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The new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is shown in Washington August 22, 2011. The memorial to the American civil rights leader will be officially dedicated on August 28, the 48th anniversary of King's "I have a dream" speech on the Washington Mall. REUTERS/Jason Reed.
By: Molly O'Toole
WASHINGTON, D.C. (REUTERS).- Martin Luther King Jr stood 30 feet tall on the National Mall as a memorial to him was unveiled on Monday morning -- the first memorial on the Mall not dedicated to a war, president or white man. Fifteen years after a Congressional Joint Resolution in 1996 to establish a memorial in Washington, D.C. to honor King, the four-acre site on the Tidal Basin between the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials opened to the public for the first time. "From a geometrical standpoint it's on a direct line between the Lincoln Memorial and Jefferson Memorial," said Bill Line, spokesman for the National Park Service. "The brains and essence of our country (Thomas Jefferson), and Abe Lincoln, the greater uniter." Visitors will walk through two massive white granite halves of the "Mountain of Despair" to reach the "Stone of Hope," from which the sculpture of King emerges.The winning design from an inte ... More |
| The Best Photos of the Day |  |  | SOFIA.- An employee walks by a poster at the National Gallery of Foreign Art, prior to the opening of the exhibition Brilliance of Byzantium featuring illuminated Greek manuscripts dating from the 6th through to the 18th century and borrowed from collections in Sofia, Plovdiv, Athens, Belgrade, Ohrid, Kalenik and Tirana, Sofia, on Monday, Aug 22, 2011. The exhibition is part of the 22nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies opening in Sofia Monday. AP Photo/Valentina Petrova. | | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| New book offers a guided tour of landmark American modernist Miller House | | The fantastic museum of Karsten Klingbeil to be offered at auction in Brussels and Munich | | Travel, circus, magic & wild west posters to be offered at Poster Auctions International | 
Commissioned by industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife Xenia Simons Miller in 1952, the Miller House and Garden was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Constructed in 1952 by design geniuses Eero Saarinen, Alexander Girard, Dan Kiley, and Kevin Roche, Miller House and Garden integrates home and landscape in a composition of forms honoring historical precedents without forgoing innovation. Part of Assouline’s renowned memoire series, this book offers a guided tour of astounding places and spaces within the newly reopened National Historic Landmark—and with it, the aspirations of the Millers and the spirit of an era. Today, the property offers visitors the opportunity to experience one of the finest expressions of American modernism, an integration of house and landscape that draws upon historical precedents without repeating them, enfolding them in compelling compositions and spaces that capture the genius of its designers, the aspirations of its owners, and the spirit of their time. Commissioned by industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife ... More | | 
An exceptional north Italian etched, blued and gilt full armour for the field, attributed to the workshop of Pompeo della Chiesa, ca. 1580-1600.
MUNICH.- The private museum of the famous Berlin sculptor, philanthropist and former construction mogul Karsten Klingbeil is going to be offered in two parts. The first auction will take place in December 2011 at Pierre Bergé & Associés in Brussels, the second half of the collection is going to be offered for bidding in June 2012 at Hermann Historica oHG in Munich. Those dates provide the unique opportunity to buy a total number of 600 significant objects that have been collected over fifty years with a lot of passion, commitment and expertise to compile this sensational collection. 40 complete suits of armour from the 15 th to the 17 th century, 120 helmets as well as pole arms, swords, daggers and shields from twelve centuries form the core of the collection. Since the legendary Hever Castle auction at Sotheby's, London, in 1983 this is going to be the most important private collection of antique arms and armours broug ... More | | 
This thrilling summer sale captures the joy and spirit of the season, with visual vacations & action-packed shows with which to decorate your walls.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- On Thursday, September 8, Poster Auctions International will offer over 400 lots of rare, vintage posters in its first ever specialty sale dedicated to Circus, Magic, Wild West, Egyptian Film, & Travel Posters. This thrilling summer sale captures the joy and spirit of the season, with visual vacations & action-packed shows with which to decorate your walls. This delightful gathering of rare posters is on view daily til September 7, open and free to the public. Starting out the sale is a remarkable collection of over 200 early circus posters from around the world, with many rare & never-before-seen works finally emerging from important private collections. The best of Barnum & Bailey, Ringling Brothers, Adam Forepaugh, Sells Brothers, Sells-Floto, Hagenbeck, Sparks, Tom Mix, and nearly a dozen other regional shows are featured. Of additional interest is a trio of Coney Island sideshow panels from the earl ... More |
| Roman wreck full of wine jars found off Albania by U.S.-Albanian archaeological mission | | Diana Thater's Peonies, a nine-monitor videowall, on view at the Wexner Center | | Solid sales and crowds at 3rd annual Western edition of the Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair | 
The amphora found by an US-Albanian underwater expedition. AP Photo.
