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Security guards stand near "Coca-Cola [4] Large Coca-Cola" by Andy Warhol during a preview of Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art auction in New York. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson.
By Christopher Michaud
NEW YORK, NY.- Less than two years after a precipitous fall, the art market is flexing its muscles again, emboldened by recent auction records and an influx of determined international collectors rich with cash. With two works breaking the $100 million mark this year, auction houses Christie's and Sotheby's have convinced such owners of rare and never-auctioned fine art as Steve Wynn that it is a good time to sell -- and reap tremendous profits. Hordes of wealthy new buyers, ready to spend and anxious to build collections, are injecting life into a market hard-hit by the global financial crisis, experts said. "The whole market has changed," said Philip Hoffman, chief executive of The Fine Art Group, a London-based art investment house. "There's a huge new group from six or seven countries who are shifting the market." New collectors from Russia, India, China and Hong Kong, and Mideast wealth centers such as Qatar and Abu Dhabi have made fortunes in oil, gas or commodities such ... More |
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Exhibition of Matisse Drawings and Prints on View at NYU's Maison Française
Henri Matisse, Portrai d´Homme de Profil, 1946. Fusain sur papier, 15.35" 39 x 29 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Henri Matisse–Writers on Paper: Selected Drawings and Prints from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation is the first exhibition dedicated exclusively to Matisse’s little-known drawings of men. The exhibition, on view at New York University’s Maison Française from Nov. 2 through Dec. 21, includes a selection of intimate drawings and prints of writers, including Matisse’s friends, colleagues, and a young poet and martyr, Roger Bernard, whom Matisse admired. Several of the works in this exhibition, created between 1937 and 1946, are being shown for the first time. “We sincerely hope that this exhibition will be a catalyst for greater appreciation and more extensive study of Matisse’s interaction with the men—writers, musicians, artists, collectors—who embodied European cultural life in the first half of the twentieth century,” said Alessandra Carnielli, exec ... More | | Philadelphia Museum of Art Presents Major Survey Devoted to Italian Artist Michelangelo Pistoletto
Monumentino (Little Monument), 1968. Rags, bricks, and shoe, 37 x 17 3/4 x 8 5/8 in. Private Collection. © Michelangelo Pistoletto. Photo: Paolo Bressano, courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents a major exhibition devoted to the work of Michelangelo Pistoletto (b. 1933) in the Dorrance Galleries for Special Exhibitions. Widely recognized as a key figure in the development of Italian art in the 1950s and 1960s and a founding member of the Arte Povera movement, Pistoletto has also gained increasing recognition in this country as an important influence on a younger generation of artists involved with the participatory practices that have become increasingly prevalent in contemporary art during the past two decades. The first major survey of works by Pistoletto in the United States in more than twenty years, this exhibition will place his art in the context of the cultural transformation of Western Europe that ... More | | After a Five-Year Absence, Art Institute of Chicago Reinstalls Marc Chagall's America Windows
Marc Chagall, America Windows (detail), 1977. A gift of Marc Chagall, the City of Chicago, and the Auxiliary Board of the Art. Institute of Chicago, commemorating the American Bicentennial in memory of Mayor Richard J. Daley. © 2010 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
CHICAGO, IL.- After a five-year absence, the Art Institute of Chicago will reinstall one of the most beloved treasures in the museum’s collection, Marc Chagall’s America Windows. Following an intensive period of research and conservation treatment, the America Windows return to public view on November 1, 2010, as the stunning centerpiece of a new presentation of public art in Chicago on the east side of the museum’s Arthur Rubloff building (Gallery 144). The monumental panels of stained glass, which commemorate the American Bicentennial and were created by Chagall especially for the Art Institute in honor of Chicago’s Mayor Richard J. Daley (1902–1976), have been ... More |
 | A Collection of New Works by Pierre Marie Brisson at Franklin Bowles Galleries
Edgar Degas, Les danseuses mauves. Collection Musée Faure. Photo: Courtesy Franklin Bowles Galleries.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Franklin Bowles Galleries presents an important collection of new works by Pierre Marie Brisson. The idea for the show came about when André Liatard, the curator of the Musée Faure in Aix-les-Bains, France, asked Pierre Marie to select 20 pieces from the Museum’s permanent collection and do his own interpretation of them. The Musée Faure is considered to have one of the most important collections of Impressionist works outside of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. The museum is the former home of Doctor Jean Faure (1862–1942), who donated his private collection of primarily 19th and 20th century French artists to create the museum. The collection includes an amazing group of Rodin sculptures and Impressionist paintings, most of which seems to concentrate on the female form. Pierre Marie has always been fascinated with the human body and the female form, so Dr. Faure’s collecti ... More | | British Campaign to Restore Acclaimed Playwright Anton Chekhov House by End-Year
Scaffolding outside the house. © Anton Chekhov Foundation.
