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A woman looks at silkscreen prints by Andy Warhol of Britain's Queen Elizabeth during a press view of The Queen:Art and Image exhibtion, in the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland. The exhibtion starts in Edinburgh on 25th June till September then moving to Belfast and Cardiff and finally to the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2012. REUTERS/David Moir.
EDINBURGH.- To mark The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012, the National Portrait Gallery stages an innovative touring exhibition bringing together 60 of the most remarkable and resonant images of Elizabeth II spanning the 60 years of her reign and some on public display for the first time. The Queen: Art and Image will tour to British venues before being shown in London, opening in Edinburgh in June, Belfast in October and Cardiff and London in 2012. From Beaton and Leibovitz to Annigoni and Warhol, The Queen: Art and Image will be the most wide-ranging exhibition of images in different media devoted to a single royal sitter. Formal painted portraits, official photographs, media pictures, and powerful responses by contemporary artists will be shown in an exhibition which explores both traditional representations and works which extend the visual language of royal portraiture. Documenting the changing nature of representations of the Monarch, the exhibition will show how image ... More |
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Andy Warhol's Portrait of Debbie Harry, A Highlight of Sotheby's Contemporary Art Sale
A Sotheby's employee poses with artist Andy Warhol's artwork "Debbie Harry" at Sotheby's. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor.
LONDON.- Selected as the cover image for the major survey of Warhol's portraiture published by Phaidon in 2005, Debbie Harry, from 1980, is one of Warhol's most accomplished portraits of celebrity. One of only four such portraits of the Blondie star in this rare 42 inches format, two of which are in the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, this pink version has become one of the best recognized images in Warhol's oeuvre and the definitive portrait of the 1980s style icon. Built up of no fewer than five silk-screened layers of ink over the coloured acrylic ground, this portrait stands head and shoulders above its peers as a masterclass in the genre. Painted at a late high point in Warhol's career, on the eve of the decade which saw a renewed creative enterprise in his art, Debbie Harry sits squarely in the lineage of great portraiture that links his images of the stellar trinity of Liz Taylor, Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy in the 1960s with his final fright-wig self portraits in ... More | | Actor Peter Falk, TV's Rumpled Columbo and an Artist in His Own Right, has Died
In this 1974 file photo originally released by NBC, Peter Falk is ahown as homicide detective Lieutenant Columbo in the NBC series, "Columbo." AP Photo/NBC.
By: Frazzier Moore, AP Television Writer
NEW YORK (AP).- The best way to celebrate Peter Falk's life is to savor how Columbo, his signature character, fortified our lives. Thanks to Falk's affectionately genuine portrayal, Lt. Columbo established himself for all time as a champion of any viewer who ever felt less than graceful, elegant or well-spoken. Falk died Thursday at age 83 in his Beverly Hills, Calif., home, according to a statement released Friday by family friend Larry Larson. But Columbo lives on as the shining ideal of anyone with a smudge on his tie, whose car isn't the sportiest, who often seems clueless, who gets dissed by fancy people. As a police detective, Columbo's interview technique was famously disjointed, with his inevitable awkward afterthought ("Ahhh, there's just one more thing...") that tried the patience of his suspect as he was halfway out the door. Columbo was underestimated ... More | | Leading Art Dealer Robert Miller, Founder of Robert Miller Gallery, Dies at 72
Robert Miller Miller encouraged the reappraisal of underrepresented voices in contemporary art. Photo: Courtesy Robert Miller Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Robert Miller Gallery regretfully announces the death on Wednesday, June 22, 2011, of its founder Robert Miller (1939-2011). Miller, one of the world’s leading art dealers of the 1980s and 90s, died in Miami, FL. He was 72. In his time a powerful force in the art world, Miller encouraged the reappraisal of underrepresented voices in contemporary art and provided a platform for a critical re-thinking of the 20th century canon. He was a pioneering representative of women and gay artists in particular and established an international reputation by working directly with some of the most important and influential artists of our time such as Louise Bourgeois, Gilbert & George, David Hockney, Leon Kossoff, Lee Krasner, Robert Mapplethorpe, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Georgia O’Keeffe, Andy Warhol, and with the estates of Diane Arbus, Eva Hesse and Jean-Michel Basquiat. In the early 1960s shortly a ... More |
Colorado Parks Board Approves Pact with Artist Christo for Over the River Project
File photo of Bulgarian-born artist Christo signing a book in Berlin, Germany. EPA/ROBERT SCHLESINGER.
