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A cameraman takes images at the exhibition 'Georges Rouault 1871-1958', including the picture at left entitled 'Acrobate IX', at Ibercaja Patio de la Infanta cultural centre in Zaragoza, northeastern Spain. The exhibition, displaying 39 works of art by French artist Georges Rouault (1871-1958), runs until 20 April 2011. EPA/JAVIER CEBOLLADA.
ZARAGOZA.- Rouault's paintings are full of papers on their backs. References to all the places these paintings have traveled to, from Milan to New York without leaving out places like Tokyo or Paris (where his foundation is housed). "It is perhaps the fact that best expresses the importance of a painting," said exhibition curator Martine Soria about the exhibition Georges Rouault 1871-1958, which opened yesterday at the Patio de la Infanta. This is the first time that the Aragonese city exhibits the work of French painter in Zaragoza. At the event, Martine Soria, was accompanied by the Director of Social Work of Ibercaja, Teresa Fernandez and grandchildren of the artist. The exhibition hall houses 39 works by Georges Rouault, an artist who has a unique relationship with Aragon, since Goya’s footprint, a painter who Rouault worshipped all his life, can be followed in much of his work. Georges Rouault occupies a unique place amongst twentieth century artists. A contempory o ... More |
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An Extraordinary Display of Masterpieces Announced for This Year's Edition of TEFAF
Hendrick Berckman (Klundert 1629 – Middelburg 1679), A Young Boy with a Dog
Oil on mahogany panel, 31 ¼ x 24 ¾ inches (79.5 x 63 cm). Photo: Courtesy Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts.
HELVOIRT.- An extraordinary display of masterpieces will be on show at TEFAF Maastricht when the world’s most influential art and antiques fair opens its doors at the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre) in Maastricht in the southern Netherlands from March 18-27, 2011. Among the highlights of the 24th edition of The European Fine Art Fair will be the imposing and important Henry Moore sculpture Mother and child block seat, Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s superb depiction of his son Claude, and an extremely rare Greek idol made about 7,000 years ago. They will be among more than 30,000 works of art at TEFAF Maastricht, all rigorously vetted by teams of international experts to maintain the Fair’s reputation for exhibiting only the best pieces. Mother and child block seat by Henry Moore will be ... More | | Tel Aviv Exhibits the Recently Donated Wolloch Collection of Modern Sculpture
Fernando Botero, Lovers, 1983.
TEL AVIV.- This collection of modern sculpture was donated to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art by Helene and Zygfryd Wolloch from Scarsdale, New York. The collection encompasses over a century of sculpture, from Auguste Rodin of the late 19th century to Arnaldo Pomodoro of the 1980s. It includes works by major sculptors in modern art, among them Jean Arp, Alberto Giacometti, Jacques Lipchitz, Henry Moore, Marino Marini and Alexander Calder. The collection was first exhibited in 1997 and constitutes an invaluable addition to the Museum's collections. Incorporated into the display are additional sculptures from the Museum's collections. Many of the works show an affinity for the human figure, whether clearly figurative, as with Rodin, Renoir, Archipenko, Moore and Marini, or abstract and suggested, as in the works of Arp, Etrog and Poncet. The display highlights formal aspects concerned primarily with object–space relationships, pointing to new answers provided by modern sculpture ... More | | RM Auctions Announces Early Highlights for Debut Sale at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este
1938 Talbot-Lago T150C-SS Teardrop Coupé. Photo Credit: shooterz.biz © 2010 Courtesy of RM Auctions.
LONDON.- Fresh on the heels of its announcement as the official auction house of the celebrated Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, RM Auctions has revealed two early star attractions for its debut sale on the picturesque Lake Como, Italy on the 21st May - a rare 1955 Ferrari 375 MM Berlinetta by Pinin Farina, s/n 0490 AM, and an exquisite 1938 Talbot-Lago T150C-SS Teardrop Coupé with coachwork by Figoni et Falaschi. Representing the ultimate in exclusivity, style and performance, these notable early highlights lead an elite group of automobiles set to cross the auction podium at the highly-anticipated evening sale. Held on the banks of Lake Como at the Spazio Villa Erba, the auction forms an integral part of this year’s official Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este event program. “The early response to our new sale in Cernobbio, Italy has been tremendous with lots of collectors expressing their exci ... More |
 | Twenty-Three Black-and-White Photographs of The Fryes Home on View in Seattle
Interior of the Fryes’ gallery annex.
