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Inside the Centre for Art and Media technology (ZKM) the installation ,Fat Car Covertible, from 2005 by the artist Austrian Erwin Wurm is presented in Karlsruhe, Germany, 16 June 2011. The installation is part of the exhibiton 'CAR CULTURE Media of technology', that is runs from 18 June 2011 until 08 January 2012. EPA/ULI DECK.
KARLSRUHE.- The technologies of the 20th and 21st centuries facilitate new forms of independence from place. With Media of Mobility, the exhibition “CAR CULTURE” takes up the theme of mobility in a twofold sense: the material mobility of the body, cars and machines, stands juxtaposed to the immaterial mobility of signals, telegraphy, television, radio, telephone and Internet. One hundred and twenty five years ago witnessed the construction of the first automobile by Carl Benz, and the existence of electromagnetic waves by Heinrich Hertz was proved. Thus, in Baden there began a development spanning from automobile to mobile telephone – to unlimited individual mobility. As a cult object and symbol of individual freedom, the car is, par excellence, the medium of mobility that enjoys an exceptional position due to its being available at all times. In the exhibition, the ground floor of the ZKM | Media Museum is transformed ... More |
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Despite Several Setbacks, Dutch National Museum Renovation in Full Swing; to Reopen in 2013
Workers are seen inside one of two court yards in the National Museum. AP Photo/Peter Dejong.
By: Toby Sterling, Associated Press
AMSTERDAM (AP).- Rembrandt's "Night Watch" and other famed works by Dutch masters will return to their permanent home by 2013, as a radical decade-long renovation of the national Rijksmuseum nears completion. A sneak preview Wednesday showed the 19th-century museum both modernized and closer to its original plan. Its red-brick exterior, reminiscent of a fairy-tale castle, remains intact. Inside, maze-like corridors have been scrapped in favor of large spaces and high ceilings, with a central "gallery of honor" restored to its initial appearance, evoking the vault of a gothic cathedral. Spokesman Boris de Munnick said the design sacrificed some wall space in favor of better flow and simplicity. But the museum also gained space by moving administrative offices offsite and by expanding underground. The museum will house around 7,500 works of art for public viewing, around the same amount as before renovations ... More | | The Courtauld Gallery Presents Toulouse-Lautrec and Jane Avril: Beyond the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), Jane Avril, c.1891–92. Oil on cardboard, 63.2 x 42.2 cm. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Photo: Michael Agee.
LONDON.- Nicknamed La Mélinite after a powerful form of explosive, the dancer Jane Avril (1868-1943) was one of the stars of the Moulin Rouge in the 1890s. Known for her alluring style and exotic persona, her fame was assured by a series of dazzlingly inventive posters designed by the artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). An exhibition Toulouse-Lautrec and Jane Avril: Beyond the Moulin Rouge on view at The Courtauld Gallery in London from 16 June to 18 September. Jane Avril became an emblematic figure in Lautrec’s world of dancers, cabaret singers, musicians and prostitutes. However, she was also a close friend of the artist and he painted a series of striking portraits of her which contrast starkly with his exuberant posters. Organised around The Courtauld Gallery’s painting Jane Avril in the Entrance to the Moulin Rouge, the exhibition explores these different public an ... More | | SCOPE Basel 2011 Returns with Its Cutting Edge Contemporary Art at Historic Kasern
An artwork, entitled Goni's Voice (2011), by Indonesian artist Samsul Arifin at SCOPE Basel. EPA/GEORGIOS KEFALAS.
BASEL.- SCOPE, the art show that has established its name by curating cutting edge contemporary art from around the world, proudly returns to Basel for the fifth year. Running concurrent with Art Basel for the next three years, SCOPE returns to its high profile venue in historic Kaserne just blocks from Art Basel 42. Located in the heart of the city, SCOPE Basel’s new home, a pavilion offering over 5,000 m², will provide the real opportunity for gallerists, collectors, curators, artists, critics and art lovers alike to experience a view of the contemporary art market available nowhere else. The fair opens to Press and VIP’s on Wednesday, June 15 with the FirstView benefit. This year’s Basel edition of the fair, June 15 -19, 2011, will present 85 international galleries upholding its unique tradition of solo and thematic group shows presented alongside museumquality programming, collector tours, screenings, and ... More |
John W. Smith Appointed New Director of Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design
John W. Smith, newly appointed director of the Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. Photo: Tony Powell.
