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The artwork 'Tomato Head' by US artist Paul McCarthy is displayed during the exhibition 'The Luminous Interval The D. Daskalopoulos Collection' held at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, 11 April 2011. The Greek financier Dimitis Daskalopoulos' private collection of contemporary art by more than 30 international artists can be seen at the Guggenheim until 11 September 2011. EPA/LUIS TEJIDO.
BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents The Luminous Interval: The D.Daskalopoulos Collection on view from April 12 through September 11, 2011. This is the first large-scale presentation of one of the world’s most significant private collections of contemporary art. Sponsored by Iberdrola and occupying the museum’s second floor and part of the first, the exhibition features approximately 60 works by some 30 artists, encompassing a wide range of mediums with a special emphasis on sculpture and environmental installations. Grounded in an assembly of works dating from the 1980s and 1990s by eminent figures such as Louise Bourgeois, Robert Gober, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Paul McCarthy, Annette Messager, and Kiki Smith, but also foregrounding projects by younger talents, such as Paul Chan, Guyton\Walker, Nate Lowman, and Wangechi Mutu, the exhibition immerses visitors in a focused survey of some ... More |
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Elizabeth Taylor's Jewels, Art, Fashion and Memorabilia to Be Auctioned at Christie's
A black and white photo dated in 1953 shows US-British actress Elizabeth Taylor. EPA/STR.
NEW YORK, NY.- Elizabeth Taylor's renowned collection of jewelry, works of art, clothing and memorabilia will be sold at a series of auctions, Christie's said on Saturday. "Christie's will be selling the historic collection of Elizabeth Taylor," who died last month in Los Angeles aged 79, the auction house said in a statement. Taylor's possessions will be sold in a series of sales, Details and the timing of the sales will be announced at a later date, it said. Stephen Lash, chairman emeritus of Christie's Americas, and Marc Porter, chairman of Christie's Americas worked with Taylor and her family "over the past two decades, and are most honored to have been entrusted with collection of this world renowned film legend, humanitarian and taste maker," said the statement. Taylor, known for her beauty, love of diamonds, eight marriages and work as an AIDS activist, died of congestive heart failure in Los Angeles on March 23 and w ... More | | West Coast Minimalist Artist, John McCracken, Dies at 76 in New York After a Long Illness
John McCracken in front of Aurora (2008) at his 2008 solo exhibition John McCracken at David Zwirner, New York. Photo by Grant Delin. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- John McCracken, a West Coast Minimalist artist who became known in the 1960s for his singular sculptural forms, has died in New York on April 8, 2011 due to complications from a long illness. He was 76. McCracken developed his earliest sculptural work while studying painting at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland in the 1960s. While experimenting with increasingly three-dimensional canvases, the artist began to produce objects made with industrial techniques and materials, including plywood, sprayed lacquer, and pigmented resin, creating the highly-reflective, smooth surfaces that he was to become known for. McCracken’s earliest sculptures took the form of wall reliefs and free-standing geometric forms, and, in 1966, he generated his signature sculptural ... More | | Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí Presents Early-Period Work Study for "Honey is Sweeter than Blood"
Salvador Dalí, Study for “Honey is Sweeter than Blood”, 1926 (detail). Oil on wood panel, 36 x 44 cm.
FIGUERES.- At eleven o’clock this morning in the Loggias Room at the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí presented its latest acquisition of work by the artist, an oil-on-wood painting entitled Study for “Honey is Sweeter than Blood”. The presentation was given by Antoni Pitxot, Director of the Dalí Theatre-Museum, and Montse Aguer, Director of the Centre for Dalinian Studies. The Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí has since 1991 been implementing an intense policy of work acquisitions aimed at filling out the Dalinian universe that is kept behind the walls of the Dalí Theatre-Museum. The objective of the Foundation’s acquisitions policy is to maintain the Figueres museum’s status as the fundamental place for understanding the pictorial evolution, thought and life of Salvador Dalí. And within that evolution we present today a key work in the painter’s trajectory: his St ... More |
 | Nam June Paik Estate Executor Expresses Extenuation Over Paik Symposium at University of Cincinnati
Nam June Paik, Untitled, 2004. Photo: Nam June Paik Estate.
