| | Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne Presents Over 60 Works by Alexandre Cabanel
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Works by French painter Alexandre Cabanel (1823 - 1889) at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne, Germany, 03 February 2011. The museum presents the exhibition 'Cabanel - by Christian Lacroix' from 04 February until 15 May 2011, in which French fashion designer Christian Lacroix has designed the exhibition. EPA/TOBIAS KLEINSCHMIDT.
COLOGNE.- One of the foremost salon painters of 19th century France, Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889), will be featured in his first exhibition ever. In cooperation with Musée Fabre in Montpellier, the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne will present over 60 works by a man who rose from the rank of a lowly carpenter’s son to become court painter to Napoleon III. The exhibition “Alexandre Cabanel – The Tradtion of Beauty” can be seen from 4. February to 15. May 2011. In order to give these graceful works by the last of the great salon painters just the right ambience, the Wallraf has secured the services of a distinguished compatriot of Cabanel: Star designer Christian Lacroix has been commissioned to design a special interior exclusively for the exhibition. Lacroix studied at the Academy of Arts in Montpellier the hometown of Cabanel and regards the painter as one of his all-time favourites. Alex ... More |
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'Sesame Street' to Help Create New National Children's Museum Near Washington
Sesame Street's Elmo, second from left, meets with, from left, Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., National Children's Museum President and CEO Kathy Dwyer Southern. AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin.
By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- Elmo has no statue in Washington but he's poised to strike his best museum pose: "Sesame Street" is teaming up to create exhibits that incorporate the popular TV characters into the future home of National Children's Museum near the nation's capital. The New York-based nonprofit group behind "Sesame Street" announced a partnership Thursday with the museum, which will give Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch their first permanent home as characters at the $182.6 million future museum scheduled for a 2013 opening in Washington's Maryland suburbs. Plans call for an indoor river as part of an environmental exhibit, a children's theater and a replica of the Oval Office at the White House. "You mean Elmo can pretend to be the commander in chief?" Elmo said delightedly as the red, furry character joined a news conference on Capitol ... More | | SFMOMA Launches Collections Campaign with 195 Promised Gifts of Art from Bay Area Collectors
Jackson Pollock, Black and White (Number 6), 1951; enamel on canvas; 56 x 45 in.; Promised gift of Helen and Charles Schwab; © 2011 Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art today announced that it has received an unprecedented 195 promised gifts of art from nine leading Bay Area collectors who are leading a campaign to strengthen the museum's collection. The pledges encompass major works by artists including Diane Arbus, Joseph Beuys, Robert Gober, Eva Hesse, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Bruce Nauman, Jackson Pollock, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, and David Smith, and span all media, from modern and contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, and design, to new media and conceptual-based works. Today's announcement marks the public launch of SFMOMA's Collections Campaign, which was initiated in January 2009 in conjunction with the museum's 75th anniversary and will continue through the opening of its expanded facility in 2016. The campaign has been spearheaded by a committee chaired by longtime patrons Helen Schwab and ... More | | The Great Upheaval: Modern Art from the Guggenheim Collection Opens in New York
Amedeo Modigliani, Head (Tête), 1911–13. Limestone, 71.8 x 18.4 x 20.6 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- When Vasily Kandinsky and Franz Marc formed the group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) in late 1911, the artists predicted a watershed in the arts, a große Umwälzung (great upheaval) that would radically challenge traditional artistic production. Tremendous creativity and innovation characterized the years leading up to World War I. European cities were evolving, and the artistic avant-garde likewise adapted and responded to twentieth-century modernity, from its spectacles and technological feats to the social fragmentation and alienation of the modern metropolis. Cubism achieved recognition in Paris, sparking new directions in France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Russia. Art’s more expressionistic manifestations were at an equally momentous stage in Germany and Austria; Kandinsky wrote his influential treatise Über das Geistige in der Kunst. Insbesondere in der Malerei (On the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular) in late 1911, and abstraction took h ... More |
 | Art Institute Presents Works by Swiss Contemporary Artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss
Fischli and Weiss. Peter Fischli and David Weiss (Swiss, born 1952 and 1946). A Restless Night, from A Quiet Afternoon, 1985. Chromogenic print. 11 7/8 x 8 in. © Peter Fischli and David Weiss / Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.
