| | Christie's Offers One of the Finest Private Collections of Early 20th Century Decorative Art
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The 'Maharaja' adjustable chaise longue 'Aux Skis' by French furniture designer Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann, 1929, part of the Chateau de Gourdon collection, is presented at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. The Gourdon Collection of masterpieces has focused principally on the classicism of Art Deco and on the emergence of Modernism in France, starting with works from the age of Art Nouveau, moving on to demonstrate the great achievements of Art Deco in the 1920s. The collection, one of the finest private collections of early 20th century decorative art and design, will go to auction by Christie's March 29-31 in Paris. REUTERS/Charles Platiau.
PARIS.- Christie’s presents the sale of the Gourdon Collection, one of the finest private collections of early 20th century decorative art and design ever to be offered at auction, on 29, 30 and 31 March 2011, at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. The collection is estimated to achieve between 35 and 50 million euros. Housed in the spectacular medieval Château de Gourdon near Grasse, towering majestically over the Gorges du Loup, this collection of masterpieces has focused principally on the classicism of Art Deco and on the emergence of Modernism in France – the latter movement symbolised by the outstanding representation of the Union des Artistes Modernes (UAM.). The collection provides a chronological narrative – starting with exemplary works form the age of Art Nouveau, moving on to demonstrate the great achievements of Art Deco in the 1920s and illustrating in depth the utopian Modernist aesthetic – a rad ... More |
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Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints by James Siena at the Pace Gallery
James Siena, Untitled (first triangle painting), 2009, enamel on aluminum, 9-5/8" x 7-9/16" (23.7 cm x 19.2 cm) Photo: Kerry Ryan McFate/ Courtesy The Pace Gallery © James Siena, courtesy The Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Pace Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and prints by James Siena, featuring new works created by the artist over the past three years. The exhibition focuses on the artist’s methodology, from his use of repeated systems to figurative drawings that explore alternate means of creating an image. The show is on view at 510 West 25th Street from March 25 through April 30, 2011. James Siena is known for his unique process, creating intricate geometric abstractions driven by predetermined self-imposed sets of rules, or “visual algorithms.” By establishing a basic unit and action and repeating it ad infinitum, Siena allows the unpredictability of his self-generated system to govern the final outcome of his complex picture plane, while still maintaining the presence of the artist’s hand. The exhibition features twenty-three new glossy enamel on aluminum paintings, and thir ... More | | New York Marks 100th Anniversary of 1911 Capitol Fire with Exhibition and New Film
The corridor on fourth floor of the New York State Capitol is seen after a fire. AP Photo/Albany Institute of History and Art.
NEW YORK (AP).- The fire started in the Assembly Library and quickly spread down the hall to the nearby New York State Library, finding plenty of fuel among towering shelves jammed with books and cabinets filled with hundreds of thousands of documents, many of them centuries old. It would be several days before firefighters finally doused the last embers of the state Capitol fire that started in the early morning hours of March 29, 1911. Meanwhile, one man was dead and an untold wealth of New York's history and heritage — from Dutch colonial records to priceless Iroquois artifacts — had gone up in flames. The disaster, according to the man who served as the State Library's director before and after the fire, was unequaled in the history of modern libraries. The fire is estimated to have destroyed about 500,000 books and 300,000 manuscripts; only 7,000 books and 80,000 manuscripts were saved. The blaze also destroyed 8,500 artifacts in the New York State ... More | | Film of Werner Herzog's Exclusive Access to the Recently Discovered Chauvet Caves
Fear of damage from exposure to light and even human breath has meant that only a tiny handful of researchers have witnessed the paintings in person.
NEW YORK, NY.- Positively received at its Toronto Festival Premiere, CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS shows the dramatic results of Herzog’s exclusive access to the recently discovered Chauvet caves in the South of France, and their truly extraordinary cave paintings, dating back 32,000 years. Herzog’s use of 3D really brings these beautiful works of art and the breath-taking cathedral like cave with its towering stalagmites to life. Herzog uses his unique access to this treasure trove of Palaeolithic masterpieces to muse on the immensity and fragility of man’s progress. Herzog combines his gifts as a conjurer of unforgettable images, explorer of forbidden landscapes and poetic philosopher to illuminate and celebrate the earliest recorded visions of humanity. The Chauvet Cave, which contains the earliest known cave paintings, was discovered in 1994 and is considered one of the most significant prehistoric art sites ... More |
 | Giant Silk China Scroll Goes for $30 Million Plus to Anonymous Hong Kong Collector
Visitors look on a Qianlong-dynasty painting, representing a military parade, at a action house in Toulouse. AP Photo/Manuel Blondau.
