| | Singer Laren Restores Auguste Rodin's The Thinker After It was Damaged When Stolen
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The restored statue The Thinker by French artist Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is on display at the museum Singer in Laren, The Netherlands, 28 January 2011. The Thinker, c. 1881-2, along with six other bronze statues, was stolen from the sculpture garden of the Singer Laren Museum in January 2007. It was recovered two days later, but the sculpture was damaged. Its restoration was carried out by the University of Amsterdam's Department of Conservation and Restoration in the Ateliergebouw in the Dutch capital. EPA/TOUSSAINT KLUITERS.
LAREN.- Singer Laren has restored The Thinker by Auguste Rodin. The work was carried out by the University of Amsterdam’s Department of Conservation and Restoration in the Ateliergebouw (the Rijksmuseum’s new conservation studio) in the Dutch capital. The restoration aimed to recover the external appearance of the seriously damaged sculpture. Rodin’s The Thinker, along with six other bronze statues, was stolen from the sculpture garden of Singer Laren on 17 January 2007. It was recovered two days later much the worse for wear. A committee of external experts deliberated on the future of The Thinker and concluded that the statue was well worth restoring so that it could regain its symbolic value for the collection of Singer Laren. The committee recommended that The Thinker be subject to a responsible and supervised reversible restoration with as few int ... More |
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The Art of Light: Works by László Moholy-Nagy at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
László Moholy-Nagy, AM 7 (26) detail, 1926, Ernst und Kurt Schwitters Stiftung/Sprengel Museum, Hannover.
THE HAGUE.- Light as art and art as light. Throughout his life, László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) played with light in all his work: his paintings, sculptures, collages, photographs, films, graphic designs, book covers and theatre sets. Light is to Moholy-Nagy what a pencil is to a draughtsman. He lived during that fascinating era when the art world experienced a transition to modern times: the interwar period, a time of world-famous art movements like the Bauhaus and De Stijl. Moholy-Nagy was a real citizen of the world. His life was one long journey, from Hungary, the country of his birth, to Vienna, Berlin, Amsterdam, London and Chicago – sometimes driven by emerging political threats, at other times in search of a new artistic challenge. Moholy-Nagy could turn his hand to anything. Besides working as an artist, he was also an intellectual, critic, thinker and teacher, but above all he was a utopian. Gemeentemuseum Den ... More | | The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Edward Wadsworth, Rotterdam, 1914. Woodcut. Collection of George Eastman House, Rochester, NY. Courtesy of George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film.
VENICE.- From January 29 through May 15, 2011, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914-1918, curated by Mark Antliff, Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, and Vivien Greene, Curator of 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art at the Guggenheim Museum New York. This is the first exhibition devoted to Vorticism to be presented in Italy and the first to attempt to recreate the three Vorticist exhibitions mounted during World War I that served to define the group’s radical aesthetic for an Anglo-American public. Vorticism was Britain’s most original and radical contribution to the visual avant-gardes that flourished in Europe in the years before and during World War I. An abstracted figurative style, combining ... More | | Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman in Exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Art
Thomas Gainsborough, Ann Ford (later Mrs. Philip Thicknesse), 1760, oil on canvas, 77 5/8 x 53 1/8 in. (197.2 x 134.9 cm), Cincinnati Art Museum, Bequest of Mary M. Emery. Photo: Scott Hisey.
SAN DIEGO, CA.- The portraits of notorious society women painted by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) are considered among the greatest portraits of the Western tradition. Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman is the first exhibition devoted to Gainsborough’s feminine portraiture and the first to focus specifically on modernity and femininity in Georgian England from the perspective of Gainsborough’s groundbreaking images of women. The San Diego Museum of Art is the second and final venue for this momentous exhibition. The exhibition brings together a choice selection of 11 paintings from renowned museum collections in the United States and Britain. Among those portraits on view at The San Diego Museum of Art from January 29 through May 1, 2011 will be Mrs. ... More |
 | Anti-Government Protesters in Cairo Smash Treasures and Mummies in Egyptian Museum
An Egyptian Army soldier guards the Egyptian Museum, with the Cairo Tower seen behind, at night in Tahrir square in downtown Cairo. AP Photo/Ben Curtis.
