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A visitor walks behind an ancestor spirit mask at the exhibition "The Power of Giving – The Potlatch in the Kwakwaka'wakw Big House from the Canadian Northwest Coast" in the Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, a museum of the Dresden State Art Collection (SKD), in Dresden, eastern Germany, on Thursday, May 5, 2011. The exhibition displays up to 300 year old stunning masks, vessels and clothes of the Kwakwaka’wakw. In Dresden, a unique collection of ritual objects is shown. These artefacts have been returned to the Kwakwaka'wakw First Nations since the early 1980s. Most of them have never been on view outside Canada. The exhibition, part of the German-Canadian art exchange, starts on May. 7, 2011 and lasts until Aug. 21, 2011. AP Photo/Jens Meyer.
DRESDEN.- The U’mista Cultural Centre in Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections) in Dresden, Germany are collaborating on an exhibition project that will examine, compare and contrast the role of the gift as well as illustrate the gift-giving rituals and ceremonies within two very different cultures: the Kwakwaka‘wakw First Nation and the German aristocracy. “We have all experienced gift-giving. By exploring ceremonial gift-giving in the baroque Saxon court and the Kwakwaka’wakw Big House, this exhibition challenges us to look under the surface of this everyday human activity and think about how gift-giving is both a physical and symbolic exchange. Participating in this ground-breaking collaboration creates an exciting opportunity for us to share Kwakwaka’wakw culture with European audiences. It‘s also an historic opportunity to share treasures of the Saxon court with our communi ... More |
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Exhibition Featuring Objects Never Before Seen in Canada to Be Presented in Toronto
Incense burner stand of noble with glyphic description stone, Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico. Classic Period, AD 250-900, 34.5 x 24.3 cm. Alberto Ruz Lhuillier Museum. Inventory number 10-458700. Photo: © CONACULTA-INAH
TORONTO.- In a media event held today at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), the ROM and the Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) have announced that the two institutions will host Maya: Secrets of their Ancient World, a remarkable exhibition highlighting the ancient Mesoamerican civilization’s Classic Period (250 to 900 AD) and its notable achievements. As visitors journey into the heart of a great Maya city, many of the mysteries surrounding the Maya are examined and their secrets revealed. In collaboration with Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), the ROM and the CMC bring together a collection of artifacts, many never-before-seen in Canada, to illuminate the relationships between the Maya civilization’s ruling class and the balance of its ... More | | Sotheby's Offers One of the Most Important Works by Egon Schiele Ever to Come to the Market
Egon Schiele, Häuser mit bunter Wäsche,“Vorstadt” II, 1914 (detail). Estimate: £22-30 million/ $36-50 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- On 22 June this year, Sotheby’s London will offer for sale one of the most important oils by celebrated Austrian artist Egon Schiele ever to come to the market. The painting – Häuser mit bunter Wäsche,“Vorstadt” II of 1914 - ranks among just a small number of significant cityscapes by Schiele remaining in private hands. Having been acquired - in the year it was painted - by Schiele’s friend and greatest patron Heinrich Böhler, the painting was subsequently sold by Böhler’s widow in 1952 to Rudolf Leopold, founder of the Leopold Museum in Vienna, which boasts a pre-eminent collection of Austrian 20th-century art. The work now comes to the market for the first time, with an estimate of £22-30 million/ $36-50 million.* Helena Newman, Chairman, Impressionist & Modern Art, Sotheby’s Europe, said: “We are thrilled to be offe ... More | | Paintings, Drawings, and Prints of Builders by Jacob Lawrence at DC Moore Gallery
Jacob Lawrence, The Cabinet Maker, 1994. Gouache on paper, 29 ¾ x 22 inches. Photo: Courtesy DC Moore Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jacob Lawrence: Builders features paintings, drawings, and prints that communicate the artist’s belief in the possibility of building a better world through skill, ingenuity, hard work, and collaboration. For the last three decades of his life, Lawrence (1917-2000) consistently pursued the Builders theme, creating a sequence of vibrant modernist images that highlight his pervasive humanist vision. The Builders concept first appeared in Lawrence’s work in the mid-1940s, but assumed greater importance in the late 1960s and soon became a major focus. His subjects were carpenters, cabinetmakers, bricklayers, and construction workers in a variety of workaday and family situations. Overall, they came to symbolize some of his larger ideas about American culture, hope, persistence, and the shared responsibility for transforming society, inspired, as he ... More |
 | National Archives and Partners Launch New International Nazi-Era Records Internet Portal
Rebecca Warlow, archive specialist at the National Archives, demonstrates the International Research Portal for Records Related to Nazi-Era Cultural Property. AP Photo/Susan Walsh.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Archives and its partners today launched an international Nazi-era assets related records database – making millions of records related to Nazi-era cultural property available online for the first time. A National Archives signing ceremony today launched the new database, providing digital access to millions of Nazi-era cultural property–related records through a single Internet portal for the first time. The portal extends public access to the widely dispersed records that will enable families and institutions to research their losses, provenance researchers to locate important documentation, and historians to study newly accessible materials on the history of this period. Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero heralded this important development: At the forefront of Holocaust restitution research efforts for over 15 years, the U.S. National ... More | | Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover Announce Details of Frieze Art Fair 2011
A visitor photographs US artist Aaron Curry's 'Untitled 5' at the Frieze Art Fair in Regent's Park, London. EPA/DANIEL DEME.
