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Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez, right, accompanied by Mexican President Felipe Calderon walk along the mural entitled "Ejercicio Plastico" by Mexican artist David Siqueiros after its inauguration, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The mural which spent years under restoration, has been placed at the future Museum of Political Arts, a former underground customs facility, next to the government house. AP Photo/Argentine Presidential Press Office.
By: Vicente L. Panetta, Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES (AP).- Submerged in obscurity and perilous conditions for most of its nearly 70-year history, a mural by painter David Alfaro Siqueiros, now carefully restored, was inaugurated Friday by the presidents of Mexico and Argentina in a place of honor just steps from the presidential palace. Moments after Felipe Calderon and Cristina Fernandez honored the work Siqueiros created in 1933, titled "Ejercicio Plastico" or "Plastic Army," hundreds of people rushed in to see what Siqueiros created in 1933 during his stay in the Argentine capital — an imaginary underwater world with a type of bubble where sensual feminine figures float in the water. The mural is now carefully installed as the centerpiece of the newly named Museum of Political Art, in a former customs office just behind the Casa Rosada. "True art is alive and constructed when the people have access" to it, Fernandez said with Calderon at her side before both leaders left for the Iberoamerican summit in the no ... More |
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Sotheby's to Sell Property from the Estate of the Late Queen Juliana of the Netherlands
A file photo dated 08 November 1978 of Dutch Prince Bernhard and his wife, Queen Juliana at their palace in Soestdijk. EPA/ANP.
AMSTERDAM.- In the spring Sotheby’s Amsterdam will offer 1500 lots from the Estate of Queen Juliana on the instructions of the Executors on behalf of her four heirs, Her Majesty the Queen and Their Royal Highnesses Princess Irene, Princess Margriet and Princess Christina. The total sum realized by the 1500 lots to be sold will go to charity and the sale will be at Sotheby’s Amsterdam on the 14, 15, 16 and 17 March 2011. The realized amount will be divided into two portions; the first part will be donated to The Red Cross, chosen by the four heirs because of the long term involvement of Queen Juliana in its work. The remaining portion will be divided into four equal parts; The Princess Beatrix Fund which is the choice of Queen Beatrix, Princess Irene chose The Natuurcollege, Princess Margriet chose the Red Cross and the Princess Christina Concours was chosen by Princess Christina. While most of the items in the sa ... More | | Art Miami Continues Attracting Buyers and Reports Robust Sales on Day Three of the Fair
Robert Motherwell, Uccello's Space: a la Pintura, 1973. Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 60 inches. Sold for: $560,000. Courtesy of Evelyn Aimis Fine Art.
MIAMI, FL.- Art Miami, Miami’s longest running contemporary art fair and anchor fair to the city of Miami, continues to attract major buyers with many dealers reporting multiple sales on day three of the fair. Numerous five and six figure acquisitions of marquee works took place, reflecting the quality on show, while strong sales of works by emerging artists also demonstrates the relevance of Art Miami to collectors at every level. 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 Friday’s sales included: • Galerie Forsblom sold a Manolo Valdez La Doble Imagen for $330,000 and a HC Berg Pilgrim for $32,000 • James Barron Art sold a Mark di Suvero Nex Two for over $300,000 • Michael Goedhuis sold a Li Chen Pure Land bronze sculpture for $285,000, a ... More | | Full Set of Francisco Goya's Los Caprichos on View at the Taft Museum of Art
Francisco José de Goya, And So Was His Grandfather. (Caprichos, no. 39: Asta su abuelo.), 1796-1797., aquatint. First edition, 1799. Gift of George W. Davison.
CINCINNATI, OH.- Acting as an 18th century version of The Daily Show, Los Caprichos by Francisco Goya took an insightful yet darkly humorous view of contemporary Spanish society. From blasting provincial superstition to criticizing political corruption, this set of etchings confirms Goya’s liberalism and demonstrates the artist’s revulsion at intellectual oppression imposed by political and religious leaders. The full set of 18th-century Spanish artist Francisco Goya’s 80 haunting images from Los Caprichos (“The Whims” or “The Fantasies,” published in 1799) confronts human hypocrisy, pretense, fear, and irrationality, picturing them in every conceivable form. Information about the artworks and the artist in the gallery during this exhibition will be available in English and Spanish. This is the first time the Taft is offering bilingual labels for an exhibition. Goya’s singularly origi ... More |
 | "Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt" Headed to Cincinnati Museum Center
Statue of a Queen, Black Granite. Ptolemaic period. H. 7.2 ft © Franck Goddio/Hilti Foundation, photo: Christoph Gerigk.
