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Princess Mathilde of Belgium (L) and the head conservator of the Groeningemuseum Till-Holger Borchert (R) in front of the triptych of Willem Moreel (1484) by German-born artist Hans Memling during the exhibition 'Van Eyck to Durer' in the Groeningemuseum in Bruges. The exhibition is about the influence of the Flemish Primitives on the artists in the Holy Roman Empire. EPA/KURT DESPLENTER.
BRUGES.- For a number of generations Flemish art influenced artistic Europe in the fields of painting, sculpture and illuminated manuscripts to a degree that rivalled the innovations of the Italian Renaissance. The exhibition sheds light on this period with major loans from foreign museums. In the fifteenth century the Flemish Primitives triggered an artistic revolution in Central Europe. Talented painters like Jan van Eyck with his brilliant eye for detail, introduced new painting styles and techniques. Their influence spread rapidly and inspired scores of artists, including the painter, draughtsman and etcher Albrecht Dürer. Van Eyck and Dürer are two great masters from the period 1420-1530. A pioneering exhibition brings together first-rate works by them and some of their contemporaries, drawn from notable European and American collections. Paintings and other art forms will illustrate the interaction between the Flemish Primitives and art in Central Europe. The exhibition lo ... More |
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Dallas Museum of Art Showcases Select Works by Contemporary Artists at Cowboys Stadium
Franz Ackermann, My "Ready Now", 2006. Oil on canvas, 106 1/2 x 82 3/4 in. (2 m 70.511 cm x 2 m 10.185 cm) The Rachofsky Collection.
DALLAS, TX.- In anticipation of Dallas’ first-ever Super Bowl in February 2011 at the new Cowboys Stadium, the Dallas Museum of Art presents an exhibition of contemporary work by the artists whose large-scale and site-specific commissions are on view at the stadium as part of the Dallas Cowboys Art Program. Drawn from the DMA’s collections and from select local private holdings, Big New Field: Artists in the Cowboys Stadium Art Program features some twenty works by the artists in this innovative and groundbreaking public art project, including Franz Ackermann, Olafur Eliasson, Daniel Buren, Annette Lawrence, Terry Haggerty, Teresita Fernandez, and Doug Aitken among many other others. On view from December 5, 2010, through February 20, 2011, Big New Field is curated by Charles Wylie, The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art. Wylie is a founding member of the Art Council for the Dallas Cowboys Art Program, which w ... More | | Christie's New York December Photographs Sale Offers Exceptional Array of Works
Juliet Auchincloss photographed by Irving Penn in 1949. 4 gelatin silver prints each with copyright credit reproduction limitation stamps, one with inscription in the owner's hand in pencil (on the verso) each approximately 15 1/8 x 14¼in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s New York announced the upcoming sale of Photographs on December 13, including works by the world’s preeminent photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Peter Beard, and Irving Penn. The cover lot, a glamorously cheeky image by Penn, Dorian Leigh and Ray Bolger, Vogue cover, 1946 (pictured above), is personally inscribed by the artist to the model, reflecting their close professional relationship that developed through countless collaborations. This auction will bring the fall 2010 season of Photographs sales to a close, with an aim to attract young and new buyers to the collecting category by offering a wide range of photographs with attractive estimates. The sale presents an array of themes varying from portraits of artists such as Joan Miro, ... More | | With More than 100 Galleries, Art Miami Attracts Record Crowds and Strong Sales on Saturday
John Lennon’s son Julian Lennon checks out a print of his father by artist Alex Guofeng Cao from New York’s ChinaSquare Gallery during Art Miami. Courtesy of ChinaSquare Gallery.
MIAMI, FL.- Art Miami, Miami’s longest running contemporary art fair and anchor fair to the city of Miami, started the weekend with record crowds, surpassing the total attendance of 36,000 visitors which the fair achieved last year. Strong sales of both marquee works and emerging artists continued on Saturday. Distinguished for its depth, diversity and quality, Art Miami presents an incredible showcase of works from over 100 internationally renowned modern and contemporary art galleries. Highlights from Saturday’s sales included: • Mark Borghi Fine Art sold Alexander Calder’s Smeary for $550,000, a Gerhard Richter for $120,000, and a Frank Stella for $95,000 • Scott White Contemporary Art sold a Helen Frankenthaler for $475,000, a Ross Blecker for $75,000, an Alexander Calder for $68,000, and a Kim McCarthy watercolor • Galerie Patrice ... More |
 | Matt Stokes: No Place Else Better Than Here Opens at Kunstahalle Fridericianum
Matt Stokes, No Place Else Better Than Here, 2010. Foto: Nils Klinger.
