| | Exhibition of Archaeological Wonder of the World Teotihuacan Opens at CaixaForum Madrid
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A close up view of some of the archeological items displayed at the 'Teotihuacan, City of Gods', exhibition in Madrid, Spain, 26 July 2011. Most masterpieces of this archeological pre-Columbian site in Mexico are displayed during an exhibition at the CaixaForum Museum. EPA/ESPINOSA.
MADRID.- For eight hundred years (from the 2nd century BC to the 7th AD), Teotihuacan was the cultural, political and religious centre of a powerful civilisation. Lying 45 kilometres from Mexico City, the city, which rose to become the sixth-largest in the world in its day, is now an archaeological wonder of the world, catalogued as World Heritage by UNESCO. The exhibition that ”la Caixa” Foundation now presents at CaixaForum Madrid, entitled Teotihuacan, City of the Gods, is the most complete ever devoted to Teotihuacan culture. The show features some 400 pieces, including many masterpieces unearthed in this pre-Hispanic city over a century of archaeological excavations. The objects featured, which include some very large pieces, show extraordinary refinement and a cosmopolitan spirit that was open to the most important cultures in Central America at the time. Visitors will discover this great city through exhibits illustrating the most outstanding facets of Teotihuac ... More |
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Sotheby's at Chatsworth: A Selling Exhibition of Monumental Sculpture Announced
Barry Flanagan, Large Left-Handed Drummer (2006), bronze, 490 cm. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby's will present Beyond Limits, the company’s annual selling exhibition of monumental sculpture, to be staged within the historic grounds of the ancestral home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire at Chatsworth. This magnificent location provides a unique platform for the presentation and sale of monumental sculpture and this year’s show will present an array of bright and bold sculptures in a wide range of media by artists from across the globe, including many sculptors represented for the first time. The 2011 show – now in its sixth year running – returns to Derbyshire this autumn, opening to the public on September 16th, 2011 and will run until October 30th, 2011. Following the popularity and huge success of past Beyond Limits shows, this year’s installment is set to be another inspiring and engaging event. It will showcase installations by artists whose works have never befo ... More | | In Focus: The Sky, Thematically-Installed Exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum
Berenice Abbott, The West Side, Looking North from the Upper 30s / Nightview, about 1932. Gelatin silver print. Image: 33.8 x 26.8 cm (13 5/16 x 10 9/16 in.) The J. Paul Getty Museum © Berenice Abbott/Commerce Graphics Ltd., Inc. 84.XM.1013.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum presents In Focus: The Sky, a thematically-installed exhibition of permanent collection photographs, on view at the Getty Center from July 26 – December 4, 2011. “The sky has fascinated and challenged photographers since the invention of the medium,” said Anne Lyden, associate curator, Department of Photographs, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and curator of the exhibition. “This exhibition showcases a wide range of approaches to capturing the many moods and effects of the sky—things we usually take for granted.” The selection of 22 artworks provides visitors with an opportunity to explore the Getty Museum's world-renowned photographs ... More | | Film Archives Showcase Their Collections: The European Film Gateway is Online
Film poster of Die Buchse der Pandora, 1929. Director: G.W. Pabst. Photo: Deutsches Filminstitut.
FRANKFURT.- After nearly three years of preparation and development, the European Film Gateway – EFG – is now online. The Internet portal to the digital collections of European film archives and cinémathèques offers free access to currently about 400,000 digital videos, photos, film posters and text materials. By September, the number of digital items will increase to 600,000 from 16 film archives. "The European Film Gateway creates a central online access to Europe's film heritage for the first time. Previously, this remarkable record of 20th century European cinema had been dispersed on different national platforms," says Claudia Dillmann, director of the Deutsches Filminstitut, which co-ordinates the project. "Now the films and information about them are more accessible, not only to scholars, journalists and creatives, but also by a broader audience ... More |
New Acquisitions: Grotto of Curatorial Mysteries at Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Brentwood
Jim Dine, The French Watercolor Venus, 1985, soft-ground etching in black overlaid with extensive hand coloring, 41 5/8 x 31 3/4 inches.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The works in the New Acquisitions show at Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Brentwood, span very nearly the entire history of modern art, from a Vuillard still life of 1910, and a stellar 1911 proto-cubist Braque etching, to a 2005 Kitaj charcoal portrait of the school of Paris master, Jules Pascin, whose passion for painting and parties lit up the Parisian avant-garde in the early 20th century. This show also includes a large, detailed Larry Rivers colored pencil drawing in art deco style entitled, Hollywood, a study from History of the Jews (right), which illustrates the creative Diaspora that led from Europe (more specifically London as indicated by the Savoy Hotel in the background, which was the gathering place for writers and entertainers in London in the 1930s), to New York (more specifically Broadway), and westward (ho!) to Hollywood. In this image a showgirl, or perhaps a star of the day, cakewalks down the Great White ... More | | Nan Goldin's Fireleap Presented in the United Kingdom at Sprovieri Gallery in London
Shape Shifting 2, 2010. Cibachrome Print, 41 x 60 inches; 104 x 153 cm, Edition of 3. Courtesy of Sprovieri Gallery.
