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Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto Moura speaks during a press conference after being awarded with the 2011 Pritzker Architecture Prize, in Lisbon, Portugal, 28 March 2011. The international prize, which is awarded each year to a living architect for significant achievement, was established by the Pritzker family of Chicago through their Hyatt Foundation in 1979. Often referred to as 'architectures Nobel' and 'the professions highest honor,' it is granted annually. EPA/MIGUEL A. LOPES.
CHICAGO, IL (REUTERS).- Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura is the winner of this year's $100,000 Pritzker Prize for his designs that convey both "power and modesty, bravado and subtlety," the foundation that awards the prize said on Monday. The honor, often dubbed the Nobel prize for architecture, was supposed to be announced next month and presented in Washington, D.C., but was prematurely reported by a news outlet, according to a spokesman. The annual prize, which goes to a living architect, is endowed by the wealthy Chicago-based Pritzker family, majority owners of Hyatt Hotels Corp and other businesses. It was first bestowed on American architect Philip Johnson in 1979, and has since been awarded to architects from around the world including Souto de Moura's former teacher Alvaro Siza in 1992. "The fact ... More |
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A Rare and Extensive Archive of Love Letters by Elizabeth Taylor Up for Sale at RR Auctions
A page of a letter written in 1949, by the late actress Elizabeth Taylor to her first fiance, William Pawley. AP Photo/RR Auctions.
By: Holly Ramer, Associated Press
CONCORD, N.H. (AP)- Before becoming a bride eight times over, Elizabeth Taylor was a 17-year-old starlet scribbling letters to her first fiance, charting on pale pink stationery his progression from her one-and-only to the one who got away. "I've never known this kind of love before — it's so perfect and complete — and mature," Taylor wrote to William Pawley on May 6, 1949. "I've never loved anyone in my life before one third as much as I love you — and I never will (well, as far as that goes — I'll never love anyone else — period)." Taylor, who died last week at age 79, was engaged to Pawley in 1949, just before her first marriage. More than 60 of the letters she wrote him between March and October of that year will be auctioned in May by RR Auctions of Amherst, ... More | | Painting from the Collection of Mikhail Baryshnikov to Highlight Sotheby's Sale of Russian Art
Petr Vereshchagin's View of St. Petersburg to benefit the Baryshnikov Arts Center (detail). Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s 12 April 2011 auction of Russian Art in New York will feature a painting that Mikhail Baryshnikov donated to the Baryshnikov Arts Center, so that they may offer it at auction. The full proceeds from the sale of Petr Petrovich Vereshchagin’s View of St. Petersburg, one of the most magnificent cityscapes by the artist ever to appear at auction (est. $300/500,000*), will go to benefit the Center’s work. The painting will be on view in Sotheby’s York Avenue Galleries beginning 7 April alongside the full sale exhibition. The Baryshnikov Arts Center is the realization of a long-held vision by artistic director Mikhail Baryshnikov, who sought to build an arts center to serve as a thriving creative laboratory and performance space for multidisciplinary artists from around the world. Located in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, BAC comprises four studios, a studio theater, ... More | | Italian Governor Gian Mario Spacca Wants Shared Custody of Statue with the Getty Museum
Gian Mario Spacca, president of the Italian region of Marche. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok.
