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A man looks at a sculpture, entitled Huehueteotl, dios del fuego (Huehueteotl, God of Fire), from between 600 and 900 AD, belonging to the ancient Maya civilization, on display in an exhibition, entitled Teotihuacan. Ciudad de los Dioses (Teotihuacan. City of the Gods), at the CaixaForum in Barcelona, Spain. The exhibition, presenting some 400 pieces from the Mayan city of Teotihuacan, runs until 19 June. EPA/MARTA PEREZ.
BARCELONA.- Teotihuacan, City of the Gods, the most complete exhibition ever devoted to Teotihuacan culture recently opened at Caixaforum Barcelona. The objective behind the exhibitions that “la Caixa” Foundation has devoted in recent years to the great cultures of the past is to illustrate how men and women in different places and times have attempted to answer the great universal questions, and to increase our understanding of the world by showcasing the most recent historic and archaeological research. To this end, such exhibitions as those devoted to the Steppe Route, Afghanistan, Nubia, the Persian Empire and treasures from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have all served to underline the links between the ancient and modern worlds, and to present culture as a means of understanding and communication between peoples. This is not the first time that an exhibition at ”la Caixa” Foundation has focused on ancient Mexican cultures; having previously showcased Life ... More |
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Exhibition of New Paintings by the Renowned Colorist Ron Ehrlich at Stephen Haller Gallery
Ron Ehrlich, Pancho, 2011. Oil, mixed media on panel, 96 x 96 in. Photo: Courtesy Stephen Haller Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY- Stephen Haller Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by the renowned colorist Ron Ehrlich. With a rare level of skill and a complex methodology Ehrlich tackles his paintings with a contrasting muscularity and intellectual vigor. Ehrlich’s provocative and intense personality is evident in the vitality of his painting. Best known as a pyrotechnical colorist wielding a blowtorch among other techniques, Ehrlich sees this new series of paintings as a natural evolution. He says he has always wanted to create a metaphor for freedom, and this series is an attempt to get rid of more constraints – to “blow off the edges of the work.” However he still uses the formality of a contrasting line at the top of the paintings satisfying the need for a sense of resolution. Applying the paint in larger sweeping gestures, Ehrlich brings his work to another level in the process. Yet he is ... More | | Nazi Warplane, Thought to Be World's Last Known Example, Lying Off UK Coast is Intact
A World War Two era German Dornier 17 bomber is seen using high-tech sonar equipment. REUTERS/Royal Air Force Museum London.
By: Stefano Ambrogi
LONDON (REUTERS).- A rare World War Two German bomber, shot down over the English Channel in 1940 and hidden for years by shifting sands at the bottom of the sea, is so well preserved a British museum wants to raise it. The Dornier 17 -- thought to be world's last known example -- was hit as it took part in the Battle of Britain. It ditched in the sea just off the Kent coast, southeast England, in an area known as the Goodwin Sands. The plane came to rest upside-down in 50 feet of water and has become partially visible from time to time as the sands retreated before being buried again. Now a high-tech sonar survey undertaken by the Port of London Authority (PLA) has revealed the aircraft to be in a startling state of preservation ... More | | Exhibition in Houston Explores the Five Senses Through Works by Masters
Parrasio Micheli, Young Woman Playing a Lute, c. 1570. Oil on canvas. Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation.
