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ArtDaily Newsletter: Saturday, July 16, 2011

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Kunsthaus Bregenz Presents Exhibition by Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei: Art and Architecture

A visitor looks at an installation, titled Ordos 100, by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei during the preview of an exhibition, entitled Art and Architecture, at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, in Bregenz, Austria. The Ai Weiwei exhibition opens to the public from 16 July to 16 October. EPA/ENNIO LEANZA.

BREGENZ, AUSTRIA.- When Ai Weiwei was invited to mount a big solo exhibition at the Kunsthaus Bregenz one and a half years ago, no one could have foreseen the present situation. At the beginning of April 2011 Ai Weiwei was arrested at the Beijing Capital International Airport. Given the current situation, the museum has often been asked in recent weeks whether the exhibition will take place. In their view, it is more important than ever right now to show Ai Weiwei’s work, not only because the Kunsthaus Bregenz show concentrates on his architectural projects and hence deals with a hitherto undertreated aspect of his extremely diverse oeuvre, but above all because they are convinced that it is necessary to keep interest in and discussion of this major artist’s work and his persecution by the Chinese state in the public eye. ... More


The Best Photos of the Day
DRESDEN.- The vehicle with which French General and President Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) attended parades is prepared for transport at the Military History Museum of the German Bundeswehr (Armed Forces) in Dresden, Germany. The car Horch 830 BL Sedan-Cabriolet was brought from the Audi Museum in Ingolstadt to Dresden for a new permanent exhibition, which documents 700 years of military history on 20,000sqm exhibition space. EPA/MATTHIAS HIEKEL.
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Exhibition Dedicated to Innovation in 19th-Century America at the Smithsonian American Art Museum



Winslow Homer, The Initials, 1864, oil on canvas, Private collection.


WASHINGTON, D.C.- The exhibition “The Great American Hall of Wonders” examines the 19th-century American belief that the people of the United States shared a special genius for innovation. It explores this belief through works of art, mechanical inventions and scientific discoveries, and captures the excitement of citizens who defined their nation as a “Great Experiment” sustained by the inventive energies of Americans in every walk of life. “The Great American Hall of Wonders” will be on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum from July 15 through Jan. 8, 2012. The museum is the only venue for the exhibition, which is organized by Claire Perry, an independent curator who specializes in 19th-century American cultural history. Until 2008, Perry was curator of American art at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. “The Great American Hall of Wonders” investigates questio ... More
  Outstanding Masterworks by Major Pop Art Artists on Sale at Artnet Auctions




Roy Lichtenstein: Sweet Dreams Baby! (from 11 Pop Artists Portfolio, volume III), 1965. Serigraph / Screenprint, on heavy smooth paper. Opening Bid: US $90,000.


NEW YORK, NY.- Artnet Auctions presents “Masterworks by Pop Artists,” a selection of important Pop paintings, prints, and sculptures by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Mel Ramos, Tom Wesselmann, Robert Rauschenberg, and other top Pop artists. A highlight of the sale, an extremely rare Andy Warhol painting in brilliant tones of blue and green entitled Flowers, 1978, 22 x 22 inches, is expected to fetch between US$1,100,000–1,500,000. In a private collection since 1995, it is one of only four Flowers paintings from this period recorded by The Andy Warhol Foundation archive. Also of great interest is an exceptionally beautiful John Chamberlain painted and chromium-plated steel sculpture entitled Mrs. Yif Nif, 1986, (Est. US$3,000,000–3,500,000). Measuring 77 x 56 x 35 inches, this commanding work ... More
  Sotheby's to Offer a Masterpiece by Gustav Klimt from the Collection of the Late Viktor and Paula Zuckerkandl



Gustav Klimt, Litzlberg am Attersee (Litzlberg on the Attersee). Estimated in excess of $25 million. Photo: Sotheby's.

NEW YORK. NY- Sotheby’s announced that its Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 2 November 2011 in New York will be led by one of the most accomplished and celebrated landscapes created by Gustav Klimt. Litzlberg am Attersee (Litzlberg on the Attersee) is a dramatic view of the lush environs of Lake Attersee in western Austria, painted with Klimt’s sumptuous palette and jewel-like surface. The painting, which is estimated in excess of $25 million,* follows the sale of Kirche in Cassone (Landschaft mit Zypressen) (Church in Cassone – Landscape with Cypresses), which set an auction record for a landscape by the artist when it achieved £26.9 million ($43.2 million) at Sotheby’s London in February 2010 (est. £12/18 million). Both paintings, which were originally in the famed collection of Austrian iron ... More

 
Bowdoin College Museum of Art Presents Exhibition of Edward Hopper's Maine



Edward Hopper, Captain Upton’s House, 1927 (detail). Oil on canvas, 28 x 36 in. (71.1 x 91.4 cm). Private Collection.

