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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Joan of Arc, 1882 (detail=. Oil on canvas 52,7 x 45,7 cm. Loan from Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge © Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
MADRID.- The Museo Thyssen‐Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid present Heroines, a comprehensive survey of the depiction of women as the protagonists of key roles and as manifestations of the gender identity crisis in western art. The exhibition, on view until 5 June 2011, focuses on strong women: active, independent, defiant, inspired, creative, dominating and triumphant. These female figures are notably different to the seductive, complacent, defeated or enslaved ones that acted out the submissive and passive models traditionally associated with two prevailing and associated stereotypes: motherhood and the erotic object. To employ a key term in feminist discourse from the last two decades, this exhibition focuses on images that have the potential to be sources of empowerment for women themselves. From Greek mythology to the subversive images of conte ... More |
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Exhibition of Magnificent Andean Tunics on View at Metropolitan Museum
A Peruvian tunic with a checkerboard pattern. AP Photo/The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a special exhibition focusing on the Andean tunic, beginning March 8. Featuring some 30 tunics drawn from the Museum's collection with loans from The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., The Cleveland Museum of Art, and two private collections, The Andean Tunic, 400 BCE – 1800 CE, will examine the form of the tunic, essentially a type of shirt, which had an important cultural place in Andean South America for centuries. Textiles, a much developed art form there in ancient times, were themselves valued as wealth, and tunics were among the most treasured of them. The ancient peoples of northwestern South America are renowned today for their great abilities as weavers, dyers, and designers of textiles. The primacy of cloth was established with the beginnings of civilization in the region that is now Peru, when manipulating fibers into functional, and decorated, fabric ... More | | British Museum Announces Acquisition and Display of Ancient Iraqi Ivories
File photo of a gallery in the British Museum.
By: Jill Lawless, Associated Press
LONDON (AP).- And then there were some — lots, in fact. The British Museum announced Monday it has acquired 6,000 ancient carved ivories that were excavated in Iraq with the help of mystery maven Agatha Christie. The pieces were found at the site of the Assyrian capital of Nimrud between 1949 and 1963 during an expedition led by British archaeologist Max Mallowan. His wife, Christie, was part of the team and helped clean and preserve the objects when not working on thrillers including "They Came to Baghdad." The pieces, which are almost 3,000 years old, once decorated furniture, horse trappings, chariots and containers and would have been adorned with gold and precious stones. Originally imported as booty from cities along Mediterranean, they were discovered in a royal arsenal within a palace at Nimrud, just south of the modern city of Mosul in northern Iraq. Nimrud was the capital of the ... More | | Newly Acquired Turner's "Modern Rome-Campo Vaccino" on View at the Getty
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino, 1839 (detail). Oil on canvas. Unframed: 91.8 x 122.6 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announces that J.M.W. Turner's masterpiece Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino (1838-39) is now on view at the Getty Center. The recently acquired painting shows a view of Rome from the Capitoline Hill, as if looking from high in the air down upon the Campo Vaccino in the center of Old Rome, revealing the noble ruins surrounding the ancient forum and a number of still-active Baroque churches. In the foreground appears a group of women, children, and goats, in picturesque contrast to the religious procession in front of the church of Santi Luca e Martina in the near distance below. Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino joins three other works by Turner already in the Getty Museum's collection. One of Turner's most important historical paintings, Van Tromp, Going about to Please his Masters, Ships a Sea, Getting a Good Wetting, from 1844, was acquired by the Museum in 1993, and is ... More |
 | Historic New England Protects Important Privately Owned Modern Property
Flansburgh House. Photo: David Bohl.
LINCOLN, MA.- The Flansburgh House in Lincoln, Massachusetts, is the latest privately owned historic property protected through a preservation easement held by Historic New England and is now the second Modern house to enter its nationally recognized Stewardship Program. Completed in 1963, the Flansburgh House was designed by the late architect Earl R. Flansburgh, FAIA for his family’s private use. The house is designed around an open interior garden court and was built to illustrate Flansburgh's approach to Modern residential design. It is set on a slightly sloping wooded lot and surrounded by tall pine trees and stone walls built by Flansburgh and his sons. Glass windows and sliding glass doors line the outside walls, and glass walls with open hallways line the sides of the open courtyard allowing light to penetrate from both the exterior and interior of the house. This preservation easement, donated to Hist ... More | | Daniel E. Stetson Named New Director of Chatanooga's Hunter Museum of American Art
Daniel E. Stetson comes to the Hunter Museum from the Polk Museum of Art.