LONDON.- The Directors of Frieze Art Fair, Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, have announced today the details of the 2011 fair. Frieze Art Fair is one of the world’s most influential contemporary art fairs and brings an international focus to the dynamic contemporary art scene in London every October. Sponsored by Deutsche Bank for the eighth consecutive year, Frieze Art Fair is a carefully selected presentation of the most forward-thinking galleries from around the globe. The selected galleries will present outstanding work by over 1,000 of the world’s most innovative artists. Frieze Projects, the fair’s unique curatorial programme, is also an integral part of the fair and is supported in 2011 for the first time by the Emdash Foundation. 2011 saw more applications than ever to Frieze Art Fair and will see a total of 171 exhibitors from 33 countries. The dynamism of galleries from emerging territories suc ... More | | Masterpiece by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Achieves $29.2 Million at Sotheby's New York
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra: 41 BC (detail) sold for $29,202,500–nearly six times the pre-sale high estimate of $5 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- A masterpiece by Victorian artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema set another incredible price at Sotheby’s New York today in the sale of 19th Century European Art. Two determined phone bidders held a steady competition for The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra: 41 BC for over eight minutes, driving the final price to a remarkable $29,202,500–nearly six times the pre-sale high estimate of $5 million. This marks the highest auction price of the week in New York , and follows the $35.9 million record for the artist established at Sotheby’s last November by The Finding of Moses. Alma-Tadema's The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra: 41 BC, depicts one of the most
iconic moments in Roman-Egyptian history, and the artist turned to Shakespeare –not translated ancient texts -- for inspiration. Between 1850 and 1912, the Bard's ... More |
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Christie's in London to Offer the Extraordinary Collection of Duarte Pinto Coelho
Antonio López Garcîa, Mujer Sentada, 1954. Estimate: £40,000-60,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
LONDON.- An extraordinary collection of more than 800 lots from the Madrid home and the Trujillo country house of legendary interior decorator Duarte Pinto Coelho will be offered for sale at Christie's South Kensington on 20-21 July 2011. The late Mr. Pinto Coelho was born in Portugal, moving to Paris as a young man, where he became friends with the likes of Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli and Salvador Dalí, among others. When he moved to Spain in the 1950s, he chose Madrid as his new home and there he started an antiques business that soon led to him becoming the first and most renowned decorator in the country. A refined, eclectic connoisseur, collecting was his passion and both his residences were adorned with a wealth of furniture, works of art, porcelain, pictures, silver, carpets and textiles. The collection as a whole is estimated to realise in the region of £1.5 million. Pilar Gonzalez de Gregorio, Duquesa ... More | | Knoedler & Company Presents Exhibition of Paintings by Conrad Marca-Relli
Conrad Marca-Relli, Untitled (Cityscape), ca.1953 (detail). Oil on canvas, 51 1/4 x 53 inches, 130 x 134.5 cm. Photo: Courtesy Knoedler & Company.
NEW YORK, NY.- Conrad Marca-Relli’s life and career were restlessly peripatetic—he moved back and forth between Europe and the United States, with homes at various times in New York City, East Hampton, Rome, Paris, Ibiza, and Parma—even for a time living on a houseboat on the Seine. In addition, his frequent travels included two trips to Mexico (in 1940 and 1952), where the geometric abstract quality of the white adobe architecture, seen in intensely contrasting light and shadow, proved extremely influential on his cityscapes, as well as his evolving work in collage. As a condition of duality characterized his pattern of residency throughout his life, so too, in his art, Marca- Relli kept a foothold both in abstraction and figuration. He never gave himself over entirely to pure abstraction, but found he was either inclined to abstract a figurative reference or to travel back and forth in ... More | | Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Endorses American Latino Art Museum Plan
Eva Longoria is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, during an event announcing the leadership of the National Museum of the American Latino Commission. AP Photo/Harry Hamburg.
