| | Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Brings Together Works by Kollwitz, Beckmann, Dix and Grosz
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A woman views a lithograph, entitled Small Self-Portrait (1920), by German artist Kaethe Kollwitz during a press event at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, in Stuttgart, Germany, 28 April 2011. An exhibition, entitled Kollwitz Beckmann Dix Grosz - Wartime, brings together 300 drawings, paintings and scultures from the museum's collection by artists active during both world wars. It opens to the public from 30 April to 07 August. EPA/MARIJANMURAT.
STUTTGART.- The exhibition “Kollwitz – Beckmann – Dix – Grosz. Wartime” brings together works from within the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart’s collection – immediate artistic reactions to the two devastating world wars and society in the first half of the twentieth century. Series and portfolios by these artists rarely shown in their entirety are included, as are self-portraits and other impressive individual works. The drawings and prints are complemented by a small number of paintings and sculptures. For the first time in more than forty years, the Staatsgalerie is presenting its complete internationally noteworthy Käthe Kollwitz holdings, comprising some one hundred drawings and prints. Her oeuvre offers above all investigations – as forceful as they are distressing – of the themes of “war”, “death” and “family”. The artist’s son and gran ... More |
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Vibrant Southeast Asian Modern & Contemporary Art to Be Presented at Christie's Spring Sales in May
Vicente Silva Manansala, Luksong-Tinik (Jumping over Thorns), 1973, oil on canvas, 31 x 28 in. Estimate: HK$950,000 – 1,400,000/US$121,800 – 179,500. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
HONG KONG.- Christie’s Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art Spring Auction on 30 May, at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, presents distinctive highlights from some of the most vibrant and invigorating voices within Southeast Asia’s art scene. Featuring 115 works spanning the history and geography of the Southeast Asian region, the sale brings together modern masterpieces of undisputed provenance and some of the most sought-after contemporary art. The estimated value is in the range of HK$30 million / US$3.8 million. Headlining the modern section is a rare and exceedingly fine genre scene by Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur de Merprès, depicting early 20th century Bali at the height of its tropical charm. Temple Festival in Bali (Lot 1799, estimate: HK$1,900,000 – ... More | | Prints, Tapestries and Works on Paper by Marc Chagall Featured at artnet Auctions Sale
Marc Chagall, Roses et Mimosas. Estimate: $26,500-$28,500. Photo: Courtesy artnet Auctions.
NEW YORK, NY.- – From April 30-May 4, artnet Auctions offers 45 prints, tapestries and works on paper by Marc Chagall (1887-1985) with estimates ranging from $2,000 to $80,000. The works cover the artist’s prolific career, and include his collaborations with his printer Charles Sorlier. Chagall’s popular bouquet prints are represented by La Bataille de Fleurs (estimate: $27,000-$29,000), and Roses et Mimosas (estimate: $26,500-$28,500), both from 1967. The artist’s explorations of the Bible are presented in 13 works, including the magnificent hand-colored etching La Femme de Potiphar, 1931-1939, which shows Potiphar’s lusty young wife making erotic overtures to the prophet Joseph (estimate: $8,000-$10,000); an important pen and ink entitled The Vision of the Prophet Obadiah, 1956, which chronicles the prophet’s apocalyptic dream of the destruction of the city of Edom (estimate: $60,000 ... More | | Poster Auctions International to Offer More than 500 Lots of Rare, Vintage Posters
Poster Auctions International will offer more than 500 lots of rare, vintage posters in its 53rd auction of Art Nouveau, Art Deco, & Modern masterpieces.
