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A large candy mountain is exhibited at the Museum for Modern Art MMK in Frankfurt, Germany. About 300 kg of sweets form the the artwork 'Untitled. Placebo 1991' by Cuban-Born artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres. The museum dedicates a special exhibition to the artist who died in 1996. The retrospective 'Specific Objects without Specific Form' will be open for visitors until 25 April 2011. Candy Mountains are among his most famous works. Visitors are invited to try the sweets; their participation is an important aspect of the work. EPA/FRANK RUMPENHORST.
FRANKFURT.- The MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main hosts the final leg of the traveling retrospective, “Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Specific Objects without Specific Form”, previously shown at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels and the Fondation Beyeler in Basel. Including both rarely seen and more known paintings, sculptures, photographic works, and public projects, this major exhibition reflects the full scope of the Gonzalez-Torres’s short but prolific career. Born in Cuba, Gonzalez-Torres settled in New York in the late 1970s, where he studied art and began his practice as an artist before his untimely death of AIDS related complications in 1996, at the age of thirty-eight. He participated in the art collective Group Material in the 1980s, was an engaged social activist, and in a relatively short time developed a profoundly influential body of work that can be seen in critical relationship ... More |
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Four New, Monumental Paintings by Brazilian Artist Beatriz Milhazes at Fondation Beyeler
Samuel Keller (L), director of the Fondation Beyeler introduces Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes in front of her artwork entitled 'Winter Love'. EPA/GEORGIOS KEFALAS.
BASEL.- The Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes is one of the most highly regarded women artists on the international scene. The basic motifs in her oeuvre are drawn from the abundance of the tropical environment and the history and culture of her native country. This is reflected in vivid compositions based on arabesques, floral and abstract ornamentation, geometric shapes, and rhythmical patterns in brilliant, magnificent colors. After major exhibitions including those at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Fondation Cartier, Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, and the Pinacoteca, São Paulo, the Fondation Beyeler now devotes the first exhibition in Switzerland to Milhazes. The exhibition, mounted on the museum’s lower floor, comprises four new, monumental paintings, a selection of the artist’s compelling collages, and a mobile. The paintings, done expressly for the show over the past two years, are ... More | | Louvre Presents First Exhibition of Austrian Sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt
The Ill-Humored Man, 1771–1783. Lead-tin cast, H. 38.7 cm; W. 23 cm; D. 23 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris © 2004 Musée du Louvre / Pierre Philiber-
PARIS.- For the first time in France, the Louvre presents a monographic exhibition devoted to the Bavarian-born Austrian sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, active in Vienna and Pressburg (now Bratislava) in the late 18th century. As a court sculptor, Messerschmidt executed portraits of members of the imperial family as well as notable intellectuals of his time, but is most celebrated for his series of violently expressive, bizarre and fascinating “character heads”, whose originality and verve still captivate viewers today. The exhibition comprises some thirty works, including the head acquired by Louvre in 2005, which is joined by exceptional loans from several German museums, the Belvedere and the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, museums in Budapest and Bratislava, and private collections. This event is part of a special series this season at t ... More | | Works by Michelangelo Part of Florida Vatican Exhibit at Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale
A bust of Pope Pius IX is shown at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale. AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee.
By: Lisa Orkin Emmanuel, Associated Press
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL.- A small marble relief of Jesus Christ flanked by two angels and being held up by Mary was one of the last pieces that Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo ever created. This marble work is displayed next to a cast of one of his other great works, The Pieta, depicting Christ in his mother's arms after his crucifixion. They are part of about 170 works on display as part of the exhibit "Vatican Splendors: A Journey Through Faith and Art," which opened Saturday at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale. It is the exhibit's last stop on a three-city tour in the United States. After it ends April 24, the pieces go back to the Vatican and will not be on display. Many of these pieces will never be shown in the U.S. again. "No work is more important or less important. They are sort of like the tiles of a mosaic, each one contributes to the larger image," Monsignor Roberto Zagnoli, the curator of the show, said through ... More |
 | Taxing Visions: Financial Episodes in Late 19th-Century American Art Opens at the Huntington
Frank Moss (1838–1924), A Difficult Job, n.d., oil on walnut panel, 8 5⁄8 × 7 1⁄8 in. The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg. Transfer from Hope Lodge.