By: Sue Manning, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP).- An Italian lawmaker offered a cultural exchange proposal Monday that sounded a little like an ultimatum, saying officials at the J. Paul Getty Museum should behave ethically and return knowingly looted art. Gov. Gian Mario Spacca of the Marche region on the Adriatic Sea made the comment three days after officials at the Southern California museum told him they could not talk about the disputed "Victorious Youth" statue because the case was still in Italian court. "We have not come to declare war on the Getty," Spacco said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press before his news conference with reporters. However, he said the museum should do what is right or risk losing the statue forever. "We are here to try to resolve the dispute in a way that will benefit this great museum, the people ... More |
 | Author Jeffrey Archer to Auction Works of Art from His Collection at Christie's in June
Alexander Calder (1898-1976), Composition abstract (detail). Oil on canvas, 118 x 134 cm. Painted in 1947. Est: £200,000-300,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
LONDON (REUTERS).- British author and former parliamentarian Jeffrey Archer expects to raise over 5 million pounds ($8 million) when he sells works from his art collection including paintings by Claude Monet and Andy Warhol. "I recently celebrated my 70th birthday -- an event which prompts a certain degree of thought and realization. As a result, I have begun to restructure my art collection with a view to the future," Archer said in a statement. The auction, at Christie's in London on June 28, will comprise around 150 items including a portrait of Marilyn Monroe by Warhol valued at 100-150,000 pounds and a Monet landscape worth an estimated 800,000-1.2 million pounds. On June 27, best-selling author and amateur auctioneer Archer will appear at a separate charity sale at which he will offer around 20 mementos, collectibles and works ... More | | Sotheby's Presents Beautiful and Rare Objects from Its Sale of Arts of the Islamic World
A Highly Important Mamluk Armorial Candlestick made for Sayf al-Din Qushtumur, major-domo of Tuquztamur al-Hamawi, Mamluk viceroy of Egypt (1340-1) and Syria (1342-5) Est: £2,000,000 - 3,000,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s sale of the Arts of the Islamic World to take place in London on the 6th April will offer an array of beautiful and rare objects, paintings and manuscripts which highlight the achievements of artists and craftsmen from across the Muslim world. The sale is particularly rich in works which reveal the cultural efflorescence which took place during the Middle Ages on the Mediterranean seaboard from Islamic Spain to the Levant. A pre-sale exhibition will take place at Sotheby’s New Bond Street headquarters on the 1, 3, 4, 5 April 2011. Representing the heritage of Al-Andalus and North Africa is a pair of Almohad-period bronze doorknockers originating from the twelfth century (lot 299), estimated at £180,000 – 250,000*, and a carved wooden door panel from ... More | | Thomas Dane Gallery in London Presents Artist Anya Gallaccio's Where is Where It's At
Installation view of Anya Gallaccio's Where is Where it's at at Thomas Dane Gallery.
LONDON.- Thomas Dane Gallery presents Anya Gallaccio: Where is Where it's at, on view from 23 March through May 7, 2011. Where is Where it’s at is a journey through space and time, for which Anya Gallaccio culled sand from the stratified deposits of the deserts of Nevada, Utah and Arizona, and transported it to London. The trans-North American and transatlantic voyages of the sand evokes the personal journey of the artist herself, since she left the UK three years ago to take on the position of professor of visual arts at the University of California in San Diego. “Look closely at a crack in the wall and it might as well be the Grand Canyon” – Robert Smithson. The journey started in Death Valley; an almost cliché and cathartic Great-West American road-trip, to end up in London as an ordered theatre of shades and tones. Formally, the sand, which combines ... More |
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Last John Keats Love Letter in Private Hands for Sale; Dying Poet Pours Out Heart
The last of Keats’s 30 surviving love letters to Fanny still in private hands, it is estimated at between £80,000 and £120,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- An exceptionally rare and moving love letter from Keats to his fiancée Fanny Brawne is for sale tomorrow - 29 March - as the Roy Davids Collection of Papers and Portraits comes up for auction at Bonhams, New Bond Street. The last of Keats’s 30 surviving love letters to Fanny still in private hands, it is estimated at between £80,000 and £120,000. Keats wrote the letter in 1820 when he was fatally ill with consumption (TB). Though Fanny lived next door to Keats their meetings were restricted by his health which also prevented even the most limited physical contact. Keats refers to this painful constraint in the letter, regretting the fact that they cannot kiss – TB being highly contagious – but consoling himself with the certainty of her love. The full text of the letter is given below. The doomed love affair between Keats and Fanny Brawne is among the most famous in the history of literature and cont ... More | | Only Publicly Known Matching Pair of Singing Bird Pistols Offered at Christie's
Matching mirror image pistols set with diamonds, agate and pearls. Estimated at HK$20 million to 40 million/US$2.5 million to 5 million. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
HONG KONG.- On Monday, 30 May 2011, Christie’s will present a magnificent pair of matching gold and enamel Singing Bird Pistols, the highlight of the Important Watches sale in Hong Kong this Spring. Estimated at HK$20 million to 40 million/US$2.5 million to 5 million, the matching mirror-image pistols set with diamonds, agate and pearls, attributed to world-renowned craftsmen Frères Rochat, is the only publicly known pair of singing bird pistols in the world. This sale offers a singular collecting opportunity to acquire, not ONE but TWO of these museum pieces, at the same time. A stunning marriage of 19th century Swiss automata technology and exquisite craftsmanship, this pair of singing bird pistols epitomizes the creativity of watch makers in Europe to satisfy the ever-growing ... More | | 'Stations of a Pause' by Jitish Kallat at Gallery Chemould Prescott Road in Mumbai
Jitish Kallat, Epilogue, Installation View.
