| | Chapman Brothers Work in Separate Studios to Produce New Exhibition at White Cube
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Jake (R) and Dinos Chapman pose for photographs with part of their new exhibiton at the White Cube Gallery in central London July 14, 2011 REUTERS/Paul Hackett.
LONDON.- White Cube presents a new exhibition by Jake or Dinos Chapman. Jake and Dinos Chapman began their artistic collaboration after graduating from the Royal College of Art in London in 1990 when they created We are Artists. Since this self-defining anti-aesthetic manifesto was first stencilled onto a mud-splattered wall at the ICA, London in 1992 they have developed their own shared discourse as ‘sore-eyed scopophiliac oxymorons’ with, as they put it at the time, ‘a benevolent contingency of conceits’. Over the last twenty years their practice has seen them make iconoclastic sculpture, paintings, prints and installations that examine, with searing wit and energy, contemporary politics, religion and morality. In the essay accompanying their survey show at Tate Liverpool in 2006, Christoph Grunenberg described the work as existing between that which repulses and that which attracts the viewer. Furtherm ... More |
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| The Best Photos of the Day |  |  | LONDON.- Elena Gagarina, director of the Kremlin Museums in Moscow, and daughter of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, poses in front of a newly-unveiled statue of her father, outside the headquarters of the British Council, in central London, Thursday, July 14, 2011. A gift from the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) to the British Council, the statue shows Gagarin standing on a globe in his space suit, and it will be installed at this location for a period of 12 months to mark the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight. AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis. | | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Outspoken Artist Ai Weiwei's Design Firm Told It Has Not Paid Corporate Taxes
Chinese women with their bicycles stop outside the home of activist artist Ai Weiwei in Beijing. AP Photo/Ng Han Guan.
By: Chi-Chi Zhang, Associated Press
BEIJING (AP).- Chinese authorities told representatives of outspoken artist Ai Weiwei's design firm Thursday that the company had not paid corporate taxes for a decade, but did not allow them to keep documents showing the alleged offense. The representatives, including Ai's wife, were shown the documents at a hearing they had been granted to challenge a $1.85 million tax bill delivered by authorities after the dissident was released from nearly three months' detention. The prominent government critic was the most high-profile target of a sweeping crackdown on activists this year and his detention sparked international outcry, with some countries saying it was a sign that the human rights situation in China was deteriorating. Tax officials visited Ai's ... More | | Rules of Football Sell for £881,250; Jane Austen Manuscript for Novel Sells
Sheffield Football Club. The Birth of Modern Football. The earliest rules and historic archive of the world's first football club. Estimate: £800,000-1,200,000. Lot Sold: £881,250
LONDON.- Today, in a packed saleroom at Sotheby’s London, the earliest rules of club football - sold as part of the historic archive of the world’s oldest football club, Sheffield - fetched £881,250 /$1,420,663 /€998,807 (pre-sale estimate £800,000-1,200,000).This extraordinary and unique piece of sporting history, which represents a crucial step towards the evolution of the modern game of association football, was bought by an anonymous telephone bidder. The archive includes the earliest set of rules ever likely to come to the market - both the original handwritten draft rules (1858) and the only known surviving copy of the printed Rules, Regulations, & Laws of the Sheffield Foot-Ball Club (1859). Chairman of Sheffield Football Club, Richard Tims, commented: “In the run up to Sotheby’s sale of Sheffield FC’s ... More | | National Maritime Museum in London Opens New £35 Million Sammy Ofer Wing
Image of the museum's first temporary show, High Arctic from United Visual Artists. ®John Adrian.
LONDON.- This July the National Maritime Museum opens the Sammy Ofer Wing, a transformative £35m capital project which sets a new strategic direction for the Museum. Opening 14 July 2011, the £35m wing is the largest development in the National Maritime Museum’s history and a catalyst for the organisation to change completely the way it presents its galleries, exhibitions and events. This major new project has been made possible through a generous donation of £20m from international shipping magnate and philanthropist Sammy Ofer and an award of £5m from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The project includes a special exhibitions gallery, allowing the Museum to stage a full programme of temporary shows; a permanent gallery, Voyagers, introducing the story of Britain and the sea; a restaurant and café with views over Greenwich Park; and a state-of-the-art library and archive ... More |
Wisdom Builds Her House: The Architecture and History of Libraries at Architekturmuseum
Toyo Ito, Mediatheque, Sendai, 2000. © Toyo Ito, Tokyo.
