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A painting, entitled The Prussian Homage, by Polish artist Jan Matejko is dismantled in Cracow, Poland, 29 August 2011. The painting will be presented in an exhibition, entitled Side by Side Poland - Germany. A 1000 Years of Art and History, a project of Warsaw Royal Castle and the Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin. The exhibition will be on view in Berlin from 23 September 2011 to 09 January 2012. EPA/STANISLAW ROZPEDZIK.
BERLIN.- The Royal Castle in Warsaw and Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin are jointly developing the exhibition entitled “Side by Side. Poland – Germany. A 1000 Years of Art and History”which will be on view in Berlin from September 23, 2011 to January 9, 2012. The project celebrates the first Polish presidency of the EU Council, which will begin in July 2011. The project outline has been supervised by an scientific board headed by Professor Władysław Bartoszewski. The exhibition curator is the Polish art historian Anda Rottenberg, known for a number of internationally acclaimed exhibitions and long-serving director of Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. Poland and Germany look back on over 1000 years of shared history. The complex nature of the history of the two neighbours has above all been shaped by major political developments and events, which have removed from the horizon areas of cul ... More |
| National Gallery of Australia announces major new acquisition: Hans Heysen's Morning | | Fotofever: Inaugural art fair in the Espace Pierre Cardin in Paris this November | | China dissident Ai Weiwei launches scathing attack on the Chinese government | 
Hans Heysen (1877–1968), Morning light 1913. Oil on canvas 117.0 x 101.0 cm. Purchased with funds from the Ruth Robertson Bequest Fund 2011. In memory of Edwin Clive and Leila Jeanne Robertson.
CANBERRA.-The painting depicts two monumental gum trees before a sweeping pastoral vista. The grand old tree in the foreground is said to have been a favourite of Heysen’s. He was particularly enamoured of mornings light and was always up before dawn in order to catch the changing landscape in early sunlight, such as the effect of a cool morning depicted in Morning light. “We are indebted to Ms Robertson for the wonderful legacy of almost $3million that she has left the National Gallery of Australia. Her bequest has already enabled us to make significant acquisitions such as Heysen’s Morning light and will continue to do so in the future,” said Ron Radford AM, Director of the National Gallery of Australia. “It is extraordinary that the National Gallery of Australia held no major iconic gum tree oil painting by Heysen from the federation period to the ... More | | 
For its first edition, fotofever will present around 30 international galleries in a beautiful space designed by scenograph Stéphane Plassier.
PARIS.- More than ever, in November 2011, Paris will be the world’s main stage of photography. Visitors, professionals, collectors, and journalists and photographers will gather for an incredible week dedicated to photography. Enthusiastic with the effervescent market of photography, Paris is hosting a new event: fotofever. Fotofever will take place in the Espace Pierre Cardin, a few steps away from the Grand Palais. There, you will all be able to share your passion for contemporary photography, digital art and video. The key word for the event is discovery! Cécile Schall, the creator of this new event, instills into fotofever a spirit of discovery and independence that her grandfather - the photographer Roger Schall - would have called for. For its first edition, fotofever will present around 30 international galleries in a beautiful space designed by scenograph Stéphane Plassier. Open to new artistic persp ... More | | 
Ai Weiwei criticized the government for rampant corruption, the judicial system and its policy on migrant workers -- issues that have inflamed social tensions in China. AP Photo/Jens Meyer.
