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A man looks at self-portraits by Egon Schiele at the opening of the exhibition "Egon Schiele - Selbstportraets und Portraets" (Self-Portraits and Portraits) at Belvedere museum in Vienna. REUTERS/Herwig Prammer.
VIENNA.- The Belvedere dedicates a comprehensive show to Egon Schiele (1890-1918), one of the most outstanding Austrian artists of the twentieth century; it is the first to concentrate on his selfportraits and portraits. Beginning with works in the academic style, Schiele succeeded, in a series of revolutionary portraits, in overcoming the traditional conception of portraiture and redefining the genre. In keeping with early Austrian Expressionism, in his portraits the artist attempted to give visual form to the mental states of his models. Toward the end of his life he became Vienna’s most important portraitist, alongside Gustav Klimt. An important moment in his recognition as an artist was the purchase of a portrait of Edith Schiele by the Austrian Staatsgalerie (today Belvedere) in 1918. This first public acquisition of a painting by the artist, brought about by the director of the time, Franz Martin Haberditzl, laid t ... More |
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The Courtauld Gallery Presents Life, Legend, Landscape: Victorian Drawings and Watercolours
Frederick Walker, The Old Farm Garden, 1871 (detail). Watercolour and gouache over graphite on paper, 273 x 405 mm © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London.
LONDON.- Lost from view for many years and recently presented to The Courtauld Gallery, The Old Farm Garden by Frederick Walker (1840-1875), sets the scene for a wide-ranging exploration of Victorian drawings and watercolours. The exhibition is the first devoted to this area of The Courtauld Gallery’s collection and reflects the growing appreciation for Victorian draughtsmanship. The show, on view from 17 February to 15 May 2011, includes numerous previously unseen works and ranges from informal preparatory drawings for paintings, sculptures and stained glass to highly finished exhibition watercolours. It includes life studies, landscapes, genre scenes and subjects from literature and legend. The exhibition features works by most of the major artists of the age, from the redoubtable Royal Academicians ... More | | Egyptian Antiquities Authorities Say They Found Fourth Stolen Pharaonic Treasure
A limestone statue of Pharaoh Akhenaten holding an offering table. REUTERS/Supreme Council of Antiquities.
CAIRO (REUTERS).- Egyptian antiquities authorities have recovered a statue of the renegade Pharaoh Akhenaten that was stolen along with eight other items during protests that brought down President Hosni Mubarak. Minister of State for Antiquities Zahi Hawass said this week thieves had broken into the Egyptian Museum on January 28 and taken eight treasures from the periods of Pharaohs Tutankhamun and Akhenaten but that three of them had been recovered. A statement from Hawass' ministry said a protester had found the 7 centimeter (2.8 inch) long limestone statue lying on the ground outside the museum in central Cairo during the demonstrations. Hawass, promoted to the level of minister of state in a cabinet reshuffle during Mubarak's final days in office, is under fire from the archaeological community over the ... More | | London's Natural History Museum: Earliest Human Skull-Cups Made in the UK
Skull bowl. Copyright Natural History Museum
LONDON.- One of the human skull-cups made by ice age Britons 14,700 years ago unearthed from Gough's Cave. The process required great skill and knowledge of anatomy. The 3 cups are made out of 14,700-year-old human skulls and were found in Gough’s Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset. They would have been used by ice age Britons and this is the first evidence of human skull-cup manufacture in the UK. The human skulls belonged to 2 adults and 1 child and a precise replica of one of the adult skull-cups will go on display in the Natural History Museum from 1 March 2011 for 3 months. Making containers out of human skulls may sound gruesome but the practice is well known worldwide. It has been documented from the Vikings and Scythians to recent peoples, and other potential skull-cups have previously been unearthed. However, archaeological evidence of the details of this practice is extremely rare and this new research reveals for th ... More |
 | Akbar Padamsee Masterpiece From 1960 to Lead Sotheby's Indian Art Sale in New York
