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Indian artist Anish Kapoor poses next to a piece of his work, entitled White Sand, Red Millett, Many Flower 1982, which is on show at the Manchester Art Gallery, in Manchester, Britain. The work is part of Kapoor's exhibition, entitled Flashback, which opens to the public from 05 March to 05 June. EPA/DAVE THOMPSON.
MANCHESTER.- Internationally renowned, Turner Prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor creates sensual and beguiling sculptures from pigment, stone, polished stainless steel and wax. This brand new exhibition features two important early works by the artist from the Arts Council Collection, presented alongside around half a dozen of his more recent works, on loan from major UK collections and from the artist’s studio. This must-see exhibition is the first major show of Kapoor's work to be held outside London in over a decade and follows the artist's record-breaking Royal Academy exhibition in 2009. Manchester Art Gallery is the launch venue for the show, curated and organised by the Art Council Collection. It will then tour nationally to Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery (19 November 2011 – 11 March 2012); Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (16 June – 4 November 2012). Anish Kapoor is one of t ... More |
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Sale at Christie's Offers Superb Chinese Works Largely Unseen for Thirty Years
An Exceptionally Rare Blue-Glazed Flask-Form Vase. Qianlong Six-Character Seal Mark in Underglaze Blue and of the Period (1736-1795). Estimate on request. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
NEW YORK, NY.- On March 24, Christie’s New York presents Magnificent Qing Monochrome and Earlier Works of Art from the Gordon Collection, a single-owner sale highlighted by a group of magnificent imperial monochrome-glazed porcelains from the Qing dynasty. The sale will feature 98 exceptional lots ranging from archaic bronze vessels to modern Chinese paintings, and is expected to realize in excess of $6 million. The Gordons began collecting in the early 1970s, when relatively little Chinese art was available in America. Joining a circle of American collectors that included Arthur M. Sackler and Paul Singer, the Gordons bought mainly at auction or from premier dealers such as Frank Caro (successor to C.T. Loo) in New York and the firms of Eskenazi Ltd., S. Marchant and Son, Bluett & Sons Ltd. and John Sparks Ltd. in London. The Gordons’ collection ... More | | Monolith Part of Teotihuacan Sun Pyramid to be Exhibited for the First Time
Huehueteotl is represented carrying a huge brazier with symbols that mark the Universe directions. Photo: DMC INAH/M. Tapia.
MEXICO CITY.- A monolith that represents a yet unknown deity that during the first 2 centuries of our era was part of the Sun Pyramid, in the Prehispanic city of Teotihuacan, will be exhibited for the first time in Six Ancient Cities of Mesoamerica. Society and Environment to be opened at the National Museum of Anthropology (MNA) in Mexico City. Jointly with this piece, discovered in 2007, will be presented the most complete sculpture found until now of Huehueteotl, deity of fire, informed archaeologist Alejandro Sarabia, curator of the hall dedicated to Teotihuacan at the great exhibition that will gather more than 400 Prehispanic pieces representing the development of this ancient city, as well as Monte Alban, El Tajin, Palenque, Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco. Teotihuacan pieces recently found were discovered during different explorations at the Moon Pyramid and archaeological salvages at the town ... More | | Historic Celebration of British Artist Henry Moore Begins at Leeds Art Gallery
Henry Moore 1898-1986 Mother and Child 1932 White Alabaster, Leeds Museums and Galleries.
LEEDS.- The display covers both the pre-war and post-war era concentrating on British loans as it challenges the familiar image of Henry Moore (1898-1986) as an artist. It features works loaned from Tate Britain, the Henry Moore Foundation, private collections from around the country and pieces returning to the UK from display at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Canada where the show has been since leaving Tate Britain last year. After surviving the horrors of the First World War where he served on the Western Front, the impact it left on Moore can clearly be seen in the display through his ‘Shelter Drawings’ from the Blitz on London, ‘The Helmet’ which he sculpted shortly before the Second World War began reflecting the mood of anxiety in the nation, and ‘Atom Piece’ which expresses the fears of nuclear annihilation which he produced in the 1960s during the Cold War. Moore’s obsession with the maternal relationship is also explored, with numerou ... More |
 | MFA Houston Presents First Major Retrospective Devoted to Photographer Heinrich Kühn
Heinrich Kühn, Mary Warner and Edeltrude, c. 1908. Autochrome. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Bildarchiv, Vienna.