CHATTANOOGA, TN.- The Hunter Museum of American Art has named Daniel E. Stetson its new director. He will begin work at the Hunter in late spring. "I am pleased to be taking on this new position with the Hunter Museum of American Art and look forward to building an exciting future with this world-class museum,” Stetson said. “My genuine love of American art and the Hunter's magnificent collection, the wonderful staff, marvelous buildings and dedicated Board make this an ideal match. I look forward to exploring and getting to know the Chattanooga community." Stetson comes to the Hunter Museum from the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland , Fla. , where he served as executive director for nearly 15 years. He succeeds Robert A. Kret, who left in late 2009 after nine years. “Daniel brings great enthusiasm and a wealth of experience,” said Norma P. Mills, chair of the Hunter Museum Board ... More | | Anish Kapoor to Create a New Artwork for the Vast Nave of Paris' Grand Palais
Thirty years after his first exhibition in Paris, MONUMENTA marks Anish Kapoor’s return to the French capital.
PARIS.- Each year MONUMENTA invites an internationally-renowned artist to turn their vision to the vast Nave of Paris’ Grand Palais and to create a new artwork especially for this space. MONUMENTA is an artistic interaction on an unparalleled scale, filling 13,500m² and a height of 35m. The first three MONUMENTA exhibitions were hugely successful, drawing in 150,000 visitors over five weeks. In 2007, the first challenge was met by German artist Anselm Kiefer, who resides in France, followed by American artist Richard Serra in 2008 and French artist Christian Boltanski in 2010. For its fourth incarnation, the French Ministry for Culture and Communication has invited Anish Kapoor, one of his generation’s greatest artists, to produce a new work for the Nave’s monumental space, from 11th May ... More |
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Düsseldorf's Kunstpalast Museum to Reopen its Doors in May After Major Refurbishment
Thomas Schütte, Mobiliar für „One Man Houses“, 2005. Rauminstallation, Verschiedene Materialien. Maße variabel. Sammlung Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf im Museum Kunstpalast. Foto: Kunstmuseum Bonn © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011.
DUSSELDORF.- With the re-opening on 7 May 2011, the Museum Kunstpalast will be able, after being closed for more than two years for a huge renovation project, to unveil its treasures once more, and put some 450 selected artworks from the Middle Ages to the present day on display. The new presentation will illustrate the variety of the collections in the Museum Kunstpalast, one of the few institutions in the Rhineland to accommodate important collections of paintings, sculpture, graphic works, glass, crafts and new media under one roof. It will better show both the regional references of the Düsseldorf art museum and its huge international importance. Over an area of 5,500 m², the museum will present its permanent collection in a concept developed by the team of curators under General Director Beat Wismer. The high points ... More | | Sol Lewitt's Circle with Towers Acquired by the University of Texas at Austin
The concrete block structure was one of two commissioned LeWitt works donated by the artist to the Conservancy.