KASSEL.- In his works, many of which are film or event-based, the British artist Matt Stokes (born in Penzance, England, in 1973) deals with subcultures. In meticulous research, he explores the origins of music scenes and groups, investigating the local development of, say, the folk movement in Camden and Newcastle, Northern Soul in Dundee, and punk rock in Austin, Texas. Stokes is interested in the way in which music creates a collective feeling, serving as a catalyst for certain groups to form, and shaping and influencing people’s lives and identities. He immerses himself in specific contexts and gets involved with the community of a subculture, and in this way manages to convey the characteristics of these scenes in an artistic manner which is not only documentary, but also personal, celebratory and expressive. From his long-term research, in which he collects impressions, stories, ... More | | Donations to Save an Iconic Old Master Painting by Pieter Brueghel Approach £1.4 Million
Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s The Procession to Calvary, 1602 (detail) © National Trust, Robert Thrift.
LONDON.- Donations to the appeal by the Art Fund and the National Trust to save an iconic Old Master painting for the nation are approaching £1.4 million. The appeal still has some way to go, however, to reach its £2.7 million target by Christmas and it is hoped that the public will support the appeal through The Big Give Christmas Challenge that begins today. In September, the Art Fund and the National Trust launched a fundraising appeal to save ‘The Procession to Calvary’ by Pieter Brueghel the Younger. The painting is the star attraction at Nostell Priory in Yorkshire, owned by the National Trust since 1954, where it has hung for over 200 years. The painting, which is still owned by Lord St Oswald, has been put up for sale, with the risk that Nostell’s greatest work will no longer be accessible to the public. Completed in 1602, and amon ... More | | Commemorative Exhibition by Don Olsen Now on View at The Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Donald P. Olsen (1910-1983), Garcia Lorca, c.1960, oil on canvas, private collection.
SALT LAKE CITY, UT.- The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) presents Don Olsen: Abstracts from Nature, an exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the most influential abstract artists to have worked in Utah. Featuring ten abstracted, large-scale paintings created over a period of twenty-five years, Don Olsen: Abstracts from Nature is now on view in the G. W. Anderson Family Great Hall in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building. Born December 3, 1910, Donald Penrod Olsen (1910-1983) was raised as a musical prodigy. He graduated from the Brigham Young University School of Music in 1935, and spent the next ten years working with the Utah WPA Orchestra and playing first violin with the Salt Lake City Symphony. Olsen’s music career ended when he was diagnosed with a throat disorder in 1945, and he refocused his creative energy ... More |
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Tel Aviv Museum of Art Presents an Exhibition of Works by Moshe Gershuni
Moshe Gershuni (b. 1936), Hai Cyclamens,1984, mixed media on paper, 200 x 140.
TEL AVIV.- Moshe Gershuni (b. 1936), senior and excess baggage of Israeli modern art, extraordinary personality, a world unto himself. A mole perhaps, of modern art, stretching the boundaries of its language to stimulate its opposite. Gershuni's artistic thought developed from a language crisis, from a strong sense of the collapse of the great culture of Europe – to which he is attached with bonds of love – in the formative event of the 20th century. As a result, he developed a language that is the product of distrust of language, of the interchange between the cultural and the barbarian, between the sacred and the profane. The 1980 Venice Biennale, at which Gershuni represented Israel, was a turning point in his work, followed by a rush of paintings executed squatting, smearing, with harsh and at times repulsive materiality, flowering with fragments of prayer from his schoolboy days in a religious school. ... More | | Legendary Albert Watson Captures the Stunning Voyage to the Heart of The Macallan
Photo: courtesy Albert Watson and The Macallan (2010).
LONDON.- The Macallan Masters of Photography: Albert Watson Edition continues the celebration of two very different but highly revered art processes, photography and whisky-making. From December 2010 two unique bottles of The Macallan - a 20 year old Sherry Oak and The Macallan 1946, paired with Watson’s portfolio and platinum prints, will be available to purchase around the world. To mark the launch, Watson’s photographic prints were unveiled at Phillips de Pury in London on 1 December, kicking off a global exhibition tour. This is the first time the story of The Macallan’s exceptional oak casks and their romantic journey, beginning in the bewitching forests of Spain and ending at The Macallan’s spiritual home in Scotland, has been visually documented. This unique collaboration with Albert Watson, winner of the prestigious Royal Photographic Society’s 2010 Centenary Medal, involves a bottle of The Macallan 20 year old sherry oak with a hand-signed portf ... More | | Minister for Arts Lui Tuck Yew to Open Lim Tze Peng's Exhibition at Singapore Gallery
Mr. Lim Tze Peng at work.
