| | Surreal $36 Million Salvador Dalí Museum Opens in New State of the Art Building in Florida
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Visitors walk outside the new Dali Museum during the grand opening and dedication for the museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, January 11, 2011. The new $36 million museum houses the largest collection of Salvador Dali's work outside of Spain. REUTERS/Steve Nesius.
By: Tamara Lush, Associated Press
ST. PETERSBURG (AP).- For a few hours Tuesday, this Florida city was transformed into a Surrealist canvas in honor of Salvador Dali, the genre's master. A man wearing a large snail hat led a parade of drummers, who were followed by a phalanx of pirates past shimmering water and vibrant palm trees. Wild green parakeets fluttered in the air. Spanish royalty was on hand, as were several mayors, dozens of reporters and hundreds of art lovers. A number of people had attached pencil-thin Dali mustaches to their upper lips. Everyone gathered beneath a glass-and-concrete building — the new, $36-million museum that features a priceless collection of Dali's works. It replaces the old Dali Museum, more than doubling the exhibition space and improving hurricane protection. It is considered the world's most comprehensive collection of Dali's work. Princess Cristina of Spain, who is the duchess of Palma de Mallorca and the youngest daughter of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia, called t ... More |
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Miami International Art Fair to Kick Off on Thursday with 73 Local and International Exhibitors
Jan De Vliegher, Terrace, 2005, 200 x 200 cm. Photo: Courtesy Berengo Studio 1989.
MIAMI, FL- In addition to offering first viewing of America’s most exciting mid-winter contemporary art fair, with 73 exhibitors (25 local and 48 international dealers), Opening Preview of MIA on Thursday, January 13th plays host to an unconventional and energizing new wave of performance projects. For the opening night show organizers, International Fine Arts Expositions (IFAE), have partnered with cultural and community organizations, as well as established and emerging artists, to unveil a bevy of surprises and ensure a comprehensive and “next-generation” experience. First there is show curator Gean Moreno’s experiential presentation. The noted Miami artist, critic and curator, has created a truly multi-disciplinary playground for audiences through a collaborative effort with SPRING BREAK, a non-profit organization designed to develop new modes of approaching contemporary art and culture within Sou ... More | | Dennis Hopper's Bullet-Hole Andy Warhol Sells for $302,500 Today at Christie's
A portrait of Mao Zedong by Andy Warhol, with two bullet holes put there by "Easy Rider" star Dennis Hopper.Hopper. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010.
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- An Andy Warhol portrait of Mao Zedong that actor Dennis Hopper shot two bullets through sold for $302,500 at Christie's on Tuesday, more than 10 times its high estimate. The 1972 screenprint from Hopper's art collection is done in hues of mostly blues and greens, including a deep blue face for Mao, the founder of the modern communist state. It had been had been estimated to sell for $20,000 to $30,000 at the two-day auction of hundreds of works from the actor's collection and personal memorabilia from his California home. Mao was among Warhol's iconic subjects. Hopper's painting was unique because it included bullet holes fired after the notoriously wild actor got spooked and "mistook the portrait on his wall for Mao himself and shot at it," according to Christie's. Hopper, who died of cancer last year aged 74, later showed ... More | | Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Make $10 Million Gift to Renovate Metropolitan's Costume Institute
Jonathan Tisch and his wife arrive at Christies Green Auction. AP Photo/Charles Sykes.
NEW YORK, NY.- A landmark gift of $10 million to The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch will support the creation of a major exhibition space within its Costume Institute. This gift will allow the Museum to proceed, beginning in 2012, with the complete renovation of its costume-related exhibition galleries, study collection, and conservation center, it was announced today by Thomas P. Campbell, Director of the Museum. The new 4,200-square-foot gallery —to be named the Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Gallery—represents a fundamental change in the Museum’s approach to its costume collection as visitors will now be able to view some aspect of these holdings at least 10 months of the year. These rotating installations will examine fashion through conceptual approaches and connoisseurship and will bring visitors into a close dialogue with the works on display. “This gift is truly ... More |
 | Researchers Find Earliest Known Winery in a Cave in the Mountains of Armenia
A wine press, behind which an archaeological identification kit is placed, in Armenia. AP Photo/Gregory Areshian, National Geographic.
