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An employee poses for photographs in front of Miquel Barcelo's 'Faena de Muleta' during a photo call at Christie's in London, Friday, June 24, 2011. The painting is expected to fetch 1,500,000-2,000,000 pounds ($2,300,000-$3,000,000/ 1,700,000-2,200,000 euro) when it goes on sale as part of Post War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on June 28. AP Photo/Akira Suemori.
LONDON.- The Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction taking place on 28th June 2011, will feature an exceptional range of works dating from the early Post-War period to the present day. Swirling with a dizzying, centrifugal energy across its expansive surface and beholden of the thick sculpted painterly surface which creates it, Faena de muleta is by far the largest and most important example of Miquel Barceló's most celebrated series of bullfighting paintings ever to come to auction. Accentuating the heart of the sandy arena is the sanguine red of the matador's unfurled muleta or cape as he prepares to enter the final stages of his act and kill the bull. The beast is poised to charge, whipped up into a passion by the torero's provocative footwork, the flourishes of his cape, and the all-encompassing feverish crowd that spins around it. Barceló leaves the conclusion suspended, an equivocating and gory intrigue cast into the minds of his enraptured viewers. This heightened ... More |
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Most Comprehensive Exhibition Ever Staged in the UK of René Magritte's Work Opens
Rene Magritte, The Dominion of Light 1953. Private Collection, Guggenheim Asher Associates © Charly Herscovici, c/o ADAGP, Paris 2011.
LIVERPOOL.- This summer, Belgian Surrealist René Magritte (1898-1967) is one of the most important and revered artists of the 20th century. Tate Liverpool is to present the most comprehensive exhibition ever staged in the UK of the Belgian Surrealist René Magritte (1898-1967). Opening on 24 June, René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle will bring together over 100 paintings, some never before seen in the UK, as well as a rich selection of his little-known photographs, home movies and commercial art. The exhibition will reveal new dimensions to this popular artist, whose life and work is now more relevant than ever. René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle examines the artist’s oeuvre from a thematic perspective, displaying works in different media and from throughout his career. The exhibition will explore in-depth compositional and conceptual devices which are present in his work from the mid-1920s to his death in 1967. M ... More | | Archaeologists Lower Small, Remote-Controlled Camera Into Early Mayan Tomb
In the interior of the funerary chamber the camera observed the walls painted red and human figures outlined in black. Photo: INAH.
By: Mark Stevenson, Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP).- A small, remote-controlled camera lowered into an early Mayan tomb in southern Mexico has revealed an apparently intact funeral chamber with offerings and red-painted wall murals, researchers said Thursday. Footage of the approximately 1,500-year-old tomb at the Palenque archaeological site showed a series of nine figures depicted in black on a vivid, blood-red background. Archaeologists say the images from one of the earliest ruler's tombs found at Palenque will shed new light on the early years of the once-great city state. The National Institute of Anthropology and History said archaeologists have known about the tomb since 1999, but have been unable to enter it because the pyramid standing above it is unstable and breaking into the chamber could damage the murals. It said the floor ... More | | BBC Uploads 63,000 Paintings Online as It Launches Your Paintings; Aims for 200,000 Works
Alexander Reid by Vincent van Gogh. 1887. Oil on board, 42 x 33 cm. Collection: Glasgow Museums.
LONDON.- The BBC in partnership with the Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF) announced the launch of Your Paintings, a project to create a complete catalogue of every oil painting in the national collection, on a dedicated website. In all, the national collection amounts to some 200,000 works, held in 3,000 galleries, museums, libraries and public institutions all over the country, making it probably one of the largest and most diverse collections of paintings in the world. The first phase of Your Paintings went live yesterday, with over 60,000 paintings by 15,000 artists from 860 collections. The site will feature online selections made by well known artists, historians and celebrities including Yinka Shonibare, Rory Bremner, Frank Skinner, Dan Snow, Tracey Cox, Matt Baker, Gus Casely Hayford, Mary Beard, Alastair Sooke, Monty Don and The Reduced Shakesspeare Company encouraging the public to take part in the ... More |
RM Auctions Posts Over £5.1 Million at Debut 'Quintessentially English' Salon Privé
1929 Bentley Speed Six ‘Le Mans’ Style Tourer – £470,400
LONDON.- RM Auctions, the world’s largest collector car auction house for investment-quality automobiles, posted over £5.1 million* (over $8.2 million USD) in total sales with a solid 77% sell-through at its debut Salon Privé sale in West London last night. Held in conjunction with the Salon Privé Luxury Super Car Show and Concours d’Elegance, the new ‘Quintessentially English’ summer sale presented 57 automobiles and a select range of motorcycles before a packed house. Headlining the top-sellers list were popular British marques Bentley and Aston Martin, which attracted strong interest and lively bidding in the room, on the phones and over the internet. A 1929 Bentley Speed Six “Le Mans” Style Tourer (pictured right) claimed the top sale of the evening, bringing £470,400, while a 1961 Aston Martin DB4 Vantage Convertible (pictured below), purchased new by famed actor and diplomat Sir Peter Ust ... More | | Researchers from California Institute of Technology Take Dinosaurs Temperature with Teeth
A Camarasaurus tooth from the Jurassic Morrison Formation of North America. AP Photo/Thomas Tütken, University of Bonn.