NEW YORK, NY.- On Sunday, May 1, Poster Auctions International will offer more than 500 lots of rare, vintage posters in its 53rd auction of Art Nouveau, Art Deco, & Modern masterpieces. Following the unprecedented success of its first Winter Sale this past February, five-star collections from around the world have been gathered for this stunning event. Starting out the sale is a remarkable collection of over 43 rare aviation posters, dating as early as 1908, when air travel was first introduced to the public. Of particular interest are the posters for the first air meets, some of which are the only known copies in the world. Art Deco is strongly represented, highlighted especially by Broder’s famous Vichy poster – an image which perfectly captures the Gatsby-esque nature of the era. The rare Paul Colin design for Loie Fuller, often considered to be the proprietress of Modern dance ... More |
 | Signed Monographs and Portfolios by Contemporary Artists at Swann Galleries' Auction
Ansel Adams, "Clearing Storm, Mount Williamson, From Manzanar, Sierra Nevada, California." (detail) Silver print, 15¼x18½ inches (38.7x47 cm.), on a Strathmore mount, with Adams's signature, in ink, on mount recto and his Carmel hand stamp with the title, in ink, in an unknown hand, on mount verso. 1944; printed 1970s. Estimate:$20,000-30,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Among the highlights of Swann Galleries’ auction of Important Photobooks and Photographs on Thursday, May 19, is an outstanding collection of 21ST Editions books from the fine art photography publisher and creator of The Journal of Contemporary Photography based in South Dennis, Mass. These 26 oversized, hand-bound and fully signed monographs and portfolios range from 1998 to 2010 and are being offered with a full set of the Journal. Among the lavishly produced books are volumes devoted to the work of Eikoh Hosoe, Michael Kenna, Sally Mann, Robert and Shana Parkeharrison and Joel-Peter Witkin. Each title features a custom-designed artisanal binding (including leather, vellum, custom-made paper, and fine fabrics), and all are ... More | | New Work by German Artist Florian Maier-Aichen on View at 303 Gallery in New York
Florian Maier-Aichen, Untitled, 2011. C-print, 18 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (47 x 39.4 cm) image, 27 3/4 x 25 inches (70.5 x 63.5 cm) framed.
NEW YORK, NY.- 303 Gallery presents their third exhibition of new work by Florian Maier-Aichen. With the works in this exhibition, Maier-Aichen continues his practice of picking apart and expanding notions of photographic representation. Many works in the show rely on a fully hybrid model of image production; utilizing practices of photography, painting and drawing in equal measures has allowed the artist to explore the myth of image-making in pursuit of a new form of the ideal photographic document. "Aus Ven [From Hven] ," an image of the island of Hven in the Öresund sound, filters the explicit tropes of typical landscape imagery (clear skies, fertile fields, blue ocean) through the perspective of hard-edged abstraction. In "La Brea Avenue in the Snow," Maier-Aichen uses historical photography as reference material to create a fairytale scene of a snowy day in Los Angeles. A paean to timelessness, it is also an investigat ... More | | Galerie Patrick Seguin to Present Set Up of Jean Prouvé Bungalow During Art Basel
Jean Prouvé, Pavillon démontable 6x6m construit pour les sinistrés de Lorraine, 1944. Demontable house 6x6m created for the war victims in Lorraine, 1944. Courtesy Galerie Patrick Seguin.
BASEL.- For the first time in public, the Galerie Patrick Seguin will present live, every day, the set up of a Jean Prouvé 6x6 meter demountable bungalow, created for the war victims in Lorraine. Indeed, a team composed of 3 persons will take care of the set up of this reference of demountable architecture on the booth on a daily basis – from 11am to 7pm – unveiling each day the absolute modernity of this project. At night, a second team will be in charge of the taking down and crating of each of the elements composing the house (portal frame and ridge beam, exterior joint covers, facade panels, metal floor structure…) For the nocturne on Thursday 16 June the gallery will organize the set up, dismantling, and crating all in one day. Through his constructions, the visionary creator Jean Prouvé, answered the needs of his contemporaries : simplification of ... More |
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Andreas Feininger: Nature and the Architect at the National Gallery of Canada
Andreas Feininger, Reflection, 6th Avenue, 1962. Gelatin silver print, 34.3 x 26.6 cm; image: 34.3 x 26.6 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Gift of the Estate of Gertrud E. Feininger, New York, 2009. Photo: Andreas Feininger © AndreasFeiningerArchive.com, c/o Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen.
