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Visitors look at a painting, entitled La Mosca, 1897, by Spanish painter Cecilio Pla Gallardo, during a press preview of a new exhibition, entitled El Modernismo, at the Fondation de l'Hermitage in Lausanne, Switzerland, 26 January 2011. The exibition devoted to Spanish art at the dawn of the 20th century opens to the public from 28 January to 29 May. EPA/DOMINIC FAVRE.
LAUSANNE.- The Fondation de l’Hermitage in Lausanne is organizing a major exhibition devoted to Spanish art at the dawn of the 20th century. Focusing on painters of “The Generation of 1898” who emerged from the severe upheavals endured by Spain throughout the 19th century, the exhibition highlights how these artists evolved. Oscillating between respect for Hispanic traditions and modernity, their works were part of the contemporary surge to broaden horizons that arose among the Spanish avant-garde. Although it is extraordinarily rich and varied, Spanish art at the dawning of the 20th century is still relatively little known outside Spain. And yet the year between Goya’s death and Picasso’s Cubist period span several fascinating decades which bore the first fruits of Spanish modern art. With this exhibition, the Fondation de l’Hermitage offers its visitors the opportunity of discovering ... More |
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The Romanovs, Tsars and Art Collectors at the Pinacotheque de Paris
Diego Velasquez de Silva, Portrait de don Gaspar de Guzmán, comte-duc d'Olivares, c. 1640. Huile sur toile, 67 x 54,5 cm. INV. N° ГЭ 300. Provenance : 1815, collection of William Coesvelt, Amsterdam. Musée de l'Ermitage, Saint-Pétersbourg. Photographe © Musée de l'Ermitage. Photo de Alexander Koksharov, Leonard Kheifets.
By: Marc Restellini
PARIS.- For the opening of its new rooms, the Pinacothèque de Paris has organised an exceptional exhibition around a major theme: the birth of a Museum. Through May 29 2011, the Pinacothèque de Paris displays the treasures of the Romanovs, a unique ensemble consisting of a hundred works from the Hermitage Museum in Saint-Petersburg. Assembled since the end of the 17th century, the Russian imperial collections have quickly become part of the largest European collections. As early as 1785, Count Ernst von Münnich declares: “The foreigners and visitors eager to know the country who have been given the opportunity to see the vast and rich galleries of paintings all agree on their magnificence. The chronological ... More | | Auction Record Set for Titian at Sotheby's Old Master Paintings Sale in New York
Titian´s A Sacra Conversazione: The Madonna and Child with Saints Luke and Catherine of Alexandria sold for $16,882,500. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Today at Sotheby’s sale of Important Old Master Paintings in New York, a new auction record was established for the Renaissance master Titian when his A Sacra Conversazione: The Madonna and Child with Saints Luke and Catherine of Alexandria sold for $16,882,500 to a European Private Collector. That price exceeded the previous record of $13.6 million, which had held for 20 years. A Sacra Conversazione is one of only a handful of multi-figured compositions by Titian that remain in private hands, and is the most important to appear at auction in decades. The morning session ended with an outstanding total of $78.6 million, which is above the session’s high estimate of $74 million. In addition to the Titian, a number of remarkable and record prices have also been achieved this morning: Claude-Joseph Vernet’s monumental canvas, Grand View of the Sea Shore Enriched with Buildings, Shipping and Fig ... More | | Statues Devastated in World War II Go on Show at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin
A visitor looks at the reconstructed 'Scorpion Bird Man' sculpture. AP Photo/Markus Schreiber.
By: Geir Moulson, Associated Press
BERLIN (AP).- The ancient gods and fantastical creatures going on show in Berlin this week have made an unlikely comeback from near-destruction. Unearthed in present-day Syria a century ago, the 3,000-year-old basalt statues and stone reliefs in the exhibition, "The Tell Halaf Adventure," shattered into thousands of pieces when their Berlin home was destroyed by bombing in 1943. The rubble was rescued, then slumbered in the vaults of the capital's Pergamon Museum, then in East Berlin, for decades before a painstaking restoration project started in 2001. Over the past decade, restorers sifted through around 27,000 fragments of rubble and gradually reassembled most of them. About 40 resurrected figures — including a pair of lions that once bared their teeth at the entrance of a palace at Tell Halaf in northeastern Syria, a sphinx and a long-tressed female figure from a monumental grave — go on show to the public at the Pergamon Museum on Friday. "No ... More |
 | Italy's Largest and Most Important Art Fair Arte Fiera Art First Celebrates Contemporary Art
Davide Nido, Coriandoli a tutto tondo, 2010, courtesy Galleria Blu, Milano.
