| | Van Gogh, Bonnard, Vallotton: The Hahnloser Collection at Fondation de l'Hermitage
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A man looks at the painting titled Le semeur (1888) by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) during a press preview at the exhibition 'Van Gogh, Bonnard, Valloton... La Collection Arthur et Hedy Hahnloser', at the Fondation de l'Hermitage in Lausanne, Switzerland. The exhibition runs from 24 June until 23 October 2011. EPA/DOMINIC FAVRE.
LAUSANNE.- The Fondation de l’Hermitage is devoting its major summer exhibition to one of Europe’s most prestigious private collections : the Hahnloser Collection. Built up by Arthur Hahnloser (1870-1936) and his wife Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler (1873-1952) between 1905 and 1936 in Winterthur, the collection is exceptional in more ways than one. It is the fruit of the couple’s encounters and friendship with many artists including Ferdinand Hodler, Giovanni Giacometti, Félix Vallotton and Pierre Bonnard who introduced them to the Parisian artistic scene and advised them on their choice of purchases. Most of the works in the collection were bought directly from the artists’ studios or the great Parisian art dealers such as Bernheim-Jeune, Ambroise Vollard or Eugène Druet. The close links the Hahnlosers established with artistic circles were also strengthened by the artists’ regular stays at the Vil ... More |
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Outspoken Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei: Free in Body, Said Little in First Day Out of Detention
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei opens the door to his studio, after supporters placed signs on it that read "I Love You Ai Weiwei", in Beijing June 23, 2011. REUTERS/David Gray.
By: Alexa Olesen, Associated Press
BEIJING (AP).- Outspoken artist and government critic Ai Weiwei talked about giving himself a haircut Thursday but said little else in his first day out of detention, living under a gag order that underscores concerns about China's growing use of extralegal methods to muzzle dissent. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said Ai was released from nearly three months of detention late Wednesday after confessing to tax evasion and pledging to repay the money owed. His family denies the allegations and activists have denounced them as a false premise for detaining an artist who spoke out against the authoritarian government and its repression of civil liberties. The Foreign Ministry said the conditions of Ai's parole require him to report to police when asked and bar him from leaving Beijing without permission for one year. A ministry spokesman did not mention ... More | | Egyptian Archaeologists to Restore Ancient Boat Found Near Pyramid of Giza
Archeological workers remove one of the limestone slabs covering King Khufus second solar boat. EPA/MOHAMED OMER.
By: Leah Finnegan, Associated Press
CAIRO (AP).- Archaeologists have begun excavating a 4,500-year-old wooden boat found next to the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of Egypt's main tourist attractions, Egypt's top antiquities official said Thursday. The boat is one of two buried next to the pharaoh Khufu in what appeared to be a religious custom to carry him in the afterlife. Khufu, also known as Cheops, is credited with building the Great Pyramid of Giza. Sakuji Yoshimura, a Waseda University professor who is leading the restoration project with Egypt's Antiquities Council, said scientists discovered that the second ship is inscribed with Khufu's name. Khufu founded the 4th Dynasty around 2680 B.C. and ruled Egypt for 23 years. Zahi Hawass, Minister of State for Antiquities, called the excavation "one of the most important archaeological and conservation projects in the world." He hoped its display would boost tourism in Egypt, which has fallen sharply ... More | | Mexican Archaeologists Discover a Second Ballgame Player at Court in Cerro del Teul, Zacatecas
The stone sculpture represents the body of a ballgame player (a 175 centimeters high cylinder with 56 centimeters diameter figure) and is almost complete. Photo: DMC,INAH/H. Montaño.
