| | The Art of the Automobile: Masterpieces of the Ralph Lauren Collection on View in Paris
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A Ferrari 250 LM, 1964, vintage sport car is seen during the press day of the exhibition 'The Art of the Automobile, Masterpieces from the Ralph Lauren Collection' at Les Arts Decoratifs Museum in Paris. The exhibition, which runs from April 28 to August 28, presents a selection of the most prestigious sports cars from the 1930s to the present day and outlines the main phases of the European automobile history. REUTERS/Charles Platiau.
PARIS.- Among the major car collections in the world, there is one that stands out more than any other as synonymous with excellence: that of iconic American fashion designer Ralph Lauren. A selection of the most prestigious sports cars from the 1930s to present day is on view for the first time in Europe at Paris’ Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Seventeen outstanding cars, chosen by curator Rodolphe Rapetti, and put on display by Jean-Michel Wilmotte, outline the main phases of European automobile history. With this collection, Ralph Lauren shows that the automobile is a major art form created by the industry’s biggest names: Bugatti, Alfa Romeo, Bentley, Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, Porsche and of course, Ferrari, the high point of this unique collection. In 1970, Les Arts Décoratifs presented a selection of competition cars, “Bolides Design.” To compile the exhibition, a special jury was assembled, featur ... More |
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Exhibition Reveals Unconventional Ways in Which Renaissance Europe Used Printed Image
J. Kleininger (German, late 18th century–19th century). Portable Compass Sundial, c. 1790. Wood and hand-colored etching on paper with string gnomon; 87 x 52 mm (3 7/16 x 2 1/16 in.). The Art Institute of Chicago. Gift from Mr. Charles H. Morse, Sr. in memory of his wife, Mrs. Charlotte Morse.
CHICAGO, IL.- Today's scrapbookers weren't the first to abuse paper products––Renaissance print owners were regular vandals who cut, pasted, adored, and adorned their personal print collections, the same ones that are stored in museum vaults today. The exhibition Altered and Adorned: Using Renaissance Prints in Daily Life—on view April 30 through July 10, 2011, at the Art Institute of Chicago—takes a long-overdue look at these well-handled works, demonstrating how their condition today reflects their various uses and functions in the past. Filling the museum’s Jean and Steven Goldman Prints and Drawings Galleries in the Richard and Mary L. Gray Wing (Galleries 124–127), Altered and Adorned features more than 100 rare and never-before-seen printed objects and objects with printed components from the Art ... More | | Dispersed Nazi Records of Art Looting Located and Documented in New Survey
"Marais aux songes", Max Ernst, oil on canbas, 100 x 82 cm. ERR ID: Watson 12 - Bundesarchiv, B323/1070.
NEW YORK, NY.- -- In response to complaints from the art world of the difficulty and expense in viewing the scattered and complex records needed to ascertain whether an artwork was looted, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) has initiated and supported a series of interlocking projects that provide greater access to and information about the records of the main Nazi agency responsible for looting cultural valuables in Nazi-occupied countries. Original Nazi files of the looting of hundreds of thousands of art, books, archives, and other cultural valuables have now been located and documented in the latest project to make accessible the Nazis’ own records of their plunder. “Smaller museums and individual art dealers in particular often do not have the resources and personnel to do the research necessary to establish the provenance of art objects they have. We are making it easier for them to carry out their professional and mora ... More | | Exhibition of Rarely Seen Objects from the Cameroon Grassfields at the Neuberger Museum
Mask (akam). Unidentified Kingdom, Aghem/Fungom region, 20th century. Wood, fiber, and human hair(?) Private Collection.
PURCHASE, NY.- Art in Cameroon: Sculptural Dialogues, on view at the Neuberger Museum of Art through August 14, 2011, highlights two iconic works in the Museum’s African collection: an expressive nineteenth-century figure from a Bangwa kingdom, attributed to a master carver whose identity is contested, and an intricately-carved mid-twentieth- century ivory tusk from the Kedjom Kitingu kingdom, both located in the Cameroon Grassfields. Twenty-eight powerful objects drawn from private and public collections, set these two works from the Neuberger Museum in a larger context. Ranging in scale from imposing architectural elements to small, embellished pipes, the objects are organized by type – figures, masks, pipes, and tusks. This sculptural ensemble reveals the dynamic nature of Grassfields artistic expression resulting from regional interactions and trade. It also sheds light on the extraordinary ... More |
 | Haunch of Venison Announces New Locations for Its Galleries in London and New York
Tom Wesselmann, Sunset Nude with Big Palm Tree, 2004 (detail). Oil on canvas, 266.7 x 325.1 cm © Tom Wesselmann. Courtesy Haunch of Venison.
