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A marble sculpture by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei entitled 'Marble Arm' is seen at ART HK 11, Asia's largest art fair, Hong Kong, China, 25 May 2011. Ai Weiwei has not been seen since his detention by the Chinese authorities on 04 April 2011. Despite China's crackdown on the artist, the ART HK 11 is able to host galleries from around the world, some of whom are displaying his work under the 'one country, two systems' agreement which guarantees freedom of artistic expression in Hong Kong, under the city's mini-constitution, or 'Basic Law'. ART HK 11 will run from 26-29 May 2011, and will host 260 galleries from 38 countries. EPA/ALEX HOFFORD.
HONG KONG.- Back for its fourth year, ART HK 11 – Hong Kong International Art Fair will take place from 26 – 29 May 2011 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). Sponsored by Deutsche Bank, ART HK 11 presents a strengthened exhibitor line-up that confirms the Fair‟s place as Asia‟s premier art fair, and firmly establishes ART HK 11 amongst the world‟s top art fairs. As part of its development and commitment to its role as the region‟s art hub, ART HK 11 introduces ASIA ONE, a new section of the fair showcasing work by Asian artists. This year, ART HK will welcome over 161 galleries from 30 countries in its main gallery section. The strength of Western galleries represented at the Fair is world class, with the return of galleries from across Europe and the USA including Marianne Boesky Gallery, Leo Castelli Gallery, James Cohan Gallery, Pilar Corrias Gallery, Gagosia ... More |
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Unveils Preliminary Designs for Its Expansion
Snøhetta, SFMOMA Expansion View from Yerba Buena; image courtesy Snøhetta.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) today unveiled the preliminary design for its expansion that will double the museum's exhibition and education space while enhancing the visitor experience and more deeply weaving the museum into the fabric of the city. The new building will both transform the museum and enliven the city by opening up new routes of public circulation around the neighborhood and into the museum. Completion is projected in 2016. Developed by architectural firm Snøhetta in collaboration with SFMOMA and EHDD of San Francisco, the over 225,000-square-foot expansion will run contiguously along the back of the current building and extend from Howard to Minna streets, allowing for the seamless integration of the two structures. The new building will provide SFMOMA with a greater public profile and an openness that will welcome visitors and project the museum's role as a catalyst for new ideas, a center for learning, and a place that pro ... More | | Newly Released Tape Shows John F. Kennedy Fretted Moon Program was Tough Sell
File photo of President John F. Kennedy and son, John Jr. AP Photo.
By: Jay Lindsay, Associated Press
BOSTON, MA (AP).- After setting a soaring vision to land a man on the moon, President John F. Kennedy struggled with how to sell the public on a costly space program he worried had "lost its glamour" and had scant political benefits, according to a newly released White House tape. Kennedy and NASA Administrator James Webb hashed out how to strengthen public backing for the mission, such as by highlighting its technological benefits and military uses. And in a scenario that echoes today, the two worried about preserving funding amid what Webb calls a "driving desire to cut the budget," according to the tape recorded two months before Kennedy was assassinated. "It's become a political struggle now," Kennedy says, near the end of the 46-minute tape. "We've got to hold this thing, goddamn it." The Sept. 18, 1963, conversation is among 260 hours of White House ... More | | Old Masters Paintings Sale at Christie's New York Features a Great Selection of Works
The Master of the Parrot, Saint Mary Magdalene before a curtain supported by angels in an architectural niche, oil on panel, 29 x 23 in. Estimate 600,000 - 800,000 U.S. dollars. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announces its upcoming auction of Old Master Paintings on June 8, 2011 at 10 am, featuring a selection of works by the great French, Italian, Flemish and British masters of the 15th through the 19th century including Pieter Breughel II, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and Sir Joshua Reynolds, among others. This dedicated sale of Old Master Paintings – the first at Christie’s New York since early 2008 – offers collectors and dealers the opportunity to acquire important examples of European Art at very approachable price levels. Estimates begin at $3,000 and range upwards to $600,000 for the most significant offerings. The sale is expected to achieve in excess of $5 million. The cover lot of the sale is a masterpiece portrayal of Saint Mary Magdalene by the anonymous 16th century artist referred to as the Master of the Parrot (estimate: ... More |
Christie's New York to Present Over 200 Lots for the Spring Sale of Antiquities in June
The Hope Isis, a Roman marble Isis circa 1st-2nd Century A.D. Estimate $500,000 - 800,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announces the sale of Antiquities on June 9, which will offer over 200 lots with a magnificent selection of Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Near Eastern works of art. Leading the sale is the de Clercq Pan and Hermaphrodite, a Roman marble group that depicts a struggle between the goat-legged god Pan and Hermaphrodite, who is portrayed with a sensuous female body but with the addition of male genitalia. The group was sculpted during the early Roman Imperial period, circa 1st century A.D., but is based on an original from the mid-2nd century B.C., when illustrations of the struggles between bestial forces and a nymph or Hermaphrodite were immensely popular. In the Roman Period, such sculptural groups were usually displayed in the gardens of wealthy Romans, where the bestial nature of the groups contrasts with the well-ordered layout and plantings of the garden. Viewers would have been able to ... More | | Villa Grisebach in Berlin to Offer Modern and Contemporary Photographs for Spring Sale
George Hoyningen-Huene, Divers, Paris (Horst P. and Model, swimwear by Izod), 1930. Later gelatin silver print.
