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Anthony Caro (British, b. 1924), Left: Midday, 1960, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wiesenberger Fund, 1974 (419.1974.a-g). Center: Blazon, 1987-90, Courtesy of Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, and Annely Juda Fine Art, London. Right: Odalisque, 1984, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Stephen and Nan Swid, 1984 (1984.328a-d) Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Wilson Santiago.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sculptures by Anthony Caro (b. 1924)—who is considered the most influential and prolific British sculptor of his generation, and a key figure in the development of modernist sculpture over the last 60 years—will be featured in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2011 installation on The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, opening April 26. The installation will include a selection of sculpture in steel, painted and unpainted, spanning the artist's career to date and highlighting principal aspects of his long career: engagement with form in space, dialogue between sculpture and architecture, and creation of new, abstract analogies for the human figure and landscape. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first exhibition of steel sculpture by the artist, who lives and works in London. The large-scale works on view this summer will be Midday (1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York), After Summer (19 ... More |
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Gagosian Gallery Announces Exclusive Representation of Photographer Richard Avedon
File photo of Richard Avedon posing in front of a photograph of actor Bert Lahr. AP Photo/Kathy Willens.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery announces the worldwide representation of Richard Avedon, in partnership with The Richard Avedon Foundation. Larry Gagosian comments, “Avedon is America’s consummate modern photographer and one of the iconic artists from a generation which produced many extraordinary painters, sculptures, and photographers. We consider it a great privilege to represent one of the true masters of twentieth century art.” Richard Avedon established The Richard Avedon Foundation during his lifetime. The Foundation is the repository for Avedon’s photographs, negatives, publications, papers, and archival materials. Paul Roth, the Executive Director of The Richard Avedon Foundation, comments, “We are delighted to work with Gagosian Gallery in New York and around the world. We think that Avedon will receive outstanding representation ... More | | Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation Receives Gift of $100,000,000
This donation ensures that the Museum will continue to grow in importance as one of Los Angeles’ premier museums, and the largest and most acclaimed automobile museum in the nation.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Steven E. Young, Chairman of the Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation’s Board of Directors, announced today that the Museum Foundation has received a gift of approximately $100,000,000 from Margie Petersen and the Margie & Robert E. Petersen Foundation. This donation is comprised of a substantial unrestricted financial gift, a matching challenge, the 300,000 square foot building that the Museum has occupied since it opened in 1994, and an important collection of cars assembled by the late Robert E. Petersen during his lifetime, all as part of the Museum’s gift. This donation ensures that the Museum will continue to grow in importance as one of Los Angeles’ premier museums, and the largest and most acclaimed automobile museum in the nation. “I am thrilled to make this gift ... More | | Enormous Statue of Powerful Pharaoh Amenhotep III Unearthed by Archaeologists in Egypt
A 13 meter (42 foot) tall statue of Amenhotep III in Luxor. AP Photo/Supreme Council of Antiquities.
CAIRO (AP).- Archaeologists unearthed one of the largest statues found to date of a powerful ancient Egyptian pharaoh at his mortuary temple in the southern city of Luxor, the country's antiquities authority announced Tuesday. The 13 meter (42 foot) tall statue of Amenhotep III was one of a pair that flanked the northern entrance to the grand funerary temple on the west bank of the Nile that is currently the focus of a major excavation. The statue consists of seven large quartzite blocks and still lacks a head and was actually first discovered in the 1928 and then rehidden, according to the press release from the country's antiquities authority. Archaeologists expect to find its twin in the next digging season. Excavation supervisor Abdel-Ghaffar Wagdi said two other statues were also unearthed, one of the god Thoth with a baboon's head and a six foot (1.85 meter) tall one of the lion-headed ... More |
 | Kentucky's Schmidt Family to Sell Massive (80,000 Items) Coca-Cola Collection
Larry Schmidt looks over some of the dozens of vending machines in his Coca-Cola museum. AP Photo/Ed Reinke.
