| | Sotheby's Presents Works to Be Featured in "Hurouf: The Art of the World" Sale in Doha
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A visitor looks at a painting offered for sale in Doha December 12, 2010. Sotheby's announced that the first sale dedicated to calligraphy, "Hurouf: The Art of the Word'", will be held at their international auction house in Doha on December 16 and will feature early Islamic, Ottoman and modern and contemporary art. REUTERS/Stringer.
DOHA.- Sotheby’s presented its landmark calligraphic auction which will take place at the Ritz-Carlton hotel, Doha on the 16 December. The 145-lot auction will showcase works by over 65 artists from 24 countries, with 82 pieces in the sale which are contemporary interpretations of calligraphy. The entire auction carries a pre-sale estimate of in excess of USD$4 million. The auction takes place in the year that Doha is Doha: Arab Capital of Culture 2010. ‘Hurouf: The Art of the Word’ traces the developments of the Arabic script from its inception, with kufic leaves dating from the 8th century, through popular calligraphy of the 19th century to the highest calibre works by international calligraphers working today. In selecting some of the most talented, revered and innovative calligraphers working with the Arabic script from, among others, Japan, the United States, Turkey, the Middle East, China and the Indian S ... More |
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PAFA Receives Unprecedented Gift of Art by Philadelphia Collector Linda Lee Alter
Emily Brown, At the River's Edge, 1998. Oil on canvas. The Art by Women Collection of Linda Lee Alter. Courtesy of PAFA.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts announced a gift of the collection of art by women from Philadelphia art collector and artist Linda Lee Alter. This important collection, formed by an extraordinary person with a clear vision of how collecting can make a difference, includes approximately 400 works of art spanning the 1910s to the present in all media and by a wide range of artists from the well-known to the underappreciated. It includes works by artists PAFA does not yet have in its collection such as Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Joan Brown, Viola Frey, Ana Mendieta, Christina Ramberg, and Beatrice Wood (among others) to complementary works by artists already in the collection such as Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, Gertrude Abercrombie, Edna Andrade, Sue Coe, Janet Fish, Sarah McEneaney, Gladys Nilsson, Elizabeth Osborne, Betye Saar, Nancy Spero, and many others. Realizing that art by women artists was ... More | | The Andy Warhol Foundation Threatens to End Smithsonian Funding
The video, "A Fire in My Belly," is shown in a window of the Transformer Gallery. AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin.
By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- The Andy Warhol Foundation said Monday it will withhold future funding to the Smithsonian Institution unless a video removed from the National Portrait Gallery after a Catholic group complained is restored. Joel Wachs, president of the foundation, said its board voted Friday to demand the video by late artist David Wojnarowicz — which depicts ants crawling on a crucifix — be reinstalled at the gallery. The board sent a letter and e-mail Monday to Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough. The Warhol Foundation has been proud a supporter of the current Portrait Gallery exhibit "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," Wachs wrote. It is the first major museum exhibit to explore the impact of sexual orientation on art history. "Such blatant censorship is unconscionable," he wrote. "We cannot stand by and watch the Smithsonian bow to the demands of bigots who have ... More | | Three Major German Museums Announce an Exhibition on the Art of the Enlightenment in China
Georg Desmarées, The Artist with his Daughter Antonia, around 1760 © Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen Munchen. Photo: Nicole Wilhelms.
BERLIN.- – In spring 2011 three major German museum bodies – the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Munich – will join forces with the National Museum of China to present an exhibition on the art of the Enlightenment, to be held in Beijing. The exhibition reveals the unfolding artistic and intellectual curiosity and openness of mind which characterized this era in European history. It is furthermore the first international exhibition to be hosted at the National Museum of China when it reopens in early 2011 after the completion of an extensive refurbishment and expansion program. The initial agreement on the long-term presentation of works of art by the three German museum partners in the National Museum of China was signed by the then German President Horst Köhler and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in May 2007. The joint exhibition project bet ... More |
 | Galerie Gabriel Rolt Presents "No/No": An Exhibition by Arno Nollen and Andre Van Noord
Arno Nollen, Operations of the Cognitive. Silver gelatin print, 65 x 38 cm. 1994 - 2010.