17 5/8 x 13 3/8 in.
BERLIN- Villa Grisebach’s spring auctions in Berlin begins, May 26, 2011, with the 190-lot auction of modern and contemporary photography. Two photo albums from a Swiss private collection are auctioned that include, among other photographs, rare images of Bauhaus artist Oskar Schlemmer and his family, taken by Kurt Bryner. Contact prints and portraits (signed by Schlemmer and others appearing in the photos) show the artist, his wife Tut and his children Jaina, Karin, and Tilman during their 1937–1940 stay in Badenweiler in Southern Germany (€25,000/30,000). The famous “Mainbocher Corset” by Horst P. Horst (€10,000/15,000) counts among the masterworks of the history of photography, as well as George Hoyningen-Huene’s classical “Divers, Paris” (a print originally from the collection of Horst P. Horst) (€8,000/12,000), Berenice Abbott’s “New York at Night” (& ... More | | Cleveland Museum of Art Appoints Barbara Tannenbaum as New Curator of Photography
Barbara Tannenbaum is a prominent contemporary art and photography scholar. Photo: Andrew McAllister.
CLEVELAND, OH.- Barbara Tannenbaum, a prominent contemporary art and photography scholar as well as an accomplished museum leader, has been tapped as the next curator of photography for the Cleveland Museum of Art, following a national search. Tannenbaum’s selection marks a new generation of curatorial leadership for the museum’s renowned photography collection, known for the quality and depth of its holdings. Her appointment follows the 2010 retirement of Tom Hinson, who held the post for over 38 years, and Tannenbaum will be the second curator of photography in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s history. “Barbara brings to Cleveland the experience of having built a nationally-respected photography program with relatively modest resources,” states C. Griffith Mann, Cleveland Museum of Art deputy director and chief curator. “Under her thoughtful cultivation, the photography collection at Akron gre ... More |
Cincinnati Art Museum Conservator Conducts Conservation of van Gogh in Public
Chief Conservator Per Knutas is conducting a conservation project in public.
CINCINNATI, OH.- From Monet’s garden to Art Deco delights, the Cincinnati Art Museum will take you on a journey through time and place as part of its 2011-2012 Exhibition season. Highlighting both the Art Museum’s superb permanent collection and great works of art it is bringing to this community, the exhibition schedule also includes major renovations to galleries. “We will be using our collection of sixty thousand objects covering six thousand years of human history to reveal beauty in gardens, streets, and dance halls; in the past, the present and the future,” said Art Museum Director, Aaron Betsky. Chief Conservator Per Knutas is conducting a conservation project in public. He is stabilizing and cleaning Undergrowth with Two Figures, one of Vincent van Gogh’s last great masterpieces, which he painted just before his death in 1890. This iconic piece, which has been part of the Cinc ... More | | Bonhams to Sell Sleep-Walking Masterpiece by Pre-Raphaelite Artist Sir John Everett Millais
Sir John Everett Millais, The Somnambulist. Estimate: £70,000-100,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- The Somnambulist by Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir John Everett Millais, PRA will be a highlight of the 19th Century Paintings auction on 13th July 2011 at Bonhams New Bond Street. It is estimated to sell for £70,000-100,000. “The Woman in White” by Wilkie Collins was published in 1860 and proved immensely popular – it is thought that it may have provided Millais with inspiration for this painting. At the time, the Victorians were fascinated by sleepwalking and preoccupied with all things occult and dreamlike. They were interested in clairvoyance, seances and poltergeists and this ghostly picture of a fragile and vulnerable looking girl would have appealed greatly to contemporary taste. On it’s completion in 1871 the work was reviewed in The Illustrated London News which describes, “the fair figure of the somnambulist, and the accompanying night effect, with the mysterious, half-iridescent glimm ... More | | The National Galleries of Scotland Reveal Dramatic Changes to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Unknown, Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542 - 1587. Reigned 1542 – 1567, about 1610 – 1615. Oil on canvas: 201.50 x 95.70 cm. Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
EDINBURGH.- The National Galleries of Scotland will today reveal the dramatic changes that have transformed the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in the two years since it closed for renovation in April 2009. The £17.6 m project, the first major refurbishment in the Gallery’s 120-year history, has restored much of the architect’s original vision of the building, clearing away an accumulation of twentieth-century interventions, and increasing the public and exhibition space by more than 60 percent. In addition, a range of new visitor facilities has been introduced, which includes a large, purpose-built education suite; an adjoining ‘state-of-the-art’ seminar room; a larger café and shop; a new glass feature lift; an ambitious interactive new media resource and a Learning and Resource Centre. Contractors have completed ... More |
Turner Prize Nominee George Shaw Brings Together 18 Paintings at the South London Gallery
George Shaw, The Assumption, 2010 (detail), Humbrol enamel on board. © the artist, courtesy Wilkinson Gallery, London.
