| | Tutto Fellini, a Fellini Season in Switzerland Opens with Exhibition at Musée de l'Elysée
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A man visits the exhibition of the Musee de l'Elysee 'Fellini, la Grande parade' (Fellini the big parade), in Lausanne, Switzerland. The exhibition about Federico Fellini's (1920-1993) life and work runs until 28 August 2011. EPA/DOMINIC FAVRE.
LAUSANNE.- Tutto Fellini, a Fellini season in Switzerland with the Fellini, la Grande parade exhibition at Musée de l’'Elysée, a complete retrospective of Federico Fellini’s films at the Cinémathèque Suisse and an exhibition dedicated to the colour photographs of the film 8 ½ launch the Fellini Foundation for film’s new exhibition space, in Sion. While La Dolce Vita has just celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, the Fellini, la Grande Parade exhibition is the perfect opportunity to interrogate the relevance of the filmmaker’s life’s work. Detaching itself from chronology to approach Fellini through his obsessions, the exhibition focuses exclusively on pictures, those that inspired the filmmaker, those of which he dreamt, those which he made himself… The confrontation of the images, the update of their diffusion by the means of a firmly contemporary mode of exhibition, establishes a dialogue between photography and film, between still and moving imag ... More |
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| The Best Photos of the Day |  |  | CHICAGO.- Martha Roth, dean of humanities at the University of Chicago, and Gil Stein, director of the Oriental Institute at the university, examine one of two glazed molded brick lions from the Neo-Babylonian Period, about 604-662 B.C. in one of the institutes galleries in Chicago. Roth is the editor-in-charge of a project started 90 years ago by the institute to assemble an Assyrian dictionary based on words recorded on tablets unearthed in Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey, and written in a language that hadnt been uttered for more that 2,000 years. The massive 21-volume collection is now complete. AP Photo/M. Spencer Green. | | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris Opens at the de Young
In the gallery at Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musee National Picasso, Paris at the de Young Museum through October 9, 2011. Photo: Jennifer Hsu/Fine Arts Museums of SF.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The de Young Museum presents a major exhibition by the seminal artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso. The exhibition Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris, opens on Saturday, June 11, in the Herbst Special Exhibition Galleries and runs through October 9, 2011. This exhibition of 150 important paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings created by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) is drawn from the permanent collection of the Musée National Picasso, Paris, the largest and most significant repository of the artist’s work in the world, and comes to the de Young as part of an international tour. The artwork is touring because the Musée is currently closed and undergoing a multi-year renovation expected to last through 2012. Ranging from informal sketchbooks to finished iconic masterpieces, this unique collection of “Picasso’s Picassos” provides significant proof of t ... More | | Discovering Paris and the Language of Love in Woody Allen's Movie "Midnight in Paris"
Tourists in the garden of the Rodin museum in Paris. AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere.
By: Elaine Ganley, Associated Press
PARIS (AP).- "Parlez-moi d'amour." Speak to me of love. This is Paris and the language is love — crazy love — amid the creative folly of a city whose ethereal beauty and bawdy underside spell magic. Spend a day, and a de rigueur night, here and you can walk hand-in-hand with Woody Allen through the City of Light he portrays in "Midnight in Paris," his sweet and zany valentine to the French capital. Amble down the 21st-century streets of this walking city, and like Allen's leading character, Gil (played by Owen Wilson), you could be swept into the past, with the iconic 1930s tune that haunts the movie whispering "Speak to me of love" in your ear. In Allen's Paris, there is no place for rude taxi drivers or haughty waiters. "I wanted to show the city emotionally, the way I felt about it," Allen said during a news conference last month in Cannes, where "Midnight in Paris" opened this year's film festival. "It didn't matter to me how real it was or what it reflected." It w ... More | | Hood Museum of Art Presents Embracing Elegance: American Art from the Huber Family Collection
Cecilia Beaux, Maud DuPuy Darwin, 1889, pastel on warm gray paper laid down on canvas. Promised gift to the Hood Museum of Art from Russell and Jack Huber, Class of 1963.