AUSTIN, TX.- The concrete block structure “Circle with Towers” by Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) has been purchased by Landmarks, the public art program of The University of Texas at Austin, from the Madison Square Park Conservancy in New York. “Circle with Towers” was originally commissioned by the Madison Square Park Conservancy and exhibited from June 1, 2005 to January 31, 2006 as part of Mad. Sq. Art, the free contemporary public art program in New York City’s historic Madison Square Park. The concrete block structure was one of two commissioned LeWitt works donated by the artist to the Conservancy for the sole purpose of generating sale proceeds to establish the Sol LeWitt Fund for Artists Work, a permanent endowment to support the creation and exhibition of public art in Madison Square Park. Beginning in 2011, exhibitions presented by Mad. Sq. Art will derive a portion of their funding from ... More | | Sotheby's Offers the Greatest Collection of 20th-Century British Art Ever to Come to the Market
Stanley Spencer, R.A. (1891-1959), Workmen in the House, 1935. Est. £1.5-2.5 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London announced the sale of the greatest collection of 20th-Century British Art ever to come to the market: The Evill/Frost Collection, a stand-alone three-part sale which launches with an Evening Sale on Wednesday 15th June 2011. This incomparable collection comprises outstanding works of the highest calibre by Modern British masters including the most important – and largest – group of paintings by Stanley Spencer ever to come to the market, in addition to works by Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Dame Barbara Hepworth, Graham Sutherland, Edward Burra and Patrick Heron, amongst many others. The collection – which is estimated to fetch in excess of £12 million and comprises not only 20th-century British art but also furniture and porcelain – will be sold by the executors of the Honor Frost estate in order to benefit charitable causes relating to marine archaeology. The paintings and scu ... More |
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Highlights from Sotheby's Mid-Season Contemporary Art Auction Go On View in New York
Glenn Ligon, White #12, est. $180/220,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK.- On 9 March 2011 Sotheby’s mid-season Contemporary Art Auction will include carefully selected works by artists from the Post-War period through the present day. All of the works go on view this weekend at Sotheby’s York Avenue headquarters. Estimates range from $4,000 to $400,000, offering a wealth of superb works for both seasoned collectors and younger buyers of contemporary art. The sale covers a range of movements from Abstract Expressionism through Pop, Minimalism, Conceptualism and Contemporary Photography and also features work by some of today's most interesting younger artists. The highlight of the sale is Andy Warhol's black and white Work Boots from 1985-86 (est. $400/600,000). A major Glenn Ligon work from 1994 White #12 appears at auction for the first time just as the mid career retrospective Glenn Ligon: AMERICA opens at the Whitney Museum in New York (est. $180/220,000). Jeff Koons ... More | | Jill Wagar Named Corporate Relations Manager for Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Wagar has served since 2005 as associate vice president for development at Northwest Arkansas Community College.
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced that Jill Wagar has been selected as corporate relations manager. Wagar, who has 15 years of fundraising experience, will be charged with designing and implementing the Museum’s corporate sponsorship program. She began her new position Feb. 21. “I am so pleased to welcome Jill to our team,” said Sandy Edwards, deputy director of museum relations. “Her impressive record of accomplishments in the field of philanthropy as well as her involvement and leadership in our region will foster and strengthen mutually beneficial relationships between Crystal Bridges and our corporate sponsors.” Wagar has served since 2005 as associate vice president for development at Northwest Arkansas Community College, where she oversaw a $16 million capital campaign and helped secure the two largest gifts in the organization’s history. She sp ... More | | Spies, Traitors and Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America at the Constitution Center
Spies, Traitors and Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America exhibit at the National Constitution Center. AP Photo/Matt Rourke.
By: Joann Loviglio, Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP).- It was one of the worst acts of terrorism in U.S. history, a deadly deed that filled the New York City sky with smoke and debris, thrust the nation into war, prompted restrictive new laws and intensified hostility toward foreigners. Yet it happened nearly a century before the Sept. 11 attacks, on Black Tom Island, a munitions depot in New York Harbor sabotaged by German agents and American collaborators in 1916. This and other examples of domestic terrorism are part of a new exhibition at the National Constitution Center, tracing the evolution of revolution and exploring how panic and prejudice can disrupt the balance between safeguarding civil liberties and protecting the public. "Spies, Traitors and Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America" opened Friday and runs through ... More |
