| | Sotheby's Sale of The Hascoe Family Collection of Important Czech Art Realises $18,032,738
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A Sotheby's employee poses with a painting 'Movement' by Czech artist Frantisek Kupka on display at the auction house in London. The painting was auctioned in 'Hascoe Collection of Czech Modern Art' sale on June 13 with an estimated price of 500,000 to 700,000 pounds (US$820,525 to 1,148,735 or 562,234 to 787,128 euro) and sold for: £1,497,250 ($2,431,534 / 40,900,488 CZK). AP Photo/Sang Tan.
AUSTIN (REUTERS).- Today, Sotheby’s Sale of The Hascoe Family Collection of Important Czech Art brought £11,103,903 / $18,032,738 / 303,326,131 CZK, far exceeding the pre‐sale estimate (£4.17‐6.25 million / $6.7‐10 million / 114‐170.8 CZK million). The auction achieved sell through rates of 92% by lot and 99.4% by value and set 13 new artist records. 74.9% of works sold achieved prices above the high estimate. Commenting on the results of today’s sale, Tessa Kostrzewa, Deputy Director of European Paintings at Sotheby’s London, and Filip Marco, Head of Sotheby’s Prague Office, said: “Today’s sale brought a landmark auction of Czech art to an international audience and succeeded brilliantly. Norman and Suzanne Hascoe assembled one of the most important private collections of Czech modernist art in existence and the market has responded with extraordinary enthusiasm. Today ... More |
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Exhibition Showcases Revolutionary Moment in 20th Century Graphic and Industrial Design
Piet Zwart, American Film Art (Ameri kaansche Film-kunst), cover for C. J. Graadt van Roggen, editor, Film: Serie monografieën over filmkunst (Film: A Series of Monographs on the Art of Film), Rotterdam, 1931. Letterpress, 22 x 17.7 cm. The Art Institute of Chicago, Frederick W. Renshaw Acquisition Fund, 2009.521 © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / c/o Pictoright Amsterdam.
CHICAGO, IL.- Beginning around 1910, a group of vanguard artists working in Europe advanced the radical idea that art had a mandate to transform daily life, from silverware to postage stamps to buildings. This theory would eventually take hold in the wider world, where it merged enthusiastically with the demands of the industrial marketplace, the nascent mass media, and urban popular culture. This vibrant and critically important moment in east-central European modernism is comprehensively explored in Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life–a major exhibition on view at the Art Institute of Chicago from June 11 through October 9, 2011, in the Modern Wing’s Abbott Galleries (G 182-184). Focusing on six highly influential ... More | | Louise Bourgeois's Sculpture "Maman" on Tour Prior to Major Exhibition at Fondation Beyeler
A bronze sculpture, entitled Maman, by French-born US artist and sculptor Louise Bourgeois, is on display at the Buerkli square in Zurich, Switzerland, 10 June 2011. EPA/ALESSANDRO DELLA BELLA.
ZURICH.- Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) was one of the most significant and influential artist personalities of our times. She would have celebrated her 100th birthday on December 25, 2011. To mark this occasion, the Fondation Beyeler is mounting an exhibition featuring a concentrated selection from her oeuvre. An advance highlight is the presentation of her renowned and largest spider sculpture Maman (1999) on Bundesplatz in Bern, Bürkliplatz in Zurich, and at a site in Geneva. Subsequently Maman will be on view during the exhibition in the Fondation Beyeler park in Riehen/Basel. Louise Bourgeois’s sculpture “Maman” on tour. The both fascinating and threatening monumental bronze sculpture of a spider titled Maman, or Mother (927.1 x 891.5 x 1023.6 cm) is key work for the understanding of Bourgeois’s art. On the one hand, it represents an homage to her ... More | | Galerie Gmurzynska Presents Important Early Works by Robert Indiana
In 1959 Indiana used the plywood and homasote walls from his studio to create this formally impressive, spiritually referential and incredibly beautiful series of gold and silver paintings.
ZURICH.- Galerie Gmurzynska presents an exhibition of important early works by Robert Indiana, all executed in 1959. The exhibition is on view until view until September 30, 2011. This series of work on plywood, homasote and a single canvas was made within the legendary artistic neighborhood on Coenties Slip, that included Indiana’s close friends Ellsworth Kelly and Agnes Martin. These pieces, exhibited at Galerie Gmurzynska for the first time as a unified group, represent the first acheived body of work Robert Indiana created as a mature artist. In 1959 Indiana used the plywood and homasote walls from his studio to create this formally impressive, spiritually referential and incredibly beautiful series of gold and silver paintings. This initial groundbreaking use of lowly materials, plywood and homasote, would lead to the use of wooden bea ... More |
40 Years After Leak, Complete Pentagon Papers Presented at Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
In this April 28, 1973, file photo Daniel Ellsberg, co-defendant in the Pentagon Papers case, talks to media outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles. AP Photo/Wally Fong.
