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A visitor walks past an artwork by Italian artist Giovanni Segantini entitled 'Primavera sulle Alpi' (1897), at the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland, 14 January 2011. The exhibition showcases artworks by Giovanni Segantini (1858-1899) runs from 16 January 2011 until 25 April 2011. EPA/GEORGIOS KEFALAS.
BASEL, SWITZERLAND.- Giovanni Segantini (1858-1899) is known as an outstanding painter of the Alps and the lives of farmers and their animals there. Born in Arco on Lake Garda and destined to remain stateless throughout his life, the artist was relentlessly driven higher and higher into the mountains. An unusual life led him from Milan and the Brianza region to Switzerland, from Savognin to Maloja in Engadine. His artistic activity was guided by reverence for the Alpine realm and nature: “Art is love clothed in beauty,” was his motto. The Fondation Beyeler exhibition shows Segantini to have been a pathfinder of modernism. In proximity with works from the collection by van Gogh, Cézanne and Monet, his art can be viewed through twenty-first century eyes and our visual experiences of modern art, and his position in finde-siècle painting can be reconsidered. Celebrated as a prince of painting during his lifetime ... More |
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Bortolami Presents their Second Solo Exhibition with Michigan-Born Patrick Hill
Patrick Hill, Spread, 2011. Wood, dye, one way mirror, white Carrara Marble, 42 x 58 x 53 inches, 106.7 x 147.3 x 134.6 cm. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Bortolami Gallery, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bortolami presents their second solo exhibition with Patrick Hill. Working primarily in sculpture, Hill has implemented large wood beams as structural footing for cement, glass, metal, marble, fabric, and dye. For the first time, Hill introduces a figurative aspect into his work, with sculptures that reference fragmented bodies and detached limbs. Using white Carrera marble for the limbs with wooden support structures as skeletons, these new sculptures rouse Hill’s continuing investigation of underlying, if not foreboding, tensions between the precariously balanced and the stable form. The use of marble in depictions of poised Ballerinas, along-side posed sex workers, conjures Classical sculptures of the female body, which invoke the sacred, the beautiful and an ideal form. Hill flattens cultural notions ... More | | Museum in The Hague Shows Large-Format Polaroid Photos by Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel, Untitled (Stella), polaroid , 61 x 51 cm 2007 © Julian Schnabel.
THE HAGUE.- Julian Schnabel (b. 1951) became famous in the 1980s as a vigorously gestural Neo-Expressionist painter. The Hague Museum of Photography is now the first museum anywhere in the world to present eighty large-format Polaroid photographs that reveal a completely different side of the artist. Schnabel’s photographic work transports the viewer into his studios and into the midst of his famous friends and family. His moody, almost impressionist images turn the personal into art. Many of the photographs are in black-and-white or sepia, creating a nostalgic, almost romantic atmosphere recalling that of the films he has directed with such success since the 1990s, including Basquiat (1996) and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007). Between 2002 and 2006, Schnabel photographed his immediate surroundings using a rare, hand-made Polaroid camera dating from the 1970s. The extraordinary thing about this camera i ... More | | Jennifer Bartlett Installs a Single Painting that Stretches More than 158 Feet at The Pace Gallery
Jennifer Bartlett, Recitative (detail), 2009-2010, enamel over silkscreen grid on baked enamel, steel plates, 11' 2" x 158' 3" (340.4 cm x 4,823.5 cm), overall installed, 372 plates © Jennifer Bartlett. Photo courtesy the artist and The Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Pace Gallery presents an exhibition by Jennifer Bartlett, who installed a single painting that stretches more than 158 feet along three gallery walls. Recitative, comprised of 372 steel plates, is an epic exploration of color, painted in a style reflecting the reductive language of Minimalism and the rule-based systems of Conceptualism. Installed at Pace’s 545 West 22nd Street gallery, Jennifer Bartlett: Recitative will be on view through February 26, 2011. Recitative, 2009–10, is Jennifer Bartlett’s largest work to date in terms of running feet and her third large-scale painting. Recitative relates directly to Bartlett’s earlier installations, Rhapsody (1976), which is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Song (2007), in ... More |
 | Andy Warhol Portraits of Prince Charles and Princess Diana for Sale at Opera Gallery
Portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, painted by Andy Warhol to celebrate her wedding. Photo: Courtesy Opera Gallery.