HOUSTON, TX- Picturing the Senses in European Art, organized by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, explores artists’ interest in evoking the five senses through both allegorical and realistic associations. The exhibition of 16th-, 17th- and 18th-century paintings and works on paper is drawn largely from the permanent collections of the Blaffer Foundation and the MFAH, and offers an opportunity to see some significant works that are not often on display while viewing others in a fresh context. The theme of Picturing the Senses is simple and accessible, yet rooted in classical philosophy and art-historical tradition. “Picturing the Senses includes and reaches beyond the traditional scenes and cycles of the senses,” says Leslie Scattone, assistant curator of the Blaffer Foundation, “and covers a variety of subjects that ... More |
 | Carnegie Museum of Art Presents Hand Made: Contemporary Craft in Ceramic, Glass, and Wood
Melvyn Firmager, Sea Flower, c. 1997. Ebonized eucalyptus gunnii. Carnegie Museum of Art, Gift of Doris and Harry Wolin. Photo: Tom Little.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art opened of the Balcony Gallery. Formerly known as the Treasure Room, this newly renovated exhibition space located off of the Hall of Sculpture balcony showcases the museum’s rich and diverse collection of decorative arts objects, with an emphasis on Modernist and contemporary design and craft. The Balcony Gallery opens with the inaugural exhibition Hand Made: Contemporary Craft in Ceramic, Glass, and Wood, focusing on the materials, forms, and techniques used in the 20th and 21st centuries to create stunning handmade objects inspired by functional traditions. Many of the works on display reflect the strength of the museum’s permanent collection of American craft. Also debuting in the Balcony Gallery (and simultaneously in nearby galleries) are more than 30 recent acquisitions in contemporary craft and nearly two dozen major promised gifts from the collection of ... More | | Christie's to Offer a Beautiful Rectangular-Cut Diamond Ring Owned by Gloria Swanson
This ring belonged to Gloria Swanson. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
PARIS.- Christie’s Jewels Department will offer a beautiful rectangular-cut diamond ring weighing 5.1 carats (estimate: €70,000-100,000) in Paris on May 23rd. This ring belonged to Gloria Swanson, the American actress, who was a superstar of the silent movies and critically acclaimed for her role in the Hollywood classic Sunset Boulevard (1950). By the mid-1920s Swanson was the highest paid actress in Hollywood. It was reported that she made and spent over $8 million in the alone. Her studio contract required her to wear the latest clothes and jewelry whenever she appeared in public, at her own expense. Gloria’s personal taste in jewelry was so extravagant that she hardly needed this directive; it is believed that her annual jewelry budget was $500,000. Sometimes credited with starting the fashion for wearing colorful jewelry, she wore an important emeralds, amethyst and gold necklace by Paul Iribe in the movi ... More | | Andy Hope's First Solo Exhibition in Spain at Contemporary Art Centre of Málaga
German artist Andy Hope 1930 (born Andreas Hofer) poses for the media during the opening of his exhibition entitled 'Robin Dostoyevsky by Andy Hope' at Contemporary Art Centre of Malaga. EPA/DANIEL PEREZ.
MALAGA.- The Contemporary Art Centre of Málaga is presenting Robin Dostoyevsky by Andy Hope 1930, the first solo exhibition in Spain on one of Germany’s most internationally celebrated artists. Nine, large-format works and a sculptural piece, all produced between 2010 and 2011 and never previously exhibited, comprise the contents of this exhibition by Andy Hope 1930, on display in the Centre’s Espacio 2. The eclectic repertoire of characters, symbols and icons that characterise the work of an artist devoted to comics and science fiction is evident in the exhibition’s title, which is an imaginary fusion of Robin, the companion of Batman’s comic-book adventures, and the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the forerunner of Existentialism. Through this disconcerting combination, Andy Hope 1930 reveals ... More |
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The Philadelphia Antiques Show: Nation's Premier Antiques Show Turns 50
Barry Featherston with Peter Pap Oriental Rugs. Inc. of San Francisco & Dublin, N.H., hangs a rug. AP Photo/Matt Rourke.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Widely recognized as the premier American antiques and decorative arts show in the country, The Philadelphia Antiques Show has a lot to celebrate in 2011. Since its inception in 1962, the Show has raised more than $17 million to help further innovative programs with a direct impact on patient care and has been a major fundraiser for Penn Medicine. The 2011 Philadelphia Antiques Show, presented by Drexel Morgan & Company, the parent company of the Show's six year-running title sponsor, The Haverford Trust Company, is expected to raise nearly $1 million to benefit Penn Medicine. The 2011 Philadelphia Antiques Show will be held Friday, April 8 through Tuesday, April 12, 2011, at The Navy Yard, Philadelphia Cruise Terminal at Pier One. This year, proceeds will support development of the Penn Ovarian Cancer Research Center. Led by founder Ali Brown, the show premiered on April 24, 1962 as ... More | | Celebrated British Artist Russell Young Exhibits "American Envy" at Scream Gallery
Russell Young, Marilyn Desire (detail). Courtesy Scream Gallery. ©Russell Young.
LONDON.- "American Envy" is the third exhibition at Scream of celebrated British artist Russell Young, and it follows his sell out show 'Dirty Pretty Things' in 2010. Young made his mark with a graphic, bold style, and his iconic diamond-dust screen prints are sought after by collectors all over the world. He finds inspiration in popular culture and the media, and his signature screen prints have immortalized iconic actors and performers from stage and screen, as well as some of the darker events of our subculture. This new body of work is influenced by a far more personal experience, which has had a deep impact on his approach to life and his art. In February 2010 he had a near death experience, and was in an 8-day long induced coma. The recovery period shed a new light on the therapeutic powers of art, and he had to learn to breath, write, walk and create all over again. Young's 'American Envy' series is his latest ex ... More | | Body Conscious: Alice Channer's Second Solo Show Opens at The Approach
Installation view of Alice Channer's exhibition at The Approach. Photo: Courtesy The Approach.
