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An employee views 'Whispering Wall II' by Burhan Dogancay at Sotheby's in central London. Estimated to sell at auction for between 120-180 thousand pounds sterling, the piece forms part of the London sale of contemporary Turkish art on April 7. REUTERS/Toby Melville.
LONDON.- Sotheby's London will be staging its annual London Sale of Contemporary Turkish Art on Thursday, April 7th, 2011. The auction will present 102 works by among the leading Modern and Contemporary Turkish artists, including Mubin Orhon, Burhan Dogancay and Taner Ceylan, in addition to artists new to the auction scene, such as Onur Gulfidan, Erdem Ergaz, Yasam Sasmazer and Mehmet Ali Uysal. The auction carries an estimate of £2,087,000-3,000,000. Whispering Wall II is an exceptionally rare work by Burhan Dogançay, which he executed in 1985. In the early 1960s Dogançay turned his attention to the urban walls which bore witness to the emotions and opinions of the people during a time of drastic political and social changes. With his Ribbons series, this time he looked upon his own cultural roots and his Eastern background and Western life which came together to create this striking new series. The ribbons painted in bright ... More |
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LACMA Presents First Ever Thematic Exhibition of Renowned American Sculptor David Smith
David Smith, Three Planes, 1960-61. Painted Steel, 90 1/4 x 15 1/8 x 16 1/2 in. Museo Tamayo Art Contemporaneo, Mexico City. © Estate of David Smith/VAGA, New York.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy, the first major thematic exhibition devoted to the renowned twentieth-century American sculptor David Smith (1906-65). Organized by LACMA, the exhibition brings together over 100 works, including the largest grouping of Smith‘s monumental Cubis and Zigs brought together in more than twenty-five years. Cubes and Anarchy, for the first time, places these acknowledged masterpieces in context with his earlier works. The show reveals Smith as a sculptor whose identification with the working class motivated him to adopt the geometric forms of the constructivist avant-garde (modernist artists who used hardedged geometries to express utopian optimism) from the very first years of his career in the 1930s until his untimely death in 1965. Cubes and Anarchy includes sculptures, drawings, paintings, ... More | | One Hundred Masterpieces from the Städel Museum at Rome's Palazzo delle Esposizioni
Max Beckmann, Doppio ritratto, 1923, olio su tela, 80,3 x 65 cm. Städel Museum, Francoforte. Acquisita nel 1924 come dono dell'artista.
ROME.- The exhibition presents, for the first time in Italy, a selection of works from the collection of the internationally renowned museum of Frankfurt, founded in 1815 through a bequest by merchant and banker Johann Friedrich Städel (1728-1816) and among Europe’s richest and most prized collections of ancient and modern art, besides being a unique foundation for the time in which it was instituted. The already vast original collection has since been constantly added to with further acquisitions, both of old masters and of the so-called “mobile present” pieces of contemporary art bought over the years. In 1878 the collection was moved from its original location in Städel’s former home in the old town centre of Frankfurt to a grandiose new building on the opposite bank of the Main, where it is still housed today and which is currently undergoing an ambitions programme of restoration and enlargement. The Städel Museum now comprises over 100,000 works that co ... More | | China Blocks Well-Known Artist Ai Weiwei from Boarding Plane to Hong Kong
File photo of Ai Weiwei arriving at the Wenyuhe court to support fellow artist Wu Yuren during his trial in Beijing. AP Photo/Andy Wong.