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 "42" Women of Sierra Leone: Photography Exhibition at International Slavery MuseumLIVERPOOL.- Sierra Leone in West Africa is ranked by the United Nations as one of the poorest countries in the world and shockingly women’s life expectancy is in the mid 40s. The International Slavery Museum hosts ‘42’ Women of Sierra Leone, a moving and powerful photography exhibition that explores this terrible statistic. ‘42’ Women of Sierra Leone features images from a collection of work by freelance photojournalist Lee Karen Stow who has spent the last four years visiting Sierra Leone. The selection of 42 colour photographs, some of which have never been seen before, document women and their daily lives at home, at work and with their families. Each image captures the many emotions experienced by these women including joy, courage and most importantly, hope. '42' Women of Sierra Leone also launches in time for the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day on Tuesday 8 March 2011. ... More Unrestored Shelby Cobra Auction Price Outperforms Gold Market Five FoldFORT LAUDERDALE, FL.- Auctions America by RM posted $17,248,846 in total sales at its annual Collector Cars of Fort Lauderdale auction event this weekend. The top seller, a barn-find 1963 Shelby Cobra (chassis no. CSX 2080), changed hands for $467,500 and represents a unique opportunity to make a direct comparison between the rise in a collector car’s value and that of a traded commodity – gold. The matching-numbers CSX 2080, the fifth 289 Cobra built, was purchased by its second private owner in 1981 with $30,000† worth of gold coins. The cumulative average market gold price that year was $460 per ounce. The car was driven only once by its new owner and then parked for the next thirty years, leaving it in very original, unrestored condition for its appearance on the auction podium in Fort Lauderdale. Since 1981 gold values have fluctuated, but have steadily been on the rise over the last decade and reached a ... More Sotheby's Hong Kong Presents It's Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite Spring SaleHONG KONG.- Sotheby's Hong Kong presents its Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite Spring Sale 2011. Taking place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on Wednesday, 6 April, the sale will highlight an array of fiery red gems led by a rare 27.67-carat Bulgari Burmese Ruby, jewels of stunning innovation and timeless classics, as well as an important selection of diamonds, gemstones and jadeite of exceptional quality. The sale will offer 329 lots, with an estimated value in excess of HK$470 million / US$60 million*. QUEK Chin Yeow, Deputy Chairman and Head of Jewellery Department, Sotheby's Asia, said, “Sotheby’s bHong Kong is proud to present this April one of the most significant jewels and jadeite auctions ever, offering a kaleidoscope of superlative jewels and gemstones of the most coveted quality and market rarity to true connoisseurs. Featuring the best of a wide spectrum of jewels available in today’s ... More Palevsky Estate Propels Los Angeles Modern Auctions to Record SalesLOS ANGELES, CA.- Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) recorded its highest grossing auction to date on Sunday, March 6, 2011, with total sales reaching $2,256,323 and a sell through rate of 82%. Custom designs by Ettore Sottass for the late Max Palevsky were sold on Sunday at the LAMA Modern Art & Design auction in Van Nuys, CA, totaling $333,813. Record prices were achieved for several unique works designed by Ettore Sottsass, including a marble console (Lot 55 est. $10,000 – 15,000), which realized $75,000; a sevres porcelain vase (Lot 70 est. $1,000 – 1,500) brought $31,250; and a pair of marble end tables (Lot 84 and 85 est. $2,400 – 3,000) together realized $25,000. Sottsass designs from other owners included a group of three candlesticks (Lot 78 est. $1,500 – 2,000), which realized $14,375, a pair of “Eastside” lounge chairs (Lot 83 est. $2,500- 3,500), which realized $3,750, and a Sinus lam ... More New Installation Spanning the Americas Features Objects From the Southwest Museum of the American Indian CollectionLOS ANGELES, CA.- The Autry National Center’s lobby now features an exquisite installation highlighting notable objects from the Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, representing Indigenous cultures from Alaska to Brazil. Some of the items displayed were made by prominent artists, such as Maria Martinez, who is credited with creating the innovative blackware ceramic style. Other items, such as a tobacco pipe given by Sitting Bull to Buffalo Bill, belonged to known historical figures. The thirty-one objects range from an ancient basket dating back to 500 BC to a contemporary ceramic from 2007. “The Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection is one of America’s premier collections of Native American art and artifacts. It has long been our goal to display ... More New CGC-recognized Twin Cities Pedigree Highlights $1,000,000+ Gary Dahlberg Collection at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions’ May 5 Signature® Vintage Comics & Comic Art Auction, at the Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion in New York, will feature a newly recognized pedigree collection, the Twin Cities Pedigree, assembled by the late Gary Dahlberg of Minneapolis, MN. “It’s definitely the best Silver Age Marvel collection we’ve sold,” said Ed Jaster, Senior Vice President at Heritage, “and there’s no Marvel collection out there with better page quality.” “When I saw the Twin Cities books I was astonished by how nice they were,” said Paul Litch, Vice-President of the comic certification service CGC. “The collection runs the scope of Silver Age Marvels and DCs and goes all the way to some stunning Copper Age books – beautiful books, beautiful preservation. Once collectors see them, they’ll understand why we decided to give them a pedigree designation on the CGC label.” ... 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