LONDON.- In Body Conscious, Alice Channer’s second solo show at The Approach, the focus of her work has moved away from the body of the room, to the human bodies it is in the room with. The body itself is never represented, instead, a conscious human body is everywhere that the work is not. The body that the works bring about is neither solid and central, or immediate and primal. Instead, it is mediated and extended by technology and commodified. Both of these factors explode and expand it, as well as contracting and concentrating it. The works consider the way in which the artists’ sensory apparatus - her tools as an artist - are mediated by consumption and technology. The large-scale hanging fabric work, Tight Skin uses a digital printing process to create stretched images of clothing prints taken from the bodies of amphibians. The works were made using a stretch snake print Primark vest and a stretch lizard ... More |
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Benrimon Contemporary Presents Changha Hwang's First Solo Exhibition with the Gallery
Changha Hwang, A Three-Fold, 2010-2011 (detail). Acrylic on cotton canvas, 25 x 28 in. Courtesy of the artist and Benrimon Contemporary.
NEW YORK, NY- Benrimon Contemporary presents Three-Fold, Changha Hwang’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Hwang creates abstract paintings that deal with spatial and temporal notions of painting. The artist’s main concern is the relationship between the "Controlled" and the "Uncontrolled" in the process of composing color, line and shape in painting. Hwang is fascinated by the tension that is created by this relationship. Though many see digital influences in his works, Hwang’s points of reference are Islamic tiles, traditional Jewish paper cuts, Venetian lace, stained glass windows and Peruvian Nazca Lines. He studied several different visual languages, such as trace paintings and drip paintings and found that a compilation of these styles helped him find his own visual language. This unique visual language and Hwang’s various reference materials allow him to create three-dimensional space wit ... More | | AudioCompass and imagineear Create the First Ever Audio Visual Guide to the Taj Mahal
The Taj Mahal was brought to sparking life as never before with a personal guided multimedia tour available at the site itself.
LONDON.- AudioCompass, a division of Ras Maestros Technology of Mumbai, and imagineear of London have worked together to deliver the first ever audio visual guide to one of the wonders of the world: the Taj Mahal, on the mediaPacker™ platform. For almost 400 years since Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan built a mausoleum on the banks of the Yamuna River in Agra in memory of his young wife Mumtaz Mahal, visitors have been fascinated and awed by the scale, the opulence and the sheer beauty of the Taj Mahal. From March, the site was brought to sparking life as never before with a personal guided multimedia tour available at the site itself. AudioCompass, a leading Indian tourism and cultural interpretation services provider, has worked with the Archaeological Survey of India, script-writers, translators, studios and producers, together with their experienced London partner imagineear, to create the perfect visitor experience. I ... More | | Russian Communist-Era Art Form, which Emerged in the 1920s, Withers Away
Artist Natalya Buldakova shows her tempera painting on a varnished box in Palekh. AP Photo/Misha Japaridze.
By: Mansur Mirovalev, Associated Press
PALEKH, RUSSIA (AP)- A squirrel tail. Wolf teeth. Sheets of gold. Flax oil. These are the things Vladimir Buldakov uses to work a feat of modern-day alchemy: transforming an ordinary papier-mache box into a gilded miniature masterpiece that will tell the story of saints or heroes, fairies or dragons. Buldakov comes from Palekh, a 700-year-old Russian village where a church's lavender onion-domes overlook snow-clad houses, a frozen river and a distant birch forest. The town is famous for its beauty, but the rare outsiders who visit come for the varnished boxes that bear its name. Now, the unique art form, which emerged in the 1920s after the atheist Bolsheviks approved a new medium in which masters of religious icon paintings could use their talents, is struggling to find a reason to exist in capitalist society. If it disappears entirely, its stunted lifespan will bear vivid testament ... More |
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 Extraordinary Example of 19th Century Naturalism Offered in Bonhams Fine Jewellery SaleLONDON- A pink sapphire and diamond flower brooch, circa 1900, realistically modelled as a cyclamen is one of the highlights of the Fine Jewellery Sale held on the 13th April at Bonhams, New Bond Street. The brooch, from a private collection, is estimated to sell for £30,000 – 40,000. The centre of the delicate brooch is set with calibre-cut sapphires, ranging in hue from deep crimson to pale pink, the tips of the unfurling petals set with old brilliant-cut diamonds. The curving stem is also set with similarly cut diamonds. During the 19th century, new and interesting plant species were introduced and spread throughout Europe. As a result, naturalistic themes began to develop in the decorative arts, where knowledge and interest in flowers was both fashionable and academic. The