By: Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (REUTERS).- Scientists in California say they have for the first time devised a way to accurately take the body temperatures of dinosaurs -- by examining the creatures' teeth. Chemical analysis of the Jurassic period fossil teeth from two sauropods -- long-tailed, long-necked dinosaurs that rank among the largest land animals ever to roam the Earth -- showed they were about as warm as most modern mammals. But they also were cooler than some experts had predicted for animals of such gigantic size. The findings from a team led by researchers at the California Institute of Technology were published Thursday in an online edition of the journal Science. "This is like being able to stick a thermometer in an animal that has been extinct for 150 million ... More | | Twelve British Artists Selected to Design a Set of Posters for Olympic and Paralympic Games
British artist Tracey Emin (L) poses with with vintage Olympic posters. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor.
By: Mike Collett-White
LONDON (REUTERS).- Twelve artists including Tracey Emin, Martin Creed and Chris Ofili will design a set of posters for the Olympic and Paralympic Games next summer, as Britain seeks to use the events to showcase its cultural heritage. The nominated artists were chosen from a list of some 100, but organizers would not disclose how they came to their final decision. Asked why Damien Hirst had not made the list, for example, Ruth Mackenzie, director of the Cultural Olympiad, replied: "I think the answer is, we're not going to go there." Emin told reporters at an event at Tate Britain gallery, held exactly a year before the London 2012 Festival event gets underway, that she wanted her poster to be a celebration of life in the city. "(I want to) show the world that London can really throw a party and that was what it was like with ... More |
Economist John S. Tamagni Elected Chair of Brooklyn Museum Board of Trustees
John S. Tamagni is currently a Founding Partner and Chairman of Castleton Partners. Photo: Adam Husted.
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Members of the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Museum have elected John S. Tamagni, a member of the Board since 1987 and currently Chair of the finance committee and Board Treasurer, as the Museum's Chair. He succeeds retiring Chair Norman M. Feinberg, who has served as Chair since 2006. Mr. Feinberg will continue to serve as an active Board member. Trustee Stephanie Ingrassia was elected Board President. Ms. Ingrassia has been a Trustee for ten years. Upon his election as Chair, Mr. Tamagni stated, "Under the leadership of Norman M. Feinberg, the Museum has continued an exceptional period of growth. I look forward, as Chairman, to the challenge of building upon these accomplishments, and to helping move forward with the Museum's important mission: serving as a vital public resource by acting as a bridge between our extraordinary collections and our audience." Born and raised in Brooklyn, Mr. Tama ... More | | Art Gallery Unveils One of the World's Largest Public Collections of Motherwell Drawings
Robert Motherwell, The Three Clowns, 1945 (detail). Gouache and ink on paper, 28.6 x 36.8 cm. Purchased with funds from an Anonymous Donor, with support from the Dedalus Foundation, 1998, 98/79 ©Estate of Robert Motherwell.
TORONTO.- The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) continues to celebrate the Abstract Expressionist movement with an exhibition of drawings by Robert Motherwell. Painting on Paper: The Drawings of Robert Motherwell, on view June 25 through December 11, 2011, showcases 55 works from the AGO collection, which houses one of the largest public holdings of drawings by Motherwell. “This exhibition gives visitors the opportunity to explore the mind and works of Motherwell, an eloquent and passionate Abstract Expressionist,” says Mathew Teitelbaum, the AGO’s Michael and Sonja Koerner Director and CEO. “Painting on Paper enriches the Abstract Expressionist New York experience at the AGO, giving visitors an in-depth look at the artistic process and evolution of one of the movement’s major figures.” Curated by Brenda ... More | | Rijksmuseum Exhibits Rare 17th Century Masterpiece by Caesar van Everdingen
Caesar van Everdingen, Girl with a Large Hat, 1645-1650. Oil on canvas, 92,2 x 81,7cm.