LONDON.- This solo exhibition by British artist and Turner Prize nominee George Shaw brings together 18 paintings made over the past 15 years charting the urban landscape of his childhood home on the Tile Hill Estate in Coventry. On view from May 25th through July 3rd 2011 at the South London Gallery. Within a practice that has encompassed drawing, video-making, performance and writing, Shaw is best known for his expansive body of painting. Painted in Humbrol enamels, more usually associated with boyhood model-making, and based on photographs, Shaw’s works revisit landmarks remembered from his youth. Meticulously painted houses, pubs, underpasses and parks become autobiographical notes, frozen in time. Shaw’s subject matter brings about associations of domesticity, folk art and a nostalgia for a lost childhood and adolescence. Yet, as The Sly and Unseen Day reveals, Shaw’s art quickly moves beyond th ... More | | Cain Schulte Contemporary Art Presents a Two-Person Exhibition of Justin Quinn and Mark Fox
Mark Fox, Untitled (Sorry), 2007. Ink, watercolor, acrylic, marker, gouache, graphite pencil, color pencil, ballpoint pen, crayon, on paper, linen tape, and metal pin, 64 x 77 x 12 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Cain Schulte Contemporary Art presents The Ghost and the Whale, a two-person exhibition featuring the work on paper of Justin Quinn and Mark Fox. The exhibition is on view from May 20 to July 2, 2011. The Ghost and the Whale is an art show by two artists whose practice is centered on manipulation, transcriptions of texts, and the close examination of these texts’ meaning and implications. Fox and Quinn’s investigations share a very close affinity in their concerns with language and the transferal of information, as well as the compulsion of visualizing the ephemeral and the liminal, in mementos to loss and concrete absence. Is something not present still real? Do intangible things still exist? For his first exhibition at the gallery, Mark Fox presents an installation of two- and three-dimensional works that incorporate the artist's ... More | | Bonhams Achieve Blockbuster Sales of Chinese Art in Hong Kong Today with All Lots Sold
As anticipated, top price was paid for a gold-ground enamelled copper Imperial snuff bottle. Photo: Bonhams.
HONG KONG.- Bonhams Hong Kong secured another ‘Golden Gavel’ triumph today (25 May 2011) with the sale of the legendary Mary and George Bloch Collection of Chinese Snuff bottles: Part III. All 142 lots sold out for a total of HK$38,361,600 (£3,054,329). The blockbuster sale proves that the international market for the finest Chinese snuff bottles shows no sign of abating at the top level. The Island Shangri-La Hotel’s ballroom was filled to capacity today as bidders from Hong Kong, Beijing, Taipei, Singapore, London and California vied with bidders on the telephone to acquire the superb snuff bottles from the third selection of the world’s finest private collection, by far the best ever to come to the auction market. For the third time in this series of sales, every lot was successfully sold, maintaining Bonhams’ unique auction tradition in Hong Kong. Colin Sheaf, Chairman of Bonhams Asia and auctio ... More |
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 Iranian Painters Turn Golden Pages of New ChapterTEHRAN.- A new chapter has opened for Iranian artists enjoying a boom in sales and interest from major international auction houses such as Christie's despite a global economic malaise and sanctions hitting Iran. Works by Iranian painters have been selling for fairly high prices, not only outside Iran's borders but also inside the Islamic state where many Iranians are facing economic hardship. Many Iranians are fearful for the future, worrying about higher food and utilities prices. Many middle-class Iranians are squeezed by soaring rents and grocery bills on the one hand and stagnant salaries on the other. Iran's economy has suffered under international sanctions imposed by the West because of its nuclear activities. Nevertheless, there remains an apparently insatiable appetite for Iranian works of art, irrespective of the different styles and mediums and prices. There ar ... More Bonhams & Butterfields to Offer Fine European Furniture and Decorative ArtsLOS ANGELES, CA.- On June 13, 2011 at Bonhams & Butterfields in Los Angeles, the firm will offer Fine European Furniture and Decorative Arts. Highlights from the 550-lot sale will include property from the 16th through the 20th centuries, with a focus on English, French, Italian, Spanish and German works. Highlighting the auction is a strong selection of more than 20 clocks by prominent makers such as Christopher Gould, one of the most important clock makers of the late 17th century, as well as property from the Estate of noted Hollywood figures, Tim Whelan and Miriam Seegar, among others. Andrew Jones, Los Angeles Director of European Furniture and Decorative Arts at Bonhams & Butterfields said of the sale, “The spring auction boasts a good balance of 17th-19th century furnishings, porcelain and silver, as well as a robust offering of tall case, mantle and decorative clocks. Bonhams & Butterfields is to ... More Unsealed Jackie Kennedy Interviews to Air on TVNEW YORK (REUTERS).