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Queen Beatrix (2-L) of The Netherlands, Crown Prince Willem Alexander (L) and Princess Maxima (2-R) of The Netherlands visit an exhibition, entitled The Golden Age of Dutch Painting, with Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (C), Emir of Qatar, at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, 09 March 2011. The Dutch royals are on a state visit to Qatar until 10 March. EPA/ROBIN UTRECHT / ROYAL IMAGES.
DOHA.- This spring, Qatar Museums Authority (QMA), in collaboration with the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, will present The Golden Age of Dutch Painting: Masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum. The first major exhibition of Dutch art in the Gulf region, Golden Age will be on view from March 11 – June 6, 2011 in the temporary exhibition hall of the Museum of Islamic Art. The exhibition will feature 44 major paintings from the Rijksmuseum’s collection, illustrating 17th century Dutch society, landscape and lifestyle through the eyes of Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, Frans Hals and other Old Masters. An unprecedented loan exhibition, Golden Age marks the beginning of a cultural collaboration between Qatar and The Netherlands, and furthers QMA’s mission to encourage global cultural dialogue and promote intellectual exchange through partnerships with the world’s leading cultural institutions. The exhibition aims ... More |
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Sale of Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art Announced by Sotheby's New York
MF Husain, Untitled (detail), oil on canvas. Est. $500/700,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s sale of Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art on 25 March 2011 will be led by one of the most important paintings by a modern Indian painter ever to have appeared on the market - Akbar Padamsee’s Untitled (Reclining Nude) which carries an auction estimate of $500/700,000. It was acquired by the current owners from the artist over 50 years ago and has never before appeared at auction. Sotheby’s presented the painting to collectors at the recent Indian Art Summit in New Delhi- the first time it had been returned to India since 1960. In addition to the Padamsee the masters of modern Indian painting are well represented in the auction, with major works by MF Husain, SH Raza, Ram Kumar, Krishen Khanna and Jagdish Swaminathan among others. Further highlights of the sale include a group of Bengal School paintings by Rabindranath, Abanindranath, Gaganendranath Tagore and Jamini Roy centered by ... More | | First Museum Exhibition in 50 Years Devoted to Ida Kar at the National Portrait Gallery
Yves Klein, 1957 by Ida Kar. © National Portrait Gallery, London.
B>LONDON.- A new exhibition of portraits by the twentieth-century pioneering photographer Ida Kar opened at the National Portrait Gallery today, Thursday 10 March. Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer, 1908-74 highlights the crucial role played by this key woman photographer at the heart of the creative avant-garde. With striking portraits of artists such as Henry Moore, Georges Braque, Gino Severini and Bridget Riley, and writers such as Iris Murdoch and Jean-Paul Sartre, this exhibition offers a fascinating insight into the cultural life of post-war Britain and an opportunity to see iconic works, and others not previously exhibited. On display for the first time is a portrait of artist Yves Klein, shown at his first and highly controversial London exhibition in 1957 in front of one of his famous monochrome works, in the distinctive blue-colour he was later to patent as his own (‘The artist who paints nothing’ was one newspa ... More | | Timothy Taylor Presents Ambitious Late Paintings by Abstract Expressionist Hans Hartung
Hans Hartung, T1983-H41, 1983. Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 73 cm. Courtesy, Foundation Bergman Hartung, France; Timothy Taylor Gallery, London.
LONDON.- Timothy Taylor Gallery presents an exhibition of ambitious late paintings by the celebrated abstract expressionist Hans Hartung. This is the first exhibition of Hartungs work in London since 1996. The exhibition is on view until April 9, 2011. In his last ten, highly productive years (1980 – 1989), Hans Hartung both expanded upon and revisited many of the themes and techniques that he had used throughout his career. Using spray paint and rollers, garden rakes and olive branches as brushes, Hartung, despite advanced age and infirmity, produced extraordinarily dynamic and powerful paintings in his home and studio complex in Antibes. Whether large paintings only lightly touched by a fine mist of paint, or dramatic dark and heavily impastoed works, these ultra-modern canvasses express ideas of infinity and the sublime on the one hand, and existential inner torment on the ... More |
 | Kunsthaus Wien Presents a Comprehensive Retrospective Devoted to HR Giger
Swiss artist H.R. Giger pictured during a tour of the exhibition 'Traeume und Visionen' (Dreams and Visions) at the Kunsthaus Wien. EPA/ROBERT JAEGER.