By: Alexa Olesen, Associated Press
BEIJING (AP).- China blocked one of its most famous contemporary artists from taking a flight to Hong Kong on Sunday and police later raided his Beijing studio, the man's assistant said. The artist, Ai Weiwei, is an outspoken government critic and has been barred from going abroad before. China has launched a massive crackdown on lawyers, writers and activists, arresting and detaining dozens since February when online calls for protests similar to those in the Middle East and North Africa began to circulate. Ai has been keeping an informal tally of those detentions on Twitter, where he has more than 70,000 followers. The studio assistant, who asked not to be identified by name, said Ai was going through customs at the Beijing Capital International Airport early Sunday when two officials escorted him away, leaving a traveling companion to board the flight alone. ... More |
 | Sculpture Made from Speed Bags & Five Miles of Cable Aims to Be Ultimate Tribute to Muhammad Ali
Michael Kalish is an internationally acclaimed artist and sculptor who has a natural ability to transform ordinary objects into extraordinary works of art.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Internationally acclaimed artist and sculptor Michael Kalish unveiled reALIze, a new conceptual and thought-provoking monument to honor the legacy of Muhammad Ali. The massive, one-of-a-kind installation made its worldwide debut at Nokia Plaza L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles in March and remains on display until April 9, 2011. reALIze is the result of a three-year creative journey that began when Lonnie Ali, and her husband Muhammad, watched a television segment about Kalish’s pop-art license plate style. Intrigued by his work, Mrs. Ali reached out to Kalish, which led to the artist creating a piece for the Ali family. That first sculpture led to a lasting relationship between Kalish and the Alis and ultimately inspired reALIze, an installation created to be as mythical as the boxer himself. Conceptualized by Michael Kalish and designed by Kalish and architectural firm Oyler Wu Collaborative, reALIze’s effect ... More | | Vancouver Art Gallery Looks Anew at New Media by Three Remarkable Artists
Jim Campbell, Running Falling Cut, 2001, custom electronics, 768 LEDs. Collection of Nancy and Joachim Bechtle. Made with the financial assistance of The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology. Photo: Sarah Christianson.
VANCOUVER, BC.- Although living in different places and moments in time, three remarkable artists -- Jim Campbell, Chris Marker and Eadweard Muybridge - are joined by their passion for exploring complex ideas through the new media of their eras. Opening on April 2nd, Walking + Falling: Jim Campbell, Chris Marker and Eadweard Muybridge presents explorations of the concepts of movement, time and memory. In juxtaposing the work of these artists, the exhibition gives viewers the opportunity to reflect on the evolution of photo-based contemporary art and the very idea of ‘new’ media. Each of the artists in Walking + Falling is a revolutionary in his own medium, in his own time. Considered a pioneer of digital art, Jim Campbell (b. 1956) is a contemporary artist based in San Francisco . Trained in engineering and mathematics ... More | | Corrugated Fountain: A New Sculptural Installation by James Grashow at Allan Stone Gallery
James Grashow, Corrugated Fountain, 2010, cardboard, 12 x 30 x 18 feet. Photo: Courtesy Allan Stone Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Allan Stone Gallery presents Corrugated Fountain a new sculptural installation by James Grashow, on view through April 23, 2011. Grashow’s epic sculpture recalls the Trevi fountain in Rome. Steeped in classical mythology, the room-sized installation is complete with a mammoth sculpture of Neptune, Tritons, rocks, waves, fish and dolphins. An homage to the achievements of classical and baroque artistry, Grashow uses his signature cardboard material to breath playful new light into old stone. Perhaps his most ambitious project yet, Corrugated Fountain took the artist 3 years to complete. According to the artist, “Corrugated board is a material that understands its mortality, it knows that it’s destined for trash. It is bonded to the human experience. They say that 85% of everything on the planet has spent part of its life in a cardboard box. Corrugated board and us have a shared destin ... More |
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Seventy-Two Years After the Nazis Arrived, Restored Renaissance Synagogue to Reopen in Poland
Workers perform final finishing touches to restoration works to the synagogue in Zamosc, Poland. AP Photo/Vanessa Gera.
By: Vanessa Gera, Associated Press
ZAMOSC (AP).- Seventy-two years after the Nazis arrived, the Polish town of Zamosc is getting its synagogue back. One of the most important surviving synagogues in Poland, a Renaissance gem looted by the Nazis and suffering from decades of neglect, is reopening this week after a meticulous restoration, part of an effort to reclaim the country's decimated Jewish heritage. The refurbishing of the synagogue in Zamosc, an eastern Polish town near the border with Ukraine, comes as Poland's tiny remaining Jewish community is struggling to preserve some of the most important Jewish sites that survived the Holocaust before they fall into irreversible decay. But in a sign of how thorough Adolf Hitler's genocide was, there are almost no Jews left in the town. The cream-colored house of prayer will now serve ... More | | Film Clips that Established the Reputation of American Artist Bruce Conner at Kunsthalle Zurich
Bruce Conner, still from Crossroads, 1976 © The Conner Family Trust, San Francisco, VBK, Wien, 2010.
