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In this Sept. 28, 1999 file photo, film director Blake Edwards, right, and a person dressed as the character the Pink Panther, pose for photos after placing their hands and paws in cement in front of the Mann's Chinese Theater in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, at the 35th anniversary celebration of "The Pink Panther." Edwards, 88, the director and writer known for clever dialogue and occasional belly-laugh sight gags in "Breakfast at Tiffany's," "10" and the "Pink Panther" farces, died from complications of pneumonia on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010, at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif. AP Photo/Neil Jacobs.
By: Robert Jablon, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES, CA (AP).- Blake Edwards, the director and writer known for clever dialogue, poignance and occasional belly-laugh sight gags in "Breakfast at Tiffany's," ''10" and the "Pink Panther" farces, is dead at age 88. Edwards died from complications of pneumonia at about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, said publicist Gene Schwam. Blake's wife, Julie Andrews, and other family members were at his side. He had been hospitalized for about two weeks. Edwards had knee problems, had undergone unsuccessful procedures and was "pretty much confined to a wheelchair for the last year-and-a-half or two," Schwam said. That may have contributed to his condition, he added. At the time of his death, Edwards was working on two Broadway musicals, one based on the "Pink Panther" movies. The other, "Big Rosemary," was to be an original comedy set during Prohibition, Schwam said. "His heart was as big as his ta ... More |
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Two Pyramids at Santo Nombre Archaeological Site were Restored by INAH
Santo Nombre archaeological site. Photo: Melitón Tapia/INAH.
PUEBLA.- Two 7 and 14 meters-high pyramidal structures that present similarities with the Teotihuacan architectural style were restored and consolidated at the Santo Nombre Archaeological Site, in Puebla, as part of the work focused on the opening of the site by 2012. The buildings known as Piramide de los Caracoles (Shells Pyramid) and Piramide de los Cascabeles (Rattles Pyramid) at the site located in the municipality of Tlacotepec de Benito Juarez, were explored and consolidated in 2010 by archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), to be added up to those restored in 2009: Estructura Sur (South Structure) and Casa del Nahual (House of the Nagual). Archaeologist Blas Castellon, responsible for the archaeological project, announced that in December 11th 2010 the works of the second archaeological season were finished at the site located to the north of Tehuacan, a strategic point of the ex ... More | | Lost Images of 'Human Exhibits' in Britain Discovered by University of Leicester Researcher
Ricudo. Photograph courtesy of Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
LEICESTER.- A University of Leicester researcher has discovered two photographic images, presumed lost, of native Americans brought to Britain by Roger Casement a century ago. Dr Lesley Wylie, Lecturer in Latin American Studies in the School of Modern Languages, University of Leicester, made the discovery during her research for a book on the Putumayo, a border region in the Amazon. Her book forms part of the AHRC-funded research project, American Tropics: Towards A Literary Geography, based at the University of Essex. The photographs were found among a photographic collection relating to the period of the rubber boom in the Putumayo held by the University of Cambridge’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. They depict the subjects naked to the waist against a pale background, in half-length front and profile shots, in accordance with the genre of anthropological photography at that time. The photographs were taken by Jo ... More | | Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Rediscovers the Work of Gabriel Metsu in Exhibition
Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667), Man writing a Letter, c. 1664 - c.1666, National Gallery of Ireland. Sir Alfred and Lady Beit Gift, 1987. Photo © National Gallery of Ireland. Photographer Roy Hewson. NGI 4536.
AMSTERDAM.- This autumn at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam the work of Gabriel Metsu (1629- 1667), one of the most influential Dutch genre painters of the 17th century, are put back in the spotlight. Metsu’s paintings beautifully depict everyday life during the Golden Age, with scenes such as a young man writing a love letter, a kitchen maid peeling an apple and an old man raising a glass. Despite his relatively short life, Metsu was one of the most popular painters of his time and his paintings were sold at high prices. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Metsu was more popular than Vermeer, whose paintings were sometimes even attributed to him. The Rijksmuseum has brought together over 35 of his best paintings from museums across the world and private collections, including works which were recently rediscovered and brought back to the Netherlands, in some ... More |
 | AGO to Present Masterworks by Pollock, Rothko, and Others from The Museum of Modern Art
Willem de Kooning, Woman, I. 1950-52. Oil on canvas, 6’ 3 7/8” x 58”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase © 2010 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo Credit: The Museum of Modern Art, Department of Imaging Services, John Wronn.