- A series of unsealed 1960s audio recordings of Jacqueline Kennedy talking about her life with husband and revered President John F. Kennedy will be broadcast on television, ABC News said on Wednesday. In 1964, the former first lady did seven interviews totaling eight and a half hours with late historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. that were recorded for posterity but have never been made public before, ABC said. They have now been unsealed and will be condensed and aired in several ABC television and radio shows, beginning in September. "My mother took very seriously the obligation to preserve and document the history of my father's administration -- and these interviews are the result," said Kennedy's daughter Caroline, who is releasing the tapes at the same time as writing the forward of a book based upon the oral history interviews. ABC said the conversations with Schlesinger "reflect ... More John Hardy Announces Launch of Artist Residency ProgramHONG KONG.- John Hardy CEO, DAMIEN DERNONCOURT, and Lehmann Maupin Gallery Partner, DAVID MAUPIN, hosted a cocktail party last night during the Hong Kong International Art Fair in honor of celebrated artist TERESITA FERNÁNDEZ. The event, held at the John Hardy Hong Kong headquarters, marked the luxury jewelry brand’s announcement of the John Hardy Artist Residency Program. Fernández is the first artist to participate in the program at John Hardy’s 100% sustainable compound in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. During her four-week residency in August, Fernández will work with John Hardy’s local artisans, exploring new techniques and incorporating recycled materials into her practice. Fernández is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards both in the U.S. and abroad, including the 2005 MacArthur Fo ... More Rare Timepieces from the Collection of James Ward Packard to Be Offered at Christie'sNEW YORK, NY.- Among serious watch collectors and horological aficionados, perhaps no name inspires as much reverence and admiration as that of James Ward Packard (1863-1928), the American auto manufacturer and inventor whose passion for watch collecting is the stuff of legend. Packard was among the first of the great watch collectors to work directly with Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin, the world’s most exclusive watch manufacturers, in his quest to build an exquisite personal collection of highly complicated, custom-designed timepieces. This June, Christie’s announces the descendants of James Ward Packard have entrusted the auction house with the sale of exceptional timepieces from this legendary collection. These extraordinary watches remain in pristine condition, having been stored away in a bank vault for the last 60 years. They will be unveiled for the first time to the public this June, and offered ... More Thiebaud Art Brings More than $1 Million during Bonhams & Butterfields 'Made in California' AuctionLOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams & Butterfields' Made in California auction on May 24, 2011 was especially strong, signaling that the market for California art continues to be robust. Telephone bidders from around the globe vied for works by the Golden State's leading modern and contemporary artists. The sale, which was simulcast from Los Angeles to San Francisco, brought more than $2.3 million, including a stellar result for Milkshake & Sandwiches by legendary artist Wayne Thiebaud. It also established several world record prices for works by Carlos Almaráz, Karl Stanley Benjamin, Hans Gustav Burkhardt and Jay DeFeo. The May sale featured an especially important selection of Bay Area art, including Milkshake & Sandwiches by Thiebaud, who was one of the earliest artists to depict everyday objects in a Pop Art manner. In keeping with the artist's signature style, Thiebaud painted Milkshake & Sandwiches with expressive brushstrokes and ... MoreBirger Sandzén's Late Moon Rising Brings $262,900 to Lead $2.597+ Million Heritage Fine Art AuctionDALLAS, TX.- Birger Sandzén's Late Moon Rising (Wild Horse Creek), 1923, brought a stunning $262,900 as the top lot in Heritage Auction's May 17 combined Signature® Fine American, European Art & Western Art sale, held May 17 at Heritage's Design District Annex at 1518 Slocum Street. The auction realized $2,597,907 total, with a sell-through rate of 71.7% by value. All prices include 19.5% Buyer's Premium. "Prices realized across the board were solid," said Ed Beardsley, Managing Director of Heritage's Department of Fine Art. "We saw more than 750 bidders vying for 391 lots across three different categories. Interest was strong and the bids were there to back that interest up." The $262,900 realized for Sandzén's Late Moon Rising (Wild Horse Creek) is the second highest price ever realized for the artist at auction. "Sandzen's works are among the most highly desirable paintings on the market today, as evidenced by the fierce bidding ... More |
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