| | Thirty-Six Splendid, Virtuoso Ivory Carvings on View at Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung
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A woman cleans the ivory sculpture 'The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian' at Liebighaus museum in Frankfurt Main, Germany, 31 January 2011. The work forms part of exhibition 'Ivory. Baroque Splendor at the Court of Vienna'on display from 03 February to 26 June 2011. EPA/MARIUSBECKER.
FRANKFURT AM MAIN.- Ivory has been one of the most popular materials since ancient times. Its origins in unknown faraway lands and its rarity account for its costliness. It was particularly the Baroque era that had an extraordinarily high demand for ivory. In the seventeenth century, ivory work reached its culmination in Vienna in the days of Prince Karl Eusebius of Liechtenstein and Emperor Leopold I. The shimmering appearance of the polished material served princely-imperial claims to prestige, as its possession testified to its owners’ power and wealth. The exhibition "Ivory. Baroque Splendor at the Court of Vienna”, presented in the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung from February 3 to June 26, 2011, will focus on this heyday of ivory art. It will feature thirty-six splendid, virtuoso carvings impressively documenting the artisans’ great skill, among them masterly executed statuettes, pitchers, goblets, tanka ... More |
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| The Best Photos of the Day |  |  | CAIRO.- In this photo taken early Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011, and made available Monday, Jan. 31, parts of unidentified mummies are seen damaged on the floor of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt. Early Saturday morning, looters entered from the glass dome on the roof of the museum with ropes with the intention to loot antiquities. Civilian and army soldiers surrounded the museum and detained several looters. According the Egyptian army and Dr. Zahi Hawass, the chief of the Egyptian Antiquities Authority, no items were stolen, but several were damaged. AP Photo. | | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
MOCA Cleveland Winter Exhibition Features Teresita Fernández Sculptural Installations
Teresita Fernández, Longing (Double Portrait), 2007 (detail). Black onyx and glass with silvering, 62 x 135 inches.
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland opened its winter exhibition on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011, featuring the work of Teresita Fernández, internationally known for immersive installations and evocative large-scale sculptures that address space, light and perception. Also on view are a video installation, Javier Téllez, Letter on the Blind for the Use of Those Who See, and a new body of small-scale assemblages by Cleveland artist Lorri Ott. All three exhibitions will run through May 8, 2011. Teresita Fernández: Blind Landscape presents a spectrum of the artist’s most recent and ambitious projects created between 2005-2009, including three recent large-scale sculptures, a series of eight wall works and a monumental drawing made on site. Featured among the large-scale works is Vertigo (sotto en su) from 2007, comprised of layers of precision-cut, highly polished metal woven into a reflective and intric ... More | | Tate Britain Provides a Timely Focus on a Selection of Key Works by Susan Hiller
Susan Hiller, Homage to Marcel Duchamp (detail) 2008. Courtesy Timothy Taylor Gallery, London © Susan Hiller.
LONDON.- Susan Hiller (b. 1940) is one of the most influential artists of her generation. This major survey exhibition at Tate Britain provides a timely focus on a selection of her key works, including many of the pioneering mixed-media installations and video projections for which she is best known. It will be the largest presentation of her work to date, providing a unique opportunity to follow her exploration of dreams, memories and supernatural phenomena across a career of almost four decades. On display until May15 2011. Emerging as an artist in the early 1970s, Hiller’s output has taken many different forms. Her works however often derive from a similar process of collecting, cataloguing and restaging cultural artefacts and experiences. This exhibition brings together key examples of this practice, with which the artist highlights the subjectivity of perception and imagination. Enquiries/Inquiries 1973-5, for exampl ... More | | Steve Case Nominated to Serve as a Citizen Regent on Smithsonian Board of Regents
Before starting Revolution, Case was the co-founder, chairman and CEO of AOL and, later, the chairman of AOL Time Warner.
WASHINGTON.- The Smithsonian Board of Regents voted at its Monday, Jan. 31, meeting to nominate Steve Case to join the Board. Case’s nomination as a citizen Regent is pending approval by Congress and President Barack Obama. The 17-member Smithsonian Board of Regents includes nine citizen members, three members of the House of Representatives and three members of the Senate, as well as the chief justice of the United States and the vice president, both ex officio voting members. The Board of Regents is the governing body of the Smithsonian Institution. Case, 52, is chairman of the Case Foundation, an organization he founded with his wife Jean in 1997. The Case Foundation creates and supports initiatives that that use new technologies and entrepreneurial approaches to drive innovation in the social sector and encourage individuals to get involved with the communities and causes they care about. He also is CEO of Revolution, an ... More |
 | Erin O'Connor Unveils New Rankin Photos at Portrait Gallery's Fashion Friday Late Opening
Daphne Selfe wears Vivienne Westwood, by Rankin, 2010. Daphne Self wears a dress by Vivienne Westwood Red Label Shoes: Vivienne Westwood for Melissa Hoisery: Wolford. ©Rankin.