BEIJING (REUTERS).- Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has launched his first scathing attack on the Chinese government since his release from secretive detention in late June, accusing officials of denying citizens their basic rights. In a strongly worded commentary published late on Sunday on the website of Newsweek magazine, Ai -- whose detention sparked an international outcry -- said the capital Beijing was "a city of violence." He criticized the government for rampant corruption, the judicial system and its policy on migrant workers -- issues that have inflamed social tensions in China. Ai's commentary signals his growing impatience with the strict terms of his release from custody in late June after 81 days. It also presents Beijing with a direct challenge on how to handle the country's most famous social critic. "Every year millions come to Beijing to build its bridges, roads, and houses.... They a ... More |
| Broad overview of Walid Raad's works from the past 20 years at Kunsthalle Zürich | | German artist Anton Henning's first solo show in Scotland Talbot Rice Gallery | | An exhibition displaying Mona Lisa's finest variations opens at Miami's Freedom Towers | 
Walid Raad, Scratching on Things I Could Disavow, 2010. Mixed Media Installation © the artist. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
ZURICH.- What forms, stories, gestures, and concepts are made possible by wars? How are certain events lived but not experienced? How does violence affect art, culture and tradition in material and immaterial ways? The work of the artist Walid Raad, who was born in Chbanieh, Lebanon, in 1967 and currently lives, works and teaches in New York, has been revolving around these questions for 20 years now. His oeuvre includes photographs, videos, sculptures, installations and performances. Walid Raad is one of the most important figures of his generation of young artists from the Middle East. The exhibition «Walid Raad – Miraculous Beginnings», which was organized in cooperation with the Whitechapel Gallery in London, presents a broad overview of his works from the past 20 years. The exhibition also provides insight into an oeuvre that ... More | | 
Anton Henning, Interieur No.455, 2009. Courtesy of the artist and Blain Southern, London. © Anton Henning and VG Bildkunst.
EDINBURGH.- In his first solo show in Scotland, German artist Anton Henning created a Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) within Talbot Rice Gallery. Bright painted walls transformed the space providing a backdrop for the exhibition, which brings together furniture, lighting, easel painting, sculpture, window painting and drawing. Henning’s bold, individual style, fluent in art historical references, challenges notions of ‘good’ taste. His work pays homage to revered Modern artists like Matisse and Picabia while including subject matter, such as ‘chocolate box’ images of birds and sunsets and naked female figures that are often subject to censure. Henning’s approach also draws from the movement of ‘bad painting’ of the late 1970s and 1980s, a movement of artists disregarding restrictive conventions in order to explore alternative possibilities in paint ... More | | 
Nude Gioconda of the Museo Ideale.
MIAMI, FL.- Miami Dade College (MDC), the City of Miami, Galleria Ca’ d’Oro and the City of Margherita di Savoia have brought the debut of Mona Lisa Unveiled to MDC’s Freedom Tower. From Margherita di Savoia to Miami, the recently rediscovered sixteenth-century painting, Nude Mona Lisa by Salai, Da Vinci's favorite pupil, is moving overseas. Mona Lisa Unveiled highlights a long list of artists’ interpretations of the world’s most famous portrait, from the sixteenth-century to present day. Today they are all collected in this unique, never before displayed exhibition that aims to document and compare the many versions of the Mona Lisa throughout the world. The thread linking Margherita di Savoia, Leonardo Da Vinci and Miami, is one of originality and experimentation, a point of strength in the connection between the two cities. This is essentially the same guiding thread that has been leading Galleria Ca’d’Oro for the past 40 years and that ... More |
| Bernhard Heiliger Award for sculpture goes to Argentina-born artist Fabián Marcaccio | | Made in America: The Mather Work Incentive Posters at International Posters Gallery | | An eye for an array: Bonhams Fall salon auction to feature a diverse selection of jewelry | 
Fabián Marcaccio, Extinguisher Structural Canvas Paintant, 2008. Pigmentierte Tinte auf Leinwand, Aluminium, Silikon, Alkydfarbe, 106 x 91 x 41 cm. Courtesy: Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami.
BERLIN.- In 2011, the fourth Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture honors the Argentina-born artist Fabián Marcaccio. The award ceremony will be held on September 10, 2011, at the Berlin Academy of Arts at Pariser Platz. The solo exhibition on that occasion at Berlin Georg Kolbe Museum opens September 11 and runs until November 20, 2011. The exhibition will also be shown at LehmbruckMuseum Duisburg from March 15 to June 10, 2012. Created in 1999, the Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture is endowed with 15,000 EUR and is awarded by an independent jury. Jurors of this year's jury were Udo Kittelmann, director of the National Gallery in Berlin, Prof. Dr. Raimund Stecker, director of the LehmbruckMuseum in Duisburg, and Dr. Anda Rottenberg, independent curator and former director of the National Gallery Zachęta for Contemporary Art in Warsaw. The ... More | | 
Anonymous, Jumpy?, 1929. Lithograph backed on linen. 36.25 x 43.75 inches. Photo: Courtesy of International Poster Gallery.
