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An employee poses for a photograph with L.S. Lowry's "Lancashire Fair. Good Friday. Daisy Nook", selected for exhibition by Samantha Cameron, the wife of Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, during the press view of "Government Art Collection : At Work", at the Whitechapel Gallery in London June 3, 2011. The exhibits include a selection of work from government offices and embassies, dating from the 16th century to modern day. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor.
By: Matt Falloon
LONDON (REUTERS).- Lowry's lonely people, Tracey Emin's scrawlings and a mysterious portrait of Elizabeth I are just a few of the gems from the British government's art collection unveiled to the public for the first time this week. The exhibition, at London's Whitechapel Gallery and picked by top government officials old and new from offices scattered across the globe, brings together a mix from five centuries of art and diplomacy. L.S. Lowry's masterpiece 'Lancashire Fair: Good Friday, Daisy Nook', chosen by the wife of British Prime Minister David Cameron, shows a drab and alienating crowd of northern English folk at an Easter fair a year after the end of World War Two. The painting, which usually hangs in Cameron's Downing Street headquarters, fetched a record price of 3.8 million pounds ($6.2 million) at auction in 2007. ... More |
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Marina Abramovic Announces Development of New Institution in Montenegro
Marina Abramovic announced plans for the development of the Marina Abramovic Community Center Obod Cetinje. Photo: Joe Schildhorn/BFAnyc.com
VENICE.- On June 1st, Marina Abramovic and Branislav Micunovic, the Minister of Culture of Montenegro, hosted a breakfast and special presentation to announce plans to develop the Marina Abramovic Community Center Obod Cetinje. Guests included Fabiola Beracasa, Klaus Biesenbach, Ginevra Caltagirone, Rem Koolhaas, Fiona Scarry, William Bell, Maria Bell, Chrissie Iles, Rosalie Goldberg, Anne Pasternak, Mike Starn, Doug Starn, Yvonne Force Villareal, Riccardo Tisci and Nicholas Logsdail. On the occasion of the 54th Venice Biennale, Marina Abramovic announced plans for the development of the Marina Abramovic Community Center Obod Cetinje, a new institution in her home country of Montenegro dedicated to the cultivation of immaterial art such as ... More | | Expanded Galleries of African Art and Indian Art of the Americas Open at the Art Institute
Aztec Coronation Stone.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago opens its expanded galleries of African art and Indian art of the Americas today, June 3, 2011. Following an extensive four-year planning, construction, and reinstallation project, the combined 7,500 square foot gallery spaces--located in the Art Institute's lower Morton Wing (G136 and G137) --have now been freshly conceived and completely renovated to accommodate more than 550 objects on display. For the first time in the museum's history, the majority of the Art Institute's superb collection of African art and Indian art of the Americas can finally be seen in cohesive presentations that are impressive and enlightening. "The new galleries of African art and Indian art of the Americas will be a revelation to visitors," said James Cuno, President and Eloise W. Martin Director of the Art Institute. "Our collections are extraordinary; only a small fraction have ever been seen. They will no ... More | | Statue Leaves Italy for the First Time Since 1816 for Exhibition at the National Gallery of Art
The Roman statue Capitoline Venus in Rome. AP Photo/Araldo De Luca, National Gallery of Art.
By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- One of the best preserved sculptures from Roman antiquity, the "Capitoline Venus," has left Italy for the first time in nearly 200 years for a special display at the National Gallery of Art. The installation goes on public view Saturday through early September, the museum announced Thursday. The full-scale female nude statue has only left Rome one other time: when it was seized by Napoleon and taken to France in 1797. It was returned to Rome's Capitoline Museum in 1816 after Napoleon fell from power. Gallery Director Earl A. Powell III called it a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to see the piece in the United States. It will have a prime spot as a museum centerpiece for the busy summer months. "The 'Venus' will ... More |
An Exhibition of New Paintings and Drawings by Elizabeth Peyton at Gagosian Gallery Paris
Elizabeth Peyton, Isa (Isa Genzken 1980), 2010 : Oil on panel 14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm) PEYTO 2010.0003 © Elizabeth Peyton. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
PARIS.- Gagosian Gallery Paris presents an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Elizabeth Peyton. This is her first solo exhibition in Paris. The exhibition is on view from May 27th until July 28th 2011. With the statement “A painter can say all he wants to with fruit, flowers or even clouds,”Edouard Manet evoked the genre of still-life painting to rebuff the heroic and overcharged history paintings of his time. More than a century later, Peyton's jewel-like paintings reaffirm Manet’s belief in the quiet potency of an enduring intimiste genre. Portraits of artists both historical and contemporary (Camille Claudel, Isa Genzken), some of whom are also Peyton’s friends (Rirkrit, Klara, Hans-Ulrich), are rendered from photographs or from life. Peyton imbues each likeness with a startling freshness and immediacy, although ... More | | Controversial Israeli Billionaire and Art Collector Sammy Ofer Dies at Age 89 in Tel Aviv
File photo of Israeli business tycoons Yuli Ofer, left, and his brother Sammy Ofer, right, attend a cornerstone laying ceremony. AP Photo/Moti Kimhi, Haaretz.
