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A UAE man istands in front of an artwork, entitled Rania, Cairo 2002, by Egyptian artist Youssef Nabil during the official opening of the Art Dubai exhibition, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 15 March 2011. The 5th edition of the contemporary art fair that gathers collectors, galleries, artists and art professionals from more than 30 countries in the Middle East, Asia, Europe amongst others, opens to the public from 16 to 19 March. EPA/ALI HAIDER.
DUBAI.- Welcoming a total of 81 galleries from 34 countries—with one-third of the participants based in the Middle East, one-third in Europe and one-third in the United States and Asia—the latest edition of Art Dubai is presented from Wednesday, 16 March through Saturday, 19 March 2011, under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, VicePresident and Prime Minister of the UAE, Ruler of Dubai. This year’s Art Dubai, the first organised under the leadership of Fair Director Antonia Carver, is also the most diverse and forward-looking to date for the Middle East’s largest contemporary art event. “Dubai has been a trading post and meeting point for South Asia, Iran, the Arab world and Africa for hundreds of years,” said Antonia Carver. “Over the past decade, Dubai has become the commercial art centre of the region and a city of ideas and entrepreneurship, providing hom ... More |
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Exhibition of Seldom-Seen Watercolours by Emil Nolde to Open at Pinakothek der Moderne
Emil Nolde, White Amaryllis, Watercolour, 457 x 336 mm Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München Inv. no.: 1978:15 Z.© Nolde-Stiftung Seebüll.
MUNICH.- In this exhibition on Emil Nolde (1867-1956) at the Pinakothek der Moderne, the public will once again be able to view the 24 seldom-seen watercolours in the possession of the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, that have not been on show for a long time. These celebrated and equally well-loved sheets by the famous German Expressionist, which cover all the subjects otherwise found in his oeuvre, can only be exhibited very rarely due to their extreme light sensitivity. Nolde turned to watercolour early in his career. He developed his characteristic style of applying paint in the wet-on-wet technique between 1900 and 1910. From 1911, he used highly absorbent Japanese paper which made the colours run into each other all the more. The range the subjects found in his other work is also mirrored in his watercolour paintings. These are not sketches for works in oil, but form a part of his oeuvre in their own right. The waterco ... More | | Late Queen Juliana's Attic Sale Draws Crowds of Royal Fans at Sotheby's in Amsterdam
Sotheby's expert Herbert van Mierlo holds a bronze statue of a puma by Luxembourg artist Auguste Tremont. AP Photo/Peter Dejong.
By: Mike Corder, Associated Press
AMSTERDAM (AP).- From threadbare armchairs to marble mantel clocks, garden furniture to a silver pocket knife, thousands of the late Dutch Queen Juliana's possessions are going under the hammer in an attic sale fit for a king. The four-day auction by Sotheby's started Monday and was stirring interest among serious collectors as well as die-hard Dutch royalty fans of the popular House of Orange. A total of 1,725 lots gathered from seven royal palaces were being auctioned with the proceeds going to four charities — one chosen by each of Juliana's four daughters. "It's really like a royal attic sale," auctioneer Mark Grol told The Associated Press. "With paintings to prints, ceramics, silver, furniture. Just basically everything you would find in a palace." The sale is intended to clear out unwanted belongings that were left ... More | | Leading British Art Collector Charles Saatchi's Ex-Wife Sells Off Art at Christie's
A photograph of the sculpture "Big Baby" by Australian artist Ron Mueck. Reuters/Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
LONDON (REUTERS).- Kay Saatchi, ex-wife of leading British art patron Charles, is selling off part of her own collection at a Christie's auction in June and expects to raise up to 3.4 million pounds ($5.4 million). The highlight of the sale, which will form part of the post-war and contemporary art evening auction in London on June 28, is a larger-than-life yet disturbingly realistic model of a seated and naked baby by Ron Mueck. "Big Baby," which measures nearly three feet high and is the Australian artist's first documented work, dates from 1996 and is estimated to be worth 800,000-1.2 million pounds. A series of five drawings by veteran British painter Lucian Freud dating from the 1940s is expected to fetch between 770,000 and 1.2 million pounds combined. Christie's said it was the most important group of works on paper by the artist ever to come to auction. The third main lot is a painting by Paula Rego, "Looking Back," ... More |
 | Exhibition at Anne Frank House in Amsterdam Focuses on Her Sister, Margot
A photograph of Margot Frank (top C) is on display during the opening of an exhibition, entitled Margot, Anne's Sister, at the Anne Frank House. EPA/EVERT ELZINGA
AMSTERDAM.- Margot Frank, born on 16 February 1926, steps out of the shadow of her world-famous sister Anne with an exhibition especially devoted to her in the Anne Frank House. The exhibition ‘Margot, Anne's sister’ was opened today by friends and classmates of Margot Frank. At the opening ceremony Jetteke Frijda spoke of her close friendship with Margot, and expressed her appreciation of the exhibition being shown: “All the attention for Anne is a wonderful thing, but Margot should be mentioned too.” The exhibition, which can be seen in the Anne Frank House until 15 September, sketches an image of Margot with the use of personal film testimony and other historical evidence, photos, letters and artefacts. “Margot doesn’t need [any upbringing] since she’s naturally good, kind and clever”, wrote Anne in her diary on 27 September 1942. The exhibition ... More | | Rijksmuseum Exhibits a Selection of Its Most Beautiful Drawings and Prints of Dune Landscapes
View of Bloemendaal with the Saxenburg country estate (detail), Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, etching and drypoint, 1651.
