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Van Abbe museum's employees hang Pablo Picasso's "Buste de Femme" on a wall at the International Academy of Art Palestine (IAAP) in the West Bank city of Ramallah June 20, 2011, where the painting, on loan from the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, is to go on display from June 24 to July 20, becoming what the Palestinian art academy says is the first Picasso original ever exhibited in the Palestinian-controlled city. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman.
By: Mohammed Daraghmeh, Associated Press
RAMALLAH (AP).- A Palestinian art academy on Monday put on display a $7 million Pablo Picasso masterpiece, the first of its kind in the West Bank. Picasso's 1943 "Buste de Femme" is on loan from the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Holland. Organizers said they had to overcome a lack of reliable transport and several Israeli checkpoints along the way. The art director of the Palestinian academy, Khalid Horani, said it took two years to arrange the loan. He said the painting's journey was "a story full of details and difficulties." The small art school in Ramallah put in the loan request in early 2010. Normally, such inter-museum exchanges are routine and take about six months to coordinate. "Nothing is normal over here," Horani said. "We planned to have an art work here, but found ourselves going through all the political complications." ... More |
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Sotheby's Offers Furniture & Works of Art from the Collections of Lily & Edmond J. Safra
Louis XVI Ormolu-Mounted Japanese Lacquer Commode with secretaire en suite, attributed to Adam Weisweiler. Est. $5/7 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Six years after the landmark auction of Property from the Collections of Lily & Edmond J. Safra,* Sotheby’s announces a second sale dedicated to the remarkable Lily and Edmond J. Safra Collections. The four-day auction will be held from 18 to 21 October 2011 in New York, featuring six dedicated sale volumes whose contents represent the pinnacle of their respective collecting categories. From magnificent European furniture and works of art to Russian works of art, silver, bookbindings and 19th century interior paintings, Mr. and Mrs. Safra’s collections offer unparalleled opportunities for connoisseurs worldwide. The full sale, which is estimated in excess of $40 million,** will be on exhibition throughout Sotheby’s York Avenue headquarters beginning 14 October. “It is a great privilege to offer works from one of the finest collections assembled in the 20th century,” commented Robin Wood ... More | | Picasso at Work: Through the Lens of David Douglas Duncan at Museo Picasso Málaga
The exhibition includes 115 photographs selected from among the thousands that Duncan took of the artist and his milieu in those years.
MALAGA.- Cannes, 8 February 1956. The photojournalist David Douglas Duncan stops his car in front of Villa La Californie, residence of one of the most famous artists of all time: Pablo Picasso. In his hand is a ring especially made for Picasso, who appreciates the gesture and invites him into his home, his studio and his intense life. With Stephanie Ansari and Tatyana Franck as its curators, Picasso at Work. Through the Lens of David Douglas Duncan brings together in the Museo Picasso Málaga 115 photographs selected from among the thousands that Duncan took of the artist and his milieu in those years. The exhibition also presents 77 of Picasso’s works appearing in the photographs, thus opening up a dialogue with them and making it possible to go deeper into the extraordinary world of the artist. Notable here is the variety of techniques and styles they reveal and, also to be highlighted, is the presence of work ... More | | Marilyn Monroe "Subway" Dress Sells for $4.6 Million at Profiles in History Auction House
In this Sept. 9, 1954 file photo, Marilyn Monroe poses over the updraft of a New York subway grating. AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman.
By: Mary Slosson
BEVERLY HILLS (REUTERS).- The pleated ivory dress that blew around Marilyn Monroe in an iconic scene from "The Seven Year Itch" sold for $4.6 million at a weekend auction of Hollywood costumes -- far exceeding its estimate. The so-called "subway" dress is perhaps the most recognizable in movie history. In Billy Wilder's 1955 movie, a passing train sent a draft through a grate as Monroe giddily stood above it proclaiming, "Isn't it delicious?" The William Travilla design was estimated to sell for between $1 million and $2 million, the crown jewel at a 12-hour auction of nearly 600 costumes and pieces of memorabilia being sold by actress Debbie Reynolds in Beverly Hills on Saturday. Monroe's red-sequined dress from "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" went for $1.2 million. Its pre-sale estimate was ... More |
Dayton Art Institute Director Janice Driesbach to Retire, Interim Director Appointed
Director and CEO, Janice Driesbach, announced that she will retire at the end of July.
