| | Artist Neo Rauch Opens Summer Exhibition at the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden
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Two visitors of the Frieder Burda Museum look at the painting titled Der Rueckzug (The Withdrawal) (2006) by German artist Neo Rauch in Baden-Baden, Germany. The exhibition 'Neo Rauch' runs at the Frieder Burda museum from 28 May until 18 September and presents 40 works from the past 20 years. EPA/ROLF HAID.
BADEN-BADEN, GERMANY.- The grand summer exhibition 2011 at the Museum Frieder Burda is dedicated to Neo Rauch. Around 40 main works by the artist from Leipzig from the past 20 years are shown from 28 May to 18 September 2011. Many of these works are publicly exhibited for the first time. They reflect the abundance of imagination and topics covered by the artist. There is a boundless force within the picturesque world of the painter Neo Rauch. His subjects seem like a mixture of realism and surrealism, influenced by pop-art and comics. Inhabited by strange figures, partly eccentrically equipped with costumes and props, great scenarios are created, that touch all your senses. The world is turned into a ridiculous theater that knows no linear timeline. If you look more closely you might even discover a story behind the picture. The painter from Leipzig was immediately taken with the idea of presenting his works at the ... More |
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Spectacular Titanic Ship Plan Revealed for the First Time at Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
William Blair, Head of Human History at National Museums Northern Ireland, inspects the 20ft ship plans which will go on display for the first time in TITANICa: The Exhibition which opens on Tuesday May 31, the centenary of the launch of the Titanic, at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.
NORTHERN IRELAND.- National Museums Northern Ireland released more details on the major new TITANICa exhibition opening at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum. TITANICa: The Exhibition will open at the world-class Transport Museum on Tuesday May 31 to mark the centenary of Titanic's launch. It will sit alongside TITANICa: The People’s Story at the Folk Museum. A magnificent 20ft long plan capturing last minute design changes to Titanic will be going on show for the first time anywhere in the world. The plan captures the very birth of Titanic and has a significance which could never have been foreseen by the draughtsmen working at the Harland & Wolff shipyard a century ago. Meticulously drawn and annotated, it offers a unique opportunity to glimpse something of the world in which Titanic was ... More | | The Vancouver Art Gallery Presents Ground-Breaking Exhibition Featuring 350 Works by Surrealist Masters
André Masson, The Landscape of Wonders (Paysage aux prodiges), 1935, oil on canvas. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Bequest, Richard S. Zeisler, 2007. © Estate of Andé Masson / SODRAC (2011)
VANCOUVER, BC.- The most comprehensive exhibition of Surrealist art ever to be shown in this country is on view at the Vancouver Art Gallery from May 28 through September 25, 2011. The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art features 350 works by leading Surrealist artists, including André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Alberto Giacometti, Leonora Carrington, Brassaï, André Masson, Man Ray, Edith Rimmington, Wifredo Lam and many others. The Colour of My Dreams is shown exclusively at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Ades has selected works of art that underscore the Surrealists’ radical sense of experimentation and the expansive range of mediums in which they worked, including painting, sculpture, collage, photography and film. The exhibition provides a stunning overview of one of most ... More | | The Los Angeles County Museum of Art Presents Major Exhibition of Filmmaker Tim Burton
Tim Burton, Carousel, 2009. Epoxy, polyester resin, plasma ball, muslin, fiberglass, electric motor, rigid foam, styrofoam, fluorescent paint, and plastic filagree, 72 x 48 x 48 in. Private Collection. ©2011 Tim Burton.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Tim Burton, a major retrospective exploring the full range of Tim Burton’s creative work, both as a director of live-action and animated films, and as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer. Taking inspiration from popular culture, fairy tales, and traditions of the gothic, Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as an expression of a personal vision. The exhibition is on view at LACMA from May 29 through October 31, 2011. The exhibition brings together more than 700 drawings, paintings, photographs, film and video works, storyboards, puppets, concept artworks, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera, including art from a number of unrealized and little-known personal projects. The exhibition was organized by Ron Magliozzi,Assistant Curator, and Jenny He, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Film, with Rajendra Roy, the Celeste Bar ... More |
Dominican Republic Museum to Honor Victims of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
This October 1960 file photo, shows the former dictator of the Dominican Republic Rafael Leonidas Trujillo at his 70th birthday celebration. AP Photo.