AMSTERDAM.- The Dutch landscape was largely created by man, except for the sandy beaches and dunes along the coast, which were mostly created by nature. In the seventeenth century, when the Netherlands was the most urbanised region in Europe, the dunes offered a welcome refuge for the inhabitants of the overcrowded cities. Among those who sought refuge were 17th-century artists such as Goltzius and Rembrandt. Their works portray not only the entertaining qualities of the dunes, but also their grand, quiet and rugged nature. From 15 March to 20 June 2011, the Rijksmuseum is exhibiting a selection of more than twenty of its most beautiful drawings and prints of dune landscapes in the 17th century. Huigen Leeflang (Rijksmuseum Curator of Prints): “The dunes were the birthplace of Dutch landscape art. It’s remarkable that the way we experience the dunes has changed little in all those centuries. We still enjoy retre ... More | | Norwegian and Swiss Landscapes from the Lunde Collection Announced at the National Gallery
Caspar Wolf, The Geltenbach Falls in the Lauenen Valley with an Ice Bridge, about 1778. Oil on cardboard, 29.1 x 20.3 cm. Collection of Asbjørn Lunde © Photo courtesy of the owner.
LONDON.- This summer the National Gallery displays 51 paintings from a major private collection, most of which have never been seen in the UK before, and are rarely on public view. 'Forests, Rocks, Torrents' draws on the collection of Asbjørn Lunde, an American who has formed the world’s leading private collection of Norwegian and Swiss landscape paintings, primarily of the 19th century. British audiences are well aware of the landscape tradition of Constable and Turner. This landmark exhibition introduces skilled and innovative practitioners of this discipline from the same period but from elsewhere in Europe, many of whom enjoyed great reputations during their lifetimes. The paintings are of two principal kinds: small-scale landscape oil sketches and ‘finished’ paintings, some very large. The works demonstrate the similarities of the Norwegian and ... More |
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Valencia's IVAM Presents a Retrospective Exhibition of the Sculptor Baltasar Lobo
Baltasar Lobo, La mere et l'enfant, 1957.
VALENCIA.- The IVAM presents a retrospective exhibition of the sculpture Baltasar Lobo, on display until May 1, 2011. The exhibition gathers 92 works between sculptures and paintings that represent the different stages of his creative production from the forties to his last works in the nineties. It is a complete perspective of a legacy that has been shown in museums and public spaces in France, Spain, Germany, Austria and Venezuela. His sculptures on a medium and large scale are characterized by perfectly polished surfaces in which the light slides and goes through the corporeal space. Using materials such as marble, alabaster, granite, wood and bronze, the Spanish sculptor directed his oeuvre towards the creation of a language of abstraction, but keeping the human figure as the cornerstone of his creation. On the occasion of the exhibition, the IVAM has published a catalogue that contains all the works displayed and texts on Bal ... More | | Phillips de Pury & Company Announces Highlights from Bric 2011 Sale
Yang Shaobin, Untitled No. 15, 2000, estimated at £120,000 – £180,000. Photo: Courtesy of Phillips de Pury & Company.