AMSTERDAM.- Van Noord’s technique is broad, intuitive, playful. There are calm, crafted images; others more immediate, captured snapshots of events, places, lights; and some are filled with distorted colours, shapes, blemishes – the outcome of van Noord’s use of discarded film. He similarly takes on a wide range of subjects: flowers, decapitated fish, children, nudes, pregnant women, fields, cows, uniting in their exhibition to offer a humorous, sometimes dangerous game of association. Van Noord draws inspiration from his close environment, close friends and family, with studies of everyday life, the environment and people. Light offers a consistent fascination for van Noord - in the glow of street lamps, light captured on tulip petals, the eery unreality of a long-exposed night-shot. In ‘Zelfs Als Molen’ van Noord photographs himself naked and waving on a nighttime street, creating a ghoulish and inscrutable picture. The artist brings to the fore the ... More | | Groundbreaking ROM Exhibition Explores Our World's Most Precious Natural Resource
Science on a Sphere portrays actual moving images of the Earth from space projected on a 1.7-metre (5.6-foot) globe. ©D. Finnin/AMNH.
TORONTO.- Want a living planet? Just add water. Opening March 12, 2011, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents Water: The Exhibition, a celebration of the power and wonder of this life-giving substance and a call to each of us to become stewards of our blue planet. A dramatic sensory and educational experience for visitors of all ages, Water uses cutting-edge technologies, multimedia installations, hands-on exhibits, live animals and cultural artifacts to illuminate the indispensable role water plays in our lives and the urgent need to protect it. Water will be displayed in the Garfield Weston Exhibition Hall on Level B2 of the ROM’s Michael Lee-Chin Crystal until September 5, 2011. “The value of water to humanity physically, culturally and even spiritually cannot be overstated,” said Janet Carding, ROM Director and CEO. “Powerfully underscoring the ROM’s dual mandate ... More | | Ballet in Focus, a Case Display of Nearly 40 Portraits Shown at the National Portrait Gallery
Sir Anton Dolin, 1924 by Bassano. © National Portrait Gallery, London.
LONDON.- A new display of rarely seen photographs at the National Portrait Gallery celebrates key ballet dancers from the start of the 20th Century. Studio portraits by Bassano including photographs of Adeline Genée, Anna Pavlova, and Ninette de Valois are shown alongside a newly acquired portfolio from 1913 by E.O.Hoppé and Bert of Diaghilev’s star performers from Russia. Ballet in Focus, a case display of nearly 40 portraits will run from 14 December 2010 to 24 July 2011. Ballets were a popular form of entertainment before the First World War and attracted large audiences. The home of British ballet at this time was in London’s Covent Garden and Leicester Square, where the Alhambra and Empire Theatres offered nightly performances. Adeline Genée was one of the best known classical dancers of the period and Phyllis Bedells and Ninette de Valois, founder of The Royal Ballet, among its emerging stars. In the years immed ... More |
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Mysteries of Egypt Explored in Forthcoming Blockbuster Exhibition at the Herbert
Secret Egypt will bring together over 200 objects from museums around the UK.