TORONTO.- Jackson Pollock. Mark Rothko. Robert Motherwell. Joan Mitchell. Arshile Gorky. Lee Krasner. Willem de Kooning. These are just a few of the legendary 20th-century artists whose artwork will be on view at the Art Gallery of Ontario in summer 2011 when the Gallery welcomes Abstract Expressionist New York, an exhibition drawn from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The exhibition, on view from May 28 through September 4, 2011, features 100 key works by artists whose radical work changed the course of art history and catapulted New York City to the centre of the international art world. “MoMA’s collection of abstract expressionist works is not only unparalleled, it is defining. To ... More | | 50/50 Exhibition Features Works on Paper Selected by Both the Public and the Walker Art Center
Elizabeth Peyton, Bosie, 1998, lithograph on paper. Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. T.B. Walker Acquisition Fund, 2000.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Curators and visitors share the spotlight as organizers of the new Walker Art Center exhibition 50/50: Audience and Experts Curate the Paper Collection on view now through July 17, 2011. Invited to view 183 images of art from the Walker’s expansive collection of works on paper, the public cast nearly 250,000 votes indicating whether the artworks should “definitely” or “maybe not” be included in the exhibition. Meanwhile, chief curator Darsie Alexander was considering artists whose work represents important art historical moments captured by the Walker collection as well as some recent purchases that foreshadow areas of possible growth. “I was interested in enabling a public voice in this exhibition,” says Alexander, “taking advantage of the natural impulse people have when encountering art to form an opinion.” Featuring some 100 works, 50/50 presents “curat ... More | | Pair of Paintings by Sir Peter Lely Reunited at the Dulwich Picture Gallery with New Acquisition
Sir Peter Lely, Bartholomew Beale, c. 1670 , oil on canvas. © By permission of the Trustees of Dulwich Picture Gallery.
LONDON.- In time for its 2011 Bicentenary year, Dulwich Picture Gallery announced its acquisition of the portrait of Bartholomew Beale by Sir Peter Lely. The portrait is now reunited with its counterpart, Sir Peter Lely’s A Boy as a Shepherd, one of the most popular paintings in the Gallery’s permanent collection. Bartholomew Beale was obtained with generous help from the Art Fund, the national fundraising charity for works of art; The Monument Trust; the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund; The Hamish Parker Charitable Trust; Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery; The Idlewild Trust; and other donors. The acquisition means the Gallery is now the proud owner of its fifth painting by Sir Peter Lely. Arturo & Holly Melosi Chief Curator Dr. Xavier Salomon knew of the portrait’s existence and he saw it at the London dealer ... More |
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Art Institute Announces Major Long-Term Loan of Ancient Near Eastern Statuette
Unknown/Proto-Elamite. Striding Horned Figure (Shaman/Demon), 3000-2800 B.C. Copper. Height: 175 cm (6 7/8 in.); Width: 5.4 cm (2 1/8 in.). The Art Institute of Chicago. Anonymous loan.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announced a major long-term loan of a work of great significance: a copper statue called Striding Horned Figure (Shaman/Demon) believed to have been made 5,000 years ago, at the dawn of the third millennium B.C. in the area of modern southwest Iran. The statue depicts a bearded male figure wearing a horned headdress and short boots with upturned toes, with the body of a raptor over its shoulders. The figure may represent a supernatural intermediary between the earthly and spiritual worlds. The work, which had been previously been on loan to the Brooklyn Museum of Art for more than 50 years, is one of a pair of virtually identical figures, the companion belonging to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New ... More | | First Large-Scale U.S. Exhibition of Helmut Newton's Work to Premiere at the Museum of Fine Arts
Helmut Newton, Here They Come II, Paris. From the series Big Nudes, 1981 (detail), chromogenic print. Collection of the Estate of Helmut Newton © Estate of Helmut Newton.