PARIS (AP).- A giant 18th-century Chinese silk scroll painting of a military troop review has been sold at auction for more than euro22 million ($30.8 million), the highest auction price for a Chinese work in France. The work, found in a Paris attic and sold in Toulouse by auctioneer Marc Labarbe, is one of a series of four works of 17th-century maneuvers that mobilized some 20,000 men. A Hong Kong collector, who asked to remain anonymous, made the winning bid Saturday of euro22,057,000 after a ferocious bidding war with seven others. The 24-meter-long (78.7 feet) horizontal scroll was painted around 1748 under Emperor Qianlong. One of the four scrolls is in the Palace Museum of Beijing, and another was auctioned off in 2008 at Sotheby's in Hong Kong — for $67.86 million. ... More | | Trio of Intriguing & Provocative Exhibitions at Wexner Center in Ohio this Spring
Louise Bourgeois, Avenza, 1968–1969. Latex and fiberglass, 21 x 30 x 46 inches. Courtesy Cheim & Read, Hauser & Wirth, and Galerie Karsten Greve. Photo: Christopher Burke.
COLUMBUS, OH.- The Wexner Center hosts a suite of exhibitions this spring and summer, featuring Double Sexus: Hans Bellmer and Louise Bourgeois, flanked by two individual artist presentations: Human Behavior: Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg, a survey of recent work in clay animation and sculpture, and Pipilotti Rist: The Tender Room, featuring a new multimedia installation created for the Wex. The exhibitions are on view March 26–July 31, 2011. “Anchored by Double Sexus, this suite of exhibitions was consciously constructed to be at once illuminating and provocative, moving and unsettling,” notes Wexner Center Director Sherri Geldin. “Brilliantly juxtaposing the work of Louise Bourgeois and Hans Bellmer, the exhibition reveals not only the remarkable ... More | | New Permanent Display, from Victorian to Modern British Art, for the Walker Art Gallery
Mrs Mounter by Harold Gilman.
LIVERPOOL.- ‘Art and Insanity at the Walker Art Gallery’ was one newspaper’s description of the Walker Art Gallery’s 1892 purchase of the painting Summer (1891) by Edward Hornel. The uproar surrounding the acquisition was due to the artist’s unusual style, creating patterns and striking colours which virtually diminished the subject. Strength of feeling was such that Philip Rathbone, chair of Liverpool City Council’s arts committee, was forced to threaten his resignation if the painting was not accepted. The controversial painting now features in a new interactive gallery, exploring the often turbulent transition from Victorian to modern British art, which opened at the Walker Art Gallery on 25 March 2011. Radical shifts in British art are set against a backdrop of major upheavals in society, European art movements and wider world events, providing a more thorough understanding of the ... More |
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Klemens Gasser and Tanja Grunert Present Artist Grayson Cox's First Solo Show with the Gallery
Installation view (Skylit Room), includes (from front to back) Chair, 2010. Wood, enamel, 37 ½ x 16 x 18 ¾ in. Scoreboard, 2011. Bleach, fabric, wood, enamel, 67 1/8 x 74 x 22 ½ in. Point of Purchase, 2011. Bleach, acrylic on canvas, wood, enamel, 80 ½ x 39 ½ x 19 ¾ in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Klemens Gasser and Tanja Grunert present Grayson Cox’s first solo show with Gasser Grunert, a collection of prints, places, aspirational architectural, and shunted points of purchase, culled and dyed into fabric with bleach, gives voice to the ominous appeal of corporate identity, of forms so singularly generic that they exemplify the disorientation of contemporary moral space. Nudge, Nudge Me Do points to a mass compliance that has transformed our built environment and our mode of navigation within it. On view is an evocation of soft corporate power without concrete intention. In the bleached prints, each image is revealed through a process of removal, looking suspiciously as if it had always waited within the fabric, like an image on a shroud. The resulting images have a sense of being embedded, created inside the fabric as opposed to on top of it. The bleached stains in the fabric pull the archetypal i ... More | | De Hallen Haarlem Presents the First Solo Exhibition by Matt Stokes in a Dutch Museum
Long After Tonight, production still, 2005. Super 16mm film and audio transferred to Digibeta/DVD, 6.45 minutes. Courtesy: the artist, Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead and ZieherSmith, New York. Photograph: Peter Dibdi.