LONDON.- On Friday 11 February, as part of the National Portrait Gallery’s programme of late openings, Late Shift, in partnership with FTI Consulting, All Walks Beyond the Catwalk will unveil the new Rankin portraits as part of their latest campaign to broaden the range of body and beauty ideals in our media. The images will be displayed as part of a tour running throughout the Gallery with each sitter wearing designs by British greats: Dame Vivienne Westwood, Stella McCartney and Matthew Williamson, Giles Deacon, Hussein Chalayan, Alice Temperley, Betty Jackson, Antonio Berardi and Osman Yousefzada. Starting alongside the earliest Tudor portraits and ending in the 20th Century galleries, the tour will take in soundscapes exploring themes of beauty, identity and celebrity – such as Queen Elizabeth I acc ... More | | Victoria & Albert Museum in London Says It has Unearthed "Only" Film of Ballets Russes
The footage was apparently taken at the June, 1928 Fete des Narcisses in Montreux, Switzerland.
By: Mike Collett-White
LONDON (REUTERS).- A dance enthusiast has discovered what London's Victoria & Albert Museum said on Monday was the only known film footage of a Diaghilev Ballets Russes dance performance. The silent, black and white film is just over a minute long with 30 seconds of dance, and is believed to have been made without the permission of artistic director Sergei Diaghilev, who controlled every aspect of the famous company's performances and strictly disallowed filming. Ballets Russes was a traveling dance troupe active in the 1910s and 1920s under the leadership of Diaghilev, and helped launch the reputations of the likes of Vaslav Nijinsky. Susan Eastwood, a member of the London Ballet Circle, visited the V & A's recent exhibition on the dance troupe, found the unaccredited footage on the British Pathe archive and alerted ... More | | Egypt: Military Detain 50 Men Trying to Break into at Egyptian National Museum
Egyptian special forces secure the main floor inside the Egyptian Museum. AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill.
By: Maggie Hyde, Associated Press
CAIRO (AP).- Soldiers detained about 50 men trying to break into the Egyptian National Museum in a fresh attempt to loot some of the country's archaeological treasures, the military said Monday. Snipers were stationed on the roof of the building, and dozens of troops patrolled the grounds of the famed antiquities museum amid fears that the chaos sweeping Cairo could engulf the nation's heritage. Some of the most intense anti-government protests in the past week happened near the museum. On Monday, half a dozen suspected thieves lay in a group on the floor of the entrance, their faces covered by a blanket. Guards said they were caught trying to enter. A military general at the museum said soldiers arrested about 35 men trying to break into the building on Sunday, and another 15 on Monday. He spoke on condition of ... More |
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New Work by Richard Phillips for His Third Exhibition at White Cube Hoxton Square
Justin Timberlake, 2010 by Richard Phillips. Oil on Linen, 95 x 78 in. (241.3 x 198.1 cm) © the artist. Courtesy White Cube.
LONDON.- White Cube Hoxton Square presents 'Most Wanted', an exhibition of new work by Richard Phillips(on view until Mar 5 2011), his third with the gallery. Phillips' strikingly distinctive paintings are drawn from found imagery, which he uses to address the marketability of our wishes, identity, politics, sexuality and mortality. He translates these images into drawings before executing large-scale oil paintings through a traditional process. He thus examines the iconic nature of pictures, which the media and art world use daily - each according to its own agenda. For 'Most Wanted', Richard Phillips selected ten of America's most instantly recognisable celebrities from the realms of television, cinema and music to create distilled portraits of young, powerful stars exhibiting their rehearsed, red-carpet expressions. Phillips' two-metre high canvases of Chace Crawford, Kristen Stewart, ... More | | Bonhams Launch Modern and Contemporary Israeli Art Sale in London in May
Ludwig Blum, (Israeli, 1891-1975), Jerusalem, signed and dated 'L. Blum 1948'; signed in Hebrew oil on canvas £8,000-12,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams will hold their inaugural sale of modern and contemporary Israeli Art and Judaica in their New Bond Street saleroom on May 24, the only auction of its kind in the UK. Giles Peppiatt, Head of Israeli Art at Bonhams, comments: “The market for modern and contemporary Israeli & Judaica Art has shown exceptional growth and strength in recent years. The sale will provide an impressive showcase of works of the highest quality. Interest from both private collectors and museums internationally ensures that this event will be an exciting new venture for Bonhams. The company has sold Israeli and Judaica art in the past as part of its Travel and Topographical sales but this will be a stand alone sale of this art for the first time.” Bonhams have teamed up with an Israeli partner in this venture, the Montefiore Auction House in Tel Aviv, which will help ... More | | New and Free App "Take it Artside!" to Bring Kentucky's Art Scene to Wider Audience
The free app includes images of local public art along with a brief description of each piece and information about the artist who created it, as well a precise GPS location.