SEATTLE, WA.- Picturing a Passion presents historical photographs of the Frye Founding Collection of late-19th- and early-20th-century paintings as it was displayed in the Seattle home of Charles Frye (1858–1940) and his wife Emma (1860–1934). The exhibition of twenty-three black-and-white photographs is on view Jan. 15–March 6. 2011. Museum founders Charles and Emma Frye moved from an Iowa farming community to Seattle in 1888, and soon established meatpacking, cattle ranching and agricultural businesses throughout the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. The couple may have been inspired to collect art after attending the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Sixteen years later, they lent one of their paintings, Leon Perrault’s Marguerite, to Seattle’s Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. During their first trip to Europe in the early summer of 1914, the Fryes acquired German, Dutch and a few French ... More | | Morris Museum Presents an Exhibition of an Unsung American Illustrator: Antonio Petruccelli
Antonio Petruccelli, Movers in Stairway New Yorker Cover Sept 28, 1935. Photo: Courtesy Petruccelli Family Collection.
MORRISTOWN, NJ.- The Morris Museum opened a new exhibition, Antonio Petruccelli: An Unsung American Illustrator. Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994) was a prolific, innovative 20th century illustrator. The exhibition features over 65 works, including covers and illustrations for Fortune, The New Yorker, Life and other magazines, as well as paintings, maps, and textile designs. All of the works in the exhibition are drawn from the Petruccelli Family Collection. Antonio Petruccelli: An Unsung American Illustrator is on view through March 20, 2011. Antonio Petruccelli was born in Fort Lee, NJ. in 1907 and was a longtime resident and active member of the Mount Tabor, NJ community, from 1938 until his death in 1994. Petruccelli developed his artistic talent at an early age and began his career as a textile ... More | | Internationally Acclaimed Design Firms Choose Glass Artist Paul Housberg for Princeton Project
For the Princeton Frick Chemistry Laboratory project Housberg designed six art glass walls.
PRINCETON, NJ.- When Princeton University selected London-based Hopkins Architects and collaborating firm Payette Associates of Boston to design their new Frick Chemistry Laboratory, project leaders at the two firms knew glass artist Paul Housberg was a natural fit to introduce art to their design boards. Housberg, based in Jamestown, RI, is recognized around the globe for his innovative use of glass in architecture, including work in hospitality, corporate, healthcare, public, and residential spaces. Noted for his inventive applications of artistic glass in architectural settings, Paul Housberg believes that the tactile qualities of glass and the expression of its materiality are central to his works. For the Princeton Frick Chemistry Laboratory project Housberg designed six art glass walls (two each on three floors of the building) that introduced color, warmth, ... More |
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Steven Holl Architects' Horizontal Skyscraper Wins AIA Institute Honor Award
Horizontal Skyscraper in Shenzhen, China. Photo: © Iwan Baan.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Horizontal Skyscraper is an innovative example of the large-scale, hybrid use building, which challenges the usual developer typologies. The building hovers above a tropical landscape, freeing it for public use and for a unique scheme of ecosystem restoration. People in the surrounding community have already begun inhabiting this new type of public space for leisure. By lifting the building off the ground, the project is both a building and a landscape, a delicate intertwining of sophisticated engineering and the natural environment. Suspended on eight cores, as far as 50 meters apart, the building’s structure is a combination of cable-stay bridge technology merged with a high-strength concrete frame. The first structure of its type, it has tension cables carrying a record load of 3280 tons. The project employs some of the most forward-thinking sustainable design strategies. It utilizes greywater recycling, rain water harvesting, green ... More | | Art & Design in Wolverhampton 1850-1970 Featured in Exhibition at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Catchem’s Corner, Bilston by former student Cyril Joseph Fereday (detail).
WOLVERHAMPTON.- A new exhibition at Wolverhampton Art Gallery traces the development of the Wolverhampton School of Art and the influential role it held in the advancement of art & design in Wolverhampton. Traced – Art & Design in Wolverhampton 1850-1970 is a new permanent exhibition profiling the success of the art school and its celebrated alumni alongside other key Wolverhampton artists of the time. Early advancements in the provision of art teaching for Wolverhampton workers came with the creation of the Mechanics’ Institute in 1827. Local industrialists provided financial backing but the Institute failed to offer specialist art education to artisans from the local manufacturing industries. More appropriate developments emerged under the influence of leading local figures including Charles B. Mander and George Wallis who organised the country’s first art and manufacture exhibition in Wolverhampto ... More | | de Saisset Museum Explores the Practice of Veiling through a Thought-Provoking Exhibition
Mary Tuma, Homes for the Disembodied, 2006, 50 continuous yards of silk.