Randolph E. Schmid, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) .- The earliest known winery has been uncovered in a cave in the mountains of Armenia. A vat to press the grapes, fermentation jars and even a cup and drinking bowl dating to about 6,000 years ago were discovered in the cave complex by an international team of researchers. While older evidence of wine drinking has been found, this is the earliest example of complete wine production, according to Gregory Areshian of the University of California, Los Angeles, co-director of the excavation. The findings, announced Tuesday by the National Geographic Society, are published in the online edition of the Journal of Archaeological Science. "The evidence argues convincingly for a ... More | | Haggerty Museum of Art Receives Three Major Collections Valued at $1 Million
Frank Paulin, Morning on the Beach, Atlantic City, 1956 (detail). Gelatin silver print, 16 x 20”, 2009.15.8. Collection of the Haggerty Museum of Art. Gift of Bruce and Silke Silverstein.
MILWAUKEE, WI.- Works by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein are among the 135 pieces of photography and contemporary art, valued at $1 million, which have been donated to the Haggerty Museum of Art thanks to the generosity of three separate donors. This is the first time the museum has been gifted three collections of this size and scope within one year. And while Michael, Arts’63, and Mary Tatalovich, Arts ‘64, who are donating 80 pieces of contemporary art, are alumni, the other two donors have no direct connection to Marquette University. “These are three fairly significant gifts to receive all within a one-year period, and each gift adds new artists to the Haggerty’s collection,” said Wally Mason, director of the Haggerty Museum of Art. The three collections are: • 80 contemporary ... More | | Rediscovered Self-Portrait by Andy Warhol to be Offered at Christie's in February
Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Self-portrait. Executed in 1967 (detail). Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
LONDON.- Christie’s announce the rediscovery of a highly important, monumental-scale self-portrait by Andy Warhol (1928-1987). Executed in 1967 and an addition to an historically important series of 10 self- portraits, the picture has been in a private collection since 1974 when it was acquired from Leo Castelli, Warhol’s primary dealer. It will be offered at the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on Wednesday 16 February 2011 in London and is expected to realise £3 million to £5 million. The picture will be exhibited in public for the first time at Christie’s New York from 22 to 26 January 2011. The present work is one of an historic series of 11 large-scale self-portraits executed in 1967, five of which are in museums (Tate, London; The Staatsgalerie Moderne Kunst, Munich; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and two at the Detroit Institute for Arts). Such is the importance of the series that ... More |
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A Blockbuster Two-Part Sale of European Masters Announced at Christie's New York
William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905), Portrait of Eva and Frances Johnston. Estimate: $800,000-1,200,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
NEW YORK, NY.- Following on the heels of its successful December Evening Sale of Old Master & 19th Century Art in London, Christie's New York presents a blockbuster two-part sale of paintings, drawings and watercolors by the great masters of European Art on January 26. With over 300 works in total, the assembled offerings represent the greatest examples of European art dating from the 14th to the 19th centuries, with master works by Canaletto, Luca Carlevarijs, Jean-Francois Millet, Jean Léon Gérôme, William Bouguereau, and Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema among the highlights. Nicholas Hall, International Co-head of Old Master & 19th Century Art at Christie's, comments: “As the first major international auction of 2011, our flagship New York sale of Old Master and 19th ... More | | The Wapping Project Bankside Opens 2011 with Photographs by Christopher Thomas
Brooklyn Bridge II, 2001 (detail).
LONDON.- The Wapping Project Bankside opens 2011 with Munich based German photographer, Christopher Thomas. New York Sleeps: Photographs by Christopher Thomas, 2001-2009 (Prestel 2009, 2nd ed 2010) is a series of black and white images shot using a custom-made large format camera, Polaroid film and long exposures. The resulting exhibition of 30 large-scale cityscapes, devoid of people, offers an elusive glimpse of 19th century tranquility while hinting at a cryptic, apocalyptic ending. From views of a snow bound Guggenheim to a boarded up Katz Deli, Thomas’ New York looks abandoned. Are these architectural studies? Not quite. Does the beauty of each image satisfy the viewer? Not really. What first appears as neo-romantic imagery, beauty for beauty’s sake, is made richer and darker by the lack of human interaction. This is not the rowdy, no ... More | | Bolstered by Strong Results, Art Experts Upbeat About London February Auctions
Impressionist art expert David Norman holds artist Lucian Freud's "Self Portrait" at Sotheby's. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton.
