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Sotheby's art handlers hold the painting "La Lecture" by artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) at Sotheby's auction house in Paris January 19, 2011. "La Lecture", a 1932 Picasso portrait of his mistress Marie-Therese Walter, with an estimated price of up to $29 million, will be the main piece among several Impressionist Modern and Contemporary artworks that will be auctioned at Sotheby's London in February. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier.
PARIS (REUTERS).- A sensual 1932 portrait by Pablo Picasso of his young mistress Marie-Therese Walter which captures his romantic obsession with her went on display at Sotheby's in Paris on Wednesday ahead of an auction next month. It was the first public showing in Europe in some 80 years of "La Lecture," or "Reading," an erotic and brightly colored depiction of the voluptuous Marie-Therese sleeping nude in an armchair, her head thrown back and an open book in her lap. Painted in bright yellow, green and red oils at the height of what art experts call Picasso's "lovestruck" period, it will be the star offering at an upcoming sale of Impressionist and Modern art by Sotheby's in London. Experts say the painting could fetch between 12 and 18 million pounds ($19 to $29 million) after another 1932 Picasso portrait of Marie-Therese, "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust," was sold by rival auction house Christie's in New York for $106 mill ... More |
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Old Dog, New Tricks: Researcher from University of Maine's Study IDs 9,400-Year-Old Mutt
Researcher Samuel Belknap III works at his microscope in his research lab. AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty.
By: Clarke Canfield, Associated Press
PORTLAND, ME (AP).- Nearly 10,000 years ago, man's best friend provided protection and companionship — and an occasional meal. That's what researchers are saying after finding a bone fragment from what they are calling the earliest confirmed domesticated dog in the Americas. University of Maine graduate student Samuel Belknap III came across the fragment while analyzing a dried-out sample of human waste unearthed in southwest Texas in the 1970s. A carbon-dating test put the age of the bone at 9,400 years, and a DNA analysis confirmed it came from a dog — not a wolf, coyote or fox, Belknap said. Because it was found deep inside a pile of human excrement and was the characteristic orange-brown color that bone turns when it has passed through the digestive tract, the fragment ... More | | Sotheby's to Sell Rare Prints by Paul Gauguin from The Collection Of Stanley J. Seeger
Paul Gauguin, Idole Tahitienne, circa 1894‐95, estimated at £30,000‐50,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- On Wednesday, 30 March, 2011, Sothebyʹs London will present for sale a magnificent collection of works on paper by Paul Gauguin that incorporates the artistʹs three most significant categories of print‐making activity. Executed in France and Tahiti between 1894 and 1902, the works are among the finest within Gauguin’s printed oeuvre, and together they serve to represent the most important collection of Gauguin prints to be offered at auction for over a generation. From the Collection of Stanley J. Seeger, the ten works have a well‐recorded provenance that can be traced back in most cases directly to the artist. The group will lead Sothebyʹs sale of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints, and is estimated at £430,000‐574,000. Monotypes, traced monotypes and woodcuts were developed by Gauguin to a level of artistic innovation unseen among his contemporaries. When he arrived in ... More | | London Art Fair Opens Biggest Show to Date with Over 100 Galleries and Political Tinge
File photo of a gallery assistant cleans Adrian Firth's work entiteld 'Gordon Brown' at the London Art Fair. EPA/DANIEL DEME.
LONDON (REUTERS).- The London Art Fair opened its biggest show to date on Wednesday with over 100 galleries, many featuring exhibits inspired by contemporary themes like economic hardship and civil unrest. Other highlights of the exhibition of paintings, sculpture and photography include a contemporary photography showcase and provocative installations from a Glaswegian art collective. "This year is our largest Fair to date," said director Jonathan Burton in a statement. "Modern British painting and sculpture are at the heart of London Art Fair, but our thriving contemporary strand has grown with a number of galleries exhibiting at the Fair for the first time, including Danielle Arnaud, Vegas Gallery, and BARTHA CONTEMPORARY." Among other works, WW Gallery (London) presents a range of art "products" in a stand modeled ... More |
 | First British Portrait of a Black African Muslim and Freed Slave Goes on Display
Ayuba Suleiman Diallo also known as Job ben Solomon (1701-73)by William Hoare (c.1707-72), 1733. Photo: Christie's Images Limited 2011.