LONDON.- Sprovieri Gallery is hosting the UK presentation of Nan Goldin’s Fireleap as part of the inaugural exhibition at the new gallery space at 23 Heddon Street, London. Nan Goldin is known as an artist whose output is inextricably bound up with her own biography, and for breaking down the traditional barrier between the camera and what is being photographed. Her naturally lit images document her surrogate family of friends and lovers, and – more often than not – are frank confrontations with personal experience, and explorations of both intimacy and the alienation that can be wound up within it. Slideshows are Goldin’s preferred medium to work in. Fireleap is her latest slideshow, displaying images of children from 1978 until today, most of which have never been shown. Children, primarily for their state of freedom and natural innocence, fascinate Goldin. They make their own rules, living in a free ... More | | Getty Museum Puts Sculpture by Celebrated Los Angeles Artist Charles Ray on View
Boy with Frog, 2008. Copyright Charles Ray.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced that a work by the acclaimed contemporary sculptor Charles Ray has been loaned to the Museum and has been placed on view beginning July 26 at the Getty Center, on the steps leading into the Museum's main entrance. Boy with Frog, an 8-foot-tall figure of a boy holding a frog, projects a sense of power and youthful inquisitiveness. The larger-than-life adolescent figure, painted white, is a 2008 fiberglass pattern that until recently has been a popular outdoor installation at François Pinault's Punta della Dogana museum in Venice, Italy. Last month Ray completed a final version of Boy with Frog that is identical to the one on view at the Getty Center but made of stainless steel and painted white. The installation of the sculpture at the Getty was championed by James Wood, the former President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, who died unexpectedly a little more than a ... More |
Post Office in Ben Franklin's House in Philadelphia's Historic Old City May Close
The United States Post Office that predates the American colonies and is on the Postal Service's list of branches that could close. AP Photo/Alex Brandon.
By: JoAnn Loviglio, Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP).- A post office in a building that Benjamin Franklin once owned is on the Postal Service's list of branches that could close. The post office in Philadelphia's historic Old City neighborhood is the only one in the country that doesn't fly a U.S. flag. That's because there wasn't one in 1775, when Franklin founded what has evolved into today's Postal Service. There's also a postal museum upstairs from the so-called B. Free Franklin Post Office, located in a house once owned by Franklin. It opened as a U.S. post office in 1975, the 200th anniversary of Franklin's appointment by the Continental Congress as the country's first postmaster general. The only Colonial-themed post office operated by the Postal ... More | | RM Auctions Lifts Gavel on Roster of World's Finest Mercedes-Benz Automobiles in Monterey
1937 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Spezial Roadster.
BLENHEIM, O.N.- RM Auctions, the world’s largest collector car auction house, will celebrate the 125th anniversary of Mercedes-Benz at its Monterey, California sale next month by presenting the most important collection of Mercedes-Benz motor cars ever offered at public auction. The highly-anticipated two-day sale, scheduled August 19 – 20, will present 13 magnificent examples from the world-famous German marque, spanning over 80 years of production. Headlining the spectacular offering is an extraordinary 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Spezial Roadster, chassis 154140 from the private collection of Sam and Emily Mann, recently displayed at the gala opening of Mercedes-Benz’s new Manhattan flagship store. One of just a select few built with the most desirable configuration of high door, long tail and covered rear spare, of which it is believed just three examples survive, the ultra-rare 540 K is expected to establi ... More | | Tornabuoni Art to Bring Major Italian Art Figures to FIAC to Be Held at the Grand Palais
Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale. Attese, 1966, acrylique sur toile, 60 x 55cm, courtesy Tornabuoni Art.
