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Exterior perspective from 2nd Street and Grand Avenue.
LOS ANGELES.- Philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad and architect Elizabeth Diller today unveiled the designs of The Broad Art Foundation, a contemporary art museum on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. Designed by world-renowned architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the three-story museum features a unique porous honeycomb “veil” that wraps the building and is visible through an expansive, top floor sky-lit gallery that will be home to great works of contemporary art drawn from the 2,000-piece Broad Collections. The Broads also announced a 12-member board of governors and the inaugural programming for the contemporary art museum, to be called “The Broad.” “Today, we celebrate another important milestone – the creation of a new museum 40 years in the making,” said Eli Broad, who was flanked by more than 200 city and county officials and community leaders as he revealed the designs for The Broad at a press conference at Walt Disney Concert Ha ... More |
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Sotheby's to Host the First-Ever London Exhibition of a Collection of 20th Century British Art
Walking Madonna by Elisabeth Frink, 1981. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London announces the opening on January 10th 2011, in partnership with awardwinning gallery The Lightbox, of an exhibition featuring sculptures and sculptors’ drawings from a major collection of 20th Century British Art, The Ingram Collection. Forty specially selected works by prominent artists including pieces by Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Elisabeth Frink, Kenneth Armitage and Eduardo Paolozzi will be on display in Sotheby’s New Bond Street galleries. To accompany the works on show, photographs of the artists taken by Jorge Lewinski over the course of the last forty years will also be exhibited. This special exhibition offers a wonderful opportunity to study a survey of sculpture by the era’s leading artistic figures. A ticketed reception will be held on Wednesday 19th January which will be attended by ... More | | Art Fund and National Trust Campaign to Save Brueghel Reaches £2.7 Million Target
Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s The Procession to Calvary, 1602. © National Trust, Robert Thrift.
LONDON.- The Art Fund, the National Trust and National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) announce that Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s ‘The Procession to Calvary’ has been saved for the nation after an intensive three month fundraising campaign. The £2.72 million total was announced today (Thursday 6 January) with the news of the NHMF grant of £1,034,000. Along with the Art Fund’s £500,000 grant that kick started the appeal, over £680,000 from members of the public - many of whom were Art Fund and National Trust members - and nearly £510,000 from trusts and foundations, ‘The Procession to Calvary’ can now be kept on public display at Nostell Priory in West Yorkshire. In September, the Art Fund and the National Trust launched a joint fundraising appeal to save ‘The Procession to Calvary ... More | | Hitler Exhibit in Berlin's German Historical Museum Extended Due to Popularity
Two chairs sit in front of a screen that shows a speech of Hitler at the exhibition. EPA/STEPHANIE PILICK.
By: Eric Kelsey
BERLIN (REUTERS).- Germany's first postwar exhibition devoted to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler has been extended by three weeks due to popular demand, the German Historical Museum (DHM) said on Thursday. Over the past three months, more than 170,000 visitors have flocked to "Hitler and the Germans", which explores the links between German society and Hitler's rise to power in 1933. "There has been great interest among Germans and also international tourists," museum spokesman Rudolf Trabold said. "There have been lots of visitors from all over Europe." The exhibition will now run to February 27, the DHM said. The museum was especially pleased with the visitor turnout given that the exhibit probes Germany's legacy under the ... More |
 | Fragmented Narratives: Todd Hido's Second Solo Show with the Bruce Silverstein Gallery
Todd Hido, 2676, 2000. Chromogenic print. Edition of 3, 38 x 48 inches. Photo: Courtesy Bruce Silverstein Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Silverstein Gallery presents Fragmented Narratives, Todd Hido's second solo show with the gallery. Renowned as a master of sequencing in book format, Hido juxtaposes images from his influential monographs House Hunting, A Road Divided, Outskirts, and Between the Two with portraits and new images never before exhibited. Hido successfully extends his narrative from a linear book format to an almost cinematic storyline forged by his grouping and pairing of images unrelated in time or place, his female subjects acting as the characters in his photographic sequences. Hido's eerily lit nocturnal images of suburban houses allude to the often discomforting, lonely American scenes by the painter Edward Hopper as well as mirror the director David Lynch's interest and attention to the seedy underside of suburban American culture. Todd Hido (b. 1968, Kent, OH) is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist who rece ... More | | Sale of Old Master Paintings & Sculptures Announced at Sotheby's in New York
Gerrit Dou, An Elderly Woman, Seated by a Window at her Spinning Wheel, Eating Porridge. Estimate: $2/3 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s auction, on January 27, 2011, of Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture in New York will feature significant works by artists from across Europe. The morning session of Important Old Master Paintings is led by Titian’s monumental Sacra Conversazione, a rare work by the artist still in private hands (est. $15/20 million*). The afternoon session of Old Master Paintings and Sculpture is led by An Italian Marble Relief Portrait of Cosimo I de ‘Medici by Baccio Bandinelli, executed just prior to the future Grand Duke’s rise to power in 1537. The sale will be on exhibition in Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries beginning 22 January, alongside the full calendar of Old Masters Week auctions. The morning session of Important Old Master Paintings is led by A Sacra Conversazione: The Madonna and Child with Saints Luke ... More | | A Selection of Over Forty Photographs by Ray K. Metzker at Laurence Miller Gallery