SALIDA (AP).- The Colorado State Parks Board approved an agreement Friday for the artist Christo to pay $550,000 to state parks to carry out his Over the River project, which would suspend 5.9 miles worth of fabric panels over parts of the Arkansas River. However, the agreement is moot if the Bureau of Land Management doesn't approve a federal permit for the project. The BLM hasn't made its decision yet. Christo's project would use heavy equipment to help erect a system of cables and anchors to hang the fabric along U.S. 50. The agreement approved by the parks board applies only to lands it manages. It says Christo's team would pay $320,000 to cover State Parks' costs related to Christo carrying out his project, plus $230,000 in recreation impact fees. Over the River, which Christo envisioned with his late wife, Jeanne-Claude, has drawn support from art lovers but frustration from some wildlife advocates and river businesses. Opponents say hordes of tourists checking out the pr ... More | | Atlanta Artist Radcliffe Bailey Makes Headline Debut at The High Museum of Art
Radcliff Bailey standing next to one of his pieces. AP Photo/High Museum of Art.
By: Errin Haines, Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP).- On a recent Thursday night, a black employee of Atlanta's High Museum of Art summed up the magnitude of the new exhibition by artist Radcliffe Bailey. "He's on the second floor," the man said, smiling and nodding. "That's where they put da Vinci, Michelangelo, Monet, Dali." In the city where he has lived, studied and worked nearly his entire life, Bailey has arrived. His show, "Radcliffe Bailey: Memory as Medicine," is the first headline exhibition by an Atlanta-based artist in The High's main gallery, and throngs of his fellow citizens are already celebrating the native son who visited The High as a little boy and dreamed of becoming a great artist. The exhibition, which opens Sunday and runs through Sept. 11, highlights the black artist's experimentation with diverse media, showcasing sculptures, paintings, installations, works-on-paper, glass works and ... More | | Workers Rotate Confederate Sub Upright for First Time in Almost 150 Years
The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley sits in its slings. AP Photo/Bruce Smith.
By: Bruce Smith, Associated Press
NORTH CHARLESTON (AP).- The first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship is upright for the first time in almost 150 years, revealing a side of its hull not seen since it sank off the South Carolina coast during the Civil War. Workers at a conservation lab finished the painstaking, two-day job of rotating the hand-cranked H.L. Hunley upright late Thursday. The Hunley was resting on its side at a 45-degree angle on the bottom of the Atlantic when it was raised in August 2000 and scientists had kept it in slings in that position in the lab for the past 11 years. But they needed to turn it upright to continue with the job of conservation. Scientists hope the hidden side of the sub will provide clues as to why the Hunley sank with its eight-member crew in February, 1864, after sending the Union blockade ship Houstonic to the bottom. While there was no immediate clue from ... More |
Vassar College's Art Center Highlights Three Collectors and 48 Outstanding Works
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973), Le chapeau à fleurs (The Hat with Flowers), 1963. Color linoleumcut. Gift of Virginia Herrick Deknatel, class of 1929. 2009.1.18
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- The summer exhibition at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, A Taste for the Modern: Gifts from Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller, Edna Bryner Schwab, and Virginia Herrick Deknatel, showcases 48 paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and photographs that have been donated to the Art Center by three Vassar alumnae. On view from June 24 through September 4, 2011, A Taste for the Modern, examines for the first time the modern art collecting of these three generous alumnae - Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller, Edna Bryner Schwab, and Virginia Herrick Deknatel - and the development of their tastes for the modern. In addition, the exhibition, curated by Patricia Phagan, the Philip and Lynn Straus Curator of Prints and Drawings, explores how ... More | | Released Chinese Artist-Activist Ai Weiwei's Associates Freed After Ai's Release
Chinese women with their bicycles stop outside the home of activist artist Ai Weiwei in Beijing. AP Photo/Ng Han Guan.