DAYTON, OH.- The Dayton Art Institute’s (DAI) Director and CEO, Janice Driesbach, announced that she will retire at the end of July. Driesbach, who was hired in November 2007 and began her tenure in January 2008, came to Dayton from Lincoln, Nebraska, where she headed the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. During her tenure at DAI, Driesbach oversaw the development of the museum’s new strategic plan and brought important exhibitions to Dayton, including William Morris glass, California Impressionism and African-American art. Most recently Driesbach was responsible for organizing Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection, which is on view through July 10. Driesbach commented that she takes pride in advancing DAI’s fiscal stability and the museum’s community partnerships. “The Dayton Art Institute continues to fa ... More | | Magic of Ancient Egypt to Transform the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida
Lid from a Sarcophagus. Wood, gessoed and painted. Dynasty XXI-XXII, 1080-720 BC. Collection of the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art.
SAINT PETERSBURG, FL.- This landmark exhibition brings to life one of the greatest civilizations in the history of the world. Ancient Egypt—Art and Magic: Treasures from the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, on view from December 17, 2011-April 29, 2012, spotlights astonishing objects of every kind. Mummy cases and sacred works in diverse media, tomb and temple reliefs, papyrus fragments, alabaster vessels, and rare objects comprised of precious stones make this one of the most dramatic shows ever presented at the MFA. The 100 works demonstrate the genius of ancient craftsmen, and the magical or spiritual qualities of the objects are revealed at every turn. The internationally respected Egyptologist Dr. Robert Steven Bianchi is the guest curator. A magnificent red granite torso of Rameses the Great honors one of the most ... More | | World Monuments Fund Announces Sustainable Tourism Effort at the Alhambra
View of a room of the Alhambra which is normally closed to the public due to conservation reasons. EPA/MIGUEL ANGEL MOLINA.
GRANADA.- Patronato de la Alhambra, American Express, and World Monuments Fund (WMF) announced, at the Palace of Charles V at the Alhambra, an institutional partnership for the conservation of the site through a new program called “The Hidden Alhambra.” “The Hidden Alhambra" is a sustainable tourism project supported by American Express and World Monuments Fund in the form of a donation of $200,000 through the American Express® Partners in Preservation program, in collaboration with World Monuments Fund. The support will allow for a strategic reworking of the tourist route through the complex, reducing pressure on the most trafficked areas while also giving visitors the ability to see a number of places previously closed to the general public but of significant historical value. In addition, programs will be developed for mobile ... More |
National Portrait Gallery Unveils New Portrait of Nobel Prize Winning Scientist Sir Martin Evans
Sir Martin Evans by David Cobley, 2010 (detail). © National Portrait Gallery, London.
LONDON.- A new portrait of Sir Martin Evans by prize-winning artist David Cobley has gone on display at the National Portrait Gallery. Sir Martin was the first scientist to identify embryonic stem cells which have applications in virtually all areas of biomedicine, from basic research to the development of new therapies. The portrait, depicting Sir Martin examining cultures in a Petri dish, was painted following five visits by the artist to the sitter’s home and Cardiff University. During these visits Cobley worked up sketches in pencil and oil and took numerous photographs. He encouraged Sir Martin to go into detail about stem cell research and was invited to his investiture as the new president of Cardiff University. The portrait on display, commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, emphasises the groundbreaking discovery made by Sir Martin in 1980; the writing in the background of the portrait is a replica of a pag ... More | | 20 Years of Presence: The Big Anniversary Exhibition at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst
Roy Lichtenstein, We Rose Up Slowly, 1964, © VG-Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011.