VIENNA.- In this comprehensive retrospective devoted to HR Giger, who was born in 1940 in Chur, Switzerland, Kunsthaus Wien takes a fresh look at the works of a controversial artist who, more than almost anyone else, has had a far-reaching influence on pop culture and cyberculture. The exhibition is on display until June 26, 2011. The exhibition focuses on the painter and sculptor HR Giger, who not only has achieved world fame as the creator of the film creature "Alien", which earned him an Oscar, but at the same time has produced a richly varied artistic oeuvre that is unmatched for its visionary power and disturbing intensity. HR Giger is an artist of visions, who has depicted the collective fears of a humanity faced with the threat of nuclear destruction and the mechanisation of life in archetypal images created in his distinctive biomechanical style. In these visions, he has, on the one hand, captured a characteris ... More | | Speed Art Museum Conducts Collection Review & Expansion Planning
African, Nigeria, Unknown Yoruba artist, Cap, circa 1916-1934. Glass beads, cotton velvet, plain-weave cotton. Museum purchase.
LOUISVILLE, KY.- The Speed Art Museum is mounting a variety of initiatives in the coming year to enhance the experiences it provides to its visitors, deepen its engagement with the community, and build on the success of its ongoing programs. Plans include a comprehensive analysis of the Museum’s collection, the continuation of plans for expanding and revitalizing its facility, and new exhibition and programming strategies. Director Charles L. Venable, along with the Speed’s curatorial staff, a team of eminent art historians and scholars, and in consultation with Trustee leadership, is in the midst of a comprehensive and systematic review of the Museum’s 14,000-piece collection. To date, they have examined nearly half of the collection. Their scholarship is shedding new light on the significance of key pieces, leading to the reattribution of works, revealing collection strengths not previously fully recogn ... More | | Ford Foundation Gives a Major Contribution of $3 Million to African Art Museum
In recognition of the Foundation’s generosity, the Museum will name the lobby of the building—which opens in fall 2011—the “Ford Foundation Lobby.”
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Elsie McCabe Thompson, president, the Museum for African Art, announced that the Museum has received a major contribution of $3 million from the Ford Foundation. The grant supports the final stage of construction of the Museum’s new building, which is located on Fifth Avenue at 110th Street and has been designed by the New York City-based Robert A.M. Stern Architects, LLP. In recognition of the Foundation’s generosity, the Museum will name the lobby of the building—which opens in fall 2011—the “Ford Foundation Lobby.” With its contribution, the Foundation joins other generous private donors to the Museum, including David Rockefeller, John Tishman, and the Walt Disney Company, among others, and brings to $76 million the total raised for the $90 million project. Mrs. McCabe Thompson stated, “The Museum for African ... More |
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Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art Presents "I Know Something About Love"
Yinka Shonibare, The Crowing (detail), 2007. © Courtesy of the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery.
LONDON.- Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art presents a multimedia group exhibition devoted to works by Yang Fudong, Shirin Neshat, Christodoulos Panayiotou and Yinka Shonibare MBE. The exhibition is on view until May 22, 2011. Each of these artists explores the theme of love in different times and cultures through the spectrum of their personal experience, observation and commentary. The exhibition title takes its cue from a 1960s song written by Bert Berns and performed by The Exciters, in which there is the recurring lyric, ‘I know something about love’. Yinka Shonibare MBE will re-create the installation Jardin d’amour (Garden of Love), which he originally showed in 2007 at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, it will be reconfigured for the ground floor gallery at Parasol unit. In this work Shonibare applies a playfully political perspective to his exploration of the theme of love in the ... More | | Rodin Sculpture of French Fovelist Honore de Balzac Stolen From Israel Museum
Auguste Rodin, Balzac Nude with Arms Crossed / Study for Balzac Nude / Balzac, etude type C, grand modèle, 1892. Bronze, 127 x 61 x 54.5 cm (50 x 24 x 21.5 in) Signed on base: Rodin; on side of base: Original/no. 1 and Alexis Rudier/Fondeur Paris Billy Rose Collection, Acquired 1966. Image Courtesy of the Israel Museum Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM (AP).- A statue by French sculptor Auguste Rodin was stolen from the Israel Museum during the facility's recently completed renovation, the museum said Wednesday. The nude bronze of French novelist Honore de Balzac was one of a series of studies Rodin cast for a monument to Balzac on display in Paris. It was donated to the museum in 1966 by the Jewish-American impresario and lyricist Billy Rose. The museum said the theft was discovered three months ago and immediately reported to police. Police says an investigation is ongoing but would provide no further details. The statue is 50 inches high by 24 inches wide (127 centimeters high and 61 centimeters ... More | | Scientists from the George C. Page Museum Dig for Ice Age Fossils in Los Angeles
Page Museum collections manager Aisling Farrell shows a box containing the head of an ancient camel. AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes.