HANOVER, NH.- America at the turn of the twentieth century was characterized by dramatic social, cultural, and artistic change. The works in Embracing Elegance, 1885–1920: American Art from the Huber Family Collection represent a diversity of reactions to that change while generally featuring intimate, informal subjects captured in a personally expressive manner influenced variously by the Aesthetic movement, impressionism, urban realism, and postimpressionism. The exhibition features over thirty pastels, drawings, watercolors, and paintings by such leading artists of the period as Cecilia Beaux, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Joseph DeCamp, Robert Henri, Lilla Cabot Perry, John Singer Sargent, Everett Shinn, John Sloan, John Henry Twachtman, and J. Alden Weir. All of the works were collected over the past twenty-five years by Jack Huber, Dartmouth Class of 1963, and his wife, Russell. A few of the images address societal change explicitly, including the vigorously ... More |
Korean Royal Books Looted by French Soldiers in the 19th Century Get Colorful Welcome
South Koreans attired in royal court costumes dance during a ceremony to welcome the return of priceless ancient royal books. AP Photo/Kim Jae-hwan.
By: Kelly Olsen, Associated Press
SEOUL (AP).- South Korea celebrated the return of nearly 300 royal books looted by French soldiers in the 19th century with solemn ceremonies Saturday bringing alive the color and pageantry of a bygone royal age. Bearers dressed in bright red costumes of the Joseon Dynasty carried a palanquin containing some of the books to central Seoul's Gyeongbok Palace to the piercing sound of traditional horns and gongs. An official took the books wrapped in red cloth and placed them near an alter with another set for a Confucian enshrinement ceremony carried out in a square on the palace grounds complete with offerings of food, incense and drink. A report of the books' return was read aloud to surrounding spirits. "It is very meaningful that valuable ... More | | Phillips Collection Features Works by Pioneering Abstract Artist Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky, Painting with White Border (Moscow), 1913 (detail). Oil on canvas, 55 1/4 x 78 7/8 in. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift 37.245. © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
WASHINGTON, DC.- After a visit to his native Moscow in 1912, Wassily Kandinsky (1866−1944) sought to record the “extremely powerful impressions” that lingered in his memory. Working tirelessly through numerous drawings, watercolors, and oil studies over a five-month period, Kandinsky eventually arrived at his 1913 masterpiece, Painting with White Border. This exhibition, co-organized with The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, reunites Painting with White Border with 11 preparatory studies in oil, watercolor, ink, and pencil from international collections. By examining this singular masterpiece within the context of Kandinsky’s artistic production, the ... More | | Stanford's Cantor Arts Center Gives Two 19th-Century Paintings to the Crocker Art Museum
Charles Christian Nahl, Saturday Night in the Mines, 1856 (detail). Oil on canvas. Stanford Family Collection. Conservation supported by an anonymous donor. JLS.12083
STANFORD, CA.- The Cantor Arts Center has deaccessioned two 19th-century American paintings from its collection: Charles Christian Nahl’s Saturday Night in the Mines, 1856, and Crossing the Plains,1856. Both works are oil on canvas. Ownership of the paintings has been transferred to the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California. The Association of Art Museum Directors defines deaccessioning as “the process by which a work of art or other object . . . wholly or in part, is permanently removed from a museum’s collection.” The paintings’ permanent move to the Crocker follows both the letter and the spirit of the Association’s professional practices guidelines for deaccessioning artworks, which state: & ... More |
Mark Cohen's Work from the 1970s and '80s Exhibited at Bruce Silverstein Gallery
Mark Cohen, Memo Pad in Wind, 1976, printed 1976. Gelatin silver print. Signed and dated on verso, 16 x 20 inches. Photo: Courtesy Bruce Silverstein Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Silverstein Gallery announces representation and a new exhibition of the work of Mark Cohen. The exhibition, Lost/Found, features Cohen’s work from the 1970s and ‘80s that focuses on the artist’s extensive fascination with minute, cast-off elements of human effects—garbage or other small details—which Cohen makes monumental through his stimulating compositions possessing emotional weight and ineffable meaning. Renowned for his images of cropped figures shot at close range and strobe lit, previous exhibitions have portrayed Cohen as fixated on the human form. Lost/Found focuses on images that are non-figurative, an aspect of the artist’s work that has never before been the subject of an exhibition. Mark Cohen’s perspicacity enables him to hone in on the slightest detail, aberration, quality, texture, shape, or occurrence ... More | | Museum-Wide Exhibition Celebrates Clay Through the Ages and From Around the World
Richard Phillips, Brandbild (Sunburn), 1997. Oil on linen; 116 x 80 in. Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan. Photo courtesy of Richard Phillips, Gagosian Gallery. © the artist.
DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum (DAM) takes a closer look at the medium of clay in its summer exhibition Marvelous Mud: Clay Around the World. Celebrating the prolific and diverse material, Marvelous Mud reveals how clay has shaped culture, creativity, science and industry over time and around the globe. The museumwide exhibition explores one major medium and illustrates its diversity and history through fascinating stories that span time and geographic location. Marvelous Mud is on view June 11 through September 18, 2011, and offers a different way for visitors to experience the DAM’s programs and collections. Marvelous Mud features eight exhibitions throughout the Hamilton and North buildings, hands-on and live programming with artists and experts and indoor and outdoor creation stations that allows ... More | | Kunsthaus Zürich Presents "Enter the Orbit" with New Works by Roman Ondak
Roman Ondák, 2008. Photo © Wolfgang Stahr.
ZURICH.- From 10 June to 28 August 2011 the Kunsthaus Zürich presents a solo show of works by Slovakian artist Roman Ondák - the first such exhibition at a museum in Switzerland. Ondák, one of the leading proponents of a new conceptual art, has been invited to contribute to both the 2011 Venice Biennale and documenta 2012. His two new works about the first satellite in orbit, Sputnik 1, were created especially for the Kunsthaus and are shown exclusively in Zurich. Born in Zilina in 1966 and living in Bratislava today, Ondák produces works that confound audiences' expectations and playfully question the mechanisms of perception. He views solo exhibitions not simply as the presentation of individual works, but rather as conceptually coherent wholes in which everything relates to and complements everything else. His project for the Kunsthaus Zürich involves the creation of a universe that revolves arou ... More |
New York's 9/11 Memorial: General Reservations for the General Public Start July 11
File photo of ironworkers make sure the path is clear as they remove the last remaining steel beam of the World Trade Center. AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, PO Tom Sperduto.
By: Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- The general public can start making reservations next month to visit the Sept. 11 memorial after the terror attacks' 10th anniversary, and victims' relatives will have special provisions to schedule visits to the monument taking shape in the World Trade Center's footprints, organizers said Friday. Family members will be able to start making reservations July 6 , five days before the general public, and use a special phone number instead of the public's online system, the National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum told them in an email message. An as-yet undetermined number of passes will be set aside every day for family members, and they'll be able to use a separate entrance, the museum added. The ... More | | Phillips de Pury & Company Announces the Highlights from June Contemporary Art Auctions
Jean Michel Basquiat, Self Portrait, 1985. Acrylic, oilstick and bottle caps on wood 140 x 150cm. Estimate: 2,000,000 - 3,000,000gbp.
LONDON.- Phillips de Pury & Company, announces highlights from the upcoming June Contemporary Art Evening and Day auctions. Highlights of the Contemporary Evening sale are on show now at Phillips de Pury & Compay’s new space, 45-47 Brook Street at Claridge’s London. The sales will feature important modern and contemporary works across multiple genres. The Contemporary Art Evening auction comprises 32 lots with a pre-sale estimate of £10,250,000/$16,400,000 to £14,820,000/ $23,712,000.The Contemporary Art Day auction comprises 269 lots with a presale estimate of £4,289,000/$7,034,000 to £6,122,000 /$10,040,000. “Phillips de Pury’s June Contemporary Art Evening sale affords the discerning collector the opportunity to acquire high quality works from both established and new generation artists at attractive estimates. ... More | | Stunning Line-Up of English Automobiles Go Under the Hammer at RM Auctions
