| | Over One Hundred Works of Art Made by Michelangelo Pistoletto Presented at MAXXI
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Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto stands besides one of his pieces, Venus of the Rags, at the inauguration of his show 'Michelangelo Pistoletto 1956 - Da Uno a Molti, 1956-1974' at Maxxi Museum in Rome, Italy, 03 March 2011. The exhibition with more than 100 works from Italian and American public and private collections runs from 04 March to 15 August 2011. EPA/ALESSANDRO DI MEO.
ROME.- Michelangelo Pistoletto: Da Uno a Molti, 1956–1974 and Cittadellarte are the two exhibitions that MAXXI, in collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is devoting to the great Italian artist and will open to the public from March 4th to August 15th 2011. With more than 100 works on view coming from public and private, Italian and international collections, Michelangelo Pistoletto: Da Uno a Molti, 1956–1974 presents one of the most important living Italian artists, internationally recognised as a key figure in contemporary art, one of the founding members of the Arte Povera movement and a figure of reference to the younger generations. He was awarded a Leone d’Oro at the Venice Biennale in 2003 and considered in the United States as a forerunner of participatory artistic practices. Cittadellarte focuses on the homonymous creative laboratory founded by Pistoletto in Biella in 1998, which fo ... More |
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Northwestern's Block Museum Director David Alan Robertson to Step Down
Robertson has served as the director of the Block Museum and lecturer in art history at Northwestern since August 2002.
EVANSTON, IL.- David Alan Robertson has announced that he will be stepping down as The Ellen Philips Katz Director of the Block Museum of Art effective Dec. 31, 2011. Robertson has served as the director of the Block Museum and lecturer in art history at Northwestern since August 2002. In 2005 he was named The Ellen Philips Katz Director of the Block Museum. He is the current president of the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG) and co-chair of the AAMG’s national Task Force on University and College Museums. He is also a member of the Association of Art Museum Directors and the American Association of Museums. Robertson will continue to pursue interests in support of academic museums on a national level upon leaving the Block Museum. During Robertson’s tenure, the Block Museum experienced a period of energetic growth. He has strengthened engagement with the museum among faculty and s ... More | | Text that Shaped the Course of History, The Book of Calculation, for Sale at Bonhams
The Liber Abaci or Book of Calculation is by Leonardo Pisano Bigollo or Fibonacci. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Key parts of the Liber Abaci, the work that shaped the course of history by introducing Arabic numerals to the west, are to be sold at Bonhams New York on 22 June. They feature in a rare 15th century manuscript estimated at between $120,000-180,000 (£75,000 – 110,000). The Liber Abaci or Book of Calculation is by Leonardo Pisano Bigollo or Fibonacci, considered by many as one of the most talented western mathematicians of the Middle Ages. Fibonacci is widely credited with bringing the Hindu-Arabic numeral system to the western world. Within the text of the Liber Abaci, Fibonacci explains the benefits of Arabic numerals and the symbol for zero by applying them to the practical world of book-keeping, weights and measures, and trade. His theory popularized Arabic numerals by appealing to tradesmen and academics and eventually convincing the public of the superiority of the new numerals. It was Fibonacci&# ... More | | For the Past 20 Years London's Society of Mudlarks Retrieve History from the Thames
Steve Brooker poses next to the River Thames in this undated photograph taken in London. REUTERS/Nick Stevens.
By: Stefano Ambrogi
LONDON (REUTERS).- It's seven in the morning and we kneel in black mud on the freezing banks of London's River Thames in the shadow of St Paul's Cathedral, where a church has dominated the ancient city since the 7th century. As the tide ebbs exposing the shore, Steve Brooker casually tosses a 17th century trader's token he has found in the dirt into his bucket. "Remember it's all about getting your eye in," says Brooker, who, armed with little more than a trowel, gloves, obligatory boots and an infectious enthusiasm has been combing the foreshore for antiquities for the past 20 years. Traders' tokens were issued by local merchants during and after the English Civil War (1642-1651) as a form of small change at a time when lower denominations of the realm were out of circulation. Preserved by the oxygen-free mud, the tiny copper-alloy farthing bears the ... More |
 | An American Experiment: George Bellows and the Ashcan Painters at the National Gallery
Robert Henri, Dutch Joe (Jopie van Slouten), 1910 © Milwaukee Art Museum, Gift of the Samuel O. Buckner Collection M1919.9. Photo by John Nienhuis.