MUNICH.- Ever since antiquity libraries have served as repositories of knowledge and cultural memory and, as such, belong to the oldest of all building types. Already the biblical verses of Salomo have quoted: “Wisdom builds her house” and this sentence can be found in many bookhouses as a guiding motto. Since the Renaissance the most important architects have dedicated themselves to this building task, thus giving library buildings an exceptional position within the history of architecture. In consequence of the changes of forms that information and communication underwent due to digital media, the end of the printed book and the traditional library has often been conjured up. However, in the past two decades more new buildings than ever before have been constructed. Is this a last defiant struggle before libraries vanish in globally accessible virtual data bases? Will libraries become a hybrid mixture of book and data base, a general store of information? Will the co ... More | | Exhibition Looks at the Connections in Photography between Africa, Color, and Color Photography.
Photo by Daniele Tamagni. Photo: Courtesy Danziger Projects.
NEW YORK, NY.- “Africolor” - the exhibition - looks at the connections in photography between Africa, color, and color photography. While Africa as a subject has attracted and inspired photographers since the invention of photography, because of the obvious financial and technical issues involved – photographing Africa in the 19th century was largely a European endeavor. By the middle of the 20th century, however, photography both as a business and a means of artistic expression was beginning to flourish across the African continent. With the advent of color photography and in particular with the acceptance of color photography into the mainstream of fine art in the 1980s, the vivid colors and bright light of the continent seemed to serve as inspiration for a wide range of photography from the indigenous to the imagined and from documentary to staged. Celebrating the diversity of color photographic expression, “Africolor” presents groupings of work ... More | | Joana Vasconcelos' Valkyries in Knit-Work and Textiles at Kunsthallen Brandts
Two of Joana Vasconcelos’ Valkyries in knit-work and textiles have settled in Kunsthallen Brandt’s double high rooms.
ODENSE.- Metres tall and metres long, they conquer their space. At the same time enticingly colourful and mysteriously gloomy. Embracing and devouring. Two of Joana Vasconcelos’ Valkyries in knit-work and textiles have settled in Kunsthallen Brandt’s double high rooms. With tentacles, feelers, bulging bodies and eyes on stalk, one is more in the animal kingdom than in a human world. Or perhaps somewhere in the land of the gods: The valkyries served Odin. They selected the greatest among the fallen warriors in the battle field and led them to Valhalla. Odin needed the best men to fight by his side in the struggle at the end of the world: Ragnarok. The valkyries in mythology also appear as servants, mistresses and lovers. And they are pre-occupied with needle-work: They are the ones who weave the fates of humans. Joana Vasconcelos continues to sow together the many mythological stories about ... More |
Sotheby's London to Sell a Group of 20th Century British Art from The Dartington Hall Trust Collection
Ben Nicholson, Charbon, 1930 (detail). Est. £250,000-350,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby's today announced the sale of a remarkable group of works by British artists on behalf of The Dartington Hall Trust, to be sold as part of Sotheby’s sale of 20th Century British Art on Wednesday, 16th November, 2011. The works, comprising paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures and ceramics by artists including Ben Nicholson, Christopher Wood, Winifred Nicholson and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, have been carefully selected by The Dartington Hall Trust. The Dartington Hall Trust is maintaining a substantial collection comprising works of art, sculpture, ceramics, books and furniture. The Trust’s collection is one aspect of the organisation’s broad mix of activity which is focused on programmes in the areas of arts, social justice and sustainability. The paintings to be sold by Sotheby's have been selected to enable Dartington to strike a balance between the need to raise sufficient funds in order that ... More | | Historian Barry Landau, Accused of Maryland Historical Society Theft, Faces Trial
Barry Landau is one of two New York City men charged with stealing millions of dollars in documents. AP Photo/Baltimore Police Dept.