CINCINNATI, OH.- The world of Cleopatra VII, which has been lost to the sea and sand for nearly 2,000 years, will surface in Cincinnati on February 18, 2011 when “Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt” opens its doors. Cincinnati Museum Center was selected as the second stop in the world for the exhibition tour. Tickets for the exhibition go on sale today. On view at Cincinnati Museum Center through September 5, 2011, the exhibition features nearly 150 artifacts from Cleopatra’s time and takes visitors inside the present-day search for the elusive queen, which extends from the sands of Egypt to the depths of the Bay of Aboukir near Alexandria. The exhibition is organized by National Geographic and Arts and Exhibitions International, with cooperation from the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities and the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology (IEASM). It features statuary, jewelry, daily ... More | | MacDougall's Leads Market in Russian Sales Week, Outselling Three Older Auction Houses
Ivan Shishkin (1832-1898), View of Valaam Island. Kukko (detail), signed and dated 1860. Oil on canvas, 104.5 by 141 cm. Estimate: £900,000–£1,200,000. Sold for: £1.87 million.
LONDON.- Holding three auctions on 1 and 2 December 2010, MacDougall's sold Russian paintings, works on paper, icons and works of art for a total of £16.2 million, outselling three older auction houses in Russian art. The biggest sensation of London's Russian week was The Little Cowboy by Russian-American artist Nikolai Fechin, which sold for £6.96 million (against a pre-sale estimate of £500,000-700,000), the highest price ever paid at auction for a painting by this artist. The successful sale of this work, painted by Fechin in 1940 in the Unites States, proved once more the potential of the Russian art market for further growth, as well as the leading position held by MacDougall's. • Ivan Shishkin's View of Valaam Island. Kukko sold for £1.87 million, the second highest result achieved during Russian week. • Ilya Repin's Returning Home, sold for £822,600. New records ... More | | Association of Art Museum Directors Issues Statement on David Wojnarowicz's Film
"A Fire in My Belly," outside the Transformer Gallery in Washington. AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin.
NEW YORK, NY.- In response to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery’s removal of artist David Wojnarowicz’s film from the exhibition “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,” the Association of Art Museum Directors issued the following statement: It is extremely regrettable that the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery, a major American art museum with a long history of public service in the arts, has been pressured into removing a work of art from its exhibition “Hide/Seek.” More disturbing than the Smithsonian’s decision to remove this work of art is the cause: unwarranted and uninformed censorship from politicians and other public figures, many of whom, by their own admission, have seen neither the exhibition as a whole or this specific work. The AAMD believes that freedom of expression is essential to the health and welfare of our comm ... More |
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Campbell Archibald Mellon Works Star in Bonhams Auction with Three of the Top Five Lots
Campbell Archibald Mellon. August bank holiday, Gorleston (detail). Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams East Anglian View auction at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk took place yesterday (2.12.10) and fetched an impressive total of £367,000. Three of the top five lots of the day were paintings by Campbell Archibald Mellon (1878-1955), all featuring the picturesque seaside town of Gorleston. August Bank Holiday, Gorleston fetched £28,800, while Crowded beach, Gorleston, with boating pond to the foreground sold for £18,000 and Gorleston Beach made £16,800. After serving in the First World War Mellon moved to the town of Gorleston in Norfolk and he became well known for these seaside scenes with a mass of clearly defined people. He loved to paint the beach at Gorleston whilst looking into the sun and the play of light on the sand fascinated him. It was when he moved to Norfolk that he met and studied under Sir John Arnesby Brown, whose painting entitled The River Bank fetched an impressive £20,400 at yesterday’s a ... More | | Cain Schulte Contemporary Art Presents Double Solo Exhibitions by Patrick Gabler and Owen Schuh
Patrick Gabler, Zeichnung 37, 2010, indian ink on paper, 225 x 157 cm. Photo: Courtesy Cain Schulte Contemporary Art Berlin.
BERLIN.- Cain Schulte Contemporary Art Berlin presents Patrick Gabler and Owen Schuh in a double solo exhibition. Gabler's large-format ink drawings depict precisely aligned circles and arrangements of ornaments. Gabler’s harmonic systems relate to Schuh's visualisations of mathematical functions, symbolizing the structures and interactions of life systems. Marks of imaginative and romantic landscapes rotate in Patrick Gabler's Indian ink drawings und present a contemplative, but also a complex and moving image of labyrinths. Inspired by the landscape painting and drawings of the romantic era, he forms circles, comets, moons and pine trees out of the many little, swaying brushstrokes, which can be viewed as a contemporary variation of cartographies and copernican systems. With uttermost gentle implementation, the precise alignment of elements in his vision, Gabler can bring each single brushstroke to paper only once. T ... More | | In Front of Thousands of Collectors, Haiti's Earthquake Spurs Miami Art Fair Projects
Haitian graffiti artist Jerry Rosembert Moise is shown after painting a young boy on the wall of an impoverished youth center in the Little Haiti section of Miami. AP Photo/Alan Diaz.
