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British artist duo Italian Gilbert Proesch (L) and George Passmore (R) known as Gilbert George pose in front of their work entitled Street Partyduring a preview on their exhibition 'Jack Freak Pictures'in Hamburg, Germany, 24 February 2011. The exhibition is on display from 25 February to 22 May 2011. EPA/MARCUS BRANDT.
HAMBURG.- With its major spring show, Deichtorhallen Hamburg is once again bringing stars of the international art world to Hamburg. British artists Gilbert & George (born 1943 and 1942) have long since been acknowledged icons of British art, with their joyfully staged breaches of taboos and their stylish appearance as conservative dandies. The show will present the latest, wide-ranging group of pictures the duo has created. Called the “Jack Freak Pictures”. They will be on display in the cathedral-like setting of the large Deichtorhalle from February 25 to May 22, 2011 for the first time more or less in its entirety – some 120 pictures will be on view. The duo’s large-format pictures may in a sense resemble Medieval church windows, but present decidedly profane themes. In this case, Gilbert & George have created a group around the British national symbol, the Union Jack, with all its different conno ... More |
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Prehispanic Wooden Lintels Recovered at Tlatelolco to be Shown for the First Time
Beyond doubt, the rescued lintels were part of buildings that received Cortes at Tlatelolco. Photo: DMC INAH/M. Tapia.
MEXICO CITY.- Three wooden lintels of an age determined between 500 and 800 years, part of temples that might have been seen by Hernan Cortes when arriving to Tlatelolco, will be displayed publicly after being restored by specialists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in a process that took place for over 15 years. The ancient architectural elements that weight 200 kilograms each, are considered unique among Prehispanic items found until now, to be displayed at the great exhibition that will be opened in early March 2011 at MNA, “Six Ancient Cities of Mesoamerica: Society and Environment”. The exhibition curated by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma will gather more than 400 Prehispanic pieces from the ancient cities of Monte Alban, Palenque, El Tajin, Teotihuacan, Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco, addressing for the first time the ... More | | Marlborough Gallery Presents an Exhibition of Recent Work by Tom Otterness
Tom Otterness, Sitting Bear, 2009, bronze, 4 x 3 x 2 1/2 inches. Edition of 9. Photo: Courtesy Marlborough Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.-Marlborough Gallery presents an exhibition of recent work by Tom Otterness on view from February 23 through March 26, 2011. Animal Spirits consists of over two dozen bronze sculptures, ranging in scale from small to monumental, that in Otterness’ inimitable style deal with themes of money, class and the individual’s role in society, and of course their eponymous animal spirits. Often inspired by the figures of modern iconography – bulls, bears and bags of money – as well as those of classic fairytales – the Old Woman and the Shoe, the Three Little Pigs – Otterness’ subjects are instantly recognizable to the viewer. We think we already know them well. This allows the artist to make statements that are serious without causing offense, or to offer what writer Alan Moore calls, “hard lessons in reassuring tones.” Otterness’ anthropomorphize ... More | | Earliest Human Remains in United States Arctic Reported by Scientific Researchers
Some 11,500 years ago one of America's earliest families laid the remains of a three-year-old child to rest in their home in what is now Alaska. AP Photo/Ben A. Potter, Science.
By: Randolph E. Schmid, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP).- Some 11,500 years ago one of America's earliest families laid the remains of a 3-year-old child to rest in their home in what is now Alaska. The discovery of that burial is shedding new light on the life and times of the early settlers who crossed from Asia to the New World, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science. The bones represent the earliest human remains discovered in the Arctic of North America, a "pretty significant find," said Ben A. Potter of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. While ancient Alaskan residents were known to hunt large game, the newly discovered site shows they also foraged for fish, birds and small mammals, he explained. "Here we know there were ... More |
 | Three Images of Alexander the Great in Sculpture and Jewelery in Bonhams Antiques Sales
A Roman marble head of Alexander Helios Circa 1st Century B.C.-A.D. Estimate: £7,000-9,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams next sale of Antiquities on April 13th includes three powerful images of Alexander the Great - a 2000-year-old ring bearing his image and two stunning sculpted heads from the same era. Madeleine Perridge, Head of Antiquities at Bonhams comments: “Alexander has been seen as the greatest general and ruler in history. After his death he was treated as a demi-god, his image was everywhere and his legendary exploits a powerful part of Greek and Roman culture. The Roman emperors even adopted him as an ideal and represented themselves in his guise – A ring used by the emperor Augustus was actually adorned with the figure of Alexander, possibly much like the one we are selling. The three works of art up for auction are proof of the power of his image and legend throughout the Hellenistic and Roman periods, enduring even in the present day.” The first sculpted head of Alexander the Great is Roman from th ... More | | First U.S. Survey of Blinky Palermo's Work Travels to the Hirshhorn in Washington
Blinky Palermo, Untitled, 1964. Oil paint on canvas. 37 3/8 x 31 3/4 in. (95 x 80.5 cm). Collection Ströher, Darmstadt. © 2010 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Photo: Jens Ziehe.
WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Hirshhorn is the premiere East Coast venue for the first U.S. retrospective of work by noted postwar abstract painter Blinky Palermo (German, b. Leipzig, 1943; d. Maldives, 1977). Although the artist’s reputation is well established in Europe and he has influenced generations of American artists, his work has rarely been shown in North America. On view at the Hirshhorn Feb. 24–May 15, “Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964–1977” introduces viewers to the full range of the artist’s practice. “Like Yves Klein, Blinky Palermo received critical acclaim in Europe for his contribution to the development of 20th-century art,” said Kerry Brougher, the Hirshhorn’s deputy director and chief curator. “Yet despite the fact that Palermo lived in the United States for several years and engaged with the work of American abstract artists such as ... More | | National Gallery of Australia Opens the First Solomon Islands Art Exhibition in Australia
New Georgia Group, Solomon Islands Figure head [nguzu nguzu] prior to 1925, wood, paint, shell, 28 x 12 x 25.5 cm. South Australian Museum.
AUSTRALIA.- The National Gallery of Australia exhibition, Varilaku: Pacific arts from the Solomon Islands opens tomorrow and is on show until 29 May 2011. The first Solomon Islands exhibition in Australia, Varilaku tells a story of both beauty and aggression, bringing together the finest traditional arts from the Solomon Islands. The word ‘varilaku’ describes the mixture of cool bravado and aggression found in the confidence of a Solomon Islands warrior, fully adorned and decorated, embarking on war-like or headhunting expeditions. Ron Radford AM, Director of the National Gallery of Australia said “The National Gallery of Australia is delighted to present the first Solomon Islands exhibition in Australia which shows the finest examples of this art from museums and private collections throughout the country. Indeed not since 1974 at the British Museum, has there been such a comprehensive display of art from ... More |
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Collections from Leicestershire and Worcestershire on Sale at Christie's South Kensington
A portrait by the studio of Peter Lely of Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth. Estimate: £8,000-12,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
LONDON.- In Christie’s second Sunday Sale of the year on 20 March 2011 two distinguished private collections will be offered for sale: The Collection of the late Lady King of Wartnaby and Property of the late Amanda Caroline Severne of Shakenhurst. The Sunday Sales offer an increasingly popular opportunity for collectors to view and bid at their leisure over the weekend, and choose from a wide range of antique treasures and furnishings at affordable prices. Loved for generations by their respective owners, the two hundred items in the upcoming sale range from a pair of George V octagonal silver sugar casters, with a pair of sauceboats (estimate: £300-500) to a bronze group of a Cossack hunter with two borzoi cast by C.F. Woerffel after the model by Vasilii Grachev, 1877 (estimate: £15,000-20,000). The sale as a whole is expected to realize in ... More | | Sotheby's to Offer Iconic Piece of Space History That Paved the Way for Yuri Gagarin's Historic Flight
The Vostok 3KA-2 Space Capsule which paved the way for Gagarin’s historic mission. Est. $2/10 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Nearly 50 years ago, on 12 April 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin rocketed out of the Earth’s atmosphere aboard the small, spherical Vostok 3KA-3 Space Capsule, becoming the first man to travel into outer space. Three weeks prior, the Soviet space program launched the final test flight of the Vostok spacecraft in preparation for this momentous event. The Vostok 3KA-2 carried a life-size cosmonaut mannequin, Ivan Ivanovich, and a dog, Zvezdochka, into low Earth orbit, and reentered on its first pass over the Russia 115 minutes later. Sotheby’s will offer the Vostok 3KA-2 Space Capsule, which paved the way for Gagarin’s historic mission, in a dedicated auction in New York on 12 April 2011, the 50th anniversary of man’s first flight into outer space (est. $2/10 million*). The space capsule will be on public exhibition in Sotheby’s York ... More | | Kestnergesellschaft Presents a Solo Exhibition of Works by Photographer David LaChapelle
US photographer David Lachapelle poses in his exhibition at the Kestnergesellschaft. EPA/JOCHEN LUEBKE.