By: Llazar Semini, Associated Press
TIRANA (AP).- A U.S.-Albanian archaeological mission said Monday it has found the well-preserved wreck of a Roman cargo ship off Albania's coast, complete with some 300 wine jars — all empty, alas. The 30-meter long (yard) wreck dates to the 1st century B.C. and its cargo is believed to have been the produce of southern Albanian vineyards en route to western European markets, including France. A statement from the Key West, Florida-based RPM Nautical Foundation said the find was made 50 meters (yards) deep near the port city of Vlora, 90 miles (140 kilometers) southwest of the capital, Tirana, early this month. The foundation, in cooperation with Albanian archaeologists, has been surveying a swathe of Albania's previously unexplored coastal waters for the past five years. So far, experts have located 20 shipwrecks — including several relatively modern ones. "Taking into consideration the date and also the depth — which is well suited for excavation ... More | | 
Diana Thater, Peonies, 2011. 9 video monitors, 1 DVD player. Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Peter Mallet, installation views at Hauser & Wirth, London, 2011.
COLUMBUS, OH.- Diana Thater’s Peonies, a nine-monitor videowall, is now on view through December 30 in the Wexner Center’s lower lobby. Quietly panning over pink and yellow peony blooms, the video initially appears to be a straightforward account of several flowers scattered across a watery surface. But as in most of Thater’s video projects, the technical aspects of Peonies and the artist’s investigations of duration and figure/ground relationships are as compelling as the work’s visual and aesthetic elements. Running nearly six minutes, Peonies was shot on two full rolls of 16mm film, but it is screened on a Blu-ray disc, inviting viewers to consider how representations of color differ in analogue and digital technology. Filmed up close, the blooms transform into abstracted washes of almost psychedelic color, morphing from one image to the next. The blooms become less tangible as physical objects and function instead as a field on which explorations of ... More | | 
Lisa Brawn, Ali, 2010. Carved and painted woodcut on salvaged 100-year-old Douglas fir, 9 x 11 x 15". Photo: Randy Franklin.Yard Dog Art Gallery, Austin TX.
SANTA FE, N.M.- The 3rd annual Western edition of the Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair; SOFA WEST: Santa Fe and its new Spotlight Presentation of The Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art enjoyed a successful run August 4 - 7 at the Santa Fe Convention Center. Mark Lyman, President of The Art Fair Company and Founder/Director of SOFA fairs in New York, Chicago, and Santa Fe, said, "It was a very upbeat fair despite the country's political and economic turmoil. Dealers reported the right crowd and significant sales were achieved." An estimated 10,000+ attended SOFA WEST through the weekend. Expanded by 25%, SOFA WEST 2011 seamlessly integrated The Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art into the fair this year, which was organized in partnership with Chicago's respected Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art. As seminal Intuit dealer Carl Hammer of Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago observed, "The best of both outsid ... More |
| Temporary art commissions launched in celebration of new Auckland Art Gallery | | Bonham's sale shines with automobilia-themed highlights during Pebble Beach car week | | The Austrian Cultural Forum New York presents exhibition by five emerging Austrian artists | 
Jeppe Hein, Long Modified Bench Auckland, 2011.
AUCKLAND.- Three commissioned contemporary artworks will be launched on 19 August as the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki prepares to deliver New Zealand’s largest visual arts experience. Large-scale sculptural works by Choi Jeong Hwa of South Korea, Jeppe Hein of Denmark and New Zealander Kate Newby are bound to become firm public favourites when the newly restored and expanded Gallery opens to the public on 3 September. Art Gallery Director Chris Saines is thrilled with the result of the commissions. “Choi Jeong Hwa’s playfully monumental work has had an immediate impact on Kitchener Street, and Kate Newby and Jeppe Hein’s works have taken shape across the Albert Park facing sculpture terraces. Inside and out, the building is proving a brilliant and lively platform for public art.” Flower Chandelier by Choi Jeong Hwa was specifically designed for the Gallery’s north atrium. Col ... More | | 
A spessartite garnet and diamond ring, cushion-cut spessartite garnet within a diamond surround and split shoulders; spessartite garnet weighing approximately: 20.95 carats; mounted in eighteen karat white gold; size: 7 ½. Sold for $7,320, Est. $2,000-3,000. Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Bonhams is pleased to announce that its Jewelry and Watches sale, held August 19th during Pebble Beach Car Week at Quail Lodge in Carmel, Calif., brought engine-revving, above-estimate results. Automobilia-themed pieces saw particular success: a Diamond and 18k gold Rolls Royce radiator wristwatch brought $7,076 (est. $3,500-4,500); a stainless steel calendar chronograph and bracelet wristwatch by Girard Perregaux for Ferrari brought $4,880 (est. $3,000-4,000); a pair of diamond, jasper, rock crystal and onyx cufflinks, carved in the form of a 1929 Duesenberg J101, brought $4,270 (est. $3,500-5,500); a pair of Michael Kanners’ moonstone, rock crystal, onyx and diamond car ... More | | 
Zenita Komad & Michael Kienzer, The empty mirror, 2011. Photo: David Plakke.
