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Isabelle Maeght, commissioner of the exhibit 'Miro Sculptor' and granddaughter of the art collector and editor Aime Maeght, stands near the 1968 oil painting entitled 'La Marche Penible guide par l'Oiseau Flamboyant du Desert' by Spanish artist Joan Miro at the Musee Maillol in Paris. Some 101 sculptures, 22 ceramics, 19 pieces on paper, and one painting, managed by Successio Miro/Adagp, will be shown at the exhibit which runs from March 16 to July 31. REUTERS/Charles Platiau.
PARIS.- The Maillol Museum is paying homage to Joan Miró’s sculpted work. Although the artist is internationally acknowledged, his sculptures have not been exhibited in Paris in nearly 40 years. To mark the occasion the museum has gathered up 101 sculptures, 22 ceramics, 19 works on paper and one painting. The works on display mostly come from the outstanding collection of the Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght. His first ceramics, carried out with Josep Llorens Artigas, are dated 1941. Three years later, Miró created his first bronze sculptures. In 1964, Joan Miró took part in the creation of the Fondation Maeght where he had finally found a place in which to create monumental works. The encounter between Joan Miró and Aimé Maeght proved essential. For the very first time, Miró’s sculpture was deliberately linked to both architecture and to nature, an infinite source of inspiration for him: he thus created spe ... More |
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Rare Norman Rockwell Exhibition Makes Only Northwest Stop at Tacoma Art Museum
The Discovery, Norman Rockwell, 1956. Oil on canvas, 35 ¼” x 32 ½”. Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, December 29, 1956 ©1956 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN.
TACOMA, WA.- A rare exhibition of Norman Rockwell’s iconic artworks makes its only stop in the Northwest at the Tacoma Art Museum on through May 30, 2011. As part of its 75th anniversary year, the museum welcomes American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell, which celebrates the full range of Rockwell's artwork, including 44 paintings and 323 original Saturday Evening Post covers. Additionally, archival materials depict how Rockwell worked: from preliminary sketches, photographs, color studies, and detailed drawings to the finished painting. This nationally-acclaimed travelling exhibition organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts has been viewed by ... More | | Keith Haring's 10-Piece Apocalypse Series Donated to Gay & Lesbian Center
The Apocalypse series is on exhibit in the Advocate & Gochis Galleries.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- A complete series of 10 silkscreens by iconic gay artist Keith Haring has been donated to the Center by Tyler Cassity, a co-owner of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The Apocalypse series is on exhibit in the Advocate & Gochis Galleries until March 30. “Haring’s work is so iconic; we’re honored to receive and exhibit this series,” says Jon Imparato, Director of the Center’s Cultural Arts program. “It’s rare to have a complete Haring series together like this; we’re thrilled that people will have the opportunity to see all 10 silkscreens in our galleries.” It’s fitting that a series created by Haring—who established a foundation to support AIDS organizations and children’s programs—has been donated to the Center, a leader in HIV care as well as services for LGBT youth. “I hope and believe Keith Haring would be pleased that his passionate visi ... More | | Paolo Baratta and Bice Curiger Present Concept for This Year's Biennale:"'ILLUMInazioni"
Director Bice Curiger of the La Biennale di Venezia art exhibition addresses a news conference in Zurich. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann.
ZURICH.- The 54th International Art Exhibition, with the title of ILLUMInazioni – ILLUMInations, directed by Bice Curiger and organized by la Biennale di Venezia under the presidency of Paolo Baratta, will be opening on Friday, June 3rd, and will be accessible to the publicfrom Saturday, June 4th to November 27th 2011 in the Giardini and the Arsenale. Bice Curiger is an art historian, critic and curator of international exhibitions. Her curatorial activity at Kunsthaus Zurich parallels her important work in the publishing sector. In 1984, she cofounded the prestigious art magazine “Parkett”, of which she is editor-in-chief. She has been publishing director of London Tate Gallery’s magazine “Tate etc” since 2004. The exhibition ILLUMInazioni – ILLUMInations will be laid out in ... More |
 | National Portrait Gallery Marks the Centenary of Sir William Schwenck Gilbert’s Death
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan by Sir John Everett Millais, oil on canvas, 1888. © National Portrait Gallery, London.
