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A woman observes the art piece 'Waldweg II' (Forest Path-1919) by German artist Max Pechstein at the Kunstmuseum in Ahlen, Germany. On the left one can see 'Pappel nach dem Regen' (Cottonwood Tree after the Rain, 1919) in Ahlen, Germany. The works are part of the retrospective 'Max Pechstein. Expressionist with passion', that takes place between 10 July and 01 November 2011. EPA/FRISO GENTSCH.
AHLEN.- Max Pechstein (1881-1955) is one of the pioneers of German Expressionism. The retrospective presents more than 130 paintings, drawings, prints, and works of applied arts by the “Expressionist by passion”. In addition to important masterpieces by notable German and European museums and collections the show also displays less known aspects of Max Pechstein’s art, for example the earliest painting dating from 1894, some of the rare works of applied arts, privately owned graphic that has never or seldom been on show, and outstanding pieces of his late work. The exhibition, on view from July 10th until November 1st, is completed by original documents and a documentary on the artist. In addition to important works dating from 1906-1912, the time Max Pechstein belonged to the Dresden artist group „Die Brücke“, the exhibition concentrates on a period lasting until the 1930s, when the artist combined Expressionism’s powerful use of colour with a more ... More |
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Contents from the House of Withnail's Uncle Monty to Be Sold at Christie's South Kensington
The sale features a variety of home furnishings, fine antiques and decorative objects with impeccable provenance, at affordable prices, with estimates starting at only £100. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
LONDON.- Paintings, furniture and furnishings which featured in the cult British film Withnail and I (1987) are to be auctioned at Christie’s South Kensington saleroom on Sunday, 31 July 2011. West House was used as the filming location for Uncle Monty’s townhouse in the film Withnail and I, and items including an early Victorian mahogany armchair, a pine library ladder, and a Victorian brass inkstand, form part of The Collection of Professor Bernard Nevill: Property from West House, Glebe Place – a collection of 227 lots, which is expected to realize in the region of £200,000. The sale features a variety of home furnishings, fine antiques and decorative objects with impeccable provenance, at affordable prices ... More | | Japan Art Association Announces 2011 Praemium Imperiale Laureates in London
Bill Viola in his study in Long Beach.
LONDON.- The 2011 winners of the prestigious Praemium Imperiale arts awards, announced today by the Japan Art Association in the ballroom of Claridge’s Hotel in London, include Academy and Tony Award-winning actress Dame Judi Dench, New Media artist Bill Viola and former music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Seiji Ozawa. Carrying prizes of 15 million yen (approximately $182,000) each, the awards recognize lifetime achievement in the arts in categories not covered by the Nobel Prizes. The Japan Art Association also named The Royal Court Young Writers Programme and Southbank Sinfonia as the co-recipients of its annual Grant for Young Artists award. Each of the London-based groups will receive an award of 2.5 million yen (approximately $30,000). The grant is presented to groups or institutions that encourage the involvement of young people in the ... More | | The BMW Art Car Collection on the Internet; Legendary Collection as a Virtual Video Tour
“After four decades and a total of 17 BMW Art Cars, they can now all be admired by everyone.
MUNICH.- Just in time to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the BMW Group’s international cultural commitment, the legendary BMW Art Car Collection can now be seen for the first time within a virtual video tour on the Internet. For the first time, an extensive virtual overview of the origin, history and development of the collection is available on the Internet. In addition to extensive photographic material, a film has been devoted to every single one of the 17 “works of art on wheels”, each of which was designed by an internationally well-known artist. Historic racing footage and artists’ statements as well as renowned representatives from art and culture are to be seen. The BMW Art Cars can be viewed at www.bmw-artcartour.com. “After four decades and a total of 17 BMW Art Cars, they can now all be admired by everyone. ... More |
Andy Warhol Museum Releases The Warhol: D.I.Y. Pop App for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad
The Warhol D.I.Y. Pop app is a universal app for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. The app retails for $1.99 with a special debut promotional price of $0.99.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Andy Warhol Museum announces the release of its new Warhol D.I.Y. Pop app to the App Store. The Warhol D.I.Y. Pop app allows the user to learn about Warhol’s silkscreen process and create a digital silkscreen print, by utilizing the built-in camera or a photo from the device’s library as source material. The user employs Warhol’s famed process step by step to create a personal work of art. The hands-on process includes cropping, exposing, painting, and even pulling the virtual screen. Once completed, the user can then share this newly created art via e-mail, Facebook or Twitter. The Warhol D.I.Y app also includes information about The Warhol, a curator’s video perspective, a video demonstration of the actual silkscreen process and more. The Warhol D.I.Y. Pop app is a universal app for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. The app retails for $1.99 with a special debut promotional price of $0 ... More | | George T. M. Shackelford Appointed Senior Deputy Director of the Kimbell Art Museum
Shackelford is currently chair of the art of Europe at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston. Photo: Greg Heins, courtesy of the Kimbell Art Museum.
