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Kerstin Sieblist, curator of music history, presents a watercolor of Cecile, the wife German composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, from a private collection on Mendelssohn's life and works in Leipzig, Germany. Donor Rudolf Elvers handed over his collection with over 1,000 items, including books, sheets of music, drawings and letters to the Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig the same day. Parts of the collection will be presented to the public at the museum from November 2011 to January 2012. Mendelssohn (1809-1847) was musical director of the Leipzig 'Gewandhaus' concert hall from 1835 until 1847. EPA/JAN WOITAS.
LEIPZIG.- The doyen of German Mendelssohn research, Dr. Rudolf Elvers, has collected items regarding composer and conductor Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy over more than four decades. His collection, which he formally presented to the Museum of City History Leipzig in a ceremony at the Old Town Hall, comprises more than 1000 items and is a top-class selection consisting of handwritten sources, drawings, first editions and books. The more than 1000 items include seven handwritten album pages and fragments of compositions, 87 handwritten, partly unpublished letters and documents by Mendelssohn and more than 200 manuscripts from the composer‘s family and social environment. The authors include the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Cécile Mendelssohn, Max Reger, Clara Schumann and Carl Maria von Weber as well as the composer Anton Wilhelm von Zuckalmaglio. Moreover, several - partly unknown - drawings by Mendelssohn, which show him as a ta ... More |
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Public Art Fund Presents Rob Pruitt's Monument to the Father of Pop Art: Andy Warhol
A statue of US artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987) stands in the Union Square area of New York City. EPA/GINO DOMENICO.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Public Art Fund presents Rob Pruitt’s The Andy Monument, March 30 – October 2, 2011, at the northwest corner of Union Square. The monument to Andy Warhol, the father of Pop Art and one of New York’s enduring cultural icons is installed just outside the building that housed Warhol’s “Factory” for more than ten years in the 1970s and early 1980s, and just down the street from an earlier “Factory” site. “We are thrilled to be collaborating with Rob, whose work has exactly the spirit of generosity and engagement that lends itself so well to public art,” said Nicholas Baume, Public Art Fund Director and Chief Curator. “Inspired by Warhol and his story, Rob moved to New York as a young man and even met Warhol when he visited the ‘Factory’ to interview for a job. Rob’s memory of the artist that day formed the vision for this sculpture, and I ... More | | $24 Million Donation Secures Francisco de Zurbaran Works for the United Kingdom
Auckland Castle has been the home to the Bishops of Durham for more than 800 years and is still the bishop's official residence today. Photo: Pit-yacker/wikipedia.org
LONDON (REUTERS).- A series of portraits by 17th century Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbaran hanging in Auckland Castle, northeast England, have been saved from the auction block by a 15 million pound ($24 million) donation. Investment manager Jonathan Ruffer made the donation through a new charitable trust set up to benefit people in the region. It means the Church Commissioners, who manage an investment portfolio of some 5 billion pounds for the Church of England, will not be forced a sell the series of portraits of Jacob and his sons, a proposal which had drawn widespread criticism. Auckland Castle has been the home to the Bishops of Durham for more than 800 years and is still the bishop's official residence today. It opens to the public for several months a year, and under new plans revealed on Thursday the Church Commissioners are discussing ways to increase public access to the site. Among its star attar ... More | | Christie's in London to Sell Portrait by British Artist Lucian Freud, Eye on Russian Market
Lucian Freud, Woman Smiling, oil on canvas, 28 x 22in. (71 x 55.8 cm.) Executed in 1958-59. Estimate: £3.5 million to £4.5 million. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
LONDON (REUTERS).- Christie's auctioneers will offer a portrait by Lucian Freud which it described as "seminal" in the career of the British artist at a sale in London on June 28. "Woman Smiling," painted in 1958/9, is the only single portrait Freud made of Suzy Boyt, the woman who mothered five of his children. The painting, identified by experts as the turning point in the 88-year-old artist's career from flatness to thick brush strokes and swathes of impasto, is expected to fetch 3.5-4.5 million pounds ($4.5-7.2 million). The work will be shown at an exhibition in Moscow on April 2 and 3 which the auctioneer said would be the first "significant" exhibition of works by Freud in Russia. It may also be targeting wealthy Russian art collectors who, along with the Chinese, have helped drive art market prices sharply higher in recent years. It is widely reported, but not officially confirmed, that Russian billionaire Roman Abra ... More |
 | Green Auction at Christie's Raises More than $1 Million to Benefit Environmental Causes
Diane Kruger attends the Green Auction: A Bid to Save the Earth at Christie's in New York, Tuesday, March 29, 2011. AP Photo/Charles Sykes.