SANTA CLARA, CA.- The de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University explores the topic of the veil through a provocative exhibition of contemporary women artists. The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces opened to the public on Jan. 15 and will be on view through March 11. The veiling of women, men, and sacred places has existed in countless cultures and religions throughout history. Veiling expands far beyond Islam and the Middle East, yet is vastly misunderstood. This traveling exhibition features more than 30 works of art that examine the veil from myriad perspectives. Divided loosely into three thematic sections—the sacred veil, the sensuous veil, and the sociopolitical veil—the show aims to transcend popular clichés and stereotypes about the practice of veiling and to present the subject in a broader and more universal context. Composed of works by 29 national and international artists, ... More |
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Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College Exhibits Work of Contemporary Tibetan Artists
Tenzing Rigdol, Fusion Tantra, 2008, pastel on paper. Collection of Shelley and Donald Rubin.
HANOVER, NH.- Contemporary Tibetan artists are in a precarious position. While their work is informed by Tibetan artistic traditions, the majority of these artists do not live in Tibet, and some never have. Their challenge is twofold: as they forge a name for themselves in the competitive art world, they must also try to find their own place within Tibet’s rich and formalized artistic legacy. Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond, on view at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, from January 15 through March 13, 2011, features artists who grapple with these very issues of cultural and artistic negotiation and who work with traditional forms in innovative ways. Technology, travel, displacement, and personal artistic freedom have informed their individual responses to the complex interaction between tradition and modernity in both art and culture. The artists—Dedron, Gonkar Gyatso, Losang Gyatso, ... More | | Carlton Rochell Asian Art to Participate in Winter Antiques Show at Park Avenue Armory
Seated Buddha. Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India. Kushan Dynasty, c. 150-175 C.E. Red sandstone. Height: 47 ¾ in. (121.5 cm.).
NEW YORK, NY.- Carlton Rochell, specializing in art from India, the Himalayas and Southeast Asia, will exhibit museum-quality works ranging from the 1st century A.D. to the 19th century at the Winter Antiques Show, a first for this collecting category at the fair. The Winter Antiques Show, celebrating its 57th year as the preeminent antiques show in America, will showcase 74 renowned international dealers specializing in American, English, European, Antiquities and Asian fine and decorative arts. Carlton Rochell will add a new dimension to this already multi-faceted art show, and his exhibition will include works from several prestigious private collections. The highlight of the exhibition is a monumental seated Buddha carved from mottled red (sikri) sandstone, representing an important moment in the formation of Indian art. This sculpture is probably the largest ... More | | Eight Large-Scale Oil Paintings by Los Angeles Artist Christian Vincent at Mike Weiss Gallery
Christian Vincent, Waterfall, 2010 (detail). Oil on canvas, 92 x 154 inches. Photo: Courtesy Mike Weiss Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mike Weiss Gallery presents Tunnel Vision, the second solo show at the gallery by Los Angeles based artist Christian Vincent. This show consists of eight large-scale oil paintings, in which the artist deconstructs notions of the collective. This exhibition is on view from January 13th through February 12th 2011. In comparison with Vincent’s previous body of work, Tunnel Vision is notably reduced in palette, line, and narrative. Even the subject matter, while adhering to the male figure, is more stark and streamlined. Vincent is not concerned with mastering anatomical expertise but rather with conveying a polemical undertone, and intentionally leaves the works in contentious balance, overlapping political propaganda and Pop culture. It is upon immediate encounter with the works that their massive scale divulges their confrontational underpinning. Being larger than human size, the boys depicted ... More |
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Video and Photographic Works by Los Angeles and Maine Based Artist Tad Beck at Samuel Freeman
SANTA MONICA, CA.- Samuel Freeman presents "Tad Beck: Channels", which opened January 15th, 2011. This is their first exhibition of video and photographic works by Los Angeles and Maine based artist Tad Beck, on view through February 19th. Following on the heels of his solo exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Tad Beck: Palimpsest, this exhibition features four major bodies of work, including previously unseen members of the "Palimpsest" series. The Philadelphia painter Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) used photography to pose and study his models, before incorporating them into paintings. An album of his work was recently uncovered, dubbed the 'Grafly Album.' Beck restaged Eakins' original tableaux using models from his own social circle, then composited them into the original photographic settings. Beck matches Eakins' models limb for limb, but allows anachronistic elements (wristbands, hairstyles) to reveal hi ... More