CHICAGO, IL.- Lauded for their unmistakable wit and elevation of quotidian subjects, Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss have collaborated since 1979 in an exploration of the “poetics of banality”—the actions and objects of everyday life. The pair has worked in a range of media—including photography, video art, slide projection, film, books, sculptures, and mixedmedia installations—and in 2006 received one of Europe’s most coveted art awards, the Roswitha Haftmann Prize. The Art Institute of Chicago has now organized the first presentation of Fischli and Weiss’s works in Chicago in more than two decades by bringing together three key pieces from the duo’s extensive portfolio: the 15-channel slide installation, Questions (1981/2002–03), and two photography series, The Sausage Photographs (1979) and A Quiet ... More | | With Financial Crisis a Distant Memory and as Art Market Booms, Some See the Risk of Bust
A Sotheby's employee poses with artist Pablo Picasso's "La Lecture" in front of Marc Chagall's "David" (L) and "Bathsabee" (R) at Sotheby's. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor.
By: Mike Collett-White
LONDON (REUTERS).- At the top end of the art market, the financial crisis seems a distant memory -- surging prices saw Christie's and Sotheby's post impressive 2010 results that were back to, or above pre-crisis levels. Yet while the market leaders are confident the recovery from 2009's deep slump can be sustained, the prospect of speculative money pouring into art, driven partly by rich Chinese investors, increases the risk of boom and bust, some analysts believe. "This bull market trend could go on for some time, supported by China's rising class of super-wealthy, but eventually the bubble will burst, as it did in Japan in the early 90s and the global art market crash in 2008," ArtTactic said in its latest analysis of the contemporary art market. "Too much speculative money ... More | | Historic, Three-Year Preservation Project Restores The Landmark Façade of the Library
The restoration project involved the repair of over 7,000 instances of deterioration or distress in the historic 150,000-square-foot façade. Photo: Sean Scanlin.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Public Library has just completed a three-year, $50 million restoration and preservation of the landmark Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 42nd Street, which has stood as an impressive symbol of opportunity and access for the people of New York City and the world for a century. The unveiling of the newly restored façade represents the start of a year-long celebration in the building’s honor, which will look back with reverence at all it has meant to the public while also looking towards a bright and exciting future. The restoration project involved the repair of over 7,000 instances of deterioration or distress in the historic 150,000-square-foot façade, which was designed by legendary architects Carrère and Hastings. In addition, the façade’s Vermont marble was cleaned and returned to its brilliant white color and the roof, sculptures and bronze doors and window frames were all ... More |
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Auschwitz Decays Due to Age and Mass Tourism, Prompting Preservation Effort
conservation worker Andrzej Jastrzebowski as he prepares to take photographs of the gate sign of the death camp. AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski.
By: Vanessa Gera, Associated Press
OSWIECIM (AP).- The red brick barracks that housed starving inmates are sinking into ruin. Time has warped victims' leather shoes into strange shapes. Hair sheared to make cloth is slowly turning to dust. Auschwitz is crumbling — the world's most powerful and important testament to Nazi Germany's crimes falling victim to age and mass tourism. Now guardians of the memorial site are waging an urgent effort to save what they can before it is too late. Officials last week launched a global campaign to raise ?120 ($165 million) to create a "perpetual fund" whose interest can be drawn on indefinitely to repair barracks, watchtowers, crematoria and other structures at the Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum and memorial in southern Poland. The Nazis opened Auschwitz soon after ... More | | Mid-Career Overview of Vicky Civera's Work at the Valencian Institute of Modern Art
Installation view at the Valencian Institute of Modern Art.
VALENCIA.- This exhibition is not so much a mid-career coverage of Vicky Civera's work over the last twenty years but it is rather a celebratory focusing on major aspects and key incidentals of her work. It picks up the precisions that seem unconsciously and undogmatically to characterize its essence: a deceptive lightness, a sly sexuality, an obsessive referencing of a self-absorbed family network, a constant circling around the presence of the fetish, a fecund painterly competence, a fluid surging lyricism, a deliberately cultivated hermeticism, and a bizarre and fragile psychology along with a deeply rooted inner strength. At a certain level the show is the sum of her life. It is deft, humorous, light in touch, and self-protectively twisted. Vicky talks a lot to herself: creative chatter! Civera moves the world back into her shell, absorbs what attracts her and sends everything back, reread, modified, digested, mulled, and changed. I've known her for so many years that I gu ... More | | Anri Sala's First Solo Exhibition in Canada Opens at the Musée d'art Contemporain de Montreal
Anri Sala, Inversion, 2010. Vue de l’installation/View of the installation. Crayon de couleur et pastel sur papier japonais. Coloured pencil and crayon on Japanese paper, 56,2 x 47,6 cm (chacun/each). Avec l’aimable permission de l’artiste et d’Edi Rama. Courtesy the artist and Edi Rama.
