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Books on display for "The Lost Manuscripts from the Sistine Chapel: An Epic Journey from Rome to Toledo," exhibit at the Meadows Museum at SMU in Dallas. The Dallas exhibit, running through April 23, will be the only U.S. viewing of these forgotten books once used by popes and other church dignitaries for services in the Sistine Chapel. AP Photo/LM Otero.
By: Ed Stoddard
DALLAS (REUTERS).- Rare, lavishly-illustrated manuscripts from the Sistine Chapel that were rescued from Napoleon's army, only to fall under the radar screen of art history for two centuries, go on display in Dallas on Sunday. The exhibit at Southern Methodist University's Meadows Museum, which will run until April 23, is the only chance for the U.S. public to see the stunning, hand-made codices or manuscripts. "The Lost Manuscripts from the Sistine Chapel: An Epic Journey from Rome to Toledo" features 40 codices that range in date from the 11th to the 18th century. "These were in the Sacristy of the Sistine Chapel so these were the most private books read by the popes and cardinals at very special ceremonies. There are some codices here that Michelangelo would have heard or read from," said Meadows director Mark Roglan. "All of them are one of a kind ... and done by hand. It is an art," he said as he pointed to so ... More |
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Early Pioneers of Abstraction Explored in Gallery's Remarkable Collection
Fernand Léger, Smoke, 1912. Photo: Courtesy The Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
BUFFALO, NY.- The work of four modernist masters and early twentieth-century pioneers of abstraction—Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, and Sonia Delaunay—are explored in a new exhibition which opened at the The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, on January 21, 2011. The exhibition, organized by Albright-Knox Curator Heather Pesanti and Curatorial Assistant Ilana Chlebowski and drawn from the Gallery’s Collection, features more than seventy objects in a variety of media, including paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, spanning decades of each artist’s career. By following the transitions and shifts of these four masters’ works from one style or movement to the next, viewers have the opportunity to explore the creative development of each of the artists, and forge connections between them. This exhibition also reveals the parallel histories of four artists: contemporaries who were experim ... More | | Tod's Founder Diego Della Valle to Restore Rome's Colosseum for $34 Million
The founder of Tod's luxury leather and footwear Diego Della Valle. AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia.
ROME (AP).- The founder of Tod's luxury leather goods and shoes announced Friday that he will foot the ?25 million ($34 million) to restore the Colosseum. The ancient Roman arena is blackened by pollution and rocked by vibrations from a nearby subway line. Officials accepted Diego Della Valle's offer to sponsor the restoration. But Della Valle said he expected other entrepreneurs to also step in to help out as the project gets under way. "A monument that represents Italy in the world must be restored, and a company that represents Made in Italy stepped forward to say, 'If you need us, we are here,'" Della Valle told a press conference. Work is expected to begin at the end of the year, after contract bids are closed, and will take up to two and a half years. The monument will remain open to tourists during the restoration. "It is the end of a nightmare," Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno said. Italy is chronically short of funds to ... More | | Agony and Ecstasy: A Rediscovered Masterpiece on View at Moretti Fine Art, NY
Saint Sebastian of Agensius.
NEW YORK, NY.- Once again, Andrew Butterfield and Fabrizio Moretti, the renowned Re- naissance and Baroque specialists, will collaborate to present Agony, Ecstasy, Ivory: The Saint Sebastian of Agnesius, A Rediscovered Masterpiece, at Moretti Fine Art/Adam Williams Fine Art 24 East 80th Street, January 21–February 4, 2011. Coinciding with the Old Master Drawings Week and the auction house sales, this rare sculpture accompanies an exhibition of significant Italian and other European Old Master paintings, including works by Bicci de Lorenzo, Francesco Ubertini called ‘il Bacchiacca’, Master of the Osservanza, Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, and Luis Melendez. The Saint Sebastian by Jacobus Agnesius, circa 1638, - one of the largest and most spectacular ivory statues ever created—will be on public view for the first time. “In my opinion, this beautiful ivory statue is an absolute masterpi ... More |
 | Exhibition of Superlative British Watercolors at the Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg
William Callow (British, 1812-1908), Chiaia, Naples (n.d.). Watercolor. Collection of BNY Mellon.