PROVIDENCE, R.I.- John W. Smith has been appointed director of the Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, effective fall 2011. Smith comes to the Museum with a distinguished background in visual arts institutions. He currently serves as director of the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art, the world's leading research center devoted to the study of the visual arts of America. During Smith's tenure (2006 to present), he has worked successfully with the Board of Trustees and staff to greatly increase the visibility of the Archives. He has expanded the exhibitions and publications program, integrated the vital contributions of contemporary artists into the Archives programming, and raised nearly $15 million in private and foundation philanthropic support----including a recent $3 million grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art. In 2007, Smith overs ... More | | Louvre - DNP Museum Lab Presents Sevres Porcelain, an Art of Living in the 18th Century
Vase à fleurs "Duplessis", manufacture de Vincennes, vers 1752. Porcelaine tendre Marques peintes en bleu : marque aux deux L entrelacés et trois points Legs de la baronne Salomon de Rothschild, 1922. Musée du Louvre, département des Objets d’art. N° d’inventaire OA 7610 © 2010 musée du Louvre / Martine Beck-Coppola.
PARIS.- Feast your eyes on the beauty of 18th-century Sèvres porcelain in the Louvre’s magnificent Napoléon III Apartments. Cuttingedge multimedia resources, designed in the context of the Museum Lab project, will help you discover how these porcelain pieces were made and provide an introduction to this aspect of the French art of living. Visit Rooms 93 and 95 on the first floor of the Richelieu Wing, where a multimedia experience awaits you! The displays entitled “Court dining in France” and “Manufacturing technique of soft-paste porcelain” will appeal to new and regular visitors alike, adding an entertaining, interactive dimension to their museum experience. ... More | | Getty Museum Celebrates Italian Anniversary by Showcasing Objects in Its Collection
Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci), Portrait of a Halberdier (Francesco Guardi?), 1528 - 1530. Oil (or oil and tempera) on panel transferred to canvas, 92.1 x 72.1 cm. No. 89.PA.49. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Highlighting Italy’s rich cultural heritage, the J. Paul Getty Museum is celebrating the 150th anniversary of Italian unification with the Italian Showcase, a presentation of objects from its permanent collection that draws visitors’ attention to the many fine examples of Italian art on view at both the Getty Center and Getty Villa. The Getty Museum joins other U.S. cultural institutions, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and, here in Southern California, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and Norton Simon Museum, that are participating in this celebration of Italian cultural heritage at the invitation of the Italian Embassy ... More |
Credit Suisse Hosts Dinner in Honor of Christian Marclay at Fondation Beyeler in Basel
Christian Marclay and Will Ferrell.
BASEL.- Last night, Credit Suisse, Chairman of the Board Urs Rohner, presented an intimate dinner in honor of the outstanding artistic achievements of Christian Marclay at Fondation Beyeler during Art Basel. Over the past 30 years, Christian Marclay has explored the fusion of fine art and audio cultures, transforming sounds and music into a visible, physical form through performance, collage, sculpture, installation, photography and video. Incorporating all facets of media into his work, Marclay is truly an emblematic artist of our time. He was recently named one of Newsweek’s 10 most important artists. On this occasion, Okkyung Lee, Maya Homburger, and Hans Koch performed an interpretation of Marclay’s performance piece entitled Shuffle. In the spirit of this convergence of art, media, and technology, the evening was hosted by Tina Brown, editor-in-chief ... More | | Table from Historic Irish Estate, Tyrone House, Makes £264,000 at Bonhams Sale
A fine Regency rosewood and crossbanded, ebony and brass inlaid and mounted parcel gilt library table. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A fine Regency rosewood library table, which was acquired for Tyrone House, an important Irish estate in County Galway, sold for a remarkable £264,000 at Bonhams on 15 June 2011, as part of its Fine English Furniture and Works of Art Sale. The table, which had been estimated at £100,000 – 150,000, has passed through the St. George family by descent. Tyrone House was built in 1779 by Christopher St. George (1754-1826) and designed by the celebrated Waterford architect John Roberts (1712-1796). Christopher St. George lived in the house for twenty years before passing it to his son, Arthur French, who, during the 1820s, also occupied Kilcolgan Castle. By 1905, the family was based between Dublin and America and the contents of the house were split ... More | | Egypt's Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass Cleared in Appeal, Avoids One Year in Prison
Egyptian minister of state for antiquities Zahi Hawass tours the site of the New Kingdom Cemetery. AP Photo/Nasser Nasser.