HAARLEM.- De Hallen Haarlem presents the first solo exhibition by Matt Stokes in a Dutch museum. This British artist is chiefly known for his video work in which he investigates underground currents in contemporary music. The museum is showing new and recent work by Stokes, in which he focuses on the subcultures of grindcore and Northern Soul. The exhibition can be seen from 26 March through 13 June, 2011. The English artist Matt Stokes (b. Penzance, 1973) does work in which performance, music and social engagement flow together. Stokes generally produces video work that zooms in on the social and visual codes of specific subcultures, and which is preceded by a period of intensive research and active cooperation with local communities. For instance, in the past he has made work on the folk tradition in Camden, hardcore punk in Austin, Texas, and the Northern Soul movement in Dundee. Rather than the documentary form whic ... More | | European Drawings from the Collection on View at the Portland Museum of Art
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Portrait of the Honorable Frederick Sylvester North Douglas, Son of Lord and Lady Glenbervie, 1815, graphite on paper, 8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. The Joan Whitney Payson Collection at the Portland Museum of Art. Gift of John Whitney Payson.
PORTLAND, ME.- The Portland Museum of Art features an exhibition devoted to European drawings comprised of 30 works from the Museum’s permanent collection and on loan from private collectors. European Drawings at the Portland Museum of Art, on view March 26 through May 22, 2011, highlights masterworks by the finest draughtsmen of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. This is a unique opportunity to see works of art that are rarely exhibited because of the fragile nature of paper. The exhibition is part of Where to Draw the Line: The Maine Drawing Project, a statewide collaboration of 20 arts organizations that will present exhibitions dedicated to the medium of drawing throughout 2011. From portraits and figure studies to landscapes and architectural studies, the exhibition showcases a spectrum of styles, ranging from an 18th-century caricature to elegant architectural designs, and ... More |
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Aerosol Art by Ben Quilty Inhabits the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide
Ben Quilty, Inhabit (detail).
ADELAIDE.- Ben Quilty couldn’t quite believe it when the Art Gallery of South Australia acquired his most recent exhibition in its entirety. Featuring 16 luscious oil paintings and a large metal sculpture Quilty’s Inhabit is a landmark body of work that continues the artist’s exploration of self and identity. Quilty flew into Adelaide last week for just four hours – during his visit he covered the pristine Gallery walls with aerosol paint, transforming the gallery space into a total work of art. “This work will certainly challenge our audiences’ ideas about how artists work – for contemporary artists like Ben Quilty nothing is off limits” said Gallery Director Nick Mitzevich. Charged by what Germaine Greer recently referred to as the “scars on his psyche”, Quilty’s work continues to strike a chord with his audiences. In an attempt to expel his own demons, I ... More | | Zapoteca and Mixteca Art Together for the First Time at the National Museum of Anthropology
Zapoteca skull. Photo DMC INAH/M. Tapia.
MEXICO CITY.- The Bat God Mask, golden objects from Tomb 7 in Monte Alban, Atzompa ceremonial vases, and the model of a mortuary rite, are part of the great exhibition Six Ancient Cities of Mesoamerica in the National Museum of Anthropology (MNA) that opened on March 17th 2011. Monte Alban, ancient city at the Mexican state of Oaxaca, opens the exhibition organized by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) with 2 stelae created to commemorate the first rulers of the city. The display of more than 400 objects testifies for the cultural development reached at 6 Mesoamerican cities: El Tajin, Palenque, Teotihuacan, Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco and Monte Alban. Artwork that dates from 5th century BC, part of heaps of the National of Anthropology, Cultures of Oaxaca and Monte Alban Site museums, part of the INAH museums network, is exhibited at the section ... More | | S.M.A.K. Conceives a Plan to Display the Works of Art and Documents of Marcel Broodthaers
This gallery is located on the boundary between the museum and the Floralia Hall behind it.
