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An artwork, titled Hanging Piece (1993), by South African artist Kendell Geers, represented by the gallery Continua (San Gimignano), is on display at the exhibition 'Art Unlimited' in the context of the international art show 'Art 42 Basel', in Basel, Switzerland, 13 June 2011. The Art Unlimited sector at Art 42 Basel shows large-scales and multimedia works from 15 to 19 June. EPA/GEORGIOS KEFALAS.
By: Mike Collett-White
LONDON (REUTERS).- Billions of dollars of art will be on show in Basel at the annual fair this week and in London ahead of a big series of sales, with experts cautiously optimistic that buyers are set to snap up rare treasures. Art Basel, described as the world's top fair for modern and contemporary works, opens on Wednesday with 300 galleries displaying works with a combined total worth of around $1.75 billion, according to specialist insurer Hiscox. "We didn't do a calculation last year, but my guess is that this year is up about 15 percent (on 2010)," said Hiscox fine art specialist Robert Read. He added that the mood in the market was generally confident, with the sharp contraction in global sales in 2009 already a fading memory. "I think we're further away from the bad news," he told Reuters. "People forget things so quickly. Buying art is fun and sexy, and people were never going to give it up forever, were they?" Once the wheeling and dealing in Basel is done by its close ... More |
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Selections from the Guggenheim Collections at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
A woman eyes U.S. artist Frank Stella's painting 'Harran II' as she visits the exhibition 'Painterly Abstraction, 1949-1969 Selections from the Guggenheim Collections'. EPA/ALFREDO ALDAI.
BILBAO.- From June 14, 2011, to January 8, 2012, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is hosting Painterly Abstraction, 1949–1969: Selections from the Guggenheim Collections. The exhibition investigates major trends in U.S. and European art in a singular overview of two decades of creative output. With nearly 80 works by over 60 artists from the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the exhibition explores the similarities among different forms of artistic expression that emerged in Europe and North America. Many paintings on view in the exhibition were acquired by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum during its second director James Johnson Sweeney's tenure (1952–60 ... More | | World Record Price Established for Le Corbusier Unité Portfolio Prints at artnet Auctions
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Le Corbusier’s Unité Portfolio Prints.
NEW YORK, NY.- On June 9, 2011, artnet Auctions sold Le Corbusier’s complete 1953 Unité prints portfolio (with additional black and white set) for the record price of US$57,500. Complete Le Corbusier prints sets rarely appear at public auction. Only the first 30 of the 130 portfolios of this edition contain the full 37 prints: 17 color prints and 20 black and white prints on Rives BFK paper. The pristine condition and historical significance of this Le Corbusier prints portfolio attracted a great deal of interest from an international audience. According to Brent Lewis, head of design auctions at artnet Auctions, “Unité was included in our inaugural design auction, launched this May. We were thrilled to see such active interest, both from traditional art collectors and the design community, who are excited to find a new venue to buy and sell design alongside paintings, sculpture, prints and photographs.” Le Corbusier was one of the fathers of Modern architecture, ... More | | Tate Britain Presents Major Exhibition About The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World
Edward Wadsworth, Rotterdam 1914. George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film (Rochester, USA) © Estate of Edward Wadsworth. All rights reserved, DACS 2010.
LONDON.- Tate Britain presents a major exhibition about Vorticism (1914-18), one of the truly avant-garde movements in British history. Led by painter Wyndham Lewis and named by American poet Ezra Pound, the revolutionary Vorticist artists reacted against the culture of Edwardian England with a radical new aesthetic that embraced the maelstrom of the modern world. The exhibition is on view from June 14th through December 4th 2011. This exhibition celebrates the electrifying force and vitality of Vorticism by bringing together over 100 works including paintings, sculptures, as well as the rarely seen Vorticist photography of Alvin Langdon Coburn, claimed as the first ever abstract photographs, and newly revealed works by key women Vorticists. Drawing ... More |
Allied Works Reveals Competition Design for New Museum and Cultural District in Lausanne
MCBA Landscaped Entrance.