AMSTERDAM.- In celebration of the start of summer, the Rijksmuseum has organised the premier exhibition of the 17th -century masterpiece Girl with a Large Hat (1645-50) by Caesar van Everdingen. Acquired more than a year ago with support from the lottery BankGiro Loterij, the painting has since undergone extensive restoration, which has left it more appealing, lustrous and vivid than ever. This masterpiece offers a new take on 17th-century Dutch painting. The painting is now on display in the Philips Wing of the Rijksmuseum. The painting depicts a young woman wearing an exotic broad-rimmed hat in bright sunlight. She is wearing a white off-the-shoulder dress in satin and is holding up a woven balance of plums in her left hand. In addition to his most prestigious work in the central gallery (Oranjezaal) at Paleis Huis ten Bosch (the official residence of the current Queen of the Netherlands ... More |
Van Gogh Museum Announces Renovation, Art Temporarily on View in the Hermitage Amsterdam
Rietveld building - interior. Photo: Luuk Kramer.
AMSTERDAM.- The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam will begin renovation at the end of 2012 in order to ensure the condition of the building and the safety of the visitors in the long run, Axel Rüger, director of the museum, announced today. Masterpieces by Van Gogh, including approximately 75 paintings and a number of works on paper, will remain on view during the renovation: they will be presented in the Herenvleugel of the Hermitage Amsterdam as of October 2012. ‘The Van Gogh Museum will undergo refurbishment during a period of six months as of the end of September 2012’, Rüger said. ‘In connection with this necessary renovation, due to sharpened legal requirements from the Dutch government, the Van Gogh Museum on the Museumplein will be closed from October 2012 through March 2013. Annually, approximately 1.5 million people visit our museum. We simply cannot disappoint them. This strengthened our resolve to do ... More | | Multi-Sensory Exhibition at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts Features 220 Works by Warhol
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait, 1986. Acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen, 108 x 108 in. The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., 1998.1.815. © 2011 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NASHVILLE, TENN.- Warhol Live: Music and Dance in Andy Warhol’s Work, the first exhibition to delve deeply into the roles music and dance played in the artist’s life and work, opens at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts on June 24 in the Ingram Gallery and will remain on view through Sept. 11, 2011. The exhibition, organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in partnership with the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, brings together more than 220 works and objects, including paintings, silkscreen prints, photographs, works on paper, installations, films, videos and album covers, as well as objects and documents from Warhol’s personal archives. Warhol’s love of music and dance provides an essential narrative ... More | | Bulgarian Artist Plamen Dejanoff's The Bronze House at Hamburg's Kunstverein
The outside façade of the architectural design is composed of caste bronze modules measuring 95 x 65 x 10 cm.
HAMBURG.- Bulgarian artist Plamen Dejanoff (* 1970 in Sofia, lives in Vienna) is realising the bronze sculpture “The Bronze House” in public space. The outside façade of the architectural design is composed of caste bronze modules measuring 95 x 65 x 10 cm. In Hamburg the artist is showing some 150 elements that compose an open pavilion with an area of 40 qm and appr. 4 m height. For many years, Dejanoff has been planning and developing “The Bronze House” for the Bulgarian city Veliko Tarnovo. In the city centre, Dejanoff has acquired a number of building sites on which he is erecting house sculptures of bronze. They are being arduously constructed by hand in separate elements, so that since 2006 progress on the first of five planned building sculptures, which will in total cover 600 square metres, has been advancing in various stages of production and in ... More |
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 Two Important Contemporary Art Collections Brought Together at DeichtorhallenHAMBURG.- Two of the most important collections of contemporary art have been brought together in a joint show this summer at Deichtorhallen. One main feature of the collection of doctor and chemist Thomas Olbricht, who lives in Essen and Berlin, is a clear proclivity for eclecticism, in which context his programmatic focus lies on memento mori depictions. By contrast, Hamburg-based lawyer Harald Falckenberg is more interested in the grotesque, the political and the provocative. The show presents a good cross section of contemporary art, with both decidedly contrasting themes and others that are placed in mutually complementary juxtaposition, such as death, sexuality, youth, images of women, the child-like, the private, the public, and the various forms of abstract art. The narrative element is very strongly present in the works of both collections. Beauty and horror, humor, everyday life and tragedy, not to mention po ... More Art Antiques London Consolidates Success with Strong Sales and Increased Visitor Numbers LONDON.