FRANKFURT.- Twenty years after its opening in June 1991, the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main is among the world’s most prominent museums of contemporary art. In its young history, the MMK has assembled a unique collection meanwhile comprising more than 4,500 works of international art dating from the 1960s to the present. With the exhibition “MMK 1991–2011: 20 Years of Presence” (19 Jun – 9 Oct 2011), the museum is celebrating its anniversary in several locations at once: in the MMK building, in the annexed MMK Zollamt, and at the MainTor-Areal – a former office building on the bank of the River Main in Frankfurt. By thus multiplying its exhibition space, the MMK is – for the first time in its history – in a position to feature more than 150 artists in an extensive presentation of some 1,000 works. “The largest exhibition in the history of the MMK is an impres ... More | | New Permanent Work by Olafur Eliasson is Now on the Roof of Danish Art Museum
Olafur Eliasson, Your rainbow panorama. Photo: Ole Hein Pedersen. © 2006 - 2011 Olafur Eliasson.
AARHUS.- First he created a sun for London. Then he created a waterfall for New York. Now the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has created a rainbow for Aarhus Your rainbow panorama, a new work by Olafur Eliasson is now on the roof of the Danish art museum ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum. The world-famous Danish-Icelandic artist has created this permanent work of art consisting of a circular, 150-metre-long and three metre-wide circular walkway in glass in all the colours of the spectrum. Mounted on slender columns 3.5 metres above the roof and with a diameter of 52 metres, this spectacular creation extends from one edge to the other of the facade of the cubic museum building. There are both stairs and elevator to provide visitors to the museum with access to Your rainbow panorama. Then they can stroll through the circular, panoramic walkway providing a fantastic view of the city and the bay, a view in all the ... More |
Robert A. Pruzan Elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Jewish Museum
Mr. Pruzan is a founding partner of Centerview Partners LLC, a leading independent investment banking boutique specializing in strategic advice, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and principal investing.
NEW YORK, NY.- At the annual meeting of The Jewish Museum's Board of Trustees, Robert A. Pruzan was elected Chairman, succeeding Joshua Nash. Mr. Pruzan became a trustee in 2003. He served as President from 2007 to 2011, and is on the Board’s Audit, Executive, Finance, and Trustee Committees. A highly accomplished financial services executive, Robert A. Pruzan will head up a newly elected slate of officers. “With the institution strongly positioned for future success at every level – its staff, trustees, programs, finances and membership – I look forward to leading the Board during a new era at The Jewish Museum,” Mr. Pruzan stated. Mr. Pruzan is a founding partner of Centerview Partners LLC, a leading independent investment banking boutique specializing in strategic advice, ... More | | Robust Selection of Art from the Middle East Featured in The Beirut Sale at Ayyam Gallery
Paul Guiragossian, 'Untitled’, 90 X 70 cm. Oil on Canvas circa 1960. Estimate: US $ 25,000 – 35,000.
BEIRUT.- On July 15, Ayyam Auctions will present its ninth auction, the 2011 session of the Beirut Sale. Held annually at Ayyam Gallery’s Beirut outpost, this forthcoming public auction will showcase a robust selection of contemporary art from the Middle East. With over 60 lots by artists from Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, this highly anticipated event has been significantly expanded from previous years, and will feature painting, sculpture, photography and limited edition prints. Among the regional art world superstars that will be represented in this edition are Cairo-born Armenian artist Chant Avedissian, Syrian painter Safwan Dahoul and Palestinian painter Samia Halaby, while a carefully curated focus on the Beirut art scene over the past fifty years spotlights the equally important contributions of prominent Lebanese figures such as multidisciplinary artist Nadim Karam and painters Paul Guir ... More | | Bristol's New £27 Million City History Museum "M Shed" Opened to the Public
M Shed exterior with the restored cranes in the foreground.