By: Bruce Schreiner, Associated Press
ELIZABETHTOWN, KY (AP).- In the world of Coca-Cola memorabilia, the Schmidt family's collection is like the Smithsonian. The most treasured items are from the company's earliest days in the late 1800s, and some are so rare they don't even appear at the Coca-Cola Co. museum in Atlanta. And now, they're all for sale. The family, one of the earliest bottlers of the soft drink, spent years scouring the country for pieces branded with the iconic Coca-Cola name. They opened up a museum to show off their prized collection, but they're ready to move on and have decided to auction 80,000 items piecemeal, beginning in mid-September. "Some of the pieces that they have in those showcases are beyond belief," said Allan Petretti, author of "Petretti's Coca-Cola Collectibles Price Guide," which is in its 12th edition. "There may be only one or two or three in existence. "This is THE event in the world of Coca-Cola collecting." The entire collection is valued in the ... More | | Hospital's CT Scans of Egyptian Mummy Help Vermont's Medical Examiner Solve Crimes
Radiologist Jason Johnson shows a CT scan of the 6th century B.C. Egyptian mummy owned by the Fleming Museum. AP Photo/Toby Talbot.
By: Wilson Ring, Associated Press
BURLINGTON, VT (AP).- A childhood fascination with archaeology and a chance encounter with a 2,700-year-old Egyptian mummy are helping Vermont doctors and law enforcement officials find truth in some of the most challenging of modern-day crimes: the unexplained deaths of young children. After spotting the mummy at the University of Vermont's Robert Hull Fleming Museum in Burlington, Dr. Jason Johnson, a radiology resident, arranged to have it put through his hospital's state-of-the-art CT scanner. He wanted to know about the life of what is believed to be the remains of an Egyptian servant girl of about 14 — and what led to her death. What Johnson didn't expect was that some of the scientific techniques used to reveal the mummy's secrets would have other applications, including ... More | | Speed Art Museum will Bring Caravaggio's "The Fortune Teller" to the United States this May
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, The Fortune Teller (detail). Photo: Scala/Art Resource, NY. Pinacoteca Capitolina, Musei Capitolini, Rome, Italy.
LOUISVILLE, KY.- The Speed Art Museum announced today that it will bring Caravaggio’s pivotal work, The Fortune Teller, to the United States this May. The painting rarely travels and this will mark only the second time the work has ever been on view in the U.S. The Fortune Teller is considered one of Caravaggio’s most important early paintings and depicts a Gypsy girl reading the palm of a young man as she surreptitiously slips a gold ring from his finger. The work will be on loan from the Capitoline Museums in Rome, Italy. The Fortune Teller will be the centerpiece of a focus exhibition at the Speed May 18 through June 5 that explores the influence of the Italian master on other artists working in Italy, Flanders, and the Netherlands during the early 17th century. Caravaggio’s emphasis on heightened realism and the sculptural qualities of his figures, often brightly lit against a dark background, are evid ... More |
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ArtQuilt Gallery NYC, the Only Showcase of its Kind in America's Art Capital
Composition in Markings and Movement, 2004.
NEW YORK, NY.- The ArtQuilt Gallery•NYC opened April 5, becoming the only commercial gallery for quilts in New York City, filling a void in the nation's art center. Located in Manhattan's Chelsea district, next to The City Quilter, the gallery showcases the best quilts from around the world. Cathy Izzo and Dale Riehl, co-owners of The City Quilter – the area's leading quilting supply store – said they have dreamed for years of seeing such a gallery in New York and finally decided to stop waiting for someone else to open one. "As 30-year residents we've long lamented the fact that the art world hasn't given quilting its due as an art form," said Izzo. "We believe our gallery will serve a need, showcasing the extraordinary range of quilt art and demonstrating how compelling quilts can be." "The Chelsea area alone has scores of galleries displaying paintings and sculpture," noted Riehl. "We intend to show that o ... More | | Only Hitchcock Story Board Ever to Appear at Auction to be Sold at Bonhams
Hitchcock was notoriously prescriptive and used storyboards extensively, detailing each shot down to the camera angles and giving very precise instructions to the cast. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A rare, hand written pre-production storyboard for one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most problematic films, ‘Stage Fright’, of 1950 is for sale at the Bonhams Printed Books and Manuscripts sale in London on 7 June. It is estimated at £20,000-30,000. The production files for all Hitchcock’s films after 1940 are kept in the Hitchcock archives in Beverly Hills making this the only example ever to have come on the open market. ‘Stage Fright’became notorious because of a ‘false flashback’ sequence which Hitchcock later described as one of the two biggest misjudgements of his career. Despite a star led cast by Marlene Dietrich, Jane Wyman, Michael Wilding, Richard Todd and Sybil Thorndike it was not a success though it has undergone critical reassessment in recent years. ... More | | Sotheby's to Sell Significant and Defining Collection of German Art of the 60s and 70s
Spekulatius by Georg Baselitz (b. 1938), oil on canvas, signed, titled, numbered 24 and dated 65 on the reverse (162.7 by 132cm.) Estimate: £1.8-2.5 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s announces that it will offer for sale The Duerckheim Collection, a collection of the most significant and defining German Art of the 1960s and 1970s ever to come to market, in the forthcoming Contemporary Art Auction Series in June. This collection represents a remarkably detailed and complete survey of major advancements in the recent history of European art and features the most important assemblage of 1960s paintings by Georg Baselitz in private hands; an outstanding history of Gerhard Richter's early Photo paintings; and notably rare and early works by Sigmar Polke, Blinky Palermo, Konrad Lueg, Jörg Immendorff and Eugen Schönebeck, among others. The offering is also particularly remarkable for the outstanding quality and exceptional condition of the ... More |
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Champagne from Baltic Sea Shipwreck Up for Grabs at Auction in Finland in June
Underwater cache of champagne is shown in Aland, an archipelago in the Baltic. REUTERS/Alands landskapsregering/Alex Dawson.