LONDON.- Haunch of Venison London and Haunch of Venison New York announced that both galleries will move their respective locations. The London gallery will move back to its original location at Haunch of Venison Yard in September following an extensive renovation of the gallery while the New York gallery will move to 550 West 21st Street in Chelsea, leaving its current Rockefeller Center premises. Leading architect Annabelle Selldorf will redesign both spaces. The New York gallery will move to a 6,000ft² ground floor space in the heart of the Chelsea gallery district in the autumn of 2011. Commenting on the move to the new downtown space in New York, Emilio Steinberger, International Director, Haunch of Venison New York, said: “This is an important new growth chapter for the gallery. We look forward to putting on an even broader and more exciting program of exhibitions to be presented to a ... More | | British Artist Fiona Banner's Snoopy Vs. the Red Baron at Galerie Barbara Thumm
Fiona Banner, Beagle Punctuation, 2011. Neon bent by artist, perspex frame, wire, transformer, 53 x 73 x 14 cm. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin.
BERLIN.- Fiona Banner's practice centres on the problems and possibilities of language, both written and metaphorical. From her 'wordscapes' to her use of found and transformed military aircraft, Banner juxtaposes the brutal and the sensual, performing an almost complete cycle of intimacy, attraction and alienation. In this exhibition the artist alternates between the pathos of battle in her monumental sculptures, and the gentle humour of her works on paper, as she looks at how we mythologize ourselves and our history, and our willingness to be seduced by our own myths. The title of the show is taken from a 1966 hit song, which describes the battle between Snoopy and World War 1 flying ace The Red Baron. The song music was never published for legal reasons; Snoopy's owners sued the band over use of his name. For this show, Banner has created sheet music re-interpreting the original pop song, turning it into an annotated fugue. Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts with his sta ... More | | Visitors to National Park Service's New Museum in Pearl Harbor Now Get Japan and United States View
Visitors to the USS Arizona Memorial look at a display at Pearl Harbor. AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy.
By: Audrey McAvoy, Associated Press
PEARL HARBOR (AP).- Political assassinations in Tokyo. Censorship and the stifling of dissent. A nation hungry for oil and other natural resources. Kimono-clad women in department stores and boarding street cars. A smiling Babe Ruth posing for photos with Japanese teenage baseball players while on tour with other American all-stars. Visitors to Pearl Harbor are seeing these snapshots of 1930s Japan as they stroll through the National Park Service's new museum devoted to the Dec. 7, 1941, attack that dragged the U.S. into World War II. This is a significant departure from the old collection devoted to one of worst foreign attacks ever on American soil — what life was like in Japan at the time didn't much figure into it. The center, which officially opened last Dec. 7 and is drawing about 4,000 visitors a day, was built in part because the old one was sinking on reclaimed land. The park service had ... More |
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Silver City Soul: A Video Portrait of the City of Aberdeen at the National Galleries of Scotland
Silver City Soul, video still, 2011, Adam Proctor copyright Adam Proctor, National Galleries of Scotland, Aberdeen City Council.
EDINBURGH.- Silver City Soul presents an innovative portrait project that searches for the soul of one of Scotland’s most historic cities. Working in partnership with Aberdeen City Council, the National Galleries of Scotland’s Outreach team has joined with the people of Aberdeen to create a collective portrait which explores the city’s past, present and future. The resulting video and photographic work went on display this spring at the National Gallery Complex. The exhibition includes powerful video footage, created by artist Adam Proctor, which is being shown alongside a set of striking portrait photographs. These photographs are arranged to form a montage which stretches the full length of the gallery. Inspired by the figurative paintings of 19th-century Aberdonian artists William Dyce and John Phillip (from the National ... More | | Largest Public Art Project Installation by New York's Acconci Studio Planned for Indianapolis
“Swarm Street” rendering by Acconci Studio.