BRUNSWICK, ME.- Bowdoin College Museum of Art presents the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to Edward Hopper’s artistic production in Maine between 1914 and 1929. While there has been no shortage of exhibitions devoted to Hopper, very little attention has been paid to the fruitful summers he spent here. Indeed, Hopper summered in Maine nine times, painting and sketching in Ogunquit, Monhegan, Rockland, Cape Elizabeth, Two Lights, and Portland, among other sites. Many of these early plein-air oil paintings have rarely been exhibited. Bringing together approximately 90 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints, this exhibition offers a crucial reassessment of the significance of this period for the artist’s later body of work. The exhibition is on view from July 15 through Oct 16, 2011. "My aim in painting," Edward Hopper (1882-1967) once wrote, "has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most ... More
  Twenty-Six-Foot Tall Sculpture of Marilyn Monroe Unveiled on Michigan Avenue in Chicago



Seward Johnson's 26-foot-tall sculpture of Marilyn Monroe, in her most famous wind-blown pose, stands on Michigan Ave. Friday, July 15, 2011 in Chicago. AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast.

By: Don Babwin, Associated Press


CHICAGO, IL (AP).- Marilyn Monroe's billowing skirt shows it's possible to catch a nice breeze in the Windy City. As dozens of people watched Friday, a 26-foot-tall sculpture of Monroe in her famous pose from the film "The Seven Year Itch" was unveiled on Chicago's Magnificent Mile. In the film, a draft catches Monroe's dress as she passes over a subway grate. Many in the crowd that descended on the plaza throughout the day — including a tuxedo-clad wedding party — wasted little time positioning themselves under the movie star's dress to catch a subway-level view and take pictures with their cell phone cameras. Not that Monroe, her eyes closed and a sublime smile on her face, seemed to notice. Some of those who took pictures of ... More
  In Old Maine Farmhouse, The Real Christina's World of Andrew Wyeth Lives On



The Farnsworth Art Museum's Wyeth Center in Rockland, Maine. AP Photo/Beth Harpaz.

By: Beth J. Harpaz, AP Travel Editor


CUSHING, ME (AP).- Andrew Wyeth's famous painting "Christina's World" shows a crippled woman dragging herself across a field toward a farmhouse. A tour of the house, which was declared a National Historic Landmark June 30, offers a fascinating, in-depth look at the real world of Christina Olson and her family, and also reveals the story of Wyeth's relationship with them. Wyeth spent 30 years producing some 300 works of art depicting the Olsons and their home in Cushing, Maine. This summer and fall offer a rare opportunity to see 50 of those paintings and drawings at the Farnsworth Art Museum's Wyeth Center in the nearby town of Rockland, where they are on loan from Marunuma Art Park in Asaka, Japan, through Oct. 30, in a show called "Andrew Wyeth, Christina's World and the Olson ... More


Police say Picasso Theft was Part of Luxury Spree at New York Galleries and Hotels



Mark Lugo, right, is escorted by a unidentified sheriff's deputy after his arraignment before Judge Samuel Feng. AP Photo/Jeff Chiu.

By: Chris Hawley and Terry Collins, Associated Press


SAN FRANCISCO, CA (AP).- A string of art heists at New York galleries and hotels went unsolved until an arrest in the theft of a Picasso drawing in San Francisco led authorities to a treasure trove inside a nondescript New Jersey apartment. Police believe Mark Lugo is responsible for at least eight thefts since June totaling more than $600,000 worth of artwork, including a $350,000 drawing by French artist Fernand Leger. Pieces from seven of those thefts were recovered during a police raid of Lugo's Hoboken, N.J., home, as he awaited arraignment in the eighth case in San Francisco. Lugo, 30, pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of grand theft, burglary and possession of stolen property for allegedly stealing the 1965 Picasso drawing called "Tete de Femme (Head ... More
  Rodin Museum Gardens and Landscape Blooms After Three-Year Rejuvenation