CAIRO (REUTERS).- Looters broke into the Cairo museum housing the world's greatest collection of Pharaonic treasures, smashing several statues and damaging two mummies, while police battled anti-government protesters on the streets. Arabiya television showed soldiers, armed and in battle fatigues, patrolling the museum that houses tens of thousands of objects in its galleries and storerooms, including most of the King Tutankhamen collection. Display cases were shattered and several broken statues and porcelain figures lay on the floor. A number of display cases appeared to have been emptied of some of their contents during Friday night's break-in. Egypt's top archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, told state television Egyptians on the street had tried to protect the building, but that the looters had entered from above. Two mummies on display had been damaged. "I felt deeply sorry...when I came this morning to the Egyptian Museum and found that some had tried ... More | | Sports Illustrated Presents Neil Leifer's For the Love of the Game at PDNB Gallery
Neil Leifer, Vince Lombardi, NFL Championship Game, Lambeau Field, Green Bay, WI, December 31, 1961. Images courtesy Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery.
DALLAS, TX.- Super Bowl Sunday now is certainly not what it was in the beginning. In 1967, when the Green Bay Packers played the Kansas City Chiefs in the first Super Bowl, there were only 2 players from each team that met in the center of the expansive playing field for a simple coin toss. Now it is the "World Championship", a week of sports madness playing up to the ultimate showdown of million dollar players sporting high-tech gear that has evolved from a simple set of light helmets, shoes and pads. The linebackers are heavier, stronger. The game is more brutal. Half Time has become star-studded and over-the-top. Thanks to Neil Leifer we have a great record of Pro-football since his first photographs taken at the NFL Championship Game January 15, 1958. On this day, his birthday, he witnessed what Sports Illustrated called, "the greatest game ever played" between the Colts and the Giants. Since then, Leifer has given us an extensive library of images of the heroes of Basketb ... More | | First Retrospective of Jim Dine's Sculpture Opens at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
Jim Dine. White Gloves, Four Wheels, 2007. Oil-based enamel and charcoal on wood, 81.5" x 58.25" x 24". © Jim Dine /Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by G.R. Christmas, courtesy The Pace Gallery.
GRAND RAPIDS, MI.- Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is the exclusive venue for the first retrospective of sculptural works by Pop Art master Jim Dine. As one of the most revered American artists, Dine has been a major force across the contemporary scene since the advent of the Pop Art movement. Celebrated for his paintings and graphic work, Dine’s equally prolific and profound efforts as a sculptor are less well-known. Jim Dine: Sculpture will be on display through May 8, 2011. The exhibition traces the origins of Dine’s sculpture from the early work of the late 1950s and the early 1960s through his most recently completed efforts. Many of Dine’s iconic themes are explored including his use of tool and tool imagery, the Venus figure and the heart motif. Most recent is his exploration of the Pinocchio theme. “Dine has a vast creativity and willingness to turn to a variety of images, many deriv ... More |
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Krannert Art Museum in Illinois Kicks Off 50th Anniversary Season with Exhibition
Hans Hofmann, Apparition, 1947 (detail). Oil on reinforced plywood. Festival of Arts Purchase Fund © Estate of Hans Hofmann/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
CHAMPAIGN, IL.- In March 1950, Look magazine published a two-page photo spread about University of Illinois’s third annual contemporary arts festival. The headline read “Corn Country Campus puts on biggest U.S.A. Arts Festival,” and the caption under pictures of abstract paintings explained that this artwork would spark “heated back-country discussion.” Despite the cultural jabs, the Look article went on to describe the event as “the biggest, most ambitious program of its kind on any U.S. campus.” One photo showed the student orchestra rehearsing under the baton of famed composer Igor Stravinsky. Other guest artists included composer John Cage, choreographers Merce Cunningham and Martha ... More | | Bruce Museum Opens Exhibition "Cindy Sherman: Works from Friends of the Bruce Museum"
Cindy Sherman, “Untitled Film Still, “ 1979. Black and white photograph, 8 x 10 inches, 20.3 x 25.4 cm. Edition of 10. Courtesy of the Artist and Metro Pictures.
GREENWICH, CT.- The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, announce its major winter exhibition featuring the work of one of today’s most influential artists, photographer Cindy Sherman. On view through April 23, 2011, “Cindy Sherman: Works from Friends of the Bruce Museum” is comprised of approximately 30 works, including large-scale black-and-white and color photographs, drawn from ten local collections in Greenwich and the surrounding communities. The exhibition features the artist’s favored themes and suggests something of the chameleon-like diversity of her art. Although Sherman is the model for her photographs, she is essentially serving as the material for her work, as an actress in a scene. She is adamant that the photographs are not self- ... More | | The Ptarmigan Vase: A Unique Treasure Enters National Gallery of Canada's Collection
Ptarmigan Vase. Photo: © Sotheby’s New York.