CAIRO (AP).- An appeals court cleared Egypt's antiquities minister on Wednesday of failing to implement a court order, sparing the international face of Egyptian archaeology from a year in prison. The earlier ruling had ordered Zahi Hawass to stop bidding procedures for space in a gift shop of The Egyptian Museum, which is home to treasures like Tutankhamun's gold funerary mask. He failed to comply and was sentenced to a year in prison. Besides the legal challenge, Hawass has found himself at the center of other trouble since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak in February. Critics accused Hawass of being too close to Mubarak, who elevated the antiquities chief to the position of a Cabinet minister shortly before his ouster in a popular uprising. Archaeology gra- ... More |
Stanford University to Receive Anderson Collection of 20th-Century American Art
Harry W. Anderson and his daughter Mary Patricia Anderson Pence.
STANFORD, CA.- Stanford University will become home to the core of the Anderson Collection, one of the most outstanding private collections of 20th-century American art in the world, which is being donated to the university by Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, and Mary Patricia Anderson Pence, the Bay Area family who built the collection over nearly 50 years. The Anderson Collection at Stanford will contain 121 works by 86 artists, including some of the foremost examples of post-World War II American art in public and private hands. The collection is anchored in the work of the New York School and key modern and contemporary artists collected in depth, across media. Major movements represented include Abstract Expressionism, Color Field Painting, Post-Minimalism, California Funk Art, Bay Area Figurative Art, Light and Space and contemporary painting and sculpture. The collection is one of the most valuable and significant ... More | | Lady Gaga's "Meat Dress" Installed in Women Who Rock Exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The dress made of meat worn by Lady Gaga at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards is shown in the museum's vault. The museum will display the cured, hand-sewn meat dress and boots the pop star wore to the awards show as part of the recently opened Women Who Rock exhibit. AP Photo/Mark Duncan.
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum exhibits the hand-sewn meat dress Lady Gaga wore to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards as part of its recently unveiled Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power exhibit on Thursday, June 16, 2011 beginning at 10 a.m. Lady Gaga wore her famous Meat Dress onstage during her acceptance for Best Video of the Year for “Bad Romance” at the MTV Video Music Awards on September 12, 2010. The raw-meat dress was created in collaboration between designer Franc Fernandez and designer Nichola Formichetti and received simultaneous criticism and praise from the media and the public. Lady Gaga explained her symbolic decision to wear the dress to Ellen DeGeneres: "Well, ... More | | Dan Morphy Auctions Launches Newly Expanded 36,000 Square Foot Gallery
Left to right: Morphy Auctions’ print manager and CEO of Synapse Marketing Solutions Robert A. Deraco, Morphy Auctions CEO Dan Morphy, and Gregory Kline, Sr. VP of Susquehanna Bank, Reading, Pa. Morphy Auctions image.
DENVER, PA.- On Tuesday, June 14, Morphy Auctions’ CEO Dan Morphy cut the ribbon to launch his company’s newly expanded 36,000-sq.-ft. auction gallery and offices. Invited guests included executives from virtually all of the local firms that worked together to bring the project to fruition – from the senior VP of the bank that provided the financing, to the architect who conceived the design, to engineers and on-site supervisors who steered the concept toward its completion. Representatives from the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry and members of the media toured the new facility, which is now twice its former size and, in the words of Dan Morphy, “as fine an auction gallery as one will find anywhere in the world.” Before the actual ribbon cutting, Morphy ... More |
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 A New Space Unveiled at the Institute of Contemporary ArtsLONDON.- The ICA’s workshop has seen the work of artists from Pablo Picasso to Damien Hirst and Billy Childish to Pablo Bronstein pass through its doors and is now appropriated by 6a Architects to create the ICA Studio, a new public space opened this month. The Studio is a place to access the ICA’s archive; host artist residencies; present the ICA’s new Live Edition events, for which Bob & Roberta Smith and Billy Childish have already made works in the space during its transformation; sell limited edition prints and books; and display individual works, beginning with a painting by Jakub Julian Ziolkowski. Previously inaccessible to the public, the ICA Studio is located above one of the ICA Cinemas and it retains its original character and some of its function as a workshop. This is evident in the opportunistic adjustments made to the room by 6a Architects. The ICA Studio is available to ICA Members to use and to ... More French and English Furniture and Decorative Arts Highlight June Auction at Bonhams & ButterfieldsLOS ANGELES.