| | Seventy Impressive Black-and-White Drawings by Roy Lichtenstein on View at Albertina
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Dorothy Lichtenstein, widow of US artist Roy Lichtenstein, stands in front of an artwork, entitled Woman in Bath (1963), by Roy Lichtenstein at the Albertina in Vienna, Austria. The artwork is part of an exhibition, entitled Roy Lichtenstein - Black and White, that presents 70 drawings and 17 paintings by the Pop Art artist at the museum from 28 January to 15 May. EPA/HANS KLAUS TECHT.
VIENNA.- The 1960s marked a dramatic change of direction in the art of Roy Lichtenstein: while his earlier works consisted mainly of paintings of American history and the American West, in 1961 he turned to black-and-white drawings. Inspired by advertising and media illustrations as well as by comic strips, Lichtenstein created about seventy impressive black-and-white drawings between 1961 and 1968. These were completely new in terms of subject and style. In the same period, the artist also made numerous black-and-white paintings, whose subjects were very close to those of the drawings. The latter, however, are not to be understood as preparatory studies for the works on canvas; they much rather form a separate, individual group of artworks. The Albertina presents the black-and-white drawings in conjunction with selected black-and-white paintings for the first time in this special exhibition. ... More |
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Nefertiti's Bust will Stay in German Capital Says Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit
File photo of Berlin's Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit. EPA/HELMUT FOHRINGER.
BERLIN (REUTERS).- Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit said Friday that Germany would not send the bust of an ancient Egyptian queen to modern-day Egypt because it was obtained nearly a century ago. Wowereit defended a German foundation's possession of Nefertiti's bust that has been in Berlin since 1913 after a dispute flared this week over its ownership between the foundation and Egypt's antiquities chief. "Nefertiti is staying in Berlin," Wowereit told mass-circulation daily Bild. "Nothing was looted. There was a fair agreement and there's no reason to send her back to Egypt." The 3,400-year-old bust is one of Berlin's top tourist attractions with one million viewers going annually to Berlin's Neues Museum to see it. It was found by German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt south of Cairo in 1912. Egypt's antiquities chief, Zahi Hawass, said that the bust, famed for its almond-shaped eyes and swan-like neck, was passed off ... More | | Egypt Army Secures Egyptian Museum with Pharaonic Treasures: Report from Cairo
Egyptian protesters are gathered outside the Egyptian Museum during demonstrations which erupted following Friday prayers. EPA/MOHAMED OMAR.
CAIRO (REUTERS).- Army units secured the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo against possible looting on Friday, protecting a building with spectacular pharaonic treasures such as the death mask of the boy king Tutankhamun, state TV said. The news follows a day of violent anti-government protests in Cairo and other cities. Some of the most violent scenes in four days of protests have been in squares and streets close to the museum building. It was also broadcast as reports of looting of some government buildings emerged. One Reuters photographer said looters had broken into a ruling party building near the museum and were walking out with furniture, computers and other items. Well-known Egyptian film director Khaled Youssef had earlier called on the army to ensure the museum was protected, in comments to the Al Arabiya television channel. "I am calling on the Egyptian army to ... More | | Group Wants Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough's Ouster Over Banned Video
Wayne Clough, the Smithsonian Institution's secretary speaks at a Town Hall meeting. AP Photo/Nick Ut.
By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- A liberal group is calling for Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough to step down, and the board of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum is complaining that Clough bowed to political pressure in removing a video from an exhibit. Clough became the target of a censorship debate after he removed a video depicting ants crawling on a crucifix from the National Portrait Gallery exhibit, "Hide/Seek," after a Catholic group complained. Michael Keegan, president of People for the American Way, called Friday for Clough to be removed when the Smithsonian Board of Regents meets Monday. The Hirshhorn Museum board also issued an open letter saying that bowing to pressure harms the Smithsonian's integrity. The group Art Positive plans to protest at the Smithsonian on Monday. ... More |
 | Rembrandt Portrait, Which Sold at Christie's in 2009, to Be Offered for $47 Million
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (Leiden 1606 – 1669 Amsterdam), Portrait of a man with arms akimbo, 1658. Oil on canvas , 42.25 x 34.25 in. (107.4 x 87 cm).
LONDON (REUTERS).- A Rembrandt portrait, one of the last works from the Dutch master's late career still in private hands, will be offered for sale at the TEFAF Maastricht art fair later this year for $47 million. "Portrait of a Man With Arms Akimbo" was under the auctioneer's hammer as recently as 2009, when it fetched an artist record price of 20.2 million pounds, or $33 million, at Christie's in London. The buyer at the time was reported to be casino owner Stephen Wynn, although others, including Manhattan dealer Otto Naumann, were interested, according to New York Times. It is Naumann who is now exhibiting the work at the fair, according to PR company Cawdell Douglas, which represents TEFAF. The event rums from March 18-27. Since 2009, it has been "transformed by cleaning and can now be seen in its full glory," a Cawdell Douglas statement said. Art experts said the sharply higher asking price could reflect both the cleaning ... More | | British Sculpture Survey at the Royal Academy in London Sharply Divides Critics
A man walks past the Barbara Hepworth sculpture "Single Form". AP Photo/Matt Dunham.