MEXICO CITY.- Researchers from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH Mexico) discovered a second sculpture of a ballgame player, which, unlike the one found in late 2010, has its head. The finding took place at Cerro del Teul Archaeological Site, Zacatecas, and specialists say both pieces could evoke a passage of Popol Vuh, the sacred book of the Maya people, related to divine twins. The stone sculpture, discovered a few weeks ago, represents the body of a ballgame player (a 175 centimeters high cylinder with 56 centimeters diameter figure) and is almost complete. It was located in the southwestern corner of the Ballgame Court, during the field season headed by archaeologists Peter Jimenez and Laura Solar, who considered that it must have fallen after a wall collapsed due to the passing of time. Cerro del Teul is one of the few uninterruptedly occupied sites in America, being dwelled from 200 BC to 1531 of t ... More |
Exhibition of Artists that Reframe Photography Opens at Marlborough Chelsea
Ja'Bagh Kaghado, Untitled 1, 2011. Platinum print on paper with unique transfer, 44 x 30 inches. Edition of 5. Photo: Courtesy Marlborough Chelsea.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marlborough Chelsea presents Intersection: Photography / Painting / Document, an exhibition that brings together the work of sixteen contemporary artists whose concepts and practices recharge and reframe the historic canon of photography in a number of ways. The field of photography has traditionally involved an artist taking a camera in hand to make an image. Many artists in Intersection: Photography / Painting / Document do not wield a camera, and those who do use a camera do not shoot straight or documentary photographs. Manipulations of technique and form mark the work of these artists. They are employing innovation and re-evaluating their medium and message as they recast and reconsider key themes in contemporary culture such as: time, place, politics, the body, language, and identity. The 1980s saw a great shift in the importance of photography as a medium of artistic expression that rivaled pa ... More | | Clock Designed for Napoleon's 1801 Exposition, Lost for Two Centuries, to Sell at Bonhams
Estimated at £200,000 – 300,000, the clock was designed by French clock maker, Hartmann, and uses the Republican calendar, the decimal time system put into effect by Napoleon in 1793. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- An historic and rare clock believed to have been designed for Napoleon’s ‘Exposition publique des produits de l’industrie Francaise’ in 1801 and which has lain undiscovered in Europe for two centuries, is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its sale of Fine Clocks and Watches on 28 June 2011. Estimated at £200,000 – 300,000, the clock was designed by French clock maker, Hartmann, and uses the Republican calendar, the decimal time system put into effect by Napoleon in 1793. Napoleon established the ‘exposition’ in 1798 to showcase France’s burgeoning industry. In 1801, the exposition was held in the courtyard of the Louvre and it is recorded that, in this exhibition, a clock maker named Hartmann of 9 rue de Vannes gained an honourable mention for a clock with eight dials which showed the rising and setting ... More | | National Portrait Gallery to Unveil New Portrait Photograph of the Queen and Prince Philip
The Queen and Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh by Thomas Struth, 2011. ©Royal Household/Thomas Struth.
LONDON.- A major new portrait photograph of The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh has been commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, London, and unveiled as part of its touring exhibition The Queen: Art & Image, which opens on Saturday 25 June at the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh. The large-scale portrait shows The Queen and Prince Philip seated together in the Green Drawing Room at Windsor Castle. Commissioned to mark The Queen’s forthcoming Diamond Jubilee and in the year of the Duke’s ninetieth birthday, the photograph by the German artist Thomas Struth was taken on 7 April 2011. Considered one of the world’s leading contemporary photographers, Struth worked with a large format plate camera, using natural light. The first double-portrait of The Queen and Prince Philip to be commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, it is also the Gallery’s first commissioned ... More |
Millionaires Invested More in Art, Luxury in 2010 Says World Wealth Report
The artwork "Tripod (2006)" by American artist Paul McCarthy is shown at the international art show Art 42 Basel. AP Photo/Keystone, Georgios Kefalas.
By: Silke Koltrowitz
ZURICH (REUTERS).- Demand for art, watches, rare wines, vintage cars and other offbeat investments that set pulses racing expanded in 2010 as wealth levels of the world's super-rich rebounded from the financial crisis, a report said. "The value of many categories of investments of passion rose and HNWIs (high net-worth individuals) made acquisitions for the aesthetic and emotional appeal and their potential to return value," Capgemini and Merrill Lynch said in the World Wealth Report 2011 published on Wednesday. Growing wealth in emerging economies, especially in Asia -- which surpassed Europe in millionaires and wealth last year -- helped spur a revival in markets for these aptly named investments, the authors of the report said. In times of low interest rates and volatile stock markets, alternative investments allow investors to diversify by buying ... More | | Huanghuali Chairs Lead Stellar $11.5 Million Fine Asian Works of Art Sale at Bonhams & Butterfields
A pair of huanghuali continuous yoke back armchairs, nanguanmaoyi, 17th/18th Century, 46 1/2in (118.1cm). Sold for $1,498,000. Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams & Butterfields.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Bonhams & Butterfields’ Fine Asian Works of Art auction on June 21, 2011 in San Francisco brought more than $11.5-million, with a rare pair of huanghuali continuous yoke back armchairs, 17th/18th century, leading the sale by bringing $1.49 million USD. One of many attractions among the Chinese furniture to be offered, the chairs were from a private Manhattan Collector and featured an elegant s-curved back splat of plain, finely matched grain and lustrous tone. Highlights from the estate of Gussie Gaskill, former curator of the Wason Collection of books and manuscripts about China, housed at Cornell University, included a huanghuali kang table, 17th/18th century (sold for $42,700 USD), a pair of huanghuali and mixed wood rose chairs (meiguiyi) (sold for $30,500 USD). A small four panel zitan and mixed wood dragon screen, Late Qing/Republic Period (sold for $32,160 USD), and a Huanghuali and mixed wood ... More | | Cantor Arts Center to Exhibit Richard Serra's Monumental Sculpture "Sequence"
East entrance of the historic building, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. Photo by Linda A. Cicero, Stanford News Service.