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents over 100 photographs in this first major retrospective in the United States devoted to Austrian photographer and scientist Heinrich Kühn (1866-1944), an important figure in the international Pictorialist movement of the early 1900s and closely linked to Americans Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen. Like his fellow Pictorialists, Kühn aspired to have photography recognized as an artistic medium and in his early work strived to create in his photographs the atmospheric effects of Impressionist paintings. He perfected printing processes, such as gum bichromate, that gave him the freedom to manipulate tones, add or eliminate portions of his negatives details, and print on papers with varied textures, giving him exceptional control over the final image. At times, the photographs had the character ... More | | Major Vancouver Art Gallery Exhibition Celebrates the Career of Ken Lum
Ken Lum, 117 Dwight Eisenhower Blvd, 2009, mixed media. Courtesy of Lothar. Albrecht Galerie, Frankfurt.
VANCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery presents the first large-scale solo survey of the work of internationally renowned Vancouver artist Ken Lum. The exhibition features more than 50 works spanning Lum’s 30-year career, including a number of works not previously exhibited in North America: Mirror Maze with 12 Signs of Depression; House of Realization; and his recent Rorschach Shopkeeper Signs. Over the past three decades, Lum has developed a complex body of work which includes sculpture, painting, photography and other art forms. This exhibition is a comprehensive exploration of that art, from his early performance work Entertainment for Surrey, to his acclaimed Portrait-Repeated Text series, to his more recent mirror-based installations. “We’re very honoured to present this comprehensive exhibition of Ken Lum’s work,” said Vancouver Art Gallery director Kathleen Bartels, “Ken is, deserve ... More | | Record-Breaking Pablo Picasso Painting Goes on Show at Tate Modern in London
Pablo Picasso's Nude Green Leaves. EPA/Christie's.
LONDON.- The most expensive painting to be sold at auction, Pablo Picasso's "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust," goes on public display in Britain for the first time Monday at the Tate Modern gallery in London. The 1932 work, which sold for $106.5 million at Christie's in New York last year, has been lent to the Tate galleries from a private collection and will be on display in a new Pablo Picasso room in the Poetry and Dream section. "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust is one of the sequence of paintings of Picasso's muse, Marie-Therese Walter, made by the artist at Boisgeloup, Normandy, in the early months of 1932," said Nicholas Serota, the Tate's director. "They are widely regarded as amongst his greatest achievements of the inter-war period." Picasso first encountered Walter in 1927, but their relationship had to remain secret from his wife, Olga. According to the Tate, it was only in 1931-2 that he began to make sculptures and painti ... More |
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Future Beauty: Exhibition of 30 Years of Japanese Fashion at Haus der Kunst in Munich
Japanese designer Akira Minagawa poses for a picture in front of his creations at the Haus der Kunst. EPA/FELIX HOERHAGER.
MUNICH.- With nearly 130 exhibits, including garments, films of fashion shows, collection catalogues and other documentary material, this exhibition provides an overview of Japanese avantgarde fashion from the early 1980s to the present. It is the first of such project in Europe. Since the 1980's Japanese fashion designers have fundamentally redefined and influenced fashion worldwide. Visionaries like Rei Kawakubo (b. 1942) and Yohji Yamamoto (b. 1943) introduced a language of deconstruction to international fashion. They use imperfect and aged materials in their pieces, while fashion designer Issey Miyake (b. 1938) employs opulent materials that envelope the human figure and create voluminous spaces between fabric and body. Instead of the slender silhouettes of Western couture, there are flowing forms and a darker, monochrome colour palette. Japanese fashion designers vigorously transform ... More | | Exhibition of Works by Wayne Thiebaud on View at The Morandi Museum in Bologna
Wayne Thiebaud, Four cupcakes, 1971 (detail). Oil on canvas, 27,9 x 48,3 cm. Betty Jean Thiebaud collection.
BOLOGNA.- The Morandi Museum in Bologna carries on its program of tracing connections between Morandi’s oeuvre and that of some of the greatest contemporary artists, after the 2005 homage to Josef Albers and the wide-ranging Bernd and Hilla Becher exhibition in 2009. Through October 2nd, 2011, the works of world-famous American artist Wayne Thiebaud entered the museum’s main rooms alongside Morandi’s oeuvre, establishing a dialogue meant to underline both their similarities and differences, beyond the immediately evident serial and chromatic aspects. Wayne Thiebaud, born in Arizona in 1920, is considered a key figure in contemporary American art. Often associated to Pop Art, Thiebaud has nonetheless always refused to be ascribed to any artistic movement, just like Morandi. If, on the one hand, his subjects of choice seem to bring him close to Pop artists – symbols of consumer culture such as candy, sw ... More | | Museu da Electricidade in Lisbon Opens Exhibition that Shows Works by Snøhetta
Norwegian National Opera and Ballet. Photo: Jens Passoth.