COVENTRY.- Britain's most family friendly museum will be welcoming a new type of mummy into its family next year when Secret Egypt opens at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum. From 11 February to the 5 June 2011, this brand new exhibition will adventure into and challenge the secrets and myths about ancient Egypt perpetuated by Hollywood and popular media. Secret Egypt will bring together over 200 objects from museums around the UK including a mummy from the 22nd dynasty on loan from the Manchester Museum. The mummy, called Perenbast, was discovered in 1909 in Qurna, Egypt and is a great example of the care and respect given during the preparations for passing into the eternal life. Egypt has always fascinated people and is the inspiration behind many books, films and TV shows. Such is its resonance in society that some of the most popular and commonly held beliefs ... More | | Exhibition at Woodmere Art Museum Takes a Fresh Look at John Folinsbee's Life and Work
John Folinsbee, Trenton Platform, 1929 (detail), 32 x 40 in., oil on canvas; Private Collection.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Woodmere Art Museum – Philadelphia's premier institution for interpreting the art and culture of the Philadelphia region – presents a new exhibition exploring the work of landscape painter John Folinsbee (1892 – 1972), offering a fresh perspective on the revered New Hope painter’s life and career. John Folinsbee and American Modernism, on display from November 6 – March 6, 2011, moves past Folinsbee’s reputation as an impressionist painter, revealing the artist’s contributions to the development of modern art in America. Visitors to the exhibition will experience Folinsbee’s paintings depicting the Bucks County region’s iconic scenery as they have rarely been presented before. Looking beyond the traditional pastoral views of the Delaware River and its environs, Folinsbee chose instead to paint the mills, factories, and steel-truss bridges that lined ... More | | Banksy's Original Art Work for Greenpeace Campaign Poster to Sell at Bonhams
Banksy (British, born 1975) 'Save or Delete Jungle Book', 2001 (detail). Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- An original art work by the legendary street artist, Banksy, for a Greenpeace Save or Delete campaign photographic poster, is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its Urban Art sale on 11 January 2011. Estimated at £60,000 - 80,000, the unique piece was given to the vendor by the artist himself. The art work was commissioned by Greenpeace to highlight the problems of global deforestation as part of their Save or Delete campaign. The image, which features some of the main characters from Disney’s The Jungle Book transposed onto a picture of a devastated forest, was intended for use on posters, billboards and postcards. While it was printed, it was never put into circulation because of the protectionist policies at Disney. A version of this poster is illustrated in Banksy’s Wall and Piece book. Another sale highlight is a performance piece created by American graffiti artist, Futura 2000, for pun ... More |
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Unseen Egon Schiele Work to be Unveiled at the New Richard Nagy Gallery in UK
Egon Schiele, Kneeling Nude in Coloured Dress, 1911. Gouache, watercolour, and pencil on paper, 56 x 38.4 cm (22 x 15 1/8 in). Private Collection, Courtesy of Richard Nagy Ltd, London.
LONDON.- More than forty-five extraordinary works by Austrian artist Egon Schiele, previously unseen in the UK, will be unveiled at Richard Nagy’s new gallery on Old Bond Street from 07 February – 04 March 2011. Much of the four thousand works Schiele produced during his short lifetime can only be seen in Vienna; at the Belvedere, the Albertina and the Leopold Museum, or New York, primarily at the Neue Galerie. While Schiele is recognised as one of the greatest draftsmen of the 20th Century, with watercolours making over $11 million at auction, his work is absent from museum collections in the United Kingdom and has been given little public attention in the past twenty years. In 1989, the Royal Academy of Arts staged the first and last museum exhibition in the country, Egon Schiele and his Time. Sin ... More | | Maria Bussmann Transports Viewers into Her Personal Cosmos of Memory and Imagination
Maria Bussmann, Long Beach, NY, Secession 2010, Foto: Jorit Aust.
VIENNA.- A journey in drawing, a journey in thought, a journey of a different kind: Maria Bussmann invites visitors to the exhibition Long Beach, NY in the Secession’s Grafisches Kabinett to take a walk along the beach. On 20 metres from a continuous roll of carbonless telex paper, she sends a graphic greeting from New York to Vienna and transports viewers into her personal cosmos of memory and imagination. Maria Bussmann’s drawings often grow out of her readings—she works with the philosophical writings e.g. of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, or Ludwig Wittgenstein. The artist transfers the visual ideas that develop as she reads and processes what she reads into two-dimensional space. In her series, which are usually designed to encompass numerous drawings, she shows thought-images and chains of associations that must be understood not so much as illustrations of the source texts ... More | | Eli Klein Gallery Showcases Yang Qian's Solo Exhibition: Fragment & Identity
Yang Qian, Dual Layer Painting 5, oil and fluorescent materials on canvas, 109 x 68 cm. 2010. (detail).
