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Sotheby's employees pose for a photograph with artist Francis Bacon's artwork "Crouching Nude" at Sotheby's Auction House in London. The piece is expected to realise up to 9 million GBP ($14.9 million) when it comes to auction at Sotheby's on June 29, 2011. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor.
LONDON.- Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 29 June in London will present a selection of works of major significance, including Francis Bacon's stunning Crouching Nude of 1961. In 1959 the appearance of the first female nudes painted by Francis Bacon must have struck the contemporary art audience as a startling iconographical switch. Between 1959 and 1962 he made twelve further paintings on this theme, among which Crouching Nude, 1961, is one of the most remarkable. Formally, it is the most resolved of this group in terms of the figure/ground relationship, as well as the most sculptural in the plasticity of the figure. The illusion of depth is accentuated by the simplified geometry of the perspectival setting, a confined space with a sloping dais base painted in several shades of the iridescent green that Bacon had essayed as a dominant colour for the grounds of his paintings in St Ives at the end of 1959.1 ... More |
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Brueghel, Rubens, Jordaens... Exhibition of European Paintings from the Hohenbuchau Collection
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), Portrait of a Capuchin Monk. Oil on panel; 53.3 x 45 cm. Hohenbuchau Collection, inv. no. HB 92
VIENNA.- The Hohenbuchau Collection is one of the largest and most diverse collections of northern European Baroque art to have been assembled anywhere in the world over the past few decades. While it is a truism that every private collection reflects the personal taste of the person who has assembled it, what distinguishes these holdings from those of other private collections is a combination of intense focus on the one hand and wide variety on the other. The main focus of the collection is the painting of the seventeenth century, in particular the Dutch and Flemish Baroque, an era known as the Golden Age. Within these parameters, the collection aims at presenting this epoch and its schools both in terms of the multiplicity of its pictorial genres, ranging from the history painting, portrait, genre scene and landscape to the still life, and of the broad diversity within each individual genre. An interesting feature of the collection is that ... More | | Comprehensive Presentation of the Makart Phenomenon at the Belvedere in Vienna
Hans Makart, Clothilde Beer, the Artist’s Cousin, c. 1880. Oil on wood, 82 x 68 cm. Belvedere, Vienna © Belvedere Vienna.
VIENNA.- Like no other artist of the nineteenth century, the “artist prince” Hans Makart left his stamp on a time whose symbol he rose to become, and which went down in the annals of history as the “Makart era”. The Belvedere and the Wien Museum are devoting two exhibitions to this exceptional artist of the Vienna Ringstrasse period in a comprehensive presentation of the Makart phenomenon – Makart: Painter of the Senses (Lower Belvedere) and Makart: A Painter Rules the City (Wien Museum in the Künstlerhaus). The focal point of the Belvedere show are Hans Makart’s paintings, whose significance for modern art is being examined in an international context for the first time. The exhibition at the Wien Museum is dedicated to the highly varied relationship between artist, city, and society. Summoned to Vienna as a young talent by the imperial family, Makart, despite a lack of public commissions, was ... More | | An Exceptional Marble by Rodin to Be Auctioned at Cornette de Saint Cyr on July 6th
Auguste Rodin (1840 -1917), Kneeling Fauness, circa 1890. Marble. Signed and dedicated "Au Maître Puvis de Chavannes" on the base. Given by Rodin to Puvis de Chavannes probably in August 1890. H: 21 5/8 in. L: 11 in. W: 9 7/16 in. Estimate: € 600,000 / 800,000.
PARIS.- The Kneeling Fauness, a major work in marble by French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), is to be put up for sale at Cornette de Saint Cyr's Impressionist and Modern Art auction organised at Drouot-Montaigne, Paris, on Wednesday July 6th, 2011. Signed and dedicated on the base « Au Maître Puvis de Chavannes », this 21 5/8 in. high statue, conceived in 1887, was produced in its marble version circa 1890. An emblematic figure in Rodin’s oeuvre, The Gates of Hell, it expresses well the ambivalence of the sculptor’s feelings towards women, both muses and temptresses. Rodin conjures to perfection through the brilliant modelling of the body, the contorted face and the delicacy of bared skin. The Kneeling Fauness offers us a perfect example of the artist’s creation process: a deep knowledge ... More |
Art & Stars & Cars: The Daimler Art Collection at the Mercedes-Benz Museum Stuttgart
Cars-Series of Andy Warhol 1986/1987/Daimler Kunst Sammlung Stuttgart/Berlin. Photo: Brigida González, Stuttgart © Daimler AG.