LONDON.- The Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) and the National Portrait Gallery, London announce a cooperative agreement relating to the portrait of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, painted by William Hoare of Bath in 1733. Following the purchase of the work by QMA at Christie’s in November 2009, the painting was the subject of export restriction, having been judged by the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art to be of outstanding importance to the history and culture of Britain. It was on this basis that the National Portrait Gallery expressed its strong interest in the painting. QMA has now decided to lend the work to the National Portrait Gallery for a five year period. It goes on display at the Gallery from tomorrow Thursday 20 January 2011. QMA will support a programme organised by the Gallery to include the ... More | | John Hancock Tower in Boston Selected to Receive AIA Twenty-Five Year Award
John Hancock-Tower. Photo: Gorchev & Gorchev.
WASHINGTON, D.C.- The John Hancock Tower in Boston, designed by I.M. Pei & Partners, has been selected to receive the 2010 AIA Twenty-Five Year Award. The John Hancock Tower has demonstrated excellence in function, in the distinguished execution of its original program, and in the creative aspects of its statement by today’s standards. The 2011 Twenty-five Year Award will be presented at the AIA National Convention in New Orleans. Thirty-five years after its dedication, the lean, rhomboid reflective glass tower designed by Henry Cobb, FAIA, continues to dramatize this classic architectural question of aesthetic balance. Built on a small site adjacent to some of Boston’s greatest architectural assets, the tower had to be massive enough to accommodate the owner’s requirements, yet absolutely mindful of its delicate and historic surroundings. Located in Boston’s historic Copley Square, the Hancock Tower continues ... More | | Adjunct Curator at ICP, Okwui Enwezor, Appointed as Director of Haus der Kunst
Okwui Enwezor © Jeff Weiner.
MUNICH.- Haus der Kunst announced the appointment of Okwui Enwezor as the next director of Haus der Kunst. Enwezor will take up the position in October 2011. He will succeed Chris Dercon, the outgoing director who will take over as director of the Tate Modern in April and will still be supervising the exhibition, "Carlo Mollino. Maniera moderna" (Haus der Kunst, September 16, 2011 - January 8, 2012). Enwezor (b. 1963 in Calabar, Nigeria) is currently Adjunct curator at International Center of Photography, New York, and previously Dean of Academic Affairs, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, as well visiting Professor in Art History University of Pittsburgh, Columbia University, and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is currently Joanne Cassulo Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in New York City and artistic director of Meeting Points ... More |
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Scale Model of the Warsaw Ghetto at the "From Holocaust to Revival" Museum
A visitor looks at pictures displayed inside a reconstructed bunker at the "From Holocaust to Revival" museum. REUTERS/Amir Cohen.
By: Rinat Harash
YAD MORDECHAI (REUTERS).- Survivors of one the darkest episodes of the Nazi-era have turned to light-and-sound shows and walk-through mockups in the hope their memories will not fade away into the history books. At the "From Holocaust to Revival" museum in southern Israel, a scale model of the Warsaw ghetto shows where its Jews rose up against Hitler's troops in mid-1943, engaging in frantic house-to-house fighting in a bid to halt deportations to death camps. The revolt marked the only significant armed Jewish resistance to Nazi oppression during World War II, but it was crushed with the loss of several thousand Jewish lives. Many of the Ghetto's remaining 50,000 plus inhabitants were sent to the gas chambers, becoming part of the 6 million killed by the Nazis. Guided by veterans of the revolt, visitors can pace out a reconstructed bunker with ... More | | A Special Exhibition on the Phenomenon James Dean Opens at the Kennedys in Berlin
James Dean, Walking Shot, New York City, 1954. © Roy Schatt / Courtesy Camera Work, Berlin.
BERLIN.- With the beginning of the SHOWROOM DAYS BERLIN, the museum THE KENNEDYS will embark on a journey through time to the mid-20th century. Alongside the political icon John F. Kennedy, the story of another icon of pop culture will be put into focus: James Dean. Starting on Wednesday, January 19, 2011, a special exhibition on the phenomenon James Dean will be put on display in the architecturally appealing premises of the museum. The museum THE KENNEDYS offers its visitors the unique opportunity to encounter the special relationship between fashion life style and James Dean, whose 80th birthday anniversary falls on 8 February 2011. Taking its cue from the motto of the SHOWROOM DAYS BERLIN, »How classy am I...«, visitors are encouraged to question the relationship between traditional values such as elegance and grace and the unique »Dean Style«. Hardly any other Hollywood actor of the post-war era influenced an entire ep ... More | | Social Documentary Photographer Milton Rogovin Dies at Age 101 in New York
Photographer Milton Rogovin in the subway station where several of his photos hang in Buffalo. AP Photo/David Duprey.