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- A green auction at Christie's to benefit the environment raised $1.4 million, with bidders paying $100,000 for a trip to the hottest Oscars parties or a day with former President Bill Clinton. Proceeds from the second Green Auction: Bid to Save the Earth were earmarked for Conservation International, Oceana, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and The Central Park Conservancy. Christie's Chairman Ed Dolman said the funds "will support these venerable environmental organizations in conducting research and generating projects that will yield groundbreaking results for the present and future generations." The Bid to Save the Earth initiative plans to raise more funds in an online auction on charitybuzz.com that ends on April 7, and from sales of the Runway to Green pro-environment fashion world initiative fashion show. Items for sale in the silent auction include luxury travel packages, Fendi bags cust ... More | | Pictures, Letters, and Case Files of Martin Luther King Assassin Shown in Online Museum
James Earl Ray is being patted down in Memphis, Tennessee. REUTERS/Shelby County Register of Deeds.
By: Tim Ghianni
NASHVILLE, TN (REUTERS).- A Memphis county official has opened an online museum of case files, personal correspondence and little-seen black-and-white images chronicling the jail time of James Earl Ray, who killed civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. 43 years ago this Monday. "This is not just an incredible part of Shelby County history and Tennessee history, but national and world history," said Tom Leatherwood, 54, Shelby County register of deeds. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down by Ray at the city's Lorraine Motel, sparking unrest across the country and an international manhunt for the killer. The "museum" can be visited at register.shelby.tn.us. Scroll down below the "archives" section to find the "Martin Luther King Assassination Investigation" link, highlighted in ... More | | DogCatMouse at the Kunsthaus Zürich. Exhibition and Summer Workshop
Max Ernst, Les cages sont toujours imaginaires, 1925. Gouache on plaster, on mahogany; beech wood with copper bars, 45 x 26,5 x 5 cm. Kunsthaus Zürich, gift of Marietta von Meyenburg © 2011 ProLitteris, Zurich.
ZURICH.- From 1 April to 31 July 2011 everything is going to be beastly good fun at the Kunsthaus! For a long time, animals were a fixture of human life, and played a central role in art as well. Indeed, animals are considered one of the very first subjects of visual representation. Now, one hundred paintings, sculptures, photographs and videos from the Kunsthaus collection have been assembled into an exhibition, while a summer workshop invites visitors to participate in studio sessions, guided tours and excursions organized by the Kunsthaus and held in collaboration with the Zurich Zoo, the Museum Rietberg and other institutions. The holdings of the Kunsthaus Zürich include several hundred images of animals. Curator Sibyl Kraft and Art Education head Hans Ruedi Weber have selected one hundred feathered, furred or scaly subjects ... More |
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Mickey Mouse Poster Brings $35,000+ to Lead Movie Poster Event at Heritage Auctions
This Mickey Mouse poster brought $35,850. (detail)
DALLAS, TX.- A stunning never-before-auctioned 1932 Mickey Mouse three sheet stock poster from United Artists, scarcely four years removed from Mickey's creation by Walt Disney, brought $35,850 from a determined bidder on Saturday, March 26, to lead Heritage Auctions' $1,500,950 Signature(r) Vintage Movie Poster Auction. "Overall we're very pleased with the results," said Grey Smith, Director of Vintage Movie Posters at Heritage. "We've seen prices realized on the top examples steadily rising over the last few months and holding strong the deeper you go into the catalog." The auction realized a more than 86% sell through rate by value on 1,258 lots with 1,249 bidders competing for the offerings. The second spot on the auction podium went to a 1953 Paramount Style B half sheet from The War of the Worlds, one of the most iconic of the genre, and certainly the most elusive, when it realized an impressive $31,070. Close on its heels wa ... More | | Exhibition Devoted to the Work Made in the '70s by Elizabeth Murray at the Pace Gallery
Elizabeth Murray, Twist of Fate, December, 1979, oil on canvas, 56-1/4 x 54-1/4" (142.9 x 137.8 cm.) © The Murray-Holman Trust, courtesy The Pace Gallery. Photo by: Ellen Page Wilson/ Courtesy The Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Pace Gallery presents its eighth exhibition devoted to the work of Elizabeth Murray and the gallery’s first exhibition since Murray’s death in 2007. Elizabeth Murray: Painting in the ‘70s will feature thirty oil on canvas paintings created between 1970 and 1980, including important loans from the Detroit Institute of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Princeton University Art Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as three later paintings. The exhibition will be on view at The Pace Gallery, 534 West 25th Street, from March 31 through April 30, 2011. The gallery will remain open from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 7. Elizabeth Murray: Painting in the ‘70s is accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Robert Storr, Dean of the ... More | | A New Project by The Fourth Height Art Group at Pobeda Gallery in Moscow
Yawning out. Archival InkJet print. Edition 5 + 4AP, 65 x 65 cm. Photo: Courtesy Pobeda Gallery.
