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Workers hang-up the painting 'Under the Elder' from 1911 by late Swiss artist Giovanni Giacometti (1868-1923) during the preparation of an exhibition before a Christie's auction in Zurich. 153 pieces of Swiss art will be shown from March 18 to 20 and offered at the auction on March 21. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann.
ZURICH.- Christie’s spring sale of Swiss art at the Kunsthaus Zurich on 21 March 2011 will bring together outstanding works from famous artist fathers and their equally famous sons. The top lot of the sale, which comes from a Swiss private collection, is Giovanni Giacometti’s family portrait Unter dem Holunder / Under the elder tree (1911) (estimate SFr. 1,8 – 2,5 million). The family is one of the core subjects of Giovanni Giacometti’s oeuvre. Christie’s set a world record price of SFr. 3,240,000 for the rediscovered portrait Die Mutter / The mother (circa 1911) by the artist and successfully sold two other versions of the family subject Maternité (1908) which sold for SFr. 2,640,000 in 2008 and Der Nussbaum / The walnut tree (1908) which achieved Sfr. 2,280,000 in last June’s Swiss Art sale. Under the elder tree (1911) is set in the garden of the Giacometti’s family home in Stampa. Pict ... More |
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Marcel Duchamp and Early Modernism on View at the Moderna Museet in Malmo
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917 © Succession Marcel Duchamp/BUS 2011.
MALMO.- Today, Marcel Duchamp is regarded as one of the most prominent and innovative artists of the 20th century, and his famous work Fountain was selected as the most influential work of the 1900s. Through September 11, 14 of his works, including The Large Glass, are being shown at Moderna Museet Malmö. Another exhibition opened simultaneously, featuring works from the Moderna Museet collection by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch and Sigrid Hjertén. Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) emphasised the importance of the concept in a work of art. He was one of the first proponents of open art, where the interpretation of the viewer or posterity contributes to the creative act and thus to the meaning of the work. Moderna Museet has one of the world’s finest collections of Marcel Duchamp’s art, and fourteen of these works are now being shown at Moderna Museet Malmö. Marcel Duchamp painted his last ... More | | Antiquity Revived: Neoclassical Art in the Eighteenth Century at the MFA in Houston
Pompeo Batoni, Academic Nude, 1765. Charcoal heightened with black and white chalk on blue-grey paper. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Rienzi Collection, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harris Masterson III.
HOUSTON, TX.- At the end of the 18th century, fresh archeological finds in Herculaneum and Pompeii inspired artists, intellectuals, and the public all over Europe to be newly fascinated with antiquities. “Neoclassicism” is the term given to the various classicizing movements that developed in the late 18th to early 19th centuries and influenced fine arts, decorative arts, and architecture from Rome to Paris and from London to Saint Petersburg. Influenced by Enlightenment thinkers, the French Revolution, and Napoleon’s rise to emperor, as well as the excavations that made antiquities popular, Neoclassicist artists responded to societal trends by reviving the simple designs and restrained ornament of ancient Greek and Roman art. Antiquity Revived: Neoclassical Art in the Eighteenth Century presents a ... More | | The Pace Gallery Presents Robert Mangold: Ring Paintings, a Series of Paintings on Shaped Canvas
Robert Mangold, Split Ring Image 1, 2009, acrylic, graphite and black pencil on canvas, 96" (243.8 cm) diameter © Robert Mangold/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by: G. R. Christmas/ Courtesy The Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Pace Gallery presents Robert Mangold: Ring Paintings, a series of paintings on shaped canvas, as well as a selection of related works on paper. The exhibition will be on view from March 18 through April 23, 2011, at 32 East 57th Street, New York City. A catalogue featuring a conversation with the artist accompanies the exhibition. This is Robert Mangold’s thirteenth exhibition with The Pace Gallery since 1991 and represents almost three years’ work. The works in Robert Mangold: Ring Paintings are all on canvases made from two panels joined to form a ring with an open center. Faint pencil lines, visible through monochromatic washes of acrylic paint, segment each panel into even proportions while heavier curving lines react to the ring’s shape ... More |