FORT WORTH, TX.- The Kimbell Art Museum announced today that George T. M. Shackelford will join the staff as senior deputy director in early 2012. “I’m thrilled to welcome George to the Kimbell,” commented Eric M. Lee, the Museum’s director. “He is one of the most brilliant and talented curators in the field today. As the Kimbell expands with its Renzo Piano building project, George will play a crucial role in shaping the Museum’s future.” In response to accepting the position, Shackelford remarked, “I have loved the Kimbell since I first visited it nearly 30 years ago. It’s one of the most beautiful museums in the world, and I am excited and honored to be joining its staff at this momentous time in its history. I look forward to becoming part of the Kimbell’s family, in Fort Worth, in Texas, and around the globe.” Shackelford is currently chair of the art of Europe at ... More | | New Museum to Present First New York Survey of Works by Carsten Holler
File photo of a a visitor walking through the artwork 'Y' by German artist Carsten Holler during a press preview
NEW YORK, NY.- This autumn, the New Museum will present the first New York survey exhibition of the work of the artist Carsten Höller (b. 1961, Brussels, lives and works Stockholm). Over the past twenty years, Höller has created a world that is equal parts laboratory and fun house, exploring such themes as safety, childhood, love, happiness, transportation, and the future. Höller left his early career as a scientist in 1994 to devote himself exclusively to art making, and his work is often reminiscent of research experiments. His pieces are designed to explore the limits of human sensorial perception and logic through carefully controlled participatory experiences. The New Museum’s exhibition will include work produced over the past twenty years in an immersive, interactive installation choreographed in collaboration with the artist. Höller will actively engage the Museum’s architecture, with each of the three mai ... More |
American Modernist Charles Demuth in the City of Lights on View at the Demuth Museum
Charles Demuth, Aviariste, 1912, watercolor on paper, 11 x 8 ½ in., Collection of the Demuth Museum, Lancaster, PA.
LANCASTER, PA.- The Demuth Museum’s new exhibition, "Demuth in the City of Lights," is now on view through August 28, 2011. This exhibition brings together many of Charles Demuth’s works from his travels to Paris in the early twentieth century. American Modernist painter Charles Demuth (1883-1935) soaked up all Paris had to offer by visiting galleries, attending live performances, discussing ideas with fellow artists including Marsden Hartley and Marcel Duchamp, and drinking up the night-life. Upon returning home to Lancaster, Pennsylvania he poured out his art work. Like other foreigners in Paris, Demuth did seek out art instruction and this exhibit features examples of Demuth’s figure drawings of live models from his classes at the Academie Colarossi and the Academie Julien. This exhibition also highlights Demuth’s pictures of the people and places he saw ... More | | Works Donated for Auction to Benefit Berlin's Autocenter on the Occasion of Its 10th Anniversary
File photo of Danish artist Olafur Eliasson poses at his new studio in Berlin. EPA/TIM BRAKEMEIER.