LONDON.- A new display at the National Portrait Gallery marks the centenary of Sir William Schwenck Gilbert’s death in 1911. Gilbert alongside Sir Arthur Sullivan made up the famous partnership of Gilbert and Sullivan that revolutionized Victorian theatre with comic operas such as HMS Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836 –1911) worked as a civil servant, a captain in the Militia and a barrister before becoming a dramatist and librettist, writing numerous plays, sketches and stories. He became irrevocably linked to Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) when they first collaborated on Thespis (1871). Sullivan had been awarded the first Mendelssohn Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music and achieved early success as a composer. Together they created a series of operas performed at the Savoy Theatre which was built especially for performances of their works by Richard D’O ... More | | Rare Ferrari 340 Mexico Tops RM Auction's Record $24 Million Amelia Island Sale
The Ferrari 340 Mexico crosses the auction block before a packed house at RM’s Amelia Island sale, March 12 (photo credit – Darin Schnabel © 2011, courtesy RM Auctions).
BLENHEIM, ONTARIO.- RM Auctions, the official auction house of the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, continued its record-breaking sales run in Northeast Florida over the weekend, posting a remarkable $24.3 million* in total sales with a strong 96% of all lots sold at its 13th annual Amelia Island sale to claim the top sales results of the weekend. Building on the company’s strong track record in Florida, the impressive sales total represents the highest tally achieved in the event’s 13 year history, with over a 25 percent increase on the company’s 2010 sale figures. As many as 27 lots exceeded pre-sale estimates. In total, the single-day sale presented 103 lots, including a selection of vintage motorcycles, before a packed house, with bidders in the room joined by those on the phone and over the Internet. ... More | | American Artist Roxy Paine Installs "Inversion" in the Billy Rose Art Garden at the Israel Museum
Roxy Paine stands in front of his huge huge stainless steel, inverted tree sculpture called 'Inversion' in the Billy Rose Sculpture Garden. EPA/JIM HOLLANDER.
JERUSALEM.- James Cohan Gallery announces the installation of Inversion (2008), by American artist Roxy Paine, as part of the Israel Museum's Billy Rose Art Garden this past January 2011. Inversion was acquired by The Israel Museum, Jerusalem through a gift by Jill and Jay H. Bernstein, New York, to the American Friends of the Israel Museum. Rising 42-feet tall and hand-constructed out of over 7,000 metal plate, pipe, and rod stainless steel elements, Inversion was the first of Paine’s sculptures from his Dendroid series in which the dendritic form appears upside down, all of its weight resting on the smallest and finest limbs. This work was the first in the series to not require a foundation and thus proved to be a breakthrough in the artist’s development of subsequent works such as Maelstrom (2009), exhibited at the Iris and B. Gerald ... More |
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Specialist in Dutch 16th and 17th-Century Drawings, Jane Turner, to Head Rijksmuseum Print Room
Having studied art history at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, Jane Turner started her career at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York.
AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum announces that Jane Turner will become Head of the Print Room as from 1 September 2011. She is the fourteenth international expert to strengthen the Rijksmuseum in the run-up to the reopening in 2013. Turner (1956, US) is an internationally renowned art historian and specialist in Dutch 16th and 17th-century drawings with an impressive career to date. At this moment she is editor of New York journal Master Drawings, the most important journal in the field, a position she has held since 2004, and she is also working for London’s Victoria & Albert Museum on the catalogue of Dutch drawings to be published at the end of this year. Taco Dibbits, Director of Rijksmuseum Collections commented, “It’s fantastic news that Jane has agreed to become head of the Print Room in this exciting run-up to the reopening of the Rijksmuseum in 2013. She ... More | | One of the Most Important Letters by Gandhi to Come to the Market in Thirty Years for Sale
Mahatma Gandhi,(1869–1948, political leader and religious and social reformer), wrote this letter, clearly for publication on 15th December 1919. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A fascinating letter from Mahatma Gandi, estimated to sell for £8,000 to £10,000 at Bonhams in London on March 29th, makes reference to his belief in passive resistance and the need for unity between Hindus and Muslims. Lot 441 in the Papers & Portraits: The Roy Davids Collection Part II at Bonhams, is a part of Indian history. Mahatma Gandhi,(1869–1948, political leader and religious and social reformer), wrote this letter, clearly for publication on 15th December 1919. In it he states: “I venture to claim that I have rendered a service of the highest order by advising the Mohamedans of India to express their sentiments in a restrained manner and by advising the Hindus to make common cause with them...” And, declaring his 'Relentless pursuit of truth', Gandhi also explains his attitude towards and actions vis a vis the British and his position in relation to the Khilafat question [the attempts by th ... More | | China Overtakes Britain as the World's Second Largest Art and Antiques Market
Sotheby's Asia Deputy Chairman Nicolas Chow poses with the "Falangcai Vase With Golden Pheasants and a Poetic Colophon" at a preview by auction house Sotheby's in Hong Kong. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu.