LONDON.- The National Gallery presents a small exhibition of 12 paintings that have never been seen before in the United Kingdom. On view from March 3 through May 30, 2011. 'An American Experiment: George Bellows and the Ashcan Painters' introduces visitors to Bellows and his artist friends (William Glackens, George Luks, John Sloan and their teacher Robert Henri), and to an important moment in the history of American painting. The Ashcan School was formed at the beginning of the 20th century as American painters, principally in New York City and Philadelphia, began to develop a uniquely American point of view on the beauty, violence and velocity of the modern world – and a new way to represent them. The most familiar reading of the Ashcan painters is as urban realists who embraced the brutal but vivid life of the city as their subject and found stark visual language through which to communicate their ... More | | Like Father, Like Son: Family Gatherings at Christie's Swiss Art Sale in Zurich
Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918), Portrait of Josef Müller, circa 1916. Estimate SFr. 250,000-350,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
ZURICH.- Like father, Like son: Christie’s spring sale of Swiss art at the Kunsthaus Zurich on 21 March 2011 will bring together outstanding works from famous artist fathers and their equally famous sons. The top lot of the sale, which comes from a Swiss private collection, is Giovanni Giacometti’s family portrait Unter dem Holunder / Under the elder tree (1911) (estimate SFr. 1,8 – 2,5 million). The family is one of the core subjects of Giovanni Giacometti’s oeuvre. Christie’s set a world record price of SFr. 3,240,000 for the rediscovered portrait Die Mutter / The mother (circa 1911) by the artist and successfully sold two other versions of the family subject Maternité (1908) which sold for SFr. 2,640,000 in 2008 and Der Nussbaum / The walnut tree (1908) which achieved Sfr. 2,280,000 in last June’s Swiss Art sale. Under the elder tree (1911) is set in the garden of the Giacometti’s famil ... More | | The Serpentine Gallery Presents an Exhibition of the Celebrated American Artist Nancy Spero
Azur , detail 2002. Collage with paint and hand printing on paper, 39 panels, 64.5 x 8567.4 cm overall. Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne / Centre de Création Industrielle, Paris Loan of Harriet and Ulrich Meyer through the Centre Pompidou Foundation, 2007.
LONDON.- The Serpentine Gallery presents a major UK survey of the work of celebrated American artist, feminist and activist Nancy Spero (1926-2009). On display from March 3 and runs until May 2, 2011. A feminist pioneer and politically active throughout her life, Spero created work that was often radical, making strong statements against war, violence, male dominance and abuses of power. She lived much of her life in New York City, with her husband and collaborator Leon Golub, creating some of her most powerful works against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. She was a founding member of the first woman’s cooperative gallery, A.I.R. (Artists in Residence), in SoHo, New York. Rejecting the dominant post-war movements of formalist Abstraction and Pop Art in ... More |
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Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s at Barbican Art Gallery, London
Trisha Brown, Planes, 1968. Photo: Felix Clay.
LONDON.- This Spring Barbican Art Gallery presents Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark: Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s. This is the first major presentation to examine the experimental and often daring approaches – from dancing on rooftops to cutting fragments out of abandoned buildings – taken by these three leading figures in the rough-and-ready arts scene developing in downtown Manhattan during the 1970s. Performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson, choreographer Trisha Brown and artist Gordon Matta-Clark were friends and active participants in the New York art community, working fluidly between visual art and performance. The exhibition, curated by Lydia Yee, brings together around 160 works by Anderson, Brown and Matta-Clark, many rarely seen, with some presented for the first time outside New York. Featuring sculptures, drawings, photographs, films, live performances and m ... More | | Exhibition of Works by Pioneering Photographers Featured at Paul Kasmin Gallery
Charles Negre, Barbary Organ Player, 1853, salt print from a waxed paper negative, 7 7/8 x 5 3/8 inches, 19.9 x 13.7 cm. Courtesy Hans P. Kraus Jr. and Paul Kasmin Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery, in cooperation with Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Fine Photographs, presents Drawing with Light: Paper Negatives, 1842-1864. Including works by pioneering photographers William Henry Fox Talbot, Chares Nègre, Dr. John Murray, Frédéric Flachéron and Louis-Rémy Robert, the exhibition will provide a rare glimpse into the early history of photography. It will be on view from March 3rd to April 2nd at Paul Kasmin’s 511 W. 27th Street space. Discovered in 1840, Talbot’s calotype process created negative images on paper sensitized with silver salts. Because these negatives captured light directly, Talbot prized them above all else for their great fidelity to nature. Moreover, unlike the daguerreotype, which produced only one image, multiple prints could be made from ... More | | Indianapolis Museum of Art Partners with Major Sports Organizations for Venice Biennale
Gymnast Rachel Salzman rehearsing with U.S. All-Around champion David Durante for the 2011 la Biennale di Venezia U.S. Pavilion exhibition Gloria by Allora & Calzadilla, presented by the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Photo by Andrew Bordwin.