STUTTGART.- 125 years of automotive history meet modern and contemporary art: The Daimler Art Collection presents a guest exhibition at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, its first at this venue. The unusual exhibition Art & Stars & Cars, on view until September 25th 2011, includes some 250 works by around 120 internationally renowned artists and is hitherto the most comprehensive presentation of the Daimler Art Colllection. The special exhibition ranges from classic examples of Constructivism and Concrete Art from the southern German region through Minimalism and Conceptual Tendencies to contemporary photographs and videos by present-day artists from around the world. The exhibition is further enhanced by three new commissioned works. Art & Stars & Cars is an exhibition organized by the Daimler Art Collection, established in 1977. The ... More | | Pandora's Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the Museum of Contemporary Art Collection
Christian Boltanski, Monument: Les enfants de Dijon (Monument: The Children of Dijon), 1985. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Photo © MCA Chicago.
CHICAGO. IL.- This summer, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago presents Pandora's Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the MCA Collection from June 18 to October 16, 2011. Featuring a selection of rarely seen work by the beloved American master Joseph Cornell placed in direct dialogue with works from the MCA Collection, it aims to illuminate his continuing relevance and influence. The exhibition is grouped into ten distinct themes pulled from Cornell’s work, each given its own gallery: The Box as Altar, Feathered Fantasies, The Voyeur, Repetitions, Celestial Musings, A Reductive Language, Cut and Paste, Architecture and Art, The Lure of the Ocean, and Films. The exhibition is curated by Michael Darling, MCA James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator, who says, “These connections and comparisons allow ... More | | Setting Sail: Images of the Sea from the Collection on View at the Walters Art Museum
Jules Dupré, Sunset on the Coast, ca. 1870–75, oil on canvas, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (37.120).
BALTIMORE, MD.- Setting Sail features drawings, paintings, and prints of ships, sailors and the sea from the permanent collection of the Walters. The sea, and the men and women who make their living from it, have provided subjects for art from ancient times until the present day. In the 19th century, under the influence of Romanticism, the sea took on a new emotional resonance, becoming a metaphor for the overwhelming power of nature. This tendency can be seen in the expressive brushwork and somber palette Jacques Dupré (1811–89) used to paint At Sea, an image of boats beset by choppy waves. At the same time, in an era of global expansion, the world's oceans were of unparalleled economic importance. Artists were able to draw on a long tradition of maritime painting to depict the strength and enterprise of nations. A number of the works in Setting Sail explore the theme of naval conflict, from a painting by Pierre Nicolas ... More |
DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum Presents Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture
Ursula von Rydingsvard, Krasavica II, 1998-2001, cedar, graphite, 72 x 264 x 48 in. ©Ursula von Rydingsvard. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Lelong, New York. Photo: Rosalyn and Michael Bodycomb.
LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum presents Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture on view through August 28, 2011. This exhibition was organized by guest curator Helaine Posner for SculptureCenter in New York and features a selection of the 2008 Rappaport Prize winner’s most significant sculptures, including wall reliefs and monumental cedar works created from 1991 to 2011. The presentation at deCordova additionally features von Rydingsvard’s new works in handmade paper. The artist’s most recent sculpture, Elegantka, commissioned especially by deCordova for this exhibition, has been installed on deCordova’s roof and will return to the Sculpture Park at the conclusion of the exhibition tour in August 2012. Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture is the second in a planned series of major sculpture exhibitions to be held ... More | | Watch Me Move: The Animation Show on View at the Barbican Art Gallery in London
Steamboat Willie.
LONDON.- Watch Me Move: The Animation Show is the most extensive exhibition ever mounted to present the full range of animated imagery produced in the last 150 years. It brings together industry pioneers, independent film-makers and contemporary artists including Étienne-Jules Marey, Harry Smith, Jan Švankmajer, William Kentridge and Nathalie Djurberg alongside the creative output of commercial studios such as Walt Disney, Aardman, Studio Ghibli and Pixar. Presenting animation as a highly influential force in the development of global visual culture, Watch Me Move: The Animation Show explores the relationship between animation and film and offers a timely insight into the genre as a cultural phenomenon. Cutting across generations and cultures, the show features over 170 works, from iconic clips to lesser-known masterpieces. Taking the viewer behind the dream-world of the finished film, it includes puppets, stage sets, storyboard drawings, wire-frame visualisations, cel and ... More | | Art Basel 42: Extraordinary Quality, Strong Results and New Attendance Record
The Dust Of Earth (2010), by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa is on display at the international art show Art 42 Basel. EPA/GEORGIOS KEFALAS.