BOLOGNA.- Arte Fiera Art First celebrates its 35th edition this year, to be held in Bologna from 28 to 31 January 2011. One of the first international modern and contemporary art fairs organized in Italy in the 1970s, Arte Fiera has gradually become Italy’s largest and most important art fair. Every year, this must-see event is the first exhibition devoted to modern and contemporary art, and attracts gallery owners, collectors, curators, artists, and art lovers from Italy and around the world. Aware of the new function that art fairs have assumed on the art market, Arte Fiera Art First has maintained its role of showcase and continues to cultivate and promote Italian and international art from the early 20th Century right up to the latest trends, while progressively increasing synergy with local institutions thanks to a programme of high-level collateral events. More than 200 galleries are present in the Bol ... More | | British Museum and Rio Tinto Announce Australian Season: Broad Program of Exhibitions
Bicornial basket of woven cane, from Queensland, early 1900s. © The Trustees of the British Museum.
LONDON.- The British Museum and Rio Tinto today, on Australia Day, announce plans for Australian Season, a season dedicated to Australian culture featuring a broad programme of exhibitions, installations, performances, lectures and film screenings. The season is supported by Rio Tinto and will include: Australia Landscape, a specially commissioned space presenting Australian biodiversity in the Museum‟s forecourt (in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew); Out of Australia: prints and drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas, an exhibition of modern Australian works that have never been on public display before, and Baskets and belonging: Indigenous Australian histories, a display of beautifully handcrafted baskets, woven from the Australian landscape. Launching the season British Museum Director, Neil MacGregor commented: 'This is a very pertinent time to be examining Australian culture through the u ... More | | Trove of Previously Unseen Letters Written by J.D. Salinger Reveal His Human Side
J.D. Salinger's classic novel "The Catcher in the Rye". AP Photo/Amy Sancetta.
By: Jill Lawless, Associated Press
LONDON (AP).- He had a reputation as a literary recluse, but a trove of previously unseen letters written by J.D. Salinger to a British friend reveals a sociable man who took bus trips to Niagara Falls, ate fast-food hamburgers, enjoyed watching tennis and claimed always to be writing new work. The 50 letters and four postcards have been donated to a British university, which made them public Thursday on the first anniversary of the author's death at the age of 91. They show that the enigmatic writer of "The Catcher in the Rye" was an affectionate friend who enjoyed gardening, trips to the theater and church suppers — and thought one restaurant chain's burgers were better than the rest. Chris Bigsby, professor of American studies at the letters' new home, the University of East Anglia, said they challenge Salinger's image ... More |
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Paul Kasmin Presents Dual Exhibition of New Works and Iconic Paintings by Kenny Scharf
Kenny Scharf, Oil Painting, 2010, oil, acrylic and varnish on linen, 274.3 x 365.8 cm Courtesy Paul Kasmin Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery presents a two-fold exhibition of works by the renowned pop artist Kenny Scharf, on view at the gallery’s Chelsea locations from January 27th through February 26, 2011. NATURAFUTURA, a new series of large-scale paintings inspired by the surroundings of Scharf’s coastal studio in Bahia, Brazil will premiere at 293 Tenth Avenue, and THREE DOZEN!, a collection of his iconic donut paintings will be shown at 511 W. 27th Street. Born from the transitional zone where the jungle meets the sea, the paintings in NATURAFUTURA explore the richness of this landscape and humankind’s multilayered connections to it. In these paintings, Scharf uses his own visionary lens to bring forth images of a fragile paradise populated by vivid flora and fauna set against voluminous grounds of highly keyed, patterned color. While Scharf completed two of ... More | | Indeterminate Stillness: Berkeley Art Museum Exhibition Looks at James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler: Rotherhithe from A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames and Other Subjects (Thames Series), 1860; etching; 10 ¾ X 7 ¾ in.; gift of Barclay and Sharon Simpson.