LONDON.- Phillips de Pury & Company, announces the highlights from its BRIC 2011 Evening and Day auctions featuring 203 lots with a low estimate of £7,280,500/$11,657,566 and a high estimate of £10,865,500/ $17,397,883.The Evening sale will feature 39 important works with a low estimate of £5,917,000 /$ 9,474,325 and a high estimate of £8,933,000/ $14,303,556. Following the thrilling results for the first ever BRIC auctions in 2010, which highlighted the international demand for the best and most exciting art from the fast growing economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China, Phillips de Pury & Company will continue to break new ground with BRIC 2011. Numerous world auction records were achieved last year for KOMAR & MELAMID, EMILIANO DI CAVALCANTI, VLADIMIR YANKILEVSKY & OS ... More | | Recent Acquisitions to Cleveland Museum of Art's Collection Announced
Stairs, Monika Sosnowska (Polish). c. 2010. Steel, paint; 294.6 x 165.1 x 88.9 cm.
CLEVELAND, OH.- A singular Jacobean miniature, a Thomas Hope settee, a large and pristine British watercolor, and a sculpture by acclaimed contemporary Polish artist Monika Sosnowska are among the latest works approved by the Collections Committee of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Board of Trustees. The museum is continuing to collect across all departments as it moves toward the completion of its transformational building expansion and collection reinstallation in 2013, adding works that strengthen its historic commitment to quality and excellence. “These most recent acquisitions demonstrate the museum’s dedication to issues like aesthetic quality, artistic vision and cross-collection dialogue,” stated C. Griffith Mann, Ph.D, the museum’s deputy director and chief curator. “Objects like the Sosnowska sculpture reflect the museum’s engagement with ... More |
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Sotheby's to Offer Exquisite Fine Arts with Links to Europe's Most Important Aristocratic Families
A Fabergé gold-mounted cigarette case by workmaster Henrik Wigstrom, St. Petersburg, 1906. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s announce Noblesse Oblige, the sale of an exquisite selection of decorative and fine arts with remarkable links to some of Europe’s most important aristocratic families on Thursday 14th April 2011. A highlight of the sale is the largest group of property from the collection of the Duchesse de Berry to come to the market since her lifetime - which gives a highly personal insight into the life of one of the most remarkable, unconventional and iconic women of the 19th century - in addition to property descended from the Royal Bourbon Family and the Austrian Imperial Family, as well as an important group of property that represents the Neoclassical Grand Tour period in magnificent form. The sale comprises a total of 500 lots, estimated to fetch in excess of £2 million, and the furniture, paintings, silver, ceramics and textiles embody the pinnacle of decorative arts from a bygone era - many of the piec ... More | | As Interest in Oriental Carpets Continues to Grow, Claremont Rug Company Releases New Brochure
Entering its fourth decade, Claremont Rug Company (CRC) has an inventory of more than 3500 art-level pieces.
OAKLAND, CA.- Claremont Rug Company today announced the availability of a 22-page brochure which highlights a broad range of collectible 19th century antique Oriental carpets available at the Gallery. Entering its fourth decade, Claremont Rug Company (CRC) has an inventory of more than 3500 art-level pieces, primarily built by the acquisition of globally-based private collections. With clients across the United States and in a dozen foreign countries, the Gallery displays more than 900 rugs on its website. “But our brochure is the way that many clients ‘experience’ the Gallery,” said Christine Hunt Winitz, Claremont senior vice president responsible for all aspects of the brochure. The first brochure was produced in 1988 and appears two-to-four times annually. “I am particularly happy with this brochure, not only for its scope of styles shown, but also for the accurate capture of the myriad ant ... More | | Milwaukee Art Museum Hires William Keyse Rudolph as New Curator of American Art
William Keyse Rudolph comes from the Worcester Art Museum where he was Curator of American Art since 2009.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.- The Milwaukee Art Museum has welcomed William Keyse Rudolph as its new Curator of American Art and Decorative Arts. Rudolph has a distinguished career, coming to Milwaukee from the Worcester Art Museum where he was Curator of American Art since 2009. Prior to that, he was the Associate Curator of American Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, and Associate/Research Coordinator in European Decorative Arts after 1700 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Rudolph received his M.A. in Art History from the University of Virginia with an emphasis in 18th-Century Art, and Modern Art and received his Ph.D. in Art History from Bryn Mawr College in the fields of Colonial and Federal American Art and Victorian Painting. His dissertation was on Jean-Joseph Vaudechamp (1790-1864), a nineteenth-century French portraitist who commuted between Paris and New Orleans in the 1830s. “We are thrilled ... More |