By: Jim Lapides
BOSTON, MA.- Printed in Chicago between 1923 and 1929, Mather Work Incentive posters were designed to improve worker productivity and curb turnover during a time of economic expansion and plentiful jobs. The traditional American virtues the posters promote are as relevant today as they were 80 years ago and represent a unique chapter in American advertising and economic history. While the posters can be seen as workplace propaganda or camp Americana, they are perhaps most importantly viewed as a visual expression of the idealism and optimism of the rising nation. President Calvin Coolidge pithily summed up in two sentences the ideology of the era in his 1925 speech to the society of American newspaper editors: “The chief business of the American people is business...The chief ideal ... More | | 
A diamond and enamel articulated flower brooch, French. Est. $1,200 - 1,500. Photo: Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams auction of Salon Jewelry and Watches on September 19 in San Francisco will feature a diverse collection of jewels, sure to appeal to a wide variety of buyers. The sale is simulcast to Los Angeles and is timed to coincide with Bonhams SoMa Estate Auction with Jewelry held the day prior. Diamond highlights lead the auction, with such intricacies as a diamond and platinum bracelet (est. $5,000-7,000); a sapphire and diamond tassel motif pendant-brooch (est. $5,000-7,000); a diamond and eighteen karat gold brooch pin, Boucheron, Paris (est. $3,000-5,000); a pair of diamond and eighteen karat gold earclips, each with French assay marks (est. $2,000-3,000); and a sapphire and diamond ring (est. $2,000-3,000). Dazzling diamonds don’t end there, either, with additional highlights including a diamond and emerald ring by Cartier, France (est. $1,500-2,500); an art deco, lapis lazuli, diamond and seed pearl ta ... More |
| Solo exhibition of work by Hong Kong artist Morgan Wong at 2P Contemporary Art Gallery | | Original copy of Ben Franklin's famed 1754 'Join, or Die' for Sale at Heritage Auctions | | Period Art & Design: Bonhams announces new sale category in San Francisco and Los Angeles | 
Morgan Wong, Plus Minus Zero, 2010.
HONG KONG.- 2P Contemporary Art Gallery announced the opening of One Hour, a solo exhibition of work by Hong Kong artist Morgan Wong. One Hour is a renunciation of time in an era of instantaneous communication featuring Morgan Wong's performance in his investigation conceived during his artist residency in Japan, 2010. Situated against the arctic backdrop of Sapporo, Wong subverts the linear progression of events to survey a new spectrum coupled with methodical observation where temporal physics no longer necessitates sense. The exhibition comprises installations of video, photography and mixed media works detailing footage of Wong traversing through an expanse of desolation. Facilitated by technology and integrating permutations of motion to simulate a sequence of corporeal suspension, One Hour also proffers the viewer a hypothetical paradox where all time and spatial distinctions are rendered mentally and physically obsol ... More | | 
The Pennsylvania Gazette. Four pages, 14.75" x 21.75", May 9, 1754 ("Numb. 1324"). Photo: Heritage Auctions.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- One of only a handful of known existing original copies of Benjamin Franklin's celebrated "Join, or Die" editorial cartoon, from the May 9, 1754 edition of The Pennsylvania Gazette - the single most famous and important American editorial cartoon in existence, and one of the most famous ever printed - will be offered for the first time at auction and is expected to bring well in excess of $100,000+ when it crosses the block as part of Heritage Auctions' Sept. 13 Signature(r) Historical Manuscripts Auction. "There's no way to overstate just what this cartoon means to American history, Pop Culture history and comics history," said Ed Jaster, Senior Vice President of Heritage Auctions. "It's important on so many levels, to collectors of all kinds, across many genres, that there's no telling where the bidding for this could go." Benjamin Franklin's woodcut illustration of a snake severed into eight secti ... More | | 