ZURICH.- To an alternately rousing and poignant soundtrack, Indians chase a stagecoach and a tightrope walker balances on a wire above a city – these images feature in the found footage masterpiece A MOVIE (1958), an assemblage of newsreel images and film clips that established the reputation of American artist Bruce Conner (1933–2008). Today, Conner is viewed as one of the pioneers of the music video. Based on his experimental films, he is also mentioned in the same breath as Stan Brakhage, Jack Smith, Jonas Mekas and Andy Warhol as part of the avant-garde of independent American filmmaking. Diversity is the hallmark of Conner’s work and it is also reflected in his multiple careers and manifold identities. Drawings, collages, sculptures, assemblages, paintings, prints, photographs and films are just as much a part of his oeuvre as his conceptual, ephemeral, destroyed and lost – “invisible” – works. Conner explored topics like identity, biogra ... More | | Classical Art Returns to VMFA: Expanded Gallery Reopens with a New Installation
Statue of Caligula. Roman, A.D. 38-40. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Fund.Photo: Katherine Wetzel © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
RICHMOND, VA.- After being off view for more than five years, the Virginia Museum of Fine Art’s Classical Art gallery has reopened to the public in an expanded space with an all-new installation. “It is incredibly exciting to see this gallery come together,” VMFA Director Alex Nyerges said, “and stunning to realize how much effort and how many people it requires to make something like this happen.” The new installations of Greek, Etruscan and Roman art emphasize themes that encourage visitors to engage with the art and explore both ancient cultures and our own culture. No longer sharing a gallery with Egyptian art (which will reopen later this year), visitors can explore topics such as ancient warfare, sport, the importance of theatre and the variety of ways women were portrayed in ancient art. The larger gallery space also allows visitors to more easily ... More |
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Chinese Contemporary Primary Market Confidence Indicator Rose Whopping 28% Since September
File photo of Chinese artist's Ling Jian exhibition entitled Moon in Glass in Beijing, China. EPA/HOW HWEE YOUNG.
NEW YORK, NY.- ArtTactic’s newest survey of the Chinese contemporary art market reflects what many in the art world have suspected over the past six months: the confidence of Chinese collectors in contemporary art has now made China the “most confident” art market in the world. According to ArtTactic’s overall Chinese Contemporary Art Market Confidence Indicator, confidence rose 12 percent since September 2010, with the Chinese Contemporary Primary Market Confidence Indicator rising a full 28 percent in the same amount of time. This, according to ArtTactic, has seen China surpass the American, European and Indian art markets to become the world’s top market in terms of Market Confidence. Currently, ArtTactic places China 21 percent above the US & European market Confidence Indicator, and 34 percent above the Indian Confidence Indicator. As the survey notes, confidence in the Chinese contemporary art market has recovered quickly since February 2009, with ... More | | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Returns Tapestry Room to Its Original Glory and Configuration
Tapestry Room, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Photo by T. E. Marr and Son, 1926.
BOSTON, MA.- For the first time since it opened in 1914, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's 4,000-square-foot Tapestry Room is being restored to its original glory and will once again take its place as one of the nation's great tapestry halls. The restoration of this beloved space will return the Tapestry Room to its original configuration for the first time since a temporary stage, chairs, and other modern elements were added to accommodate formal concerts in the early 1970s. Historically, the Tapestry Room has been both a gallery and home to many of the museum's programs, including the popular Sunday Concert Series. Now, as part of the Gardner Museum's Extension and Preservation Project, the museum's world-class concerts will be relocated to an intimate new performance hall in the Renzo Piano-designed addition, and the Gardner will be able to restore the space to its historic appearance, enabling visitors to see and enjoy t ... More | | Gallery and Historic Houses Unite to Celebrate Great Portraits from Victorian and Edwardian Britain
A Guide to Victorian & Edwardian Portraits includes large narrative paintings, popular prints and the early use of photography.