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 Science Museum Celebrates the Science of Launchpad at March LatesLONDON.- Bubbles, explosions, rockets and fond childhood memories will feature prominently at the Science Museum’s next Lates on Wednesday 30 March - in an evening dedicated to the museum’s flagship interactive Launchpad gallery. To celebrate the Launchpad March Lates event, the Science Museum will also be running an online competition called #smlates. This is a fun twitter-powered competition where the top 10 point scorers before the 30th March will be entered into a draw to win an iPad 2, with a selection of science based prizes up for grabs for the runners up as well. Visitors will have a chance to enjoy the child like wonder in Launchpad for a whole evening without any children being present. Guests will rediscover their inner child by building contraptions especially designed to compliment the gallery – including machines that catapult ... More The Wapping Project Bankside Shows the Photographs of Seven International PhotographersLONDON.- Coinciding with the Yohji Yamamoto retrospective at the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Wapping Project Bankside shows the photographs, until May 14, 2011, of seven international photographers who can be said to have first found their individual voices as part of the thrilling burst of creativity engendered by Yamamoto’s arrival in Europe 30 years ago. The exhibition of photographs makes concrete the breadth of some of Yamamoto’s key collaborators achieved through his career. Now reading like a roll call of the world’s finest, most imaginative and established fashion photographers, the list includes Nick Knight, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Peter Lindbergh, Craig McDean, Sarah Moon, Paolo Roversi, and Max Vadukul. Central to this mix is Yamamoto’s close associate, Art Director Marc Ascoli. Ascoli’s introduction of ... More Auctions America by RM Expands Spring Carlisle Auction Schedule to Three DaysAUBURN, IN.- As part of the recently-announced joint marketing and corporate cooperation agreement between Carlisle Events and Auctions America by RM, the Spring Carlisle auction is now produced by Auctions America and continues to be part of the famous Spring Carlisle swap meet and car corral weekend. The auction schedule has been extended to include a third day where a total of 300 motor cars will be up for bids from Thursday, April 28 through to Saturday, April 30, 2011 at the Carlisle (PA) Expo Center . The newly-added Saturday sale day will see the highest quality automobiles of the event cross the auction podium. Bill Miller, Founder and Co-owner, Carlisle Events remarks: “Carlisle Collector Car Auctions have been growing each and every year since its inception. Now with the association with Au ... More Gourmet Restaurant for Plants Opens at the CrockerSACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum will open the world's first photosynthetic restaurant this spring. Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats has developed a gourmet cuisine for flora by filtering and mixing different wavelengths of sunlight. Keats' installation will be on view in the floral plantings in front of the historic Crocker from April 16 through July 17, 2011. An experimental philosopher, Keats has a long history of encompassing other species in his installations. He has choreographed a ballet for honeybees by selectively planting flowers around their hives. He has also produced travel documentaries for houseplants by projecting videos of foreign skies onto their foliage in a darkened theater. "What motivates me is curiosity. In the case of my photosynthetic restaurant, I wondered what it's like to be human and to do peculiarly human things like savoring a good meal," Keats explains. "Adapting a common human a ... More Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Corrine Colarusso at Sandler Hudson GalleryATLANTA, GA.- Sandler Hudson Gallery presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Corrine Colarusso. Shaggy Land on view through April 2, 2011. The exhibition includes large scale paintings completed from 2008-2010. Colarusso paints the landscape and visions of the natural world, real and imagined, because it offers the moving experience of positioning one’s place in the world. Embodying a long history in art and culture, landscape offers recognition, familiarity, and sometimes strangeness; a place apart. In Colarusso’s work, she suggests that we have limited access to the deep patterns of nature. We acknowledge environmental awareness as subtext, but that seems to put us further afield. In her work, Landscape, Nature, offers us a contemplated reality; no matter how beautiful or bleak the landscape may appear, we are aware of something else- something fugitive. Her paintings address this ‘somethin ... More LACMA Displays Most Extensive Presentation of Museum's Contemporary Collection in Ten YearsLOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) displays the most extensive presentation of the museum’s permanent collection of contemporary art in ten years. Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection features approximately seventy-five pieces, representing a striking variety of works in diverse media—painting, drawing, photography, video, and audio. Borrowing its title from a work by seminal artist Bruce Nauman, Human Nature surveys works by several generations of artists who have made defining contributions to the recent art landscape, from 1968 to the present. Many of the works are on view for the first time since their acquisition, including pieces by Haegue Yang, Leslie Hewitt, Rachel Harrison, Glenn Ligon, Paul Pfeiffer, and Zhang Huan, among others. Human Nature addresses several significant positions and thematic dialogues, spanning a period known for its plurality of styles. Following ... More |
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