By Chris Michaud
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Bolstered by strong results last year, leading auction houses are hoping sales in London next month will ride an art market recovery after the sharp decline that sent prices tumbling in 2009. Art experts at Sotheby's said they are cautiously optimistic that works by Pablo Picasso, Frances Bacon and Salvador Dali, which are on display in New York this week, will set some new artist's records at the Feb 10 sale in London. "There continues to be a very, very strong global demand for quality works, from collectors both established and new," said Helena Newman, Sotheby's' European head of Impressionist and modern art. "That was very much in evidence in ... More |
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Film Performance with Legendary Experimental Film-Maker Ken Jacobs at Moderna Museet
Ken Jacobs.
STOCKHOLM.- Moderna Museet and Xposeptember jointly present a unique opportunity on 15 January to see a film performance by and with American experimental film-maker Ken Jacobs, a legend and pioneer on the experimental film scene. In conjunction with the exhibition Image at Work, currently at the Romanian Cultural Institute, Ken Jacobs is coming to Sweden for the first time to stage a film performance at Moderna Museet. In Time Squared Jacobs focuses on experiments with projected light. Jacobs based this work on a technique using a simple analogue apparatus, The Nervous Magic Lantern, to manipulate the beam of the film projector, using the onlooker’s own perception to make stills appear to move, in a stroboscopic image flow that generates a form of optical illusion. “Ken Jacobs’ art seems to be put the images themselves to work – in the stroboscopic light the originally intended ... More | | Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Collects Tony Hawk Skateboard
Hawk’s deck will join a 1978 Honeycomb Pool Board donated by Stacy Peralta and a Powell skateboard in the museum’s permanent sports collection.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History acquired a skateboard deck ridden by renowned skateboarder Tony Hawk following the closing ceremony of the Quiksilver All 80s All Day Vert Challenge Jan. 7. The board is a 1986 Tony Hawk pro model Powell-Peralta deck ridden in competition by Hawk in the mid-1980s with graphics by Vernon Courtland Johnson (“VCJ”)—an influential skate artist credited with introducing the skull to skate graphic culture. Hawk brought the board out of storage in 2011 and will ride it in today’s event. “Skateboarding is a sport that highlights the inventive and entrepreneurial spirit of our nation,” said Brent D. Glass, director of the museum. “Tony Hawk strongly embodies this spirit, and for this reason I am pleased that his deck launches ... More | | Longest Running Art Fair West of New York Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary, Opens January 20
Andre Kertesz, "Woman Holding Sign".
LOS ANGELES.- In recent years, Los Angeles has experienced a rapid growth of contemporary art galleries along with an expansion of local museum programs highlighting emerging art making it a required destination for curators and collectors. As a marketplace for the Arts, it now rivals New York City. Glenn Lowry, Director of MoMA, recently said in the WSJ, “The art world is a very fluid place, but there is no question that L.A. is very hot at the moment.” photo l.a.XX, celebrating it’s 20th Anniversary, is the longest running art fair west of New York and is the largest photo-based art fair in the country with over 10,000 attendees. It brings together photography dealers from around the globe, displaying the finest contemporary photography, video and multi-media installations along with masterworks from the 19th century. This is the 48th art fair produced by ... More |
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Local Woman Immortalized in Bronze as Folkestone's Mermaid
FOLKESTONE.- Georgina Baker has been selected as Folkestone’s answer to Copenhagen’s famous “Little Mermaid” statue. Local resident Georgina will strike the distinctive “Mermaid” pose as the model for a life-size bronze statue being cast by celebrated artist Cornelia Parker for the Folkestone Triennial 2011. The selection ends the artist’s public search for a model from the town to become immortalised as “The Folkestone Mermaid”. When the competition process was launched in June, former Turner Prize nominee Cornelia Parker said, “This is not a beauty contest. I am not looking for a look-alike of the idealised Copenhagen Mermaid, but for a real person, a free spirit, so any shape or size welcome!” Local women over the age of 18 were invited to enter by sending in a photograph of themselves in swimwear before a final shortlist of candidates was drawn up from whic ... More
Everson Museum of Art Launches New Interactive Website Component