MOSCOW.- POBEDA Gallery presents a new project by The Fourth Height art group – The Crown. The group consists of three Russian artists: Dina Kim, Katya Kameneva and Gala Smirnskaya. Since the nineties it is reckoned as a part of Moscow conceptualist circle. Artists define their own style as “multicultural trash-dreaming” as their work reflect mass cul ture through irony and fantasy. Raising post-War and feminist issues through the aesthetics of fashion and the iconography of sex and femininity, The Fourth Height addresses the Soviet past and Capitalist present. Violence and aggression may mislead a viewer into a shallow reading, but the subjects raised go deeply into Russia’s history and folklore. The artists live and work in different countries and execute work quite rarely due to the research-based nature of their projects. Their best- known series’ The ... More |
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Icons of Photography: Treasures from the Karin and Lars Hall Collection Opens in Oslo
Preparation for the exhibition. Photo: Ole Jørgen Bratland, Statoil.
OSLO.- It is a great pleasure and honour for us to present such a unique collection of artists that have shaped the development of photography as an art form, says Jens R Jenssen, senior vice president of human resources and leader of the Statoil art programme. And he continues: This exhibition will make a difference. The exhibition consists of approximately 180 works of photography, spanning from the 1842 to 2002. With a unique collection of original Irving Penns as a basis, the diversity of the collection is presented in a wide number of small exhibitions within the main concept, says Arnt N Fredheim, curator, the Statoil art programme. It’s like a dream has come trough, he continues, as the possibility to make an exhibition of legendary photographers like William Henry Fox Talbot, Edward Weston, Karl Blossfeldt, Eugène Atget, August Sander, Alfred Stieglitz, ... More | | Exhibition of New Photographs by German Artist Andreas Gefeller at Hasted Kraeutler
Andreas Gefeller, Poles 08, Japan, 2010. Inkjet print 40 x 40" ed of 8. Photo: Courtesy Hasted Kraeutler.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hasted Kraeutler presents an exhibition of new photographs by Andreas Gefeller. This is Andreas’ third solo exhibition with Hasted Kraeutler, following Andreas Gefeller: Recent Work (2009) and Andreas Gefeller: Supervisions (2007). The Japan Series is a body of work that Gefeller created in March and early April 2010 in the “Tottori Prefecture of Japan for the European Eyes on Japan/Japan Today” photography project. During his time in Japan, Gefeller photographed the elaborate, aboveground power cables that are ubiquitous in the prefecture. When photographing the cables, his perspective was from below, against a white or black sky, as though he was isolating them in a studio. For each work he digitally assembled at least two viewpoints so that the pole disappears and the cables and transformers float in the composition and become abstract. ... More | | Malaysia Christians to Preserve Five Thousand Bibles 'Defaced' Defaced by Authorities
A copy of Malay-language Bible sits on a table in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin.
By: Julia Zappei, Associated Press
KUALA LUMPUR (AP).- Five thousand Bibles that were defaced by authorities will be preserved as "museum pieces" at Malaysian churches, a reminder of problems encountered by Christians in this Muslim-majority country, officials said Thursday. The announcement is the latest twist in a dispute between Christians and the government over tens of thousands of imported Bibles seized by Malaysian customs authorities, some since early 2009. The books violate a government ban on non-Muslim texts that use the word "Allah" as a translation for God. After Christian leaders voiced anger over the detention of the Bibles, the government agreed earlier this month to release them, but stamped many with serial numbers and government seals that stated they were meant "for ... More |
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 Celia, the Most Beautiful Boy in the World (and Percy) Star in Bonhams Hockney SaleLONDON.- A rare signed proof copy of David Hockney’s lithograph ‘An Image of Celia’ in the original frame hand painted by the artist is the star item in sale dedicated to Hockney’s work at Bonhams on 20 April. Dating from the mid-1980s, the Picasso-like image of Hockney’s close friend, the textile designer Celia Birtwell, is estimated at between £60,000- 80,000. It leads a sale which covers the whole spectrum of Hockney’s output and techniques from the early ‘Fires of Furious Desire - The Most Beautiful Boy in the World’ of 1963 (£4,000-6,000) to his ‘Lithograph of Water’ from the late 1970s (315,000-20,000); three huge and stunning variations of ‘Hotel Acatlan’ executed in the mid 1980 (estimates range from £15,000- 30,000) and ‘Winter Road near Kilham’an Inkjet printed computer drawing from 2008 (£10,000-15,000). A particularly appealing work is ... More The Contemporary Jewish Museum Presents Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre?SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- In the early years of World War II, Charlotte Salomon, a 23-year-old Jewish artist from Berlin, fled to the south of France where she shut herself into a hotel room and spent two years feverishly painting the history of her life. She called it Life? or Theatre?: A Play With Music, an astounding body of over 1300 powerfully drawn and expressively colored gouache paintings conceived as a sort of autobiographical operetta on paper. On one numbered page after another, Salomon used an inventive mixture of images, dialogue, commentary and musical cues to tell a compelling coming-of-age story set amidst family suicides and increasing Nazi oppression. This singular creation would be Salomon’s only major work. Just one year after she completed Life? or Theatre?, the pregnant 26-year-old was transported to Auschwitz and killed. This spring, the Contemporary Jewish Museum will be the only museum ... More The Studio Museum in Harlem Opens Spring Exhibitions with Stephen Burks: Man MadeNEW YORK, N.Y.