By Bernd Debusmann Jr.
NEW YORK, NY (REUTERS).- A new iPhone app is opening up Kentucky's art scene to the public by bringing thousands of works of art in small American communities to a wider audience. The free app includes images of local public art along with a brief description of each piece and information about the artist who created it, as well a precise GPS location. Students and faculty at the University of Kentucky and the Gaines Center for the Humanities in Lexington developed the app called Take it Artside!. It was launched by the Central Kentucky Museum's Without Walls Project. "As you may know, Central Kentucky is not known for our public art," said Christine Huskisson, co-founder of the project, who sees the ... More |
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Second Annual Collectors Evening Secures Six New Acquisitions for the High
Vik Muniz, Leda and the Swan, after Leonardo da Vinci from the "Pictures of Junk" series, 2009. Digital C-print, 90 x 72 in.
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art hosted its second annual Collectors Evening on Friday, January 28. Participants voted to secure four new acquisitions for the Museum: Vik Muniz’s “Leda and the Swan, after Leonardo da Vinci” (2009); an African “Elephant Headress” (19th century); Spencer Finch’s “Bright Star (Sirius)” (2010); and Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Vinchon’s “Portrait of Nency Destouches” (1829). Additionally, after the formal voting, an attendee offered up four Delta Air Lines worldwide business-class tickets for bidding. The money raised through this impromptu auction allowed for the acquisition of the fifth piece, the limestone sculpture “Lamentation” (1946), by American artist Robert Laurent. An anonymous donor purchased the sixth and final ... More | | Mint Condition Factory-Sealed Beatles 'Butcher Cover' Mono LP Could Bring Record Price
There are likely less than 25 sealed copies of this record in existence.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- A factory-sealed First State copy of The Beatles' famously banned "Butcher Cover" mono LP , Yesterday and Today, without a doubt the Holy Grail of vinyl, is expected to bring $30,000+ when it comes up as part of Heritage Auctions Feb. 18-19 Signature(r) Music & Entertainment Auction. "There are likely less than 25 sealed copies of this record in existence," said Garry Shrum, Consignment Director for Music & Entertainment Auctions at Heritage, "and that's probably a generous estimate. More than that, we've never seen a copy in such great condition, and we sold a 'Livingston Copy' of the 'Butcher Cover' in 2006 for more than $38,000. That price is, to date, the highest amount ever realized for a piece of wide release, non-autographed vinyl. This may well exceed that." Many serious collectors ... More | | Photojournalist Lucien Aigner’s Work Re-Emerges in DeCordova Museum Exhibition
Lucien Aigner, Mussolini at Stresa, Italy, 1935, modern gelatin silver print, 9 3/16 x 7 3/4 inches. Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate.
LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announce the first major museum showing of Lucien Aigner’s photography since the 1980s. Born in Hungary, Lucien Aigner was a pioneering photojournalist in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s who immigrated to New York City in 1939 and later settled in Great Barrington, MA. Aigner worked as both a reporter and a photojournalist—a rarity at the time—for more than 60 years and amassed a collection of approximately 100,000 negatives, thousands of vintage and modern prints, hundreds of articles and unpublished writings, and photographic equipment, which now constitute the Lucien Aigner Estate. Culled from this Boston-area archive, the 74 prints in this exhibition represent the first curatorial examination of ... More |
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Paintings by Brian Rutenberg on Display at the Morris Museum
AUGUSTA, GA.- I Will Tell You a Place: Paintings by Brian Rutenberg, opened Saturday, January 29, 2011 at Augusta’s Morris Museum of Art. The exhibition—twenty -four brilliantly colored abstract paintings in oil inspired by the low-country of coastal South Carolina—remains on display through Sunday, May 15, 2011. Artist Brian Rutenberg will be honored as the featured artist at the Eighteenth Annual Morris Museum of Art Gala , on Friday March 4, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. “Brian Rutenberg’s paintings are so vivid, you can practically hear them,” said Kevin Grogan, director of the Morris Museum of Art. “His paintings have been shaped to an unusual degree by his youthful exploration of the great outdoors and are keenly reminiscent of a lush and challenging landscape. We are delighted to have this opportunity to introduce them to Augusta.” Brian Rutenberg, born and raised in low-country South Caro ... More
Red Dot Art Fair Announce its Return to New York City in Newly Renovated Event Space
NEW YORK, NY.- Red Dot Art Fair announce its return to New York City, March 3 - 6, 2011. Red Dot’s new venue is a newly renovated event space in the heart of SoHo, located at 82 Mercer Street. Red Dot will partner with the Korean Art Show, a project organized by the Galleries Association of Korea. Twenty Korean Art Show galleries will share the space with Red Dot exhibitors, giving visitors the opportunity to visit both renowned fairs in one venue. Red Dot Art Fair’s opening reception on Thursday, March 3rd, will benefit the West Harlem Art Fund. This organization is dedicated to promoting public art throughout New York City. All donations collected during the reception will support a unique art installation created by artist Patrick Singh, which will be projected on the Manhattan Bridge during Red Dot Art Fair. Red Dot Fair creates a venue for art galleries seek ... More
