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People attending the Art Basel show in Miami Beach, Fla. Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 view the larger-than-life art pieces in tony Shafrazi' gallery space. The art show opens Thursday and runs through Sunday. AP Photo/J Pat Carter.
By: Lisa Orkin Emmanuel, Associated Press
MIAMI BEACH (AP).- South Beach is ready to host a huge art party. Art Basel Miami Beach organizers chose about 250 galleries from more than 700 applications to show their art during the fair, which kicked off for VIPs on Wednesday. It opens for the public on Thursday and ends on Sunday. Gallery owners at the Miami Beach Convention Center are hoping to sell works ranging from Spain's Pablo Picasso and Colombia's Fernando Botero to Argentina's Mondongo group and New York-based Kehinde Wiley. Collectors from around the world walked through the booths, with some strictly browsing and others ready to buy. Organizers have also planned for fairgoers to visit Miami art museums, talk to artists, see outdoor art projects, attend receptions and even visit artists' studios. "Part of the reason why Art Basel came to Miami Beach in the first place is because it is a gateway to the Latin American countries, and for many years we have been hoping that would catch on creating more opportunities ... More |
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Tate Britain is Changing: First Phase of Major Building Project Starts this Autumn
Model photography of the new Tate Britain Rotunda staircase. Courtesy Caruso St John . Copyright Tate.
LONDON (REUTERS).- The national home of British art from the 16th century to the modern age has embarked on a major revamp of its galleries starting in 2011. Tate Britain -- which houses works stretching from portraits of England's Queen Elizabeth I to modern art by Gilbert and George -- said this week it would spend 45 million pounds ($70 million) on new walls, roofs, floors, improving its entrance and re-hanging its collection. Beginning next February, nine galleries in the southern and oldest part of the Tate Britain's 19th century building will be given new walls, roofs and floors, while the domed atrium at the entrance of the gallery will be opened up, with a new spiral staircase leading down to the lower level. Under the plans, the gallery's Millbank entrance will become the public face of Tate Britain and -- for the first time since 1927 -- visitors will also be granted access to the upper level of the building. Visitor ... More | | Sotheby's to Offer Important Old Master and 19th Century Paintings From the Collection of J. E. Safra
Luca Carlevarijs, Piazzetta, Venice (detail). Estimate: $2/3 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s will offer old master and 19th century paintings from the extraordinary private collection of J. E. Safra in a single-owner evening sale on 26 January 2011 in New York. The auction offers a wide range of styles and genres including Dutch, Italian and French pictures, and is highlighted by significant works from Luca Carlevarijs, Giovanni Paolo Panini and Jacopo Amigoni. The evening sale will open for exhibition on 22 January.“This group of paintings was acquired by Mr. Safra for his personal collection between 1988 and 2001,” said George Wachter, Co-Chairman of Sotheby’s Old Master Paintings Department Worldwide. “From a fabulous Venetian scene by Luca Carlevarijs, to architectural views by Hubert Robert and Giovanni Paolo Panini, to mythological masterpieces by Jacopo Amigoni and Jan Miel, the scale and scope of the works on offer are representative of the collection as a who ... More | | Art Miami Celebrates Opening Night with Marquee Works Drawing Large Crowds and Sales
Deborah Butterfield, All Ball, 2010. Found steel, welded, 39 x 45.5 x 17 inches. $115,000.00. Photo: Courtesy Greg Kucera Gallery.
