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The sculpted head of K'inich Janaab Pakal. Photo: INAH/H. Montano.
MEXICO CITY.- After its successful presentation at the National Anthropology Museum, the exhibition “Rostros de la divinidad. Los mosaicos mayas de piedra verde” (Faces of Divinity. Greenstone Maya Mosaics) will travel to Paris, France, where the exhibition will be shown starting this February. The exhibition will present five funerary objects that were buried over a thousand years ago, for five Maya dignitaries, along with 12 jade funerary masks and a pectoral shell. Both nations have prepared this exhibition to celebrate "The Year of Mexico in France". The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) will mount this international exhibition at the Pinacotheque de Paris. ... More |
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Norman Rockwell Photo Mural "Maple Sugaring in Vermont" Back Where it Belongs
Vermont Agriculture Commissioner Roger Allbee stands by the newly-returned Norman Rockwell photo mural. AP Photo/Toby Talbot.
By: John Curran, Associated Press
MONTPELIER, VT. (AP).- A photographic mural by artist Norman Rockwell has been returned to its former home in Vermont's capital, drawing a close to a yearlong dispute between state officials and a museum where it hung for 23 years. The black-and-white photograph, "Maple Sugaring in Vermont," depicts a sugar house with smoke rising from its chimney as men — including Rockwell himself — tend sap buckets hanging on maple trees outside. Made in 1947, the 5-by-7-foot mural was commissioned by Rockwell friend Col. Henry Fairfax Ayres, who lent it to the state for display. The famed illustrator, whose paintings of farm scenes, apple-cheeked children and slices of Americana appeared for decades in The Saturday Evening Post, died in 1978. For about 14 years, he lived in Vermont, where he struck up a friendship with Ayres, a West Point grad and war ... More | | James Cohan Gallery Presents an Installation of Three Solo Exhibitions by Emerging Artists
Karen Seapker, Intangibles, 2010 (detail). Oil on canvas, 72 X 108 inches. Copyright the artist. Courtesy of James Cohan Gallery, New York/Shanghai.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan Gallery will present Continuum, an installation of three solo exhibitions by emerging artists Peter Matthews, Katie Paterson, and Karen Seapker. While formally distinct, these artists’ works share an interest in the mutual investigation of time and space and in the creative challenge of translating these abstract concepts into visual forms. Continuum will open on January 7 and will run through February 5, 2011. Peter Matthews creates his time-based drawings during meditative periods of extended immersion in the ocean. Informed by physical endurance, observation, and free association, his works seek to capture the constantly changing variables of the surrounding environment. Included in this exhibition are drawings the artist created in the Pacific Ocean off the shores of Costa Rica over periods of 4, 8, 10 and 14 hours. Executed with a variety of ink pens, the drawings accumulate into overlap ... More | | Prado Museum Loses Visitors in 2010 but More Students and Tourists Visit the Museum
A visitor looks at the painting 'Fillette au Faucon' (Girl with Falcon, 1882) by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir displayed during the exhibition 'Passion for Renoir' at the Prado Museum. EPA/PACO CAMPOS.
MADRID.- The Museo del Prado, in 2010, concluded the third consecutive year surpassing the 2.7 million annual visitors, a figure that was reached for the first time since the opening of its expansion. The final number of visitors received by the Museum during this year, 2,732,000, has been almost equal to that recorded in 2009, 2,764,155, and in 2008, 2,759,029 the first full year period of the expansion in full operation. As for the reasons to visit, a 57.58% of the total audience visited the permanent collection only, while the remaining 42.42% came to the Museum to visit the temporary exhibitions. Among the data to highlight in terms of different types of visitors, it should be noted that visits by groups of students in 2010 not only did not decline compared to 2009 but have seen an increase, by number of participants, 18% which seems to confirm the interest of the 'la Caixa' • Museo del Prado "The art of educatio ... More |
 | Artist Pat Steir Creates Wall Painting Commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art
Pat Steir, Another Nearly Endless Line (2010).
NEW YORK, NY.- Visible through the Madison Avenue windows of the Whitney Museum of American Art is a vast new wall painting created by artist Pat Steir, commissioned by Adam D. Weinberg, the Whitney’s Alice Pratt Brown Director. The painting, which went on view to the public in late December, is on a large west-facing wall in the Museum’s Lower Gallery level. The wall encloses the space where the Whitney’s restaurant is being renovated in preparation for the opening, in spring 2011, of a new café by Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group. Another Nearly Endless Line (2010) is composed on a wall washed with fourteen layers of transparent blue and purple acrylic paint, with a chalk grid of Pompeian red drawn upon the ground, and a swirling, undulating, painted line in red, orange, and yellow. The painted line, perhaps evoking a text, a road, a message, or a musical score, pulls the eye from the upper l ... More | | Great Automotive Styling Set for RM Auctions' 13th Amelia Island Auction Stage