LONDON (AP).- A London art gallery says it is putting on sale two portraits by artist Andy Warhol, created to celebrate the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. The Opera Gallery in London says it acquired the original artworks from a private collection and will be selling them as a diptych for 2 million pounds ($3.15 million.) The central London gallery says Wednesday that the portraits — in silkscreen ink on canvas — were completed in 1982, shortly after the royal wedding. They were initially sold to a private collector, and have not been up for sale again since. Opera Gallery opened its doors in Singapore in 1994 at the initiative of Gilles Dyan. Today, the team boasts more than 35 individuals from all walks of life, all sharing the same life-time passion: art in general and contemporary art, in particular. A passion that they strive to communicate to connoisseurs and novices alike. A passion that ... More | | Artists Gilbert and George "Get Away with It" Again in New Exhibition at White Cube
File photo of Contemporary British artists George (L) Gilbert (R) posing during the launch of the Kador Public Art Projects exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW. EPA/SERGIO DIONISIO.
By Douglas MacLaurin
LONDON (REUTERS).- Telephone kiosks, tourist postcards, advertisements for prostitution and the urethra are the subjects of the latest art exhibition from British art duo Gilbert and George. "The Urethra Art of Gilbert and George", on show at London's White Cube gallery, features a collection of prints made from telephone booth sex cards promising a "medical and fantasy specialist" and "two-way corrective massage that bloody hurts", alongside tourist postcards of Big Ben and bulldogs wearing Union flags, arranged to form a stylised image of a urethra. The immaculately dressed Gilbert Proesch and George Passmore who live, work and have breakfast, lunch and dinner together every day in the same cafe and ... More | | Major Picasso Portrait of His Mistress and Muse to Lead Sotheby's Sale in February
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), La Lecture, 1932. Est: £12-18 million / $18.6- $27.9 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s forthcoming Evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art, to be held in London on Tuesday, 8th February 2011, will be led by a major painting by Pablo Picasso, depicting Marie-Thérèse Walter, the woman who transformed both his life and his art. Picasso’s La Lecture of 1932 (estimated at £12,000,000-18,000,000 / US$18,570,000 - $27,850,000*) relates closely to the legendary painting Le Rêve (The Dream), painted in the same year, and ranks among the stars of the big season of sales that will take place in London from February 8th to 17th. Helena Newman, Sotheby’s Chairman, Impressionist & Modern Art, Europe, comments: “Last February at Sotheby’s in London saw the record-breaking sum of £65 million paid for Giacometti’s L’Homme qui marche I. Following on from that, and from the successes in the field of Impressionist and Modern Art that continued throughout the year, we are n ... More |
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San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts Reopens to the Public After 7 Years and $21 Million Renovation
Columns inspired by Roman architecture tower over visitors at the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts. AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP).- One of San Francisco's most beloved landmarks reopened to the public Friday after a seven-year, $21 million renovation. The extensive overhaul of the Palace of Fine Arts included seismic upgrades, the addition of new entrances and pathways, and the replacement of the rotunda floor and the roof of its dome. The 95-year-old site is the only original structure left from the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition. With its 30 Corinthian columns framing the palace walkway and 1,100-foot-wide rotunda, it was designed to resemble a Roman ruin reflected in a lake. For its reopening, city leaders and residents praised the palace while passersby pushed strollers or walked dogs along the paths surrounding the newly restored lagoon, stopping to admire its famous white swans. The project was a public-private partnership between San ... More | | J Henry Fair: Abstraction of Destruction on View at Gerald Peters Gallery
J Henry Fair, Bottom Ash (detail). Photo: Courtesy Gerald Peters Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gerald Peters Gallery presents J Henry Fair: Abstraction of Destruction, an exhibition of roughly thirty c print photographs ranging in size from 50 x 75 to 30 x 45 inches. Each photo, while abstract to the eye contains mysterious hints to the subject matter therein. These forms capture the tradition of painted abstraction reminiscent of the works of Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Martin, Frankenthaler, Motherwell and Dubuffet. Yet these haunting images are not abstraction at all but actual photographs of industrial scars on our landscape. Fair’s mission is to incite the viewer’s awareness of environmental impacts caused by our consumerism. Rather than illustrating harsh rusting destruction, he captures, mostly from the air (as these sites are restricted) the bizarre beauty of our ubiquitous waste. The paradox established in the indistinct region between abstraction and representation re ... More | | Mayor Boris Johnson Announces Rocking Horse and Rooster Set for Trafalgar Square
Katharina Fritsch, Hahn / Cock. Photo: James O Jenkins.