By: Ezequiel Abiu Lopez, Associated Press
SANTO DOMINGO (AP).- A new museum honoring the more than 50,000 people who died under former dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo opened Sunday, a day before the 50th anniversary of his death. Officials unveiled for the first time what is believed to be a comprehensive list of those killed during Trujillo's 1930-1961 regime. The $2.7 million museum, located in a renovated colonial home in the capital, Santo Domingo, also features a re-creation of a prison torture chamber, along with audio of some of the actual torture sessions. In 1937, Trujillo ordered the killings of 20,000 Haitian migrants in his quest to cleanse his country, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. Soldiers raided shantytowns and sugar cane fields as they executed migrants along the shores of the Massacre River ... More | | Grand Summer Auctions at Geneva's Hotel des Ventes Presents a Variety of Lots
Statue de shaman assis en terre cuite, culture Colima, 100 av. - 250 ap. J.-C., Mexique (2.000-3.000 CHF).
GENEVA.- Hôtel des Ventes’ summer auctions will be held on Monday 20th to Thursday 23rd June with a global estimate of 2,000,000-3,000,000 Swiss francs. The books department will open the sale with a specialised session featuring the personal library of eminent Vaudois historian Jean-René Bory. Tuesday’s sale will also be dedicated to pre-Colombian Archaeology dating from the 1st millennium BC to the Spanish Conquest. The distinguished Jewellery and Watches sale on Thursday will notably feature an important 12 carat Ceylon sapphire (non-heated) and diamond ring. A blue bear hide, long considered a yeti skin, will no doubt form one of the great curiosities and major attractions of the auction. Following a tradition established in 1978, Hôtel des Ventes will present a variety of specialist antiques to tempt and seduce all collectors during this one-week of auctions: Silver, Tribal and Primitive Art, Leather Good ... More | | Kunsthaus Lempertz Offers a Cross-Section of the History of Photography at Auction
Andreas Feininger, The Photojournalist (Dennis Stock). 1951 Gelatin silver print, printed 1988. 24 x 19,3 cm (25,3 x 20,3 cm) Print 3/10 from an edition of 50 (+10) Estimate: EUR 6.000.
COLOGNE.- The Kunsthaus Lempertz Photography Auction, with approximately 200 lots, offers a cross-section through the history of the medium: from the early daguerreotypes and salt-paper prints to classical modern, from the 'fotoform' group to contemporary works. One area of interest comes from, amongst others, the photography of the Bauhaus, with names such as Lucia Moholy (Lots 29–33, € 500–2.000), T. Lux Feininger (Lots 27/28, € 600/800) and Umbo (Lots 37–41, € 2.500/3.000) represented. From other protagonists of the 1920s, Albert Renger-Patzsch with plant motifs (Lots 42/43, € 2.200 and 3/4.000) and pictures from his famous series “Töpferhände“ (Lots 44/45, € 2.800) must be mentioned, as well as August Sander who took a portrait of a group of mayors from the Eifel in 1928 (Lot 51, € 3.500). The only known print from Aenne Biermann ... More |
Rumanian Master Demetre Chiparus Stars in Impressive Design Sale at Bonhams
Demetre Chiparus, 'Antinea'. Estimate: 50,000-80,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- One of the largest and most impressive groups of bronze and ivory figures to appear at auction in recent years comes under the hammer at the Bonhams ‘Design from 1860’ sale in London on 22 June. Among the 50 plus works from a private European collector, are several pieces by the Rumanian master Demetre Chiparus from the 1920s and early 30s - his most fertile and sought after period. They include ‘Antinea’ a cold painted bronze and ivory figure of an Egyptian dancer of 1930 modelled as a lady in exotic costume and balanced sur pointes, holding her green and gilt decorated cloak above her head, on a shaped variated marble and onyx plinth. It is estimated at between £50,000 – 80,000. ‘Les Amis de Toujours’ shows a lady flanked by a pair of dogs (estimate £40,000-60,000) and ‘The Secret’ portrays two women in intricate dresses, one with her arm around the other's shoulder, le ... More | | Denver Art Museum is First U.S. Venue for Retrospective of Photographer Robert Adams
Robert Adams, Longmont, Colorado, 1979. Gelatin silver print; 5 x 5 in. Yale University Art Gallery, Purchased with a gift from Saundra B. Lane, a grant from Trellis Fund, and the Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund.
DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum (DAM) is the first U.S. venue for Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs. The exhibition will feature more than 200 black-and-white photos spanning Adams’s 45-year career, showcasing the artistic legacy of the American photographer and his longstanding engagement with the contemporary Western landscape. Adams lived and worked in Colorado for nearly 30 years. Many of his most acclaimed images were taken in the Rocky Mountain region and will strike a familiar chord with visitors. The exhibition, organized by the Yale University Art Gallery, will be on view September 25, 2011–January 2, 2012 in the museum’s Gallagher Family Gallery. “We’re excited to host the work of one of the ... More | | Peggy Guggenheim Collection Presents Exhibition of Gallerist Ileana Sonnabend: An Italian Portrait
Andy Warhol, Ileana Sonnabend, 1973. Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas. Each: 101.9 x 101.5 cm. The Sonnabend Collection ©Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, by SIAE 2011.
VENICE.- Considered by many to be among the greatest gallerists of late 20th century contemporary art, Ileana Sonnabend (1914-2007) also brought together a major art collection of her own. The exhibition Ileana Sonnabend. An Italian Portrait, on view at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, from May 29 to October 2, 2011, presents works from the Sonnabend Collection, New York, on the theme of Italy: works by Italian artists, and works by international artists which reference Italian culture, tradition, and topography. Ileana Schapira was born in Bucharest, Romania. Her father was a successful businessman and financial advisor to King Carol II of Romania. She met Leo Krausz (later Castelli) in 1932 and married him a year later. In 1935 they moved to Paris and opened an art gallery there, ... More |
National Gallery of Denmark Presents an All-New Display of Modern French Art
André Derain (1880 - 1954), Woman in a Chemise, 1906. Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm.
DENMARK.- Concurrently with the official opening of the new display of the collection of older Danish and Nordic art, the National Gallery of Denmark also welcomes audiences to an all-new display of modern French art. The collection includes some of the Gallery’s most famous works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, and ceramics by artists such as Picasso, Braque, Modigliani, Derain, and not least Matisse. The National Gallery of Denmark’s splendid collection of French Modernist art forms part of the Gallery’s collection of post-1900 Danish and international art. In many respects, however, it is a separate entity with its very own history and internal logic. To reflect this, the collection has now been given its very own domain and has taken up residence in a sequence of the Gallery’s most beautiful exhibition rooms in the old museum building. The scope and quality of the collection ... More | | Wear Me Out: the Middelheim Museum Presents the Art of Austrian Artist Erwin Wurm
Erwin Wurm, performative sculpture, 2011 ©Ellfie Semotan in collaboration with Wallpaper.
ANTWERP.- From 29 May to 25 September 2011, the Middelheim Museum is a playground for contemporary artist Erwin Wurm. The Austrian artist placed 20 works among the pieces of the permanent collection. He is creating two new pieces for the Braem Pavilion, which combine to create a single installation piece. The WEAR ME OUT exhibition is a true voyage of discovery through the open-air museum, along which the visitor can wonder at Wurm’s expressive art, while at the same time becoming a part of it. Erwin Wurm has invited Antwerp fashion designer, Walter Van Beirendonck, to collaborate for the occasion. This summer, the Middelheim Museum is a playground for the Austrian contemporary artist Erwin Wurm (b. 1954, lives and works in Vienna and Limberg, Austria). From 29 May to 25 September, a selection of 20 pieces, some on loan from international collections and others new, will guide the visitor through the sculpture par ... More | | Major Exhibition of Works by Italian Artist Giuseppe Penone at Haunch of Venison
Giuseppe Penone, To repeat the forest-fragment 28, 2007, white pine wood, 109 1/2 x 12 5/8 x 5 3/4 in. © Giuseppe Penone. Courtesy of Haunch of Venison.