ST. PETERSBURG, FL.- Romantics to Moderns: British Watercolors and Drawings from the Collection of BNY Mellon features approximately 70 works on paper by 49 of Britain’s most gifted artists from the mid-1700s through 1935. The exhibition will be on view at the MFA through May 1, 2011. Represented artists include John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, Samuel Palmer, John Ruskin, Walter Sickert, and J. M. W. Turner. The exhibition provides a nigh comprehensive history of 200 years of British watercolors and drawings—a first for the Tampa Bay area. Because of their fragility, these works are rarely exhibited. British watercolors are among the most striking ever produced. The medium began to flourish in eighteenth-century England and was pursued by talented artists and amateurs. Watercolor was considered part of a genteel education. Due to portable materials, artists could also work outdoors, vividly capturing beautiful ... More | | 18th Century Mahogany Bureau Table Achieves a Stunning $5.7 Million at Christie's
The Catherine Goddard Chippendale block-and shell carved and figured mahogany bureau table attributed to John Goddard, Newport, circa 1765. Estimate: 700,000 - 900,000 U.S. Price Realized: $5,682,500. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
NEW YORK, NY.- An 18th century mahogany bureau table carved by Newport’s most celebrated cabinetmaker sold for a stunning $5.7 million at Christie’s New York on Wednesday morning, placing it among the highest auction prices ever realized for an item of American furniture. Offered at $700,000-900,000, the table was pursued by multiple bidders, who rapidly drove the price to the $3 million dollar threshold. From there on two dedicated bidders in the saleroom battled back and forth for the handsomely carved table before a hushed audience of clients and onlookers, until auctioneer John Hays dropped the gavel at $5 million. With premium, the final price realized was $5,682,500. The table, known as the Catherine Goddard Chippendale Block-and-Shell Carved and Figured Mahogany Bureau ... More | | Camera Work in Berlin Exhibits the Photographs of Nadav Kander and Robert Polidori
Robert Polidori, Classroom in Kindergarden #7 "Golden Key", Pripyat, 2001. © Robert Polidori. Photo: Courtesy Camera Work.
BERLIN.- Camera Work exhibits “Yangtze - The Long River” by Nadav Kander and “Pripyat and Chernobyl“ by Robert Polidori, certainly two of the most impressive series of recent photographic history. The photographs of both artists are striking reminders of the impact of mankind's intervention in its environment. Nadav Kander’s Photo Series, awarded with the prestigious Prix Pictet in 2009, uniquely documents the rapid structural change along the Chinese Yangtze River. A current catalogue, published by HATJE CANTZ, with a foreword by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, accompanies the exhibition. Robert Polidori, on the other hand, belongs to the first photographers who in 2001 had access to the restricted zone of the Ukrainian industrial city of Pripyat and the nearby nuclear power station Chernobyl, with the nuclear accident having its 25th anniversary on April 26th, 2011. ... More |
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RM Auctions Kicks Off 2011 Calendar with Strong Start and Record $30.8 Million Arizona Sale
1949 Ferrari 166 MM Barchetta. Photo: Hugh Hamilton ©2010 Courtesy of RM Auctions.
PHOENIX, AZ.- RM Auctions, the world’s largest collector car auction house, enjoyed a strong start to its 2011 auction season this week, posting a record $30.8 million in sales at its annual Arizona event, with an impressive 96% of lots sold and four automobiles exceeding the magic million dollar mark. Held at the prestigious Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa, the two-day sale presented 180 quality automobiles, spanning a diverse range of blue-chip automotive marques. Top honors went to a coveted 1949 Ferrari 166MM Barchetta, a matching-numbers Mille Miglia veteran and the 10th of just 25 examples built, which attracted strong interest, achieving $1,870,000. A stunning, superbly-restored 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Coupe also garnered significant attention, spurring a lively bidding war between Europe versus the Middle-East to well-exceed its presale estimate at $1,375,000 – a new auction record f ... More | | Italian Artist Roberto Cuoghi's First Solo Show in the U.S. Opens at the Hammer
Roberto Cuoghi, Untitled, 2010. Mixed media on parchment, 84 x 61.5 x 10 cm. Courtesy Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Italian artist Roberto Cuoghi makes videos, sculpture, paintings, and drawings, in a variety of unconventional media, which expand on the possibilities for transformation and question our understanding of identity. For his most legendary work, the artist, at the time a pierced punk, decided to followed his father’s daily routine of eating, dressing and working, and eventually came to resemble the middle-aged man. He created a monumental sculpture after a tiny bronze statue from the collection of the Louvre, of an Assyrian deity Pazuzu, king of the demons of the wind. He hand-crafted a number of ancient musical instruments, which he then used in a musical accompaniment to his own singing of a lamentation from 612 b.c. invoking the protection of the Assyrian gods. For his Hammer Projects exhibition, his first solo show in the U.S., Cuoghi presents a new ... More | | Exhibition of Menswear Explores Men's Fashion from the 18th Century to the Present
