| | Photographer Hans-Christian Schink Exhibits at Kueppersmühle Museum of Modern Art
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German photographer Hans-Christian Schink poses in front of a work from his series, entitled 1h, during a preview of his photo exhibition, entitled Hans-Christian Schink. Photographs 1980 to 2010, at the MKM Kueppersmühle Museum of Modern Art in Duisburg, Germany, 29 June 2011. About 100 photographs by Schink are presented in the exhibition that opens to the public from 01 July to 03 October. EPA/VICTORIA BONN-MEUSER.
DUISBURG.- "The best present of my life was most probably the simple role-film camera I received for my seventh birthday", recalls Hans-Christian Schink, one of Germany's leading contemporary photographers. The works by the Erfurt-born photographer, who today lives in Leipzig and who regularly travels the globe to create his photo-series, are represented in public and private collections worldwide. His photographs are also on view in the MKM's presentation of the Ströher Collection since many years. The MKM is now showing the most comprehensive exhibition to date of works by Hans-Christian Schink whose oeuvre has wielded a crucial impact on German photography. Approximately 100 large-format works afford an illuminating insight into his output until the present day, and impressively chart the development of his own distinct artistic signature. Schink began his study of photography at the renowned Academy of Vi ... More |
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| The Best Photos of the Day |  |  | LONDON.- Faena de Muleta by Barcelo during a photo call at Christies in London. The painting was expected to fetch 1,500,000-2,000,000 pounds ($2,300,000-$3,000,000/ 1,700,000-2,200,000 euro) when it went on sale as part of Christies Post War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on June 28. The painting sold for 3,9 million pounds (4,4 million euros), breaking the record for the artist and becoming the highest paid Spanish artist, surpassing Antonio Lopez. | | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Cheim & Read Celebrate Their 15th Anniversary with Group Exhibition of Women Artists
Ghada Amer, Unfriending Camelia, 2011. Acrylic and embroidery on canvas, 58 x 69 in. 147.3 x 175.3 cm. Photo: Courtesy Cheim & Read.
NEW YORK, NY.- In celebration of the gallery's fifteenth anniversary, Cheim & Read present a group exhibition of the women artists with whom they work: Ghada Amer, Diane Arbus, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Fishman, Jenny Holzer, Chantal Joffe, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel and Pat Steir. John Cheim and Howard Read have worked with several of them – Arbus, Bourgeois, Neel and Steir - since the early 1980s. In 1996, the two opened their gallery with an exhibition by Bourgeois and Holzer. Since its founding, Cheim & Read has brought several women artists to the gallery’s roster – their selection, impressive in its scope, evolved in response to the artists’ individual work. Many of the works in this exhibition will be shown for the first time. The ten artists represented engage a variety of artistic processes and thematic concerns; their diversity provides substantial evidence for the major movements o ... More | | Tony Shafrazi Gallery Exhibits Revolutionary Film Posters from the Era of Russian Constructivism
Georgii & Vladimir Stenberg, The Forty-First, 1927. Color lithograph, 42 ½ x 28 ½ inches / 108 x 71 cm. Courtesy Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tony Shafrazi Gallery is presenting the exhibition, “Revolutionary Film Posters: Aesthetic Experiments of Russian Constructivism, 1920-33,” a comprehensive collection of rare and exquisite Russian film posters, on view through July 30, 2011. Culled from the world’s largest collection of Russian Film Posters from the great era of Constructivism, the 95 examples of the medium on view represent a unique opportunity to survey how one of the most significant movements in the early 20th Century avant-garde informed a radical graphic style that has had a dramatic influence on the development of fine art and design over many subsequent generations. Most of the work shown, though originally produced in the hundreds, constitutes the only surviving examples, and few have ever been publicly exhibited before. Reacting to the chaos of the Russian Revolution, the Constructivists sought order and felt ... More | | The Whitney Presents Lyonel Feininger's Most Complete Retrospective to Date
Lyonel Feininger, In a Village Near Paris (Street in Paris, Pink Sky), 1909. Oil on canvas, 39 ¾ x 32 in. (101 x 81.3 cm) University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City; gift of Owen and Leone Elliott 1968.15 © Lyonel Feininger Family, LLC./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lyonel Feininger has long been recognized as a major figure of the Bauhaus, renowned for his romantic, crystalline depictions of architecture and the Baltic Sea. Yet the range and diversity of his achievement are less well known. Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World, the artist’s first retrospective in the United States in forty-five years, is the first ever to incorporate the full breadth of his art by integrating his well-known oils with his political caricatures and pioneering Chicago Sunday Tribune comic strips; his figurative German Expressionist compositions; his architectural photographs of Bauhaus and New York subjects; his miniature hand-carved, painted wooden figures and buildings, known as City at the Edge of the World; and his ethereal late paintings of New York City. Curated by Barbara ... More |
Anja Kirschner and David Panos Open the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart's Archives for Exhibition
Otto Dix, Die Verächter des Todes, 1922, Radierung und Kaltnadel auf elfenbeinfarbenem Papier (2. Zustand, 1. Probedruck), Blatt: 49,8 x 34,9 cm, Platte: 34,3 x 27,3 cm, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011.