BASEL.- The 42nd edition of Art Basel closed on Sunday, June 19, 2011. This year, the annual reunion of the international artworld attracted more than 65,000 artists, collectors, curators, and art lovers from around the globe, a new record for attendance. The participating galleries, art lovers, and art journalists were unanimous in pronouncing this a superb year for the show in terms of quality. Collectors from all over the globe rewarded the excellent material and booth presentations with strong sales throughout the week across all levels of the market. A great many artists attended the event, among them John Baldessari, Pierre Bismuth, Daniel Buren, Maurizio Cattelan, Janet Cardiff, Jimmie Durham, Liam Gillick, Joan Jonas, Vera Lutter, Goshka Macuga, Sarah Morris, Mai-Thu Perret, Tobias Rehberger, Allen Ruppersberg, Anri Sala, Thomas Schütte, Tino Sehgal, Yinka Shonibare and Cathy Wilkes. ... More |
Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement at The San Diego Museum of Art
Electric lantern No. 777, designed c. 1908. Gustav Stickley, American Craftsman Workshops, c. 1903–1916, manufacturer. Copper and glass, 15 × 10 1/4 × 10 1/4 in. Crab Tree Farm.
SAN DIEGO, CA.- The San Diego Museum of Art presents Gustav Stickley & the American Arts and Crafts Movement, the first nationally touring exhibition to focus on the artist’s career and his contributions to the history of American design and architecture. Ranging from furniture to metalware to embroidered textiles, the majority of the objects on view are from private collections, and three-quarters have never been seen before by the public. The exhibition examines Stickley’s contributions to the American Arts and Crafts movement and provides new insights into the artistic, commercial, and social context of his entry into the Arts and Crafts realm. Focusing on the years 1900 to 1913, Stickley’s most creative period, the exhibition illuminates the vibrant identity of the “Craftsman” style that Stickley developed and furthered through his furniture and household goods.Stickley offered customers a complete ... More | | Picasso's Vollard Suite: The Sculptor's Studio at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich
Pablo Picasso, Seated Model and Sculptor Studying Sculptured Head, c. March 1933. Etching, 10-1/2 x 7-5/8 in., (Plate 38) © 2011 Estate of Pablo Picasso /Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
GREENWICH, CT.- From June 18, 2011, to October 16, 2011, the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, will feature etchings by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), considered by many to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Picasso’s Vollard Suite: The Sculptor’s Studio exhibits key images of Picasso etchings from a group of one-hundred prints he made for the legendary art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard. On loan from a private collection, these superb works from the Vollard Suite demonstrate Picasso’s ability to please and astonish with equal intensity. The exhibition is underwritten by the Charles M. and Deborah G. Royce Exhibition Fund, Sylvia and Leonard Marx, and the 2010-2011 Bruce Museum Council. In 1932, Pablo Picasso purchased the château Boisgeloup in Normandy, where he set himself up with a fully fitted-out studio for sculpture, a medium to which he would ... More | | United States Museum to Display Remnants of September 11 Attacks on World Trade Center
Steel recovered from the World Trade Center that has been cut to make memorial crosses. REUTERS/Mike Segar.
WASHINGTON (REUTERS).- When a hijacked aircraft smashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Lisa Lefler left behind her briefcase as she fled to safety from her office on the 103rd floor. Fifty-six minutes later, 175 of Lefler's colleagues, as well as that briefcase, were entombed in the wreckage. Lefler's briefcase, along with more than 50 objects collected after the attacks that claimed 3,000 lives, will be displayed September 3 to 11 at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, museum officials announced on Thursday. "Ten years later, we will share some of those objects in a personal setting, providing an opportunity for visitors to speak with museum staff and to have a place to remember and reflect on what it means to be an American today," Brent D. Glass, the director of the museum, said in a statement. Visitors to the collection, amassed by the museum in 2002 after Congress designated it the official repository, will see airpl ... More |
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 Conversations with Wood: Selections from the Waterbury Collection at the Minneapolis Institute of ArtsMINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) presents works from one of the nation’s finest collections of wood art in the exhibition “Conversations with Wood: Selections from the Waterbury Collection.” Ranging from exquisitely turned wood bowls to large, sculptural pieces, the exhibition highlights approximately 80 objects from the 500-plus piece collection of Minneapolis collectors Ruth and David Waterbury. “Conversations with Wood” reflects the evolution of the field over the past 25 years, from a focus on the lathe and wood turning to an artistic field that now includes many more processes. The exhibition is on view June 17 through September 4, and is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication. Over the past 25 years, artists working in wood have produced increasingly diverse examples of their craft. Formerly known as “turned wood” because of its origins on the lathe, woo ... More Artist and Filmmaker Martha Colburn Presents