MOSCOW (REUTERS).- The house where Russia's universally acclaimed playwright Anton Chekhov penned some of his greatest work will be restored by the end of this year after decades of neglect, said the British charity behind its repair. Chekhov moved to the multi-floored White Dacha on Ukraine's Black Sea coast in Yalta in 1898 to treat tuberculosis, from which he suffered for most of his adult life before it killed him in 1904. Turned into a museum in 1921, the White Dacha crumbled after a lack of funds and was forced into partial closure from 2007, the London-based Anton Chekhov Foundation said in a statement last week. Surrounded by cypress and fruit trees, Chekhov wrote "The Cherry Orchard" and "Three Sisters" in the house, and the nearby coast set the scene for his much-loved "Lady with the Dog." Set up by British Chekhov biographer and translator Rosamund Bartlett two years ago, the charity raised $392,900 to "reverse the plight ... More | | A New Public Gallery: The Royal Parks and the Serpentine Gallery Agree to New Venue
The Magazine in Kensington Gardens is located on West Carriage Drive, just north of the Serpentine Bridge.
LONDON.- The Royal Parks, as part of an initiative to make better use of its buildings, has awarded a contract to the Serpentine Gallery to establish a new gallery in The Magazine building in Kensington Gardens. The Grade II listed building is situated on West Carriage Drive, on the north side of the Serpentine Bridge. The project, to be known as the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, has been made possible by The Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation which has given the largest single gift the Serpentine Gallery has received in its 40 year history. Mark Camley, Chief Executive, The Royal Parks said: “We are delighted to bring this unique listed building back into public use, providing an exciting new cultural destination for park visitors. The building will complement existing park features and facilities and bring real benefit to Kensington Gardens. Income generated ... More |
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Relics from Admiral Byrd's Ship the City of New York to Sell at Heritage Auctions in Dallas
City of New York - Binnacle compass.
DALLAS, TX.- The wheel, binnacle (compass) and bell from the ship the City of New York, famously used in Admiral Byrd's 1929 exploration of Antarctica, and infamously a ship that failed to aid the imperiled Titanic, will be offered for the first time at public auction as part of Heritage Auctions Wed., Nov. 17 Grand Format Americana and Political Auction in Dallas. The group is estimated at $10,000+. "There can be no doubt that this group ranks among the most exciting maritime artifacts to be offered at auction," said Tom Slater, Director of Americana Auctions at Heritage. "When you consider the kind of history these pieces participated in it's both humbling and chilling." The history of the City of New York began in 1885, when she was actually known as the Samson, a 170-foot steam barque, whose first duty was as a sealing ship operating in arctic waters. On the night of April 14, 1912, ... More | | Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection on View in Valencia
Cy Twombly, Untitled, 2001.