BEIJING (REUTERS).- Four associates of Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei detained along with him in a controversial case were freed after Ai's release, friends of the artist said on Saturday. The four included journalist Wen Tao, detained along with Ai in early April when the two were at Beijing airport heading to Hong Kong, said Liu Yanping, a volunteer worker involved in Ai's campaigning on rights issues. "All of the people connected to the case have been released," Liu told Reuters by telephone. "That's a big relief. But I do think the Ai Weiwei studio's work will remain suspended for now," she said, adding that she was referring to Ai's politically-charged activism, not to his artistic work. The detention of Ai and his associates marked the start of the contentious case which the Chinese government said was about suspected tax evasion, while Ai's family and ... More | | Laumeier Sculpture Park Exhibit Explores the Complex Dog-Human Relationship
Jeff Koons, Puppy, 1998, porcelain, ed. 3000, 17 ½ x 17 x 8”. Photo by Rob McKeever.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- Laumeier Sculpture Park presents an exhibition that examines the complex intersection between our human behavior and that of our domesticated partners. Dog Days of Summer features the work of ten artists spanning nearly three centuries in both the indoor and outdoor exhibition spaces at Laumeier. The show explores the relationship between humans and canines as depicted in visual art, from an 18th century drawing to a 21st century site specific installation. The mutual impact humans and dogs have had on each other over time is a particular focus. “Dog Days of Summer continues Laumeier Sculpture Park’s on-going investigation of the ‘archaeology of place’,” said Marilu Knode, the exhibition co-curator and Laumeier’s Executive Director and the Aronson Endowed Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. “As one of only two accredited museums i ... More |
DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum Presents Exhibition Andy Goldsworthy: Snow
The exhibition includes snow-related works by the artist (photographs, video, drawings), research about ice harvesting in New England, as well as his proposal drawings for Snow House.
LINCOLN, MA.- The exhibition Andy Goldsworthy: Snow will be on view at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum through December 31, 2011. This spring, deCordova announced it had approved a proposal from the internationally renowned sculptor Andy Goldsworthy for a commissioned work called Snow House. DeCordova has organized the exhibition Andy Goldsworthy: Snow in order to raise awareness and the funding necessary to bring the proposed work to fruition. The exhibition includes snow-related works by the artist (photographs, video, drawings), research about ice harvesting in New England, as well as his proposal drawings for Snow House. In 2009, deCordova changed its name to deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum to emphasize its renewed focus on sculpture. Major fundraising efforts to support this new vision were launched and have been helped by the establishment of the Hamilton ... More | | Pasadena Museum Shows Exhibition Inspired by California Skateboard and Surf Culture
Clayton Brothers, Wishy Washy (from the series Wishy Washy), 2006, mixed media on wood panel with electrical and sound, 96 x 96 x 100 inches, courtesy of the artists.
PASADENA, CA.- The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) is presenting Clayton Brothers: Inside Out, the first solo museum exhibition of the work of Rob and Christian Clayton. Featuring their paintings and mixed-media installations, the exhibition surveys the brothers’ edgy aesthetic inspired by California skateboard and surf culture, punk rock, folk art, cartoons and street art. The Clayton Brothers have been working together since 1996, constructing complex narratives that introduce memorable characters and comment wryly on contemporary life. After graduating from the Art Center College of Design, the brothers initially maintained separate studio practices, but soon found that their best work was done collaboratively. Through a continuous, organic process of each brother altering what the other creates, a visual harmony and shared idiosyncrasies are established. The resulting dynamic works thus each represent a vi ... More | | Subtle and Emotional Comic Book Artist Gene Colan Dies at 84 in the Bronx
"The Tomb of Dracula," drawn by artist Gene Colan. AP Photo/Marvel Comics.