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- As the Indianapolis Cultural Trail: A Legacy of Gene & Marilyn Glick races to finish its last legs of construction, its last and largest public art installation is announced. Located inside the Virginia Avenue parking garage south of Maryland St., “Swarm Street” by Acconci Studio of New York (pronounced “Uh-KON-chee”), is an interactive light environment that the creators compare to swarms of fireflies. More than 1,000 LED-lights will be embedded below you in the pavement plus another 1,000 will be installed in an open steel-framework above you. Movement from users on the trail will activate light sensors that “swarm” around the user and follow the movement through the space. The Cultural Trail’s Public Art Advisory Committee first approached Vito Acconci at Acconci Studio in 2007 based on his world-renowned reputation as an artist, designer, and thinker. “The garage is our biggest design challenge,” said Brian Pa ... More | | New Exhibition Highlights through Art and Photography the History and Impact of Aviation
The Earth seen as a pale blue dot from Voyager 1, taken approximately 3.7 billion miles from Earth, 1990. From the collection of Stephen White.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The fantasies and realities of flight and space exploration, as depicted through art and photography in the West and around the world, went on display in the Autry National Center’s new Skydreamers exhibition. The great journey of discovery and its unifying impact on all of us as eyewitnesses unfolds through approximately 150 items, principally original high-quality photographs, as well as works on paper, paintings, posters, and memorabilia drawn primarily from the extensive collection of flight and space material in the Stephen White collection. “When the Autry agreed to showcase Skydreamers, I envisioned an exhibition that traced the beginnings of flight through the aviation period and into an exploration of the greater universe, but as the selection process evolved and the ... More |
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The Netherlands Announced as Special Guest at 2012 ARCOmadrid's Orange Week
Fermín Lucas, General Director of IFEMA and Peter van Wulfften Palthe, Ambassador from the Netherlands in Spain at the press conference.
MADRID.- Within the framework of Semana Naranja, or Orange Week, organised by the Embassy of the Netherlands, at IED Madrid IFEMA presented the participation of the Netherlands as its Special Guest at the 31st ARCOmadrid, International Contemporary Art Fair, to be held from 15th to 19th February 2012 at Feria de Madrid. At the presentation, Luis Eduardo Cortés, Executive President of IFEMA, accompanied by Peter van Wulfften Palthe, Ambassador of the Netherlands in Spain; Fermín Lucas, General Director of IFEMA; and Carlos Urroz, Director of ARCOmadrid, underscored the country’s outstanding infrastructure in the arts, its dynamism and creative diversity, as well as the active collaboration of the Mondriaan Foundation and the Embassy of the Netherlands , as core factors in its choice of special guest, together with the goal of consolidating ... More | | Sculptures Created in Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art's Bloch Lobby in Full View of Visitors
File photo of American artist Roxy Paine posing with "Maelstrom". AP Photo/Richard Drew.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Visitors to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will get a rare look at art while it’s being created as part of the exhibition Roxy Paine: Scumaks and Dendroids, April 29 – Aug. 28 in Bloch Lobby. A sculpture-making machine designed by artist Roxy Paine melts plastic polyethylene beads with pigments and periodically extrudes them, creating unique, bulbous-shaped sculptures. The completed sculptures will be displayed on pedestals for the duration of the exhibition, which is called Roxy Paine: Scumaks and Dendroids. Paine will flip the switch to start production at 10 a.m. Friday, April 29, in Bloch Lobby as part of a public dedication and celebration of Paine’s work. “All of Roxy Paine’s work addresses the relationship between what occurs naturally and that which is technologically produced,” said Jan Schall, Sanders Sosland Curator, Modern & Contemporary Art. “The organic ... More | | Belgian Artist Lili Dujourie Presents Her First Exhibition with Galerie Michael Janssen
Lili Dujourie, Installation view, 2011. Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin.
BERLIN.- Galerie Michael Janssen is presenting its first exhibition by Belgian artist Lili Dujourie (b. 1941). Lili Dujourie’s work includes video, collages, sculptures, installations and photographic series. The gallery will present her recent works of clay, papier-mâché and iron floor sculptures as well as a video installation, a photographic series and an early slide projection. Dujourie was one of the few female artists experimenting with video in late 1960’s and 1970’s and her pioneering videos are radical explorations of the then new medium. Since the 1980’s she has been making sculptures and it remains her predominant art form today. Her sculptures are often executed in techniques and materials that resonate with many centuries of tradition, such as draped velvet, marble intarsia, lead or ceramics. She is continuously concerned with contemporary reinterpretations of themes, forms and ges ... More |