SAN MARINO, CA.- Taxes, rent, economic depression, and financial inequity are the subject matter of the 27 visually provocative paintings and seven works on paper assembled for “Taxing Visions: Financial Episodes in Late Nineteenth-Century American Art,” on view at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens through May 30, 2011. Organized jointly by The Huntington and the Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University, the exhibition challenges conventional wisdom about the period. Although the late 19th century is identified artistically with leisure-laden landscapes, abundant still lifes, and class-conscious official portraits, American artists working in a variety of stylistic idioms also turned their attention to the financial panics and occupational turmoil that marked the Reconstruction, Gilded Age, and early Progressive eras. The 34 works in “Taxing Visions,” which are o ... More | | Newly Restored Rooms will Amaze the Easter Visitor to Neo-Classical Palace Stowe House
North Front after restoration
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.- “From Easter 2011 visitors to Stowe House, the magnificent Grade I listed Neo-Classical palace set in 400 acres of landscaped park in Buckinghamshire, will be able to admire the recently restored Large Library (sometimes referred to as the State Library), one of the most magnificent Georgian interiors in Britain. Thanks to the generous support of World Monuments Fund, The Country Houses Foundation, a WMF Robert W. Wilson Challenge grant, an anonymous donor, other trusts, foundations and former pupils (known as Old Stoics), the Library has been extensively refurbished. This restoration is part of an ongoing major conservation project at Stowe, which will enable the public to enjoy the major rooms in the House in all their glory. Stowe House Preservation Trust (SHPT) has undertaken the daunting challenge of restoring this great mansion with its 400 rooms and 1/6 mile-wide façade and of opening it up to the general public. World Monuments Fund (WMF) included ... More | | Velázquez Loan Marks Second Month of Dulwich Picture Gallery's Bicentenary
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599–1660), El bufón Don Sebastián de Morra, c. 1646, Oil on canvas, 106 x 81 cm, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid © Museo Nacional del Prado - Madrid - Spain.
LONDON.- Every month during Dulwich Picture Gallery’s Bicentenary celebration year a spectacular masterpiece will hang on the end wall of the Gallery’s enfilade. February sees the arrival of El bufón Don Sebastián de Morra by Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599 -1660). Noel Desenfans and Sir Francis Bourgeois, the two founders of Dulwich Picture Gallery, believed that they owned a portrait of King Phillip IV of Spain by Velázquez, painted at the time of the Battle of Fraga in 1644. In fact that canvas is a seventeenth-century copy of the original by Velázquez, now in the Frick Collection in New York. El bufón Don Sebastián was painted by the Spanish artist around the same time as the Fraga portrait of the King and is one of the painter’s most arresting and memorable works. The dwarf Don Sebastián de Morra was the buffoon and servant to Philip IV’s brother, the Cardinal-Infante Don F ... More |
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Dancing with the Dark: Joan Snyder Prints 1963-2010 at the Zimmerli Art Museum
Joan Snyder, Oasis, 2006. Color digital print with four-color screenprint (transparent yellow, transparent red, transparent green, and transparent blue) and hand-applied Prismacolor. Image: 45.7 x 50.5 cm (18 x 19 7/8 in.); sheet: 52.7 x 56.5 cm (20 ¾ x 22 ¼ in.) Publisher: The Print Club of New York, Inc. Printer: Randy Hemminghaus, Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions at Rutgers. Edition: 200. Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers, Gift of the Brodsky Center, 2007 © Joan Snyder.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.- Dancing with the Dark: Prints by Joan Snyder 1963-2010, the first retrospective of the artist’s prints, displays the extraordinary range of Joan Snyder’s distinctive graphic achievement. A Rutgers alumna, nationally-noted painter, and 2007 MacArthur Fellow, Snyder has developed a powerful body of work that explores aspects of nature, humanity and identity. A pioneering feminist artist who was championed early in her career, Snyder has infused her works with physical energy and vibrant color to express deeply personal experiences. For over 45 years, she has created remarkable prints full of passion and zeal, in addition to her widely acclaimed ... More | | Thorburn Partridges Soar to £192,000 at Bonhams 19th Century Paintings Sale
Archibald Thorburn, The Covey at Daybreak (detail). Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- An Archibald Thorburn painting of The Covey at Daybreak - Partridges made £192,000 (27.1.11) at Bonhams auction of 19th Century Paintings – the third highest price ever paid for a Thorburn at auction. The painting was an exceptionally stunning and unusually large work for the Scottish artist, who had a life-long love of birds and was admired for his skill at producing accurate renderings of British wildlife. He gained a strong reputation among the great sportsmen of the day, including the Edward VI and George V, for his accuracy and attention to detail with regard to the form, colouring and the plumage of the various game birds. The top lot of the sale was a melancholy and atmospheric depiction of Glasgow Docks by John Atkinson Grimshaw which doubled its lower pre-sale estimate to sell for £204,000. John Atkinson Grimshaw was renowned for his depictions of city scenes, and this painting of the misty mo ... More | | DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum Exhibition Features Early Computer-Generated Art
Hiroshi Kawano, Untitled, 1972, from the Art Ex machina portfolio 197/200. Silkscreen after plotter drawing, 15 x 21 in.
LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum presents and exhibition that director of the Boston Cyberarts Festival and former deCordova curator of New Media, George Fifield, curated of the earliest computer drawings, prints, and animations by the field’s innovators. Curated from the Providence-based collection of Anne and Michael Spalter, Drawing with Code is one of the first American museum exhibitions to document broadly this early period of new media art. The exhibition will be on view through April 24, 2011 to coincide with the 2011 Boston Cyberarts Festival. DeCordova has been supportive of new media artwork since the 1980s and, since its inception in 1999, has subsequently participated in every Boston Cyberarts Festival. Drawing with Code features computer-generated art from the 1950s to the mid 1980s alongside the more recent work of these early practitioners. Starting with the seminal Electronic Abstractio ... More |
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150 Years Later: New Photography by Tina Barney, Tim Davis, and Katherine Newbegin
Tim Davis, Broken Mirror, 2009, archival pigment print © Tim Davis. Courtesy of the artist and Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York.
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- As part of a campus-wide celebration of Vassar’s sesquicentennial anniversary, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center commissioned three photographers to create new work to highlight different aspects of campus life. The resulting photographs in the exhibition 150 Years Later: New Photography by Tina Barney, Tim Davis, and Katherine Newbegin focus on the people, environment, and the culture of Vassar today. The exhibition is curated by Mary-Kay Lombino, The Emily Hargroves Fisher ’57 and Richard B. Fisher Curator and Assistant Director for Strategic Planning at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, and will be on view from January 28 to March 27, 2011. The approximately 40 new works created for this exhibition uncover a side of Vassar that is not often seen by the average visitor to campus. “Foregoing the typical ... More | | Cultural Identity and Pattern Collide in Exhibition at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Nick Cave, Soundsuit, 2009; metal flowers and armature, fabric with appliqued beading, sequins, embroidery, 111 1/2 x 42 x 32 inches; Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art examines the concept of artists using pattern and dress to express their cultural identities in the exhibition Pattern ID, on view January 28–May 8, 2011 at the Kemper Museum. The fifteen featured artists use photography, sculpture, painting, mixed media, and video to address themes of gender, race, culture, sexuality, and ethnicity. Pattern ID, organized by the Akron Art Museum, brings together forty works of art by fifteen artists from around the world. Exhibition artists include Mark Bradford, (b. 1961, Los Angeles, CA); iona rozeal brown (b. 1966, Washington DC); Nick Cave (b. 1959, Jefferson City, MO); Willie Cole (b. 1955, Somerville, NJ); Lalla Essaydi (b. 1956, Marrakesh, Morocco); Samuel Fosso (b. 1962, Cameroon); James Gobel ... More | | The Sixties Swing Again for Exhibition at the Arts University College at Bournemouth
The Rolling Stones photographed by Philip Townsend.