VALENCIA.- The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in 2005, is an extraordinary collection of over 2,500 contemporary works on paper. Through a selection of more than three hundred works, this first comprehensive presentation of the gift surveys the various methods and materials within the styles of gestural and geometric abstraction, representation and figuration, and systems-based and conceptual drawings. The exhibition at IVAM brings together historical works by Lee Bontecou and Joseph Beuys; Minimalist and Conceptual works by Donald Judd and Hanne Darboven; detailed narrative drawings by Elizabeth Peyton and John Currin; collages by Amelie von Wulffen, Mona Hatoum, Lucy McKenzie and Paulina Olowska; and large-scale installations by Nate Lowman and Ján ... More | | Tel Aviv Museum's Department of Prints and Drawings Presents Cabinet Secrets: Prints by Jim Dine
Jim Dine, From: 55 Portraits, 1995. Portfolio of 55 etchings.
TEL AVIV.- The scope of Jim Dine's extended work in print attests to the pivotal place of this medium in his oeuvre at large. The concentration on the medium's unique qualities, the attentiveness to the options revealed during the work process, the centrality of workshop practice—all these characterize Dine as a quintessential print artist. Dine took up printmaking in the early 1960s. He was not drawn to screenprint and the photo-mechanical techniques, with their anonymous pop art look. From the very outset he developed a preference for lithography, which enabled him to work directly on the stone—in pencil, brush, and ink—to create surface and line occurrences indicating the gestures and movement of his hand. Indeed, in their affinity with Abstract Expressionism, these lithographs ... More |
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Twenty Human Skeletons and Fragments of Colonial Ceramic Found by INAH Archaeologists
The arrival of Hurricane Karl derived in the discovery of more remains. Photo: Judith Hernandez/INAH.
MEXICO CITY.- Nearly 20 human skeletons and fragments of Colonial ceramic were found in a 16th century cemetery by archaeologists of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in the back of Casa de Cortes, in La Antigua, Veracruz. Excavations conducted since June 2010 had already found 8 skeletons, but the arrival of Hurricane Karl derived in the discovery of more remains. The findings are part of the archaeological restoration project conducted by INAH through its Veracruz Center. Archaeologist Judith Hernandez Aranda, coordinator of the excavations financed by the Veracruz State Government and Fundacion GEO, informed that labors are taking place in the cemetery of the former San Cristo del Buen Viaje Temple, registered also as Santo Cristo del Calvario, known thanks to previous historical research. Most of the bone and ceramic material dates from the 16th to 19th centuries, but some Prehispanic ceramic foun ... More | | Carsten Höller Develops New Work "Reindeer Red-Green" for Ernst Schering Foundation
Carsten Höller, Reindeer red-green, 2010 green and red lamps, digital control unit, plastic lampholders, wire, steel construction, ca. 60 x 140 x 190 centimeters. Photo: Daniel Flaschar. Installation view: Rentier im Zöllnerstreifenwald, Schering Stiftung, Berlin. Courtesy the artist and Schering Stiftung, Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
BERLIN.- Carsten Höller’s exhibition “Rentier im Zöllnerstreifenwald,” on display at the Project Space of the Ernst Schering Foundation, is a cooperation with the Berlin National Gallery. In the context of his extensive solo exhibition, SOMA, at the National Gallery’s Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin, the artist developed his new work Rentier rot-grün (Reindeer red-green) for the Ernst Schering Foundation, continuing his artistic exploration of the phi-phenomenon, which he began in 2001. The phi-phenomenon was first described by Gestalt psychologist Max Wertheimer in 1912. It refers to the perception of a non-existent movement, which is generated in the eye by rapidly switching on ... More | | Priska C. Juschka Fine Art Opens Nicky Nodjoumi's Second Solo Show at the Gallery