By: Matti Friedman, Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP).- An Israeli billionaire at the center of a recent scandal involving trade with Iran died Friday in Tel Aviv. He was 89. Shipping magnate and philanthropist Sammy Ofer was listed last year by Forbes as Israel's richest person, and appeared as number 109 on the magazine's list of the world's richest people. Ofer's family released a statement saying he died Friday morning at his Tel Aviv home after a long illness. Ofer's name had been in the news since the U.S. government sanctioned his company, Ofer Brothers Group, last month for selling an oil tanker to Iran's national shipping company through a Singapore subsidiary. The move violated U.S. trade restrictions on Iran. That embarrassed the Ofer family and the Israeli government, which has long been ... More | | Marilyn Monroe's 85th Birthday Celebrated at Hotel with Rare Photos by Murray Garrett
Legendary Hollywood photographer Murray Garrett's photos of Marilyn Monroe at the Washington Square Hotel.
NEW YORK, NY.- On Wednesday, June 1st, what would have been screen goddess Marilyn Monroe's 85th birthday, the Washington Square Hotel showcased an exhibition of rare, never-before-seen photos of Marilyn Monroe from the personal archives of legendary Hollywood photographer Murray Garrett. Murray Garrett was one of Hollywood's most sought-after photographers from the early 1950's to the late 1970's, the "go-to" photographer for stars, movie studios and personal publicists. Garrett filled a very special niche -- covering personal, off-screen events, both formal and informal, for celebrity clients. He was the acknowledged master at capturing stars in unguarded moments. Garrett first photographed Monroe at a charity celebrity baseball fundraiser, when the budding Hollywood starlet threw out the first ball at a game between teams captained by Frank Sinatra and Bob ... More |
David Zwirner Announces the Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings by Luc Tuymans
Luc Tuymans, Portrait, 2000. Oil on canvas, 26 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches, 67.3 x 39.4 cm. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York and Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner announces the preparation of a catalogue raisonné of paintings by Luc Tuymans, which the gallery will oversee in collaboration with Studio Luc Tuymans, with additional research support from Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp. Compiled and edited by art historian Eva Meyer-Hermann, the catalogue raisonné will illustrate and document approximately 500 paintings by the artist from 1975 to the present day. Belgian artist Luc Tuymans is widely regarded as having contributed to the revival of painting over the last decades. His sparsely-colored, figurative works speak in a quiet, restrained, and at times unsettling, voice and are typically painted from pre-existing imagery which includes photographs and video stills. His canvases, in turn, become third-degree abstractions from reality and often ... More | | President Barack Obama Salutes Eduardo Souto de Moura: Winner of Top Architecture Prize
President Barack Obama speaks at the Pritzker Architecture Prize event as first lady Michelle Obama stands left at Andrew Mellon Auditorium. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster.
