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This is an unprecedented collaboration project between museums headed towards a better understanding of the headdress, which efforts have been intensified during the administration of President Felipe Calderon. Photo: Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
MEXICO CITY.- Negotiations conducted for 3 years by the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) before the Austrian Government, are about to reach a historical agreement that would bring Moctezuma´s Headdress to Mexican territory. Friendly relations sustained between the Mexican and Austrian Governments would achieve a good-will exchange that would crystallize the dream of millions of Mexicans of admiring the feather headdress attributed to the last Mexica tlatoani (ruler). This is an unprecedented collaboration project between museums headed towards a better understanding of the headdress, which efforts have been intensified during the administration of President Felipe Calderon. In February 2010 was constituted a bi-national commission in charge of conducting scientific analysis of the piece to determine its physical state and identify the necessary restorati ... More |
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Illuminating Design's Impact on Society: 'Unpacking the Nano' at Cornell's Johnson Art Museum
Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata delivers a speech next to new Nano cars. EPA/STR.
ITHACA, N.Y.- Heralding the role of design in profound societal change – in this case in India, the world’s most rapidly growing economy – Cornell University presents “Unpacking the Nano,” an exhibit highlighting Tata Motors’ Nano automobile, at the university’s Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. The exhibit will run until March 27, 2011. The exhibit was planned and organized by the Cornell’s College of Art, Architecture and Planning. The show explains how it is possible to design and produce a car that sells for equivalent of $2,500. How will access to inexpensive, motorized mobility transform a society? The 1,322-pound Nano achieves 65 mph, promises safe transport and exceeds European air quality standards. Demand for the Nano is exceptionally high — more than ... More | | Archaeologist Investigates Drawings of Prehispanic Sites from the 17th Century
Drawing by Francisco Agüera y Bustamante. Photo: Leonardo Lopez Lujan/INAH.
MEXICO CITY.- Hundreds of images of Prehispanic monuments and sites, created during the Colonial period and located in diverse archives, most of them outside Mexico, are being studied by archaeologist Leonardo Lopez Lujan, and have became helpful documentary sources for the location of Mesoamerican sculptures and ceremonial sites. Although technological devises make archaeological research easier, the researcher from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has been conducting for 6 years this historiographic study of archaeology, deepening in the knowledge of Prehispanic cultures and locating ceremonial sites, cities, buildings and sculptures. The investigation that represented his entrance as a numerary member of the Academia Mexicana de la Historia (Mexican Academy of ... More | | Award-Winning Songwriter Carole Bayer Sager Debuts Abstract Paintings at LA Art House
Carole Bayer Sager, Lavender Blue, 72 x 60. Oil on linen. Photo: Courtesy LA Art House.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Artist and Oscar and Grammy Award-winning songwriter Carole Bayer Sager debuted her new collection of lyrical, abstract paintings at her first ever solo show. Hosted at the LA Art House, Generations: New Paintings by Carole Bayer Sager marks the artist’s return to her original love of abstract work in an exploration of color, texture and light. “Painting and songwriting have many similarities for me,” says Sager. “Both are intuitive and expressive and, just as in songwriting, it is rewarding when your painting touches another person.” Celebrated for her legendary songwriting, Sager’s passion for art began as a hobby in 2006 and has flourished into a full-time endeavor. In 2009, she completed Power Chairs, a series of portraits of some of her closest friends in their favorite chairs. With ... More |
 | Newly Discovered Paintings by Hokusai and Important Porcelains in Asia Week Exhibition
Attributed to Hasegawa Togaku, Waves and Rocks (detail), 17th century, courtesy
Leighton R. Longhi,.
NEW YORK, NY.- Two newly discovered paintings by Katsushika Hokusai, creator of The Great Wave off Kanagawa, and dozens of other rare and exceptional works of art will be exhibited in JADA 2011: An Exhibition by the Japanese Art Dealers Association. The exhibition will run from March 19 – March 23, 2011 at the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York City. JADA 2011 is the association’s third joint Asia Week exhibition and presents the traditional fine arts of Japan. “Asia Week in New York is a rich, long-standing tradition that dates back to the early 1990s and inspired a similar event in London,” said Leighton R. Longhi, president of JADA. “This year, around 50 galleries will be holding Asia Week exhibitions, not to mention museum exhibitions, auctions, and lectures and talk ... More | | New York City Landlord Wants Money from Lennon Suit Auction, Sues Braswell Galleries
Two outfits worn by John Lennon that were auctioned. AP Photo/The Hour, Matthew Vinci.
Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press
NEW YORK, NY (AP).- A New York City landlord has a message for the collector who recently sold the suit John Lennon wore on the cover of the Beatles' "Abbey Road" album: You never give me your money. The seller's former landlord has sued the gallery that auctioned the late Beatle's suit for $46,000, trying to get at the proceeds to satisfy a rent debt. Braswell Galleries was told before the Jan. 1 sale that a court had determined in 2009 that seller Biond Fury — a psychic and memorabilia collector — owed more than $21,000 in rent for his former Manhattan apartment, according to landlord Mark Arrow's lawsuit, filed Tuesday in a Manhattan state court. Arrow's lawyers say they told the Norwalk, Conn.-based gallery not to go through with the sale, and that the gallery ... More | | Kunsthalle Zürich Presents an Exhibition by Heimo Zobernig, Key Figure in the Austrian Art Scene
Heimo Zobernig, ohne Titel, 1981. Rotes Leuchtstofflampenlicht / red phosphor lamplight. © Foto Archiv HZ.
ZURICH.- The Kunsthalle Zürich launch its exhibition season at the Museum Bärengasse – where it is based temporarily until June 2012 while work is carried out on the conversion and renovation of its permanent home at the Löwenbräu Areal – with the solo exhibition «ohne Titel (in Red)» by Heimo Zobernig (born in Mauthen, Carinthia, Austria in 1958; lives and works in Vienna). This exhibition (on view until 20 March 2011) presents an artist who, based on a body of work produced since the 1980s, is viewed as a key figure on the Austrian art scene. Zobernig’s exhibition provides insight into an oeuvre that explores themes of minimalism, the historical loading of the opposing pair of “figurativeness vs. abstraction” and the problem as to what art is or can be, its outward form and function. In keeping with the rooms ... More |
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Beatles Memorabilia Museum with Thousands of Objects Opens in Buenos Aires
People watch The Beatles items exhibited at The Cavern club and new Beatles Museum in Buenos Aires. AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia.
Almudena Calatrava, Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES (AP).- A brick from The Cavern Club, a check for 11 pounds signed by Ringo Starr, an "authentic" Beatles wig. These and thousands of other objects related to the "Fab Four" are luring Beatles fans to a new museum in Buenos Aires. The museum is the product of the particular "Beatlemania" obsession of Rodolfo Vazquez, a 53-year-old accountant who became a fan at the age of 10 when he got their "Rubber Soul" record. "With the song "In my life" I fell in love with the Beatles," he told The Associated Press. Vazquez scooped up all the memorabilia he could find in Buenos Aires about history's most famous rock band, an obsession that grew until ... More | | Vargas, Sundblom and Elvgren Masterpieces Anchor Illustration Art Auction in Beverly Hills
Vargas, Playboy Pin-Up, October 1968.
DALLAS, TX.- Rare pin-up art from the greatest illustrators to ever pick up paint and brush will be the main draw when Heritage Auctions launches its first Signature(r) Illustration Art Auction of 2011, Feb. 11-12, at its Beverly Hills offices, continuing the successful pairing of California sun and the gorgeous women of illustration that was begun last year, led by Alberto Vargas' Gold Carnation (Legacy Nude #9), one of the most important paintings from the great artist's peak period. "Our last auction focused primarily on mainstream, Golden Age and Children's Literature illustrations," said Ed Jaster, Senior Vice President of Heritage Auctions. "We wanted to use this auction to get back to big names in pin-ups because collectors want it and we happen to have a strong group of incredible images to offer." While it has been the Estate of Charles Martignette that has provided a majority of heft to Heritage's Illustration ... More | | "A Serpentine Gesture and Other Prophecies" on View at Le Frac Lorraine
Antony Gormley, FIRMAMENT III, 2009. Vue de l’installation. Photo : Allard Bovenberg, Amsterdam. Courtesy Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium.