By: Leslie Gevirtz
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Two bottles of champagne, thought to be about 200 years old and part of a cache of 150 salvaged from a 19th century shipwreck in the Baltic Sea, will be auctioned in Finland in June. The cache, which belongs to the government of Aland, an archipelago in the Baltic, includes a bottle from the house of Veuve Clicquot and another from Juglar, which closed its doors in the early 19th century. Acker Merrall & Condit, of New York, will auction the two bottles on June 3. When the first bottle was recovered from the sunken two-masted schooner dating from about 1780-1830, Swedish champagne writer Richard Juhlin estimated it would fetch about 500,000 Swedish krona ($82,000). "We didn't know if it ... More | | Sony World Photography Awards Winners Showcased at Somerset House
Javier Arcenillas Spain, 2010.
LONDON.- The Sony World Photography Awards Winners’ Showcase is the flagship exhibition of the World Photography Festival. Showcase theme 'From Chaos into Order' mirrors the process by which we make sense of photographs in the world. All of the World Photography Organisation’s Festival exhibitions run from April 26 through May 22, 2011 at the prestigious Somerset House, London. The Winners’ Showcase is one of several photography exhibitions coming to the World Photography Festival. Featuring a vast collection of international contemporary photography, spanning genres including documentary, sport, portraiture, landscape, fashion and much more, the Showcase captures a unique view of the world in 2010/11 as recorded through the lens of winning photographers who entered this year’s competition. The Sony World Photography Awards take place on 2 ... More | | Cleto Munari Launches New Collection in Collaboration with Architects, Artists and Poets
Gold cabinet by artist Mimmo Paladino.
NEW YORK, NY (PRWEB).- Design impresario Cleto Munari has launched his first Furnishings Collection, in collaboration with nine international architects, poets and artists. Starting with Italian architect Carlo Scarpa in the seventies, Munari has orchestrated collections of sterling silver tableware, jewelry, Murano glass, watches, pens, and now limited edition tables, cabinets, seating and rugs. Munari has selected world renowned architects, and visual and literary artists to work in complete freedom without the limitations of market or production constraints. The participants create functional art that reflects their personal design motifs, from the "graphic doilies" of Alessandro Mendini to angled swords that slice the surface of Mimmo Paladino's table. Each piece in the Furnishings Collection is produced in a signed limited edition of 9,99 or 999. For the first time Munari has collaborated with poets. Lawrence Ferlinghetti and ... More |
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 Extremely Rare Portrait of Famous Kabuki Actor Highlights Important Private Collection at BonhamsLONDON.- Following the success of Part 1 of the Edward Wrangham Collection in November 2010, which realised over £2 million and included a world record price for an inro** sold at auction, Bonhams is delighted to announce the second sale of the collection that will take place at Bonhams, New Bond Street on 10th May. Considered one of Europe’s most important and comprehensive private collections of Japanese Gentleman’s accessories, it was formed by the late environmentalist, mountaineer, scholar and collector Edward Wrangham OBE. Wrangham’s first piece was given to him in 1936 when he was eight years old and was considered the last of the great British collectors. Wrangham continued to add to his collection until his death in 2009, sourcing works of art from all over the world. His collection, which was also published and written about by Wrangham himself, comprises over 1000 pieces of inro, netsuke ... More Turkey Begins Dismantling MonumentANKARA, TURKEY (AP).- Workers have begun dismantling a giant sculpture meant to promote reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia. Television footage on Tuesday showed a crane bringing down one of the two heads of the 35-meter (115-foot) stone sculpture which features a divided human figure, near the two nations' border. The hulking monument had been criticized in Turkey because it overshadows an Islamic shrine in the area. During a visit to the site in January, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called it a "freak," prompting moves by local officials to have it removed. Artists campaigned unsuccessfully to save the monument. A prominent painter was stabbed and hospitalized last week after a speech in which he condemned plans to tear it down. ... More The Garden Comes to Life at Summers Place Auctions WEST SUSSEX.