SYRACUSE, NY .- The Everson Museum of Art announce the launch of a new interactive component of its web site, www.everson.org, created by 2nd Nature Studios. Look, Think, Share! offers visitors a chance to look at works from the Everson’s permanent collection and share their thoughts on the web site. Look, Think, Share! uses Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), an art based curriculum which encourages critical thinking and communication skills by asking open-ended questions about art. VTS was developed by cognitive psychologist Abigail Housen and museum educator Philip Yenawine. “We are thrilled to offer this unique opportunity to interact with art from the Everson’s collection on our web site and to make our collection much more accessible to the public,” said Pam McLaughlin, Everson Museum of Art Curator of Education and Public Programs. “Look, Think, Share! presents art works that invite careful looki ... More
2011 AIA Institute Honor Awards Recognize Excellence in Architecture, Interiors, and Urban Design
NEW YORK, NY.- The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected the 2011 recipients of the Institute Honor Awards, the profession’s highest recognition of works that exemplify excellence in architecture, interior architecture and urban design. Selected from over 700 total submissions, 27 recipients located throughout the world will be honored at the AIA 2011 National Convention and Design Exposition in New Orleans. The jury for the 2011 Institute Honor Awards for Architecture includes: David Miller, FAIA, (chair) The Miller Hull Partnership, LLP; Ashley Clark, Assoc. AIA, LandDesign Inc.; Curtis Fentress, FAIA, Fentress Architects; T. Gunny Harboe, FAIA, Harboe Architect, PC; David Neuman, FAIA, University of Virginia; Louis Pounders, FAIA, ANF Architects; Sarah Snodgrass, AIAS Representative, University of Nevada- Las Vegas; Allison Williams, FAIA, Perkins & Will and Jennifer Yoos, AIA, VJAA. ... More
Christie's International Real Estate is New Name for World's Leading Network of Property Specialist
LONDON.- Christie’s, the world’s leading art business, has announced a corporate name change for its exclusive property brand Christie’s International Real Estate, formerly Christie’s Great Estates. The prime and super-prime sectors of the property market—where Christie’s International Real Estate operates exclusively have a global clientele. The name change will instill in these consumers a more immediate grasp of the company’s mandate and clarify that Christie’s and its real estate arm are one and the same. Christie’s International Real Estate is the only real estate network wholly owned by a fine art auction house. The network is uniquely positioned to follow the footprint of its parent company, Christie’s, into the growing markets of the Middle East, Russia, and China, as well as established economies across the world, most notably North and South America and Europe. The ... More
The Comité des Sages Calls for a "New Renaissance" by Bringing Europe's Cultural Heritage Online
AMASTERDAM.- The report of the Comité des Sages (high-level reflection group) on Digitisation of Europe's cultural heritage was delivered to Neelie Kroes, European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda, and Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner responsible for Education and Culture. Among its top recommendations are that Europeana should become the central reference point for Europe's online cultural heritage. Member States must ensure that all material digitised with public funding is available on the site, and bring all their public domain masterpieces into Europeana by 2016. Cultural institutions, the European Commission and Member States should actively and widely promote Europeana. The report urges EU Member States to step up their efforts to put online the collections held in all their libraries, archives and museums. It stresses the benefits of making Europe's culture and knowledge more easily accessible. It ... More
Online Access to the Plants of the World Is Available
WASHINGTON, DC.- For centuries, jungle explorers from Europe and North America have created art of the plants they discover—pressing bright flowers and green tendrils onto herbarium sheets for prestigious museums and plant collections. But scientists in the most biodiverse countries lack easy access to this basic information needed to identify plants. The Global Plants Initiative, meeting Jan. 11-13 at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, catapults biodiversity research to a new level, sharing plant collections in a massive online database of high-resolution scans. “In the past, when we wanted to confirm the identity of a plant collected in the field, we shipped samples to experts or travelled to herbaria—both extremely costly and impractical,” said Mireya Correa, staff scientist at STRI and professor of botany at the University of Panama. “New technological advances have put this inform ... More
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