OTTAWA.- Thanks to a generous contribution from the Department of Canadian Heritage's Movable Cultural Property Program, the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) has acquired a unique and highly-significant vase for its international art collection. The Ptarmigan Vase, made of copper, silver and gold, was designed by the exceptionally-talented American Tiffany & Co. designer George Paulding Farnham. "We were attracted to this extraordinary vase because it tells the story of how Canadian and American cultures are closely connected," said Marc Mayer, Director and CEO of the NGC. “According to every expert we have consulted, the vase is one of the most ambitious decorative objects of its kind in existence. Canada is the best home for the Ptarmigan Vase. Purchasing it was an extremely time-sensitive exercise and we are most grateful to the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Off ... More |
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Hammer Museum's Sixth Biennial Invitational Highlights Los Angeles and International Artists
Charles Gaines. Black Panther (1966), 2008. Graphite on paper. 62 1/2 x 45 1/16 in. (158.8 x 114.5 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Kent Fine Art, New York.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- All of this and nothing is the sixth in the Hammer Museum’s biennial invitational exhibition series, which highlights work of Los Angeles-based artists, both established and emerging, alongside a number of international artists. All of this and nothing features more than 60 works, much of it created for the exhibition, by fourteen artists: Karla Black, Charles Gaines, Evan Holloway, Sergej Jensen, Ian Kiaer, Jorge Macchi, Dianna Molzan, Fernando Ortega, Eileen Quinlan, Gedi Sibony, Paul Sietsema, Frances Stark, Mateo Tannatt and Kerry Tribe. “The Hammer’s preceding Invitationals have all offered a glimpse into a specific trend in current art practices—All of this and nothing similarly highlights a philosophical and aesthetic sensibility that appears to be shared by many artists at this moment,” says Hammer director Ann ... More | | Exhibition of Select Images from Cui Xiuwen's Most Important Series at Blindspot Gallery
Existential Emptiness No. 16 (detail), 2009, C print, 78 x 200 cm, Edition of 6.
HONG KONG.- Existential Emptiness continues in a similar vein of digitally manipulated photography as her previous works, Sanjie (2003), One Day in 2004 (2004) and Angel (2006), where brilliant light and colorful palettes shine on the contradictions in cultural traditions and violence enacted against women in China. Existential Emptiness is a continuation of Cui's self-exploration and artistic expression of the female experience in today’s China. In contrast to the vibrant colours in her previous works, Existential Emptiness is a set of manipulation of digital photographic images of monochromic snow scene where the artist captured in Northern China, the images are reminiscent of traditional Chinese ink painting. Cui’s “girl” protagonist has always been considered as the artist’s alter ego in her works through which Cui addresses the violation of innocence under social and cultural pressure. The use ... More | | Photographs of Native Americans by Herbert Ascherman at the Butler Institute of American Art
Vivica Alberts, Blue Eagle Girl, Arikira.
YOUNGSTOWN, OH.- Considered by many one of this nation’s foremost living portrait photographers, Herbert Ascherman has rejected modern photographic technology, returning to the the late 19th and early 20th century platinum printing process. This Cleveland, Ohio, artist utilizes an 8 x 10 inch format, cherrywood camera that he takes on location, including places like Dubai, France and India, to create his exquisite images. This exhibition features portraits of Native Americans primarily from the Three Affiliated Tribes, as well as numerous other tribes, taken at the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota. As a photographer, writer and photo historian, I have long admired the heritage of Native Americans and their place in the photographic history of our country. After thirty five years as a professional portraitist, I have finally reached that previously unattainable point in my life and where I am able to re-prioritize my career and artistic objectives. Stepping back from ... More |
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Jim Nutt: Coming Into Character on View at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
CHICAGO, IL.- Known for his fantastical invention, biting wit, and distorted figuration, renowned American painter Jim Nutt has focused on portraits of female heads for the past two decades. These imaginary portraits are similar in some ways, yet each is distinctly individual. Jim Nutt: Coming Into Character is a retrospective that emphasizes the development of these important paintings through their precedents in his own work, on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, unitl May 29, 2011. Acknowledging the groundswell of interest in this unique Chicago artist’s work, this is the first major presentation of Nutt in over a decade. The exhibition is organized by MCA Curator Lynne Warren and presents 70 carefully selected paintings and drawings to trace the artist’s achievements. Jim Nutt’s (b.1938) career spans forty-five years, having emerged in the mid-1960s in Chicago as the chief instigator ... More
Cincinnati Art Museum Partners with 21c Museum Hotel