By: Alicia Chang, AP Science Writer
LOS ANGELES, CA (AP).- With a dental pick in hand, Karin Rice delicately scraped off a clump of asphalt from a pelvic bone belonging to a horse that roamed Los Angeles tens of thousands of years ago. Like many unsuspecting creatures of the last Ice Age, the horse probably stopped to take a sip of spring water only to be ensnared — and later preserved — in a pool of sticky asphalt that seeped from underground crude oil deposits. "You're opening up this ancient world and getting to look back in time," Rice said during a recent dig at the La Brea Tar Pits in the heart of Los Angeles. For the past three years, scientists have been sifting through a significant trove of bones and a nearly intact mammoth skeleton discovered in 2006 during the construction of an ... More |
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Paintings and Drawings by Maira Kalman's Light Up New York's Jewish Museum
Maira Kalman, Self-Portrait (with Pete). AP Photo/The Jewish Museum.
By: Ann Levin, Associated Press
NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP).- You may think you've never heard of Maira Kalman, but you have. In 1981 her doodles appeared on the cover of a solo record by Talking Heads lead singer David Byrne and she is the author of a dozen children's books, some featuring the poet-dog Max. For people who number their weeks by the arrival of a new New Yorker, Kalman is most famous for the New Yorkistan map that appeared on its cover in December 2001 and, for the first time in months, made people smile. The cartoon map, produced with Rick Meyerowitz, bestows vaguely Central Asian names on the tribes and regions of New York: Taxistan in Queens, Pashmina on the genteel Upper East Side. Now this map and dozens of other charming paintings and drawings are on view at New York's Jewish Museum. It's the last stop of "Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy ... More | | Kunstmuseum St. Gallen Shows the Art of Experimental Artist Norbert Moslang
Swiss artist Norbert Moeslang poses at his exhibition named 'Bits, bots mpgs and ppms' at the Lokremise in St. Gallen. The exhibition takes place until 01 May 2011. EPA/ENNIO LEANZA.
ST. GALLEN.- Norbert Möslang (*1952) is internationally known as one of the most prominent and most experiment-happy performers in the field of contemporary electronic music. His film music to Peter Liechtis (*1951) multiple prize-winning film Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy, 2009 set a benchmark and was awarded the Swiss Film Prize in the category of “Best Film Music” and in January 2011 the “Cinema Eye Award for Outstanding Achievement in Composing” within the framework of the “Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking” at the New York Museum of the Moving Image. The Möslang show is on display until May 1, 2011 at the Kunstmuseum. Concerts with changing partners in all of Europe and tours to Los Angeles, South America and Japan are only part of the programme that Norbert Möslang has these past ... More | | Frieze Announces London-Based Studio Carmody Groarke as New Architects for 2011
Drawing Fashion at the Design Museum. Project by Carmody Groarke. Photo: Richard Davies)
LONDON.- Frieze Art Fair directors Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, announced today the appointment of the London-based architectural studio Carmody Groarke as the new architects for Frieze Art Fair. In previous years the fair has employed a series of internationally recognised architectural firms: Caruso St John (2008-2010), Jamie Fobert (2006–2007) and David Adjaye (2003-2005). Frieze Art Fair is sponsored by Deutsche Bank. Since establishing their firm in 2006, Kevin Carmody and Andrew Groarke have become known for their diverse portfolio of work, quickly building a reputation for forward-thinking design, winning two RIBA awards in 2010. Carmody Groarke were proud recipients of the prestigious Building Design UK Young Architect of the Year (YAYA) in 2007 and have recently been named as winners of the International Emerging Architecture Award by The Architectural Review. Carmody Groarke's completed projects include: St ... More |
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 Georgia Museum of Art Hosts Artists' Panel DiscussionATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will host a panel discussion featuring 11 artists from the museum’s current exhibition of works by African-American artists, “Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African-American Art,” on March 24. Carl Christian is primarily an abstract painter who earned an M.A. in music education from Georgia State University and attended the Art Institute of Atlanta. His work has been displayed in institutions such as the Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, Ala., Morehouse College and Georgia State University in Atlanta. Kevin Cole currently serves as the chairman of fine arts at West Lake High School in Atlanta and as a consultant for the Savannah College of Art and ... More Why the Switch from Foraging to Farming?By: Randolph E. Schmid, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP).- Thousands of years ago, our ancestors gave up foraging for food and took up farming, one of the most important and debated decisions in history. Was farming more efficient than foraging? Did the easily hunted animals die out? Did the environment change? A new study by Samuel Bowles of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico argues that early farming was not more productive than foraging, but people took it up for social and demographic reasons. In Monday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Bowles analyzed what it would take to farm under primitive conditions. He concluded farming produced only about three-fifths of the food gained from foraging. But, Bowles notes, farming became the most common way of living between 10,000 and 5,000 years ago because of its contribution to population growth and military power. Without the need for constant movement, child-rearing would have been easier and safer ... MoreCanadian and Indian Photographers Compete for The Grange PrizeTORONTO.- Two Canadian and two Indian photographers will have the opportunity to win The Grange Prize, Canada’s largest cash prize for photography and the only major Canadian art prize whose winner is chosen by the public. Each year, The Grange Prize works with an international partner country to honour the best in international contemporary photography. India is the partner country for the 2011 Grange Prize, and presenting partners Aeroplan and the Art Gallery of Ontario will work with the New Delhi-based Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) to organize a Grange Prize exhibition in India later this year. A nominating jury of Canadian and Indian curatorial experts will meet later this year to determine the shortlist. This year’s jurors are: ... More Important Greek Silver, Roman Gold Feature in First Joint Heritage Auctions-Gemini CICF SaleDALLAS, TX.- A silver decadrachm of Athens struck 2,500 years ago, a silver tetradrachm of Naxos in Sicily struck circa 430 BC and a remarkable offering of Roman gold coins – spanning the history of the Empire – highlight the first joint auction held by Heritage Auctions and Gemini Numismatic Auctions, slated for April 14, 2011 during the Chicago International Coin Fair (CICF). The joint Heritage-Gemini auction will include more than 552 Greek, Roman, Byzantine and medieval coins with individual estimates ranging from $500 to $875,000 and a cumulative estimated value of more than $3.5 million. “We’re more than pleased to be conducting a joint auction with Heritage,” said Harlan J. Berk of Chicago, president and co-founder of Gemini Auctions, along with B&H Kreindler of New York. “Herb and I have been friends with Heritage Co-Founders Steve Ivy an ... More Victims' Concerns put London 9/11 Sculpture on HoldLONDON (REUTERS).- Plans to erect a sculpture in a London park using girders salvaged from New York's World Trade Center, which was destroyed in attacks on September 11, 2001, have been put on hold after victims' families complained. The memorial, designed by Japanese-Russian artist Miya Ando, was to be crafted from twisted shards of steel ranging between 5 and 8 meters (yards) in height, standing in a pool with lights. "It is my hope that by standing upright the fallen steel columns, I may evoke a quiet yet strong message of transcendence and the role of education in the growth of hope from tragedy," New York-based Ando said in a statement submitted with the planning application. London's Southwark Council approved the plans last December and the sculpture was due to be inaugurated in London's Potters Fields Park this September to accompany an educational progr ... More Stone Tool Troves Point to Highland Neanderthals By: Nicholas Paphitis, Associated Press
ATHENS (AP).- High in the wind-swept mountain ridges of northern Greece, archaeologists have made a surprising discovery: hundreds of prehistoric stone tools that may have been used by some of the last Neanderthals in Europe, at a time when hunter-gatherers were thought to have kept to much lower altitudes. The two sites used between 50,000 to 35,000 years ago were found last summer in the Pindos Mountains, near the village of Samarina — one of Greece's highest — some 400 kilometers (250 miles) northwest of Athens. At an altitude of more than 1,700 meters (5,500 feet), the Pindos Neanderthal sites are the highest known so far in southeastern Europe, although that's probably because nobody thought of searching so high before, archaeologist Nikos Efstratiou said Wednesday. "It's not that such sites don't exist," Efstratiou told The Associated Press. "For the first time, Greek archaeology has gone to the mountains." Efstratiou and ... More Victorian Smokers had Rotten Teeth to Match LungsBy: Stefano Ambrogi
LONDON (REUTERS).- Smoking was as bad for the Victorians as it is for anyone today, but back in those days it seems it did far more damage to their teeth. In the mid-19th century, prior to the invention of the cigarette, when tobacco was copiously consumed through clay pipes, smoking often resulted in nasty dental disfigurement. A Museum of London study of skeletal remains excavated from a Victorian cemetery in Whitechapel, east London, found most people had "notches" in at least two, and often four, front teeth made through the habitual holding of pipe stems. Osteological analysis of 268 adults buried between 1843 and 1854 found that some disfigurement had occurred in 92 percent of adults exhumed, while wear associated with habitual use of pipes was evident in 23 percent. "In many cases, a clear circular "hole' was evident when the upper and lower jaws were closed," said Donald Walker, human osteologist at Museum of London Archaeology Service. Males were af ... More |
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