Nicky Nodjoumi, Mid Autumn Leak, 2009. Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 in. (102 x 76 cm). Image courtesy of Priska C. Juschka Fine Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- Priska C. Juschka Fine Art presents Invitation to Change Your Metaphor, Nicky Nodjoumi’s second solo show at the gallery, an exhibition of paintings and drawings through the looking glass of Nodjoumi’s critical response to the political events in Iran, impacting the international community in the summer and fall of 2009. Nodjoumi conveys his personal discontent, deliberately and universally, enabling his audience to engage in a profoundly layered discourse beyond a specific historical context or location. Divisions and lines through Nodjoumi’s figures and picture plane mark cultural dislocation, mirroring opposing value systems and emphasizing a sense of disparity. Despite its serious subject matter, his recent work embraces overt humor, implicit to any political culture, by caricaturizing his protagonists and by combining elements of undisguised nudity and sexuality with austere rep ... More |
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The World's First Production Motorcycle to Headline Las Vegas Motorcycle Auction
LAS VEGAS.- A complete 1894/95 Hildebrand & Wolfmüller will highlight Bonhams first Las Vegas Motorcycle Auction at The Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino hosted by the Auto Collection on 6th January 2011. Coming from a private American collection where it has resided for approximately half a century, this 115-year old motorbike has been lightly and sympathetically restored some decades ago and is wonderfully patinated. In addition to its excellent condition, this pioneering vehicle is of the utmost historical significance - it was the first powered two-wheeler to enter series production and is the first vehicle to which the name “motorcycle” (motorrad in German) was ever applied. This extraordinary news follows the record-breaking sale of another Hildebrand & Wolfmüller offered by Bonhams at their Stafford auction this April. That 1894 relic caused considerable excitement across the world resulting in a packed sa ... More
Frick Art & Historical Center Appoints Two to Management Team
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Frick Art & Historical Center Director Bill Bodine announces the promotion of Christine Chambers to the position of Director of Finance and Administrative Services and the appointment of Bill Nichols to the position of Director of Operations and Visitor Services. Both are newly created senior management-level positions. As Director of Finance and Administrative Services, Ms. Chambers’ responsibilities include management of all aspects of the museum’s financial and accounting operations, as well as ensuring the legal soundness of museum operations. She also supervises technology and human resources at the Frick, which has a total of 155 full- and part-time employees. Mr. Nichols will oversee the Frick’s Grounds, Maintenance and Security, and Visitor Services departments, and will be responsible for all operational aspects of the 5-acre physical plant and grounds, which includes The Fri ... More
UBC Museum of Anthropology Receives $1 Million Gift from O'Brian Family Foundation
VANCOUVER, BC.- The Michael O’Brian Family Foundation has donated $1 million to the UBC Museum of Anthropology (MOA) toward the renovation of one of MOA’s major galleries and to support future projects, including MOA’s Acquisition Fund. Recognition of this gift will include the renaming of Gallery 3 to The O’Brian Gallery, which will be unveiled on November 25, 2010 with the exhibition, Signed Without Signature: Works by Charles and Isabella Edenshaw. The President of the Foundation, Michael O’Brian, has been a long time friend and advisor both to MOA and the UBC Faculty of Arts, and a dedicated supporter of the arts in Vancouver. Both he and his wife, Dr. Inna Vlassev O’Brian, are avid art collectors and actively involved in community affairs. “We are extremely fortunate to have friends like Michael who are so enthusiastically helping MOA to expand our scope in the acquisition and display of ... More
Tyler Museum of Art Announces Largest Single Gift in Museums History
TYLER, TX.- During a press conference held at the Tyler Museum of Art, TMA Director Kimberley Tomio was joined by Laura and Dan Boeckman in announcing that the couple donated one of the nation’s largest and most comprehensive collections of contemporary Mexican folk art to the Tyler Museum of Art. The collection is titled The Laura and Dan Boeckman Collection of Mexican Folk Art, and includes over 650 pieces collected in the last two decades from every state in Mexico, excluding Chiapas. The gift is the largest single donation by one source in the Museum’s history. “We are overwhelmed by the generosity of Laura and Dan Boeckman in not only choosing to share their immense collection with the Museum, but also their commitment to sharing it with the public,” said Mrs. Tomio. “The gift distinguishes the TMA and also broadens our collection to further represent the diverse and vibrant culture in which w ... More
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