METZ.- 49 NORD 6 EST Frac Lorraine presents the exhibition "A Serpentine Gesture and Other Prophecies" on view until the 1st of May 2011. Global warming, reversal of the poles, decrease in solar activity, tsunamis, or earthquakes… Natural disasters and intensive human activity converge to bring about the end of the world, as foretold, time and time again, jointly by the media and the scientific community. It is no longer the death of our sun, expected to take place billions of years from now, which looms on the horizon, but a quicker apocalypse which has already been envisioned in detail by Hollywood. The next rendezvous, December 21, 2012: the Maya calendar will come to an end as will our world… However, if it could be postponed until 2017, and if we give credit to the rumor spread ... More |
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Salvaged Scotch on Display to Mark 70th Anniversary of SS Politician Grounding
Empty whisky bottle with barnacles from the wreck. Photo: Courtesy National Museums Liverpool.
LIVERPOOL.- The SS Politician ran aground off the west coast of Scotland on 5 February 1941 with 28,000 cases of malt whisky aboard. She had been bound for Jamaica and America . People came in small boats from near and far to help themselves to the whisky – a rationed wartime luxury. The story of the wreck and subsequent looting of whisky by islanders is legend and was immortalised in book and film “Whisky Galore” in 1949. Now as the 70th anniversary of her last voyage approaches, two bottles of scotch salvaged from SS Politician are going on show. Amazingly one bottle still contains whisky. The whisky was acquired recently by curators UK Border Agency Museum. Other artefacts from the Harrison Line vessel will be on display including a wage book and deck log recording the stranding. Dawn Littler, curator of Archives at Merseyside Maritime Museum , said: “S ... More | | Kutluǧ Ataman & Šejla Kamerić Receive Routes Award from European Cultural Foundation
Šejla Kamerić, Glück, 2009.
BRUSSELS.- The European Cultural Foundation (ECF) annually honors artists, activists and thinkers who help to understand and appreciate Europe's cultural diversity in new and compelling ways with the Routes Princess Margriet Award. This year's laureates are the artists Kutluğ Ataman and Šejla Kamerić. On 8 February the Routes Award will be presented to the laureates at the Royal Flemish Theatre in Brussels. Both laureates, chosen by the independent international jury will receive EUR 25.000. In addition to the Award ceremony a conversation with the artists and screening of their work will be shown as part of a public programme in Brussels on February 9th and in Rotterdam on February 10 & 11th. The Routes jury praised Sarajevo-born Šejla Kamerić's originality and independence of mind. Kamerić has received widespread acclaim for her work that combines poignant intimacy and social commentary. The i ... More | | A New Gallery for Old Bond Street: Thomas Williams to Open New Exhibition Space in March
Thomas Williams is renowned for showing leading contemporary representational artists.
LONDON- Old Bond Street’s first new gallery for 10 years will open on Tuesday 15 March 2011 when Thomas Williams launches its greatly expanded and re-modelled exhibition space. The new gallery is housed in a striking 1900 building, originally commissioned by the Duveen family, which has been restored to its original purpose for the first time since the Second World War. The 2,500 square foot space has been has been created by the emerging young designer, Abbie de Bunsen. Founded in 1989 Thomas Williams is renowned for showing leading contemporary representational artists and in 2011 will present solo exhibitions of new work by Alessandro Raho, Lucy Cavendish and Paul Simonon. The program for 2012 includes an exhibition of work by Californian artists of the 60s and 70s. Thomas Williams is also a longstanding dealer in Old Master drawings, with an annual exhibition held in the gallery each July. The gallery re- ... More |
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Norman Rockwell's America...In England Opens to Critical Acclaim!