OTTAWA.- Two years ago, the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) received an extraordinary donation of 252 exquisite photographs by Andreas Feininger, one of the greatest modernist photographers. Best known for his dynamic urban views of Manhattan and Chicago, Feininger left a legacy on his 1999 death at 93 of 346 Life magazine photo-essays, thousands of photographs and more than 50 publications. Beginning this Saturday, until August 28, visitors to the NGC can enjoy 27 of these remarkable works in Gallery C202b. "Andreas Feininger's photographs reveal his technical virtuosity and his incisive eye," said NGC director Marc Mayer. "We are grateful to his family for the gift of these important works." Modernist ... More | | Capitain Petzel in Berlin Presents "John Hancock", New Works by Artist Sarah Morris
Sarah Morris, Spiral [John Hancock], 2011 (detail). Household gloss paint on canvas, 152.5 cm x 152.5 cm © Sarah Morris, Courtesy Capitain Petzel.
BERLIN.- Capitain Petzel Berlin presents “John Hancock”, an exhibition of new works by Sarah Morris and her film ’Points on a Line’ (2010). The exhibition is on view from April 29 through July 30, 2011. Sarah Morris is one of the most intriguingly contradictory artists of her generation, known for her complex abstractions, which play with architecture, design and the psychology of urban environments. Morris views her paintings as parallel to her films – both trace urban, social and bureaucratic topologies. In both these media, she explores the psychology of the contemporary city and its architecturally encoded politics. Morris assesses what today’s urban structures, bureaucracies, cities and nations might conceal and surveys how a particular moment can be inscribed and embedded into its visual surfaces. Often, these non-narrative fictional analyses result in studies of conspiratorial power, ... More | | Portrait Gallery Marks the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War with Seven Exhibitions
Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth by Mathew Brady Studio. Glass plate collodion negative. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Portrait Gallery will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865, with seven exhibitions, many of which draw heavily on the permanent collection. These rotating presentations, which mark each year of the war, complement the installation of objects from the Civil War that are on long-term display in the exhibition “American Origins.” In addition, the building that houses the museum at Eighth and F Streets N.W., served as a Civil War barracks and hospital to Union soldiers and hosted Lincoln’s second inaugural ball March 6, 1865, as the war was nearing its conclusion. Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth, the first Union officer to be killed in the Civil War, commanded a volunteer regiment that participated in the invasion of northern Virginia May 24, 1861. ... More |
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Former President Bill Clinton's Boyhood Home in Hope Opens Doors as Clinton Museum
Spring foliage grows near former President Bill Clinton's childhood home in Hope, Ark. AP Photo/Danny Johnston.
By Chuck Bartels, Associated Press
HOPE, AK (AP).- Bill Clinton's boyhood home in Hope has been open as a museum for more than a decade, but this is the first year that visitors are seeing the home as part of the National Park Service. The home became a national historic site at the start of the year, and Clinton said at its formal dedication in mid-April that he wants the home to stand as a reminder of the values he learned as a child. The home's new designation as a national park site is expected to draw more tourists to Hope, a southwest Arkansas city of about 12,000 with a struggling economy. The two-story, white, wood-frame home was restored to reflect the style of the late 1940s and early 1950s, when the former president lived there. Toys from the period are strewn about one side of the yard and inside is the very couch owned by Clinton's grandparents, Eldridge and Edith Cassidy. Clinton's father, William ... More | | French Government Awards Chevalier in Order of Arts and Letters to Richard Rand
Since joining the Clark’s curatorial team in 1997, Rand has been responsible for a number of major exhibitions studying the works of noted French painters.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- The Government of France awarded Richard Rand a Chevalier in its Ordre des Arts et Lettres during a ceremony yesterday at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Rand is the Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Senior Curator of Paintings at the Clark. Christophe Guilhou, the Consul General of France in Boston, made the presentation in recognition of Rand’s significant contributions to promoting French art and culture. The Ordre des Arts et Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) was established in 1957 and is awarded by the French Minister of Culture to recognize eminent artists, writers, and scholars for their efforts in promoting the awareness and enrichment of France’s cultural heritage throughout the world. Rand was inducted as a knight in the Order. “The Clark has been extraordinarily fortunate to have Richard Rand lead our curatorial program for almost 15 years,” said Michael Conforti ... More | | Seattle's Picasso Exhibition Generated a $66 Million Economic Impact in Washington State
Pablo Picasso, Celestina (The Woman with One-Eye), 1904. Oil on canvas, 29 5/16 x 23 in. Musée National Picasso, Paris. ©2010 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, NY.