Ray K. Metzker, Philadelphia, 1983. Gelatin silver print. Photo: Courtesy Laurence Miller Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Laurence Miller Gallery presents Ray K. Metzker, Intimations, a selection of over forty photographs from his recently concluded European retrospective LIGHT LINES, which originated in 2007 at the Musee de l'Eysee, Lausanne, then travelled to the Preus Museum, Norway and to Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan in 2008. A European sensibility permeates this selection. With a greater emphasis on narrative and the human spirit, the exhibition explores Metzker's delicate sense of design as he embraces the details of his surroundings while brooding over the disconnect and alienation often experienced in urban settings. Images from Munich, Innsbruck, Frankfurt, Lisbon and Marseilles from 1960-61 set the tone, such as the female pedestrian in Innsbruck surrounded by a confusing array of painted arrows suggesting she go this way - no - that way. Several images from Metzker's ... More |
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Jeff Gibson Presents Two Video Projections and Two Light Boxes at the Stephan Stoyanov Gallery
Jeff Gibson, Smoke, detail of still from video. Photo: Courtesy Stephan Stoyanov Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- For his second solo show with Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, Jeff Gibson presents two video projections, two light boxes, and a series of twenty text prints. Asylum, a six-minute video loop, will be projected onto the main wall of the ground floor gallery space. Blending lush, allusive photography; taxonomic illustrations; and mock-psychologistic text, Asylum weaves formal and semantic correspondence into a weirdly visceral stream of consciousness. Unfurling as a chain of slow dissolves between image and resemblant abstraction, the video is accompanied by a haunting, mesmeric song about psychological instability—Trouble, by Australian band The Black Eyed Susans—that sets a contemplative tone for the overlaid texts defining both real and fake pathologies. The second video, Smoke, will be projected onto a wall in the gallery’s basement space. It has a similar structure to Asylum, though th ... More | | Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg Receives Major Donation of Photographs
Fémina, Child in Eastern Costume (1910). Autochrome. Gift of Ludmila and Bruce Dandrew from The Ludmila Dandrew and Chitranee Drapkin Collection.
ST. PETERSBURG, PA.- Familiar and Fantastic: Photographs from the Dandrew-Drapkin Donation (February 19-June 12, 2011) celebrates a turning point in the Museum’s history and its photography collection. Drawn from major gifts received over the last two years, this exciting exhibition spans more than 100 years and features nearly 100 images. They are part of The Ludmila Dandrew and Chitranee Drapkin Collection, one of the most expansive and finest photography collections in American private hands. This is the first in a series of exhibitions that will bring these extraordinary images and the history they embody to a wider audience. Highlights encompass daguerreotypes by Claudel, Mayall, and Root; a rare ambrotype by Mathew Brady; and albumen portraits by Nadar and Etienne Carjat. There is a stunning albumen print from Louis-Emile ... More | | Rare Opportunity to Explore French Impressionist Monet at the Portland Art Museum
Claude Monet, Waterlilies, 1914-15, Oil on canvas, Helen Thurston Ayer Fund.
PORTLAND, ORE.- For a limited time—now through January 31—visitors to the Portland Art Museum will have a unique opportunity to view four major canvases by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840 – 1926). The four paintings are hung in close proximity in the Museum’s Impressionist galleries and offer insight into the artist’s practice over three decades. Claude Monet’s Waterlilies (1914-15) is arguably the centerpiece of the Museum’s permanent collection and one of the most popular for visitors and members. Thanks to a loan from a private collection, visitors will also see Monet’s companion painting, Nymphéas (1914-1917), an oil painting of the same group of waterlilies in his beloved pond and garden at his home in Giverny, France. The paintings are installed near the Museum’s two other Monet paintings, River at Lavacourt (1879) and Le Chateau d’Antibes (c. 1888), in the Jubitz Cen ... More |
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Eight-Person Crew at Ohio History Museum Puts a 10,000-Year-Old Mastodon on the Move
Led by senior curator Bob Glotzhober, front left, a team removes one of the legs of the Conway Mastodon. AP Photo/Mark Duncan.
By: Doug Whiteman, Associated Press
COLUMBUS, OH (AP).- A 10,000-year-old mastodon was mostly cooperative Thursday as an eight-person crew at the Ohio Historical Society began the delicate operation of taking the skeleton apart so it can be reassembled in a more flattering position — with the beast's rear end not so prominent. Workers started by removing the front and hind legs from the mastodon, which is supported by a steel bracket. The head and tusks were to follow. "We've not had any catastrophes, which is always very comforting," said Bob Glotzhober, the museum's senior curator of natural history. The mastodon move was undertaken to provide a better view of the exhibit. The giant rear had been greeting museum visitors coming in through a lower-level entry that later became the main entrance to provide better access for the disabled. The project began on schedule Thursday ... More | | Smithsonian Institution's "New Harmonies" Traveling Exhibition on Five-State Tour
A postcard of Terp Ballroom in Austin, Minn. AP Photo/Mower County Historical Society.