NEW YORK, NY.- Fünf Räume presents five emerging artists who have been given the opportunity to transform a distinct space within the gallery of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York by creating new, site-specific installations. Rather than attempting to create a specific, and potentially narrow, theme for these works to conform to, these selected artists are given the freedom to display their work with few limitations. Thus, Fünf Räume (German for ‘Five Rooms’) allows viewers to experience something unique and original while at the same time providing a glimpse into each artist’s pluridisciplinary practice, primarily within painting, sculpture, and installation. All participating artists live and work in Austria, and, despite their success and notoriety in Europe and elsewhere, have for the most part not yet been shown in the United States. Starting, as it were, at square ... More |
| Israel Museum welcomes one millionth visitor since inauguration of renewed campus | | Exhibition at Yale School of Architecture Gallery examines work of architect Stanley Tigerman | | Frank Frazetta's 1966 masterpiece Tomorrow Midnight headlines sale at Heritage Auctions | 
Visitors have enjoyed the Museum's renewed galleries. Photo: Tim Hursley.
JERUSALEM.- In an unprecedented achievement for an Israeli cultural institution, the Israel Museum is proud to announce that it has welcomed one million people to its renewed campus since its inauguration one year ago. During this time, visitors have enjoyed the Museum’s renewed galleries, new architecture and rich program of exhibitions, events and activities. Programming highlights included the inaugural exhibition Artists’ Choices: Zvi Goldstein, Susan Hiller, Yinka Shonibare, a three-part presentation that juxtaposed works from all three of the Museum’s collection wings; the major traveling exhibition William Kentridge: Five Themes, which drew over 200,000 visitors to the Museum during its five-month showing; “Contact Point,” a night of one-time encounters among artists, writers, and performers with artworks through the Museum’s galleries and campus; and the unveilin ... More | | 
Stanley Tigerman, The Titanic, 1978 (detail). Photomontage. Courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago.
NEW HAVEN, CT.- The career of eminent architect and educator Stanley Tigerman is the subject of a retrospective exhibition opening at the Yale School of Architecture Gallery, in historic Paul Rudolph Hall, on August 22, 2011. Ceci n’est pas une rêverie*: The Architecture of Stanley Tigerman, which remains on view through November 5, 2011, celebrates Tigerman’s distinguished career with a diversity of original artworks, models, photographs, and archival documents, among other items. It is curated by Yale School of Architecture Associate Professor Emmanuel Petit. In January 2012, the exhibition will travel to the Graham Foundation’s Madlener House, in Chicago, and then onto the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. A Chicago native and Yale alumnus, Stanley Tigerman (’60 B.Arch, ’61 M.Arch) has designed numerous buildings and museum installations through ... More | | 
Frank Frazetta, Tomorrow Midnight, 1966. Estimate: $40,000+. Photo: Heritage Auctions.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Frank Frazetta's masterpiece of science fiction art, Tomorrow Midnight, 1966 - famously featured on the front of Ballantine's 1966 book collection of EC's evocative and important adaptations of Ray Bradbury's classic short stories - is the centerpiece of The Jerry Weist Collection of Science Fiction & Fantasy Art and Books, presented Monday, Sept. 12 at Heritage Auctions Beverly Hills. It is estimated at $40,000+. "This superb cover scene not only perfectly captures the haunting poetry of Bradbury's vision," said Todd Hignite, Consignment Director for Illustration and Comic Art at Heritage, "it's easily one of the finest Frazetta masterpieces we've ever offered - a stunning peak period painting by the greatest fantasy artist of all time." Jerry Weist, who passed away on Jan. 7 of this year, was a pioneering collector, publisher ... More |
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 Wendy Red Star: My Home is Where My Tipi Sits (Crow Country) MISSOULA, MT.- Missoula Art Museum presents Wendy Red Star’s first solo museum exhibition My Home Is Where My Tipi Sits (Crow Country). Born in Billings, MT and raised on the nearby Crow Indian Reservation, Red Star’s visual language speaks sincerely about her experiences as a Crow Indian in contemporary society. Portland, OR resident Red Star attended Montana State University in Bozeman then moved to the urban sprawl of southern California where she earned her MFA at UCLA. Returning to Crow country from these large metropolises, Red Star finds comfort and identity in the broken down cars and vibrantly painted houses that litter and decorate the landscape of her reservation. Over the years the artist has documented with photographs the everyday aspects of the reservation; the government houses, the dogs, basketball hoops, sweat lodges, cars and churches. This exhibition of photographs, grouped ... More Sydney's over 55 year olds unveil special photography showcase SYDNEY.