NEW YORK, NY.- In October 2010, Allied Works was named one of eighteen international finalists to create the Pôle Muséal Lausanne, which encompasses transforming an historic train shed and industrial site into a new cultural district. As part of the competition, Allied Works created a master plan and completed the building design for the new Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts (MCBA). Future institutions include the Musée de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains (MUDAC) and the Musée de l’Elysée. Allied Works’ design was developed in collaboration with an international team of designers, including Latz+Partner for Landscape, Resnicow Schroeder Associates for Cultural Planning, and Nicolet Chartrand Knoll for Structural and Civil. Allied Works was the only American firm invited to participate in the competition, which represents the firm’s first competition in Europe. Other participants included: 51N4E (Net ... More | | High Acquires Major New Works By Alex Katz and Anish Kapoor for Collection
Alex Katz, Winter Landscape 2, 2007 (detail). Oil on linen. 120 x 240 inches. Purchase with funds from Alfred Austell Thornton in memory of Leila Austell Thornton and Albert Edward Thornton, Sr., and Sarah Miller Venable and William Hoyt Venable. Courtesy of Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago and New York.
ATLANTA, GA.- “The High’s collection of contemporary art is growing in exciting and diverse ways, and signals our commitment to creating an anthology of important 21st-century works,” commented Michael Shapiro, the High’s Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Director. “We are grateful to Alex for his generous gift of ‘Twilight’ and look forward to adding to our holdings of his work; his extraordinary paintings bridge the Museum’s fine collection of post-painterly abstraction with its expanding collection of Pop art.” “Winter Landscape 2” (2007) and “Twilight” (1998) are the first paintings by Alex Katz to enter the High’s collection and build significantly upon the Museum’s group of important works by masters of ... More | | Director and Chief Curator of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Professor Mordechai Omer, Dies
Professor Mordechai Omer served since January 1995 as the Director and Chief Curator of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
TEL AVIV.- The Tel Aviv Museum of Art announced the passing away of Director and Chief Curator of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on Friday morning, 10 June 2011, after a brave battle against cancer. Museum workers will sorely miss his leadership, his vision and guidance. He was a constant inspiration to all who had the fortune to know him. Professor Mordechai Omer served since January 1995 as the Director and Chief Curator of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. He simultaneously served as Professor of Art History at Tel Aviv University (a post he has held since 1986) and as the head of the University’s Museum Studies Program. A native of Haifa, Professor Mordechai Omer was educated at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (B.A. in art history, 1961), Columbia University, New York (M.A. in art history, 1968) ... More |
Bonhams Unveils 30M Design for Its New International Headquarters in London
The 20th century façades on New Bond Street and Blenheim Street will be retained, but behind them will emerge a new 21st century structure. Photo: Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands.
LONDON.- Bonhams is to build a new international headquarters in London to provide the most advanced salerooms in the world. Designed by award-winning architects Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, the building is to be constructed on the site of the company’s current headquarters at 101 New Bond Street. The 20th century façades on New Bond Street and Blenheim Street will be retained, but behind them will emerge a new 21st century structure offering the most modern facilities and auction experience in the world. The Haunch of Venison Yard elevation, accessed from Brook Street, will reveal the new building’s unique features including three large new salesrooms (double-height with skyboxes to maximise viewing of sales), preview galleries, a café and high quality, daylit workspace for Bonhams’ specialist staff. The new premises, with its accent ... More | | Sotheby's London to Offer a Lost Royal Masterpiece: A Renaissance Chalcedony Cover
Attributed to Giovanni Ambrogio Miseroni (1551-1616), Italian, Milan , Late 16th Century Chalcedony cover carved with Venus and Cupid sleeping in a shell, with silver gilt mount in the form of Jupiter as a Swan. Estimate: £800,000-£1,200,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby's announces Treasures: Princely Taste, the sale of an outstanding selection of rare and important decorative art with links to some of the greatest collectors in European history, including Louis XIV, Cardinal Mazarin, King Alfonso XII, Prince Davidoff, the Duc D’Orléans, Giovanni Strozzi and the Duke of Buccleugh. The auction, on Wednesday 6th July 2011 at 6pm, is expected to fetch a total in excess of £9 million. It will comprise 33 lots, encompassing furniture, works of art, clocks, silver and objects of vertu, each displaying the remarkable qualities of princely taste. The sale’s centrepiece is a unique and recently rediscovered masterpiece - an exquisitely carved hardstone cover, the lost partner of a matching cup in the collection of the Louvre ... More | | Discover America at Florida Museum of Photographic Arts A with Classic Photography by Ansel Adams
Georgia O'Keeffe, Canyon de Chelly National Park Monument, 1937. Photograph by Ansel Adams ©2011 The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.