LISBON.- Lisbon welcomed the exhibition "Snøhetta - Architecture - Landscape - Interior", that shows some of the major works of one of the most widely discussed architectural firms in the world today. The firm has achieved this position primarily by winning two open, international competitions with hundreds of participants from all over the world: Bibliotheca Alexandrina and Oslo’s new Opera House. The winning designs have become landmarks in their respective countries. The objective of this exhibition is to present Snøhetta’s designs to a broader public around the world. It present the firm and its work by means of films, computer animations and visualisations, photographs, drawings and text. Some of Snøhetta most important projects are presented: the September 11 Museum Pavilion, the King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture, the Ras Al Khaimah Gateway project, the Opera House in Oslo and Bibliotheca Alexandrina. There are also models ... More |
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Exhibition of New Series of Paintings by Chinese Artist Xiao Se at Eli Klein in Beijing
Xiao Se, Intellectuals Smoke, 2010. Oil on canvas, 57 1/2 x 45 5/8 inches, 146 x 116 cm.
BEIJING.- EK Projects presents “Xiao Se’s solo exhibition, Beijing”. In this new series of paintings, Xiao Se broadens his interest in the mundane-turned-surreal, constructing images of contemporary Chinese men and women in characteristically ambiguous spaces and attitudes. Keeping with the distinguishing traits of his previous work, Xiao Se paints fleshy, photorealistic figures that inhabit surrealist spaces filled with pools of water, broken ceramics, and those trademark long-stemmed red flowers. Xiao Se is a collector of images, both historical and contemporary. His connoisseurship of European art history shows in his appropriation of Madonna imagery, done often out of irreverence rather than worship. In other cases, Xiao Se’s compositions seem to be made up of figures culled not from Antiquity but a personal photo album. A shirtless, smoking man and two smiling children in ... More | | Museum of Fine Arts Displays Contemporary Ceramics by Exciting Young Artists
The artists have produced large-scale ceramic sculptures.
ST. PETERSBURG, FL.- Contemporary artists have taken ceramic art in entirely new directions. They have produced large-scale ceramic sculptures, often inspired by more traditional forms, such as Don Reitz’s Skirted Vessel in the Museum of Fine Art, St. Petersburg’s Sculpture Garden. The objects in PLACE: Contemporary Ceramics by Jennifer Forsberg, Sarah Lindley, and Jeanne Quinn (March 5-April 24) similarly challenge conventional expectations of the medium. These artists express and interpret notions of space through three complementary approaches: form, structure, and air. Their inventive use of layers and elevations immediately engages the viewer. Ms. Forsberg’s weighty forms seem both “earthbound” and of the body. Ms. Lindley’s structural creations are elevated on mounds and platforms. Ms. Quinn’s pieces are hung from above creating an ethereal quality. The three combined into a single ... More | | Well-Known Bay Area Sculptor Linda Fleming Opens Exhibition at Brian Gross Fine Art
Linda Fleming, Storm, 2011, powder-coated steel, 93 x 145 x 90 inches. Photo: Courtesy Brian Gross Fine Art.
SAN FRANCISCO. CA.- Well-known Bay Area sculptor Linda Fleming opened Meanderings, an exhibition of sculpture and drawing, at Brian Gross Fine Art on Thursday, March 3. Works on view include Storm, a monumental laser-cut steel sculpture, two wall sculptures, and a large-scale graphite drawing. In these works, Linda Fleming continues her longstanding investigation into the science and metaphysics of geometric forms. Each piece is composed of swirling, lace-like patterns that recall breath, smoke, blood vessels, or even channels of information. In Storm, the artist utilizes a vocabulary of folding planes to create a volumetric structure in powder-coated steel. At 93 by 145 by 90 inches, the viewer is able to move in and around the sculpture. Fleming's wall sculptures consist of simplified planes of laser-cut patterns and are often chrome-plated to reflect and incorporate the surrounding environment. To Fleming, her wor ... More |
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 Inaugural Art Naples to Feature Special Artists ExhibitionsNAPLES, FL.- In addition to the outstanding display of contemporary fine art glass, paintings, sculpture, photography and furniture presented at Art Naples, the fair will feature dynamic “special exhibitions”. The exhibitions will range from extensive one- artist presentations to collections of curated themed exhibitions. Habatat Galleries (Royal Oak) will exhibit an outstanding installation by world-renowned metal sculptor, Albert Paley. The exhibition will feature mixed media sculptures of bronze and glass, in addition to more functional pieces such as decorative lamps and tables. Paley’s style is dominated by nature; always having a sense of the organic, similar to the flowing lines of the Art Nouveau. Works by the internationally known artist can be found in the permanent collections of many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the ... More Photokinetiks, or a Short Guide for the Construction of Meaning at WiE Kultur in BerlinBERLIN.