SEATTLE, WA.- Seattle Art Museum’s (SAM) recent exhibition, Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris, generated an estimated $66 million in economic impact for Washington State, of which $58 million was generated in King County, according to an economic impact study commissioned by SAM. The study, prepared by University of Washington professor William B. Beyers, clearly demonstrates that a major arts event can stimulate the economy in multiple ways. The critically acclaimed exhibition was on view October 8, 2010 -January 17, 2011, and ranks as the most highly attended show in the history of SAM Downtown, attracting 405,000 visitors including nearly 20,000 school children and boosting the museum’s membership to an all time high of more than 48,000 households. ... More |
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 Ivorian Artist Paints as Bullets Whizz OverheadABIDJAN (REUTERS).- While fighting raged on the streets outside his studio in Abidjan and stray bullets hissed through the air overhead, Ivorian artist Aboudia painted. Only when the walls of his studio shook from the concussions of nearby explosions did Aboudia, 26, seek shelter in a basement. "I was so afraid while I was painting all these tableaus," he said, casting a glance over a collection of work created during the months of political upheaval in the West African nation since a disputed election last November. "Some work was hard to finish, a lot of the paint is running, dripping. It's not intentional, but it's like fear or sweat, or tears -- like my soul is crying," said Aboudia, whose full name is Abdoulaye Diarrasouba. His work over the past few months provides a haunting interpretation of the uncertainty and violence sweeping the country since incumbent Laurent Gbagbo refused to cede power after losing an election to his rival Alassane ... More NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman Announces New Study that Measures the Value of the Performing Arts and Other Arts SectorsWASHINGTON, DC.- “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it,” said American author Henry David Thoreau more than 150 years ago. Time and Money: Using Federal Data to Measure the Value of Performing Arts Activities is a new research note from the National Endowment for the Arts that looks at the value of the arts in three ways: time spent on arts activities; organizational revenue and expenses; and direct consumer spending. A particular focus on performing arts data provides consistency across these three measurements. The note draws on the most recent data available from the U.S. Economic Census, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), to arrive at monetary and non-monetary value measurements of the ... More Graffiti Artist's Work Lands Him in Museum and JailNEW YORK (REUTERS).- A graffiti artist whose work went on display this month at a prestigious Los Angeles museum was sentenced to 45 days in prison on Wednesday for practicing the same craft in New York. Angel Ortiz, 44, was arrested three times in March for spray-painting "Laroc" -- his tag -- on walls and buildings in downtown Manhattan. He was sent to the Rikers Island jail on the third occasion, and so missed his chance to attend to the opening this month of "Art in the Streets," an exhibition of graffiti and street art at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, which includes works by Ortiz. "I went out to walk my dog, I brought a can with me -- I shouldn't have done it, I knew sooner or later I was going to get grabbed," he told a police officer as he was being arrested the third time, spray-paint can in hand, according to a complaint filed in court by the Manhattan District Attorney's office. Ortiz pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the top charge against him -- crimin ... MoreAncient Ship Found near RomeROME (AP).- Archaeologists say they have found the upper side of an ancient ship near Rome. The wooden ship was about 11 meters (36 feet) long, making it one of the largest ancient vessels excavated near Ostia Antica, a port city founded some 2,500 years ago and Rome's first colony. Ostia archaeology official Anna Maria Moretti said Thursday the discovery is important above all because it indicates the coastline during ancient Roman days was some 3-4 kilometers (2-2.5 miles) farther inland than it is now. The remains of the ship, missing its bow and stern, were found 4 meters (13 feet) underground during repairs of a bridge linking modern-day Ostia to Fiumicino, the town that hosts Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport. ... More Smithsonian American Art Museum Organizing 2012 Exhibition "The Civil War and American Art"WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum is organizing a major exhibition that examines how America's artists represented the impact of the Civil War and its aftermath. Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Frederic Church and Sanford Gifford—four of America's finest artists of the era—anchor the exhibition. "The Civil War and American Art" will be on view at the museum's main building in Washington, D.C., from Nov. 16, 2012, through April 28, 2013. Eleanor Jones Harvey, chief curator, is organizing the exhibition. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is the only other venue for the exhibition. "The 150th anniversary of the American Civil War provides an important opportunity to explore the ways that the visual arts served as a cultural barometer of the mood of the nation during this great internal conflict," said Elizabeth Broun, The Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum ... More |
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