| | Photographer Russell James Presents 'Nomad Two Worlds' Exhibition at the Alte Muenze
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Australian photographer Russell James stands in front of his works at the 'Nomad Two Worlds' exhibition inside the Alte Muenze' (Old Mint Yard) in Berlin, Germany, 19 August 2011. Until 28 August, the works of Russell James will be on show at the exhibition. As part of an art project James worked with Australian and other indigenous artists. The project on the reconciliation of the cultures is in Europe for the first time. EPA/JOERG CARSTENSEN.
BERLIN.- Created by world renowned photographer Russell James, NOMAD TWO WORLDS is a collaborative art project with Indigenous artists. In the last decade it has evolved from James' individual attempt to understand the clash of ancient and modern cultures he witnessed growing up in Australia to what it is today - a powerful expression of partnership and reconciliation in action through art, music and film that has become a global example of true collaboration across deep cultural divides. From its humble beginnings as a photographic and film exhibition in New York in 1999, NOMAD TWO WORLDS endured the years leading up to the global event known in the political narrative simply as "The Apology", the 2008 public apology made to Indigenous Australians by the then Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd. In celebration of this historic event, James enlisted people from the Australian Indigenous ... More |
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| 'King of Cool' Steve McQueen's 911s Sells for an Amazing $1,375,000 at RM Monterey | | Guggenheim Exhibition on Kandinsky Offers Insight into Artist's Creative Process | | Miami Art Museum Commemorates 10th Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks with Photography Exhibition | 
1970 Porsche 911S Steve McQueen Le Mans Movie Car. Photo: Darin Schnabel ©2011 Courtesy of RM Auctions.
MONTEREY, CA.- The iconic 1970 Porsche 911s formerly owned by the ‘King of Cool’ Steve McQueen and featured in his epic Hollywood film Le Mans sold for an impressive $1,375,000 before a packed house at RM’s Monterey, CA sale last night, setting a new world record for a 911 sold at auction. Built to the highest 1970 specification and with a full complement of factory options, the Slate Grey 911s stars in the film’s legendary opening sequence as McQueen’s character, hotshot Porsche driver, Michael Delaney, drives through the French countryside, reflecting on life, death, and racing. In addition to its starring role in the film, the Porsche 911s was used as McQueen’s personal transport during the movie’s production, later joining his own stable of extraordinary motor cars in California. The sale of the 911s represents RM’s 200th million-dollar-plus automobile sold at auction. Also enteri ... More | | 
Vasily Kandinsky, Sketch I for Painting with White Border (Moscow), 1913. Oil on canvas, 100 x 78.4 cm. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Gift from the Estate of Katherine S. Dreier, 1953 © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP.
NEW YORK, NY.- Completed nearly 100 years ago, the canvas Painting with White Border (Bild mit weissem Rand, May 1913) by Vasily Kandinsky (1866–1944) was inspired by a trip the artist took to Moscow in fall 1912. Upon his return to Munich, where he had been living intermittently since 1896, Kandinsky searched for a way to visually record the “extremely powerful impressions” of his native Russia that lingered in his memory. Over a period of five months, he explored various motifs and compositions in study after study, moving freely between pencil, pen and ink, watercolor, and oil. After he produced at least sixteen studies, Kandinsky finally arrived at the pictorial solution to the painting: the white border. This ... More | | 
Joel Meyerowitz, Fireman at Last Column, 2002. Vintage contact print. Collection Miami Art Museum, gift of Charles S. and Elynne B. Zucker. Photo: Sid Hoeltzell.
MIAMI, FL- – In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Miami Art Museum presents Focus Gallery: Joel Meyerowitz – Aftermath, an exhibition of photographs taken by the only photographer granted right of entry into Ground Zero after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. For nine months during the day and night, Meyerowitz photographed "the pile," as the World Trade Center came to be known, and the over 800 people a day that were working in it. The exhibition consists of 24, recently-donated photographs, presented in the Focus Gallery section of the Museum’s Permanent Collection installation. After September 11, 2001, the Ground Zero site in New York City was classified as a crime scene and only those directly involved in the recovery efforts were ... More |
| New Art Gallery of Ontario Exhibition Explores the History of Industrial Photography in Canada | | Musée du Quai Branly Announces 3rd Edition of the Photoquai Biennial Exhibition of World Images | | Controversy Follows Conviction of Artist Odd Nerdrum for Alleged Tax Fraud | 
J.C.M. Hayward, Wood pile, 1912. Gelatin silver print. From the album Operations of the Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company. Album: 48 gelatin silver prints on brown pages with dark brown leather cover. 47 x 34.5 x 3 cm. Anonymous Gift, 2008. Image courtesy the Art Gallery of Ontario / AGO Image Resources. © 2011 Art Gallery of Ontario.