BERLIN.- AUTOCENTER was founded in 2001 as an exhibition space by the artists Maik Schierloh and Joep van Liefland in a former auto body shop. It became an important non-for-profit space for art that operates outside the hierarchies of the art market and has been presenting international artists, at their early stages before they became part of written art history. On 333 sqm of exhibition grounds in Berlin’s district of Friedrichshain, AUTOCENTER presents its ideas and visions to an advanced arts audience of artists, curators, critics, collectors as well as architects, photographers and gallerists. More than 30 of Berlins acclaimed artists are donating artworks in support of AUTOCENTER on the occasion of its 10th anniversary in a generous gesture of solidarity with Berlin as a center for artistic production. The auction benefits AUTOCENTER as one of the most important non-for-profits of the city and helps ... More | | 24,000 Visitor Passes Distributed for New York's 9/11 Memorial; Sold in a Few Hours
Museum Pavilion Interior with Tridents-Created by Squared Design Lab, Provided by National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
By: Verena Dobnik, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- More than 24,000 visitor passes to the new Sept. 11 memorial are gone — distributed Monday in just the first hours after the ticket website went live. The online reservation system for the tickets was up at 9 a.m., and 5,000 were secured for various dates in just the first hour of operation. The quick response is "what we were hoping for — that people would be interested in the site the public has not set foot in for 10 years," Joe Daniels, president and CEO of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, told The Associated Press. The memorial plaza opens to the public on Sept. 12, a day after the 10th anniversary. Families of those who died in the terror attacks will have special reservations to the memorial that bears the names of 2,983 victims, including ... More |
Delhi Art Gallery Presents a Retrospective of the Life and Work of Chittaprosad
Chittaprosad, Untitled, 1947. Pen and ink on paper. 14.7 x 9.0 in. / 37.3 x 22.9 cm.
NEW DELHI.- Delhi Art Gallery presents a rare retrospective on the life and work of Chittaprosad. The exhibition is on view from rom July 11 till August 20, before moving to Kolkata. One of India’s most important artists, Chittaprosad recorded pivotal political and social movements in the country, such as the Great Bengal Famine of 1943-44 and its fallout in heart-wrenching sketches and drawings, alongside protests against colonialism, economic exploitation, urban poverty and depravity, just as beautifully as the many drawings, linocuts and scraper board illustrations he made for children, recording a beatific phase of plenitude and family values, and involving himself with marionettes for their entertainment. This, the first-ever retrospective on Chittaprosad, celebrates his triumph over the circumstances of his highly principled life which he devoted completely to art, rejecting market forces to communicate a t ... More | | New York Men Charged in Maryland Historical Society Presidential Artifacts Theft
Jason Savedoff is one of two New York City men charged with stealing millions of dollars in documents from the Maryland Historical Society. AP Photo/Baltimore Police Dept.
By: Sarah Brumfield, Associated Press
BALTIMORE (AP).- A published presidential historian was one of two men caught with millions of dollars in documents from the Maryland Historical Society, including some signed by President Abraham Lincoln, according to court documents. Baltimore police charged Barry Landau, 63, and Jason Savedoff, 24, both of New York City, on Saturday with theft of more than $100,000 and they were ordered held on Monday. The FBI is involved in the investigation under a federal statute that covers thefts from museums. An employee told police he had been watching Savedoff and Landau for several hours, believing their behavior to be suspicious. He called police after he saw Savedoff conceal a document in a portfolio and walk it out ... More | | National Museum of Art in Wales Features Six Impressive New Contemporary Art Galleries
Installation view of the new contemporary art galleries at the National Museum of Art in Wales.
WALES.- Wales has many fascinating stories to tell through the work of the artists and collectors from, or inspired by, Wales. A number of these stories are told in the new £6.5m National Museum of Art, which opened to the public on Saturday 9 July 2011. Did you know that Welsh landscape painter Thomas Jones's major historical work The Bard is based on Thomas Gray's tale of Edward I's massacre of the Welsh bards? Wales has Gwendoline and Margaret Davies to thank for eight Monet masterpieces featured in the national collection and Richard Long, one of the best-known British artists, spent two days collecting slate from Llechwedd Quarry for his brand new installation Blaenau Ffestiniog Circle (2011). For the first time, the full range of the nation’s world-class art collection – a mix of fine and applied art, from the historic to the contemporary - is displayed under one roof at National Museum Cardiff, ... More |