 | Sotheby's to Offer for Sale The Celebrated Collection of Stuart Cary Welch
Edward Gibbs, head of Sotheby's Middle East art department, holds up; "Faridun In the Guise Of A Dragon Tests His Sons". REUTERS/Brendan McDermid.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s will offer for sale the outstanding and scholarly collection of Islamic and Indian Art assembled by the late Stuart Cary Welch. This celebrated collection, which is estimated to realise in excess of £6 million*, will be offered in London in two parts: Part I. The Stuart Cary Welch Collection: Arts of the Islamic World in April 2011, and Part II. The Stuart Cary Welch Collection: Arts of India in May 2011. Discussing the importance of The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Edward Gibbs, Senior Director and Head of Sotheby’s Middle East Department, commented: “This remarkable collection reflects the passion and taste of a true scholar-connoisseur: the special nature and quality of each object captures some aspect of the dedication and aesthetic sensibility of this gifted and renowned collector, Stuart Cary Welch. The rarity, quality and ... More | | The Power of the Iconic Photograph Featured at Irvine Contemporary in Washington
Kate Simon, Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe (1976), 2011. Cibachrome print, 20 x 16 inches. Photo: Courtesy of Irvine Contemporary and the Artist.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Irvine Contemporary presents Image/Fame/Memory, an exhibition of works by four major portrait and documentary photographers, Curtis Knapp, Gerard Malanga, Billy Name, and Kate Simon, who worked mainly in New York City from the mid-1960s to the present and are known for the iconic power of their images in circulating fame and contributing to the cultural memory of the past four decades. Two of the photographers, Billy Name and Kate Simon, have also recently collaborated with Shepard Fairey in the creation of new images that extend the memory and symbolic power of the original photographs in a new medium and new cultural moment. Fame, celebrity, and memory are inseparable from the photographic image as it circulates in all forms of media. As Madonna herself famously said in her 1991 movie, Truth or Dare, "what’s the point ... More | | George Caleb Bingham Bicentennial: Announcing Ten Recently Discovered Paintings
[Missouri Steamboat] Capt. Joseph Kinney
SANTA FE, NM.- The George Caleb Bingham Catalogue Raisonné Supplement Of Paintings & Drawings has announced the addition of ten recently discovered paintings by Missouri’s first artist George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879), an “old master” of American art whose Bicentennial is being celebrated in 2011. The paintings –exhibited, catalogued, and illustrated online at www.GeorgeCalebBingham.org – include: “Horse Thief” (a narrative landscape), and portraits of Lewis Allen Dicken Crenshaw, Fanny Smith Crenshaw, Frederick Moss Prewitt, Civil War Lt. Col. Levi Pritchard, Charles Chilton, Samuel Chilton, Thomas B. Hudson, Missouri Steamboat Capt. Joseph Kinney, and a currently unidentified woman. The new Catalogue Raisonne began in 2005 as a scholarly enterprise directed and edited by art historian and Bingham specialist Fred R. Kline with an advisory board consisting of renowned Bingham biogr ... More |
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LABoral in Gijón Shows Electric Nights, from the Collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou
Installation view at LABoral.
GIJON.- Noches eléctricas [Electric Nights] takes its name from Les nuits électriques, a short film directed by Eugène Deslaw in 1928, in which he focused on city lights at nighttime, sequencing street lamps, neon signs and shop windows of Paris, Berlin and Prague almost as if it were a fireworks show. Similarly to fireworks, film is an intermittent ephemeral projection of light in the darkness. Through a selection of works from the collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou, this exhibition, borrowing the visual recourses of pyrotechnics, wishes to demonstrate the continuity between spectacles of fire and the art of the moving image: flowers, stars, rain, fire, storms, fountains, volcanoes... The exhibition begins with a series of classical French etchings representing fireworks, as well as a group of photographs by authors like Brassaï, André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy and Dora Maar, and a major selection of experimental films which introduce contemporary works by by Brion Gys ... More | | US Airways' 'Miracle on the Hudson' Jet Destined for North Carolina Museum
Stephen Ryan stands near the wreckage of US Airways flight 1549. AP Photo/Mel Evans.