SINGAPORE.- Almost 90 years old, Mr. Lim Tze Peng has lived through the ups and downs of Singapore’s history, and is one of the country’s most enduring artists. His passion has always been to conserve Singapore’s heritage – if not by preserving buildings and traditions, then by immortalizing them through his timeless art. Like in his other Singapore River and Chinatown paintings, Lim does this skillfully in My Kampong, My Home, a series of works capturing nostalgic scenes from Singapore’s Malay kampongs in the 1970s. The artwork is easy to appreciate, especially for those who have lived through the 70s in rural Singapore. And for those who have not, the images cause one to wonder what life must have been like in Singapore’s earlier days. Women, children, animals, and homes, captured in varying states of work, rest and play, paint a beautiful tapestry of kampong life. My Kampong, My Home: Lim Tze Peng represents the first time these early works by Li ... More |
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ArtParis: the Event for the Modern and Contemporary Art Market Returns to the Grand Palais
Christo, Surrounded Islands, 1982, collage in two parts cm 76 x 51 76 x 28.
PARIS.- ArtParis, the Paris springtime event for the modern and contemporary art market, is returning to the Grand Palais from 31 March to 3 April 2011. Some one hundred international exhibitors are being asked to conceive stands that showcase painting, photography, sculpture, drawing, video, installations, etc. For its Land-Art retrospective, the Repetto Gallery (Italy) will be showing historical pieces by major artists such as Richard Long, Christo, and Jeanne-Claude, Walter De Maria, Dennis Oppenheim, Michael Heizer, Hamish Fulton, Andy Goldsworthy and Robert Smithson, considered one of the theoreticians of this movement. The emblematic work "Spiral Jetty" demonstrates Smithson's fascination for artistic intervention in large open areas that have thus far remained untouched… while reminding us of nature's dominion over mankind. For instance, we also find Hamish ... More | | Extremely Poignant Works of Art by Teresa Margolles at Kunstahalle Fridericianum
'Mural Baleado' or 'Shot wall' is the title of an installation by Mexican artist Teresa Margolles that is shown in a dark room at the Fridericianum Exhibition Hall in Kassel. EPA/UWEZUCCHI.
KASSEL.- Using reduced but always drastic means, Teresa Margolles (born in Culiacán, Mexico, in 1963) creates extremely poignant works of art. At first glance, her works often seem to be minimalist in their form. Viewers only discover that they are deeply emotional and dramatic when they become aware of the rigorous realism in the choice of material. Margolles uses substances such as blood, body fat or even water used to wash dead corpses not only symbolically, but also palpably, attacking human beings’ fears of contact in a subtle way. In the last ten years, her art has revolved around the issue of what happens after a person dies and what death leaves behind. The artist deals with the social dimension of the dead body as well as the physical remains after autopsies, and the treatment of this subject as ... More | | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Presents the Work of German Artist Erik Parker
Erik Parker, Hoax, 2007. Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 18 x 3 1/2 inches.
FORT WORTH, TX.- Erik Parker has described his work as “fragmented samples of our culture.” A Texas native, Parker is known for his figurative paintings of disembodied, twisted heads that ooze vivid color and recede into themselves as much as they explode outwardly into the space around them. Made with spiraling swirls of hot-to-pale pink, vivid oranges, yellows, greens, ranges of blue-from deep to swimming pool-reds, and purples, the figures are often set against dark backgrounds containing their own matrix of dots, paisleys, stripes, and waves. Accompanied by a word or phrase nestled somewhere in the lower half of the canvas, phrases such as Half Made Man, Player Hater, Betty Fords, Drama, Crime, Hoax, Why Me, Think Twice, and American Apparel label and suggest the state of each sitter. The words, when juxtaposed with the portraits, clearly speak to a wide range of cultural conundrums. Erik Parker is an artist ... More |
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Maxxi Opens Two Exhibitions in Support of the Work of Young Italian Artists
ROME.- Four site-specific installations that transform the museum space inside and out, 3,015 portfolios of young artists, 150 videos and 2 online databases, an “open call” to all those artists who have yet to present their work to the public: MAXXI presents the Italian XXI Century. The four finalists, all under 40, in the first edition of the Italian Contemporary Art Prize promoted by MAXXI are Rosa Barba, Rossella Biscotti, Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio and Piero Golia. From 4 December 2010 to 20 March 2011 MAXXI is dedicating an exhibition to the group of artists and their site-specific installations conceived and produced for the museum. Episodes in recent Italian history and the most burning current issues sit alongside more intimate themes as the four projects constantly alternate idioms and establish a dialogue between art and architecture. Italy’s “Years of Lead” are re-examined in ... More
A Cabinet of Curiosities by Fiona Pardington, Carlo Van de Roer, and David Boyce at Suite Fine Art Gallery