MIAMI, FL.- On Tuesday, November 30th, Art Miami, Miami’s longest running contemporary art fair and anchor fair to the city of Miami, hosted its Opening Night VIP Preview unveiling an incredible showcase of works from internationally renowned modern and contemporary artists. The Opening Night VIP Preview benefited The Lotus House Women’s Shelter, a local and vitally important Miami charity. Over 7,200 museum curators, collectors, artists, connoisseurs, and interior designers attended this high profile first night of Art Week in Miami. Art Miami is world-‐famous for its stylish gallery-‐like décor, its extraordinary variety and outstanding quality. The VIP Preview provided the first opportunity for collectors to purchase before Art Miami opened to the public. Guests enjoyed an exclusive first view of sensational modern and contemporary ... More |
 | Recent Paintings by Contemporary Scottish Painter Stephen Conroy at Marlborough Gallery
Stephen Conroy, Self Portrait with Phone, 2010, oil on canvas, 68 x 42 in. Photo: Courtesy Marlborough Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marlborough Gallery present the exhibition of recent paintings by the contemporary Scottish painter, Stephen Conroy. Conroy’s last New York show took place in 2007 and the exhibition gives viewers a chance to see the latest work by this captivating painter. The exhibition opened November 30 and continues through December 30, 2010. The show comprises over thirty oils on canvas, the majority of which are large paintings measuring 68 x 42 inches, and several small studies of heads measuring 14 x 12 inches. In this new series of paintings, Conroy continues his pre-occupation with the human figure in isolation and presents a single male figure posed in various standing positions. More than half of the paintings are self portraits and these range from a series of head studies in which he portrays himself both frontally and in profile, as well as three-quarter ... More | | New Display Marks 100th Anniversary of the Formation of the Camden Town Group
Stanislawa Bevan (née de Karlowska)by Harold Gilman c 1913. © National Portrait Gallery, London.
LONDON.- A new display at the National Portrait Gallery marks the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Camden Town group of artists. Focusing on the leading members of the group which flourished around 1911-1912, the display also showcases three important portraits by the group recently acquired by the Gallery. Camden Town and Beyond, a display of 16 portraits, is an opportunity to take a fresh look at this significant group of artists. Named after the area of north-west London where the painter Walter Sickert rented several studios, the Camden Town Group of artists were united by their fascination with depicting ordinary life. Their unadorned, everyday subjects included shabby interiors, portraits of friends and models in humble settings, domestic still-lifes and views of London streets. Several members developed an innovative use of bold colour and fragmented brushwork. The group comprised sixteen artists, including Robe ... More | | $16.7 Million Cranes Lift Christie's Chinese Art and Ceramics Sale in Hong Kong
One of a pair of Cloisonne enamel double crane censers of Yongzheng reign. EPA/YM YIK.
By James Pomfret
HONG KONG (REUTERS).- A Hong Kong tycoon paid $16.7 million on Wednesday for a quartet of Chinese cloisonne cranes at a Christie's sale in Hong Kong that also saw strong prices paid for high-end Chinese ceramics amid a white-hot streak in the market. While parts of Europe have plunged into a debt crisis and the U.S. economy remains stagnant, China's antique-loving millionaires are splashing out on rare Chinese antiques and ceramics, driven by cultural patriotism and potential investment returns. At Christie's Asian sales in Hong Kong, considered a barometer for the Chinese and Asian art markets in the world's third largest art auction hub after New York and London, demand was again strong for Chinese works from three major Western collections. The four enamel cranes, part of a trove ... More |
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Christie's Hong Kong Achieves Highest Ever Sale Total for Chinese Paintings
Fu Baoshi's The Song of the Pipa Player sold for: HK$ 70,080,000 / US$ 9,026,304 / £ 5,802,624 / € 6,881,856 setting a new world auction record for the artist. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010.
HONG KONG.- Christie's Hong Kong completed its two sales of Classical and Modern Chinese Paintings on Tuesday, November 30th, 2010, tallying the highest total ever for the category with HK$669 million/ US$ 86 million. The morning session of Fine Chinese Classical Paintings kicked off with high sold ratios of 91% by lot and 87% by value and a total of HK$100 million/US$13 million. The momentum continued unabated with the afternoon session of the Modern Chinese Paintings sale which totalled HK$ 568 million/ US$73 million, with 96% sold by lot and 97% sold by value. Ben Kong, International Director of Chinese Paintings at Christie's, based in Hong Kong, said "This season's excellent results reflect a 92% increase from last year's Autumn sale, while the average lot value also increased by 42% compared to last year, including 11 lots selling over ... More | | Bed Down with Reindeer at Carsten Hoeller's Berlin Show at Museum fuer Gegenwart
Reindeers stand inside the installation of Belgian-born artist Carsten Hoeller at the Museum fuer Gegenwart. AP Photo/Gero Breloer.