PARIS.- For its tenth participation in the FIAC from 20 to 23 October 2011, Tornabuoni Art is designing an exhibit featuring the big names in Italian art from the second half of the 20th century, such as Alighiero Boetti, Agostino Bonalumi, Alberto Burri, Enrico Castellani, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Pino Pascali, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Mimmo Rotella, Emilio Vedova… Beneath the glass dome of the Grand Palais, Tornabuoni Art will present their works, along with the works of other must-see artists in the international art market lineup, such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Dubuffet. To be seen at stand no. E30. As if to echo the inaugural exhibition marking the opening of the Tornabuoni Art gallery in Paris in October 2009, Michele Casamonti and Gaïa Donzet are devoting a portion of their exhibit space to Lucio ... More |
1914 Doll Created by French Sculptor Albert Marque a $168,000 Thriller at Frasher's July 9 Auction
Top lot of the sale, a French circa-1914 bisque doll created by sculptor Albert Marque, 22 inches, signed and incised with the number ‘12,’ $168,000. Image by Frasher’s Doll Auctions.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Sculpted by the renowned French artist Albert Marque (1872-1939), an extremely rare 1914 portrait doll originally commissioned for the Paris boutique Margaine-Lacroix sold to rousing applause for $168,000 (inclusive of 12% buyer’s premium) at Frasher’s July 9 auction. The buyer, who beat out four phone bidders and additional on-site bidders at the KCI-Expo Center in Kansas City, was new to Frasher’s client roster. “The winning bidder is a collector of French dolls and German character dolls, and they obviously go for the very best,” said Barbara Frasher, president of Frasher’s Doll Auctions. As noted by doll historians, during World War I, Albert Marque was persuaded by Parisian couturier Jeanne Margaine-LaCroix to sculpt 100 fashion dolls, each signed, numbered and clothed in a custom-designed ... More | | Bank of America Merrill Lynch to Loan Sixty Works of Art for Exhibition in Paris
Jamie Wyeth, A.W. Working on Piss Series, 1997-2007. Oil on canvas, 127 x 81.3 cm. © Jamie Wyeth. Private Collection.
PARIS.- The Mona Bismarck Foundation will present The Wyeths: Three Generations of American Art, an exhibition showcasing more than 70 works of art from one of America’s foremost artistic families. For three generations, the Wyeths have captured the imagination and admiration of a wide audience. Featuring paintings, drawings, and illustrations by N.C. Wyeth, his son, Andrew Wyeth, and grandson, Jamie Wyeth, this exhibition is drawn from the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Collection, with additional pieces from distinguished museums, the private collections of the Wyeth family, and other lenders. Many of these works have never been on view in Paris and span almost one hundred years of creative output. They reveal the breadth of the Wyeth family’s prodigious talent, showing their common themes and their distinctive achievements. The 60 works ... More | | Werewolf of London Poster Brings $47,800 at $1.3 Million Heritage Auction Movie Poster Sale
More than 1,220 bidders competed in the auction for 1,296 lots, translating into a 91% sell-through rate by total value.
DALLAS, TX.- The market in rare and vintage movie posters showed steady strength in Heritage Auctions' $1.3+ million Signature(r) Movie Poster Auction on July 16 in Dallas, with an insert poster to Universal's 1935 horror classic Werewolf of London leading the pack with a $47,800 final price realized. All prices quoted include 19.5% Buyer's Premium. "Results were solid across the board," said Grey Smith, Director of Movie Posters at Heritage. "We offered quality and depth across all genres, which is what collectors want. That translated into good strong bids and spirited competition." More than 1,220 bidders competed in the auction for 1,296 lots, translating into a 91% sell-through rate by total value. While early horror reigns supreme in movie poster collecting circles, the market in classic Film Noir posters has been enjoying continued popularity among collectors, as evidenced by the $20,315 price realized for a one sheet to Par ... More |
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 Tory Fair Takes On Seventh Project in DeCordova's PLATFORM SeriesLINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announced the installation of Tory Fair’s Testing a World View (Again), the seventh project in the PLATFORM series, on view July 23, 2011 through Spring 2012. Boston-based sculptor Tory Fair creates objects and installations that address the transitional space between the real and imagined, what is physical and what is felt. In her most recent work she focuses her explorations on the relationship between the body and nature through cast, figurative sculpture. As part of deCordova’s ongoing PLATFORM series, in which emerging and mid-career artists are invited to create work specifically for the site, Fair’s installation highlights deCordova as a venue for indoor and outdoor contemporary art. As Fair notes, “our imagination [is] part of our resources and part of our nature. My sculptures intend to endorse the perception that nature is the imagination; that ... More Digital Media Puts UK Talent on the World Stage at Edinburgh Fringe FestivalEDINBURGH.