The Thinker bronze cast sculpture is shown at the Rodin Museum Thursday, July 14, 2011, in Philadelphia. A ceremony was held to mark the completion of a three-year restoration project to coincide with Thursday's observance of Bastille Day. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke

PHILADELPHIA, PA .- A gloriously rejuvenated garden landscape surrounding the Rodin Museum was unveiled today by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which administers the Rodin Museum and Gardens; the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society; and Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, completing a three-year collaboration that revitalizes the site’s extraordinary harmony of art and nature. Leaders of the city’s cultural and philanthropic communities celebrated the rebirth of the Rodin Museum and Gardens’ grounds and toured the courtyard and exterior gardens, which now enhance the entire block between 21st and 22nd Streets on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Bastille Day was chosen as the date ... More
  Mystery of Alaska's Missing Moon Rocks has Been Solved; Former Resident Sues



Pieces of moon rock and an Alaska flag from the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. AP Photo/Courtesy Daniel P. Harris.

By: Dan Joling, Associated Press


ANCHORAGE, AK (AP).- The mystery of Alaska's missing moon rocks has been solved. Getting them back to a state museum likely will depend on a judge. Alaska officials are contesting a lawsuit filed by a former resident who claims he rescued the moon rocks from a garbage heap 38 years ago. Coleman Anderson, who now lives in Texas, sued for formal title to the rocks in December. If he doesn't receive title, he's asking to be compensated for finding and returning the rocks, which are valued by collectors. State officials, meanwhile, contend the moon rocks were stolen from a state museum following a fire. They have filed a counterclaim disputing Anderson's story and seeking return of the rocks. "Factually, that never happened," said Assistant Attorney General Stephen ... More


John Cage, Merce Cunningham and Iannis Xenakis Announced at the Akademie der Künste



Eberhard Blum, LETTERS FOR JOHN CAGE III, 59 x 83.5 cm, pencil on paper. Photo: Eric Tschernow © Eberhard Blum.

BERLIN.- On the occasion of the 100th birthday of John Cage in 2012 the Akademie der Künste is dedicating a year-long programme to the trailblazer of an open art concept. Under the title “A Year from Monday” interdisciplinary art projects query the effect of his work up the present. The programme in autumn 2011 – “Cage Cunningham Xenakis” – describes John Cage’s cosmos through two of his most important companions and contemporaries: the choreographer and dancer Merce Cunningham and the composer and architect Iannis Xenakis. The series of projects is starting with the opening of an exhibition trilogy. “A room for John Cage” shows Akademie members’ positions towards Cage. The exhibition follows the idea of an interactive community of production and thought, for which John Cage wanted to be a role model ... More
  UMMA Presents Multiple Impressions: Contemporary Chinese Woodblock Prints



Li Yanpeng 李彦鹏, Bright Autumn, 2009, reduction woodcut printed with oil-based inks, 90 cm x 52 cm (35 7/16 in. x 20 1/2 in.), Collection of the artist.

ANN ARBOR, MI.- The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) presents an exhibition of works by 41 leading printmakers from contemporary China to showcase the extraordinary innovations, in both technique and conception, which have transformed this long-established art form in recent years. The exhibition features 114 works by such artists as Xu Bing, Kang Ning, Song Yuanwen, Chen Qi, He Kun, and Fang Limin, as well as many other accomplished printmakers. Curated by Dr. Xiaobing Tang, Helmut F. Stern Professor of Modern Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan and organized by UMMA with the assistance and cooperation of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, China, this exhibition-the largest examination of contemporary Chinese prints in the US since 2000- provides an important framework for understanding ... More
  Hammer Presents Exhibition of Work by Los Angeles-Based Artist Shannon Ebner



Shannon Ebner. and, per se and, 2011. Installation at the Venice Biennale. Painted wood, steel, aluminum, light-emitting diodes, photovoltaic solar cells, marine battery. 96 x 48 x 33 in. (243.84 x 121.92 x 83.82 cm). Courtesy the artist, Wallspace, New York; Altman Siegel, San Francisco; and Kaufmann Repetto, Milan.