BERLIN (AP).- It's rather stinky and kind of loud, but an exhibit that allows visitors to bed down with 24 golden canaries and a dozen reindeer is one of the most popular ever at a Berlin museum. While the goal of the unusual installation is to acquaint the public with spiritual Hinduism, the gallery says the combination of reindeer and the approaching holidays has many visitors thinking just one thing: Christmas. Even though the connection to the holidays may have been unintended, the impulse to use one's own culture to interpret the customs of others is part of what artist Carsten Hoeller wants to expose, curator Dorothee Brill said. "That irony has to do with our need for fixed points of reference," she said. The exhibition, called "Soma" — which also includes a patch of giant mushroom sculptures — is named for the legend of a hallucinogenic drink purportedly used 5,000 years ago in Hindi religious ceremonies and believed to be the magical elixir of the gods. Beginn ... More | | After 30 Years of Service, Joan Rosenbaum to Retire as Director of the Jewish Museum
“Joan Rosenbaum is the most influential leader this institution has had in its 106-year history,” Mr. Nash stated.
NEW YORK, NY.- Joan Rosenbaum, who has led The Jewish Museum since 1981, creating its innovative identity as a museum of art and culture and doubling the size of its home at Fifth Avenue and 92nd Street, has informed the full Board of Trustees of her intention to retire at the end of June 2011 from her position as Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director of the Museum. Over the course of her 30-year tenure, she has strengthened and expanded every aspect of the Museum: from its world-renowned collection (which has grown to 26,000 objects) to its endowment (which she campaigned to initiate, then built to more than $92 million) to its level of activity, as reflected in an annual operating budget that has risen from $1 million in 1981 to $15 million today. Joshua Nash, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, announced that the Board had voted unanimously but with regret to ... More |
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Highlights of the Debut of Naples International Art and Antique Fair Announced
Alexander Cabanel, Young Beauty. Courtesy of Toulouse Antique Gallery, Manhattan Beach.
NAPLES, FL.- International Fine Art Expositions (IFAE), organizers of the debut Naples International Art and Antique Fair (NIAAF), released highlights for the upcoming event, which will be held February 24 – March 1, 2011 at the spectacular new Naples International Pavilion on Immokalee Road. The premier Fair will gather 60-70 carefully selected prestigious art, antique, and jewelry dealers of the highest caliber from around the world to Southwest Florida for the first time. A full schedule of daily activities will coincide with the exhibitions including informative lectures from respected museum curators and art experts as well as collector panel discussions, assuring the debut fair will be the cultural event of the Naples season. The Collector Preview Gala on February 24th will be an event to benefit the Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts and the Naples Museum of Art. The non-profit Center ... More | | ArtPrize Founder Rick DeVos Announces Plans for the Third Edition of ArtPrize
Chris LaPorte, Cavalry, American Officers, 1921 (detail).
GRAND RAPIDS, MI.- ArtPrize founder Rick DeVos today announced plans for the third edition of ArtPrize. ArtPrize 2011 will open on Sept. 21 and run through Oct. 9. Artist and venue information as well as dates for Top 10 and the winners’ announcement will be announced after the beginning of the year. ArtPrize will continue to award the top 10 prizes totaling $449,000 and expects the number of individual juried prizes to increase. “The engagement of the community continues to be at the forefront of ArtPrize’s success,” said DeVos. “It is amazing to learn of school programs that are being developed and the local outreach aimed at inviting artists to our city from all over the world. Venues are beginning to plan unique programming to promote their artists and establishments. It’s all about creating, trying new things, not being afraid to fail and, ultimately, succeeding together.” ArtPrize 2 ... More | | Janis Gardner Cecil Joins Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art as Director of Sales
Ms. Cecil joined the gallery on November 22, 2010, and reports directly to Edward Tyler Nahem.