- Studio Museum in Harlem presents Stephen Burks: Man Made, a unique project that furthers industrial designer Stephen Burks’s ongoing exploration of the global economy of artisanal craft. On view from March 31 through June 26, 2011. Inspired by Burks’s collaboration with Senegalese basket weavers based in New York and Dakar, as well as projects with artisans in South Africa, Peru and India, Man Made starts with the traditional basket-weaving process as its core concept. During the exhibition, the Museum’s galleries are transformed into a workshop where New York-based weavers and artisans create a series of functional and experimental objects and installations conceived by Burks. The exhibition also includes photographic and video documentation of Burks’s travels, as well as his own drawings and prototypes, so that audiences can experience the entire design process from inspiration to com ... More The Paul Mellon Estate Pledges $250,000 Towards the Restoration of the State Music Room at Stowe HouseBUCKINGHAM.- Through World Monuments Fund (WMF), The Paul Mellon Estate has announced a pledge of $250,000 towards the restoration of the State Music Room at Stowe House, the magnificent Grade I listed Neo-Classical palace set in 400 acres of landscaped park in Buckinghamshire. The funding means that the work will begin this year and should be completed by 2012-13. WMF Britain’s Chief Executive Dr Jonathan Foyle said “The generous gift of The Paul Mellon Estate, along with donations from our members, trusts and foundations and others who responded to our recent Music Room Challenge, will allow one of the principal rooms of Stowe to be restored for everyone to enjoy. This magnificent response brings WMF’s £10 million fundraising challenge for Stowe to within £410,000 of its target – wonderfully positive news in these economically challenged times.” ... More Morris Museum Announces New Exhibition On the Head and In the Hand: 200 Years of Hats and Purses MORRISTOWN, NJ.- The Morris Museum unveiled its rich costume collection to present an exhibition of 87 hats and 52 purses representative of style eras from the 1770’s to the 1970’s. On the Head and In the Hand: 200 Years of Hats and Purses from the Morris Museum Collection opened on March 31 and is on view through September 25, 2011. Twenty Judith Leiber bags from a private collection will also be on view as of April 8, 2011. The museum’s Costume Curator, Elizabeth Laba, describes the exhibition as illustrating the changes in fashion, fine design and craftsmanship in both hats and purses over the last 200 years, which accompanied the changing role of women. Hats were a standard element of women’s attire until the late 20th century, when the social changes of the 1960’s led to more casual styles. The purses in the exhibition are smaller than today’s structured, larger bags, which became more p ... More Lisa Kim Announced as New Cultural Affairs Director at Two TreesBROOKLYN, N.Y.- Two Trees Management announce that Lisa Kim has been appointed as Cultural Affairs Director for the company. Kim, age 36, joins Two Trees from Gagosian Gallery where she has held several positions including director of operations and exhibitions, private collection manager for owner Larry Gagosian and managed construction of the Gallery’s 24th Street branch. She has also been the director of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art Program, a program that commissions artists to create site-specific, permanent public art works at City-owned sites. Kim will work out of Two Trees corporate headquarters in DUMBO, where she will produce the annual Dumbo Arts Festival in the fall , seek out partnerships for public art projects and creative incubators, oversee the cultural growth and promotion of the neighborhood, , and formalize the structure and mission of the Walentas Family Foundation. ... More The Greatest Collection of Porcelain Snuff Boxes Assembled in the 20th Century for Sale at BonhamsLONDON.- The most important collection of porcelain snuff boxes ever assembled is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, London on 5th July 2011. Comprising 80 boxes, the Helmut Joseph Collection gives a comprehensive overview of the history of European ceramics in snuff boxes, with examples from all major factories including Capodimonte, Meissen, Fulda and Sevres. These exceptional and exquisite objects were considered the pinnacle of refined 18th century court culture at its most luxurious and the collection has been exhibited in the world-renowned institutions of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (1972-2000), alongside the Gilbert Collection in Somerset House (2003-2008) and most recently at the Bowes Museum, Co. Durham. The entire collection is estimated to fetch £800,000-1,000,000. Prolonged exposure to air causes snuff to dry out and lose its quality, so pocket snuff boxes were designed to be airtight containers with stron ... More |
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