By: Jennifer Kay, Associated Press
MIAMI (AP).- A young boy reaching toward a glimmer of light took shape as Haitian graffiti artist Jerry Rosembert Moise sprayed paint on the wall of an impoverished neighborhood's youth center. It's the kind of clearly hopeful image Moise developed after a catastrophic earthquake leveled his hometown of Port-au-Prince in January. "I used to do caricatures, but now I try to be more realistic to get more attention for helping the country," Moise said during a break from his painting Thursday night. Moise, who gained international attention for his images after the earthquake, is among the artists taking advantage of the art fair crowds in Miami this week to highlight Haiti's ongoing struggles and raise funds for earthquake victims. Thousands of collectors are in Miami for the annual Art Basel Miami Beach ... More |
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Alyce Myatt Appointed as the National Endowment for the Arts New Director of Media Arts
Myatt has extensive knowledge of production, creative program development, programming, and philanthropy.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Endowment for the Arts announces the new Media Arts Director Alyce Myatt. Myatt will lead the NEA's Media Arts office, both as a leading voice for the media arts field and as manager of NEA grantmaking in film, video, audio, web-based, and other electronic media. She begins her tenure on January 3, 2011. "The Arts Endowment will benefit from Ms. Myatt's comprehensive expertise in the media arts, and we look forward to working with her," said Chairman Landesman. Myatt has extensive knowledge of production, creative program development, programming, and philanthropy. Most recently, she served as executive director of Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media (GFEM), an association of grantmakers committed to advancing the field of media arts and public interest media funding. She was responsible for providing the philanthropic community with activities, services, and publications to increase their ... More | | Museum of Contemporary Art Presents Its 100th Artist for December: Jessica Labatt
Jessica Labatte, Surface Effects#1, 2010. Courtesy the artist and Golden Gallery, Inc.
CHICAGO, IL.- Jessica Labatte, the 100th artist to participate in the UBS 12 x 12 series, explores the color and shape of everyday objects and materials to create an installation that combines the traditions of collage and still life with the illusionistic tendencies of photography. Labatte's exhibition opened on the evening of December 3 during First Fridays as the monthly UBS 12 x 12: New Artists/New Work at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, and runs through January 2, 2011. For her UBS 12 x 12 exhibition, Labatte employs elaborate compositional strategies and the careful juxtaposition of found paper objects, to create sophisticated images with a confusing sense of spatial depth. She manipulates the picture plane using a large format camera to emphasize a deceptively flattened space. On first look, her three-dimensional arrangements often appear two-dimensional. However, she deliberately leaves clues (o ... More | | Birmingham Museum of Art Takes a Historic Look at an African-American Art Movement
Charles Alston, "Cry Beloved Country". copyright the estate of Charles Alston.
BIRMINGHAM, AL.- On December 5, the Birmingham Museum of Art will open an exhibition designed to open 21st century eyes to an astounding, if little-known phenomenon in the history of African-American art: The Spiral Collective. Spiral was the name taken by a group of artists, including Romare Bearden, Reggie Gammon, Charles Alston, Norman Lewis, Hale Woodruff, Richard Mayhew, and Emma Amos who came together in New York in the 1960s, and took on the challenge of creating art that responded to the Civil Rights Movement. The collective existed for only a short time, yet each member of the group, working on their own and together, produced powerful works that testified not only to the common themes arising from the struggle for human rights, but to the divergent ways different artists would seek to address those themes. The exhibition Spiral: Perspectives on An African American Art Collective, is the first time the works of those ... More |
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Hamburger Bahnhof Presents Cory Arcangel's First Solo Exhibition in Berlin
BERLIN.- On the occasion of the gift of a video installation by American artist Cory Arcangel to the collection of the Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof presents the artist’s first solo exhibition in Berlin. Cory Arcangel, born 1978 and based in New York City, deals with the myths and practices of Internet culture, pop music and experimental music. He uses and modifies existing computer programs and develops his own programs for processing visual and sound material. He is interested in the latest trends in the entertainment industry and the everyday use of the Internet, and also in pondering how technologies and codes rapidly become obsolete. His works constantly metamorphose in new constellations and contexts: depending on the venue and the situation, he combines older and newer video works with sculptural pieces, and the material for a music performance can also turn up in altered form in a video installation or an Inte ... More
Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts Including Americana Sale at Christie's Achieves $6,608,688