TORONTO, ON.- A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario traces the history of Canada’s changing industrial landscape through the lens of some of the country’s most extraordinary photographers from the past 150 years. Songs of the Future: Canadian Industrial Photographs, 1858 to Today opens August 20 and includes more than 100 photographs by such artists as Alexander Henderson, William Notman, John Vanderpant, E. Haanel Cassidy, Ralph Greenhill, George Hunter and Edward Burtynsky. Depicting railway and bridge building, quarries and mines, and the lumber, pulp and paper, and concrete industries in Canada, Songs of the Future traces the shifting perspectives on industry and the Canadian landscape from the Industrial ... More | | 
Chao-Liang Shen, Stage. © Chao-Liang Shen.
PARIS.- Created in 2007 by the musée du quai Branly and dedicated to non-Western photography, the 3rd edition of the PHOTOQUAI biennial exhibition of world images takes place on the quays of the Seine alongside the musée du quai Branly, extending for the first time into the museum garden. Acclaimed since its first edition for its quality, originality, ambition and relevance, in 2011 PHOTOQUAI will continue to pursue its original mission: showcasing artists whose work is little known in Europe, stimulating communication and allowing for an exchange of world views. The artistic director of the third biennial PHOTOQUAI exhibition is the photographer and director Françoise Huguier. Her role is to coordinate the programming committee that brings together image specialists associated with correspondents in the field who are responsible for discovering emerging photographic talents, unknown or little known in Europe. For its thi ... More | | 
Odd Nerdrum, Pariah.
OSLO.- The Norwegian artist, Odd Nerdrum, was sentenced to two years in prison without bail on Wednesday August 17th, when a local court in Oslo found him guilty for tax evasion. Critics claim that Nerdrum’s sentence was surprisingly more severe than the punishment recently imposed in a similar case in China concerning the artist Ai Weiwei, who was given a fine and released on house arrest after three months of detainment. Nerdrum has plead not guilty and will file an appeal. Famous for his Old master-like paintings, the 67 year old artist was accused of failing to pay the full amount of taxes on $2.6 million (1.8 million euros) of taxable income from sales between 1998-2002, just before he became an Icelandic citizen. Hearing the verdict, Nerdrum‘s Lawyer Tor Erling Staff told the NTB news agency "I have rarely read such a verdict that allows so little room for doubt. The essential elements [of the case] were not taken into account and we are really not happy. We will ... More |
| Frontiers of Another Nature: Contemporary Photographic Art from Iceland at Frankfurt's Kunstverein | | New Book Featuring the Work by Diane Arbus to Be Published by Aperture in October | | The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy Opens at Legion of Honor | 
Spessi, "The Tree", 2006. From the series "Location". Framed c-print, 50 x 50 cm. © Spessi.
FRANKFURT.- “Frontiers of Another Nature” is a unique selection of Icelandic photographic and multimedia artists who address landscape and man-made environments in their work. The exhibition explores how the photographic arts are an essential means for examining the undeniably complex relationship of Icelanders to their natural environment. “Frontiers of Another Nature” introduces ambiguous environments in which the photographers investigate and build visual narratives around the expanse of land, or the loss of it. Here, the landscape often acts as metaphor for desire, alienation, magnificence and awe, tradition, irony or rebellion. Some of the artists specifically work within the expansive borders of city life in regard to the extreme economic changes the country has seen in the last 10 years. The youngest artist, Ingvar Högni Ragnarsson (born 1981), for example, has photographed a fence built around a construction site in Reykjavik over a year’s time a ... More | | 
