| | Complete Series of Goya's "The Disasters of the War" on View at The Diocesan Museum
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A woman visits the exhibition of 'The Disasters of War' prints series by Spanish painter Francisco de Goya (17461828) at the Diocesan Museum in Barcelona, Spain. The exhibition, running until 29 May, features 80 prints of Goya's Disasters of War series. EPA/ALBERTO ESTEVEZ.
BARCELONA.- Ibercaja, together with the Diocesan Museum of Barcelona, has organised this exhibition of the first complete series of "The Disasters of the War": 80 engravings of the Aragonese painter Francisco Goya Lucientes (Fuendetodos, Zaragoza, 1746 - Bordeaux, 1828). These were painted during the Spanish Independence War, between 1810 and 1814, and are a graphical chronicle of those tragic events. However, Goya far-reaches the events and his existential and vital adventure, and he uses his art to make a declaration against all wars: he denounces the atrocities of the French army against the Spanish people, as well as the violence of the soldiers and the uncontrollable masses. The result of these paintings is the evidence of a surprisingly modernity for the times, a real crude disillusioned reflexion about mankind, finding itself in a limit situation that creates cruelty, death and misery and shows the failure of reason, st ... More |
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| The Best Photos of the Day |  |  | BRASILIA.- Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff, opens the art exhibition Mujeres, artistas y brasileñas (Women, artists and Brazilian women), in Planalto Presidential Palace in Brasilia, on 23 March 2011. The exhibition, held on the occasion of the celebrations of International Womens Day, includes about 80 paintings, prints, tapestries and sculptures from Brazilian artists of the twentieth century. EPA/FERNANDO BIZERRA JR. | | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
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Surface Truths: Abstract Painting in the Sixties at the Norton Simon Museum
Helen Frankenthaler (American, b. 1928), Adriatic, 1968. Acrylic on canvas, 132-1/8 x 93 in. (335.6 x 236.2 cm) Norton Simon Museum, Gift of the Artist. P.1969.138 © 2011 Helen Frankenthaler / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
PASADENA, CA.- The Norton Simon Museum presents Surface Truths: Abstract Painting in the Sixties, an exhibition of seventeen large-scale paintings created in the 1960s by artists such as Larry Bell, Thomas Downing, Helen Frankenthaler, Takeshi Kawashima, Kenneth Noland and Jack Youngerman. Drawn from the Museum’s holdings, the exhibition presents seminal and seldom-seen work by these artists who blazed an important trail through the contemporary art world. A distinctively American style of painting was created by the Abstract Expressionists who came out of post-War New York. Having distanced themselves from European Modernism, these artists fashioned an art that was loose, gestural and that emanated confidence in the power of personal expression. As Frank Stella acknowledged, “Both Pollock and Hoffman solved the problem for me…they established American painting as a real thing for me. I had confidence in i ... More | | Andy Warhol's Portrait of Liz Taylor to Be Projected on Building During Exhibition
Andy Warhol, Liz 1965. ARTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of Scotland . Acquired jointly through The d’Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund an the Art Fund 2008. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / DACS, London 2010.
SOUTHAMPTON.- Southampton is getting ready to paint the town this coming Sunday (27 March), when it opens a major exhibition by Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987), one of the giants of 20th century art. Nearly 200 works, including paintings, prints, posters, photographs and film, will be displayed across two of the city’s most prestigious art galleries, Southampton City Art Gallery and the John Hansard Gallery at the University of Southampton. The works on display are part of ARTIST ROOMS, a new collection of modern and contemporary art held by Tate and National Galleries of Scotland for the nation. Following the successes of 2009 and 2010, 21 museums and galleries across the UK (including 17 venues outside of London and Edinburgh) in 2011 will be showing ARTIST ROOMS exhibitions and displays from the collection assembled by the art collector and curator, Anthony d’Offay. ARTIST ROOMS is owned jointly by Tate and National ... More | | Claude Monet's Les Peupliers" Set to Fetch $25 Million at Christie's Auction in New York
Claude Monet, Les peupliers, oil on canvas, painted in 1891. Estimate: $20,000,000-30,000,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
By: Chris Michaud
NEW YORK, N.Y. (REUTERS).- A pristine Monet masterpiece from the artist's celebrated "Poplars" series will be featured at Christie's in May, when it is expected to sell for as much as $30 million, the auction house said on Friday. "Les Peupliers," the largest from Monet's famed paintings depicting poplar trees executed during his years in Giverny, is being sold by an Asian collector who purchased it at auction in 2000 for just over $7 million. After a precipitous decline following the financial crisis that hit in late 2008, the art market came roaring back last year with works breaking the $100 million mark, artists' records being broken and auction houses raking in cash once again. "The appearance of this masterpiece quality work marks the first time in over a decade that a major 1890s series painting has come to auction," said Conor Jordan, Christie's head of Impressionist and modern art. "We anticipate great enthusiasm fr ... More |
 | LACMA Launches Image Library Expanding Online Access to Museum's Collection
L.A. Times Central Court, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. ©2008 Museum Associates/LACMA.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announce that it will provide access to free high-resolution images of the museum’s rich encyclopedic collection through its newly created Image Library. Visitors to the library can download the images free of charge and without any restrictions on use. The Image Library opens with 2,000 public domain images (with more to be added), representing a broad range of LACMA’s collections, including Egyptian, Decorative Arts and Design, Latin American, Chinese and Korean, European Painting and Sculpture, and many more. The current selection of images presented in the Image Library represents a sampling from LACMA’s permanent collection that is comprised of more than 100,000 artworks. Each work in the Image Library is accompanied by identifying information, along with a link to its listing on LACM ... More | | Gene Tunney's Boxing Gloves from "The Long Count" Fight Donated to National Museum of American History
American Heavyweight boxing champion Gene Tunney, at his training camp in America, July. 25, 1928. AP Photo.
WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has acquired objects from the career of boxer Gene Tunney (May 25, 1897 – Nov. 7, 1978), through a donation from the Tunney family. The donation includes two awards, a studio portrait, a screen of boxing prints and the boxing gloves that James Joseph “Gene” Tunney wore in the historic 1927 heavyweight boxing championship rematch fight, commonly known as “The Long Count,” against Jack Dempsey. “The Long Count” was the rematch between world heavyweight champion Tunney and the former champion Dempsey, held Sept. 22, 1927, at Soldier Field in Chicago. Nearly a year before, in Philadelphia Sept. 23, 1926, Tunney had beaten Dempsey in a 10-round unanimous decision to earn the world heavyweight title. The 1927 rematch took place under new boxing rules regarding knockdowns, which stated that a fallen fighter had j ... More | | Tough Times in Remote West Texas: Vandals Target Quirky Art Project Prada Marfa
Prada Marfa art project located about 35 miles west of Marfa, Texas. AP Photo/Mike Graczyk.
By: Michael Graczyk, Associated Press
VALENTINE, TX (AP).- These are tough times for Prada Marfa, the quirky art project standing alone in the remote desert of Jeff Davis County in far West Texas. If the harsh environment doesn't provide enough stress, the 15-foot-by-25-foot adobe cube building intended to masquerade as a boutique of the luxury Italian fashion house is being battered by vandals. Graffiti is spray painted on an exterior wall and bullet holes pepper the windows that front U.S. Highway 90 about 35 miles west of the internationally known art mecca of Marfa. A steel post that held a dedication marker next to the structure appears to have been mowed down by a vehicle. "I'm disappointed with the way it is," says Boyd Elder, the local site representative for the 6-year-old $100,000 project designed by Berlin-based artists Michael Elmgreen ... More |
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Bulgarian Mogul Vasil Bozhkov Exhibits His Thracian Collection at the National History Museum in Bulgaria
A 5th century B.C. golden mask is pictured at the "Thrace and the Ancient World" exhibition at the National History Museum in Sofia. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov.
By: Irina Ivanova
SOFIA (REUTERS).- Bulgarian mogul Vasil Bozhkov is opening up his private collection of rare Thracian artefacts, offering a glimpse of a little-known ancient civilization which has left no written records. "Thrace and the Ancient World" runs until June 21 and shows over 200 artefacts including objects of Greek classical art, some of which are being displayed in public for the first time. The oldest article in the exhibition dates back to the 15th century B.C. Not much history has survived of the Thracians, who some experts say lived in what is now Bulgaria, Romania, northern Greece and Turkey's European territory from as early as 4000 B.C. until being absorbed by the Roman Empire in 46 AD. But archaeologists have discovered a large number of artefacts in Bulgaria's Thracian tombs in recent decades, which provide most ... More | | Sotheby's New York Sales of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Total a Record $71,320,518
A Rare 'Famille-Rose' Reticulated Revolving Vase Qianlong Seal Mark and Period, height 8 ¼ in., 21 cm. Sold for $1,202,500, well over the $400/500,000 estimate. Photo: Sotheby´s.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Sotheby’s sales of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art have concluded, bringing the overall total for the series of auctions to $71,320,518 (est. $17.5/25.1 million), the highest total ever achieved anywhere in New York. All three auctions exceeded their estimates and competitive bidding was seen across all categories and periods. The sales followed an energetic exhibition period packed with collectors from the United States, Europe and Asia. Sotheby’s Asia Week auctions began with the much anticipated sale of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art from J.T. Tai & Co. The auction brought a stunning total of $36,312,493 and was nearly 94% sold by lot. The sale of more than 300 lots took over nine hours, with multiple bidders in the room, on the phones and online competing for nearly every lot. The sale was led by An Unusual ‘Famille Rose’ and Gold Decorated Vase, Probably Republican Period, which s ... More | | Europe's Largest Antiques Association, LAPADA, Comes to Russia
Art investment expert Robin Duthy speaks with journalists. REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov.