NEW YORK, NY.- Ken Hakuta is the Executor of Nam June Paik's Estate. Since Nam June's death in 2006, the Estate has worked to preserve the integrity of Nam June's artistic legacy by being consulted by auction houses on the provenance of Paik artwork, authorizing exhibition copies for museum exhibitions, working with museums and collectors on numerous Paik issues, and working on conservation issues. Jon Huffman, who worked closely with the artist as his studio assistant and on many of his exhibitions, is Curator of the Paik Estate. He oversees, for the Estate, the installation of his artwork and the making of Estate authorized exhibition copies where appropriate. Huffman has worked on the recent Museum Kunst Palast Dusseldorf and Tate Liverpool shows, the current Nam June Paik exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and the upcoming (in late 2012) Smithsonian American Art Museum Paik exhibition, among many others. So ... More | | Major Exhibition on Belgian Artist Jan Fabre at Kroller-Muller Museum in the Netherlands
Jan Fabre, Gravetomb (swords, skulls and crosses) (detail), 2000. Buprestid wing-cases, click beetle and ground beetle on plastic, skulls, stuffed animals, wood, metal, bic ink. Collection Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco, © Angelos.
OTTERLO.- From 10 April 2011, a major exhibition on and with Belgian artist Jan Fabre (Antwerp 1958) is on display in the Kröller-Müller Museum. The title, which consists of the simple words, garden (hortus) and body (corpus), derives from the universe of Jan Fabre. The insect, the human, the angel and the blue of the perpetually recurring moment at which night becomes day and life awakens, play an important role therein. They are the four basic elements with which Fabre composes and reveals to us, in ever-altering arrays, his thoughts on life and death, beauty and disgust, vulnerability and violence, mortality and eternity. The exhibition will run until 4 September 2011. With his sculptures, films and drawings in the ... More | | Titanic and Liverpool: New 2012 Exhibition to Mark Centenary of Sinking
Sarah Starkey, Merseyside Maritime Museum ’s curator of maritime archives, is pictured at today’s media call with the only known surviving Titanic First Class ticket.
LIVERPOOL.- The only known surviving Titanic First Class ticket and other rarely-seen items linked to the disaster will be displayed in Liverpool in 2012 to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking. The ticket belonged to Reverend Stuart Holden, vicar of St Paul ’s Church, Portman Square , London . His wife became ill the day before the Titanic sailed, forcing him to cancel his voyage. Reverend Holden had the ticket mounted and kept it above his desk until his death in 1934. A compelling new exhibition explores little-known links between Titanic and Liverpool , the city that inspired the biggest ship in the world doomed to be most notorious shipwreck in history. The exhibition opens at Merseyside Maritime Museum in March 2012 in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking on 15 April 1912 when more than 1,500 people lost their lives. It explores Liverpool ’s central ... More |
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Bruce Silverstein Gallery Shows Works by Artists Who Found the Night to Be an Inspiring Subject
Robert Doisneau, 122 Rue de Provence, 1952. Photo: Courtesy Bruce Silverstein Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Silverstein Gallery presents NIGHT, an exhibition of the work of Brassaï, Ilse Bing, Robert Doisneau and André Kertész. The leading artists working with photography in Europe during the 1920s and 30s found the night to be an inspiring subject that became a leitmotif in their work, a revelatory expression of the burgeoning modernist approach to art making that reflects the shifting social and artistic conventions during this period. Photographic images made at night were new, bold, mysterious and brave, the ability to photograph at night being a recent technical capability that had yet to be mastered or even considered by the majority of photographers working in the 20s and 30s. Night was an artistic frontier and the making of images at night implied a certain creative seriousness that helped bring photographers into dialogue with the larger art world during these decades. At this ... More | | Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons Rediscovers London's Lost Museums
The College Museum.
LONDON.- The Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons opened its latest exhibition London’s Lost Museums: Nature and Medicine, celebrating early natural history and anatomical collections once displayed in the capital, now ‘lost’ due to neglect, dispersal or destruction. With manuscripts, illustrations and specimens, London’s Lost Museums brings to life the contents, purpose and fate of seven historic collections, and paint a portrait of curators and museum practices of the last 350 years. The exhibition, which will run until Saturday 2nd July 2011, also provides an opportunity to see fascinating objects such as a rare illustrated catalogue, Museum Regales’ Societis from 1681, a mummified foot believed to be from the Royal Society’s Repository, and hear about the devastating bomb damage inflicted upon the Hunterian Museum during the Second World War. Sarah Pearson, Curator at the Hunterian Museum, said: “Displays of natural history an ... More | | Israeli Art & Judaica to Make First Apperance in Sale at Bonhams in London
Israel Hershberg, Jerusalem, City Center, 1989-90 (detail). Oil on canvas. Signed and dated. 105.5 x 126 cm. Provenance: Marlborogh Gallery, London. Estimate: £100,000-150,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A work by Marcel Janco, the Rumanian-born artist, one of the founders of the Dadaist (anti-artists) movement, and a contemporary of Pablo Picasso, is the top lot in Bonhams Israeli Art & Judaica in London on May 24th. The painting titled `Marseille Port’, 1933, an oil on canvas, 100 x 133cm (39 3/8 x 52 3/8in), is estimated to sell for £120,000-180,000. Born in Romania in 1895, Janko was among the principal founders of the Dada Movement which was opposed to war, aggression and the changing world culture. Dadaist events included poetry, avant-garde music, and mask wearing dancers in elaborate shows, teasing and enraged the audience through the defiance of Western culture and art, which they considered obsolete in view of the carnage of World War I. Janco has ... More |
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Phillips de Pury & Company Announces Spectacular Results from the New York Photographs Auction
Desiree Dolron, Xteriors VI $194,500 (including premium).