BRISTOL.- In one of the most innovative and ambitious museum developments of the last decade, M Shed, Bristol’s new city history museum, opened to the public on Friday 17 June 2011. The museum is housed the landmark 1950s transit sheds at Prince’s Wharf on the historic waterfront in the heart of the city. Located less than half a mile away from the award-winning SS Great Britain and opposite the Arnolfini Gallery and Watershed Media Centre, it is at the hub of a vibrant cultural quarter of Bristol. The whole site - the sheds and their quayside - is one of the last remaining complete 20th century docksides in the UK. The museum includes 3,000 exhibits, drawn from the world class collection of the city, telling the many thousands of stories of the people of Bristol, which have been discovered through working with experts and communities across the city, a process that will continue for the life of the museum. M Shed, ... More |
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 Caroline Kerrigan Lerch Named Metropolitan Show Director NEW YORK, NY.- Caroline Kerrigan Lerch was named Show Director for the Metropolitan Show, it was announced by Mark Lyman, President of the Art Fair Company. The inaugural fair, which debuts January 18-22, 2012, at the Metropolitan Pavilion, at 125 West 18th Street in Chelsea, replaces The American Antique Show (TAAS), formerly organized by the American Folk Art Museum. Ms. Lerch served as Executive Director of TAAS from 2006-2011. “We are delighted to have Caroline join the Art Fair Company as Show Director for the Metropolitan Show,” said Lyman. “Her impeccable reputation and extensive background in the art world precede her, particularly with The American Antiques Show and The Outsider Art Fair, which she co-founded during her ten year stint at Sanford L. Smith & Associates.” According to Lyman, Ms. Lerch will be responsible for all aspects of running the show. “We will utilize Caroline& ... More Peter Halley "Judgment Day": An Installation in Personal Structures at the Venice BiennaleVENICE.- Artist Peter Halley has created “Judgment Day,” a site-specific installation for Personal Structures, an official, collateral exhibition of the 54th Venice Biennale. Curated by Karlyn De Jong and Sarah Gold, the exhibition presents 28 installations and it is part of an international art project initiated in 2002 focusing on artists whose work is concerned with the issues of time, space and existence. Personal Structures is on view at Palazzo Bembo, the birthplace of Venetian scholar, poet and literary theorist Pietro Bembo, until November 27, 2011. For Halley, visual art most directly addresses the issue of space. Time and existence are too elusive. Known for his luminous day-glo paintings, Halley has created an installation of inkjet digital prints using muted colors with strong Venetian cultural and historical references. The imagery is generated by mirroring, reflecting and rotating the same motif in a repeated pattern, ... More Dürer and Hirst Visions of Mortality Lead Bonhams SaleLONDON.- Important and powerful works reflecting the transience of human existence by 16th century master Albrecht Dürer and 21st century master Damien Hirst lead the Bonhams print sale in London on 12 July. Dürer’s ‘The Knight, Death and the Devil,’ of 1513 is one of his most celebrated and intricately conceived engravings. It depicts a Christian knight riding resolutely through a bleak, hostile landscape menaced by the figures of death on his traditional pale horse and the devil with a pig’s snout. This very fine print is estimated at between £30,000-40,000. ‘St Jerome in his Study’, a Dürer engraving of 1514, shows the saint hard at work, the customary lion dozing pacifically in the foreground and a skull prominently displayed on the window ledge as a symbol of death’s presence in the midst of life. Damien Hirst’s screenprint, ‘The Skull beneath the Skin’, dates from 20 ... More Peabody Essex Museum's New Exhibition Makes a SplashSALEM, MA.- This summer, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) dives into the dynamic, varied and beautiful world of water to present Ripple Effect, The Art of H2O. Inspired by natural phenomena such as fog, snowflakes and geysers, the 16 artists featured in Ripple Effect explore water in its liquid, gas and solid states as a rich source for creative expression. The exhibition presents artworks in a variety of mediums, including blown glass, photography, clay and sound, and challenges visitors to consider this life-sustaining substance often taken for granted. On view in PEM's interactive Art & Nature Center, Ripple Effect opened to the public on June 18, 2011. "Not a moment goes by that we don't encounter water. It surrounds us in the air we breathe and fills every cell in our bodies, yet we rarely take notice of it - except when we don't have enough of it or encounter too much of it," says Jane Winchell, curator of Ripple Effect and PE ... More Yale Center Premieres Companion Exhibition to Online CatalogueNEW HAVEN, CT.