1962 Aston Martin DB4 Series IV Vantage Coupé.
LONDON.- RM Auctions, the world’s largest collector car auction house for quality automobiles, is now on the countdown to its inaugural sale at London’s Salon Privé luxury car show and Concours d’Elegance on 23rd June, 2011. The sale, which is only open to British-built automobiles, has attracted fifty-seven stunning examples of ‘Quintessentially English’ cars including some significant collections of Aston Martin, Jaguar and Rolls-Royce automobiles. Max Girardo, Managing Director, RM Europe says, “What is nice about this sale is that we have selected some genuinely rare and interesting cars and motorcycles while also offering a very comprehensive selection of British marques that represent a wide cross-section of some of the best loved and most keenly collected models.” The star Rolls-Royce lot is unquestionably the unique and historic 1926 Rolls-Royce Phantom I Experimental Sports Tourer ... More |
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 Top Designers and Glassmakers Present Glass Design Performances on the Vitra Campus During Art BaselCORNING, NY.- The Corning Museum of Glass will bring its GlassLab program back to the Vitra Design Museum during Art Basel 2011, pairing international designers with Corning Museum glassmakers for a series of collaborative design performances. GlassLab design sessions will take place on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, from June 13 to June 19, 2011. Participating designers will be Active People (Alex Hochstrasser and René Küng), Shin Azumi, Tomoko Azumi, Stephen Burks, Paul Cocksedge, Sigga Heimis, James Irvine, Beat Karrer, and Arik Levy. The designers will bring their sketchbooks and concepts and work side-by-side with glassmakers in a unique mobile hotshop developed by The Corning Museum of Glass. The teams will prototype their design ideas in live sessions, allowing audiences to watch the evolutio ... More Bollywood Cinema Showcards: Indian Film Art from the 1950s to the 1980s at the Royal Ontario MuseumTORONTO.- The Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents the North American debut of Bollywood Cinema Showcards: Indian Film Art from the 1950s to the 1980s, a visual journey through the history of Bollywood advertising. Curated by Deepali Dewan for the ICC at the ROM in collaboration with the Hartwick Collection, Bollywood Cinema Showcards will be on view in the special exhibitions gallery on Level 3 of the Museum from June 11 to October 2, 2011. “Bollywood Cinema Showcards is a unique opportunity for visitors to see this rare collection of vintage cinematic art, bringing early Bollywood culture and design to life,” said Janet Carding, ROM Director and CEO. “I'm delighted that the ROM is contributing in such as significant way to this year-long celebration of India in Canada and the Bollywood experience in Toronto surrounding the International Indian Film Academy Awards.&# ... More John Waters Takes Over Walker Galleries as Absentee LandlordMINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Pop culture provocateur John Waters brings his exuberant impudence to the Walker Art Center’s galleries this summer as curator of the exhibition Absentee Landlord, running June 11, 2011 through March 4, 2012. Absentee Landlord Absentee Landlord is Waters’ devious intervention into the Walker exhibition Event Horizon, which opened in 2009 and featured highlights from the Walker’s collection. Event Horizon was designed to change over time, with new curators adding to and subtracting from the existing layout. Incorporating a new set of works from the Walker’s collection, plus works from other collections and pieces he created himself, Waters will imbue the galleries with his trademark blend of subversion and insight. In Absentee Landlord, Waters views the Walker galleries as analogous to apartments—artworks coexist like roommates, with relationships that range from belligerent to frien ... More Artist Libby Hague's Art Gallery of Ontario Installation Extends to Gallery FacadeTORONTO.- Toronto-based artist Libby Hague’s new installation at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) extends beyond gallery walls and onto the AGO’s Dundas Street façade. Libby Hague: Sympathetic Connections, on view June 11 through September 11, is part of the AGO’s Toronto Now series of rotating contemporary projects by Toronto artists. The installation transforms woodblock prints into paper sculptures that connect across the walls, ceiling, and external windows of the AGO’s Young Gallery. Sympathetic Connections combines representational and abstract forms in a room-spanning three-dimensional installation. Colourful sculptural forms crafted from Japanese paper fill the gallery, dangling from walls and cascading down from the ceiling, while a wall-mounted print of a nuclear power plant looms in the periphery, an image inspired in part by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disa ... More Group Show of 8 Contemporary Abstract Artists at Von Lintel GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Von Lintel Gallery presents Driven to Abstraction, a group show of eight contemporary abstract artists who represent a diverse range of entry points into abstraction. The show is on view from June 9th through July 23rd, 2011. Dannielle Tegeder's angular constructions push geometric-based abstraction in new directions, while Amy Ellingson and Lisa Corinne Davis' elaborate layering and accumulated details marry geometry with organic structures. In Canan Tolon’s fragmented paintings spaces are recognizable yet elude description. Catherine Howe's abstract-leaning paintings emerge spontaneously from gestures and imagined forms as Andrea Belag al ... More Consul General of France Visits Monet Exhibition at Nelson-Atkins MuseumKANSAS CITY, MO.- The Consul General of France, Graham Paul, as a guest of the Alliance Francaise Kansas City, visited The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art to view Monet’s Water Lilies with Museum Director & CEO Julián Zugazagoitia and Sarah F. Rowland, Chair of the Board of Trustees. Paul’s visit coincided with the inclusion of the Museum in FRAME, The French Regional & American Museum Exchange, a formal collaboration of museums in 12 cities in France, 12 museums in the United States and one Associate Member in Canada. “The Nelson-Atkins joins a distinguished group of museums on both sides of the Atlantic,” said Dr. Charlotte N. Eyerman, Director, FRAME, North America. “With its outstanding encyclopedic collections, its legacy of exceptional exhibitions and publications, and its dynamic new dire ... More |
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