Sayed Haider Raza, Prakriti (detail). Acrylic on canvas, 58 1/2 by 58 1/2 in. (150 x 150 cm.) Est. $500/700,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s sale of Indian and South East Asian Art on 25 March 2011 will be led by one of the most important paintings by a modern Indian painter ever to have appeared on the market. Untitled (Reclining Nude) is one of the highlights of Sotheby’s Asia Week series of auctions in New York and carries an auction estimate of $500/700,000. It was acquired by the current owners from the artist over 50 years ago and has never before appeared at auction. Sotheby’s presented the painting to collectors at the recent Indian Art Summit in New Delhi – the first time it had been returned to India since 1960. It will be on view in New York from the 18th March. Untitled (Reclining Nude) was executed in 1960, at a time when Padamsee produced few paintings and only worked in shades of grey. It was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Montreal the same year. The monotone of the current work gives the figure ... More | | Exhibition of New Work by Michael Riedel on View at David Zwirner Gallery
Michael Riedel, 6, 2011. Silkscreen on linen, 90 1/2 x 67 inches, 229.9 x 170.2 cm. Photo: Courtesy David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new work by Michael Riedel, on view at the gallery’s 533 West 19th Street space. This will be the artist’s third solo show at the gallery. Riedel uses text as his source material and employs a wide range of media and formats to examine its various manifestations. For an early lecture delivered in 1997, he wrote his name on a paper bag and concluded the talk by putting it over his head while saying, “I am Michael Riedel.” As if offering a literal illustration of how writing is an external act, the artist elaborated on the significance of this action in his talk at The Kitchen, New York, in May last year: “in this case I am overwriting myself. In other words, I’m not just the artist making art but also the artist watching himself making art and perceiving this process as art. This also shifts the position of the viewer, who watches t ... More | | Street Artist Banksy's Graffiti Lands in Los Angeles Ahead of Oscars Ceremony
File photo of a Sotheby's auction house staff carry's The Rude Lord, a painting by Banksy. EPA/Andy Rain.
LOS ANGELES (REUTERS).- Street artist Banksy's first film "Exit Through the Gift Shop" is up for an Oscar -- and it seems the subversive Briton may be waging an unorthodox awards campaign on the walls and billboards of Los Angeles. Several examples of graffiti bearing the hallmarks of Banksy's style and humor have turned up in areas of the city in recent days, including a Charlie Brown figure apparently bent on arson, and a cocktail-swigging Mickey Mouse. The Mickey Mouse graffiti, first spotted on Wednesday, featured a lascivious Mickey grabbing the breast of a model and appears on a billboard opposite the Directors Guild of America offices near Hollywood's Sunset Strip. The billboard was taken down late on Wednesday. Other pieces noted by bloggers and graffiti artists in recent days include a giant Oscar-like gold figure wearing a hoodie and standing on a red carpet being guarded by ... More |
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Marilyn Monroe Pin-Up Amazes at $83,000+ in $4.1+ million Illustration Art Event
Earl Moran's glowing image, Marilyn - a gorgeous image of a young Norma Jean before she became Marilyn Monroe.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- The combination of California sunshine, the imminent approach of Valentine's Day and some of the most beautiful women ever painted proved an irresistible triumvirate to Illustration Art collectors at Heritage Auctions in Beverly Hills on Friday, Feb. 11 for the company's $4.132 million Signature(r) Illustration Art auction. All prices below reflect 19.5% Buyer's Premium. "The market is as strong and the demand is just as high as ever," said Ed Jaster, Senior Vice President of Heritage Auctions. "We've seen nothing but positives since we began having these auctions in Beverly Hills. We love it." The more than 1175 bidders who registered to bid on the 732 lots in the auction let barely any slip by, as the sale registered a near perfect sell-through rate of 99.8% by value and 98.36% by lot total. "This auction marks the very center of The Martignette Estate," said Todd Hignite, Consignment Director for ... More | | Scottish Splendour and Belgravia Elegance Meet at Christie's in March Sale
Christie's will offer property from the London residence of Mrs. Winston Spencer Churchill. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