- An important collection of 17th and 18th Century Italian marble sculpture will be offered in the hugely popular sale of Garden Statuary and Ornament - both antique and modern – at Summers Place Auctions (in association with Sotheby’s) on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 which will take place in Billingshurst, West Sussex. This will be complemented by a sealed bid auction, which ends on Friday, May 27, 2011. Many of the pieces in the collection are in the manner of Antonio Bonazza (1698-1762). Included is a pair of marble musicians on pedestals (est: £20,000-30,000) as well as a monumental 17th Century sculpture of Hercules strangling the Nemean Lion, which is estimated to fetch £50,000-80,000. James Rylands, one of the experts in charge, said “This sale includes pieces with estimates ranging from £100 up to £150,000, so there really is somethi ... More Smithsonian's National Numismatic Collection Receives Sacagawea DollarWASHINGTON, D.C.- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has recently acquired 17 items from sculptor Glenna Goodacre from her successful commission to design the Sacagawea dollar coin released in 2000. This donation preserves the creative and technical challenges of such a design and represents an important part of American history. The materials include fired-clay coins, bronze sculptures, plaster studies and pencil-drawing proofs up to the first release of the coin in a presentation box, which will be housed in the museum’s National Numismatic Collection. Goodacre, of Santa Fe, N.M., is a nationally acclaimed artist and sculptor with a career spanning 40 years. She has created hundreds of pieces, including the bronze Vietnam Women’s Memorial in Washington, D.C., and a portrait of former President Ronald Reagan, which is held at the Reagan Library in California. “The items Goodacre d ... More Jordanian Police Recover 7 Ancient ManuscriptsAMMAN (AP).- Jordan's archaeology chief says security police have recovered seven ancient manuscripts from local smugglers. The writings are part of 70 manuscripts that Jordanian archaeologists discovered five years ago in a cave in the north. Later, they were stolen and most were believed to have been smuggled into Israel. Jordan has demanded Israel return the manuscripts but has gotten no response. Ziad al-Saad says the manuscripts were reportedly found by a Bedouin. He says the relics could be among the earliest Christian writings in existence but tests are under way to date them and check their authenticity. Al-Saad said on Tuesday that if verified, the relics could be the most significant find in Christian archaeology since the 1947 discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. ... More No Fly Zone between Buildings in Norwich Lifted for FestivalNORWICH.- In May unmanned aircraft will enter the lower airspace of the city of Norwich and will be targeting the consciences of the people beneath them. The installation is by internationally acclaimed artists Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen (collectively known as HeHe) whose urban installations are renowned for playing with scale. The artists hope the miniature Airbus 380’s (1:200 scale), which will be seen by thousands of pedestrians using the city, will challenge the everyday perception of low cost air travel and highlight its effect on global warming. The work entitled ‘Plane Jam’ will be sited in the centre of Norwich. The planes will release remote controlled emissions at various times throughout the day. These emissions will be highly visible thereby drawing attention to the high-cost of low-cost air travel that is damaging our fragile atmosphere, the envelope of gases surrounding the earth. We never actually see the harmful toxins ... More Boca Raton Museum of Art Presents It's Spring Exhibitions<BOCA RATON, FL.- The Boca Raton Museum of Art opened its spring exhibitions today April 26, Robert Vickrey: The Magic of Realism, running through June 19 and Art for the People: 20th Century Social Realism, running through September 11. Robert Vickrey is a crucial figure in the mid-twentieth-century renaissance of egg tempera, one of the oldest, most versatile and most durable painting mediums. Using the same labor-intensive techniques practiced by Renaissance artists Giotto and Botticelli, Vickrey has become America’s leading modern master of this centuries-old medium and is unquestionably egg tempera’s most innovative practitioner. Robert Vickrey continues today to mix egg yolks with ground pigments to create realist images that incorporate symbols and subjects from his personal observations. This exhibition presents approximately 40 works from Vickrey’s 60-year career as the living master of tempera pain ... More |
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