1956 Cadillac Eldorado Prototype.
BLENHEIM, ONTARIO.- RM Auctions, the official auction house of the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, is set to continue its strong track record in Florida, March 12, when it returns to the prestigious Ritz-Carlton Hotel for its annual Amelia Island sale. Now in its 13th year, the well-established auction will showcase over 100 quality motor cars, spanning a century of automotive design, from a wonderful series of early Brass Era cars to elegantly styled British and American road and racing cars and European sports cars. Reflecting the international flavor of consignments, notable early entries include: an ultra-rare 1911 Rolls-Royce 40/50hp Silver Ghost Open Drive Landaulette; a superbly-restored 1930 Duesenberg Model J Convertible Coupe with Murphy Coachwork (J331); and an elegant 1938 Peugeot 402 Darl’mat Leger “Special Sport” Roadster (pi ... More | | Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Artist Jake Berthot at Betty Cuningham Gallery
Jake Berthot, SYCAMORE, 2010. Oil on linen, 35 3/4 x 28 in. Photo: Courtesy Betty Cuningham Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Betty Cuningham Gallery will present an exhibition of recent paintings by Jake Berthot, on view from January 6 – February 19, 2011. This will be the third solo exhibition for the artist at the gallery, located at 541 West 25th Street, New York, NY. The artist will be present for an opening reception on Thursday, January 6th from 6 – 8pm. Included in the exhibition will be approximately 10 paintings, ranging in size from 12 x 12 inches to 39 x 48 inches. Moving away from the darker palette seen in his last show, Berthot continues to paint quiet meditative canvases, suggestive of landscapes. The landscape reference entered into his purely abstract paintings in 1996 when he moved from New York City to a home in the Catskills region of upstate New York. In a recent talk, given before an audience at SUNY Ulster County Community College, Berthot refers ... More |
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International Dealer John Eskenazi to Bring Spectacular Sculptures to New York
Dancing Shiva, Eastern India, Bihar or Bengal, 5th/6th century. Terracotta. Height: 25 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- A wonderful selection of rare and beautiful Asian sculptures will be brought to New York by John Eskenazi for his annual New York exhibition Recent Acquisitions at Adam Williams Fine Art Ltd, from Wednesday 16 to Wednesday 30 March 2011, as part of Asian Art Dealers New York (AADNY) and coinciding with Asia Week. London-based John Eskenazi is one of the world’s most respected dealers in Indian, Gandharan, Himalayan and South-east Asian works of art. Of particular note is a charming terracotta fragment of Dancing Shiva from 5th/6th century Eastern India, Bihar or Bengal, the date corroborated by thermoluminescence analysis. Both joyful and thoughtful, the image is one of the most easily recognised forms in Indian art and in this early example Shiva is two-armed ... More | | Last Sketch by Jack Butler Yeats, A Gift to His Former Nurse, For Sale in Bonhams Irish Art Sale
Titled `Roundabout ponies’, the pen and ink drawing (measuring just over 5 x 4 inches) is estimated to sell for £1,500-2,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- An interesting little sketch, known as the last work Jack B Yeats (Irish 1871-1957) ever did, has been consigned by the family of his former nurse for sale in Bonhams first Irish Art Sale in London on 9th February 2011. Titled `Roundabout ponies’, the pen and ink drawing (measuring just over 5 x 4 inches) is estimated to sell for £1,500-2,000. The sketch was gifted directly from the artist to the matron of Portobello Nursing Home in Dublin, where he died. They had been friends for a long time and he gave her this little sketch. Hilary Pyle (author of the Yeats Catalogue Raisonne) says of it "He died on 28 March 1957. His last drawing, a tiny gay swirling sketch of two roundabout ponies on writing paper, was drawn two days before. ... More | | Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver Presents Exhibition of Works by Haida Artists
Hat woven by Isabella Edenshaw, painted by Charles Edenshaw, c. 1900. MOA A2382.
VANCOUVER.- Drawing on MOA’s own collection, as well as those of private collectors and major institutions such as McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Museum of Vancouver, Royal British Columbia Museum, and Royal Ontario Museum, Signed without Signature inaugurates The O’Brian Gallery, named in recognition of The Michael O’Brian Family Foundation’s recent gift of $1 million to the Museum. New exhibit cases, custom-designed by Milan’s Goppion Laboratorio (the same firm that designed MOA’s Multiversity Galleries casework), showcases works ranging in material from gold, silver, wood, abalone, ivory, bone, and paint, and in form from fine jewelry and extraordinary woven and painted hats to objects of everyday use, including spoons ... More |
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Legendary Marvel Comic Book Creator Stan Lee Gets Hollywood Star on Walk of Fame
Comic book creator Stan Lee holds up a replica of his new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. AP Photo/Chris Pizzello.
LOS ANGELES (AP).- There's a new superhero on Hollywood Boulevard. Comic book legend Stan Lee, creator or co-creator of such Marvel Comics characters as Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, X-Men, The Fantastic Four and Iron Man, has now been enshrined in concrete. The 88-year-old Lee unveiled his Walk of Fame sidewalk star on Tuesday in front of the Live Nation Building on Hollywood Boulevard. It's the 2,428th star dedicated on the famous avenue of dreams. Lee is founder, chairman and chief creative officer of POW! Entertainment. More than 2 million of Lee's comic books have been published in 75 nations and in 25 languages. His characters have been featured in 24 animated television series and several live-action movies. In collaboration with several artists, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Avengers, Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, and many other fictional characters, introducing ... More | | Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews During World War ll on View at SoHo Photo Gallery
"Chamberlain of the Royal Court of Albania," whose Muslim cousins hid 7 members of a Jewish family from the Nazi"s.