- Senior citizens from across Sydney are putting their photographic talents to the test in a special exhibition at Customs House near Circular Quay. On view from 17 to 31 August 2011, the Snap & Click touring showcase is the result of a dedicated digital photography course for people aged 55 years and over which was held during Seniors Week 2011. Organised by the Museum of Contemporary Art, The Aviiid Foundation and the Australian Centre for Photography (ACP), the ‘Snap and Click’ workshops were designed for seniors with little or no prior knowledge of photography. By the course’s completion, each participant had a strong grasp of their digital cameras, its basic functions and the key to creating professional looking images with every click. Demonstrating it’s never too late to learn or even teach the teachers a thing or two, seniors from Sydney’s East, North Shore and ... More Samuel Colt's first revolver, the Texas or Holster Model Paterson, may bring $700,000+ DALLAS, TX.- The finest known surviving example of Samuel Colt's first revolver - the Cased and Shell Carved Ivory-gripped Texas or Holster Model Paterson Revolver with 9-inch Barrel and Attached Loading Lever - produced by the legendary gunsmith in Paterson, N.J. in 1836, is expected to realize $700,000+ when it comes to auction as part of The Cali Collection, offered in Greg Martin Auctions/Heritage Auctions' Sept. 18 Signature(r) Arms & Armor Auction. "In terms of desirability and historical importance, this one has it all," said Greg Martin, President of Arms & Armor Auctions at Greg Martin Auctions/Heritage Auctions. "Maybe 3,000 of these were made, with very few survivors, and certainly none that even begins to approach the condition of this one." When this revolver was sold by the Far West Hobby Shop in 1938, for the then-exorbitant price of $1,650, this is what they had to say about this storied gun: "Every fa ... MoreNational Museum Wales acquires Christopher Wood's The Rug Seller, Tréboul for Welsh public collectionCARDIFF.- A key work by Christopher Wood (1901-1930) – a major artist in the British modern movement of the 1920s - has entered the Welsh national collection, and is on view at National Museum Cardiff. The Rug Seller, Tréboul, has been acquired by Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales from the Brecknock Art Trust for £190,000, with the support of £50,000 from the Art Fund - the national fundraising charity for works of art, the Cardiff-based Derek Williams Trust (£55,000) and an anonymous donor (£30,000). The work, which reflects the artist’s engagement with the Celtic culture and people of Brittany, has been in a Welsh private collection of modern art since 1948. It represents the exotic figure of an African rug seller selling his wares under the Calvary of the fishing village of Tréboul. The Rug Seller is a large painting from the peak of Wood’s career, made shortly before his tragic death ... More Flight museum moving inland to HoustonGALVESTON (AP).- After sustaining more than $18 million in damage following Hurricane Ike almost three years ago, the Lone Star Flight Museum will be moving from the island city of Galveston to Houston. "I can't risk another 8 feet of water being in the facility," said the museum's executive director, Larry Gregory. The Houston Chronicle reported (http://bit.ly/oQdGKS ) that the museum will be relocated to Houston's Ellington International Airport, a former military field. Gregory said construction should begin in about 18 months and the move could take three years. Last week, the Houston City Council approved a 40-year contract with the museum for 14 acres at Ellington, said Ian Wadsworth, chief commercial officer for the Houston Airport System. The contract commits the museum to making at least $7.5 million in improvements. Gregory said that the $15,000 annual rent is about the same it's paying at Scholes International Airport in Galveston. At Ellington, the museum's 13 flyin ... More Museum tells story of Japanese-American detainees By: Ruffin Prevost
RALSTON, WY. (REUTERS).- It was a bittersweet return for more than 250 Japanese-American former detainees at Heart Mountain Relocation Center in the state of Wyoming who gathered for the opening of a museum about their wartime internment. A replica guard tower stands over the museum on a remote wind-swept plain where nearly 14,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned in one of 10 such camps set up across the West after the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Backers of the $5.5 million, 11,000-square-foot museum next to the crumbling camp say they hope it will tell the story of those once forcibly relocated there and remind visitors of the enduring civil rights lessons from that era. "It's something like a dream come true," said Jack Kunitomi, 95, who was imprisoned in the camp with his family and who had a son born at Heart Mountain, east of Yellowstone National Park. Scant is left of the actual cam ... More |
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