By: Sarah Brumfield, Associated Press
BALTIMORE (AP).- An attorney for a presidential historian charged with the theft of such library treasures as papers signed by Abraham Lincoln and invitations to inaugural balls says there is no evidence against his client and he shouldn't have been denied bail. A request for a bail review was filed Wednesday for 63-year-old historian Barry Landau, attorney Steven D. Silverman said, calling the denial unreasonable. Landau and Jason Savedoff, 24, both of New York City, were arrested and charged Saturday with theft of more than $100,000 after document thefts were reported at the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore, according to court documents. Landau is a published author whose works include ... More | | Summer Exhibition at Alan Cristea Gallery Focuses on the Work of Royal Academicians
Gillian Ayres, A Breeze Cuts a Pause, 2009-10. Sugarlift aquatint and carborundum with hand painting. Paper and image 88.0 x 88.0 cm. Edition of 15.
LONDON.- The Summer Exhibition, from 14 July until 12 August, will showcase a wide range of works from the stable of artists represented by the Alan Cristea Gallery, the largest dealer and publisher of 20th Century and contemporary prints in Europe. Including paintings, works on paper, ceramics, sculpture and installations, and with prices ranging from £750 to £50,000, this show will focus on the work of Royal Academicians including Gillian Ayres, Allen Jones, Ian McKeever, Lisa Milroy, Mimmo Paladino and Joe Tilson. A focal point of the show will be works by Michael Craig-Martin and Howard Hodgkin, both of whom have both been commissioned to design posters for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics Games. The Summer Exhibition will showcase a number of works by Michael Craig-Martin, who ... More |
TV's 'Rescue Me' Donates 9/11 Items to Smithsonian's National Museum of American History
Actor Denis Leary speaks at a news conference at the National Museum of American History. AP Photo/Kevin Wolf.
By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) (AP).- Denis Leary donated props, costumes and other objects from his TV series "Rescue Me" to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History on Thursday because of the show's connection to New York City firefighters after Sept. 11. Leary's firefighter costume, helmet and tools are the first items included in the museum's entertainment collection relating to 9/11 as the 10th anniversary approaches. The FX firehouse drama is about firefighters dealing with the grief of losing friends and relatives at ground zero. The show would have been impossible without help from New York firefighters to help the cast create fire scenes, learn their humor and see their work, Leary said. "The thing that was attractive ... More | | Group Exhibition by Four Korean and Three American Artists Opens at Andrew Shire Gallery
Eric Ernest Johnson, Mr. Market, 2006, acrylic on wood panel, 43 x 31 x 1. Photo: Courtesy Andrew Shire Gallery.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Andrew Shire Gallery presents East inside West, a group exhibition by four Korean and three American artists whose paintings on canvas, wood panels, and paper enhance the cultural connections between eastern and western nations. The exhibition will consist of acrylic and oil paintings created on canvas, wood panels, and paper. The works will range from the photo-realistic to the cartoon-like, but are, as a general rule, thoughtfully executed with deliberate stylistic intent. The subject of each artist’s effort is normally limited to one idea or insight that has potential for eliciting viewer’s questions, and each artist captures the spirit of his or her subject through clearly spoken visual language. Kim Eun Ok paints gift packages like the ones a new bride might receive upon the announcement of her wedding. The ornately patterned fabrics used to wrap these gifts typically have ribbons, t ... More | | Danish Artist Tue Greenfort's Where the People will Go at the South London Gallery
Tue Greenfort, Conservation, 2011, pine tree trunk with woodpecker nests, wood boring beetles, glass dome, wooden base, stained and lacquered with gold trim. Photo: Roman März.