Smithsonian Board Supports Museum Head
By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- The Smithsonian Institution's governing board is supporting the head of the museum complex over a censorship protest by some groups but is calling for changes in how some exhibits are handled. Some art groups and others oppose the Smithsonian Secretary's removal of a video from an exhibit after a Catholic group and members of Congress complained. A review by the Smithsonian Board of Regents released Monday found that changes should not be made to future exhibits once they are opened unless there is an error. A panel convened to review the handling of the "Hide/Seek" exhibit included Harvard University professor David Gergen, National Gallery of Art Director Earl A. Powell and John McCarter of Chicago's Field Museum. ... More
Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley Announces Re-Opening Season of Special Exhibitions
ALLENTOWN, PA.- On October 16, 2011 the Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley will present its re-opening show Shared Treasure: The Legacy of Samuel H. Kress. This exhibition, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Kress Collection gift, will feature 44 works from the museum’s permanent collection. The exhibition will also feature 30 additional works borrowed from other key museum’s across the country that also received Kress gifts such as the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Columbia Museum of Art, Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame, Georgia Museum of Art, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College and the Indiana University Art Museum. Shared Treasure will run from October 16, 2011 – January 15, 2012. Following Shared Treasure the museum will celebrate its GRAND re-opening with the exhibition Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present, which wi ... More
Tracks of Two Prehistoric Birds Found in Alaska
By: Yereth Rosen
ANCHORAGE (REUTERS).- Fossilized tracks from two newly discovered prehistoric birds have been found in Alaska's Denali National Park, according to findings released by an expert in Arctic paleontology. The previously unknown birds were among a wide variety of birds that left fossilized tracks in Denali, Tony Fiorillo, a paleontologist and curator at the Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, told Reuters in an interview. "The skies over Denali were a pretty busy place," he said. The birds are considered new species and now have names given by Fiorillo and his team -- "Magnoavipes denaliensis," incorporating the park's name for a bird that left especially large tracks, and "Gruipeda vegrandiunis," roughly translating to "tiny one," for a bird that left small tracks. Fiorillo, lead researcher on the project, published his findings in the current issue of the Journal of Systematic Paleontology. Previous research determined that pterosaurs -- flying winged reptile ... More
CAFAM Announces New Leadership MOCA's Suzanne Isken Takes The Reins
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Amid its double exhibition opening Saturday, the Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) announced Suzanne Isken, former Education Director at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), will assume the role of director at the museum February 14 following Maryna Hrushetska's departure end of last year. "Prepare to come to the Craft and Folk Art Museum to be engaged and inspired. In a world that continually clashes over ethnicity and difference, the museum's mission of cultural understanding through art becomes all the more relevant and inspiring. I look forward to taking on this leadership role at CAFAM," said Isken. Isken comes to the CAFAM with over 20 years of experience in the world of contemporary art. She brings with her a history of projects that meaningfully bring communities together. "Partnership and collaboration have largely informed my career," said Isken. W ... More
Portland Museum of Art Offers Innovative New Membership Initiative
PORTLAND, ME.- On February 1, 2011, the Portland Museum of Art will launch a new membership category called Free Friday/Flex membership. For $20, this low-cost option will give people the opportunity to be introduced to membership and all that the Museum has to offer. Free Friday/Flex membership benefits include reduced-priced admission during regular Museum hours ($5), members-only activities on Free Friday nights, an option to purchase Movies at the Museum discount cards, a subscription to members-only weekly and monthly e-newsletters, and select discounts in the Museum Store and Café. "For the Museum, we are hopeful that this new initiative will make membership more accessible for our community and will provide real value for folks who like the Museum but have never joined as a member," said the Museum's Director of Membership Will Cary. "Specifically, we created this membership with two groups of visitors in mind: t ... More
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