By: David Porter, Associated Press
HARRISON, NJ (AP).- To stand inside the cabin of the US Airways jet that crash landed on the Hudson River is to imagine, even briefly, some of the terror that must have overtaken the 155 people aboard as the plane descended onto the icy water. The plane's interior is largely undisturbed from the Jan. 15, 2009, landing but is littered with reminders — and a coating of dried mud. A stethoscope from a first-aid kit lies on the floor in one row, while unused life jackets still wrapped in plastic sit on seats. Many seat cushions are gone, grabbed by passengers as they exited onto a wing. In the rear galley, food and beverages are waiting to be served. The world will be able to relive the triumph of what has been dubbed "The Miracle on the Hudson" when the Airbus A320 is shipped this spring from a northern New Jersey warehouse ... More | | Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Showcases Its Holdings of Film and Video Installations
Rodney Graham, Phonokinetoscope, 2001 (Detail), Film-Installation, 16-mm-Film, Farbe, Ton, Schallplattenspieler mit Vinylschallplatte, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, © Rodney Graham, 2011.
DUSSELDORF.- With the exhibition Big Picture (Locations / Projections), the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen showcases its holdings of film and video installations. Among the classics of recent art history found in this continuously growing video collection are works by Steve McQueen, Shirin Neshat, and Rodney Graham. This selection from the museum's collection has been supplemented by loaned works by internationally renowned artists. The presentation is organized around 12 large-scale pieces which are seldom on display due to the scale of their projections. With altogether 1100 m², the exhibition’s architectural setting, especially designed in collaboration with Stadler Prenn Architekten (Berlin) for the basement level of the K21 Ständehaus, provides a setting ... More |
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Dalí by Halsman Presents a Selection of Eighty-Eight Photographs of Salvador Dalí
Dali’s Mustache, 1954.
FIGUERES.- The Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí inaugurated Dalí by Halsman, this year’s temporary exhibition at the Gala Dalí Castle in Púbol, which will be on show until 31 December 2011, when the house-museum is closed to the public until the following March. The opening ceremony was presented by Mr. Joan Pluma, General Director of Cultural Heritage of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Ramon Boixadós, Chairman of the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Antoni Pitxot, Director of the Dalí Theatre-Museum and Vice-Chairman of the Foundation, and Montse Aguer, Director of the Centre for Dalinian Studies. Philippe Halsman’s heirs, Irene Halsman and Steve Bello, also attended the opening. 2011 marks the seventieth anniversary of their encounter — the painter and the photographer met for the first time in 1941 in the United States — and the foundation felt this was the right time to organize the exhibition Dalí by Halsma ... More | | Paintings Not Seen for More than Half a Century Now on View at Alte Pinalothek
After Jan van Eyck, Vera Icon, c. 1500.
MUNICH.- To mark the anniversary year, a number of paintings from the rich
holdings in the Alte Pinakothek collection, that have seldom been displayed, are on show. Several have not been seen for more than half a century, others have been exhibited over the past few years, albeit mostly for just a brief period. Unknown masterpieces as well as unusual paintings await discovery from 17 March onwards in the North Cabinet Rooms in the “Klenze Portal” exhibition area in the Alte Pinakothek. The exhibition opens with Early Netherlandish paintings, three of which deserve a special mention. These are copies of works by Jan van Eyck and include two large-format paintings after panels from the Ghent Altarpiece, commissioned by King Philip II of Spain for the chapel of the royal palace in Madrid and created by Michiel Coxcie between 1557 and 1559, and the “Head of Christ,” a copy from ... More | | Mississippi Museum of Art Opens Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Freedom Riders
Eric Etheridge (born 1957), Hank Thomas, Stone Mountain, Georgia, May 10, 2007. © the artist.