By: Carolyn Thompson, Associated Press
BUFFALO (AP).- Milton Rogovin, a social documentary photographer who built a life's work by looking through a lens at people who were invisible to others, died Tuesday at age 101. Rogovin was in hospice care after a brief illness and died at his home in Buffalo surrounded by family, said his son, Mark. After being blacklisted in the communist scare of the 1950s, Rogovin dedicated his life to photography. His pictures documented the lives of the poor, the dispossessed, the working class — in particular those living in a six-square-block neighborhood in Buffalo near his optometry practice. "He referred to these people as the 'forgotten ones,'" his son said. "These were poor and working people who were not ever in the limelight." Rogovin found "forgotten ones" on New York Indian reservations and in far-flung corners of China, Zimbabwe, France, Scotland ... More |
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Just a Few Months Before Opening, Minefields Circle Jesus' Traditional Baptism Site
A Christian Orthodox pilgrim stands on the Jordanian bank of the Jordan river. AP Photo/Oded Balilty.
By: Aron Heller, Associated Press
QASR EL-YAHUD (AP).- Just months before the official opening of one of Christianity's holiest sites to visitors, the area where John the Baptist is said to have baptized Jesus remains surrounded by thousands of land mines. Israel says the sites visited by pilgrims and tourists in an area known as Qasr el-Yahud will be safe, but advocacy groups warn that crowds could be in danger. On Tuesday, some 15,000 Christian pilgrims marched between two fenced-in minefields to reach the Epiphany ceremony led by the Greek Orthodox patriarch on the Jordan River, five miles (eight kilometers) east of the oasis town of Jericho at the edge of the West Bank. Worshippers from around the world dipped themselves in the muddy waters, facing fellow believers on the other side ... More | | Fry Art Gallery Buys Striking Eric Ravilious Watercolour with Art Fund Help
Eric Ravilious, Caravans, circa 1930s. (detail).
LONDON.- A striking watercolour by Eric Ravilious has been purchased by the Fry Art Gallery with the help of the Art Fund. Entitled Caravans, the work depicts the artist’s temporary home and studio during the early 1930s. This is the first time the painting has changed hands since it was sold by the artist in 1936. The Art Fund gave a substantial grant to help the Fry Art Gallery acquire the work. The watercolour shows the two caravans where the artist lived and worked at the peak of his career, offering an insight into his attachment to the landscape of Sussex. The painting has the mysterious, almost supernatural quality of many of Ravilious’ watercolours. Cool greens, dark browns and greys contrast with the lighter features of the landscape. A path leads the viewer’s gaze from the foreground of the painting past the two caravans which are starkly silhouetted on top of a hill in the distance. The wintry lands ... More | | The Wallace Collection Announces the Appointment of Dr. Christoph Vogtherr as New Director
Dr Christoph Martin Vogtherr is a specialist scholar/curator in eighteenth-century French painting.