LONDON (AP).- A giant blue rooster and a boy on a rocking horse will stand alongside a statue of military hero Adm. Horatio Nelson in London's Trafalgar Square. Officials on Friday announced the next two artworks to fill the square's empty "fourth plinth," one of the city's major showcases for public art. Next year the platform will hold a bronze sculpture of a boy astride a rocking horse by Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset. The piece is intended as a thoughtful riposte to the square's military monuments. It will be followed in 2013 by German artist Katharina Fritsch's ultramarine cockerel, designed to symbolize "regeneration, awakening and strength." Mayor Boris Johnson said the "witty and enigmatic creations underline London's position as one of the most exciting cities for art and are sure to keep people talking." One of London's main tourist attractions, the square was named for Nelson's 1805 victory over ... More |
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The Photographs of Ray K. Metzker Opens at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Ray K. Metzker, American (b. 1931). Couplets: Philadelphia, 1968. Gelatin silver print (printed 2002). Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, 2009.6.40. © Ray K. Metzker, Courtesy of the Laurence Miller Gallery.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Works by Ray K. Metzker, one of the most original and influential photographers of the last half century, will be on view from Jan. 15 to June 5, 2011, at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The Photographs of Ray K. Metzker will reveal Metzker’s ability to turn ordinary subjects, including the urban experience and nature, into the visual poetry of the finely crafted black-and-white print. At the age of nearly 80, Metzker is greatly admired for his passionate engagement with both photography and the world. He has explored the use of high contrast and selective focus, the potentials of multiple and composite images, and the infinite gradations of daylight, from dazzling white to inky shadow. "This is great and lasting work – the very best of a classic form of American modernism," ... More | | National Museum of the American Indian Presents Early Work of Navajo Artist R.C. Gorman
Homage to Spider Woman, 1974. Lithograph print on Arches paper, 36/70. Printed at Tamarind Institute of Albuquerque, NM, by Lynn Baker. Indian Arts and Crafts Board Collection, Department of the Interior, at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian opened “R.C. Gorman: Early Prints and Drawings, 1966–1974,” an exhibition of 28 drawings and lithographs by internationally renowned Navajo artist R.C. Gorman. The exhibition represents his early work with the female form and the Indian “madonnas” that later brought him global acclaim. The exhibition remains on view in the second-level Sealaska Gallery through May 1, 2011. “Gorman’s earlier work is revisited in this exhibition and reveals his facile hand and sensitive approach to the human form as well as his lesser-known explorations of Navajo textile designs,” said associate curator Kathleen Ash-Milby (Navajo), who organized the ... More | | Artist Zach Harris Presents a "Nocturnal" Survey of the L.A. Art Scene at Meulensteen
Paul Heyer, Sandcastle, 2010. Oil on canvas, 32" x 40". Courtesy of the Artist and Meulensteen Gallery New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- To launch the 2011 season at Meulensteen, artist Zach Harris presents a "nocturnal" survey of the Los Angeles art scene. Taking his cue from "Midnight at Malibu", a song written in the 1950s by his Los Angeles based Tin Pan Alley-musician grandfather Victor Harris, the show eschews the superficial ethos and image-obsessed culture that typically satirize the place in order to render a deeper, darker side of the City of Angels. Nocturnes, landscape abstraction, beach assemblage, Chet Baker, Greek mythology and the psychedelic experience all haunt the content of the exhibition. In Harris’s words: The show’s tonal concept derives from the nocturnal, deep blue mood that the title suggests. The experience of the beach at night is its central theme: the oceanic gestalt, the psycho-visual abstractions generated by near darkness, and the immersive rhythms of a vast moving landscape. Specific attention was ... More |
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National Museum of American History Announces Winners of the "Race to the Museum" Public Vote
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History announced the winners of its “Race to the Museum” initiative: the 1929 Miller race car with 43 percent of the vote and the 1948 Tucker sedan with 23 percent of the vote. The Miller and the Tucker will be on display at the museum Jan. 22 to Feb. 21 near the “America on the Move” exhibition, first-floor East Wing. The museum presented eight cars sampling the breadth of its vehicle collection for a public vote to determine the two top vote getters that would go on view. This is the first time that the Smithsonian has asked the public to help choose objects for display, a decision usually made by the curators, and the initiative has been a great success with almost 24,000 people voting over 22 days. “These two vehicles are powerful cars from our past that blew everyone away with their looks and performance,” said curator Roger White. “They are not mainstream vehicles, but t ... More
"Interventions" Sculptural Furniture by Yoav Liberman, Windgate Artist in Residence at Purchase College