BERKELEY, CA.- James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), the expatriate American artist, was a prolific and innovative painter, watercolorist, and printmaker. Throughout his lively career Whistler was known as a discerning collector of Japanese prints and as a quick-witted, sharp-tongued advocate of “art for art’s sake.” Whistler’s roots were in Realism, but his approach Modernist; his brand of Realism eschewed narrative and sentimentality and instead set the incidents and characters of the everyday into compositions determined by design, color, and tonal variation. For example, Whistler uses prosaic details to serve design and composition in numerous images of life along the Thames River, such as Rotherhithe (1860). Similarly, in his Venetian works, the ... More | | Milwaukee Art Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art Wager Masterpiece on Super Bowl XLV
Gustave Caillebotte, Boating on the Yerres, 1877 (detail). Oil on canvas, 40 3/4 x 61 3/8 in. Gift of the Milwaukee Journal Company, in honor of Miss Faye McBeath. Photo: John R. Glembin.
MILWAUKEE, WI.- In keeping with the tradition of friendly wagers, Carnegie Museum of Art and the Milwaukee Art Museum are venturing temporary loans of major works of art, based on the outcome of Super Bowl XLV between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers. The stakes: A temporary loan of Milwaukee Art Museum’s prized Boating on the Yerres by Gustave Caillebotte, wagered by Director and avid Packer fan Daniel Keegan, and a temporary loan of the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Bathers with Crab, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, wagered by Lynn Zelevansky, The Henry J. Heinz II Director of Carnegie Museum of Art, and a proud member of the Steelers nation. The winning city will receive a major work on loan, albeit temporarily, from the city that ... More |
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Christie's 2010 Global Art Sales Total $5.0 Billion, Highest Sales Total in History
Conor Jordan, Senior Vice President, Head of Impressionist and Modern Art of Christie's Americas introducing a painting by American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein entitled 'Ohhh...Alright...'. EPA/YM YIK.
LONDON.- Christie’s International, the world’s leading art business, today announced worldwide sales for 2010 of £3.3 billion/$5.0 billion, up 53% by £ on last year’s figure of £2.1 billion (Figures include buyer’s premium). The highest sales total in the 245 year history of the firm, the figure is also the highest annual sales total ever recorded in the industry. Sales totals include private sales of £369.3 million/$572.4 million, an increase of 39% by £ on 2009 figures. In a year of blockbuster sales and record-breaking results, Christie’s maintained its market leader status and sold 66% of the works over $50 million against its main competitor. It was also honoured to be the auction house of choice for some of the most significant collections to come to market. ... More | | Team of Researchers Says Humans May Have Left Africa Earlier than Thought
The Jebel Faya rockshelter. AP Photo/Science.
By: Randolph E. Schmid, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP).- Modern humans may have left Africa thousands of years earlier than previously thought, turning right and heading across the Red Sea into Arabia rather than following the Nile to a northern exit, an international team of researchers says. Stone tools discovered in the United Arab Emirates indicate the presence of modern humans between 100,000 and 125,000 years ago, the researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science. While science has generally accepted an African origin for humans, anthropologists have long sought to understand the route taken as these populations spread into Asia, the Far East and Europe. Previously, most evidence has suggested humans spread along the Nile River valley and into the Middle East about 60,000 years ago. "There are not many exits from Africa. You can either exit" through Sinai ... More | | Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna Presents Matthew Day Jackson Exhibition
Matthew Day Jackson, In search of...MAMbo – Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna. Exhibition view. Photo: Matteo Monti.