STUTTGART.- In the series "Open Archives" the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart invites artists to work with its collection. The series takes its starting points from the works and areas of the collection held in the archives of the museum —usually closed to the public —and from a discussion of the archive itself as a place of conservation and categorisation. "Open Archives" shows what has never been shown, what is rarely or not currently exhibited. From contemporary artistic and curatorial perspectives it activates the contents of the extensive collection and archives of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. The artists Anja Kirschner (b. 1977) and David Panos (b. 1971) from London are presenting their "Open Archives" selection in correspondence with their new film "The Empty Plan" which was produced with support from the Staatsgalerie ... More | | Important Turkish Shield Fetches £210,000 at Thomas Del Mar Ltd.'s Arms & Armour Auction
The circular Turkish ribbed shield, decorated with stylised tulip flowers, was estimated to fetch £40,000-60,000. It sold for: £210,000.
LONDON.- A very rare gilt copper Ottoman Tombak shield from the late 16th century sold for £210,000 in an auction of Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria in London today (Wednesday, June 29, 2011). The sale was held by Thomas Del Mar Ltd (in association with Sotheby’s) at their saleroom at 25 Blythe Road, W14. The circular Turkish ribbed shield was decorated with stylised tulip flowers. It was estimated to fetch £40,000-60,000 and was bought by a Private Collector. Known as a Kalkan, very few of this type of shield is recorded and therefore it is assumed that they were intended for individuals of high rank. This example is believed to have been taken from the Turks at the Siege of Vienna in 1529 and it was loaned to an exhibition in 1890 from a European Private collection. It is made of Tombak (gilt copper) – a prized material among Turkish people. Elsewhere in the sale, which made a overall total of £925,633 an ... More | | Catharina Manchanda Hired as Seattle Art Museum's New Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art
Catharina Manchanda, former Senior Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. Photo: Robert Wade.
SEATTLE, WA.- Catharina Manchanda, former Senior Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, will join the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) as the Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, announced Charlie Wright, Chairman of SAM’s Board of Trustees. Manchanda will begin her tenure at SAM on August 17, 2011. Manchanda will oversee the museum’s modern and contemporary artistic program and collection at each of its three sites: SAM Downtown, Seattle Asian Art Museum, and the Olympic Sculpture Park. Along with Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Marisa Sánchez, Manchanda will also work closely with collectors and artists. ”We are thrilled to welcome Catharina to the SAM team,” said Wright. “She is a well-recognized expert in the field of modern and contemporary art and we were very impressed with her prior curatorial experience. It is a ... More |
Sotheby's 'Artists for Serpentine Sale' Doubles Pre-Sale Estimate; Raises $7,313,991
The top-selling lot of the offering and Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Day Auction was John Currin’s oil on canvas Edwardian, which commanded £713,250 / $1,147,619, above its pre-sale estimate of £300,000-400,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Forty-four out of 46 artworks offered in Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Day Sale, generously donated by some of the world’s leading contemporary artists in aid of the Serpentine Gallery’s new space, the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, were today sold for an exceptional total of £4,545,675 / $7,313,991 – more than double the pre-sale low estimate of £2.2 million for the offering. The Serpentine Sackler Gallery will open in 2012 in Kensington Gardens and is a stone’s throw from the Serpentine Gallery. The top-selling lot of the offering and Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Day Auction was John Currin’s oil on canvas Edwardian, which commanded £713,250 / $1,147,619, above its pre-sale estimate of £300,000-400,000. The second ... More | | Royal Ontario Museum's Newest Galleries Bring Ancient Empires Back to Life
Perfume Bottle. Glass. From Gebel Adda, AD 200-400, 973.24.453 Gift of the National Geographic Society.