Doon Arbus (coauthor, chronology and footnotes) is the eldest daughter of Diane and Allan Arbus; since her mother’s death she has managed The Estate of Diane Arbus.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Diane Arbus: A Chronology (October, 2011) reads like a contemporaneous diary by one of the most daring, influential, and controversial artists of the twentieth century. Drawn primarily from Arbus’s extensive correspondence with friends, family, and colleagues; personal notebooks; and other unpublished writings, this beautifully produced volume exposes the private thoughts and motivations of a photographer whose astonishing vision revolutionized the medium. Further rounding out Arbus’s life and work are exhaustively researched footnotes that amplify the entire Chronology. A section at the end of the book provides biographies for fifty-five personalities, family members, friends, and colleagues, from Marvin Israel and Lisette Model to Weegee and August Sander. Describing the Chronology in Art in America, Leo ... More | | 
Jean de la Huerta and Antoine le Moiturier, Bishop, no, 1443-56/57. Alabaster, 17 5/16 x 6 7/8 x 5 11/16 in. Musée des beaux-Arts, Dijon. Image ©FRAME 2010. Photo: Jared Bendis and Francois Jay.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The 2011 winner of the Association of Art Museum Curators award for excellence in the category of outstanding small exhibitions, The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy, is on view from August 20–December 31, 2011, in Galleries 1 and 2 at the Legion of Honor. The exhibition features thirty-seven exceptional devotional figures that recreate the mourners in a royal funeral procession. On loan from the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, these small marvels have never before been seen in their entirety outside of France prior to the current seven-city exhibition tour. The figures were commissioned for the elaborate tomb of the second Duke of Burgundy, and carved by Jean de la Huerta and Antoine le Moiturier between 1443 and 1456/57. Hauntingly spare, yet crafted with astonishing detail, the alabaster sculptures exem- ... More |
| Retrospective of the Work of Emiel van Moerkerken at The Hague Museum of Photography | | Detroit Institute of Arts to Present "Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus" Exhibition | | Phoenix Art Museum Exhibition Features Many of Gordon Parks' Most Memorable Images | 
Emiel van Moerkerken (1916-1995), Gerard Reve, september 1955, gelatinezilverdruk; © Fotoarchief Van Moerkerken, Amsterdam.
THE HAGUE.- The role of Emiel van Moerkerken in the history of Dutch photography is highly important but hard to sum up. In the 1960s, he made reportage-type photos for Dutch Salvation Army magazine Strijdkreet, while at the same time snapping provocative nudes for satirical magazine Gandalf. In the 1930s and ’40s, his work was mainly Surrealist in nature. He was fascinated by the relationship between perception and the subconscious, and between sexuality and imagination. He was one of the few photographers in the Netherlands to produce Surrealist work. In the 1930s, he was even in touch with the Surrealist artists surrounding André Breton in Paris. In addition to his Surrealist images, Emiel van Moerkerken also produced journalistic travel photos and worked as a filmmaker, film teacher, novelist and psychologist. This retrospective at the Hague Museum of Photography offers a fascinating impression of his rich and varied work in the fields of photography and film. Moerkerk ... More | | 
Head of Christ, c.1648‑54. Attributed to Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (active Leiden and Amsterdam), 1606 ‑ 1669. Oil on oak panel, Image: 9 5/8 x 8 3/8 inches (24.5 x 21.3 cm); Framed: 23 x 21 1/16 x 2 3/4 inches (58.4 x 53.5 x 7 cm). Detroit Institute of Arts.
DETROIT, MI.- Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) Nov. 20, 2011–Feb. 12, 2012, brings together for the first time many of Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn’s finest paintings, prints and drawings that portray Jesus and events described in the Bible. The exhibition has been organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Musée du Louvre and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The exhibition of 64 works includes approximately 52 small, intimate paintings, prints and drawings by Rembrandt and his students that illustrate how Rembrandt broke from traditional 17th-century representations of Jesus. In addition to the organizers, works come from more than 30 lenders, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., The Metropolitan Museum in New York, the British Museum, and the National Gallery in London. Western portrayals of Jesus in the ... More | | 
Gordon Parks, American, 1912–2006; Muhammad Ali, 1970, printed 2003; gelatin silver print; 24 x 20 inches; Lent by The Capital Group Foundation, 2002.47 © 2006 The Gordon Parks Foundation.