TAMPA, FL.- More than 50 photographs by Ansel Adams are on exhibit at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts (FMOPA) in downtown Tampa on the corner of Ashley Drive and Jackson Street. They are on view from April 28 through July 6, 2011. “Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.” Ansel Adams... More than any one photographer, Ansel Adams (1902-1984) created images that capture the American spirit: the wide, unconquered spaces of the West, the endless skies that recall the limitless possibilities of the American dream and the rugged terrain that evokes this nation’s can-do energy. Fittingly, the exhibition is up through Memorial Day and the Fourth of July. But you don’t need to wait until then to rediscover what truly exemplifies America. In this exhibition, 54 works are presented. The images were personally ... More |
An Exhibition of Works from an Iconic Family of American Artists on View at the Salmagundi Club
Guy A Wiggins, The Flat Iron Building from Madison Square Park. Photo: Courtesy of Wiggins, Wiggins & Wiggins.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Salmagundi Club, the oldest art club in the U.S., will present Wiggins, Wiggins & Wiggins: Three Generations of American Art, a rare multi-generational exhibition bringing together the works of one of America’s great art families. The works of (J.) Carleton Wiggins (1848-1932), Guy C. Wiggins (1883-1962) and Guy A. Wiggins (1920-present), will be on view through July 1. “I’m delighted to share my family’s love of art and of New York City in this exhibition,” says Guy A. Wiggins “The Salmagundi Club has been home to my family for generations, and it is only fitting that our works be shown here together.” Viewers can see how each critically-acclaimed artist built on the family sensibility, while carving out their own unique niche and interpretation of their times. Carleton’s atmospheric landscapes reflect the influence of the French Barbizon painters and the Hudson ... More | | Three Works by Miró to Feature in Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art Auction
The most valuable of the trio is Tête (£100,000-150,000), a beautiful watercolour, gouache and pastel of a face. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- As the Joan Miró retrospective draws crowds to the Tate Modern, three works by one of the greatest Surrealist painters are to be auctioned at Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art sale on Tuesday 21st June, New Bond Street, London. The three works all display the signature striking style of the artist, and have attracted pre-sale estimates to tempt a range of buyers. The most affordable is Abstrait (£5,000-7,000) while Femme is expected to sell for £60,000-80,000. The most valuable of the trio is Tête (£100,000-150,000), a beautiful watercolour, gouache and pastel of a face. Miró is a highly iconic artist and his deceptively simple imagery betrays highly complex symbology. His works are often noted for their energetic compositions, perhaps displaying the vibrancy of his Catalan upbringing. Andre Breton described him as the most Surrealist of the Surrealists yet his work was also influenced by Dada and his experimental ... More | | To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum on View at Nevada Museum of Art
Mummy Mask of a Man, Roman Period, early 1st century C.E. Stucco. Gilded and painted, 20 1/4 x 13 x 7 7/8 in. (51.5 x 33 x 20 cm). Place made: Egypt, Africa. Collection of the Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund.
RENO, NV.- Explore ancient Egyptian beliefs about life, death, and the afterlife in To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum, while celebrating the birthday of the Nevada Museum of Art – commemorating the 80th anniversary in 2011. The exhibition is on view from June 11 through September 4, 2011 at the Nevada Museum of Art.Drawn from the legendary antiquities collection of the Brooklyn Museum, the exhibition explores the funerary beliefs and customs practiced for nearly four-thousand years by ancient Egyptians from various social classes. Answering questions at the core of the public’s fascination with ancient Egypt, the exhibition delves into the process of mummification, the conduct of a funeral, and various types of tombs through more than 100 objects including mummies, sar ... More |
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 SMU Art History Professor Gregory Warden Receives Award from President of ItalyDALLAS, TX.- Dr. P. Gregory Warden, University Distinguished Professor of Art History and associate dean for academic affairs at SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts, received the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity and the title of Cavaliere (knight) in the name of the President of the Italian Republic on June 4. The award was presented by Fabrizio Nava, the Consul General of Italy in Houston, at the Italian Club of Dallas as part of a ceremony celebrating the 65th anniversary of the Italian Republic on June 2 and the 150th anniversary of the Unity of Italy that was proclaimed on March 17, 1861. The Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity was instituted in 1947 to recognize the achievements of those Italians and foreigners who had played a distinguished role in the reconstruction of Italy after World War II. It is now bestowed upon Italians and foreign nationals who have provided a ... More Rafael Viñoly Architects Announces Completion of the Clyde F. Barker Penn Transplant HouseNEW YORK, NY.