NEW YORK, NY.- Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art LLC announces the appointment of Janis Gardner Cecil as Director of Sales. Ms. Cecil will be responsible for the overall sales and operations of Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art LLC. In addition to her position of Director of Sales, Ms. Cecil will help lead the overall direction of the gallery's art fair program. Ms. Cecil joins Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art from Marlborough Gallery, which she joined in 2001, where she held the positions of Sales Director and Director of Publications and Press. Ms. Cecil curated and organized numerous large museum and public exhibitions of gallery artists during her tenure at Marlborough. Among them are the exhibitions “Tom Otterness in Indianapolis”, with Public Art Indianapolis, which featured twenty-five bronze sculptures throughout downtown Indianapolis in 2005; followed by a site-specific ... More |
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$50,000 Hudgens Prize Winner Announced at the Hudgens Center of Arts in Duluth
DULUTH, GA.- The winner of the $50,000 Hudgens Prize visual arts competition was finally announced at the special Award Ceremony on the evening of November 30 at the Hudgens Center for the Arts in Duluth. The packed crowd at the invitation-only event held its collective breath as Linda Lindeborg, Chairman of the Hudgens Prize Committee, revealed the winner. Gyun Hur of Atlanta was chosen as the recipient of the life-altering cash prize, as well as the opportunity to have a solo exhibit in December of 2011 at the Hudgens Center. The distinguished jurors, David Kiehl, Curator of Prints at The Whitney Museum of American Art; Sylvie Fortin, Editor in Chief of ART PAPERS Magazine; and Eungie Joo, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs at The New Museum, all visited the Finalists Exhibit earlier in the day on the 30th, to view the exhibit and make ... More
Metropolitan Museum Director Thomas Campbell to be Keynote Speaker for The Charleston Art & Antiques Forum in March
CHARLESTON, SC .- Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will deliver the Keynote Address for The Charleston Art & Antiques Forum on March 16. The 2011 Forum’s opening night event marks Mr. Campbell’s first lecture in Charleston. The distinguished art historian and curator, who became the museum’s ninth Director in 2009, will speak on Old World Splendor for New World Magnates: Collecting Tapestry in America. The Keynote Address will be held at 7 p.m. in the historic 1845 Courtroom at the Confederate Home, 23 Chalmers Street. Audience members will have an opportunity to meet Mr. Campbell at the reception following his lecture. The Charleston Art & Antiques Forum, scheduled from Wednesday, March 16 through Sunday, March 20, launches the historic city’s celebrated “Antiques Week”. The fourteen ... More
Bonhams to Sell One of a Kind Guitar Signed by Rock Legends to Help Fight Puppy Farming
KNIGHTSBRIDGE.- Bonhams are to sell a one of a kind Epiphone Casino Guitar that has been signed by a host of rock legends in their Entertainment Memorabilia sale on 15th December with funds raised going to PUP AID. PUP AID 2010 was launched in September by Liam Gallagher kindly offering his support to raise awareness about Puppy Farming. The guitar is estimated to sell for £3,000-4,000. Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), Keith Richards (Rolling Stones), David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), Eric Clapton, Brian May (Queen), Mick Jones (The Clash), Roger Daltrey (The Who), Paul Weller (The Jam/Style Council) and Gary Moore (Thin Lizzy) have all signed the PUP AID Epiphone Casino Guitar. PUP AID 2010 was the brainchild of TV Vet Marc Abraham and the first-ever music festival and celebrity-judged dog show, held in Brighton, England, to raise awareness about the cruel industry of puppy farming in the UK. Puppy farming is the mass-production of pupp ... More
Miami Art Museum Breaks Ground on New Building in Downtown Miami's Museum Park
MIAMI, FL.- Following years of planning and anticipation, Miami Art Museum has broken ground for its new Herzog & de Meuron-designed facility in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park and next to the future home of the Miami Science Museum. The groundbreaking ceremony was held at the Museum’s new site overlooking Biscayne Bay. The new Miami Art Museum is scheduled to open to the public in 2013. “Today’s groundbreaking is a giant step forward in Miami’s emergence as one of the world’s great cultural cities,” said Aaron Podhurst, chairman of Miami Art Museum’s board of trustees. “The launch of this construction process signals that the public and private sectors are committed to enhancing Miami’s profile as a global arts destination and we are proud that Miami Art Museum factors prominently into that reputation. Our new building will ... More