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 Exploring the Mystery of Place: New Exhibition at Kemper Museum Puts Eric Forstmann's Works in Context KANSAS CITY, MO.- Reminiscent of Edward Hopper’s works of isolation, Eric Forstmann paints images of the empty streets of Amenia, a small town in New York’s Hudson Valley, as well as the interiors of long-abandoned farmhouses. The exhibition Acquisitions in Context: Eric Forstmann focuses on the painter’s interiors and nighttime street scenes and provides context for the artist’s work, Amenia, 2:30 a.m. (2010–11), commissioned by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art for its Permanent Collection. The exhibition, featuring nine works, is on view April 29–August 14, 2011, at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Admission to the Museum is free. As a realist painter, Forstmann works in recognizable genres—still life, plein air landscapes, trompe l’oeil, and interiors. The artist celebrates the images of the everyday and takes inspiration from painters before him, from 17th-century Dutch ... More Galerie Guido W. Baudach Presents 0,10 and a Half by Andy Hope 1930 in the Context of Gallery Weekend 2011BERLIN.- Galerie Guido W. Baudach presents 0,10 and a half by Andy Hope 1930 in the context of Gallery Weekend 2011. This is the artist’s fifth solo-exhibition with us and is taking place at the gallery spaces in Wedding and Charlottenburg. The exhibition moves between the half and the whole, dealing with cuts and combinations, bisections and full volumes, interruption and continuation, frames and infinity. Its terms are the two broad systems of reference which Andy Hope 1930 consistently brings together, intersects, mounts and contrasts in his art. The title invokes the first system directly: the art of the Russian suprematists in its initial phase – 0,10 – the unusual title of the now legendary 1915 exhibition which hailed the end of Russian futurism in Petrograd (now St Petersburg). The second field ... More Solo Exhibition of Korean Artist Noh, Sang-Kyoon at Bryce Wolkowitz GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery presents Conjuring Constellations, a solo exhibition of Korean artist Noh, Sang-Kyoon. Noh, Sang-Kyoon chooses to follow his personal mythos as a source and driver for his creative process. Covered in thousands of sequins that he threads together by hand, the early sculptures and canvases of Noh, Sang-Kyoon trace their origins to both the ordinary and the spiritual-from the memory of his mother's spangled bag and the costumes of singers on television, to a near-death childhood experience, when he nearly drowned. He realized then that he "could die in vain, as nobody, as nothing, with no purpose, as if a fish without scales that is doomed to perish." He later translated these memories into a series of early work where sequins created the shining appearance of life-saving fish scales. In his past work, the Buddha series entitled "For the Worshippers", Noh, Sang-Kyoon elevates everyda ... More Within the Revolution, EveryoneBy Alexander Nixon, MA
NEW YORK, NY.- A naked woman covered in white make-up crouches on the floor after having hacked off her own head with a samurai sword. This powerful image by Cuban painter Rocío García, whose three-part interview for the Cuban Art Space Interview Series is a tour de force of philosophy, existentialism, and nihilism that makes Nietzsche and Freud seem quaint. "From our attitudes about sexuality spring forth many of our social, economic, even political problems," she explains in the interview. “All of our human relationships are bound by love and violence,” she states later on. As a viewer, I interpret the auto-decapitation painting from her Geisha series as her way of illustrating how individuals many societies may resort to self-inflicted violence and sexual self-repression in order ... More Pro Ai Weiwei Graffiti in Hong Kong Sparks Warning by Chinese ArmyHONG KONG (REUTERS).- A spate of graffiti appearing across Hong Kong in recent weeks in support of detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has sparked a warning by the Chinese army garrison in the city, a newspaper reported on Saturday. An artist in the former British colony calling himself Cpak Ming recently projected an image bearing the words "Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei?" onto a wall at the People's Liberation Army (PLA) harbor-front barracks in the heart of the city. While the brief artistic stunt with a camera, that was photographed and uploaded onto Facebook, left no physical trace, a PLA spokesman in Hong Kong said such acts breached Hong Kong laws and the PLA would "reserve its legal rights" to act, the South China Morning Post reported. "No one can paint or project pictures and images onto the outer wall of the barracks with the garrison's permission. Such an offence is a breach of Hong Kong law. The PLA reserve its legal rights," the PLA spokesman was quoted as saying. Ai, a ... MoreFlorida Tech to Open Merger Talks with Brevard Art MuseumMELBOURNE, FLA.- Florida Institute of Technology announced Friday that it will open formal discussions with the Brevard Art Museum (BAM) Board of Trustees to merge museum operations with the university. "The Florida Tech Board of Trustees has authorized me to begin negotiations," said Florida Tech President Anthony J. Catanese. "A merger with the Brevard Art Museum would allow enhancement of this important community resource. Florida Tech could expand arts programs and exhibitions to this venue, in a win-win scenario for all concerned." University staff members are currently completing an assessment of the museum's facilities and holdings. Florida Tech's intention would be to run the museum, located in the Eau Gallie Arts District, as an outreach and educational effort, Catanese said. "Our board has also approved merger discussions with the university," said Tom Powers, chairman of the BAM Board of Trustees. "We are very pleased w ... More |
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