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A Christie's employee poses with an auction guide near Andre Derain's "Bateaux a Collioure" at Christie's auction house in London. Christie's estimes that the piece will fetch up to $9.6 million when it comes to auction as part of their Auction of Impressionist and Modern Art in London on February 9, 2011. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor.
LONDON.- The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Auction and the sale of The Art of the Surreal will take place on 9 February 2011 at 7pm with a pre-sale estimate of £73,880,000 to £109,060,000 (corresponding estimate in 2010: £56.5 million to £80.8 million). This is the second highest pre-sale estimate for the February Impressionist sales at Christie’s in London. The leading highlight of the sales is Nature morte à “L’Espérance”, an historically important still life painted by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) in 1901 while he was living in Tahiti. The work has been exhibited at over 20 major museum exhibitions including the artist’s first landmark Retrospective at the Grand Palais, Paris, in 1906. It is expected to realise £7 million to £10 million. Four works to be sold by the Art Institute of Chicago are led by Nature morte à la guitare (rideaux rouge) by Georges Braque (1882-1963) (estimate: £3.5 millio ... More |
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Expressive, Brightly Coloured, Lyrical Paintings by Der Blaue Reiter Artists at Albertina
Wassily Kandinsky, Entwurf für den Umschlag des Almanach, 1911. Aquarell, Tusche und Bleistift auf Papier. Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München © VBK Wien, 2011.
VIENNA.- From February to May, 2011, the Albertina is presenting drawings and watercolor paintings of the “Blue Rider” from the collection of Munich’s Lenbachhaus. In the early 20th century, a group of artists caused a huge furore in the Munich art world. Calling themselves Der Blaue Reiter, the artists produced expressive, brightly coloured, lyrical paintings which were to prompt the development of Expressionism in Germany. The core members of the group were Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky and kindred spirit Franz Marc. Many of the works were seen earlier as part of the successful Kandinsky exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) played an important pioneering role in the development of painting. His explosive compositions, inspired by experimental music and primitive folk art, roused strong emotions ... More | | MFA Houston Presents First Retrospective of Venezuelan Artist Carlos Cruz-Diez
Carlos Cruz-Diez, Physichromie 174. July, 1965. Cardboard (Celloderme), casein (Plaka), cellulose acetate (Rhodoïd) mounted on wood. Private Collection, Houston© 2010 Carlos Cruz-Diez / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
HOUSTON, TX.- For more than five decades Carlos Cruz-Diez (b. 1923) has intensively experimented with the origins and optics of color. His wide-ranging body of work includes unconventional color structures, light environments, street interventions, architectural integration projects and experimental works that engage the response of the human eye while insisting on the participatory nature of color. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Cruz-Diez Foundation, Houston are organizing the first large-scale retrospective of this pioneering Franco-Venezuelan artist. Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time will feature more than 150 works created from the 1940s to today, including paintings, silk-screen prints and innovative chromatic structures; room-size chromatic environments, architectural ... More | | Masterpieces of the Renaissance from the National Galleries of Scotland on View in Minneapolis
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), Venus Rising from the Sea, Oil on canvas, about 1520.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts , in conjunction with the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS), the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents an exhibition of 25 Venetian masterpieces—12 paintings and 13 drawings—including two of the greatest paintings of the Italian Renaissance, Titian’s Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto (1556–59). The exhibition will also include paintings by Tintoretto, Veronese, and Lotto from the NGS collection. The MIA’s presentation of “Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland” will be on view February 6 through May 1, 2011. As a complement to the Titian exhibition, the MIA presents a small show of important works on paper from the museum’s permanent collection. From Renaissance woodcuts designed by Titian to views of Venice by Canaletto and Whi ... More |
 | Egyptian Archaeologist Zahi Hawass Says Mummies are Safe After Riots Outside Museum
File photo of top Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass. EPA/AMEL PAIN.
LONDON (REUTERS).- None of the mummies in Cairo's main archaeological museum were damaged during a break-in last week but 70 other exhibits will need restoration, top Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass said on Sunday. Media reports during Egypt's political unrest had quoted Hawass as saying that looters damaged two mummies, but in a BBC interview on Sunday he said that this was not the case. "They were not mummies, there were two skulls taken outside from the CT scan machine. Everything will go back to normal at Cairo Museum today," said Hawass, head of Egypt's antiquities authority since 2002. He was made a cabinet minister last week. On his own website, Hawass said the 70 broken antiquities included a statue of the boy pharaoh King Tutankhamun on a panther and some later objects, all of which can be restored. Egypt's pharaonic remains are a key part of its tourism industry, and the unrest in ... More | | 7 Scientists, 7 International Artists, 1 Expedition to an Astonishing, Abandoned Island
Clipperton project” Island from above.