CINCINNATI, OH.- The Cincinnati Art Museum and 21c Museum share a mission: making art accessible and relevant to the everyday. That passion for bringing people and art together has ignited a first of its kind partnership with the exhibit, The Way We Are Now: Selections from the 21c Collection. More than 40 important contemporary works of art from the 21c Museum collection, courtesy of 21c Museum Hotel founders and collectors Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson, will be on display. Curated by 21c Museum Director, William Morrow, the exhibition will explore the defining issues of our time; politics, religion, war, sexual identity, racism, and immigration. According to Cincinnati Art Museum Chief Curator James Crump, “The Way We Are Now is a mirror onto our present day reality. Brown and Wilson have demonstrated time and again their support of, passion for and leadership in cutting edge contemporary art. Their efforts combini ... More
Norton Museum of Art Celebrates 70th with Free Birthday Bash
WEST PALM BEACH, FL.- The Norton Museum of Art will celebrate seven decades of bringing its quality permanent collections, traveling special exhibitions and innovative educational programming to the community with a grand celebration on Tuesday, February 8 from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. The “70th Birthday Bash” is free and open to the public, and features a museum-wide treasure hunt; curator talks and tours; a history lesson by Palm Beach’s “two-legged landmark” James Ponce; a vintage car display by Ragtops Palm Beach; and festive musical performances by Dimensional Harmony, Dreyfoos School for the Arts, Tabernacle Gospel Choir and Women of Note chorus. The Museum has organized a special Curator’s Choice self-guided exhibition for the occasion that features artworks acquired and bequeathed by founders Ralph Hubbard Norton and his wife, Elizabeth Calhoun Norton, and an equal number purchased or given by ... More
Maurer Zilioli Contemporary Arts Presents Limbo by Silvia Beltrami
BRESCIA.- Maurer Zilioli - Contemporary Arts presents Silvia Beltrami, currently on display (January 29-March). Silvia Beltrami, born in Rome in 1974 and for quite some time now living in northern Italy, is regarded as the young, very promising representative of an unusual art form. She devotes herself to a refreshingly contemporary interpretation of collage. Holder of a diploma from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, the artist works mainly with wallpaper and newsprint on used cardboard or rendered canvas to create her dynamic and vibrant compositions. Deploying extraordinary dexterity and astonishing powers of visualisation, Beltrami transfers visual ideas developed in small formats to large surfaces. With a deft hand she designs complex picture spaces and figurative ensembles. Familiar with the fresco technique since her student days, she often returns to it as the starting-point and basis of pictures that ... More
Baldknobbers to Donate Artifacts to Smithsonian Pioneering Variety Show from One of America's Entertainment Capitals
WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History received a collection of objects from the Baldknobbers, a variety show based in Branson, Mo. The donation documents the long and rich history of this variety jamboree show and its place in American entertainment culture. The group was formed in 1959 when brothers Bill, Jim, Lyle and Bob Mabe began entertaining visitors on the Taneycomo lakefront with "The Baldknobbers Jamboree." The Baldknobbers were named after an Ozarks vigilante group from the 1880s and are considered Branson's first country music-and-comedy show. The Mabe brothers performed with folklore instruments: washtub bass, banjo, guitar, washboard and a mule's jawbone to provide rhythm. The performances were an instant hit with visiting tourists and local fishermen. The band became so popular that it outgrew its original location and moved into an old skating rink, converting it into Br ... More
Artist and Composer Ryoji Ikeda to Create Immersive Visual and Sonic Installation for Armory's Vast Drill Hall
NEW YORK, NY.- Park Avenue Armory has commissioned artist and electronic composer Ryoji Ikeda to create a large-scale digital installation and sonic landscape as their third annual visual arts commission. Within the Armory's immense 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall, Ikeda will create a transformative environment that subsumes visitors within abstract expressions of digital information and binary code. Accompanied by a tightly synchronized musical composition, the two-part installation explores how data defines the world we live in and how it is a beautiful artistic material in its own right. On view from May 20 through June 11, 2011, the transfinite is Ikeda's most ambitious installation to date and marks the first time that American audiences will be able to experience the large-scale installation work of this multidisciplinary artist. "the transfinite promises to be a sublime experience, engaging the senses ... More
Getty Acquires Significant Group of South African Photographs
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced yesterday the acquisition of nine photographs by two important South African photographers, Pieter Hugo and Zwelethu Mthethwa. Five photographs are from Hugo's Permanent Error series, which documents the people and landscapes of a technology dump in Ghana, and two photographs from Mthethwa's Interiors series that shows citizens at home in the townships around Cape Town, and his Sugar Cane series, which heroically portrays sugar cane workers in South Africa. All nine photographs were acquired through the support of the Getty Museum's Photographs Council. "These acquisitions, by two of the most influential artists in South Africa today, represent big strides in diversifying our contemporary holdings," explains Judith Keller, senior curator of photographs at the Getty Museum. "I am thankful to the Photographs Council, not only for their continued support in making such acquisitio ... More
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