Man's Bondage Suit: Jacket and Trousers with Attached Knee Strap, c. 1990. Designed by Vivienne Westwood, English, born 1941. Bright orange/red wool. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Purchased with the Costume and Textiles Revolving Fund, 2000.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- This lively exhibition contradicts the notion of men’s apparel as staid and restrained, especially when compared to women’s fashions. The Peacock Male: Exuberance and Extremes in Masculine Dress, drawn primarily from the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s collection of Western fashion, examines 300 years of men’s sartorial display and includes flamboyant clothing as well as colorful accessories. It will be on view from January 22 through June 2011. “It’s a pleasure to be able to look at men’s clothing from a different perspective, as it is a subject that is often overlooked, even though menswear is now so creative and diverse,” said Kristina Haugland, Associate Curator of Costume and Textiles and Supervising Curator for the Study ... More |
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National Gallery of Art to Remove and Reinstall East Building Facade Veneer through 2014
National Gallery of Art, East Building, atrium, 2008. Photo by Rob Shelley. © 2008 National Gallery of Art, Washington.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The planned removal and reinstallation of the marble veneer of the 33-year-old East Building of the The National Gallery of Art will begin in early March 2011; the project is expected to be completed by spring 2014. While the East Building will remain open to the public during the entire period, the project will necessitate the following developments: · The north parking lane of Madison Drive between 3rd and 4thStreets NW will be closed to all vehicles, effective immediately. · The sidewalks along Madison Drive and Pennsylvania Avenue NW between 3rd and 4th Streets will be closed to all pedestrians, effective immediately. The sidewalks along 3rd and 4th Streets between Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Drive will remain open. · Some of the Yoshino cherry (Prunus x yedoensis) and willow oak (Quercus phellos) trees on the east and south sides of the East Building are being moved to an off-site nursery for the duration ... More | | Al Taylor: Wire Instruments and Pet Stains at the Santa Monica Museum of Art
Al Taylor, The Peabody Group #32, 1992. Graphite, watercolor, gouache, ink and coffee on Lenox paper, 50 x 38 inches, 127 x 96.5 cm. Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington , D.C. Gift of Debbie Taylor, 2010.
SANTA MONICA, CA.- The Santa Monica Museum of Art presents Al Taylor: Wire Instruments and Pet Stains, the first American museum survey of work by this important and prolific artist. Through his drawings and constructions, Taylor (1948–1999) offers audiences new ways of seeing the world, and this landmark exhibition offers a similar discovery: A rare opportunity to explore the dialogue between his 2-D and 3-D works, and among works in each series, which was the artist’s main concern. Taylor died at age 51 of lung cancer. Comprised of 47 drawings and constructions made over only three years between 1989 and 1992, Al Taylor: Wire Instruments and Pet Stains opened January 21 and runs through April 16, 2011. Santa Monica Museum of Art Executive Director ... More | | Jasper, Texas: The Community Photographs of Alonzo Jordan at the ICP in New York
Alonzo Jordan, Willie “Booby Trap” Lawrence Irvine, 1950s. © 1996 Documentary Arts, Inc.
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1998, the small East Texas town of Jasper was shaken by the brutal, racially motivated killing of a forty-nine-year old African American named James Byrd Jr. The international media coverage of that traumatic race crime did not for the most part reveal the stark past and complicated social life of this historically segregated community. Little notice was paid, for example, to the photographs of Alonzo Jordan (1903-1984), who had made Byrd’s high school graduation portrait, and who had worked for more than forty years to document African Americans in Jasper and in the surrounding rural areas. These photographs will be the subject of an exhibition, Jasper, Texas: The Community Photographs of Alonzo Jordan, on view at the International Center of Photography from January 21 to May 8, 2011. Like many small-town photographers, Alonzo Jordan fulfilled various roles in the community. A barber by trade, Alonzo Jordan ... More |
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The Katonah Museum of Art Presents Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on Paper
KATONAH, NY.- It’s time to draw the line on your preconceptions about abstract art. Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on Paper, the newest exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art, features modern and contemporary works on paper from the Kramarsky Collection. On view from January 23 through May 1, 2011, Drawn/Taped/Burned showcases artists’ ingenuity in using unconventional materials and inventive drawing techniques to create their geometric and process-driven abstractions. For nearly five decades, Sally and Wynn Kramarsky have amassed over 3,000 original works on paper with a primary focus on Modern, Minimalist, Conceptual, and Process Art dating from the 1950s to the present. Moving away from representation and narrative themes, the work on exhibit demonstrates art in its purest physical form: line, color, shape, texture, and composition. Drawn/Taped/Burned celebrates the beauty of a fluid line, the energy of ... More
Colorado University Art Museum Opens Four Concurrent Exhibitions