BOLOGNA.- Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna presents In search of…, the first solo show hosted by a European museum of the work of Matthew Day Jackson, one of the main protagonists of the new American art scene, a generation that cannot be reduced to any single movement or avantgardist logic. On view until May 1, 2011. Taking his cue from our fundamental questions concerning human existence—who we are, where we come from, what lies ahead—the artist enacts an exploration of personal and collective myths through a selection of works spanning from 2007 to 2010. The exhibition’s rich display wholly transforms MAMbo’s venue, making it vibrate with colors by applying a layer of special film on the lighting fixtures, which then reverberate with the whole chromatic spectrum; questioning it with ... More |
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The Bronx Museum of the Arts Presents Exhibition Exploring Work of Elizabeth Catlett
BRONX, NY.- The Bronx Museum of the Arts presents Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists, an exhibition highlighting Elizabeth Catlett’s role as a pioneering African American female artist and her relationship to later generations of contemporary artists. On view until May 29, 2011, the exhibition explores her ground-breaking career from the 1960s to the present through a selection of more than 40 of her prints and sculptures. Stargazers also include works by 21 international contemporary artists whose ideas and practices will be examined in conversation with Catlett’s life and work. These artists are: Sanford Biggers, iona rozeal brown, Patty Chang, Patricia Coffie, Renee Cox, Sam Durant, Lalla Essaydi, Ellen Gallagher and Edgar Cleijne, Kalup Linzy, Kerry James Marshall, Wardell Milan, Wangechi Mutu, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Robert Pruitt, Xaviera Simmons, Shinique Smith, Hank ... More
An Evening Sale of South African Masterpieces at Bonhams in London
LONDON.- Bonhams next South African Art sale on March 23 has attracted so many outstanding works following the breaking of the record for South African art last year in New Bond Street, that the sale will now include an evening auction of 20 masterpieces. These 20 pictures are some of the most outstanding and desirable works by Irma Stern Jacob Hendrik Pierneef, Maggie Laubser and Gerard Sekoto. The glowing colours and vibrancy of this art out of Africa is already attracting huge interest. Many of these pictures flooded in to Bonhams following the £2.4m (R26.6m) result at Bonhams October sale for Irma Stern’s `Bahora Girl’, an image of a young Indian girl painted in Zanzibar on one of the artists beloved forays deep into Africa. Giles Peppiatt, Head of South African Art at Bonhams says: “In the five years that we have held stand-alone South African art sales in London, the quality of the work on offer has stead ... More
Jon Stewart to Join 9/11 Memorial Foundation Board
NEW YORK (AP).- Jon Stewart is joining the board of the foundation building the Sept. 11 memorial in New York. The comedian and activist was to be appointed to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum board at a meeting Thursday afternoon. The host of the Emmy-winning "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central recently used his show to champion a federal bill that provided billions to treat people who became ill after working in the ruins of the World Trade Center. Joe Daniels, the foundation's president, says Stewart is an important public figure and a regular New Yorker who saw the world change on Sept. 11, 2001. The memorial — twin reflecting pools set above the fallen towers' footprints — is set to open to the public by this Sept. 11. ... More
Bronzino & Portraits of Power Exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi Attracts 230,000
FLORENCE.- Bronzino. Artist and Poet at the Court of the Medici, the first ever exhibition devoted to the paintings of this major 16th century artist, closed at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, on 23 January 2011 having attracted over 140,000 visitors since it opened on 24 September 2010. The exhibition, promoted by the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze as the key cultural event of the 2010-11 winter programme to appeal to both Italian and international visitors in what is traditionally considered the ‘low season’, averaged 1,153 visitors daily during an unbroken run of 122 days. This landmark exhibition, hailed by critics as one of the most magnificent art exhibitions to have been held in Florence in recent years, is unlikely to be repeated given the extremely valuable, large and rarely loaned works of art on display f ... More
Malmo Konsthall Presents Exhibition Presents Photographs by Ake Hedstrom
MALMO.- In the exhibition Connection Malmö Konsthall Åke Hedström (b. 1932) presents a selection of photographs dating from the mid-1970s up to 2010. On view until April 3 2011, Hedström’s great interest in art and fascination with the architecture of Malmö Konsthall has led him to document the gallery’s activities, usually at his own initiative. His photographs provide a historic retrospective on various exhibitions, events and individuals connected with Malmö Konsthall. Hedström’s pictures are characterised by a feeling for details and proportions as well as a documentary approach. His photographs are not dramatically staged; rather, they are imbued with his ability to notice and depict, with a sure eye, small and often spontaneous events by highlighting details that create an interesting and charged image. The result is photographs free from embellishments that distort rather than reinforce – ima ... More
Henry Scott Tuke Painting of a Sleeping Sailor to Sell at Bonhams
LONDON.- A beautiful picture by the prolific British maritime and figurative painter, Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929), entitled Sleeping Sailor, is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of The Marine Sale on 22 March 2011. Initially sold for £15 to Arthur Taylor, it has now attracted a pre-sale estimate of £30,000 – 50,000. Sleeping Sailor was painted on board a derelict French barque, Mazatlan, which Tuke used as a temporary floating studio during the summer of 1905. His model, shown posing on the boom, was called Harry Cleave. In an excerpt from his diary on 16 May 2005, Tuke writes: “Another brilliant day. Harry on the mizzen boom.” Born in York in 1858, Henry Scott Tuke and his family moved to Falmouth in 1859. Later, he moved to Newlyn, Cornwall, where he became part of the Newlyn School of painters. He is best-known for his pictures of nude boys and young men. This picture was exhibited at Falmouth ... More
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