Topic of War through AnimationSAINT LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum presents Martha Colburn: Triumph of the Wild, a New Media Series installation by artist and filmmaker Colburn. The 10-minute animated film (2008-09) presents the history of American war from Bunker Hill to Baghdad through shifting moments of horror and destruction. Deploying hand-colored animation, collage, found imagery, and a novel use of jigsaw puzzles, Colburn uses the varying media to portray the tragedy of war and its impact on humanity as well as the natural world and its animals. “Collapsing more than two centuries into ten minutes, Colburn captures the graphic landscape of war,” said Tricia Y. Paik, assistant curator of modern and contemporary art. “The film offers a frenetic, whirlwind narrative of an epic topic, which is both accessible and brutally honest.” Born in the Appalachian Mountains of southern Pennsylvania, Colburn received her B.A. from the M ... More Important Works of Art to Be Featured at 20/21 British Art Fair LONDON.- The 20/21 BRITISH ART FAIR, the fair which champions Modern British art, will take place from 14 – 18 September at the Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London. It will be opened by the highly acclaimed author and scriptwriter, Anthony Horowitz, at 5pm on the 14th. Held at the Royal College of Art, arguably ‘the spiritual home of British art’, it is the first big fair of the autumn season. The College is an ideal setting to see work by the great names of the 20th century, many of whom are former students: Bacon, Freud, Frink, Frost, Hepworth, Hockney, Hodgson, Lanyon, Lowry, Moore, Nash, Piper, Riley, Scott, Spencer and Sutherland. Alongside will be a large selection of contemporary work by established names such as Hirst, Emin, Ba ... More Akron Art Museum Presents The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for OhioAKRON, OH.- The Akron Art Museum has been very fortunate to be selected as the recipient of the Ohio gift of The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States. The Vogels dedicated their lives to collecting works by more than 170 artists. The collection is on view from June 18th through October 16th, 2011. The remarkable story of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel has become the stuff of lore. He a postal clerk, she a reference librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library, who decided shortly after they married in 1962, to live on Dorothy's salary and to devote Herb's to purchasing art. Together they purchased thousands of artworks, cramming their one-bedroom Manhattan apartment floor to ceiling with art. Though the couple’s initial exposure to many artists was through gallery shows, they rarely purchased art from dealers. Instead, when they became inte ... More Army Approves Site for National MuseumWASHINGTON, DC.- Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh has approved a site on the North Post of Fort Belvoir, Va., for construction of the National Museum of the U.S. Army, scheduled to open in June 2015. The secretary signed the decision
memo this week. Tuesday was the Army's 236th birthday. ""In presenting the Army's storied 236-year history, this long-overdue facility will offer the American people a unique opportunity to connect with our Soldiers and better understand and appreciate their many and glorious stories." McHugh said. "Now that a site for the Army's museum has been determined, the development of the museum's master plan can be finalized,” said Judson Bennett, executive director of the NMUSA project office at Fort Belvoir. Building of the museum will be funded privately through the Army Historical Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the Army's heritage. Initial ... More The Guerrilla Girls Talk Back Exhibited by the National Museum of Women in the ArtsWASHINGTON, DC.- The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) presents The Guerrilla Girls Talk Back, an exhibition featuring more than 70 works by the gorilla-masked crusaders, including posters, newsletters, stickers and erasers. The Guerrilla Girls, a group of anonymous artist-activists, critique the sexism and racism pervading contemporary culture. Through their populist art production, the group raises awareness about discrimination. Drawn primarily from NMWA’s collection, the exhibition presents posters from two portfolios, Guerrilla Girls Talk Back: The First Five Years, 1985–1990 and Guerrilla Girls Talk Back: Portfolio 2, both donated to the museum by Baltimore-based collector Steven Scott. The first Guerrilla Girls posters appeared in 1985, pasted onto structures in lower Manhattan. Combining bold advertising-style graphics with eye-opening facts and figures, the posters detailed discrimination by the city& ... More Emails Rebuke Maine Governor for Labor Mural Removal By: David Sharp, Associated Press
Glenn Adams, Associated Press
AUGUSTA, ME (AP).- Gov. Paul LePage's decision to remove a mural depicting the history of the labor movement in Maine struck a raw nerve as critics lashed out in correspondence that poured in from all corners of the country, with several dozen writing letters vowing to cancel summer vacations. The raw outpouring of emotion, with people opposing the governor's action by a margin of more than 9-to-1, flooded the governor's office with several thousand emails in less than a month. "Your attacks on the working class of your state are just appalling to me and despite my love of the Maine coast, I will not set foot or spend one red cent there," wrote Audrey Fine Marsh ... More |
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