By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP).- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is endorsing a federal commission's call to build a national museum devoted to American Latino art, history and culture next to the Capitol as part of the Smithsonian Institution. In an interview with The Associated Press ahead of the commission's report Thursday, Salazar said he would urge Congress to approve creation of the museum. He said such a building on the Capitol's grounds would be in keeping with the National Park Service's plan for the National Mall, which calls for overhauling the nearby Capitol reflecting pool as a civic square. Many contributions of the nation's Latinos, dating back to before the nation's founding, have never been recognized, and they deserve ... More |
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Gagosian Gallery Presents New Distinctive Metal Sculptures by Artist John Chamberlain
John Chamberlain, TASTYLINGUS, 2010. Painted and chrome-plated steel, 69 1/4 x 51 1/4 in. © John Chamberlain. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Robert McKeever.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents worldwide representation of John Chamberlain with an exhibition of new sculptures by the artist, to be presented concurrently at the 24th Street gallery in New York and the Britannia Street gallery in London. The show is on view from May 5 through July 8, 2011. Chamberlain is best known for his distinctive metal sculptures constructed from discarded automobile-body parts and other modern industrial detritus, which he began making in the late 1950s. His singular method of putting these elements together led to his inclusion in the paradigmatic exhibition “The Art of Assemblage,” at the Museum of Modern Art in 1961, where his work was shown alongside modern masters such as Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso. Chamberlain’s sculptures boldly contrast the ... More | | Madison Square Park Conservancy Presents the NY Public Art Debut of Jaume Plensa
Jaume Plensa, Echo (2011); Presented by Madison Square Park Conservancy; Photo: James Ewing.
NEW YORK, NY.- Madison Square Park Conservancy’s Mad. Sq. Art presents the New York public art premiere of internationally acclaimed artist Jaume Plensa, featuring a new monumental, site-specific sculpture for Madison Square Park. Plensa’s Echo marks the single largest monolithic work of art presented in the 7-year history of Mad. Sq. Art, on view May 5 through mid- August 2011. Echo, Plensaʼs new site-specific installation serves as a monument to everyday people, both within and without Madison Square Park. Creatively inspired by the presence of the 9-year old daughter of a restaurant proprietor near Plensaʼs home in Barcelona, the 44-feet tall sculpture comprised of white fiberglass resin depicts the face of this inspiring young girl in a dream state from the neck, up. Plensaʼs sculpture, made from marble gel-coated fiberglass-reinforced plastic, can be sited on the central Oval Lawn of Ma ... More | | Web Application Announced for 9/11 Dead Listed on National Memorial at Ground Zero
A detail of the monument at New York's World Trade Center site bearing the names of those who perished. AP Photo/National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
By: Cristian Salazar, Associated Press
NEW YORK, NY (AP).- Victor Wald and Harry Ramos did not know each other until Sept. 11, but they died together trying to flee down a stairwell of the World Trade Center. Their names will be next to each other's on the national memorial at ground zero, one of hundreds of arrangements that emphasize victims' connections, not in alphabetical order. The National September 11 Memorial & Museum on Wednesday announced the final arrangement of the nearly 3,000 names around the waterfall-filled pools formed in the footprints of where the original World Trade Center towers stood. Michael Arad, the memorial architect, said that stories of the individuals' lives will inevitably emerge from the names' arrangement. ... More |
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 Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale Brings $39 Million at Sotheby's New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Yesterday’s Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale at Sotheby’s New York brought $38,982,225, above the pre-sale low estimate of $34.4 million and the highest total for an Impressionist & Modern Day Sale at Sotheby’s worldwide since February 2008. Following the success of Alberto Giacometti’s Femme debout, which sold for $7,362,500 against a high estimate of $3 million in last night’s Evening Sale, today’s auction was led by a pair of unique bronze sculptures by the artist. Petite Figurine (Homme) & Petite Figurine (Femme) achieved $962,500, well above their high estimate of $600,000. Cast circa 1946, the works were a gift from Giacometti to a friend. “We are very pleased with the results of today’s sale, which echoed a number of themes that we saw last night,” commented Molly Ott Ambler, Vice President and Head of Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sales an ... More SFMOMA and Google Partner to Give Bay Area Families Greater Access to Art EducationSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announces a partnership with Bay Area–based technology company Google that will advance both institutions' shared vision to spur creativity and broaden access to art education for young children as a key step toward encouraging innovation and building museum audiences for the future. Google will provide support to SFMOMA's existing family outreach by sponsoring programming such as kid-friendly activities every Sunday (rather than semi-monthly) starting in July 2011 and Google Family Day on July 17, when families will be able to visit SFMOMA free of charge. Additionally, SFMOMA will host an exhibition from May 20 through July 19, 2011, in the museum's Koret Visitor Education Center, featuring drawings by the regional finalists in Google's annual "Doodle 4 Google" student design competition. Doodle 4 Google invites students across ... More Medal Awarded to Sheffield Wendesday's W. E. Clegg to Sell at BonhamsLONDON.