By Nastassia Astrasheuskaya
MOSCOW (REUTERS).- Europe's largest antiques association catered for the Russian elite on their home turf for the first time this week, banking on the growing sophistication of the country's super-rich to rapidly increase demand. The London-based LAPADA, which unites top British and several international antiques dealers, presented 12 pieces to Moscow's champagne-quaffing crowd in the British ambassador's lavish embankment residence. "Russia has been an important market for antiques for the last 10 years. The main reason we came now is the strong market," said LAPADA chief executive Sarah Percy-Davis, as she surveyed the goods, which included billiard tables and a model aeroplane made of copper. The most expensive piece to go on display was a mirrored 19th century cabinet, which was decorated with facades of European cathedrals, and had a price tag ... More |
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Gl Holtegaard Presents A New Generation of Artists Who Have All Discovered The Magic of Clay
Canadian artist Linda Sormin works on her installation Howling Room for the exhibition The Magic of Clay. Laboratory of ceramics, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, January 2011.
Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
HOLTE.- Ceramics as an artistic medium is once more making an impact on the international art scene. All over the world, artists are breathing new life into this many thousand-year-old material, creating works that range from well-known everyday cups and plates to the most grotesque forms of the fairytale. Gl Holtegaard, with its exhibition, on view from The Magic of Clay – Ceramics in contemporary art, checks the pulse of ceramics in new art. The exhibition is on view from March 25 through July 3, 2011. Most people know the magical fascination of a lump of wet clay. Once the first imprint of a finger has been left on it, the creative process is underway and the clay has begun its transformation from a raw material into a finished form. For thousands of years, clay has entranced artists all over the world. ... More | | Turkish Horse Bridle Owned by Tipu Sultan for Sale at Bonhams in London for £60,000 to £90,000
Made in Turkey of red morocco, the brow-band, head- and cheek-pieces are faced with interlocking rectangular plaques of gilt-brass, each cast with an eight-petalled flowerhead design. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- An Ottoman gilt bridle, breast-plate and crupper taken from the residential quarters of Tipu Sultan (1750-99), Sultan of Mysore (Seringapatam), in the 18th Century, and brought to England by Field Marshall Sir Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere (1773-1865) is for sale in Bonhams Indian Islamic sale on April 5th in London. Made in Turkey of red morocco, the brow-band, head- and cheek-pieces are faced with interlocking rectangular plaques of gilt-brass, each cast with an eight-petalled flowerhead design. The decorative scheme of the bridle, in particular the presence of the crescent moon, is in keeping with Ottoman military decoration of the late 17th and 18th Centuries. In the 17th Century, the Ottoman Empire spanned three continents, controlling much of Southeastern Europe, Western Asia and North Africa. In 1794 at the age of 21 Stapleton Cotton was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the newly formed 25th Light Dr ... More | | Street Cries: Depictions of London's Poor on View at the Museum of London
Paul Sandby, Shrimp Seller, c. 1759. © Museum of London.