MUMBAI.- After a gap of over three years since his last solo exhibition in his hometown Mumbai, Jitish Kallat opened ‘Stations of a Pause’ on 22nd March at Chemould Prescott Road. The show will be on view until 10th May 2011. For this exhibition the gallery space at Chemould Prescott Road is split into three separate units; of which a large portion of the gallery is shaped like a maze. Here Kallat is showing a 753-part photographic work, titled “Epilogue”, tracing, his father’s life through all the moons he saw from the day he was born on 2nd April 1936 to the day of his death on 2nd Dec 1998. Measuring his father’s lifespan with the approximately 22,000 moons that he saw in the 63 years of his life, every moon in this piece is replaced with the image of a progressively consumed ‘roti’ (staple indian bread), morphing the image of a moon with a waxing or waning meal, marking the ... More |
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Dana Lixenberg Portrays Amsterdam in a Series of Landscapes and Interiors at Foam
Dana Lixenberg, Zorgcentrum De Open Hof Restaurant, 2010
AMSTERDAM.- In Set Amsterdam, Dana Lixenberg portrays the city in a series of landscapes and interiors. These photographs depict Amsterdam as a kind of film set, fashioned by its current and former residents. The absence of people in the images turns the viewer's gaze to the space itself and to the myriad details which define these environments. In Set Amsterdam only traces of human activity hint at inhabitants and at lives fully lived. The exhibition Set Amsterdam, by Dana Lixenberg can be seen from 25 March to 29 May 2011 at Foam. Lixenberg was inspired to create these photographs after being commissioned to create actors' portraits for the eight-part television series A'dam - E.v.a. (Amsterdam and many others). This series, written by Robert Alberdingk Thijm and directed by Norbert ter Hall, broadcast from 6 March 2011 on Dutch television, examines individual lives in the city of Amsterdam. Her work on the series eventually g ... More | | SKMU Sorlandets Kunstmuseum Presents Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Where is Where?
Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Where is Where?, 2008. HD installation for 6 projections with sound. Photo: Marja-Leena Hukkanen. Courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris © 2008 Crystal Eye – Kristallisilmä Oy.
KRISTIANSAND.- SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum presents Where Is Where?, a multi-screen installation by Finish artist and filmmaker Eija-Liisa Ahtila (b. 1959). Ahtila's masterfully crafted narratives and touching portrayal of characters have captured the public's interest and won critical acclaim worldwide. Her films and multi-screen installations explore and experiment with storytelling, creating extraordinary tales out of ordinary human experiences. The exhibition is on view from March 26 through May 15, 2011. In her earlier works Ahtila has dealt with the unsettling human dramas at the centre of personal relationships e.g. with teenage sexuality, family relations, mental disintegration and death. Her later works however deal with more profound and basic artistic questions where she investigates the ... More | | Yinka Shonibare Announces Kazuya Tsuji Winner of The Grange Gardens Sculpture Prize
Kazuya Tsuji’s installation entitled Ripples has been chosen as the winning artwork. Photo: © Kazuya Tsuji.