HANOVER.- In the first institutional solo exhibition in Germany of works by the American photographer David LaChapelle (*1964), the kestnergesellschaft presents a series of new, not yet shown photographs. The series Earth Laughs in Flowers, which was created this year, refers to art-historical visual traditions but never loses sight of LaChapelle’s own artistic language. The large-format still lifes in this series, with titles such as The Lovers, Concerning the Soul, Risk or America, seamlessly take up the principle of exaggeration that characterized the portraits of celebrities like Madonna, Pamela Anderson, Michael Jackson, Björk or David Bowie through which LaChapelle himself has become famous since the 1990s. The portraits always contained art-historical references, along with a fear of emptiness, a love of bad taste, an ugly beauty, but David LaChapelle’s recent works now show an explicit compositional affinity ... More |
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More than 100 New Photographs by Yossi Breger Exhibited at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
The exhibition is on view from February 24 2011 through June 4, 2011 at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
TEL AVIV.- The exhibition comprises 159 photos, all new, in various formats, taken since 2007 in various places around the world—Tel Aviv, Berlin, Cologne, Havana, Paris, Brussels, Rome, Beijing, Stockholm—in the course of daily life. The photos of—landscapes, buildings, spaces, objects, people—are a manifestation of being in front of a thing, the fundamental things that form the infrastructure of human environment. Precise and thoughtful, they are articulated in classical formal language, both pictorial and emotional; their accumulation generates a general conceptual model of a story of life and of the world. A space time continuum composed of light exposes pinnacles of encounters, of physical contact, of seeing and understanding, of the object as such and of its relative position vis-à-vis other things. The direct, mundane gaze explores an event which ... More | | New 'Thunder-Thighs' Dinosaur Discovered; Fossils in Sam Noble Museum Collection
Executed by Francisco Gascó under the direction of Mike Taylor and Matt Wedel. (detail)
LONDON.- A new dinosaur named Brontomerus mcintoshi, or “thunder-thighs” after its enormously powerful thigh muscles, has been discovered in Utah, USA. The new species is described in a paper recently published in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica by an international team of scientists from the U.K. and the U.S. Primary author Mike Taylor is a researcher in the Department of Earth Sciences at University College London. Co-authors are Mathew Wedel, assistant professor of anatomy at Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, Calif.; and Richard L. Cifelli, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma. A member of the long-necked sauropod group of dinosaurs which includes Diplodocus an ... More | | New York City Sale of Jazz Singer and Actress Lena Horne's Belongings Nets $316,000
Lena Horne, 57, is seen in New York in this Dec. 12, 1974 file photo. AP Photo/Jerry Mosey.
NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP).- An auction of 200 items that once filled the home of jazz singer and actress Lena Horne sold Wednesday for $316,000, more than double the highest pre-sale estimate. The late star's belongings from her Manhattan apartment were auctioned at Doyle New York. They epitomized her sophisticated taste: French-style furnishing, elegant costumes, jewelry and fine art. A sequined cardigan evening coat sold for $1,125, while a small Louis Vuitton trunk with stickers inscribed Lena Horne Hayton was sold for $20,000 — far above its pre-sales estimate of $500 to $700. And a soft leather vanity case inscribed LH was estimated at $200 to $400 sold for $6,250. Horne's favorite designer was Giorgio di Sant' Angelo, and a reversible mink coat by the Italian creator was estimated at $300 to $500 but sold ... More |
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 Controversial Egypt Diplomat's Rare Copy of Roberts 'Holy Land' for Sale at BonhamsLONDON.- A very fine and extremely rare hand-coloured copy of the six-volume ‘The Holy Land’ by David Roberts is for auction at Bonhams sale of Printed Books and Manuscripts in London on 22 March. It is estimated at £70,000- 90,000. The volumes date from 1842–1849 and were owned by Sir Eldon Gorst, one of Britain’s most controversial diplomats. In 1907, Gorst was appointed Consul General in Egypt which had been under British occupation since 1882. At first, he pursued a policy of liberalisation and bolstered Egyptian political institutions at the expense of the colonial administrators, much to their resentment. His aim was to weaken the influence of the Egyptian National Party which was campaigning for the British to leave. In 1908, Gorst heavily influenced the appointment as Egyptian Prime Minister of the unpopular Boutros Ghali, (whose grandson was General Secretary of the United Nations in the 1990s). ... More New Bird to Science Emphasizes the Critical Need to Conserve the Remaining Dry Forests of MadagascarCHICAGO, IL.