LONDON.- A display of significant paintings, prints and drawings are on display at the Museum of London from the 25 March 2011. The images, by artists including Gustave Doré, Théodore Géricault, Thomas Rowlandson and Paul Sandby, consider how the urban poor were depicted from the 17th to the 19th century. The prints and drawings illustrate street vendors and London’s urban poor, including travelling carpenters and cane-weavers, prostitutes and criminals. Some of these images present an idealised vision of the poor; others are amongst the first works of art to attempt a more realistic view of London’s poorest inhabitants. The collection poses interesting questions about how society in these periods was organised, the motives of those making, selling and buying the prints, and the status and identity of the people portrayed. The Street Cries exhibition explores these issues and showcases some of the museum&# ... More |
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 United States Mint Introduces 2011 Native American $1 Coin at Bicultural Museum in Plymouth, Mass.PLYMOUTH, MA.- B. B. Craig, United States Mint Associate Director of Sales and Marketing, and leaders of the Wampanoag Tribe introduced the 2011 Native American $1 Coin today during a ceremony at the Plimoth Plantation in Massachusetts. "The 2011 Native American $1 Coin celebrates the Wampanoag Treaty of 1621 that later led the English colonists and Massosoit and his men to join in a first harvest feast," said Craig. Other speakers at the event included Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, chairwoman of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head; Cedric Cromwell, chairman of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe; and Jim Adams, senior historian of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian. Those who attended the ceremony were among the first in the Nation to get the 2011 Native American $1 Coin. Adults exchanged their cas ... More CAM Raleigh Announces New Executive Director, Inaugural Exhibitions Set to Open April 30RALEIGH, NC.- A lively evening of street-festival activities, an official ribbon-cutting ceremony, and a weekend of free admission and special programs mark the grand opening of CAM Raleigh, a museum for contemporary art and design in Raleigh’s historic Warehouse District. Elysia Borowy-Reeder, who begins as Executive Director on May 16, will lead the museum’s dedication to exploring what’s now and nearing within an always-changing museum experience. Its inaugural exhibitions feature artists Dan Steinhilber (Washington DC) in the main gallery and New York-based Naoki Ito, the first artist in the Independent Weekly Gallery’s Emerging Artists Series. CAM Raleigh is a partnership between the community and North Carolina State University‘s (NC State) College of Design. “I am thrilled to celebrate new ideas in art and design in a home commensurate with both the College of Design’s program and the ... More Spanish Artist Carlos Rodríguez-Méndez in Hot Water at S.M.A.K.GHENT.- For his exhibition 'Agua Caliente/Hot Water', the Spanish artist Carlos Rodríguez-Méndez (Pontevedra, 1968) is installing a gigantic minimal sculpture in the Kunst Nu room at S.M.A.K. It comprises thirty-nine huge white PVC tubes, each thirty-five metres long, which are literally stuffed into the room. Each tube is filled with five litres of vegetable oil, and in the course of the exhibition this will gradually begin to leak out. By using such simple everyday materials as soil and peat or, as in this case, plastic, and by employing a minimalist visual idiom, the work of this artist can be situated somewhere between Arte Povera (’70) and Minimalism (’60). But there is more to it than that. The ‘scars’ the tubes left in the room as they were being installed will remain visible and tangible to the viewer. In this way the work negates the typical discourse of Minimalism, because rather than aiming for balan ... More Long Beach Museum of Art Presents Art Auction XIV: Where Imagination Takes FlightLONG BEACH, CA.- On May 22, 2011, the Long Beach Museum of Art’s fundraising affiliate, Phoenix, will present Art Auction 14: Where Imagination Takes Flight, considered one of the best auctions of contemporary art on the West Coast. This sellout event draws hundreds of discriminating arts patrons from throughout the greater Los Angeles area to bid on new works donated specifically for the event by both emerging and well-known artists. Nearly 100 artists are participating in the exhibition, which is comprised of over 150 works of art that will fill all of the Museum’s galleries. The Museum organizes Art Auction every other year and this year marks our fourteenth exhibition. All proceeds from Art Auction 14: Where Imagination Takes Flight support the Museum’s artistic and educational programming that continues to serve more than 12,000 children and hundreds of families throughout greater Long Beach each year. These p ... MoreMiniature Portrait in Brooklyn Museum Collection Now Attributed to Rembrandt Pupil Gerrit DouBROOKLYN, NY.- A small, jewel-like portrait, circa 1631, that has been in the Brooklyn Museum collection since 1932 and has not been on public view since early 1945, has recently been reattributed to Rembrandt's first pupil, Gerrit Dou. It has just been installed for the first time in the European painting galleries in the Beaux-Arts Court, where it will remain on long-term view. The little panel painting, which measures slightly larger than 6 inches by 4 inches, arrived at Brooklyn as part of a bequest from the estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam, manager and later president of the New Yorkbased department store B. Altman & Co. Dou was one of the founding members of the Leiden "fine painters," a group active in Leiden in the Netherlands from the early seventeenth through the late eighteenth century and known for its small, detailed paintings, often of genre scenes. By the early twentieth century, this style of painti ... More Seattle Art Museum Receives $150,000 Grant from the Henry Luce Foundation SEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) is the recipient of a one-time grant of $150,000 from The Henry Luce Foundation. The grant is issued through the American Art Renewal Fund and specifically allocated for SAM's Curator of Native American Art as well as essential collection management activities for the museum's American Art department. The Henry Luce Foundation developed the American Art Renewal Fund to respond to the economic downturn and the current need to strengthen American art activities at the nation's museums. This short-term initiative, offered through the American Art Program, provides support for the operating expenses related to American Art. Thus, it is a departure from the traditional focus on research and scholarship and is in effect only though 2011. SAM has benefited in the past from the Foundation's generous support for important American art projects. The foundation was a presenting spons ... More |
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