stunning brooch offered by Bonhams is a fantastic example of its type. The craftsman who created this brooch has created a sparkling, tactile and l ... More Recent Paintings and Sculptures by Glenn Brown at Galerie Max HetzlerBERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler Temporary in Berlin-Charlottenburg presents an exhibition of British artist Glenn Brown featuring recent paintings and sculptures. Within a traditional genre Glenn Brown developed a unique approach. His subjects as well as the colours he selects are sourced from paintings of great masters of different periods such as Fragonard, Menzel, Van Gogh, among others, while his highly individual technique that utilizes extremely thin brushes leaves the surface of the painting as flat as a photograph. The exhibition will include portraits, still-lifes, female figures, a large painting of a horse head and sculptures made out of oil splashes in a very abstract manner. Glenn Brown's paintings are simply spectacular. Their original subject, the technique he uses with such virtuosity along his lively dialogue with art history makes him one of the most interesting figures among today's painters. Glenn Brown was ... More First Solo Exhibition in the U.S. of the Indonesian Painter, Nyoman Masriadi at Paul Kasmin GalleryNEW YORK, NY- Paul Kasmin Gallery presents the first solo exhibition in the United States of the celebrated Indonesian painter, Nyoman Masriadi. On view at the gallery’s 293 Tenth Avenue space, this is Masriadi’s first large-scale exhibition since his 2008 survey show at the Singapore Art Museum. Masriadi’s paintings frequently depict superhuman figures whose narratives, while rooted in Indonesian cultural history, offer witty and often biting social commentary on contemporary life and global pop culture. Through his expert control of light, shadow and volume, Masriadi endows these monumental characters with a sculptural, almost three-dimensional presence. Sometimes these characters appear in the archetypal roles of comic book heroes, cowboys, soldiers and athletes, but just as frequently, they are simply powerfully built men and women engaged in solitary acts of strength or captured in private moments ... More Saint Louis Art Museum Announces Opening of Currents 105: Ian MonroeST. LOUIS, MO- The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the opening of Currents 105: Ian Monroe, an exhibition featuring a new body of work by the London-based artist and Washington University in St. Louis graduate. Through collage and sculpture, Monroe explores a crucial moment in both St. Louis and aviation history. Inspired by the architecture of Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, Monroe revisits the story of its iconic terminal designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki, best known for his design of the World Trade Center and its twin towers. Opening to great acclaim in 1956, this innovative building transformed the landscape of postwar airport design, as it successfully formalized the concept of flight through the architecture itself. Monroe presents a series of figurative collages based on archival photographs and a large-scale collaged panel depicting a jet engine and a distant view of Lambert's undulating ... More New York City to Celebrate Cuban Culture with Contemporary Cuban Art ExhibitionNEW YORK, NY.- Cuban Visions is a contemporary Cuban art exhibition that will open to the public from May 27 through June 1, 2011 during a citywide celebration of the Cuban culture in New York City. Cuban Visions aims to present Cuban culture and reality through contemporary art that transcends political differences, updates cultural traditions, and deconstructs historical narratives to create new dialogue between prominent Cuban artists and Americans interested in a deeper understanding of Cuban life. Cuban Visions has invited 26 contemporary Cuban artists to be part of the exhibition and sale. There will more than 50 artworks including installation, photography, painting, video, sculpture, engraving, and drawing. Featured artists include: Juan Carlos Alom, Belkis Ayón, Luis Enrique Camejo, Raúl Cordero, Carlos Estévez, Antonio Eligio Fernández (Tonel), Adonis Flores, José Manuel Fors, José Emilio Fuentes, Aimee ... More Bodies Found from London's Old Bedlam HospitalBy: Stefano Ambrogi
LONDON (REUTERS).- Archaeologists have unearthed hundreds of skeletons at a 16th Century burial ground in the heart of the city that once served London's most notorious psychiatric hospital, the original "Bedlam." The bones are expected to yield valuable information about mortality, diet and disease in the period. They were discovered while experts surveyed a site that is destined to become a new ticket hall for the capital's huge Crossrail project at Liverpool Street Station. Opened in 1247, the Bethlehem Royal Hospital began admitting the mentally ill in the 14th Century, eventually becoming known by its middle-English abbreviation Bedlam. The name became synonymous with disorder and confusion and struck fear into the heart of Londoners. The horror of its conditions, were immortalized in a painting by William Hogarth in 1735. The picture is the last in a series of eight depicting "A Rake's Progress" -- a moral tale of a spendthrift young heir who squanders ... More |
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