LONDON.- It has been a few weeks since the debut of the NMAI and AIG-organized traveling exhibition Norman Rockwell's America...In England at London's Dulwich Picture Gallery (oldest art museum in the UK), and the response from the British public and art press has been overwhelmingly positive. While taking place during London's most intense bout of snowy weather in years, the exhibition drew record-setting attendance at its December 15th premiere. High attendance figures have continued since the debut, with Dulwich staff reporting not only "people queuing to get in" to the exhibition, but also "queuing to get into the [gift] shop!" The exhibition premiere was scheduled as part of Dulwich's 200th Anniversary celebration (1811 - 2011). It is the first exhibition of Rockwell's work in the UK. For an American artist to be exhibited alongside Dulwich's world-renowned Old Masters collection including Rembrandt, Ga ... More
Helmut Newton Foundation Extends 'Alice Springs' Exhibition Until May 15th
BERLIN.- With the exhibition 'Alice Springs', the Berlin-based Helmut Newton Foundation has been presenting since June 12th, 2010 the first retrospective of June Newton internationally. In 1970, she started her own photographic work under the pseudonym Alice Springs; this has been exhibited regularly at the Helmut Newton Foundation since 2005, namely in "June's Room." The current retrospective in Berlin provides with a range of approximately 250 works a comprehensive look at the four decades that span her work, presenting advertising and fashion photographs as well as nudes, and above all portraits. Since its opening in June 2004, the Helmut Newton Foundation has welcomed more than 800 000 visitors. Due to this huge success also of the current show, the 'Alice Springs' exhibition will now be on view until 15th May 2011. After that, it will be presented at the kestnergesellschaft in Hanover from November 24th, 2011 to Feb ... More
Move For Life! with ArtParis 2011
PARIS.- For the first time in its history, ArtParis is acting on the urban public scene with Move For Life, a mobile art intervention against poverty, aids, violence, racism and environmental destruction by Littmann Kulturprojekte (Basel). The aim of Move For Life is to create a dialogue between art and the public through major societal issues… using lorries! These utility vehicles become giant billboards showing the works of artists throughout Europe in places where we least expect them, on more than 250,000 kilometres of roads. As an engaged action, Move For Life is involving internationally renowned artists who produce socio-political works capable of speaking to each and every one of us. By raising questions and triggering reflection, these creations, which express active stands, allow for a direct confrontation between art and the public at large, outside th ... More
Chinese Teacher Helps Blind Find Confidence in Art
By: Royston Chan
NANNING, CHINA (REUTERS).- Inside a brightly-lit room in a lighting store, painting teacher Zeng Bailiang and his group of volunteers are patiently teaching a group of blind students the basics of Chinese painting. The students in the classes in Nanning, the provincial capital of China's southern Guangxi province, spend hours practicing brushstrokes on a special paper, feeling with their fingers the different wet and dry areas to guide them on their painting. Eventually they get to the point where they can dip a brush, similar to the ones used for Chinese calligraphy, into black ink and draw things such as mountains or bamboo trees with long strokes. Short strokes can create flowers or birds. Zeng, 55, is a self-taught artist who has been conducting classes for the blind for the past several decades. He says the classes fuel his passion for art with a sense of satisfaction that comes from helping the students -- many of whom were orphans who came to him wanting ... More
Cleveland Art Museum to Auction European Paintings
CLEVELAND, OH (AP).- The Cleveland Museum of Art plans to offer more than two dozen European old master paintings as part of an auction in late January. The Plain Dealer reports it's the largest sell-off from the museum's collection in more than 50 years. The museum's chief curator says the 32 works don't fit well with the Cleveland museum but could have a place elsewhere. They'll be offered at Sotheby's in New York over two days, starting Jan. 27. The auction house estimates the pieces are worth a total of roughly $700,000 to more than $1 million. The most valuable paintings among them are two depicting an ancient Roman battle. They're expected to generate $200,000 or more. Most of the works are by minor masters and are expected to bring in much smalle ... More
Inscribed 18th Century Mughal Emerald Seal Owned by Officer of the East India Company for Sale at Bonhams
LONDON.- An important inscribed Mughal emerald personal seal set in a diamond encrusted gold bangle and bearing the name of Major Alexander Hannay, an East India Company officer, will be sold on April 5th in Bonhams sale of Indian and Islamic art. Estimated to sell for £30,000 to £50,000, the rectangular 18th century emerald is table-cut and was mounted in an enamelled gold bangle in the early 19th century. The three-line Persian inscription on the face of the emerald is in nasta’liq script and reads: "Amin al-Mulk Ashraf al-Dawla Alexander Hannay Bahadur Arsalan Jang AH 1185/ AD 1774-5". Major Alexander Hannay was in the service of the East India Company under William Hastings at the time when the company had transferred its trading role into a more military administrative one. In 1778, Hannay left Hastings’ service and entered that of the Nawab of Oudh. He managed the district of Gorakhpur, when during this period ... More
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