- Rafael Viñoly Architects announce the completion of the Clyde F. Barker Penn Transplant House named after the physician who performed the first kidney transplant at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, the Barker Transplant House will offer comfortable, convenient accommodations in a supportive community setting and at a nominal cost. Conceived as a ‘home away from home,’ the site will house transplant patients at subsidized rates and offer comfortable hotel rooms where guests can reside while navigating these emotionally and financially difficult situations. The building is being partially funded by public donations and the design and construction teams (including Rafael Viñoly Architects) worked on a pro-bono basis. The Penn Transplant Institute medical team developed the ... More Science Fiction Writer Bruce Sterling Donates Collection of Materials to Harry Ransom CenterAUSTIN, TX.- American science fiction writer Bruce Sterling has donated a collection of materials to the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin. Sterling, an alumnus of the University, is known as one of the co-founders of the "cyberpunk" movement in the 1980s, with William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley and others. In Sterling's introduction to "Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology" (1986), he defines the movement as "an unholy alliance of the technical world of pop culture, visionary, fluidity and street-level anarchy." The anthology, which Sterling edited, examines what happens when scientif ... More Gianni Jetzer Selected as the New Curator for Art UnlimitedBASEL.- Art Basel announced that Gianni Jetzer, Director and Chief Curator of the Swiss Institute Contemporary Art in New York, will be the new curator for Art Unlimited, starting with the 2012 edition of the show, Art 43 Basel. Jetzer succeeds Simon Lamunière, curator of Art Unlimited since its debut in 2000, who placed his imprimatur on the sector and on its position in the cultural landscape during the 12 editions that he worked on the exhibition. Lamunière's next show is 'The Neon Parallax,' a major public art project in Geneva scheduled for April 2012. Gianni Jetzer is the Director of the Swiss Institute Contemporary Art in New York where he has staged numerous shows since 2006. He has curated extensively, both internationally as a freelance curator and in Switzerland thorough his former posts as Director of the Kunsthalle St Gallen and as curator at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich. Launched in 2000, Art Un ... More Jorge Palacios: Sculptures in Dialogue with the City of Toledo and Exhibition at Canal Foundation in MadridTOLEDO.- Toledo hosts the exhibition project of Jorge Palacios (Madrid, 1979) "The dialogues of the curve: urban sculptures in the streets of Toledo" conceived as a itinerary through different places representative of the city, including the environment of the Bisagra Gate, the Sun Gate, the Santa Cruz Museum or the Fuensalida Palace. The traveling exhibition of Jorge Palacios "The dialogues of the curve" will stay in Toledo until August. Palacios firmly believes that his work has to start a dialogue with its environment; in fact, for him it is fundamental that the sculptures have a sense, a fundament, a reason to be in a particular place and not another. Something which is at the origin of the line of site specific projects in which it has been working for years. He expects the pieces neither to disrupt nor to ... More Contemporary Landscape Photography of Southern Africa is Focus of New Exhibition BURLAFINGEN.- The complex layers of meaning embedded in the physical attributes of a place are explored in Appropriated Landscapes, an exhibition on landscape photography of Southern Africa, on view at the Walther Collection in Neu-Ulm / Burlafingen, Germany. Bringing together the photography and video of thirteen contemporary artists—including Jane Alexander, Mitch Epstein, Ângela Ferreira, Peter Friedl, David Goldblatt, Christine Meisner, Sabelo Mlangeni, Santu Mofokeng, Zanele Muholi, Jo Ractliffe, Penny Siopis, Mikhael Subotzky / Patrick Waterhouse, and Guy Tillim—the exhibition examines the effects of war, migration, colonization, industrialization, and ideology on the landscapes of South Africa, Namibia, Angola, and Mozambique. On view from June 11, 2011, through May 2012, Appropriated Landscapes reveals the distinct and varied histories of the region and its people, ... More Austria, France, Lithuania, Portugal and Romania in OpenPHoto Cuenca MADRID.- Cuenca participates at PHotoEspaña for fifth consecutive year, and hosts for the third time OpenPHoto Cuenca, the exhibition programme consisting of proposals from embassies and cultural institutes. The iniciative is sponsored by Town Hall of Cuenca, Provincial Government of Cuenca, City of Cuenca Consortium, Regional Government of Castilla-La Mancha and the European Commission, turns Cuenca into an international meeting point, opening a section completely focus on foreign countries. The participants in this edition are Austria, France, Lithuania, Portugal and Romania. On the one hand, Fundación Antonio Pérez hosts two exhibitions. Brave New World. New Concepts in Austrian Photography and Diptyque, by Jean-Christophe Vilain. Organized by the Austrian Embassy, the Austrian Cultural Forum, and the Austrian Ministry of Education, Art, and Culture, Brave New World. New Concepts in Austrian ... More Last Week to View 30 Works by 5 Cuban Artists at Marlborough ChelseaNEW YORK, NY.