Bonhams & Butterfields in Los Angeles. Photo: Curtousy of Bonhams & Butterfields.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams is pleased to announce the addition of Period Art & Design, a new sale category to its monthly calendar. The inaugural sales will be held in San Francisco and Los Angeles on November 20-21. The sale, also held in the U.K., will focus on 18th, 19th and 20th century furniture, decorative arts, designer furnishings, national and international works of art, rugs, silver, Asian and rugs, with select auctions featuring books and jewelry. In addition to the robust offering, each issue of the auction’s catalog will feature an interview with an interior designer or figure in the community who discusses current design trends and relevant topics. Since launching in the U.K., Period Design auctions have become an essential part of the Bonhams experience. Known as a reliable resource for great values on one-of-kind items, the auctions deliver diverse style and inspirational design. Each month, Bonhams’ trus ... More |
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 McDonough's War of 1812 Shipyard Receives Grant WASHINGTON.- The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum has received a grant of $23,985 from the National Park Service's American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) to undertake an archeological survey to determine the precise location and established boundaries for MacDonough's War of 1812 Shipyard in Vergennes, Vermont. "We are proud to support projects like this that safeguard and preserve American battlefields," said Jon Jarvis, Director ofthe National Park Service. "These places are symbols of individual sacrifice and national heritage that we must protect so that this and future generations can understand the struggles that define us as a nation." This grant is one of 25 National Park Service grants totaling $1.2 million to preserve and protect significant battle sites from all wars fought on American soil. Funded projects preserve battlefields from the Colonial-Indian Wars through World War II and include site ... More A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes opens at the Currier Museum of Art MANCHESTER, NH.- The Currier Museum of Art will present A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes (August 27 through Dec. 3), celebrating Karnes’ more than 60-year career at the forefront of the studio pottery movement. From her dramatic salt-glazed pottery of the 1960s and ‘70s, to her more recent complex joined sculptural pieces, Karnes (born 1925), of Morgan, Vermont, is one of the medium’s most influential working potters and is a mentor to several generations of studio potters. Throughout her career, Karnes has created some of the most iconic pottery of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. She has worked at some of the most significant cultural settings of her generation including North Carolina’s avant-garde Black Mountain College and Gate Hill Cooperative in Stony Point, NY in the 1950s. “Karen is one of the originators of the art pottery movement in the United States, and ... More Dia Art Foundation announces two programs dedicated to the work of Franz Erhard Walther BEACON, NY.- Dia Art Foundation announced two programs dedicated to the work of the artist Franz Erhard Walther. The events are planned on the occasion of the exhibition, Work as Action, which is on view at Dia:Beacon through February 13, 2012. On Saturday, September 17, 2011, a daylong colloquium will be held at Dia:Beacon that brings together scholars, artists, and writers to examine and discuss the historical significance of Walther’s 1. Werksatz (First Work Set) (1963–69), the centerpiece of Work as Action. A conversation between the artist and independent curator Jennifer Winkworth will subsequently be held at Dia:Chelsea, in New York City, on Monday, September 19, 2011. RSVP for both events at www.diaart.org. In 1963 while a student at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, Walther began fabricating simple forms made from muslin and Styrofoam, which were stacked, folded, and ... MoreThe Frick Pittsburgh launches online museum shopPITTSBURGH, PA.- The Frick Art & Historical Center announces the launch of a new online museum shop, which offers select merchandise from the Museum Shop as well as a sampling of items to be sold at The Fabergé Shop, set to open October 23, 2011 at The Frick Art Museum, during the presentation of the exhibition Fabergé: The Hodges Family Collection. In addition to museum shop merchandise, shoppers may also purchase memberships to the Frick, including special Fabergé membership packages. Frick members receive a 10% discount on all purchases, as well as a many other benefits. The Frick’s online museum shop’s first day of business is Tuesday, August 30, 2011. Items for sale at the new online shop include Frick Museum Shop customer favorites, such as the Clayton Parlor Scarf, which features a pomegranate motif inspired by the flocked velvet wall covering of the Clayton parlor; and the Clayton Breakfast Room Tote Bag, whi ... More |
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