- Can geometrical forms be something else from what they actually are? If yes, could they serve as basis for a new vade mecum apt to instruct us on how to construct meaning? This last question is the leading theme of "a short guide for the construction of meaning", the exhibition presenting the new works of Berlin based artist Frank Hülsbömer. Using photography and video as art media, Hülsbömer depicts a parallel universe inhabited by minimally structured surfaces and forms in which all contradictions are admitted and - sometimes - happily unified. The artist's way of treating objects is both poetical and playful: it seems as though he is taking a step back in order to allow his objects to live and to develop their own life. Hülsbömer does not want to disturb the scenery he is looking at. Indeed, it appears as if the artist has just limited himself to the mere observation of the aesthetic scene he is in front of and then named it by taking ... More Group Show Investigates Themes of Surveillance Society at Aubin GalleryLONDON.- A group show investigating themes of surveillance society curated by Fieldgate Gallery. “...we are reduced to an atomized pseudo-community of consumers, our sensibilities dulled by spectacle and repetition.” Grant Kester ‘Conversation Pieces: Community and Community in Modern Art (2004)’ It appears everybody is watching, or being watched, or wants to be watched. Whether it is reality TV, CCTV, YouTube, there is a sense that life, however banal, is increasingly out there, somewhere else, deferred. As Guy Debord states in Society of the Spectacle; ‘this society which eliminates geographical distance reproduces distance internally as spectacular separation.’ Domestically, as this form of escapism becomes increasingly ocular, pleasure has become voyeuristic, while escapism itself is now an aspiration to a state of being, further increasing our sense of displacement and separation. Smoke on the Water is the title ... More Wolfgang Ellenrieder's Debut Solo Exhibition in the US Opens at RH GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- RH Gallery presents Wolfgang Ellenrieder’s debut solo exhibition in the US. This exhibition coincides with the US launch of Prestel’s new book of Ellenrieder’s work titled Tatort, or “Crime Scene.” Ellenrieder is also currently included in Unscharf, a group exhibition featuring Gerhard Richter and Ugo Rondinone, on view until 22 May 2011 at the Hamburg Kunsthalle. Ellenrieder currently lives in Munich where he was born in 1959. Ellenrieder’s oeuvre explores image construction and representation. His focus lies in the process of image-making itself and the viewer’s perception of images. He studies the function of the images such as media as well as personal photographs that inundate our daily life. The crux of Ellenrieder’s work engages representation and simultaneous misrepresentation of reality. Stock photography is particularly important in his catastrophe paintings, w ... More Clark Art Institute Launches International Tour of Masterpieces in MilanWILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- Continuing its commitment to global outreach and cultural exchange, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute launched the first international tour of masterpieces from its collection of nineteenth-century European paintings with the exhibition Impressionisti: Capolavori della collezione Clark at the Palazzo Reale in Milan. Speakers at a press conference included Massimilliano Finazzer Flory, cultural councilor for the city of Milan; Domenico Piraina, Director of the Palazzo Reale; Iole Siena, President of Arthemisia Group, srl; Michael Conforti, Director of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; and Richard Rand, Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Senior Curator and Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Open to the public from March 2 through June 19, the exhibition includes many of the greatest works from the Clark’s extraordinary holdings of Fre ... More Israel Museum Director Named One of 50 Most Influential People in the Art World in 2010JERUSALEM.- Israel Museum Director James S. Snyder has been included in a prestigious list of the 100 most influential people in the art world compiled annually by the Journal des Arts, the French sister-edition of The Art Newspaper. American-born Snyder was ranked 46th on the power list, which includes, among others, collectors Eli Broad and Leonard Lauder; museum directors Glenn Lowry of The Museum of Modern Art and Neil MacGregor of the British Museum; artists Damien Hirst and Anish Kapoor; architects Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid; designers Ron Arad and Philippe Starck; and gallerists Larry Gagosian and Arne Glimcher. James S. Snyder has served as the Anne and Jerome Fisher Director of the Israel Museum since 1997. Under his leadership, the Museum recently completed a comprehensive $100-million, three-year campus renewal project. Designed by James Carpenter Design Associates, New York, and Efrat-Kowalsky Architect ... MorePhillips de Pury & Company Announces Début of New York Retail Shop at Park Avenue GalleriesNEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Company announced the début of the New York retail shop at the flagship 450 Park Avenue galleries. The curated program reflects Phillips de Pury & Company’s expertise in design, contemporary art, photography, editions, and jewelry, and exemplifies Phillips de Pury’s role as today’s contemporary arts arbiter. London based design studio, Glass Hill (Markus Bergström & Joe Nunn) was commissioned to design the space and has devised an intelligent, modular, system that allows for flexibility and reinvention while adhering to the simple, linear values for which the studio is renowned. The result provides a dynamic platform for Phillips de Pury to exhibit and sell the work of today’s leading designers and artists. The shop features work from three nominees for this year’s Brit Insurance Design Awards; Seongyong Lee and Nendo in the best furniture design category and Ma ... More |
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