LONDON.- Haunch of Venison London presents a major exhibition of works by Italian artist Giuseppe Penone (b.1947). Regarded as one of the most important artists of his generation, Penone emerged through the late 1960s and 1970s as an exponent of Arte Povera, the enduringly influencial avant garde Italian art movement. This exhibition will bring together new and recent works in wood and bronze as well as documentation relating to a series of ground-breaking projects made in 1968 and an installation of his extraordinary ‘Skin of Graphite’ drawings. This will be the largest exhibition of Penone’s work to date in London. The central theme of Giuseppe Penone’s work is an exploration of the relationship between man and nature. For Penone, nature represents the great memory, the ever-present model of the processes of change and growth that ... More |
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 Museu Coleccao Berardo in Lisbon Opens PHotoEspaña 2011 with a Show by Alfredo JaarLISBON.- The exhibition by Alfredo Jarr was presented in a press conference at Museu Colecção Berardo at Lisbon. The exhibition is under the Official Section of PHotoEspaña 2011 Interfaces, Portraiture and Communication. A Hundred Times Nguyen, focused in the girl Nguyen whom the artist met at a refugee camp in Hong Kong, is the protagonist of an installation in which the image of her face is repeated over and over again. The work purports to reflect on the distant effect of news reports, and it explores the widening distance between the Third World and the developing countries. The exhibition is on view from May 27 through August 26, 2011. The girld Nguyen, whom Alfredo Jaar met at a refugee camp in Hong Kong, is the protagonist of an installation in which her face is repeated over and over again.The work strives to explore the distancing effect of news reports, and it delves into Jaar’s preoccupation with the dista ... More Secession Presents Saskia Olde Wolbers: A Shot in the DarkVIENNA.- With her exhibition at the Secession, video artist Saskia Olde Wolbers is showing a selection of her work in Austria for the first time, including the new piece Pareidolia (2011). Since the mid-1990s, she has been developing fictional documentaries that hover somewhere between illusion and reality. Her surreally bizarre narratives are driven by a combination of dream-like imagery – meticulously handmade model worlds – and the apparent inner monologue of the voiceover in the audiobook-like soundtracks. The exhibition is on view from May 27 through August 21, 2011. At the core of Saskia Olde Wolbers’ visual lexicon and symbolism lie water, wetness, sinking, submersion, drifting. Dipped in paint and placed in underwater tanks, Olde Wolbers lends her deserted landscapes and mysterious objects a kind of virtual life. In her semi-illustrated stories, she underlines the multiplicity of meanings, distortions, illu ... More Christie's Raises HK$36 Million for The Nature Conservancy with Sale of Zeng Fanzhi's 'The Leopard' HONG KONG.- Tremendous applause broke out as the hammer came down on the last picture at Christie’s Evening Sale of Asian Contemporary Art on 28 May 2011. The Leopard by renowned Chinese contemporary artist Zeng Fanzhi (born 1964), sold for HK$36 million/US$4.63 million, with proceeds going to support The Nature Conservancy, a non-profit environmental organization. The buyer, Chinese entrepreneur Zhao Zhijun will display The Leopard at his private museum at Beijing. François Curiel, President of Christie’s Asia, who was the auctioneer for Zeng Fanzhi’s Leopard said, “With more than 10 hands in the air at the opening bid of HK$4 million, buyers quickly brought the price up to HK$20 million; two determined collectors fought for the picture until Chinese entrepreneur Zhao Zhijun won it for HK$36 million /US$4.63 million. Art brought together ... More Philip Juras: The Southern Frontier, Landscapes Inspired by Bartram's Travels at Morris Museum of ArtAUGUSTA, GA.- Philip Juras: The Southern Frontier Landscapes Inspired by Bartram’s Travels is on view at the Morris Museum of Art from May 28 through August 14, 2011. The exhibition includes more than sixty works, nearly half of them studio paintings; smaller plein-air pieces, produced on-site, round out the show. “Remarkably, Philip Juras, a wonderfully skilled painter in the service of a higher ideal, has here made us aware of all that we’ve lost—the Edenic America that brave, curious, and somewhat foolhardy adventurers like William Bartram explored in hopes of capturing their own first visions of a continent they thought untouched by the hand of man. They were wrong, of course; the landscape had in fact been managed from time immemorial, but the simple awe felt by Bartram was both palpable and contagious,” said Kevin Grogan, director of the Morris Museum of Art. As Philip Juras has noted, “T ... More New Photographic Work to Go on Show in Glasgow GLASGOW.