TORONTO.- On Friday, July 1, 2011, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) opens a suite of new permanent galleries, reintroducing its visitors to the ancient civilizations of Rome, Byzantium and Nubia. Several never-before-seen objects are featured while others have been unseen by the public since previous galleries were closed in 2004 during the Renaissance ROM expansion project. To showcase these remarkable empires as never before, extensive new videos, shot on location, are featured alongside impressive artifacts in this new, dynamic space. Located on the Museum’s Level 3 Centre Block and Philosophers’ Walk Wing, the ROM’s four new galleries comprise the Eaton Gallery of Rome, including the Bratty Exhibit of Etruria; the Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Gallery of Byzantium; the Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Gallery of Rome and the Near East; and the Galleries of Africa: Nubia. “The ROM is pleased to bring these significant em ... More | | Images by Two of France's Most Original Artists on View at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Odilon Redon, Tears (Les Pleurs), 1878. Charcoal with touches of white watercolor on paper. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Sophie M. Friedman Fund and funds donated by Ruth V. S. Lauer in memory of Julia Wheaton Saines, and Susan Bennett, Claire and Richard Morse and Gift of Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and John K. Marshall. Photo: © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MA.- Two of the most imaginative artists of the 19th to 20th century, whose fantastical depictions of dense landscapes and brooding figures illustrate the broader reaches of reality, are showcased in Two Masters of Fantasy: Bresdin and Redon, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). On view through January 16, 2012, the exhibition presents 43 works—22 by teacher Rodolphe Bresdin (1822–1885) and 21 by his student Odilon Redon (1840–1916), assembled primarily from the Museum’s holdings, with select loans from private collectors. Included are black and white lithographs, etchings, and charcoal ... More |
OSTRALE 2011: In Its Fifth Year Presents Some of the Best Contemporary Artists
A visitor to the 'Ostrale'011' art exhibition at the Ostragehege looks at the artwork titled Betrachten (observe) by Jusuth Heinsohn. EPA/MATTHIAS HIEKEL.
DRESDEN.- In its fifth year the festival deals in the sense of the 1969 published roman by the US-bestseller-author Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) "Slaughterhouse Five" with the field of apparently free of structure - between historic and contemporary communicating states. The story of the novel "Slaughterhouse Five" plays for real on the present day area of the OSTRALE during the bombardment of Dresden in the night of the 13th to the 14th of February 1945. The story weaves fantasy and auto-biografic aspects and is telling without a traditional structure and punctuation. The international exhibition of contemporary arts is on view from July 1st through September 4th 2011. But the meaningful referring to the novel means a formale bound in the same time because only the arts are able to tell non-verbal. Every art is a form of telling because `reality´ is showing its essence by telling too. Already words are discribing states of th ... More | | Art Institute of Chicago Awarded Major Grant by the Getty Foundation for Online Catalogue
The Art Institute prototype offers a truly interactive digital "reading" experience, presentation of material not possible in a printed catalogue, and a flexible interface designed with scholars in mind.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announced that the museum has been awarded $400,000 by the Getty Foundation for the implementation of an online catalogue of paintings and drawings by the artists Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The grant supports further work on the prototype developed by the Art Institute of Chicago for the Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative (OSCI), a program begun by the Getty Foundation to bring scholarly research and publication into the digital age. The Art Institute prototype offers a truly interactive digital "reading" experience, presentation of material not possible in a printed catalogue, and a flexible interface designed with scholars in mind. "We are extraordinarily grateful that the Getty Foundation has further committed to our work on the online catalogue with this grant," said Sam Quigley, vice president ... More | | Pfefferberg Complex in Berlin Selected as the Second Site of the BMW Guggenheim Lab
Architects’ model, New York City site. View from Houston Street, showing a workshop setting. Photo: Courtesy Atelier Bow-Wow.
NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Armstrong, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, and Frank-Peter Arndt, member of the Board of Management, BMW AG, announced today that the second site of the BMW Guggenheim Lab, following New York City’s Lower East Side, will be the Pfefferberg complex in the Berlin neighborhood of Prenzlauer Berg. The BMW Guggenheim Lab, a temporary structure designed by Atelier Bow-Wow architects, is scheduled to open in Pfefferberg in late spring 2012 and will offer nearly three months of programs. The BMW Guggenheim Lab will be a public place for sharing ideas and practical solutions to major issues affecting urban life. Conceived as an urban think tank and mobile laboratory, the BMW Guggenheim Lab will explore issues confronting contemporary cities and provide a public place and online forum for sharing ideas ... More |