- The Directors of Marlborough Chelsea presents an exhibition featuring the contemporary Cuban artists Abel Barroso, Roberto Diago, Kcho, William Pérez, and Ernesto Rancaño on view from May 19 through June 18, 2011. The extensive exhibition is held on both the first and second floors of the Marlborough Chelsea Gallery and includes works varying in size and media, from intimately-sized etchings on acrylic board to large-scale sculptural works. Each of these five artists addresses life in the city of Havana with their work, exploring the paradoxes associated with inhabiting a place with a magnificent recent past and an impoverished, yet culturally prosperous present. What is unique about this group of artists is that they all thrive and produce work in Cuba, and the challenges they face there inform their art. Each of these artists is operating in the precarious space of a politically charged environment, ... More Archaeologists Dig at Historic Annapolis Black Home Produces Surprisingly Rich HaulCOLLEGE PARK, MD.- An archaeological team from the University of Maryland is uncovering an unexpectedly rich haul of household materials from an historic African American home in Annapolis – with one more week to go in their excavation. The team is working at the James Holliday House in Annapolis – a middle class home purchased in 1850 by one of the first African Americans to work for the U.S. Naval Academy. They say their finds detail how a well-off African American family adapted a middle class lifestyle to the realities of post-Civil War Annapolis. Also, they are exploring the family’s marital ties to the city’s Filipino community. James Holliday – born a slave in 1809 and freed in 1819 – served as a messenger to the superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy for almost 40 years. He took the job in 1845, and five years later bought the home at 99 East Street in Annapolis. The excavation of the Holli ... More El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011 Takes to the StreetsNEW YORK, NY.- El Museo del Barrio announced that El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files 2011, its sixth biennial of the most innovative, cutting-edge art created by Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American artists currently working in the greater New York area, takes place June 14, 2011 - January 8, 2012. This year’s edition focuses on the aesthetics of the street and spreads all over the city, showcasing a record 75 emerging artists in six different venues, including El Museo. Since its first edition in 1999, The (S) Files has become a successful launching platform for a wide variety of talented Latino artists. Most recently, Allora & Calzadilla, featured in The (S) Files in 2000, have been selected to represent the U.S. at this year’s Venice Biennial. Additional notable alumni include Margarita Cabrera, Alejandro Cesarco, Pablo Helguera, Tamara K ... More Hebrew University Cave Researchers Explore Stream-Filled Cavern at Entrance to Jerusalem JERUSALEM.- Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers have conducted an initial survey of what appears to be an important, ancient water source in a cave that was been discovered during excavation work for a new train station being constructed at the entrance to Jerusalem. The work was done by members of the Cave Research Unit of the university, headed by Prof. Amos Frumkin of the Department of Geography. The cave was exposed near the base of a deep service shaft that was dug for the train tunnel leading into the new station, located opposite the main bus station in Jerusalem. The full length of the cave is as yet unexplored. The cave is narrow and a few dozen meters high, forming an underground canyon. It contains an underground stream, flowing in a southeasterly direction. It is a type of karstic cave, which refers to an area of limestone in which dissolution has produced sinkholes, underground streams and ... MoreAtlas Gallery Opens New Gallery Space at Snape MaltingsLONDON.- Atlas Gallery announce the opening of a new gallery space at Snape Maltings, Suffolk, to coincide the 2011 Aldeburgh Festival this year's inaugural Snap Festival, which features work by an impressive selection of British Contemporary artists and photographers. The large exhibition space will rotate group, curated shows, combining selections of both vintage and contemporary work, with solo exhibitions by some of the most celebrated names in the history of the art form,. This exciting new venture, which begins as a pop-up, with the intention of subsequent development onto a permanent space, is the first physical extension of the main gallery space in London, where Atlas have built a reputation a a leading gallery ... More Stolen Remington Engagement Ring RecoveredOGDENSBURG, N.Y. (AP).- Police in northern New York have recovered a stolen engagement ring given by artist Frederic Remington to his fiancee more than a century ago. Police in Ogdensburg arrested 24-year-old Blake R. Peabody on a grand larceny charge Monday, a week after the ring was discovered missing from the city's Frederic Remington Art Museum. Peabody had been a part-time employee at the museum. Police say Peabody apparently planned to sell the single-carat 19th-century ring, which was recovered from his home. Peabody pleaded not guilty in city court. Remington was a painter, illustrator and sculptor known for his images of the American West. The artist was born in nearby Canton, N.Y., and die ... More |
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