- To mark the launch of the Center’s online catalogue, Connections is a companion exhibition that replicates the experience of searching across the Center’s extraordinary collections. With more than two hundred paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, rare books, and manuscripts from the early seventeenth to the early twentieth century, Connections presents both familiar works as well as some surprises. Alongside popular highlights from the collection such as Rubens’s bravura oil sketch Peace Embracing Plenty will be hitherto unexhibited works, including outstanding prints and drawings by Thomas Gainsborough. Taken together the exhibition reveals the depth and breadth of material available in the Center’s physical collections, which will now be available together in a single, searchable, online catalogue. Among the themes explored in the exhibition are British Art in the 1630s; Hogarth and History; ... More Street Cred: Graffiti Art from Concrete to Canvas at the Pasadena Museum of California ArtPASADENA, CA.- The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) is showing the first museum exhibition that joins the work created by Los Angeles graffiti artists for a fine art context with their graffiti art made in the streets. Internationally renowned as one of the most fertile grounds for graffiti art, the City of Angels has its own idiosyncratic graffiti styles created from the innovative New York "wildstyle" that heralded the birth of graffiti as it is seen today, filtered through local influences such as gang writing styles that greatly predate the modern movement. The artists for the exhibition have been consistently making influential public work, but their practice has expanded into work that is viewed in galleries and museums. Street Cred was first conceived in 2008 by PMCA Exhibition Manager Shirlae Cheng-Lifshin, who subsequently brought on Los Angeles graffiti historian Steve Grody as co-curator. Grody, who is th ... More Jared French, Mary Nimmo Moran and Thomas Hart Benton Bring Strong Prices at Swann GalleriesNEW YORK, NY.- The top lot in Swann Galleries’ June 9 auction of American Art and Contemporary Art was Jared French's Siren, an egg tempera painting, circa 1945, which remained in the artist's possession until his death. The richly symbolic work sold for $138,000*—the third highest price ever paid for a Jared French painting at auction. The sale established an auction record for the work of Mary Nimmo Moran, wife of famous Hudson River School artist Thomas Moran. Long Island Landscape, an 1880 oil on panel, was her first painting to appear at auction. It sold for $64,800. Thomas Hart Benton's Landscape, Martha's Vineyard, oil on paper, circa 1922-24, drew a lot of phone bidders from all over the country, including Martha's Vineyard, and sold for $60,000. Other featured American paintings were Ogden M. Pleissner’s Rail Shooting on the Connecticut River, watercolor on paper, circa 1950s, $26,400; Charles Bu ... More Art Fund Opens £600,000 Funding Scheme to Build New Collections of Art throughout the UKLONDON.- As part of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation’s 50th birthday celebrations, it has generously awarded the Art Fund with a grant of £600,000 for the creation of new collections in museums and galleries throughout the UK. Sitting at the heart of the Art Fund’s grant-giving which annually awards £3.5 million a year to help build public collections, the scheme is a response to the need for more investment in, and support for, the building of new collections across the country. Calls for applications open today, 20 June 2011. RENEW aims to build future centres of excellence by supporting fresh areas of collecting of fine, decorative or applied art in museums and galleries. It will provide 100% funding to up to six museums that are accepted onto the scheme. RENEW aims are ... More Soviet Pink Tank Returns to Prague PRAGUE (AP).- A pink tank has temporarily returned to the heart of Prague to mark the 20th anniversary of the Soviet troops' withdrawal. Tank No. 23 was originally put on display on a Prague square in 1945 to commemorate the liberation of Czechoslovakia by the Red Army after the WWII occupation by Nazi troops. For many, it became a symbol of the 1968 Soviet-led invasion that crushed the liberal reforms of Alexander Dubcek and ended an era known as the Prague Spring. David Cerny, a Czech visual artist painted the tank pink with friends in April 1991. The Soviet troops left by the end of June that year. The tank was taken to Prague from a military museum Monday to be placed on a pontoon on the Vltava river to kick off commemorative events, marking the troops' withdrawal. ... More |
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