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 Woodlawn Cemetery Designated National Historic LandmarkBRONX, NY.- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that The Woodlawn Cemetery has been designated a National Historic Landmark—the highest recognition accorded to the nation’s most historically significant properties. Woodlawn, which will celebrate its 150th anniversary beginning next year, is one of the nation’s finest examples of a 19th-century garden cemetery. It is home to the largest and most distinguished collection of historic mausoleums in the nation, and is a still active cemetery. The designation recognizes its outstanding landscape design and collection of art and architecture. The designation also recognizes Woodlawn’s significant role in memorializing and celebrating prominent Americans, who shaped American history and culture. Since Woodlawn’s founding in 1863, 310,000 people—from Gilded Age magnates to pioneers for women’s rights to Harlem Renaissance ... More Landsmen: Eva Struble's Third Solo Exhibition of Paintings at the Lombard Freid ProjectsNEW YORK, NY.- Lombard Freid Projects presents Landsmen, Eva Struble’s third solo exhibition of paintings at the gallery. Having explored decaying corners of Baltimore, Brooklyn and Barcelona through a socio-environmental lens for painting, Struble has returned her focus on an abandoned pocket of America’s most populated city: the Brooklyn Navy Yard. With her audacious use of pinks, reds and greens combined with a sensual application and removal of paint, Struble continues to seduce the viewers as she investigates the edge of real landscape and visceral abstraction. Struble’s last exploration of New York City revolved around a neighborhood that had fallen into decline through a chemical catastrophe, her latest series looks into a location that was built and destroyed around its own internal economy. The Navy Yard, simultaneously situated within the landscape of NYC while operating outside of city life, wa ... More Smithsonian's Museum on Main Street Program Explores Importance of Work in American LifeWASHINGTON, DC.- Work and the workplace have gone through enormous changes between the mid-19th century, when 60 percent of Americans made their living as farmers, and the early 21st century. The newest traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street (MoMS) program, “The Way We Worked,” celebrates the history of work in America. It tells the stories of how hard-working Americans of every ethnicity, class, gender and age power the nation. Five copies of the exhibition will begin simultaneous tours of Idaho, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee and West Virginia in September and October 2011. Complete tour information is available online at www.museumonmainstreet.org. “The Way We Worked” was created by the National Archives and is organized for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES). MoMS is a partnership of SITES and state humanities councils. &# ... More Cooper-Hewitt to Present 'Graphic Design: Now In Production' Exhibition at Governors Island NEW YORK, NY.- The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum announced that its off-site exhibition programming will continue with the “Graphic Design: Now In Production” exhibition at Governors Island in summer 2012. Co-organized by the Walker Art Center and Cooper-Hewitt, the exhibition explores some of most vibrant sectors and genres of graphic design, including posters, books, magazines, identity and branding, information graphics, typography and typefaces, and film and television title graphics. The exhibition debuts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis Oct. 22 and runs through Jan. 22, 2012, and will be presented by Cooper-Hewitt at Building 110 on Governors Island from June 2, 2012, through Sept. 30, 2012. Admission to the exhibition at Governors Island will be free. Cooper-Hewitt’s main facility, housed in the Carnegie Mansion, will undergo renovation, beginning in fall 2011, as part o ... More A Celebrity Packard and a Transparent Pontiac at RM's Michigan SaleBLENHEIM, ON.- RM Auctions, the world’s largest collector car auction house for investment-quality automobiles, will lift the curtain on a famous 1932 Packard Twin Six Individual Custom Convertible Sedan, purchased new by American entertainer Al Jolson, and a unique 1939 Pontiac Plexiglas Deluxe Six “Ghost Car”, America’s first transparent car, when its St. John’s sale gets underway, July 30 in Plymouth, Michigan. Held in conjunction with the renowned Concours d’Elegance of America at St. John’s, the upcoming RM sale – formerly known as the Meadow Brook auction – will provide a wonderful celebration of America’s rich automotive history with some 70 collector cars set to go under the gavel. Among the star attractions - no less than 13 Packards; nine Cadillacs; seven Fords; five Oldsmobiles; two Duesenbergs; and the eye-catching Pontiac ‘Ghost Car’. “RM Auctions ... More New Paintings and Drawings by Craig Taylor at Sue Scott GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Sue Scott Gallery presents Craig Taylor: Paintings and Drawings, a solo exhibition of new work opening June 30 and on view through August 5, 2011. Taylor’s continued investigations of painting and drawing offer both the aesthetic experience arrived at through historical approaches to abstraction and the interplay of image associations. Subject matter appears, dissolves, and reemerges into a broader meditation on the nature of abstraction and the painted object as emotive. Taylor displays an acute awareness of the conventions and limitations of both abstraction and representation, constructing his work on the continuum between the two experiences. He operates within the traditions of Post-War American abstraction, but not strictly within their formal languages: chunks of image float to the surface and create their own vernacular of signs and marks. A narrative unfolds through an understanding of h ... More Christie's International Real Estate Expands to the Asia PacificHONG KONG.- Christie’s International Real Estate (CIRE), the only global luxury real estate network wholly owned and operated by a fine art auction house, officially establishes its Asia regional headquarters in Hong Kong this month. Christie’s portfolio of services in the region has now been expanded to include a robust luxury real estate presence. The business will focus on primary luxury destination and feeder markets, while adhering to the same high brand standards that distinguishes Christie’s name worldwide. Headed by Mitchell Lewis, Managing Director of Christie’s International Real Estate, Asia, CIRE Asia Pacific will operate on a strategy that melds the strengths of both the franchise and affiliate business models to create a unique operating platform best suited to the region’s business practices. Just as the region’s re ... More |
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