By: Matt Moore, Associated Press
Ula IlnytZky, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- Comic book artist Gene Colan, whose career spanned seven decades and illustrated the adventures of characters like Dracula, Batman, Daredevil and the wise-cracking fowl Howard the Duck, has died in the Bronx at age 84. Longtime friend and biographer Clifford Meth told The Associated Press that Colan died late Thursday at Calvary Hospital from complications of liver disease and cancer. A private funeral will be Sunday. Colan's impact on the industry was undeniable, developing a style both subtle and emotional that imbued characters he drew with a sense of vitality that seemed to leap off the pages. His work drew him the nickname Gene "The Dean" Colan. "He was a mighty craftsman, with such a strong style of his own that he avoided entirely working under any of the popular house styles, even the mighty Jack Kirby one that roared through ... More |
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 Screaming from the Mountain: Landscapes and Viewpoints at SKMU SørlandetsKRISTIANSAND.- Screaming from the Mountain: Landscapes and Viewpoints is a large scale exhibition examining the Northern European landscape tradition, departing from the painterly tradition of Romanticism, but with its main focus on how this can be mirrored and re-contextualised through contemporary art practices. The viewpoint proves as important as the view: where you stand in regards of geography, history, gender, power—or if you actually are not looking at a landscape at all, but on the genre as such. Screaming from the Mountain involves some 70 artists and is exhibited on all three floors of SKMU, displaying works in medias ranging from painting and sculpture to video and installations, as well as works of great historic value. Most of the artists originate from Northern Europe or the Nordic Countries, but far from all. With a number of generous loans from Malmö Art Museum, organizers have been ... More Desiree Holman's Heterotopias at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ArchiveKRISTIANSAND.- Desirée Holman's second solo museum show features a new video that combines live action and 3-D digital animation, paired with a series of sixteen drawings that visualize the process of gamers embodying their avatars. The exhibition connects with two other recent Holman projects—The Magic Window (2007), an ecstatic mash-up of iconic TV sitcoms, and Reborn (2009), which takes inspiration from "reborner" culture, wherein women adopt toy dolls as their true children—to form a trilogy that interrogates the human tendency to engage in fictional narratives. For Heterotopias, each of the nine participants developed a fantasy character that Holman realized through physical costumes and drawings but also digitally with fully rendered 3-D models. The characters that Holman's performers invented conflate popular archetypes found in media culture and in fantasy role-playing games as an ... More The Marine Mammal Center Hosts 15 Colossal Sculptures Made from Ocean TrashSAUSALITO, CA.- Anyone looking to combine their passions for ocean conservation with art appreciation can see the debut of Washed Ashore: Plastics, Sea Life and Art at The Marine Mammal Center located in the Marin Headlands, in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area June 25 through October 15. Visitors to The Marine Mammal Center will be able to see and interact with the 15 colossal sculptures installed throughout the hospital and visitor center. “We think this exhibit will engage our visitors with the ‘pretty ugly truth’ about ocean trash and help them make the connection between their health, the health of our oceans and how their actions have an impact on both,” said Dr. Jeff Boehm, executive director at The Marine Mammal Center. “On average, 8-10% of our patient admissions are due to human interactions including those related to entanglements in trash.” The Washed Ashore commu ... More American Artist Mariah Robertson's First Solo Exhibition in the UK Opens at BALTIC GATESHEAD.- BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art presents American artist Mariah Robertson’s first solo exhibition in the UK, opened on Saturday 25 June. Highly aware of our technology-saturated world, the images Robertson creates typically have a nostalgia that, at first, seems to hark back to a slower, pre-digital era. Using photographic paper, often at a monumental scale, her darkroom experiments utilise analogue techniques now in their demise to create a synergy between chance, luck and her highly-considered methods. Robertson manipulates the tools and materials of the photographic process to capitalise on their inherent strengths and weaknesses. She uses photographs, photograms, colour separation, oversaturated hues and exposes objects directly onto the paper, bypassing the camera lens. An array of chemical drips and mishaps are also used to ‘paint’ the photographic surface. Collageing disparate elements o ... More Metropolitan Museum Offers Added Viewing Day for Highly Popular Special Exhibitions, Selected GalleriesNEW YORK, NY.- On Independence Day (Monday, July 4)—the next in the series of Met Holiday Mondays—the public will have an additional opportunity to view the Museum's galleries, including popular exhibitions Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty; Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective; and Poetry in Clay: Korean Buncheong Ceramics from Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art. Met Holiday Mondays are extra public viewing days that take place on the Mondays of major holiday weeks and weekends, when historically the Museum has been closed. Met Mondays with McQueen—a program that offers a special ticketing opportunity on selected Mondays to view this exhibition only—will not be in effect on July 4, but will resume July 11. Therefore, Independence Day Met Holiday Monday is a rare, added opportunity for the public to view the exhibition at the regular overall recommended admission. Alexander McQueen: ... More $3.5M Estate Gift Supports University of Arizona Creative Photography CenterTUCSON, AZ.- The Center for Creative Photography, or CCP, at the University of Arizona received a $3.5 million estate gift from the late Arthur J. Bell, a former photographer and professor at Columbia College in Chicago. The gift was made in recognition of the international importance of the CCP, said director Katharine Martinez. It was Bell's final nod to his passion for photography – a passion that grew with his exposure to famous American photographers Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind, both of whom house their archives in the CCP. Private funding aids the CCP's preservation of the work and archives of renowned international photographers. Using Bell's gift, the CCP is creating a permanent full-time position, the Arthur J. Bell Senior Photograph Conservator. The new position will plan and implement short and long-term goals pertaining to the care of photographic materials in the center's collections ... MorePrincess Diana Dress Sold at Toronto Auction TORONTO (AP).- A dress worn by Princess Diana when she danced with John Travolta brought in the top bid at a Toronto auction that featured some of late princess' well-known designer gowns. The midnight-blue silk velvet dress designed by Victor Edelstein sold for 800,000 Canadian dollars ($821,000). Diana wore the Edwardian-inspired gown with off-the-shoulder straps while taking a memorable spin on the dance floor with Travolta during a 1985 White House state dinner. Prior to Thursday night's sale, auction house Waddington's had listed the estimated selling price of the dress between 800,000 Canadian dollars and 1 million Canadian dollars. Stephen Ranger, vice president of business development for Waddington's, says it will take a few days to compile a final tally of all 14 dresses sold at the collection. Princess Diana died in a car crash in 1997. ... More Dulwich Picture Gallery to Show Poussin SacramentsLONDON.- Dulwich Picture Gallery announced another major coup with the opportunity to show the five remaining paintings from Nicholas Poussin’s (1594 - 1665) first series of the Seven Sacraments, painted between 1637 and 1642. This special installation has been organised to coincide with the Gallery’s summer exhibition Twombly & Poussin: Arcadian Painters and presents an ideal opportunity to celebrate Dulwich Picture Gallery’s spectacular collection of Poussin’s paintings, long considered to be one of the best in the country. While Dulwich’s wonderful selection of mythological pictures by Poussin will feature in the summer exhibition, this special display of Poussin’s Sacraments provides us with an occasion to consider two very special religious paintings by Poussin from Dulwich’s permanent collection: The Translation of Saint Rita of Cascia (the subject of recent attention ... More |
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