By: Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- President Barack Obama praised the winner of a top architecture prize Thursday for embodying a style that is, in his words, as "effortless as it is beautiful." Obama lauded Eduardo Souto de Moura of Portugal at an awards ceremony where de Moura was receiving the 2011 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The esteemed prize is often referred to as the Nobel Prize for architecture. De Moura has won acclaim for his careful use of natural materials and unexpected dashes of color. He has designed homes, hotels, museums, sports facilities and other structures, mainly in his native country but also elsewhere in Europe. "His simple shapes and clean lines ... More | | Rare Tapestry to Highlight Pablo Picasso Editions Auction at Bonhams in Knightsbridge
One of the current highlights of the sale is Le Baiser, a large wool tapestry estimated to fetch £6,000-8,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams announces that the 2011 sale of Picasso Editions featuring prints, ceramics and tapestries by the famed master will take place on Tuesday 27th September in the company’s Knightsbridge auction rooms. One of the current highlights of the sale is Le Baiser, a large wool tapestry estimated to fetch £6,000-8,000. It was executed in an edition of just 20 in 1979-80 by Marigold Enterprises Ltd. Picasso, along with Leger, Miro and Dufy, was among the first modern artists to allow their designs to be translated into tapestries. As one of the most experimental artists of the 20th Century, Picasso also turned his hand to pottery and printmaking with as much passion as he did painting. There are a wide range of vibrant and colourful ceramics consigned for this sale including the decorated jug with a face, ... More |
Christie's Names Deborah Bell Vice President and Head of the Photographs Department
Ms. Bell is known throughout the art world for her eponymous Chelsea gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announced the appointment of Deborah Bell as Vice President and Head of the Photographs Department. Ms. Bell is known throughout the art world for her eponymous Chelsea gallery, which is lauded for its exquisite range of 19th and 20th Century photographs as well as contemporary works by artists such as Louis Faurer, Diane Arbus, William Eggleston, Lisette Model and Garry Winogrand. Since opening The Deborah Bell Gallery in 2000, Ms. Bell has represented the likes of Dag Alveng, Per Berntsen, The Estate of Esther Bubley, John Cohen, George W. Gardner, Susan Paulsen and Marcia Resnick. The Deborah Bell Gallery, located at 511 West 25th Street, will close later this month after its last show, Memories of the Future: Ana Barrado/Rockets, closes on June 25, 2011. Ms. Bell will immediately begin the next chapter in her already distinguished career at Christie's ... More | | Classic Photographs and Portfolios Stand Out at Swann Galleries' Auction in New York
Roy DeCarava "Dancers". Photo: Courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries’ May 19 auction of Important Photobooks and Photographs featured classic 20th-century images by celebrated photographers as well as desirable portfolios of their work. The sale’s top lot was the André Kertész portfolio A Hungarian Memory, which contained 15 silver print photographs of the artist’s homeland, from 1914 to 1923, printed in 1980. It was one of 100 numbered copies and seven artist’s proofs and sold for an auction record of $48,000*. Other notable portfolios and sets of photos in the sale were a select group of five silver prints from the portfolio Walker Evans, 1935-1936, printed 1971, $21,600; one of 50 copies of Barbara Morgan’s Dance portfolio, with 10 silver prints, 1935-1944, printed 1977, $13,200; and a portfolio with 10 silver prints by Brassaï, containing his iconic Parisian images ... More | | Courtauld Institute of Art Opens "One of a Thousand Ways to Defeat Entropy" in Venice
Alexander Ponomarev, Baffin Figure, 2006. Performance, Baffin Sea.