BOURNEMOUTH- The Swinging Sixties were celebrated in style at the opening of a new exhibition in The Gallery at the Arts University College at Bournemouth, showing the work of renowned photographer and University College alumnus, Philip Townsend. The exhibition ‘Mister Sixties: Philip Townsend’s Portraits of a Decade’ features over fifty photographs capturing some of the most iconic faces of the sixties including The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Twiggy and Harold Wilson. Also on display for the first time are Townsend’s memorabilia from the sixties including the camera he used to take his photographs, objects from his studio, newspaper cuttings and correspondence. The opening night was a huge success, with Philip Townsend giving a personal insight into the sixties for the Gallery guests before opening the exhibition, where he commented “This is without a doubt the best exhibition I’ve ever had anywher ... More |
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American Debut Solo Show of Berlin Artist Lars Theuerkauff at Cain Schulte Contemporary Art
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Cain Schulte Contemporary Art presents One, the American debut solo show of Berlin artist Lars Theuerkauff. The show opens on Friday, January 28 with a reception from 5:30 to 7:30 with the artist in attendance. The show runs through Saturday, February 19. For his first exhibition in the United States, Theuerkauff's solo show will include paintings from several series he has worked on in the past year: the "L'Origine du Monde" suite (a male version of Gustave Courbet's ground-breaking painting of the same title), the "Anonym" series, as well as the most recent "Islands" series. The title "One" --obvious reference not only to a first exhibition in an American gallery and to a solo show-- it's mainly a pointer to the number of subjects in each of his paintings - a single human being in each canvas. The singular figure in Theuerkauff's oeuvre is a repeated element, which together with the nudeness of the s ... More
New Exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum Surveys the Art of Gottfried Helnwein
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum presents a survey of the work of artist Gottfried Helnwein in the new exhibition “Gottfried Helnwein: Inferno of the Innocents,” on view from January 29 through April 24, 2011. Organized by the Crocker, the exhibition features more than 40 major paintings and photographs. Highlights include his iconic portraits of performer Marilyn Manson, works from his major recurring theme, “The Child,” and his most recent series, “Disasters of War.” “Inferno of the Innocents” is the first museum exhibition to examine Helnwein—who has been based in Los Angeles part-time for nearly 10 years—as a California artist. Since he began his career in Vienna in the late 1960s, Helnwein has been known for his radical use of the portrait and self-portrait. His photography, paintings, and monumental installations address themes of inhumanity, violence, and ... More
Saint Louis Art Museum Marks One Year on Expansion
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum announces significant progress after one year of construction on its more-than-200,000-square-foot, David Chipperfield–designed expansion in Forest Park. The perimeter of the new 300-plus-space parking garage is completely enclosed and floors are being constructed. In the Main Building crews are preparing for the construction of a new central staircase, which will connect Sculpture Hall to the Lower Level and a new public concourse that will integrate the new and existing facilities, including the newly renovated Museum Shop, Auditorium and Education Center. The Level 1 concourse will also connect with an expanded cafe, as well as link visitors to the new underground garage. In preparation for this work, a construction barrier has fully enclosed the south end of Sculpture Hall. The 17-foot-tall structure will remain in place until spring 2011 while work on the new central staircase ... More
Denver Art Museum Brings Artists' Voices to the Forefront
DENVER, CO.- Building on the approach the Denver Art Museum (DAM) pioneered in 1925, when it became one of the first American museums to collect Native American objects as art rather than artifacts, the museum completed an artist-focused renovation and total reinstallation of its American Indian art galleries this winter for a grand reveal today. Taking a new lens to the museum’s largest collection—and one of the world’s finest collections of American Indian art—the new presentation shines a spotlight on individual artists, with a focus on their creations and inspirations, and on how they both reflect and shape their evolving cultures. Visitors have an active experience with the art through hands-on activities, digital interpretives, media installations and live artmaking. Challenging long-held stereotypes about what is (and isn’t) American Indian art, DAM’s new galleries encourag ... More
Indianapolis Museum of Art to Reconfigure Third Floor Galleries
INDIANAPOLIS, IL.- The Indianapolis Museum of Art announced it is remodeling its third floor galleries consisting of the Asian, African, design arts, and textiles and fashion arts collections throughout the next two years. The new configuration will allow for more efficient use of space and improved display of objects, while providing room for the IMA’s growing design arts collection. Temporary gallery closures will begin February 1 as the Museum prepares for new exhibitions. “As an encyclopedic Museum, it is important that we continue to show all areas of our permanent collection in fresh and innovative ways,” said Maxwell L. Anderson, The Melvin & Bren Simon Director and CEO of the IMA. “The African galleries were last renovated prior to the Museum’s expansion, so I am thrilled they will have a fresh look, a more central location, and new interest. The changes on the third floor will engage audien ... More
1960 Les Paul Sunburst Expected to Bring $100,000+ in Vintage Guitar Event at Heritage Auctions
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- A stunning 1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard Cherry Sunburst Electric Guitar is expected to bring $100,000+ when it comes up for auctions as part of the Fine and Vintage Guitar and Stringed Instruments section of Heritage Auctions' Signature® Music & Entertainment Auction, Feb. 18-20. "Whenever one of these early Les Paul Standards shows up it's going to be a big deal," said Mike Gutierrez, Consignment Director at Heritage. "Gibson only made about 1,700 of these guitars over a three-year period, so, subsequently, they have become highly sought-after by both players and collectors." While not expected to enter the same price realm, a 1961 Rickenbacker 4001 Fireglo Solid Body Electric Bass Guitar, #AK685, a bass that can be traced back to the first month of the first year of production for 4001s, is easily the top bass guitar offering in the auction. It is estimated at $2,000+. Rickenbacker 4001s have been played by s ... More
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