By: Mike Collett-White
LONDON (REUTERS).- China overtook Britain as the world's second largest art and antiques market last year, a new report showed, and British art officials voiced concern that an EU levy planned in 2012 would further undermine its position. "The Global Art Market in 2010: Crisis and Recovery" underlined what auction houses and consigners had seen throughout last year -- a sharp rise in the number of wealthy Chinese buyers, and, with them, prices. The report, commissioned by the European Fine Art Foundation, estimated the value of the global art and antiques market in 2010 at 43 billion euros ($60 billion), up 52 percent from 2009 when values slumped as a result of the financial crisis. "The period from 2008 through 2010 has been one of crisis and recovery for the ... More |
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Antik A.S. to Offer an Exceptional Auction of Modern and Contemporary Turkish Art
Burhan Doğançay (1929), “Cone on a wall”, 1972 (detail), oil on canvas, 152.5 x 152.5 cm., © Antik A.S. 2011.
ISTANBUL.- Antik A.S., the leading auction house in Turkey, will offer exceptional paintings by the most important Modern & Contemporary Turkish Artists. The auction will take place on March 20, 2011 at the Swissotel the Bosphorus and will present selected 185 lots among the finest which ever to have appeared on the market for the first time. Special collection will be exhibited in Antik A.S. galleries until 20th March. One of the highlights being offered in the sale is titled “VAV”, a large spectacular canvas by Erol Akayavas (1932-1999), one of the most important Turkish artists whose painting “The Siege” had fetched 1.274.000 EURO in April 2010, the world record price for any modern Turkish work of art sold at auction. His museum quality canvas in this sale is expected to realize 300,000 to 400,000 Euro. An untitled abstract by Ferruh Basaga (1915-2010), the largest ... More | | Amon Carter Museum Names Jessica May Associate Curator of Photographs
Jessica May joined the curatorial department in October 2006.
FORT WORTH, TX.- Amon Carter Museum of American Art Director Andrew Walker announced that Jessica May has been promoted to Associate Curator of Photographs. She will continue to collaborate with John Rohrbach, senior curator of photographs, in managing the Amon Carter’s photography collection and interpreting and developing exhibitions on photography. “Jessica has become an essential member of our museum staff and a key asset to the field of photography,” says Rohrbach. “This promotion is well deserved.” “Since the day I started at the Amon Carter, it has been an honor and a pleasure to be part of this organization and to take part in building and exhibiting one of the nation’s finest collections of American photographs,” says May. “I am excited to continue that work into the next phase of my career.” May joined the curatorial department in October 2006 after completing ... More | | Only Known 1936 Three-Sheet from Dracula's Daughter Tops Movie Poster Offering
The only known surviving three sheet from Universal's 1936 Dracula's Daughter. Estimate: $25,000+.
DALLAS, TX.- Two spectacular and exceedingly rare movie posters - the only known surviving three sheet from Universal's 1936 Dracula's Daughter (estimate: $25,000+), the follow-up to 1931's classic Dracula, and the only known Style B half sheet from Warner Brothers 1936 The Petrified Forest (estimate: $30,000+) - anchor Heritage Auctions' May 25-26 Signature(r) Vintage Movie Poster Auction. "Having just one of these posters in an auction would normally be a significant achievement, let alone both," said Grey Smith, Director of Movie Poster Auctions at Heritage. "The combination of early Universal horror in Dracula's Daughter and early Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis should prove irresistible to collectors." Advanced collectors have also taken note of the presence of a one sheet to United Artist's 1926 The Black Pirate (estimate: $20,000+), a classic silent swashbuckler movie featuring Douglas Fairbanks in one ... More |
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 Los Angeles Birthplace Becomes Battleground over HistoryBy: Jacob Adelman, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP).- Inside his trinket shop in the city's El Pueblo historic district, Mike Mariscal is surrounded by painted masks, woven blankets and Day of the Dead figurines he's long sold to tourists. Mariscal fears his own day of reckoning is near as a series of disputes surround the adobe buildings, shops and Mexican-era churches in an increasingly trafficked corner of the city's revitalizing downtown. One dustup is over Indian graves unearthed during construction of a Mexican-American cultural center. Another involves a monument to Hispanic war heroes where the original Chinatown once stood. And Mariscal and dozens of merchants along El Pueblo's shopping street who have sold tacos and Mexican knick-knacks — along with more conventional tourist-zone schlock ... More Poppy Sebire Presents the Exhibition Player Player PlayerLONDON.