By: Mike Collett-White
LONDON (REUTERS).- By replacing a traditional survey of 20th century British sculpture with a "provocative set of juxtapositions," London's Royal Academy has made both friends and enemies among the critics. Some welcomed what the gallery called a "fresh approach," but others attacked it for omitting several important British and foreign sculptors. Most outspoken was Andrew Graham-Dixon, writing in the Sunday Telegraph's Seven magazine in his no-star review: "This lamentable exhibition has no coherence, no clear purpose and fails to mention many of Britain's best sculptors of the past 100 years." Laura Cumming, of The Observer, drew attention to the absence of pop art, and the lack of "advanced conceptualism." "And if (Carl) Andre's 'Equivalent VIII' can make the cut, though the American's minimalism never took ... More | | Selling Exhibition of Key Modern British Sculpture at Robert Bowman Modern
Robert Bowman Modern presents works by the key modern British sculptors.
LONDON.- Robert Bowman Modern is holding a selling exhibition of Modern British Sculpture. On view until April 7, 2011, the show coincides with that of their neighbour the Royal Academy who is hosting its first 20th-Century British Sculpture exhibition for 30 years. Robert Bowman Modern presents works by the key modern British sculptors including Kenneth Armitage, Michael Ayrton, Jacob Epstein, Elizabeth Frink, Barbara Hepworth and Leon Underwood. The exhibition features a number of works by Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), one of the leading pioneers of Modern British Sculpture. In his lifetime he championed many of the concepts central to modernist sculpture, including ‘truth to material’, direct carving, and inspiration from so-called primitive art, all of which became central to twentieth-century practice. Among the highlights of the exhibition is a rare Epstein maquette for ‘Rush of Green’ commissioned ... More |
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Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art Presents Pilgrimage and Faith: Buddhism Christianity and Islam
Quranic Tile (inscribed with text of the Qur'an), Kashan, Iran, circa 1200-1250, glazed and painted ceramic tile, 11 3/4 x 12 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches, The Newark Museum, New Jersey, Gift of Herman A. E. Jaehne and Paul C. Jaehne, 1938, 38.242
RICHMOND, VA.- Pilgrimage and Faith: Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam, on view in the Harnett Museum of Art, from January 28 to May 20, 2011, highlights the shared pilgrimage traditions of three world religions—Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam. This exhibition explores how art vivifies and recreates the pilgrimage tradition. Featured are objects dating from the twelfth century to the present, which illuminate the commonalities and differences of the pilgrimage experience among the three faiths. The exhibition features more than 75 historical objects, each associated with one of the three religions. Representative of the Buddhist faith are objects such as a gilt brass figure of the Bodhisattva of Wisdom from China’s Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and a 1977 white pilgrim’s robe with an inscription paying homage ... More | | Brooklyn-Based Artist and Photographer Lorna Simpson Opens Solo Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum
Lorna Simpson (American, b. 1960). 1957–2009 Interiors (detail), 2009. Gelatin silver prints. 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches each (14 x 14 cm); overall dimensions variable. © Lorna Simpson, 2009; courtesy of the artist and Salon 94, New York.
BROOKLYN, N.Y.- Lorna Simpson: Gathered presents photographic and other works that explore the artist's interest in the interplay between fact and fiction, identity, and history. On view through August 21, 2011 at the Brooklyn Museum. Through works that incorporate hundreds of original and found vintage photographs of African Americans that she collected from eBay and flea markets, Simpson undermines the assumption that archival materials are objective documents of history. In one series, titled May June July August '57/'09, comprising 123 vintage and contemporary black-and-white photographs, Simpson juxtaposes images of young African American women (and an occasional male figure) who posed for pinups in Los Angeles in 1957 with self-portraits in which the artist acts as a doppelganger ... More | | Exhibition of Drawings and Sculptures by Italian Artist Marisa Merz at Gladstone Gallery
Marisa Merz, “La danza delle ore”, January 27 – March 5, 2011. Exhibition View: Gladstone Gallery; Brussels. Courtesy Gladstone Gallery.