- Bonhams & Butterfields offered Fine European Furniture and Decorative Arts on June 14, 2011 in Los Angeles. The 550-lot sale featured an array of works for varied tastes and collecting levels from the 16th through the 20th centuries, with a focus on English and French properties as well as property from the Estate of director, writer, producer and actor, Tim Whelan and his wife, actress and Los Angeles interior decorator, Miriam Seegar. French pieces of note from the June sale included a Louis XVI style gilt bronze mounted mahogany suite of bedroom furniture, late 19th century (est. $60,000-80,000, sold for $73,200); a Louis XVI style gilt bronze mounted marquetry bois satine and mahogany commode by François Linke, late 19th century (est. $45,000-65,000, sold for $54,900); an impressive Napoleon III gilt bronze, champlevé and onyx jardinière, third quarter 19th century (est. $20,000 ... More Images from Final Roll of Kodachrome Donated to George Eastman HouseROCHESTER, NY.- When Kodak announced in 2009 it would no longer produce Kodachrome film, company officials announced two ways the famed film would be celebrated: 1) National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry would be given the last roll off the Kodak production line and 2) the images from that historic roll would be donated to the archives at George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film. McCurry today donated photographs from that final role to George Eastman House during a press conference in the museum. Eastman House will present a display of projected images beginning July 9 and will mount an international tour of the photographs in 2012. McCurry’s historic journey took him in 2010 to his hometown of New York City to western India and finally to Parsons, Kansas. That final stop was to the last lab in existence to process Kodachrome, which would close at the end ... More Civil War Trove Set for Sotheby's Auction By: Steve Szkotak, Associated Press
RICHMOND (AP).- Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee characterized Virginia's Civil War secession as a revolution and President Abraham Lincoln uncharacteristically scolded a couple for their lack of loyalty to the Union cause in letters scheduled to be sold at auction. The letters, along with a trove of Civil War treasures that includes the opera glasses Lincoln carried into Ford's Theatre the night of his assassination, will be up for bidding Friday at Sotheby's, the New York auction house. The opera glasses could fetch up to $700,000. The Lincoln letter, which was never mailed, is notable for its fiery tone and Lee's because it lays bare the gravity of his decision to stand by his beloved Virginia as it bolted from the North. Lee and Lincoln were among the defining personalities of the Civil War, ... More Bonhams Appoints Jan Zvelebil as the Company's Representative in The Czech Republic LONDON.- Bonhams have appointed Jan Zvelebil as the company’s Representative in the Czech Republic. Jan, 39, is a native of Prague, where he is based, operating a number of transport related briefs. He was educated at the Czech Technical University, Prague in construction of mechanical machines and at High Engineering College. He also had a qualifiation in optical instrument and engineering design and construction. He also studied English language for Business at Oxford House College, London. His other professional qualifications include: Business Economy and accounting training at the Financial Institute, Prague; Management and bussiness development (Renault); all level communication skills in business (MHC UK/BT Sweden); and Business skills for KA client care (Rank Xerox). He has worked for several UK and US based ... More California Chinatown Listed as Endangered Historic Place By: Gosia Wozniacka, Associated Press
HANFORD, CA (AP).- The smell is musty, the wooden floorboards rotten and the original owners long dead. But the century-old Chinese herb shop with its towering armoire of small wooden drawers can still be found nearly intact behind a set of heavy metal doors. Herb bundles sit on dust-coated shelves, and wafer-thin paper used by owner L.T. Sue to wrap his herbs still hangs on a rack by a counter stained with bird droppings. The shop in China Alley in the rural Central California town of Hanford once bustled with customers, as did the nearby temple, gambling dens, restaurants and other shops. But now, the buildings in what used to be one of the largest Chinatowns between San Francisco and Los Angeles are mostly deserted. Walls are cracked, bricks chipped, and signs faded from the sun. China Alley was named Wednesday as one of America's 11 most endangered historic places by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The non-profit group spo ... MorePhilbrook Museum of Art Selects Gluckman Mayner Architects for Downtown ExpansionTULSA, OK.- Two transformational gifts—the Eugene B. Adkins Collection of Native American and Southwestern Art and the George R. Kravis II Design Collection—combined with the support of the George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF), have spurred the development of a new satellite facility of the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa’s historic Brady District. GKFF’s generous provision of approximately 30,000 square feet within the former Mathews Warehouse will house two distinct but interrelated initiatives. The facility’s first level will be dedicated to presenting modern and contemporary art and design. The second level will house the Adkins Collection & Study Center. “We believe these initiatives will directly enhance the cultural life of our community and region,” says Philbrook director Randall Suffolk. “Their presence will strengthen Ph ... More |
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