JACKSON, MISS.- In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Mississippi Freedom Rides, the Mississippi Museum of Art presents Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Freedom Riders, an exhibition which documents the men and women whose bravery challenged racial injustice in 1961. The fifty-four foot long installation is composed of sixteen contemporary portraits of the Freedom Riders taken by Mississippi-native Eric Etheridge, along with prints of the original 330 mug shots of those arrested. The exhibition is on view March 19 - June 12, 2011. In the Spring and Summer of 1961, several hundred Americans-black and white, men and women, some practically children-converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights. More than ... More |
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 Tavares Strachan's Notions of Absence and Presence, Visibility and Invisibility at Rossi & RossiLONDON.- Rossi & Rossi present Sometimes Lies are Prettier, the first solo exhibition in the UK by Tavares Strachan. Sometimes Lies are Prettier centres upon a historical happening in 1995 - the disappearance of the XIth Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima. In Tibetan Buddhist culture, the Panchen Lama is revered as the second most important religious figure after the Dalai Lama. He is considered to be an emanation of the Amitabha Buddha and possesses the spiritual powers and authority to identify the next Dalai Lama. On the 14th of May, 1995, a formal announcement was made by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, recognising a six-year-old boy Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, from the Lhari district in Nagchu, Tibet, as the reincarnation of the Xth Panchen Lama. Three days later, the boy and his family were abducted by the Chinese authorities and have not been seen since. The Chinese government subsequently ... More Painter and Street Artist Emeli Theander has First Exhibition at Galerie AdlerFRANKFURT.- Galerie ADLER is presenting the young Berlin artist Emeli Theander (*1984 Göteborg, Sweden) in her first gallery exhibition! The painter and street artist Emeli Theander continues to follow traces of outsiders and freaks, diving into worlds inhabited by ghosts. What connects these figures is their existence at the margins of modern imagination For this first solo show Emeli Theander is dealing with the belief in the Gastkramad. This old Nordic folk-belief describes a special behaviour of ghosts which perhaps could have serious consequences also for the living. According to this folk-belief ghosts are allowed to leave their graves between midnight and sunrise. However, when surprised by morning dawn, they could not move any more, but they still were remaining invisible for humans. In case a human being happened to touch one of the ghosts in this state, he was afflicted by more or less serious illness. Today th ... More Latitude Contemporary Art: 2011 Shortlist Announced for £10,000 PrizeLONDON.- In 2010 Latitude Festival announced the launch of Latitude Contemporary Art (LCA) Exhibition and Award with the aim to continue and expand Latitude's enormous commitment and devotion to the arts. The LCA team comprises creator of Latitude and managing director of Festival Republic Melvin Benn; independent arts writer Louise Gray; Artes Mundi chief executive and curator Ben Borthwick; curator/deputy editor of The Wire Anne Hilde Neset; managing director of Lavish, Ami Jade Cadillac. For the 2011 Latitude Contemporary Art programme, five artists have been commissioned to exhibit their work outdoors in the Latitude Festival's woodland site. These are: Alice Anderson; Graham Dolphin; Andy Harper; Delaine Le Bas; Maslen & Mehra. The overall winner of the £10,000 LCA Award is chosen by an independent panel of judges on site at Latitude Festival. The prize covers research, development, production costs and artist fees for a new piece for the LCA exhibition at the following ye ... MoreGibbes Museum of Art Announces Short List of Finalists for $10,000 Factor Prize for Southern ArtCHARLESTON, S.C.- The Gibbes Museum of Art announced the 2011 Short List of Finalists for the fourth annual Factor Prize. The Factor Prize, awarded annually with a cash prize of $10,000, acknowledges an artist whose work demonstrates the highest level of artistic achievement in any media while contributing to a new understanding of art in the South. The winner of the 2010 Factor Prize was mixed media artist Radcliffe Bailey of Atlanta . Artists who reside, work in, or are from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, or Virginia were nominated for the Prize online at www.factorprize.org through February 28, 2011. In early March, seven panelists reviewed the hundreds of applicants and narrowed the list to six artists. The seven panelists for the 2011 Factor Prize were philanthropists Elizabeth and Mallory Factor; 2010 Factor Prize winner Radcliffe Bailey; Ch ... More Smithsonian Keeps Meteorite that Fell in VirginiaWASHINGTON (AP).- A small meteorite that crashed through the roof of a Virginia medical office last year is becoming part of the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History in Washington. The Smithsonian paid $10,000 for the meteorite to Marc Gallini and Frank Ciampi, the Lorton, Va. doctors who found it. They have in turn given the $10,000 check to the Doctors Without Borders charity. Museum spokesman Randall Kremer said Saturday the meteorite is part of the museum's research collection. The Smithsonian holds the world's largest collection of natural history specimens and artifacts. Meteorites are lucrative, and after the tennis-ball-sized rock fell from the sky and landed in an examination room in the office in January 2010, the landlords at the doctors' building made a legal claim to it. But that claim was later dropped. ... More |
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