HOUSTON, TX.- The first large-scale U.S. exhibition of Helmut Newton´s work premieres at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Helmut Newton: White Women • Sleepless Nights • Big Nudes encompasses the entire contents of his first three groundbreaking books. Newton (1920-2004) survived Nazi Germany as a self-supporting, nomadic teenager to emerge a world-renowned photographer. He first cemented his international reputation as the supreme recorder of female identity with his early books White Women (1976), Sleepless Nights (1978), and Big Nudes (1982). 205 of the provocateur´s photographs from these publications will be displayed for the first time in their entirety at the MFAH, on view from July 3—September 25, 2011 in the Audrey Jones Beck ... More | | OverstockArt.com Reveals its Annual Top 10 Oil Paintings Rankings for 2010, van Gogh Continues Reign
Vincent van Gogh, Branches of an Almond Tree in Blossom, Red Rendition. (detail)
WICHITA, KANSAS.- The popular online art gallery, overstockArt.com, revealed its annual Top 10 Oil Paintings rankings for 2010. Topping the list is Vincent van Gogh’s masterpiece, “Branches of an Almond Tree in Blossom.” Other artists named on the 2010 list include Gustav Klimt, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso and Mark Rothko. Van Gogh continues his reign as the best-selling artist this year. According to overstockArt.com statistics, van Gogh’s magnum opus “Starry Night” was the world’s most popular oil painting in 2009 and the most popular oil painting of the past decade. He consistently has more than one work of art included in the Top 10 list and this year, has secured four spots in the Top 10. “Van Gogh consistently remains the most popular artist in the world, his total sales numbers have left everyone well behind,” said David Sasson, CEO of overstock ... More |
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Norton Museum of Art Creates Striking New Exhibition with Pieces from the Miami Beach Fairs
The pieces included in Now WHAT? comprise a wide range of media from both large and small galleries.
WEST PALM BEACH, FL.- Each December, the country’s leading contemporary art collectors, dealers, critics and fans engage in urgent, heated exchanges about what’s new, what’s good and what’s next at Art Basel Miami Beach, one of the world’s most influential art fairs. Began Wednesday, December 15, 2010, barely a week after Art Basel shuts down, the prestigious Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla. will propose some of its own answers to those questions in a special exhibition called Now WHAT?, on view through March 13, 2011. The Museum’s curators made selections from Art Basel Miami Beach, Pulse, Scope, NADA, Art Miami and at least 14 other fairs to identify the newest, most innovative and meaningful contemporary art of today. The Norton’s Cheryl Brutvan, Curator of Contemporary Art, and Charles Stainback, William and Sarah Ross ... More | | Germany Announced It will Give $80 Million in the Next Year to Fix Auschwitz Memorial
The main gate of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz I. AP Photo/File.
By Monika Scislowska, Associated Press
WARSAW, POLAND (AP).- Germany pledged Wednesday to pay euro60 million ($80 million) over the next year into a fund for Auschwitz-Birkenau to preserve the barracks, gas chambers and other evidence of Nazi crimes at the former death camp, some of which are deteriorating to the point of collapse. Germany is the largest of several countries contributing to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Fund, which was set up in 2009 to gather money to maintain the 472-acre expanse made up of the original camp, Auschwitz, the nearby satellite camp of Birkenau. The camp was operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. More than 1 million people, mostly Jews, died in the camp's gas chambers or through forced labor, disease or starvation. "Germany acknowledges its historic responsibility to keep the memory ... More | | RM Auctions Posts Best Performance in History of the Hobby Generating Over $275 Million
1948 Tucker 48 4Dr Sedan. Photo Credit: Darin Schnabel ©2010 Courtesy of RM Auctions.
BLENHEIM,ON.- RM Auctions, the world’s largest collector car auction house, enjoyed a record-setting sales run in 2010, generating over $275 million* US in sales. The impressive total – an all-time high for the international auction company and for the hobby at large – includes the sale of 1613 motor cars at 12 separate auctions hosted in three different countries. In addition, the company achieved a strong 92 percent sales rate at its catalogue events in 2010, including a successful 100% sell-through at its Hershey sale in October. Cementing RM’s undisputed leadership position in the investment-grade segment of the market, a total of 40 motor cars achieved individual million-dollar-plus results at auctions throughout the year, 16 of which were realized at the company’s Monterey sale in August – the most recorded by any individual auction house during this year’s Pebble Beach week. The Mon ... More |
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Francis Alys Exhibits as Part of Proyecto de Arte Contemporáneo de Murcia 2010