By: Corrie MacLaggan
AUSTIN (REUTERS).- The complete Pentagon Papers were made available to the public on Monday, exactly 40 years after leaked portions of the top-secret report on U.S. involvement in Vietnam were first published by the New York Times. "There will probably be no smoking guns in this material, but for the first time it will be seen as it was created," Regina Greenwell, a senior archivist at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, told reporters. "That is new -- looking at it in all its original form and in all its context." The documents, stamped "declassified" in red, were wheeled out on a cart and unveiled at a press conference on Monday at the LBJ Library in Austin, one of several places where researchers can now view them. They're also available at the John F. Kennedy and ... More | | 33rd Annual Museum Mile Festival Offers Free Museum Admission and Outdoor Art Activites
Over 1.5 million people have taken part in this annual celebration since its inception.
NEW YORK, NY.- Now celebrating its 33rd year, the annual Museum Mile Festival takes place rain or shine on Tuesday, June 14, 2011, from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Over 1.5 million people have taken part in this annual celebration since its inception. Festival attendees can walk the Mile between 82nd Street and 105th Street while visiting nine of New York City’s finest cultural institutions open free to the public throughout the evening. In addition, several of the participating museums offer outdoor art activities for children. The Museum Mile Festival’s opening ceremony takes place at 5:45 pm at Neue Galerie New York (Fifth Avenue at 86th Street). Traditionally, the Commissioner of Cultural Affairs and other city and state dignitaries open the Festival. El Museo del Barrio; The Museum of the City of New York; The Jewish Museum; Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution; National Academy ... More | | British Fashion Designer Vivienne Westwood's Shoes at the Bowes Museum
Super Elevated Gillie, the one in which supermodel Naomi Campbell took a tumble on the catwalk.
COUNTY DURHAM, UK.- This exhibition celebrates the ingenuity and creativity of British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, focusing on her designs of the ultimate fetish object: the shoe. The exhibition runs from 10 June until 10 July 2011 at the Bowes Museum in the The Fashion & Textile Gallery. Vivienne Westwood hopes to present this unique collection, showcasing over 40 years of design, around the World. This international exhibition, which previewed in both Moscow and Beirut, traveled back to the UK in June where it is showcased at one of the most important museums outside London, The Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle. Visitors have only one month to catch the prestigious exhibition before it then travels to Japan, New York and China. The exhibition is displayed in the new, internationally acclaimed Fashion & Textile Gallery in The Bowes Museum, and showcases over 100 shoe designs and trace the exceptional succe ... More |
The Emperor's Private Paradise at the Milwaukee Art Museum Celebrates 3,000 Years of Chinese Art
Panel with niches (hanging). From Cuishanglou. Zitan, painted and gilt clay, colors on silk. 65 ½ x 36 ½ x 1 ½ inches (166 x 93 x 3.7 cm). © Palace Museum.
MILWAUKEE, WI.- This summer, the Milwaukee Art Museum presents five exhibitions on Chinese art and architecture as part of a year-long celebration honoring the ten-year anniversary of the Santiago Calatrava–designed Quadracci Pavilion. This ambitious exhibition schedule explores three thousand years of Chinese art, and Mayor Tom Barrett has, in turn, declared this summer to be the “Summer of China” in the City of Milwaukee. The Museum’s feature exhibition for the summer is The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City, on view Saturday, June 11 through Sunday, September 11, 2011. The Museum is one of only three museums in the world to showcase over ninety objects of ceremony and leisure from the Qianlong Garden and the Forbidden City in Beijing, never before seen by the public. A two-acre jewel in the immense 180-acre Forbidden City complex, the Qianlong (pronounced chee’en lohng) Garden is praised for its unique combination of N ... More | | Ludwig Museum in Budapest Presents László Moholy-Nagy: The Art of Light
László Moholy-Nagy, Pneumatik, 1924. Pencil, ink, airbrush, tempera on photo paper, 16 x 12.7 cm. E. Zyablov, Moscow ©Hattula Moholy-Nagy/VEGAP 2011.