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Los Angeles-based artist Shannon Ebner’s work investigates the correlations between photography and language. Informed by various modes of writing—including poetry, experimental writing, and political speech—Ebner constructs images in the studio and the landscape. She builds letters and phrases out of vernacular materials such as cardboard, wood, and cinder blocks, calling attention to the ways language and imagery are constructed. The exhibition is on display from July 16, 2011 until October 9, 2011. For her Hammer Project, she exhibits a portion of an on-going project called “The Electric Comma,” which began as a poem she wrote of the same name about various conditions of the photographic, such ... More


More News

Winner of the San Francisco Veterans Memorial Design Competition Announced
SAN FRANCISCO. CA- The War Memorial Board of Trustees today endorsed the design proposal submitted by Susan Narduli and Andrea Cochran for the San Francisco Veterans Memorial. Entitled Passage of Remembrance, the focal point of Susan Narduli and Andrea Cochran's proposal is a series of three reflection pools circumscribed by an octagon of stone. Seen from above, the pools form a circle of gently flowing water that glides over polished stone in sloping planes from the street to the garden below. The interplay between the circle and the octagon is meant to symbolize the merging of heaven and eternity (circle) and earth (octagon). An open metal weave walkway floats above the water and takes visitors through the memorial. The walkway is anchored on either side by basalt walls that reflect the images of passersby. The west wall is inscribed with a poem ... More

Big Pink Paintings: Abstract Paintings 2008-11 by Martha Jones on View at VMFA
RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) presents Big Pink Paintings: Abstract Paintings 2008-11 by Martha Jones is on view July 16, 2011 through November 13, 2011. This exhibition of recent works by Martha Jones features oil paintings based on a consistent set of elements that call on the viewer to think about issues of color, scale, and abstraction within an artistic tradition. These recurring elements derive primarily from the artistic conventions of ancient Greece and Rome, which, while known primarily for figurative art, employed a set of repeated abstract forms as a common parlance. Of these the arch and the meander patterns have consistently demonstrated the greatest capacity to transform themselves into other forms, including the imagery of waves, clouds, bubbles, heads, hearts, letters of the alphabet, potatoes, aluminum cans, toes, as well as others the artist may not have intended. The ... More

Two-Person Exhibition Featuring New Works by Kiel Johnson and Cordy Ryman at Mark Moore Gallery
CULVER CITY, CA.- Mark Moore Gallery presents Construct, a two-person exhibition featuring new works by Kiel Johnson (CA) and Cordy Ryman (NY). The exhibition is on view from Jul 16th through August 27, 2011. Acting as a conversation between the artists' work, Construct explores the materiality and process of contemporary art in an increasingly mechanized and digital age. Drawn to the romanticism of process, both artists share Neo-Constructivist underpinnings that rekindle notions of assemblage, "specific objects" and spatial engagement. Their choice in material and medium is pivotal to their practice, as they mine the everyday, discarded and peripheral for avenues to explore the substance, matter and presence of the human touch. Ryman fabricates sculptural paintings and installations that allude to a Judd-esque use of environment as art. He appropriates the space into his work with hidden strips of neon paint that to ... More

California is Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Iconic Architect John Lautner
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Californian landscape wouldn’t be the same without the photogenic, iconic buildings of architect John Lautner; his soaring glass and concrete mansions, imbued with playfulness and optimism of the mid-century spirit, are as much a part of the state’s architectural heritage as the Golden Gate bridge. The celebrated designer, who lived from 1911 to 1994, would have turned 100 this week, and to mark this milestone, the John Lautner Foundation is organizing a series of film screening, tours, and exhibitions, on his actual birthday, July 16. Michigan-born Lautner was trained by the father of American modernist architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright. Like his mentor, the progressive, even space age forms of Lautner’s buildings fuse drama with functionality and a humane ethos. After seeing the architect’s first solo project, a house for his own family, in 1939 the architecture critic Henry-Russ ... More

Last Chance for Public to See Water Lilies Together at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
KANSAS CITY, MO.- The enormous popularity of three panels of a remarkable water lily triptych by Claude Monet has prompted extended hours at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art as the exhibition nears its closing date of Aug. 7. Monet’s Water Lilies reunites the right-hand panel, from the Nelson-Atkins collection, with panels owned by the Saint Louis Art Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art. The three were last exhibited together in 1979. With the exception of a triptych in New York’s Museum of Modern Art, this is the only Monet triptych in the United States. The Museum will be open until 9 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, July 27–30, and until 9 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday Aug 3–6. There will be a Happy Hour in Bloch Lobby from 5:30–8 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday of both weeks. There will be live music and dinner served in Rozelle Court each Friday night from 5–9 p.m., with ... More


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