PHOENIX, AZ.- Gordon Parks spent the majority of his professional career at the crossroads of the glamorous and the ghetto – two extremes the noted photographer knew well. Perhaps best recognized for his works chronicling the African-American experience, Parks was also an accomplished fashion photographer. Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks provides a revealing look at the diversity and breadth of Parks’s most potent imagery. Featuring 73 works specifically selected by Parks for the photographic collection of the Los Angeles-based Capital Group, Bare Witness divulges heart wrenching images, iconic moments, celebrities and slices of everyday life. Born in 1912 in Fort Scott, Kansas, Parks, who died in 2006 at age 93, was an African American photographer who began working professionally in the 1930’s. Parks tackled the harsh truth and dignity of the black urban and rural poor in the United States. He photographed aspects ... More |
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 New Exhibition at Heather James Fine Art Features Work by Artist Penelope Gottlieb JACKSON, WY.- Heather James Fine Art presents new paintings by Penelope Gottlieb. The exhibition is on view August 18 - September 30, 2011. Penelope Gottlieb’s latest paintings are a natural evolution from her recent series, “Gone,” in which the artist recreated a series of plants on the ‘confirmed extinction’ list that have no known visual reference by reconstructing them from botanists’ descriptions. With her new body of work, Gottlieb is playing upon the theme of John James Audubon’s commodification of the natural world via his marketing of prints, reflecting the consumption of nature prevalent in the social attitudes of the 19th century. Painting directly over pre-existing Audubon prints, Gottlieb envelops the wildlife in a tightly woven braid of plant leaves, tendrils and tentacles, so that what would normally be part of the creatures’ natural habitat has suddenly turned on t ... More "Comics at the Crossroads: Art of the Graphic Novel" Explores Work of 40 Northwest Comic Artists BOISE, ID.- For decades comics have largely been viewed as light-hearted and amusing stories told through simple line art. But in recent years, comics have moved from the cultural fringes into the artistic and literary mainstream. The Los Angeles Times recently added a Graphic Novel category to its slate of annual Book Prizes, citing the medium as “an expanding part of the book landscape, both aesthetically and commercially.” Comics at the Crossroads: Art of the Graphic Novel, on view at Boise Art Museum August 20-November 27, 2011, showcases the work of 40 Pacific Northwest artists who are established stars and emerging lights in the comic art universe. A special feature of the exhibition will be a site-specific large-scale drawing installation by Daniel Duford, an artist and writer whose wall drawings, comics and sculpture are meditations on mythic heroes of American culture. This exhibition is organized by ... More Who's Drawing the Lines: The Journey of Judith Snow at the Royal Ontario Museum TORONTO, ON.- Opening August 20, 2011, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents Who's Drawing the Lines: The Journey of Judith Snow. This intimate exhibition explores paintings by Snow, a quadriplegic artist and world leader on inclusion issues for people labeled as disabled. Who’s Drawing the Lines reveals how, through her unique way of creating art, Snow overcame a lifetime of perceived limitations to express “all that is in [her] heart”. Featuring over 20 works by Snow and several by another artist in her Toronto guild, the exhibition confronts common perceptions of disability and illustrates the artist’s emancipation from these stereotypes to honour her physical, intellectual and emotional diversity. Who's Drawing the Lines: The Journey of Judith Snow is on display in the Hilary and Galen Weston Wing, Level 2 until January 20, 2012. “Who’s Drawing the Lines is the most recent in a series of ROM ... MoreBody Art and Topless Model Draw Crowd in New York CityNEW YORK (AP).- Times Square used to be known for its seedy peep shows. There was skin on display again Friday, but this time in the name of art. Painter Andy Golub caused a stir when he had a 23-year-old model undress and began slathering paint on her body. It is legal for women to go topless in the city, but the New York Port reports (http://nyp.st/ptwuy2) that police stepped in and asked Golub to do something about the large crowd. The woman put on a sports bra, and Golub kept painting. It was his second try at putting on the performance. He was charged with public lewdness in July after having two models take off all their clothes. He avoided trouble this time by having model Marla Mera wear a G-string. ... More Audits: 95 Problems with Mexico 200-Year Monument MEXICO CITY (AP).- Audits have found about 95 problems in the bidding and construction of an overdue monument meant to commemorate last year's bicentennial of Mexican independence, the government's chief auditor said Wednesday. The tower is over budget and the builders say it won't be ready until the end of this year. It was supposed to have been ready for the celebrations on Sept. 15, 2010. Public Administration Secretary Salvador Vega told legislators he has filed criminal complaints against four employees or ex-employees of the government-owned company overseeing construction. Administrative complaints have been filed against three others. Vega did not specify what misconduct the charges involved. But he said a government board incorrectly authorized payment for the architect, even though he turned in incomplete designs. He said the management company, Triple I Services, bid out construction contracts without following normal procedures and before they even had final drawings ... More Lincoln Document Returned to National ArchivesBy: Sarah Brumfield, Associated Press
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP).- A letter to President Abraham Lincoln from three military surgeons requesting a chaplain to tend to the wounded and dying soldiers after the Battle of Antietam, accompanied by the president's signed response, were returned to the National Archives on Thursday. Bill Panagopulos, president of Alexander Historical Auctions, in Stamford, Conn., helped negotiate the return and handed the documents over to David Ferriero, archivist of the United States, at a ceremony at the National Archives. "I'm not just returning it to the Archives, I'm returning it to the United States," Panagopulos said. "This building is where it belongs. It's coming home." Investigators watch carefully for records that should be held at the Archives, Ferriero said. "But we also benefit from dealers who recognize what they have," he added. Officials believe the documents came from the file of R ... More |
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