LONDON.- GALERIE8 announces the artist Kazuya Tsuji as the winner of the Grange Garden Sculpture project 2011. Kazuya Tsuji’s installation entitled Ripples has been chosen as the winning artwork for the new sculpture prize dedicated to the aesthetic transformation of Bermondsey in South London. The award includes prize money of £5,000 as well as up to £35,000 for materials to bring the proposal into fruition. Yinka Shonibare, the artist behind Trafalgar Square’s current Fourth Plinth commission and head judge for the Grange Gardens Sculpture Prize, described the winning entry as “a beautiful and playful recreation of water ripples in a garden pond. The water ripples sculptures exude meditative calm in the way that they are integrated into the garden design. Congratulations to him, this is a well deserved win!” Creating ripples out of grey concrete blocks, Tsuji hopes to produce a work that develops a s ... More |
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 Isaac Julien's Ten Thousand Waves at Museum BrandhorstMUNICH.- The Udo and Anette Brandhorst Stiftung has co-commissioned a new work by Isaac Julien, which was completed in 2010 and will be presented in Germany for the first time starting for the public 30 March 2011 in the Museum Brandhorst. Ten Thousand Waves is a 9-channel video installation, which the artist worked on for almost four years. The main scenes were filmed in China under participation of several internationally-celebrated actresses, including the legendary Maggie Cheung and Zhao Tao. The video artist Yang Fudong, as well as the poet Wang Ping and calligraphy grandmaster Gong Fagen also stood before the camera. The starting point for Julien was a Chinese legend concerning the goddess Mazu whose special powers include the safe escorting of those imperiled at sea to quieter shores. Clips of old photographs conjure up this story; however, Julien relocates the main character, played by Maggie ... More AGO Partners with Images Festival to Feature Jon Sasaki Installation in Its Toronto Now SeriesTORONTO.- Toronto-based artist Jon Sasaki will present a new installation that recontextualizes the iconic images of the Canadian landscape famously depicted by Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. Inspired by the artist’s childhood visits to the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and the National Gallery of Canada, Jon Sasaki: Pine features work created and conceived on a visit to Algonquin Park, where Thomson created some of Canada’s most recognizable paintings. The exhibition will be on view from April 6 through June 5, 2011. Presented in collaboration with the Images Festival, Jon Sasaki: Pine includes three works: Jack Pine, 8’ Camera Crane, a haphazard 360-degree shot of the view depicted in Thompson's 1917 painting Jack Pine; Northern River, 8' Camera Crane, a large digital photograph that shows the same camera and crane rendered practically immobile by pine tree ... More Four Phenomenal Ferraris from Private Collection Headline Bonhams Hendon SaleLONDON.- Four outstanding Ferraris - a 1999 Ferrari F50 Barchetta; a 1985 Ferrari 288GTO Berlinetta; a 1990 Ferrari F40 Berlinetta; and a 2003 Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale – which form part of a private collection, are to be sold at Bonhams sale of Collectors’ Motor Cars and Automobilia at the Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon on 11 April 2011. In total, the cars are expected to realise in excess of £1 million between them. The 1999 Ferrari F50 Barchetta, which has just 5,444 kilometres on its odometer, has been written about in Autocar as ‘an uncompromising, carbon fibre, V12, two-seat sports car based on the Ferrari 614/2 that won six races in 1990 and nearly snatched the driver’s championship for Alain Prost’. Built to commemorate the Maranello marque’s 50th anniversary, it has attracted a pre-sale estimate of £350,000 – 400,000, whi ... More Packer Schopf Gallery to Present Chris Bathgate, Solo Show at SOFA: New YorkCHICAGO, IL .- Packer Schopf Gallery will present the work of Baltimore artist, Chris Bathgate, in a solo show, New Machined Works, at the Sculpture, Objects & Functional Art Fair, which opens on April 14 to – 17 at the Park Avenue Armory, in New York. In contrast to many of his contemporaries, Chris Bathgate's use of metal is neither structural nor illusionistic. It does not refuse to transform the medium, and it does not play on the medium's opposites, e.g. lightness from metal's weight, or organic forms from its rigidity. Bathgate's process most closely resembles that of a machine builder or engineer. In the last two years, he has become increasingly involved in using mathematical techniques. This has allowed him to achieve the high degree of precision necessary for assembling such intricate works (thes ... More Limor Tomer Named New Concerts & Lectures General Manager at the MetropolitanNEW YORK, N.Y.- Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today the appointment of Limor Tomer as the Museum’s General Manager of Concerts & Lectures, effective May 2. She currently holds the dual positions of Executive Producer for Music at radio station Classical 105.9 FM WQXR and Adjunct Curator for Performing Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. At the Metropolitan Museum, Ms. Tomer—whose prolific career in the arts encompasses more than 20 years of experience as producer, programmer, administrator, and musician—will head the renowned Concerts & Lectures series, which is in its 57th season and presents more than 200 events to the public each year. “I am very pleased that Limor Tomer has agreed to take on the immense, exciting challenge of leading our ... More600-Pound Bronze Moose Among California Statue TheftsSAN DIEGO (AP).- San Diego County authorities are looking for art thieves who have made off with at least 18 metal, wood and concrete statues — including a 600-pound bronze moose. The North County Times reports the thieves have stolen nearly $44,000 worth of lawn art since October. Most of the thefts occurred in San Marcos and Ramona. The artworks included Buddha yard statutes, a life-sized aluminum colt, a 3-foot-tall statue of the Virgin Mary and a copper statue of three children valued at $15,000. Detectives suspect that the metal works may have been broken up and sold to recyclers, while the other pieces might have been resold. ... More |
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