STANFORD, CA.- In three weeks, the sculpture “Sequence” by distinguished American contemporary artist Richard Serra will arrive at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University as a loan from the Doris and Don Fisher Collection. The work will remain on view at Stanford until it is presented as part of the inaugural installation of the Fisher Collection in the expanded San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, in 2016. “Sequence,” which measures 67 feet long, 42 feet wide, and 13 feet high, is composed of contoured steel and weighs more than 200 tons. Considered one of Serra’s greatest achievements, the work will be on view outdoors for the first time since its creation in 2006. “Sequence” was previously shown in the exhibition “Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2007, and subsequently at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from 2008 to 201 ... More |
Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe at the British Museum
Holy thorn reliquary, Paris, France. About 130 - 97. Gold, enamel, rock crystal, pearls, rubies, sapphires. © The Trustees of the British Museum.
LONDON.- This major exhibition brings together for the first time some of the finest sacred treasures of the medieval age. It features over 150 objects drawn from more than 40 institutions including the Vatican, European church treasuries, museums from the USA and Europe and the British Museum’s own pre-eminent collection. It was during the medieval period that the use of relics in devotional practice first developed and became a central part of Christian worship. For many, the relics of Christ and the saints – objects associated with them, such as body parts or possessions – continue to provide a bridge between heaven and earth today. Relics were usually set into ornate containers of silver and gold known as reliquaries, opulently decorated by the finest craftsmen of the age. They had spiritual and symbolic value that reflected the importance of their sacred contents. The earliest items date from the late ... More | | Artworks that Challenge the Viewer through their Visual Intensity at Paul Kasmin Gallery
Erik Parker, Brink, 2010. Acrylic on canvas, 80 1/4 x 70 inches, 203.8 x 177.8 cm. Photo: Courtesy Paul Kasmin Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery presents the exhibition Pretty on the Inside, organized by Erik Parker and KAWS. This is the first time that the two artists have collaborated to organize an exhibition. Pretty on the Inside includes works in a range of media by seven American artists: Todd James, KAWS, Tony Matelli, Erik Parker, Joyce Pensato, Peter Saul, and Karl Wirsum. At first glance, these artworks challenge the viewer through their visual intensity, but upon closer inspection, they reveal an inner beauty. Many of the artists included make ironic or subversive works, hijacking the language of cartoons and comics to both celebrate and criticize contemporary culture. Todd James (b. 1969) makes large-scale installations, drawings, animated videos, and gouache paintings that appropriate the style of Saturday morning cartoons to make social and political commentary. KAWS (b. 1974) draws from the ... More | | Exhibition at Galerie Lelong in New York Explores Interventions in the Landscape
Cildo Meireles, Atlas, 2007. Transparency in light box. Light box: 62 x 50 x 3-1/2 inches (157.5 x 127 x 9 cm). Transparency: 60 x 48 inches (152.4 x 122 cm). Photo: Courtesy Galerie Lelong.
NEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Lelong presents Interventions in the Landscape, a group exhibition of photography and film that explores how artists have inserted themselves and their subjects into the landscape and engaged, manipulated, transformed, or been transformed by their surroundings. A selection of gallery and invited artists will be on view, working within a variety of locations and spanning the last five decades. In each of the exhibited works, rather than presenting the landscape—whether it be rural, urban, or natural— as a mere visual backdrop, the artist mobilizes and fully integrates this component into the activity of the piece. The landscape’s visual passivity is obliterated as it becomes an acting member of the scene. The agency can also be reversed. In many works the landscape will function as the catalyst, with natural forces such as wind, waves, ... More |
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 350 Year Old Tapestries Cleaned in View of Public at Nelson-Atkins KANSAS CITY, MO.- With a careful eye and a feather-light touch, tapestries that are nearly 350 years old will be cleaned by conservation fellow Rose Cull in full view of the public at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art from June 22 through July 1. “This is a fascinating process that the public generally doesn’t see,” said Cull. “After the tapestries are taken down from the wall in Kirkwood Hall, I will use a low-suction vacuum that pulls the dirt out without disturbing the fibers.” Four large-scale Baroque tapestries in a series of eight will be cleaned. The complete series tells the story of Phaethon, the son of Helios (another name for Apollo, the god of the sun) which is taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Each scene is surrounded by ornate borders of foliage, lions, grotesque masks and profile busts of warriors. “This set of tapestries is extremely rare, as it is the most complete survivi ... More Lisson Gallery Milan to Open September 2011LONDON.- Lisson Gallery announced the launch of Lisson Gallery Milan, its first international space in its 44 year history. Located on the via Zenale, the gallery will occupy a prime site in the heart of the Lombard metropolitan area, the city’s historic and cultural centre. The gallery will launch in September 2011 with a group show curated by Lisson artist Ryan Gander. It will feature works by other Lisson artists including Allora & Calzadilla, Cory Arcangel, Art & Language, Gerard Byrne, Spencer Finch, Giulio Paolini, Haroon Mirza, Jonathan Monk, and Lawrence Weiner. Lisson Gallery’s founder and Director Nicholas Logsdail says “The decision to open a space in Milan was influenced by a number of factors, including our particularly strong connection with important collectors and museums in Italy as well as Milan’s proximity to Switzerland, Germany and France. Milan, which already plays a leading role ... More Whatami by Rome Studio stARTT Transforms the Maxxi Piazza into a Green ArchipelagoROME.- Now in its 12th edition at MoMA/ MoMA PS1, the YAP – Young Architects Program has reached Rome for the first time thanks to the collaboration between MAXXI and the New York museum. The program, which in Rome goes under the name YAP MAXXI, sees the museum’s external spaces transformed into a garden of green islands that will host the summer season events, thanks to the WHATAMI project, conceived by the Rome studio stARTT. An artificial landscape, delineated by hills on which to pause, topped by great flowers providing shade by day and light by night, will allow the public to relax and contemplate the sinuous lines of the museum. In New York, YAP has seen the realisation of the Holding Pattern project by the New York studio Interboro Partners. A jury composed of MAXXI and MoMA/MoMA PS1 staff members selected both designs from among the numerous international proposals. For the entire ... More Morris Museum Opens Visual Thoughts: The Art Quilts of Fiber Revolution ExhibitionMORRISTOWN, NJ.- The Morris Museum presents a new exhibition, Visual Thoughts: The Art Quilts of Fiber Revolution, which presents nineteen works by nineteen textile artists and will be on view from June 23 – October 16, 2011. Fiber Revolution is a network of professional textile artists whose collective goal is to provide greater visibility of their art while educating the public about fiber art as an exciting art form. Although the art is constructed from fabric, it is not meant to lie at the foot of the bed, but rather to hang on the wall like an oil or watercolor painting. The artists exhibiting their work under the Fiber Revolution name use fiber as their medium: dyeing it, painting it, cutting it, tearing it, stamping it, fusing it and embellishing it. The final step, stitching through the layers of fabric, brings a dimensional depth to the artwork that mere paint cannot. Fiber Revolution member Kevan Rupp Lun ... More Major Retrospective of Israeli Artist Micha Ullman on View at the Israel MuseumJERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum presents the first museum retrospective of the work of Israeli artist Micha Ullman, spanning the artist's fifty-year career in sculpture, drawing, and installation. Sands of Time: The Work of Micha Ullman brings together approximately 120 works, dating from the 1970s through the present, including a 200-square-meter site-specific installation created by Ullman in celebration of the exhibition using his own distinctive sand-throwing technique. The exhibition features nearly 50 of Ullman’s indoor sculptures made of iron and sand, and 70 works on paper from the Israel Museum, together with loans from collections from Israel and abroad. Micha Ullman, born in Tel Aviv in 1939, is known for his subterranean outdoor installations, some of which barely protrude from the ground, and his sculptures made of iron and sand, which address such universal themes as home and place, and absence and emptiness. H ... More Florence Wants Mona Lisa Back for a VisitFLORENCE (AP).- Florence officials are launching a campaign to bring the "Mona Lisa" back for a visit. Leonardo da Vinci brought the painting of a Renaissance woman with an enigmatic smile to France in 1516, and it has mostly hung in the Louvre Museum since — with several famous exceptions. One was its theft by an Italian immigrant in 1911. The "Mona Lisa" was recovered when he tried to sell it in Florence two years later. Before returning to France, the "Mona Lisa" was shown in several Italian cities. To mark the anniversary, officials on Thursday announced a campaign to collect 100,000 signatures asking the Louvre to allow the painting to be displayed in Florence in 2013. The painting traveled to the United States in 1962 and Japan and Moscow in the 1970s. ... More |
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