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Company’s Photographs sale at 450 Park Avenue, comprising 260 lots, sold 94.5% by value and 90.4% by lot totaling $5,802,250 (including premium). Phillips de Pury & Company finalizes the New York Photographs week with outstanding results that confirm the Photographs Department status as a leader in the photographs market across the classic and contemporary spectrums. The inaugural Photographs Auction Day was launched with an insightful Photographs Aficionado Class, followed by Chief Auctioneer Simon de Pury’s masterful conducting of a most dynamic auction that was hugely successful in attracting over 400 clients, and enhanced by the opportunity to receive an individual digital portrait by contemporary fashion and entertainment photographer Sophie Elgort. Collectively, the series of events generated a strong and unmistakable buzz across the ... More | | New Museum in the Mexican State of Guerrero Exhibits Teotihuacan Style Objects
Figures. Archaeological Site Museum at Soledad de Maciel. Photo: CENTRO INAH GUERRERO.
ACAPULCO.- Four kilometers away from Zihuatanejo-Acapulco highway, at Costa Grande Region in Guerrero, is located the Xihuacan Site Museum, recently inaugurated. More than 800 archaeological pieces are exhibited, most of them of Teotihuacan style, found during several field seasons at Soledad de Maciel, Petatlan municipality. A vast universe of Prehispanic pieces, such as figurines, obsidian vases, works in shell, copper axes, bell necklaces, ceramics and lithic, integrates the collection that explains cultural development of the ancient city that had a strong interaction with Teotihuacan during the Classic period (200 to 650 AD). Xihuacan Site Museum is located in the Soledad de Maciel Archaeological Zone, where for 4 years the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has been exploring and adapting different Prehispanic monuments with the aim of opening it to public visit in late 2011. Archaeologist Rodolfo Lo ... More | | Photographers Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk and Ann Pettersson Exhibit at Seelevel Gallery
Ann Pettersson, Untitled, 2011 (detail). Photo: Courtesy Seelevel Gallery.
AMSTERDAM.- Photographers Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk and Ann Pettersson are fascinated by nature landscapes. It seems however that the search for nature plays a more important role than the nature itself. With archetypal nature as their source of inspiration or point of departure, they test the limits of authentic and artificial nature photography, not sidestepping a brush with abstraction. In her latest work, Ann Petterson quickly lets go of reality in her nature images, mixing and transforming these into a hybrid depiction. she manipulates her photos, letting images overlap, or applies technical adjustments, playing with camera angles and choices of lighting. Fascinated by abstraction, she searches for a new dimension within the image. This could be a mood, feeling or primal force. The image therefore assumes a somewhat mythical charge, perhaps even one of estrangement. 'Ann Pettersson uses photography to construct a fictional reality. She deconstructs the ... More |
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 Sotheby's Sells Record $447 Million of Asian ArtHONG KONG.- Auction giant Sotheby's (BID.N) sold $447 million worth of Asian art, wine, watches and jewellery in its Asian spring sales, in another bullish showing for the Chinese art market despite weak results for a monumental collection of Chinese ceramics. The HK$3.49 billion tally for its 8-day Asian sales in Hong Kong -- now considered the world's third most important art auction hub after New York and London, was the firm's best season ever underpinned by strong Chinese buyers -- eclipsing even its blockbuster $400 million autumn season last October. But beneath the banner results were some signs of weakness in the red-hot Chinese ceramics market that is now a cornerstone of Sotheby's biannual and closely watched Asian sales. A major collection of Chinese ceramics, seen as one of the best to be sold in decades, failed to live up to expectations in a conspicuous setback for the market, with 30 percent of the porcelain g ... More Police Say Rare Comic Taken from Nicolas Cage Resurfaces By: Anthony McCartney, AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP).- A valuable comic featuring the debut of Superman has re-surfaced in a storage locker, and police said Monday that it appears to be the same one stolen from Nicolas Cage more than a decade ago. The mint copy of Action Comics No. 1 was in police custody after being found last week in a San Fernando Valley storage locker. An investigation into its theft and recovery is under way. The comic was authenticated and appears to be the one stolen from Cage in 2000, said Detective Don Hrycyk with the Los Angeles Police Department's Art Theft Detail. It is unclear whether the 1938 comic will be returned to the Oscar-winning actor. Hrycyk said Cage accepted an insurance payout after its theft and will have to work out the details with the company. The actor made clear ... More New Work by Jessica Drenk and Shawn Smith