- Art Antiques London had much to celebrate when its doors closed on Wednesday 15th June after eight very busy days. The Fair acted as a magnet for collectors and connoisseurs with many established buyers visiting the Fair. Visitors commented on the light airy feel of the Fair and responded very well to the mix of disciplines and objects on display. Strong sales were reported across the board, the lecture series was universally praised and the restaurant, run by the Admirable Crichton, was an outstanding success. The final visitor figure was in excess of 15,500, and up just under 10% on last year. The visitor profile was very international with Middle Eastern and Asian buyers making their mark. A number of dealers made significant sales to Australian collectors. 2011 marked 30 years of Haughton International Fairs. The International Ceramics Fair and Seminar was launched in 1982 and when Art Antiques London was ... More Sotheby's London Impressionist & Modern Art Sale Series Achieves Total of $181,028,706LONDON.- Yesterday, Sotheby’s London June Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale brought a total of £14,622,250/$23,484,796 /€16,436,842, bringing the total for the June Impressionist & Modern Art sale series to £111,590,250 / $181,028,706 / ¤125,012,186, comfortably within the combined presale estimate of £91,989,000-132,214,000 / $103,064,905-148,132,751 / €149,181,313-214,417,225 James Mackie, Director & Acting Head of Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale, commented: “Today’s sale saw strong prices achieved for Modern masters, with Alberto Giacometti, Marc Chagall and Salvador Dalì attracting competitive bidding from international buyers, and earlier works were also well represented and sought after by collectors.” The highest price of the week’s sales was established at Sotheby’s with the sale of Egon Schiele’s 1914 cityscape Häuser mit bunter Wäsche (Vorstadt II) / ... More Fotofocus Announces 2012 Month-Long Celebration of Photography in CincinnatiCINCINNATI, OH.- FotoFocus, a nonprofit arts organization, announces the October 2012 launch of its first biennial month-long regional celebration of historical and contemporary photography and lens-based art. On Friday, October 14, 2011, 7 to 10 pm, in collaboration with 3CDC’s Fountain Square Rocktober Series, FotoFocus will preview highlights of the October 2012 upcoming event with video works and still images from featured exhibitions. The community is invited to be present at 7 pm to be part of the panoramic record photographer Thomas R. Schiff will create of the preview event that will be available for download on the FotoFocus website: fotofocuscincinnati.org. ArtWorks artists-designed photo booths are available on Fountain Square. Posters published by FotoFocus in association with Iconoclast Editions featuring images from some of FotoFocus 2012’s most exciting artists will be given away during th ... More AIA Issues Statement on Passing of Former Architect of the Capitol George M. White, FAIAWASHINGTON, DC.- The American Institute of Architects (AIA) today issued the following statement on the passing of George M. White, FAIA, who served as the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) from 1971 until 1995. The statement should be attributed to AIA President Clark Manus, FAIA. “As the Architect of the Capitol for nearly a quarter-century, George White demonstrated the value of an architect’s thinking and judgment in everything he did. His accomplishments are far too many to list here, but include the restoration of the West Front of the Capitol, the restoration of the Old Senate Chamber and the development of the Capitol Master plan. “As further proof of his commitment to the Capitol, George White insisted that any individual who occupied the AOC office must be a professional architect. His position was that architecture is the only construction discipline that concerns itself with aesthetics, and it was this at ... More Getty Research Institute Welcomes Exceptional Group of Scholars this SeptemberLOS ANGELES, CA.- Artists mobilize a variety of intellectual, organizational, technological, and physical resources to create their work. This scholar year at the Getty Research Institute will delve into questions bearing upon the theme Artistic Practice, and two research projects; Los Angeles Architecture, 1940–1990, and The Display of Art in Roman Palaces, 1550–1750. At the Getty Research Institute, scholars will pay particular attention to the material manifestations of memory and imagination in the form of sketchbooks, notebooks, pattern books, and model books. They will look closely at how notes, comments, written and drawn observations reveal the creative process. Additionally, the scholars will conduct art historical research into times and places where such media were not in use to discover what practices were developed to give ideas material form. At the Getty Villa, scholars will study the ways in which artists in ant ... MoreBell Made by Paul Revere's Company Moves to Boston WESTBOROUGH (AP).- WESTBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — One of the 23 surviving bells cast by Paul Revere has been moved to a new home at Boston's Old South Meeting House. Since 1849, the 865-pound bell has called congregants to worship at Westborough First Baptist Church, west of Boston. But the church closed in 2007 and was sold to the museum for an undisclosed sum. The bell was cast in 1801 and has the words "Revere & Sons" stamped on the side. It was moved Thursday, and Westborough residents had mixed emotions about it. The town tried to raise money to buy it, but fell short. The chairwoman of the Westborough Historical Commission says she's sad to see the bell leaving town but says at least it's not going far. ... More |
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