LONDON.- Situated around 800 miles west of Acapulco, Clipperton (or as the French style it, Ile de la Passion) is an abandoned island with a strange history, a unique biosphere and an obscure lagoon filled with ancient marine life. Later this year an expedition of 7 international scientists and 7 international artists will set sail from the West coast of Mexico on a 3-week expedition to the island. The participants will produce work based on the history of the atoll (specifically Mexico’s “damned” colony of 1917) and its ecological, geological and human history in order to create a cross-cultural portrayal of this unique place. The work produced will then be shown at scientific and cultural institutions across Europe and the Americas, including Glasgow Sculpture Studios (Glasgow, Scotland), Universum (Mexico City, Mexico) and Institute of the Americas (London, England). Expedition Leader, Jonathan Bonfiglio, said: “I’d heard about this strange island of ... More | | Fleming Museum Exhibition Focuses on Georges Rouault's Circus of the Shooting Star
Georges Rouault (French 1871-1958), Tristes Os, 1934. Color etching and aquatint wove paper, 12 1⁄4” x 7 7⁄8”. SUAC 1975.22.08
BURLINGTON, VT.- The world of the circus had always interested French artist Georges Rouault, with its contrast of superficial brightness and the infinite sadness of the clown's life. From 1926 to 1938, he and his Parisian print publisher and dealer, Ambroise Vollard, published Rouault's print portfolio, Cirque de L'Étoile Filante, (Circus of the Shooting Star) which is Rouault's attempt to strip away the "spangles" of the clown's costume and reveal the "reflection of paradise lost." Seventeen color etchings with aquatint introduce the portfolio, followed by a selection of wood engravings that illustrate the text, also written by Rouault. Rouault identified with the figures in the circus, in particular, the clown, as he considered him a true symbol of man: a figure that must perform his role in life's circus, despite its vagaries. Rouault saw the clown as the incarnation of human suffering, ... More |
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Hamilton Kerr Institute Begin Work on Unique Tudor Paintings at Chichester Cathedral
Following a national appeal to raise £250,000 to save the Tudor paintings by Lambert Barnard in Chichester Cathedral the work has now begun.
WEST SUSSEX.- Chichester Cathedral Restoration & Development Trust announce the arrival of the conservators working to save the Tudor paintings in Chichester Cathedral. Following a national appeal to raise £250,000 to save the Tudor paintings by Lambert Barnard in Chichester Cathedral the work has now begun. Alison Godfrey, Director of the Chichester Cathedral Restoration & Development Trust says ‘So far we have managed to raise £202,000 towards the project. However, the paintings are in such a critical condition that it was not possible to wait any longer before the stabilisation could commence. We are delighted that the appointed conservators, The Hamilton Kerr Institute (part of the Fitzwilliam Museum , Cambridge ) joined us on 11th January to begin this vital work’. ‘The paintings, of international significance, featured on the BBC2 ... More | | Inaugural Edition of VIP Art Fair Redefines Possibilities for the Online Art Market
Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, 2005 (detail). Fabric, 18 x 22 inches © Louise Bourgeois. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
NEW YORK, NY.- The inaugural edition of VIP Art Fair, the world’s first exclusively online art fair, closed on Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 11:59 PM. The Fair—an acronym for “Viewing in Private”—attracted more than 41,000 collectors and art lovers from 196 countries. Many of the 138 participating contemporary art galleries, hailing from 30 countries and exhibiting works by more than 2,200 artists, reported sales and communications with new clients throughout the nine-day event. “The galleries showed leadership and courage in joining VIP Art Fair to launch a new global paradigm for art conversation, exposure and commerce,” said James Cohan, co-founder of VIP Art Fair with Jane Cohan, Jonas Almgren and Alessandra Almgren. “Despite some technical setbacks that impinged on our vision for the Fair, we all have much to be proud of in having brought together a diverse international audience who ... More | | A Grand Sale at the Grand Palais: Lord Raglan's Bugattis Realise Over £1.2 Million
Visitors walk past vintage and classic cars displayed by Bonhams. AP Photo/Jacques Brinon.
PARIS.- The 1933 Bugatti Type 51 Grand Prix Two-Seater owned by the late Fitzroy John Somerset, the 5th Baron Raglan (1927-2010), Patron and former Chairman of the Bugatti Owners’ Club and trustee of the Bugatti Trust, sold for a remarkable €943,000 yesterday afternoon at Bonhams’ sale of Motor Cars in Paris. A packed saleroom in one of the French capital’s most prestigious venues, the Grand Palais, saw competitive bidding from within the room and on the telephones. The car, which was restored lovingly in 1979 over the course of two and a half years by Lord Raglan himself, was eventually bought by a French private collector. Also from the Estate of Lord Raglan was a 1930 Bugatti Type 46 Cabriolet, with coachwork by Figoni, which sold for €333,500. Another sale highlight was King Baudouin of Belgium’s 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4 Sports Saloon, which made €333,500, a world record price ... More |
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Hidden Artifacts Featured in Recent Television Series Come Out of the Vaults and onto Display
Headdress associated with Sitting Bull. Golden eagle tail-feathers, weasel skins, glass beads, buffalo rawhide Hunkpapa Lakota, Northern Plains, c. 1875, 915X36a.b. Gift of Sir William Van Horne. © ROM, 2011.