at Cain Schulte Contemporary Art in San FranciscoSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Cain Schulte Contemporary Art San Francisco presents an exhibition of new work by Jessica Drenk and Shawn Smith, featuring 8-bit and mixed media sculptures. Shawn Smith’s work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality; specifically, the way we experience nature through technology. Starting from the observation that images of “nature” on TV or on a computer screen are really only seeing patterns of pixilated light, Smith recreates three-dimensional sculptural representations of these two-dimensional images with small wood cubes, resembling 8-bit pixels, which resolve into much larger sculptures representing natural forms. Through the process of pixilation, color is distilled, some bits of information are lost, and the form is abstracted. Smith builds his “things”—as he calls them—pixel by pixel to understand how each pixel plays a cruc ... More Hyde's Rembrandt on Loan to Louvre, Detroit Institute of Arts Loans Painting by RubensGLEN FALLS, N.Y.- The Hyde Collection announced today that its prized Christ with Folded Arms by Rembrandt van Rijn will be on display in the Louvre in Paris beginning April 18, 2011 as part of a landmark exhibition titled Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus. The Hyde masterwork plays a key role in shaping the thesis of the exhibition, which will be seen in three major museum venues. When the exhibition closes at the Louvre, it travels to the Philadelphia Museum of Art where it will be shown from August through October, 2011 and then to the Detroit Institute of Arts for exhibition beginning in February, 2012. According to David F. Setford, the Hyde’s executive director, “It is seldom that the Museum considers lending this impressive masterwork, but the exhibition being organized by the Louvre offers previously unparalleled opportunities for comparisons with related works from leading museums around the world. ... More The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Presents a New Exhibition in the Front RoomST. LOUIS, MO.- The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents a new exhibition to the Front Room: Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta‐Kalleinen’s The St. Louis Complaint Choir. Running parallel to the exhibitions in CAM’s Main Galleries, this series of smaller presentations operates at a different speed, lasting only a few weeks. The programming for the Front Room places a particular emphasis on the work of artists at an emergent stage of their career, or on more experimental curatorial ideas and practices. The Complaint Choir is a project initiated by the Finnish artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta‐Kalleinen based on a phenomenon in Finland of a “Valituskuoro"—literally, “complaints choir”— in which people vent their frustrations about their city through song. The artists created the first choir in 2005 at an artists’ residency in Birmingham, England, and since the ... More Museum of Modern Art in Kuwait Presents an Exhibition of Enzo Manara Genesis: Informal UniverseKUWAIT.- Museum of Modern Art in Kuwait presents an exhibition of Italian artist Enzo Manara Genesis: Informal Universe. On view from 12th of April through 22th of April, 2011. Continuing the tradition of Italian art of 20th century, inspired by the scientific researches in astrophysics and anthropology Enzo Manara proposes his artistic vision and methodology to discover the point of Universe’s origin. Structured reflection about the colors and the intention to create a correct background for each artwork merges in color-field painting and hard-edge art. He chooses black as the color obtained by overlapping, as color of cosmic depth and absence of the light, red as energy of the pulsar stars and metallic parts signifies solar presence which was important to the origin for the life and survival, but also remind to the ancient practices with the gold in alchemy. The minimalism of perfect architectural forms bordered with supre ... More Leyendecker, Elvgren, Wyeth and Vargas Anchor Deepest Illustration Art Event Yet from Heritage AuctionsNEW YORK, NY.- J.C. Leyendecker's striking Lovebirds, The House of Kuppenheimer Style Book advertising diptych, Fall/Winter 1918-1919, is expected to bring more than $80,000 to lead the offerings in Heritage Auctions' May 4 Signature(r) Illustration Art Auction at the Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion (Ukrainian Institute) at 2 East 79th Street (at 5th Ave). This simply superb example represents peak period work from one of the greatest painters from the Golden Age of Illustration. "This masterpiece has been in a single collection since the 1920s and has never before been offered on the market," said Todd Hignite, Consignment Director for Heritage Auctions. "Frankly, in our continued search for the absolute best in Illustration Art, this is exactly the kind of painting we dream about uncovering." Following the resounding success of Heritage's $4.1 million February auction in Beverly Hills, the diverse highlights of the auction are a testa ... More |
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