its exhibition and collection program. As part of the High Museum of Art’s ongoing collaboration with MoMA, “Modern by Design” will present a selection of works chronicling three key moments in MoMA’s design collection and exhibition history—“Machine Art” (1934), “Good Design” (1950–1955) and “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape” (1972)—that heralded groundbreaking aesthetic movements and intellectual considerations. Nearly 150 objects created by more than 120 of the most influential artists and designers of the twentieth century will be included. A companion installation, “High Design,” will incorporate 20 works by ... More
Author William Faulkner and Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson Return to Mississippi
JACKSON, MISS. (AP).- Two photographs pairing artistic giants of the 20th century— author William Faulkner and photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson — are coming back home to Mississippi. The portraits of Faulkner were shot by the French photojournalist in 1947. They were recently bought by the University of Mississippi from a Los Angeles art consultant, whose colleague acquired them in France. University museum director William Pittman Andrews declined to say what they cost. The photos of Faulkner were taken at Rowan Oak, his Greek Revival house in Oxford that now functions as a Faulkner museum run by ... More
National Portrait Gallery Reveals Secrets Behind Exhibitions in New Teaching Website
LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery has launched a ground-breaking new online resource which, for the first time, invites students and teachers behind the scenes at a national museum, revealing all the processes in staging an exhibition from start to finish, from concept and curating, to creating a marketing campaign, designing the 3D exhibition space and organising events. The website, which has been developed with Attic Media, has interviews with young people and industry professionals and provides careers advice as well as project resources and blogs. The site is a dynamic and sustainable national learning resource which enables young people to turn both the Gallery and its activity ‘inside out’. It is a creative resource for work-related learning which responds to the Creative & Media Diploma qualification for young people aged 14-19, but it has been designed to have a wider ... More
Crisis-stricken Greece Plans to Upgrade Facilities at Historic Sites and Museums to Boost Tourism
ATHENS, GREECE (AP).- Crisis-stricken Greece plans to spend more than €20 million ($26.7 million) over the next three years on improving visitor services at historic sites and museums to boost tourism. Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos said Tuesday most Greek monuments and museums lack basic services such as restrooms, parking lots and vending machines. He added that none of the country's top 10 crowd-pullers, including the Acropolis, met requirements such as translated signs or facilities for the blind. Geroulanos said part of the funding for the project will come from local sponsors and the European Union. Tourism accounts ... More
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