- In a recent issue of the scientific journal Zootaxa, researchers from Madagascar and the United States described a new species of forest-dwelling rail. The new bird was named Mentocrex beankaensis, with the genus Mentocrex being endemic to Madagascar and the new species beankaensis being coined after the type locality, the Beanka Forest in western central Madagascar. This species was distinguished from another in the same genus, known from the eastern portion of the island, based on aspects of size, plumage, and DNA. The project resulting in this description was the joint efforts of scientists from the University of Antananarivo and Association Vahatra in Madagascar and the Pritzker Laboratory for Molecular Systematics and Evolution at The Field Museum in Chicago. Marie Jeanne Raherilalao and Steve Goodman conducted the morphological portion of the study, and the molecular genetics aspects by Nicholas Bloc ... More Jamie Wyeth Dog Portrait to Be Auctioned in NYCNEW YORK (AP).- A menagerie of animals has wandered in and out of Jamie Wyeth's art studio on his Delaware farm over the years, including his late yellow Labrador, Kleberg. But when the pooch got too close to his easel back in the 1980s, Wyeth painted a black circle around the dog's eye — a la Pete the Pup of the old comedy "Little Rascals." The unusual marking became so "endearing" that the lab became the subject of numerous studies and paintings, the artist said. One of those works, "Study of Kleberg," is scheduled to be sold at Christie's on March 3 for an estimated $40,000 to $60,000. The 1984 mixed media work went on exhibit there on Thursday. The seller is a collector from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., who has owned it for 20 years. Wyeth is the son of the great American painter Andrew Wyeth and the grandson of classic novel illustrator N.C. Wyeth. He paints the animals, people and landscapes in and around his studio an ... More Thomas Lawrence Retrospective Showcases Dazzling Portraits of High Society in Regency LondonNEW HAVEN, CT.- The Yale Center for British Art is the only North American venue for a landmark retrospective of the great Regency painter, Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830). On view from February 24, 2011 through –June 5, 2011, Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power and Brilliance showcases outstanding works by the most important British portrait painter of his generation. It also explores the development of Lawrence's career as one of the most celebrated and influential artists in Europe in the early nineteenth century. Organized jointly with the National Portrait Gallery, London, the exhibition features more than fifty stunning portraits from collections around the world, including The Royal Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Palace of Versailles, and The Art Institute of Chicago, as well as works from a ... More Art Contest Draws Google into Another Privacy FlapSAN FRANCISCO (AP).- Google thought it was doing a good deed last month when it opened an annual art contest to more kids across the United States. The gesture instead has turned into another opportunity for Google Inc.'s critics to question whether the Internet search leader is overstepping privacy boundaries by seeking too much information from its users. In this case, Google initially asked parents to provide the final four digits of their children's Social Security numbers along with their dates and cities of birth during the first month of its fourth annual "Doodle 4 Google." Google dropped the request for the partial Social Security numbers last week. But Google's about-face evidently didn't stop a spate of blog postings this week wondering if Google had violated its "don't be evil" motto. ... MoreLuigi Presicce Wins 2011 Emerging Talents AwardFLORENCE.- Emerging Talents is a biennial project promoted by the Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina (CCCS), Florence , comprising an exhibition and prize which aims to identify and foster the younger generation of Italian artists, aged between 25 and 35 years. At the same time, it is an opportunity for the public to engage with Italian contemporary art. The selected artists are considered to be some of the most talented young Italians whose work has been exhibited or has aroused the interest of galleries but not yet won the kind of recognition needed to attract the attention of a wider public. The prize is a monographic publication devoted to the oeuvre of the winner, to be published by Silvana Editoriale. On 18 February, the international jury, comprising Achim Borchardt-Hume (Whitechapel Gallery, London ), Barbara Gordon (Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC ), and Adam Szymczyk (Kunsthalle Basel), announced Luigi P ... More Hollywood Royalty in Beverly Hills: The Paul Gregory-Janet Gaynor Collection at Heritage AuctionsBEVERLY HILLS, CA.-The eclectic, far-reaching Collection of Paul Gregory and Janet Gaynor – Gregory was a powerful producer in Golden Age Hollywood and 1950s Broadway, and Gaynor, Hollywood’s top female star of the 1920s and 30s and winner of the first Best Actress Oscar in 1928 – two of classic Hollywood’s most enduring and well-loved names, will form the centerpiece of Heritage Auctions’ March 20 Signature® Decorative Arts Auction in Beverly Hills, the first Heritage Decorative Arts event to be held in this location. The collection is a richly varied selection of Fine and Decorative Arts drawn from many cultures and periods as well as Entertainment memorabilia from names such as fashion designer Adrian, Katharine Hepburn, Raymond Massey, Claudette Colbert, producer Arthur Jacobs, J. Watson Webb, Marion Davies, Joan Crawford, sportswear designer Jo Lathwood, Fleur Cowles, Mary Pickford and other fascinatin ... More |
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