MURCIA.- DOMINÓ CANÍBAL is a project of the Dept of Culture & Tourism of the Region of Murcia within PAC (Proyecto de Arte Contemporáneo de Murcia 2010) and curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina, in which each artist starts off from the work of the previous artist. Following the successive interventions by Jimmie Durham, Cristina Lucas, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Kendell Geers, Tania Bruguera and Rivane Neuenschwander, now it is Francis Alÿs turn. “Jimmie eats Verónica, Cristina eats Jimmie, Bruce eats Cristina, Kendell eats Bruce, Tania eats Kendell, Rivane eats Tania...As the last course on the menu, does it mean I have to digest them all? My participation is going to be a kind of feedback of the whole story of Dominó Caníbal and mainly consists in coordinating three critical analyses of the project coupled with the photographic archive of the previous interventions so far. To foreclose any purely chronological reading and ... More
Kunsthaus Zürich Shows 'Karl Moser: Art and Architecture'
ZURICH.- From 17 December 2010 to 27 February 2011 the Kunsthaus Zürich presents about 400 drawings, sketches, models and furniture by Karl Moser (1860-1936), its renowned architect. Revered in Switzerland as a ‘father of modernism’, Moser made architectural history with his contributions to the University of Zurich campus, Basel’s Church of St. Anthony and Badischer Bahnhof, and the Lutherkirche in Karlsruhe. Moser’s 1910 Kunsthaus is a paragon of architecture for art – indeed, of an architecture that collaborates with art; and David Chipperfield’s planned Kunsthaus Zürich extension, renders it appropriate homage. The scion of a Swiss architectural dynasty, Karl Moser was a man of the world and one of the towering figures who remade modern architecture in the late 19th century and continued to advance the discipline well into the 20th. But although his compatriots saluted him as a ‘father o ... More
Haslinger Collection of Rare Heuer Watches Sell for Record Prices at Bonhams
LONDON.- The Haslinger Collection of fine and rare Heuer watches sold at Bonhams (15.12.10) for £475,764. The sale of this collection, assembled by Arno Haslinger, was held partnership with TAG Heuer to help celebrate its 150th Anniversary. The saleroom was packed, and there were many telephone and internet bidders keen to participate from around the globe. Of 81 watches, 99% sold by value with only two watches failing to sell. The top lot of the day was a 1974 Monaco which was the subject of fierce bidding before finally selling for £48,000, smashing its pre-sale estimate of £10,000-15,000. This is a world record for a Monaco model watch. Other watches which sold for high prices include another world record - a 1969 Autavia sold for £30,000 (estimate £10,000-15,000), an 18ct gold 1972 Carrera, said to be the favourite model of Jack Heuer, which made £22,800 against a pre-sale estimate of £7,000-9,000 and a 1970 Monaco, the sa ... More
Vladimir Nemukhin and Boris Sveshinkov Featured in Exhibitions at the Zimmerli Art Museum
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.-Currently on view at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University are exhibitions by two major artists who worked in the Soviet Union in the decades before the fall of Communism, Vladimir Nemukhin and Boris Sveshnikov. The exhibitions derive entirely from the museum’s 20,000-piece Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art, the largest and most comprehensive collection of Soviet dissident art from the historical Cold War period between 1956 and 1986. Vladimir Nemukhin: Works on Paper runs through March 27, 2011 and Embodied Dreams: The Later Work of Boris Sveshnikov is open until April 10, 2011. Vladimir Nemukhin is a leader of the generation that initiated the unofficial art movement in the ... More
Oxford University, German National Library and Europeana Sign 1914-18 Archive Alliance
THE HAGUE.- The German National Library, Oxford University and Europeana have signed an agreement to digitise family papers and memorabilia from the First World War to create an online archive about the people involved in the conflict. Oxford University began the initiative when it asked people across Britain to bring family letters, photographs and keepsakes from the War to be digitised. The success of the idea – which became the Great War Archive – has encouraged Europeana, Europe’s digital archive, library and museum, to bring the German National Library into an alliance with Oxford University to roll out the scheme in Germany . The collaboration will bring German soldiers’ stories online alongside their British counterparts in a 1914-18 archive. There will be a series of roadshows in libraries around Germany that will invite people to bring documents and artefacts from family members ... More
Artist Frank Frazetta's Kids Renew Estate Fight
FORT MYERS, FL (AP).- The adult children of Frank Frazetta are feuding again over control of the iconic fantasy artist's body of work. The family announced in April that they had settled a dispute over an estate estimated to be worth tens of millions of dollars. Frazetta died a month later in Florida at the age of 82. But son Frank Frazetta Jr. filed a lawsuit in Fort Myers, Fla., on Wednesday accusing his brother and two sisters of violating the terms of the agreement by failing to consult him on business decisions and not paying him what he is owed from the trust. Frazetta Sr. was renowned for his sci-fi and fantasy art, creating covers and illustrations for more than 150 books and comic books as well as album covers, movie posters and original paint ... More
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