NEW YORK, NY.- The Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana sale realized $6,608,688/£4,236,338/E5,006,581 and was sold 79% by lot and 82% by value. The top lot of the sale was Abel Buell's new and correct map of the United States of North America, New Haven, 1784, realizing $2,098,500/£1,345,192/E1,589,772, a world auction record for a map. The Beautiful Evidence: The Library of Edward Tufte sale realized $1,817,188/£1,164,864/E1,387,166. The top lot of the sale was Galileo Galilei's Sidereus nuncius magna, Venice: Tommaso Baglioni, 1610, realizing $662,500/£424,679/E505,725, a world auction record for Galileo's Sidereus nuncius magna. Tom Lecky, Head of Books and Manuscripts of New York said: "The outstanding results of Abel Buell's map of the United States and the first printing of the Star Spangled Banner reaffirm Christie's long-history of success with iconic Americana. The exceedingly rare Buell map, sold today for the first time at auction since it wa ... More
Wifredo Lam Painting Sets New Record at Art Basel Miami Beach
MIAMI, FL (CUBAN ART NEWS).- Minutes after the opening of this year's Art Basel Miami Beach fair, Cernuda Arte gallery sold Wifredo Lam's 1944 painting Les Fiancés for $3 million, setting a new record for work by the artist. Cuban Art News spoke with Ramón Cernuda about the sale, Art Basel, and Cuban art. Congratulations on the sale of the Wifredo Lam painting. You must be thrilled. We're very happy for that, yes. What can you tell us about the purchaser? He is a Cuban-American collector who wishes to remain anonymous—a person who owns an illustrious collection of Cuban art, and who is a very well-known figure in the Cuban American community. He is a person who has in the past been supportive of museums, and he has committed to lend the painting for museum exhibitions in the future. This is quite a moment for Lam. Just last month we reported on a new record for a painting of his sold at auction, and now comes this sale, at a considerably higher figure. Why is this happening now? ... More
Germany to Reopen Reichstag Visitor Platform
BERLIN (AP).- Germany's parliament says it will reopen access for registered visitors to the rooftop terrace and glass copula of the Reichstag building this weekend, after closing it due to security concerns. The popular tourist site, which offers a panoramic view of the city, was closed Nov. 22, days after the Interior Ministry raised the country's terrorist threat level. Only visitors participating in a registered tour of parliament, as well as those with reservations at a rooftop restaurant will be allowed access to the site starting Saturday, parliament officials said in a Thursday statement. Designed by British architect Lord Norman Foster, the Reichstag cupola has made the German parliament one of the most popular buildings in the city. ... More
Haubrok Foundation Hands Over 13 Important Contemporary Artworks to the National Gallery in Berlin
BERLIN.- The Haubrok Foundation has generously presented to the National Gallery over 13 important works as permanent loans by internationally acclaimed artists of the present day. To mark their presentation, the work 'This is Propaganda’ (2002) by Berlin-based artist Tino Sehgal is on display in the Alte Nationalgalerie from 9 November to 19 December 2010. The permanent loans, which often take up the entire space in which they are installed, include works by artists such as Martin Creed, Olafur Eliasson, Paola Pivi, Tobias Rehberger, Gregor Schneider and Tino Sehgal. They will now be duly incorporated into the various collections of the National Gallery in such a way as to complement existing holdings. The body of works form the heart of the Haubrok Collection and were transferred to the hands of the Haubrok Foundation by Barbara and Axel Haubrok to ensure that, for the good of their collection, they remain unse ... More
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The Art Newspaper newsletter From today's fair edition:  MIAMI. The rise and rise of the mega-gallery—intent on creating a global brand—has never been more obvious than this week at Art Basel Miami Beach. The fair’s floorplan is something of a blueprint for the increasingly hierarchical market, with the best spots in the convention centre given over to dealers such as Barbara Gladstone (H13), David Zwirner (J19), Gagosian Gallery (J13), Pace (C10) and, at the oceanfront entrance, Hauser & Wirth (K17). “The market now concentrates on the bigger and the bolder. It isn’t just about multiple cities but also multiple sites in the same cities,” says dealer Thaddaeus Ropac (C11), who this year opened a second, larger, space in Salzburg and is soon to do the same in Paris... READ MORE
Who needs celebrities? It’s the serious collectors that count
Steady nerve required by dealers as buyers take their time—but lower price points encouraged sales But gallery says there’s no formal deal with Asher Edelman over artist Is Cheim & Read planning to open a new space in West Hollywood? After an eight-month search, Marianne Goebl has been chosen That’s why birds do it,
bees do it…
Dolphins do it every which way, spiders enjoy a bit of bondage, and Noah’s Ark must have been a menagerie of hermaphrodites, transgenders and homosexuals. Or so film grand dame Isabella Rossellini reveals in her five most recent short films which she premiered at the Wolfsonian Museum on Friday night... all articles
video  Richard Jackson talks about Dick's Ducks, a colourful installation which featured on the Hauser and Wirth stand at the 2008 Art Basel Miami Beach fair.
The piece was installed and completed on site when paint was pumped through five large, brightly coloured fibreglass ducks. Interview by Jean Wainwright.
 Anna Somers Cocks talks to one of Miami`s most influential collectors of contemporary art on the role her Foundation has played in improving opportunities for artists and communities from Central and Southern America.
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