- The British Council’s Edinburgh Showcase 2011 (ES2011) will use digital media to give some of the UK’s most innovative performing artists an unprecedented global platform. The Showcase will take place from 22 – 27 August, as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The event is a biennial platform of outstanding UK performance, designed to find opportunities for British artists to tour overseas. This builds new relationships and opens up new markets for the UK’s performing arts sector. This year the showcase will embrace the best of digital innovation, reaching a wider audience through a new website and an app for the iPhone and iPad. The website invites users to explore the 27 showcase artists and view video trailers from each of the productions, as well as read blogs and engage through social media. This will mean that international promoters and producers not in Edinburgh will have ... More Bail Set for Historian Charged with Theft in Maryland By: Sarah Brumfield, Associated Press
BALTIMORE (AP).- The FBI is unraveling a yearlong plot by two New York City men to sell valuable historical documents they stole from archives around the country, a Baltimore prosecutor said Tuesday at bail hearings related to the alleged theft of $6 million in documents. Bail was set at $500,000 for presidential historian Barry Landau, 63, and $750,000 for his 24-year-old assistant Jason Savedoff. Both had been held without bail since their arrest on charges of theft over $100,000 earlier this month. Their attorneys dispute the charges. The men were arrested July 9 after a Maryland Historical Society employee saw Savedoff take a document out of the library, prosecutor Tracy Varda said. When officers arrived at the historical society, Savedoff was in the men's restroom and shreds of paper were seen ... More Feds: Pennsylvania Shop-Owner Smuggled Ton of Banned IvoryPHILADELPHIA (AP).- An art store owner surrendered Tuesday on charges he smuggled one ton of banned African elephant ivory into the United States. Victor Gordon is accused of getting his ivory from west and central Africa, where conservationists consider the ivory trade a major threat to the dwindling African elephant population. He paid an unnamed co-conspirator to buy and carve the ivory, and then had them stain it to appear to be decades old to get around an international treaty, prosecutors said. U.S. officials called the amount of ivory seized in the case staggering, but could not immediately estimate how many elephants allegedly died at Gordon's hands. "It's safe to say dozens of elephants sit before you," Edward Grace, deputy chief of law enforcement for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said at a news conference Tuesday in Philadelphia, where officials displayed a cache of intricately carved tusks seized from Gordon ... More Patsy Cline's Restored House Opening in Winchester, VirginiaWINCHESTER, VA (AP).- Patsy Cline fans curious about the early days of her brief but highly acclaimed country music career will finally be able to do more than just drive by her old house in Winchester and snap a picture. The Patsy Cline Historic House will open Aug. 2 as a memorial to the singer who recorded such classics as "Crazy" and "I Fall to Pieces" before dying in a plane crash in 1963. Visitors will be able to step through the door of 608 S. Kent St. and back in time some six decades for a glimpse of how Virginia "Ginny" Patterson Hensley lived from her mid-teens to mid-20s, as she emerged from small-town obscurity to become one of music's most enduring and influential superstars. "The fact that her music seems timeless brings a whole new group in every generation that keeps her alive," said Cline's daughter, Julie Fudge of Nashville. "Her career was a small amount of years, and she had lots of accolades, but ... More Digitization Project Brings Ancient Near Eastern Inscriptions into 21st CenturyWASHINGTON, D.C.- The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives announce a new 3-D digital resource that will enable scholars and the public to learn more about the ancient Near East through a unique group of pressed-paper molds called squeezes. This resource provides unparalleled access to the archives' collection of squeezes from ancient Near Eastern archaeological sites. The squeezes were created in the early 20th century by the German archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld (1879-1948), a prominent scholar on the ancient Near East, as a way to record intricate inscriptions on monuments and other stone buildings. They were formed by pressing layered, wet, moldable paper into an inscription and leaving it to dry, creating a 3-D mirror-image representation of the original. Created to serve as temporary reference materials, the squeezes have become vital to continued research for archaeological sites that are no l ... MoreNew York Firefighters Donate World Trade Center Steel to CanadaST. JOHN'S (AP).- A New York fire department is donating a piece of the former World Trade Center to a Newfoundland town for its help after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The Newfoundland town of Gander on Canada's Atlantic coast was the closest airport for 38 passenger planes forced to land there. Gander and nearby towns were celebrated for welcoming more than 6,000 stranded passengers as if they were family. The Bethpage Volunteer Fire Department on Long Island is donating a piece of steel beam for the 10th anniversary of the attacks. The remnant from the World Trade Center will be part of a memorial at the North Atlantic Aviation Museum in Gander. ... More |
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