BRUSSELS.- Gladstone Gallery presents an exhibition of works by Marisa Merz. Born in Turin, Italy, Merz was a central figure and the only woman associated with the Arte Povera movement of the late 1960s and 70s. Known for her unusual use of materials such as copper-wire, clay, and wax, Merz’s works reflect the poetic sensibility that delicately entwines her vision of art and life. Consisting of drawings and sculptures, this exhibition continues to investigate Merz’s unique and intimate vision of finding meaning within the possibilities of the everyday. One of the most significant themes to arise from Merz’s oeuvre is the image of the face, which is centered upon the essential and universal question of being. In these works, the figure of the face emerges as a vestige of the eternal human spirit, capturing a single and infinite moment of appearing and becoming. Composed of fleeting arabesque lines, Merz& ... More |
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Tasende Gallery Presents Exhibition of Sculptures and Drawings by Mark di Suvero
Mark di Suvero's monumental "Ave Delirio".
LA JOLLA, CA.-Tasende Gallery, La Jolla, presents an exhibition of sculptures and drawings by Mark di Suvero opening today, January 28, 2011 and continuing through March 12. The exhibit includes nine works on paper and six steel/stainless steel sculptures, among them the monumental Ave Delirio an 18 feet high work installed on Prospect Street, La Jolla. A fully-illustrated color catalogue with text by Robert Pincus accompanies the exhibition. Mark di Suvero, an American born in Shanghai in 1933, moved to San Francisco with his family in 1942. He attended U.C. Berkeley where he earned a degree in philosophy and also became engaged in poetry, music and sculpture. In the late 1950s di Suvero moved to New York where he experienced the demolition of numerous old buildings, and from the debris discovered materials he could recycle to express his poetic architectural constructions: I-Beams, rusty chains, old tires. While re ... More | | Art Institute of Chicago Announces Significant Acquisition of Seminal Kazimir Malevich Painting
Kazimir Malevich, Painterly Realism of a Football Player--Color Masses in the 4th Dimension (1915) detail. Oil on canvas. ß27-5/8 x 17-5/16 in. (70.2 x 44.1 cm). Through prior gift of Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection, Art Institute of Chicago Acquisition Funds, 2011.1.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announces one of the most significant acquisitions in its history: Kazimir Malevich's Painterly Realism of a Football Player--Color Masses in the 4th Dimension (1915). Joining such works as Georges Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte--1884, Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, El Greco's Assumption of the Virgin, Gustave Caillebotte's Paris Street; Rainy Day, and Henri Matisse's Bathers by a River , Malevich's masterpiece is the first work of Russian Suprematism to enter the museum's collection and bridges one of the few gaps in the museum's extremely strong holdings of European modern art. With this acquisition, the Art Institute becomes only the second public ... More | | Louvre Hosts a Group of Sculptures by Leading British Contemporary Artist Tony Cragg
Tony Cragg, Versus, 2010. Bois, 280x295x100 cm. Grâce au soutien de Maybach. Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris/Salzburg. Photographe : Antoine Mongodin,/musée du Louvre 2011. ADAGP, 2010.
PARIS.- As a counterpoint to the presentation at the Louvre of the first retrospective in France devoted to the Bavarian-born Austrian sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783), the museum plays host to a group of sculptures by the leading British contemporary artist Tony Cragg, to be shown in the Cour Marly and the Cour Puget. In addition, the Louvre is pleased to feature a monumental sculpture by the artist, produced especially for the exhibition and displayed under the pyramid. In 2008, an exhibition at the Belvedere in Vienna also juxtaposed works by these two sculptors. But here the visual dialogue across the centuries between Tony Cragg and Messerschmidt’s “character heads” refers more specifically to a single steel sculpture by this major ... More |
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Rachel Perry's First Museum Solo Exhibition Opens at deCordova
LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum presents the first solo exhibition of the conceptual artist Rachel Perry Welty opening January 29, 2011. This exhibition–her first large-scale museum solo show–will include Welty’s major works in drawing, sculpture, collage, installation, video, photography, and social media–some created especially for this exhibition. Welty’s precisely-crafted, colorful, and beautiful work often uses humor to address a wide variety of issues including, consumerism, suburbia, narcissism, information overload, language, the fleeting nature of experience, the passage of time, and ultimately, life and death. Welty takes daily life as her subject, incorporating the mundane and the extraordinary in equal measure. Mixing a Minimalist aesthetic with Pop humor, Welty’s artworks uncover the poetic elements in the everyday. The exhibition will present a number of works cr ... More
Wonderful New Tool for those Who Have Always Wanted to Draw but Didn't Know How