Art Stage Singapore Set to Elevate Prominence of Asian Art in the Global Arena
SINGAPORE.- Art Stage Singapore, Asia’s new premier international art fair, opens the world’s art season with its debut at the iconic Marina Bay Sands from 30 November, 2010 – On January 12th, 2011. The inaugural fair will feature a selection of 90 of the world’s leading and up-and-coming galleries in a showcase of the best and most exciting of Asian artistic creativity. A Strong Asian Identity Art Stage Singapore will be an annual show focused on and presenting the very best of the Asia Pacific as well as the region’s most interesting emerging artists. As a forward continuation of Fair Director Lorenzo Rudolf’s work across the globe (Director of Art Basel from 1991 to 2000, Inventor of Art Basel Miami Beach and Co-Founder of ShContemporary, Shanghai), Art Stage Singapore is set to be much more than a trade show for the art industry. Art Stage Singapore will be an international sh ... More
Imperial Russian Table from the Winter Palace Sells for £916,000 at Bonhams
NEW BOND STREET.- A striking, circular table originally placed in the Golden Drawing Room in the Winter Palace, the main residence of the Russian Imperial family in St. Petersburg, has sold for £916,000 in the Russian Sale at Bonhams New Bond Street on December 1st. Reflecting the legendary opulence of the Russian Empire, the table encompassed an intricate design and range of materials, from coral to onyx and turquoise. Exceeding the pre-sale estimate of £150,000 – 200,000 by over four times, bidders were clearly keen to secure this important piece of history. Commenting on the extraordinary success of the table, Yelena Harbick Director of Russian Art in Bonhams NY adds: "Having secured the magnificent table early on allowed ample time to thoroughly research the provenance in Russian archives and to establish its relevance within its Imperial context. We never doubted that a work of such historical importance would be we ... More
Lee Harvey Oswald's Coffin to Be Auctioned in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (REUTERS).- For the JFK-assassination conspiracy junkie who has everything: Lee Harvey Oswald's coffin. Body not included. A Los Angeles auction house said on Tuesday it would sell the simple pine coffin in which the suspected assassin of President John F. Kennedy was buried for almost 20 years. Bidding will start at $1,000, but the item is expected to fetch strong interest from museums and collectors of presidential memorabilia when it goes on the block on December 16. "There's just a lot of interest in Kennedy and anything to do with his assassination," said Laura Yntema, auction manager at Santa Monica, California-based Nate D. Sanders. The coffin was unearthed in October 1981 after a legal dispute between Oswald's widow, Marina, and his brother, Robert. Marina successfully sought an exhumation to test a conspiracy theory that a lookalike Russian agent had been buried in her husband's place, according to the auction house. A medical exam showed the badly decompos ... More
Gallery Protests Smithsonian's Removal of Video
By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- A Washington art gallery is showing a video that was removed from the National Portrait Gallery to protest what it calls censorship by the Smithsonian Institution. The Transformer Gallery began showing the video piece, "A Fire in My Belly" by David Wojnarowicz, on Wednesday in honor of World AIDS Day. A short clip of the four-minute video shows ants crawling on a crucifix. It was meant to portray the suffering of an AIDS victim. The Smithsonian's Portrait Gallery removed the piece Tuesday after the Catholic League and members of Congress complained the video was sacrilegious and anti-Christian. Now the operators of the Transformer Gallery are organizing a march to the Portrait Gallery on Thursday to protest the removal of the piece by Wojnarowicz who died at age 37 of AIDS complications in 1992. ... More
MacDougall's Works on Paper Auction Set New World Records
LONDON.- MacDougall's Works on Paper Auction raised over 1.1 m pounds on December 1st, setting new record prices. The top lots went several times higher than their pre-sale estimates. The cover lot 13, Nubian with a Waterpipe by Michail Zichy sold four times its estimate at £162,000 (against an estimate of £40,000) and lot 18, Winter in Jukki by Nikolai Dormidontov sold for more than three times the estimate at £74,000 (against estimate of £20,000); it is also a new world record price for this artist. Catherine MacDougall commented "We are very please with the results which prove that quality works sell exceptionally well." MacDougall's Russian Week continues December 2 with Russian Classic and Contemporary Art and Russian Works of Art and Icons auctions. ... More
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