TORONTO.- For a limited time, visitors to the Royal Ontario Museum have access to an array of exceptional artifacts rarely seen in public. From Saturday, February 5 to Sunday, February 27, 2011, objects representing a wide spectrum of the ROM’s collections of Natural History and World Cultures will be showcased in Canada Court on the Museum’s Level 1. These hidden treasures were recently seen on History Television’s intriguing series Museum Secrets in an episode devoted to the ROM and the mysterious, surprising or long-hidden objects among its collections. ROM curatorial representatives introduced viewers to some of these artifacts which are virtually unknown to the public. This extraordinarily well-received episode now gives rise to the latest installment of the ROM’s successful, ongoing Out of the Vaults series. Dating back 2,000 years, this ... More | | 32 Tapestries Woven on the Looms of Mark Deweer's Factory on View in Belgium
Each carpet sold comes with a certificate of authenticity that has been numbered,
dated and signed by the artist and with a copy of the Art of the Loom book.
OTEGEM, BELGIUM.- Mark Deweer, founder of both DEWEER gallery and a carpet factory, merged the two passions that defined his life and created ʻArt of the Loomʼ, a stunning collection of 32 exclusive tapestries designed by 14 internationally acclaimed artists. The concept of this show aims at more than just the display of the entire collection. It puts the ʻArt of the Loomʼ project into perspective. The carpets are shown in relationship with new and rarely shown works of art by all artists who were crucial to the ʻArt of the Loomʼ project and to the galleryʼs intriguing history. The exhibition concept is quite experimental. With diverse aspects of homeliness as a starting point, a context is created in which the ʻArt of the Loomʼ tapestries function as associative elements, works of art and objects at the same time. The show consists of 15 more or less autonomous installations, ... More | | Cerith Wyn Evans' Installation Fills all Four Exhibition Halls at Bergen Kunsthall
Installation shot of S=U=P=E=R=S=T=R=U=C=T=U=R=E (”Trace me back to some loud, shallow, chill, underlying motive’s overspill…”) 2010 and Untitled 2011. Courtesy of the Artist and White Cube, London. From the exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall Feb 4 - Mar 27 2011. Photo: Thor Brodreskift.
BERGEN.- Cerith Wyn Evans’ exhibitions often combine an all-round sensory experience with intricate juxtapositions of fragments of meaning. With a background in experimental film and video art in the 1980s, he has primarily worked since the 1990s with spectacular installations where a number of media such as sculpture, photography, film, text, light and sound form natural elements. To describe Wyn Evans’ works as ‘spectacular’ means that they represent a far more indefinable form of communication than we associate (because of their use of similarly seductive devices) with the media and advertising world. Instead of simple messages and the devices of rhetorical persuasion, Wyn Evans confronts us with a labyrinth of meaning-levels that often confuse more than ... More |
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Exhibition of Objects that Have Connotations of Colonial History at Kunsthaus Glarus
GLARUS.- This group exhibition brings together eight Swiss and international positions concerned with objects that have connotations of colonial history and their integration into bourgeois cultures. Collections of exotica have a long, constantly changing tradition, from powerful representation to fetishist or trivial and banal decoration. Possessing an exotic object is an imaginary entry into another world and a sigh of the knowledge, power and wealth of the new owner. It is almost always a matter of the fascination of the exotic, wild and primordial. Exotica evoke in the viewer a romantic shudder of an exciting and mysterious otherness. Major currents in art history – especially Primitivism in the 20th century – have been inspired by this fascination. At the same time, since Claude Levi-Strauss’s “The Savage Mind” and “Tristes Tropiques”, there has been a discourse on change in contact with western culture. Today, under the key word of “ ... More
Thomas Scheibitz' "The River and its Source" at The Maramotti Collection
REGGIO EMILIA.- The Maramotti Collection, in Reggio Emilia, presents an exhibition of paintings and a sculpture by Thomas Scheibitz, one of the most important contemporary German artists (in 2005 he represented Germany at the Venice Biennale). In the compositional structure of Scheibitz's works, the variety of iconic and tectonic elements constitute, or allude to, abstract, para-geometrical translations of figures and signs lifted from the very public repertory of images offered by our historical visual culture and by the media– newspapers, magazines, advertising, cinema. In the artists’ pictorial construction, these elements are, however, always presented with an enhanced perspective vision, which is a constant feature of his evolving formal language. His sculptures follow an analogous process: Scheibitz transposes the figures he has collected from the systematic exploration of the collective imaginary ... More