PURCHASE, NY.- In “Interventions” Yoav Liberman exhibits new works he created from found objects and discarded wood while in residence as a Windgate Scholar at the Purchase College School of Art + Design. The sculptural furniture pieces will be displayed at the Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery January 17-Feb. 4 in Visual Arts Building. Hours are M-F 9 to 5 PM or by appointment. 914-251-6765. “Found objects and discarded wood are the ‘raw material’ for my work,” says Liberman. “They provide the basis out of which a new piece will be formed. I find myself especially inspired by the hidden potential in objects which are no longer desirable for their original purpose, the lid of a now missing frying pan, the frame of an old metal filing cabinet. When combined with other materials they can be reincarnated as new, functional and aesthetically interesting pieces. I am always prowling through people’s discarded wares—I sketch, study, and e ... More
Dorit Margreiter: Description Opens at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
MADRID.- For Dorit Margreiter questions pertaining to the preservation or, conversely, the destruction of late Modernist architecture provide the occasion for probing larger issues shaping our contemporary socio-cultural context. Comprised of a carefully calibrated selection of works made over the past seven years, Description, her first major survey show, highlights an abiding preoccupation. Four installations involving projected film are accompanied by ancillary related works. A nexus of interrelated pieces titled zentrum, (2004 and ongoing), is located like a hinge at the juncture of the exhibition’s two principal axes. Tellingly, zentrum has also provided the point of departure for the quartet of new works dispersed throughout the galleries. Monumental metal mobiles, these sculptures reference text-based works installed in adjacent spaces in that they, too, are comprised of letters from an alphabet created by the artist; when they are considered as moving images, howeve ... More
Woman Recreates da Vinci's 'Last Supper' with Lint
ROSCOMMON, MICH (AP).- A northern Michigan woman has put her own spin on Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" by making a replica out of laundry lint. Laura Bell of Roscommon collected lint from her dryer and fashioned it into a 14-foot-long, 4-foot tall reproduction of the Italian Renaissance painter's masterpiece. Bell says she needed about 800 hours to do enough laundry to get the lint, and 200 hours to recreate the mural. She bought towels of the colors she wanted and laundered them separately to get the right shades of lint. Her artwork has caught the eye of Ripley's Believe It or Not! The company plans to put it on display at one of its museums. Ripley's says it also has Last Supper replicas made from a grain of rice, a dime and burned toast. ... More
New York's Museum of Modern Art to Display Controversial Video by David Wojnarowicz
NEW YORK, NY.- A controversial video artwork that was withdrawn from an exhibition following complaints by a Catholic group and Republican members of Congress will now go on display at the Museum of Modern Art. Announcing the acquisition, the museum said American artist David Wojnarowicz, who died in 1992, was "one of the most influential artists to have emerged from New York in the 1980s." An excerpt from the 13-minute video entitled "A Fire in My Belly" by Wojnarowicz was withdrawn from an exhibition in November at the National Portrait Gallery, a Smithsonian museum in Washington, after Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, described it as anti-Christian "hate speech." Donohue said he was offended by a short sequence in the video that ... More
Phillips de Pury & Company's Most Successful Design Auction Totals $7.1 Million
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Companyannounced its highest total for a Design auction, demonstrating its continued strength selling French, Italian, American and Scandinavian 20th-century design. Results totaled $7,101,812 (including premium). Simon de Pury, Chairman: “The outcome of these sales demonstrates that our pioneering belief in design is paying off. Our new flagship space on 450 Park allowed us to show the outstanding works, painstakingly selected by Alexander Payne and his great team, in optimal conditions.” Alexander Payne, Worldwide Director of Design: “This is an extraordinarily busy week of design and decorative arts auctions in New York and in Europe. Today’s robust results were realized by aggressive bidding from international clients, both in the saleroom and on the telephone. We were thrilled to inaugurate our new galleries at 450 Park with a tightly curated auction highlig ... More
1907 Rolled Edge Eagle Brings $2.185 Million in Heritage $53 Million FUN Auctions
TAMPA, FL.- Collectors at Heritage's $46 million+ Tampa, FL FUN U.S. Coin auction, Jan. 5-9, kept their focus on rare gold over the course of the four days – especially during the Thursday, Jan. 6 Platinum Night offerings – a sector led by the $2.185 million sale of the Frank A. Leach Specimen of the 1907 Rolled Edge eagle, Satin PR 67 NGC, from The Colonel George M. Monroe Collection. All prices include 15% Buyer's Premium. The $46 million total of the auction was the lion's share of Heritage's $62+ million January numismatic auctions, combined with the $7.74+ million U.S. Currency Auction, also at FUN, and the $9.28 million Heritage World & Ancient Coin auction, Jan. 3 in New York. More than 6,700 collectors vied for the 6,701 lots in the U.S. Coin auction's Signature® and Platinum Night sessions, translating into almost 1900 successful bidders, or a 95% sell-through rate by both value and lot total. "Very solid results, across t ... More
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