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- The Indianapolis Museum of Art and Allora & Calzadilla have announced that they will be partnering with national athletic organizations USA Gymnastics and USA Track & Field on three newly commissioned sculptures for the U.S. Pavilion exhibition Gloria at the 54th La Biennale di Venezia. The pieces—“Body in Flight (Delta),” “Body in Flight (American),” and “Track and Field”—will incorporate performances by professional gymnasts and runners. Olympic gold medalist Dan O’Brien (Decathlon, 1996), Olympic silver medalist Chellsie Memmel (Women’s Gymnastics Team, 2008), and U.S. All-Around champion David Durante (Men’s Gymnastics, 2007) will perform at the pavilion during the vernissage (June 1-3, 2011). The installations will mark the ... More |
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Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery Presents a Solo Exhibition of the Brooklyn-Based Artist José Par
José Parlá debuts his newest exhibition, Walls, Diaries & Paintings at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery presents Walls, Diaries, and Paintings, a solo exhibition of the Brooklyn-based artist José Parlá. On view from March 3 through April 16, 2011. Walls, Diaries, and Paintings features fifteen new paintings, that chronicle Parlá’s exploration of the diverse places and cultures he has traversed. From Istanbul to Havana, from Tokyo to New York, the colors and textures of the neighborhoods and alleyways have found a forceful and moving resolution in Parlá’s works that are both inspirational and revealing. José Parlá is a documentarian of city life. Using the backdrop of this and many other towns, he re-makes in paint what can appear to be photorealist fragments of what he sees in the chaos and rush of the metropolis. His paintings reflect the accumulated memories and experiences, the walls that show a place that was, but no longer is—built over, ... More | | French Photographer Raphael Dallaporta Wins Foam Paul Huf Award 2011
Fragile Blood 1, 2008 © Raphael Dallaporta.
AMSTERDAM.- On Wednesday evening the 2nd of March Raphaël Dallaporta (1980) was chosen as the winner of the Foam Paul Huf Award 2011 by an international jury. Along with a cash prize of € 20.000,- Dallaporta will have an exhibition in Foam from 9th September to 26th October 2011. The Foam Paul Huf Award continues to attract portfolios from all over the world. Out of 81 nominees this year, 25 were from Europe, 7 from Asia, 17 from North America, 3 from South America, 15 from Africa and 14 from the Middle East. "The quality of the candidates was very exciting. Given the great variety of practices in photography, the challenge was to compare very good works that have very different aesthetics", was quoted by the jury who unanimously chose the portfolio of French photographer Raphaël Dallaporta. The chairman of the jury noted on the winner: "His true political approach of society perversion, combined with a very creative and ri ... More | | Sotheby's Hong Kong to Present Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings in Spring Sale
S. Sudjojono, Kami Present, Ibu Pertiwi (Stand Guard for Our Motherland (detail); Est. HK$2 – 3 million / US$257,000 – 386,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Hong Kong’s 2011 Sale of Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings will be held on 4 April at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, offering over 145 exceptional works estimated in excess of HK$36 million / US$4.6 million*. The sale will continue to lead the market in breadth and depth of its selection, bringing a vibrant array of modern and contemporary works by the region’s most sought-after artists while providing a unique opportunity for collectors worldwide to acquire Southeast Asian paintings with remarkable quality, provenance and freshness. As the pioneer in introducing the most cutting-edge and au courant Southeast Asian artists to the market, Sotheby’s is honoured to present a dedicated section of photography and new media works at auction, featuring various innovative photographers in the region ... More |
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 Major Picasso Exhibition for Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2012EDINBURGH.- The first exhibition to explore Pablo Picasso’s lifelong connections with Britain will be the highlight of the summer season at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2012. Picasso and Britain will examine Picasso’s evolving critical reputation here and British artists’ responses to his work. Originating at Tate Britain, this pioneering show marks the first time that the two organisations have collaborated on a major exhibition. Opening in August 2012 at the height of the Olympic celebrations, Picasso and Britain will comprise over 150 works from major public and private collections around the world, including over 60 paintings by Picasso. Highlights will include masterpieces from all periods of his career such as his great 1925 painting, The Three Dancers, which the Tate acquired from the artist following his 1960 exhibition and major cubist paintings from the Museum of Modern A ... More 10.09 Carats Fancy Vivid Purple-Pink Diamond to Highlight Christie's New York Jewels Sale NEW YORK, NY.