LONDON.- Christie’s announces the country house sale – Kinross House, Scotland and Property from the London Residence of Mrs Winston Spencer Churchill, which will be offered at Christie’s South Kensington on 30 March 2011. The sale comprises over 300 lots of carefully selected treasures from these two fascinating collections. Estimates start at only £300, providing a wonderful opportunity for collectors to furnish their homes with a piece of true British history. The sale is expected to realise in the region of £500,000. Kinross House, Perthshire, is regarded by many as one of the most beautiful houses in Scotland. The house looks out over the shores of Loch Leven to an island on which stands the ruins of Loch Leven Castle – once the prison which held Mary Queen of Scots. Classically Palladian, this vast house was designed and built by Sir William Bruce of Balcaskie, 1st Baronet, between 1685 and 1693. B ... More | | James Cohan Gallery Presents Second Solo Exhibition by Japanese-Born Artist Hiraki Sawa
Hiraki Sawa, O, 2009 (video still), 3-channel video projection, 10 channel video installation on customized LCD monitors; 5-channel sound by Organ Octet (edited by Dale Berning) exhibited on customized spinning speakers; customized metal light frames and light-bulb fixtures. Installed dimensions variable. Copyright the artist. Courtesy James Cohan Gallery, New York/Shanghai.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan Gallery presents theirr second solo exhibition by Japanese-born, London-based artist Hiraki Sawa. The centerpiece of this exhibition is a video and sound installation entitled O (2009), originally commissioned by the Queensland Art Gallery for The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane, Australia. Presented across a triptych of large-scale projections, ten small video monitors and five channels of audio, O abstracts the notion of time by the simultaneous depiction of interior and exterior spaces, meditations on the moon and the earth, and suggestions of the present and distant past. The installation transports ... More |
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Stefano Cagol's Stockholm Syndrome (always with you) at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
Stefano Cagol, Check, 2010-2011. Video still from EVOKE PROVOKE (the border). Printed on PVC banner, 36½ x 59 in. (93 x 150 cm) Image courtesy of Priska C. Juschka Fine Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- Priska C. Juschka Fine Art presents Stockholm Syndrome (always with you), Stefano Cagol's second solo exhibition at the gallery. Through different media, Cagol launches a provocative investigation of, at first sight, impossible relationships and boldly combined correlations of events. What does Patty Hearst have to do with Helen of Troy? Or the Italian politician Aldo Moro with the German former RAF member and hostage taker Peter-Juergen Boock? Or the Italian Concilio in the sixteenth century with twenty-first century conspiracy theories and the Cuban flag? Or should we call the Stockholm Syndrome the Lima Syndrome? These are riddles not necessarily to be solved, but to be reflected upon and digested in this multimedia exhibition, serving as a preview for Stefano Cagol's official participation in the Venice Biennale ... More | | Alan Cristea Gallery Presents German Artist Christiane Baumgartner: Reel Time
Christiane Baumgartner, Gelände II, 2010 (detail). Woodcut on Misumi Japanese Paper. Paper 53.0 x 66.0 cm / Image 37.0 x 50.0 cm. Edition of 12. Courtesy of artist and Alan Cristea Gallery.
LONDON.- German artist Christiane Baumgartner combines the centuries-old technique of woodcut with the contemporary technology of video to reflect on subjects we often take for granted. She asks us to take a moment to stop and pause in a world of ever-increasing speed by making images of simple everyday views such as a ploughed field in snow, a wood from a moving car, a journey through a city at night or a reflection in water. Baumgartner offers a poetic, objective view of war through her woodcuts of aircraft both moving and still, of explosions in the sky and floodlights trailing an unseen target. This is Christiane Baumgartner’s second solo exhibition at the Alan Cristea Gallery, on view from February 17 through March 19 2011. Spanning both galleries, this is the largest commercial exhi ... More | | Oscar-Nominated Costumes on View at Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising
Costumes designed by Mary Zophes, from the film "True Grit". AP Photo/Matt Sayles.