MONTREAL.- An exhibition that can be viewed like a single work of art: that is what visitors will experience at the MAC in this presentation of works by Anri Sala, the artist’s first solo exhibition in Canada, and his largest in North America. The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal presents Anri Sala from February 3 to April 25, 2011. A unique opportunity to discover the remarkable art of Anri Sala, the exhibition comprises a dozen recent major works, including videos, photographs, a sculpture and an installation created for the Musée. Visitors move seamlessly through the show as if it were a single piece, for the artist considers the process of exhibiting his works as important as that of producing them. Sala reconfigures the ... More |
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Solo Exhibition of New Paintings and Works on Paper by Robert Zandvliet at Peter Blum Gallery
Robert Zandvliet, Pier & Ocean, 2010 (detail), egg tempera and oil stick on canvas, 91 x 122 7/8 inches (231 x 312 cm). Photo: Courtesy Peter Blum Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Blum presents Pier and Ocean, a solo exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Robert Zandvliet opening Thursday, February 3rd at Peter Blum Soho, 99 Wooster Street, New York. This will be Robert Zandvliet’s fourth solo exhibition with Peter Blum. The works in the exhibition Pier and Ocean represent a new direction in Zandvliet’s oeuvre. Since 2009 Zandvliet has been working on a series of large paintings made after art historical works from a diverse range of periods and styles, from Picasso to lesser-known artists. Zandvliet deconstructs each work and examines how the artist solved the issue at hand. He observes, for example, the way in which the artist worked through composition or brushstroke and he reconstructs the work using his own visual language. In this “ ... More | | World's First Museum Exhibit Dedicated to Women Who Rock Opens at the Rock Hall this Spring
Lady Gaga's Grammy Awards Performance Outfit, 2010.
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will open a ground-breaking and provocative new exhibit that will illustrate the important roles women have played in rock and roll, from its inception through today. Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power will highlight the flashpoints, the firsts, the best, the celebrated and sometimes lesser-known women who moved rock and roll music and American culture forward. The exhibit is sponsored by PNC and Time Warner Cable. Women Who Rock will open to the public on Friday, May 13, 2011. To kick off the exhibit’s opening weekend on Saturday, May 14, the Museum’s annual It’s Only Rock and Roll Spring Benefit Concert will feature an all-star lineup including Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Wanda Jackson and Cyndi Lauper, both featured in the Women Who Rock exhibit. Additional artists will be announced in the coming weeks. Tickets go on sale to Rock Hall members ... More | | Exhibition of Polish Design 1955-1968 from the Collection of the National Museum in Warsaw
Chairs are presented at the exhibition 'We want to be modern. Polish Design 1955-1968' at the National Museum in Warsaw. EPA/PAWEL KULA.