- Perhaps no greater phenomenon has electrified the global jewelry market in the past year than the skyrocketing prices achieved for large pink diamonds at auction. In the last 15 months, four pink diamonds have fetched more than US$1 million per carat at auction, with Christie's leading the way with The Vivid Pink, a 5 carat cushion-cut diamond that sold for more than US$2.1 million per carat at Christie's Hong Kong in December 2009 - a record price per carat for any diamond sold at auction. Now, Christie's is pleased to announce it will offer a 10.09 Fancy Vivid purplish-pink diamond as the highlight of its April 12 Magnificent Jewels sale in New York. This exceptional diamond, with its highly desirable cushion cut, is estimated at US$12,000,000-15,000,000. “Collector demand for large colored diamonds has never been stronger, especially where pink diamonds of this size and quality are concerned. Fewer ... More Jamie Wyeth Dog Picture Sells for $218,500 in NYC NEW YORK (AP).- A Jamie Wyeth work depicting his yellow Labrador with a black circle around his eye has sold for $218,500 in New York City. Christie's said "Study of Kleberg" brought more than five times the $40,000 pre-sale estimate. It was purchased Thursday by private art dealer Ann Richards Nitze on behalf of a client who was not identified. Wyeth said he painted the circle around Kleberg's eye in the 1980s after the pooch got too close to his easel. Wyeth's a big fan of the old comedy "Little Rascals," which featured a pit bull with the same marking. Wyeth is the son of the great American painter Andrew Wyeth and grandson of classic novel illustrator N.C. Wyeth. He lives in Pennsylvania and Maine and has a studio in Delaware. ... More Carpenter Center for Visual Arts Opens Antoni Muntadas' "About Academia"CAMBRIDGE, MA.- About Academia is the latest project by renowned artist Antoni Muntadas. Muntadas represented Spain at the 2005 Venice Biennial and was the recipient of the Velázquez Visual Arts Prize in 2009—the most important distinction to be endowed on a visual artist by the Spanish state. About Academia addresses the problematic relationship between the production of knowledge and economic power. Upon entering the gallery space, the viewer is confronted by an installation consisting of three video projections that present the most pressing questions concerning the supposed objectivity of academic knowledge by pointing out the corporatization of institutions of higher learning in the United States and the sometimes controversial positions that universities fall into when trying to physically expand amidst disenfranchised communities, as well as falling into possible contradictions with the agendas ... More AIA New York Chapter Announces 2011 Design Award Winners at March 1 SymposiumNEW YORK, NY.- Twelve eminent architects, educators, critics and planners convened at the Center for Architecture to select the winners of the 2011 AIA New York Chapter’s Design Awards. Last night, they publically announced the 38 winning projects at a symposium at the Center for Architecture (536 LaGuardia Place). The conversation was moderated by William Menking, editor-in-chief of the Architect’s Newspaper. The 38 selected projects and the architecture firms behind them – many of whom were on hand for the symposium – represent exceptional work by AIA New York members and other architects practicing in New York in four categories: interiors, architecture, un-built work and urban design. Each winning project, granted either an “honor” or “merit” award, was chosen for its exemplary originality. The criteria used by the juries included design quality, program resolution, innovation, though ... More First New York Museum Exhibition Devoted to the Hindu God Vishnu AnnouncedBROOKLYN, NY.- Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior will feature more than 170 objects that will explore the many personae and legends of Vishnu, his entourage, and his accoutrements, as well as the diverse traditions of worship related to him. This large-scale exhibition includes Indian sculpture, paintings, textiles, and ritual objects that range in date from the fourth century c.e. to the twentieth century and will be on view June 24 through October 2, 2011, at the Brooklyn Museum. The exhibition will include sixteen objects from the Brooklyn Museum’s permanent collection. Vishnu, one of the most important gods in Hinduism, is often described as part of a trinity consisting of Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver, and Shiva the Destroyer. He is responsible for maintaining balance in the universe and is often depicted in a serene and peaceful state. Visual representations often depict him with four ar ... More |
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