BUDAPEST.- László Moholy-Nagy is a world-famous figure of twentieth-century avant-garde art. His visual art and theoretical works, photographs, films, educational activities and photograms - taken without a camera and now synonymous with his name - were of such significance that it is no exaggeration to say that since Moholy-Nagy, we see things differently; since Moholy-Nagy, our thinking about art has been transformed. His innovations over the decades have become so natural, his influence so pervasive, that we now almost have to rediscover him once again. In the series of Hungarian photographers who accomplished world fame - Robert Capa, Martin Munkácsi, György Kepes - the Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art now presents the work of László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946), focussing primarily his photography. This is a long-overdue show: Hungary has not held such an exhibition of Moholy-Nagy’s work since 1975, not ... More | | Sixteen of the World's Most Luxurious and Rare Automobiles at the Portland Art Museum
Museum visitors look over a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT Comp./61 Short-wheelbase Berlinetta. AP Photo/Rick Bowmer.
PORTLAND, OR.- This summer it is hoods up and tops down at the Portland Art Museum. The Allure of the Automobile brings 16 of the world’s most luxurious, rare, and brilliantly conceived automobiles to the galleries of the Museum. From the avant-garde 1937 Hispano-Suiza owned by French apéritif baron André Dubonnet to the ultra-cool convertible 1957 Jaguar XK-SS roadster once owned by Hollywood legend Steve McQueen, the exhibition spans the 1930s to the 1960s and showcases developments in automotive design and engineering. The exhibition is the first to consider the stylistic development of cars in the context of prominent design movements such as Art Moderne and Postwar Modernity. Visitors can learn about the contrasts between European and American design and the significant changes in automotive styling and engineering before and after World War II. Visitors are able to consider the cars in a variety of ways: the a ... More |
Galerie Ficher-Rohr Presents Kunst=kapital:Joseph Beuys, Manfred Leve, Manuela Covini
View of the exhibition at Galerie Ficher-Rohr.
BASEL.- The Galerie Ficher-Rohr presents an exhibition with the concept Art=Capital or Kunst=kapital, which features works by Joseph Beuys, Manfred Leve, Manuela Covini, on view from June 13th – July 20th- 2011. In the all-encompassing utopia of a transformation of society based on an expanded definition of art, which from the late 1950s he called “Projekt Westmensch” (Western Man Project), Beuys touched upon every area of social affairs. The notion of human beings as artists inevitably included all their creative potentials, especially production in the general sense and the economy as a whole. At the center of his considerations on economics stood the concept of capital as defined by Karl Marx in his eponymous major work of 1867. In the 1960s-70s, the Marxist theory of class struggle was the most popular revolutionary idea in the anticapitalist student movements in France and Germany. Beuys, in contrast, adv ... More | | Celebrated Furniture Maker Emmanuel Beurdeley's Private Collection to Sell at Bonhams
A porcelain mounted meuble á hauteur d'appui by A. Beurdeley -ú40,000 - 60,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- The private collection of one of the finest furniture maker’s of his time, Emmanuel Alfred Beurdeley (1847-1919), is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its Fine European Furniture, Sculpture and Works of Art sale on 6 July 2011. Emmanuel Alfred took over his family business in 1875. It was started in 1807 by his grandfather, Jean Beurdeley (1772-1853), as a ‘marchand de curiosités’, and succeeded by his father, Louis Auguste, who became a prominent dealer in French furniture and objets d’arts in Paris. Louis Auguste also founded a workshop, which was later developed by Emmanuel Alfred. When the business finally closed in 1895, most of the furniture and works of art created and collected by the Beurdeley family were sold at auction. However Emmanuel Alfred kept several pieces, which were taken t ... More | | A Lifetime of Giving: The William J. Dane Fine Print Collection at the Newark Public Library
Bill Dane: Keeper of Prints, A Very Special Person… A Monotype Among Men. Mixed media collage by Helen Frank, 2007. Gift of William J. Dane, 2011.