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 Tagwhat's New Mobile App Combines Storytelling Traditions and New Technology BOULDER, CO (PRWEB).- Ever since the first person chronicled life on his cave wall, great stories have been told vividly and shared widely. After cave walls came scrolls, newspapers, and the internet. Meanwhile, the innate curiosity about the world and passion for storytelling lives on. Today, Tagwhat introduces an entirely new application and a unique way to tell and share great stories, combining the very best of humanity's oldest traditions with the latest mobile technologies. Tagwhat "Great Stories at Places" is now available for iPhone 3GS/4, Android, and on-line at www.tagwhat.com. With Tagwhat, users experience hidden stories everywhere they go -- thousands of original and curated stories told in words, images, video, and audio by Tagwhat's team of new media journalists and filmmakers and its first publishing partners: the Associated Press (AP), the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the Virginia Beach Public ... More Baltimore Museum Announces Matthew Poterfield as Winner of $25,000 Sondheim Artscape Prize BALTIMORE, MD.- Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts announces that Matthew Porterfield is the winner of the 2011 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. The coveted $25,000 prize was presented on July 9th's evening’ awards ceremony at The Baltimore Museum of Art. Works of art by the prizewinner and four other finalists are on view at the BMA through Sunday, August 7. “What an incredible honor this is for artists living and working in Baltimore,” said Porterfield. “Grants like the Sondheim Artscape Prize and the Baker Artist Awards make living this a must.” Porterfield studied film at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and currently teaches screenwriting, film theory, and production at The Johns Hopkins University. His first feature, HAMILTON, which he wrote, directed and edited on 16mm film, was released in 2006. METAL GODS, his second feature script, won the ... More London National Gallery Says It will Show Lost LeonardoBy: Deepti Hajela and Ula Ilnytzky, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- An oil painting recently authenticated as the work of Leonardo da Vinci will be on display at the National Gallery in the fall as part of a larger exhibition on the Renaissance artist, the London museum said Monday. "Salvator Mundi," which dates to around 1500, depicts a half-length figure of Christ with one hand raised in blessing and the other holding an orb. The National Gallery said in a statement Monday that the work was shown to its director, curator and other art scholars after undergoing conservation that was completed in 2010. "We felt that it would be of great interest to include it in the exhibition as a new discovery," the museum said, adding that its curator Luke Syson "is cataloging the picture as by Leonardo da Vinci and this is how the picture will be presented in the ... More James "Whitey" Bulger Memorabilia Being Auctioned Online BOSTON (AP).- Now that reputed Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger is back behind bars after 16 years on the run, some people are trying to cash in on his notoriety. Bulger-related items, including bobblehead dolls and documents bearing his signature, have popped up on eBay Inc.'s auction website since his arrest in California last month. More than a dozen documents related to a $14.3 million lottery ticket Bulger split with three men in 1991 are being sold for $1,200. They include a notarized agreement with Bulger's signature that guaranteed him an annual check of $119,408. Bulger's money was forfeited to the government. The documents were put up for sale by the former wife of one of the men who shared the prize. The 81-year-old Bulger has pleaded not guilty in connection to 19 murders. ... More MFA Boston Awards 2011 Maud Morgan Prize to Wendy JacobBOSTON, MA.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), announced today that Cambridge artist Wendy Jacob is the recipient of the 2011 Maud Morgan Prize. Jacob’s works explore human impulse, intimacy, and interaction through interventions with furniture, architecture, and open spaces. Over the course of her career, she has collaborated with engineers, circus performers, and people with disabilities to create breathing walls and ceilings, tightropes that cross through rooms, and chairs that embrace their sitters. The MFA’s Maud Morgan Prize honors a Massachusetts woman artist who has demonstrated significant contributions, creativity, and vision to the local contemporary arts landscape. It was established in 1993 in recognition of the spirit of adventure and independence embodied by noted New England artist Maud Morgan (1903–1999). Jacob will receive a $10,000 prize and her work will be on view in the MFA’s ne ... MoreGerman Spy Agency Embarrassed by Document TheftBy: Eric Kelsey
BERLIN (REUTERS).- Germany is worried the security of its new 1.6-billion euro intelligence agency headquarters has been compromised, after blueprints of the high-tech building mysteriously disappeared. "It's a serious issue and the government is interested in clearing up this case as quickly as possible," Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Monday after Focus magazine reported the blueprints had been stolen. The government has set up a committee to investigate the incident and how the blueprints to the nearly finished building in the government quarter, near where the Berlin Wall once stood, may have gone missing despite tight security, he said. Seibert would not say whether the complex would have to be redesigned or rebuilt but added there would be "ramifications" if security had been compromised. The BND would not comment on the report. The disappearance of the sensitive blueprints is a huge embarrassment for the More |
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