GHENT.- Several years ago S.M.A.K. conceived a plan to provide a permanent place in the museum to display the works of art and documents of Marcel Broodthaers (Brussels, 1924 - Cologne, 1976) from its collection. Since 1973, when the Friends of S.M.A.K. were able to buy Miroir d’Époque Regency (1973), S.M.A.K. has continued to have a particular interest in Broodthaers’ work. Several other major works and documents have also been acquired since then. Shortly after its opening in 1999, for example, the museum procured Grande Casserole de Moules (1966) and also a collection of objects, editions, books, films, catalogues, posters and invitations. In 2006 the Flemish Community purchased the crucial work Le Pense-Bête (1964) and gave it on permanent loan to S.M.A.K. The increasing ... More |
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 Monika Bartholomé, Arnulf Rainer, and Clemens Weiss Celebrated at Museum Kunst PalastDUSSELDORF.- The title SPOT ON refers to a museum kunst palast exhibition series for which several project rooms are set up anew at six-month intervals. In line with the museum’s liveliness and openness the SPOT ON programme goes beyond being restricted to most recent art or individual genres, with the rooms accommodating presentations of selected work groups from the museum’s own collection. The project rooms also introduce and facilitate discussion of important new acquisitions, as well as featuring smaller exhibitions of artists who live in Düsseldorf or have a particular connection with the city. Monika Bartholomé engages with Japanese Nesuke figures by means of drawings and film clips. Starting point of this project was the artist’s fascination with the Nesuke collection held by museum kunst palast. These miniature carvings from the 18th and 19th century, which were used on kimono belts to fix s ... More Homage to Miodrag Djuric Dado Around Three Large Triptychs at Galerie Jeanne-BucherPARIS.- The homage to Miodrag Djuric Dado has been worked around three major pieces painted in oil on canvas from 1975: the BOWERY TRIPTYQUE, the BOUKOKO TRIPTYQUE and the TRI PTYQUE DE NARVAL, along with the large-scale collages : À LA VILLE DE SAINT-DENIS, LE BOUCHER DE SAINT-NICOLAS, and two large-format drawings, FRIDA, LA LETTRE À MATHEY and other works on paper. This group of works demonstrates the degree of maturity attained by the artist between 1971 and 1975, the period during which we were involved with his work. The titles Dado gave these works relate his conception of a symbiosis between the events in his everyday life and the expression of memories that were more or less oniric. His experience of the tragic events of war which marked his teenage years developed an ardently dramatic mythology of an imaginary world that his painting tends to exorcise by offering him a disconcertingly idyllic environment. A common denominator can be found in the humanity that dominated ... More Ophelia: An Exhibition of New Paintings by Antonio Murado at Von Lintel GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Von Lintel Gallery presents Ophelia, an exhibition of new paintings by Antonio Murado. This is the artist's second solo show with Von Lintel Gallery and his seventh in New York. Murado is an extraordinarily versatile painter with a voracious and omnivorous appetite for source material. His paintings range from heavily textured impasto dirges to melodious arias, and always demonstrate his virtuosity with materials and skill at creating subtle painterly effect. In this series of paintings, inspired by Shakespeare's Ophelia, Murado orchestrates a range of techniques with stunning results. Rather than depicting the tragic heroine herself, Murado uses various methods to blow liquid paint across pale scrims of brushed on, semi-transparent color. The blown paint creates vaguely petal like forms that float over veil-like cooler hues, reminiscent of flowers on a watery surface--the most poignant and poetic symbols of O ... More Smithsonian American Art Museum Meets the Challenge for New Curator of Craft Position at its Renwick GalleryWASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum has met the challenge posed by Lloyd Herman, the founding director of its Renwick Gallery, to create a $2 million endowment to support a new curator of craft position. Herman's $800,000 challenge gift was the catalyst for attracting $1.2 million in matching funds from private contributors around the country. "Lloyd Herman has inspired us for a generation, first as the Renwick Gallery's founding director, bringing a passion and expertise to building the museum's craft collection, and now, fostering that passion through a new curatorial position," said Elizabeth Broun, The Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. "I am heartened by the outpouring of support from other craft lovers who helped bring this endowment to fruition," said Herman. "A second curator will allow the Renwick to explore new directions in our field, highlighting the enor ... MoreOld Clock Gets New Spot at New York's Grand Central NEW YORK (AP).- A new clock — well, an old clock, really — has been installed on the lower level of Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal. Metro-North Railroad spokeswoman Marjorie Anders says the clock was moved from the upper level because new lighting fixtures hid it from sight. The clock is from the Self Winding Clock Co. Nancy Dyer of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors says there once were more than 50,000 Self Winding clocks across the country, all maintained by Western Union. She says Western Union transmitted the correct time to the clocks, and they helped maintain railroad schedules. Anders says the clock, framed by a square oak case, was too big and beautiful to put in a museum. So it was moved to the ceiling of the dining concourse. ... More Nicolas Feuillatte Selects Julien Taylor as the "Artist of the Year"NEW YORK, NY.- Every year since 1999, Nicolas Feuillatte has selected and named the "artist of the year", who creates an original and exclusive work to add dimension to the brand identity. Each artist brings their own individual interpretation, symbolising an encounter between the artist and Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte. The work focuses on a number of themes specifically linked to the intrinsic character of the Champagne house, including terroir, time, "beyond", effervescence, and even nature. In 2011, Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte is celebrating its 35th anniversary. 35 years of inspiration, creation and effervescence... 35 magical years. For this magical anniversary, Julien Taylor, photographer and creative illusionist, has suspended time and place. Is it destiny or mere chance that in 2011, Julien Taylor is also celebrating being 35! For several years now Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte has demonstrated its committment to supporting the world of the arts. This includes awardin ... More |
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