NEW YORK, NY.- A highly visible and versatile artist in the first generation of contemporary artists in Mainland China, Yang Qian has been very active in the Contemporary Art scene in China and around the globe. This exhibit consists of "dual paintings," shredded copies of currency on canvas and shredded magazine media on aluminum plate. Yang Qian's solo exhibition: Fragment & Identity at Eli Klein's New York location and is on view from December 11th - January 16th 2011. Yang Qian's art is based on artistic imagination, aesthetics, and social interactions. His works challenge the viewer's perception of what is both familiar and alien. His subject matter includes popular figures and symbols of modern daily living, and his perception of the world shifts from the mundane to the extraordinary. Yang Qian's new work continues to play with the notion of multi-layered meaning in painting. In his "Bathroom" series ... More |
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Italian Artist Marco Dablosco Presents Acclaimed Performance Piece Scala 1:18
LONDON.- Italian artist Marco Dalbosco presents his acclaimed performance piece Scala 1:18 today, 14 December, at London Metropolitan University. The piece was first presented as a parallel event at Manifesta 7 (Rovereto, Italy 2008) and is now being brought to London for the first time by SybinQ Art Projects. Scala 1:18 is inspired by the factory world, reflecting on the relationship between factory workers and the repetitive production process. The performance involves five women, dressed and styled identically, moving according to an imaginary trajectory of threads being woven, against the backdrop of a video projection showing machines at work. The dancers become performing robots, repeating the same gestures, steps and sequences, unable to move beyond their starting point or change their starting point or change their predetermined trajectory. Scala 1:18 has b ... More
Airport Design Architect Curtis Fentress Awarded Silver Medal by the American Institute of Architects
DENVER, CO.- The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has honored Curtis Fentress, FAIA, RIBA, of Fentress Architects with the Silver Medal, the highest award for an architect in the Western Mountain Region. The Silver Medal “recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions to the Institute, the design profession and the citizens of the Western Mountain Region, their community, and who has transcended local boundaries.” Earlier this year, Fentress became the first in this region to be awarded the AIA Thomas Jefferson Award, the highest honor for public architecture. Only seven private-sector architects worldwide received the Thomas Jefferson Award before him. Fentress’ design portfolio has been honored with more than 350 awards and accolades for innovation and design excellence, including 80 AIA awards, and featured in over 3,000 region ... More
Indonesian Artist Sells Volcano Ash as Souvenirs to Raise Money for Victims of its Eruptions
JAKARTA, INDONESIA (AP).- An Indonesian artist is selling tourist souvenirs of ash from the country's most volatile volcano to raise money for victims of its eruptions. The English-language daily The Jakarta Globe reported Monday that Agus Budi Setiawan is selling volcano souvenirs — small clear bottles containing volcanic ash — for $1 per bottle. The bottles feature packaging with an illustration of Mount Merapi. The volcano on Java island has killed 386 people since bursting back to life in late October and forced more than 17,000 to flee. Setiawan works at the Art Institute of Indonesia in Yogyakarta, the nearest city to the volcano. He was quoted as saying that he had collected more than US$2,000 by selling the souvenirs in ten days and will give all the ... More
Renowned Artists Albert Paley and Martin Blank to Collaborate in Museum of Glass Hot Shop
TACOMA, WASH.- The Museum of Glass welcomes Albert Paley (Rochester, NY) and Martin Blank (Seattle, WA) to the Hot Shop for a joint residency December 15 – 19, 2010. Together the two will translate a selection of Paley’s designs into glass. This will be the artists’ second collaboration, the first occurring in 2001 for an exhibition titled Integration and Dialogue. “Although we don’t know exactly what the artists are planning to create, we are quite sure it will be fascinating to watch them work during this intriguing collaboration,” comments deputy director Susan Warner. “Both Albert and Martin are extremely talented sculptors who create large-scale works of art. It’s pretty safe to assume they will be pushing the limits of the hot glass while they’re here.” A Conversation with the Artists will be held on Sunday, December 19 at 2 p.m. in the Hot Shop. They will discu ... More
Clinton Home Readies for New Historic Site Status
HOPE, ARK (AP).- The home in Hope where Bill Clinton spent the first four years of his life will officially be a national historic site as of Jan. 2. Organizers worked for years to earn the status for the Clinton First Home Museum on Hervey Street. More than 80,000 visitors from 159 countries have toured the two-story, wood-frame home since it opened as a museum in 1997. The museum won approval last year to become part of the National Park Service. The home remained the focal point for the future president's family for several years after he and his mother moved out. Museum Director Martha Berryman emphasizes the experiences that Clinton had in his early youth, such as witnessing the effects of segregation, gave him the foundation for his notions of social justice. ... More
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