- In a month of seasonal and economic gloom, Poppy Sebire’s latest show offers a little light relief. Player Player Player brings together six artists who use wit, slapstick, and a healthy sense of the absurd to come at the world from a fresh and playful angle. Never earnest, but often surprisingly incisive, theirs is work that’ll make you smile and make you think, and leave the gallery feeling slightly better. The exhibition is on view from March 11th, 2011 and runs through April 9th, 2011. Matt Golden'’s works include a piece of paper stroked over several months to make one corner rise in a curl, and white hairs plucked from his head and formed into a spider’s web. In this show, he’s displaying an upside-down postcard with a surprise in the sky. Lee Regan's Fail is a ladder mounted horizontally at head height and attached to a motor so it swings continually in a circular arc through the ga ... More Maya Schweizer/Clemens von Wedemeyer Present "Metropolis. Report from China" at the Frankfurter KunstvereinFRANKFURT AM MAIN.- Central to the exhibition is the presentation of the documentary film “Metropolis. Report from China” by Maya Schweizer and Clemens von Wedemeyer. The artists traveled to China in 2004 to do research for the project of remaking Fritz Lang’s legendary film classic “Metropolis” (1927). The two imposing mega-cities of Shanghai and Beijing seemed appropriate settings for this undertaking to the artists, given how these city landscapes reflect the emerging gap between the living conditions of the workers and those of the new rich. As the result of their research, the documentary film “Metropolis. Report from China” (2006) presents the configurations of these cities in relation to “Metropolis” through discussions and interviews with the workers and architects ... More Japan Nuclear Woes Prompt Visitors to New Mexico MuseumALBUQUERQUE (AP).- The National Museum of Nuclear Science and History is seeing more visitors since a massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan caused fears for the safety of a nuclear plant. KRQE television reports workers at the southeast Albuquerque museum say three times more people visited over the weekend than during on average weekends since last summer. Museum officials believe fear of a meltdown at the Japanese nuclear reactor is prompting some visits. Museum president Dick Peebles says a couple of people told him that was a factor in coming in. The museum was created in 1969 to tell the story of Kirtland Air Force Base and the development of nuclear weapons. It became the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in 2009 when it moved to its current location. ... More Star Names Announced for The Tate Movie ProjectLONDON.- David Walliams, Miranda Hart, Catherine Tate and Rik Mayall will lead the stellar cast of The Tate Movie Project's film, The Itch of the Golden Nit, voicing the characters devised by children. The Tate Movie Project is the first of its kind – an animation made by and for children. The half hour animation has been created from thousands of drawings, sound effects and story ideas by children from across the UK. Funded by Legacy Trust UK and BP, with additional support and resources from the BBC, the film has been brought together by Tate and the creative magic of Aardman Animations. The Itch of the Golden Nit follows 11 year old hero Beanie on his mission to save his parents from Evil Stella and to return the Golden Nit to its rightful place at the heart of the sun, thereby saving the universe. It's a surreal and spectacular adventure that only the wild imaginations of kids could dream up! The vivid imaginations of the ... MoreItalian, French and American Design Highlight Heritage Auctions' First Decorative Arts Event in Beverly HillsBEVERLY HILLS, CA.- An Italian Giltwood and Fabric bedroom set, attributed to Michelangelo Guggenheim, Venice Italy, circa 1890, and retailed by Tiffany Glass and Decorating Co., New York, is expected to bring $40,000 as one of the principal highlights of Heritage Auctions Sunday, March 20 Signature® Decorative Arts Auction, the first Heritage Decorative Arts auction to be held in Beverly Hills. The auction will also feature the collection of Golden Age Hollywood power couple Paul Gregory and Janet Gaynor, a grouping creating as much buzz among collectors of Decorative Art as it is among entertainment memorabilia aficionados. Paul Gregory will be in attendance at the preview party for the auction from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on March 17. "This mix of fine and Decorative Arts and Hollywood royalty seems the perfect combination for Beverly Hills," said Tim Rigdon, Director of Decorative Arts at Heritage. "We expect collectors will feel the same way when they see the detailed offerings." ... More Study Says Use of Fire Relatively Recent in Europe WASHINGTON (AP).- A new study is raising questions about when ancient human ancestors in Europe learned to control fire, one of the most important steps on the long path to civilization. A review of 141 archaeological sites across Europe shows habitual use of fire beginning between 300,000 and 400,000 years ago, according to a paper in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Most archeologists agree that the use of fire is tied to colonization outside Africa, especially in Europe where temperatures fall below freezing, wrote Wil Roebroeks of Leiden University in the Netherlands and Paola Villa of the University of Colorado. Yet, while there is evidence of early humans living in Europe as much as a million years ago, the researchers found no clear traces of regular use of fire before about 400,000 years ago. After that, Neanderthals and modern humans living in Europe regularly used fire for warmth, co ... More |
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