LONDON.- The Chairman, Sir John Ritblat, and the Trustees of the Wallace Collection announced the appointment of Dr Christoph Vogtherr as the next Director of the Collection upon the retirement of Dame Rosalind Savill DBE next October 2011. 'Having run a fully international competition, it is very satisfying to find the right balance of scholarship and leadership from within the Wallace Collection itself, and that the appointment of Dr Vogtherr has the wholehearted endorsement of the Board of Trustees' says Sir John Ritblat, Chairman of the Trustees. Dr Christoph Martin Vogtherr is a specialist scholar/curator in eighteenth-century French painting. He was born in 1965 and studied Art History, Medieval History and Classical Archaeology at Berlin (Freie Universität), Heidelberg and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He received his Ph.D. ... More |
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Artists, Designers Join Forces for the Second Annual Green Auction at Christie's
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Artists, designers, entertainers and philanthropists are joining forces for the second annual green auction, which last year raised over $2 million for environmental groups. Christie's, which is again hosting the Bid to Save the Earth sale of artwork, celebrity dates, luxury travel and high fashion, will conduct the auction in New York on March 19, with proceeds earmarked for four leading non-profit organizations. Actress Salma Hayek, Vogue editor Anna Wintour and Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, along with cultural, business and environmental leaders, are expected to take part in the event, which Christie's is due to announce Wednesday. Proceeds from the green auction, including the silent sale on Christie's LIVE at www.christies.com, will be shared among Oceana, Conservation International ... More
Burton Morris Shows His Style of Pop Art at Pop and Contemporary Fine Art in Singapore
SINGAPORE.- What better way to start the year then with an exhibition of Burton Morris. In his post-Pop style, Burton Morris boldly projects an enticing mood of happiness, high energy and fun. He chooses one subject per composition to create what he calls “an instant happening” for the viewer. In his paintings, Morris energizes every day images with his unique style so that a steaming coffee cup, a swirling martini and a dancing popcorn box all take on a new life under his paintbrush. Burton Morris was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (the birthplace of Andy Warhol and Keith Haring) in 1964. His forbears were Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann and Red Grooms whose influences can be seen in his work today. The artist established the Burton Morris Studios in 1990 and his rise to fame began when NBC engaged him to produce artwork for the hit US sitcom, “Friends”, something Burton continued to do for the full 10 year run of the acclaimed worldwide hit ... More
Association of Photographers in London Celebrates Kodachrome with Exhibition
LONDON.- The AOP Gallery is showcasing a selection of captivating and evocative images all shot on Kodachrome slide film in the exhibition A Celebration of Kodachrome. Kodachrome, the slide-film that inspired songs, was discontinued by Kodak last year at 74 years of age. Upon hearing Kodak’s announcement that they would no longer be renewing stocks of Kodachrome, we thought it was time to celebrate this revered film! The show features work from AOP members and members of the public. AOP photographer member Adam Woolfitt set up an installation of his collection of Kodachrome slides inviting visitors to take a slide. So you could walk away with your own bit of history on a Kodachrome slide! This eclectic and seminal exhibition is a must-see, featuring the work of top photographers and lovers of film. Kodachrome is the trademarked brand name of a type of color reversal film that was manufactured by Eastman Kodak from ... More
Baltimore Museum of Art Presents Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art presents more than 200 compelling and provocative images that showcase the work of more than 60 of the most remarkable photographers of our time in Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960. On view February 20-May 15, 2011, the exhibition features groundbreaking individual photographs and photographic series by renowned artists such as Diane Arbus, William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, and Cindy Sherman, as well as works by artists whose names are not as familiar as their influential images. Film and video installations by Kota Ezawa, Joan Jonas, and Anthony McCall demonstrate innovations in time-based media. The works in the exhibition are drawn from the BMA’s exceptional but rarely shown photography collection, and many of the images have never been on view until now. Seeing Now follows the BMA’s 2008 exhibition Looking Through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960 with powerful example ... More
Phillips de Pury & Company Announces the Highlights from Valencia Contemporary Art Collection
LONDON.- Phillips de Pury & Company, announce highlights from Valencia Contemporary Art Collection that will feature in the London Contemporary Art Evening Sale on the 17th February. The single owner sale will take place on the 18th February prior to the Contemporary Art Day sale. "We are very excited at the prospect of offering the Valencia Contemporary Art Collection at auction. The collection represents a remarkable selection of contemporary art with particular emphasis on exploring the medium of painting over the past two decades and the genres with which painting is traditionally associated." Peter Sumner, Head of Contemporary Sales, London. Highlights include: Ilia & Emilia Kabakov's , The Painting on an the Easel, 1998, estimated at £400,000-600,000. The Painting on an Easel is a powerful manifestation of Kabakov's ability to question the history of artistic practice and challenge the traditional perspective ... More
Texas Foundation to Sell Matisse Set 'The Backs'
By: Jamie Stengle, Associated Press
DALLAS (AP).- A Fort Worth foundation is selling four Henri Matisse sculptures known as "The Backs" that were once on display at a downtown park. The large relief sculptures by Matisse that depict a woman's backside progressing from realistic to abstract were acquired by the Burnett Foundation in 1982 and later put on display at Fort Worth's Burnett Park. When the park was renovated in 2000, they were moved to Fort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum. Neils Agather, executive director of the foundation, said the value of the sculptures now far exceeds anything that could justify owning them. He said the main mission of the foundation, which focuses on supporting health, education, human services and arts initiatives, mostly in the Fort Worth area, is to support community activities, not own art. A "Back IV" sold at auction at Christie's in November for more than $48 million. "They've just gotten to a value now that it doesn't fit the mission anymore, ... More
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