Thomas Paul Fine Art Presents an Exhibition of Works by the Artist, Harrison Storms
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Thomas Paul Fine Art presents Johns Canyon, an exhibition of works by the artist, Harrison Storms. Storms’ recent collection encompasses monolithic panels, wherein the artist draws upon the figure of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man and other historical images of the human form, which he then repeatedly erases and reforms. The massive images are constructed with gesso, limestone sand, ink, and acrylic paint, only to have their layers ground, scraped, and rubbed away with brushes, rags, and pneumatic grinders. This ritual of creation and destruction of the human form serves as an analogue for the viewer’s place in the universe, thus eliciting inquiry into the barrier of internal and external experience. In manipulating the human form, Storms creates an image that is both personal and timeless, simultaneously echoing existential meditation and historical imagery. Storms summarizes his wo ... More
Feedback: Video by Artists Opens at the University of Richmond Museums
RICHMOND, VA.- The University of Richmond Museums presents FEEDBACK: Video by Artists, on view from January 12 to March 18, 2011, in the Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature. The exhibition consists of eight videos, divided into four categories, and accompanied by two lectures and a five-part screening series. Together, these works are designed to set contemporary artists’ videos in a historical context. Focusing on the distinct features of this medium, the exhibition highlights video in its nascent form with an accompanying series of screenings of contemporary video art. Highlights of the exhibition include: Vertical Roll by Joan Jonas (American, born 1936), Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman by Dara Birnbaum (American, born 1946), and Four More Years by TVTV. The exhibition consists of videos that all showcase four main approaches of independent media production during the 1970s: performance, documentary, ... More
New Photographs and Video by New York and Nepal Based Artist Stuart Hawkins at Zach Feuer Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Zach Feuer Gallery presents Broken Welcome, an exhibition of new photographs and video by New York and Nepal based artist Stuart Hawkins. South and West of the teaming urban center of Kolkata, India lies the former village of Rajarhat, now a failed planned community with the globally acceptable name of Newtown. Declared at its inception to be a city of the future, it was advertised as a dewy oasis of green and calm where one could live and work in all the gated comfort that post millennial India might offer. Driving through Newtown today, one thinks of a dystopic landscape littered with machinery and unbuilt or unoccupied buildings. In place of people, cows have come back to graze as grass begins to cover the abandoned construction sites. In Stuart Hawkin's new photographic work, Finishing Touches, the artist imagines the life that might have been or be. Using simple low tech props (paper, brooms, or pillows) ... More
Tom Lubbock, Illustrator and Chief Art Critic of The Independent, Dies
LONDON.- Tom Lubbock died on Sunday 9 January 2011. In tribute to him Victoria Miro Gallery will reopen his exhibition on Saturday 22 January from 10am to 6pm. Or by appointment Tuesday to Friday. Admission is free. This exhibition of beautifully crafted paper collages, provides the first opportunity to see a small selection of works made weekly by Tom Lubbock for the Saturday edition of The Independent between 1999 and 2004. Topical, arcane, satirical and observant; this combination of text and image provides a unique bridge between Lubbock's vast art historical knowledge and his sharp graphic response to the moment. The range of charged, bright, images reveal a highly original commentary that remains pertinent today. The works are the result of an unusual and open newspaper brief, and continued to feature for five years on the editorial page without intervention. Although the trajectory of the archive reflects the fa ... More
MoMA Film to Present Weeklong Series of Documentaries Featuring Artist Associated with Juxtapoz Magazine
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents “All the Wrong Art:” Juxtapoz Magazine on Film, a series consisting of seven new and recently released documentary features on artists associated with the San Francisco–based arts and culture journal Juxtapoz, accompanied by conversations between these artists, filmmakers, and special guest speakers. Running February 7 through 14, 2011, the series is organized by Ron Magliozzi, Assistant Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art. Juxtapoz was founded in 1994 by painter Robert Williams as an answer to the dominant critical aesthetic of the New York art scene, which he saw as favoring abstraction and minimalism over representational forms of art. The publication aligned itself with Surrealist traditions of figurative art, contemporary pop culture, and the graphic tradition of EC comic books, psychedelic rock posters, sideshow freak banners, and Zap comics ... More
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