- A striking photographic work featuring handprints of famous poets and artists are on show in Glasgow. Handprint Posters by German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann comprises ten posters illustrating handprints of some of the most famous artists and poets of the 20th century. It’s the latest acquisition for the city of Glasgow’s art collection, made with thanks to our £5m Art Fund International scheme. It are on show in the UK for the first time from 28 May, as part of a new exhibition of international contemporary art at the Common Guild. The work includes handprints from famous artists and poets including Marcel Duchamp, André Breton, Aldous Huxley and Alberto Giacometti. The handprints featured in the work were originally made by psychologist Charlotte Wolff in the 1930s. Feldmann made them by scanning and enlarging pages from Wolff’s notebooks. Born in 1941, Hans-Peter Feldman is an internationally renown ... More L-13, London: A Riot in a Jam Jar by James CautyLONDON.- It’s the art show that guarantees you will never look at riots, rioters, or jam jars in the same way again… Featuring tiny sculptures in jam jars, A Riot in a Jam Jar depicts either real or imagined violent clashes, past or future, between protestors, innocent bystanders and the UK’s law enforcement authorities. It gets underway Wednesday, 1 June, at The L-13 Light Industrial Workshop in Clerkenwell, London. The works are by the anarchist artist and musician, James Cauty, who gained notoriety for burning a million pounds in cash in 1994 with Bill Drummond, his bandmate in The KLF, one of the most successful groups of the 1990s. The miniature works of art – also known as Small World Re-Enactments – delve into historical fact and future imaginings: from the attack on the car carrying the Prince of Wales by student rioters last winter to the death of newspaper vendor, Ian Tomlinson, at the G20 prote ... More UK's First Major Exhibition about British War Correspondents at the Imperial War Museum NorthMANCHESTER.- Imperial War Museum North in Manchester presents the UK’s first major exhibition about British war correspondents, revealing the people behind the news – with many unique, historic items from household name reporters on display for the first time. The exhibition is o view from May 28 through January 2, 2012. Being a war correspondent is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. It is also seen as one of the most exciting. This exhibition looks in-depth at some of the century’s most celebrated war correspondents, revealing dramatic true stories, the pressures they have faced and the changing nature of war reporting from 1914 to the present day. Entry is free to this major, must-see exhibition, which displays many remarkable items for the first time. See the bullet that deflected into Kate Adie’s leg in Lebanon, a burqa worn by John Simpson to secretly enter Afghanistan in 2001, the typ ... More All that Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism Exhibition at QUAD in DerbyDERBY.- All that Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism is on display in QUAD Gallery from Saturday 28th May until Sunday 31st July 2011. A new exhibition exploring the apparently opposite realms of Journalism and Art. All that Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism presents the provocative idea that art and journalism are two sides of a unique activity; the production and distribution of images and information. The exhibition brings to surface how images and information are communicated, and the aesthetic principles used in the act of transmission. Whereas journalism provides a view on the world, as it ‘really’ is; art often presents a view on the view, truth posited as acts of reflection. All that Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism examines both as systems of informat ... More New Exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts Explores Shifting Perceptions of RealityMINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) announced that it will present a major exhibition entitled “More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness.” The exhibition will presents work by some of today’s most accomplished and promising international artists who are examining our shifting experience of reality. Organized by the MIA, the museum is partnering with SITE Santa Fe, which will open the exhibition in Santa Fe in July 2012, before it travels to the MIA in February 2013. Over the past century, during a period of unprecedented technological change and global social upheaval, once agreed-upon beliefs, or “truths,” have been cast into doubt — changing and shaping our understanding and experience of reality. Through diverse media and in unexpected ways, this exhibition explores the impact and role of deception, play, memory, power, simulation, and new technologies on art and everyday ... More |
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