- A star shaped medal awarded to the Sheffield Wednesday footballer and politician, W. E. Clegg (1852-1932), is to be sold at Bonhams, Chester, as part of its Sporting Memorabilia sale on 1 June 2011. The medal, which was discovered in a box of assorted items brought into the Bonhams’ Exeter office by an unassuming client, has attracted a pre-sale estimate of £1,500 – 2,000. W. E. Clegg played a significant role in the formation of football. Along with his brother, Charles Clegg, he was also the first Sheffield Wednesday player to earn international caps for England. After retiring from football through injury he was elected the Lord Mayor of Sheffield (1898) and was often referred to as the ‘uncrowned King of Sheffield’. Clegg was awarded this medal for winning the Sheffield Association Cup on 12 May 1877, when Sheffield Wednesday defeated Heeley 4-3 at Bramhall Lane in front of 6,000 fans. It was t ... More Openartcollection.com: More Virtual Fairs AnnouncedNEW YORK, NY.- Openartcollection.com has announced they will be hosting more virtual art fairs, opening up the world of art to anyone with a PC and an internet connection. Working in partnership with premier art fairs around the globe such as Art Amsterdam and Art-Athina, openartcollection.com is firmly set upon the road towards expanding the number of virtual art fairs they intend to present to both the public and their subscribed members. Openartcollection.com will be presenting three separate art fairs in a virtual format in a few days. Each virtual fair is an online window to a physical art fair taking place at the same time. David Dehaeck, CEO of Openartcollection.com has this to say: “We (openartcollection.com) truly feel that making art fairs easily accessible to anyone with an internet connection is a cutting edge way to encourage more people to buy and collect art.” Openartcollection.com state ... More London Original Print Fair Records Highest Ever Visitor Figures LONDON.- London Original Print Fair 2011, the longest-running Print Fair in the world drew a record number of visitors at the Royal Academy of Arts last week. The Fair got off to a flying start with the opening day bringing in the highest visitor figures to date. Some 1,000 guests attended the eagerly awaited preview evening, where record sales provided a buoyant start to the three-day event. VIPs who visited the Fair included Sir Peter Blake, Grayson Perry and Jim Broadbent. All 52 exhibitors reported a reassuring number of red stickers, proving that galleries and artists are continuing to strengthen their position in the market. A spokesperson for Andrew Edmunds described the event as being one of their 'strongest Fairs ever.' Private dealer Frederick Mulder exhibited an exclusive anniversary display at the Fair - a collection of 40 portraits to mark 40 years in the print business. Mulder reported several sales of Pi ... More Roger Kennedy, Former Museum Director, Receives Smithsonian's Henry MedalWASHINGTON, DC.- Award-winning author and former director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Roger G. Kennedy was given the prestigious Henry Medal by the Smithsonian's Board of Regents "in recognition of his many contributions to the Smithsonian Institution as the long-serving, transformational director of its National Museum of American History, and for his lifetime of service to the United States of America." Kennedy embodied the Smithsonian's mission to increase and diffuse knowledge with passion and persuasion, and highlighted key events in the nation's history to explore America's identity, according to Regents documents. Kennedy served as director of the National Museum of American History (then known as the Museum of History and Technology) from 1979 until 1992 when he became director emeritus. He worked to transform it into a modern American history museum, and it was renamed the National Museum of American History in 1980. Focusing on America's di ... More14-Foot Walk-Through Purse Shown in Washington State BELLINGHAM, WA (AP).- The idea of the oversized purse has grown to new proportions at Whatcom Museum in the Washington state city of Bellingham. Edison-based industrial artist Ries Niemi has installed his 14-foot-tall "World's Largest Walk Thru Handbag" sculpture in the Lightcatcher building courtyard. The open metalwork of the stainless steel handbag is decorated with images of consumerism and wealth: metal dollar signs, diamonds and $100 bills. It includes openings on each side to walk through and is accessible to the public without paying for entry to the museum. The sculpture and some of Niemi's embroidered art will remain on view through Sept. 11. Part of the inspiration came from the gigantic drive-through tree stumps of the Northwest, as well as the ever-expanding ... More |
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