Carsten Höller Double Take on Jean Pigozzi's Collection at Centre National d'Art Contemporain
GRENOBLE.- Jean Pigozzi collects art and is also a photographer himself, while the notion of “doubleness” is at the very centre of Carsten Höllerʼs life and his work as an artist. It seemed natural that their meeting would culminate in a joint project, with Jean Pigozziʼs collection constituting the raw material for Carsten Höllerʼs attempt to curate the exhibition in such a way that it also becomes an artwork in its own terms. The Pigozzi collection is known for twenty years as one of the worldʼs foremost collections of contemporary African art. Over the past few years, however, Pigozzi has discreetly added over 500 works by young Japanese artists under thirty years of age to his collection. Carsten Höller, along with Jean Pigozzi, has conceived a scheme for a dual exhibition, confining the African contribution solely to the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is juxtaposed to the art from Japan. It is the similar presence of the art from o ... More
Futurefarmers: A Variation on the Powers of Ten at the Berkeley Art Museum
BERKELEY, CA.- What are the limits of knowledge? Where is there still mystery, and how are researchers moving towards these “unknown” territories? Futurefarmers, the San Francisco-based collective (artists Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine), is asking these and other questions as part of a multifaceted research residency inspired by Charles and Ray Eames’s film, Powers of Ten (1977). Powers of Ten is a short documentary film that depicts the relative scale of the universe in factors of ten. It illustrates the universe as an arena of both continuity and change, of everyday picnics and cosmic mystery. One iconic image from the film depicts a couple picnicking on a blanket, serving as a human-scale grounding for the macro- and micro-explorations in the film. Futurefarmers is using the film as a conceptual and aesthetic framework for exploring related ideas—the production of knowledge; how its limits are understood, measured, represented, and transgressed; and ... More
First Comprehensive Solo Exhibition in Switzerland of Works by Turkish Artist Banu Cennetoglu
BASEL.- The Kunsthalle Basel presents “Guilty feet have got no rhythm.”, the first comprehensive solo exhibition in Switzerland of works by Turkish artist Banu Cennetoğlu. Banu Cennetoğlu was born in Ankara, Turkey, in 1970. After studying psychology in Istanbul, she moved to Paris to study photography. In 1996, she moved to New York, where she was increasingly engaged with artists’ books and the photographic medium. In 2002, Cennetoğlu was awarded a studio scholarship to the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. She now lives and works in Istanbul, where, in addition to her artistic work, she runs the art space BAS, a collection and distribution centre for artists’ publications and a venue for lectures and discussions. Together with the Dutch artist Philippine Hoegen, Cennetoğlu also founded the publishing project Bent, in 2006, which focuses on artists’ books from Turkey. Many of Cen ... More
Exhibit at Franklin Institute in Philadelphia Offers fresh Look at Leonardo da Vinci
PHILADELPHIA (REUTERS).- If it's hard to grasp the genius of Leonardo da Vinci, it may be because he left no working models of the drawings that showed his intimate grasp of fields ranging from engineering to botany and anatomy. But Philadelphia's Franklin Institute is hosting an exhibition that explains his paintings and the construction and operation of his famous inventions using newly created models as well as dazzling touch-screen technology. "Leonardo da Vinci's Workshop," which runs from Saturday until May 22, examines his flying machines, weapons of war, robots and other mechanical devices by using computer graphics to create three-dimensional pictures of the items that in their original form are represented only by drawings in the artist notebooks. "The genius of Leonardo da Vinci, the greatest mind of the Renaissance, springs to life in this much heralded exhibit from Italy," the institute said on its website. It added ... More
Patricia Buckley Ebrey to Receive 2010 Shimada Prize for Outstanding Work of East Asian Art History
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery have announced that Patricia Buckley Ebrey, a leading scholar of Chinese civilization, will receive the 2010 Shimada Prize for her book Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong (University of Washington Press, 2008). The Shimada Prize is awarded for distinguished scholarship in the history of East Asian art every two years by the Freer and Sackler and The Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies in Kyoto, Japan. It was established in 1992 to honor professor Shimada Shujiro, who, as a distinguished teacher and researcher in Kyoto and at Princeton University, received international recognition for his contributions to the field of Chinese and Japanese painting and calligraphy. Ebrey will receive the prize, which includes a cash award of $10,000, March 28 at 5 p.m. in the Freer's Meyer Auditorium. Following the award cerem ... More
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