NEWARK, NJ.- Building and maintaining a library collection is no easy task, and doubly difficult when collecting art such as fine prints, portfolios and artists' books. Libraries have modest acquisition budgets (if any at all) and can never acquire the works of top–name artists at the height of their fame or auction value. Considering the fact that the collections at the Newark Public Library include works by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, and others, people might well wonder how these valuable items arrived here in Newark. The answer is threefold: generous people donated their treasures, foundations and individuals donated funds, and librarians tried to collect ahead of the trends. Luckily for us, The Newark Public Library’s former "Keeper of the ... More |
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 Allan Alfred Voigt, Founder of the Voigt Family Sculpture Foundation, DiesGEYSERVILLE, CA.- Al Voigt died of lung cancer (he had never smoked) on Friday, May 13, surrounded by friends and family. Al was a Renaissance Man for the 21st Century, providing visionary and inspirational leadership while founding a series of successful technology companies, creating an art foundation and raising a family. He was always a leader, but more than a leader. If Al knew you, he wanted to help you, wanted to encourage you to reach for your dreams and do things you didn’t know were possible. What was truly special about Al was how many things he did well, as an artist, engineer, businessman, citizen and friend. A prodigious thinker, Al was never resting on his laurels; he was always looking ahead to the next idea. Al’s true gift was an inherent and honed skill at looking deeply into a problem and understanding its fundamentals. He loved the elegance of a system well designed, from tiny servos to Stinger missile ... More PHotoEspaña 2011 Announces the Winners of the Best Photography Book of the Year AwardMADRID.- PHotoEspaña awards nine prizes every edition which recognise the Festival’s best exhibitions, the year’s most outstanding publications and the professional path of Spanish and international photographers, both well-known and emerging. With these awards the festival recognizes the important function that the publishing industry takes as a way for the diffusion of photography. The jury formed by Pep Carrió, graphic designer; Frits Gierstberg, director of exhibitions in Netherlands Museum of Rotterdam; and Kasahara Michiko, curator of Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography have recognized as the Best Photography Books of the Year in the international category: Destroy this Memory by Richard Misrach, published by Aperture Foundation. Richard Misrach's Destroy This Memory is an affecting reminder of the physical and psychological impact of Hurricane Katrina. Rather than simply surveying the damage, ... More Center for Architecture in New York and Amsterdam's ARCAM Collaborate on Sustainable Cities ExhibitionNEW YORK, NY.- On the heels of the unveiling of New York City’s Vision 2020: New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan, the Center for Architecture and ARCAM present an international collaboration and exhibition: Glimpses of New York and Amsterdam in 2040. The exhibition challenges ten architecture, landscape architecture and design firms to imagine an urban future that includes new waterside cityscapes, neighborhoods, and transit systems. The exhibition opened in New York at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, and remains on view until September 10. The show will also be installed in Amsterdam, on view at the Amsterdam Centre for Architecture (ARCAM), June 17 until August 13. Both New York and Amsterdam have extensive waterfronts, a strong entrepreneurial spirit and a long tradition of international collaboration and cultural diversity. The twenty-first century requires both cities to address new ... More Salem, Steeped in Witch Tourism, Rebrands Beyond SALEM (AP).- Salem — the very name conjures witches. Witches hanged in the notorious trials of 1692, witch houses and covens, a Salem Witch Museum and the Witch Dungeon Museum. This city of 41,000 souls is so closely identified with its witch history that flying witch logos adorn police cars and firemen's uniforms — and Salem High School's mascot is, shockingly, a witch. A thriving, modern witch community practices witchcraft and even has a new public relations outfit, the Witches Education Bureau. Tourists flock to the Salem Common during the town's "Haunted Happenings," a month-long celebration of Halloween. In the off season in this historic Massachusetts seaport, warlock Christian Day holds forth in a quiet, dimly lit room, where visitors who pay $65 for a 30-minute psychic reading watch as he moves his hands in graceful, fluid motions over a sparkling crystal ball. At a nearby mall, a ghoul dressed in black, his ... More Dinosaur Auction Features Fighting Pair of SkeletonsDALLAS (REUTERS).- Natural history buffs with Tyrannosaurus-sized bank accounts got a chance to ante up on Sunday when an unusually large collection of fully assembled, museum-quality dinosaur skeletons was put up for auction. The featured stars of the Heritage Auctions bidding were a "fighting pair" of dinosaur skeletons that sold to a museum for $2.75 million, and an enormous, 19-foot-long triceratops that fetched $657,250 from a private collector. The Dallas auction included more than 200 items, including meteorites, minerals and other fossils. The fighting dinosaurs -- an allosaurus and a stegosaurus -- were offered together because of their discovery in a Wyoming quarry with the jaw of the allosaurus wrapped around the leg of the stegosaurus, leading to speculation that the two were engaged in a predator-prey battle. Heritage Auctions declined to disclose which museum picked up the pair, though the ... More Louisiana Airport Showing Posters from Area Movie Shoots SHREVEPORT (AP).- Posters from at least 26 movies made in the Shreveport-Bossier City area are being shown off at the Shreveport Regional Airport. Movies filmed in the area since 2005 include "The Guardian," ''Drive Angry" and "Battle Los Angeles." The airport itself has been used as a location for more than a dozen movies. "One of the top questions you get, whether it's local or visitors, is 'What are some of the movies that have been filmed here?' said Kelly Wells of the local tourism office. Shreveport Film Commissioner Arlena Acree said people are always telling her, "I didn't know that was shot here!" Now they'll see the posters and know, she said. She and other area officials featured some of the movie posters at the recent Association of Film Commissioners International Conference in Los Angeles. "People were like 'Oh my gosh, you did 'Battle Los Angeles' there?' or 'I didn't know that was shot in Shreveport.' They were just floored by that," Acree said. The current exhib ... More |
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