NEW YORK, NY.- Soho Photo Gallery presents a special exhibition by guest photographer Norman H. Gershman entitled Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews During World War II. Besa is a code of honor deeply rooted in Albanian culture and incorporated in the faith of Albanian Muslims. It dictates a moral behavior so absolute that non-adherence brings shame and dishonor to oneself and one's family. Besa demands that one take responsibility for the lives of others in their time of need. This Islamic behavior of compassion and mercy celebrates the sanctity of life and a view of the other–the stranger–as one's own close family member. Photographer Norman H. Gershman traveled to Albania over a seven-year period to speak with the people involved and to record their stories and their children’s stories. He photographed them as they appear today, along with the artifacts he collected, and presents an emotional and unprecedented wi ... More | | Dallas Museum of Art Presents First Overview of Its Modern and Contemporary Design Collections
Michele De Lucchi, First chair, 1983. Memphis Milano, Milan, Italy, founded 1981, manufacturer. Metal, wood, and paint, 35 1/2 x 25 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Kenn Darity and Ed Murchison.
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art presents Form/Unformed: Design from 1960 to the Present, a new installation drawn largely from its growing collections of iconic furniture and related objects from the past 50 years. On view through January 29, 2012, in the Museum’s fourth floor Tower Gallery, Form/Unformed reflects the vibrant transformation of ideology and style that shaped international design over the last half-century. The installation features work by such renowned designers as Verner Panton, Frank Gehry, Aldo Rossi, Ettore Sottsass, Robert Venturi, Donald Judd, Zaha Hadid, Louise Campbell, and Fernando and Humberto Campana. From the technological and formal ideals of modernism to the influence of the handmade, the more than 30 works in Form/Unformed reflect increasingly complex and vibrant relationships between concepts of function, aesthetics, and material ... More |
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Everson Museum of Art Announce Extension of Haudenosaunee: Elements Exhibition for Two More Weeks
SYRACUSE, NY.- The Everson Museum of Art announce the extension of Haudenosaunee: Elements, and exhibition presenting works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The exhibition which opened on November 13, 2010 will remain on view through January 30, 2011. Haudenosaunee: Elements features artists with well established careers and new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Katsitsionni Fox, Edward J. Burnam Jr., Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley B. Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehning, Tracy Thomas, Harold Farmer, Fred Gonyea, and Clint Shenandoah. “We are thrilled to be extending this exhibition, and provi ... More
Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina to Present the Second Emerging Talents Awards
FLORENCE.- Following the success of the 2009 awards, the Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina (CCCS) presents the second Emerging Talents, a project comprising an exhibition and prize presenting and promoting the younger generation of successful Italian artists, aged between 25 and 35 years. The CCCS will show a representative selection of works by all 16 participating artists at Palazzo Strozzi, in Florence from 19 February to 1 May 2011. The winner of the 2011 Emerging Talents Award will be announced at the opening of the exhibition on 18 February 2011. The project is intended to identify and foster those creative talents in Italy that have the potential to make an impact on the international contemporary art scene. At the same time, it is intended as an occasion for the visitor to engage with Italian contemporary art. The selected artists are consider ... More
The Helene and Zygfryd Wolloch Collection of Modern Sculpture Donated to Tel Aviv Museum of Art
TEL AVIV.- This collection of modern sculpture was donated to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art by Helene and Zygfryd Wolloch from Scarsdale, New York. The collection encompasses over a century of sculpture, from Auguste Rodin of the late 19th century to Arnaldo Pomodoro of the 1980s. It includes works by major sculptors in modern art, among them Jean Arp, Alberto Giacometti, Jacques Lipchitz, Henry Moore, Marino Marini and Alexander Calder. The collection was first exhibited in 1997 and constitutes an invaluable addition to the Museum's collections. Incorporated into the display are additional sculptures from the Museum's collections. Many of the works show an affinity for the human figure, whether clearly figurative, as with Rodin, Renoir, Archipenko, Moore and Marini, or abstract and suggested, as in the works of Arp, Etrog and Poncet. The display highlights formal aspects concerned primarily with object–space relationship ... More
Metropolitan Museum Launches Connections Series of Online Episodes Featuring Museum Staff
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art launches Connections today, a new online interactive feature that highlights the perspectives and insights of Museum staff on works of art in the Metropolitan’s collection. Connections is presented as weekly four-minute episodes throughout the year on the Museum’s website. Episodes are comprised of audio narration and slide shows of the works of art discussed, as well as links to contextual background. Each Connections episode explores a broad theme through the subjective and personal viewpoint of a Museum staff member. Participants include curators, conservators, scientists, librarians, educators, photographers, designers, editors, digital media producers, technicians, administrators, executive staff, and many other staff. Thomas P. Campbell, Director of the Metropolitan Museum, states in his introducti ... More
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