WELLINGTON.- Wunderkammer brings together works that represent a contemporary take on the Renaissance notion of a cabinet of curiosities; that displayed altogether objects from the worlds of art and antiquities, natural history, geology, archaeology as well as religious and historical relics can create a microcosm of the world. Hence, the works selected here evoke our cultural memory through mementos and curiosities, and present time as a non-linear concept. Dealing with the notion of time and memory inherent to photography, the works question photography as a tool for understanding and/or comprehending the world. Fiona Pardington is arguably New Zealand's premier contemporary photographer. Her latest work was made while in Paris completing Ahua: A Beautiful Hesitation (part one of which was shown at the Sydney Biennale 2010). Ahua looks at the ways in which first casting and then photography have been used by Europeans as tools for understanding the world and cataloguing the ex ... More
AGO's Toronto Now Series Continues with Laurel Woodcock Exhibition
TORONTO.- The fifth installment of the Art Gallery of Ontario’s ongoing Toronto Now series will feature an exhibition by local artist Laurel Woodcock. On view from December 4, 2010 to January 30, 2011 in the AGO’s free, street-front Young Gallery, Toronto Now: Laurel Woodcock features four works, all of which are being exhibited for the first time. The exhibition incorporates the vocabulary of commercial signage—in response to what Woodcock calls the “storefront features” of the Young Gallery—to visually interpret turns of phrase, cinematic tropes, and abbreviations, often with an effect that results in obscured clarity or context. “Laurel Woodcock is an artist whose references come from popular culture, whose modes of production come from daily life, and whose inspiration comes from the legacy of conceptual art,” says Michelle Jacques, AGO associate curator of contemporary art. “Given ... More
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami Presents First Major Solo Exhibition in the U.S. for Artist Jonathan Meese
NORTH MIAMI, FL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami presents the first major solo museum exhibition in the United States for German artist Jonathan Meese, renowned for his multi-faceted work, including wildly exuberant paintings that mix personal hieroglyphics and collage, installations, ecstatic performances, and a powerful body of sculptures in a variety of media. On view from December 1, 2010 – February 13, 2011, the exhibition Jonathan Meese: Sculpture focuses on Meese’s three-dimensional work, including his first ceramic talisman created when he was 15, small assemblages and dioramas from the beginning of his career that have never been shown before, massive bronze sculptures, recent large-scale ceramics, and models and set designs for theatrical and operatic productions. Jonathan Meese: Sculpture is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami and is curated by MOCA Executive Direc ... More
Clerkenwell Design Week Returns to the Capital with Aplomb Following a Hugely Successful 2010 Inauguration
LONDON.-The three-day festival will take place between 24th and 26th of May 2011 and brings together a varied and vibrant programme of events taking in debates, discussions, presentations, exhibitions, street parties workshops and installations all in the name of celebrating and embracing design. New to this years event will be The House of Detention, an underground Victorian prison hidden away in the heart of Clerkenwell. Not usually open to the public, this unique venue will become home to site specific installations and innovative product displays for the duration of the event. Earlier this week Clerkenwell Design Week launched their new look website. A film encapsulating the exciting array of activities that took place earlier this year is available to view on the CDW website. The website also now includes a blog where participating designers can share insider knowledge about there new product and projects. & ... More
Everything is Just Wonderful! an Art Exhibition Organized by Blissland Project
BERLIN.- Everything Is Just Wonderful! is an art exhibition organized by Blissland Project: there’s no wonder Politics is ashaming the world and there is not much we can do. Still, we can laugh about it. John Heartfield / Helmut Harzfeld knew that, and back in the 40's entertained Europe with his amazing and satirical photo collages, striking the regime right in its strictness with a totally peaceful but dangerous power: the strength of the transformation into ridiculous. Now, in times when Politics seem to be once again far away from the people’s everyday life, Art has the duty to bring both closer: under the bad influence of Heartfield, seven artists from all over the world will present their works, marked by the ambitious aim to make the public’s consciousness more sensitive and committed in a satirical way. Blissland Berlin will host the exhibition from 4 throughout 23 December 2010. Blissland is a new medi ... More
SOFA CHICAGO 2010 and The Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art Have a Resounding Success
CHICAGO, IL.- For the first time ever, The Art Fair Company presented two art fairs under one roof at Chicago's historic Navy Pier: the 17th annual SOFA CHICAGO (International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair), featuring more than 70 galleries from 11 countries and sponsored by Chubb Personal Insurance, shared center stage with 16 dealers in The Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art. The Chicago-based Art Fair Company welcomed a crowd of more than 30,000 attendees to Navy Pier's Festival Hall between the SOFA CHICAGO + Intuit Show Opening Night preview party Nov. 4, 2010 and throughout the three day run of the fairs Nov. 5 - 7, 2010. Mark Lyman, President of The Art Fair Company and Founder of SOFA, said that this year's fairs were "a step to the next level in terms of sophisticated curating and stunni ... More
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