By: Sandy Cohen,AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP).- Helen Mirren's Elizabethan dress from "The Tempest" is covered with gold and silver zippers, all the way up to its ruffled collar. The hat that made Johnny Depp the Mad Hatter in "Alice in Wonderland" was crafted from imported Italian leather woven with gold threads, and it was sized to fit the fluffy orange wig he wore beneath it. The costumes from "True Grit" were made new, then aged to look more than 100 years old, while much of the clothing from "The King's Speech" were original pieces from the 1930s. Film fans and fashionistas can get an up-close look at these Oscar-nominated outfits and nearly 100 other movie costumes at L.A.'s Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising's 19th annual Art of Motion Picture Costume Design exhibition, on view now. The FIDM Museum ... More |
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Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia Presents the Exhibition "Dies Irae: Photographs by Paolo Pellegrin"
MILANO.- Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia presents the exhibition Dies Irae, photographs by Paolo Pellegrin from February 18 through May 15 2011. Throughout his career Paolo Pellegrin received innumerable international prizes and awards that are indicative of how the strength and intelligence of his works can live through time as parts of a greater, coherent and universal picture. Pellegrin represents a new generation of photographers that are aware of the modern means of production and distribution of images at their disposal. They operate to offer a new way to look at the facts they document, always maintaining their ethics in the form and methods of their job. Pellegrin always uses a metaphor to speak about his job: photography to him is like a language we wish to learn. An unfamiliar language, perhaps of an unknown stock, whose mystery fascinates and draws us towards it. Little by little the mystery reveals its feature ... More
Moore College of Art & Design Receives Largest Endowment Gift In School's History
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- In a major advancement for both its endowment and for the Moore College of Art & Design mission of preparing students for careers in the visual arts, Penny Fox, Chair of Moore’s Board of Trustees, and her husband Bob, have given $2 million to the college. The gift will create Moore’s first-ever endowed professorship and fund five endowed student internships annually. “This is a historic step for Moore,” said President Happy Craven Fernandez. “We are deeply grateful to Penny and Bob. Not only is it our largest endowment gift, but it will be incredibly meaningful in extending our signature Internship Fellowship program. It will also make it possible for Moore to continue to attract and retain award-winning, professionally active faculty who encourage excellence and creative exploration in our students, the hallmarks of a Moore education,” she said. Just last year, Moore began a ... More
Barnes Foundation Move Opponents Go Back to Court
PHILADELPHIA (AP).- Opponents of a plan to move The Barnes Foundation's legendary art collection to Philadelphia are asking a judge to reopen the case. The Friends of the Barnes Foundation want to halt the Barnes' move from suburban Lower Merion. In court documents filed Thursday, they accuse former Attorney General Mike Fisher of misconduct. They say he should have been a neutral party but instead was a "major player" in enabling the Barnes' move by pressuring its trustees. The opponents say statements by Fisher and then-Gov. Ed Rendell in the 2009 documentary "The Art of the Steal" shed new light on what happened behind the scenes. The Barnes galleries are slated to close in June and reopen next year in a new building near the Philadelphia Museum of Art. ... More
Aspen Art Museum Presents Artist Mark Manders's Museum-Wide Parallel Occurrences
ASPEN, CO.- The Aspen Art Museum presents the museum-wide exhibition Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences/Documented Assignments. Co-organized with the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles—where it was on view from through January 2, 2011—the exhibition will remain on view at the AAM through Sunday, May 1, 2011, and will travel to the Walker Art Center (June 2 – September 11, 2011), and the Dallas Museum of Art (January 15 – April 15, 2012). Since 1986, Mark Manders has been engaged in what he calls his “Self-Portrait as a Building,” an ongoing and monumental project that has come to define his overall practice. Language, as title, content, and formal structure, remains a key element of a process in which objects are accumulated in a manner that replicate sentences. As the artist explains, “this building can shrink or expand at any moment… all words created by mankind are on hand.” ... More
Phillips de Pury & Company's London Contemporary Art Evening Auction Totals $8,725,040
LONDON.- Phillips de Pury & Company's February Contemporary Art Evening sale saw active bidding in a lively sale room realizing £5,409,200 /$8,725,040 with 84 % sold by value and 83% by lot. "We are delighted to have set three new auction records on a night that has proven that the market for contemporary art is buoyant. Phillips de Pury & Company continues to break new ground with strong results achieved for young contemporary artists." Peter Sumner, Head of Sales, London, Philips de Pury & Company. Contemporary Art Evening Sale Top Ten Lots: • Jean-Michel Basquiat Overrun, £ 1,127,650 /$1,818,899 • Raqib Shaw, Absence of God III... And His Tears of Blood Will Drown the Cities of Men II £553,250/$892,392 • Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, The Painting on an Easel, £361,250/$582,696 • Rudolf Stingel, Untitled, £361,250/$582,696• Peter Fischli & David Weiss, 4 Hostessen (4 Stewardesses), £277,250/$447,204 • Günther Uecker, Mutation ... More
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