LONDON.- This major international exhibition features monumental new works by four of the most exciting and renowned artists working today: Alexander Ponomarev (Russia), Hans Op de Beeck (Belgium), Adrian Ghenie (Romania) and Ryoichi Kurokawa (Japan). One of a Thousand Ways to Defeat Entropy is an Official Collateral Project of the 54th Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art – the world’s oldest and most prestigious art festival – and is on view at the Arsenale Novissimo from 3 June to 27 November 2011. The exhibition is organised by the AVC Charity Foundation (London) with the academic support of The Courtauld Institute of Art. Entropy! A key term characterising the movement towards chaos – in physics, probability theory, sociology and information technology. The entropic end-state is nothing less than uniform oblivion, which ... More |
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 The AIA Recognizes 13 Projects with the 2011 CAE Educational Facility Design AwardWASHINGTON, D.C.- The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) has selected13 educational and cultural facilities for this year’s CAE Educational Facility Design Awards. The purpose of the design awards program is to identify trends and emerging ideas, honor excellence in planning and design, and disseminate knowledge about best practices in educational and community facilities. The 2011 CAE Educational Facility Design Awards jury includes: Peter C. Lippman, Assoc. AIA (jury chair), JCJ Architecture; R. Thomas Hille, AIA, Tabula Rasa Architecture + Design; Christian Long (Educator), Be Playful / Design & Studio; David Schrader, AIA, SchraderGroup and Susan ... More Art 42 Basel Announces The Art Salon ProgramBASEL.- Once again Art Salon - a dense program of artist talks, panels, book signing and other presentations - will be presented every afternoon at Art 42 Basel from June 15 to June 19, 2011. In Hall 1, the Art Salon program is focused on the most current artworld themes and spotlights the artists, curators, collectors, and experts influencing the creative sphere at this moment and in the future. WEDNESDAY | June 15 1-1.30pm | Talk: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Serpentine Gallery, London; Tino Sehgal, Artist, Berlin. In conversation with Prof. Dr. Hans Christoph Binswanger, University of St.Gallen, Institute for Economy and the Environment, St.Gallen • 2-2.30pm | Talk | Museum And Biennale, The Incredible Everyday: Susanne Gaensheimer, Director, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt and Curator of the German Pavillion at the 54th Biennale di Venezia: Tobias Rehberger, Artist, Frankfurt/Berlin • 3-3.30pm | T ... More Sold: the Bomb-Making Tools of Theodore Kaczynski WASHINGTON (AP).- To most people, Theodore Kaczynski's bomb-making tools are meaningless relics from a life devoted to mayhem. To Janine Vaccarello, chief operating officer at the National Museum of Crime & Punishment in Washington, they're priceless. For a mere $1,766 at an online government auction that ended Thursday, Vaccarello's museum was the winning bidder for Kaczynski's black and white passport photos, along with the wood saw and Hanson Model 1509 scale that the man known as the Unabomber used in his deadly attacks. Carried out under court order by the U.S. Marshals Service and the General Services Administration, the auction was revenge of a sort for the victims and the families terrorized by Kaczynski's acts of violence that left three people dead and 23 injured from 1978 to 1995. In all, collectors paid $232,246 for 58 items seized during the raid of Kaczynski's remote Montana cabin in 1996. ... More Colorado Fossils Shed Light on Ice Age Mastodons SNOWMASS VILLAGE (AP).- Scientists say an excavation site in western Colorado has unearthed fossils for ice age mastodons of all ages. The Denver Museum of Nature & Science said Friday they've found the skull of an infant mastodon, the skull of a juvenile, and the thigh bone of what may have been a fetus. The skulls range in size from a basketball to a beer keg. Scientists have also discovered 26 mastodon tusks, indicating that there were at least 13 to 20 different mastodons at the Snowmass Village site. Researchers say there have only been three other mastodon fossils found in Colorado until now. They've said they can only speculate why so many bones have been found at the excavation site, which used to be a lakebed. ... More Met Museum Announces Change in Recommended Admission PricesNEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that, effective July 1, for reasons of economic necessity, the price of museum admission will rise to a recommended $25 for adults, $17 for seniors and $12 for students. The rates are currently $20, $15, and $10, respectively. This marks the first admissions increase in five years. The Museum pointed out that admission to the Met will continue to be free to all children under 12 years of age, as well as to student groups from all New York City schools that reserve their visits in advance. In addition, the museum’s longstanding policy of including all special exhibitions free with the purchase of a general museum admission will continue unchanged. The Museum’s Education Department will also continue to provide free meeting spa ... MoreSobibor Exhibition Hall Closed for Lack of Funds WARSAW (AP).- An exhibition hall at the former Nazi death camp of Sobibor has been closed because of a lack of funds, a Polish official said Friday. The memorial site's spokesman, Marek Bem, also said guided tours at the site have been discontinued. Bem said talks are now under way with the Culture Ministry to secure financing that would allow the exhibition hall to reopen next year. He said the problems arise from the fact that Sobibor is funded by the local government rather than the central government, like other Holocaust sites. Experts believe at least 167,000 people were killed at the camp. Sobibor is in a remote part of the country and receives relatively few visitors. Very little remains at Sobibor, which was destroyed by the Nazis. An outdoor memorial mound of ashes, plaques and stone monuments to the victims remain accessible to visitors. John Demjanjuk, a former Ohio autoworker, was convicted May ... More |
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