By: Kiley Armstrong, Associated Press
ASBURY PARK, NJ (AP).- The Smithsonian hears America singing, playing instruments and telling its history through music. The Washington cultural institution's New Harmonies program will feature this musical history with a traveling exhibit in five states — Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, Ohio and South Carolina. Communities in those states will host performances and other events in conjunction with the exhibit. The program, which is part of the Smithsonian's Museum on Main Street project, showcases some of America's "richest stories," says Carol Harsh, director of Main Street. "There's a lot of fine music in this country; you kind of take it for granted," says South Carolina's John Fowler, an Appalachian storyteller, musician and radio host. "New Harmonies is a great snapshot." Venues in the five states include libraries, historical societies and performance spaces in towns, rural areas and small cities, with the first programs ... More | | Award-Winning Nature Master Photographer Peter Lik Joins The Weather Channel
The new program will follow Lik on his odyssey across the United States in search of the most dramatic landscape sculpted by nature.
ATLANTA, GA.- The Weather Channel® Companies (TWCC) announced that award-winning master photographer Peter Lik will be joining the network, starring in a half-hour action adventure nature series slated to debut in March 2011. He will also serve as a special contributor for the network, providing segments from his frequent travels to weather-impacted locales. Lik, a native of Melbourne, Australia, is one of the most awarded and collected fine art photographers in the world and is internationally acclaimed for his panoramic landscape photography that frequently highlights weather's impact. The new program will follow Lik on his odyssey across the United States in search of the most dramatic landscape sculpted by nature. It will showcase his relentless exploration of the most epic landscapes across the United States, while often battling or embracing the weather in his quest for the perfect shot. Lik reveals the country throu ... More |
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Luxury Accessories Debut at Heritage Auctions Bringing $700,000+
DALLAS, TX.- A trio of Hermès handbags, two Birkins and one Kelly, were the shining stars in Heritage Auctions' $708,200+ inaugural Luxury Accessories Auction, held Dec. 13, 2010. The auction saw a 92% sell-through rate on lots sold and saw more than 70 bidders take home handbags and accessories from the more than 160 competing. All prices include a 19.5% Buyer's Premium. "Our expectations for this first auction were quite high and I'm pleased to report that we exceeded them," said Matt Rubinger, Director of Luxury Accessories at Heritage. "Although the sale was in Dallas, and the room had many floor bidders, the major buyers were in Los Angeles and New York and the response before and after the auction has been tremendous. People are very excited about this new category both as buyers and consignors, and the success of this auction has ensured that we'll continue to hold Luxury Accessory auctions for some time to come." The top He ... More
Painting of Queen Victoria's Favourite Dog for Sale at Bonhams
NEW YORK, NY.- An oil painting of Sharp, Queen Victoria’s favourite dog is to feature in ‘Dogs in Show & Field: The Fine Art Sale’ on 16th February 2011 at Bonhams New York. The painting, by the Norfolk artist Charles Burton Barber, has attracted a pre-sale estimate of $4,000-6,000. Once in the personal collection of the Queen, the reverse of the picture bears The Windsor Castle inventory stamp and a further stamp denoting the Queen’s property. Sharp was a smooth-coated Border Collie who was named after a government minister who Victoria favoured at the time. The dog was her preferred companion and lived at Windsor Castle – he was a familiar sight at her side almost everywhere she went. After his death he was buried in Windsor Home Park, Berkshire, with a tomb stone that reads “Sharp, the favourite and faithful Collie of Queen Victoria from 1866 to 1879. Died now 1879 aged 15 years.” No stran ... More
DeCordova Awarded Prestigious Grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum received a $75,000 grant for exhibition programming from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The funding supports two upcoming exhibitions: Temporary Structures: Performing Architecture in Contemporary Art, on view from September 17 –December 31, 2011 and Julianne Swartz: How deep is your, a sculpture exhibition in the fall of 2012. The grant to deCordova reflects The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts’ focus on supporting the work of “a challenging and often experimental nature” and encouraging “curatorial research leading to new scholarship in the field of contemporary art.” In addition, deCordova announced that an anonymous donor has pledged a matching $75,000 gift supporting exhibitions in honor of the Warhol Foundation award, which the donor feels exemplifies t ... More
Wikileaks Trove Used in Fight Over Shipwreck Trove
TAMPA, FL (AP).- Deep-sea explorers in Florida are using some of the trove of recently leased WikiLeaks documents to try to force the U.S. government out of their legal battle with Spain over a shipwreck treasure. Odyssey Marine Exploration of Tampa says documents released by Wikileaks show the U.S. State Department had offered to help Spain's side in the matter in exchange for help in returning a multimillion-dollar painting — seized by World War II-era Nazis — to a U.S. citizen. Odyssey said Wednesday it filed a motion urging an appeals court to throw out a "friend of the court" brief by the U.S. government supporting Spain's bid for 17 tons of coins raised from a sunken Spanish galleon off Portugal in 2007. A federal court ruled for Spain in 2009. Odyssey is appealing. The State Department had no immediate comment when contacted Wednesday by The Associated Press. ... More
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