VANCOUVER.- AKVIS Sketch v.12: Pencil Drawings From Photos. Now With Smudging Effect! AKVIS releases Version 12 of AKVIS Sketch for Windows and Macintosh. The software converts digital photos into amazing pencil sketches and watercolor, charcoal, and pastel drawings. It's a wonderful tool for those who have always wanted to draw but didn't know how. Version 12 introduces the new Smudging parameter which creates the effect of smearing hatching in midtone areas without affecting the contour lines of the drawing. The algorithm handles semi-processed images more effectively. They are now simpler and more exact. AKVIS Sketch is an award-winning program for conversion of photos into pencil sketches and watercolor paintings. The program has already won the recognition of professionals and delighted home users with its neat results. However, there is no end to perfection and the company released a new version of AKVIS Sketch with many improvements. With AKVIS Sketch you do not need to ... More
Madison Square Park Conservancy to Receive Prestigious U.S. Art Critics Association Award
NEW YORK, NY.- Madison Square Park Conservancy’s Mad. Sq. Art, will receive the International Art Critics Association (AICA-USA) Second Place award for Best Project in a Public Space for the organization’s exhibition Antony Gormley: Event Horizon, which was presented in and around Madison Square Park from March 23 – August 15, 2010 in New York City. The award will be presented at an event at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art on March 14, 2011. Event Horizon marked the United States public art debut of renowned British sculptor Antony Gormley, as well as the first time Mad. Sq. Art had exhibited public artwork outside the park’s boundaries. In the exhibition, thirty-one life-size body forms of the artist fabricated in cast iron and molded fiberglass were installed on park pathways, surrounding sidewalks, and the rooftops ... More
Shimon Attie's Exhibition MetroPAL.IS Debuts at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
RIDGEFIELD, CT.- Shimon Attie’s exhibition MetroPAL.IS., a multiple-channel immersive HD video installation featuring members of the Israeli and Palestinian communities of New York City, is to debut at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. The Aldrich has supported the production and presentation of this major new video work, created by noted artist Shimon Attie with the assistance of his longtime production associate, Vale Bruck, which will be on view from January 30 through May 30, 2011. The artist’s intention is for the artwork to re-imagine and re-configure the seemingly intractable Middle East conflict between Palestinians and Israelis, in part by engaging their shared secondary hybrid identity—that of being New Yorkers. The artwork is as much about what it means to be a New Yorker, to live in the United States and to have a layered identity, as it is about the conflict in the Middle East. Rather than t ... More
Jefferson's Monticello Makes Ale Inspired by Past
By: Zinie Chen Sampson, Associated Press
RICHMOND, VA (AP) Thomas Jefferson is renowned for his many interests, including architecture, horticulture and inventing gadgets. Among the third president's lesser-known pursuits was making beer, and modern-day visitors to his mountaintop estate at Monticello can soon get a taste of the past. The Thomas Jefferson Foundation says it's working with Starr Hill Brewery in Crozet to offer Monticello Reserve Ale, inspired by what was produced and consumed regularly at Monticello. Brewing beer was among the plantation's important activities, and the drink was one of the "table liquors" served with meals, Monticello officials said. Starr Hill's master brewer Mark Thompson will brew Monticello Reserve Ale using a combination of lightly hopped wheat and corn, as Jefferson did in his day. Local ingredients will be used, including some ... More
Unmarked Graves Found at Veteran Cemetery in Mississippi
By: Holbrook Mohr, Associated Press
VICKSBURG, MISS (AP).- Authorities said Thursday they fear dozens of veterans could lie in unmarked graves at a Mississippi military cemetery after they found two unidentified coffins and used radar to detect other possible plots. The two coffins and other potential graves were found in sections of Vicksburg National Military Cemetery that were opened in the 1940s for World War I, World War II and Korean War veterans, National Park Service officials said at a news conference. The sprawling cemetery is the final resting place for more than 18,000 veterans, mostly Union soldiers from the Civil War. The problems were discovered after workers preparing a burial site for a World War II veteran found a coffin in August. Another coffin was found nearby. The veteran was buried elsewhere in the cemetery and the graves were left alone, authorities said. The cemetery stopped offering burials in 1961, except for veterans who had prior arrangements. Ther ... More
Mass Sketchers Turn the World to Art in a Day
By Rebekah Curtis
LONDON (REUTERS).- People and their pencils from New Zealand to New York are hitting the streets four times a year with a common aim: Turn the world into art for one day. The 30th global "SketchCrawl," a worldwide, day-long drawing binge that takes place four times a year produced a gallery of images posted on website SketchCrawl.com this month. The images depict life across the world through a day of art. From penciled snowscapes of Iceland to watercolor palm trees in Hawaii and sketches of people chatting over drinks in a Norwegian café to a bustling coffee shop in South Africa. "It's so satisfying seeing other corners of the earth, corners we might never see, observed and captured by a fellow artist's pencil," website founder Enrico Casarosa told Reuters. The story artist, who works on animation and comics in San Francisco, conceived the idea of sketch "marathons" after going on a pub crawl for a fri ... More
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