LONDON.- From Beatrix Potter and Charles Dickens to Ellen Terry and King Edward VII, some of the most famous names of the Victorian and Edwardian age are the focus of an exciting new collaboration between the National Portrait Gallery and the National Trust. For the first time, iconic portraits from the National Portrait Gallery Collection and selected houses of the National Trust are the subject of a new book, A Guide to Victorian & Edwardian Portraits, published on Thursday 7 April 2011. Featuring 60 portraits of sitters including writers and musicians, actors and scientists, royalty and statesmen, the book provides a fascinating overview of a turning point in portraiture and how it depicted the great names of the age. Covering the revolutionary style of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in the nineteenth century, to outstanding society portraits of the early twentieth century, A Guide to Victorian & Edwardian ... More |
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 Offering of The Ullens Collection Sets A Record for a Single-Owner Sale of Contemporary Chinese Art at AuctionHONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Hong Kong set a Record for a Single-Owner Sale of Contemporary Chinese Art At Auction when its offering of 105 masterpieces from The Ullens Collection – The Nascence of Avant-Garde China brought HK$427,239,250 / US$54,774,263, against a presale estimate of HK$100 million to HK$130 million / US$12.7 million to 16.7 million*. Speaking of the sale, Evelyn Lin, Sotheby’s Head of Contemporary Asian Art, commented: “The legendary Ullens Collection represented the visualisation of the Chinese nation’s history through works of art, with many works which traced the birth of Contemporary Chinese Art in the 1980’s. Its remarkable combination of quality, rarity and extraordinary provenance sparked strong international interest which led to extended bidding battles ... More Sotheby's Spring 2011 Sales of Two Private Wine Collections Achieve a Combines Total of US$17.5 MillionHONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Hong Kong concluded today the two-day sale of The Ultimate Cellar with triumphant results of HK$96.8 million / US$12.4 million, well in excess of high estimate (HK$77.4 million / US$9.9 million*). The top lot, a case of Romanée Conti 1990, was sold for HK$1.8 million / US$232,692. Strong prices were seen in the best vintages from top Burgundy producers, demonstrating the increasing appeal of Burgundy in Asia. Sotheby’s three-day sale series - The Classic Cellar from A Great American Collector VII and The Ultimate Cellar - saw strong bidding throughout Asia. Passionate online bidding also contributed to our success, maintaining our record 100%-sold rate and marking the 15th consecutive “white glove” wine sale by Sotheby’s Hong Kong in Asia since 2009. The three-day sale series also brought the combined total of Sotheby’s Hong Kong wine sales series in 2011 to an impressive HK ... More High Museum Partners with MOCA GA to Host Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Georgia ArtistsATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art has partnered with The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA) to host an exhibition highlighting selected paintings and drawings from the permanent collection of MOCA GA. This exhibition will comprise approximately 40 paintings and drawing by Georgia artists, all from the collection of MOCA GA. Featured artists will include Larry Jens Anderson, Don Cooper, Herbert Creecy, Kojo Griffin, Medford Johnson, Katherine Mitchell, Larry Walker and Rocio Rodriguez. The exhibition will be on view at the High from September 2, 2011, through February 5, 2012. “It’s been a delight to work with Annette Cone-Skelton on this exhibition and, in the process, to gain a greater knowledge and appreciation for those individuals who have been integral to the visual arts in the state of Georgia,” commented Michael Rooks, the High’s Wieland Family Curator of Modern and ... More El Greco Masterpiece is a Vision at Dulwich Picture GalleryLONDON.- Every month during the Gallery’s Bicentenary celebration year a spectacular masterpiece will hang on the end wall of the Gallery’s enfilade. It is difficult to decipher this great, enigmatic masterpiece for not only is it unfinished, but it has also been cut down. Whatever vision Saint John is experiencing clearly inhabited a lost upper section. The subject of the picture is from the Book of Revelation (6:9 - 11): Saint John the Evangelist, in a vision set in Heaven, sees the Lamb (Jesus) opening the Seven Seals. The first four unleash the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, but on the opening of the Fifth Seal (the subject of this image), the martyrs of God, ‘under the altar’, cry out for justice. Angels hand out the white robes symbolising salvation. How El Greco would have depicted the Lamb opening the Fifth Seal (presumably the subject of the lost upper section) is anyone’s guess, but there is no doubt that his interpretation would have be ... More The Herbert Acquires New Works for their Peace and Reconciliation Collection COVENTRY.- The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum has acquired five powerful and thought-provoking pieces of work by artists Peter Kennard and Cat Picton-Phillips to add to their Peace and Reconciliation collection. The works represent the harrowing nature of war and conflict through combining serious and humorous images. Peter Kennard's work has focused on responding to the social and political situation around him, producing a powerful response to conflict, armaments and injustice. His methods and approach have developed around his desire to express anger and revulsion but he is also motivated by the wish to inspire positive action and protest. The artworks acquired are Untitled Thatcher photomontage, Kent Portfolio, Award Portfolio, Photo Op and Target London Natalie Heidaripour, Project Officer for the Peace and Reconciliation Collection, said "These works are an amazing addition to our Peace and Reconciliation collection. ... More |
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