LONDON.- Where the People Will Go brings together new and existing works by Danish artist Tue Greenfort which respond to the South London Gallery’s history and architecture, its changing role within its local context and its relationship with neighbouring Sceaux Gardens housing estate. The exhibition builds on the artist’s work over the past ten years, as well as ideas he began to explore when he made a site-specific work for the 2009 group show at the SLG, Beyond These Walls. As part of that show Greenfort created a direct access route from the estate to the gallery, shifting the physical relationship between the two locations. For his solo exhibition the artist opens up that entrance once again as just one element of many within a complex installation, which explores ... More |
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 New Museum Presents Charles Atlas' New Video Installation Featuring Footage of Merce CunninghamNEW YORK, NY.- This summer, the New Museum will present “Joints Array” a multimedia installation by the groundbreaking video artist Charles Atlas (b. 1949, St. Louis, Missouri). For more than forty years, Atlas has explored the possibilities of filmed movement and time-based portraiture through a melding of narrative, fiction, documentation, technological innovation, and precise editing. Since 2003, he has been creating live-edited works presented in the exhibition space, as a performance, and, later on, as completed works. Atlas’s films, videos, installations, performances, set, and lighting designs have involved collaborations with leading figures in dance, music, and art, including Cunningham, Marina Abramović, Antony and the Johnsons, Leigh Bowery, Michael Clark, Fennesz, Bill Irwin, John Kelly, Yvonne Rainer, and, most recently, Mika Tajima and New Humans. “Charles Atlas: Joints Array” will ... More RAF Book of Heroes Listing 107 Signatures of Battle of Britain Pilots for Sale at BonhamsLONDON.- A small leather-bound book that powerfully evokes ‘The Few’ of WWII Battle of Britain, listing 107 signatures of RAF flying officers, goes on sale at Bonhams Militaria Sale in Oxford on August 2nd. Collected by Norman Phillips, a mess steward at RAF Marklesham Heath in 1941, the little book’s leather cover was apparently cut from a mess chair by Group Captain Douglas Bader CBE, DSO & Bar,DFC, whose remarkable story – flying again after losing both his legs – was the basis of the film ‘Reach for the Sky’. This unique item is estimated to sell for £6,000 to £8,000. Winston Churchill, in a conversation with Douglas Bader, referred to the book as "not a book of names, but a book of heroes. God forbid it should ever be lost." The book contains the signatures of the following, as well as many others. Squadron Leader D. R. S. Bader D.S.O., D.F.C. and bar, C.O. 242 Squadron. Squadron Leader ... More Rosenbach Museum & Library Board Names Arthur Spector Chairman of the BoardPHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Rosenbach Museum & Library – noted for its outstanding collection of rare books, manuscripts, furniture and art – announces the appointment of Arthur Spector as Chairman of the Board and the endowment of the Executive Director’s position at the museum through a $2.5 million gift from the Wyncote Foundation. At a recent meeting, the Board of Trustees of the Rosenbach welcomed Mr. Spector as Chairman. He has been elected for a three-year term and now officially assumes the role. He succeeds former Chairman, Susan B. Muller. The Wyncote Foundation’s substantial gift endows the existing Director’s position, now named in memory of noted philanthropist John C. Haas. Museum Director Derick Dreher, who has held the position since 1998, is the first John C. Haas Director of the Rosenbach Museum & Library. “The Wyncote Foundation seeks to support efforts that strengthen culture and ... More O'Neal Sues Ex-Fawcett Asssociate for DefamationLOS ANGELES (AP).- Ryan O'Neal has sued a former associate of longtime partner Farrah Fawcett and claims the man is responsible for a Texas university's attempts to reclaim an Andy Warhol portrait of the actress. O'Neal's defamation lawsuit against Craig Nevius Thursday seeks more than $1 million in damages. The lawsuit claims Nevius' comments that the actor was improperly keeping the Warhol painting led the University of Texas system to sue O'Neal last week for control of the painting. Fawcett, who died in 2009, granted all her artwork to the university system. O'Neal claims the disputed Warhol portrait was given to him by the artist and never belonged to Fawcett. Nevius claims O'Neal's lawsuit is an attempt to silence him. The case was first reported by celebrity website TMZ. ... More Police Raid New Jersey Home of California Art Theft Suspect SAN FRANCISCO (AP).- Police say a New Jersey man accused of stealing a valuable Picasso drawing from a San Francisco gallery had $500,000 worth of stolen artwork in his apartment, including another Picasso. Police in Hoboken, N.J., raided the home of Mark Lugo this week after receiving information from San Francisco authorities. Officers found a Picasso drawing worth $350,000 that had been reported stolen from a New York hotel, among other pieces. Lugo is being held in a San Francisco jail in the July 5 theft of a 1965 Picasso drawing called "Tete de Femme" from the Weinstein Gallery. Lugo, who has worked as a sommelier, also is charged with stealing $6,000 worth of wine from a New Jersey wine store in April. His attorney, Douglas Horngrad, says he may have "psychological issues." ... More |
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