BOULDER, CO.- In 2008, the CU Art Museum received 156 photographs by Andy Warhol as a gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts as part of the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program. The CU Art Museum premiered 112 of the gifted photographs which include Polaroids and gelatin silver prints featuring celebrities such as Martha Graham, Pelé, and John Denver, as well as portraits of patrons, friends, and anonymous models. Included among the gifted gelatin silver prints are also landscapes and interior settings, both rural and urban, which reveal an aesthetic of the banal as well as the transcendental. The photographs provide valuable insight into the artist’s blurring of the distinction between “life” and “art” and his construct of “the celebrity.” The exhibition includes 80 Polaroids and 32 gelatin silver prints taken by the Pop-Art master. Concurrent Exhibition: Warho ... More
Katonah Art Center Hosts Faculty Art Exhibit 2011
KATONAH, NY.- Back by popular demand! The Katonah Art Center holds its second annual Faculty Art Exhibit this January. Loren Anderson, KAC’s founder and director, is proud to bring back this show this year. “I am pleased and proud to mount the second annual Faculty Art Exhibit. Few Art Centers have as distinguished a faculty as we do. . Not only are they great artists, but they are also great teachers.” KAC director, David Hughes, adds “The amount of talent gathered in this show is truly inspiring both to professionals and to students.” Wende Caporale, whom The New York Times called “a leader in the field of children’s portraiture,” exhibits several of her pieces. Acclaimed artist Joe Tomasini, whose painting graces the cover of the Exhibit’s invitation, exhibits his work. Mixed-media artist Theresa Bates, whose work has been exhibited extensively throughout the Nor ... More
Asians Toast Lloyd Webber's Wines in $5.6 Million Sale
HONG KONG (REUTERS).- Some $5.6 million worth of fine wines from the cellars of British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber were hammered off in a sale at Sotheby's Hong Kong on Saturday amid ebullient demand from Asian and online bidders. With the former British colony of Hong Kong emerging as a global wine auction hub overtaking stalwarts like New York and London, the Lloyd Webber sale -- 100 percent sold by lot -- again underscored a voracious and growing thirst for the world's finest vintages amongst minted Asian and Chinese buyers. In another telling sign, a two-day auction in Hong Kong by leading U.S. wine sellers Acker Merrall & Condit fetched a bumper $10.8 million for 1,200 lots of wines, with rare Chateau Petrus and Lafite vintages shining through. At the Lloyd Webber sale in the luxury Mandarin Oriental Hotel, a mix of Western and Asian collectors, some sipping wine, from Webber's personal collection and feasting on a gou ... More
$1 Million Gift Announced by School of the Art Institute of Chicago
CHICAGO, IL.- The School of the Art Institute of Chicago announced a $1 million gift to the school from the Margot and Tom Pritzker Family Foundation intended to enhance the school's ability to recruit students from China. The gift has been designated to support scholarships that will assist students who are committed to the advancement of art and design in China and who intend to pursue their vocations and work in that country after graduation. Mayor Richard M. Daley announced the gift last night at a dinner honoring Chinese President Hu Jintao, who was presented with this gesture of friendship on behalf of the people of Chicago. Announcing the gift, the Mayor said, "Chicago is home to one of our nation's great schools of art and design: the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It is one of the oldest accredited independent schools of art and design in the United States and attracts students from around the world." Tom Pr ... More
Inside Art: Creative Responses to the National Gallery's Collection by Young Offenders
LONDON.- The National Gallery is to display artworks created by young men detained in Feltham Young Offenders Institution. The 48 works in the show are inspired by the Gallery’s collection and include paintings, prints, sculptures, drawings and collages. They were produced during the second successful year of the National Gallery Outreach programme Inside Art, which is undertaken by groups of 15 to 21 year-old men at Feltham. During 2010, 30 young men completed an Inside Art project. Those who attended the workshops had either been sentenced or were on remand and awaiting trial, and were therefore often in situations of stress and uncertainty. Feedback showed that engaging with art enabled participants express themselves in different ways, and furthermore helped them gain confidence and develop communication skills. The National Gallery is the first organisation to deliver a visual arts programme at Feltham’s ... More
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Appoints New Director of Development
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announced the appointment of Jonathan L. Peterson as the museum's new director of development. Peterson begins his role at SFMOMA on January 18, 2011. Peterson joins SFMOMA after four years as deputy director of development for San Francisco Opera, where he was responsible for contributed income of $35 million annually and managed a department of 28. During his tenure there, he successfully expanded board and volunteer leadership in fundraising; launched Orpheus, a young philanthropists giving society to engage the next generation of donors; increased annual support by 16 percent; and grew membership in the planned giving society by 50 percent over four years. Prior to joining San Francisco Opera, Peterson gained fundraising experience in leadership roles including vice president for development and community engagement for the New World Symphony in Miami Be ... More
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