WARSAW.- This pioneering exhibition of ca 180 objects from the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw, featuring the most important examples of Polish design, rarely seen in the West, will explore the significance of the objects of everyday use in shaping modernity and the modern Polish identity emerging during the post-thaw period. The collection of post-1945 design in the National Museum in Warsaw is the best in Poland, and the exhibition will benefit from it, showing a whole range of applied arts of the period, including ceramics, glass, textiles, furniture, and other household objects, periodicals, photographs, and films. Apart from its focus on the purely aesthetic values of the objects presented in glass cases, the exhibition will also be showing “social lives” of the works on display, namely the ways in which those ... More |
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Under the Big Top: The Fine Art of the Circus in America at the Fleming Museum
BURLINGTON, VT.- The circus was recognized in late-19th-century Europe as a subject of avant-garde art, but in America, it was not until artist Robert Henri's appeal, in 1923, to paint contemporary life that artists began to search out and paint scenes of this popular entertainment. For artists, as well as for many individuals, the circus offered much more than an enjoyable leisure activity. It provided a spectacle of man's tragic failings as seen in the foolish performances of the clowns; a vision of man's rich potential symbolized by the daring and skill of the aerialists and acrobats; and it offered artists a lens through which to see themselves. Like Georges Rouault, whose prints are exhibited in the adjacent gallery (Georges Rouault: Cirque de L'Étoile Filante), many American artists identified personally with circus performers, because they too, lived by their skill and talent at the fringes of society. Through examples by artists ranging from early 20th-century American ... More
First Solo Museum Exhibition by Rashaad Newsome at Wadsworth Atheneum
HARTFORD, CT.- New York-based multidisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome, whose thought-provoking work draws on material ranging from rap music, black youth, and pop culture to medieval heraldry, the Renaissance and early modern architecture, has his first solo museum exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum. The exhibition features two video works and a large selection of Newsome’s collages and wall sculptures that take the forms of royal coats-of-arms created for rap royalty and constructed of contemporary status symbols including “bling” jewelry and iconic hip-hop fashion. Incorporating video, performance, sculpture, and collage, Newsome’s work combines elements of high and low art in an effort to level the social and political playing field. Part of the Wadsworth’s ongoing MATRIX contemporary art series, the exhibition is on view from February 3 through May 1, 2011. Newsome also curated a sm ... More
5 Million Manuscripts, Films and Texts for Europeana
THE HAGUE.- Work begins this week to add over 5 million digital objects, ranging from Spanish civil war photographs and handwritten letters from philosopher Immanuel Kant, to Europeana from 19 of Europe's leading research and university libraries. The project is called Europeana Libraries and it will put many of these treasures online for the first time. It will also add extensive collections from Google Books, theses, dissertations and open-access journal articles to the 15 million items amassed in Europeana to date. Providers include some of Europe's most prestigious universities and research institutes, including the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library, Trinity College Dublin and Lund University. The assembled objects span centuries of European history. Manuscripts from Serbia date back as far as 1206 and relate to the Ottoman Empire's European territories. Written in Arabic, Ottoman Turkish and Persian, they are being ... More
James Madison Chess Pieces Unearthed at Virginia Estate
ORANGE, VA (AP).- Archaeologists at James Madison's country estate say they've unearthed fragments of a chess set they think Madison likely used in matches against another former president, Thomas Jefferson. Archaeologists recently discovered fragments of two pawns during an excavation at the Orange County estate of the fourth president and architect of the Bill of Rights. They initially mistook the quarter-inch diameter tops for sewing bobbins, but subsequently determined they were fragments of chess pieces. Matthew Reeves, director of archaeology at the rural, 2,650-acre estate, called the pieces "a treasure from the past reflecting James Madison's intellectual pursuits and social life." Thomas Jefferson's granddaughter, Ellen Wayles Coolidge, once remarked that the third and fourth presidents often engaged in epic chess matches. She wrote that her grandfather was a very good chess player in his youth. "There were not many who could get the better of him," Coolidge wrote in he ... More
Court Denies Heirs' Claims Over Stolen World War II Art
NASHVILLE (AP).- A federal appeals court has dismissed claims against the German government by heirs of an art dealer whose collection was seized by the Nazis and sold at auction during World War II. Fred Westfield, a retired Nashville professor, filed the federal lawsuit seeking payment for the art and tapestry collection belonging to his uncle Walter Westfeld, a German art dealer in the 1930s. According to the lawsuit, Westfeld attempted to send his art collection to Tennessee, where his brother lived, but Nazi officials seized and sold off the collection. Westfeld later died in the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. The 6th Circuit Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that the claims against the German government were beyond its jurisdiction. ... More
Long List for Inaugural £10,000 Clore Award for Museum Learning Announced
LONDON.- Ten museums across the UK have been long listed for the inaugural £10,000 Clore Award for Museum Learning. The new award is aimed at championing excellence in museum learning and is run in parallel with the Art Fund Prize, the UK's largest arts prize celebrating excellence and innovation in museums and galleries across the UK. Supported by the Clore Duffield Foundation, the Clore Award for Museum Learning 2011 will be presented on 15 June 2011. The award recognises quality, impact and innovation in using museums and galleries for learning activities and initiatives. In tandem with the Art Fund Prize long list, the Clore Award long list is announced today. It comprises: · Discovery Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne for Culture Shock – digital storytelling project in the North East · Edward Jenner Museum, Gloucestershire for Ghosts in the Attic – From Smallpox to MMR: an attic room exhibition/installation uniting contemporar ... More
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